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Brassica oleracea, Gemmifera Group These innocent-looking mini cabbage look-alikes are packed with health-promoting goodness. Just over a cup of these flavorful 'buttons' contain nearly 150% of the RDA of vitamin K. They're also loaded with dietary fiber and the metabolite, indole-3-carbinol, an effective immune regulator, anti-bacterial & anti-viral agent.
CULTURE: The secret to a good sprout harvest is starting them so they mature later in the season when the days and nights are cooler. Savvy gardeners know the best Brussels sprouts are the ones harvested after plants have endured a couple of frosts (typically October). Cold snaps trigger changes that make the sprouts sweet as sugar. They grow best in a soil pH of 6.0 and do best when not over-stimulated by excess nitrogen, which causes discolored, loose buds.
FOR TRANSPLANTS: Start indoors or in the greenhouse 4-6 weeks before your last hard frost. Plant in 4 inch pots using a sterile seedling mix. Apply an all purpose liquid fertilizer to transplants. See our fertilizer section for options. Transplant out in rows 18-36 inches apart. Work in 1/4-1/2 cup of our complete fertilizer around the base of each plant.
TO DIRECT SOW: Plant both early and late maturing varieties directly in the garden between mid-May and June. Plant the seed in rows 18-36 inches apart. When the seedlings are about 3 inches tall thin the row.
INSECTS: See Brassica Insect Information below.
DISEASE: Cole crops are all vulnerable to fungal and viral diseases. The best prevention is to use sterile seedling mixes, clean beds after harvest, and practice crop rotation.
HARVEST: High quality sprouts should be bright green (except for Rubine), firm, and well formed. Begin picking at the bottom, breaking off a leaf below the sprout and then removing the sprout. The upper sprouts will continue to mature as the lower ones are harvested. On later maturing varieties, it's important not to take off the leaves, as they protect the plant from inclement winter weather. For a once-over harvest, pinch out the growing point at the top of the stem when the lower sprouts are 1/2-3/4 inch in diameter. A stem loaded with full-sized sprouts will develop in about 2 weeks. As with many Brassicas, sharp frosts enhance sugar content and increase tenderness. High quality fresh sprouts will keep approximately 3-4 weeks at 32°F.
SEED SPECS: Minimum germination standard: 75%. Days to maturity are calculated from date of transplant; add 25-35 days if direct seeding. Usual seed life: 3-4 years.
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Aphids: Control aphids with a hard spray of water, Azatrol or Pyrethrin. Also, select varieties that mature later in the season when aphid populations decline.
Cabbage worms, loopers, and root maggots: The first sign of cabbage worms will be white diamond-back moths fluttering near the plants. They lay their yellowish-colored eggs on the undersides of leaves, which hatch into caterpillars that can cause severe root and head damage. To control light infestations, spray plants with Bacillus thuringiensis (BT). For heavy infestations, bait cabbage worms by mixing wheat bran into a BT solution. Add 1 tablespoon of molasses. Broadcast the bran mixture around the base of plants. Reapply as necessary. Using Reemay or Grow Guard 20 can also provide control.
Flea beetles: Flea beetles chew tiny pinholes in leaves. Early control is essential to minimize the damage. Spray young plants with Pyrethrin every 2 days. Using floating row covers such as Summer Insect Barrier can also provide control.
Symphylans: In some areas of the US, symphylans (also known as garden centipede) can severely impede the plant growth of cole crops. Only 1/4 inch long, white, and very active, they eat the root hairs of developing plants. Contact your local county extension agent if you suspect you have a problem.


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- Exercise and eat regularly.
- Avoid excess caffeine, which can increase feelings of anxiety and agitation.
- Develop coping skills, such as breaking large tasks into smaller, more attainable tasks.
- Develop assertiveness skills to help communicate feelings of stress.
- Rehearse and practice situations that might cause stress.
- Lower unrealistic expectations, and learn to feel good about doing a competent, "good enough" job rather than demanding perfection from yourself or others.
- Take breaks from stressful situations and do an enjoyable activity for a short while.
- Don't commit yourself to do things you can't or don't want to do.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) also provides teens with a way to manage stress on this website, where kids can create their own personalized stress management plan, and find tips for dealing with pressure and anxiety. The plan aims to help teens manage their own, personal stressors by helping them identify specific triggers and ways to deal with them, such as:
- Figure out the problem and find a way to make it manageable.
- Avoid things that cause undue or unwanted stress.
- Accept some things for what they are and letting go of unrealistic notions.
- Tips to manage emotions and communicate better.
- Tips to take care of your body through exercise, eating right, and sleep.
The site also offers an area for parents to get tips and guidelines for raising a happy and resilient teen. These tips are much like the ones offered for teens, but from a parent's perspective. It helps parents see where their teen is coming from, and offer support when dealing with a specific situation.
Stress is a part of everyday life, and teens today are under more pressure than ever to exceed in school and life. While you can't do much to remove stressors from your teen's life, you can help to reduce and alleviate anxiety by finding an effective stress-management method that works for him.


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From Ralph Hipp
It's proving to be another exciting Tuesday night inside the halls of WIBW-TV. Not because you can turn up the volume from our master control operation and hear the Jayhawks game.. but you can also hear the phones ringing with viewer complaints, asking one simple question.
Why can't we watch NCIS? Why do you show it after midnight?
If you choose to pursue more specific answers should certainly call us during normal business hours. I do want to let you know that WIBW is really excited to re-connect with the Jayhawks Basketball Network in a multi-year deal. (We just got KU back from another station in town.) What that means is normally on a Tuesday night, and primarily what we want the KU games for.. to show on Saturday afternoons.. we won't be able to carry CBS live programming. KCTV in Kansas City, is a primary CBS affiliate; while WIBW is a secondary affiliate. KCTV is not allowed to pre-empt CBS programs because it's such an huge market. The Jayhawks would only be Channel 5 if it were a CBS Network game. We do expect a few KU games on CBS.. and we'd go with CBS on those, of course.
KCTV was accidentally blacked out Tuesday night in the normal progression of things. We informed Cox Cable that they should not follow their normal pattern of blacking out Channel 5 after 7:00, that we were in 'game mode," and they should provide you with the CBS show. By around 7:20, they put NCIS back on in Topeka.
Under our contract with the CBS Network, we are also never allowed to carry their programs on MyTV. Our sister station is covered by a separate night-time network deal of its own.
We noticed quite a few of the phone complaints are coming from people who are probably not Netflix subscribers, or have a way to watch full episodes the next day on www.cbs.com. But you'd be able to do that a few hours after NCIS is on.
And let me not fail to mention "NCIS: Los Angeles" and the new "Unforgettable," which have loyal fans of their own.
Hey, while we're talking about stuff that's not forgettable, don't forget you can watch all the CBS shows after midnight on WIBW and make a party out of it. For basketball season, anyway. So where are you on this, are you happy the Hawks have flown back to 13, or can't get enough of your fix of Jethro, McGeek, Ziva and Tony?


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Food and Wine Magazine, June 2005. Laurie Daniels writes about "The Best of Napa" with a focus on the best known of the AVAs. About Diamond Mountain she says "Diamond Mountain District is best known for its big structured Cabernets.... Dyer Vineyard turns out a full-bodied Cabernet with a hint of Chocolate". For more on the AVAs of Napa Valley, including Diamond Mountain, go to Best of Napa, Food and Wine Magazine.
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Doug Wilder's The Wilder Side of California, March 11, 2005 In this issue Doug publishes his top 20 picks of 2004. Included is 2001 Dyer Vineyard (95pts). He writes "With 2001, Bill and Dawnine Dyer have produced one of the best ever from their tiny 2.2 acre vineyard. A dark garnet color leads to a firmly packed nose of black olives, figs, cocoa and plum. On the palate the flavors show great intensity with complex shadings of black cherry, currant and spice. Their upcoming offering from Meteor Vineyard was one of my favorite at Premiere Napa Valley 2005."
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Ear Infections and High Fevers
Q: My daughter often gets ear infections. More often than not, she gets this very high fever before the pain sets in from the infection. What is going on and why?
A: First, how common are ear infections? VERY! They happen to lots of children--two out of three children will have had at least one ear infection by their second birthday.
Second, why do ear infections happen? The Eustachian tube that conects the "middle" ear (the area behind the eardrum when we look in the ear from the outside) to the back of the throat doesn't always work as well as we'd like. It can get clogged with mucus from colds or allergies because of its small size and horizontal positioning (particularly in younger kids). This predisposes to fluid collection and poor drainage from the middle ear.
Third, what about the fever and pain? If this fluid can't drain and then gets infected with germs, particularly bacteria, inflammation and pain can result in the middle ear. But each child and each ear infection is different. Some children just poke at their ears. Some get fever, low or high. Others complain of pain, pointing to the ear or throat. It may start after a few days of a cold, giving a little time for the germs to settle in and cause infection in the middle ear, or it may be found coincidentally when your child is seemingly well.
Finally, how are they treated? Your child's doctor will often prescribe an antibiotic to treat the infection. Realize that it may take up to three or four days for the pain and fever to get better. If these symptoms are not going away or your child just isn't getting better, touch base with her doctor to see if anything else is recommended.
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13 May 2012 1:53 PM #1
Twitter OAuth
Does anyone know of an Architect 2 twitter OAuth example project?
It would be helpful if I could get some assistance in using twitter signin authentication.
I have the needed key and secret and twitter development app but need to know the best way to deal with the non-json passing of the twitter tokens.Aaron Hulse
14 Jun 2013 6:52 AM #2
Twitter API v1 has been retired...help...!
It seems, according to their website that the v1 twitter api has now been retired as of June 11th. It means that any that have been depending on it in an application are now stuck
So, now we have api 1.1 - but this now requires OAuth authentication to access any of the feeds.
Would it be possible to get some guidance to help those of us that are wondering what we have to do within our sencha architect apps to transition...
Many thanks,
17 Jun 2013 12:44 AM #3
HI Aaron - did you ever get anywhere with this? Like you, I'm stuck... hopefully you became less stuck and can let me know how...
17 Jun 2013 6:03 AM #4
Guys, you are not going to be able to tackle the oauth issue with client side alone. The following resources should get you moving in the right direction.
http://wickedlysmart.com/twitternews-oauth/Jason Minnick
Sencha Architect Development Team
17 Jun 2013 6:29 AM #5
Hi there Jason.
In fact I just had an email back from Daniel Gallo from Sencha here in the UK, who's realised that his Twitter App (which is one of the really good apps that has been set out in on a screen cast for Sencha users and teaches good architect development) doesn't actually work anymore!
As I said to him, it would seem that Twitter is too big a player in the app world for there not to be a good, standard Sencha approach to connecting with it. He was planning to rework his app to try and solve the OAuth challenge for Sencha, but I'm sure he'd appreciate help if you can give it.
19 Jun 2013 6:29 AM #6
Hi Allister,
I've had a bit of time to do some reading on OAuth authentication with Twitter, and I'm sharing below what I've found out so far...
It appears there are two ways of authenticating with the Twitter API using OAuth - either using Application authentication or User authentication:
- Application authentication would allow you to hard code the authentication details in a server-side app and your server app would make requests to Twitter on behalf of the app, without the context of a specific user, and then you could render the returned data as JSON to the client side if needed.
- User authentication would still require the server-side app to make requests to Twitter on your behalf, but you would be redirected to Twitter as part of the process to authenticate yourself and grant the app permission to use your Twitter User context to make requests using your Twitter account.
If you just wanted to return some basic JSON data from Twitter (such as a particular user's timeline, or Tweets that match a particular search query) then Application authentication should suffice. You would however need to use User authentication if you wanted to post a Tweet on behalf of a user.
Due to Twitter disabling the v1.0 API, and now requiring OAuth authentication to use the API, you would need to have a web service in place on your server, and this web service would act as a proxy between your front-end Sencha app and the Twitter API service. This web service would also contain your tokens/keys (you wouldn't want that info kept in JavaScript files as it's private stuff).
The example below shows how you can implement Application authentication in a .NET web app. This small .NET app contains one page that will make requests to Twitter and pass back the JSON response, so Twitter data can be shown in a Sencha-based app.
I'm in no way an expert on OAuth authentication - this is just something I've tested, and it works, so I'm sharing for others that are interested! Most of the code below is based on an example I found here: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/...tion-using-Net, and I've tweaked this to do a GET request instead of a POST request. The same example could be ported to other languages and I've included details of the HTTP requests made by .NET to give you an idea of the format of the requests being sent, so this should be easily portable to other server-side languages like PHP etc.
First, you need to create a new application on the Twitter Developers site (https://dev.twitter.com/apps), followed by creating an Access Token. This will create some tokens and keys that you'll need for authenticating the .NET app with Twitter so it can issue requests to the Twitter API.
Then, create a new .NET web app inside of Visual Studio (I'm using the free version of Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web). In the example below I'm using a Generic Handler file (called "TwitterFeed.ashx") that will contain the following code. As the keys and token values are supposed to be kept secret/private I have replaced them with sample values:
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.IO; using System.Linq; using System.Net; using System.Security.Cryptography; using System.Text; using System.Web; namespace OAuthFormDemo { /// <summary> /// Makes GET requests to the Twitter API using Application Authentication /// </summary> public class TwitterFeed : IHttpHandler { public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) { // Based in part on the following example: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/247336/Twitter-OAuth-authentication-using-Net // Tweaked to illustrate a GET request (instead of POST). // Demonstrates application authentication with an existing Application oAuth Token (via Twitter Developer Portal). string oAuthAccessToken = "819797-Jxq8aYUDRmykzVKrgoLhXSq67TEa5ruc4GJC2rWimw"; string oAuthAccessTokenSecret = "J6zix3FfA9LofH0awS24M3HcBYXO5nI1iYe8EfBA"; string oAuthConsumerKey = "GDdmIQH6jhtmLUypg82g"; string oAuthConsumerSecret = "MCD8BKwGdgPHvAuvgvz4EQpqDAtx89grbuNMRd7Eh98"; string oAuthVersion = "1.0"; string oAuthSignatureMethod = "HMAC-SHA1"; string oAuthNonce = Convert.ToBase64String(new ASCIIEncoding().GetBytes(DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString())); TimeSpan timeSpan = DateTime.UtcNow - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc); string oAuthTimeStamp = Convert.ToInt64(timeSpan.TotalSeconds).ToString(); string resourceUrl = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json"; string screenName = "sencha"; string baseFormat = "oauth_consumer_key={0}&oauth_nonce={1}&oauth_signature_method={2}" + "&oauth_timestamp={3}&oauth_token={4}&oauth_version={5}&screen_name={6}"; string baseString = string.Format(baseFormat, oAuthConsumerKey, oAuthNonce, oAuthSignatureMethod, oAuthTimeStamp, oAuthAccessToken, oAuthVersion, screenName ); baseString = string.Concat("GET&", Uri.EscapeDataString(resourceUrl), "&", Uri.EscapeDataString(baseString)); string compositeKey = string.Concat(Uri.EscapeDataString(oAuthConsumerSecret), "&", Uri.EscapeDataString(oAuthAccessTokenSecret)); string oAuthSignature; using (HMACSHA1 hasher = new HMACSHA1(ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(compositeKey))) { oAuthSignature = Convert.ToBase64String( hasher.ComputeHash(ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(baseString))); } var headerFormat = "OAuth oauth_nonce=\"{0}\", oauth_signature_method=\"{1}\", " + "oauth_timestamp=\"{2}\", oauth_consumer_key=\"{3}\", " + "oauth_token=\"{4}\", oauth_signature=\"{5}\", " + "oauth_version=\"{6}\""; var authHeader = string.Format(headerFormat, Uri.EscapeDataString(oAuthNonce), Uri.EscapeDataString(oAuthSignatureMethod), Uri.EscapeDataString(oAuthTimeStamp), Uri.EscapeDataString(oAuthConsumerKey), Uri.EscapeDataString(oAuthAccessToken), Uri.EscapeDataString(oAuthSignature), Uri.EscapeDataString(oAuthVersion) ); ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false; // Append query string parameters to the URL resourceUrl += "?screen_name=" + screenName; // Create a new HTTP request, and append the Authorization header HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(resourceUrl); request.Headers.Add("Authorization", authHeader); request.Method = "GET"; request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"; // Get the response and read the JSON response data WebResponse response = request.GetResponse(); string responseData = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd(); // Render the JSON response out to the page context.Response.ContentType = "application/json"; context.Response.Write(responseData); } public bool IsReusable { get { return false; } } } }
When we launch "TwitterFeed.ashx" in the browser, I can use a proxy tool (such as Fiddler - http://fiddler2.com/get-fiddler) to analyse the encrypted HTTP requests being sent to Twitter. This is the raw request sent from the .NET app to Twitter (again, I have replaced the secret key and token values in the request header with samples):
GET https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=sencha HTTP/1.1 Authorization: OAuth oauth_nonce="NjM1MDcyNTA1MzE5MDE2NjM4", oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", oauth_timestamp="1371650132", oauth_consumer_key="GDdmIQH6jhtmLUypg82g", oauth_token="819797-Jxq8aYUDRmykzVKrgoLhXSq67TEa5ruc4GJC2rWimw", oauth_signature="5wt8g%2FiKP9BG2XL%2BwdszM35irhs%3D", oauth_version="1.0" Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Host: api.twitter.com Connection: Keep-Alive
HTTP/1.1 200 OK cache-control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, pre-check=0, post-check=0 content-length: 82320 content-type: application/json;charset=utf-8 date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:55:32 GMT expires: Tue, 31 Mar 1981 05:00:00 GMT last-modified: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:55:32 GMT pragma: no-cache server: tfe set-cookie: lang=en set-cookie: guest_id=v1%3A137165013211436301; Domain=.twitter.com; Path=/; Expires=Fri, 19-Jun-2015 13:55:32 UTC status: 200 OK strict-transport-security: max-age=631138519 x-access-level: read x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN x-rate-limit-limit: 180 x-rate-limit-remaining: 179 x-rate-limit-reset: 1371651032 x-transaction: b9a4f32d0a9698cc x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block [{"created_at":"Wed Jun 19 00:15:41 +0000 2013","id":347145623784529921,"id_str":"347145623784529921","text":...
You will probably find there are various helper libraries out there that will assist in OAuth authentication, but hopefully the detailed example above illustrates how this works at a low level. Certainly, for .NET there's Twitterizer (https://github.com/Twitterizer/Twitterizer), a .NET class library that provides simple APIs to authenticate and retrieve data from Twitter. But as long as you are able to fire off HTTP requests like the above from your own server app with the Authorization header set, there should be no reason why you can't do the same.
Here's a screenshot of how the above example looks in practice:
When I get some more spare time, I'll see if I can get an example working that shows how to do User authentication.
Hope this helps!Daniel Gallo
Sales Engineer
Sencha Inc.
20 Jun 2013 2:46 PM #7
Nice write-up Daniel!Jason Minnick
Sencha Architect Development Team
7 Sep 2013 1:22 AM #8
Nice, job. Thanks for the write-up. JBI love being a dad (5 & 7), flying airplanes (KBED) and writing code (spaghetti).
BostonMerlin aka John Bond aka JB
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I wanted to declare an environment variable that stocks all the extensions of video files so I can use it when using the shell.
I tried several things but never got it to work: If in my .bash_profile I put:
export VIDEOS={mp4,wmv,avi,flv,mkv,m4u,mpg,mpeg}
it only takes the last element:
[nbarraille@nbarraille ~]echo $VIDEOS
If in my .bash_profile I put:
export VIDEOS="{mp4,wmv,avi,flv,mkv,m4u,mpg,mpeg}"
export VIDEOS='{mp4,wmv,avi,flv,mkv,m4u,mpg,mpeg}'
Then, when I display it it looks OK, but it doesn't work when I use it in a ls for example:
[nbarraille@nbarraille ~] echo $VIDEOS
[nbarraille@nbarraille ~] ll *.$VIDEOS
ls: cannot access *.{mp4,wmv,avi,flv,mkv,m4u,mpg,mpeg}: No such file or directory
And when I run the exact same command without using the variable, it works:
[nbarraille@nbarraille ~] echo *.{mp4,wmv,avi,flv,mkv,m4u,mpg,mpeg}
Also, when I reboot, it looks like my .bash_profile is not loading, and the $VIDEOS variable is empty. I have to do a
source ~/.bash_profile in order to get it to work (and I have to redo so every time I open a new terminal.
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Does anyone know of a closed formula for $cos(\displaystyle\sum_{n=0}^m a_{n})$? I've seen formulas for $cos(\displaystyle\sum_{n=0}^\infty a_{n})$ and $tan(\displaystyle\sum_{n=0}^m a_{n})$, but the former remains elusive. I can only think of two ways to approach the problem, either by taking the real part of complex exponentials or defining a recurrence relation, viz.
$cos(\displaystyle\sum_{n=0}^m a_{n})$ $=Re[exp(i\displaystyle\sum_{n=0}^m a_{n})]$ $=\frac{1}{2}[exp(i\displaystyle\sum_{n=0}^m a_{n})+exp(-i\displaystyle\sum_{n=0}^m a_{n})]$ $=\frac{1}{2}[\displaystyle\prod_{n=0}^mexp(ia_{n})+\displaystyle\prod_{n=0}^mexp(-ia_{n})]$ $=\frac{1}{2}[\displaystyle\prod_{n=0}^m[cos(a_{n})+isin(a_{n})])+\displaystyle\prod_{n=0}^m[cos(a_{n})-isin(a_{n})]]$
which amounts to finding a closed-form expression for
similar to finding binomial coefficients, albeit more general. I know there should be $2^m$ unique terms arising from choosing either $A_{0}$ or $B_{0}$, then choosing either $A_{1}$ or $B_{1}$, etc. until you've chosen every combination. The recurrence relation would go as follows:
$cos(\displaystyle\sum_{n=0}^m a_{n}) = cos(a_{m}+\displaystyle\sum_{n=0}^{m-1} a_{n}) = cos(a_{m})cos(\displaystyle\sum_{n=0}^{m-1} a_{n})-sin(a_{m})sin(\displaystyle\sum_{n=0}^{m-1} a_{n})$


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Is it by any chance possible to make the Menu key work as one would expect in Mathematica: opening a context menu?
The Menu key does nothing in version 7 or 8 on Windows.
This isn't a full answer, but maybe those with more knowledge can take it from here.
To capture key presses of a particular key, one can do the following:
The previous example increments
To do more fun things, you can try to call a front end element with the following:
This automatically launches the front end dialog that is mentioned. A full list of Front End Tokens is available here. Putting things together:
There are two problems here:
Maybe you can hack together something from this!
I tried AutoHotKey with this code and it worked:
In the past I had some success interfacing Mathematica with Wiimotes using the programs PPJoy and GlovePIE. GlovePIE took care of the Wii stuff and PPJoy has hooks for it. PPJoy can be used to let Windows believe it's connected to a joystick. In that way even a keyboard can be turned into a joystick, with buttons and all.
The nice thing is, Mathematica has access to most game devices (including this virtual one) using the
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If your teen is at least 15 years old and a proficient swimmer, she might consider training to be a certified lifeguard. Besides spending her working hours in the sun soaking in the rays, she will learn valuable lessons in responsibility and safety. To become a certified lifeguard, a 37-hour course is required, which includes training in CPR, AED, first aid, surveillance techniques, proper use of rescue equipment, and managing spinal injury victims. Your teen will also have to pass a written test and a swimming test. Life guarding is a rewarding job that develops confidence, decision-making skills, conflict resolution, and professionalism in your teenager.
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Completely new to bash and having trouble working out how to make the arithmetic work. I think this should be easy, it's just.. argh.
I want to express the time of day in terms of 1/1000ths (ie, midday = 500, etc.)
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6 Moments in Video Game Adaptations That Improved the Movie
Unless you want to be murdered by zealous fans, your adaptation of a book/movie/etc. had better keep certain things intact. Sure, you can cut a scene here or tweak a character there, but in the end, Harry Potter still has to defeat Voldemort, and Katniss still has to win the Hunger Games. Deviate from the plan, and fans scream bloody murder.
But not when it comes to video games. Video game makers don't give two shits about canon, even if the game is based on an all-time cinema classic. They'd tack on a different ending to the freaking crucifixion if they thought it'd make the level play better, and nobody cares. So, let's take a moment to celebrate some of the most awesome and/or insane liberties games have taken with famous plots ...
#6. The Empire Strikes Back -- Luke Kicks Vader's Ass (and Isn't His Son)
In the Movie ...
Some of you are too young to remember how goddamn depressing The Empire Strikes Back was when we saw it for the first time. First the Rebels get the shit blown out of their igloo base. Then, despite the fact that Yoda (literally the wisest being in the entire universe) specifically tells him not to, Luke Skywalker zooms across the galaxy to confront Darth Vader in Billy Dee Williams' Colt 45 Sky Fortress and gets about 13 years beaten off of his life.
"What, did an arthritic old man and a midget train you to sword fight? Oh ... right."
Vader chases Luke through the facility, operating his light saber in full-on baseball bat mode and using space magic to throw a bunch of random shit at the young Rebel, until finally cornering Luke at the end of a bridge and chopping his goddamn hand off. Vader then reveals himself to be Luke's supposedly dead Jedi father, to which Luke responds with mewling shrieks of terror-sadness and then leaps into the cavernous pit below. Thanks for coming, kids! The next movie will be out in a few years!
But in the Game ...
When they sat down to make the NES game in the early 1990s, they decided they were going to get rid of all this depressing shit and write the movie Lucas should have made. So, instead of getting tossed around like a child, Luke arrives at Cloud City to greet Darth Vader with a howling explosion of furious ass-whoop. He sprints down the spindly chasm bridge and pummels the Sith Lord like a jazz drummer cracking open a pinata with a pair of nightsticks, until Vader simply collapses under the weight of his own embarrassing failure and falls off the fucking bridge.
He just shit in his robot suit, and now he has to smell it all the way down.
However, the greater departure from the film's storyline comes after Luke beats Vader in 10 seconds like he was late for a meeting. Once Vader is defeated and sent hurtling down the inexplicable sky abyss/twinkling future slide, he delivers this message:
"Next time, Skywalker ... NEXT TIME!"
That's it -- a generic bad guy rant about "meeting again" spat out by Shredder, Skeletor, and countless Scooby-Doo villains over the years, with absolutely no mention of being Luke's father. The most iconic moment of the entire film (and one of the most famous moments in cinema history) is just kind of skipped right over for no discernible reason. To be fair, we understand the omission -- Vader would probably rather divulge that information while looking a bit more dignified and powerful, instead of screaming it over his shoulder while rocketing headfirst down a giant elevator shaft.
#5. Peter Jackson's King Kong -- Jack and Ann Save Kong
In the Movie ...
No matter which of the Hollywood adaptations of King Kong you're talking about, the story is always a tragedy: The giant ape finds love in the form of a beautiful human woman, then dies and falls off a skyscraper.
Hey, we've all been there.
So, near the end of Peter Jackson's CGI-fest, the titular monkey lord steals heroine Ann Darrow and carries her to the top of the Empire State Building, because he's a monkey and can only think so far ahead. Mustering up what little remains of his dignity after being forced to whimsically scoot on his butt across a frozen pond and make countless pouty sad faces into the camera, Kong makes one final stand against all of the douchebags who kidnapped him from his island kingdom. He fiercely battles wave after wave of fighter planes until he sustains a fatal wound and plunges 102 stories to his death in the crowded streets below, where he is eulogized by Jack Black, because the universe clearly hates him.
"He told me he wanted an all-kazoo version of American Idiot played at his funeral."
But in the Game ...
If you earn enough points playing through the video game Peter Jackson's King Kong, you earn the privilege of playing an alternate final level wherein Jack Driscoll and Ann Darrow manage to save Kong from the final skyscraper shootout and return him to Skull Island, despite the fact that this outcome requires such a monumental suspension of disbelief that they might as well have had Superman swoop in and lob the mutant gorilla back to his homeland like a giant supersonic baseball.
Half of the level has you controlling King Kong as he swats at fighter planes:
"Monkey RAAAAAGE!"
While the other half puts you in control of Jack Driscoll as he zips around in a plane, shooting down the other fighter pilots to provide Kong with enough cover to escape.
"Treason is a small price to pay to hit on Naomi Watts!"
Jack literally murders U.S. soldiers trying to protect their country from a rampaging Gorilla Hercules so Kong can haul ass back to the tropics. Somehow, Jack and Ann manage to get him away from the assembled military forces and onto a freighter bound for Skull Island, which is explained by a single shot of a boat pulling out of New York Harbor. How did they find a giant monkey-hauling steamer on such short notice, or get Kong on board without being spotted? How did they plan to make it across the ocean without being run down by the Coast Guard? Don't worry your pretty little head about it.
"Well, gang, we made it! Boy, it's a good thing all of that other stuff happened."
Then, we see Jack and Ann circling the highest peak of Skull Island, which for some reason is Pride Rock, while Kong roars triumphantly to celebrate his total not-deadness.
Presumably to a soundtrack by Elton John.
#4. Beauty and the Beast -- The Beast Hunts Gaston Down and Beats His Ass
In the Movie ...
Muscle-bound narcissist and future Ed Hardy customer Gaston, who goes from comic relief to cold-hearted villain in about as much time as it takes to cook a Pop-Tart, storms the Beast's castle to stab the hell out of him and claim Belle as his own, because apparently that's how marriage worked in 18th century France. The Beast is in a depression worthy of a Smiths mix CD over Belle's apparent rejection and is resigned to let Gaston kick the shit out of him. However, Belle returns in the middle of the melee, and Gaston suddenly discovers that hulking gorilla wolf demons have super strength.
Who knew?
But the Beast chooses to spare Gaston, who returns the favor by immediately sticking a hunting knife into his back. Gaston then clumsily falls off of the castle, because he has the situational awareness of a hamburger.
"I should've waited until I had both feet back on the balcony to stab yoooooooooou!"
But in the Game ...
Video game Beast doesn't give one hairy horseshit for compassion or mercy. In the 1994 SNES edition, when Gaston and his cronies lay siege to the castle, the Beast bellows out a resounding "Fuck you" and carves a path of destruction through his own palace, stalking Gaston to the outer towers and flinging the bastard off with his own meaty paws.
"You'll be fine, just flex really hard right before you hit the ground."
The Beast doesn't waste time moping in the dark over Belle's departure -- he gets shit done. He stomps Gaston's ass through nine floors of stone and out into the black embrace of eternity. Then he turns back into a prince and dances with Belle, presumably whipping out some vintage Stallone quip about taking out the trash.


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I have this homework question. I looked at the man page for sort and I believe the answer is
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It is a Fedora server.
We're supposed to look on man pages, if there is no man page related to the subject than use an info page. If no info page exists either than use the internet.


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I am writing a lengthy document that I have divided in chapters. Each chapter is in a separate file which is called from the master file by means of the command
The problem is that every time an
\included file starts the page number is reset to 1. Of course, I can control it inserting manually
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How The People Who Brought You Curves Are Actually Working Against Women's Health
The latest filings from Karl Rove's American Crossroads show a last minute contribution of $1 million received just days before the election (10/29/12) from Gary Heavin — the co-founder of Curves International Inc., which calls itself "the world's leader in women's fitness."
Curves, a chain of women-only fitness center franchises, claims nearly 10,000 locations in more than 85 countries. Heavin and his fellow co-founder, his wife Diane, sold Curves International to an private equity firm in October, but they remain prominently featured on the company's website. The Heavins say they "share a passion for and commitment to women's health and fitness." But his massive donation to the right-wing super PAC is only the latest in a long pattern of their efforts
in support of policies that undermine women's equality in the workplace and restrict women's access to health care services.
American Crossroads spent $91 million to elect Mitt Romney over President Obama. Romney refused to endorse key pro-women legislation including the bipartisan Violence Against Women Act, the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, and the Paycheck Fairness Act, but backed reinstating the "global gag rule" on even discussing abortion as a family planning option and supported the infamous Blunt Amendment to allow employers to deny health benefits that go against their personal views. Crossroads also worked to help far-right extremists like Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock, and George Allen. Much of the American Crossroads attack strategy focused on criticizing Obamacare and those who backed the effort to expand health insurance access to all Americans.
In addition to helping fund American Crossroads, the Heavins also combined to give $92,400 to the House and Senate Republican campaign arms, $2,500 to Texas Governor Rick Perry (R), $30,800 to the Republican National Committee, $7,300 to Romney's campaign, and $2,500 to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) in 2012.
And this past election isn't the only time that Curves and the Heavins have worked against women's reproductive rights. Gary Heavin pledged hundreds of thousands of dollars for controversial "pregnancy crisis centers" that try to talk women out of abortions and have been accused to providing false information. They also made large donations to abstinence-only education programs — programs which often misinform and make teens more likely to engage in risky behavior and become pregnant. Curves also pulled its funding for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation over its objection to the charity's funding for Planned Parenthood's breast cancer screening services. In a 2004 editorial, Mr. Heavin attacked Planned Parenthood's sex education literature, writing "I have a 10-year-old daughter. I would absolutely not allow her to be exposed to this material. I don't want her being taught masturbation and told that homosexuality is normal."
That anti-choice and anti-LGBT stance was further demonstrated when Curves partnered with the American Family Association — a group that has been identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a "hate group." They joined for a 2009 healthy recipe contest and sold a Curves fitness CD on the AFA's website. Gary Heavin has also been an outspoken enthusiast for televangelist Pat Robertson, who has blamed natural disasters on same-sex marriage equality and blamed 9/11 on abortion, the separation of church and state, and civil liberties groups.


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5 Low Bun Hairstyles for Spring
It's time to take it down a notch! Embrace the new season with these super-pretty low bun hairstyles
Begin by pulling the back of your hair into a low side ponytail and use a small clear elastic to secure. Next, fasten the rest of your hair (top) into a second ponytail, positioned directly above the first. "Back comb both ponytails for more volume and gently finger comb ends together into one main ponytail," Antin says. "Wrap the hair around the base and tease as desired."
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Like the extra loose low bun, simple & sexy
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Super easy, quick style for my extra long hair on days I feel lazy... Which is a lot LOL
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Buns are what I've been wearing for a while now. Very easy to just twist, pin and go.
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Almost makes me wish I had long hair again...
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These articles always sound so good....in theory but I can never manage them in reality. LOL I have learned that if it says "effortless" or "blow dry hair super straight" or "take a 1" curling iron...", I may as well give it up now. LOL
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good options for bad hair days
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I'm not a huge fan of buns, but I liked quite a few of these.
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Life Cycle of a Book
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Have you ever wondered how libraries get all those books, DVDs, audio-books, and even magazines on the shelves? While you probably know how to find something on our shelves, you may have never even thought about the process libraries use to get them there for you. As an individual, you can go to a bookstore, buy a bestseller and have it on your own bookshelf the same day. Getting a library book on the shelf so that everyone can easily find it is a lot more complicated.
Part 1 Materials Selection
When you come to the library or go to a bookstore it is pretty easy to browse the shelves for something of interest. Unfortunately, we don't have that luxury in the library world. Most books, DVDs, audio books, etc. are ordered sight unseen from distributors and publishers. Sometimes we are surprised when we actually receive them – pleasantly or otherwise. We recently received a children's board book about elephants that was actually in the shape of an elephant! This was a pleasant surprise and certainly added to the child appeal of the book – however, this was never mentioned in the review. Likewise, we are occasionally disappointed in the physical item as well. DVD cases and book bindings are sometimes flimsy, and we know it won't be long before we have to replace the case or the book entirely.
There are hundreds and hundreds of book published every month, and deciding what to actually order with limited funds is not always easy. For popular fiction authors like James Patterson or Mary Higgins Clark, we use what distributors call "standing orders." We currently have 214 authors on our Grand County Library District standing order list for adult fiction, and are alerted every month when one of these authors has published a new book. We also know which authors are popular in which branches so that we can order accordingly – sometimes we order multiple copies of the same title and sometimes we may order only one copy.
For all other purchases we rely on reviews in respected sources like Library Journal, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, The New York Times, The Denver Post and other similar publications. We also follow media reviews, book tours, and often receive requests or recommendations from our patrons. You can make a purchase suggestion right on our GCLD website under the "Books & More" tab – click on "Suggest a Title for Purchase." Library staff carefully assesses all sources for quality, popularity, need and potential demand in Grand County. Selection is a time consuming but necessary process in ensuring we get the materials on the shelf that you want to read, listen to and view.
Part 2 Ordering
Putting in an order, it's simple right? Don't you just make a list and say this is what we want and it's done? Unfortunately it's not as easy as that to order items for the libraries.
To order for five libraries there are many things to take into consideration:
- We need to order all types of books for different ages. Just for kids we have board books for babies, picture books for preschoolers, beginning readers and so on. Then there are all of the DVDs and audio books for different ages.
- Since we have five libraries we like the items to all be delivered directly to each library and we want them to come fully processed and cataloged, ready to go on the shelf.
What does fully processed mean?
- For a hardcover book with a book jacket, to be fully processed means: there is a barcode on the front of the book jacket, there is a spine label on the spine of the book jacket, there is a Mylar cover to protect the book jacket and it is taped to the book. A paperback book has a barcode on the front of the book with a label protector covering it, a spine label on the spine of the book and the book's spine is taped. Audio books are put into plastic cases with CD pages and the barcode and spine label are put in place on the plastic case. This is what full processing includes, and it takes a lot of time.
What is cataloging?
- Basically cataloging is attaching an item to a bibliographic record. A bibliographic record generally includes: author, title, ISBN, publisher, description, subjects and keywords. There are bibliographic records for all types of books, audio books, DVDs, music CDs, magazines, downloadable audio and e-books, etc. Having a good bibliographic record means you have a better chance of finding what you are looking for when you search the library's online catalog.
So when we put all of this information together for our supplier, we can finally make our orders. Only then can you find all of the new books, DVDs, audio books, magazines, music in your local library.
Part 3 Cataloging and Processing
Earlier in this series, we described how easy it is for someone to buy a bestseller and have it ready-to-read on the bookshelf all in the same day. As you will see in this article, the process of getting a book, audio book or DVD on the shelf in the library, so that everyone can easily find it, is a lot more complicated.
The first step in getting library materials to the shelf is cataloging. Cataloging involves a description of the item: i.e. author, title, publisher, copyright date, number of pages, size, ISBN, etc. Most of our materials are also owned by other Colorado libraries and available through Marmot or Prospector. For them to be searchable, we need to make sure that our items are listed under the correct cataloging record. You may have noticed that there are sometimes multiple listings for the same title in the Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC); this is because books and other media have different ISBN numbers depending on format, edition, and publication date. The unique ISBN (International Standard Bibliographic Number) is the key to identification of all forms of published media and key to correct cataloging.
Cataloging also involves providing local information about a given item. This includes a unique barcode number, location information, and a call number. All of this cataloging information makes it easier for you to locate the materials you want via the OPAC or on the shelf. At www.glcd.org you can see if an item is on order, checked out, on the shelf in your local branch, or available by request from libraries outside of Grand County via Marmot or Prospector. In the end, cataloging provides our customers with a wealth of information regarding availability of our library materials.
After an item is cataloged there is still one step left before library materials can actually be put on the shelves. In the library world we call this step "processing." This involves adding a unique branch barcode number to the item, applying call number labels, taping spines of paperbacks, covering hardback dustcovers with a Mylar jacket, placing audio books in plastic cases with individual sleeves for each disc, and applying a property stamp or genre and "new" stickers where applicable. All of these processing steps serve to both protect library materials and help you actually find them on our shelves.
Whether you visit your local library to browse the shelves and leave with a book in hand, or visit our virtual library at www.gcld.org to request items outside of Grand County, the cataloging and processing procedures that go on behind the scenes are crucial to delivery of materials to our customers.
Part 4 Circulation
If you have been following this series on the "Life Cycle of a Book" you will know that we have covered materials selection, ordering, and processing and cataloging. Circulation, or the borrowing and returning of library materials, cannot occur until all those processes have been completed. Circulation is a huge part of what happens every day in a library, and it involves both library users and library staff.
The books, DVDs, audio books, etc. that are available on your library's shelf can be checked out immediately. Once you have made your choice, the barcodes are scanned at the self-check or circulation desk, a receipt is printed and you are on your way. Loan periods can vary depending on the library and the item type. In Grand County DVDs, magazines and music are loaned for only 1 week; all other materials are loaned for 3 weeks. New materials may not be renewed due to popular demand.
If you find that something you want is already checked out, it can be placed on hold through our Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC). This can be done in the library or at home via our website at www.gcld.org. Holds are a common occurrence with new and popular items. The OPAC will tell you how many holds already exist on an item so you can easily decide whether you want to wait. Once your hold is ready for pick up your will be notified. Materials are re-shelved or put back into circulation if holds are not picked up within a specified number of days.
As part of the Marmot Library Western Slope Consortium and the Colorado Prospector interlibrary loan system, our Grand County Library District (GCLD) users have access to over 30 million items from all over the state. These items can be placed on hold via our OPAC and are sent to your specified pickup location via a statewide library courier service. If the items are on the shelf, they will usually be delivered within one week. Loan periods for lending libraries vary and the respective due dates will be printed on the circulation receipt.
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If only the password hash is stored and the user inputs the original password, how does the program know that it is correct? I guess it could check all the possible salts but if there are 32bit salts then the program has to check all 2^32 salts (worst case) which seems like it would take a really long time.
The answer is simply; the salt is stored alongside the password hash. A typical database scheme would look like;
The salt is not a secret. It is there to make certain types of attacks orders of magnitude more difficult.
This answer should contain everything you need to know.
If not, then this answer has even more information on the ins and outs of salting.
As has been mentioned, the salt is stored alongside the hash. The salt is mainly intended to protect your hashes against rainbow table attacks. In other words, brute force attacks cannot be run ahead of time
As lynks pointed out, the salt is stored with the hash. The point of salts is to make it so that someone can't attack the DB as a whole by looking for a password that matches the hash of any user.
For example, lets say I had the user table for really big website A and they had 100 million users. If they were using a 32 bit hash (which is not at all secure anyway) and every user had a password that resolved to a different hash, then I would only have to try about 43 passwords before I found one that matched some user. If, however, a different salt is used for each, then I have to attack each password individually.


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spoiler:to me, the synthesis choice makes the least amount of sense. sure, every world could've been flooded with nanobots or something to turn organics into partial synthetics, but how do you turn, say the Geth, into a partial organic?? sure you could get creative, but to me it doesn't make sense.
my proposal would be that the Catalyst is actually a "Master" Reaper, or at least the synthetic lifeform that originally created or controlled the Reapers, and it currently controls the Reapers. instead of it seemingly being able to read your mind, just make it access the databases that are likely still inside the Citadel (it is right there, after all) to know who Shepherd is and so on.
for background on the Catalyst, it could be a synthetic that was created by an organic species to help fight off invaders of some kind. once the invaders were destroyed, the synthetic's creators would have some sort of conflict with the synthetics that results in the synthetics starting to systematically wipe out all organic life. the Catalyst, however, opposed the logic that all organics should be destroyed, and it came up with its solution to prevent future organics from creating new synthetics.
the choice would just be destruction or control, same as before. however, the reason a choice needs to be made is simple: the Catalyst lacks emotional insight into how organics feel about its "solution". the Crucible, then, is actually the Catalyst's plan to allow organics to break the cycle.
the destruction choice should remain the same as it seems to be quite logical, and that includes the destruction of EDI and the Geth. the control choice, however, could use some tweaking. my idea is simply this: the control choice transforms Shepherd into the new Catalyst (which, as you remember, still controls the Reapers). this would allow an organic to become a full synthetic and bring an emotional insight into the old Catalyst's solution.
of course, the implications there would be huge if you were either Renegade/Paragon, and i can imagine that a very different ending would take place one way or the other.


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Hardcover/Paperback College Books vs. eBooks
Seems to be a lot of interest in college eBooks now. On one hand, they are slightly cheaper and take up less space but they are web-based and require an internet connection for the most part (unless you download the whole thing to read offline). The down side to this, to me is that your eyes might strain to see the text, etc.
With actual books, they are large and take up space but they can be sold back to the school for at least some money. Another plus is that they can work "offline."
Does anyone have any experience with eBooks or have any input that maybe I am not thinking of? Thanks!!
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I would much rather spend my money on ebooks. In my experience, about 75% of the paper books I bought during the course of my degree were not resellable after my class either because there was a surplus of the title or the professor changed texts or required a newer version. This is how many professors make money, by updating their text slightly and requiring students to purchase it and they do it year after year. It's a pretty good racket. Those books I was able to resell ended up selling for pennies on the dollar.
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@zuiquan: I didn't consider the difficulties resulting in selling the books back. Thank you for that input.
@ichigodiafuku: thanks
Most instructors will not allow an e-book if it needs to connect to the Internet. Any access to the Internet can be viewed as cheating.
eBooks have the possibility of a search function (the thing I miss most when dealing with physical textbooks), and it can be difficult to sell back physical books due to new editions (far as I know, it's not the profs who make money off that arrangement, but the publishing companies themselves).
However, most "new editions" have only minor changes, so if you plan on using them again (referencing in the future, refreshing your memory on the subject, laughing at weird doodles you drew while the professor droned on), physical books do have a good deal of use. If you're a kinesthetic or visual learner, making notes/underlining/etc. in the text itself may help you remember better than notes made in a Word document or notebook. And of course, you already mentioned my #1 issue with eBooks: eye strain (bane of my existence).
I will admit, though, that it's been a few years since I've dealt with eBooks, so they may have grown up some in the meantime. Sorry for any overthinking on my part :)
@kalira: I meant the profs who wrote the book. You can bet they're getting a slice. Quite a few of my professors literally wrote the book for the course they were teaching and required the most up to date version of the text. Of course, you're probably not going to run into that issue at community college but at some of the larger universities that's just how they roll.
I have very very very rarely seen the option for an E-book, but I have used one ONCE and it was lovely! I was able to hit CTRL-F and find any answer I wasn't familiar with in an instant instead of scanning around trying to find what I missed or forgot. That kind of direct information I find very appealing.
I tend to get very annoyed with textbooks as they get overly wordy. Yeah, I really need 3 pages to explain to me what "intentions" are in relation to moral theology. -_-
I prefer the physical book simply because I learn better from reading a book versus a webpage. Just me though.
Hard Copies.
IMO nothing is better than paper and my trusty highlighter.
I also like buying used books because they're cheaper. I've yet to see a 'cheaper' used digital e-book.
@zuiquan: Ahh, I see. My apologies for misinterpreting. I did have a few professors who literally "wrote the book," but they were all really decent people who never required the newest editions. I suppose more often than not, though, profs would want the extra slice from selling more new editions.
@zuiquan: FYI... Many Community College instructors author books. I staring at probably a dozen now, sitting here in the Library.
If I could have "borrowed" an e-book for my classes that weren't related to my major, I would have gone that route. I definitely prefer my physical copies of my bio books. I can flip through, compare different books at once, highlight, etc.


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How to tell if your cat is plotting to kill you - Book by The Oatmeal for $14.99
A collection of spectacular cat comics from The Oatmeal! Free shipping available through Amazon
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Pre-order price is $8.99 on Amazon, and is Prime eligible.
"How to tell if your cat is plotting to kill you - " That's easy: you have a cat...
@tractorcrusher: Thanks for the info! Pre-ordered for $8.99 with guarantee of delivery on release day. <3 Prime!
Hmm, I ordered this yesterday when it was at $14.99....so with the pre-order price guarantee, does that mean I'll get it for $8.99 now? Either way, Oatsy is genius & well worth either price!
Hopefully, there's a section "How Your Cat is Planning To Kill You". Otherwise, there won't be too many returning customers.
@tcayer: Yeah save a few bucks...Is your cat plotting against you? Its like when Gozer asks you if you're a god...the answer is yes!
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How do I evaluate my website from a usability standpoint?
Loaded Question! You will need to conduct user tests. Try reading "Don't make me Think" and "Rocket Surgery Made Easy" by Steve Krug.
These book are a must read for this topic and will show you how to do the testing.
Have your mother use it. I'm not kidding. Ask her to visit it then tell you what it does, make sure you are nowhere in the vicinity when she tries it.
Doesn't have to be mom, just someone who doesn't have a technical background and who uses their browser for only a few basic tasks.
"Hallway testing" is important, but most people in the hallway (if at your office) aren't going to be the people actually using the app. Of course, that does depend on your target audience.
The best way to find out how user friendly your site is, is to run usability tests.
This is a very big area, and for very high profiled webpages, is done in special created usability testing labs, that can track eye movement, while recording the session.
The test
But you can make your own usability tests yourself, cheap and useful. More cheap tests is usually better than one expensive test. And you want to test your website before it's all done, so you can alter design and functionality that users don't understand early in the process. what's important to get a useful test, is to give your subject a task, and ask him or her to explain what they are thinking, and why they are doing what they are doing. You will sometimes be very surprised how people react in a way you didn't anticipate. Remember to take notes, if you don't record the test.
The subjects
For most websites, ordinary people will be the best audience. If you make something that require a special knowledge, like a statistical analysis tool, you should try to hand pick the subjects. If you have trouble finding people, you can hire them to come in and test your website and pay them $20-50.
I haven't tried them, but I have considered using UserTesting
Does anyone have any experience with them?
I have recently come across UserFly (haven't tried it myself). You probably should also consider getting feedback from websites like ConceptFeedback


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Definition of disjunctive in English:
1Lacking connection or consistency: the novel's disjunctive detail
More example sentences
- Though historical scholarship (or at least something akin to that) was not entirely unknown in South Asia, the history the colonial historians produced was disjunctive with the constructions of the past the South Asians knew.
- The allusions are swift, the collisions reminiscent of the 'ply over ply' technique of Ezra Pound's Cantos, but to more disjunctive ends.
- For them to call themselves a community group is disjunctive with the use of language.
2 Grammar (Of a conjunction) expressing a choice between two mutually exclusive possibilities, for example or in she asked if he was going or staying. Compare with copulative.
Example sentences
- You could object a bit to the way the disjunctive choice is set up.
- Funk points out that the particle H displays its sharpest disjunctive characteristics in interrogative sentences.
- This is particularly evident with disjunctive queries, which use the minus sign to exclude particular search terms.
2.1 Logic (Of a proposition) expressing alternatives.
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- He also discusses the disjunctive propositions which follow from a conditional proposition.
- Creationists are thus accused of the fallacy of false alternatives, that is, the disjunctive premise leaves out a possible alternative.
- The inference rule of disjunctive syllogism, while truth-preserving, is not falsity-avoiding.
1A disjunctive conjunction or other word.
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Jiraiya's Memorial was created by Jiraiya's last pupil Naruto Uzumaki in memory of his master. It's located outside the village of Konoha in the forest and consists of a large stone with the kanji for "teacher" (師, shi) etched into it and two smaller stones on either side of it with three kunai with a wire running through them. Naruto also left Jiraiya's first book as well as the "flowers of hope" that Konan presented him with at the memorial.
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Do people check in on Woot! on Fridays?
I know Saturday and Sunday are pretty slow on Woot! but was wondering how many people are around on Fridays. I only work 4 hours on Friday so I am not on nearly as much as I am when I work 10 hours the rest of the week.
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Well why dont you just brag about it!
@coondogg97: If you can't brag online then what's the point of it existing?
No, I don't check Woot! on Fridays. Ever.
Today's Friday? No, I never check in on Friday either.
Woot? I check it. Deals.woot? Tab's always open. :)


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4 Jan 2011 9:49 PM #1
Activate event fires twice - why?
I'm listening out for the activate event, which I use to append a few items. Console logging in Safari shows me the activate event fires twice, thus appending my items twice. Why is it doing this? I'm using 1.0.2.
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5 Jan 2011 9:14 AM #3
I have to run in a few minutes, but very quickly, thank you for the reply.
My application is MVC. I have an Ext.Panel with card layout (called viewport and I will refer to it as such from now on) defining the important sections of my application. These sections are all panels with other controls called within and are controlled via routes calling different controllers.
When I set a new active item (one of my various section panels) on my viewport, I listen for the activate event and it is then that it fires twice. This occurs on multiple panels and I have determined that that even a simple panel with nothing but some HTML in it will fire the activate event twice. Hope this helps.
5 Jan 2011 11:41 AM #4
It looks like when the panel is layed out for the first time an event for activate is called, then also when setActiveItem is called. Is this the expected behaviour?
Ext.layout.CardLayout = Ext.extend(Ext.layout.FitLayout, { type: 'card', sizeAllCards: false, hideInactive: true, beforeLayout: function() { this.activeItem = this.getActiveItem(); return Ext.layout.CardLayout.superclass.beforeLayout.apply(this, arguments); }, onLayout: function() { Ext.layout.FitLayout.superclass.onLayout.apply(this, arguments); var activeItem = this.activeItem, items = this.getLayoutItems(), ln = items.length, targetBox = this.getTargetBox(), i, item; for (i = 0; i < ln; i++) { item = items[i]; this.setItemBox(item, targetBox); } if (!this.firstActivated && activeItem) { if (activeItem.fireEvent('beforeactivate', activeItem) !== false) { activeItem.fireEvent('activate', activeItem); } this.firstActivated = true; } },
14 Mar 2011 10:18 AM #5
Any resolution?
I am experiencing this also. When using setActiveItem on a Carousel component, the activate listener fires twice on the target item.
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3 Dec 2011 9:06 PM #7
The last post on this seems to have been awhile ago. I'm also experiencing this, has anyone figured out why it is happening and/or how to stop it?
22 Feb 2012 9:51 AM #8
I'm having this same problem. Spooky.
1 Mar 2012 10:24 AM #9
Same problem here, anyone?
26 Mar 2012 1:28 PM #10
Same problem still here. Isn't this like major flaw? Workaround within panel is to set buffer:
this.on('activate',function(){ alert('activated'); },this,{buffer:100});
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What is the best DVR software to use on your PC? (Free or open source)
I want to hook up to the TV and use as a DVR.
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I use Windows. Media Center has been included since Vista. I haven't seen a need to explore other options.
It's not for the faint of heart, but MythTV is awesome once running. Your best bet is to start with something like Knoppmyth or Mythbuntu, as these take a LOT of the work out of it, but there is always something that will be non-standard, and cause endless headaches. I believe they have live CD's that you can try with your hardware to see if everything is Kosher.
I ran Knoppmyth for a year or so before I had an HDTV as it's great with SD TV, once you get to HDTV, Windows Media Center is the only way to go, as CableCARD will only work with Windows AFAIK.
Thanks guys. Currently I have Windows and watch tv over the air with an antenna so Cable stuff isn't applicable at the moment.
@maj11281: Ah, well that makes a difference. If you're already using Windows, might as well use the media center portions if you're on Vista or 7. Does the tuner accept HD signals? Laptop or Desktop?
I've used a bunch of different ones.
I've used GBPVR, Windows Media Center, XBMC, and Boxee. My favorite is Windows Media Center. Even though the others have nice features, I just don't see a reason to venture away from WMC. I even have it set up so it play ISO movies.
If you are just storing videos and such (not recording so much), XBMC is awesome and works great.
I use Windows Media Center as well and have not had any problems over the last few years. I have standard cable attached to that PC. I'm still using XP-3.
how do you get Media center with XP?
@maj11281: wmc with XP kinda sucks. GBPVR works good on XP, but the easiest is WMC on Win7. Get yourself a $40 usb tuner and it almost sets itself up.
@maj11281: Microsoft sold a special version of XP with Media Center. It may still be available although Microsoft is cutting off XP support. I would advise ugrading to Win7. Chances are it will run on your current PC. On most of the machines I upgraded Win7 runs faster and better than XP did.
@mrfitz98: It was on Windows when I bought the computer a few years ago (five, maybe)
@maj11281: I am sure it is better in the newer versions but it is doing just fine for me recording my TV shows on schedule and playing anything I ask of it. My needs may be simpler than others, so that may be why I am happy with it.
The media center in XPMC, vista, or 7 is sufficient for post (my self included.) If want a bit more expandability SageTV or Myth TV are great +1 for those recommendations.


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Unanswered: ExtJS4 grid autoresize columns according the content
How can I in the ExtJS4 Grid autoresize the width of the columns according the content size? The width of the column should be the width of the longest content in that column just like it is in an HTML table. Basically I want that HTML table auto-width behavior.
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Canonical has an item on their site called Ubuntu for Android. This is a special distribution of Ubuntu which integrates with the Android system. Their website mentions that it is specifically targetted at manufacturers.
However, I would also like to install this, does anybody know if this is possible at all? and if so, how this can be done.


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quote: And the desktop OS are just not good at assign CPU to takes. Wiht a Qaud cores most OS will jsut let 2 core stay idle even if programs could use the extra power. We are long way from using more then 2 core.
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The Ford F-100 SupernatsWritten by on October 4, 2010 The Annual Vintage Ford Reunion Has Moved To Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
If you're looking for one of the most concentrated collections of unique Ford-powered trucks in the country, the F-100 Supernationals is the event for you. Going strong for the past 32 years, the event attracted more than 900 drivers to the new location in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Show promoter Charlie Cobble worked hard to bring the event back to Pigeon Forge, a move welcomed by city officials and participants alike. It was the first event held in the city's new municipal parking lot, offering acres of limitless display spaces for vehicles and vendors. Of course the new location also offered unlimited Pigeon Forge shopping opportunities, definitely an advantage to another important segment of the F-100 population.
From the opening ceremonies of the three-day event, excitement was in the air. The crowd was introduced to half a dozen, never before seen trucks, debuting at the show. After admiring the headliners, the crowd spent the rest of the weekend greeting old friends and inspecting the rest of the huge collection of Ford-powered vehicles. Along the way, they got a chance to visit with the nearly 100 vendors, manufacturers, and swap meet folks who had an amazing collection of the latest accessories for your truck.
One of the most heavily accessorized trucks at the event, even though it was still not complete, was the Project Black Oval giveaway truck. Campaigned over the last year and a half and loaded with dozens of sponsored upgrades, the '55 F-100 was the prize every driver was hoping to take home. When co-host and television personality Sam Memmolo pulled the winning name from the drum, John Davis jogged to the stage, smiling with his ticket in hand. It's a safe bet that very few attendees had a better time at this year's event than John. The truck has been appraised at $28,500 and will need to be personalized to John's taste. With a little luck, we hope to see it on display at the 2011 event.
The Saturday afternoon awards ceremony saw the reign of Steve and Becki Haessly come to an end. Their F-100, Hot Blooded, has been the Truck of the Year throughout 2009. This year's top trophy went to Roger and Carolyn Hogan for their black and red, tilt-bed F-100 loaded with custom upgrades. (Look elsewhere in this issue for a full feature on the Hogan's truck.) In addition to more than a dozen specialty awards, the closing ceremonies sent 270 happy attendees home with permanent reminders of the fun at this year's show.
Show promoter Charlie Cobble sends a special thanks to supportive sponsors like National Parts Depot and welcomes the event's newest sponsor: LMC Trucks. If you'd like more information on the 2011 schedule, check out the website: www.f100supernationals.com.
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An estimated crowd of more than 6,000 enjoyed this year's F-100 Supernationals in Pigeon Forge, TN. It was the first event held in the city's spacious new municipal parking lot.The huge population of vintage trucks deserved an equally huge collection of custom trophies. More than 270 were awarded to talented drivers. Special thanks to the tireless judging teams from Showoff Productions.Built as an environmentally friendly truck, the copper-colored '56 F-100 from Steve's Restorations uses propane to achieve 475 horsepower and next to zero emissions. It was one of six new trucks debuting at the show.Show promoter Charlie Cobble, (L) presents this year's Truck of the Year award to Roger Hogan (R) for his meticulously detailed '55 F-100. From its all-aluminum, 4.6L Lincoln V-8 under the hood to the fully chromed undercarriage visible through the Lexan tilt bed, Hogan's F-100 had every inch either painted, polished, or chromed.The CCT Editor's Choice award went to Ed Davis and his beautifully customized '66 F-100. Originally owned by his father, it was the truck he learned to drive in and it has been in the family almost 45 years!
Jim and Marie McFarland displayed their flame-painted, chopped '57 Ford Panel, complete with tilt-forward hood showcasing the modern powertrain.Subtle shades and careful graphics add an air of elegance to the '56 Ford of Fred and Vicky Klein, from Silver Lake, IN.Riding low and painted bright orange, the '56 F-100 of Jack and Kiriko Sorich never travels anywhere unnoticed!Completed just before the show and debuting at the 2010 event, this F-100 Panel is owned by restoration expert Dennis Carpenter. It was one of a half dozen trucks unveiled for the first time at the show.A rarity at the event, the '51 Mercury M1 of Charles Williams sported an elegant silver and white paintjob.The unique paintjob on Jeff Casto's '56 marked the completion of a seven-year project. The three-color-changing shade is called Maple Leaf.With just a little work, this could be next year's big winner! Swap meet vendors had lots to choose from, tempting the more than 6,000 spectators at this year's event.From Manchester, KY, Dave Smith's '53 F-100 is loaded with dozens of subtle modifications, making it tough to beat.
Rolling in from Brusly, LA, C.G. Mouch displayed his beautifully detailed orange and silver '48 F-1.Darwin Stanfield described his classic truck as a '38-40 Ford. From the cowl forward it is a '40 and from the cowl rearward it is a '38. Both halves blend together beautifully.Devoid of emblems and unnecessary trim, the '55 F-100 of Terry Van Housen lets all the classic lines show through.A member of Classic Cruisers, Steven Anderson arrived from Monroe, NC, with his beautiful black and yellow '56.Frank Seton is always prepared for a party, since he tows his entertainment center with him. The '56 F-100 and Coke trailer are painted to match.