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Football: Newtown outscores Oxford
Brennen Diaz threw for 218 yards and three scores, but the Oxford High football team fell to South-West Conference powerhouse Newtown, 47-21, on Saturday at home.
Kevin Loschiavo, Chris VanKamerik and Kyle Chudoba caught scores of 7, 66 and 3, respectively, for the Wolverines (3-2).
The Nighhawks were led by Cooper Gold with 138 yards on the ground and four total touchdowns.
Avon 41, Gilbert-Northwestern 10: John Ambrozaitis caught a 14-yard touchdown pass from John Lippincott in the final quarter for G-N's only touchdown in a loss at Avon.
Lippincott was 10-of-18 passing for 121 yards for the Yellowjackets (2-3), while Tony Ortiz rushed for 43 yards on six carries. G-N also received an 18-yard field goal from Ambrozaitis in the first half.
Ian Mcdonald led the Falcons (5-0) with two touchdowns, a 24-yard reception and a 23-yard run.
Cromwell 52, Nonnewaug 6: After the Chiefs kept the score close through halftime, Crom-well ripped off 35 unanswered points in the second half to improve to 4-1.
Mike Paniccia caught a 20-yard scoring pass from Chris Metello in the second period to pull Nonnewaug (1-4) within 17-6.
Southington 48, South Windsor 0: Stephen Barmore led the attack for the Blue Knights, throwing for 140 yards and a touchdown in their victory in South Windsor.
Barmore added a touchdown run from three yards out, while Jarrid Grimmett posted rushing scores from 15 yards and 1 yard out for Southington (5-0).
Anthony Bonenfant caught five balls for 62-yards, including a 19-yard touchdown, while Zach Jamele and Alex Jamele rushed for scores of 1 and 7 yards, respectively.
Freshman quarterback Jasen Rose also hooked up with Kyle Borawski on a 16-yard scoring strike.
South Windsor is 0-5.
Abbott Tech 32, O'Brien Tech 6: Paul Makinano rushed for a 2-yard touchdown for O'Brien Tech as it was defeated in Danbury.
Makinano carried the ball 12 times for 55 yards for the Condors (0-4), while Devin Bacchiocchi and Nick Coppola each added 50 yards rushing. Coppola also had three receptions for 22 yards.
Abbott Tech improved to 2-3.
Choate 29, Taft 19: Tim Drakeley threw for 294 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Big Red.
Alex Huard racked up 147 yards and a touchdown receiving and 61 yards rushing for Taft (3-1), while Adam Parker chipped in with a 2-yard rushing score. Nick LaSpada also caught a 22-yard score from Drakeley.
The Wild Boars (4-1) were led by Jerickson Fedrick with touchdowns on rushes of 49 and 71.
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April 14, 2013
Sunset – Flickr pic of the day
This photo of clouds over Table Mountain, as seen from Sunset Beach near Milnerton, was captured by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group member Ian Barbour, aka barbourians.
Ian says: "This was taken from Sunset Beach, near Milnerton, looking across Table Bay towards Table Mountain. I wanted to take a picture of the clouds coming over Table Mountain, and when I got down to the beach there was this surreal sunset.
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A friend of mine told me that there is no dessert that needs a knife to eat. I'm sure that this is not true, but I can't find a good example in the Internet. So is there any dessert that needs a knife to eat? And if yes, what kind of dessert?
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In certain cultures whole pieces of fruit, like an apple, for example, will be served for dessert and the diners are expected to eat it using fork and knife only - no fingers. as far as traditional desserts such as pies and cakes, I'm sure you must mean whether the individual serving requires a knife because, of course, a whole cake or pie must be cut into individual servings. I've only seen dessert forks offered for traditional baked desserts. There's an interesting website on manners that deals specifically with eating desserts using a fork and spoon, but no knife.
It would be pretty hard to eat a pie without cutting it up first. You could argue that you could cut it up with a fork, but if you allow cutting with a fork, then knives are unnecessary in any case.


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I'm looking for a time tracking tool to monitor and boost my productivity. What I have in mind is a program that works in the background and keeps track of which application is active at any given moment, including which document is open in that application (or which website if the application is a browser).
Since I do almost all my work on my computer, this kind of tracking software will cover my needs. It would help me understand what I spend my time on, and especially keep track of how much time I waste on distractions.
Other features that would be cool:
- Syncing with a calendar application (like Google Calendar).
- Producing reports, and maybe sending them to a person of my choice (knowing someone I care about is monitoring me will really give me motivation to avoid time-wasting websites, for example).
- Defining which applications, documents and websites are related to each project, so I could automatically get data about how much time I worked on each project.
I have heard of a few programs such as rescuetime and chrometa, but I'm not sure if they're any good, and maybe there's more I haven't heard of (there is also a comparison chart on wikipedia but it's pretty lame).
Do you know of any time tracking software? What are its pros/cons?


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Shanghai, 1912. Violet Minturn is the privileged fourteen-year-old daughter of the American madam of the city's most exclusive courtesan house. But when the Ching dynasty is overturned, Violet is separated from her mother in a cruel act of chicanery and forced to become a "virgin courtesan." Half-Chinese and
half-American, Violet grapples with her place in the contradictory worlds of East and West--until she is able to merge her two halves, empowering her to become a shrewd courtesan who excels in the business of seduction and illusion. But privately she continues to struggle to understand who she is and where she
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Back in 1897 San Francisco, Violet's mother, Lucia, chooses a disastrous course as a sixteen-year-old, when her infatuation with a Chinese painter compels her to leave her home for Shanghai. There she is shocked by her lover's adherence to Chinese traditions and her inability to change them despite the unending amount of American ingenuity she possesses.
Both Violet and Lucia are fueled by betrayals and refuse to submit to the Chinese ideas of fate and societal expectations. They persist in their quest to recover what was taken from them: respect; a secure future; and, most poignantly, love from mothers, fathers, lovers, and children. To reclaim their lives, they take separate journeys--to a backwater hamlet in China, the wealthy environs of the Hudson River Valley, and, ultimately, the unknown areas of their hearts, where they discover what remains after their many failings to love and be loved.
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I'm wanting to get into open source GIS, and it looks like PostGIS on Postgres is a good DBMS to go with, and there are plenty of posts on desktop editors. What I haven't come across (and forgive me if I just didn't find it) is info on what open source operating systems folks are using with open source GIS. Ubuntu, some other form of Linux, etc. Thoughts and experiences appreciated.
I use Ubuntu 10.04 for several reasons:
The only major downside I've personally encountered is that ArcGIS doesn't run on Linux. Thus, for any workflow involving ArcGIS a Windows install is required.
Most of the major open-source GIS software is compatible in any of the big three (Windows, OS X, Linux). I'd start with trying some of the software out in whatever operating system you're already familiar with, GIS will provide enough challenges without you being flummoxed when navigating your filesystem. Compiling GIS software from source is a challenge on any OS, because of the large number of dependencies (particularly for GDAL) and circular dependencies, so I'd start with binary management.
To get started, I'd recommend the following installations:
If you do get deeper into the development world, then I'd say the open source C/C++/Python projects are much easier to manage from Linux, and anything C#/.NET is much easier from Windows. Most FOSS GIS software falls into the former category.
As others have stated, Ubuntu is a great choice once you've decided to dive in, with all the features fmark mentioned. I use it as my primary OS with a Windows VirtualBox instance for the occasional ArcGIS session.
If you are just looking to get started with open source GIS then you probably don't need to worry about operating system. I can't think of any major programs that won't run on all the major operating systems.
Once you get into advanced work then you might benefit from using a Linux distro but not while starting. So I'd recommend sticking with what you know and concentrating on the GIS aspects.
Obviously if you want to use ESRI products too then you are limited to 32bit windows boxes with only one core.
While Ubuntu is good for desktop use you will find that there is better support for CentOS(/RHEL) as a server.
From a GIS point of view there is not much difference. RHEL has better manufacturer support so programs for management, backup, drivers (, integration with windows networks) are generally easier to install
Eg. If you buy a Dell or HP server all the management, etc. is packaged for redhat. The most common backup systems all offer packages for redhat. Installing these on other versions of linux is possible but more work. The GIS programs are available in similar packages through Yum on Centos however often you are going to want to install the latest version which will be newer than the one in apt or yum.


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Assume that we have an orthonormal basis of smooth functions in $L^2[0,1]$. Are there useful practical criteria to determine whether the sup-norm of the basis functions has a uniform bound? I am sure people investigated this but I do not manage to find a useful result. Can someone offer me references, where I can read about this or a connected problem?
I would like to investigate the properties of some fourth order differential operators (with the corresponding boundary conditions) in $C[0,1]$. Since these operators are nice selfadjoint operators with compact resolvent in $L^2[0,1]$, and the corresponding eigenfunctions are analytic, it would be straightforward to ask whether the properties I need can be carried over using the basis.
Edit on 02/18/2011: Though completely unrelated to my question, googling brought me the following interesting paper:
Toth and Zelditch, Riemannian manifolds with uniformly bounded eigenfunctions, Duke Math. J. Volume 111, Number 1 (2002), 97-132.
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Oil, gas expo successful
April 25, 2013
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The Belmont County commissioners served as host Wednesday for the second annual Ohio Valley Oil and Gas Expo at the James Carnes Center....
yep..let the ones breaking the roads and bridges or in some cases need stronger bridges to mover heavy equipment over pay to repair..or pay to make the bridge that they need to be stronger with their money. not mine. I make not on cent from the gas and oil drilling as most of us also don't
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Ms Favede, WHY don't you and the other commissioners have an "internal expo" for ALL County Dept heads ?
You know the kind that teaches them to run their dept within budget, and NOT jack up license plate fees.
Also, WHERE does all the exhibitor rental money go to ? How much did the Expo bring into county coffers ?
200 exhibitors X $500 a booth = $100,000...give or take
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Clean Your Race Car - Weekly CleaningWritten by on July 12, 2012 How can cleaning your race car help improve your finishes at the racetrack? Let us count the ways.
Cleaning the race car is one of those tasks that is almost universally despised by racers. And we've even heard more than a few dedicated dirt track racers contemplate making the switch to asphalt while trying to complete the drudgery of getting all the clay off their car and out of their race hauler. But no matter whether you're racing on dirt or asphalt, if you are going to have the fun on Friday or Saturday night, you will need to pay the price on Monday or Tuesday. Or, at least you should. That's because there's a lot more to it than simply throwing on some dish soap and washing it back off. There's no doubt that you can sometimes get away without cleaning your car between races--heck, racers all over the country prove that fact to be true by showing up to the racetrack with dirty cars every week--but it's also true that a rigorous maintenance routine, which includes cleaning, can help improve practically any racing program.
Keeping a clean and shiny race car has benefits beyond making your mother proud. Cleaning components can help reduce wear and ensure everything is moving as smoothly as possible. Plus, the act of thoroughly cleaning your race car means you're also putting your hands on everything, which helps you spot problems and inspect areas you might otherwise miss. And we all know that finding that component on your race car that's in the process of failing before it actually breaks can prevent not only a poor finish but also an expensive (and bruising) crash.
Of course, simply wiping down your car isn't going to have the effect we're talking about. Instead, what we're suggesting is a maintenance cleaning program. And whether you're racing dirt or asphalt, if you aren't already using your wash and wipe-down time as an opportunity to inspect your race car part-by-part, there's a benefit here for you. Hopefully, you'll be able to keep parts functioning properly longer, spot problems that may be adversely affecting the car's handling, and discover components that need repair or replacing before they cause a DNF or wreck. Overall, the results of your time and attention should be better finishes over the long term. In other words, you may not win next week because you spent an extra hour or two cleaning your car, but it can be a huge help for that track championship you've been gunning for.
To give you an idea how you can make such a maintenance cleaning program work for you, we spent several hours in the race shops of Hargett Racing while the team went through the car after a hard weekend of racing on dirt. There are also several important precautions you should take to make sure your cleaning program doesn't do more harm than good--water and electricity don't work so well together, after all. Some of these steps you may find unnecessary or too time-consuming to do every week. Or you may think of areas of your race car that require attention that we missed. That's fine, the idea is to give you an outline of a maintenance cleaning program that you can customize and make your own.
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1 Your sponsor may like clean sheetmetal, but the critical part of your car for a maintenance cleaning program is all those moving pieces underneath.2 Before you can start blasting water, you need to take a few precautions to protect your car. Here, Cameron Lowman pulls the air filter and airbox off the top of the engine before installing a carburetor cover to keep the water from making its way down the intake.3 It's also a good idea to remove the air breathers off the valve cover as well as any others (such as a breather for the rearend) and either plug them or tape them off.4 If you're using a pressure washer, you should also take the time to tape over the end of the exhausts. You might be surprised by how far moisture from a direct blast by a high pressure washer can make its way up the exhaust pipes.5 You can't completely avoid sensitive areas, but try not to hit the carburetor, distributor, coil, or the ignition boxes with a direct stream of high-pressure water. Many radiator manufacturers will also tell you that you should avoid hitting the delicate radiator fins with a direct blast of water. If they get bent it will reduce the radiator's efficiency.6 As soon as he finishes washing the race car, Chris Hargett begins drying off the carburetor and other water-sensitive components with clean shop air. A light squirt of WD-40 or some other water dispersing lubricant is also helpful.7 After the carb, turn your attention to the distributor. After the outside of the cap is nice and dry, pull it to make sure the interior is also free of moisture. Don't forget to check underneath the rotor.8 A light coat of WD-40 will also help dirt and track grime from sticking to your ignition boxes and other delicate components.9 If you use a cleanable air filter like a K&N, go ahead and wash it early. K&N also manufactures and sells a cleaning solution that works a lot better than simply trying to rinse all the dirt out of your filter with water. Set it aside in a dry area of your shop where it won't get smashed or dirty and give it plenty of time to completely dry before re-oiling and installing in your car.
10 Although you may have already hosed the worst of the dirt off, it's always a good idea to pay special attention to the suspension components on the race car, especially the ball joints and rod ends.11 Here's a great example. This is the ball end connecting the spindle to the steering rack. Even after the car has been thoroughly washed, look at all the dirt and crud that are trapped in the grease. Left alone, this grit increases the wear on the rod end and, over time, can significantly reduce the smoothness with which the ball rotates.12 The same thing goes with the ball joints. Wear here can create slop in the suspension that you've worked so hard to precisely set.13 Lowman wipes down as much of the ball joint as he can reach (you may need to remove the shock and move the suspension up and down to get to it all). Before re-greasing the joint, he also cleans the dirt from around the fitting. After all, you don't want to inject dirt into the ball joint socket right along with the fresh grease.14 You may not want to do this every week if you have more pressing needs, but Hargett makes it a habit to remove the trailing arms and other suspension linkages with rod ends to thoroughly clean and inspect each one. A quick blast with some brake cleaner over a trash can is usually good enough to get the grit out. Just make sure to spin the ball in the rod end to get all the surfaces.15 Afterward, Hargett wipes down the rod end and the trailing arm to make sure the ball turns smoothly in its housing and checks everything out for any signs of damage.16 If Hargett suspects a rod end is bent (or if lots of setup changes were made at the track and he wants to make sure everything is returned correctly to his base setup) he uses this gauge from BSB Manufacturing that allows quick and accurate measurements from the center of each eye of a trailing arm link. A tool like this can be invaluable for precise chassis setups because it is much more accurate than the old tape-measure-and-squint-one-eye method of measurement.17 Hargett prefers greasable fittings, so after each component has been cleaned and passed inspection, it is given a fresh shot of grease. These trailing arms are made by Out-Pace and besides being beefy and strong, they feature a unique built-in greasing system. The rod ends don't have to be removed from the linkage to be greased. And by greasing the rod end this way, the fresh grease helps flush the older grease and any contaminants that remain away from the spherical rod end.
20 Shocks are a critical component of any well-handling race car. Remove them from the car so you can inspect each shock from all angles. Look for dents or dings in the body of the shock, broken or cracked spring cups (if you're running coilovers), and leaking fluid. Here, Hargett is disassembling one of his shocks for inspection and cleaning.21 Repeat the cleaning process with the spherical ball joints on the shocks as well.22 Shocks don't have grease fittings, so give the ends a shot of WD-40 or some other water repelling lubricant instead.23 Before reinstalling the shocks and springs, run the front suspension through its movement to make sure there is no binding or slop.24 Lowman finishes up underneath the car. Now that the car is clean, it's not only a lot more pleasant to work on during the week as you prepare for your next race but it's also easier to spot the source of any fluid leaks or a broken component at the racetrack because they won't be camouflaged by a layer of grime.


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Any recommendations for an EASY to use camera (point and shoot) with low shutter lag?
HUGE pet peeve of mine is the shutter lag on my olympus camera. I'd REALLY appreciate any recommendations for a small/compact, point and shoot camera, that has decent picture quality (low light would be a BONUS) but it HAS TO HAVE low shutter lag times. Thanks all!
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Help us, what model do you have now?
A point-and-shoot with low shutter lag is a tall order. Do you have a price range? Acceptable shutter lag time?
The Canon Powershot S90 has adjustable settings, including shutter speed and lag time, but it is on the expensive side for a point-and-shoot:
@caffeine_dude: LOL. i thought that might help, but i don't have my camera with me. sorry. it's a 14MP from costco, i'll post when i get back home the model number. :)
btw, i went through the list of cameras on the site that has a shutter lag comparison table (http://www.cameras.co.uk/html/shutter-lag-comparisons.cfm) and these were the cameras with the best shutter-lag ratings PLUS easy to use rating. I'm grateful someone put this table out there, but a lot of the cameras on there are older models. Here's the list i filtered out (low shutter lag + HIGH easy to use rating):
Nikon Coolpix S8000
Sony DSC TX1
Panasonic DMC FS10
Sony DSC W380
Sony DSC TX7
Panasonic DMC S3
Panasonic DMC FS30
Sony DSC TX10
@adadavis: price range under $300, acceptable is something that's not annoying... i guess less than a second w/out flash and less than 2s with flash? ...not sure, but i'm sure you all know what i'm talking about. :(
Canon Powershot SD970 @ $249:
A review gives the following info about lag:
"Shutter lag: Full autofocus shutter lag is good, at 0.40 second at wide-angle and 0.45 second at full telephoto. Prefocus shutter lag is 0.078s, which is quite fast."
I've never use this model, so I can't say from personal experience how that translates in the "annoying lag" department.
Personally, as a photographer, I'd go with either Nikon or Canon. The most important aspect of a camera is your optics, and both Canon and Nikon arguably have the best optics on the market. After that, it's merely a matter of which has the specific bells and whistles you're looking for, at a price you're willing to pay.
For slow shutter lag and at your price range, the Canon Elph series would be a good choice.
http://ow.ly/5zhjE - B&H (with Canon rebate is only $229).
Other Powershot are getting their "seasonal" Canon rebates as well. I do this professionally, and for my family members I always get either the Elph or the Panasonic Lumix line.
thoughts on this?
Canon PowerShot SD4500 IS 10MP CMOS Sensor
sold on costco.com for $270
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Canon PowerShot ELPH-100
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In every textbook and at school, one can see the following way to solve for a Poisson equation using FEM:
- (1) start with $\Delta u = b$
- (2) obtain the weak formulation : $\int \Delta u~v~dx = \int b~v~dx$
- (3) integrate by parts to get : $-\int \nabla u \nabla v = \int b~v~dx$
then decompose $u$ and $v$ on finite element basis to get the linear system to solve.
My question is about point (3) : why is it necessary ? Why can't you directly use the $\Delta$ as it is, as it could be any other linear operator (otherwise, how do you solve when you have other linear operators ?).
The motivation for this integration by part is never mentionned (including wikipedia etc.).
Edit: to be more precise, keeping the $\Delta$ still allows to write the problem as $A(u,v)=L(v)$ with $A$ a bilinear form and L a linear form... why do we need to convert it to something else?


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I tried to solve this Trigonometry question, but I do not know how to solve. I read that the
circle has radius 1 and center at (0.0) as the unit circle is plotted in the coordinate
system. I should record the angles $v$ and $w$ in unit circle so that the following are met:
$v$ is an acute angle with $\sin(v) = 0.9$ and w is an obtuse angle with $\sin(w) = 0.9$
You can see the circle here
i don't know how to solve it, but is it something like : $(\sin(0.9) * 100) - \pi = 75.1910983$ ? please help me out, give me examples and information


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The main problem with V : I don't hate V as much as Mike Rubino does, I really enjoyed the 1st 4 episodes last year. These new batch of episodes have really soured me on the show & the #1 reason by far is Tyler (the son of FBI Agent Erica). Tyler is the most whiny, stupid, & cliched rebellious teenager character on TV right now. It's like they combined 24's brain dead Kim Bauer & Spiderman 3's "what about me" Mary Jane Watson into this abomination. In the storyline, Tyler doesn't know his mom is apart of a rebellion fighting the V's, but he does know she is very busy working for the FBI & still doesn't cut her any slack. Erica tell Tyler to stay away from the V's & Tyler visits the V's healing centers & spaceships every chance he gets & lies about it because he's rebellious. The final straw was when (The V leader) Anna's daughter Lisa tells Tyler he may not be Erica's son(?) & Tyler doesn't believe or trust his mom or dad anymore. He barely allow his mom to explain her side of the story. For some reason Anna wants Tyler to live on the V mothership. As far as I'm concerned, they can dissect & slice him up into a million pieces & V would improve tenfold..
The main thing you hate about TV commercials: As for annoying recurring characters in commercials, is anyone else tired of Pres. Palmer/Jonas constantly hawking All State Insurance? Dennis Haysbert should be giving executive orders or killing terrorists instead of telling how much money I can save from a car crash.


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I'm mostly active on IT Security and we have a separate meta. Most of my questions on IT Security meta have answers with links here. So my question is, where am I supposed to post what i.e. feature request, bug report, behavior questions?
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
- Your voice helps shape the way Stack Exchange operates
Posting on a child meta is absolutely fine!
The Stack Exchange team monitors all of the child metas. The child metas do have a smaller reach than MSE, so posting on the child meta to get an initial gauge of support, and then if necessary, bringing that to MSE for a wider audience is fine. But there is no reason to turn a post away from a child meta. Not everyone is involved with the entire network. They don't know that there is anything beyond their meta, and they shouldn't be received poorly because of it.
Think of ITSecurity as a state. ITSecurity's meta is the state capital. Meta Stack Exchange is the nation's capital. The state functions, it just gets a little help from the nation's capital.
In keeping with network policy, an answer on child meta that contains links should not just be a list of links. The post should also summarize/explain what the links are. Information can be found in many places, and we should not be forcing users to go on a wild goose chase to find information.
I can't stand it when I see a post on a child meta and the first comment is "You should have posted this on MSE". ARGGGGGGGGG
Please consider the nature of your question:
Otherwise your meta will be full of questions that have already been asked and answered on here.
Worse still, unless someone actively maintains all those duplicate questions, they will eventually fall out of date, and cause further confusion when the information posted is wrong since the engine is still evolving.
If Stack Exchange said, "It's done. No more major changes to how the basic engine works in terms of voting, abuse, posting, commenting, flagging, etc," then I'd say fine - duplicate everything everywhere.
But since there are still significant changes in the future, having all of the relevant information go to one spot is preferable to a highly fractured and duplicated world.
Further, you are likely to get a better answer faster here if it concerns the engine itself.
Lastly, the enthusiasts that like to discuss the engine incessantly hang out here, and if you have a feature request they can likely chime in with significant support and help, or with a lot of information you might not have considered.
However, feel free to post everything on your per site meta - participating here is completely voluntary, and you will still get your answers there, and when needed they will be migrated or discussed here as well.
In other words the meta sites are a special case in terms of whether something is on topic or not. If you don't know where it belongs, just post it on your own meta and let others sort it out.
To post on a child meta site is perfectly acceptable, and nothing forbids to post there.
There are cases where to post on a specific meta site makes more sense, especially if
If, for example, you have seen somebody behaving in a particular way on an SE site, and you want to know if that behavior is generally acceptable, then you can post a question on MSO; if you want to know the opinion of users to (let) decide the actions to take, then you should post the question in that meta site of that SE site.
In general, I have never seen a question on a meta being closed as duplicate of an existing question on another meta site; if there is already an equivalent question on MSO, then you could be pointed to that question with a link.
Update: @Robert Cartaino wrote a post explaining that is perfectly fine to post a question that is relative to Stack Exchange sites in general in a child meta site, as Stack Exchange Community Coordinators check also those meta sites.


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BELLAIRE - Leading Toronto 28-21 early in the fourth quarter, St. John Central first-year head coach Jason Merryman liked his team's chances as the Red Knights were faced with a second-and-38 from their own 47.
"We knew what was coming. We told them (the defense) a screen pass was coming," Merryman lamented afterwards. "And, not only did they (Toronto) complete it, it went for a touchdown. What else can you say?"
The 53-yard scoring strike from Blaze Glenn to brother Chez Glenn jump-started the Red Knights (2-4) to a 27-0 fourth-quarter explosion that led to a come-from-behind, 48-28, victory over the Irish (2-4) before an overflow Homecoming crowd at the sun-splashed Irish Youth Sports Complex.
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MAKING PLAYS — Toronto senior Joey Chadwick makes a play during Saturday's 48-28 win over host St. John Central. Chadwick returned two interceptions for touchdowns as the Red Knights scored 27 points in the fourth quarter for their second win in a row.
"To me, that was the play of the game," Merryman added. "We had them in a second-and-long situation and we were up by one score."
Veteran Toronto head coach Eric Meek agreed.
"That was a big play ... the screen," he said. "We've got some good team speed, so we try to utilize it. I've been trying to throw screens for years. We're finally doing well with it. The game was a track meet for the most part as the two small school rivals went toe-to-toe until the screen pass turned the tide."
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Toronto 48, St. John Central 28
Toronto 7 7 7 27 - 48
St. John Central 7 14 7 0 - 28
SJ: Paolina 80 pass from Shoemaker (Paolina kick)
T: Ross III 76 punt return (Chadwick kick)
SJ: Francis 14 pass from Shoemaker (Paolina kick)
T: C. Glenn 4 run (Chadwick kick)
SJ: Francis 17 pass from Shoemaker (Paolina kick)
T: C. Glenn 4 run (Chadwick kick)
SJ: Shoemaker 9 run (Paolina kick)
T: C. Glenn 53 pass from B. Glenn (Chadwick kick)
T: C. Glenn 9 run (Chadwick kick)
T: Chadwick 62 INT return (Chadwick kick)
T: Chadwick 30 INT return (kick failed)
RUSHING: Toronto 36-162-3tds (C. Glenn 13-73-3tds; B. Glenn 16-68; Chadwick 2-18; Ross III 4-11; team 1-(-8). St. John Central 32-128-td (Shoemaker 14-68-td, Alvey 6-47, Hennessey 7-18, Paolina 1-(-2), Francis 1-(-3).
PASSING: Toronto 6-12-108-td (B. Glenn 5-11-87-td, Chadwick 1-1-21). St. John Central 10-19-166-3tds-2ints (Shoemaker 9-16-166-3tds-int, Paolina 1-3-0-int)
RECEIVING: Toronto 6-108-td (C. Glenn 4-82-td, Ross III 1-21, Stewart 1-5). St. John Central 9-166-3tds (Francis 5-63-2tds, Paolina 2-86-td, Alvey 1-10, Hennessey 1-4).
FIRST DOWNS: Toronto 15. St. John Central 12
PENALTIES: Toronto 8-88; St. John Central 6-50
FUMBLES: Toronto 2-0. St. John Central 6-3
Blaze Glenn, just a freshman, dropped back and tossed a short pass to Chez Glenn, a junior, behind the line of scrimmage. The diminutive Glenn weaved his way through some traffic, found daylight and was off to the races down the far sidelines. Joey Chadwick, who had a very busy day, tacked on the PAT to tie the game at 28.
The play seemed to deflate the Irish as they never regained any momentum.
Forced to punt after a 7-yard loss and a delay of game penalty, Toronto's Charles Ross III returned Dario Paolina's 29-yard punt 22 yards to the St. John Central 20.
Four plays later, Chez Glenn burst over right tackle for a 9-yard scoring jaunt. Chadwick's extra-point gave the visitors their first lead of the afternoon at 35-28 with 7:48 left to play.
St. John Central tried to get back in the game via the airways, where it had a lot of success in the first half, but D.J. Shoemaker's pass deep down the field was picked off by Chadwick, who ran it back 62 yards for a pick-six. He then booted the PAT for a 42-28 margin.
But the junior wasn't finished. Paolina took over when Shoemaker was injured on the play, and his third attempt was pilfered by Chadwick, who sprinted 30 yards to paydirt.
"We gave up a short field too many times, especially in the kicking games," Merryman noted. "And we turned the ball over too many times."
The Irish built the first half lead through the air as Shoemaker clicked on 9 of 13 for 166 yards and three scores. His first completion went to Paolina for an electrifying 80-yard touchdown.
Falling backwards, the strong-armed Shoemaker unleashed a bomb down the far sidelines that Paolina caught at midfield and outran everyone to the end zone. His PAT made it 7-0.
Toronto answered as Ross III fielded a Paolina punt at his own 24. Several nifty moves later, he was celebrating his 76-yard return in the end zone. Chadwick tied it the the extra-point.
A pair of Shoemaker-to-Alex Francis TD passes of 14 and 17 yards gave the Irish a 21-14 lead at the half, as Chez Glenn had a 4-yard scoring run in between. The first Irish scoring drive covered 92 yards on 16 plays and chewed up 8:34 off the clock. The second score came with 1.9 seconds before the half.
Toronto drew even on another 4-yard scamper by Chez Glenn on the opening possession of the third quarter.
Shoemaker's 9-yard run capped a 9-play, 62-yard drive that used up 4:18.
However, that would be it for St. John Central's offense. On their final four possessions, they punted once, had two interceptions run back for touchdowns and had the ball when the clock ran out.
"We've outscored our opponents two weeks in a row after the half. That makes it 56-7 in our favor when we are down at the half," Meek said.
"It's good to get two wins under our belt because we've got a high-scoring Beallsville team coming to town next week."
Chez Glenn led the Red Knights on the ground with 73 yards on 13 carries and three touchdowns. Blaze Glenn added 68 on 16 totes. He also completed 5 of 11 passes for 87 yards and the aforementioned touchdown.


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How many (labeled or unlabeled) unfoldings of the 1 x 1 x n cube are there?
The dissections of the cube are related to each other by "hinge" moves (which I've tried to draw). The graph of unfolding of the cube seems connected by these hinge moves.
It's equivalent to consider cutting the cube along the edges. Then we're looking for uniform spanning trees on the surface of the cube.
For my 9 (unlabeled) (
possibly incomplete list of) shapes, how often do they appear among (uniformly random) unfoldings of the labeled cube?? I'd like to know the general principles involved.


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Let N be a prime integer. We know that the element $c=(0)-(\infty)$ generates the torsion subgroup of $J_0(N)$ and it has order Num( (N-1)/12). Now, there is a natural map $\pi^*:J_0(N) \rightarrow J_1(N)$, coming from the covering map $\pi:X_1(N) \rightarrow X_0(N)$. My question is what is the image of c under this map? Specifically, is it possible for $\pi^*(c)=0$?
The fact you mention about $(0) - (\infty)$ generating the torsion subgroup of $J_0(N)$ is Theorem 1 (Ogg's conjecture) on the first page of Mazur's paper "The Eisenstein Ideal". I recommend you actually read this paper. If you get as far as page 2, you will find a "Theorem 2 (twisted Ogg's conjecture)" which concerns the Shimura subgroup $\Sigma$. The construction of this subgroup essentially identifies it with the kernel of $J_0(N) \rightarrow J_1(N)$, and Proposition 11.6 of ibid. shows that $\Sigma$ is of multiplicative type, so BCnrd's remarks apply to the general case.
I don't think pi^*(c) can be 0. Suppose pi^*(c) = div(f); then f would be a map from X_1(N) to P^1 of degree about N. But in fact any such map is of degree at least ~N^2, i.e. the gonality of X_1(N) is bounded below by a constant multiple of N^2. This was proved independently by Zograf ("Small eigenvalues of automorphic Laplacians in spaces of cusp forms") and Abramovich ("A linear lower bound on the gonality of modular curves.")
Update: As Kevin points out in comments I should say "for N large enough." But "large enough" is effective here since the constants in the gonality bounds are effective (albeit small.)


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To the editor:
When the RG Steel downfall started, many leaders turned their backs on our workers. Only a few representatives called or visited the hall to see what they could do to help the 1,500-plus men and women who were going to lose their jobs and benefits.
State Sen. Lou Gentile, D-Steubenville, was the first to offer his help, and he has been with our workers every step of the way. Even though he was outmanned and outgunned, he was an effective voice for us, working for relief for these hardworking men and women.
The ads that are attacking Gentile are untrue and, in my opinion, a lie. Gentile has always been there for the working men and women of this valley.
In November, we need to support candidates who have stood up for us and for our community. That's why I'm voting for Lou Gentile.
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STEUBENVILLE - Oak Glen's girls reeled off six straight points late to earn a hard-fought 30-23 victory over homestanding Steubenville Catholic Central Monday.
The win moves Scott Wiley's Golden Bears to 2-0 on the young season. Tom Winland's Lady Crusaders fell to 2-3.
Down by three after outscoring Oak Glen 8-5 during the third period, Central cut the deficit to just two (23-21) following a couple of Rachel Irvin makes from the charity stripe. The score stayed there for most of the final frame until the Golden Bears had their little run.
Tori Feicht got things going when she banked one in off the glass. Logan Andrews drained two free tosses and Alex Arnott converted a nifty Feicht dish into points as Oak Glen pulled away.
"It doesn't matter how you get it (a win), we'll take it," Wiley said. "Central always plays us tough. They are a scrappy team and even though we have size on them, they scrap and get us out of our flow. We just couldn't get a flow going."
Feicht and Arnott combined for six of Oak Glen's final eight points.
"We really rely on our bench," Wiley continued. "Tori got into early foul trouble so we had to kind of save her for the end. She came in and played well down the stretch."
Vanessa Hissam paced the Golden Bears in scoring with eight. She also hauled down a game-high 15 rebounds. Karly Wiley added six points, all coming in the first half. The winners put up 44 field goal attempts but connected on just 12. In addition, they were just six of 17 from the line.
"We just couldn't make any shots," Wiley noted. "We were getting good looks but we couldn't put them in the hole. A couple went in late and gave us a more comfortable lead."
Central had even a harder time finding the bottom of the net, making good on just nine of 43 tries. The Crusaders misfired on all 16 fourth quarter attempts.
"We couldn't hit anything," Winland pointed out. "I feel bad for them; they work on it every day in practice. We battled inside and played well defensively. We did turn the ball over a little too much but we didn't make shots. That has been our M.O. so far. When we start making shots, we'll be in games."
Micca Mirabella netted eight to pace the Crusaders. She had six during Central's third quarter spurt. Rachel Rigaud, who thrilled the crowd with her performance of the National Anthem, scored six and led the Crusaders in rebounding with seven.
Oak Glen's full-court zone pressure forced Central 13 first-half turnovers. Winland's crew did a better job during the final two periods. The Golden Bears, on the other hand, were guilty of 24 ball-handling miscues.
"We did have some problems with their pressure in the first half," Winland said. "We talked to them at halftime about things we could do differently and they responded."
Oak Glen will return to action Saturday, paying a visit to East Fairmont. Central will visit Big Red Wednesday.
Oak Glen 30, Steubenville Central 23
Oak Glen 9 8 5 8 - 30
Steubenville Central 4 7 8 4 - 23
OAK GLEN (2-0): Arnott 2 1-4 5; Patterson 0 1-4 1; Andrews 2 0-0 4; Feicht 1 1-3 3; Hissam 3 2-4 8; Wiley 3 0-0 6; Stivason 1 1-2 3. TOTALS: 12 6-17 30. 3-pointers: none; Rebounds: 39 (Hissam 15); Turnovers: 24.
STEUBENVILLE CENTRAL (2-3): Knight 1 2-2 4; Irvin 0 3-4 3; Rigaud 3 0-4 6; Mirabella 4 0-0 8; Parkinson 0 0-1 0; Dziewatkoski 1 0-0 2; Torrance 0 0-0 0; Ondos 0 -0 0; Hunt 0 0-0 0. TOTALS: 9 5-11 23. 3-pointers: none; Rebounds: 33 (Rigaud 7); Turnovers: 21.


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Reducing your intake of highly refined sugar can help you control your weight. Cut down slowly, and you probably won't notice the difference.
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8 Jan 2013 5:44 AM #1
Unanswered: Update grid on tap event of legend component in Sencha Chart
I have chart and grid in one panel.
On tap of legend corresponding series is removed from the chart, same way I want to remove the corresponding column from grid.
For that I can use hideColumn/showColumn.
But how to trap the tap event?
Is there any listener for before/after tap event of legends?
Any help will be appreciable.
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The ST1 Touch Charts should have an itemtap event on the Ext.chart.Chart that will fire when you tap on the series.Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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I am looking for event which is fired before/after tap on Legends.


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Mindblowing work from the early years of Schema Records – a set that really helped set a whole new tone for a generation – and which still sounds wonderful all these many hears later! Balanco work up a perfect blend of bossa rhythms and soulful jazz – all wrapped up with the kind of slinky, sexy vibe the Italian scene first perfected back in the 60s – when they were borrowing lots of Brazilian elements for their best soundtracks! Balanco's sound here really recalls those glory days – mixing together sweet female vocals, lively bossa rhythms, and great work on Fender Rhodes – all under the guidance of Nicola Conte, who manages to make everything sound beautiful together. Highlights include versions of Morricone's "Metti Una Sera A Cena" and the classic "Cinnamon & Clove", but there's loads of other cool originals – like "Butterfly", "Fantasia", "Sister Bossa", "Aguadream", and "Blue Skat Samba". © 1996-2016, Dusty Groove, Inc.
We realize that there are many different interpretations of the standard grades used for pre-owned vinyl record albums & CD, so we thought we'd offer you the ones that we are working with, so you have an idea what we mean when we give the grade for a non-new item on our pages.
Below are stated conditions for a used vinyl records at Dusty Groove. Grading for the cover should be assumed to be near (within a "+" or "-") the grading for the vinyl. If there is significant divergence from the condition of the vinyl, or specific flaws, these will be noted in the comments section of the item. However, please be aware that since the emphasis of this site is towards the music listener, our main concern is with the vinyl of any used item we sell. Additionally, please note that all of our records are graded visually; considering the volume of used vinyl we handle, it is impossible for us to listen to each record. If we spot any significant flaws, we make every attempt to listen through them and note how they play.
The following grading conditions apply to the vinyl component of an album or single:
This is what it says, that the record is still held fast in shrink-wrap. We tend to be pretty suspicious about these things, so if the shrink-wrap doesn't look original, or if the record seems to have undergone some damage over time, we'll probably take it out of the wrapper to ensure that it's in good shape — which is why we don't have more of these. In some cases the shrink-wrap may be torn in spots, but if it's not possible the record has been taken out and played, the record will still qualify as "Sealed".
Dusty Groove does not use the grades of Near Mint (or Mint, for that matter) because in our experience, we find that no records ever qualify for such a high grade. Even sealed records tend to have one or two slight faults, enough to usually qualify them for a grade of NM- or lower. We've often found that records which are clearly unplayed will have a slight amount of surface noise, especially in quieter recordings.
This is a grade we rarely use, as we try not to sell records in very bad condition, though in some rare cases we will list a record in such bad shape that it does not conform to the standards above. A "Fair" record will have enough marks or significant flaws that it does not even qualify as "Good", but is a copy you might consider for playing, if you're willing to put up with noise and/or flaws. An example might be a recording with surface noise so heavy that it is equal to the volume of the music. For records listed as "Fair", we will describe the extent of the condition in the comments.
Like "Fair", we rarely list records in this condition, as they represent the extreme low end of spectrum. These records typically have multiple serious problems, and we offer them as "relics" or "objects" only — for those who want to at least have a copy of a record, even if it is not really worthy of play, perhaps for the cover alone. For these records, we will describe the extent of the condition in the comments.
If something is noteworthy, we try to note it in the comments — especially if it is an oddity that is the only wrong thing about the record. This might include, but isn't limited to, warped records, tracks that skip, cover damage or wear as noted above, or strictly cosmetic flaws.
We have only one grade for non-new CDs at Dusty Groove — "Used CD". This grade is somewhat all-encompassing, but we choose it because we try to offer Used CDs in the best shape possible. All of our Used CDs are guaranteed to play without skipping or flaws. If you purchase a Used CD from Dusty Groove, you have 1 week to play it to determine that it plays correctly — and if it does not, then you may return it for a full refund.
With our Used CDs, you can expect the disc to be free of all but the lightest of surface marks — clean, and not dirty at all. You can also expect the case to be clean (we often change the cases ourselves — putting fresh cases on Used CDs we handle) — and you can expect the booklet to be in good shape, unless noted otherwise. We will list any specific details/defects underneath the item — so look for notes on cutout marks in the case, stamps on the barcode, or details like that.


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The Nokia N8 looks fantastic on paper, but Symbian 3 is frustrating to use compared to competing smart-phone operating systems. A slick case and great camera help to make this the best Nokia touchscreen phone ever, but it's just not fun to use.
Typical price: £429.00
The Nokia N8 was the most divisive, controversial phone of the last year and our brilliant readers -- that's you! -- had plenty to say on the matter. Here's the best.
Aerial photographer Jason Hawkes has jumped in a helicopter and explored Britain from the air, armed with an N8's 12-megapixel camera.
Augmented reality app Layar is now available for Symbian smart phones, including the Nokia N8 and E7. It joins the existing iPhone and Android versions of the AR browser.
In this week's column, I get out my crystal ball and make some predictions as I try to help readers figure out which smartphones to buy this year.
Nokia has given a Chinese conference a sneak peek at the next version of its Symbian OS, with a screenshot showing new features running on an N8 smart phone.
Nokia has released software update 1.1 for its new Symbian devices, including the N8, C7 and C6-01. It includes new features and three free preloaded games from big publishers.
Nokia's new digital radio headset brings DAB radio to smart phones including the N8, C7, C6-01 and the soon-to-launch E7. It's free when you buy an N8.
We all know by now how well the Nokia N8 stacks up as a smartphone in its own right. But how does it work as a camera?
The first round of voting in our joyous Greatest Gadget of the 21st Century tournament is over and some mighty tech just couldn't quite cut the mustard.


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A NOVA show have told the audience that we are live in 3 dimensional world, the world we lived in is compose by 3 element: the energy, matter, space. By the time Einstein have invented the 4-dimensional model including the time element, why no one claim that we actually live in 4-dimensional world
Victor, This is a good question. Probably one of the greatest tragedies surrounding modern science in popular literature is the portrayal of dimensions and our understanding of them.
Many popular shows are inconsistent in when they talk about dimensions, in some cases they refer to the 3 spatial and 1 time dimension that we commonly observe as separate things, and in some cases they talk about the 4-dimensional spacetime that is used in modern physics on a routine basis without any real discussion about what they mean.
Spacetime is a combination of the 3 space dimensions and 1 time dimension, e.g. 3+1 dimensions which equals 4 dimensions.
In the early days of relativistic mechanics, in order to represent the 3 spatial dimensions and 1 time dimension as one entity, they would give the time dimension an imaginary value. So the 4 dimensional spacetime would be represented as:
$$x + y + z + it$$
This covenient, because when one takes the inner product (sometimes called the dot product) of the representation of space time one gets:
$$x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - t^2$$
This sort of representation is convenient because one can begin to understand the relationship between space and time in terms of the Pythagorean theorem.
This is the simplest example of how one can begin to relate the nature of spacetime to geometry. The broader theory of how geometry of spacetime changes as you move in spacetime is Einstein's Theory of General Relativity.
General Relativity assumes that there are 3 dimensions of space and 1 dimension of time that make up the 4-dimensional spacetime that programs sometimes reference.
There are other theories that propose there are more than 3 space dimensions of space and 1 dimension of time. However, these are very speculative still.
Yes, We live in a world with four or more dimensions.
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I have a LyX document filled with text and equations like in a scientific paper. To focus only on the math sometimes it can be really useful to only print/output the formulas and not the text around it. Is there any way to do this automatically in LyX? So far I manually copy all the equations but that is not convenient in the long run. All equations are numbered and centered in the math mode.
try with the following in the preamble:
then it generates a new file with the chosen contents.
It is with extreme reluctance that I suggest a perl script that I once wrote called
You can get it from
should produce all of the mathematics (inline maths includes surrounding text, by the way). You'd need to include the preamble yourself.
You can put the equations or the text in a branch. Then you can activate or inactivate the branch. Inactivated branch will not be printed when you convert the document into PDF.
Go to Documents -> Settings, select branches, enter a name for the branch, click on add and then high lighten the branch and select either activate or deactivate. In the document itself begin typing your equation and when you need to insert a text do the following: Go to Insert -> Branch and click on the name of the branch you need to insert. type your text inside this branch. Hope that this will be clear


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Maryville Reaches Out
Maryville Reaches Out is a day when students, faculty, staff and alumni participate in numerous community service projects. This day promises to engage all participants in an array of service opportunities in and around the St. Louis community and beyond. Maryville Reaches Out exemplifies Maryville's commitment to integrating civic engagement with academic pursuits and promoting social responsibility and community service as a way of life.
Don't miss your opportunity to participate! Projects will be added throughout the summer so you'll want to start checking the site on a regular basis to peruse projects to get an idea of what to sign up for once registration opens. Don't wait to register, projects fill fast!


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I have a situation where
Project can have many
Tags (and vice versa), so I have set up a
has_and_belongs_to_many relationship between the two.
My question is this: I need a project to have the ability to carry a single current tag.
Option 1
Can I add a
tag_id to my Project table? How do I set up the relationship correctly, given there is already a `projects_tags' model?
Option 2
I'd imagine it isn't effective to have the projects_tags model carry a boolean
current field, because it would require additional queries in practice for me to find the right relationship. I just throw it out there as an alternative I've considered.


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First of all, a little background:
I'm a programmer, developing web-based applications, working a full-time job for the first time in my life. I've been working in the area for a decade now, but always on part-time, with long pauses between projects.
I'm hyperactive. I've been diagnosed with mild bipolar disorder for which I take medication; that is somewhat under control; I don't have any excitement or depression peaks during the day, but my mood still swings from very motivated to very demotivated every other half-week or so.
I have a tendency to procrastinate and I become bored with what I'm doing, regardless of what it is, very fast. I have literally tons of interests and can spend hours reading about them at random, but can't develop anything productive with those interests.
I have a very big difficulty with starting new projects and completing old ones, based on my tendency to become bored fast.
I'm fairly good at what I do.
The problem:
I work very fast. Too fast. I complete tasks a lot faster than my co-workers, in general. Although I am not as organized or as motivated as them, I can complete big projects in very little time, if I overcome the difficulty in starting. I usually can do that easily when I'm in a paid-work scenario.
Trouble is, I find myself having very little to do with my free time at work. I also don't feel at ease to do other things to distract myself while at the workplace, although I feel I'm entitled to them, since I complete tasks on time. That leaves a very big void that is hard to manage. As said, I'm hyperactive and I become bored easily. Being bored is the worst feeling I can have. When the work day is done, I'm exhausted by the fact I had to spend hours doing nothing, which I don't think is reasonable; most people would find that a blessing, but I just can't cope with the void.
What are your suggestions on how to pace myself at work? How can I handle things more slowly and what do you suggest I do to not burn myself out when I have nothing else to work on?
Thanks in advance for any help.
To expand a bit on the problematic here,
Doing more work is not the solution; besides, most of the time I am focusing on a single project and there's really nothing else to do until I receive new instructions for it.
Also, after completing tasks, since I do it on high-performance mode, I become so exhausted I can barely think straight for at least a couple of hours.
I have in the past stumbled upon this problem, more than once. Sometimes it even interferes with the way the company I work with perceives my work capabilities or even with their timeframe for the projects.
For instance, the current project I'm working on was thought of as taking at least one year to become fully complete. The first phase was expected to take at least six months. I completed it in about three, and that is counting the time I spent working on side projects and other stuff. This hurts the company itself, since they're being paid by month of work done: if I end the project before time, it will make them receive less than what was expected at first.
On my previous job, I worked part-time and received a hourly-based salary. I used to receive a lot less than all my colleagues, despite getting the same amount of work done. This led to conflict, inevitably, because I felt I should be paid more, regardless of if I worked less hours than them or not. I could not pace myself to burn out 8 hours per day if I had tasks I could usually complete in 2 hours or less. They could (and they did). Besides all this, to my other colleagues I was seen as kind of a slacker, since they perceived me as working very little, because they could not check the extent of work that was done, just the time I had spent on it. This led to them having little respect for my opinions, which in turn made intra-office relationships bitter, because I held at first a position that surpassed them in responsibilities. Since they thought they worked more, they started wanting that position for themselves, understandably.
What I am looking for exactly is methods to better pace myself at work, mainly. I don't need to perform better, nor to find ways to be more productive; I am productive enough as it is.
Thanks again.


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- Cascade quarterback Josh Smith completed 10 of his 14 passes for 185 yards and two touchdowns and carried the ball 11 times for 59 yards in the Bruins' 28-14 victory over Kamiak to clinch second place in the Wesco 4A south.
- Jackson running back Nick White ran the ball 12 times for 149 yards to go along with his two touchdowns as Jackson defeated Lynnwood 56-34.
- Edmonds-Woodway running back Junior Opoku-Mensah rushed for 280 yards on 26 carries and five touchdowns to lead the Warriors to a 56-12 win over Mariner.
- Lake Stevens quarterback Jacob Eason went 16-for-22 for 265 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Vikings to a 48-11 win over Snohomish.
- Marysville Pilchuck running back Killian Page rushed for 167 yards on 28 carries and scored two touchdowns to help the Tomahawks to a 39-21 win over Oak Harbor.
- Mountlake Terrace running back Chance Ragsdale rushed 14 times for 260 yards with two touchdowns in the Hawks' 56-14 win over Shorewood.
- Sultan's Antonio Rivas rushed for 213 yards on 13 carries and scored two touchdowns in the Turks' 40-28 win over South Whidbey.
- Sultan running back Cooper Beucherie rushed 235 yards on 31 carries and scored touchdowns from 38 and 45 yards out in the Turks' 40-28 win over South Whidbey.
- Arlington safety Micah Miller intercepted three passes in the Eagles' 24-16 win over Inglemoor.
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I have a document with the headings: daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and decadely. Google Chrome, Google Docs, and Dictionary.com insist that "decadely" is not a word. Furthermore, deacadely sounds and looks weird to me.
Is there a word I am unaware of which captures this meaning?
What would you call something that happens each century or each millennium?


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Does it really matter if you're getting paid £100 a week or £100,000? Not like there's any personal side to the game.
Does it really matter if you're getting paid £100 a week or £100,000? Not like there's any personal side to the game.
It can give you a bit more job security since the compensation to sack you would be higher.
It's fun to see to see your career earnings go up
Oh, let's have some fun here...
Why don't SI let all managers build up their career earnings and then give them options to spend that money on clothes, cars and houses. Maybe there should be an option for you to use some of your hard earned cash to buy a club, and then you could be chairman and stuff, sacking managers and so on. Wouldn't it be great if you could pile all of wages into one big lump sum and click on the "Buy the Moon" option...
I'm only surprised nobody has already posted similar nonsense in this thread first, as someone ALWAYS suggests this whenever the manager salaries are mentioned.
To increase the realism of the game I think you should look at your earnings and calculate your potential lifestyle if you earned your wage in real life. Then opn FMRTE and add houses, yachts and fast cars to please your ego. This will increase realism.
Also when the FA fines you for yours comments against the referee where do you think the money come from?I have enough for another 50-60 fines but after that im fu*ked
Cheers lads, glad to see that people are getting into the spirit of things...
The higher your wages, the less likely some other club are going to try and poach you due to the increased cost.
You want a long term save with one club = Get high wages
You want to go from club to club = Keep them low.
imagine this: a career game which you can buy some low league club..lets say conference south or something with the money you earn from your career and manage the club on your term...manager/chairman lol yeh sound crazy but this will make long term gaming more interesting!
I like being a milllionaire
and i like milking the clubs for ridiculous contracts
That's exactly what I mean Goon14. I guess that you're not a big fan of irony then?
for a game with those tasks such as real life activities then fifa manager is way to go. this game is about making yourself the next wenger or fergusson and neither of them have their own football team
How do you say stuff about the refs? ive looked a few times and cant see anything?
Some people have set personal rules regarding their contracts; stuff like "I'll work for any club that doubles my salary" or the like. It injects a little realism into the game, I guess.
Why does this keep coming up? Cant SI put some kind of script in the webpage so that when someone tries to start one of these threads their computer automatically explodes in their face?
Woah. My previous post was a bit hasty. Apologies. The only sinner in this thread is Goon14. Everybody else appears to speaking in jest
With your wages you could buy a powerful computer and a copy of FM2011 in order to practice being a manager and increase your attribute ratings.
I always set to the minimum, since it's just taking money that could be spent on players. Definitely not realistic, as I'd be looking to grab as much as I can if it actually meant anything.
Skuff: in post-match interviews, you might get asked about a dodgy decision and you can get yourself in trouble if you're too hard on the ref. It's generally worth it, just for the satisfaction of telling the game what you thought of that penalty/offside/whatever.
Sims 3 would be a great game for those who wan't to buy cars and houses in the game. It's a life sim and none of this football stuff would get in the way.
Another stupid suggestion from One of my friends was that he would like to be able to upgrade the players boots to increase their finishing skills and new shirts to boost stamina etc, etc.
Obviously he had to be killed.
It's a pity you had to kill your friend WH. You could have sold that idea to EA Sports for inclusion in the next version of FIFA. Just in case you ever get round to pitching the concept of upgrading boots to them, could you also flag up the potential benefits of having an option to bribe refs/dope players/allow hooligans into matches for free. All in the name of advanced manager realism, obviously.
I had LMA Manager on the origional playstation. The manager was responsible for choosing which type of stands to put in when updating the stadium. Also you had to pick which companys to put on your advertising boards. It was all a little too much as the manager would have no say in any of these things.
With high wages for a manager, we could then create a side game called - Football Director 2011, as an ex manager becomes a millionaire director of a lower league team ;-)
You should be able to buy racehorses - what harm could possibly come from that? Oh, the contacts you make could buy lots of shares in your club. Then a few years down the line they could sell their shares to some americans who don't care about the club purely because they themselves are only in it for the money. Then your club could be saddled with massive debts. But I'm sure this would never happen IRL
working in low leagues it only affects my budget when they give me ridiculous raises, is there any way to tell them, "I'll keep my current salary" or even better, "I love you guys, I'll manage for food"?
Football Manager really lacks depth. Most people think that people play this game to manage the tactics of a match. I completely refused to play my matches. I play like a Football Chairman than a Football Manager and I wish I could everything a chairman would do. In other words let me be Abramovich.
I never knew that the more money you get the less you will get other clubs offering you a job, I have turned down jobs when they aint offered me enough money and why I dont know lol
Maybe we should be able to use our career earnings to buy future versions of the game
Who pays for you, the manager, to attend other fixtures? Either checking up on transfer targets, checking up on upcoming opposition or going to see a game that involves your favoured club?
i still have usm2 on my pc to this day... i love it so....
its like a break from reality...
Just signed a new 5 year contract at Middlesbrough on £95,000 a week It will cost them over £25,000,000 to sack me now xD


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Continuing on my personal NC BBQ tour of NC Historic BBQ joints I stopped in a cute place – Richards BBQ in Salisbury NC.
Eastern Carolina style sauce is served here. Apple cider vinegar, red pepper flakes and a touch of sweetness. Straight forward and moist hand chopped BBQ. You walk into this place and you want to stay. The walls and booths and chairs are all inviting. They even have a small salad bar. The place is impeccably clean.
There is a poster menu showing pictures of all the plates they serve in addition to paper menus. The ladies at the counter are all sorts of loveliness and they just radiate hospitality.
I ordered a chopped BBQ sandwich and a cheerwine. I think I may be addicted to cheerwine now. Absolutely refreshing and a perfect match to BBQ. Plus I was driving so beer was not an option.
The sandwich came wrapped in wax paper. Served on a plain white hamburger bun there had to be almost 1/2 lb of meat on it.
It was a delicious sandwich. Full of porky goodness and super moist. It had quite the pepper kick but not a lot of heat. It was chopped super fine as was the slaw. You really don't have to chew a lot when its chopped this fine. They pile all their wood outside. You can see the door to their pits from drive thru pictures.
I would love to bring my family to this place. They also have a convenient drive thru if you want to take it to go.
I am so glad I had the opportunity to stop here. The food the atmosphere and the hospitality made it just a really nice experience.
For a great history on Richard's BBQ and many more check out NCBS The North Carolina BBQ Society. I found it was an excellent resource to use when travelling through the state. The North Carolina BBQ Society is also on Facebook.
Richard's Bar-B-Q, Salisbury
Richard Moore
522 N Main St
Salisbury, NC 28144


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Gutti is a
small Village/hamlet
in Belgaum Taluk
in Belgaum District of Karnataka State, India.
It comes under Gutti Panchayath.
It belongs to Belgaum Division .
It is located 0 KM towards South from District head quarters Belgaum.
539 KM from State capital Bangalore
Gutti Pin code is 590014 and postal head office is Peeranwadi .
Gutti is surrounded by
Bylahongal Taluk towards East ,
Khanapur Taluk towards South ,
Chandgad Taluk towards west ,
Hukeri Taluk towards North
Belgaum ,
Sankeshwar ,
Gokak ,
are the nearby Cities to Gutti.


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I have a long complicated home page where a company is shown, for each project, information about recent events. The idea is that they have a kind of data-heavy information center from which they can monitor all activity.
I've had trouble getting this page to perform well - two days ago local load times were 4.5s(!) and they are currently at ~2.5s(!). The most alarming part about this horrible performance is that these are the load times with only 3 projects and practically no events. Performance on the live app is slightly better, but not nearly enough.
Purpose: Improve load time on home page
Here are the current queries.
# controller
@projects = @company.projects.order("project_title ASC").includes({:events => :owner}).search(params[:search], params[:page])
# view
@projects.each do |project|
@events = project.events.where(:active => true).includes(:owner).order("priority DESC")
Removing the
.where(:active => true).includes(:owner).order("priority DESC") is shaving off 1.1 seconds on an app with only 3 projects and 4 events in total.
How should these queries be written optimally? Should indexing play a role in this case?
I've been playing around with database indexes for the looped query in the view but I haven't gotten one to cut down the time yet.


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I started using Linux Mint 14 (Nadia) recently, and kind of like it better for the Gnome experience its gives using Cinnamon DE.
My question is, the file browser (NEMO 1.1.1) fails the save the defaults - the way I want it to display the folders and stuff. For example, I would like to have the folders listed in the 'List' form instead of the icon format, and would also like to have the "Location Entry" as default, instead of the bread crumbs model address bar in the file browser.
I tried updating the preferences using the Edit > Preferences tool, however the updates are not stored, or getting reflected. I tried restarting Cinnamon, no effect.
Also, I see that there is a toggle button to toggle between the bread crumbs mode and full address typing mode for the address bar, however I couldn't find a place which lets me select which one I need by default.
Please suggest where I need to edit so that these settings can be saved permanently.


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ANDERSON, S.C. – After picking up its first victory of the season on Saturday at South Atlantic Conference foe Mars Hill, Anderson University baseball returns to the diamond on Tuesday and Wednesday in search of more wins as it plays a two-day home-and-home series with in-state rival North Greenville on Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday's meeting, at Anderson Memorial Stadium is set for 3 p.m.
The Trojans
As AU dropped the first two games in the three-game set against the Lions last weekend, the bats came alive in the final game as the Trojans avoided the sweep with a 12-run fourth inning en route to a 13-1 rout in a six-inning contest. Every Anderson batter in the lineup reached base at least once as second baseman Kyle Bailey and outfielder Paul Como each notched two hits apiece as the Trojans posted their highest run total since scoring 13 against then-Augusta State on Feb. 14, 2013.
Senior outfielder Nathan Galliford posted two hits for the weekend, highlighted by his third home run of the season, which is now tied for the conference lead with Newberry's Eric Barbieri. With his eight RBI on the season, Galliford ties for third in RBI, trailing just Barbieri (11) and Wingate's Eric Serra (9) and currently ranks second in slugging percentage (.810).
On the mound, senior right-hander Thomas Goodman ranks sixth among pitchers in the SAC with two starts in ERA (1.64). Goodman, who earned the victory in Saturday's 13-1 win, tossed five complete innings, giving up just one run on three hits, yet striking out five Lion hitters.
The Crusaders
After earning an 8-5 victory in its season opener against SAC opponent Lenoir-Rhyne, North Greenville has suffered five straight losses, including dropping a three-game set to nationally-ranked Lander on Friday and Saturday. In the series, the Crusaders were outscored 32-18, including falling 16-9 in the series opener. NGU also has been defeated by SAC opponent Newberry in a one-game midweek contest (12-0).
Offensively, the Crusaders are paced by Foley George with a .409 batting average with a double and four RBI. With George's nine hits, one has been for extra bases. Stephen Cantrell and Allen Staton follow with identical .318 batting averages, as Staton has one of North Greenville's four home runs for the year.
Staton has also shined one the mound, as he carries the only win on the team. Staton has tossed 8.1 innings with 10 strikeouts this season, holding hitters to a .233 batting average.
The Series
In both of the teams' meeting a season ago, the Trojans claimed both contests with a 7-4 win in Tigerville, followed by a 10-1 victory at Anderson Memorial Stadium. Currently, Anderson is on a three-game winning streak over the Crusaders, having not posted a loss against its in-state rival since Feb. 14, 2012.


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My question is very basic: where can I find a complete (and hopefully self-contained) proof of the classification of Platonic solids? In all the references that I found, they use Euler's formula $v-e+f=2$ to show that there are exactly five possible triples $(v,e,f)$. But of course this is not a complete proof because it does not rule out the possibility of different configurations or deformations. Has anyone ever written up a complete proof of this statement?!
This is a classical question. Here is my reading of it: Why is there a unique polytope with given combinatorics of faces, which are all regular polygons? Of course, for simple polytopes (tetrahedron, cube, dodecahedron) this is clear, but for the octahedron and icosahedron this is less clear.
The answer lies in the Cauchy's theorem. It was Legendre, while writing his Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry, noticed that Euclid's proof is incomplete in the Elements. Curiously, Euclid finds both radii of inscribed and circumscribed spheres (correctly) without ever explaining why they exist. Cauchy worked out a proof while still a student in 1813, more or less specifically for this purpose. The proof also had a technical gap which was found and patched up by Steinitz in 1920s.
The complete (corrected) proof can be found in the celebrated Proofs from the Book, or in Marcel Berger's Geometry. My book gives a bit more of historical context and some soft arguments (ch. 19). It's worth comparing this proof with (an erroneous) pre-Steinitz exposition, say in Hadamard's Leçons de Géométrie Elémentaire II, or with an early post-Steinitz correct but tedious proof given in (otherwise, excellent) Alexandrov's monograph (see also ch.26 in my book which compares all the approaches).
P.S. Note that Coxeter in Regular Polytopes can completely avoid this issue but taking a different (modern) definition of the regular polytopes (which are symmetric under group actions). For a modern exposition and the state of art of this approach, see McMullen and Schulte's Abstract Regular Polytopes.
I believe Hermann Weyl's classic book 'Symmetry' discusses this question but I can't recall what his approach is (ie, whether he makes use of the Euler formula).
One place I have seen such results is in Conway et al., Symmetry of things. I am not enough of an expert to be able to comment on the details of the proof.


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Meet Dolly! Dolly is a white poodle-ish dog. She's about a year old. She is spayed, potty trained and has been micro-chipped. Dolly has a good disposition and is a happy and active dog. Think Dolly would make a great addition to your family? Call the Northside Veterinary Clinic at (620) 225-7387 and ask them how you can make Dolly your new furry friend!
The Dodge City Daily Globe is continuing its popular feature "pet of the week". Each Saturday, we will feature an animal that is available for adoption, information about the animal, how you can adopt the animal and of course photos of the animal.
There are many animals here in Dodge City that need a loving home, find your next pet through the pet of the week!
Currently we are working with the Northside Veterinary Clinic, Ford County Humane Society and Pets Miracle Rescue but would welcome submissions from others as well.
If you would like to submit a pet to be adopted please e-mail email@example.com.
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So I'm doing my first "Big Beer" this weekend. It's an Imperial IPA with an estimated OG of 1.096. I'm using Wyeast 1056 with yeast nutrient, a shot of pure O2 and intermittent shaking. Using Mr.Malty's calculator, it says I will need a 1.56L starter w/ 2 smack packs. Now usually I make my starter on Thursday evening for a Saturday afternoon brew session. But, since this is such a bigger beer then I usually brew, I was wondering if I should do anything extra or different this time to get the yeast prepared
I like to make my starters well in advance so they can ferment out and I can decant the spent wort, rather than pitching it into my nice fresh wort. Also, you can make a larger starter and only use 1 smack pack if you want to save some money.
For a really big beer (and 1.096 is pretty big) you might consider making a full batch of 'little' beer as a starter (OG of 1.040-50). I would consider doing a smaller, mild-tasting session ale so as to not potentially contaminate the 'big' beer with residual flavors. After primary is finished, siphon off the beer and pitch your big beer wort directly on top of the yeast cake. Use a blowoff tube.


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A spin put on the popular cancer braclets. a braclet supporting the research for the cure to testicular cancer, sporting the tagline 'beat off testicular cancer'
Dude check out my new Beat Off! braclet.
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Can you define these popular missing words?
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Been beatin' off like a madman lately.
by Anonymous November 02, 2002
when you jack off hardcore
doud i just beat off like 10 times
let me beat off in your ass
let me beat off in your ass
by taz gam March 20, 2004
1. to defend ones self against an attack
2. to wank somebody off
2. to wank somebody off
dave: if two blokes attacked you would you beat them off?
janet: yes i would beat them both off
janet: yes i would beat them both off
by adam h March 01, 2005
a guy, generally who has overly-done hairdos, tight shirts and general metrosexual tendencies. Stuck-up and most likely drives a nisan and listens to terrible dance music and gets their eye brows down.
Jeez, that dude is the biggest frickin' beat-off on earth..He's wearing girl pants for christs sake!
by daveydeadite May 16, 2005
when playing halo, or any game for that matter, and you and your opponent melee eachother to death simultaneously.
ha ha, man i almost killed that cunt but instead we beatoff
by bearcapitan October 24, 2009
1. A total loser; a completely pathetic and lame person, usually obvliious to how much balls they suck.
THis can also be used as an adjective.
THis can also be used as an adjective.
"That dude over there thinks he's hot shit, but he's a total fucking beat-off."
"Yeah, man. This party is totally beat-off"
"Yeah, man. This party is totally beat-off"
by Crambrose E. Burnside November 13, 2006


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The ordinary Jacobsthal function $j$ is defined by setting $j(n)$ as the smallest number $m$, such that for each consecutive $m$ numbers in the integers, there is at least one of the numbers comprime to $n$. There are estimes for $j$, for example $$j(n) \ll \log ^2 (n)$$ and it is conjectured by Jacobsthal, that we could improve this to $$j(n) \ll ( \log (n) / \log ( \log (n)) )^2.$$ See for example http://www.tcnj.edu/~hagedorn/papers/JacobPaper.pdf .
We define now $h(n)$ as the smallest number $m$, such that for each square $a \in \mathbb{N}$, the sequence $$a+1, a+1, \ldots, a+m$$ contains at least one number comprime to $n$. My question is now, are there any good upper estimates for $h(n)$ ? Clearly, $h(n) \leq j(n)$ holds, so we could take the above estimate, but I am searching for something stronger, perhaps like $$h(n) \leq C \log(n),$$ where $C=2$ or so.


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Whales and dolphins continue to be killed around the world and need our help. Japan, Iceland, and Norway kill more than 1,000 minke, fin, and other great whale species every year, all for meager sales of whale meat. Thousands of dolphins are still killed every year in Japan and the Solomon Islands for meat, and in Indonesia and Peru for shark bait. Whales and dolphins continue to be captured in Russia, Cuba, and Japan for export to captivity facilities.
We have a long history of working within the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to end commercial whaling. In 1982, we helped pass a moratorium on commercial whaling. We publish a daily newsletter, ECO, at IWC meetings, which is the voice for whales and the environmental community. We work with grassroots groups to educate local fishermen about the need to stop the killing of dolphins and sharks. And we support the growing efforts for watching wild dolphins and whales rather than killing them. We support community efforts to replace dolphin killing with dolphin tourism in places like the Solomon Islands, and fight to block the import and export to captivity of wild dolphins, belugas, and orca whales.
Commercial whaling, undertaken under the guise of "scientific" whaling, must be stopped. Japan is planning more illegal whaling in Antarctica, in defiance of the legal ruling against the country in the International Court of Justice at the Hague. Iceland and Norway are also defiant. We work to stop the import of wild belugas captured in Russia for U.S. captivity facilities, and to blow the whistle on live dolphin exports from the cruel "cove" drive hunts to places such as Dubai and China.
Lori Marino, February 2016
The world is horrified by the recent upsetting story of an infant Franciscana dolphin who was taken out of the water by beachgoers in Argentina and passed around as a prop for selfies, and who then died. The unfortunate infant could not maintain body temperature, and she likely became dehydrated when out of the water.
But her death is so much more than just a case of a manhandled animal. Her story is a microcosm of what our species does to other animals every day, treating them as objects for our benefit, with value only as long as they provide entertainment.
Mark Palmer, October 1, 2015
Staff member Lawrence Makili describes the efforts of working for dolphin protection in this island nation. Threats to dolphins include the efforts by dolphin traders to capture them for sale to aquariums around the world, and villages that have a long history of killing dolphins both for food and for their teeth.
Lawrence reports how Earth Island is participating with joint meetings alongside the Solomon's government and the people of Bita-ama to help assist a plan by the villagers to support eco-tourism in Bita-ama on the island of Malaita with dolphin watching as a key part.
Whaling is a cruel, outdated practice. Hunting and killing dolphins for food and captivity has been proven as being inhumane. We demand that the IWC to include small cetaceans in their purview and advocate for increased cetacean protection. We also demand the cessation of whaling by Japan, Norway and Iceland.Sign Here >
Did you know that one of the biggest supporters of the Icelandic whaling industry is tourism? Learn what you can do to avoid supporting this inhumane practice.Read More >
Peru has outlawed dolphin killing, but dolphins are turning up dead in its waters. Investigations by Hardy Jones and his group, Bluevoice, and the environmental organization Mundo Azul have shown that dolphins are being slaughtered for shark bait for the Asian shark fin market.Read More >


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Traffic systems are part of a larger system
Today there are more than one billion cars on the road. That number will double by 2020.
Rethinking how we get from point A to point B means applying new technology and new policies to old assumptions and habits. It means improving the drivers' experience, not just where and when they drive. And it could lead to advances in the cars we drive, the roads we drive them on, and the public transit we might take instead.
For example, seeing a city's traffic in a consolidated, real-time view can help anticipate problems, alleviate congestion and decrease emergency-response times. IBM Intelligent Transportation, a complement to the Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities, enables advanced analysis of the many factors that make up traffic flow, and gives planners and responders a comprehensive look at the state of their city's roadways on ground level.
Traffic jumped 236% as population grew nearly 20% between 1982 and 2001 in the U.S.
Social media is the new public forum, creating an opportunity for a new level of responsiveness from city leaders.
IBM Commuter Pain Index
In 2011, IBM performed its fourth comprehensive Commuter Pain Study. 8,042 drivers in 20 cities were asked a total of 27 questions, such as the duration of their longest commute, their best and worst roadways and how gas prices affect their choices.
The results have been compiled into the Commuter Pain Index, which ranks the emotional and economic toll of commuting in each city on a scale of one to 100―with 100 being the most onerous. The Index reveals a tremendous disparity in the pain of the daily commute from city to city. For example, the commute in Beijing is four times more painful than the commute in Los Angeles or New York, and seven times more painful than the commute in Stockholm, according to the Index. Download the full report from the IBM Institute for Business Value.
Here's how the cities stack up:
Commuter Pain Index. More pain. Mexico City 108, Shenzen 95, Beijing 95, Nairobi 88, Johannesburg 83, Bangalore 75, New Delhi 72, Moscow 65, Milan 53, Singapore 44. Less pain. Buenos Aires 42, Los Angeles 34, Paris 31, Madrid 28, new York City 28, Toronto 27, Stockhol 26, Chicago 25, London 23, Montreal 21.
Of the worldwide respondents: 91% got stuck in traffic over the past 3 years―with a maximum delay reported to be 1.3 hours on average. 42% say that their stress level has increased due to traffic woes. 49% support the idea of a congestion charges for a more guaranteed journey time.