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This week, Pentaho was on site for Splunk .conf2013 in Las Vegas and the show was buzzing with excitement. Organizations big and small shared a range of new innovations leveraging machine data.
Eddie White, executive VP of business development at Pentaho, shares his first-hand impressions and insights on the biggest news and trends coming out of .conf2013.
Q: Eddie, what are your impressions of this year's Splunk conference?
There's a different feel at the show this year — bigger companies and more business users attended this year. What traditionally has been more of an "IT Show," has evolved to showcase real business use cases, success stories and post-deployment analysis. It's apparent that machine data has turned a corner. The industry is moving well beyond simply logging of machine data. Users integrate, analyze and leverage their vast resource of device data for business intelligence and competitive advantage.
For example, on the first day ADP shared how they leverage big data for real-time insights. Yahoo! shared details on a deployment of Splunk Enterprise at multi-terabyte scale that is helping to better monitor and manage website properties. Intuit spoke on leveraging Splunk for diagnostics, testing, performance tuning and more. And on the second day, StubHub, Harvard University, Credit Suisse, Sears and Wipro were all featuring compelling uses for Splunk.
What was most exciting to me was the 50+ end users I spoke with who wanted learn how Pentaho blends data with and in Splunk. Our booth traffic was steady and heavy. Pentaho's enhanced visualization and reporting demos were a hit not only with the IT attendees, but with the business users who are searching for ways to harness the power of their Splunk data for deeper insights.
Q: Does attendance indicate a bigger/growing appetite for analysis of machine data?
Splunk is helping to uncover new information and insights – tapping into the myriad of data types Splunk can support as a data platform. It's clearly making an impact in the enterprise. Yet as all these organizations increasingly turn to Splunk to collect, index and harness their machine-generated big data…there is tremendous opportunity for organizations to turn to Pentaho , a Splunk Powered Technology Partner, to tap and combine Splunk data with any other data source for deeper insights.
Q: How is the market developing for machine data analytics?
We are seeing the market here change from being driven by the technologists, to being driven by the business user. The technology has advanced and now has the scale, the flexibility and the models to make real business impacts for the enterprise. The use cases are clearly defined now and the technology fits the customer needs. The level of collaboration between the major players like Pentaho, Splunk and Hadoop vendors now presents CIOs with real value.
Q: You were invited this year to speak on a CXO Panel addressing Big Data challenges and opportunities. What were some of the highlights?
The CXO panel was fantastic. It was quite an honor to present and be on a panel with four founders and "rock stars" in Big Data: Matt Pfeil (DataStax), M.C. Srivas (MapR), Ari Zilka (Hortonworks) and Amr Awadallah (Cloudera).
Over a panel session that ran for 90 minutes, we tackled subjects on big data challenges. We heard that Splunk users are dealing with quite a few of the same questions and challenges.
Business users and IT professionals just getting started are struggling with what project to pick first and first steps. My advice is to pick a real business use case and push us vendors to do a proof-of-concept with you, your team and to show quantifiable results in 30 days.
We also heard a lot of questions about which vendor has the right answer to their individual use scenarios and challenges. It was great to see all of the panelists on the same page in their response. No one vendor has all the answers. As I mentioned on the panel, if any Big Data player tells you they can solve all your Big Data problems, you should disqualify them! Users need Splunk, they need Pentaho and they need Hadoop.
Q: Taking a high level view of the conference, what trends can you identify?
There were two major trends taking center stage. Business people were asking business questions, and almost everyone was looking to map adoption to real business use cases. And again, there's a clear awareness that no one vendor can answer all of their questions. They are all looking at how to best assemble Hadoop, along with Pentaho and extend their use of Splunk with those technologies.
Q: Pentaho and Splunk are demonstrating the new Pentaho Business Analytics and Splunk Enterprise offering, providing a first look to conference attendees. What kind of reaction are you getting from the demos?
The reaction from the audiences was tremendous. We had two sets of reactions. The end user customers took the time to go in-depth with technology demos and asked questions like… where Splunk ends and where Pentaho begins? The demo we showed drew the business user in too. It was a very powerful visualization of how we can enable a Splunk enterprise to solve business problems.
The Splunk sales teams who visited the booth and saw the demo were able to clearly discuss how to position a total solution for their customer.
Learn more about Splunk and Pentaho.


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What would be some good exercises to develop more power in a Wing Chun chain punch? Is it as simple as working on my triceps?
When developing any technique, there are pairs of muscles that must work together.
In the case of punching, and this kind of a punch, your recoil from the punch is just as important for absorbing the impact as the actual delivery itself.
To practice the punch, start with the technique in open space and focus on delivering the energy of the punch to the same open space target with accuracy and speed and retracting to the same starting point with the same degree of accuracy and speed.
Be aware of your breathing and how much breath you need on each move so that you become aware of your requirements for oxygen on each delivery and how long it takes to recover from each one.
After your accuracy in delivering the technique improves, then increase the rate at which you can deliver the blows with either hand. For example, develop a routine for punches and breathing that allows you to work up 2 successive punches with right, then left then both hands, then break and then repeat. Work this up to 5, then 10 and then 20 and then 50, etc.
Even without training your muscle groups, a routine such as this will train the various muscle groups without straining them, so that they work together as you hone the technique.
Then apply resistance to your punches by either holding a lightly weighted 'weight' or holding them on your wrists. Make sure they are secure and don't move or rub. I recommend holding a weighted implement with the weight either side of your fist so your technique can remain as true as possible.
Remember to keep both the delivery and the recoil together in your technique. When working with resistance weights, remember to start your routine from the bottom up, such as 1 punch at a time, then 2, then 5 etc, or you risk causing painful damage to muscles, ligaments or tendons that are not trained to handle the load yet.
With most training of your body, start with technique, accuracy, speed and then resistance.
You will always, then, be working with your body and not making your body work with something else.
While not what most would think of as a "weight lifting" exercise (body weight rather than external weights), push-ups on your fists will help with Wing Chun punches as it promotes strong wrists and forearms (along with the standard push-up muscles). In order to train for the explosiveness of the punch you can practice these push-ups with an explosive movement when pressing upwards. Later on, add more weight via the use of a weight vest. Don't go overboard with developing muscles for this punch as it is more quick and explosive than slow and about the application of brute strength.
Additionally as a Wing Chun punch is vertical and is usually delivered with no recoil before the punch core and hip muscle development will help as power and support for the punch come from low in the body.
Some people are warning about weightlifting slowing you down. This is only true in a limited sense: High repetitions with moderate weight will build more slow-twitch muscle.
Powerlifting workouts--high weight, with low repetitions and longer breaks between sets--build fast-twitch muscle. You can actually assess your ratio of fast-twitch to slow-twitch muscle using weights.
With that said, building fast-twitch muscle can help, but you will only punch well if you practice punching well. Do it a lot, with someone checking your form.
Muscle strength improves by resistance to an intended movement. For punches, there's a few tricks that work well.
Light Weights
When I say light, I mean ounces. You might want to take a fishing weight or stones to use. Lay on your back, do your chain punches with the weights in your hands. Laying on your back means gravity is pulling the weight in the opposite direction of your intended movement - so you get the maximum resistance to your action.
If you try doing the punches standing up, the weights will be pulling your arms towards the ground, which will work the muscles keeping your arms upright, but not the muscles that deliver the power to your punches.
Be sure to stretch AFTER doing these exercises. Stretching resets the muscle spindles so they don't take the short contracted position as "normal" which is what ends up slowing down people who do a lot of weight conditioning.
Resistance bands/ropes w/weights
Attach a resistance band to a wall or a rope over a pulley with weight so that you feel resistance when you punch forward. Do your chain punches. This is, basically identical to using weights, just a bit different in logistics and you can play with taking a half step either way and adjusting angles while you go.
Again, stretch afterwards.
Training in water
Go to a pool. Stand in water up to your shoulders. Do your chain punches. The water produces resistance which makes it more work for your muscles. The draw back to this is that you can only move so fast in water and the nature of water resistance will make it tempting to lose your form.
IMO no; just tris isn't enough–it's basically a press (at a weird angle), which involves shoulders, tris, chest, and core. When I was studying I used isometrics against a wall, at various extensions.
Isometrics give you a chance to check your alignment, posture, and rooting at the same time.
Cable punches, or various "pressing" machines you can stand and use, are the best equipment. I don't like the cables as much since (a) they pull you back, which is different, and (b) there are cables.
Isolating the triceps will not be very effective. The most effective way to train is through functional exercises, in which more than one muscle must work together against resistance in a way that is similar to how the technique will actually be used. Let me list a few exercises we use (some mentioned already).
To increase power:
To develop technique:
This technique is not about power, it's about speed!
You shall try to deliver punches as fast as possible. I think some of the body-building excercises can actually slow your hands down. Also remember that the explosive strength is not what you train in e.g. in bench press - this is a static power.
For chain punch technique, I think it is best to train your hands to be flash fast and "strike-strong" (i.e. explosively), e.g. by practicing with weapons like jo or nunchaku.
Remember that this technique is not for 1 strong KO strike. Also watch this:
Use light weights to build arms, shoulders and back, not huge but just so you build power. Do a lot of core strength exercises as everything is driven from your core. (planking, static stance training, etc)
And then punch the three sectioned wall bags and punching bags as fast as you can, focusing firstly on correct techniques and secondly on speed. You will end up with good solid strikes.
Yes speed is important, but without power a fast strike will be meaningless, so we want to train speed and power.
It is not actually about where the punch ends up or in fact what style, or type of punch you use. When you are talking about a very rapid series of punches, or indeed a constant circular flow of punches (CHAIN), or perhaps just a few effective punches in a row, it may seem wise to maybe look at where the punch comes from (chamber/ or simply anywhere !!!!). I trained once with a traditional Okinowan player, who was very serious, and trained very hard with the Makiwara. Impressive...with the strength and power of his strikes...But he seemed to me to be SO S..L..O..W..!!!! Observation of his technique showed that he was OBSESSIVELY focused on the target (Makiwara)....Ahhh....FOCUS !!!! Upon being invited to "ave a go" he looked at my soft hands and stated that I shouldn't 'whack' the Makiwara too hard in case I damaged my hand !!!! Needless to say I adopted an appropriate delivery stance (stood relaxed in front of the thing), Looked at my starting position and proceeded to 'whack' the crap out of the Makiwara !!!! I didn't look at it once, hit it many times in rapid succession - and BROKE the bloody thing !!!! LOL. After my mate settled down a bit... I explained that it wasn't how big and strong the punches were..it was all about how quick I could get my fist back to the starting point so that I could unleash hell upon it once more. My SOFT hands were not even red, or damaged !!!! The starting and ending point were only in fact momentary 'blips' in a CHAIN of motion that was never ending. Think of the 'MOBIUS STRIP' a constantly flowing, forward moving cycle. In the 'Siniwali' systems you may appear to go backwards at times, but in fact you forward motion never actually stops. Ponder if you will. Straighten the circle and curve the straight. SIMPLE>

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Five cscope Tips
By meem on Dec 27, 2009
At Sun, we primarily use a tweaked version of the venerable cscope utility which has origins going back to AT&T in the 1980s (now freely available from cscope.sourceforge.net). As with many UNIX utilities, despite its age it has remained popular because of its efficiency and flexibility, which are especially important when understanding (and optionally modifying) source trees with several million lines of code.
Despite cscope's importance and popularity, I've been surprised to discover that few are familiar with anything beyond the basics. As such, in the interest of increasing cscope proficiency, here's my list of five features every cscope user should know:
- Display more than 9 search results per page with -r.
Back in the 1980s the default behavior may have made sense, but with modern xterms often configured to have 50-70 rows the default is simply inefficient and tedious. By passing the -r option to cscope at startup (or including -r in the CSCOPEOPTIONS environment variable), cscope will display as many search results as will fit. The only caveat is that selecting an entry from the results must include explicitly pressing return (e.g., "3 [return]" instead of "3") so that entries greater than 9 can be selected. I find this tradeoff more than acceptable. (Apparently, the current open-source version of cscope uses letters to represent search results beyond 9 and thus does not require -r.)
- Display more pathname components in search results with -pN. By default, cscope only displays the basename of a given matching file. In large codebases, files in different parts of the source tree can often have the same name (consider main.c), which makes for confusing search results. By passing the -pN option to cscope at startup (or including -pN in the CSCOPEOPTIONS environment variable) -- where N is the number of pathname components to display -- this confusion can be eliminated. I've generally found -p4 to be a good middle-ground. Note that -p0 will cause pathnames to be omitted entirely from search results, which can also be useful for certain specialized queries.
- Use regular expressions when searching. While it is clear that one can enter a regexp when using "Find this egrep pattern", it's less apparent that almost all search fields will accept regexps. For instance, to find all definitions starting with ipmp_ and ending with ill, just specify ipmp_.\*ill to "Find this definition". In addition to allowing groups of related functions to be quickly found, I find this feature is quite useful when I cannot remember the exact name of a given symbol but can recall specific parts of its name. Note that this feature is not limited to symbols -- e.g., passing .\*ipmp.\* to "Find files #including this file" returns all files in the cscope database that #include a file with ipmp somewhere in its name.
- Use filtering to refine previous searches. cscope provides several mechanisms for refining searches. The most powerful is the ability to filter previous searches through an arbitrary shell command via \^. For instance, suppose you want to find all calls to GLDv3 functions (which all start with mac_) from the nge driver (which has a set of source files starting with nge). You might first specify a search pattern of mac_.\* to "Find functions calling this function". With ON's cscope database, this returns a daunting 2400 matches; filtering with "\^grep common/io/nge", quickly pares the results down to the 12 calls that exist within the nge driver. Note that this can be repeated any number of times -- e.g., "\^sort -k2" alphabetizes the remaining search results by calling function.
- Use the built-in history mechanisms. You can quickly restore previous search queries by using \^b (control-b); \^f will move forward through the history. This feature is especially useful when performing depth-first exploration of a given function hierarchy. You can also use \^a to replay the most recent search pattern (e.g., in a different search field), and the > and < commands to save and restore the results of a given search. Thus, you could save search results prior to refining it using \^ (as per the previous tip) and restore them later, or restore results from a past cscope session.
Of course, this is just my top-five list -- there are many other powerful features, such as the ability to make changes en masse, build custom cscope databases using the xref utility, embed command-line mode in scripts (mentioned in a previous blog entry), and employ numerous extensions that provide seamless interaction with popular editors such as XEmacs and vim. Along these lines, I'm eager to hear from others who have found ways to improve their productivity with this exceptional utility.


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Brain & Nervous System Health Center
What 'Brain-Dead' Means
Jan. 3, 2014 -- What does it mean when doctors say a person is brain-dead? WebMD asked critical care specialist Isaac Tawil, MD, an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and bioethicist Arthur Caplan, PhD, director of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center.
Q. Is "brain-dead" the same as dead?
A. Yes. Many people think death happens when the heart stops beating and the lungs stop breathing, but machines can support those functions when the brain no longer can, Tawil says.
Q. Do doctors use specific criteria to confirm death in every case?
A. "Most people die not on machines," so it's not necessary to evaluate them for brain death, Caplan says.
"Typically, brain death starts with some sort of devastating neurologic injury," Tawil says. "That can come in many different forms." They include traumatic brain injury, a stroke caused by a ruptured blood vessel in the brain, or if the heart has stopped and the brain goes without oxygen and other nutrients it needs to survive for a long period of time.
Q. If a patient is on life support, doesn't that mean he must be alive?
A. Loved ones might find it hard to comprehend that someone is dead when he still feels warm to the touch and his chest continues to rise and fall as a result of mechanical support, Tawil says.
"What they hear is 'kind of dead,' 'maybe dead,' 'sort of dead,' but they don't hear 'dead,'" Caplan says.
He and Tawil prefer not to use the term "life support" to describe the ventilator and other equipment that can maintain blood flow and breathing in a patient who's been declared brain dead. "I use the term 'organ support,'" Tawil says. "I think it's somewhat deceiving to call it 'life support.'"
Q. What makes doctors suspect that patients are brain-dead and not in a coma and alive?
A. Doctors and nurses test brain-injured patients for certain responses at least once an hour, Tawil says. Can they talk? Can they move their eyes?


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Is this correct?
Asking the driver or the another person:
- Does this bus go (or goes) to X?
- Do you go to X?
Is this correct?
Asking the driver or the another person:
If you're talking directly to the driver, either of the following would work:
While I would prefer the former, the latter is also somewhat common since it's assumed that the bus and the driver are going to the same places. However, if you're asking another random person, you definitely want the former as the person's final destination may not be the same as the bus's.
Not disputing the earlier answer, but as an alternative you might ask:
or even:
If I wanted to know how to get to X on a bus I would ask "How do I get to X from a bus?"
Problems with "Does this bus go to X?" include the fact that a correct answer ("yes" or "no") does not actually tell you how to get to X; you don't know which stop to get off or if you have to transfer. In addition, the bus may go to X but there could be another bus that is much faster or cheaper.
As others have pointed out, "Do you go to X?" does not tell you whether the bus goes to X or not.


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Did you know tomorrow is Friday?
(Hey @kmeltzer, this one's for you.)
I know you all know tomorrow is Friday, and some of you are going "oh no she didn't just ask that question", but I did (because of this and @kmeltzer's comment), and therefore, I want you to tell us all what you're doing tomorrow. If that's boring, you can tell me what you would be doing if you didn't have to do whatever it is you're doing tomorrow.
Or possibly for the weekend.
Or spam this thread with pictures - which I noticed is something the ATC community doesn't really do that much. Why is that? We gave you the ability, do you all not like pictures?
Or you can flame me for asking a pointless question and tell me to
I don't know. HI. YOU clicked the thread.
Please enjoy this beagle cam.
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For me, today is Friday. And tomorrow, I'm spending 12 hours in a car. Whooppee!
Flame on!
I have been totally screwed here at work, so I will be working late tomorrow, meaning a 12 hour day when most will only work 7.5 hours. I've got 1 out on vacation, 1 called in sick for the week on Monday with a sinus infection, and I have board meetings to prep for that are next week.
But Saturday I am going to a crab feast, so that will put me in a better mood :) Beer, crabs, corn, chicken, plus tons of other stuff.....yum......
I am working all day Friday, but Saturday I am going to next season's finale taping of "Hell's Kitchen".
I love Fridays.
Tomorrow, I'll be working. Then, I need to go shopping and make my "Holy Sh*t That's Hot" 3 alarm salsa for the fire department picnic on Saturday. I'll also be practicing tying knots because I'm taking a rescue technician course, which means.. knots knots and knots. I haven't figured out how I can merge knots and salsa, but I'm sure I can figure something out.
Other than that... whatever Friday brings, I'll be ready!
This weekend will be an NRA safety course at the range, then FD picnic. I haven't thought as far ahead as Sunday just yet.. but I'm sure it'll involve knots.
I will be shipping my Wootizen BOC, playing video games, and trying to get over my sickness.
I also might be going to the Big E. Any other Wooters going to be there?
Tomorrow is Friday. I guess that makes today, uh, Thursday?
ATC people don't need no stinkin' pictures. One word is worth a thousand pictures. (Hmm, maybe I got that wrong?)
I hereby dedicate September 13th to be Pointless Question Day. Please help me get the word out and make sure we make the Ask the Community page to be as useless as possible every year from here to infinity!
I bet my kid wears his shirt
Tomorrow. Hummmmm. I will have my head buried in maps and excel sheets doing a build/cost analysis for a potential project while getting distracted by http://woot.com and http://turntable.fm/music_monday_wootcom
Which, strangely, is exactly what I'm doing today. And what I did yesterday, and the day before that, and the day before that... Is this groundhogs day!?
TGIalmostF! This week has been rough!
The same thing we do everyday Inky -- try and take over the world!!!
@conanthelibrarian: my wife would be so jealous
I'm gonna work on the logistics of acquiring/creating and moving a full cast iron desk and figure out how to send it to you @inkycatz. Any luck with that stain?
@studerc: Going to tackle it with science as soon as I go shopping! I have this bad habit of getting off work this week and needing a nap immediately afterwards. Cat loves it, but horrible for productivity, y'know?
Good luck on the desk, all I could find were desks with cast iron legs. Very pretty but sort of defeats the purpose, you know? I thought maybe a desk made out of whiteboard material would be fun and lighter to carry.
@joshaw: Is once a year enough? Perhaps maybe once a month would be better? That way everyone could get it out of their systems on a frequent enough basis, perhaps it wouldn't be an issue after a while...
@thedogma: I'll be there in 2 weeks. :) My mom works just across from the state houses so I'm "really" going to visit her, not taste fried lasagne.
It's my Friday! I guess, it's kinda technically my Monday though too! Say what?!?
I've been out all week (well, last week too!) and had to come in today to attend some important meetings and figured I'd take today to get caught up on e-mail and shoot the breeze with some people here....off again tomorrow.
Friday, again???
Didn't we just have Friday last week?
Well, crap. I thought today was Friday!
Parental units are coming to town. I'll probably spend some time with them I guess.
I'm taking the day off tomorrow for my 7 year old to have 4 teeth removed. FUN!
@inkycatz: It's definitely not enough but it might be a good start.
I love Friday
Excuse me, but tomorrow is Saturday. Even though I retired in July, I still know what day of the week it is! My calendar goes like this:
Sunday (That's the day the BIG newspaper comes!)
Taking mother-in-law to lunch, having son & his family (8 of us) for dinner. Trying a new brussels sprouts recipe that calls for four pounds of them, halved. Shouldn't take more than an hour. Also trying a recipe for TGI Friday's potsticker dipping sauce.
@belyndag: :-D I retired years ago and no longer subscribe to the newspaper. Everyday is Saturday to me. ;-)
@belyndag: So if tomorrow is Saturday, does that mean you don't have to go to the TV studio for your interview? Nope, it's not gonna work. You just march right over to that TV studio and be your usual, charming self. Autism is a subject that you are passionate about. You'll do fine. {And all of us are rooting for you.)
Just remember, tomorrow is Friday.
Did someone mention Friday?
Working tomorrow, then lots of stuff to do over the weekend. I'm closing on a house on Monday, so have to prepare to move. I have to replace my washer and dryer (last ones are in my rental) and get a couch to replace the ones that I decided were at the end of their service life before I moved.
Oh, and I do want to watch football.
now that is what i was expecting when i clicked on this thread.
the "friday" RickRoll
Thanks for the heads up, now I know what underwear to put on tommorow
@jsimsace: I'll see your Friday and raise you one with Stephen Colbert performing.
As for me, I've got clinicals at a "Convenient Care" clinic.
@earlyre: Yeah, but I didn't hide it in a link. I feel bad, nearly. :)
In a little over an hour, here on the east coast, this question will be outdated.
Spending the day standing in line:
First to renew car registrations.
Second to renew driver licenses.
Third to be with my wife while she goes to get blood work done for some problems she's been having.
Fourth to get an MRI done for my wife for the same reason.
Fifth to go out for dinner (Date Night).
Sixth to get groceries as Saturday I'm heading to New Orleans with a church group to help people clean up after Isaac.
That's my plans for Friday.
@thedogma: If I had the money, and my cousin would put me up, I'd totally go, I love the Big E. But, I'm in NY, and I don't even have the money to go to Ma. Plus, my car broke down today :(
Friday, I will be at work..with my moms car, I'll be paying the guys who towed my car 25 miles a small fortune, praying my brother can fix the stupid car....and then going home and probably having a nervous breakdown.
Saturday, I'm stuck working, at the one store I hate the most, and on top of it all, I'm losing an hour of pay that would have been overtime because my car broke down on my lunch and made me an hour late back to work.
Sunday...I'll be in a catatonic state! Hopefully though, my friend will pick me up and we'll go walking in the woods. I enjoy that, lets see....
I could definitely do with some of this!
@captainsuperdawg: Thanks. Loved that clip!
Yesterday was Thursday. Today it is Friday. I so excited! I gonna have a ball today!
Go forth and make awesome posts.
Let's see...today has seen:
Fix computers for coworkers.
Try to install software unsuccessfully.
Try to set up coworkers with a working computer (unsuccessfully).
Start correcting drawings in AutoCAD.
Ship a BOC.
Continue corrections in AutoCAD.
Still to come:
Pick up the kiddos.
Go to soccer practice.
Leftovers for dinner.
Let the kiddos finish watching Star Trek 3.
Go to bed.
Kiddo's soccer game.
Drive to Atlanta to see Georgia Tech play Virginia.
Eat at my favorite restaurant in the world (Melton's App & Tap).
Crash at my parents' house.
It's Friday!
I have another one that I would love to post, but I think I would get in trouble for it really pushing that PG13 line...
Um, tomorrow is Saturday. Today is Friday.
@captainsuperdawg: That was very awesome. Thank you.


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Single Speed Trailer Winch 1500 Lb - Fulton
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Is using the word "singular" to describe someone or something unique an outdated adjective?
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I have already downloaded the ubuntu 12.10 desktop 32bit on ubuntu site.
Now I want to put it in my 4gb flash drive using the universal installer.
Assuming i have a 100GB hard drive, I want to use 30GB for Ubuntu. (Is 30GB OK for the Ubuntu partition or should I put a little higher, like 50GB?)
- So there will be 70GB partition of my windows7 home premium 64bit
- So 100gb= 30gb ubuntu + 70gb windows
I will use windows 7 disk management to cut off 30GB before installing. I'm not sure if using this disk partitioning method can totally cut the disk partitioning away from windows. (if theres another method to totally take away a disk partition please do recommend it) 'for me to sure that it will not affect the original OS.'
I'm actually very new to Ubuntu. So explain it detail by detail. The laptop that I will install Ubuntu in is not mine.
I will use this OS for our thesis project so please advise me.
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Six University of Exeter education students visited and taught in Geneseo-area schools May 24-June 11, part of the Exeter/Geneseo Exchange Program. Front row (l to r): Laura Charlton; Stephanie Taylor; and Jane Larkin. Back row (l to r): Ashley Dyer; Louisa Bowman; and Rob Crocker.
GENESEO, N.Y. - Six students from the University of Exeter's Graduate School of Education in England spent time student teaching and visiting schools in the Geneseo and Rochester area May 24-June 11, part of the Exeter/Geneseo Exchange Program with SUNY Geneseo's School of Education. It was the third year of the program.
The British students taught in the Mt. Morris and Honeoye Falls/Lima Central School District. They visited the School of the Arts and Geneseo Community Charter School in Rochester. Four of the students focused on secondary education and two on elementary education.
The Geneseo students spent the bulk of their time in schools in Newquay on the southwest coast of England and were involved in a three-credit Geneseo course: International Field Experience. The Exeter and Geneseo students stayed in touch with other via email about their experiences.
"It's been an extremely rewarding experience for me to see teaching practices in the United States," said Laura Charlton, who is studying elementary education at Exeter. "It has given me another perspective on my teaching practices and helps boost confidence in what I am doing at home."
The students are "very attentive and ask very good questions," said Rob Crocker, who is studying secondary education. "They were fascinated with our accents and sometimes would ask us to say specific words."
The accreditation coordinator for Geneseo's School of Education, John Williams, coordinated the schedule for the Exeter students.
"This program is a win-win for everyone involved," said Williams. "These young teachers were able to not only observe classes in their host schools but were able to do a considerable amount of teaching. They are a very enthusiastic and professional group who will return to the UK with new ideas and strategies, new friends and colleagues, and a new perspective on education in the United States."
It wasn't all work for the Exeter students. They visited Niagara Falls and Toronto during the Memorial Day weekend and took a Finger Lakes tour. They also spent an evening with one of their cooperating teachers and learned about farming in the Genesee Valley.
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31 Jan 2012 5:03 PM #1
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23 Mar 2012 2:00 PM #2
Me too!
This one is a sure thing, can't commit on time but it will happen.--
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Masking needs to be put in
Me three. I use this a lot and it would speed up production if it was a feature built in.
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Thank you for the suggestions.
This is an often requested feature that is being considered. One of the things that stands in the way is browser support - although masking has been accepted into the W3C spec as of June 2013 (before it was only an experimental webkit feature), it is currently not supported by any other browsers but webkit ones.
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The mask should be a 8-bit integer 1-channel matrix, which translates to opencv type CV_8U. In your case the mask is of type srcImage.type(), which is a 3-channel matrix
You are passing roi to the detector but you should be passing mask. When you are making changes to roi, you are also changing mask.


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6 Geniuses Who Saw Their Inventions Go Terribly Wrong
Just like a parent, every inventor has to send their child out into the world. Sometimes that child becomes a doctor or a movie star. Other times that child ends up in a clock tower with a rifle...
With that in mind we present some of history's greatest inventors who lived to see their inventions take on unexpected, terrifying lives of their own...
#6. Orville Wright (1871-1948)
The airplane.
Lived to See:
One used to vaporize an entire city.
You know the story of the Wright brothers. December 17, 1903, Orville is the one inside the plane:
Orville had big dreams for the invention he and his brother became famous for. Really big dreams. He thought it would end warfare forever.
In 1915, Orville (his brother Wilbur had passed away by then) predicted aerial reconnaissance would make war "... too expensive, too slow, too difficult, too long drawn out" for anyone to keep doing it. After the U.S. entered WWI, Orville confidently wrote that the nation with the most airborne scouts, "will win the war and put an end to war."
Put an end to war! Awesome! Hey, how did that turn out?
While Orville looked at the plane and dreamed of world peace, everybody else was thinking, "Wow, those people down on the ground look like tiny ants! Ants I could totally crush from up here!"
But still, he clung to the idea. At the end of WWI, Orville wrote that "the aeroplane has made war so terrible that I do not believe any country will again care to start a war," and five years later authored a radio broadcast declaring that "the aeroplane, in forcing upon governments a realization of the possibilities for destruction, has actually become a powerful instrument for peace."
At that same moment, military engineers scratched their chins and said, "You know, we really haven't realized the possibilities for destruction in these things. We've packed as many bombs as it can carry... can we make the bombs like, way deadlier? Would that work?"
Orville Wright held to his optimism until passing in early 1948. Which means he lived long enough to see...
... the dropping of the atomic bomb. In 1945, this invention that started out as a flimsy thing that could barely skim over the ground, dropped city-flattening bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And that was the culmination of six years of devastating warfare in which city after city was shattered by aerial bombardment.
We have to say, though, it did nothing to dampen the man's spirit. In a typically on-the-bright-side letter to a friend shortly after the atomic bombings, Orville wrote, "I once thought the aeroplane would end wars. I now wonder whether the aeroplane and the atomic bomb can do it."
Which leads us to ask the obvious: You mean one of his friends actually asked him what he thought about the atomic bombs? Geez, talk about a dick move. On the bright side, Orville Wright did live to see Chuck Yeager's breaking of the sound barrier, which had to have blown his fucking mind.
#5. Peter Carl Goldmark (1906-1977)
The LP record.
Lived to See:
Rap DJs scratching the hell out of them.
Through WWII, records were available only at 78 RPM speeds, which our older readers will remember as the awesome setting that made everybody sound like The Chipmunks. The big disadvantage to 78s was a limit of about five minutes per side. As Goldmark later recalled his 1945 epiphany:
"I was at a party listening to Brahms being played by the great Horowitz. Suddenly there was a click. The most horrible sound man ever invented, right in the middle of the music. Somebody rushed to change records. The mood was broken."
Now, if you're anything like us, your first thought is, "Holy freaking crap, that sounds like the worst party in the history of the world. If we were there our only great idea would have been to rifle through the medicine cabinet in search of high-level painkillers." And that's why we're not in the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Peter Carl Goldmark went on to create the LP (long-playing records).
You can't underestimate how it changed the way music itself was created. No longer limited to disjointed bundles of 78s, artists could create unified artistic statements, without listeners jumping up every five minutes to change discs. The Beatles wouldn't have become THE BEATLES without the format to create Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. So what could go wrong?
We could point to the scourge of progressive rock, the only genre developed so DJs had time to leave the studio and get stoned. Yes's "Revealing Science of God," Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" and too many other tracks that last more than 15 minutes, thanks to pointless droning and endless solos, inspiring countless slurred, "No, no, you gotta hear this part coming right up!"
But the greatest indignity to Goldmark's "play lots of Brahm's uninterrupted" invention was occurring in the South Bronx, in the final years of his life. There turntable techniques like cutting and scratching were developed by a number of 70s New York DJs, notably DJ Kool Herc, Grand Wizard Theodore and Grandmaster Flash.
We can't confirm that the then 70-year-old Goldmark attended any of these parties, but you can only imagine how he would have reacted to the record scratch, the "most horrible sound man ever invented," being turned into a sound effect by guys in gold chains asking a basement full of dudes if they were ready to get the party started.
#4. Philo T. Farnsworth (1906-1971)
The modern television.
Lived to See:
Gilligan's Island.
Already born with a ridiculous name, Philo T. Farnsworth's life story doesn't make for the happiest of reading. It's a litany of financial troubles, corporate espionage, legal battles, bad timing, heavy drinking and nervous breakdowns. But the man was a genius; he was born in a log cabin and theorized the basic principles of electronic television while cultivating a potato field at the age of 14. Yep, that's right, 14-years-old, an age when most of us couldn't theorize the basic location of our ass using both hands.
A few years later, while wooing his future wife, Philo spoke to her about his dreams: "He talked a lot about what television would do," Elma Farnsworth remembered. "He saw that television would allow people to learn about each other. He felt that if you could learn how other people live, world problems would be settled around the conference table instead of bloody battlefields. He thought that everyone in the world could be educated through television, and that it could also be used for entertainment and sporting and news events."
And he was completely right! Well, except for the part about learning not to hate people who are different. He was pretty far off there. As for educating the masses, we can give him the benefit of the doubt if we use the widest possible definition of "educating."
But pretty much from the get-go, any idea of television being an enriching benefit to the human race were cast aside in favor of quiz shows, adorable chimps and dancing cigarette packs with great gams.
In 1961, FCC Chairman Newton Minow made his famous speech to the National Association of Broadcasters, describing the horrors of television as a "vast wasteland." And this was decades before Flavor of Love.
Meanwhile, Philo T. Farnsworth observed all of this with an increasingly regretful eye. His son, Kent, described his father feeling that "he had created kind of a monster, a way for people to waste a lot of their lives," and summarized his attitude as "There's nothing worthwhile on it, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your... intellectual diet." Had he lived, it's safe to say that Philo Farnsworth would have had the world's worst set of TiVo Suggestions.
He did soften a bit in his final years, saying that televised images of the moon landing "made it all worthwhile," but an accidental viewing ofHee Haw the next day led him to regret this brief moment of fulfillment.


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Does Heading tags like
BIG difference? No. Are they are a ranking factor? Yes.
Use them properly. There should be only one h1 per page followed by h2 and h3's. Think of them almost like the table of contents for a page. If you use them right both your users and search engines will have a better understanding of what your content is about.
Use them always and in the proper way, which means:
don't pack them with keywords just for doing it. Use keywords/keyphrases as long as H1/H2 contains meaningful phrases, in other words something that a human would read and don't think it's just spam text.
The SEO game is all about making the least number of mistakes and having the most quality inbound links. With that in mind header tags aren't a huge part of the puzzle.
However, lets say for arguments sake they are 1% of how Google Ranks your page. If everyone else is exactly the same as you except they don't use header tags properly then that makes you 1% better than them. That is very over simplified but the point is to get to first place you are trying to beat others in a game where 1% can easily make the difference. Additionally, it is an easy thing to do correctly and if used properly it will increase the quality of the users experience.
So the short answer, it is a no brainer to user header tags often and properly. It makes all the difference.
For SEO, I think the
The value seems reversed for the human readers, as the headers will provide the document structure and context for a live visitor.
I'm going to say Yes. Not so much for you're ranking, but for your human factor. Remember you should never have more than one
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Noordhoek Beach – Flickr pic of the day
This moody and unusual shot of Noordhoek beach was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group member Quintin Gilman/QLG Photography , and one of the regular contributors to the Cape Town Tourism blog. Says Quintin: "This shot was actually taken on an engagement shoot and walking back the landscape was just so vastly different from most of the beach and the wind was blowing hard, it gave the scene a very surreal atmosphere. Noordhoek beach is an incredible beach, out of many in Cape Town, with vast landscapes as well as intimate nooks and crannies and a wonderful place to spend time with family and friends."
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I'm not really sure if this is the place to ask this, but anyway here is my question:
Let's say I have the Kepler orbital elements of the ISS, for example, (NASA stuff). Now I want to compute the coordinates relative to the earth at a specific time so that it can be displayed, like in a sky map (I am actually experimenting with Google Sky Map).
I found many websites discussing Kepler orbital elements, but I have only found 2 pdf's that talk about this conversion:
http://www.phas.ubc.ca/~newhouse/p210/orbits/cometreport.pdf and I can't post a 3rd link yet.
I do not fully understand which values I need to calculate, and which are given by NASA.
I am also assuming that the data given by NASA is valid for the vector time provided, meaning that time obviously has to come into the calculations somewhere.
Thanks, I would appreciate some clarification.


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The University of Kansas hopes to have a new sports complex ready for use in time for the Kansas Relays in 2014.
Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday approved rezoning requests and a special use permit that will allow the university and its private partners to move ahead with plans for what will be called Rock Chalk Park. It would include a track and field stadium, soccer field, softball stadium and other amenities on about 90 acres.
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Book News: Mary Ingalls May Not Have Gone Blind From Scarlet Fever
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
— Mary Ingalls, the older sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder and a central character in her Little House series, famously went blind — supposedly from scarlet fever. But a study (paywall protected) published Monday in the journal Pediatrics suggests it was actually due to viral meningoencephalitis, and that Ingalls Wilder changed it to scarlet fever to make it easier to understand.
— There's a lovely and cryptic new short story from NW author and Orange Prize winner Zadie Smith in The New Yorker.
— Kitty Kelley, the notorious celebrity biographer who Joe Klein once called a "professional sensationalist," has a deal with Grand Central Publishing for a book about women in Congress. Kelley is responsible for, among other rumors, the story about Nancy Reagan's supposed affair with Frank Sinatra. Women of Congress, watch your backs.
— "Its stores were designed to keep people parked for a while, for children's story time, for coffee klatches, for sitting around and browsing. That was a business decision — more time spent in the store, more money spent when you left it — but it had a cultural effect. It brought literary culture to pockets of the country that lacked them." — The New Republic's Mark Athitakis on why Barnes & Noble helped to democratize literary culture.
— Bookish.com, a fascinating experiment in digital book recommendations funded by Simon & Schuster, Penguin and Hachette, launched Monday night.
— Meanwhile, competitor Goodreads bans "sexual roleplay" from their book recommendation website because people apparently had been misbehaving. (Now, you pretend to be a casual reader looking for a good beach read ... )
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The top Senate negotiators on the effort to prevent the government from going over the "fiscal cliff" are offering a pessimistic assessment barely 24 hours before a deadline to avert tax hikes on virtually every worker.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says he's yet to receive a response to an offer he made on Saturday evening to Majority Leader Harry Reid. The Kentucky Republican says he's reached out to Vice President Joe Biden in hopes of breaking the impasse and a McConnell spokesman confirmed the two have spoken.
Reid says he's been trying to come up with a counteroffer but has been unable to do so. He says he's been in frequent contact with President Barack Obama, who in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" blamed Republicans for putting the nation's shaky economy at risk.
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Paul Ryan is cool with gay adoption
The Wisconsin congressman with national ambitions has apparently evolved, and I don't think that bodes well for the hierarchy's efforts on these issues. From Roll Call:
In a town hall meeting with constituents in Wisconsin on Monday, the House Budget Committee chairman said he has changed his mind on the adoption issue, even though his opinions on other aspects of gay rights have remained unchanged......Adoption, Id vote differently these days. That was I think a vote I took in my first term, 1999 or 2000. I do believe that if there are children who are orphans who do not have a loving person or couple, I think if a person wants to love and raise a child they ought to be able to do that. Period, Ryan said in a video posted by the liberal website Think Progress. I would vote that way. I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, we just respectfully disagree on that issue....In the past, Ryan has opposed almost every equality measure, getting a 0 on the Human Rights Campaigns most recent Congressional scorecard. He opposed the repeal of dont ask, dont tell, supported the Defense of Marriage Act and voted against the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Protection Act, which expanded federal hate crime laws to protect the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.In his remarks Monday, Ryan said he has always supported civil unions. Though there is no evidence to support that, its a clear sign that the politics of the issue have changed and that even the most conservative Republicans need to appear more hospitable to gays and lesbians in order to expand their voting bloc.
So if you lose Paul Ryan, who's next? Then again, a lot of Catholics said he'd lost them with his Randian version of subsidiarity.
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Somehow "evolved" doesn't seem like exactly the right word for this survival-of-the-fittest scenario http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/08/george-harasz-douglas-wirth-gay...
Kathy, long time no hear! Just sorry you return with such a reprehensible comment. So gay couples are going to abuse their kids, huh? You want to generalize about priests? Or perhaps Christian homeschoolers like these wonderful people?http://gothamist.com/2013/05/01/nj_army_major_wife_accused_of_unima.phpNo, I don't think you do. And you won't.
Hey, HuffPo ran with the story, so it must be true.If you want to talk about generalizations, what about people who assume that the bishops have a Republican agenda, despite their outspoken alliance with dems on immigration reform?
Republicans are against immigration reform?
Paul Ryan is evolving with the rest of the country. His revised thinking on this is a good thing and I think it will give many other Republican leaders the support they need to come out in favor of equality.
Mr Gibson, once more time I would humbly invite to exercise some critical thinking. Let's look as Rep. Ryan's statement:" I do believe that if there are children who are orphans who do not have a loving person or couple, I think if a person wants to love and raise a child they ought to be able to do that"Where are gay couples as COUPLES mentioned? Are you Mr. Gibson against individuals adopting and raising children? I am not. Does that make me a supportyer of gay marriage? No. I just happen to think that the ideal arrangement that should be supported by law is when a child has a father and a mother. All other arrangements are acceptable, but I don't see any particualr advantage in having two men adopt a children together as opposed, say, to two men and a woman adopting a child together. In fact, from the standpoint of Catholic moral theology (since you brought up the bishops), an individual woman or man adopting a child by herself/himself may be better that two people of the same sex if the latter live a lifestyle that the Church regards as immoral...
Carlo, nice try. Ryan says he changed his mind on the gay adoption votes he took earlier.
Irene:"equality" is in the marriage debate what "choice" is in the abortion debate. A carefully chosen sound bite meant to obfuscate the real issue, namely the welfare of real, needy people (in both cases, children at different stages of their development).
David:And so what!?! The substance of my point stands. Are you in favor of restricting adoption to couples, barring individuals? Is Ryan? Why? If not, what does adoption law have to do with marriage? Are you in favor of giving precedence in adoption to situations where a child can have a mother and a father? If not, why not? These are serious questions that people like you are carefully tryingt to avoid out of sheer ideological prejudice ("equality").
Carlo: or "equality" is, in fact, about equality.
Irene:you will not convince me that "apples are the same as oranges" by earnestly repeating again and again that "apples are like oranges."
Carlo, not sure what all your questions are about. The reality is that the GOP, and even the bishops' erstwhile allies in the party, are "evolving" on gay rights in response to changes in the views of the electorate. That bodes ill for their efforts, seems to me.
Carlo: I think you might be the one doing the earnest asserting, no? Asserting that none of us mean "equality" when we say it, but that we all really mean something else? But whatever word you personally are using for it- the train has pretty much left the station if Paul Ryan supports same-sex adoption.
David:if you narrow the issue down to "who is winning the propaganda war" you may well be right. My questions were an attempt to think critically about the issues under discussion, but apparently that kind of effort is not on anybody's agenda, is it?
Irene:I am not asserting anything. I am still waiting for all the people like you who speak of "equality" to show some interest in questioning their philosophical assumptions, which you obviously do not. What is equal? People? Or relationships? And in both cases, why?In other words, you can make a case for whatever you want, but you have to make a case. Just telling me that it is because of "equality" is really offensive to my intelligence.
"I'm" "going" "to" "make" "my" "point" "by" "putting" "quotation" "marks" "around" "everything."
Carlo: If we're questioning philosophical assumptions, wouldn't the burden be on you to make a compelling case for discrimination, rather than put it on others to justify equal treatment? Here is NYS, our legislature, representing the will of the people, passed the "Marriage Equality Act" Our state also permits single and joint gay adoption.
Irenenot really. Most people recognize the positive value for a child in having a father and a mother. If you believe that there is no such special value, and that all family arrangements are equal (if that's what you mean by equality, which you still stubbornly refuse to explain), then you should make the case. You should also explain what is so special about having two parents, once you assert (so far, without proof) that gender differentiation is irrelevant.
Just a perhaps cynical thought on the republican-ish bishops and immigration .... would they be so for immigration if the majority of immigrants were not Catholic and replacing, more or less, the droves of Catholics leaving the church?
Carlo: tic, toc. tic, toc.http://publicreligion.org/research/2013/03/doma-gay-marriage-march-2013/You are cordially invited to keep religious biases within the confines of religious organizations and leave secular benefits, rights, responsibilities alone.Very few, if any, adovcates of marriage equality are arguing that religious organizations will be required to (1) officiate at, or (2) recognize same-sex marriages. These countries have discovered that they can live with marriage equality and, surprise, surprise, the walls have not come tumbling down, the sky has not falled, and God has not stricken these countries with pestilence, fires, earthquakes or heterosexual people converting en masse to homosexuality:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriageAs some of my younger gay friends say: get over yourself.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ri-10th-state-allowing-gay-marriage-1... majority of the population of Rhode Island is Catholic, reflecting heavy immigration from Italy, Ireland, Portugal, and French Canada. In 2000, there were 542,244 Roman Catholics, accounting for 51.7% of the total state population.Sunnuvagun!
As for Ryan I cannot think of a single reason anyone would take that fellow seriously other than he holds a particularly powerful position in this remarkable nation. Ms Rand was, in many respects, a gifted novelist. The kindest thing to be said of her philosopy is that it was bleak. Don't believe it's possible to create a useful notion of faith on such a dark view of one's fellow travelers.As for marriage it is indeed often between a man and a woman. For a grown man to suggest that fact is the primary aspect one needs to identify and understand, much less find joy and usefulness in a thing so utterly challenging as marriage indicates that fellow ain't got too many married friends who are being honest with him. Or he is a darn poor listener.The only thing a parent, biological or not, is absolutely required to give a child is an unassailable conviction they are loved. And as soon as I figure out what love is I'll ramble a bit more on that thought. At the moment, either it or I are evolving.
This from the Pew Forum ..."Catholicism has experienced the greatest net losses as a result of affiliation changes. While nearly one-in-three Americans (31%) were raised in the Catholic faith, today fewer than one-in-four (24%) describe themselves as Catholic. These losses would have been even more pronounced were it not for the offsetting impact of immigration. The Landscape Survey finds that among the foreign-born adult population, Catholics outnumber Protestants by nearly a two-to-one margin (46% Catholic vs. 24% Protestant); among native-born Americans, on the other hand, the statistics show that Protestants outnumber Catholics by an even larger margin (55% Protestant vs. 21% Catholic). " - http://religions.pewforum.org/reports
Crystal: I would prefer to give credit where credit is due. It is just wonderful that our bishops' are taking a strong stand pro-immigrant, it is the right thing for us Catholics to do. I think to encourage and reinforce this good work, I would rather applaud their efforts rather than undermine them by questioning their motives.
And the Nuns on the Bus are on the road again in support of immigration reform. Hopefully, this is something the sisters, bishops, clergy and laity who support reform can all stand together on. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/nuns-on-the-bus-will-hit...
@Carlo Lancellotti (5/2, 11:30 am) Irene can speak for herself. My own view is that when it come to laws like the one signed into law in Rhode Island yesterday, "marriage equality" refers, in large part, to the rights and responsibilities a couple has under civil law, and to the extension of those rights and responsibilities to same-sex couples.
See, and here's another example of pandering to the far right: http://archbalt.org/news-events/press-releases/basilica-lighting-repeal.cfm
Kathy: at least you are admitting that Lori et al are right wing shills.
No, Jim, I'm demonstrating the exact opposite. The bishops stand for Catholic social teaching--all of it. Would that the Catholic press did the same.


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The prepareAssociatedData in the dataview prepares the records for rendering the template. If you have more than one association not all referenced records will be converted, because the index variable j used in the inner loop is not reset to zero. You have to add the highlighted statement to preperly iterate over every associated record even if you have more than one association.
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When I'm browsing with Safari, a download of a file called "mlingos9.html" is started on some sites and I end up with several of these in my download folder. How do I stop Safari from doing this?
It's a problem with a specific web page — this one.
It specifies the content type application/octet-stream in the HTTP response headers, which is usually used for files meant to be downloaded — and that's what your web browser does. HTML web pages usually use
If you were browsing web sites with similar topics that might link to this web page, and you clicked a link, or the web page was included in another web page using a frame/iframe, that's the cause for the downloads.
I'm the owner of that page. Strangely I have no problems seeing it myself. I am contacting Apple to ask them to fix the header sent by the server.
PS It turns out I was able to fix the problem by replacing that page with a local copy. Something about the one on the server was causing it (and only it) to be served as an application. I have no idea what could have caused that or how the copy of the file on the server got that way. If anyone else does, I'd be interested to hear it.


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First off, this is a purely academic question. My first answer would be that he cannot since he does not have the session key.
Could he at least kill the connection, such as by sending spoofed FIN requests or something?
Pretty much any active attacks leads to an aborted connection. This includes disrupting the TCP connection as you suggest, or manipulating the payload, triggering a MAC failure, which in turn aborts the connection.
TCP disruptions have happened in practice. While this was against bittorrent, and not SSL protected connections, SSL over TCP can't prevent this kind of attack.
It's important to note, that the software using TLS is able to distinguish aborted connections from connections that were closed gracefully, because a gracefully closed connection ends with a TLS "BYE" message, which cannot be faked by an attacker.
DTLS over UDP might be more robust since you can't just disrupt the TCP connection. But of course an attacker can simply swallow all messages preventing the connection from continuing.
SSL 2.0 did not include a verified termination protocol, so any party involved in a SSL 2.0 connection receiving a closure at the TCP level could not reliably determine if the peer really wanted to close the SSL session or not. This was a big issue, especially with HTTP because, in HTTP 1.0, it is allowed not to send a
This has been fixed in SSL 3.0 and later versions (i.e. TLS, because TLS 1.0 is SSL 3.1). A couple of SSL "Alert" messages of type
If we assume that TLS 1.2 is sound and secure, then there is little that an attacker can do except disrupt the service. He can force a connection close (at the TCP level) but both parties will know that something happened. More insidiously, an attacker with full control of one of the router could slow down the connection, by dropping packets (forcing the TCP implementations to emit then again) and doing other nasty tricks (e.g. forcing the parties to send smaller packets by sending fake ICMP packets which claim that a given packet could not be forwarded because it is too large). The attacker can then send the SSLers chasing geese for a long time, without doing anything as crude and visible as a connection termination. Due to the very flexible nature of TCP, the attacker could drop the bandwidth down to, say, 30 bytes per second (emulating a 300 bauds modem...), which is quite similar to total disruption in practice, except that the computer systems at both ends would still believe the connection to be alive and well, and would not drop it to initiate a new one.
I'm not aware of any method to manipulate an established SSL/TLS session. Such an attack may be successful if an attacker can somehow gain access (or break) the symmetric session key establishment. So, if the SSL/TLS session is long lived or cached and the adversary somehow was able to gain access to the session key, then it's possible for the adversary to manipulate the existing session.
Moving up a few layers, it's usually much easier to install some *ware onto the victim device to intercept/manipulate the traffic at the endpoints. If you go down a few layers, then session termination is fairly trivial, but wouldn't necessarily qualify as session manipulation. However, move down one layer and launching a l1/l2 attack becomes feasible. Basically, MITM at l2 (arp cache poisoning) or l1 (physically bridge) tap into the stream.


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My heart rate monitor has a feature that measures my drop in heart rate over a 60 second resting period. It is suppose to just be a measure of heart fitness (the faster the drop the better your heart), but I haven't been able to come up with a consistent way to use it. Should I start just casually pedaling? Stop pedaling? Stop the bike? Get off the bike? The biggest drop I get is I get off the bike and sit down on a bench, but I'm not going for biggest, I'm just trying to figure out how I should measure it that would give me a result that I could compare to my other results and maybe compare to a chart of values and how good they are if such a chart exists.
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The usual recommendation is to just pedal slowly and then take the measurement. If your recovery rate is 12BPM or less, you should go see a doctor. A very fit person would recover 40+BPM. Someone who engages in regular cardio exercise would probably see recovery rates of 20+.
This is a HRM function that I use only a few times a year; like when I get back to real rides in the spring. It's probably most useful for either someone in training or a person starting out on a cardiovascular fitness program.
There's a chart on the wiki answers link.
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What is the limit of $n \sin (2 \pi \cdot e \cdot n!)$ as $n$ goes to infinity?
In order to solve the following limit $$\lim_{n\to\infty} n\sin2\pi n!e$$ . This question is very likely to have been asked.
I remember this question and the answer is like $2\pi$ or something .
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"The long wavelength limit is the size of the universe itself, while it is thought that the short wavelength limit is in the vicinity of the Planck length, although in principle the spectrum is infinite and continuous."
The question is, how did the EMS evolve? Was it weak at first, i.e. at Planck time, which allowed certain reactions to modify, shape or add properties to it?
What really defined the position and order of everything that is the EMS? E.g. colors. What defined or added something as colors to be inserted in that specific range of 400nm to 700nm.
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It is universally acknowledged that the Human Genome Project and related advances have immeasurably increased our understanding of the genetic factors that contribute to human disease. But when plaintiffs claim that their illness resulted from a wrongful exposure to a toxic substance, has advanced scientific understanding made it easier for the legal system to establish definitive proof of toxic causation in individual cases? Not really, says Associate Professor Steve C. Gold; in fact, in many respects it has made the job even more complex. In the forthcoming article "When Certainty Dissolves Into Probability: A Legal Vision of Toxic Causation for the Post-Genomic Era," he argues that "genomic and molecular understanding, instead of sounding the death knell for proposals to reform toxic tort causation law, will strengthen the argument for those reforms." Gold, who first wrote about toxic torts in a much-cited Note while he was a law student and then served as a trial attorney and senior attorney in the Environmental Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, proposes that a probabilistic causal contribution model replace the traditional deterministic model of causation in toxic torts.
You write that the "deterministic model of causation has performed poorly when confronted with the mechanistic opacity of toxic torts." Can you give an example from a recent case?
There are many, many examples. Two cases recently decided by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals are really good illustrations. The plaintiffs were people living in company mining towns who had been diagnosed with cancer after being exposed to radiation released during uranium mining and milling activities. There was no question that the radiation exposure increased their cancer risk, but the panel majorities held that under the deterministic model of causation each of the plaintiffs had failed to provide sufficient evidence that his or her cancer specifically was caused by the tortious exposure as opposed to other radiation or some other cause.
Another example is a 2010 decision by the Vermont Supreme Court in a worker's compensation case, Estate of George v. Vermont League of Cities and Towns. Mr. George died of non-Hodgkins' lymphoma after a long career as a firefighter. Although several epidemiologic studies linked this disease to firefighting, the court affirmed the denial of compensation, essentially because the epidemiology did not unambiguously show a doubling of the risk. The court held that without such a showing, the claimant had not proven that Mr. George "more likely than not" contracted the disease as a result of his employment. Some courts have demanded that plaintiffs prove that their disease has some characteristic that distinguishes illness caused by toxic exposure from illness caused by other factors. That has been impossible, except for a few "signature diseases" like asbestosis.
In the post-genomic era, why is the probabilistic model of causation more appropriate to toxic torts than the deterministic model?
The deterministic model assumes that it is possible to reach a conclusion about whether or not the plaintiff's injury would have occurred "but for" the tortious behavior – whether we are talking about the failure to clear ice from a building's entrance stairs where someone fell or driving above the speed limit before an automobile collision or performing surgery with improperly sterilized instruments on a patient who suffers an infection at the incision. In toxic tort cases, courts appropriately demand scientific evidence to support a causal conclusion, but the evidence science provides often does not well fit the legal model. Typically the best the science can do is demonstrate that the toxic exposure is a risk factor for the plaintiff's disease – that it sometimes causes the disease. Usually there is no way to prove, scientifically, that the particular case of disease would not have occurred absent the toxic exposure.
This disjunction between the legal model of causation and the scientific evidence of causation has existed for as long as there have been toxic torts. It is not unique to the post-genomic era. What courts and legal scholars must understand, however, is that – contrary to their intuition and hopes – advances in genomics have not fundamentally changed this situation. In fact, genomics and related modes of scientific inquiry will likely increase the number of possible competing causes for many diseases by increasing our understanding of risk factors and their interactions. This would only exacerbate the uncertainties in attempting to prove exactly what deterministically caused any one case of disease.
Has genomic science begun to appear in toxic tort jurisprudence?
So far, only a little. In a few cases defendants have argued that the absence of certain molecular markers of toxic exposure is evidence that the plaintiff's disease has some other cause. Defendants have also argued that the plaintiff's own genes are to blame for the illness. Plaintiffs too are beginning to use molecular evidence to substitute for, or explain away the absence of, traditional epidemiologic proof of causation. More and more use of genomics and related sciences in toxic torts seems inevitable, however. To apply this evidence in the best possible way, courts should apply a probabilistic model of causation. If they won't do that, however, in the post-genomic era courts should at least avoid making the same mistakes they made before genomics. I described some of those pitfalls in an earlier article.
Assuming further advances in our understanding of the interaction of environmental exposures and human genes, do you foresee a day in which conclusive evidence as to what made a particular plaintiff sick can be presented in court?
I would never say "never." Even before genomics there were signature diseases. And science has made such incredible discoveries! It's entirely plausible that for some disease and some toxic substance researchers will find a diagnostic marker that is always present when the exposure caused the disease and always absent when it did not. But that day is probably a long way off, and I question whether "conclusive evidence" will ever be typical. It seems to me that right now scientists are unveiling more and more complexity rather than finding sources of simply conclusive evidence. So long as the data are fundamentally about risks and probabilities, it would make sense for legal doctrine to think the same way.
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Science claims that men originated through evolution. Christianity claims that men originated from Adam and Eves.
How Christianity respond the claims of modern science?
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Asking this question against all of "Christianity" turns this into an overview question of a very broad scope. In order to answer such a broad question, one must paint with broad strokes. There are two basic approaches taken.
In between these two extremes lie several genres of belief depending on how much reign science is given, what premises it is allowed to operate under, and how the Scripture is to be understood.
If you would like more details on a particular view, ask a specific question rather than an overview one.
* My personal affiliation is here. By presupposing that the account we have in Scripture is true divine revelation, our understanding of the world as a spiritual reality with an aspect of physical manifestation makes all the pieces fall into place. Science has great value, but can only be trusted when it is based on these same presuppositions, often coming to faulty conclusions when those premises are altered or removed. It serves a very valuable purpose by informing our interaction with the created order, but steps out of bounds when it tries to define its own existence. See also my answer to How do Christians understand the omniscience of God in relation to the Uncertainty Principle
Genesis tells us how God created man in His own image. It gives us another specific details that they were created as male and female.
1:26 Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth." 1:27 God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.
Bible says God created Man but does not give any step by step details of the process of creation of man. This leaves us with a broad space and scope for arguing that the process of creating man by God may not be an instantaneous one. On the contrary He may have devised a process (Evolution) for achieving this desired result.
Bible says that the "time span" or "time scale "for God, is not the same as that which we comprehend. The time of "millions of years" may be just a split of second for God. So evolution may have been the process adopted by God to create man, but evolution cannot execute by itself without a Creator and that is God Almighty.
I myself though has Masters in Mechanical Engineering,(Of course it is un related to theory of Evolution but with this scientifc background) find it difficult to accept evolution as a workable scientific process without God being architect and driving force behind it. This is my view also with all the laws of physics whihc are widely used in Mechanical Engineering. God is the architect of all these laws and He has left them to take care of the universe with the aid of their pre defined parameters, so that everything works in orderly manner.
At the most Christianity would accept the evolution as a tool that was in process with God at the helm of its affairs. There cannot be any "creation" without God being its "Creator".


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