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Welcome to the mobile computing community on BrightTALK! With the consumerization of IT and the widespread adoption of mobile devices across the globe, mobile computing has become an important part of many people's lives in a culture of bring your own device (BYOD). With mobile devices doubling as work phones and more employees working from home, businesses need to provide secure access to data and work applications from anywhere at any time. Join this growing community and hear from industry thought leaders in webinars and videos as they share their insight on mobile computing research and trends.
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Mobile and App Security
May 17 2016
This month, the debate will range around our mobile devices and how we use them in the enterprise. Speakers will debate BYOD, device management, developing and designing secure apps and how you can protect your business from the latest mobile and app-based threats.
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Cloud, Mobility and Emerging Trends in ITSM
Nov 9 2015
What will have the biggest impact on how we practice ITSM this year and next?
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Enterprise Application and Mobile Security
Oct 26 2015
Best practices for implementing a security structure around increasing employee mobility and the growing use of enterprise applications.
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Application and Mobile Security
Jun 25 2014
The last 12 months have been a definitive period in application security. From Snapchat to Spotify, we have seen attackers increasingly targeting applications as user data jackpots. Android and iOS are continuing to be vectors for attacks as hackers breakthrough one vulnerability after another. In this summit, industry thought leaders will share their latest research and insights on how these application and mobile vulnerabilities are putting your organization at risk, what tools and processes can help mitigate these risks and best practices you can implement today to stay one step ahead of the game.
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BYOD Security
Jul 16 2013
The ubiquity of mobile devices in the work place is putting the onus on security professionals to not simply think about BYOD and mobile, but to integrate both as keystone parts of their IT security strategies. No matter what vertical you're in getting the policy, management and usability of mobile devices right is no longer an elective, but a requirement. Join us for our very first BYOD focused security event to learn how the leaders and innovators in the field are approaching the challenges of mobile endpoint security, consumerization of IT and mobile application development.
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Cloud and Mobile Compliance
Feb 13 2013
With the shift towards cloud computing and an increasing dependence on mobile device usage, companies are facing new challenges when considering how to handle their data and access to it. From risk management in the cloud, to making sure you have email continuity solutions in place, this summit will arm you with best practices to streamlining data governance. Walk away with insider tools and tips you can implement now when handling cloud, mobile and email compliance in your organization.
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UC & Collaboration - Exploring the Business Value
Nov 13 2012
It is difficult for some organizations to understand the business value of unified communications and collaboration tools. However, by having a single point of access to manage the various voice, e-mail, instant messaging and conference tools, it can create improved communication flow. Join this summit as industry UC experts discuss the future of UC and why you should be looking at these tools for your own organization.
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I've read many, many articles recently about how great fish oil is for you. Awesome. I'm in.
The hard part - which fish oil should I take? There are so many of them.
What attributes make a fish oil "high quality"?
I've read many, many articles recently about how great fish oil is for you. Awesome. I'm in.
The hard part - which fish oil should I take? There are so many of them.
What attributes make a fish oil "high quality"?
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My source for information on this topic is Whole9:
They have a lot more, including brand recommendations and frequently asked questions. Their general supplement checklist is good stuff too. Some excerpts:
This article from the New York Times cites a consumerlabs.com report (can't link directly to report because you have to sign up) which says that large chains like Walmart/Costco store brands are typically high quality:
Note that even though the study was for multi-vitamins, I'm assuming that the same standards for manufacturing the pills are carried over into different vitamins/supplements. The only way to not have to make this assumption would be to point to an equivalent study for fish oil and I don't know of one (feel free to upvote/accept someone else if they happen to find one). This does make sense though because whoever produces the highest volume will likely discover the most problems and be more apt to roll out fixes to the manufacturing process. Pills aren't like food/beer/whiskey/wine where quality tends to go up when made in smaller batches.
So I'm sure if you just picked up the walmart store brand you'll be fine. Keep in mind that "quality vitamin" just means that the contents of the bottle match what the nutrition facts say they do. In terms of amounts and how much you should be taking you should look into research on amounts used in fish oil studies and I know from experience that fish oil pills do vary in amount of oil per pill, so you should definetly pay attention to this.

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I know quickly is supposed to make life easier for developers of all kinds, I'm just curious as to if there is an IDE for quickly (something like QtCreator or Monodevelop)?
If not, as a part B, is there one on the way?
I know quickly is supposed to make life easier for developers of all kinds, I'm just curious as to if there is an IDE for quickly (something like QtCreator or Monodevelop)?
If not, as a part B, is there one on the way?
The short answer is no.
Hope my answer comes on time, I just tested and you can use PyDev from eclipse.
Basically you first need to create your Quickly application as shown in the examples, then create a project in eclipse with PyDev (I used the same name) and set the location of your Quickly application as the project location. To be able to launch the project from Eclipse, rename the executable script called in the bin/ folder to something like *_launcher.py* (the name must differ from the module with the rest of the code).
Now, one nasty piece of work is to make the schema settings work (a bug about this is filed). First, to move automatic compiling from the quickly run script to *_launcher.py* append this code to the end of the file, right before the import command:
Then to tell the application to look for schemas locally as well you have to edit the PyDev launch configuration and in the Environment tab add a variable XDG_DATA_DIRS with a value
(adjust to match your project path)
You'll be able to modify any files and test if it works and even debug the program, and you can still use normal commands from quickly.
In my case, I already had the bazaar plugin installed in the eclipse enviromnent and I can see which files I need to commit and so on.
Following the bug report in the post by jmolinaso above there now seems to be an even easier way to run your Quickly application from the command line and set the ./bin/APPNAME file as the Main Debug file in Wing IDE.
If had trouble reading the notation in Patch for bug 976817 then this is a way to look at it: In your shiny folder you have a "bin" folder, with only one file with your application name. We can call it /bin/APPNAME. In the file APPNAME you need to add a couple of lines between:
The lines to be included are marked with a
So just copy paste as follows:
Leave the orignal:
Now you can start your application from the command line, set ./bin/APPNAME as the main debug file in WingIDE (or any other IDE I suppose) and work with you Quickly app as you would with any other application, start/stopping the debugger from WingIDE, for instance.


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Steubenville-area churches have announced the following sermon themes for their Sunday services:
-- Bell Chapel United Methodist Church, Steubenville: "Gadgets, Gimmicks and Getting Back to Basics."
-- Covenant Presbyterian Church, Steubenville: "Our Ministry of Reconciliation," Douglas Snodgrass, guest speaker.
-- Finley United Methodist Church, Steubenville: "Contentment and Stewardship" part two, morning service; "The ABC's of Faith," evening service.
-- First Christian Church, Disciples, Steubenville: "The Word Christian."
-- First Church of Christ, Scientist, Steubenville: "Doctrine of Atonement."
-- First United Methodist Church, Toronto: "Rest Assured."
-- First Westminster Presbyterian Church, Steubenville: "A Familiar Voice."
-- Harmony United Methodist Church, Mingo Junction: Jim McClung, guest speaker.
-- Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church, Steubenville: "Waking to the Depths of Darkness."
-- St. Mark Lutheran Church, Steubenville: "Can You Hear the Voice of the Good Shepherd?"
-- St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Steubenville: "The Lord is My Shepherd," Pastor Terry Mohr, guest pastor.
-- Starkdale Presbyterian Church, Steubenville: "Eternal Security."
Tiltonsville United Methodist Church: "God Uses Ordinary People."
-- Toronto North River Avenue Christian Church: Splendid Sound in concert, morning service; evening worship.
-- Two Ridges Presbyterian Church, Wintersville: "Prizes Beyond This Life."
-- Wintersville United Methodist Church: "Let Us Not Give Up Meeting Together."
-- Zion United Church of Christ, Steubenville: "Life-Giving Acts."


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Banaras Hindu University (BHU) is an internationally reputed temple of learning, situated in the holy city of Varanasi. This Creative and innovative university was founded by the great nationalist leader, Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, in 1916 with cooperation of great personalities like Dr Annie Besant, who viewed it as the University of India.
Here we update the news about BHU UET & PET Entrance 2015 Admit Card, Cut Off Marks, Model Question Paper, Answer Key, Hall Ticket/ Call Letter, Merit List, Cut off Marks, Cut off List, Rank list, Counselling Schedule & Allotment process.
Banaras Hindu University (BHU) ranks among the first few in the country in the field of academic and research output. This university has two campuses, 3 institutes, 16 faculties, 140 departments, 4 advanced centers and 4 interdisciplinary schools. The University is making its mark at the national and international levels in a number of frontier areas of Science, Social Science, Technology, Medicine and Agriculture etc.
Banaras Hindu University was created under the Parliamentary legislation - B.H.U. Act 1915. It played a stellar role in the independence movement and has developed into the greatest center of learning in India. It has produced many great freedom fighters and builders of modern India and has immensely contributed to the progress of the nation through a large number of renowned scholars, artists, scientists and technologists who have graced its portals. The area of the main campus of this premiere Central University is 1300 acres, having well maintained roads, extensive greenery, a temple, an air strip and buildings which are an architectural delight. The Air Field of the campus was started for military training for flying during the second world war.
A. UNDERGRADUATE COURSES (UET Courses):
a General:B. A. (Hons.) Arts; B. A. (Hons.) Social Sciences; B. Sc. (Hons.) Maths; B. Sc. (Hons.) Bio;. B.Com. (Hons.)**/[B.Com. (Hons.) Financial Markets Management*(Special Courses of Study)]; Shastri (Hons.);
b. Professional: After +2 Level: B.F.A.; B. Mus./B.P.A.(Dance) ; B. Sc. (Ag.); after graduation: LL.B.; B. Ed.** / B. Ed. (Spl.) and B.P.Ed.
B. POSTGRADUATE COURSES (PET Courses):
a.General: M. A.: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, French, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Pali, Kannad, German, Russian, Persian, Sanskrit, Telugu, Urdu, Linguistics, Ancient Indian History Culture & Archaeology (AIHC & Arch.), Philosophy, Indian Philosophy & Religion, History of Art, Economics, History, Political Science, Sociology; M. Sc.: Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Computer Science, Biochemistry; Molecular & Human Genetics; M. Sc. (Tech.): Geology; Geophysics; M.A./M. Sc.: Geography, Statistics, Mathematics, Home Science, Psychology; M. Com.; Acharya: Veda, Vyakaran, Jyotish, Dharmashastra, Mimansa, Vedanta, Nyayavaiseshika, Prachinanyaya, Sankhyayoga, Puranetihasa, Sahitya, Dharmagama, Baudha Darshan, Jain Darshan.
b. Professional: M. A.: Prayojanmoolak Hindi (Patrakarita), Museology; Mass Communication; M.Lib. I. Sc.; M. A. in Manuscriptology & Paleography, M.P.Ed., M.F.A., M. Mus.; M.P.A. (Dance); M. Musicology, M. Ed.; M. Ed. (special) VI; LL. M.; MCA; M. Sc. in Health Statistics, M. Sc in Bioinformatics (for female); M. Sc. (Ag.); Agricultural Economics, Agronomy, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Entomology & Agricultural Zoology, Extension Education, Genetics & Plant Breeding, Horticulture, Mycology & Plant Pathology, Plant Physiology, Soil Science & Agricultural Chemistry.
C. Special: (1) M. A. in: Tourism Management**, Corporate Communication Management, Social Work, Public Administration, Conflict Management and Development, Master of Personnel Management and Industrial Relations.
(2) M. Sc. (Tech.) in Environmental Science & Technology*, M. Sc. in: Environmental Science, Applied Microbiology, Petroleum Geo-Science,
(3) Master of Foreign Trade (MFT), Financial Management (Risk and Insurance) (MFMRI), Finance Management (MFM),
(4) LL. M. in: Human Rights & Duties Education,
(5) MBA in Agri-Business*
(6) M. Sc. (Ag.) Agroforestry*, Soil & Water Conservation*, M. Sc. inFood Science & Technology, Plant Biotechnology*, Master of Agri-business Management, M. Tech in Agricultural Engineering (Soil & Water Conservation Engineering).
A university can grow successfully only when research and teaching mesh together seamlessly - one without the other is incomplete. Therefore we have ensured the development of a collaborative environment conducive to learning, exposure to the best international practices and promotion of innovation and creativity.
BHU today has nearly twenty thousand students including 2500 research scholars and 650 foreign students from 34 nations, under one roof who are pursuing different academic programmes at this campus as well as the newly established Rajiv Gandhi South Campus. These are some of the brightest young minds in the country and abroad, who have joined this University after clearing a rigorous All India Entrance Test.
We realize that the rapid pace of development in the country has raised the awareness as well as expectations of the people. Institutions of higher learning are instrumental in providing equality of opportunities, which is the essence of participatory democracy. This will not only remove a sense of alienation and neglect in the backward regions but also prevent out migration from these areas.
BHU has established the Rajiv Gandhi South Campus at Barkachha about 75 Kms southwest of Varanasi on 2760 acres of land. The first academic session commenced from 2006-07 with six programmes which has increased to more than 25 in the present session. This campus is emerging as a potential hub to impart education, training and entrepreneurship development skills, to the youth, women and marginalized sections of society in the backward region of Mirzapur and adjoining districts of Uttar Pradesh, Western Bihar and Northern Madhya Pradesh. The Campus is heading well as per your vision for education to generate new breed of human resource who would be job creators and not job seekers.


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I have no idea where to look for, so I'm hoping you can give me some pointers.
I'm interested by numbers of form $p-1$ when $p$ is a prime number. Do they have a name, so that I can google them?
More precisely, I'm interested in their factors. Ok, obviously 2 is a factor, but what about the others? Are there a lot of small factors? Do we know the rate of the growth of its larger factor, is it linear, logarithmic?


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MINGO JUNCTION - Village police officers are willing to take a 33 percent pay cut and give up several other benefits to keep four officers and the chief working.
Village Council, Mayor Ron DiCarlo and Clerk John Angelica spent three hours Friday working on the 2013 budget but did not make any final determinations on the number of employees that will be laid off.
Council is scheduled to meet again at 6 p.m. Thursday to again discuss the budget.
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FIGURING THE FIGURES — Mingo Junction Councilmen Michael Herrick, left, and Chuck Dickey and Mayor Ron DiCarlo, back, write down figures during a finance committee meeting Friday. The council, DiCarlo and village Clerk John Angelica spent three hours working on the budget but still didn't make any final determinations on how many village employees will be laid off come January. - Mark Law
Council has asked the Mingo Junction Safety Forces and the Communication Workers of America Local 4527 to come back to council with concession offers but only the police department has made a firm offer.
Fire Chief John Wright made a presentation to council on Friday, which included an 11 percent cut in wages, but the firefighters haven't agreed. The safety forces are made up of members of the police and fire departments. The union will have to write a memorandum of understanding to be signed by the union and council before any concessions are formalized.
Wright said council has to determine the level of service it wants for the fire and emergency medical services. Wright said the fire department may not provide backup for surrounding communities and may have to rely on those communities for help. If only two firefighters are on duty and there is an ambulance call, the fire department may have to call another ambulance service to respond to a second call.
The fire department had 900 calls this year, he said.
"We hear all the reasons to keep people working, but we need a solution," said Councilman James Morrocco.
Police Chief Steve Maguschak said his department could operate on a $175,000 budget but the department will no longer have overtime, holiday pay, a clothing allowance and other benefits, in addition to the 33 percent pay cut.
He said felony crime investigations may have to be handled by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department, and there won't be money to pay officers to appear in court.
"This is a bad situation," the police chief said. "We won't have 24-hour service and we won't be able to cover every turn."
Maguschak said the officers and their families will suffer with the pay cuts but know what the consequences of prior layoffs were like.
"That is quite a concession," said Councilman John Fabian.
Morrocco, a retired village police officer, said the officers will be working for less money than they would get with unemployment benefits, which would only last for six months.
"I don't know how we can ask any more of them," Morrocco said.
A patrolman will be be paid $10.73 an hour. The chief said he wants the officers to be allowed to go work part-time for other police departments. One officer is paid for with a federal grant, which covers 75 percent of the officer's payroll.
Howard Armstrong, a former Wellsburg city manager, has offered on a voluntary basis to help council in preparing the budget. Armstrong also has submitted an application for the vacant village administrator's position.
"It is simple math. You need to balance the services you want (with the revenue available). Without the revenue, you don't have many options," Armstrong said.
The city has faced a major reduction in revenue with the closing of the RG Steel plant. Income tax collections have been cut by 75 percent during the past four years.
Wright said the village could consider a levy to fund the fire department and emergency medical services.
There are eight employees in the service department who collect garbage, cut grass and plow streets in the winter. Council said, with the available revenue, four employees will have to be laid off. The village needs the revenue to pay the remaining four their wages and pay the unemployment benefits for the four lwho will be laid off.
George Stoddart, CWA local president, didn't attend the meeting to offer any concessions.
"The police department took concessions. The service department is not giving anything up," said Councilman Jack Brettell. "Everyone has to give something up."
Mayor DiCarlo said a meeting will be held prior to Thursday's meeting with the unions so council can make some decisions on the number of employees that will need to be laid off.
The village sent out layoff notices to all village workers effective Dec. 29, but some in the water and sewer department will need to be called back to operate the water and sewer plants.
Automation equipment is being installed at both plants, which will result in the layoff of five workers.
The meeting Thursday will include a discussion between the Retired Senior Volunteer Program and council about taking over the operations of the senior center. Council, also at the meeting, will approve year-end transfers of money in various accounts.


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Has anyone got any experience will loading SWC / SWZ's at runtime within a Flex 4 / Air 2 desktop application?
The very rough idea would be to have a desktop Air app, which is able to "download" additional modules (eg, a SWZ/RSL representing a form) and load these at runtime?
Imagine the App is configured using an XML file obtained over the net. When this has instruction to get a new module (SWZ/RSL), the app will download the module to its App Storage folder, and instanciate it at runtime?
The Flex Manual seems to indicate this is possible, but is talking web rather than desktop http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf69084-7fd1.html
Can anyone offer any advise? Has anyone got any experience, or knows of some walkthroughs / code examples?


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I'm trying to check 2000 email addresses if exist. Are there ways on how to do that without sending them an email.
Wanted to check if the email is still valid.
I found this one Email Unlimited, but only check 20 email addresses then you should buy.
Would appreciate your ideas. Thanks


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December 12, 2012
Four faculty members and one alumna from New York University's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at the Tisch School of the Arts, are among the nominees for 2013 Grammy Awards. The nominations were recently announced (Dec. 5) by the Recording Academy and comprise an eclectic mix of the music industry's best and brightest over the past year. The 55th Annual Grammy Awards will be presented February 10, 2013 and broadcast live on CBS.
The Grammy nominees from the Clive Davis Institute are:
Jim Anderson – faculty – for Best Surround Sound Album, Modern Cool, Premonition Records
Errol Kolosine – faculty – represents band nominated for Best Dance/Electronica Album, Don't Think, The Chemical Brothers, Astralwerks
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson – faculty – for Best Rap Album, Undun, The Roots, Island Def Jam
Elle Varner – alumna '08 – for Best R&B Song, Refill, Track from: Perfectly Imperfect; RCA Records/MBK Entertainment; Publishers: Ellevision Music/Sony ATV Songs, Private Stock Entertainment/Songs of Universal, CampStar Music/EMI April
Holly George-Warren – faculty – for Best Album Notes, The Pearl Sessions, Columbia/Legacy
The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music is the first of its kind to provide professional business and artistic training toward a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. The undergraduate program is designed to provide professional training for students who aspire to succeed as creative entrepreneurs in the music industry. The program bears the name of its chief patron and advisor, Clive Davis.
This Press Release is in the following Topics:
Tisch School of the Arts, NYUToday-feature
Type: Press Release
Press Contact: Richard Pierce | (212) 998-6796


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I really can't remember a movie that I saw years ago that is something like:
Picture begin with a huge robbery to federal reserve or something and the two robbery perpetrators fought between them.
Then one of them is arrested casually by the cops and is putted together with a black thief, (the main picture character), a man who at the beginning is captured by cops while stealing prawns. Then, the man who participate in the huge robbery give to this low profile black thief some information before die of a heart attack.
FBI or some other high profile government agency release the minor thief so he can serve as bait to catch the other thief, who broke a very important security system to perpetrate the robbery. The minor thief not knowing about the situation pass the entire picture persecuted by the other thief and at the same time watched by the high profile government agency.
I think that whoever that saw that movie can remember it with this description. Can anyone be so nice as to give me the name of the movie or the name of any actor?


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The Voice-Tribune's Best Dressed 2012 Presented By Churchill Downs is just over two weeks away. Are you ready for the biggest fashion event of the year?
While we can't dish the details, we can give you a sneak peek as to what's in store.
"Every year, we're asked how we're going to top the previous Best Dressed," said The Voice-Tribune Publisher Tracy Blue. "Somehow, we always do. BD2012 will be no exception. Guests are in for an incredible evening – again."
The event benefits the West End School, which is a free, private, college-prep middle school for at-risk young men.
Of course, the spotlight of the evening is cast on our Best Dressed nominees, who will strut their respective styles and await the big moment when the winners are named. But part of the fun is checking out what everyone – audience members, too – is wearing.
Members of the Louisville Ballet will perform the edgy and contemporary pas de deux Saudade Amore ("Missing Love"), choreographed by company member Amanda Diehl and set to the evocative music of Blue October.
Heyman Talent models are set to walk the runway in fashions from several area boutiques. Joseph's Salon & Spa is providing hair and makeup.
"The feel of the show is very urban mod," said Douglas Riddle, creative director of BD2012. "Sort of an early Mick Jagger in feel, in attitude and in music."
BD2012 will also give guests unprecedented access to the backstage. Want more details? Be there on Aug. 25.
The Best Dressed Committee is headed up by The Voice-Tribune Publisher Tracy Blue and includes Event Chair Lori Kommor; Douglas Riddle, creative director; Ron Wolz, design director; and Lauren DePaso, project manager.


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Narrow your search
Buy the Samsung Galaxy Light if you're looking for Android on a budget -- just be aware that you're trading price for performance.
The electronics titans square off in a tangled tale of mobile technology, centered on Apple's iPhone and iPad, that delves into where one company's designs end and another's begin.
If you're not opting for a smartphone and you can look past its dated design, the Samsung Gravity Q is your best choice for a T-Mobile keyboard phone.
An example of excellent call quality at a dirt-cheap price, the Samsung t159 excels at the basics, but stumbles on style.
With its huge screen and throwback stylus, the Samsung Galaxy Note with Android 4.0 is a polarizing smartphone that winks at tablet territory. Those who like their screens extra-large will find a top-notch device that lets multimedia shine. The S Pen adds some artistic potential, but for some, the phone will simply be too big.
The Samsung Galaxy S II ranks as one of T-Mobile's most powerful and feature-rich Android smartphones, but it's somewhat pricey.
We didn't love everything about its design, but as an inexpensive, easy-to-use cell phone for making calls, the Samsung Gravity Txt gets the job done.
The Samsung Dart is a decent entry-level phone for T-Mobile, but there are better options out there.
The Samsung Gravity Smart is a competent Android messaging phone for smartphone newcomers in search of a physical keyboard at a budget price.
A great price makes the Samsung Exhibit 4G a compelling option for Android fans on the lookout for a deal, without sacrificing features.
The Samsung T259's intuitive design, excellent call quality, and affordable price make it a good choice for someone in search of a simple handset.


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I have read things about productivity techniques here and in other places but I still can't get focused. Currently I am searching my first big paid job as I am a recent graduate. I also am designing and developing a small personal application to learn Python. Finally, I'm learning German (actually I'm revising what I learnt).
I know what I have to achieve, and I already have split this projects in small features and tasks, following a kind of SCRUM backlog. I schedule my daily tasks by mixing Pomodoro Technique and daily SCRUM. I take the split small tasks (2 hours max) and I schedule them taking into account some small breaks in between and bigger breaks every two hours (when the task is finished usually).
So, I have my daily plan ready, I think I have a kind good work environment (a desk in my dad's business), I play Chill Out/Lounge radio stations, etc. but I still can't start even doing my first task, which usually is having a look at new job offers send to my email during the last day, which rarely should be more than hour if I reply to all of them, 10 minutes if they do not suit my profile. I have the same problems if I schedule first revising a rule of grammar or defining certain feature of my small application.
What I do instead is surf the web in whatever site I find. I have blocked with Leech Block the usual suspects, but it is not enough, I'd better make a white list with the job sites I use. I track down the time spent in the current task with Project Hamster but even I see the time running, I consciously procrastinate. I find myself getting up early, setting everything ready for beginning a new day in my job hunt, but I am not able to effectively begin. I sometimes have some lucid days which I do follow more or less my daily schedule, but it's been a while from the last one.
My question is: how do I get the motivation I need to start working everyday in my daily planned tasks?


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Brainwave entrainment is a way of synchronizing the brainwaves with external stimuli. An external stimulus is anything that causes your brainwaves to react. In most cases, brainwave entrainment is induced through aural stimuli. Aural stimuli are those stimuli that can be heard. There are a lot of soundtracks available specifically for brainwave entrainment.
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23 Apr 2011 5:26 AM #21
Since the release of "beta3" I'm waiting for a real beta release (sencha will call it 4.0 final or so) or even wait for 4.0 GA (sencha term: 4.1).
Before beta3 it was only a communication problem how to use MVC. In beta3 it was completly rewritten (my opinion), the examples and docs are still buggy as hell and there are over 100(!) API changes 2 weeks before the planned final release. I see some potential to continue this renaming madness, as an example with the tab package (Ext.tab.TabBar maybe rename to Ext.tab.Bar). Call the releases pre-alpha and alpha and no one is worried about the development.
westy asked some real good questions. Okay, some are really specific and I'm not sure if the frontend should manage such things (two repos etc).
The simple examples we got from sencha, which remind me of the current iphone/smartphone app insanity even on desktops, hopefully have not the intent to show the "power" of the product.
The example "Phonegap" is fine for SenchaTouch but on desktops this is maybe 1/30th of a complete "app".
Perhaps I'm missing something because I do not play with beta3. I can and will wait for 4.0 final.
13 Mar 2012 11:41 AM #22
Hello Westy,
Wow. Reading through these and other posts doesn't instil confidence in ExtJS. It is almost a year later since these posts were written, and I am running into similar issues with 4.0.7. Having said that, maybe many issues are resolved, but the docs are not updated and misleading?
Anyway, for the life of me, I can't get the Component Query Selectors in the this.control() method to work properly. That is what led me to your post here:
The static methods work great for communicating events from the view to the controller, but what is the best way to go the other direction?
I have a window that contains a grid panel and a form panel in a border layout. For certain events in the form panel, I need to update the grid, and vice versa. Everything I have tried has failed.
14 Mar 2012 1:25 AM #23
Hi Eric,
Wow, nice bit of thread necromancy here
I've actually changed my controllers to use the ComponentQuery method, and this.control following some discussion here. The queries are evaluated at the time the event is handled, so I guess I was having similar issues with cq and assumed the components did not exist yet...
Using the suggested controller pattern you should be able to add event listeners for your form and update your grid.
ComponentQuery can be a real pain to write, and I often resort to adding itemId properties to components so can use the '#itemIdentifier' syntax, but it does work.
The major failing of this controller pattern is when it comes to using actions, but I've just found myself putting the code into the actions, and ignoring controllers for them.
Hope this helps,
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14 Mar 2012 1:27 AM #24
Oh, and to be clear, this thread was about 4.0.0 beta 3 rather than 4.1.0 beta 3, at least I think it was...
14 Mar 2012 5:52 AM #25
Yep - I realized it was about the 4.0.0b3 version given the date stamps on the posts. Ironic thing is, there are many other posts with almost the exact same issues, for 4.1.0b3.
Would you happen to have a code snippet/example of a method to control events that works?
14 Mar 2012 6:15 AM #26
A snippet wouldn't heard I suppose; the names have been changed to protect the guilty...
Here we have a grid, and most of the targets are buttons that are docked to the grid, or on forms that are launched from those buttons.
refs: [ { ref: 'grid', selector: '#grdMeaningfulName' } ], /** * The init method for this controller. * @param {Object} application The application object initialising the controller. */ init: function(application) { var me = this; me.control({ '#grdMeaningfulName #btnViewHistory': { click: me.viewHistory }, '#pnlAddThingy #btnOk': { click: me.addThingy }, '#pnlEditThingy #btnOk': { click: me.editThingy }, '#pnlAddSubThingy #btnOk': { click: me.addSubThingy }, '#pnlAddBulkSubThingy #btnOk': { click: me.addSubThingy }, '#pnlEditOtherThingy #btnOk': { click: me.editOtherThingy }, '#wdwVerifyThingy #btnVerify': { click: me.verifyThingy }, '#pnlConfirmThingy #btnConfirm': { click: me.confirmThingy } }); },
14 Mar 2012 6:26 AM #27
Hey - Thanks!
Also - what version are you working with now? I've had poor luck with 4.0.7.
14 Mar 2012 7:02 AM #28
Using 4.0.7, and have got it stable.
Did take many overrides and tweaks though.
4.1.0 does look better believe it or not (at least our framework fixes file is considerably smaller), but there are a couple of show stoppers that prevent us moving to it.
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I am interested to know what methods other people are using to keep track of changes made to the database including table definition changes, new objects, packages changes, etc. Do you use flat files with an external version control system? Triggers? Other software?
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At the sites I've worked at, any changes that need to be made to the production instance(s) must be scripted as change scripts that will run in SQL*Plus; in addition, scripts needed to recreate all schema objects from scratch must be kept up-to-date. All these scripts are checked into change control, and are migrated from there.
You can audit DDL changes or use DDL triggers to pick up changes, or even use diff software to compare two instances, but these methods are indiscriminate; often a developer will make and undo a number of changes to a schema (e.g. little test changes, creating dummy tables to test out concepts, etc) before working out what exactly needs to be changed.
I have thought and read a lot about this topic. This is a broad topic of configuration control and change management strategy. CMMI has a domain in this topic. Even in companies which has a accreditation of CMMI 3-5, they sometimes do not version control their databases.
This question should be answered while keeping in mind following constraints.
Answer 1
This approach works well if have 6. You put DDL statements,which is also a code, in source control and maintain it. Nobody will change Test and Production Servers without due consideration.
Disadvantages is if you make any changes to production or test servers for any reason, a quick bug fix, primary key change etc. You need to roll that changes to development server also. Since actually Development server is your GROUND TRUTH. Not other way around.
This is a very developer oriented approach. But when you first developing a new module it works pretty well.
Answer 2 - if 1 and 6 true:
Similar approach to answer 1 is maintaining a development server. Everybody uses it changes it. Than when time comes to update. You use a database comparison tool. Get these as scripts , put it under source control.
Difference between Answer 1 and Answer 2 is, in answer 1 you collect DDL statements for entire database and you store them. In answer 2 you need to store every version of change.
If you put a column to a table and later decide to remove it. You scripts will show this in answer2 while in answer1 you will only see last version. And you need to compare V2 and V1 to see differences. Personally I like answer 1 better since I can easily compare Start and V3, V1 and V3. In answer2, I need to look for all changes. Also in answer 2 script in source control tends to be a big bang, complex script. Hard to find information.
Answer 3 If 3 is true. Note that in this situation you do not have constraint 6 , that is : you do not have Development, Test, Product servers. Only production server. You can use DDL triggers to log what changes has been done. This is mostly used to discourage people from abusing their DDL grants. If any problem occurs, you can find responsible. For this to work every person should connect with their user account and Application account should not have any DDL grants. Since every developer knows Application account and can use it.
Answer 4 If you have 3 and 5. Note that in this situation you do not have constraint 6 , that is : you do not have Development, Test, Product servers. Only production server. Instead of trigger to store changes. You use an external tool find changes and store DDL scripts in the source control.
If these tool has an ability to record who has done changes, it would be useful. Note that in this solution you loose extra DDL which are done in intervals.
Just found an interesting tutorial on using Liquibase to version Oracle.
On some of our databases we are using DDL triggers to catch changes and save them to a table. We then have a web interface to pull up these previous versions. It has severe drawbacks, which is why I am looking for alternatives, but it is easy and is better than no version control.
We have used Schema Version Control for our 11g databases, but have had some problems with the software on 11.2. If it weren't for those problems which we are still working through, it would be a great product.
We used to work with Oracle SQL Designer, which (I guess) has been replaced with SQL Developer Data Modeler now. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/datamodeler/overview/index.html
That was quite nice, esp. the ability to set DOMAINs for columns and save a lot of time creating common columns (mtime, ctime etc).
We use oracle-ddl2svn set of tools (which I am the author of) for automatization storing of oracle DDL schema in SVN.
I've never used it, but http://blog.gitora.com/ is another option.
Have a look on DBmaestro TeamWork which its database enforced change management approach.
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I need the help og those who have used the clear blue easy monitor. Several months ago I had readings that showed no peak and a long high period (ended almost at my period date). Now, for the next two months, I turn it on and it does not let me test - it shows low every day with no indication that I need to put a test stick in. So now, I cannot even test. Do I need to reset the thing? Both times I put it on 1m on the first day of my period. It flashes red a couple of times after turning it on - then it tells me the day and a low reading. Any suggestions? I am in the middle of the second cycle. Do I need to wait to reset it until my period again? Thanks for your help.
I *think* that it should ask you for a test on day 6, but I'm not certain about this. Are you using the Marquette Method? If so (and even if not), I strongly recommend posting on their online forum. The nurse-professors researching the Marquette Method know a lot about what is normal and not normal regarding monitor function. nfp.marquette.edu My guess is that your monitor is malfunctioning and that wiping the data and starting over would help, but I don't advise that you do that until checking with an expert. Good luck!
Hi there, I would reset it completely, fast-forward to day 5 {it should let you test in the morning during the window of opportunity}--and change the batteries, too. I'm no expert, but for the last 18 months I have used the monitor, and often get the "no peak and endless high readings". When I checked the website it explained that the monitor will automatically have a "high" reading until there is a peak. So, I pretty much have to completely reset it every month or two. According to my last year and a half, I only have peak readings 1 out of 3...so I have been double-checking my CM to know when I am out of the fertile phase...it's a bit frustrating, I know, but hang in there and check with Marquette for professional answers...good luck.
How do you get ask questions to nurses about the Marquette Method? I keep "singing up" and nothing happens. Maybe they are not accepting new people???
When I signed up, my registration and login information email got sent to my Junk Mail folder, and I've heard of this happening to others, too. You should hear back from them within a day or two, I think. If it's been longer than that, check you Junk Mail folder. If you're still not having luck, write an email directly to Mary Schneider at Marquette. Her email address is on the Marquette NFP page.
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#2. Dubai Doesn't Have a Universal Sewage System
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Imagine an adult version of Disneyland designed by a drunken billionaire with some serious penile insecurities, and chances are you will end up with something closely resembling the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. In the span of just a few decades, Dubai has gone from a depressing scrap of desert into a burgeoning super economy, today home to the tallest structure in the world and freaking man-made custom islands.
Enjoy looking at 'em, folks. Your gas money provided the funding.
Also, they've got poop roads. Roads full of poop. Because there's no centralized sewer system in the city of the future that can handle their shit.
Now, don't get us wrong: There are municipal services in Dubai. It's just a matter of not everyone being hooked up to them. And loads of places -- like, say, Southeast Asia -- suffer from a similar problem with limited waste-chute infrastructure. Then again, none of those other places are building sci-fi luxury underwater hotels.
Plumbing is so last century -- just poop right out the window!
Burj Khalifa, the aforementioned tallest structure in the world, is still not connected to Dubai's central sewage system, relying instead on tankers to transport its guests' waste to one of the city's treatment facilities. Let us repeat: The steel-and-glass techno-behemoth that Tom Cruise scaled in the fourth Mission: Impossible film has a giant poop room that slowly fills up with all the building's crap until a crap truck comes by and drives it all away.
Admittedly, it's not exactly a "problem" nowadays, because even though Dubai still relies heavily on a convoy of portable cisterns to transport its waste, it has enough sewage treatment facilities to handle even a citywide Fourth Meal. But as recently as 2009, their Poop Truck lines stretched for miles every day, where drivers could expect to wait up to 24 hours in line. Yes, 24 hours! That's roughly 24 more hours than anybody wants to be stuck in a line of idling Poop Trucks.
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You'd pretty much have to fill the whole passenger seat with air fresheners to make this tolerable.
Speaking of 2009, that's also when the problem of impatient drivers dumping their waste into swimming areas around the Persian Gulf supposedly stopped, which is definitely a good thing -- but can also be phrased as "The problem of people throwing shit into Dubai waters only stopped in 2009."
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#1. Mecca Is Turning into Las Vegas
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Mecca is the holy site in Saudi Arabia where the prophet Muhammad was born, and where every follower of Islam must make a pilgrimage to at least once in their lives. With a place so holy and so important to an entire culture, we're sure it is carefully preserved and kept an austere and solemn center of prayer that in no way resembles a giant rave in Las Vegas ...
And once again, we are incredibly, incredibly wrong. Man, we should really start looking one paragraph down before making these assumptions.
So basically, Vegas with non-alcoholic beverages and less scantily clad strippers.
Much like Vegas, in recent years Mecca has become a densely populated desert town filled with luxury accommodations like the Mecca Clock Royal Tower Hotel, high-end brand shops, and super-malls that display all the tactful, understated grace of a dubstep orgy. Which is all fine and dandy if the entire point of your existence is satisfying a dark rainbow of human vices like Las Vegas does, but less so if you're supposedly a sacred site for one of the biggest religions on the planet.
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There's nothing wrong with selling coffee near a holy site, but it could at least be coffee that doesn't smell like burnt cat piss.
This isn't even about the general gaudification of Mecca, or the fact that roughly 90 percent of its pilgrims could never afford to visit any of the high-end shops and hotels surrounding the city's Great Mosque. The problem is that these new luxury add-ons to Mecca often come at the cost of important historical sites.
The Islamic Heritage Foundation claims that as many as 500 historical sites might have already been dynamited due to Mecca's continuous development, and many more are under threat, including the mountain where Mohammed received his Quran revelations and the house he was born in. That's like discovering the actual manger where Jesus was born and then tearing it down to put up a kiosk that sells "Jesus Is My Bro" T-shirts and giant foam "First Commandment Is No. 1" fingers.
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Do you know any book or an online source that contains exercises on ring theory? I've solved some exercises of Lang's Algebra and Dummit & Foote's Abstract Algebra but there is a huge gap between these two. I need a graduate level problem book but not as hard as Lang. Thanks in advance.
How about Exercises in Classical Ring Theory and Exercises in Basic Ring Theory?
Harry C. Hutchins, Examples of Commutative Rings has many interesting examples (and/or counterexamples) which may serve as good exercises, with hints and literature references. The book was based upon Hutchins' 1978 Chicago thesis (under Kaplansky). It was apparently intended as a companion to Kap's classic textbook Commutative Rings (many references refer to Kap's book). There is also a 3 page list of errata, updates,... dated July 1983, which is distributed with the book. Below is the AMS Math Review.
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The book is divided into two parts: a brief sketch of commutative ring theory which includes pertinent definitions along with main results without proof (but with ample references), and Part II, the 180 examples. The examples do cover a very large range of topics. Although most of them appear elsewhere, they are enhanced by a fairly complete listing of their properties. Example 67, for instance, is M. Hochster's counterexample to the polynomial cancellation problem, and it lists a number of properties of the two rings that were not given in the original paper Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1972), no. 1, 81 - 82; MR 45 #3394. Some of the examples appear more than once, since many rings exhibit more than one interesting property. ($\rm\:R = K[x, y, z]\:$ is used in Examples 6 and 22.) The examples are grouped into areas, but a drawback is that these have not been labeled and separated off. In addition, the Index is for Part I and definitions only, and this means that searching for a specific example with certain properties can be time consuming.
The book can be used as a supplement to one of the standard texts in commutative ring theory, and it does appear to complement the monograph by I. Kaplansky Commutative rings, Allyn and Bacon, Boston, Mass., 1970; MR 40 #7234; second edition, Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1974; MR 49 #10674.
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Chivas Brothers have recently launched a new global educational campaign entitled 'Great Things Take Time'.
To declare such a grand concept – Chivas treated us to a delicious lunch, courtesy of Mark Hix, at Brown's Hotel to explain why age is important – undoubtedly because they have a lot of old whisky that needs selling, and selling is what we do. I am always happy to listen so I settled down to be wooed by these giants of blending.
According to their research only 10% of whisky consumers understand what the age statement on a bottle of whisky means, and 94% of people believe an age statement is an indicator of quality. This is understandable; it's not immediately apparent, or indeed, at all apparent on the bottle that the age statement refers to the youngest whisky inside. Plus, it's easy to see why older whisky should be better; older whisky is more expensive, if it's more expensive surely it should be of a higher quality – that's a fair assumption to make. However, this got me thinking as we tasted our way through the Chivas range with Master Blender Colin Scott: does age matter?
We were then ferried to the grotto of antiquities that is the Victoria & Albert Museum to watch a debate addressing the question whether age matters or not take place. The debate took place between historian Bettany Hughes and Peter Aspden from the Financial Times, however their inclination to agree with one another lended a bias to the argument that age does matter (remember old whisky is at stake here). Despite this what they had to say was interesting.
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We're excited to announce that we will be hosting a USA Climbing Bouldering competition on Sunday October 25th , at our Planet Granite San Francisco facility.
** Please note that there will be a few differences in this competition versus other bouldering competitions because this will be piggy-backing on our local community Bloc Party competition which takes place on Saturday, October 24th. The same boulder problems will be used for our local USA Climbing Bouldering competition on Sunday October 25th.
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Please read the following carefully for details about visiting PG San Francisco for the comp.
IMPORTANT: ALL VISITORS MUST FILL OUT A LIABILITY WAIVER TO ENTER THE FACILITY. Please see details regarding waivers below. If competitors do not have a waiver completed by their parent with ID, they cannot compete.
IMPORTANT LIABILITY WAIVER: Please be sure that all competitors under the age of 18 have a liability waiver (both pages) and signed by their parents or legal guardian*. If the parent will not be present, you must bring a photocopy of their government issued photo identification (for signature verification). **This is mandatory for all climbers to particpate!
*Please note: legal guardians must present proof of guardianship to sign a child's waiver.
OTHER VISITORS TO PG: All Parents, visitors, and spectators entering Planet Granite must fill out a liability waiver. The adult (18 and over) waiver is available at our gym. A government issued ID is required for all waivers. There is no entrance fee for spectators. If you would like to use the gym, a day pass can be purchased for $20.
BLOC PARTY vs USAC Bouldering: If you compete in Planet Granite's Saturday Bloc Party competition, you will not be allowed to be ranked in the USAC ABS Sunday competition. However, you can still participate in the Sunday USAC competition in order to fulfill your 2 local competition requirement for USAC.
DIRECTIONS: To view directions to Planet Granite San Francisco, click here.
PARKING: There is paid parking (pink) immediately around the gym ($1.25 per hour/$7 day) and free parking (blue)starting about 100 yards down the street (towards Sports Basement). Please view this parking map.
USAC MEMBER FEE: As usual, all non-USA Climbing members must pay an extra $5 fee to participate in this competition. CASH ONLY. If you plan on registering to be a USAC member, we recommend doing it prior to the event. We will have a computer available for online registration. All competitors must be current USAC members or pay the $5 CASH non-member fee.
ACCESS: The gym will be open as normal so there may be members on the same wall. We ask that competitors please be considerate when climbing and rotate in members and other competitors.
FOOD:We ask that only snacks and drinks with lids be consumed inside our facility. The Warming Hut Cafe is a short walk from the gym that serves sandwiches and salads. Safeway is located near Fort Mason on Marina Boulevard. Crissy Field (just across the street from PG) is a great place to have a picnic lunch.
THINGS TO DO IN SF: For those of you who don't know the area - it's worth making a full day of the trip. It's a short hike from Planet Granite Presidio to the Golden Gate Bridge and Fort Point and right by the Bay. Teams can bring a post competition picnic lunch. There are barbecue pits by the picnic area (first come first serve). Bring or rent bikes at Sports Basement (and ride to Fisherman's Wharf or across the Golden Gate Bridge. Or visit the Exploratorium on the way out. Also, most of the competition routes are separate from the sport climbing area - so non-competitors can pay the day fee and climb!
TOP ROPING & LEAD CLIMBING: With 45 foot high walls, leadable cracks and tons of top roping, PG SF has amazing terrain in route climbing as well! For those interested in climbing routes, please read the following:
Top Rope Belaying: Every roped climber needs a Planet Granite certified belayer managing his or her rope. Belayers with prior belay experience that are new to Planet Granite must complete a belay test in order to belay at Planet Granite. Belayers must be 14 years or older. Staff are not available to belay without prior reservation.
Lead Belaying & Climbing: A PG Lead Climbing & Belaying certification is required in our gyms. Climbers and Belayers must be at least 16 years old to Lead Climb/Belay in our gym. A separate waiver is required for this and participants 16-17 years must have the lead waiver filled out by their parent and accompanied by a photocopy of the signing parent's drivers license.
For additional information about PG San Francisco, please visit our FAQ page.
ACCOMODATIONS: For those interested in overnight accomodations, we recommend looking in the Marina or Russian Hill districts of San Francisco as they are near our gym. The Presidio Travelodge offers reasonable rate as well!


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Over the next several days, the planets Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter from our line of sight here on the Earth will appear to move closer and closer together. However, for best results, a drive out in the country to obtain a clear view of the northwestern horizon is essential.
At about 9:30 P.M., look about 4 degrees above the northwestern horizon. You will see a very bright white looking star. This is not a star at all, but the planet Venus. Remember, if you hold your fist out at arm's length, the distance between the lower and upper part of your fist measures about 10 degrees.
About 5 degrees to the left of Venus, and up 7 degrees will be the planet Jupiter. Venus will appear six times brighter than Jupiter.
On Friday evening, May 24, at about the same time, the planet Mercury will appear only about 1.5 degrees to the upper right of Venus, but 16 times dimmer. A pair of binoculars is recommended for better viewing.
Then on the nights of May 26 and 27, the planets Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter will all appear within two degrees of each other. This is an excellent opportunity to view Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun. It has been stated that even the famous Polish Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was never able to see this elusive planet.
On May 28, the planet Venus will pass only one degree above Jupiter while Mercury will be visible only three degrees above them.


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6 Action Steps for Parents of Children with ADHD
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I have a pair of Solar Viewing Eclipse Shades that say "Safe for Direct Solar Viewing" and would like to know if my eyes would be harmed if I looked at the sun everyday for about a minute wearing them.
It depends on the quality of glasses and intensity, nature and degree of harmfulness of sunrays which you are watching to. Every eclipse has different intensity so as it can harm you.
When there was a solar eclipse around 3-4 years ago, it was a full solar eclipse. That time I watched it from my school with total naked eyes. My eyes were not harmed from that, but my school principle did.
But I still recommend you to not to watch it directly, use projectors which would allow you to get the view without directly watching the sun. Only use original products which are being certified.
Assuming that the glasses are safe for direct viewing of the sun as claimed, and assuming you don't damage them, then yes, they should be safe for viewing the sun daily in the manner you suggest. There would not be an accumulative harm effect.
Again, assuming the glasses are safe for direct viewing, you'll probably be at more risk for the rest of the day when you are walking around with naked eyes.


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A man who was pursued by Leavenworth authorities Friday night ended up crashing into a light pole, a police spokesman said.
The wreck occurred after police had called off the pursuit. The driver abandoned the vehicle and fled the scene on foot, according to Maj. Dan Nicodemus, deputy chief of the Leavenworth Police Department.
"We're familiar with who it was," Nicodemus said.
He said charges will be filed against the suspect in the appropriate court.
The incident began shortly after 9:30 p.m. Friday in the 700 block of North Sixth Street.
Nicodemus said an officer attempted to stop the suspect for allegedly speeding. The driver didn't stop and allegedly began to drive recklessly.
Nicodemus said the officer recognized the driver and there was no need to continue to chase him. The driver reportedly had a suspended driver's license. The pursuit was terminated in the 500 block of Dakota Street.
The suspect's vehicle was found in an alley in the 700 block of Kiowa Street after it had struck a light pole.
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That Jump Into Swan Lake
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Posted 06 February 2008 - 01:52 PM
The Siegfrieds (and the Swan Queens) jump onto a mattress. Typically, there are a few crew members there to spot them, and they also hold up cardboard signs rating the dives from 1-10. This is true.
Posted 06 February 2008 - 02:10 PM
From My Source At ABT:
The Siegfrieds (and the Swan Queens) jump onto a mattress. Typically, there are a few crew members there to spot them, and they also hold up cardboard signs rating the dives from 1-10. This is true.
That is hillarious. I'd love to get the backstage view sometime!
Does your source say who tends to get the highest ratings?
inquiring minds want to know!!
Posted 06 February 2008 - 02:24 PM
Posted 06 February 2008 - 04:10 PM
Then have a look at Le Train Bleu on the 1994 Paris Opera Ballet dvd, Picasso and Dance. The "Handsome Youth" exits by belly-flopping into what appears to be the sea, then emerging and doing a somersault in the air before diving off again. Really thrilling! (Of course that effect is intentional.)
I must admit I've never seen anything like a double-bounce!
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Was it Mirella Freni, who, taking her final leap off the wall in her farewell performance of Tosca, bounced back up into audience view with a very surprised moue on her face? I remember the debate afterward, among those who claimed she meant to do that as sort of "closing night follies" and those who disagreed.
Here is another story of a leap gone wrong -- again during Tosca. (Tosca, City Centre, New York, 1960)
And perhaps a warning to Divas that they should be kind to theatre staff!
Whereas most such disasters depend on some element of misunderstanding and incompetence among the stage-management, this catastrophe is -- delightfully -- due entirely to ill-will, in this case between the stage staff and the soprano. With diabolical cunning they permitted her, after several stormy rehearsals, to complete her first performance without mishap until the very last moment, when Tosca throws herself off the battlements of the Castel Sant'Angelo. What normally happens is that on her cry 'Scarpia, davanti a Dio' she hurls herself off and lands on a mattress four feet below (who but Callas has ever looked totally convincing at that moment? -- Her out-stretched hands haunt the memory). But in this case it was not Callas but a large young American who landed not on a mattress, but -- perish the thought -- on a trampoline. It is said that she came up fifteen times before the curtain fell -- sometimes upside down, then the right way up -- now laughing in delirious glee, now screaming with rage...
Great Operatic Disasters by Hugh Vickers. page 12
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Diva Diving!
A dancer can pick up more speed than a Opera Singer, is a single mattress used or perhaps a track and field high-jump "pit"?
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I'm looking for concrete theological beliefs and practices on where they differ. Christians say that Mormons aren't Christian and yet Mormons call themselves Christian. So it can be quite hard to tell for a everyday person who is who and what is what.
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The "Evangelical" movement spreads across an incredibly wide range of beliefs, so it will be hard to nail this down, but a few things come to mind that ought to have broad acceptance and make at least some form of answer possible. For convenience in the rest of this answer, please treat the word "Evangelical" merely as broadly representing "Most Evangelicals".
The root question here, though, is whether or not Mormons are themselves even Christian. To understand this, you need to look at it from both sides. In a broad sense, one is a Christian when one acknowledges the person of Christ as their creator and Lord. Everything else — all the denomitions, splits, and arguments — is just details.
With that in mind, the Non-mormon Christian perspective is that Mormons have been lead astray, and have allowed the teachings of Joseph Smith and his successors to supersede and in many cases replace those of Christ... and so they no longer follow Christ supremely, but (perhaps unwittingly) follow the teachings of Joseph Smith instead. Moreover, since Mormons refuse to grant Jesus full unity with God the Father, but hold him separate from God the Father, it is offensive to mainline Christians to watch Mormons hold up the teachings of Joseph Smith to the level of Christ, yet still use the name of Christ to describe themselves.
The Mormon perspective is that Joseph Smith's teachings are Christ's teachings, that Joseph Smith was merely His mouthpiece. They hold both the Old and New Testaments to be scripture (just not all scripture), and so to be considered "not Christian" is offensive to Mormons, because they still believe that Christ died for their sins, just as "regluar" Christians do.
Simply put Evangelicals differ over at least three primary things:
1. The Nature of Jesus
Evangelicals believe Jesus to be God - of one being with Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, etc... Mormons do not. Mormons believe Jesus to be divine, but a separate person from the Father. Evangelicals tend to subscribe to the historic creeds of the church - Nicene, Apostles, etc... - and are almost invariably Trinitarian. (I cannot say that I have ever run across a non-Trinitarian Evangelical, but as it is a movement and not a denomination, there are always exceptions).
Note: In the comments, there was a notion that the creeds only adhered to the "Catholic" church. Insofar as "catholic" is understood as "universal" or "what most people think of when they think of 'mainstream' Christianity, that is accurate. If that were taken to mean the 'Roman Catholic Church,' that would be precise, but inaccurate, in that most Protestants and Orthodox also subscribe to the Creeds and to the Trinitarian formulations thereof.
2. The nature of the "Bible"
Evangelicals consider the canon to be closed. Mormons have their own scriptures composed well after the period.
3. The nature of soteriology
Evangelicals, by and large, believe salvation to be solely the gift of God. We believe that all who are saved entire into eternal relationship with God. Mormons believe that people are rewarded according to the nature of the covenant they believed.
Christians believe the Bible and the traditional understanding of what the Bible teaches, as summarized through the centuries in the various creeds (Nicene Creed, Apostles' Creed, Westminster Confession, etc). All Christian denominations, both Catholic and Protestant, are united in the following beliefs taken directly from Biblical teachings:
Mormonism differs from Christianity in that Joseph Smith, Brigham Young (and others) taught that there have been more recent gospels: the Book of Mormon, Doctrine & Convenants, Pearl of Great Price -- as well as all sermons preached by Smith and Young as recorded in the Journal of Discourses.
Further, the Mormon church teaches that the Bible is a lesser source, in that it has been "corrupted" and is essentially not the same as what was first written. (This game, under a different name, "Post Office", is often used as an example of how/why that happened.) Therefore, Mormons say, it is more important to read/believe the latter teachings. However, Christians point to examples from archaeology, such as the 1947 Dead Sea scrolls discovery, in which most books of the Old Testament were discovered, dating back 100 years before the birth of Jesus. The book of Isaiah, for example, shows only 13 characters in question, none of which change the meaning of any phrase. On the other hand, the Book of Mormon (to compare apples with apples) even changes the identity of God in one of it's 3,900+ changes since it was first published in 1830. (Compare 1 Nephi 11:18 and 1 Nephi 11:21 with their originals in 1830. Knowing Mormon theology, you will know that "God" and the "Son of God" are Elohim and Jehovah, respectively. This is a significant, theology-altering, change.)
Over and above the Bible's teachings, and sometimes in conflict with the Bible's teachings, the Mormon leaders taught that:
There are a vast number of other differences between the teachings of Christianity and Mormonism. You may wish to investigate the following areas: polygamy (many wives), polytheism (many gods), archaeology, scripture, the nature of God, the Trinity, the history of Christianity.
Most Christians who have investigated the claims and teachings of Mormonism firmly state that there are virtually NO common essential beliefs between Christianity and Mormonism. This matter is confusing to many people because Mormon teachings use the same names/words as Christian sources, but with completely different meanings. For example, the Mormon Jesus is not at all like the Christian Jesus, although the Mormon Jesus is said to BE the Christian Jesus. However, if you compare their origins, what they claimed about themselves, and their position after death, you will see little resemblance. They are two totally different beings.
Q: practices on where they differ? These practices are different to Evangelical groups.
All LDS adults are also Priests, and the responsibility for their neighbors is a covenantal promise. Everyone in the local Church has a Priest assigned to them and he visits the home every month to see if anything is needed, and reports back to the Bishop.
LDS live a life of Christ, as far as it is possible in this day and age. They are monitored by the brethren and warned if they stray from God's Will as it is defined by Scripture and by revelations of the Prophets.
None of the clergy is paid. As in the early Church, each person must support themselves with a job outside the Church.
The Church has a central authority. Everyone believes the same theology. There is no disagreement in the Church.


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5 Reasons You Should Be Scared of Google
You'd be hard-pressed to find a company more beloved than Google. And why not? They make the Internet easier to use, pamper their employees and foot the bill for YouTube even though it loses money like it's got a gambling problem that's made of cocaine. Unfortunately, much of what is awesome about Google also makes them increasingly terrifying with each passing day.
#5. Google Has All The Answers (About You)
The Misconception:
Before Google, if you were curious about some weird sexual position or the dangers of sticking glass rods down your pee hole, you had to go to an older sibling or classmate. This would result in either hilarious but ultimately fulfilling sexual misadventure or, if you didn't go to high school in a teen comedy, a mortifying nickname that followed you all the way to college.
Google wasn't the first search engine to take the human interaction out of that process, it was just the best at finding the information you were looking for. And as long as you were sure to delete your search history afterwards, you could read up on any kind of fucked up, degenerate behavior you wanted without another human soul ever knowing.
The Reality:
It turns out, Google records everything you enter into its search engine. The lonely night a few months back when you Googled "how many fists can fit in the butt?" That's stored on Google's servers, correlated with your IP address and a pretty shocking amount of other personal information.
We never knew how far this would go.
But they're not just passively stalking you via your weird ass searches. If you use Google to help you navigate the Web, there's a good chance they've installed a cookie onto your browser that logs every page you visit, every form you fill out and every conversation you have. Google sees it all and stores it for at least nine months.
Consumer advocate group Privacy International says nine months is the best case scenario. Even if you only use a few of Google's free services, "the company retains a large quantity of information about that user, often for an unstated or indefinite length of time, without clear limitation on subsequent use."
Of course, Google is in the business of getting you what you're looking for, and knowing everything about you makes it better at its job. When you type rimjob into your search window, Yahoo! might return a LeBron James highlight reel, but Google knows better. Google's many products work better the more it knows about you.
Plus, it's not like any actual people will ever read all of the dirt they have stored on you. Well, not until they have a reason to ask for it anyways.
In 2009, Google's CEO Eric Schmidt warned users,
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. "
So maybe it's time to stop treating Google like a smarter, more trustworthy older sibling who has all the answers and more like a friend you trusted until you found the notebook where they track all of your bowel movements. No matter how much good advice they offer you, and how many times they claim the drawer full of hair they collected from your shower drain is "just in case," you'll never feel totally comfortable around them again.
#4. Google Isn't Like Other Companies (Unless You Count Microsoft)
The Misconception:
Everyone knows that corporations can't be taken at their word. If Coca-Cola changed the slogan from "Enjoy" to "Don't Commit Rape," everyone would assume they were dissolving date rape pills in Diet Cokes. But when Google made "Don't Be Evil" its unofficial motto, the media and the public in general pretty much took it at face value. It certainly seemed to check out with all the free shit they kept giving us.
Yes, most of the goodwill purchased by Google over the past dozen or so years can probably be traced to the fact that they create some of the best applications on the Web, and don't ask you to pay for a single damn one of them.
So why shouldn't we treat Google differently? They don't even seem all that interested in making money. They're just here to make our lives easier. They'd probably be a charity if charities weren't so gay.
The Reality:
Google is not a magical fairy cloud of technology that exists purely to help you find information (that's Wikipedia).
Google is a corporation. Their goal is to acquire as much of the world's money as possible. They are not driven by the desire to "not be evil" anymore than Sprite is driven by a desire to be "sublymonal." If they ever even so much as hinted that they were in the business of "not being evil" in a situation where that involved "not making money" whomever dropped that hint would immediately be relieved of their job.
In the words of Scott Cleland, who has made a career of watching Google and ringing the "seriously, I think these people might be vampires" alarm, "Google does not work for users; Google works for advertisers and website publishers, which provide virtually all of Google's revenues." Google Ads are responsible for 97 percent of their billions of dollars of revenues.
Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Talk, Google Reader, Gmail. Everything Google has ever given you for free is funded by those little blue lines of text that appear at the top of your Gmail account, or in the sidebar of your search results. Then, when you use those services, Google collects information about you. It uses what it knows about you to target ads specifically to your personal tastes. That's how Google is able to maintain a near monopoly in online advertising despite never having used a single boob.
It's actually a pretty brilliant business model. The more ads they sell, the more free apps they're able to give you. The more free apps they give you, the more goodwill they generate, the more you use their products and believe that they're not evil and are willing to tell them about yourself. The more they learn about you, the more lucrative their ads become and the more money they make.
It's a brilliant business model, or as the woman who Obama put in charge of Department of Justice's antitrust division calls it, a "repeat of Microsoft." Just like Microsoft in the early 90s, Google is accused of using all those free apps and all that goodwill to stomp out all competition. The European Union has launched an official antitrust inquiry.
Google for its part has responded to the claims by doing a creepily accurate impression of Microsoft in the 90s. They've made a deal with Sony to set Chrome as the default browser on all VAIO computers, and the upcoming Chrome OS will only work with one browser (guess which!). They're using their enormous market share to outspend the competition. Remind you of anyone?
#3. Google is Big Because They're Smart (And Too Big To Continue to Be Smart)
The Misconception:
Google as a company has managed to do one pretty incredible thing: accrue a scary amount of power without being corrupted by it. If we had the money and influence Google enjoys, you can bet we'd flaunt the shit out of it.
Aw yeah.
You don't hear about Google sweatshop employees or suicides in their Chinese factories or attempts to flood their customers with spyware. If we're going to have a monopoly, it might as well be Google.
The Reality:
Everything we've covered so far, the spying, the advertising networks, have been the result of Google's algorithm working on autopilot. You'll probably be comforted to know that there's not some guy sitting on Google's campus, analyzing what ad to serve based on your uniquely weird taste in music and pornography. All the dirt they've got on you are all just ones and zeroes in a complex equation that works incredibly well.
But things get a lot clumsier when something in the algorithm isn't working, and the humans behind the scenes have to make a decision. Unfortunately, when you control how most of the world interacts with the Internet, there's no such thing as a fair decision.
Which will all change when the Internet overlords come to power.
In February, 2010, DMCA claimed Google deleted a bunch of blogs from their Blogger service even though many of the bloggers didn't do anything. Some of them had deals with record labels and bands. Many of the stricken bloggers received no warning whatsoever, which is in direct violation of Google's own policy.
And it isn't the first (or the only) time Google's done something like this. Remember that preposterous brouhaha between Anonymous and the religion with all the space Nazis and nuclear volcanoes? Google took a side.
They deleted the Anonymous AdSense account and burned the YouTube account of a journalist about to release an expose on the Church. The expose contained no copyrighted material, but Google killed it anyway. They also locked an anti-Scientology website called Xenu.net away from the rest of the Internet.
To be fair; when the Church of Scientology published the names of several members of Anonymous, Google took the right action and banned their YouTube account. Then they re-opened it, right around the same time AdSense was gorged with thousands upon thousands of ads for the Church.
We're not saying Google has become the brainwashed pawn of an evil new-age religion. The CoS has money to spend on advertising and Google is too enormous to make reasonable decision in every corner of its sprawling empire. Of course, we don't have to ask you to imagine if Google actually decided to screw their users. Remember earlier this year when ...


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I just picked up one of these on Amazon during a lightning deal sale and am looking forward to testing it.
This is the newest version with removable lens hood and I have no idea if the shape of the lens has changed.
Will the current F6210 lens ring/insert fit?