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Warning: These come out looking a little like peanut butter cups. Your child just may decide to take a bite!Materials
- Broken crayon pieces
- Muffin tin, greased
- Aluminum foil (optional)
- This is a good project to use up all those broken crayon pieces.
- Remove any paper from the crayons and place the pieces in a well-greased muffin tin (or line the tin with aluminum foil).
- Place the tin in a 400-degree oven for a few minutes, until the crayons melt.
- Remove from the oven and cool completely before removing from the tin.
- If you mixed crayon colors in the tins, the circles will have a stained glass effect and are great for coloring.
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Coruscant, night, outside a bar
In the night streets of Coruscant, two Jedi Knights walk. The first has brown eyes, white hair and some scars in the face. He must be in the late 50's. His name is Nilas. The other, Ted, is a young man with red hair. He is slim. Both wear black jedi robes. The young jedi laughs and speaks with his master.
- Ha ha. What a night, Master.
- Yes, i really needed those two drinks. Anyway, now we must go to the jedi temple to meet with Skywalker.
Suddenly a smoke surrounds the entire place.
- Master, what is this?
- I..i don't know.
Ted scans the smoke nervously. A shape flashes between the camera and him, and when it is gone, Ted now looks shocked. He looks down at a wound in his chest, then falls forward.
Out of nowhere, Nilas hears a voice.
- Jedi, I am a ghost of the past. A ghost that wants revenge.
Nilas, afraid, shouts.
- Who are you?! What do you want?!
- Your lives!
Nilas remains calm and tries to find the location of the killer, by hearing his voice.
- So, where are you? Why do you hunt us?
Nilas ignites his lightsaber, looking left and right cautiously.
- To take revenge!!
The old Jedi, whispers.
- He must be somewhere left of me.
He pauses, and turns just a little toward his left. As he does, the shadowy figure appears to his right and cuts off his head. Then he takes a sample of the blood of the jedi and leaves.
Jedi Hunter
28 years after the death of the Emperor, a new jedi order has been created. Those jedi knights fight for peace and freedom in the galaxy. For those things they fought in the Second Galactic Civil War.
However a man tries to destroy the Jedi. A man wants to kill the jedi and uses every weapon he has to do this. A ghost from the past is coming to kill the jedi. The Jedi Hunter!
2 days after the assassination of the two jedi, in a base underground of Coruscant
In as small base underground Coruscant, there is a small room with one huge computer, with an even more huge screen, and many weapons. Suddenly a man comes in. The man is tall, slim, with blue eyes and a brown beard and brown hair. He wears a black jedi robe. The man goes near the computer. As he touches the screen of the computer, the computer speaks with a woman's voice.
- User Name?
- Jedi Hunter.
- password?
- 13579DarthVader.
The Computer stops working for one second and then a light appears in the screen.
- Welcome sir!
- Hello T3.
- Hello Master.
- I want information about master Katan and his location.
- Coming Master.
Jedi Knight with brown eyes, a beard and long white hair. He was one of the 12 Jedi that managed to survive operation Storm. There is unofficial information that he is visiting the Jedi temple in Coruscant, to talk with Master Skywalker.
- Thanks, T3. Can you create a Face Spray?
- Of course Master. Just give me a sample of the blood of the person you want.
- Here it is.
- In a few minutes i will create the spray.
After a few minutes.
- The spray is ready sir. Face Spray is a spray that allows a person to change his face for 1 hour.
- I know. Thank you T3.
As the man uses the spray on his face, the face of the man changes to the one of the old jedi that was killed two days ago.
- Now i can go at the jedi temple. See you in a few hours T3.
- Good Luck Master!
So the man leaves for the Jedi temple. After a few minutes he enters the jedi temple. There he is stopped by a guard.
- What do you want!
- I am Jedi Master Nilas. Before two days i discovered something terrible and i want to inform Master Katan.
- Eee....Okay, i guess.
- Thank you, guard.
As the Man walks in the jedi temple, he opens a hologram and whispers.
- T3, when i enter the room of Katan use a virus to turn off the security cameras.
- Okay, Master.
The Hunter stops at a com panel, setting his comlink against it. There is a beep, and he punches some buttons, which is answered by another beep. He removes the comlink, returning it to his robe.
- T3, use the virus now!
- Yes master.
As the Jedi Hunter walks to the room of Katan, the security cameras turn off. In the security center there is panic. Because the entire system is shut down, he cant warn Skywalker by using his own com panel. One of the guards asks a Jedi youngling to help them.
- You, do you want 10 credits?
- Yes sir.
- Inform Master Skywalker to go at the room of Master Katan.
Meanwhile the Hunter throws a smoke grenade inside the room of Katan, enters the room and closes the door. Master katan, panicked and afraid, shouts.
- Who are you?! What do you want?!
- Revenge!
- Who are you?!
- You must remember me. Three years ago. In Phoenix.
- You... Don't tell me you are..
- Yes, i am the one.
- But you died three years ago.
- Yes, i died. But,my spirit comes to take revenge upon you! I am now a ghost of the past. A ghost that wants revenge.
- Enough!! You will die for real now!!
Katan pulls out his blue lightsaber. As he tries to defend, the Hunter stabs the Jedi on the feet, using his red lightsaber. Katan shouts in pain.
- Aaaahhhh!!! My feet!!!
- Now, it is time to take revenge.
Meanwhile the boy finds Luke Skywalker.
- Master Luke, one of the guards asked me to inform you that you must go at the room of Master Katan.
- What?! I must go as fast as i can!!
Luke starts running, in order to save Katan. Meanwhile Katan shouts.
- Where are you!?
Suddenly he hears a voice coming from behind him.
- Here.
Before Katan can react, the Hunter cuts off his head. Then he leaves the room. Meanwhile Luke rushes toward Katan's room. Hunter, disguised as Nilas steps aside as Luke rushes past him.
As Luke opens the door, he finds the dead body of Katan.
- Oh, no! Guards, stop anyone who tries to leave the temple!!!
However it is too late. The Hunter has already left. With a smile in his face, he walks in the streets of Coruscant, when T3 messages him.
- Master, was the mission a success?
- Of course it was. One is gone. That just leaves the other eleven.
The End
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There seems to be a lot of confusion out there as to the best sources of
omega-3 fatty acids. This article will break down the major sources of omega-3's
and give you the information you need to make educated choices.
First, there are three main types of omega-3 fatty acids: DHA, EPA and ALA.
DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) and EPA (Eicosapentaenoic acid) are found in fish and
ALA (alpha-linolenic acid ) is found in plants like flaxseed. When you choose an
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but make sure you are getting enough EPA and DHA, as these fatty acids are
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only convert ALA into DHA and EPA in very small amounts. Scientific studies have
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The best sources of EPA and DHA are fatty fish and fish oil. Cold water fish
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Fish oil supplements are also very good sources of EPA and DHA. They are easy
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Although there are very good products available, the drawback is figuring out
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Duda MK, O'Shea KM, Tintinu A, Xu W, Khairallah RJ, Barrows BR, Chess DJ,
Azimzadeh AM, Harris WS, Sharov VG, Sabbah HN, Stanley WC. Fish oil, but not
flaxseed oil, decreases inflammation and prevents pressure overload-induced
cardiac dysfunction. Cardiovasc Res. 2009 Feb 1; 81(2):319-27.
Wang C, Harris WS, Chung M, Lichtenstein AH, Balk EM, Kupelnick B, Jordan HS,
Lau J. n-3 Fatty acids from fish or fish-oil supplements, but not alpha-linolenic
acid, benefit cardiovascular disease outcomes in primary- and
secondary-prevention studies: a systematic review. Am J Clin Nutr. 2006 Jul;
Young GS, Conquer JA, Thomas R. Effect of randomized supplementation with
high dose olive, flax or fish oil on serum phospholipid fatty acid levels in
adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Reprod Nutr Dev. 2005
Sep-Oct; 45(5):549-58.
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Mortality among frequent consumers of Great Lakes sport fish. Environ Res. 2009
Oct 5. [Epub ahead of print]
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I overheard that indian music disputes the notion that 7 notes are equally divided. Hence, people should use tanpura (instead of harmonium or piano) to practice with. I googled about it, and I read that it only plays Pa Sa Sa Sa (or something like that). Can anybody shed light on the topic? Does anybody know some online tanpura that can play all 7 notes? (else how is one supposed to practice?)
See here to play a virtual live tampura and to read more about it.
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Also you'll find it helpful to read about quarter tone which is a basic component of many countries' traditional music in Middle-east and Central Asia. As you may know even having smaller note divisions in music of some countries is common.
You can watch a man playing quarter tones here.
The tambura creates a harmonic or resonance field based on the three notes, sa (first), pa (fifth) and higher sa (an octave above first sa) and their OVERTONES. A singer orients himself to these notes and places the other notes by listening for harmonic resonance. This can be done very easily or can take a long while to learn depending on the skill of the musician.
The octave is an artificial creation. That is why the piano is tempered (adjusted) to create equidistant notes.
I play piano and sing Indian music, and am finding very slight nuance differences in pitches because of how the harmonics are tempered (adjusted deliberately) in the piano versus the unadjusted harmonics of the tambura created by 3 notes. The differences are small and not too important, except it makes me ear training a bit more complicated. My ear seems to hear the differences even if I can't hear them, if that makes sense.
Western music is based on the tempered scale because it helps with all kinds of things to do with chords and scales. Indian music relies on natural harmonics even if the notes are not equidistant. Indian music doesn't use chords so they don't worry about that problem.
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Go to Chicago if you want a decent meal. The food scene here is just brutally awful.
Wow - this is surprising. My wife and I tried to get to Beta at least once per month. Fantastic food & drinks.
Very sad!!!! I loved this restaurant.
I love Sabor! I hope the owners will consider selling "the rights" (I don't know the term) to the restaurants.Hide replies
I dont think the business model of all you can eat works in this economy. We recently had the tubbo that ate what, 30 pieces of fish and then staged a protest because the restaurant cut him off. How would like to be the owner of sabor and have the same guy show up and start eating tenderloin and leg of lamb???
nbwarrior92, I remember that pig! It was up near Bayshore last spring!
Well I can only say that I have never been to sabor but heard the food was excellent. That being said, I have several friends who have frequented the restaurant and all their stories sound the same. Skip the salad bar, skip the sausage and chicken and go straight for the beef tenderlion, leg of lamb, etc and load up. I used to wonder how can this business model of all you can eat work if a lot of your customers eat this way??? I guess I have my answer. You close up.Hide replies
I am just curious at the thumbs down. I said the food was good. I also heard the service was good. But does the business model work???? It does you no good if you lose money??? And we get a hint in the article that the restaurant Beta tried promoting "small" plates which doesnt appear to have worked.
Since at least two people think this was a great success, why not sell it?????? Let other succeed.
Doesn't sound like it failed, the owners retired.
I hate to see a business go out.
But that one was a long time in coming.
The food was novel, but the prices were pretty steep.
And the steep prices clashed with the "rustic-ness" of servers carrying dripping animals on a sword.
Don't get me wrong. I LIKED the food.
It was at the top of my list for "sales pitch" dinners.
But you can't rely on those to stay in business.Hide replies
Ive been to a Churrascaria in Brazil and one in NYC. I enjoyed both but after the second one I kind of had enough of the concept.. If I want to eat a boat load of meat I will go to a steak joint. I didn't care to wait for the good meat to come around to the table. The sausage and chicken seem to be offered more frequently than the good stuff.
Sad. Saw this news first yesterday on OnMilwaukee: http://onmilwaukee.com/dining/articles/betasabor.html
Beta and Sabor were fantastic restaurants that I will certainly miss. The particular highlight was Beta which served innovative and inexpensive small plates with amazing flavor profiles. On my many visits to the restaurant Chef Mitch (Ciohon?) greated our table and made us feel at home. In terms of the Milwaukee dining scene they were only hurt by the fact the restaurant was related to Sabor and an overall lack of palate in Milwaukee. This is a town that still enjoys portion, discounts, and home style food. Best of luck to all of the staff!Hide replies
Hurt by the fact they were related to sabor??? How can you be hurt by that unless you are just attracting the same gluttons who expect to stuff their faces as at sabor.
Sabor was pretty $$$ and quickly got a reputation of being $$$. Beta was suposed to be like.. the more affordable version. But I think alot of people didn't get the difference, and assumed beta was also very $$.
In order for all you can eat to work I think you have to have items of similar quality and cost. You cant have for instance all you can eat lobster and chicken and then wonder why people are having two or three lobsters instead of one lobster and some chicken. I had to laugh at one of my cheapskate friends (good thing these boards are anonymous) who would tell the sabor waiter to simply keep bringing the tenderloin and leg of lamb and thats all he would eat. Even at $48 dollars if thats all someone eats, how much money can you make, assuming you are serving prime meats???
nbwarrior - Restaurants don't buy meat they way you an I do, they get much better deals. Actually, Sabor was expensive for a Brazilian churrascaria, there are cheaper and better ones in Chicago. They did have good food though.
As for your friend, if those are all he likes, then great, otherwise, why ruin a nice meal by trying to "work the system"? It's not like it's Old Country Buffet, he would need to eat a lot of beef to make it up.
xsighter - If you are going to have all you can eat, you dont have desparate items (lobster versus chicken) because people will think "I have to get my moneys worth" and load up on the most expensive thing they can eat. Its just the way it is here in frugal Wisconsin. As far as what restaurants are charged, if this was a winning business model there would be copy cats in Milwaukee.
What happened to big Paul that he and partner are pulling the plug? They were so proud to open the latest Bw3's on S. 27th and were full of vigor for that whole process. Now they are gonna bow out and say Aww shucks, sorry...but thanks for your help" to all of their full-time/career support and operational staff?
Maybe the hood and associated business coming into the new place down there took the life out of them? Maybe it was the curse of the location, being the former Foster Pontiac who did a similar packup and jet out a few years back?
The question remains... if they allegedly retired, why does the impromptu sign affixed inside the door say that they're closed for scheduled maintenance?
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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz chaired the weekly Cabinet meeting at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah today.
King Abdullah opened the meeting by briefing the Cabinet on his meetings with Spanish King Juan Carlos and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak last week.
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Avoid 'Friends' marathons during recovery
Hey. Game. I'll play a game instead. I'll play a game that has never made me angry: NHL 2011.
I'm not a huge fan of hockey, but the game NHL 2011 for the Xbox 360 is one of the best sports titles I've played in years. However, since I don't really know the rules of hockey very well, I modify the game just a bit to correct what I see as some fundamental flaws in the game: namely, that it's kind of hard to score. I start by turning off all of the penalties. And boosting my team's stats as high as they will go to turn them into supermen. And increasing their height and weight to turn them into freight trains. And reducing the other team's stats to their lowest settings. And making them all tiny so my guys can mow them over. And crippling their goalie. And making them all prone to injury.
My entire roster looks exactly like this.
But even with all of these modifications, the computer scored a goal in the final 18 seconds of the game (I had pulled my own goalie so I'd have six skaters) making it 121 to one. The only thing that kept me from flinging my TV out of the second story window covered in my shit was the fact that my landlords were downstairs cleaning up the wreckage of my last shit-covered TV.
I have nicotine patches. Holding off on them, because they make me sick. Really, I feel like I'm keeping things on an even keel so far.
#2. Cashier Small-Talk
Got to get out of the apartment. Get some fresh air. While I was on the highway, I smelled a whiff of smoke, my whole body seizing at the scent of it. I realized that the guy in the car in front of me was smoking. A bit drifted out of his window, shot back toward me at 60 MPH, and my withdrawal-ravaged brain almost shit itself.
Later, I was in line at Walmart waiting for the person in front of me to pay and get the fuck out of my way. The cashier was some dorky guy who was obviously still in high school, and he was one of those people who attempted to make small talk with anyone who walked by, but he was just absolutely horrible at it. One of those guys who was probably pretty used to having rocks thrown at him. By his parents.
I picture all parents as Ogre from Revenge of the Nerds.
As he slid one of the customer's boxes across the scanner, he looked down, smiled and said, "Oh, strawberry waffles. Somebody's gonna have a great breakfast tomorrow!"
The woman, who happened to be on the same social level as the dork, replied, "I know! It's amazing what they can do with food these days."
At this point, I was piling my stuff on the counter, and he looked over to see the strawberry syrup I was about to buy so that I could make banana splits for my kids. He must not have seen me rolling my eyes because he said, "Hey, strawberry syrup! You guys should get together and-"
"Please. Please, please, please, just ring the shit up. I know you're trying to be nice, but I just quit smoking, and I just want to get this shit home. There is absolutely nothing interesting whatsoever about strawberry waffles or strawberry syrup or anything that a strawberry has ever been a part of. Please. Your mouth is forming a lot of words about strawberries but all I'm hearing is, 'I'm abusing my power as your cashier to make sure you won't get out of this checkout line unless you literally murder me. Go ahead. Grab this pair of scissors here next to the register and end my life, John, I beg you'."
Make it count
I don't actually know if I said any of that out loud. Did I mention that the worst cravings aren't on Day One? They can come anywhere from Day Two to Day Five. And then they continue from time to time until the day you die.
Using the patches now. There's no shame in it, pretending that you have to overcome chemical addiction with pure willpower or it somehow doesn't count is another bullshit trick of the brain. Oh, sure, you need willpower -- shitloads of it. But a nicotine substitute like the patch lets you scale it down in steps, training the brain to do without it. You use the tools available to you; you don't bring a dildo to a knife fight.
#1. Myself
End of Day One. Trying to sleep, but I was an insomniac before all of this. Withdrawal makes it worse. You can't sleep with a patch on -- you wind up having these vivid, lucid dreams. Your body isn't used to night time nicotine because obviously before you weren't smoking when you were asleep (NOTE: IF YOU DO THIS, YOU HAVE A PROBLEM). So I had plenty of time to mentally give a hearty "fuck you" to all of those people and factors who helped me get to this point in my addiction:
My old middle school friend, Brady, who talked me into my first cigarette.
The mullet-sporting bowling alley worker who sold that pack to two 13-year-old kids without asking for ID (I handed him the money because I was tall and "looked the most 18").
My dipshit parents for not punishing me when they found out.
The cigarette machine at the gas station back in the days when cigarette vending machines were a thing and any kid could start a heroin-like addiction as long as he had enough quarters.
Movies for making it look cool. Denis Leary for making it funny.
Seriously, fuck you, Denis.
The asshole who made this GIF, reminding me that if I stay smoke free, I'll be 50-years old before my body is fully repaired. And high school health teachers for not cramming that information down my throat until I puked statistics.
The tobacco companies who've made it rain slow death on the human species for several generations.
And Johnny Depp for smoking those annoying clove cigarettes, but we digress
But I save the biggest fuck-you for myself. My stupid, teenage self for happily jumping into these killing addictions without one second of thought to the future. And then the older versions of myself in all the years since, finding excuses to never change despite family and friends begging me to quit all of this shit.
So I'm sorry, MTV, it's my own face I should be shoving my balls into. And I'm going to do that right now, on camera:
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Update: John resumed smoking a few months after this article was posted.
For more from John, check out Having Fun With 419 Scammers and 5 Things Nobody Tells You About Quitting Drinking.


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Cardio burns more calories during the exercise, but weight-lifting builds more muscle which in turn raises your RMR (Resting Metabolic Rate). I have a little over an hour to workout each day during lunch. Should I spend my time lifting, running, or a mixture of both? (if I should be doing a mixture, what should that mixture look like? e.g.(10-20% cardio))
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Strength training and cardio provide a potent mixture to burn fat. The problem with strength training alone is that it burns fewer calories than you would during cardio. For example, an hour of intense strength training will burn between 270 calories and 450 calories while you exercise (depending on how heavy the weight is). Running at 6 mph for an hour will burn closer to 1000 calories (depending on how heavy you are). The other difference is that as your body builds more muscle, you are burning more calories all the time.
If you do a strength training program like Rippetoe's Starting Strength or Medhi's StrongLifts 5x5 you are working out 3 days per week. Each workout is up to an hour long depending on how much rest you need between sets. You will lose fat, but maybe not as quickly as if you incorporate cardio. NOTE: you do get a cardio workout lifting weights.
In my situation:
I started the StrongLifts 5x5 program 6 weeks ago and worked up from just the bar to the following weights:
Each session you go up by 5lb (except deadlift where you increase by 10lb). I will say that it is quite challenging. Just from doing the weight training, I have to eat more just to get through the next session. In the mean time my neck, arms, chest, hips and thighs are getting bigger while my gut is getting smaller and the scale stays the same (+/- 5lb).
I do top off the weight lifting with 20 minutes of cardio. I'm currently running 1 minute intervals on the treadmill. The combination puts me at 90 minutes each time I'm at the gym. I'm maintaining weight, but losing my gut which is what I really want anyway. I've found that my cardio work is much easier due to the lifting I've done.
In your situation:
I would recommend doing strength training Mon, Wed, Fri. In your off days (Tue, Thur) do cardio for 20 minutes of work and 5 minutes of cooldown. Start with a light jog/run interval of 1 minute each. If you have 2mph difference between the two intervals you'll be able to recover for the next run interval. Increase by 0.1 mph each time you do you cardio until you just can't get any faster. This limit should be more of how your legs are trying to keep up than your heart/lungs trying to keep up.
Your initial workouts will be light enough that you won't have any problems. When the weights get tougher (probably around week 6 if you are like me), you might have to back off on the cardio. Your gut will continue to get smaller as you get stronger.
Lifting everyday wouldn't give your body enough time to rest so you'll have time for some cardio no matter what.
My previous trainers have all recommended lifting for 30 minutes three or four days a week and cardio the rest of the time. I've had pretty good results following that.
Strength training burns more calories per minute of activity than cardio, it's scientifically proven. It's true, you shouldn't be strength training every day of the week because your muscles are worked so hard they need to rest and repair. But you also shouldn't be doing intense cardio every day. A combination of both is ideal, but if for whatever reason you couldn't do both, you should weight lift because it's more effective at burning calories, while also keeping your muscles. If you just did cardio, a third of the weight you lost would be muscle mass, your body would weigh less, but look worse.
Cardio is much more important than weights for losing weight.
Source: this paper by the American College of Sports Medicine. If you don't want to read it, you can read this post I wrote at a fitness forum a while ago.
In summary: while you can raise your RMR by building muscle, it is an extremely slow process when compared to the speed at which you lose weight through cardio. They found that weight-lifting is a minor factor in weight loss; the determinant factors are proper nutrition, cardio exercise, with some influence from typical health considerations (proper sleep, mental health, etc).
So for your case, if your goal is to lose weight, spend the whole time on cardio.


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I want to start learning Neuroscience. Can someone give me an advice about a nice textbook for beginners? I'm particularly interested in the application of Neuroscience in programming and AI development. Thanks in advance.
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If you are interested in computational neuroscience, I recommend Dayan and Abbott's book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0262541858/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/181-1988504-8834745. This is not a book on neuroscience, not AI, although this particular book has more math than the other introductory neuroscience textbooks I've seen.


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Unanswered: Grid - multi-line cell, and colored-in cells with no data, how do I do this?
Ok, I have been able to accomplish what I want using GWT CellTable, but I really like the GXT Grid.
So, here's what I'm trying to do, and I've been only partially successful so far. I think, also, that I might not be doing this in the best way, and so am looking for some guidance.
I am basically making a Grid where the first column contains information about a user, and the remaining columns are time slots (ie; 8:00am, 9:00am, etc).
The caveats are that:
- The information about the user is broken up into 3 lines
- The time slot information does not have any text, but should merely have the cell be color-coded.
In order to try to accomplish what I want in the caveats, I wound up adding a ColumnConfig<UserInfo, UserInfo> using the following ValueProvider:
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public class UserInfoProvider extends AbstractValueProvider<UserInfo, UserInfo> {
public InspectionInfo getValue(UserInfo object) {
return object;
So for that first column, I do a setCell on the ColumnConfig, and the class I use for the AbstractCell is:
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public class UserSummaryCell extends AbstractCell<UserInfo> {
public void render(com.google.gwt.cell.client.Cell.Context context, UserInfo value, SafeHtmlBuilder sb) {
if(value != null) {
However, this throws things off when I'm trying to color-fill the cells indicating when the user is logged in. I use a similar technique, with just the same UserInfoProvider, but then for the cells, I use the following class:
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public class UsersOnDayTimeSlotCell extends AbstractCell<UserInfo> {
String timeSlot;
public UsersOnDayTimeSlotCell(Date timeSlot) {
this.timeSlot = DateTimeFormat.getFormat(PredefinedFormat.HOUR24_MINUTE).format(timeSlot).replaceAll("[^0-9]", "");
public void render(com.google.gwt.cell.client.Cell.Context context, UserInfo value, SafeHtmlBuilder sb) {
if(value != null) {
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I have also tried
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Using Firebug, I've noticed that the div I have created in the render method is contained inside another div, which in turn is contained in a td.
It seems that it's this td element that I want to set the background color for.
So, how do I do that?
And, since it seems that the render method of my Cell classes are what I have to work with, can I skip the whole ColumnConfig in some way, yet ensure that the UserInfo objects are getting to the render method of the AbstractCell class, or is the ColumnConfig a must-have? (I think it is, but if it's unneccessary in my example, so much the better).


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Women increasingly seek egalitarian partnerships with men, while retaining some traditional dating rituals, a study by New York University sociologist Ellen Lamont shows.
"New norms about gender equality and women's autonomy now compete with more traditional dating norms, creating a contradiction for women as they seek to reconcile conflicting sets of behavioral rules," explains Lamont, a doctoral candidate in NYU's Department of Sociology. "It is clear that notions of gender equality need to be extended to courtship in order to ensure they are instilled in marriage and other areas of life."
Her findings, which appear in the journal Gender & Society, are based on interviews with 38 female college graduates. The average age of the respondents was 31.
The women in the study indicated that practicing gender differences in their dating lives did not influence their egalitarian ideals. Many participants believed that when it comes to dating, men are responsible for asking women out, paying for dates, determining when the relationship will shift from casual to committed, and proposing marriage.
The survey yielded other insights, such as why they followed dating traditions despite egalitarian ideals:
But they also revealed expectations that suggest gender equity:
However, despite these views, respondents indicated they suppressed some views in order to conform to traditional dating norms. While the women interviewed were mostly successful in getting what they wanted in their relationships, they felt the need to disguise nontraditional behavior due to social pressures. For example, to ensure men desired commitment, some women concealed their own desires for commitment.
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I read from somewhere that when using C++ it is recommended not to use pointers. Why is pointers such a bad idea when you are using C++. For C programmers that are used to using pointers, what is the better alternative and approach in C++?
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I think they mean you should use smart pointers instead of regular pointers.
In C++ the emphasis would be on garbage collection and preventing memory leaks (just to name two). Pointers are a fundamental part of the language, so not using them is pretty much impossible except in the most trival of programs.
Since I'm the one who published the polemic "don't use f*cking pointers" I feel that I should comment here.
First of all, as a polemic it obviously represents an extreme viewpoint. There are definitely legitimate uses of (raw) pointers. But I (and many professional C++ programmers) maintain that these cases are exceedingly rare. But what we really mean is the following:
Here, "own memory" essentially means that at some point
The rationale for this is quite simple: raw pointers which own memory introduce a source of error. And these errors are prolific in existing software: memory leaks and double deletion – both a direct consequence of unclear resource ownership (but going in opposite direction).
This problem can be entirely eliminated, at virtually no cost, by simply using smart pointers instead of raw pointers (caveat: this still requires thinking, of course; shared pointers can lead to cycles and thus once again to memory leaks – but this is easily avoidable).
Unlike other languages, C++ has very strong support for value semantics and simply doesn't need the indirection of pointers. This wasn't immediately realised – historically, C++ was invented to facilitate easy object orientation in C, and relied heavily on constructing object graphs which were connected by pointers. But in modern C++, this paradigm is rarely the best choice, and modern C++ idioms often don't need pointers at all. They operate on values rather than pointers.
Unfortunately, this message has still not caught on in large parts of the C++ user community. As a result, most of the C++ code that is written is still littered with superfluous pointers which make the code complex, slow and faulty / unreliable.
For somebody who knows modern C++, it's clear that you very rarely need any pointers (either smart or raw; except when using them as iterators). The resulting code is shorter, less complex, more readable, often more efficient and more reliable.
Simply because there are abstractions available to your which hide the more temperamental aspects of using pointers, such as access to raw memory and cleaning up after your allocations. With smart pointers, container classes, and design patterns like RAII, the need for using raw pointers is diminished. That said, like any abstraction, you should understand how they actually work before moving beyond them.
One of reasons is too wide application of pointers. They can be used for iteration over containers, for avoiding copying large objects when passing to function, non-trivial life-time management, accessing to random places in memory, etc. And once you used them for one purpose, other their features become available immediately independently on intent.
Selection of a tool for exact purpose makes code simpler and intent more visible - iterators for iterations, smart pointers for life-time management, etc.
Relatively simply, the C mentality is "Got a problem? Use a pointer". You can see this in C strings, function pointers, pointers-as-iterators, pointer-to-pointer, void pointer- even in the early days of C++ with member pointers.
But in C++ you can use values for many or all of these tasks. Need a function abstraction?
If you were a soldier you would have, say, an assault rifle and a knife.
It is easier and safer to kill people with the assault rifle than it is with the knife so people will tell you to use that when you can.
However, sometimes you have to use the knife. If you are careful you can sneak up, kill your target and sneak away again safely but the potential for things going wrong is much higher.
So use the rifle when you can and use the knife when you have to.
The same is true of references (rifle) and pointers (the knife).
Disclaimer: This analogy is presented as is with no warranties of any kind. It is not guaranteed to by logically proof against absurdities nor can is necessarily be sensibly extended to cover anything other than the author's original intent.
Besides the reasons already listed, there is an obvious one: better optimisations. Aliasing analysis is far too complicated in presense of a pointer arithmetics, whereas references hints an optimiser, so a much deeper aliasing analysis is possible if only references are used.
Beside the risk of memory leaks stated by @jmquigley pointer and pointer arithmetic can be considered problematic because pointers can point everywhere in memory causing "hard to find bugs" and "security vulnerableties".
That is why they were nearly abandoned in C# and Java.
C++ supports most of C, features, plus Objects and Classes. C already had pointers and other stuff.
Pointers are a very useful technique, that can be combined with Object Orientation, and C++ supports them. But, this technique, is difficult to teach and difficult to understand, and, its very easy to cause unwanted errors.
Many new programming languages pretend not to use pointers with objects, like Java, .NET, Delphi, Vala, PHP, Scala. But, pointers are still used, "behind the scenes". These "hidden pointer" techniques are called "references".
Anyway, I consider pointer (s) as a Programming Pattern, as a valid way to solve certain problems, as well as Object Oriented Programming does.
Other developers may have a different opinion. But, I suggest students and programmers learn how to:
(1) Use pointers without objects
(2) objects without pointers
(3) explicit pointers to objects
(4) "hidden" pointers to objects ( A.K.A. reference) ;-)
In that order.
Even if is difficult to teach, and difficult to learn. Object Pascal (Delphi, FreePascal, others) and
And, later, novice programmers, can move to "hidden pointers to objects" programming languages like: Java, C#, Object Oriented PHP, and others.
Talking about VC6, when you cast a pointer of a class (that you instantiate) into a variable (e.g. DWORD), even if this pointer is local you can access the class over all the functions that use the same heap. The instantiated class is defined as local but in fact it is not. As far as I know, any address of a heap variable, structure or class is unique along all the life of the hosting class.
EDIT Thats a very little part of the original code. The CSRecodset class is only a casting class of CXdbRecordset, where all the real code is. Doing so I can let the user take benefit of what I wrote without loosing my rights. I do not pretend to demonstrate that my database engine is professional but it really works.
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The management at the Villas apartment complex is taking steps to prevent future incidents at their facility following a shooting there last week.
Deputy Chief Curt Zieman updated the El Dorado City Commission on the incident during their meeting Monday evening.
"It is still an active investigation," Zieman said. "I can tell you we have had a number of incidents at that complex since it opened."
There have been four or five personal felonies, as well as numerous other minor calls at the facility, which is located at Towanda and Haverhill.
For all of the incidents except the shooting, people have been arrested and charged, with the cases still pending in court.
"I can tell you management is taking some steps to try to combat some of this stuff," Zieman said.
One thing they are doing is starting tomorrow night they will have security there at night. In addition, Monday night, the police department provided security at the apartment complex.
They also are changing their procedures as far as entry access to make more accountability.
In addition, city attorney Jim Murfin has requested a list of the incidents since the Villas opened so he can go through those and break down the types of crimes there and charges filed.
"I can give information not only about where we are at, but what we can do going forward," Murfin said.
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[Latin America]
By Stephany Romanow
Latin America
remains a frontier of opportunity for the upstream, according
to Wood Mackenzies Latin America
upstream team. This region is home to significant hydrocarbon resources. Highlights from a
recemt webcast indicated that aboveground risk levels are
significant hurdles for doing business in this
Foremost, the politics of the Latin America are extremely
volatile and can change overnight. Likewise, contracts with
governments and state-owned oil companies can change without
notice, leaving E&P companies vulnerable to political will
and denial of profits.
Aboveground risks include financing, contracts and
government politics. According to Wood Mackenzie, Latin America
has extremes for doing business. For example, Latin American
countries that have favorable or low-risk business
climates are Columbia, Peru, Chile and Uruguay. On the other
extreme, nations that are considered very high risk countries
for conducting business include Venezuela, Ecuador and
The remaining nations are in between-- neither
favorable nor too high of risk. Mexico and Brazil fall into
this category.
Another contributor to the risk factor of Latin America is
that national oil companies (NOCs) own the majority of the
commercial reserves and E&P activity. The regional NOCs
(Petrobras, PDVSA, Ecopetrol, and Pemex) dominate reserves and
production. The major international oil companies (IOCs) are
present in Latin America. BP, Statoil, Chevron, Total, Eni,
Shell and ExxonMobil (EM) have some assets in this region.
However, these companies have less than 10% of their worldwide
assets located in Latin America due to the political unrest of
the region and being burned in past business
ventures. In addition, Latin America must compete against other
regions for investment such as Africa and North America.
While the major IOCs are more selective in their business
opportunities, the independents dominate ownership of
exploration acreage. These smaller companies are the ones
taking on the risk and pushing into new frontier areas.
President Pena Nieto recently proposed an energy reform that
overhaul the sector. If passed, the reform would open the
downstream and midstream segments to foreign investment, as
well as allow private investment in upstream projects through profit-sharing
agreements. The reform must pass through several approval
levels of the nations Congress and Senate before opening
the midstream and downstream to private investment.
Under the new rules, a possible issue is that all of the
produced hydrocarbons must be directed to a government entity
for sale and then the investors would be paid. If all
requirements proceeds without too many problems, it is possible
that licensing of the resources could occur in Q4 of 2014 or
early 2015.
As part of the energy reform discussion, the Mexican
government set aggressive production targets that Mexico, as a
country, should achieve by 2018. Reaching the stated objective
of 3 million bpd will prove difficult, although not impossible
to achieve.
Short-term growth may come from a ramp-up in the Chicontepec
field, the development of heavy oil fields in shallow water and
the use of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques in mature
fields. The Chicontepec field is a more difficult group of
fields to produce. Pemex is producing about 65,000 bpd from
this field; there is an estimated 80 billion bbls of reserves
present. Pemex is having difficulty as the field is a tight oil
reserve and requires horizontal drilling along with
multi-fracture wells. The shallow water unconventional fields
are very heavy oils (8-10oAPI). Special methods are needed to
develop these hydrocarbons.
Over the longer term, production growth will be driven by
deepwater and unconventional developments, which could be
excellent opportunities for IOCs such as Anadarko, BP, Chevron
and EM to apply their know-how and technology.
Shale gas is of interest to Mexico as well. According
to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), Mexico ranks
fourth in shale gas reserves as the Eagle Ford field extends
south across the US border. And Mexico is, in fact,
in need of local natural gas supplies. This nation imports
one-third of its demand for natural gas from the US by pipeline
and some by LNG imports. Demand for natural gas has
required it to purchase LNG on the spot market. Mexico
is also in need of pipeline capacity servicing both
the Pacific and Atlantic coastlines.
This nation is fortunate to have great reserves, but it
struggles to execute the management of the major upstream and
downstream projects to capitalize on these
resources. The presalt (Santos basin and Libra fields)
resources are the future. Petrobras will take an additional 10%
stake in Libra, increasing its total interest to 40%.
Given the commitment with this asset, the company which is
already financially strained, is putting itself in a
challenging situation to develop its impressive pipeline of
projects including upstream and downstream projects.
The performance of the Santos Basin relative to other
prominent deepwater basins is a measure of how impressively
Brazil has performed in terms of exploration. However, these
large discoveries present major challenges when it comes to
developing them. Petrobras is attempting to accomplish
something that is never been done in the global deepwater
market before. The company is divesting of its noncore assets
to focus on upstream and downstream projects. Petrobras now dominates
the E&P sector, and Wood Mackenzie expects the company to
operate more than 90% of production into the next decade.
All comments are subject to editorial review.
All fields are compulsory.
gustavo klein
Good article, but I guess you missed mention Argentina ( South America) as potencial Gas producer with probably 800 TCF in Shale gas Vaca Muerta area. Chevron is starting operation there, among other O&G Companies.
Richard Puig
Good Article. In regards to the Venezuela the article is unfortunately spot on. Unfortunate because they are in a tailspin. With no continuing investment of their own in the "machine" to maintain what they have or to produce and develop more oil they will go into a continued decline. Until someone takes charge and cleans it up, nothing will happen.
angel guilarte
Excellent article. It describes exactly what is the actual political and energy situation in countries like Ecuador and Venezuela. The oil reserves are there, but political unrest makes them very hard to explore and produce anytime soon. I just see no major changes in the near future in countries like Ecuador, Bolvia and especially in Venezuela.Kind regards
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I'm working on creating flowcharts directly inside LaTeX documents using tikz. I am admittedly an extreme novice with tikz, although I have quite a bit of experience using LaTeX.
My problem is when trying to show an endless loop with the flowchart, i.e., an edge or path that starts and ends at the same node.
For example,
is an example of what I want (right) and what I'm getting (left) using the following LaTeX code:
\tikzstyle{decision} = [ diamond, draw, fill=blue!20, text width=4.5em, text badly centered, node distance=3cm, inner sep-0pt]
\tikzstyle{block} = [ rectangle, draw, fill=blue!20, text width=5em, text badly centered, rounded corners, minimum height=4em]
\tikzstyle{line} = [ draw, -latex']
\tikzstyle{terminator} = [ draw, ellipse, fill=red!20, node distance=3cm, minimum height=2em]
\begin{tikzpicture}[node distance=2cm, auto]
\node [terminator] (puc) {Power-Up Reset};
\node [block, below of=puc] (wdt) {Stop Watchdog};
\node [block, below of=wdt] (port) {Setup Port Pins};
\node [block, below of=port] (loop) {Loop Forever};
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In everyday language people often mix up "less than" and "smaller than" and in most situations it doesn't matter but when dealing with negative numbers this can lead to confusion.
I am a mathematics teacher in the UK and there are questions in national GCSE exams phrased like this:
Put these numbers in order from smallest to biggest: 3, -1, 7, -5, 13, 0.75
These questions are in exams designed for low ability students and testing their knowledge of place value and ordering numbers and the correct solution in the exam would be: -5, -1, 0.75, 3, 7, 13.
I think if the question says "smallest to biggest" the correct solution should be 0.75, -1, 3, -5, 7, 13. Even though it doesn't seem to bother most people, I think the precise mathematical language is important and "smallest to biggest" should be avoided but if it is used it should refer to the absolute value of the numbers.
So my question is: Which is bigger, -5 or -1?


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Attorney Talia Sasson heads her own law firm, representing organizations in administrative and civil cases in court. She is a board member of the New Israel Fund and a Co-Chair of the International Council of NIF. She is a board member in the Council for Peace and Security, a member of the Geneva Initiative's steering committee, Yesh Din's Public Council, and a counselor for some other NGO's in Israel. In 2009, she ran to the Knesset as representative of The New Movement-Meretz. From 2004 to 2010, Ms. Sasson taught a course on "Defenses through law on Democracy in Israel" in the faculty of law at Tel-Aviv University as adjunct professor. From August 2004 to March 2005, at the request of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Ms. Sasson served as a special legal advisor for the government and the author of the Sasson Report on illegal outposts in the West Bank and law enforcement on Israelis in the Palestinian territories. From 1979 to February 2004 she worked in the State Attorney's office. From 1989 to 1993 she headed the Civil Department in the Jerusalem district attorney. From 1996 to 2004, she headed the Special Tasks Division of the State Attorney's office. In that role she represented the government of Israel in the Supreme Court for 13 years in civil, criminal, constitutional and administrative cases and was involved also with different security and military issues.
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Many productivity systems are complex and hard to keep going. The benefit of these systems often comes from not the overall systems but from the specific tactics or techniques they encourage.
What is the simplest (yet surprisingly) effective productivity increasing technique you know of?
One technique per answer would probably make the most sense, so we can vote on techniques independently.


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5 Enormous Modern Ghost Towns You Won't Believe Exist
We all make a bad investment at some point in our lives: a fancy car that we can't really afford, a time share, an ill-advised zeppelin that it turns out we don't have the time or monocles to use properly. But there are bad investments, and there are these: billion-dollar projects that entire governments just got bored of and abandoned, leaving the rest of us some pretty bitchin' post-apocalyptic playsets, if we can just get past the guards.
(After this, trade in horrifying ghost towns for horrifying online dating profiles with Cracked's new series Rom.Com.)
#5. Russia's Massive Abandoned Water Park
In 1997, Moscow decided to build a huge indoor water park. So they set aside a large tract of land and started a construction project that went on for five years before they got distracted by a passing butterfly and skipped away, never to return.
Dmitry Mordolff
A butterfly flaps its wings in Moscow, a building collapses ... also in Moscow.
Originally built for the World Youth Games, the listing of its proposed facilities proves that they spared no expense, nor any fucks given for the finished product. The water park was supposed to house a 12-story glass roof, three underground floors, an additional nine floors above ground, five swimming pools complete with water slides, and a track and field (water ... field?).
Dmitry Mordolff
Trash aside, it still has less pee in it than your average water park.
It was also supposed to house something called the "Palace of Sports," which was a hotel for visiting athletes that itself contained offices, cafes, and a center for physical therapy and medicine. Now it's just a hell of a place to shoot zombies. Seriously, hole up on that diving board; those steep stairs are a great place to bottleneck and ... ahem, we're getting carried away here.
Dmitry Mordolff
And if you're cornered, just dive headfirst into bare concrete.
Unfortunately, construction of the park ran into a few problems, the main one being that the World Youth Games were in 1998, and construction of this massive water park didn't start until 1997. Needless to say, time wasn't on their side, and it didn't make the cut for the World Youth Games. But construction pressed on for four more years into 2002, at which point they finally had to admit that, no matter how awesome the board, one cannot dive backward through time.
Dmitry Mordolff
Tetanus? Yes. Time? No.
Eventually the land was bought in 2007, in order to ... apparently do nothing with, since it's all still sitting there today. We would like to humbly suggest paintball.
Dmitry Mordolff
The place could use the paint.
#4. North Korea's Fake City
Ah, North Korea. There are probably a dozen projects that the world's most delusional nation could have contributed to this article, but we're going with the empty city of Kijong-dong. Not only does nobody live here, but nobody was ever meant to.
Isaac Crumm
No one was meant to die there, either.
Kijong-dong is one of only two "settlements" that exist within the Demilitarized Zone (the 4-mile-wide buffer zone that exists solely to keep the two Koreas from an endless slap fight that would destroy the world as we know it). Despite North Korea's claims that Kijong-dong is a 200-family farming community, the town only serves as an illusion designed to showcase how "great" and "modern" life is in North Korea to the South Koreans who are surely watching from their telescopes, just itching to defect. But it's all for show: In reality, most of it is completely empty and unused.
Isaac Crumm
The watchtowers don't even have part-time guards.
Kijong-dong is one of the nicer townships in North Korea (that's not hard to pull off, considering the rest of the country is basically a video game level that hasn't rendered yet) because it was built to convince South Koreans that life in the North was super great. We're not sure if it's funny or just plain sad that the mirage the North Koreans built to try to trick everybody into believing paradise lies just across the border looks like the saddest, crappiest farming town we've ever seen, while parts of South Korea look an anime version of The Jetsons.
Justin Paul Barrass
"Whatever, dicks -- The Flintstones was better."
What appear to be citizens walking about, attending to their daily lives, are actually actors put there to give the impression that the city is occupied. Each day they are bussed in, and each night they are bussed out. They can't stay at the village itself because, although it appears to be complete from a distance, all the buildings are giant hollow shells, lacking interior walls, floors, and windows. They do have electric lighting (something lacking in much of North Korea) in order to complete the ruse. Ooh, look at us fancy North Koreans with our amazing electric lighting and houses that technically haven't collapsed yet! Surely this is hedonism. Don't you wish you were here?
#3. The Olympic Park That Became a War Zone
In 1984, the Winter Olympics were held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. You might remember Sarajevo as "that place the news warned us about," and you might remember Yugoslavia as "that country that doesn't exist anymore." As you can likely surmise, shit in Sarajevo went about as far down as the shit-elevator would take it, then switched to the stairs. So the massive and beautiful Olympic facility that they built in a more optimistic time now looks like this:
Sharon Machlis Gartenberg/Middlesex News
This was a painting of an Olympic village, but then it rained.
Here's the bobsled track, which was built at a cost of 563,209,000 Yugoslav dinar.
Karen Jane Barlow
That's like 500 dinar for each jagged crack.
We're sure some of those zeroes are utterly meaningless, but that's still got to be a hell of a lot of money. Once the mortars started firing, the twisty, turny track became one of the most whimsical artillery strongholds in history. Now the shelled remains are slowly being reclaimed by the wilderness.
Karen Jane Barlow
And by anonymous lovers hunting for glory holes.
Here's the ski jump, which we'll go ahead and guess was used to ramp bombs at enemies stationed downhill, and the ski lift, which was obviously perfect for sniper placement.
Dado Ruvic/Reuters
The mist will hide you, because Gaia is on your side.
As a parting kick to your heart compare those Call of Duty maps to the hopeful opening ceremony for the '84 games:


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state of combobox in tool bar of gridpanel under tab panel
I have a tab panel with 4 tabs with stateful: true
and tabpanel state is restoring fine.
But when it comes to combobox value to restore from the state, It works fine if I don't change the tabs. means if I am on the tab where I loaded the page and the changes in combobox are restored fine.
If I change the tab and changed the selection of combobox. in next page restore the value is from previous tab. It is kind of restoring from previous previous tab's combobox value and displays that. even that value is not there in current combobox.
code I am using for tab panel to restore is
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for Combobox it is
please let me know if it is a bug in my code or some thing I am missing
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After taking a breather for nearly two years, he is ready to climb back into the saddle and resume work in law enforcement, Jim Roberson said in announcing he is asking for the Republican nomination as candidate for Lonoke County sheriff.
Roberson said that after serving five terms, he chose not run for re-election in 2012. "It was time to take a year off," he said of his decision to sit out for a term. A lot goes on in 10 years as sheriff, but now he is refreshed and has, "a new outlook.
"Getting out helps you see new things," Roberson said.
He considers himself as "very healthy" and that the stress of being sheriff is not a concern for him, Roberson said. "The stress never did bother me. I have always worked well under stress and have been able to deal with it .. it is not an issue," he said. "I know the job well. I wouldn't be going into anything that I don't know what it is about."
"I took the office a long ways in 10 years," Roberson said of his prior experience. "The beginning years were tough. We didn't have anything to work with," he said.
"But we ended up with all kinds of new equipment. Even a new jail," Roberson said. "I showed the sheriff's office had class, well trained personnel," he said.
"My focus will stay the same. Keep up the training, keep well qualified personnel, take care of the equipment," Roberson said.
"Right now, if you go to the sheriff's office, … there's about five or six stripped police cars sitting out front… I think it shows that the leadership really doesn't care about the perception of the sheriff's office," Roberson said.
Roberson said his mailing address says Austin, but lives near the Woodlawn community, "Right in the middle of Cabot, Lonoke, Carlisle and Beebe.
"It is one of the reasons I moved out here. So I would be central to everybody," and he knows the concerns of the rural communities.
Roberson said he has a Facebook page, Re-elect Jim Roberson, for people to learn more of his stand and to contact him.
Anyone with questions can also call him at 501-743-9000; 501-266-6745or visit at his store at 10077 Arkansas Highway 31 north, across from the Woodlawn Community Center, Roberson said.


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I was looking to have a Halo: Reach party with 16 people (4 Xbox 360s) at my house, but in talking to a friend, I became worried when he said he was not able to connect through the (Existing) wireless network to play vs other XBox 360s. Can you run 4 xBoxes off the same wireless network and have them connect to (local) network games or can this only be done with a wired hub? If so, is there any special setup I need to do first?
Wireless works fine for Xbox System Link. Microsoft's help page for system link states:
The more recent version of the Xbox 360 has a wireless adapter built-in. It's safe to assume that if you can play on Xbox Live wirelessly at home, that it has the correct hardware to play in a wireless system link setup with other Xbox 360s.
If you have a wireless network already in place where you plan to play, you'll have to configure the wireless settings on the Xbox 360s to connect to the wireless network wherever you're getting together, but otherwise no additional setup should be required. You can also mix and match using the wireless adapters on some consoles and connecting via an ethernet cable on other consoles, so long as they're all connecting to the same router/network. For instance, you might put one Xbox near the wireless router and use an ethernet cable for that one, and then have 3 others spread out in the area connecting to the router via wireless.
The Xbox 360 also supports an "ad-hoc" wireless mode where you don't need a wireless router, but in this configuration you'll only be able to play with 4 Xbox 360s if they all have wireless adapters.


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The airport has a business centre with Internet access, fax and computer facilities. Business services, including fax, photocopying and computer facilities, are also available in the VIP lounges. Alternatively, there are hotels close to the airport which provide business services. These include the Airport Garden Hotel (tel: (010) 6456 3388; www.airportgardenhotelbeijing.cn) and the Beijing Capital Airport Hotel (tel: (010) 6458 8888; www1.hilton.com).


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According to the Amazon EC2 FAQ, when an instance is terminated the data is gone. What steps can I take to preserve data in the event my instance is rebooted? I've been looking into EBS and S3 - would either of these be useful to store an active database? How often are instances rebooted anyways?
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Like others have said, EBS--Elastic Block Storage. I am using it myself now that it is released to the general public. It is better than S3 on multiple points:
My experience with EBS so far has been the most positive thing about AWS I've dealt with to date.
Update: While my experience with EBS has been positive, others have had issues. Very specifically EBS do not implement fsync() correctly. Ted Dziuba has some interesting words about this in his blog post Amazon — The Purpose of Pain: Myth 2: Architecture Will Save You from Cloud Failures
EBS would certainly work for a database, and is one of the examples in Amazon's EBS Description. "Amazon EBS is particularly suited for applications that require a database..."
EBS will work just like a block device (think hard disk), giving you broad freedom and comfortability using it. S3 is conceptually more like really fast FTP, with a special API. You could conceivably use it as part of a database, but standard databases don't run on it (yet?).
You will want to review Amazon's descriptions of performance (EBS > S3), durability (S3 > EBS) and price (depends).
As mentioned in other answers, EBS is the standard solution for persistent and convenient disk storage. It should be your default option. Indeed, the newer EC2 instance types use it by default, over the original, non-persisted instance storage.
However, when considering persistence, you'll also want to carefully consider availability (avoiding times when the data is not available) and durability (avoiding loss of data) for your data.
EBS covers the basic use cases, but keep in mind:
Recent AWS outages, such a severe multi-day failure in 2011 and another in 2012, give some illustrations of the complexities of EBS and the small but non-negligible risks of outages and data loss.
Bottom line: To be sure you won't lose your data, keep data backups in S3. EBS snapshots are an easy way to do this for EBS. If high availability is critical, consider also using instance storage in multiple availability zones (in addition to, or instead of, EBS).
Sounds like if you're worried about losing data then you need the above mentioned EBS. There's a bit of an intro here.
I haven't personally looked into it much more than this thus far, I'm just using S3 for backups currently.


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When designing logos in Adobe Illustrator, what is the best way to save all the separate versions of the logo? In separate project (.ai) files or in separate artboards?
There's no rule about it. Whatever is easier for you to manage - files or artboards.
I tend to lean towards separate files for the simple reason if I'm asked for something like "A spot color version of Company X's Logo" I can simply send the file and I don't need to go in an pull a specific artboard from something. In addition to having RGB and CMYK files separate.
Probably if you design different versions of a logo you want to keep some elements, so using artboards would be the right choice. Also because in the same project you have more control and you are sure you are using the same color palette and you don't make any mistakes when you are under a deadline.
ps. I use artboards but may depend on your personal workflow
I use layers. I'm just kind of oldschool like that though. It's really just preference though. Personally I like to keep as few files from cluttering up my drive as possible. Artboards work well too, but I favor layers so I don't have to realign anything and I can change certain reused elements and apply them to multiple comps at once. Sometimes when I'm done I'll paste different versions to another artboard if I'm collaborating with someone else who prefers them. Just make sure your files are easy to navigate for other people if you have to work with a team and you'll be fine. If you have a particular preference amongst people in your workspace, use that.


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Dear All,
This is related with a problem that I'm trying to solve on my PhD dissertation in econometrics, and I thought that some mathmatician can know the answer.
What is known about a possible extension, $E$ , of the ring, $ A$ , of all n-by-n matrices with entries in $\mathbb{C}$ such that any non-constant polynomial of $ A[x] $ splits in a product of linear factors in $E[x]$?
$ax = xa$ iff $a$ is in the commutator of $E$. Moreover, $ A$ is unitary.
Thanks a lot,
Federico Carlini


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