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In this article Roger Deakins talks about how he would "check a waveform monitor to make sure that my highlights weren't clipping too much". What does he mean by this?
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What does it mean to "check a waveform monitor to make sure that my highlights weren't clipping too much"?
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A waveform monitor is used for video rather than still images. A modern WM has has many functions, but the one he is referring to is the equivalent of the ability to detect peak signal levels using a still image histogram. Wikipedia - Waveform Monitor
In a single still image you either have never exceeded maximum level (no pixels at max value) or you have in a variable number of cases. While the usual aim is to have no pixels which are "clipping" you can have a small number do so across the while image with limited loss of quality. Too many in one area and you get obvious flat spots.
In a video signal typically 24 frames a second are viewed and the occasional frame with a small percentage of "maxed out" pixels may be aesthetically acceptable (depending on how purist you are). Hence he says "weren't clipping too much" raher than "weren't clipping". ie he wanted to ensure that the signal had not pushed further into highlight clipping than was deemed acceptable.
FWIW- gross highlight clipping is sometimes acceptable or even designed in as part of the intended image in still and in video photography. A favourite example of mine in "video" is in "The Lord of the Rings" scene in Meduseld, "Hall of the kings of Rohan" in the village of Edoras. The hall is very rak and light strems in from a large open doorway. The camera points, as it never normally would, into the light and exposure is for the characters with the light behind them. As the characters cross to and fro the area behind them washes out completely and to a variable extent as the light streams across the floor. The cameraman knew exactly what he was doing - but a waveform monitor would have done him no good at all - by all normal standards the image was junk.


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Lumikki wrote:I still have some confusions and a lot of questions. As six week old Linux newbie.
I think, I understand, KDE, Gnome, Xfce as they are like bigger products where is window manager + desktop enviroment?
Are software someway related more to Window manager or desktop types?
I don't know, weather you read robin's post on page one. Most questions are already covered in his post. It is the best explanation I have seen in layman's language.
KDE, Gnome, XFCE and LXDE are windows manager (wm) + Desktop environment.
KDE uses QT – a toolkit (libraries) used to make the GUI, whereas, Gnome2, XFCE, LXDE are using GTK2+. Gnome3 is now using Gtk3+ to build GUI.
Each DE is made with some purpose in mind. e.g. LXDE and XFCE focuses on older hardware, whereas KDE is for modern machines, is full blown desktop which offers a lot of tweaks and windows like interface. Gnome is also targeted at modern desktops, but has unique look nad is less bloated then KDE.
Are software someway related more to Window manager or desktop types?
I'm wondering, because if I install KDE software into Gnome it seem to load more stuff.
Doesn't the X-windows provide necessary libraries for the Graphical interface for softwares?
Software are related to Desktop Environment. They suit, load faster, and integrate well on DE which share same libraries. E.g. XFburn is a DVD burner using Gtk2+ toolkit and so it can integrate with the theme of OS using XFCE as DE, which uses GTK2+. On the other hand if you use K3B, DVD burner using QT in XFCE DE, then it will depend upon QT libraries, which are not installed by default. So when you install K3b on any DE which is not using Qt, it will download those Qt libraries, during download cum instalation on which K3b is dependent. These Qt dependencies are downloaded and installed along with K3b.
So if you run K3b in XFCE or Gnome than it also loads QT libraries. XFCE, Gnome also has it's own default set of libraries installed and loaded on startup (when you login). So technically, QT based app like K3b will use more RAM. There is also the problem of integration with the system, specially it's theme.
How is LXDE related or connected to Linux Mint?
LXDE is independent DE, build for older hardware. 10 year old PC which has only 256 MB RAM cannot run KDE or Gnome3 / Gnome2, but can run LXDE, which only needs 128 MB to run, when no apps like word processor or music player are running. XFCE needs 256 MB minimum RAM to Operate, but if you load resource intensive apps like inkscape, then it will needs 512 MB to run smoothly.
The reason for using low RAM is due to it's design and limited features. LXDE keeps to PC / Laptop temp cooler than Gnome or KDE.
LXDE is not connected or associated or developed by Linux Mint.
Just like Linux Mint uses Gnome3 or XFCE to have a GUI, it's LXDE spin or flavour uses LXDE as a default DE.
Now, Gnome 3 has desktop environments, like Unity and Cinnamon.
How ever, MGSE isn't same as Gnome 3 desktop environment?
Does Gnome 3 has it's own desktop what can be installed or is it always under the other Desktops in Gnome 3?
Example if I would somehow remove MGSE from Mint 12, what would happen?
Gnome3 uses GTK3+ tool kit. It can be split into 2 parts
1) Gnome shell – You are working with Gnome shell when no windows or apps are running. Like changing system settings, etc.
2) Gnome (Gtk3+) – These are collection of libraries which make gnome-shell function. They come into play when you open an app. E.g. if you open Libreoffice writer, then these libraries, which are already loaded, come into play.
MGSE means Mint Gnome Shell extensions. These are 3 addons created by 'Clem' LM founder to add more flexibility to Gnome3 (considered as rigid and lacking for customization by many avid Linux users).
Even if you uninstall MGSE, Gnome3 is fully functional, because it has it's default gnome-shell and it's own apps like File manager, etc. You get pure Gnome experience like you get in Fedora 16
Since Gnome3 was criticized and is not customizable, Clem initially tried to make it flexible by introducing MGSE and later forked gnome-shell to create own shell Cinnamon, which works with Gnome3. It is similar to UNITY desktop, which runs on top of Gnome3, but offers more freedom, traditional look and customization options.
Cinnamon is not an independent desktop environment, (in technical terms it is a shell), as a replacement of Gnome-shell. Cinnamon still requires Gnome3.
Pure Gnome3 is Gnome3 (which contain GTK3+) and Gnome-shell. Just so image search for Gnome3 or Fedora 16 and check out for Cinnamon. You will see the difference in interface. You can even check the difference by login in Gnome 3 and Cinnamon in LM 12
MATE is a another fork of gnome2 and unlike cinnamon, it is a full DE. Is is a clone of very popular and stable (now on death bed) gnome2.


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I have read of Bodhhidhharma's story, who taught Shaolin monks martial arts. I've read of Tai Chi to be the first martial art and root of all other. I've also read of Okinawa island where Japanese martial arts started. I understand Tai Chi and root of martial art is Yoga. What are the facts about history?
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Are you looking for the origin of Tai Chi? Or of the many different styles of martial arts? Or of martial arts in general?
Martial arts have existed as long as people have been fighting. And as often as people have been fighting, people have been figuring out better and more efficient ways of fighting, and teaching these methods to others. There is no one origin of martial arts. Every society that ever existed have developed their own. They all will have some similarities because there are only so many ways to throw a punch, swing a stick, etc. This similarity does not indicate that they all derived from one style, but that we all have the same anatomy.


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12 Old War Photographs You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
#6. Donkey Power
Via "The Mediterranean Theater of Operations"
He was a tight-laced, by-the-book sergeant. She was a hang-loose party animal -- literally! They didn't want to go to war in the first place, but now they're just too stubborn to come home. Coming this summer, it's Sergeant Jackass!
Via Tywkiwdbi.blockspot.com
"What the? Sasha, why am I carrying you!? Shenanigans!"
The donkey corps was an actual military unit, deployed for the 1943 invasion of Sicily. The poor roads and rugged conditions rendered most conventional vehicles unusable, then the colonel in charge of the vehicle pool stepped in a mule-pie one day, and the rest was history ...
#5. Grenadeface
Via National Museum of Health and Medicine
"Alright, Jim? Don't. Blink."
Either that's an X-ray of the exact second Bob Grenade first thought up the idea for the grenade, or this poor son of a bitch has a grenade in his face. It's the latter, of course, because Vietnam was a terrible goddamn thing. This hapless soldier found himself in this predicament after he stepped on a landmine, which, by itself, is pretty darn unlucky. When the grenade he was carrying on his chest was blown inside of his own head by the other, unrelated explosion going off right beneath his feet, he officially entered wrathful god/gypsy curse territory. But even a furious and scorned deity knows when enough is enough, and the soldier finally caught a break: You can actually still see the pin and spoon in there, meaning the grenade was not armed ... when it went inside of his skull.
Yep, real lucky.
#4. The Largest Camera
Oh my God. Somebody get us a micro-schnauzer NOW.
Aw, it's just a giant camera? Well, crap.
Fine. We guess that's kind of neat. We guess.
What you're looking at here is a normal size dog and a giant-ass K-19B camera. Like all cameras back in the day, the K-19B was unwieldy as hell and massively complicated. Unlike cameras of the day, the K-19B could take photos at night from a distance of several miles, and was hardly ever mounted to a man wearing black socks and sandals (it was usually found on spy planes). The thing we love most about the K-19B is that the inventors built it to look like a giant normal camera for no particular reason -- as though you worked it by using both hands to press down on that gargantuan button and wind that comically large switch. Those wacky camera technicians, you know? They have fun.
#3. Disposable Hueys
Via Wikipedia
Holy shit! Either somebody forgot to buckle their seat belt on Barrel Roll Day, or some pilot is ghost-riding his Huey like a beat-up Huffy. But despite what it looks like, this was neither a superfluous act of destruction nor an accident. Just like these guys weren't shoving their helicopter off into the water because it was constantly spouting terrible, vaguely racist knock-knock jokes:
Via Wikipedia
"Who's there?" "Ding." "Ding who?" "Ding Dong, me Chinese! Aw, come on, guys, not the ocean again ..."
These are photos from Operation Frequent Wind, also known as Operation What Do You Mean the Vietnamese Don't Like Us Very Much? When it became apparent that the U.S. was not going to win the Vietnam War, everybody needed to get the hell out of there fast. The South Vietnamese UH-1 Hueys responsible for the evacuation flew out to friendly ships and immediately disgorged their passengers. As soon as that was done, they had to be pushed right off the deck to make room for more.
So what about this guy?
He's getting back at his mom for not letting him try the high dive.
Same deal: That's a pilot flying his chopper out to sea before bailing out. He's just not doing the whole "push it gently off the boat" thing, because he knows that when you get a chance to trash a helicopter with no repercussions, you do that shit with style.
#2. The Missile Rapture
Via Markloiseau.com
There's no good way to say this, so we'll be blunt: Apparently the Rapture happened. Obviously, you're reading this site, so you are not one of the Chosen. First, the bad news: Eternal war, and the devil rules the world. Good news: No more churchgoers crowding up Sunday brunch! Waffles and damnation for all!
In actuality, those streaks are coming, not going. These are photos of a test of the MIRV Peacekeeper missile being conducted just off the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific. MIRV stands for "multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle," which basically just means we've found a way to use the space program to kill people.
Via Markloiseau.com
There's always one troublemaker ...
Via Markloiseau.com
And as you probably guessed, it's not generally a good time for the people on the ground when the Finger of God lands on them.
Via Markloiseau.com
"And lo, he did tell them, 'Suck it, bitches. Ye shall lick my asshole.'"
If these had been real warheads instead of empty fakes, each would've held a 300-kiloton nuclear weapon. To put that in perspective: The Little Boy bomb that devastated Hiroshima was 16 kilotons. Here's what the ultimate power of devastation looks like, as it is being assembled by two middle-aged men in button-down shirts:
Via Wikimedia Commons
"Hey Doug, you ever feel like Shiva, the Destroyer of Worlds?"
#1. The Trouble With the Troubles
Via Clivelimpkin.com
Northern Ireland was a very tense place for a very long time. And at the epicenter of the tension was a city called Derry, where "The Troubles" all began.
By 1969, everybody was an unclaimed fart away from a citywide fistfight. And then a group of Protestants had a parade that had the gall to come close to a bunch of Catholics -- so you know that shit was on. The ensuing riots, skirmishes and conflicts were so prolonged and so commonplace that the townspeople simply learned to go about their business as the boys played war in their front yards. That led to photos like the above, where Seamus Hardass' new Facebook pic is being photobombed by a girl on roller skates. Or the below ...
Via Clivelimpkin.com
"Pardon me, lad. Don't mean to get in the way of your aim. Carry on, then."
... where an elderly gentleman is casually ducking under the line of fire on his way to the pub. We always thought it was a joke -- a cliche stereotype with no basis in reality -- but seriously: Nobody gets between an Irishman and his drink. Not even death himself.
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(n.) The state of being three times as OG as the first level of OG (Original Gangster).
-'Sup triple OG.
-You be trippin', fool.
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Triple OG (OOOG) means to be the One and Only Original Gangster.
What's up OG, triple OG.
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Earned to be top OG by being three times the gangster rather then being on the first level of gangster
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I'm doing some synching with rsync using:
rsync --rLvv --times --size-only
For my initial sync. My idea, now is to use:
rsync --rLvv --times
To synch files that have a new modified time. My problem is that after the initial rsync, I see the following Modified times on the files that have been synced:
remote$ stat 6080_04_big.mp4 File: `6080_04_big.mp4' Size: 258788267 Blocks: 505448 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 903h/2307d Inode: 862897 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 2000/ht) Gid: ( 2000/ cust) Access: 2010-08-13 10:46:20.000000000 -0700 Modify: 2010-08-12 17:55:08.000000000 -0700 Change: 2010-08-13 10:46:20.205721673 -0700
local$ stat 6080_04_big.mp4 File: `6080_04_big.mp4' Size: 258788267 Blocks: 505448 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 902h/2306d Inode: 136015 Links: 1 Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--) Uid: ( 506/ admin) Gid: ( 506/ admin) Access: 2010-08-12 20:55:01.482104000 -0400 Modify: 2010-08-12 20:55:08.468122000 -0400 Change: 2010-08-12 21:15:06.952810711 -0400
The modify time is 'effectively' the same, but only down to the second. What's the resolution of the comparison here? It seems that anything that is the same up to the second is considered the same, but I can't find any docs specifying this. Anyone know off the top of their heads?


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I'd like to use an ASSERT routine functionally similar to the one found in other languages, i.e. a construct (be it a procedure, syntax...)
ASSERT( <condition>, <msg>)
such that when the
<condition> passed in the first argument is false an exception is raised with the specified
<msg> descriptive message.
I know this is trivial to do by hand but I'm asking if there's a standard one provided with the DBMS.
Having to write my own one or import one from 3rdy-party packages would be impractical, since I'd need it to be completely portable and transparent to every project I'm working on.


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Hi all,
I'm one of the beta testers for the RCX mux from mindsensors. I'm posting here because i have a LeJOS specific question. I2CSensor has two sendData methods. one sends a byte and the other sends a byte array. To activate port one on the mux you have to send 0xfe (254) to register 0x00 (0). Both methods require a byte, not an int. 254 is a int since its above 127. if I cast the int to a byte i have a value of -2. I tried this it does not work. the binary value of what the mux should be receiving is 1111 1110. I'm not sure what value i should be passing to the mux. I looked at a working example of NXC however in NXC you pass an int not a byte. Any suggestions on what i should be passing as a value.


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Sorry if there is "more official" thread for this, couldn't find it here.
In Kong guild, if you click on guild-member at the top of their page you would see "back to guild <guildname>" link. However, if you click on poster's name in your own guild's discussion, the top link just says "back to guild" and always takes you to the first guild there is.
Also, you could post comments in your own profile if you get there by some link, but not if you open it via "My Vampire" menu. Why? :)
Also, wishful thinking, for avatar wars it would be great to be able to get a list of players with specific avatar's group (like Hierarchy lists). And for "Search for Victims" it would be great to provide an option to open victim's profile before attacking.
Thank you!
Great game! :)


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I'm building a web site app that will be used from Android devices. At the moment, the browser squashes the page when the soft keyboard appears. I rather want it to scroll the page up.
I've read that the property
android:windowSoftInputMode in
AndroidManifest.xml can be used for Android apps, but I'm looking for an equivalent for a web site.


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Sup everyone. I haven't been here in awhile for various reason, but just letting everyone know I'm back even though probably no one here knows who I am lol. I'll be helping in various sections, but more in the C# and VB.NET programming areas. See you around the forums
I'm back
Welcome back Syperus
By the way Shabbir, what app did you end up going with to view these forums with on android? I tried looking it up on TapaTalk but couldn't find it so I'm assuming you went with another app.
No I did not go with any App as of now.


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The 6 Most Baffling Marketing Disasters by Famous Companies
#3. Starbucks Accidentally Creates a Tragic Drink Ad
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This is every advertiser's worst nightmare -- coming up with a campaign after a tragedy that either A) inadvertently reminds everyone of the tragedy or, even worse, B) looks like you're making fun of the tragedy. Now, it's one thing if you can look at the ad and see where people are being too sensitive ("How dare you run this ad for pecan sandies so soon after Hurricane Sandy?!?!" ), but it's another when you look at the ad and say, "OK, this is bad ..."
For instance, in the summer of 2002 (less than a year after 9/11), Starbucks released their new ad campaign, which centered on this doozy of a poster:
"Well I don't see what the big d- ohhh."
This seemingly innocuous image soon garnered the attention of customers who thought that something just wasn't quite right about it. And the more they studied the image, the more wrong it seemed -- the two drinks standing side by side (just like the former World Trade Center towers had), towering over the oddly square, building-like blades of grass, the cute little dragonfly angling for a direct collision course with one of the drinks ...
All of that could have been ignored (but seriously, why the firefly?). The real kicker was the tagline: "Collapse into Cool." When the fuck has that phrase ever been uttered by anyone? The whole thing is just so ... weird.
Adam Smith
It beat their last tagline, "Seizure into Sublime!"
After complaints came in, Starbucks kicked into full-on backpedal mode, aborting the release of any more of the posters and instructing the 3,000 stores where the posters had already been displayed to "rip that shit down forthwith" (official wording from the internal Starbucks memo). The fiasco taught Starbucks an invaluable lesson about steering well clear of anything that could be even remotely reminiscent of the attacks, and they never again had another 9/11-related controversy. And by "never again," we mean "until about nine years later," when they decided to declare September 11, 2011 Free Coffee Day.
#2. Weight Watchers Has Gravely Bad Timing
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Through a combination of B-list celebrity spokespeople and a points system so ridiculously complicated that it works by causing you to just give up on eating altogether, Weight Watchers has succeeded in becoming nearly synonymous with weight loss. But that's not to say they haven't made some marketing blunders along the way -- perhaps the most notable of which being a gruesome coincidence in 1997 that had to make them feel like they'd been cursed by a vengeful god.
John Phelan
"But we sacrificed so many goats."
That's the year Weight Watchers kicked off a brand new ad campaign featuring the then Princess of the United Kingdom, Sarah, Duchess of York (popularly known as "the Fergie who's not a Black Eyed Pea"). The ad featured a beaming Fergie touting the benefits of Weight Watchers -- namely, its ability to help you watch your weight -- under the bold declaration that losing weight was "harder than outrunning the paparazzi."
Uh-oh. You see where this is headed now, right? If you think back to the top news stories of 1997, you'll remember that cloned sheep and Mars robots and crazy comet cults all played second fiddle to the story of Princess Diana's death in a tragic car crash ... which resulted from being chased through the streets of Paris by paparazzi. And here we had people getting this ad in the mail the next day after the accident. What the hell was Weight Watchers thinking?
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People don't think right on an empty stomach.
What they were thinking is that they weren't time-traveling wizards with the ability to foresee the future -- they had the campaign in the works long before, and had just mailed out the fliers bearing the slogan when Di was killed. They were scheduled to do tons of TV and other media the following week, which absolutely would have looked like they were riffing on the princess's gruesome crash.
This of course sent Weight Watchers scrambling to cancel the campaign, but unfortunately thousands of direct mail brochures had already been sent out, and print ads had already gone to press in magazines such as Glamour and Self, creating an immensely embarrassing situation for both the company and their new spokesperson, and confusion for all of the people who presumably thought the news of Diana's death itself was part of some kind of viral marketing stunt.
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Just like Benghazi.
#1. Panasonic Blows Every Attempt at Naming a PC
Oh boy. Oh boy oh boy oh boy.
Sorry, we got a little excited there. Because, you see, it's not every day that fate steps in and writes the dick joke for us.
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Mr. Armey was a rare gift.
In the mid-1990s, well before the YouTube comments section came along to wreck their faith in humanity, people everywhere were still discovering the joy of home computers. Japanese engineers at Panasonic were way ahead of the curve, and in 1996 -- when many people were still adapting to the concept of this "mouse" thingamajig -- they developed a touch screen PC for the home market.
Panasonic needed a way to brand their touchy-feely new PC that would appeal to your average, not-tech-savvy consumer. They wanted to tout their PC's accessibility and ease of use, and they needed a mascot to demonstrate that computers were not arcane devices used only by NASA scientists and the socially awkward. This made their choice of mascot a total no brai- wait, Woody Woodpecker?!
That poor Japanese man is being devoured alive.
Yep, Woody Woodpecker might seem like a relic from the heyday of American cartoons to you, but he was apparently huge in '90s Japan. So after securing the rights to use Mr. Woodpecker and conducting an amount of research so infinitesimal that scientists are still studying it today, Panasonic proudly dubbed their new computer "The Woody." But wait, it gets better -- to truly set their touch screen capability apart from the competition, Panasonic named the feature "Touch Woody." But wait again, it gets even better -- Panasonic was all geared up to launch the PC with an ad campaign featuring the catchy slogan "Touch Woody -- the Internet Pecker."
Panasonic had no clue that anything was wrong with the slogan until the day before the ads were set to launch, when an American staff member informed them of the sexual slang connotations, presumably while spraying them with soda out of his nose.
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"No, go with it. Just let me cash out my stock options first."
"Stunned and embarrassed," Japanese Panasonic executives immediately postponed the product launch in order to retool their marketing efforts, and after careful consideration (which we have to assume involved suggestions for alternate slogans such as "Rub Harry, the Internet Ballsack" and "Grope Booby, the Internet Titty"), they decided it was too late to rename the system and instead simply adjusted the name of the touch screen feature from "Touch Woody" to the much more respectable "Woody Touch Screen" ... which still touted an "Internet Pecker" online support function (which we believe was later renamed "Chatroulette").
And that, dear Cracked readers, is how years of research and technological innovation can be completely negated by the power of one accidental boner reference.
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So far I could come up with the following:
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What problem are we trying to solve anyway?
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The solution. This is the part when everybody suggests a solution to the described problem. Every one of them can be discussed and voted.
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Who are the people involved in implementing the chosen solution? When is the deadline? What concrete numbers are we expecting to achieve?
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Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz chaired the Cabinet session held at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh today, which began with a briefing on the latest foreign contacts made by the Saudi leadership. This included a reception held by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz in New York for former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Secretary of States Hillary Clinton and a telephone call received by Crown Prince Sultan from Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir.
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Pope Francis looking very Roman
Many have been noting how Pope Francis has emphasized from day one his role as the Bishop of ROME. Another storyline has focused on his preference for simpler vestments and regalia, and this has been seen as a break with tradition.
But the photo captured here, during his recent trip to Lampedusa, shows that Francis may be going for the most traditional Roman look of all -- that of an ancient Roman pontifex. When he pulls his pellegrina up over his head like that, presumably to block the sun, the classicist in me sees an ancient Roman priest (e.g., click gallery below for a photo of the Augusto di via Labicana statue).
Thanks to the BBC for a great photo.
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Like most Romans/Italians, Francesco is just showing his very practical side: When it is hot and sunny, shade your bald pate while still striving to be stylish.
I think that Peppard is just reacting to the obvious change and difference with Francesco's most immediate predecessor who favored a papal retro look and style while asscessorizing with Prada and Gucci.
Nice. Next step is to drop this whole "bloodless sacrifice" thing, and get back to basics.
As a follically challenged man like Francis, I appreciate his being practical in his use of his religious garb (kind of calls to mind the original intent of all the garb and liturgical appointments that some have chosen to reclaim to "restore sanctity and devotion" in the Church). Having been deceived by the sun once and spent the night w/ my head in a buck of ice, I can relate to the pope's blocking of those dangerous rays. Just glad he did not grab his predecessor's "Santa hat." Perhaps, he should keep a stack of hats w/ him.
I am glad he is paying attention, and taking steps to counteract, what the sun can do to human skin. If you live in a place like Florida you learn it, either from friends or the hard way. From friends is better.
Whatever happened to that big wide-brimmed hat that looked like it was for cotton pickers that John XXIII used to wear?
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The "bloodless sacrifice" is the source and summit of the Catholic faith.
We need an instauratio on this comment thread...
But you know what that means, right?
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Digital encoding firm DivX (NSDQ: DIVX) announced Q4 revenues of $24.5 million, a 47 percent year-over-year increase from $16.7 million in the year-ago period. Net income went the other way, narrowing to $3.7 million ($.11 per share) from $7.4 million ($.21 per share). However, the company said it took about $3.5 million in Stage6 operating costs, which came off of the bottom line. It's also projecting another $4 milllion in costs in the current quarter associated with the video sharing site, which has now been shut down. The release makes no mention of the controversies surrounding the site shutdown or the offer to buy the site from Brad Greenspan's LiveUniverse. Release.
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The year 1998 saw the climactic events in the struggle between Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters and the Order of the Phoenix and Dumbledore's Army, and the end of the Second Wizarding War.
- Late March: The Skirmish at Malfoy Manor occurs after Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger are captured by Snatchers and Dobby comes to their rescue. Peter Pettigrew is killed in the skirmish and Harry, Ron, Hermione, Garrick Ollivander, Dean Thomas, Luna Lovegood, and Griphook arrive at Shell Cottage, where Dobby dies.[citation needed]
- April: Remus Lupin arrives at Shell Cottage to report that his son to Nymphadora Tonks has just been born.[citation needed]
- 1 May: Harry, Hermione, and Ron break into Gringotts Wizarding Bank with the help of Griphook and obtain Helga Hufflepuff's Cup.[citation needed]
- 2 May: The Battle of Hogwarts occurs:
- Harry, Hermione, and Ron return to Hogwarts and Neville Longbottom calls Dumbledore's Army and the Order of the Phoenix to arms.[citation needed]
- Ron opens the Chamber of Secrets, and Hermione destroys Helga Hufflepuff's Cup.[citation needed]
- Harry, Ron, and Hermione locate Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem in the Room of Requirement, and it is destroyed in a skirmish with Draco Malfoy, Vincent Crabbe, and Gregory Goyle by cursed fire. Crabbe is incinerated and dies when failing to control the cursed fire.[citation needed]
- Lord Voldemort kills Severus Snape[citation needed]
- Lord Voldemort inadvertently destroys the piece of his soul in Harry.
- Neville kills Nagini, the last remaining Horcrux.[citation needed]
- Harry Potter defeats Lord Voldemort once and for all.[citation needed]
- The Second Wizarding War ends.[citation needed]
- Minerva McGonagall is appointed Headmistress of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.[citation needed]
- Kingsley Shacklebolt is named Acting Minister for Magic.[citation needed]
- The 423rd Quidditch World Cup takes place. Malawi wins the Cup after defeating Senegal in the second-ever all-African final. In response to the riots that took place on the night of the 1994 final, security at this World Cup was tighter than ever before, and the Senegalese team mascots, Yumboes, ended up being arrested outside the stadium. The Yumboes responded to the arrest by stealing every bit of food within a ten-mile radius in revenge and vanishing into the night.[1]
- Hogwarts Quidditch Pitch was destroyed by Lord Voldemort's followers during the Battle of Hogwarts. The stands were burned down and Giants used the goal hoops as weapons.
- April: Teddy Lupin born to Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks.[citation needed]
- 30 November: Egmont Elvert Hobday[citation needed]
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- 5 September: Helena Barlow, who played Rose Weasley, born.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is published (as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) in the United States.[citation needed]
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#10. Detective Comics: 106
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"Are you shitting me, Bob?"
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#9. Batman: 134
We think the cover artist is complaining about the writers' ability to write believable human beings. That's okay, the writer gets to defend himself next issue when he writes "Batman and the Strange Case of the Cover Artist Who Was Crushed by a Mountain of Dicks He Tried to Suck and His Mom Was a Big Whore, Too." (part 1 of 4)
#8. Batman: 183
Here's the "tell-tale hint" they promise at the bottom left of the cover: See that bottle? It's not root beer. It's also not the first one of the night.
#7. Batman: 222
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Robin: Mmmff MMF, BrrrMFFF!
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A menace to the eyes! And can't he just change his name to Zebra Man? Zebra Batman is just overkill.
#4. Batman: 147
Batman: So awesome criminals shit their pants even when they see a baby version of him.
Also, hope you like the new baby-foot-sized hole in your head, Science Guy.
#3. Batman: 204
"Okay, some asshole thinks Batman won't punch blind people, but I've got news: Batman loves punching blind people! This is so on!"
#2. Batman: 246
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#1. Detective Comics: 126
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The Making of a Kid's Book – Part 2
Picking up where I left off (see Part 1 for a refresher), let's look at a few more photos while I share some more stories from the photo shoot for Booklet #320 Big Kids/Little Kids. Of the eight kids who modeled for us, there were two sets of siblings. Can you guess which ones are related?
If one pair you guessed was 5 and 7, you're right! When this pair of brothers arrived for the day, only the oldest was planning to model. His younger brother was stationed in the dressing area, patiently watching DVDs while his brother was photographed. Everything changed when one of the sweaters was a little too small for the older brother, and their mom volunteered her younger son to step in (much to his dismay). Fortunately, his brother was there to coach him, and soon both of them were merrily goofing around for the camera (the younger brother is wearing the hat):
For our second set of siblings, we have kids 2 and 8. Though they aren't professional models, this brother and sister are used to being photographed by their dad, so they were very comfortable posing. Here they are, holding hands and being cute:
Another one of our non-professional models turned out to be her own fashion stylist. She hadn't seen any of the items we'd chosen for her to model, but she raided her closet and ended up bringing along the perfect dress for each shot. I don't know how she managed it, but we couldn't have been happier with the result! Here are her four magically coordinated looks:
While it was a hectic day, we were delighted to have so many cute kids (and animals) modeling our designs – everybody did a great job!
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These stories highlight that a firm's assets, reputation, and in some cases, even the firm's fundamental viability are at stake when things go awry. As if that weren't bad enough, senior executives face additional consequences. In these and other similar incidents, personal assets can be at stake even when others are the primary wrongdoers.
Think you are immune from these risks? Think again. Labaton Sucharow LLP, a plaintiff's law firm, recently published a unsettling study indicating that one in four financial industry professionals in the U.S. and U.K. believe wrongdoing is necessary for success. If this study is credible, the message it sends to the general public is highly negative. It speaks to senior management of alternative investment firms loud and clear: sometimes the best-intentioned executive may have an employee who hears an "unintended message" and veers off course. Intended or not, the executive may ultimately bear responsibility.
The first line of defense for an investment advisory firm and its executives is to build a culture in which the firm's standards clearly and consistently meet all applicable regulatory and ethical expectations. It is particularly important for firm leaders to reaffirm these standards and expectations during times of economic and operational stress, when legal and internal requirements may appear to conflict with business drivers (such as maximizing short-term results). Employees must internalize that senior management will take the ethical route in order to maximize the long-term value of the firm—and expects them to do the same.
The second line of defense, at least in the U.S., is to develop a governance structure that satisfies the requirements specified in the U.S. Attorneys' Manual. This manual offers incentives to companies that adopt a comprehensive compliance and ethics program (and take certain actions upon the occurrence of alleged missteps). A program that satisfies these requirements will contain elements in addition to those required by the SEC and CFTC. Complying with the U.S. Attorneys' Manual can be an invaluable safeguard that reduces the likelihood of an executive or his firm being charged with criminal violations.
The third line of defense is to undertake an honest self-assessment, and to consider the types of pressures that senior management and employees will encounter should the weakened state of the global economy continue. Topics in the regulatory spotlight should be included in this assessment. The intent here is to prepare for the possible pressures employees and senior management might face, thereby reducing the chance that hasty decisions are made in the heat of the moment. Ill-considered actions can carry serious penalties and act as a lightning rod for litigation by regulators, investors, and other third parties (such as credit providers). Advance preparation will help your staff make faster and better decisions if the need should arise.
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Greetings all! Bethany Blanton of the Star Wars Report here to give you more coverage of Dragon Con! What follows is a recap of the Sam Witwer panel at Dragon Con this year, but first I'll quickly tell you how my brother and I met Sam.
Riley and I first met Sam Witwer at Dragon Con a few years ago, where he was kind enough to take the time to do an interview with us. He's an awesome Star Wars fan who is passionate about the franchise. One of Riley's highlights of this year's convention was when, while in conversation with him later, Sam mentioned listening to the Star Wars Report. Yes, Riley's face at that moment did make me laugh.
This year saw me, Teresa, Riley, and Aaron all together again for Dragon Con! While the convention is over, we are still releasing coverage of it including photos, event coverage, and panel recaps like this one. Dragon Con has so much wonderful content from Marvel panels to parties, from Doctor Who to My Little Pony, and of course the Star Wars track, which had panels, parties, a costume contest, a trivia contest, and more. Riley and I attended the Sam Witwer panel on Sunday morning. Moderated by Bryan Young, this panel was more like a conversation with Sam, Bryan, and the audience than a panel. Sam was cool and entertaining as usual.


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Imagine trying to carry a very heavy backpack (say 20 pounds) on the front of your body. You would probably change your posture to balance the load. You would plant your feet further apart, tilt your hips forward, and arch your back with your belly pushed forward. Well, even though your baby isn't quite 20 pounds, you still might change your posture to carry the extra weight up front. This change strains the back muscles and causes backache. As your pregnancy progresses, the ache might worsen because, not only is the weight getting heavier, but also near the end of pregnancy the baby's head might be in a position that pushes against the lower spine. To prevent backache and reduce back pain, give these strategies a try:
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After reviewing several reports on regional and international developments, the Cabinet welcomed the approval by the United Nations General Assembly of the draft resolution submitted by the Arab League regarding Syria. It characterized this development as supportive of the efforts exerted by the Arab League to reach a peaceful solution to the crisis and to halt the dangerous escalation of violence against the Syrian people.
Turning to domestic affairs, the Cabinet reviewed the numerous development projects being implemented in various sectors of the Kingdom. King Abdullah underscored the importance of completing these projects efficiently and within budget in order to promote comprehensive development and to improve the welfare of the people. The ministers also noted the various scientific, economic and cultural events attended by Saudi delegations at home and abroad.
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Authorities said Sunday they had charged a man in the weekend shooting death of a former Navy SEAL renowned for writing a memoir about his life as a military sniper.
Chris Kyle, the former SEAL, and another man, Chad Littlefield, were killed Saturday at a shooting range 70 miles southwest of Fort Worth, Texas.
Authorities said they had charged Eddie Ray Routh, an acquaintance who had accompanied the victims to the gun range at the Rough Creek Lodge in Erath County where the killing took place.
The three men had been on a visit to the shooting range together when Mr. Routh turned on the others before fleeing in a pickup truck, said Erath County Sheriff Tommy Bryant.
Officials said they didn't believe the three men had been to the shooting range together before.
Authorities took Mr. Routh into custody Saturday evening after finding him at his home in Lancaster, Texas.
Mr. Kyle, a native Texan who learned to shoot on childhood hunting trips with his father, became a Navy sniper in 1999 and was honorably discharged 10 years later.
In 2012, he published "American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History," which became a best seller.
Pentagon spokeswoman Elizabeth Robbins declined to comment on Mr. Kyle's death.
"He is no longer on active duty, and we aren't part of the investigation," she said.
Mr. Routh has been preliminarily charged with one count of capital murder and two counts of murder, according to Erath County District Attorney Alan Nash.
Mr. Nash added that the charges could eventually be changed, as the investigation is continuing.
Mr. Kyle was awarded two Silver Stars and five Bronze Stars for valor, according to the Navy.
After leaving the military, the 38-year-old founded Craft International, a training firm for military and law-enforcement officials.
He also helped found a nonprofit organization, FITCO Cares, that provides exercise equipment to veterans.
"He was a man of character, a man of integrity, a very humble man, an amazing family man," said Travis Cox, executive director of FITCO Cares.
Mr. Cox said Mr. Kyle is survived by his wife and two children and that Mr. Littlefield, the other victim, was Mr. Kyle's friend.
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Since its launch in 1998, the nearly 15-year-old magazine has enjoyed what it touts as one of the largest circulations for a free publication nationwide. Evolving with the times, the magazine now has a top-rated free iPad app in the iTunes Newsstand, as well as a robust following on Pinterest and more than 1,000 how-to videos available online at YouTube.com/Lowes.
The most recent issue of the magazine features the editorial team's five favorite projects from past issues to help inspire do-it-yourselfers in 2013, as well as what they consider the top five how-to videos of 2012.
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Following an announcement that it's adding the LG electronics brand to its existing portfolio, as well as third-quarter results reported a few weeks ago that were up 76%, Lowe's is positioning itself to have a prosperous New Year.
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I have gone several times through the GTD book of David Allen and I have some questions left unanswered:
First, I collect all stuff in an Evernote notebook called "Inbox", for example: "Buy some wine", a bookmark -> a restaurant's official website, "Renew my mobile phone contract" etc.
Next, I am trying to process "stuff", as the GTD workflow diagram shows. I find the expiration date of my mobile phone contract and schedule a date in my calendar (in a month). The bookmark goes to the "reference" notebook. What about the "Buy some wine" ? It isn't something that's important or urgent and I do not know where to put it. Also, "buy a battery for my laptop" does not have a specific date or deadline and so on.
Should I use a bucket named "soon" ? The "someday/maybe" bucket will leave here tasks forever and the "next action" is for important tasks to accomplish.
I have a hard time to understand the difference between different buckets. If I schedule a monthly call to my uncle, where does it go? In M.I.T. (most important tasks), "next action" or scheduled ?
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I regularly buy fried rice from my local takeaway and I would like to recreate something similar. It is slightly redish in color (that's most likely chilli, but might not be, as it's not too hot) and tastes sweet and sour. I'm wondering what kind of ingredients they might be using to achieve this type of flavor, as the rice I make at home usually tasted pretty one dimensionally salty from the soy sauce. Could they be using something like tamarind juice, that's often used in Pad Thai recipes? What else can give fried rice a similar flavor profile?
Often there's no secret sauce that restaurants use, but plain old bog-standard sugar. I know it's boring, but there you go. They also may be using bottled sweet and sour sauce, which is also boring, but readily available in many supermarkets.
All is not lost, however, as if you want some more authentic ingredients then there are plenty of options. In my kitchen (which isn't big enough to satisfy my capacity requirements for exotic ingredients otherwise this list would be bigger) I have several ingredients which impart sweetness to Asian dishes:
Now for the sour:
Also worth mentioning is Mirin - a reduced-alcohol Sake, usually with a bit of salt added. It's used widely in Japanese cuisine. I personally don't use it much, but it's worth having in the flavor arsenal.
I would suspect they're using Shari, or "sushi rice". This is prepared with sugar (your sweet) and rice vinegar (your sour), and can easily be made at home. This beginner recipe on Just Hungry suggests the following ratio:
This is added to the rice immediately after cooking; you pour it over the top, then sort of chop-and-fold with the rice paddle to distribute evenly. To avoid damage to rice-cooker bowls, Maki also suggests doing the mixing in a metal bowl (to help the rice cool faster).
When the rice is cooked, seasoned, and cooled, it can be fried with whatever ingredients you like.
Thicker soy sauces typically have molasses or other sugar added, which would result in a much sweeter result. (some are thickened with starches, though).
If you're making an Indonesean style fried rice (Nasi Goreng), you'd use Ketjap Manis instead of typical soy sauce, which is almost a cross between molasses and soy sauce (with ginger and other spices, as GdD mentioned)
For those times before I had a source of Ketjap Manis, I'd fold in a few shredded carrots to add extra sweetness ... and I still typically do, as I just like mine pretty vegetable-heavy.


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I read somewhere that authors sometimes use cards to write down information about the characters in their stories. I assume these were small cards so what was written them had to be concise. What sort of details did they write on them? Something about their appearance or their psychology/beliefs?
As much as you need to understand the character. This might be as simple as you want, like just the name, physical characteristics(small and thin), and a rough psychological profile(like character loses temper often and is controlling).
On the other hand, I've heard of authors go down to excruciating detail, like what their sun sign is, what their quirks and hobbies are, a complete Freudian psychoanalysis of the main characters , and which brand of breakfast cereal they love :) .
Unless you are writing a literary novel, you don't need this much detail. Maybe a paragraph or two for all the minor characters, and one page for the main character.
I made my own character cards. I simply wrote down everything important about the character so that i wouldn't mess it up later in the book. name, age, eye color, hair color, beliefs, family, height, weight, relationships to other characters, and then I had a misc. section. that is just for anything you think is important but doesn't really have a category.
I'm not sure if this answers your question, but are you talking about a system like this one?
I also found this resource about outlining a Novel that I think would be good to use.
They are two resources I looked at in the past when I wanted to know how best to outline a novel. I understand your question, because, while Standback is correct in saying that every person is different and every bit of importance in the book is different, there are good and bad methods to writing a story, and learning about those good and bad methods might help you find one that works best to you.
The term "card" is fungible. Your card can be a 36x48 poster or seventeen pages in Scrivener or an entire notebook of thoughts. It could be a character quiz, a playlist, a drawing, a list of favorite books, photos of actors, bullet points, quotes, or all of the above.
Whatever helps you as the author to get a handle on your character so you know how the character will behave in the situation you are creating is what you put on your card. And not all the things on the card have to go into the story, either.
For my epic fantasy novel I used index cards to identify some of the key characteristics of most of the characters. This helped me whenever I had to reference a character that I hadn't used in a couple of chapters. I also laid out the cards in a timeline to help keep track of when the charcaters were introduced and what they were doing at the time. How you use them will really depend on what you need to accomplish with them.


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This image has kicked around the net for a while - IDK what the original source was:
Otherwise, I second the guidance and link provided by @fady.
Snug! It wont work if the helmet is not securely strapped to your head. Here is a good article/post about wearing helmets.
My summary of helmets.org's fitting tips:
Coincidentally I brought my kids to a local bike safety event this weekend. The rules they prescribed were: (1) If you look up you should be able to see the front of your helmet, (2) The straps should form a "V" around your ears, and (3) When you open your mouth you should feel the helmet push down on the top of your head.
First, buy a helmet of a size that fits your head (you should not be able to put a finger between your head and helmet).
Then adjust the straps binding just below the ears and then adjust the length of the strap under your chin so that you are able to move your head comfortably without tightening.
is important that your front is not see, even when trying to move the helmet forward and back (Gary's picture).
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