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I am now getting more into customizing my Ubuntu experience and want to understand better what all these different things I keep running into are. What is Gnome3 and Gnome2 in relation to GTK3 or GTK2? Are they related at all? Is Gnome3 another version of Unity? What is Unity? What is compiz?
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The millions of photographs in the Museum's collections compose a vast mosaic of the nation's history. Photographs accompany most artifact collections. Thousands of images document engineering projects, for example, and more record the steel, petroleum, and railroad industries.
Some 150,000 images capture the history, art, and science of photography. Nineteenth-century photography, from its initial development by W. H. F. Talbot and Louis Daguerre, is especially well represented and includes cased images, paper photographs, and apparatus. Glass stereographs and news-service negatives by the Underwood & Underwood firm document life in America between the 1890s and the 1930s. The history of amateur photography and photojournalism are preserved here, along with the work of 20th-century masters such as Richard Avedon and Edward Weston. Thousands of cameras and other equipment represent the technical and business side of the field.
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Ambrotype of Mea-to-sa-bi-tchi-a, or Smutty Bear
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- This ambrotype portrait of Mea-to-sa-bi-tchi-a, or Smutty Bear, a Yankton Dakota, is among the first photographic images of Native Americans. Smutty Bear was part of a large Native American delegation that came to Washington, D.C., during the winter of 1857–;58. Under duress, members of the delegation signed a treaty that greatly reduced their lands in return for promises of money and provisions that were never fulfilled. This prompted the Sioux Revolt of 1862, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of settlers and the mass hangings of 38 Native Americans. This photograph is one of a series a of portrait daguerreotypes made of Native American chiefs while they crossed the country to meet with US Government officials in Washington, D.C. When passing through St. Louis, Missouri, these chiefs were photographed by Thomas Easterly and John Fitzgibbons.
- The ambrotype process, most popular in the mid-1850s, is a wet-plate collodion emulsion on glass. These images were then placed in cases with a dark lining for best viewing.
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- Date made
- ca 1858
- depicted
- Mea-to-sa-bi-tchi-a
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- accession number
- 121824
- catalog number
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- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Pawnee Man
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- Portrait of unidentified Pawnee man, seated, short hair, bare chested, wearing many beads, bracelets and earrings. Face, chest and arms, trousers hand-tinted pink and beads are white, blue, red and gold. Matted, not cased.
- Description
- The NMAH Photo History Collection (PHC) has over 3000 tintype photographs dating from the beginnings of the process in 1856 to the present. 'Tintype' was coined and became the favored name.
- Tintypes in the PHC are found in albums, the Kaynor Union Case collection and as individual photographs. The original tintype process patent was assigned to William and Peter Neff in 1856. William Neff died a short time later, but his son Peter, who named the process Melainotype, continued on with his work. The earliest tintypes in the PHC are a group of more than thirty Peter Neff Melainotypes, some of which date back to 1856 and contain notes written by Peter Neff. Shortly after the Melainotype, Victor Griswold introduced a very similar process on thinner, lighter iron plates and called them Ferrotypes. The PHC has tintypes ranging from rare large images between 5"x7" and 10"x12"down to small images cut to 6mm diameter to fit jewelry. The Melainotypes are between 1/6 plate and 4"x5" in size and many have indistinct images. There are also unexposed Melainotype plates including a pack of 1/6 plates and large whole-plates with four decorated oval borders that were designed to be cut into smaller quarter plates after exposure.
- The great majority of tintype photographs are studio portraits, including the very popular 'Gem' size (about ¾" x 1"). Almost every gem tintype in the PHC is an individual head and shoulders portraits, the only exceptions seen being a full length portrait and a head and shoulders portrait of a couple. Most of these gem portraits are in small gem albums designed to hold two to six gems per page. However, several gems are mounted on cartes-de-visite (CDV) size cards and set in specifically designed album pages. Some of these CDV mounted gems are in elaborate miniature frames attached to the card. The tintypes larger than gem size show a greater variety of subject matter, but still with a main focus on individual portraits, this is especially true of the smaller 1/16 and 1/9 plate images. Outdoor tintypes are rare. Of the few in the PHC, the most common outdoor subjects noted are people standing in front of their homes and photographs of people proudly standing with, or sitting on, their horse or horses and buggy. One of the largest tintypes is a 9"x 7" outdoor view of a row of townhouses with a couple standing on one of the balconies. There is also an outdoor tintype of men fishing along with another of their days catch.
- One common subject in tintype photography, as noted in text books, is the civil war soldier. The durability of the tintype meant that photographs taken in the field could be sent home. However, this category of tintype is not well represented in the PHC, with less than thirty noted due to the fact that the majority of the Smithsonian's Civil War tintypes are located mainly in the Military History Collection. Most of the PHC examples of Civil War tintypes are in the Kaynor collection of cased images.
- A few of the tintypes in the PHC are hand colored. This coloring varies from light tinting of faces and hands to heavy overpainting that obscures the underlying tintype image. A number of the tintypes (about 30) depict people with the apparatus of their occupations. Some are posed studio shots and others appear to be photographs of people at their place of work. Among the occupational views are images of a doctor, grocery deliveryman, weavers, fireman, ice delivery man, craftsman, cobbler, shoe shiners, mail carrier, surveyor, pipe liners and other tintypes of people wearing work clothes and posing with tools. These include a unique full-length gem tintype of a man in work apron with a saw.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- catalog number
- 3974.31
- accession number
- 121824
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center


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I have an OpenGL game and and I want to implement a simple way for the user to enter data/text in an input box. What is the easiest method to do this?
OpenGL is a rendering system. Rendering has nothing to do with getting text input. If you want text input, then you're going to have to use a library or OS system that provides it.
SDL, Allegro, SFML, and most of the other "multimedia" libraries all have some means of getting input from the user. They're also cross-platform, if you're into that sort of thing. Even the "toy" libraries like GLFW and FreeGLUT have ways of getting basic input.
As for the "text box" part, that's going to be more interesting. Generally, if you're making a game, you don't really interact with the native windowing GUI. So you either have to use a specialized GUI library like CeGUI, or you have to write the text box code yourself. I would personally suggest investigating game-GUI libraries, as writing a GUI yourself is not particularly fun.
I don't know, if you want to use just OpenGL or it's also possible to use other libraries. If you can use others, you can try AntTweakBar - gui library for OGL. I have never used it for text input, but there is also string type for variables, so it should work.
You just create bar, add there variable of type string and set callback. When data are changed, you store them to your own variable. Then you add there button. When user presses it, you will just use stored text to whatever you want.


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I am just starting out and it's expensive to buy guns just to find out that I dislike them. Where can I test weapons in Call of Duty: Black Ops?
No one can say what is the best gun for someone else. It just takes practice with each gun and such. But there is a way to try out guns without having to spend your precious COD points.
Just enter combat training. Make the difficulty "recruit" and setup a game of team deathmatch and 9 enemies against just you. This will give you tons of XP and COD points in combat training. It took me about 2 hours to get to level 25 with this. Once you unlock the gun and have the COD points, just buy it from combat training. Use it and figure out if you like it, then go back to the real game and buy it if you wish. I did this after prestiging once and I regret it. I would've got to first prestige much faster if I had known what guns would work for me and what wouldn't. (same goes for perks and equipment and such)
You could play several rounds of the Sharpshooter Wager Match mode and make a note of any weapons you like.
If you play in low buy in rounds it shouldn't cost you very much at all and if you do well you may come out better off.
You could always just run around playing with the default guns for a few days, then go into your stats and see what guns kill you the most. Chances are people are a little more efficient with those guns, or they're just popular, but they're probably popular for a reason.
To find what guns suit you, go onto split-screen. From there all weapons, camos - anything unlockable - is usable. These, however, don't carry over to the multiplayer. You won't really be able to test them out properly unless you have another person with you, but you'll be able to check out if you want to spend money on the camos and stuff, as well as get a feel for the weapon (e.g recoil).
Another great way to 'try out' guns is to set a class that has scavenger, what ever tier 2 and 3 perks you like, and pick up guns from people you kill. This way you can try out the guns in real combat, though it might take you a bit longer to do so.
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I have a trig question. How do you I solve this. I appreciate much if you could show it step by step. Find all the value of in the interval $[0,2\pi]$ for which $\cos(\pi/2+t)\ge 0$.
\begin{align} \cos(\frac{\pi}{2}+t)&=-\sin(t)\ge0\\ \sin(t)&\le0 \end{align}
From the sine graph, the solution is $[\pi,2\pi]$.
Or if you plot $\cos(\frac{\pi}{2}+t)$ as shown in the following graph,
the solution is also $[\pi,2\pi]$.
Either something from your book got copied wrong or the answer given was incorrect. Let's find the answer through a simple substition. Let $u=t+\frac\pi2$. If $t\in[0,2\pi]$, then $u\in[\frac\pi2,\frac{5\pi}2]$. Now where on this interval is $\cos u$ positive? From $\frac{3\pi}2$ to $\frac{5\pi}2$. $u\in[\frac{3\pi}2,\frac{5\pi}2]$ corresponds to $t\in[\pi,2\pi]$
$\cos(\frac{\pi}2+t)\ge 0 $ $\implies 2n\pi-\frac{\pi}2\le \frac{\pi}2+t\le 2n\pi+\frac{\pi}2$ where $n$ is any integer as the angle must lie in the 1st and 4th quadrant.
$\implies (2n-1)\pi\le t\le 2n\pi$
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$-\pi\le t\le 0$ for $n=0$,
$\pi \le t \le 2\pi$ for $n=1$,
$3\pi \le t \le 4\pi$ for $n=2$,
As $t$ lies in $[0,2\pi]$, the solution should be $\pi \le t \le 2\pi$.
as $t\ge 0, (2n-1)\pi \ge 0 \implies n\ge 1$
as $t \le 2\pi, 2n\pi\le 2\pi \implies n\le 1$
So, $n=1, \pi \le t \le 2\pi $


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I've been tracking my live sessions for some time now. After 35 sessions (about four hours a session) my win rate is 34.42 an hour. My win rate standard deviation is 157.67. This seems high to me. I play pretty TAG at the 1/2 NL game. Is this high standard deviation just an expression of the volatility of low limit cash games, or is this my problem?
Typically, live play will mean you're seeing between 30-50 hands per hour. In your case, this will mean that you've seen somewhere in the region of 7,000 hands. This is an incredibly low number to make any significant, reliable assumptions about the StDev of your win-rate. The data set simply isn't large enough to be approaching what we'd consider a normal distribution yet.
As for your question,
Check out this post for some helpful Statistical Tools for analysis of your game.
Disclaimer: All of what follows applies only to winning players. For non-winning players, none of this matters a whit.
I'm not going to discuss actual, hard numbers as most people familiar with StdDev in poker will declare something that can be interpreted as "StdDev is completely useless until you have 100k+ hands," -- a sentiment I disagree with in principle. You can gain some insight with far fewer hands.
What I'll discuss is the relevance of StdDev in poker. So, what does StdDev tell you about your game? StdDev is an indicator of your variance. Your variance, in turn, is effected by many things. Two of the most important are:
As your skill increases relative to your opponents, you'll win more. As you win more, your long-run winrate increases. Simple. As your winrate increases, your variance decreases. The best .05/.10 player in the world might have a huge winrate measured in tens of BB/100 online, and a very low variance.
But skilled players tend to move up in stakes. As you get better at poker and move up in stakes, you'll find that your skill relative to your opponents actually decreases. You may still have an edge, but your edge will be smaller. This will reduce your winrate, thereby increasing your variance and your StdDev.
That is not to say that when your StdDev is high you need to work on your game. I mean, yes -- you need to work on your game, all the time, but it has nothing to do with your StdDev. The best online $25.00/$50.00 player in the world is probably going to have a long-term winrate that is much lower, probably measured in the low single digits in terms of BB/100. They have an edge, but their edge is smaller. So their variance and StdDev are going to be higher than the world's best $0.05/$0.10 player. Does that mean that the .05.10 player is better than the 25/50 player? Hardly.
Variance is also dependant on your game style. Set-mining nits will have a lower variance than a loose-aggressive player. That also doesn't mean that the set-miner is better than the LAG. Nor does it mean the opposite.
In other words, StdDev has no direct relation to your absolute skill at poker. Other variables do. StdDev only has an indirect (at best) relation to your skill.
My advice is to forget about StdDev as a diagnostic tool, and look at it as a mathematical curiosity.
35 sessions at 4 hours each is only 140 hours. That's a fairly small sample size to me. Which means your standard deviation could easily be "high" (or low).
The other issue is that it's low limit, $1/$2. As such, you'll get a wider range of outcomes than at higher stakes, because this represents "play money" to most people.
It's not really a "problem" as far as you're concerned. Most people would be glad to be doing as well as you.


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GXT/GWT throws error when including id for body tag
I had the <body id="myid"> tag on my page and the GXT/GWT throws the error "undefined is null or not an object". When I replace it with <body> it works fine. I have to include id to make some stuff work. Can someone explain it why does it happen and how to solve it.
26 Nov 2009 4:59 AM #2
I cannot reproduce this. Is the id probably the same than the appname?
26 Nov 2009 5:09 AM #3
yeah the id is the same as the appname. I had the following in MyApp.gwt.xml
<module rename-to='myapp'>
and the body tag is
<body id="myapp">
there is a lot of code so i can't paste the stuff here. Even if i don't add anything to the RootPanel in onModuleLoad(), I still get that error.
26 Nov 2009 5:12 AM #4
There is a GWT issue preventing you from having an element with the id same as the appname. I cannot find the ticket anymore, but i remember it a little bit
26 Nov 2009 5:21 AM #5
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I have a Hunter, no allies out, and in my hand is a Frost Trap.
My opponent attacks with Himul Longstrider, who has War Stomp. He wants to target my hero with the War Stomp power.
Will my hero be exhausted before I am able to pay the cost of Frost Trap? Put another way, does War Stomp exhaust my hero before my hero is "defending," thus preventing me from paying its cost by exhausting my hero?


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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Some reputations change, others don't.
For the second game in a row, Ohio State's often-criticized defense took another step forward when the No. 4 Buckeyes beat Purdue 56-0 on Saturday.
And Purdue? Well, the Boilermakers (1-7, 0-4 Big Ten) were exactly what their reputation said they were.
Ohio State (9-0, 5-0 Big Ten) stretched its winning streak to 21 games in a game that was for all practical purposes over after the first 3 minutes.
Purdue, which hasn't won since Sept. 7, aided and abetted its own abrupt demise in the first few minutes of the game.
Ohio State went up 14-0 in a hurry when Purdue freshman quarterback Danny Etling threw a pick six to Doran Grant in the game's first minute, the Boilermakers' nationally ranked punter shanked a 15-yarder and their defense left OSU tight end Jeff Heuerman all by himself on a 40-yard touchdown pass from Braxton Miller.
OSU led 28-0 after one quarter and was up 42-0 at halftime. Any talk of a repeat of Ohio State losses in Ross-Ade Stadium in 2011 and 2009 and an overtime win last year in Columbus were swept away in a torrent of points and defensive pressure.
Ohio State's momentum - and the continued rehabilitation of the defense's reputation - started with Grant's interception, just like an early interception by Corey Brown helped set the tone in OSU's 63-14 win over Penn State last week.
"It meant a lot to me but it meant a whole lot more to the team. It was great momentum. It got the team going," Grant said.
Purdue coach Darrell Hazell, a former Ohio State assistant, said, "Anytime you go out and play a good football team, you can't spot them the way we did.
"You can't throw interceptions for touchdowns. We came back in the second series and shanked a punt. We talked all week long about getting off to a good start and we did just the opposite."
Miller completed 19 of 23 passes for 233 yards and matched his career high with four touchdown passes. Carlos Hyde rushed for 111 yards on eight carries and Heuerman had a career day with five catches for 116 yards and a touchdown.
He became the first Ohio State tight end to have 100 yards or more receiving since Rickey Dudley in 1996.
When Ohio State pulled almost all of its starters early in the second half, Kenny Guiton came on to complete 8 of 11 passes, including a touchdown pass, and rush for 98 yards and two scores.
Ohio State's 640 yards total offense was the second game in a row it crossed the 600-yard mark.
Miller has completed 79 percent of his passes in the last three games and has hit 72 percent for the season.
"The last two games against Purdue haven't been pretty. We knew we had to come in and make a statement with our win," Heuerman said. "It's a big thing we talked about all week."
Miller said the openings Heuerman found in Purdue's defense were evident in films of the Boilermakers defense.
"It was a perfect defense for Jeff," he said.
OSU coach Urban Meyer said he's seeing a different Heuerman than he saw earlier this season.
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Meyer was even happier to see a different pass defense than he saw earlier in the season.
"Anytime we play pass defense like that we have a chance to be really good," Meyer said.
"Doran Grant with the pass interception, that's a sign we're playing better pass defense. The most positive sign is we've taken a weakness, pass defense, and I don't want to say it's a strength yet, but it's much improved," he said.
Purdue, the lowest-scoring offense in the Big Ten, gained only 116 yards total. Etling was 13 of 29 for 89 yards, with an interception, and he was sacked six times.


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For instance, say a site is for merchants and consumers; people should either sign up as a merchant or a consumer – they require two different forms located on different pages. From the home page, should I have two different buttons, each to the appropriate signup page? Or, in an effort to reduce clutter and because more consumers than merchants will sign up, do I make a large "Sign Up" button front and center on the home page for consumers, then just have a smaller link in the top menu that says "Merchant sign up"?
I would have one prominent signup button on the homepage. As there are more consumers than merchants, display the consumers form, but at the top of the form create a link for merchants, something like:
Are you a merchant? Sign up here.
Which would then take you to the merchant signup.
Or for something a little more elegant, if a merchant clicks the link: fade out the consumer form and fade in the merchant form.
I would recommend going with a prominent sign up button but on opening the form, allow the user to choose the form he needs by use of a radio button.
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It would also be good if dynamically a message can be shown which informs the user which form he has selected just in case he has made a mistake
Should it be possible, try to provide one type of account with additional rights for the merchants. This will reduce users confusion I think.
If this is not what you can do, I would go the second way you proposed: bigger signup button for regular users and a link for merchants. How much you can or should reduce the link depends on the merchants' awareness of the system. If they are educated to use it, even a link in footer will do. Otherwise you can try to make the link look like it directs to a completely separate section, e.g. You can put it in the top menu to the very right, add different background and name it "merchants section".
It would depend on the frequency of each signup type. A lot of websites (and companies by extension) do not have that many merchants or partners to warrant programming separate signup screens, with the merchants or partners being entered manually and an unobtrusive to main navigation login link for them exists. Another way to look at it is that (typically) the merchant website is entirely different to that of consumers, tying up the two from the outset can put you on the wrong track which you fight all the way.


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Is there a specific way to check the intonation on a fretless bass, i.e. adjusting the string lengths at the bridge, or does it simply not matter, as we're keeping in tune by ear anyhow?
I think it matters if you care about having consistent technique and intonation.
The reason is, correct intonation makes the strings in tune with each other as you move across the fingerboard in the exact same position. You want the octave on one string to be the same place on the fingerboard as octaves on all the other strings (on an imaginary fretline). The difference is that with a fretted bass, that point is fixed (ignoring neck adjustments, refretting, dressing, etc.). On a fretless, it doesn't matter where the imaginary fretline lies exactly, as long as the strings are in tune relative to each other.
The reality though, is that this is probably a finicky adjustment. I am just making this up now, but using something like a capo (because fingers are less precise because they are soft and fleshy) and first making sure it is perpendicular to the neck, would then let you adjust all of the intonations so they are correct for that position, e.g., first octave position.
You can make sure that you're in the ballpark using traditional intonation techniques. Play a 12th fret harmonic on each string, and compare that to a 12th fret "fretted" note. I say "fretted" because, well, there are none. You get the idea.
Use a tuner, and just ensure that you are in the ballpark when fretting right on the 12th fret line (if you have the line markers on your neck). If you don't have a marked neck, general ballpark in tune is fine.
You just want to ensure that things aren't off by a huge amount, so that you don't have to reposition your fingers in the fret as you ascend and descend the neck. In that case, you would be playing "right on the line" for the lower frets, but may have to sit back further in the fret as you ascend.
It really shouldn't matter, as you correctly state, because you adjust your finger position in order to hit the correct note.
In saying that, however, there is a reason you may wish to adjust intonation in certain circumstances. I haven't delved to deeply into this, but for a well set up instrument with a neck matched to particular resonant frequencies you could improve the frequency response by correctly adjusting string lengths. I think this is towards the high effort end of things though, and not sure of the value in normal use.
To some extent, muscle memory will come into play and your finger, whether there is a fret there or not, will "know" where to go.
If the instrument isn't properly adjusted like normal for intonation then you'll have you wander more for the correct pitch.
A half hour with a strobe tuner (meaning, something accurate enough to warrant the time with it) and adjustment at the bridge (dependent on model and manufacturer) will allow you to correctly set it. Just because frets aren't there doesn't insist that intonation adjustment is optional. Especially with vertical fret markers.
Does this fretless bass have fret markers at all on the fingerboard? If so, they can be a visual guide, and therefore would require a good intonation setup to be worth anything visually to you.
Short answer: Doesn't matter so long as intonation is uniform between strings and you aren't looking at fret markers.
Long answer: Intonation, tuning, and action go hand in hand. On top of that, nut end action will play a larger role on a fretless as you will likely have higher action there. Obviously your span decreases anyhow as you approach higher notes, but it would be nice to maintain intervals between strings at least.
It's all about compromises which suit style. Personally I tune my fretless bass and fretless 6-string acoustic at the third fret because I don't employ open strings much anyhow, and value consistency along the neck more.
Also some intonation is intentionally altered so you have different intervals an octave higher. Without frets, you have the spontaneous choice to create or negate that intonation behavior though.
Fretless calls for much higher action to prevent fret-buzz, and because imperfections in neck curvature stand out much more - otherwise you also need to be more careful about perpendicular plucking/strumming to not accidentally slap.
While the conventional open to 12th fret comparison is still useful, you may prefer a 3rd to 15th or 5th/17th fret comparison, which require some fancy math and measurement if you don't already at least have fret marker lines. In this way you rule out some action influence. Again, this depends on your style, neck or nut, opens or not.
Ear and muscle will adapt, but, as with how to logarithmically reduce your finger span, it will be easier on your subconscious if that is at least smooth and consistent as you graduate up/down and string to string.
So long as it's consistent between strings, you could really have any intonation. All it does is displace where your fret markers are, to essentially give your guitar a different scale length, but ultimately it's all brain hardwired smooth logarithmic transition anyhow. What difference if the halfway mark, the first octave, is 16.8 or 17.2 inches? This is different on every guitar anyway, so unless you can't adapt to playing other guitars, it's not really an issue.
It would seem to me that by moving the saddles, effectively it's going to move the 'frets'. As in where one presses the string down to produce an in-tune note. Pretty important, as comparing to a fretted bass, where there's several millimetres of leeway, the same note being produced because of the fretwire, not where on the fret the finger is pressed down (within reason!). Some basses seem to put the markers where they would normally be - in the centre of the 'frets', whereas others seem to put them where the strings need to be pressed. So, maybe, moving the saddles will change this, if there's enough adjustment, and it will put, say, 12th 'fret' where you want. It's of great importance to me to be able to 'fret' a note spot on in tune, and I want the other strings to also be in tune in exactly the same place on the neck.


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I was just reading the article about TopCoder. Before this article I thought a tournament and a competition is the same. What is the difference between tournament, competition and match?
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Match is "a formal contest in which two or more persons or teams compete".
Tournament consists of multiple matches between contestants and comes from "contest between groups of knights on horseback. Modern use, in ref. to games of skill, is recorded from 1761."
Competition does not have such a problem with its meaning of "a contest for something" which is from 1610s.
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You can also look at related term: championship.
References are from etymonline entries for match, tournament and competition.
To elaborate beyond the definitions already provided, a tournament generally refers to a specific format of competition, where competitors engage in a series of matches to determine the winner(s).
There are several types of tournaments (single elimination, double elimination, round robin, etc.), but generally speaking the goal of the tournament is to provide overall winners through a gradual sorting process based upon success within the individual tournament matches.
A competition can be any of the different types of tournaments, or it can be something less structured (such as two teams playing a single match).
First, a "match" is usually between two parties as contestant, where as a "tournament" or a "competition" is for multiple contestant.
A tournament, is a series of matches. There are generally a large number of contestants
A competition can include a tournament, or a match. It's a more general sense, and includes anything, in which there is one or more parties contesting. A competition can consist of only one contestant, which "tournament" and "matches" can't have. That's the only differences I can think up of.
A tournament is a contest where teams or individuals compete but not necessarily against each other. It usually lasts a short period of time. Competitors are eliminated along the way, until you get to the final of two teams or competitors where the eventual winner is decided.
A competition on the other hand is a contest where all participants competes against one another, usually on a home and away basis. It generally lasts for weeks or months. No one is eliminated and the winner is the one that has accrued the most points.
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Transportation Secretary, James C. Codell III, and state highway engineer, Y.M. Yowell of Bowling Green, are accused of using the Transportation Cabinet's Disadvantage Business Enterprise Program to benefit companies owned by their friends, even though those companies did not meet federal guidelines to be considered disadvantaged.
One of the companies named in the suit is Contractors Corporation of Bowling Green. The lawsuit claims the Cabinet's Office of Minority Affairs ruled Contractors Corporation did not qualify as a disadvantaged business, but Yowell is accused of telling the office to approve their application anyway.
The suit also says the owners of Contractors Corporation are married to four executives of Scotty's Contracting and Stone" of Bowling Green, one of the largest contractors in Kentucky. Yowell reportedly worked for Scotty's from 1975 to '81.
Transportation Cabinet officials deny the allegations made in the lawsuit filed by Grant Trucking Company of Jefferson, Indiana and Chaz Construction L.L.C. of Louisville.


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Hyperthyroidism (cont.)
Ruchi Mathur, MD, FRCP(C)
Ruchi Mathur, MD, FRCP(C) is an Attending Physician with the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and Associate Director of Clinical Research, Recruitment and Phenotyping with the Center for Androgen Related Disorders, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
In this Article
- Hyperthyroidism facts
- What is hyperthyroidism?
- What are thyroid hormones?
- Thyroid hormone regulation--the chain of command
- What causes hyperthyroidism?
- What are the symptoms of hyperthyroidism?
- How is hyperthyroidism diagnosed?
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What causes hyperthyroidism?
Some common causes of hyperthyroidism include:
- Graves' Disease
- Functioning adenoma ("hot nodule") and toxic multinodular goiter (TMNG)
- Excessive intake of thyroid hormones
- Abnormal secretion of TSH
- Thyroiditis (inflammation of the thyroid gland)
- Excessive iodine intake
Graves' Disease
Graves' disease, which is caused by a generalized overactivity of the thyroid gland, is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism. In this condition, the thyroid gland usually is renegade, which means it has lost the ability to respond to the normal control by the pituitary gland via TSH. Graves' disease is hereditary and is up to five times more common among women than men. Graves' disease is thought to be an autoimmune disease, and antibodies that are characteristic of the illness may be found in the blood. These antibodies include thyroid stimulating immunoglobulin (TSI antibodies), thyroid peroxidase antibodies (TPO), and TSH receptor antibodies. The triggers for Grave's disease include:
Graves' disease can be diagnosed by a standard, nuclear medicine thyroid scan which shows diffusely increased uptake of a radioactively-labeled iodine. In addition, a blood test may reveal elevated TSI levels.
Grave's disease may be associated with eye disease (Graves' ophthalmopathy) and skin lesions (dermopathy). Ophthalmopathy can occur before, after, or at the same time as the hyperthyroidism. Early on, it may cause sensitivity to light and a feeling of "sand in the eyes." The eyes may protrude and double vision can occur. The degree of ophthalmopathy is worsened in those who smoke. The course of the eye disease is often independent of the thyroid disease, and steroid therapy may be necessary to control the inflammation that causes the ophthalmopathy. In addition, surgical intervention may be required. The skin condition (dermopathy) is rare and causes a painless, red , lumpy skin rash that appears on the front of the legs.
Functioning Adenoma and Toxic Multinodular Goiter
The thyroid gland (like many other areas of the body) becomes lumpier as we get older. In the majority of cases, these lumps do not produce thyroid hormones and require no treatment. Occasionally, a nodule may become "autonomous," which means that it does not respond to pituitary regulation via TSH and produces thyroid hormones independently. This becomes more likely if the nodule is larger that 3 cm. When there is a single nodule that is independently producing thyroid hormones, it is called a functioning nodule. If there is more than one functioning nodule, the term toxic, multinodular goiter is used. Functioning nodules may be readily detected with a thyroid scan.
Excessive intake of thyroid hormones
Taking too much thyroid hormone medication is actually quite common. Excessive doses of thyroid hormones frequently go undetected due to the lack of follow-up of patients taking their thyroid medicine. Other persons may be abusing the drug in an attempt to achieve other goals such as weight loss. These patients can be identified by having a low uptake of radioactively-labelled iodine (radioiodine) on a thyroid scan.
Abnormal secretion of TSH
A tumor in the pituitary gland may produce an abnormally high secretion of TSH (the thyroid stimulating hormone). This leads to excessive signaling to the thyroid gland to produce thyroid hormones. This condition is very rare and can be associated with other abnormalities of the pituitary gland. To identify this disorder, an endocrinologist performs elaborate tests to assess the release of TSH.
Thyroiditis (inflammation of the thyroid)
Inflammation of the thyroid gland may occur after a viral illness (subacute thyroiditis). This condition is association with a fever and a sore throat that is often painful on swallowing. The thyroid gland is also tender to touch. There may be generalized neck aches and pains. Inflammation of the gland with an accumulation of white blood cells known as lymphocytes (lymphocytic thyroiditis) may also occur. In both of these conditions, the inflammation leaves the thyroid gland "leaky," so that the amount of thyroid hormone entering the blood is increased. Lymphocytic thyroiditis is most common after a pregnancy and can actually occur in up to 8% of women after delivery. In these cases, the hyperthyroid phase can last from 4 to 12 weeks and is often followed by a hypothyroid (low thyroid output) phase that can last for up to 6 months. The majority of affected women return to a state of normal thyroid function. Thyroiditis can be diagnosed by a thyroid scan.
Excessive iodine intake
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I just got my kit and am about to brew for the first time.
I was warned to not use bottles that have sat out uncleaned because there can be mold in them.
How can I tell if there is mold in my bottles? Can I safely clean and remove the mold?
I just got my kit and am about to brew for the first time.
I was warned to not use bottles that have sat out uncleaned because there can be mold in them.
How can I tell if there is mold in my bottles? Can I safely clean and remove the mold?
It can be hard to see a thin ring of black mold in an amber bottle, even when holding it up against the light.
I'd strongly recommend you use a bottle washer on a faucet. Really hot water doesn't kill everything but it does tend to clean well. Here's one as an example: http://morebeer.com/view_product/15964//Bottle_and_Carboy_Washer
I'd also recommend you get a bottle tree or two so you can clean bottles at your convenience and have them waiting and ready when you need them.
FWIW, here is my ritual:
Personally, if a 12 oz bottle is so dirty that the faucet cleaner and a soak doesn't get it looking good, I recycle it. Bombers get the brush.
If your bottles are truly filthy (dumpster dumping etc), I would consider soaking them in a bathtub or garbage can in bleach for a few days before cleaning. Be aware that bleach is very very bad for your beer so if you use this pre-step, you'll need to rinse really thoroughly. My brother used to use this approach in college on dumpster bottles.
This website has some good info.
I put a large plastic tub in the bathtub and fill it with hot tap water mixed with the oxygen cleaner from the dollar tree (yes, it has fragrance, but it's cheap and rinses clean). Splurge and use $0.50 worth! Into that, I immerse bottles, and let them sit over night. The next day, I use a home-made bottle rinser to quadruple rinse (spray the interior, let drain, and repeat). The bottle rinser is a chunk of cpvc with tiny holes drilled in it. The rinse water is as hot as I can get. Usually I start with rinsed bottles, but even some trashy one come clean with the soak and rinse.
I wouldn't even START talking about sanitzer if I could see the tiniest spec of anything! Only after my soak and rinse, then I hit them with sanitizer. They all go back in the case, I lay clean paper towels on the top, close the case, flip the case over, and store until needed.
You will most commonly see the growth of mold on the bottom of the bottle, when holding the bottle up to a light. If you do see mold, fill the bottle with your sanitizing solution and scrub with a bottle brush. Then, if it was me, I would rinse and sanitize once more
If after sanitizing your bottles you can not see any mold in the bottle, you are OK.


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With the new plant in Freeport, Texas, BASF believes it will be able to better serve the coatings, construction, adhesives, and paper industries by expanding the network of manufacturing locations and improve the backward integration of raw materials used in production.
BASF on Monday announced plans to build a new
production plant for emulsion polymers at its integrated
"Verbund" site in Freeport, Texas.
The new plant will allow BASF to better serve the coatings, construction, adhesives, and paper
industries by expanding the network of manufacturing locations
and improve the backward integration of raw materials used in
production, according to the company.
The new plant, which is expected to begin production in
mid-2014, will create approximately 25 new jobs at the Freeport
"The new plant strengthens our position as a leading
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industries," said Derek Fairclough, senior vice president
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BASF is also building new manufacturing facilities for emulsion polymers in
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The 2012 high school football season kicks off tonight with two area games. In the Naugatuck Valley League, Wilby hosts Naugatuck at 6 at Municipal Stadium in Waterbury. Wilby's Gino Capuano and Naugatuck's Shawn Kuczenski make their head coaching debuts.
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FORT RILEY, Kan. – Army officials say a Fort Riley soldier's death on the installation is being handled as a homicide investigation.
Private Thomas Lavrey, 21, was pronounced dead at Irwin Army Community Hospital at Fort Riley after being found unresponsive inside his barracks on post on Monday, May 14.
Lavrey was a utilities equipment repairer assigned to the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Special Troops Battalion, 1st Sustainment Brigade, 1st Infantry Division.
Lavrey, a West Seneca, N.Y. native, joined the Army in March 2010. He was assigned to Fort Riley in September 2010. A representative with the 1st Infantry Division's Public Affairs Office says Lavrey had not yet been deployed.
Jeffrey Castro with the Army Criminal Investigation Command's Public Affairs Office in Quantico, Virgina confirmed Thursday that Lavrey's death is being investigated as a homicide. Castro declined to release any further details, including how the soldier was killed and whether or not a suspect has been identified or arrested.
He said that agents are doing everything in their power to make sure that the case is thoroughly investigated.
BuffaloNews.com in New York reports that Lavrey was fatally stabbed Sunday in his living quarters, according to family members.
Barbara McNally-Lavrey, the victim's stepmother, told the newspaper that the family is awaiting word on when they can make funeral arrangements at Fort Riley and in Western New York.


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I have heard Spaniards singing
"Oe oe oe oe oe, ... oeee, ... oeee"
in soccer and other sports.
Where does this expression come from? Is it a Spanish expression?
I have heard Spaniards singing
in soccer and other sports.
Where does this expression come from? Is it a Spanish expression?
I'm from Spain. It's OÉ.
Oé became from euskera word Hobé and start to be used by the famous player arkonada. You can read that in these article:
Olé it's another thing used by the toreros world.
A simple search on Google for "Olé, Olé, Olé, football chant" or "olé spanish meaning" should lead you to this:
Here are some aclarations to make:
1. Its "Olé" and not "Oe" as some may claim
From the same wikipedia page:
Olé, Olé, Olé (The Name of the Game)
Link to the original song: -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0GmxnlXv3s
2. Context of the chant
Top of the World (Olé, Olé, Olé)
3. Open ears!!!
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Well, the truth is that if you watch both videos using big speaker to amplify the sound you can hear clearly people using chanting Olé, Olé, Olé..., there is also some drunks as well as some others that don't know the full chant, and you can recognize them simply because their chant sounds more like "Oé, oé, Oé...."
That alone don't means that the chant is "Oé, oé, Oé...." or that there are two chants.
I know that for some, search in Google it's incredibly hard and confusing, so here is a direct link to the reference on wikipidia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olé,_Olé,_Olé
I don't know the etymology of it, but I'm pretty sure it's "olé", not "oe".
Olé is an interjection that is very typical of the bullfighting. (Well, not that I know anything about bullfighting, but to me "olé" definitely evokes that and other cliches about Spain)
As a side note, there's a sports newspaper in Argentina called "Olé".
As essmussein and Javi said it's Oé, oé
Olé, and Ole, are not only used in the world of bullfighting, though, so much so that, in fact it can also be heard in a football match, though it is rare, and it is not chanted in the same way Oé, oé is. Bare in mind that Oé, oé is always sung to the same chant, and is not used outside that scope, nobody shouts a plain Oé to cheer anything.
I didn't know about its apparent etymology, as stated in that article; my guess is everyone here, at least maybe outside of the Basque country, thinks it comes from a relaxed version of Olé. Interesting.
Olé and Oé are two different expressions, Olé in Spain, Mexico and Latin America is mostly used in bullfighting when the matador does a good pass or series of passes with his cape. While Oé, Oé, Oé is mostly used in supporter chanting at football matches - - - While Olé in Latin countries is also used in football matches when one team threads a series of passes and is dominating the opposing team. It is derogatory and demoralizaing for the rival team to be subjected to this chant.


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I've been hoping for this, waiting quietly, yet anxiously, for this honor. We should all be proud, all of us knitters. Knitting made it into my alumni magazine!!!!! Check out this article in the Brown Alumni Monthly or BAM as it affectionately refers to itself
It's a small article and the online version lacks the photo my cat (and me) which was included in the printed version, but still it's a thrill. Congratulations also, to my fellow knitters, also Brown alums, Sabrina Gschwandtner and David Cole!
P.S. You can find the photo of my kitchen (pre-renovation) me and my cat Jake – here. Just click on my name and wait a moment.
P.P.S. I haven't forgotten all of your requests for instructions to make Margery's afghan. I'm planning to post what Elizabeth Zimmerman used to call "pithy" instructions. M and I have been up completely consumed with photography for the Fall '08 season. More about that soon too….
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We are ever true to Brown! Congratulations! I was so psyched to learn that you are a fellow alumna!
Allison Kelsey '88April 8, 2008
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Terrific article, great photo of you and your cat. I enjoyed it!April 8, 2008
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Congratulations on your Readers Choice Awards. I love your designs and clearly so do a lot of other knitters!April 15, 2008


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WHEELING - Wheeling lawyer Robert "Rocky" Fitzsimmons will represent the 1st District in the West Virginia Senate.
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Wednesday appointed Fitzsimmons to the seat left vacant by the resignation of Orphy Klempa to become an Ohio County commissioner. The unexpired four-year term extends through 2014.
"I'm honored, and I thank the governor for appointing me and having the confidence in me to serve the residents of West Virginia," Fitzsimmons said. "I will work as hard as possible to represent them and improve the quality of life throughout the state."
The 1st District encompasses Brooke, Hancock and Ohio counties as well as part of Marshall County. Twelve candidates submitted resumes seeking to fill the seat.
Tomblin selected Fitzsimmons, 33, from among three candidates recommended to him by a replacement committee last week.
Fitzsimmons holds a bachelor's degree in biochemical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis and obtained his law degree from Wake Forest University. He practices law with his family's Fitzsimmons Law Firm in Warwood. Fitzsimmons also serves as co-chairman of the county Democrat Party.
"But I probably will relinquish that position and focus on my duties in the Senate," he said. "It's time for somebody else to step in and use their resources."
Fitzsimmons described himself as a "political enthusiast" who has always followed the issues in Charleston. Still, he never saw himself seeking public office until now.
"I've worked for the party," he said. "I always enjoyed politics and followed it. I hadn't seen myself as a candidate, but this was the right time and I had some unique talents to offer. It was the right time to do it."
Fitzsimmons said he could run for re-election to the full four-year term on the ballot in 2014.
"I'm not going to rule it out," he said. "At this time, I've spent not one second on the Senate floor, and I've not cast one vote. I want to make sure first I'm an effective legislator."
West Virginia law states no two senators can reside in the same county. The other 1st District senator is Jack Yost, a Democrat living in Brooke County.


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By his own admission, Jeffrey Light '83 is a "very mediocre guitarist," a failed musician who turned his infatuation with rock 'n' roll into a 25-year career in entertainment law. So while he might not be able to jam with the Rolling Stones, the band does appear on his list of celebrity clients. That star-studded roster also includes Christina Aguilera, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the Eagles. Light is heavily involved in his clients' work, and nearly all of them have visited his Santa Barbara ranch for dinner. "These people are family," he says.
Light also dabbles in other aspects of the entertainment industry. He has served as the "music consigliere" to Electronic Arts, the world's leading video game publisher, for the past 20 years and has been the outside attorney for 20th Century Fox for just as long. He also represents the inventors of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, two hugely successful video games that allow even the least talented musicians to feel like rock stars.
Despite constant celebrity contact, Light can only recall being starstruck once, at a meeting with the Eagles. As Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh, and Timothy B. Schmit sat at a conference table in the exact order in which they always appear on stage, Light could not help but think to himself, "Wow, this is cool." Joe Walsh was amazed for an entirely different reason. Apparently that was the first time the band had been in the same room together before noon since 1973.


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Godly roots make United States an exceptional nation
John White, Cheshire It's been said that America is an exceptional nation. That is true for a unique reason: We are one nation under God. Our founding document, the Declaration of Independence, refers to deity four times: Creator, Nature's God, Supreme Judge of the World and Divine Providence. Altogether, those references make clear that our Founders saw God, not government, as the source of our freedom, sovereignty, equality, rights, justice and human dignity.


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Suppose M is a von Neumann algebra. Consider a monoidal category of bimodules over M. Here a bimodule is a Hilbert space with two normal representations of M. The monoidal structure is given by Connes' fusion. Alternatively we can take right W*-correspondences (right Hilbert W*-modules over M with a normal left action of M) together with the completed algebraic tensor product.
What can we say about one-parameter "semigroups" of such bimodules? More precisely, consider a family E of bimodules parametrized by a real number t > 0 such that E_s ⊗ E_t = E_{s+t}. Equality here denotes isomorphism. Does it have an "infinitesimal generator"? What is the "exponent" then? Do we need any "continuity" conditions to guarantee good properties of such "semigroups"? What kind of additional restrictions we can obtain on M provided that such a family exists?
It appears to me that such objects are known as "continuous tensor product systems". Any references on this matter will be appreciated.


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