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The Insane True Stories Behind 6 Cursed Movies
#3. Rosemary's Baby
The Curse:
Rosemary's Baby is a 1968 Roman Polanski film about a Manhattan woman whose husband signs a Faustian pact with the Satan-worshipping cult next door.
The film's composer died of a brain clot one year after making the film, the same way a character in the film dies. Then producer William Castle suffered kidney failure soon after the film was made, and swore the movie was cursed after crying out "Rosemary, for God's sake drop that knife" while being treated.
But those stories aside, the curse is mainly built around the insanely shitty luck of Roman Polanski. In March of 1969 Polanski had bought a house for himself and his 8 months pregnant wife Sharon Tate. Unfortunately, Polanski had broken the first rule of real estate: never buy a house from someone who pissed off Charles Manson.
The former owner of the house was music producer Terry Melcher, who had previously refused to record Manson's music. Manson expressed his disappointment by ordering his cult to go to Polanski's house. There, they killed Sharon Tate, her unborn baby and four others, stabbing the victims multiple times. After the murders, one of the killers took a rag, soaked up some of Tate's blood and wrote "pig" on the front door with it. So as curses go it was a lot worse than the crooked pictures thing.
Polanski was in London at the time and thus survived the onslaught. He went on to have a successful career, critical flop Pirates aside, free from problems. Oh, except later when he was charged with statutory rape. He could try to blame the curse for that one but we don't think it would hold up in court.
Most Tenuous Link to the Curse:
The Manson family nicknamed their murder spree "Helter Skelter" after the Beatles song. Later, John Lennon would be murdered outside his hotel The Dakota. This was the same hotel used in some scenes of Rosemary's Baby. A coincidence? Yes.
#2. The Conqueror
The Curse:
When you think of Genghis Khan (Mongolian, conqueror of half the known world, shrewd military tactician, Mongolian, mass murderer, Mongolian, vengeful, Mongolian) who do you picture? John Wayne, right? Exactly. And that's why he was an inspired casting choice for Howard Hughes' 1956 epic The Conqueror. Speaking before the film was made, Wayne said "the way the screenplay reads it's a cowboy picture, and that's how I'm going to play Genghis Khan. I see him as a gunfighter."
On the set of The Conqueror.
Speaking during the film, as Genghis Kahn, Wayne said "There are moment's fer wisdom, Juh-mooga, then I listen to you. And there are moment's fer action, then I listen to my blood. I feel this Tartar wuh-man is fer me, and my blood says, 'TAKE HER!"
So clearly a film headed for success and mass universal critical acclaim. Damn you, supernatural curse!
At one point a flash flood nearly killed the entire crew. Having survived that, lead actress Susan Hayward survived an attack by a black panther.
Unfortunately for Susan and the rest of the cast, health and safety regulations weren't quite as strict in the 1950s as they are now. For instance, stuntmen didn't have to wear any kind of harness, fire drills weren't mandatory and movies could be filmed downwind from Nevada desert above-ground nuclear test facilities.
Thus the actors and crew were exposed to nuclear fallout for the 13 weeks they filmed in Snow Canyon, downwind from the Yucca Flats were the US Army tested 11 atomic bombs. The rest of the movie was filmed in Hollywood, but Howard Hughes managed to maintain the integrity of the movie's Mongolian setting by shipping 60 tones of nuclear contaminated dirt from Snow Canyon back to Hollywood.
Over the next few years, 91 of the 220 crew members developed cancer, 46 died including John Wayne, Susan Hayward and the director. One of the film's other stars, Pedro Armendariz, committed suicide when he found out his cancer was terminal.
In his last days, Howard Hughes, with his beard and fingernails grown disturbingly long, living a now reclusive lifestyle, reportedly watched The Conqueror over and over again, racked with guilt, as he waited for the sweet embrace of death.
Good movie though.
Most Tenuous Link to the Curse:
It's claimed that during filming, the actors had to endure temperatures of over 120 degree heat! That's unheard of, except, you know, in deserts, like the one they were filming in.
#1. The Omen
The Curse:
No film in history has had worse luck than The Omen. Hell, nothing in history has had worse luck than The Omen. The Jews have had better luck.
During filming scriptwriter David Seltzer's plane was hit by lighting, as was star Gregory Peck's, as was executive producers Mace Neufelds'.
Lucky for all of them, lighting doesn't strike twice. But know what does? IRA bombings. A hotel Neufeld was staying at during production was bombed by the IRA, as was a restaurant the director and actors were scheduled to eat at. Luckily no one died.
An assistant to special effects consultant John Richardson on the other hand, wasn't quite as lucky. On Friday the 13th of August 1976, Richardson crashed his car in Holland. His assistant was sliced through by the car's front wheel. Scrambling out of the wreckage, Richardson looked up and saw a road sign: Ommen, 66.6km.
Hey, you know that movie that killed everyone? Let's make it again.
One of the film's tiger handler's died. Gregory Peck's son shot himself. A plane scheduled for use in the film, which was rescheduled and used for a commercial flight instead, crashed and killed everyone on board.
We're not saying we believe in curses. We're just saying we should probably stop making movies about Satan.
Most Tenuous Link to the Curse:
A stuntman who worked on The Omen later hospitalised himself while working on the film A Bridge Too Far. Which is creepy. Except he's a stuntman. And deliberately threw himself off a roof.
Find out some much less awesome true back-stories in 7 Movies Based on a True Story (That Are Complete Bullshit) or read up on some movies you'll be glad were "cursed" in The 6 Worst Movies Hollywood Almost Made. And Cracked.com is once again back to normal on the iPhone. Sorry for the temporary lapse in hipness.


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Do you know a bottle warmer that has a thermostat and is truly temperature controlled - the temperature is not estimated by a timer. Any ideas?
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The Lady (Opening Night)
2011 / France, UK / Dir. Besson / 132 minutes
From director Luc Besson, The Lady is an inspirational biopic of Myanmar's (Burma) pro-democracy activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi. The film follows her triumphs, struggles and the love story with her husband, writer Michael Aris.
Trishna (Closing Night)
2011 / UK / Dir. Michael Winterbottom/ 117 minutes
[Advisory: Sexual content and violence]
In this tragic drama starring Slumdog Millonare's Freida Pinto, director Michael Winterbottom reimagines Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles in contemporary India. Through the fragile heroine, the cruelties of sexual double-standards are exposed.
Sunny (Festival Finale and Party)
2010 / South Korea / Dir. Hyeong-Cheol Kang/ 124 minutes
[Advisory: Strong language and violence]
Like a South Korean version of Now and Then, Sunny flows through the past and present of seven women that recall and relive their high school glory days. Na-Mi works to reunite the members of her high school girl gang, "Sunny," before the death of her friend Choon-Hwa.
2011/Kazakhstan, Russia, Germany/Director: Veit Helmer/95 min.
A cross-cultural sleeping beauty tale with a twist, Baikonur is framed by the Kazakh proverb "Whatever falls from Heaven, you may keep." So when a young radio operator named Iskander finds a beautiful French astronaut has fallen to the steppes from the Russian space station, Baikonur, he decides to claim her as his bride.
2010/India, Mali, Netherlands/Director: Sander Francken/72 min.
Driven by his curiosity in other cultures and the mysteries of human nature, director Sander Francken delivers a captivating trilogy of folk tales. Each story is based on a folk song from a non-Western culture and shows that it is old wisdom which unites people.
The Beetle Soldiers
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2011/Indonesia/Director: Ari Sihasale/106 min.
A powerful and uplifting tale for young and old alike, The Beetle Soldiers, captures a child's struggle to follow his dreams amidst a world of adversity. The film follows the young Amek who struggles at school and is bullied for his cleft-lip, yet has big ambitions to one day race his horse.
Buddha Mountain
2010/China/Diretor: Yu Li/104 min.
[Advisory: Adult Language]
In this coming of age story, three twenty-something friends in China are forced to leave their apartment only to find themselves homeless. A trip to a mountaintop Buddhist temple and an encounter with a retired opera singer named Madam Chang renews their outlook on life.
Chronicle of my Mother
2011/Japan/Director: Masato Harada/108 min.
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Directed by Masato Harada, Chronicle of my Mother, reflects the relationship between a man and his mother, whose health and mind are slowly fading. This heartfelt film comments on family roles in Japanese society while bringing together generations and rejoicing in the relationship between parents and their children.
Dekh Indian Circus
2011/India/Director: Mangesh Hadawale/101 min.
In this comedic satire, a group of young children in the rural deserts of Rajasthan want nothing more than to visit the circus. But without a rupee to spare, the children must find a way to get to the circus on their own. Their aspirations and heartbreaks provide a metaphor of corruption in India's government and economy.
Delhi in a Day
2011/India/Director: Prashant Nair/88 min.
When Jasper, an idealistic British traveler, loses his wallet with all of his life savings while staying in a South Delhi mansion, he inadvertently causes chaos between the home and its servants. The sticky situation turns into comedic tale while also shedding light on stereotypes and class differences in modern Delhi.
2011/Indonesia/Director: Adilla Dimitri/100 min.
[Advisory: Sexual Content and violence]
A dark underworld of cops and criminals lies beneath the city of Jakarta, although no one knows, or wants to admit, the immensity of its vices. Through 5 short stories, Dilema brings to light Indonesia's social problems of corruption, radicalism and gambling, and blurs the lines between good and evil.
The Front Line
2011/South Korea/Director: Hun Jang/133 min.
[Advisory: Violence]
In Panmunjeon, Korea 1953, the dramatic Korean War has finally reached an armistice. Only a single hill remains up for debate. The war is over, but one battle still continues. Hours before the official agreement is to be signed, one last attack is launched. Both North and South must fight to the death to control where the borders of the two countries will lay forever.
Good Night, Good Morning
2010/India, USA/Director: Sudhish Kamath/88 min.
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A boy, a girl, and a telephone: Good Night, Good Morning is a recipe for good old-fashioned romance. After a wild night of partying with the guys, Turiya gathers the courage to call the room of Moria, a girl he met briefly at the hotel bar. Paralleled on a split-screen in black and white, the ordinary conversation is transformed into a dream-like experience.
2010/Philippines/Director: Sheron R. Dayoc/78 mins.
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Halaw delves into the human trafficking operation between the seas of the South Philippines and Malaysia. Based on real life stories, the film chronicles the hardships of passengers who take the perilous crossing with hope for a better life amidst a world of uncertainty.
I am a Ghost
2012/USA/Director: HP Mendoza/74 min.
[Advisory: Violence]
Something seems to be haunting the girl living alone in a giant Victorian mansion, who monotonously repeats the motions of her daily life in strange ways. In a spooky twist, the girl learns from an unseen medium that the real ghost haunting the mansion is herself.
Lovely Man
2011/Indonesia/Director: Teddy Soeriaatmadja/76 min.
[Advisory: Sexual Content and violence]
When a 19-year-old devout Muslim girl goes searching her long lost father, she finds he is no longer the kind hearted man she remembers – instead, he is a woman in a red sequined dress and heels, working as a prostitute on the streets. In this dark and compelling drama, the two must learn how to forgive and understand each other.
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Co-presented by the Global Film Initiative and is part of the Global Lens 2012 film series. For more information, visit www.globalfilm.org
2011/Iran/Director: Morteza Farshbaf/85 min.
Amidst a fight, Arshia's parents flee into the night, leaving him behind in the care of his hearing impaired aunt and uncle. Using the sign language between the two as a narrative technique, the film builds suspense and dramatically relays the complex truth about Arshia's parents.
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2011/India/Director: Prashant Bhargava/93 min.
"The storytelling is effortlessly made part of the hypnotically beautiful visuals, and woven into a kaleidoscope of colors, faces,music and a little romance. Bhargava is masterful in the way he allows his story to emerge from his mosaic, instead of spelling it out by thenumbers. Evokes the old and new Indias side by side as well as I've seen done." – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times
A Delhi businessman travels with his daughter to his childhood home in Ahmadabad to show her India's largest kite festival. The return forces him to confront his past and mend broken relationships. Through a kaleidoscope of color, music and food, Patang is a story of renewal that captures the vibrant spirit of India.
Pearls of the Far East
2011/Vietnam, Canada/Director: Cuong Ngo/103 min.
[Advisory: Adult Language & Sexual Content ]
In his feature film debut, Vietnamese director Cuong Ngo captures the complexity of love from childhood to old age. Seven short chapters reflect moments of innocence, desire and heartbreak in the lives of different women.
2011/Israel/Director: Nadav Lapid/105 min.
[Advisory: Sexual Content and violence]
Chaos ensues when expecting father Yaron, an officer in an elite Israeli anti-terrorist unit, is faced with a hostage situation created by a group of young radicals plotting to bring class equality to Israel. The encounter forces him to face the realities of class war and confront his own internal battles.
Co-presented by the Global Film Initiative and is part of the Global Lens 2012 film series. For more information, visit www.globalfilm.org
2010/ Germany, Iraq/ Dir. Oday Rasheed/ 90 minutes
[Advisory: Violence]
A shattered family in modern-day Baghdad lives in a state of baited breath while a mysterious hit man lives in the room above their house. From Director Oday Rasheed, Qarantina follows a family in tragic circumstances and what happens when they reach the tipping point.
2011/India/Director: Sujay Dahake/105 min.
[Advisory: Sexual Content and violence]
Shala, meaning "school," follows four rambunctious ninth grade boys looking for answers about learning, life and love. Set against the backdrop of the 1970s Indian Emergency, the youth try to make sense of the turbulent political climate while also dealing with puppy love and growing pains.
Toll Booth
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2010/Turkey/Director: Tolga Karacelik/96 min.
[Advisory: Adult Themes]
Toll booth worker Kenan is a "robot" according to his coworkers and at home, his aging father ridicules his every action. Mentally drained from the monotony and criticism, Kenan starts to lose his connections to reality. With the perfect blend of beauty, self-deprecation and intelligence, Toll Booth, tells the story of an automated man about to explode
War of the Arrows
2011 / South Korea / Dir. Han-min Kim / 122 minutes
[Advisory: Violence]
Set during the Manchu War of 1636 in Korea, this trilling action film follows a brother's courage and dedication to his sister as he fends off an invading army with nothing more than his wit and a bow and arrow. With its expansive cinematography and dynamic score, the action-packed film will be sure to pierce hearts and capture the indomitable spirit of Korea.
Woman in the Septic Tank
2011/Philippines/Director: Marlon Rivera/87 min.
[Advisory: Adult Themes]
Three independent filmmakers believe that they have what it takes to make an Academy Award winning film about poverty in the Philippines. Reminiscent of "Groundhog Day," the film hilariously follows various repetitions on the same scene, revealing the real motives of the misguided filmmakers.


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Do similar figure of speech exist in German or should one translate it literally?
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One aspect I would translate as "Glück im Unglück" (lit. fortune in misfortune). Something bad (Unglück) has happened, but, contrary to expectation, without serious consequences (Glück).
If the unfortunate action was deliberate, like a breach of a law or a rule, Em14's translation of "Wo kein Kläger, da kein Richter" is the best fit.
As far as I understand the English expression "no harm, no foul" it is used colloquial rather than in standard English (but I am not a native English speaker). Then a frequently used colloquial analogue in German would be
In this expression the interjection "Ach was" makes the accident light, and also implies an apology. The second part "...ist doch nichts passiert" corresponds to "no harm".
Often we only hear the short form
The German expression "Wo kein Kläger, da kein Richter," literally means, "Where there is no plaintiff, there is no judge," and is probably the closest. In the German idiom, the emphasis is on the PERSONS doing the complaining or judging, as opposed to whether the ACTS can be complained about (harm) or judged (foul)
No, there is no similar figure of speach in German. Even the rule in soccer that comes closest to the meaning of the basket ball rule has no good name in German: the name "Vorteil" (advantage) misses the point (because we lack a better word, I assume).


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I know that entanglement can create correlation between systems. Would it be true to say that entanglement create constraints between systems? Can constraints be used to lower the total entropy of systems?
In other words, say we have two separate systems with certain entropy values. If we create some kind of interaction between the two systems and did so without investing energy, would it be possible to create constraints between the two systems such that the total entropy decreases?


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There are a million self-help books out there reminding us that success is all about bouncing back from our failures. We're kind of sick of hearing it, to be honest.
But what most people don't realize is how many successful businesses only happened because of a sudden disaster. These are the global empires that only struck gold because fate forced them to at gunpoint.
#6. Prohibition Invents the Official Soft Drink of Planet Earth
The Company:
In the Beginning:
Have you ever gotten bored and decided to try to come up with the perfect drink? And did you snap your fingers and say, "Aha! I'll take some booze and mix it with cocaine!"
If so, you're probably due for one hell of an intervention. But if it was 1885 and your name was John Pemberton, you were about to become the father of a freaking worldwide beverage empire. Pemberton was a pharmacist living in Columbus, Georgia and to be fair, alcohol laced with cocaine was already a thing (called coca wine).
If you're thinking to yourself that combining a stimulant and a depressant into one concoction isn't the greatest of ideas, you obviously didn't grow up in the 19th century.
And aren't familiar with Sparks, the energy beer.
Pemberton's product was a resounding success; the ads for Pemberton's French Wine Coca said it was for "scientists, scholars, poets, divines, lawyers, physicians, and others devoted to extreme mental exertion."
Apparently ads weren't charged by the letter back then, because we suspect it would've been cheaper to write, "BOOZE: Now With COCAINE." That shit kind of sells itself.
The Disaster:
Prohibition happened. Alcohol was suddenly illegal. But, instead of responding in the hornswoggling fashion his neighbors did, Pemberton instead removed the alcohol from his coca wine and replaced it something people like almost as much: gigantic amounts of sugar. Coca-Cola was born.
"Come gents, let us imbibe sugar water and enjoy this so-called 'jazz' music."
Pemberton claimed his new drink cured "morphine addiction, dyspepsia, neurasthenia, headache, and impotence."
"I say, either I'm piss proud right now or this tonic has made me one randy bull."
With alcohol quality and quantity slowly dwindling, Pemberton and his sweet ambrosia filled the gap ... mainly because his drink still contained cocaine. Pemberton wasn't an idiot, he was a pharmacist. Knowing people would come back for that high, he advertised his drink as a temperance beverage--a drink to ease people off of booze--and the rest is soft drink history.
As for Pemberton himself, well, maybe he should have gotten an intervention: A crippling addiction to morphine forced him to sell off all rights to the company a few years later.
#5. Sex + Olympics = Video Game Giant
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In the Beginning:
The year was 1889, and instead of playing video games, children worked in coal mines until they died. In those days, "Nintendo Koppai" was just a company that made playing cards, devoid of Italian plumbers and sword-wielding elves, yet very popular among the Japanese mafia. Over the years they branched out into other area such as toys, instant rice, taxi cabs and... love hotels.
Yes, that's a Hello Kitty-themed sex dungeon. Every Japanese home has one.
What's a love hotel? It's exactly what it sounds like: A place that rents out rooms by the hour, visited by couples looking to get their bone on--often with money changing hands afterward. Courtesy of Nintendo. These were also places that then-President of Nintendo Hiroshi Yamauchi would frequent constantly. Nothing shows off a product's quality better than the company president personally endorsing it... over and over and over again.
But playing cards were where Nintendo made its real money. And people will always want to play cards, right?
The Disaster:
The 1964 Olympics.
The Olympics themselves weren't a disaster. But they were held in Tokyo and they did change the culture of Japan. You see, fads are funny, unpredictable things. For instance, little mustaches as wide as your nose used to be really popular--a fashion that utterly died with nothing more than one brutal dictator.
What's the opposite of trendsetter? Hitler.
Well, in the 1960s, playing cards were the Hitler mustaches of Japan. When the Olympics came to Tokyo, the games drew a lot of international attention and Japan was trying to put its best face forward. Card games were kind of seen as low-brow and childish, and suddenly they weren't cool any more. Nintendo's sales plummeted.
You'd think this would drive all of the former card players into Love Hotels instead, but it was not to be--Nintendo's other enterprises went down along with the card business (their toy line, for instance, was getting crushed by companies like Bandai).
Then, one day Hiroshi Yamauchi visited the production floor and saw an employee playing with a toy mechanical arm he had made on his own. Yamauchi loved it, and ordered the company's resources thrown into selling it, and other electronic toys and gadgets. This, combined with their love of the skanky side of human sexuality, produced toys like the Love Tester:
Step 1: Grow non-Hitler mustache.
At this point, Nintendo pretty clearly faced a fork in the corporate road, each path leading the dominance of a cutting edge industry: "video games" or "high-end dildos." We know which one they chose, but we'll never know how long they agonized over the decision.
#4. A Carpenter Reduced to Making Plastic Bricks Strikes Gold
The Company:
In the Beginning:
Ole Kirk Christiansen was a carpenter working in Denmark in the 1890s. At the time he was building houses for local farmers, and did this up until his workshop was burned down by his sons in 1924.
Kids weren't fucking around back then.
Rather than throw his children into the Baltic Sea, as Scandinavians are known to do, Christiansen saw this as an opportunity to not only rebuild his workshop, but build it bigger and better. Additionally, he had plans to expand his business. He wouldn't let one stroke of bad luck keep him down!
The Disaster:
The Great Depression took this as a challenge. And no, the depression wasn't just an American thing, in case you were wondering. Our carpenter was forced to downsize in every way possible, from staff to even the products he built. No longer was he making full-blown houses and furniture, but smaller versions. Much smaller.
Christiansen got into toys. Some say he came up with this idea on his own, others say he was told to do so by his social worker. Given that Vikings used to inhabit the region of Denmark, we're going with the former: No one tells a Viking what to do.
Soon after, plastic became available and in 1949, Christiansen's company ("Lego") started making little interlocking bricks. Which, in true Viking fashion, was an idea pillaged from the British.
He would be holding an axe right now but we can't find one. Even though we just saw one in the box five minutes ago.
That was more than 400 billion Lego bricks ago. Lego pieces now outnumber humans 62 to one.


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Two Dakota Wesleyan professors presented at the annual South Dakota Academy of Science meeting in March and three were elected to positions within the academy.
Dr. Tim Mullican, professor of biology, and Dr. Brian Patrick, assistant professor of biology, each presented during the meeting, which took place March 28-29 at the South Dakota School of Mines, Rapid City.
Mullican presented a paper on population estimates from a capture/recapture study of the Bear Lodge meadow jumping mouse in the Black Hills.
"In 2005, the Bear Lodge meadow jumping mouse was listed as a 'species of greatest conservation need' in South Dakota as a result of its limited geographical range and threats to its habitat from grazing, logging, and development," Mullican said. "As a result of my study conducted between 2010 and 2013, the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department delisted this species from its Wildlife Action Plan, as it was relatively common on my study areas, comprising an average of 23 percent of the small mammal fauna in riparian areas throughout the northern and central Black Hills."
Patrick's presentation, "South Dakota Spider Survey: Undated Findings and Summary," provided an update on the status of the South Dakota Spider Survey (SDSS), which to date, has identified more than 300 species from the state. The project has also expanded to include efforts to image, database and DNA-barcode all species found within the state.
"A reasonable estimate for the number of species expected in the state is about 1,000 species, so there are a lot more species left to find," Patrick said. "The SDSS has already documented one species new to science – Theridion pierre, published in the November issue of the Journal of Arachnology – and many records that have expanded the known ranges of several species."
Patrick was also re-elected a member-at-large to the executive committee of the academy, joined by Dr. Paula Mazzer, assistant professor of biochemistry at DWU, elected to the same position for the first time. Mullican was elected as the webmaster for the academy.


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We have a form panel that is somewhat complex. It is geared to be viewed on a tablet. It contains a few other panels that contain 10-15 fields each. If the main form panel is big enough to require the user to scroll the screen, the performance is terrible. The scrolling is jittery and the repainting is boxy. We turned off over scrolling and it didn't help. We were hoping that touch 2.1 would help, but it didn't seem to do much.
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so, basically there is nothing we can do if we are using a form to get it to perform better?
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I have the same problem.. I have a formpanel with 18 textfield and when I try to scroll the view on the tablet, repainting is very slow.
Is there any solution or some practice to improve performance?
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ADNAN OKTAR: They are spreading panic by acting this way. That is a very risky move. What these newspapers are doing by adopting such an attitude is not right. They are attempting to present our PM Tayyip Erdoğan as if he is a powerless person; one that could fall into pieces at any moment. And they are thus trying to make people devoted to him freak out. Supposedly they are trying to do good. But how can saying such things be acceptable? What kind of a language this is. Who are you taking from whose house? How can something like that happen? If there is a crime, it would be out in the open and be made public. But, no one can go and collect someone from the PM's house by creating such a fuss, and we would not let that happen. No such thing would happen, insha'Allah. The government should continue their way; no one can ever do anything of that sort. They are doing just fine.
Our PM Tayyip Erdoğan should also talk in favor of Fethullah Hodja. He should not mind anyone. Press is specifically making such provocative remarks so that he could make such sharp statements and take all religious communities on. That is because if you pay attention you will see that they want him to take on not only the Fethullah Gulen community but all religious communities. They want to volatilize the AK Party. I mean a gruesome plan is working. That is very important; [they want to make a target out of] not only the Gulen community, but all religious communities. They want to show them all as targets. See that all papers write it as "religious communities" [in plural form]. They are saying communities and not one community. All police officers are religious, all judges, all public prosecutors are devout people anyway. They are all somehow connected to a community or a congregation. How could one stand alone? Even wolves do not walk about on their own, right? Even wolves walk around in groups. How could a person be on his own? Of course they will be in groups. Where do you see a man acting solitary? One would at least want to form a family; one would at least want to have a wife and children. No man would want to live all alone. And it is religiously unlawful for Muslims to be alone anyway, they have to be together. They are trying to agitate our PM Tayyip and make him panic, they are trying to irritate him. Our PM should not fall prey to such plots. Even in a roundabout manner, if a manner of speech that would liken the community of Fethullah Hodja to the "Assassins" is employed, there will not be an end of it. That would be very, very wrong. There is no need for such things. He should continue on his regular ways, he should continue with his activities. It is apparent that this nation will bring him to power once again. The AK Party will win the elections for all municipalities anyway; he will do so in his normal course. But if they create such a scenario of panic, these people would not even want to go to the ballot box, they would feel afraid. Such an attitude is not acceptable. That would make people keep clear of them. One would then say; "let them do whatever they like" and panic. The papers should quit employing such a style. They should focus on making peace and inspire brotherhood, being together, acting together and they should say "This country is ours. We all are brothers and sisters. Let us all be together." The religious communities do not have such an excellent power in Turkey. Turkey doesn't have such an excellent power anyway. Turkey is a quiet and inoffensive Middle Eastern country. We only have a small piece of land inherited from the Ottoman Empire. We can barely sustain ourselves. I mean we do not have such an extraordinary military power, an extraordinary economic power; we are barely making ends meet.


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TEMPLE (October 6, 2012)--Thirty acres of land once owned by a well-known Central Texas family was open to the public for the first time Saturday.
The "Imagine If" Family Festival included live music, pony rides, a petting zoo and food vendors.
But those on the committee for the land say the most exciting thing is the plans for it.
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The Bend of the River Ranch, located between the Leon River and Interstate 35, has potential to become the largest botanic garden in Central Texas.
"This is beyond our dreams of what we could imagine," said Terice Talasek Schneider, daughter of the donors of the land.
The Talasek family donated the land to the City of Temple when her father, the late Reuben Talasek, passed away.
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"They had such great energy, excitement and vision that we said 'This is great,' she added.
The land committee plans to raise funds through private fundraisers, grants and rental fees of the facility for weddings, private parties and photo shoots.
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As a computer science graduate who had only a basic course in abstract algebra, I want to study some abstract algebra in my free time. I've been looking through some books on the topic, and most seem to 'only' cover groups, rings and fields. Why is this the case? It seems to me you'd want to study simpler structures like semigroups, too. Especially looking at Wikipedia, there seems to be a huge zoo of different kinds of semigroups.
There is not that much substantial to say about general semigroups at an introductory level, in comparison to groups, say, and what there is to say at this level (e.g. the theory of Green's relations) tends to rely on a prior understanding of groups in any case. (One thing I have in mind here --- but I am speaking as a non-expert --- is that semi-groups are much closer to general universal algebra than groups, and universal algebra is not, I would say, appropriate as a topic for a first course in abstract algebra.)
The theory of groups lends itself well to a first course, because the axioms are fairly simple but lead fairly quickly to non-trivial theorems, such as the Sylow theorems. Groups (especially group actions) are also ubiquitous, and the kind of counting arguments which one can make are very useful to learn. (It is the inability to make these sorts of counting arguments that causes so many problems when you investigate semi-groups, in comparison to the case of groups.)
The theory of fields is particularly useful in number theory, and Galois theory also provides a nice tie-in with the theory of groups, which in fact served as Galois's motivation for introducing groups in the first place. The theory of fields (especially the part to do with finding roots of polynomials) is also the part of abstract algebra that is closest to high school algebra, so it is not surprising that there is a substantial focus on it.
The theory of rings normally appears both because it is a precursor to field theory (fields are particular kinds of rings, and the polynomial rings $F[x]$ also play an important role in the study of fields), and because it includes many basic examples from mathematics, such as matrix rings, the integers, quaternions, and so on. Rings also play an important role in the study of group representations (via the appearance of group rings), which, even if they don't appear in a first course, are just over the horizon.
Summary: So overall, I think the answer is that groups, rings, and fields are the parts of algebra that are most closely connected to the basic core topics of mathematics, and are also closely integrated with one another. (Groups not immediately obviously so, but because of Galois theory and group rings, for example.) The theory of semigroups, by contrast, doesn't play much role in the rest of mathematics, and the theory that does exist is more complicated than the theory of groups (despite the axioms being simpler).
Historically, the first "modern algebra" textbook was van der Waerden's in 1930, which followed the groups/rings/fields model (in that order).
As far as I know, the first paper with nontrivial results on semigroups was published in 1928, and the first textbook on semigroups would have to wait until the 1960s.
There is also a slight problem with the notion of "simpler". It is true that semigroups have fewer axioms than groups, and as such should be more "ubiquitous". However, the theory of semigroups is also in some sense "more complex" than the theory of groups, just as the theory of noncommutative rings is harder than that of commutative rings (even though commutative rings are "more complex" than rings because they have an extra axiom) and the structure theory of fields is simpler than that of rings (fewer ideals, for one thing). Groups have the advantage of being a good balance point between simplicity of structure and yet the ability to obtain a lot of nontrivial and powerful results with relatively little prerequisites: most 1-semester courses, even at the undergraduate level, will likely reach the Sylow theorems, a cornerstone of finite group theory. Semigroups require a lot more machinery even to state the isomorphism theorems (you need to notion of congruences).
Historical inertia. A relatively small number of people were responsible for more or less deciding the modern abstract algebra curriculum around the beginning of the 20th century, and their ideas were so influential that their choice of topics is rarely questioned, for better or for worse. See, for example, Section 9.7 of Reid's Undergraduate commutative algebra.
Let me mention that my first (undergraduate!) course in algebra did start with the study of monoids.
Actually even that is not true. It started with a categorical perspective, especially the "quotient principle": when one map factors through another. At some point early on adjoint functors were introduced. And then, maybe 2-3 weeks into the course, we started talking about monoids. I especially remember the free monoid on the set $X$, which was referred to as the James construction. A childhood friend -- who is, by one of life's little coincidences, also a mathematician; at the time he was an undergrad two years ahead of me -- came to visit me in college about a month into the quarter and he was very surprised at what he saw in the course. Finally we started in on groups about five weeks in. (The instructor, Arunas Liulevicius, was famous for doing this sort of thing and sort of making it work due in part to his great enthusiasm and friendly manner.)
So the concept of monoids has been with me for essentially my entire mathematical career. I do think of this as a (slight) advantage, since a lot of people seem simply not to have this word in their vocabulary and go so far as to snicker when someone else says it. This is ridiculous because they are a natural structure which comes up all the time, and for instance the group completion of a commutative monoid should be part of every mathematician's toolkit.
However, I agree that the general study of monoids seems not to be as rewarding as that of groups, rings, fields (or modules). As evidence towards this, I have some lecture notes on semigroups and monoids which I wrote up a couple of years ago. But they didn't seem to be going anywhere interesting any time soon, so I stopped at $11$ pages and may or may not get back to them later.
All in all, this may be a situation in which it is good to give the definition, a few easy examples of the definition, and then move on and allow the student an opportunity to see the structure recur in their later mathematical experience.
The bias against less-fashionable and/or "applied" algebra in older abstract algebra textbooks is partly a result of tradition, and partly due to historical prejudices - not only against applied algebra but also closely related fields, e.g. combinatorics. Younger mathematicians may not be aware that, not too long ago, work in computational algebra and combinatorics got little respect from many pure mathematicians. For example, such branches of math were so shunned that leading algebraic geometers kept it secret that they were gaining insights by passing Gröbner basis calculations to the computer science department.
Thankfully nowadays most of those prejudices are old history, with a couple generations of mathematicians having been raised in the age of the computer being exposed first-hand to many diverse applications of algebra (e.g. Gröbner bases, cryptography, coding theory). Further, various authors have championed related fields that deserve respect, e.g. Rota's school of combinatorics. The pioneers knew long ago that these fields would soon come to the fore. For example, below is a pertinent excerpt from a Zbl review of the first (1974) edition of Hungerford's Algebra by a leading researcher in semigroup theory (B. M. Schein).
If you study the history of mathematics you will soon realize that fashions come and go in mathematics just as they do in Paris or Milan. Try as we may, we are powerless to predict which little-known esoteric branch of math will soon come to the fore to play a crucial role in some application. Even Hardy's pure haven of number theory now has significant applications in cryptography. Physicists continue to marvel at the The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences.
So, in summary, don't let the prejudices of the past wrongly influence your studies of algebra and mathematics. Nowadays there can be no doubt that the the theory of semigroups, lattices, and combinatorics play fundamental roles in computer science (as well as mathematics).
Most books on abstract algebra that I've seen tend to start with or want their students to have some sort of number-theoretic background. Lattices, semilattices, Boolean Algebras, De Morgan Algebras, and the like probably have gotten ignored for this reason. Heck, I'd believe some people would consider all of those structures as part of logic, not mathematics (and there there exist disparaging comments about Lattice Theory from people like G. H. Hardy). Also, semigroups don't fit well, since most of the common number systems have more structure than that. The positive natural numbers form a commutative semigroup, but you don't see that in many texts either.
You hit the nail on the head about a huge zoo of semigroups. I tried to do some thinking on this on my own after reading Pete's link, and instead of talking about examples of semigroups, it seemed better to talk about classes of examples of semigroups. With some infinite semigroups I could form subsemigroups on the fly by remembering ordering properties of numbers, and then deleting the lower (or higher) end members (e. g. ([0, 1], $\ast$) is a semigroup with $\ast$ as multiplication, so then delete some interval of real numbers [x, 1] from [0, 1] and since multiplication always decreases, closure holds, and I think that implies association comes for free for such a subsemigroup (see the link). You can't get examples this easily with groups (and I doubt with rings or fields), so perhaps finding examples of groups, rings, and fields seems more impressive.
Additionally, the Schaum's Outline of Group Theory introduces groupoids, then semigroups, then monoids (though it doesn't use that name), and homomorphisms, isomorphisms get expressed in terms of a groupoid first, and Cayley's theorem get discussed for semigroups first also.
Semigroups and monoids are at the heart of algebra. In fact, the majority of algebra is really monoid theory in different guises. Groups are but monoids whose element are invertible. Rings are monoids along with an "addition" operation (another monoid!) that comes along for the ride. Modules are the actions of such monoids. Algebras are monoids of modules. So, it is quite perplexing to me that the standard algebra text books don't lay the proper conceptual foundations for the student, which are surely in monoid theory. One rare book stands out as a shining exception:
Claude Chevalley: Fundamental Concepts of Algebra, Academic Press, 1957.
The moral is that if any one reads algebra with semigroup/monoid goggles, they will find them pretty much everywhere. For my own personal education and enjoyment, I have been collecting Notes on Semigroups as I read the traditional algebra, which I am happy to make available for general reading. (But, please note that these are written as personal notes for myself and they will change and expand as I go along.)
However, note that there are plenty of standard text books available on semigroups. Some widely used ones are:
Clifford and Preston, The algebraic theory of semigroups, AMS, 1961.
Howie, J. M, An introduction to semigroup theory, Academic Press, 1976.
Higgins, Techniques of Semigroup Theory, Oxford Science Publications, 1992
There are also some very nice algebraic automata theory books that deal with semigroups in considerable detail:
Eilenberg, S., Automata, languages and machines, Academic Press, 1976
Holcombe, W.M.L., Algebraic automata theory, Cambridge University Press, 1982
Pin, J.-E., Mathematical foundations of automata theory, online book for now.


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Looking like a Smart Car on steroids, the Guardium is an unmanned armored car that carries more than 660-pounds of cameras, electronic sensors and weapons, according to the Israel Defense Forces' blog (notice how the blog says it has built-in protection against denial of service attacks, that's expensive). The killer go-kart can be operated in real time by a driver sitting in distant command center -- similar to the way armed drones are flown by far-off pilots -- or they can be programmed to "run patrol on predetermined routes without human intervention," according to the blog. (Human Rights Watch will love that last bit.)
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I was curious (even though this is a very amateur question)... what would the multiplication equivalent of sigma (the summation symbol) be? $$\sum$$ I want to do a series of multiplication of terms.... instead of addition...
It's a capital pi (for product): $\prod$. You can sometimes find useful symbols and guess what they mean from their $\LaTeX$ names, although I guess the most reliable way to find useful, well-known symbols is just to read a lot of math.
I google "latex symbols" when I need something I can't recall. That'll give you many lists and tips. For example, if you choose the first hit, the AoPS list and look for the sum symbol you'll find the product symbol right below it. This is but a simple example of a general technique of exploiting organization and classification on the web to discover information about similar items.
For the inverse, when you know the symbol but not the name there is deTeXify which let's you draw the symbol and does OCR to find the name. For deeper questions there's the (La)Tex SE site.


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Is there a list somewhere of recommendations of different Python-based REST frameworks for use on the serverside to write your own RESTful APIs? Preferably with pros and cons.
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Is there a list somewhere of recommendations of different Python-based REST frameworks for use on the serverside to write your own RESTful APIs? Preferably with pros and cons.
Please feel free to add recommendations here. :)
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Something to be careful about when designing a RESTful API is the conflation of GET and POST, as if they were the same thing. It's easy to make this mistake with Django's function-based views and CherryPy's default dispatcher, although both frameworks now provide a way around this problem (class-based views and MethodDispatcher, respectively).
HTTP-verbs are very important in REST, and unless you're very careful about this, you'll end up falling into a REST anti-pattern.
Some frameworks that get it right are web.py, Flask and Bottle. When combined with the mimerender library (full disclosure: I wrote it), they allow you to write nice RESTful webservices:
The service's logic is implemented only once, and the correct representation selection (Accept header) + dispatch to the proper render function (or template) is done in a tidy, transparent way.
Update (April 2012): added information about Django's class-based views, CherryPy's MethodDispatcher and Flask and Bottle frameworks. Neither existed back when the question was asked.
Surprised no one mentioned flask.
We're using Django for RESTful web services.
Note that -- out of the box -- Django did not have fine-grained enough authentication for our needs. We used the Django-REST interface, which helped a lot. [We've since rolled our own because we'd made so many extensions that it had become a maintenance nightmare.]
We have two kinds of URL's: "html" URL's which implement the human-oriented HTML pages, and "json" URL's which implement the web-services oriented processing. Our view functions often look like this.
The point being that the useful functionality is factored out of the two presentations. The JSON presentation is usually just one object that was requested. The HTML presentation often includes all kinds of navigation aids and other contextual clues that help people be productive.
See Python Web Frameworks wiki.
You probably do not need the full stack frameworks, but the remaining list is still quite long.
I really like CherryPy. Here's an example of a restful web service:
This emphasizes what I really like about CherryPy; this is a completely working example that's very understandable even to someone who doesn't know the framework. If you run this code, then you can immediately see the results in your web browser; e.g. visiting http://localhost:8080/celc_to_fahr?degrees=50 will display
I don't see any reason to use Django just to expose a REST api, there are lighter and more flexible solutions. Django carries a lot of other things to the table, that are not always needed. For sure not needed if you only want to expose some code as a REST service.
My personal experience, fwiw, is that once you have a one-size-fits-all framework, you'll start to use its ORM, its plugins, etc. just because it's easy, and in no time you end up having a dependency that is very hard to get rid of.
Choosing a web framework is a tough decision, and I would avoid picking a full stack solution just to expose a REST api.
Now, if you really need/want to use Django, then Piston is a nice REST framework for django apps.
That being said, CherryPy looks really nice too, but seems more RPC than REST.
Looking at the samples (I never used it), probably web.py is the best and cleanest if you only need REST.
Here is a discussion in CherryPy docs on REST: http://docs.cherrypy.org/dev/progguide/REST.html
In particular it mentions a built in CherryPy dispatcher called MethodDispatcher, which invokes methods based on their HTTP-verb identifiers (GET, POST, etc...).
In 2010, the Pylons and repoze.bfg communities "joined forces" to create Pyramid, a web framework based most heavily on repoze.bfg. It retains the philosophies of its parent frameworks, and can be used for RESTful services. It's worth a look.
Piston is very flexible framework for wirting RESTful APIs for Django applications.
Seems all kinds of python web frameworks can implement RESTful interfaces now.
For Django, besides tastypie and piston, django-rest-framework is a promising one worth to mention. I've already migrated one of my project on it smoothly.
Quick example:
Take the example from official site, all above codes provide api, self explained document(like soap based webservice) and even sandbox to test a bit. Very convenience.
I am not an expert on the python world but I have been using django which is an excellent web framework and can be used to create a restful framework.
web2py includes support for easily building RESTful API's, described here and here (video). In particular, look at
I you are using Django then you can consider django-tastypie as an alternative to django-piston. It is easier to tune to non-ORM data sources than piston, and has great documentation.
I strongly recommend TurboGears or Bottle:
We are working on a framework for strict REST services, check out http://prestans.googlecode.com
Its in early Alpha at the moment, we are testing against mod_wsgi and Google's AppEngine.
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I was able to export using:
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But when I try to import it on SharePoint 2013 it doesn't seem to work:
Import-SPWeb http://sp2013/hr –Path hrexport.cmp –UpdateVersions Overwrite
Is this even allowed? How would you do it if you only had to do like 5 SharePoint Webs? Would you restore the entire farm into a testing environment/upgrade in place and then export and import into production?


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Saturday, April 24, 2010
Oil Price in Euros: Yet Another Economic Challenge for Europe
Here I used a pair of ETFs: the oil ETF USO and the euro ETF FXE to estimate the movement in the price of oil denominated in euros.
Because of the weakness in the euro and the firmness of oil prices, we see that oil has moved up about 50% since the bear lows in March of 2009. With the recent drop in the euro and rise in oil prices, we see that the price of oil in euros has been moving steadily higher thus far in 2010.
With many European economies being energy importers, not producers, such a rise in oil prices can only provide headwinds to economic growth in the eurozone.
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- Jorge said...
Dr. Steenbarger,
While higher oil prices are obviously not positive for any non oil-producing economies, keep in mind the following:
a) Much lower oil (particularly gasoline) consumption than in America (more compact cities, stricter car standards, extensive high-speed rail).
b) Most European countries are oil importers, not energy importers (France has 80% nuclear power, renewable energies are a significant part of energy production in Spain, Germany, Denmark, etc.).
c) The recent increase in oil prices is offset largely by the dirt-cheap prices in natural gas (Heating oil use is marginal).
d) A lower euro is good for exporters; when combined with overall higher oil prices is excellent for both producers and exporters of wind turbines, solar panels, etc.
Some people will balk at the pump, but barring €200 oil prices, we (unfortunately) have bigger fish to fry.
Best trading,
PS: I already congratulated you on your next venture, but I forgot to congratulate the hedge fund that hired you! :)
- Curtis said...
Dr. Brett thanks for these pair ideas.
Jorge not so sure it is a hedge fund. I have absolutely no factual or pertinent knowledge as to who hired him. But being the great predictor, I can predict many things. First he wrote about moving. I suspect he is moving to New York..
He referred to it as a trading firm and not a hedge fund. I suspect from this it is a proprietary fund. Given it is a "challenge" in the right environment, I would look to former clients. I know he did some work for some firms in the past for free and without charge.
So, I am predicting it is a prop firm in NY that he has worked with in the past. This firm has a lot of new prop traders and offers training. This would give him a lot of coaching opportunity on a day-to-day basis.
I could be absolutely wrong but I feel this is a good prediction. Many other possibilities too. I grant that I could well be wrong.
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Hi Curtis,
You make an excellent prediction, given my background in coaching and trading.
But, sorry, you're not correct.
- Curtis said...
Good throwing me for a loop Dr. Brett! There are lot of hedge funds in Connecticut I've read. I'll guess on Texas and a prop firm that is located there. I'm led to believe it is at least in the US. So there aren't that many places. I pick Texas. This is my final offer.


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I have been using firefox for a long time in Ubuntu, I downloaded some add-ons but it made firefox extremely slow, even if I remove them nothing will change. I tried to remove firfox also but re-installing it will somehow recover the same firefox I had, it seems it write some info somewhere that even if you remove firefox it will keep them.also I am not able to use see any flash videos or website with firefox(chrome works fine)..honestly I tampered with plug-in settings in firfox that this happened. but right now I can't do anything to overwrite the setting...my question is how I can remove firefox in a way to remove any previous traces and re-install a new version like for the first time? thanks
Delete Firefox and all it's data:
I think this can be done in five easy steps, please edit my answer - or tell me to - if it's not complete:
Mind the periods in front of file- and directory names: They indicate a hidden directory. You can tell your File Browser to show them by pressing Ctrl+H.
The 4th and 5th step must be done with superuser privileges. To start a the File Browser as a superuser, press Alt+F2 and enter
Finally, restart your computer to get rid of all temporary files. This should remove all traces of firefox ever being there.
All the answers given so far are way too drastic. You don't need to
Here's the thing. Firefox doesn't store any user data in itself. What it does instead is create what's known as a "user profile" -- a directory in your home directory -- and store all your data in there. And by data I mean everything -- add-ons, themes, browsing history, stored passwords, and on and on. (The actual location of your profiles in the filesystem varies by OS; on Ubuntu and other Linuxes, it's generally in
When you first use Firefox, it silently creates a default profile for you, and uses that profile from that day onward. But you don't have to use that profile. Firefox supports multiple profiles, and you can switch back and forth between them at will. This means that to get Firefox back to the way it was the day you first installed it, you don't have to touch the Firefox binaries at all -- all you have to do is create a new, empty profile, and use it instead of your old, cluttered one. Restart Firefox and it'll be like you never ran it before.
Here's how to create a new FF profile in Ubuntu:
Yours will probably only have one profile listed -- that's your current, default profile, with all your add-ons and other stuff. It'll have a name that starts with a string of random characters; that's because FF had to come up with a name for it when it automatically created the profile, so it just used a random string.
Now Firefox will restart, completely fresh and new as the first day you downloaded it. Problem solved. And if you ever need to retrieve something from your old profile, like your old bookmarks, say, all your old data is archived in your old profile, so you can safely retrieve it later.
You can try to delete the ~/.mozilla folder which contains all the browser's settings.
First of all, remove Firefox and all of its configuration files by typing in:
Also, make sure that the
It might even not be necessary to reinstall Firefox, just remove the
This will do the whole trick, removing all packages and files,
"autoremove" purges everything that once was needed to install or run a program.
Also remember to update or dist-update (this last one is my favorite), after you removed firefox or any other software. Some users recommend doing a simple update before removing or installing programs.
You only need to type:
and then type y for "Yes", and Enter
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23 Nov 2012 12:58 AM #1
Answered: ST2: PhoneGap functions not available on iOS
Hi there,
I currently try to get my hands dirty with Sencha Touch and PhoneGap to develop my application for iOS and Android platforms.
My current test app just consists of 2 tab panels with buttons that trigger PhoneGap functions. Because I don't think the problem originates from there, I'm just going to link the files instead of posting their contents.
app.js: http://pastebin.com/nvQfBc9s
Main.js: http://pastebin.com/kr0RDiq4
Blah.js: http://pastebin.com/SKcxE43T
CallList.js just shows some buttons that run tests on file system access and a SQLite database (via plugin).
This app runs fine on android platforms.
I followed the PhoneGap "Getting Started" guides to setup the iOS project (extract cordova files, run ./create with 3 parameters), ran "sencha app build testing" and then overwrote the contents of the www directory with the contents of my app/build/testing directory (my minified web app, not a native package).
Now, I can see the Sencha components in the web app, and I see one line of console output ('Multi-tasking -> Device: YES, App: YES), but the functions that I want to trigger are not defined (i.e. "navigator" get alerted as "[Object object]", but navigator.notification is undefined).
So, conclusion: the empty project that gets created by the PhoneGap-create-command runs fine, but when I try to load my Sencha Touch project, PhoneGap gets kind of ignored.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
grrr... turned out to be my fault all the way. I included the wrong javascript library, I didn't know there are different versions for the platforms.
26 Nov 2012 4:15 AM #2
Wow, this just got weird. If I generate the ST app with SenchaCmd on Windows, I get the behaviour I described in my OP - however, if the ST app is generated on Mac OS, it runs perfectly on iOS simulator. Is this a bug?
30 Nov 2012 2:01 AM #3
grrr... turned out to be my fault all the way. I included the wrong javascript library, I didn't know there are different versions for the platforms.


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I know there were several similar threads here and on the net but I seem to be doing something wrong, I guess. My task is easy - write (and later read) a big array of integers (int [] or ArrayList or what you think is best) to a file. The faster the better. My concrete array has about 4.5M integers in it and currently the times are for example (in ms):
- Generating trie: 14851.13071
- Generating array: 2237.4661619999997
- Saving array: 89250.167617
- Loading array: 114908.08185799999
This is unacceptable and I guess the times should be much lower. What am I doing wrong? I don't need the fastest method on earth but getting these times to about 5 - 15 seconds (less is welcome but not mandatory) is my goal.
My current code:
long start = System.nanoTime();
Node trie = dawg.generateTrie("dict.txt");
long afterGeneratingTrie = System.nanoTime();
ArrayList<Integer> array = dawg.generateArray(trie);
long afterGeneratingArray = System.nanoTime();
new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("test.txt")).writeObject(array);
catch (Exception e)
Logger.getLogger(DawgTester.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, e);
long afterSavingArray = System.nanoTime();
ArrayList<Integer> read = new ArrayList<Integer>();
read = (ArrayList)new ObjectInputStream(new FileInputStream("test.txt")).readObject();
catch (Exception e)
Logger.getLogger(DawgTester.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, e);
long afterLoadingArray = System.nanoTime();
System.out.println("Generating trie: " + 0.000001 * (afterGeneratingTrie - start));
System.out.println("Generating array: " + 0.000001 * (afterGeneratingArray - afterGeneratingTrie));
System.out.println("Saving array: " + 0.000001 * (afterSavingArray - afterGeneratingArray));
System.out.println("Loading array: " + 0.000001 * (afterLoadingArray - afterSavingArray));