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I find it remarkable that the US FDA, after years of tweaking and no doubt lots of time and money invested, could only come up with a food label that is terribly confusing! The left side shows a typical food label, mixing good things (e.g. fiber) with bad things (e.g. cholesterol) and having no demarkation or other distinction between those that are good, bad, or neutral. The right side shows a decorated version (from the FDA's nutrition label page) that reveals the truth: the items in gold show be limited, the items in blue should be sought out (while the remaining white items are presumably neutral??).
Shouldn't they have grouped them more clearly with explicit headings, e.g. "Limit the following" and "Eat lots of these" ? What possible rationale could there be for this hodgepodge of nutritional entities?
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- Ben W. will present chapter 2. Recommended problems: 2.04, 2.07, 2.11, 2.17, 2.26, 2.27, 2.28, 2.30
- When: Tuesday (11/16) 7:30 to 8:45pm
- Where: Noisebridge (2169 Mission St.) - back corner classroom
A probability study group was proposed on the noisebridge-discuss list and cc'ed to the Machine Learning mailing list.
The goal is to go through the 7 chapters of Fundamentals of Applied Probability Theory at a pace of 1 chapter per week.
Proposed meeting format:
- 30 min - a volunteer presents the material in the chapter (this will be for people who didn't have time to read the chapter at home, and for those who want to teach)
- 30-45 min - discussion and problem solving (those who solved the problems at home can compare answers, those who didn't can work on the problems together)
- MIT OCW - 6.041 / 6.431 Probabilistic Systems Analysis and Applied Probability - the text book(s) we're using are from this course.
- Fundamentals of Applied Probability Theory by Al Drake (pdf) - written in 1967 and used for several decades to teach the above course. From the preface: "This is a first textbook in applied probability theory, assuming a background of one year of calculus."
- Introduction to Probability by Bertsekas and Tsitsiklis - this is the book written and used by the current professors - it appears to be identical in terms of the layout and the topics covered.
- Fifty Challenging Problems by Frederick Mosteller (~ 15 of the problems are viewable in amazon's preview). Monte-carlo simulations of these: Josh Myer's blog
Past Meetings
- 11/9/2010 - chapter 1 and problems 1.03, 1.08, 1.09, 1.12, 1.13, 1.21, 1.24, 1.30 (slides)
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I have a set of stock summer tires from a Toyota Yaris will they fit the stock rims of a 2004 chevy cavalier?
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you need to check the speed rating and load rating of the tyre, normally indicated by something like 91W or 91W...95W etc. If the cars are drastically different in terms of speed and weight and are also an important factor.
In the event of an accident if you dont have the correctly rated tyres (as specified by the manufacturer) insurers will use that as a get out clause.
Normally on tyres you can go up/down 10mm from the specified tyre width without too much of a problem - i.e. if a manufacturer says "215" then in theory you could go to 205 or 225 width tyres, but I wouldnt push it further than that.
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DynoLab's On-Board Dyno - Take it With YouWritten by on April 29, 2004 DynoLab's On-Board Dyno Provides Accurate Real-Time Horsepower Measurement
Does the idea of an in-car device that accurately measures the horsepower output of your engine appeal to you? If so, read on. Imagine the horsepower-measuring capability of an in-ground chassis dynamometer mounted on the dashboard of your car, and you have imagined the On-Board Dyno available from Seattle, Washington-based DynoLab.
Before the On-Board Dyno existed, the only practical way to get an accurate reading of horsepower at the car's wheels was to put it on a chassis dyno. The On-Board Dyno measures the output of an engine in real time--that is, while the vehicle is moving down the road. It's this capability that allows the On-Board Dyno to, among other things, tell you how much power the engine is making at a light-throttle cruise, accelerating from a standstill or under full-throttle conditions. It will also indicate how much power is required to maintain a specific cruise speed as well as display how much braking force (measured in a negative value) your street machine delivers.
In addition, the On-Board Dyno measures more than just horsepower. In its different modes, it will display acceleration or deceleration in g-force or vehicle speed with a built-in speedometer mode. Here, it measures true vehicle speed in mph and is more accurate than the typical automotive speedo.
Installation is pretty straightforward (as shown in the photos). Once the unit is installed in a car, it needs to be calibrated, which allows specific vehicle parameters to be entered into the unit itself. Some are entered by hand while others are done automatically. Calibrations include vehicle weight; pulses-per-mile from the speed transducer; pitch-up angle of the vehicle; rotational mass of the wheels, tires and rotors; accelerometer leveling; frictional and aerodynamic drag and road noise filtering. The details of exactly how to calibrate the unit are clearly outlined in the included instruction book.
After installing the On-Board Dyno in our Cheap Street Chevelle (CC's official parts test vehicle), we were anxious to see what the car's 355 small-block was putting out at the rear wheels. Further, we wanted to see how accurate the On-Board Dyno really was, thus we used K&N's Dynojet chassis dynamometer as a baseline reference point (see sidebar). We were impressed with the results, and we believe you will be, too.
Coil, tie and tuck away extra cable length. DynoLab offers three types of speed transducers, and our On-Board Dyno-powered three-wire active version is the most common. Hook the harness to the transducer as follows: Connect the bare wire of the harness to the black wire of the transducer. Connect the white wire of the harness to the red wire of the transducer. Connect the black wire of the harness to the white wire of the transducer. Splice and crimp the wires together as shown. The On-Board Dyno is now ready to go, following calibration.
On-Board Dyno vs Dynojet Chassis Dyno
With the On-Board Dyno calibrated and functioning, we took our Chevelle to K&N Engineering to measure its accuracy against K&N's Dynojet chassis dyno. DynoLab claims the On-Board Dyno is accurate to within plus or minus one percent. That means that a 300hp reading will be within plus or minus 5 hp. We can report the On-Board Dyno lived up to the boast in fine fashion. We ran the car on the Dynojet chassis dyno, then drove the car on the street and got readings that were within 2 hp of each other!
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The speed transducer for many GM applications screws right into where the speedometer cable goes--in this case, on the driver's side of Cheap Street Chevelle's B&M TH350 automatic trans (photo 2). Once installed, screw the speedo drive cable, in series, to the other side of the transducer. However, the speedometer on our Chevelle is broken, so we didn't install the cable. We left the cap on the end of the transducer and tie-wrapped the cable out of harm's way (photo 2A). With the dyno, the Chevelle now has an accurate speedometer. If you have a race car with no speedo hookup on the transmission or anywhere else, then DynoLab offers an optional photo speed transducer. It uses an infrared light beam and reflective tape on the surface of the driveshaft to measure vehicle speed.Plug the wiring harness end (with the eight-pin Weather Pack-type connector) into the back of the computer/display unit. A click will indicate the connector is locked in place. The heavy red lead coming off the harness is for a 12-volt source to power the dyno. Connect it to a power source that turns on and off with the ignition key. The heavy white lead connects to an instrument light source and the heavy black lead connects to a chassis ground.Select a mounting position for the display unit that's within view of the driver. We used double-sided tape to mount it on the Chevelle's dash, just to the right of the driver. The dyno can also be mounted to the steering column with a hose clamp passing through the two holes in the mounting bracket.With the transducer and display unit installed, the last main component to install is the accelerometer. As shown here, it can be rotated in its mounting bracket so it can remain exactly parallel to the imaginary line that travels from the front to the rear of the car--regardless of the bracket's mounting position.The accelerometer can be mounted on any solid surface in the car that's within reach of the wiring harness (about 20 feet of cable is supplied). The location needs to be free from harsh road and engine vibrations. DynoLab recommends using the trunk floor as a mounting location and we did just that, picking the part of the floor that ramps up from on top of the fuel tank to where the spare tire is stored. As shown here, we removed the accelerometer from the mounting bracket before installing the bracket. With the bracket in the desired position, mark the four holes with a marker and drill the hole locations in the floor, making sure you don't drill into the gas tank. Mount the bracket with sheetmetal screws. Although the accelerometer is essentially watertight, DynoLab recommends making sure the mounting location will remain as dry as possible.Re-install the accelerometer on the bracket with the four locking screws, and make sure the arrow on the unit is pointing in the direction of forward vehicle travel. Ensuring the straightness of the unit with the naked eye is sufficient. Calibration of the accelerometer will correct for the difference, if there is any.The installed accelerometer should look like this. The four-pin connector from the wiring harness screws into the side of the unit. The collar only needs to be finger tight. We ran the harness from the display unit along the doorsill, underneath the back seat and through to the trunk area. Removal of the back seat provided easy access for safe placement of the harness.The final step involves hooking the transducer to the wiring harness. The harness starts at the back of the display unit and breaks off into two separate connections--one for the accelerometer and one for the transducer. Run the transducer connection to the transducer using a suitable hole in the floor. One possible O.E.M. hole is where the speedo cable leaves the inside of the car and travels to the transmission. When routing the harness, avoid high heat sources such as near exhaust manifolds. Also protect the harness from sharp edges when passing through or around thin sheetmetal.
First we flogged the Chevelle's 355 small-block on the K&N chassis dyno. On one pull the car made 270 hp at 5400 rpm at the rear wheels. Immediately afterward, we jumped into the car and tested the On-Board Dyno so that weather conditions and the temperature of the car were as close as possible. With our foot on the floor in Second gear at the same 5400 rpm, the On-Board Dyno showed us the engine was making 268 hp. By the way, the On-Board Dyno can measure torque output when data logging with a computer is used. On the Dynojet, the Chevelle's engine produced an even 400 lbs-ft of torque at 3200 rpm.While on the Dynojet, we conducted a quick experiment with a K&N air-filter element. After a couple of pulls, we swapped our generic open-element filter for the K&N--we only changed the element, not the cover or baseplate of the air cleaner. The filter produced a measurable 6hp improvement on the chassis dyno. An open-element K&N is probably worth at least 12-15 hp as compared to the factory closed-element, single-snorkel air cleaner that came on our Chevelle. The comparison of the Dynojet and the On-Board Dyno were made with the K&N filter element already installed.


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Pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta
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acute form of a skin condition called pityriasis lichenoides. Affected people generally develop a few to more than one hundred scaling papules which may become filled with blood and/or pus or erode into crusted red-brown spots. PLEVA generally resolves on its own within a few weeks to a few months; however, some people experience episodes of the condition on and off for years. Although PLEVA is diagnosed in people of all ages, it most commonly affects children and young adults. The exact underlying cause is unknown, but some scientists suspect that it may occur due to an exaggerated immune response or an overproduction of certain white blood cells (lymphoproliferative disorder). If treatment is necessary, recommended therapies may include oral antibiotic, sun exposure, topical steroids, immunomodulators (medications used to help regulate or normalize the immune system), phototherapy and/or systemic steroids.[1][2][3]Pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta (PLEVA) is the
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- Mucha Habermann disease. NORD. February 2012; http://www.rarediseases.org/rare-disease-information/rare-diseases/byID/752/viewAbstract.
- Peter A Klein, MD. Pityriasis Lichenoides. Medscape Reference. October 2014; http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1099078-overview.
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Chaste Tree (Chasteberry)
Botanical name(s):
Vitex agnus-castus L. Family: Verbenaceae
Other name(s):
chasteberry, cloister pepper, hemp tree, monk's pepper, vitex
General description
Vitex agnus-castus, or chaste tree, is a shrub that bears violet flowers and berries. The medicinal parts are the dried fruit and leaves. The plant is indigenous to the Mediterranean as far as western Asia, and now can be found in southeastern parts of North America.
Chaste tree contains iridoids, flavonoids, progestins, and essential oils. The combination of its constituents may help regulate menstrual cycles and alleviate menstrual pain. It may be effective in treating some endocrine abnormalities.
Medically valid uses
Currently, there are no well-documented valid medical uses for chaste tree.
A few studies have suggested that chaste tree preparations are beneficial for premenstrual syndrome, but the studies were not well designed, so the results are not reliable.
There is also some evidence that chasteberry may help with some types of infertility and breast pain, but more studies are needed to confirm this.
Unsubstantiated claims
Please note that this section reports on claims that have NOT yet been substantiated through scientific studies.
Chaste tree preparations have been used to treat irregularities of the menstrual cycle, painful menstrual cycles, premenstrual syndrome, and menopause. Even though chaste tree berries may help stimulate progesterone (the female hormone dominant two weeks before menstruation), it also may have a normalizing effect for both estrogen and progesterone.
Chaste tree is claimed to be useful for treating mastodynia (painful breasts). In European herbalism and medical practice, Vitex extracts are also prescribed for uterine fibroid cysts and to promote the free flow of milk in new mothers. The herb has an extremely long history of use as a hormone-balancing remedy and as a remedy to help subdue excited libidos among those who wished to remain chaste.
Dosing format
Chaste tree comes in the form of tinctures, capsules and liquid extracts. Follow packaging instructions for correct dose.
Side effects, toxicity, and interactions
Chaste tree has no serious side effects. Mild side effects include nausea, gastrointestinal complaints, diarrhea, and itchy rash.
Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding should not use chaste tree. Researchers have yet to examine chaste tree's safety in children.
Individuals taking drugs classified as dopamine receptor antagonists (such as some antipsychotics and drugs for Parkinson's disease) should avoid the herb, since animal-study findings indicate that chaste tree berries may interfere with their metabolism.
Chaste tree berry may interfere with the actions of oral contraceptives, hormone replacement medicines and other endocrine therapies, and should not be taken simultaneously with them.
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While working on a project in operator algebras with a collaborator (and fellow MO user), we are able to successfully complete a transfinite induction assuming that the following has an affirmative answer.
Question: Let $\delta$ be a cardinal, considered as an initial ordinal, so that it is equal to the set of all ordinals of cardinality strictly less than $\delta$. Does there exist a nondecreasing function $\phi \colon \delta \to \delta$ such that, for all ordinals $1 \leq \lambda < \delta$, there exists $\gamma < \lambda$ such that $\phi(\gamma) \geq \lambda$?
If it happens to matter, we are only concerned with the case where $\delta$ is a limit cardinal. Any reasonably (transfinitely) constructive approach to writing down such $\phi$ seems to quickly run into issues of ordinal notation that are beyond our expertise. If an abstract existence argument is available, we will certainly still be happy. On the other hand, we fear that this may somehow depend on large cardinal issues.


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WEIRTON - The Weirton Hall of Fame Committee is accepting nominees for this year's hall of fame class, which will be recognized in August during the fifth-annual induction ceremony.
According to the Weirton Hall of Fame Committee bylaws, all honoree nominations can be individuals with "outstanding" accomplishments, starting with the incorporation of the City of Weirton in 1947, and had to be a resident within the city limits for at least five years.
Individuals can be nominated into one of six categories: philanthropy; public service; music and fine arts; education and religion; sports and athletics; and business, industry and professionals. All nominations must be submitted in writing, signed and dated by the individuals making the nominations with the application by May 1.
The induction ceremony traditionally had been held in April, but was moved to August this year.
Chairman Frank Bohach said there are so many other activities going on in April, and even into the summer months. He said moving the event also allows the committee more time to plan and open opportunities to new venues the committee may not have considered.
Board members decided in February to seek available dates in August at the Knights of Columbus, the venue for last year's event. Committee member Charlotte Vargo offered to contact the business and report back during the next meeting on March 14.
John Sorrenti said he would contact local businesses concerning medals and plaques to be given to the individuals accepted into the hall. He said providing individuals with something to remember the occasion and something to be passed down through the generations is an important part of the event as well.
"This banquet is about honoring the accomplishments of the people in our community," said Sorrenti. "We want to make this a special and memorable event."
Bohach said the committee has a few more meetings to take care of planning before the event and members will continue to give updates on plans as they come together.
"We hope to see the community continue to take interest in the Hall of Fame," he said. "There are many great people in our community deserving of this honor and as long as the public nominates them, we can move toward that goal."
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Reciprocal link is like link exchange. In a simple language, it is promote my website and you promote mine.
i simply avoid submission to directory which want reciprocal link for submission..as very little value directory give to us..if you want to do submission on that i prefer make link page on your site and whenever you want to give reciprocal link then give from that page


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The Kentucky Community and Technical College System board of regents have approved a name change for Bowling Green Technical College.
The board voted Friday to rename the school the Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College. A statement from KCTCS says the board used a community-based selection process that generated 295 names.
In 2010, the college was granted status as a comprehensive community and technical college, allowing it to offer associate in arts and associate in science degrees.
And last year, the college signed an agreement with Western Kentucky University that allows students to jointly enroll at both schools.


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7 Jul 2007 1:17 PM #1
[Workaround] Image in Combobox options?
Is it possible to place an image/icon next to each option within the combobox? I looked through the threads and I didn't find any.
8 Jul 2007 4:06 AM #2
I have done a similar thing at work for a project. I couldn't see any built-in funcionality for this in the Ext library but it is a pretty simple thing and can be done wrting a few CSS rules. I will try to put the code I have used here if I don't forget tomorrow while I was at office (bump this thread or better PM me tomorrow)
8 Jul 2007 11:19 PM #3
This is the rule that I have used for icons in combo:
.x-combo-list-item { background: url(/WebtopLite/img/ico-library.gif) no-repeat 1px 2px; padding-left: 20px; }
9 Jul 2007 5:44 AM #4
Thank you Skeleton. I think this would only allow you to apply one image for all options, correct?
9 Jul 2007 5:54 AM #5
Ext.form.ComboBox({ ... tpl : '

', ... });
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I got here by google on searching the same issue for Extjs 4.
The solution for ExtJs4 is the listConfig entry:
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xtype: 'combobox',
anchor: '100%',
listConfig: {
getInnerTpl: function(displayField) {
return ' {' + displayField + '}';
name: 'type',
fieldLabel: 'Group Type',
displayField: 'label',
hiddenName: 'type',
queryMode: 'local',
store: 'group.Types',
valueField: 'id'
23 Aug 2013 5:38 AM #7
How to handle click events of that image added
Hello All,
I came up with a situation where I have to handle the click events of the image added to the list items through tpl.
Can anyone guide me in this direction
23 Aug 2013 5:46 AM #8
You mean a click does something on the image only, but not on the rest of the combo item?
Hm, this would be my approach:
PHP Code:
comboBox.getEl().on('click', function(event, target) {
if(target == 'img') {
//do something


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I'm not familiar with Origin's DRM (or the one that will be used on the next SimCity), but if I got the game, would I and my girlfriend be able to play it at the same time, each on their own computer at home, or would we need two separate Origin accounts and buy the game twice?
With Origin, you can install as many copies as you like. But when you start the game, you need to log in Origin. You cannot login at two different computers at the same time.
If you are playing and your girlfriend logs in, you will be put in offline mode. It seems like you have to be online to play the game. See this link.
No - it will not be possible for you to play SimCity twice with a single account. In order for you to both be able to play at the same time you will each need your own Origin account and your own copy of SimCity. This was confirmed during a Reddit AMA with a Maxis employee where it was stated that if you lose your internet connection during gameplay, you will not immediately be disconnected but if you don't re-establish a connection you will be kicked out of your current game:
In addition, it is highly likely that features such as the Global Market and trading within multi-city regions will require a persistent internet connection to function properly.
As far as I know you cannot be logged to the same Origin account twice, nor playing the same game (bought only once) together.
Otherwise we could build up a legit sharing community where we buy a copy and share account infos to play together with a minimal expense! :)
So, answering your question, if you want 2 people to play a game you need 2 Origin accounts and therefore 2 bought copies of the game itself.
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What's taking up the extra room on my external?
I keep all my iTunes media on an external because it's too much to keep on my internal. I have about 280 gigs in music and about 5 gigs in apps for my phone. Yet when I look at my hard drive, I'm told that 306 GB are in use. I thought maybe some stuff I've deleted over time just didn't delete, and I found a couple of albums that fit this (I reimported my iTunes library and a couple that didnt delete for whatever reason came up).
Even then, that's 20 gigs of mystery space that I cant figure out where it's coming from. I've checked through the hard drive and cant seem to locate the culprit. Any ideas where it might be coming from? I've still got 200 gigs free so I'm not running out of space...but 20 gigs of nothing is a lot.
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One reason you may seem to have less than you expected is the problem with how "Gigabytes" are counted.
Sometimes, it's billions of bytes (where a Kbyte is 1000 bytes), sometimes it's the way we measure memory, where a Kbyte is 1024 bytes. 1024 x 1024 x 1024 is 1,073,741,824 bytes where 1000 x 1000 x 1000 is only 1,00,000,000,000 bytes.
That's a 73 Megabyte shortfall per gig. On a 500 gig drive, that's almost a 37 gig shortfall.
Other possibilities are filesystem overhead, hidden files, partitions that leave space on the drive, and so forth.
@rhmurphy: Sounds like it might be the counting issue. It's a 500gb external. I formatted it when I purchased it and then copied everything over, so there shouldn't be any hidden files or partitions, since it's just .mp3 and .ipa files.
The formatting is covered though, the capacity is 499.75 or something. Is there a way to fix the counting issue?
Could it be all the album art and ancillary stuff that itunes saves along with the music? That combined with the counting issue might account for the extra space.
@thedogma: One way to get the info uses the command prompt.
Start/run, type "cmd.exe" (no quotes) and hit enter.
At the "C:\Users....>" prompt, type the drive letter of your external drive, a colon, then press enter. (i.e. "E:{enter} " if the external drive is the E drive.
Now, type "dir /s/a" and let it chug along.
You'll see at the end:
Total Files Listed:
xxx File(s) 1,234,567,890 bytes
yyy Dir(s) 222,222,222,222 bytes free
So, now you've got it all in bytes. There's also overhead for the directories that isn't accounted for in the total above. Additionally, each file may have unused space at the end that's not counted here. Since the cluster size for your drive is 4096 bytes, you can adjust for that by adding 2048 times the number of files and directories to the total. (This is a guess, assuming on average half of the slack space is wasted.)
Personally, I don't worry about that level of detail. But you did ask. :)
@okham: I don't believe so. I think album art stays on the internal. I don't see it anywhere, anyhow haha.
@rhmurphy: I am on a Mac... but I'll investigate the same idea but for my OS. Thanks!
@thedogma: You could try this program: http://whatsize.en.softonic.com/mac
I use an equivalent program on Windows called TreeSize and its awesome.
Try this tool:
It makes a pretty picture of your drives and shows you where big files are.
@thedogma: On a Mac, you can bring up a Terminal window and type "df -H" to display what the disk is using - look for the "/Volumes/{volumeName}" line.
The numbers displayed there are in Gs, where a gig is 1 billion bytes (100010001000).
Using "df -h" shows you in Gi's, where a gig is 2^30 bytes (102410241024).
You can use 'du' to display the usage as well - "du -s /Volumes/{volumeName}" will tell you how many bytes the files are using on that volume; then, to count the number of files, "ls -laR /Volumes/{volumeName} | wc -l"
Once you know the number of files, you can then account for the filesystem overhead (2048 * number of files) to see if it works out.
Oops. In the above, the formatter replaced asterisks.. what I meant to say was 1000 x 1000 x 1000 for Gb and 1024 x 1024 x 1024 for Gib.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte for a full story.
@rhmurphy: I missed that you were on a Mac. Instead of WinDirStat, try Disk Inventory X:
@rhmurphy: Would running Disk Utility help at all, do you think? It's fixed counting issues on the internal before
I highly recommend this free software to give you a graphical view of your drive. Sure when you run it it looks like PacMan is chewing through your drives reminiscent of the movie Hackers, but don't be afraid.
WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for various versions of Microsoft Windows.
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Presumably if you had low enough rolling friction, a long and smooth enough road (and sufficient levels of stupid) you could do this on wheels
If you can ignore mechanical friction then the speed limit only depends on aerodynamics, ie only on your shape (assuming air at standard temperature and pressure) so with enough time you could achieve this on a hill of any slope. A steeper slope merely gives you more power to reduce the effect of rolling friction in the wheels.


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Datim is generally the equivalent of Modern Orthodox in the US.
Charedim is an umbrella name for Chasidim, Yeshivish and any other variety of strict Orthodox who try to observe Jewish Laws and customs (e.g. the Shulchan Aruch and early commentaries) to the letter.
Chasidim are in the Chareidi category with an emphasis on minhagim which are largely based on Kaballah (even when sometimes infringing halachah). Additionally, Chasidim try to maintain a uniqueness and separation of the contemporary street a.k.a. Hisbadlus, and avoid exposure to non-Jewish values and ideas, like sports, TV and other hobbies which are otherwise permissible but have cultural implications and may lead one to be less connected to G-d and may hinder religious observance. This has been a major factor in the relatively low drop-out levels from chasidism compared to other groups.
While there might be some differences in customs and halachic positions, all of these groups believe in following the Shulchan Aruch. I would say that the biggest difference between Dati and Chareidi is that Dati men will generally get jobs to support their families and will join the army. Chareidim, including Chassidim, usually emphasize the importance of full time kollel torah study over everything else for men, and if men need to work for financial reasons this is looked down on, and joining the army is viewed as if you are abandoning the Torah.
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This answer to the question about how ISO is implemented in digital cameras seems to imply that each photosite (i.e., pixel) can have its ISO set independently. If this is true, then I would think that it is theoretically possible to take a photograph in which certain photosites are at a different ISO than others. The first part of my question is: Assuming variable ISO is possible, would it be useful? It seems to me that this might be a useful way to increase the dynamic range of the sensor, e.g., by choosing a high ISO only for regions of the image that are in the shadow. Assuming variable ISO would be useful, why hasn't it been implemented in digital cameras yet? (Or has it?)
The closest thing I know to what you're thinking of is what Fujifilm are doing with DR mode in their EXR sensors, as seen in the X-10 and X-S1) - half the pixels are deliberately underexposed by a stop (or two) and combined with the "normally" exposed pixels before the image is output. For more detail, see DPReview's X-10 review - what you're interested in here is the 6 MP DR mode, rather than the 12 MP DR mode, which is the standard "underexpose and then apply a different tone curve to the whole image" seen in many cameras these days and trades off shadow noise for increased dynamic range. The 6 MP DR mode is interesting as it (in theory) allows you to increase dynamic range while keeping shadow noise as it would normally, although of course you're paying the cost in resolution instead.
Essentially, a sensor like this that would have variable exposures for each photo site would have an image that needs to be tonemapped during the RAW conversion process. More information would have to be sent with each pixel, and this would increase the size of the transmitted data, along with the processing power required in the camera. That's a mere technical issue, and I'm sure that in another few years, that won't be a problem at all.
The biggest headache I see would be making sure the popular RAW conversion programs would support the decoding process. The resulting RAW file might need to contain 32-bit color information, and there is very limited support for operating on 32-bit color images today. For the most part, they need to be tonemapped down to 16-bit first. This isn't a process that will yield great results if done automatically with today's software.
CMOS sensors are already basically an array of sensors with different ISO, which they have to compensate for. This is what gives the plastically look on CMOS sensors, but also what attenuates blooming.
However, they actually already do make CMOS chips with multiple "ISO" for achieving a higher dynamic range, where the pixel size area is double for half of the pixels, or one out of the two green pixels are twice as sensitive as the other. The cost is more transistors per pixel, which can give trouble with noise and overall sensitivity, due to leaving less space for the photo sensors. Large pixel light-integrating cells result in lower noise (generally), which is why a 36x24mm sensor at X Mpixel is better than a 1/3 inch sensor at X MPixel - they respond better to the light to overcome the noise from all the electronics.


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Aug. 21, 2008 -- The type of brain aneurysm that triggered a hemorrhage and killed Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio), 58, late Wednesday is not uncommon, says a neurology expert from Vanderbilt University.
Often, a brain aneurysm will go undetected and not cause problems, says Howard Kirshner, MD, professor and chairman of neurology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville. But if it ruptures, it can quickly prove fatal, Kirshner says.
Tubbs Jones died Wednesday evening after being admitted to Huron Hospital at the Cleveland Clinic late Tuesday evening, according to Kevin Ziegler, a clinic spokesman. "Throughout the course of the day and into this evening, Congresswoman Tubbs Jones' medical condition declined," according to the statement announcing her death.
Kirshner, who did not treat Tubbs Jones and is not familiar with her medical history, agreed to answer some questions about brain aneurysms for WebMD.
What is a brain aneurysm?
"An [unruptured] aneurysm looks kind of like a balloon, an out-pouching of an artery," Kirshner says. "It almost always occurs at a point where the artery branches off."
While Tubbs Jones had a cerebral, or brain aneurysm; aneurysms can also occur in the aorta (the major artery from the heart), the leg, and other areas. Aneurysms are related to weaknesses in the blood vessel wall.
How common is a brain aneurysm?
''We think that many people have them -- up to 4% have it at autopsy," Kirshner says, citing research, but many show no symptoms. According to Kirshner, about 5% of people will develop a brain aneurysm during their lifetime, but only about 10% of them will experience a rupture.
As a crude estimate, he says, perhaps 25,000 to 50,000 people a year in the U.S. have a brain hemorrhage caused by a ruptured aneurysm. Family history plays a role, experts believe. Family members of a patient with a brain aneurysm have an increased risk of having one. Yet only a small percentage of these are related to hereditary syndromes associated with aneurysms.
Women are more likely than men to have an aneurysm, and African-Americans have more risk of hemorrhage from an aneurysm than do whites.


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Electronic cigarettes, or "e-cigarettes," have quickly become one of the most popular nicotine replacement products. The Wall Street Journal reports sales of e-cigarettes doubled in the United States over the past five years, moving from $250 million to $500 million in total sales. Some industry experts predict sales of e-cigarettes could reach $1 billion this year, doubling sales from 2012.
E-cigarettes have become increasingly popular with investors as well, even those traditionally opposed to smoking. Founders Fund, a San Francisco venture-capital fund started by PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, has invested around $5 million in e-cigarette ventures. This investment comes only eight years after Thiel partially financed a film satire on the tobacco industry, "Thank You for Smoking."
In March 2013, former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona joined the board of NJOY, a top-selling e-cigarette brand. After joining NJOY Carmona stated that although more study is needed on the effects of e-cigarettes, "initial information certainly suggests there is significant potential for harm reduction," according to The Wall Street Journal.
Opponents say the main focus of tobacco policy should be on total cessation and use of nicotine replacement products, including e-cigarettes, should be discouraged. They also criticize the availability of flavored e-cigarettes, arguing these products may be a gateway to regular tobacco use. They say nicotine replacement products should be used only as a tool to help users quit, not as a long-term alternative.
Supporters of e-cigarettes say they are a viable option for smokers seeking a nicotine replacement therapy. Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Brad Rodu of the University of Louisville notes any health risks involved in using e-cigarettes or any other smoke-free tobacco product are small in comparison to smoking.
E-cigarettes, like many other legal nicotine products, are not intended for use by minors. Expanding existing age laws for tobacco products to include e-cigarettes is a logical step in protecting against abuse and a reform on which almost all groups in the debate agree. However, legislators should not over-regulate or excessively tax e-cigarettes, because that would suppress an increasingly popular and successful method of helping Americans reduce smoking or quit altogether.
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Electronic Cigarettes Are the Tobacco Harm Reduction Phenomenon of the Year—But Will They Survive?
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Effect of an Electronic Nicotine Delivery Device (e-Cigarette) on Smoking Reduction and Cessation: A Prospective 6-month Pilot Study
In this prospective proof-of-concept study, researchers monitored possible modifications in smoking habits of 40 regular smokers (unwilling to quit) experimenting with e-cigarettes with a focus on smoking reduction and smoking abstinence. They found e-cigarette use substantially decreased cigarette consumption without significant side effects in smokers not intending to quit.
Research & Commentary: Electronic Cigarettes
In this Research & Commentary, Heartland Institute Senior Policy Analyst Matthew Glans examines electronic cigarettes, tobacco harm reduction, and various proposals to regulate e-cigarette use. E-cigarettes have quickly become one of the most popular nicotine replacement products and a key building block in tobacco harm reduction strategies.
The E-Cigarette Revolution
Dr. Brad Rodu, senior fellow of The Heartland Institute and Endowed Chair in Tobacco Harm Reduction Research at the University of Louisville's James Graham Brown Cancer Center, discusses the rapid expansion of e-cigarette use and the increased investment in product development and quality.
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Matthew Glans of The Heartland Institute speaks with Dr. Brad Rodu about electronic cigarettes and their role in tobacco harm reduction.
Electronic Cigarette Legislation Prohibiting Sale to Minors in Other States
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Electronic Cigarettes: Booming Industry or Health Fiasco?
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This fact sheet from the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium examines the perspective of e-cigarette opponents and provides a brief overview of e-cigarettes, their potential health risks, gaps in current federal and state regulation, and some approaches that state and local governments might consider in regulating their use, pricing, sale, and marketing.
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Mike Estrel of The Wall Street Journal reports on the growing market for e-cigarettes and how large groups of investors are investing millions in e-cigarette companies: "The market for e-cigarettes—battery-powered devices that turn heated, nicotine-laced liquid into vapor—is small but growing rapidly, in part because they are increasingly seen as less harmful than conventional cigarettes."
E-Cigarettes, Cigars and the FDA's New Powers
Smoking is bad for you, but the FDA's new powers to regulate tobacco may create some unhealthy incentives when it comes to bringing new, possibly safer products to market. Blogger and writer Jacob Grier of the Cato Institute describes the new regulatory landscape since 2009 in this video.
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I'm already using the Dropbox iPhone app, but it only backs up my photos.
Basically, I'm looking for the iPhone equivalent of the Android "SanDisk Memory Zone" app, which automatically and regularly backups my contacts, docs, files, etc to my Dropbox account. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sandisk.mz&hl=en Preferably, a solution for a non-jailbroken phone.
Can anyone recommend an app that will backup other data to my Dropbox account?


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I want to assign projection to shapefile in my web C# application, for this i am using Gdal/OGR/OSR C# bindings and add osr_csharp.dll and ogr_csharp.dll references. But i am facing some difficulty while writing the code for assigning projection to shapefile. I want to know is there any API documentation for this which can help me to understand the classes/methods of these libraries. OR if anybody have some piece of code for assigning projection to shapefile , then it will be great help for me.
This directory in the GDAL project tree has some C# examples, specifically this one that might suit your needs.


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I was developing my theme on my localhost windows server, everything was ok, until I decided to transfer it to my hosting. I transfered it as all wordpress sites I have transfered before,changed live site and wordpress url,but just when I activate my theme, none of functions located in functions.php file are used, for every single fuction used from there I get
Fatal error: Call to undefined function
where could be the problem? Everything with the transfer is ok, cause site works like it should with twenty ten theme, also inside pages works too, because I dont use any functions from there, but in frontpage where is tim thumb used and several custom functions, it fails to use any of them, no mater what it does, it just seems functions.php file doesnt exist. Any ideas?
Error log: http://pastebin.com/hdbYUjxT
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The 6 Most Elaborate F-Yous From Musicians to the Industry
#3. Time Warner Pays for Wilco Album Twice
In 2001, there was a change in management at Reprise Records, the label for Wilco. That was bad news for the band, as the new boss wasn't a fan. The group was in the middle of recording their wonderfully titled fourth album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, when the label decided it didn't have any of those money-spinning hit singles. The new boss, David Kahne, demanded that the group go back and come up with something a little more radio-friendly.
This made Nels Cline so angry he ate his guitar.
Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy refused, and the album was subsequently shelved by parent company Time Warner on the grounds that releasing it would destroy the band's career.
"Leave the music to us, and we'll leave the disheveled hippying to you."
The label helpfully suggested that Wilco release the album independently, which amounts to a less harsh way of saying "please don't work for us anymore." The band ponied up $50,000 to sever their contract with Reprise and, as part of that deal, retained the rights to their "career ending" album. But it was later reported that the band paid nothing at all for the rights. Reprise just wanted the negative publicity surrounding their shitty treatment of the band to go away.
With their album rejected, Wilco looked in pretty bad shape. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, it seemed, was doomed to go the way of many other rejected albums and exist in a perennial bootleg nightmare for years to come. At least it would have, if it was still the '70s.
Or the '60s, or '80s, or '90s ... most decades, really.
Instead of going the independent route, the band decided to stream the entire thing for free on their website. Lower quality MP3s had already been popping up on file-sharing sites anyway, so it seemed a sensible measure to take back some control of the distribution of their work. So, on September 18, 2001, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot went live on wilcoworld.net and got 3.5 million hits in the first month. Traffic quadrupled over the ensuing weeks, and on tour the band noted that fans knew all the words to the unreleased songs.
At this point, record companies tore themselves away from their boardroom paper orgies and took notice of this unusual phenomenon called the Internet and the buzz over this downloadable album. A major bidding war began over the rejected work and Wilco, with combined sales of barely half a million for their first three albums, found themselves with an awful lot of power. An unconfirmed rumor at the time even has Reprise kindly offering to take them back. Wilco had other ideas.
"If you all wouldn't mind pooping in that giant paper bag on your way out, we'll tow it over to Mr. Kahne's front porch."
Eventually the winning label would be Nonesuch Records. But here's the twist: That's another label that just happened to be owned by Time Warner. That is, the same company that had previously paid for the band to record the album, then rejected the album and given away the recordings they'd financed for free. A Nonesuch vice president summed it up, presumably with a big grin on his face:
"There was a common perception and irony of one Warner label passing on the record and letting the band go out of its contract for very little cost, and another Warner label picking it up and putting it out. In other words, paying for it twice."
To this day, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot remains the most well-received and the biggest-selling album of the band's career.
#2. Mike Oldfield Tells Richard Branson to Fuck Off in Morse Code
When musicians find massive success with their very first album, they often struggle to record a follow up that will live up to its predecessor, be it artistically or commercially.
Mike Oldfield was faced with something of a similar problem when his planet-conquering album Tubular Bells sold millions around the world on its release in 1973. It also provided the soundtrack to the nightmares of an entire generation, thanks to a tie-in with massive hit horror film The Exorcist.
Oldfield played most of the instruments on the album, which included acoustic guitar, mandolin, piano and whatever a flageolet is. It not only did wonders for his career, it also literally helped launch Virgin, as it was the fledgling company's very first release. Richard Branson had been running a chain of budget-price record stores at the time, and the album made him the most well-coiffured rich man in the world.
Although he still had to steal all his clothes from work.
Maintaining such a level of success was going to be difficult, especially considering that not every Mike Oldfield album would be accompanied by a genre-defining horror film tie-in. But honestly, has a person who uses a flageolet on an album ever really been that concerned with commercial success?
After more than a decade of dwindling record sales, Virgin finally grew impatient with the man whose record helped launch the company. At the time, Virgin was judged to be worth almost $1 billion of Thorn EMI's money. That's the kind of dire financial straits that limit greedy execs to wiping their asses with mere $50s instead of the $100s they're used to. Obviously, something had to be done. So Richard Branson demanded that Oldfield record a musical sequel to his first giant selling album.
Mike Oldfield, seen here with something ridiculous.
Oldfield, not one who takes to label intervention kindly, answered this request with a baffling piece of work called Amarok, 60 minutes of uninterrupted and completely noncommercial instrumentals, purposely recorded so that there was no possibility any piece of music could be edited into a nifty single or a horror film theme song.
Although he did "play" a vacuum cleaner on one of the tracks, which must have helped sales.
And just to make sure Virgin knew that what he was doing was completely intentional, he told them so 48 minutes into the album in the wonderfully geeky way that only a man who learned to play 807 instruments (not the actual figure, it's probably much higher) by his late teens could.
The album includes the phrase "Fuck off RB" in Morse code, with "RB" standing for, you guessed it, Richard Branson. Then he offered 1,000 pounds to the first person to find the hidden message (and of course someone did).
The fiasco eventually led to Oldfield bolting from Virgin Records, leaving him free to pursue whatever wacky, genre-bending ideas he wanted. His first order of business, awesomely, was to finally record that Tubular Bells II album that Richard Branson so badly wanted and, now, would never profit from.
#1. Label Refuses to Release Black Flag Album, Band Breaks into Warehouse
Hardcore punk act Black Flag was never going to be the most parent-friendly band in the world. There's a number of reasons for this, like their explicit nihilistic lyrics or having macho, shaven-headed Henry Rollins as their lead singer.
Those floating words follow him everywhere. They make driving extraordinarily dangerous.
After two well-received EPs, a lot of good press and regular violence at their gigs -- the punk rock equivalent of a standing ovation -- the band was on something of a roll by the time their debut album, Damaged, was set to be released. Then their label boss Al Bergamo actually decided to listen to it. It wasn't quite what he was expecting. In fact, he thought it was an "immoral" and "anti-parent" record and that the band had no "redeeming social value."
Dixon Coulbourn, Idle Times
He didn't even care that they had the third sweatiest frontman in entertainment.
Bergamo decided to shelve the album at the last minute. And we mean at the very last minute -- it had already been pressed and packaged. Literally the only thing left to do was ship it to record stores. So that decision left 25,000 copies of the record sitting in a warehouse uselessly offending no one.
The band wasn't happy, and they planned to do something about it. Two things, actually. First, they had a go at Bergamo and his morals by breaking into the pressing plant where the record was and putting stickers saying "As a parent ... I found it an anti-parent record" over the MCA label on the album cover.
With that done, they then ignored their distribution deal with Unicorn Records and released the album through Black Flag guitarist Greg Ginn's label SST instead. Now you'd think that, given what Bergamo had said about one of America's first hardcore punk acts, MCA would be happy to be rid of them and not let the label's name be sullied by such a morally bankrupt group of musicians. Record labels, however, generally deal in more tangible sorts of things than the less spendable notion of morals. The band was sued for breach of contract. They were prevented from releasing anything for two years while legal proceedings rumbled along.
The group made do with putting out pre-Rollins-era Black Flag records under their own surnames, but even this wasn't enough for the label, who issued more legal documents against the band saying that they'd violated a court injunction against releasing any new material. Two of the band members even wound up in jail for contempt of court. The case might have gone on for another few years had it not been for a nice bit of karma seeing Unicorn Records, the MCA subsidiary that the album was to be released through, go out of business in 1983.
SST, on the other hand, continues to this day and has been home to the likes of Sonic Youth, Husker Du and Dinosaur Jr. over the years. Suck it, corporate America.
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Since "hope" and "expect" both translate as esperar, how would you say something like "It was better than I expected, but not as good as I had hoped" in Spanish?
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In most sentences you will only want to use one of the meanings, and it'll be quite clear which one you're meaning...
In this case, as you want to use both meanings, you'd better use synonyms, something like:
Note that
I would nominalize either "expect" or "hope"; the former goes to expectativa, the latter to esperanza (context dependent). So:
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Crysis 2 Limited Edition PC for $49.99
Get $10 off regular price of $59.99 when you pre-order with code: EMCYTZT309
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Awesome game, but any chance I can get this in an Xbox flavor?
I posted one for PC, PS3, and XBOX 360 at the same time. In their infinite wisdom, deals.woot decided to hide the PS3 and XBOX 360 versions with a little plus sign on the PC listing.
XBOX 360 listing: http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/180c623f-1ec7-4cb4-b998-515247c354d6/crysis-2-limited-edition-for-xbox-360#0
PS3 listing: http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/bd9b65d3-18c0-4fc9-bde3-faf21ef38d97/crysis-2-limited-edition-playstation-3#0
Sorry, it's cheaper at Direct2Drive.
$60 - 20% using coupon code hailtothechief = $48.
@thejerm333: Some people would rather have the disk, some wouldn't. To each his own.
But will it run Crysis?
@thejerm333: +tax at D2D
$51.99 with my states tax.
No tax from Newegg unless you live in California, New Jersey, or Tennessee.
this deal is now dead.


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I would like to make a "Stacked"
BarChart where the bars have variable widths, like a
RectangleChart. However,
RectangleChart does not accept
ChartLayout -> "Stacked".
Is there a way to do this, or does anyone have a workaround?
For example, here is a
RectangleChart with the bars at different widths:
Here is a "Stacked"
BarChart with the bars decomposed into two components:
I would like to make a stacked
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New dates
Following hot on the heels of Charlenes success with the cover of 'Wherever You Will Go'. See what all the fuss is about by seing her live!
Mon 17 Oct: London, The Slaughtered Lamb:
Fri 25 Nov: London, The Purcell Rooms (supporting Kate Walsh)
Wed 22 Feb: Bristol, Louisiana:
Thu 23 Feb: Birmingham, Glee Club Studio:
Fri 24 Feb: Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
Sat 25 Feb: Manchester, Night and Day:
Mon 27 Feb: Brighton, The Latest Music Bar
Tue 28 Feb: London, Enterprise
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The project is about preschool traffic education, and intends to exchange experience on activities, methods and possibilities of approaching children of preschool age. Children will learn about different types of vehicles, traffic signs, rules, how they should behave in different situations and places (while crossing the street, while riding a bicycle, etc.). Also they will be taught safety measures they could take in their daily activities regarding traffic topic in general.
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I'm trying to put together a Doctor Who themed gift basket for some friends, what should go in it?
I will probably try and get an action figure of each of their favorite Doctors and of course jelly babies and jammie dodgers are a must but what else should I include?
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This T-shirt on WOOT!
They have replica Sonic Screwdrivers, consider getting one of those for their favorite doctor.
I remember that the Doctor has had random food cravings after he changes form, maybe prepare a dish that he's eaten?
A pair of Chucks could be good too
I like this poster:
A friend of mine got his girlfriend one of these and she loves it, and thanked him profusely for a couple of days.
A fez, and packed in a TARDIS blue bag perhaps. :)
I have also tapped the fine Doctor Who experts in our Doctor Who thread on Everything But Woot to help out.
Tardis Cookie Jar!!!
Thinkgeek has a LOT of Doctor Who stuff. I'd suggest starting the search there.
And always take a banana to a party. Bananas are good.
@sunnyx0r: I agree with ThinkGeek. They have a ton of Doctor Who stuff. I like the little backpack clips myself
Perfect for Christmas TARDIS and Dalek Christmas Tree Ornaments
The basket should definitely be bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
@minxa1: Oh I have the plush cyberman backpack clip that talks when you squeeze it. Pretty cool and always gets a comment around geeks.
I can only hope it's bigger on the inside! http://www.etsy.com/listing/112009839/blue-police-box-christmas-stocking?ref=cat_gallery_1
This is cute!
I am a Doctor Who fanatic. Personal favorites from my collection are:
11th Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver screwdriver
It Came Out of Nowhere- have about 6 including the new on silver
The TARDIS ornament is nice but very fragile. The TARDIS bobblehead is OK. The remote controller K9 is fun. The stylus for the Nintendo DS (I haven't taken mine out of the package) looks cool.
An Amazon Prime membership gets them free streaming of many old episodes.
Fishsticks & custard. Yum!
almost forgot -
Psychic Container - but don't get the one from Thinkgeek, it is not the Corsair's as shown, it is the Gallifreyan writing
The TARDIS towel and Salt and Pepper shakers are on my Christmas list for this year.
@abcdefg: fish FINGERS and custard
@inkycatz: Bless you for linking crafts! Doctor Who should be as much about creativity as merchandise.
You should look around for some old paperbacks or annuals, just for fun. I know they're not that good and won't represent the newer doctors (although I've seen some handsome Tennant-era hardcovers at Goodwill), but they have fun covers and will take up space. And annuals are just all-around cool.
If they are a 4th Doctor Fan:
Alton Brown's "A Meal Fit For a Doctor"
Of course a bow tie...bow ties are cool
Of course this fridge:
If they are old school Whovians, I'd recommend a copy of Shada. Or a really long scarf.
This one is mostly free... print out some fun party masks for them to play with:
I'll second the Exploding Tardis poster by "Van Gogh". It looks nice and only costs $4
How about a DVD or Blu-Ray of their favorite doctors?
I'll second the suggestion of the disappearing TARDIS Mug and cookie jar. The TARDIS Cookie jar is so fun because it makes the take off and landing sounds, but it's hard to sneak cookies.
Here's a page of TARDIS wall stickers: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_4_11?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=tardis+wall+sticker&sprefix=TARDIS+Wall%2Caps%2C185
Also picked up the MadMen take off T called MadMan With a Box from gimmicktees.com. They've got another Doctor T shirt up there right now.
@theoneill555 has perfect suggestions. In fact, everyone here does. I say money is no object for friends. Get them one of everything!
BTW, may I be your friend, too?
Believe it or not, Hot Topic has a bunch of Doctor Who stuff for sale, too!
@lavikinga: waves Did you ever warm up to Matt Smith?
Did I mention that the TARDIS hub also makes the TARDIS noise when plugging in a device or when pushing the "call box sign" on the front and that the light on top lights up when plugged in?
do they have a Wii?
if so, I give you, the 11th Doctors Sonic screwdriver as a Wii Mote.!:
@theoneill555: Yes, yes I did. It took a few episodes. By the time I hit "Let's Kill Hitler," I was on board. Cried when the Ponds left, but it was time for them to move on and thought this wrapped everything up fairly well. Cried like a fool by the time it was over.
The Scene That Was Never Shot:
@lavikinga: Thank you very much for the Never Shot, I hadn't seen it. Now I can't wait to get home to view it with audio!
@orcrist42: Yes! The exploding Tardis poster is great. I got one and matted and framed it for my boyfriend for his birthday. Now it's above the huge tv in the living room!


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If stock returns ($r_t$) are not auto correlated why is that the squared term of the returns (volatility) exhibit serial correlation? Does heteroskedacity, by its nature, imply that time varying volatility is autocorrelated and therefore volatility today is influenced by its lagged values?
To your first question: The first and the second moment are independent, so even if returns are not autocorrelated the size of returns can be.
To your second question: Autocorrelated volatility implies volatility not being constant but varying, which is heteroscedasticity or volatility clustering.
of course. Example: generate path of variable with binomial distribution that takes value of 1 or -1, that is
$\sum_{i=1}^n{} x_i,x_i=\{1,-1\}$
now you can generate another path $\sum_{i=1}^n{} x'_i,x'_i=\{1,-1\}$ choosing values of $x'$ with freedom, and this way paths will be correlated or not, and squares of it will be correlated all the time, as two constant series of 1,1,1,...,1
regarding you second question
No. These are two independent concepts. When you take matrix of varince-covariance of time series homoscedasticity is related to the elements on a diagonal, still with assumption that pairwise coefficients are 0. If they are not 0 then there is autocorrelation.


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I am trying to find the no parallax point for a nikkor 16mm fisheye on a Nikon D800 using a ultimate M1-L with RD16 rotator and a U3 camera plate (I actually founded it).
When the lower rail is adjusted so that the rotator screw is aligned to the horizontal axis of the finder/viewfinder, the actual center of the image is shifted to the left (as it looks in the photo - the red point is the center of the image) and this can not be adjusted.
I know that this is compensated when setting the upper rail for shooting single row panoramas but having this offset doesn't influence when shooting zenith, nadir or multi-raw panoramas?


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The 7 Most Horrifying Parasites on the Planet
#3. Sacculina Will Make You Her Bitch. Literally.
Sacculina has adopted the age-old parasite disguise of sounding like a really hot Italian chick. Well, we're not fooled.
Sacculina is actually a not-at-all-hot female barnacle that is able to inject itself into various species of crab, grow inside them and eventually emerge from the carapace as a large sac. Right near his genitals.
There, sacculina goes to work. She manipulates the crab's hormones, sterilizing and basically emasculating him. Next, the parasite starts forcing changes in the crab's body to make it resemble a female, presumably by causing a couple of huge crab boobs to flop out. As the final insult, she forces her victim to perform humiliating female mating dances.
Finally when it comes time for sacculina to release her fertilized eggs--after having had sex with another sacculina on top of the poor crab's genitalia, that is--the former male crab is compelled to release them into the ocean and stir the water with his claw, as if the eggs were his own.
Where the crab's genitals used to be, that's sacculina.
Again, there are no known cases of this happening to a human, but, you know. If you see a huge egg sac growing near your junk we urge you to get it checked out right away.
#2. Mind Control, Part I: Leocochloridium Paradoxum
Leucochloridium paradoxum is a parasite that has an impossible dream. Luey, as it shall henceforth be known, begins life literally in a puddle of shit. But Luey dreams of flight, and the method by which it achieves it is both complicated and fucked-up beyond comprehension.
First, knowing how much some animals love to eat shit, Luey lies in wait in his fecal puddle until the vacuum cleaner of nature, more commonly known as the snail, comes around to slurp it up.
Once inside the snail, Luey enacts the next part of his ingenious plan. Knowing that birds aren't too fond of eating slimy snails, he migrates to the snail's eyestalks and begins to stretch and change them into something that looks much more appetizing to birds: caterpillars.
The eyestalks that are usually so well-guarded and often retracted by the snail, are now pulsating, swollen and brightly-colored morsels of imitation caterpillar meat. Wait, it's not done.
Now is when Luey hacks into the snail's brain. It takes complete control, driving it like a little, slimy car out into the open so all of the hungry birds in the sky can see and swoop down on the irresistible caterpillar-like eyestalks.
Kind of like this.
Once inside the luxuriously spacious and soaring bird, Luey is free to feed on its insides, grow into an adult and reproduce knowing that soon, his babies will be shat out of the bird like he was, to start their own rags-to-riches lives. Meanwhile, the poor and confused snail is less one eyestalk, but has learned the hard way that eating shit is always a bad idea.
#1. Mind Control, Part II: The Emerald Jewel Wasp
The emerald jewel wasp is a marvel of evolution. And evil.
The female, not being content with just laying her eggs in a hole and hoping the larvae find a way to survive like other insects, makes sure that her larvae will hatch right on top of their preferred food source: a cockroach. The problem with that is a typical cockroach is aggressive, and two to three times larger and beefier than the female.
She has found a way around this. An inventive, terrifying way.
Like a surgeon, the wasp uses her long stinger to penetrate the surprised cockroach, to paralyze and anesthetize the front section of its body. Now, she can take her sweet time, to make sure the second injection of her stinger is perfectly placed into a specific area of the roach's brain. She injects more venom directly into it, precisely blocking very specific receptors of neurotransmitters that essentially destroy the roach's fight or flight responses and leave it zombified.
Yes, the wasp knows how to do this.
Now in control of her very own cockroach, the wasp leads it back to her burrow. Once inside, she finally lays her egg on top of the cooperative cockroach, bites off its antennae in order to drink the roach's blood and replenish her energy, then exits the burrow, sealing it off with rocks and pebbles.
After a few days, the eggs hatch and the larvae slowly consume the insides of the roach until they form a cocoons and the roach is finally allowed to embrace the sweet relief of death. Eventually the adult wasp emerges from the cocoon/dead roach husk to begin its own life of surgical zombification.
Seriously, did you ever think you'd find yourself taking the roach's side in a situation?
For more unrelenting horror from the animal kingdom, check out The 5 Most Horrifying Bugs in the World and The 6 Deadliest Creatures (That Can Fit In Your Shoe).
And visit Cracked.com's Top Picks because we have a jar full sacculina we use to keep Brockway in check, but we'll use it on you too.


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February 18, 2013
Dear Editor Someone please correct me if I am wrong. I have been wrong before (please do not tell my children-I have them convinced otherwise....
I thought that was law everywhere...anyway, I do it. =)
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From Ohio DMV: If conditions warrant the use of windshield wipers, motorists are required to turn on their headlights. You must always use your headlights between sunset and sunrise, during periods of rain, fog, or snow, and any time conditions make it impossible to clearly see more than 1000 feet ahead.
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I so agree with you. Like the other day when we had the white outs. Several people with no lights on. Then they wonder why so many accidents. When asked what happen answer is always didn't see them. Well DUH turn your lights on!
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