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Dating After Divorce
Q: I've been divorced for over a year and I don't know if it's okay to tell my kids that I'm dating. Right now, I only date when my kids are spending the weekend with their father. Still, I feel awkward if a man phones my house when the kids are home. They exaggerate the situation and tell their father I have a boyfriend. What should I do?
A: If you've been divorced for over a year, I don't think you need to hide the fact that you are dating from your kids. You aren't doing anything wrong by dating other men. I would hope that you and your ex could both explain the dating to your kids in a manner that honored each other and assured your kids that neither of you is attempting to replace their mother or father. As long as they feel secure in the love of their parents, the negative comments they make about either of you dating shouldn't worry you.
Don't give your children the power to prevent you from developing relationships with other men. It's natural to for them to be a little possessive of you and to instantly dislike your dates. They may still secretly be clinging to the hope that you and your ex might get back together and that you will all be a family again. If that's so, you and their dad should explain to them that this isn't a possibility. Dating after a divorce is not easy for a parent or for the kids, but keeping the dating secret is unhealthy for all concerned.
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Carleton Kendrick has been in private practice as a family therapist and has worked as a consultant for more than 20 years. He has conducted parenting seminars on topics ranging from how to discipline toddlers to how to stay connected with teenagers. Kendrick has appeared as an expert on national broadcast media such as CBS, Fox Television Network, Cable News Network, CNBC, PBS, and National Public Radio. In addition, he's been quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, USA Today, Reader's Digest, BusinessWeek, Good Housekeeping, Woman's Day, and many other publications.


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October 3, 2012
The following experts from the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development are available to comment on a variety of issues relating to the first Presidential debate of the 2012 election, in addition to a number of political issues as voting day approaches:
• Rodney Benson, associate professor, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and sociology
News media coverage of politics and social issues; political communication; political campaign strategies; social movements; international comparative studies of news media; public media
• Charlton McIlwain (video), associate professor, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
African-American voters and the GOP; political rhetoric/speeches; media coverage of political campaigns; political advertising; minority political candidates; race messages in political campaigns
• Joel Middleton (video), visiting assistant professor of applied statistics, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Voter behavior and political persuasion, survey design and experimental interventions for political organizations
• Jonathan Zimmerman, professor of history and education; Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
The history of American politics
About the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Located in the heart of Greenwich Village, NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development prepares students for careers in the arts, education, health, media, and psychology. Since its founding in 1890, the Steinhardt School's mission has been to explore the human experience through public service, global collaboration, research, scholarship, and practice. To learn more about NYU Steinhardt, visit: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu.
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We have all been listening to the presidential hopefuls non-stop and there is a very good reason for the separation of church and state! If anyone believes that any one of these hopefuls are in the position they are now because of their deep faith or evengelical beliefs, they should run as fast as they can to get back on the turnip wagon they fell off of! They know how to work people ... plain and simple. Run Forest run!
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Whirlwind 1: What's new in C# 2 - Generics
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Bruce Kyle of Microsoft and Stuart Celarier of CheckFree explore the new languages features in C#. It's a whirlwind tour of the important language features since C# 1. Stuart describes the feature and why it is useful. But doesn't get into best practices nor suggested usages. Just the facts about the feature.
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Searching for Life Amid the Fossils
With Teixeira, Granderson and Rodriguez Out, the Yankees Are Seeking Healthy Alternatives
The Yankee locker room has been a scene of utter chaos for much of this spring, packed to the gills with minor leaguers and in a constant state of flux as the Yankees brought one player after another on board to try to fill the many holes on this team.
The locker nameplates changed almost daily. But one locker remained empty, placid, untouched, with a pair of No. 13 jerseys and an unused box of cleats the only evidence that Alex Rodriguez was ever on this team.
The demise of the Yankees has been forecast for years, as their stars have aged and as younger, hungrier teams have risen. But every year, the Yankees have figured out how to get it done, thanks primarily to their core stars, huge names, like Rodriguez, who have served as the foundation that allows the role players around them to succeed.
But this year, the stars are gone. Rodriguez is off rehabbing after hip surgery, and thanks first to free agency and then to numerous injuries, one star after another has followed him out of the room, replaced by, well, not much. Derek Jeter is out with an injury, as are Mark Teixeira and Curtis Granderson. The Yankees never really replaced free agent departures Nick Swisher and Russell Martin.
As the Yankees have brought in one flawed player after another in attempts to fill the void, Rodriguez's empty locker has served as a stark reminder that 2013 is a year more about who isn't in the room, than about those who are. The result is an opening day lineup as anonymous as any the Yankees have fielded in 20 years, and a team that seems disjointed, with players coming and going almost daily.
This should have been a season that doubled as a retirement tour for Mariano Rivera, and as a chance for what's left of the core four dynasty players—Jeter, Rivera and Andy Pettitte—to try for one last championship together. Instead, Rivera and Pettitte will open the year as lonely icons, trying to build a team from disparate parts and squeeze one more run out of what's left of this tired, beat-up crew.
"It's a good challenge," Pettitte said. "I think sometimes as a professional athlete—[although] you're not excited about Derek not being here, or Teixeira not being here, or Grandy being down—but it's an opportunity for some guys and for us to build some strength."
A few true stars remain, in CC Sabathia and Robinson Cano. But Cano, especially, is a big name out on an island, and will likely be treated as such by opposing pitchers, who may pitch around him to face weaker hitters.
"It's going to be hard," Cano said. "All you want is to start the lineup with your starters. You don't want anybody to get hurt, but this is part of life. Hopefully they'll get well soon and be back soon, and we can stay in the race so whenever they get back we can be on track and they can help us make it all the way to the playoffs."
So if the Yankees are going to succeed, they are going to have to eschew the star system that has carried them for so long, and get back to basics. If they are to win this year, they will do it on the backs of the anonymous, Rivera said, as they did during the dynasty years of the late 1990s. They need to find the modern-day Scott Brosius.
"Someone will step up, someone will do what needs to be done to win games," Rivera said. "For example, then, we had Scott Brosius. He came from Oakland. We had no clue about him. And he did a tremendous job. And so many others. It can happen like that.
"You don't need to have just big names to do the job, to get the job done. You have to have the heart and will to do the job. That's what separates. I believe that everyone who is here is capable of doing that."
Looking around the locker room for the players who are going to fill the void, there are a few candidates, like Kevin Youkilis and Eduardo Nunez, Teixeira said.
"The team needs to collectively pick up someone that's going down. And more importantly who are the guys who are going to step up? Who's that young guy who's going to come up?" Teixeira said.
"Is Kevin Youkilis going to be healthy, and have a great year? If that's the case, then problem solved. Is Eduardo Nunez going to get 500 at-bats this year, and become a great player? Which I think he can."
Perhaps Youkilis will bounce back, and Nunez will emerge. But beyond that, the pickings are frightfully slim. Beyond Nunez and perhaps Brett Gardner, there are few breakout candidates on this club. And there are too many players—Ichiro Suzuki, Travis Hafner, Vernon Wells—counted on to bounce back. The Yankees might hit on some; they won't hit on all. And older role players aren't going to become stars: Jayson Nix is not suddenly going to become Alex Rodriguez; Chris Stewart is not going to hit 20 home runs.
So in the end it may come down to the stars after all. If the no-names can survive long enough, they may be able to turn the team over to the big names—first Jeter, then Granderson, then Teixeira, and finally Rodriguez, by the All-Star break.
Once the Yankees look like the Yankees again, they will take their shot, with only one nagging question lingering in the background waiting to be answered: When they do return, will those aging stars have enough left to make a difference?
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A new Bugatti Veyron costs around $1.6 million, depending on how you outfit it. A 1936 57SC Bugatti Atlantic fetched $30 million at auction. This Bugatti-inspired desk, then, may seem like a value at just $240,000. But it isn't.
If you're crazy rich this "Bugatti-inspired Executive Desk" built by Luzzo Bespoke may be a nice way to match your car with furniture and show off to the other obnoxiously affluent people who you pretend to be friends with because they're the only ones who will fork over $5,000 just to hang out in the lobby of a hotel.
Having expressed our disgust with this kind of classless opulence we have to admit it's not too bad. Rather than take cues from the more pedestrian Veyron, the desk is inspired by the Bugatti Grand Prix cars of the '20s and '30s.
Obvious Bugatti touches are apparent in the blue-on-white-with-tan color pattern and honeycomb grill drawers, as well as the billet aluminum frame. More subtly clever? The drive gears for the height adjustment are modeled after the Winfield carburetor's synchro quadrants from a Type 57.
And if the $240,000 version seems too much, there's a $65,000 version as well.


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The 8 Most Baffling "Sports" From Around The World
#4. Dwile Flonking (aka Beer Rag Tossing)
Sussex, Kent
What is it?
A game of dexterity, skill and terrifying amounts of booze, a mixture that we've always found to end in absolute happiness. According to the Friends of The Lewes Arms pub, one venue where the game is played, the rules of the game are impenetrable and the result is always contested. They say that because the competitors are always roaringly drunk by the time the game ends.
Two teams play the game. One member of a team, the flonker, stands with a beer-soaked rag on a stick whilst the other team links arms and dances around him, a practice known as girting, for reasons apparent to only those who have spent their adult life drinking ale.
The flonker spins around in the opposite direction to the others and has to fling the rag at them. The girters have to dodge the rag. Points are scored if the rag hits someone, but if the rag misses, the flonker has to drink a chamber-pot's worth of beer.
The game is over when four rounds are finished, or when everyone is so drunk that any movement might cause them to vomit noisily or urinate uncontrollably. Points are deducted if anyone is sober enough to remember their gender at the end of the game.
Dwile Flonkers claim that the game was invented either in the nineteenth century or sometime in the middle ages. Sober people say it was invented in the 1960s by a bunch of people with too much time on their hands.
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As with most English rural sports of questionable origin, dressing up like an idiot is a requirement.
#3. Hornussen (aka Spastic Placard Flailing
What is it?
Some claim it's a cross between baseball and golf, but in reality it only has a passing similarity to either. The game is played by teams of up to eighteen on a very long, straight field. A launcher, a curved metal ramp, is at one end, by which a player stands. He smacks a small rubber projectile, the hornuss, from the launcher with a long, bendy stick that looked like a fishing rod.
The hornuss can reach speeds of two hundred miles an hour, and can fly for up to three hundred yards. It zooms off straight towards the members of the other team, who are all standing on the field waving placards and wearing helmets.
The other team has to biff the hornuss out the air my hitting it with a placard. But because of the hornuss' small size and quick velocity, it's very hard to spot, leading to lots of comical running around with oversized wooden placards until someone sees the hornuss flying straight at their soft, pink, squishy flesh. At this point they panic and fling their placard up into the air and run away. And then whole thing starts again.
Points are scored if the hornuss hits the ground without having being stopped by a placard or someone's face.
Hornussen was developed in the early seventeenth century. It's unclear whether it was invented as a sport or, as a minority claim, as a method of warfare. All we can say is if the latter is true, it's probably for the best that the Swiss have sat out every major war since.
Interesting Fact:
The name derives from the German word for hornet, because of the buzzing noise the hornuss makes as it flies through the air. We would have thought a better name would be "Meine Hoden!" for the inevitable cry a player makes when he fails to spot the hornuss until impacts his balls.
#2. Skibobbing (aka Suicide Ski Biking
The Alps, though it has spread to the US.
What is it?
Skibobbing is a winter sport, in which competitors go down very steep snowy hills on a bike on skis. So it's like skiing, which itself can be pretty dangerous, only multiplying the danger by a magnitude of stupid because the bike doesn't appear to have any way of stopping.
We've watched videos and it appears the only thing to do on a skibob is to go really, really fast until you either run out of hill or crash. It would not surprise us in the slightest if the creator of the sport was an undertaker in a small Alpine town who fancied some extra business.
The modern skibob stemmed from a patent made in 1892 by an American called John Stevens. Stevens patented the idea of a bicycle where the front wheel was replaced by a ski.
We imagine his last words were "hey guys, look at this thing I made! Check out how cool I look!"
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Skibobbing became popular in the 1950s when they were used as transport across the Alps, possibly as an effort to steal the 'Most Retarded Way of Crossing the Alps' trophy from Hannibal.
#1. Camel Wrestling (aka Camel Wrestling)
What is it?
Not to be confused with sports like bear wrestling, in which a man with huge balls goes up against a bear, camel wrestling is a Turkish sport in which two male camels slug it out. The Tulu Camels are specially bred for the competition, and decked out with bells and colourful ornamentation. They're then sent into the ring with another camel to do battle over a hot camel-babe in heat.
The results are usually highly amusing.
Camels can win by either making their opponent fall, scream or gallop away in a comical leg-flapping manner. Trainers try and install carious fighting methods in their camels. These include wrestling from the right or left, tripping the other camel or one camel trapping the other's head against its chest and then sitting down. A camel's grasp of advanced fighting practices is notoriously poor, however, and thus it seems they just clatter around, banging into each other until one topples over.
Camel wrestling has been popular in the Aegean region of Turkey for centuries. No one quite knows when it began, though some speculate it has been around since the caravan and nomadic periods. We think that it began when two camel traders got bored and likely drunk.
Interesting Fact:
Because of the presence of a camel-babe, the male camels often get incredibly aroused, which culminates in a lot of viscous spittle and excitable urine being sprayed around the arena. For some reason, ringside seats never sell that well.
If you can draw and think like a child and want $50, head to the forum and show us The Presidential Election As Drawn By a 5 Year-Old.
Or, if you didn't follow the link in the intro, check out last year's The 10 Most Insane "Sports" From Around the World. Or for a look at the bizarre foods foreigners use to fuel all that bizarre activity, check out The 6 Most Terrifying Foods in the World.


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CENTRAL TEXAS (March 31, 2013)--Younger veterans may have an advantage over the older ones when it comes to getting their disability claims processed amid a backlog of claims in what many say shouldn't be a competition.
From 2010 to 2012, the total pending VA disability claims has more than doubled, while the backlog has more than quadrupled.
Currently the average wait time for getting a decision on a VA claim is 18 to 24 months, but younger vets may have an advantage.
Jim Richmond with the Texas Veterans Commission said older vets were not given as many resources about the claims system compared to the ones today.
Coast Guard veteran Jacqueline English, 52, described her relationship with the current VA claims system as "disastrous."
English said she has trouble walking due to her service in the military.
She served in the Coast Guard in the 70s and has waited more than two years for her claim to be processed.
"How I found out was through talking to veterans down the line like several years later," English said.
Plus, older vets didn't have technology back then to help them keep track of their medical records and health problems.
"There's very specific guidelines for a case to fit into the fully-developed claim process, and if something happens after it gets in there, that will pull it out of the fully-developed process," Richmond said.
The lack of information increases the chance for older vets to have issues with their paperwork, which then affects vets young and old waiting to have their claims processed.
Older vets are in a long line with younger ones who are filing more medical conditions than ever.
Corey Kittle got out of the Army about a month ago and, like English, he is waiting to have his claim processed.
He said his deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan left him with health problems like sleep apnea and injured ankles, wrists, knees.
"It's disheartening to think that we may be actually be competing with each other to get our benefits taken care of," Kittle said.
Another disadvantage for older vets compared to younger ones is record keeping for their claims, according to Richmond.
"Information flow is phenomenally better, record keeping is easier because of technology, and it's like comparing apples to oranges when going about finding evidence for claims," Richmond said.
A VA spokesperson said it's making changes, like going paperless and hopes to cut the wait to about 125 days by 2015.


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24 Sep 2012 5:35 AM #1
Unanswered: Noobie Question: How can i access methods of the parent Class
Hey there,
i got a small Problem. I got a Gridview Panel, where i can manage my support tickets.
So i got a "Close Ticket" Button where a handler is bound (handler: this.onCloseTicket) but in that handler a have to call my refreshTickets method from my class, when the ajax request is successful (-> in the success event of the Ext.Ajax.request) but it does not work when i call this.refreshTickets();
How can i call that method from there?
I'm sure someone can help me.. Im rather new to Ext.Js.
Best regards,
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Have you set the scope in your button to see this correctly?
If you use call console.log(this) right before you call refreshTickets, and look in the console ..
what is 'this' evaluating to?
25 Sep 2012 12:08 AM #3
Ah thanks Scott!
Thats scope thingy solved some more riddles


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It's Time to Finish Strong
All of those hours spent at Armstrong are finally coming to a close, and it's almost time to celebrate. The following pages are designed to guide students, families and friends through the entire graduation process, with information about applications, cap and gown orders, candidate lists, Commencement and more. With all of these resources in one place, be sure to make this your Armstrong graduation hub.


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A report released today by HealthGrades, an independent source of hospital quality ratings, named St. Joseph #1 in Texas for overall orthopedic services (including spine and joint replacement surgery) for the second year in a row.
That's not the only department we're proud of.
St. Joseph is Five Star Rated for:
• Treatment of Stroke
• Treatment of Pneumonia
• Carotid Surgery (2007-2012)
• Total Knee Replacement (2008-2012)
• Total Hip Replacement (2011-2012)
• Hip Fracture Repair (2011-2012)
• Back and Neck Surgery (except Fusion) (2006-2012)
• Back and Neck Surgery (Fusion) (2009-2012)
St. Joseph's State and National Ranks:
• Ranked among America's 100 Best Hospitals for Overall Orthopedic Services
• Ranked among America's 100 Best Hospitals for Joint Replacement
• Ranked among America's 100 Best Hospitals for Spine Surgery
• Ranked among the Top 10% in the Nation for Treatment of Stroke
• Ranked #1 in Texas for Overall Orthopedic Services (two years in a row!)
What 5-star Means
Key findings of the HealthGrades 2011 Healthcare Consumerism and Hospital Quality in America report:
• Hospitals that are 5-star rated have risk adjusted mortality or complication rates that are among the lowest in the country. To put it simply, people are more likely to have successful treatment without major complications, on average, at hospitals in this category.
• On average, patients had a 73% lower risk of dying in a 5-star rated hospital compared to a 1-star rated hospital, and a 54% lower risk of dying in a 5-star rated hospital compared to the national average.
• On average, patients were 63% less likely to experience inhospital complications than patients at 1-star programs, and had a 43% lower chance of developing an inhospital complication than the national average.
• If all Medicare patients from 2008 through 2010 had been treated at 5-star hospitals, 240,040 lives could have potentially been saved.
• If all Medicare patients from 2008 through 2010 had gone to 5-star hospitals for their procedure, 164,472 inhospital complications could have potentially been avoided.
HealthGrades' Methodology:
HealthGrades analyzed the most current publicly available Medicare data from 2008, 2009 and 2010 to develop its 2012 ratings. Hospitals were evaluated solely on clinical outcomes.
This analysis includes all 5,000 hospitals in the United States that treat Medicare patients and covers approximately 40 million Medicare discharges. Medicare is the only publicly available data source for all hospitals. Past performance is the best predictor of future performance.
HealthGrades rates every nonfederal hospital in the country. No hospitals pay for the ratings and hospitals cannot opt in or opt out of being rated. Ratings for all hospitals not affiliated with the federal government (such as the VA system) are available for free at www.healthgrades.com
Risk-adjusted mortality and complication rates were calculated and hospitals were assigned a 5-star (best), 3-star (as expected), or a 1-star (poor) quality rating for 27 procedures and diagnoses from heart failure to hip replacement to pneumonia.
When a hospital achieves a 5-star rating in any time period, they are an outlier and are in the top 10-15% of the nation.
What This Means to the Brazos Valley:
Consumers have choices and should do their research before checking into a hospital. St. Joseph's excellent care stands out in our area, in our state and nationally. Locals should feel good knowing a hospital rated 5-star in many procedures is available in their neighborhood.
In addition, St. Joseph's reputation for medical excellence is spreading beyond the Brazos Valley. Over the last several years, around 15% of our joint replacement patients travelled to St. Joseph from outside the Brazos Valley or even out-of-state. On average, these non-local hip or knee-replacement patients bring in around $1.6 million to St. Joseph every year.
St. Joseph's joint replacement program, Joint University, requires patients to bring a "coach" to help them through the four-day hospital stay and recovery process. These coaches stay in local hotels, eat out and shop here, contributing even more to our local economy.
"More and more patients are taking the time to do research and are looking for programs with consistently good outcomes," said Tony Pfitzer, President and CEO of St. Joseph. "Local patients who have had joint replacement and spine surgery at St. Joseph are also referring friends and family to us who are considering those surgeries. These rankings by HealthGrades continue to affirm what our former patients say about the excellent care they received."


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Patient Stories
Our patients talk to us — in their own words — about their challenges and their successes before, during, and after their care here. These people are your family, friends and neighbors. Listen to what they have to say about their experiences, and what it says about the level of care you can expect from Norris Cotton Cancer Center.


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Tom Rogers
The Innovator
As the president and CEO of TiVo, Tom Rogers '79 is leading a charge to make television viewing a more personalized and enjoyable experience
In July 1969, 15-year-old Tom Rogers '79 held a reel-to-reel audio recorder up to the speaker of the TV set in his parents' Westchester home. He had decided to tape Walter Cronkite's broadcast of the moon landing. He thought he might want to listen to it again later.
"It's clear that, as a consumer, even back then, I longed for TiVo capabilities," Rogers says. Thirty-six years later, in July 2005, Rogers became president and CEO of TiVo, Inc.—which is best known for inventing the device to digitally record and replay TV shows.
Always an avid television viewer, Rogers kept stacks of TV Guide issues on his bedside table as a child. He surmises he was one of very few teenagers who eagerly looked forward to the magazine's coverage of industry news. By the time Rogers enrolled at Columbia Law School, he had stirred government policy into his mix of interests. "I was fascinated by the intersection of media and regulation," he recalls.
During his time in Morningside Heights, Rogers studied media law and kept tabs on the communications industry landscape. After graduation, during a two-year stint as an attorney at a Wall Street firm, Rogers worked on an antitrust case involving local TV stations.
Rogers headed to Washington, D.C., in the early 1980s to serve as counsel to the congressional subcommittee dealing with media and telecommunications law. It was a key moment in the history of television. Cable TV was exploding in popularity, and Rogers led the drafting of the Cable Act of 1984, which created the federal framework for governing the industry. Over the next few years, all three broadcast networks switched ownership hands—with Rogers working in-depth on many of the associated regulatory issues. His talents impressed Jack Welch, the legendary chairman of General Electric, which then owned NBC, and soon enough Rogers was appointed the first president of NBC's new cable division. There, he founded CNBC and MSNBC, and oversaw an array of cable channels, including A&E, History, Bravo, AMC, and Court TV. In 1999, he moved on to become CEO of Primedia—a major player in the print, online, and video realms—before eventually settling in at TiVo.
With Rogers at the helm, TiVo has tripled in value and won an Emmy Award for TV innovation. He has taken TiVo from its original roots as the creator of the DVR to now being what Rogers refers to as "the leader in providing next generation TV to the cable industry." He has also led the company in patent litigation against Motorola, Cisco, Verizon, and AT&T, racking up more than $1 billion in court victories. Rogers' legal acumen has proven invaluable throughout. "I deal with significant legal issues," he says, "from regulatory interpretation to patent enforcement. I've often thought that I could never have the insights I bring to my role as CEO without my legal training."
As for the day-to-day appeal of the brand, TiVo loyalists point to this high praise from a 2010 Wired magazine article: "There are exactly three companies in this world that are truly great at interface design—Apple, Google, and TiVo." Meanwhile, presiding over a company that helps viewers more elegantly explore the television landscape seems a perfect fit for Rogers, who will be inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame this year. He keeps 10 TiVo boxes around his house and records about 80 hours of TV each week (mostly news and current events), using his remote to fast-forward and rewind as he watches. "We're in a world of infinite media choices," says Rogers, "and that can be chaotic for consumers. TiVo's mission is to organize the chaos."


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I worded my question wrong before, my intention wasn't to change the resolution of the user's browser settings. I'm mainly wanting to layout my page for the smallest common resolution size and have it zoom in to fit the resolution if the user's resolution has a higher setting. Like if the user's resolution is 800x600, my website will look just like I designed it, but if the user's resolution is 1280x800, my website will zoom in to fit that resolution without changing the layout of my website, which would make the font and size of everything bigger while keeping the same look and layout of the website. If there is a way, how can I? Thanks in advance :)
We started with Q&A. Technical documentation is next, and we need your help.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you can contribute.
If my website layout is set up for a resolution of 800x600, can I zoom in my website to fit the user's resolution if it is a higher resolution?
No there is not. This would be very annoying for the client. You have to have to change your site to fit the users resolution. As the comments suggest, make it responsive. If you search for responsive web design you'll find a lot of articles on ways to do it. We are sometimes limited in javascript because some things would be a security issue (this one would be more of an annoyance).
So to sum up, the reason that so many make their site fit the users resolution is because you can't change the user's resolution.
You can't do that, and you shouldn't.
You'll have to make your web site accommodate the user's current browser window size as best you can. You have no control over the browser window size or screen resolution and even if you did, it would be unprofessional and impolite to change these things without such a change being understood by and initiated by the user.
The browser is not the computer. It is just one application among many. You don't know what the user is doing with his screen--what if he is playing a video in one corner and wants his browser window exactly where it is?
What if he is visually impaired and has his browser zoomed in like crazy? I know someone who wears thick glasses, uses the on-screen screen zoom accessibility box, and still leans in to about 6 inches from the screen to be able to see anything. You would not be doing him a favor to change anything about how his browser and screen are laid out.
Any website that somehow changed how my browser to fit the screen, altered my browser's resolution, or changed my monitor's resolution would:
There are video playing plugins that can maximize to full screen at user request and user request only. Doing such a thing requires a java applet.
As others have stated in the previous answers changing the screen resolution may be a bad idea (if not simply impossible), but you can change the scale of the contents so it exactly fits your window.
I wrote the piece of code below for a web application I designed for devices with exactly a 1280x800 resolution. In the end I decided to also occasionally use it on a 1080p screen, so some scaling was required to get it to fit perfectly. This is what my code below does.
I am using the fullscreen API (this wrapper: http://sindresorhus.com/screenfull.js/) to make the browser go full screen via a button and this same button triggers the auto scaling at the same time. You can find a working example here: http://jsfiddle.net/QT5Nr/5/
Beware this piece of code currently requires jQuery 1.8.3 and screenfull.js, but can easily be changed to work without them. I left my comment on top intact to explain why I override the jQuery offset function. You can also test why I did that by commenting that piece of code out in the jsFiddle, then resizing the frame.


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I would like to ask for some reviews of Peleng 8mm Fisheye - if somebody have it of course. I would like to buy this lens fro sphreical panoramas, but Im not sure if its ideal. I know that hte Sigma 8mm is much better, but it costs still a lot of money (nearly 3x much as the sigma) If somebody have some experiences with this lens, I would appreciate it. I know that the maybe biggest problem is only manual operation. What do you think about it ? Thanks


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Engineers were expected to advise the city about the cost of maintaining the current pool and develop alternatives that include rehabilitation.
Crunk said there is historical interest in Steinhart Park and interest in preserving the bathhouse and rehabilitating the pool.
The Olympic-sized swimming pool has 330,000 gallons of water filtered through a heater three times a day.
JEO will develop an opinion about the life expectancy of the pool and the cost to renovate or replace. The company will inspect the current water circulation system for the main and baby pools, as well as the pool heating system.
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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor release date accompanies new story trailerWritten by: / / 6 Comments
If you're looking forward to Monolith Productions' new action RPG Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor then you'll be pleased to know that the game has been dated for October. Due out on October 7th, this multiplatform title set in The Lord of the Rings universe will cast players as a skilled ranger called Talion who heads to Mordor to exact his revenge on Sauron and his army who were behind the murder of his family.
Pre-ordering the game from participating retailers will net players The Dark Ranger bonus pack which includes the following exclusive content:
• Dark Ranger Character Skin
• Begin your own quest for vengeance with a new Dark Ranger character skin that embodies Talion's darker side
• "Test of Power" Challenge Mode
• Face Sauron's Captains and defeat them to earn powerful Runes and gain a head start in the game
• Test your speed, skill and strategy and measure yourself against your friends on the leaderboards
• Access to Exclusive Leaderboards for "Test of Power" Challenge Mode
• Test your speed, skill and strategy and measure yourself against your friends on the leaderboards in this challenge mode
Besides dating Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and unveiling The Dark Ranger bonus pack, Monolith Productions also released a new story trailer for the game showcasing the dramatic events that spur Talion forward on his quest to reach Sauron's mountainous base of operations. Take a look below:
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is in development for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC – dive into El33tonline's previous coverage of the game for more details.
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Hi there,
I'm working on an app that uses Sencha Touch, and I'm testing it on my Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone.
There seems to be a major issue with my keyboard. Every time I focus on a text field and type something, no text appears. Sometimes, when I select a word with T9, it does appear. When trying to backspace that word, nothing happens.
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Any solutions for this? I'm also experiencing this problem.
SammyO, have you eventually solved it?
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This was inspired by this question. According to Wikipedia, a Majorana neutrino must be its own antiparticle, while a Dirac neutrino cannot be its own antiparticle. Why is this true?
Because the spinor of the Majorana neutrino is an eigenstate of the charge conjugation operator. This is different from the case of a Dirac spinor that will change under the effect of the same operator.
In crude terms I think it amounts to the following:
Consider, for instance, a (Dirac) fermion creation operator: $c_j^\dagger$. A Majorana fermion is somehow the "real" Part of a Dirac fermion:
$m_j = c_j + c_j^\dagger$
(conventions on normalization differs). Hence a Majorana fermion transforms into itself under charge conjugation.
here is how I understood the answer. Imagine that we look at the electron in our reference frame, and find that it travels in z direction and has spin projection +1/2. This one we call right-handed electron. Since it is massive, there exist reference frames in which observers see it as left-handed electron. For example those observers that travel faster than the electron in the z-direction. Its charge is Lorentz invariant quantity, so everyone agrees that this is electron and not positron. Massive electron is then described by four degrees of freedom (4 basic spinors), left and right handed electron and left and right-handed positron; it is Dirac field. Imagine now that we have left handed neutrino in our reference frame. Since we have lot of evidence that neutrino is massive, we can see that there are reference frames in which right handed neutrino is seen. The right handed neutrino is not observed in any experiment so far, and their mass could be very high. We only observed left handed neutrino and right handed antineutrino. So we can consistently demand that the observer in the other reference frame actually sees right handed antineutrino, without introducing right handed neutrino and left handed antineutrino. For charged particle this would not work. So we can describe neutrino by only two degrees of freedom; it is then Majorana neutrino. But the neutrinos are charged under lepton number symmetry which is global symmetry of the Standard Model. Being global means that it does not create dynamics, and there is no fundamental reason why it cannot be broken. If (local) gauge symmetry is explicitly broken then it leads to inconsistency of the theory, meaning that non-physical degrees of freedom could arise. So Majorana particles are their own antiparticles only if we do not take into account lepton number symmetry.
Neutrino definitely have anti-particles. Another question whether an anti-particle differs from its "particle" or not. The charge conjugation operator may generally change a given "neutrino state" because a neutrino solution is not completely determined with just Dirac's equation.


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As reported in the Tribune last week, the Pratt High School Greenback finished 2nd in the USA TODAY regional mascot competition. And as mentioned, win or not, a lot of positives have resulted from the experience as Greenback Nation came together in the effort to support the Fighting Frog.
For one thing, it now seems to be well established that The Greenback as we know him was designed by recently deceased Diane Baker Sevick '63—ending any speculation over the originator of the now-famous logo.
The Tribune has received at least four separate confirmations that Sevick drew the Fighting Frog as a decoration for the homecoming assembly in support of her friend Phyllis Huffman Larue, who was running for queen. The most recent to corroborate that story was Jim Lewis, PHS football coaching icon, who was new to PHS at that time in history.
In addition to clearing up any mystery as to the designer of the Fighting Frog, another positive to emerge from the contest is that fundraising efforts are being organized by members of Greenback Nation to offset the funds that PHS did not win by virtue of placing 2nd in regionals.
$2000 was at stake as the top national prize in the contest, so the PHS athletic department missed out on that opportunity. But not to despair. It has come to the attention of this office that at least a couple of different initiatives are underway to raise funds that could possibly more than make up the difference in the money that Pratt High missed out on.
Phyllis Huffman Larue (for whose benefit the Frog was originally designed) and Sharon Clevenger (the sister of Diane Baker Sevick) are looking into ways to raise funds to possibly update/enhance the Fighting Frog mascot costume.
An effort by other alumni has been posted on FACEBOOK by Larry Hurst urging benefactors to donate money to try to raise two thousand AND ONE dollars for Pratt High, which would exceed the amount that will be received by the national contest winner from USA TODAY. Any Greenback Nation citizen can donate, with $20 the suggested amount, to "The Greenback Mascot Fund" c/o Bill Rea, 112 N. Iuka, Pratt KS 67124.
As the Tribune reported last week, Greenback Nation is not going to let a little thing like placing 2nd in regionals keep them from continuing to express and celebrate their school pride.
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I have been designing a rogue character and it is my understanding that a rogue character is able to use light blades. Therefore I took Spiked chain training which specifies that both ends of the chain would be considered light blades. However the character builder would not accept this. I need to know if my logic is flawed or if there are other feats I need to take to make this work.
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Spiked Chain Training is different from Weapon Proficiency (Spiked Chain).
Note that, in its default state, a spiked chain is a superior weapon that belongs to the flail group.
Only through taking spiked chain training does it also become a light blade. Therefore, in order to effectively use a spiked chain as light blade as thief, you must have spiked chain training. This feat counts as a multiclass feat. If you have the wrong feat, you may equip the chain but not have it be usable by certain powers, thereby having them appear "blank."
A valid and tested build would be:
Note, however, that because of the rogue's +1 to accuracy with daggers, the spiked chain offers only a rough increase of +1.03 damage on a given attack at level 1 and far less as levels increase due to the nature of scaling bonuses. Considering the difficulty of achieving combat advantage with a reach weapon, there is no normal benefit to wielding a spiked chain as a rogue.
The chain technically counts as an exotic weapon so without the exotic weapon (spiked chain) feat it will probably keep giving you trouble.


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I have a bit of an odd question, whenever I do cardio workouts that get my heart rate up and breathing hard I get phlegm buildup in my throat and my nose starts running. It's not a huge amount but it's enough that I wind up spitting and wiping my nose frequently during workouts (the snot sometimes comes out greenish but mostly clear).
This has been happening pretty consistently for as long as I can remember. I regularly run, bike, swim, and do pilates (typically 2 - 3 times a week for each though I've been falling off lately with pilates). Pilates is the only exercise that doesn't cause this because it's a slower pace more focused on core strength and flexibility so my heart rate doesn't get very high and I'm never pushed to breathing heavily. It's also not effected by workout frequency, the times in my life where I've been working out less/not at all have not decreased this when I start up again.
Does anyone know what would cause this and what I could do about it?


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Currently, the ui-automation tag on Stack Overflow has a description that indicates it is for the Microsoft UI Automation Framework. However, there is a scripting tool within Apple's Instruments package that is also called UI Automation. There are a significant number of questions regarding the writing of scripts for testing of applications within the ui-automation tag, as can be seen here and here.
I've noticed that dtuckernet has recently started to retag all of the Apple-related UI Automation questions to ios-ui-automation, but I'm not sure that this is the best approach in this situation.
It's not obvious to people asking questions about the UI Automation instrument that they should be thinking about it as iOS UI Automation, so I believe people will keep tagging their non-Microsoft UI Automation questions in this manner. It would seem to me that adding the appropriate platform-specific tags like ios would make it clear what the question was referring to.
Would expanding the definition of the UI Automation tag wiki to include this other tool be a more appropriate course, or is retagging to a more specific term as is currently being done preferred?


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The road was not quite as smooth on Sunday with two third-place finishes, forcing a trip to the last chance qualifier. But showing the same determination that now has him labeled as a title contender, Darrin put his head down and raced his way into the main where he rounded out the weekend with his second podium finish in third place.
On Friday, the series held a special non-points event to fill the roster for the 2011 ESPN Winter X Games. Darrin and brother Garret both surprised everyone with their impressive qualifying runs that locked them into the feature race. Unfortunately, a first turn collision collected several of the riders, caused significant enough damage that neither of the two were able to restart.
Professional class rider and Scheuring Speed Sports Makita Tools teammate Robbie Malinoski was at times the fastest man on the track during the weekend but could not find a way to the podium. Malinoski won heat races in both Pro Stock and Pro Open en route to the finals, but struggled with suspension issues on a Duluth, Minnesota track that featured more snow and bigger jumps and impacts than seen in recent years.
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The Oakley Team USA Jawbone Sunglasses are part of a special collection that carries the colors of pride and patriotism. Oakley is the official licensee and eyewear supplier to Team USA and the U.S. Olympic Committee for the London Olympics. With each sale of this special edition sunglass, Oakley will provide a portion of the proceeds to the U.S. Olympic Committee, which is a non-profit organization tasked with raising money to support the U.S. Olympic and U.S. Paralympics teams. The revolutionary Jawbone design allows the lower part of the frame to open for easy and quick lens changing. The flexible frame design doesn't allow stresses to diminish the clarity, so you can focus on the task at hand.


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September 26, 2012
New York University's Deutsches Haus will celebrate the Day of German Unity with singer Annika Krump's performance of Berlin chansons from 10 decades on Wednesday, October 3, beginning at 6:30 p.m.
The event is free and open to the public (42 Washington Square Mews, New York, N.Y.)
Annika Krump's new program is a journey through a Berlin century. Channeling the most fascinating women in chanson culture from 1912 to today, the singer and accordion player tells the story of Berlin through the Weimar Republic, the Great Depression, the construction of the wall and finally Germany's reunification with chansons from Claire Waldoff, Blandine Ebinger, Lotte Lenya, Marlene Dietrich, Hildegard Knef, Nina Hagen, Nena and Judith Holofernes.
While the event is free of charge, those wishing to attend should let Deutsches Haus know in advance by sending an email to email@example.com. Space at Deutsches Haus is limited; therefore, please arrive 10 minutes prior to the event.
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Schnoop just had these 4 packages for $25.99 free shipping two days ago and emailed me a coupon for another buck off. I get these cheaper at CVS with Extra bucks back. Sorry. This is not a deal.
I don't know what it is about these razors but everytime I've used one the blades rust almost immediately. Maybe the soap head surrounding them holds too much moisture near the blades, but I don't think I've ever had another brand of razors rust like that.


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The 5 Most Terrifying Ways Doctors Went Crazy on the Job
We want to believe that the medical professionals we trust with our lives are sane and reasonable. After all, they are the ones holding the scalpels and measuring out the amount of drugs that won't kill us. But, we're sorry to say, the number of crazy people in the medical establishment is greater than zero. Just look at the case of ...
#5. The Surgeon Who Carved His Initials into a Patient
It's hard to imagine anyone getting really pumped up about performing surgery, but we suppose every job has "that guy." You know -- somebody who's always trash talking and fist bumping and referring to himself by some nickname like "Z-Bone." The type of surgeon who, after a successful procedure, would decide to sign his fucking name to it like a pro athlete signing a game ball.
"Think he'll notice?"
That brings us to Dr. Allan Zarkin, who was so pleased with the Caesarean section he performed that he decided to tag it with his initials. We don't mean he pulled out a Sharpie, either -- Zarkin (appropriately nicknamed "Dr. Zorro" by the press) carved the initials "AZ" into Liana Gedz's stomach, presumably forgetting that human beings are not pumpkins, public playground equipment or school desks.
Apparently, Zarkin had a reputation among hospital staff for being "larger than life" and "a little nutty," citing his fashionable dress and joking nature. Gedz, however, had to go and remind everybody that the real world does not tolerate wacky surgeons as easily as in the Scrubs universe and sued Zarkin and the hospital for $5.5 million in damages.
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"It's basically a free tattoo! What's her problem?"
Remarkably, Zarkin's defense was that he has a degenerative brain condition called Pick's disease. Well, that's OK then. Because nothing says "acquit" like "I shouldn't be performing surgery in the first place because my brain is dying."
Naturally, Zarkin was dismissed from Beth Israel Hospital, which had been fined $14,000 by the state, in addition to the massive lawsuit from the patient. So you'd think he'd vanish quietly into retirement, right? Actually, a few months after the incident, he got another job at Choices Women's Medical Center performing, you guessed it, women's health services. Good thing he got that brain thing fixed!
"Next time, I'll sign her on the inside."
#4. The Nurse Who Injected Herself With Her Patient's Drugs
So, imagine you're on the operating table, waiting for surgery to remove kidney stones. You're already nervous, anxious for it to be over, wondering how much it's going to hurt. The nurse comes in with a syringe containing your anesthetic. She promptly sticks it into her own arm and presses down the plunger. You'd have a million questions, and would probably be unable to bring yourself to ask any of them.
"No, no. This needle is to steady my hand for your injection."
This scenario played out for patient Larry King (not that Larry King), who went in for surgery and came out with a horrible, horrible story to tell. Nurse Sarah May Casareto was working that day, and her opiate addiction had her jonesing for some high-end medical drugs. When she saw that syringe, it was evidently too much to bear, and she knew she had to put her own addiction ahead of the patient's need to not be in indescribable agony.
Now, don't worry, she didn't take all of King's anesthetic -- only two-thirds of it. So he did have a third of the prescribed dose, which, as it turns out, is not nearly enough for a man about to have sharp stones slowly dug out of his body.
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"He wasn't in as much pain as I went through dealing with him."
Oddly, the other staff don't seem to have put two and two together when King started screaming that he could feel the knife slicing into his kidneys, while Casareto started acting high as balls (even falling asleep at one point). During the agonizing ordeal, Casareto urged the writhing King to "man up" and "go to his happy place," which trusted sources tell us are not the words that a man with a tube drilled through his back wants to hear.
Eventually, someone did manage to connect the mysterious disappearing anesthetic with the tripping nurse. That is, after King went to the police to file a report, and Casareto was arrested. We're hoping that in court she went for the "I was aiming the needle at the patient but I missed" defense.
Or the old "I was sampling the medicine to ensure its quality."
#3. The Surgeon Who Went to the Bank (During Surgery)
Look, every single person reading this has had a day at work where you just mailed it in, because there were other things going on in your life and you just couldn't focus on the job. We don't care if you work on an assembly line pushing chips into Pringles tubes or if you're the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, you've had that day when you just weren't all the way there, mentally. You spent the day checking your email for some important message you were expecting, or on the phone dealing with some bank or Realtor or lawyer.
"Full disclosure, guys, I have no idea where these shells are landing."
Surgeons are no different. For instance, say you're a surgeon with money problems. You're at work, worrying yourself into knots about whether those checks you wrote will get cashed before you can deposit your paycheck. You're fretting about it, you're distracted. Also, you've got a patient lying on the table with his back opened up, because you have an intensive all-day spine operation, and it's not like you can just reschedule it. Who's going to really notice if you just leave for half an hour to go cash your paycheck?
At least he wasn't a brain surgeon.
Patient Charles Algeri was the one lying in the OR getting his spine welded together by Dr. David Arndt in a marathon daylong surgery when it became clear that the doctor had other concerns on his mind. He repeatedly asked the nurses to find out if his paycheck had arrived. When another surgeon, Leo Troy, passed by to drop the check off, Arndt asked Troy to watch the patient for "about five minutes." Then the surgeon walked right the hell out of the hospital, got behind the wheel of his car (hopefully still wearing blood-stained scrubs) and drove to the bank. Bill collectors don't wait, bro!
Those few minutes turned into half an hour, and Algeri (who found out about it after the surgery) didn't think that the doc avoiding late fees was a good enough reason to leave him lying wide open on an operating table. He sued the surgeon for malpractice, dooming who knows how many patients to having a doctor perform surgery on them while he's on the phone with his lawyer.


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I have two lamps
6W LED(OSRAM 50R): equiv 40W or 170 lm
15W WW827 Tornado Philips, equiv 85W or 950 lumen
Why the 2x power difference and 6x luminosity difference?
There are a couple terms involved that all have specific meanings:
There's not a direct relationship between watts and lumens, but you can look at the luminous efficiency to compare bulbs. Wikipedia lists values for common household bulb types:
The LED you list has an efficiency of 28 lumens / watt, which is pretty poor for an LED. LEDs have been increasing in their efficiency; maybe it's an older model? Your CFL is 63 lumens / watt, which is pretty good for a CFL.
Compare those to the current gold standard for mass-market LED bulbs, Philips' L-prize LED, which puts out 940 lumens using 10 watts, or 94 lumens / watt.
You're also seeing the problem with "equivalent watts", which is kind of an unhelpful metric. I don't know if there's any regulation on what manufacturers can claim as the incandescent equivalent, but I've seen bulbs as low as 700 lumens and as high as 950 lumens all claim to be "60 watt equivalent". Even among incandescents there's a range of light output for a specific wattage. The most reliable way to look at brightness is the "lumens" rating. If you're trying to match the brightness of an existing bulb, try to look it up online to find the lumens.
Lumens is the absolute amount of light that a bulb puts out. You can use this to accurately compare how bright two bulbs will be. The one with the higher lumens value is the brighter light.
However, most people have no idea how bright a 170 lumen or a 950 lumen bulb is. What they do have is experience of how bright a 40W or 85W incandescent light is.
By using the "equivalent watts" value bulb manufacturers are making it easy for the typical shopper to have the information they require in order to make an informed decision over which bulb to buy. However, as Henry Jackson points out this is usually a figure calculated (or even made up) by the manufacturer and should always be treated with some caution.
I would assume that each manufacturer has measured the light output from a "standard" incandescent bulb (or a number of bulbs) and used that lumen value to calculate the "equivalent watts" of their bulbs.
Once incandescent bulbs have been completed phased out and/or more different bulb types are on the market you might see a switch to using the lumens value exclusively as this becomes more widespread and accepted.
As was noted, the luminiocity of the reference (incandescent) lamp is not linearly proprtional to its power. The more powerful incandescent lamp is, the higher is its luminous efficacy (lumen/watt):
So, when we rise power two times, luminosity increases 6 times. This is my speculation. But it cannot be a good answer because, as we see for powers > 100 W, 2x power increase adds only 1% to the efficiency, not 300% as needed for 6x.


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