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If I want to buy a good multi-purpose chef's knife, which characteristics should I look for?
One of the most important things is a full tang. The tang is an extension of the metal of the blade into the handle. In knives with a full tang it goes all the way through the handle. This improves stability, control, and durability. Cheaper knives with partial tangs will have the handle break off over time.
In a chef's knife you want a blade from 8 to 10 inches long, whichever is more comfortable.
You can also either get a forged or stamped blade. I suggest reading this article on the differences. To summarize, forged blades are softer, easier to sharpen, heavier, and have a bolster. Stamped blades are sharper, harder to sharpen, lighter, and have a welded on bolster if any. With current manufacturing processes forged is not necessarily better than stamped. You should make your own decisions. All crap knives are stamped, but not all stamped knives are crap.
This brings me to one of the most important points: It must feel good in your hand. Don't buy an expensive knife just because it's expensive, or you recognize the name. Go to a store that will let you use the knife, Williams-Sonoma is one that will do this. If you can, bring a carrot in your pocket and actually cut that in the store.
I'll do some research on steel quality and update this later.
Consider stainless vs. high carbon steel
Stainless knives are nice because the edges might be more stable because they won't rust and tarnish. They can be dishwasher safe (as long as some care is taken so they don't bang into other things), and are a bit more durable.
High-carbon steel is better at keeping an edge because the steel is harder. The edge will remain sharp for more cuts than the stainless. The downside is that the steel can corrode if lots of acidic things are cut, or the knife is not cleaned after use. Stainless is considered more difficult to sharpen properly than steel, but you probably shouldn't sharpen your own knife anyhow (honing, on the other hand, you can and should do).
Some manufacturers make a laminated blade, in an attempt to balance the benefits of both. I've only seen this in Japanese knives that are fairly expensive, but it seems a good idea: a thin sheet of very hard steel is sandwiched between a pair of soft stainless pieces. The hard steel is too brittle to make a blade from, but keeps an edge very well. The stainless adds strength to the knife, and keeps everything shiny.
Blade shape
Knives come in a wide range of shapes, from a blade that barely extends down from the handle to the large rounded (Japanese-inspired) shapes with a flat blade. This is a matter of personal preference. I do a lot of chopping, so I prefer a flatter, wider blade that gives my knuckles some clearance over the board while chopping.
I find the scalloping along the blade, which is fashionable these days, to be unnecessary, but others seem to disagree on this. I don't slice enough delicate things to notice any effects.
Other Notes
Knives come in hundreds of shapes and sizes. For a chef's knife, you probably want a 8-10" blade, no serration (that is important), and it must be comfortable in your hand. I have known people who do most of their cutting with a large Chinese-style vegetable cleaver, and they are perfectly able to do anything I could do with an agile 8" chefs knife.
For a good quality knife, you want to avoid stamped blades. Stamped blades are usually thinner, made of cheaper steel, and are more flexible. Forged blades are heavier, more durable, and easier to sharpen. The knife sets sold for $10 at Walmart are stamped and suck. Avoid them. A forged blade will be thick on the dull edge, and will taper more or less uniformly to the bevel of the cutting edge.
If you plan to put the knife in a dishwasher (not recommended--they get banged into other things in the dishwasher, dishwasher detergents damage non-stainless steel), get one with a plastic handle. Wood doesn't like dishwashers.
You will want a honing steel. This is used to correct the edge (it bends a bit during use, the steel straightens it out). They are usually rods of hard steel with a handle.
Here is my favorite cheap knife. Only $30 and it is awesome.
Besides a good sharp blade and a solid comfortable grip, your preference for heavier vs. lighter blades will determine your choice. That said, over the years CooksIllustrated / America's Test Kitchen has reviewed knives and consistently recommended the inexpensive Victorinox (Victorinox Forschner) Fibrox 8-Inch Chef's Knife, particularly if the question is "what one knife should i buy?" Top-quality at a bargain price.
Even when reviewing more expensive "innovative" chef's knives, they still found little to justify the additional cost. Reviews of hybrid chef's knives produced some standouts, for a cost. The final results are on the pay side of their site, but you can get the jist of it from the free articles.
What to look for? From the reviews:
I worked in a professional kitchen, so apologies if I go on at some length about knives; when you use them for hours every day, you tend to care deeply about what you're using.
For general use, you want a 7"/17.5cm santoku or 8–10"/20–25cm French-style chef knife. These blade shapes provide the most flexible kitchen use, and these sizes offer a good balance between cutting area and ease of use. Santokus are slightly easier for chopping and vegetables, while chef knives have an advantage for detail work, slicing, and meat. Some people also swear by smaller Japanese or Chinese cleavers, which take a little more practice to use, but fill the same role.
Care and Sharpening
People reviewing knives never mention the most important part of buying a knife: caring for it! After 6 months, how you maintain and use your knife matters more than which one you purchased. Proper care, honing, and sharpening are the difference between effortlessly cutting slices so thin you can see through them, and mashing tomatoes rather than slicing them. Let me give you a couple extreme examples from personal experience:
If you're buying a quality knife, then you ought to be buying quality tools to maintain it. A smooth steel or ceramic sharpening/honing rod is absolutely critical, and costs under $30. The knife should be honed regularly at an angle slightly steeper than the primary bevel. generally daily or before a major task. Regular honing prevents the edge from coming out of alignment and folding over, and a ceramic rod will slightly sharpen it. Cheap and grooved butcher's steels can rapidly worsen a knife, by chipping it away with their coarse surface. This is especially a problem with harder Japanese steels.
When the knife becomes dull enough that honing won't restore it, after a year or two, get the knife sharpened by a professional, or invest in a professional-grade sharpening system. Putting a more acute angle on the knife (15 degrees per side instead of 20-23) will produce an even sharper result than normal; in many cases this will produce slicing power superior to the original factory edge.
The primary quality here is hardness, as measured with the Rockwell C hardness test, abbreviated HRC. Hardness determines how acute an angle you can sharpen the knife to, which in turn determines how sharp it will be. Superhard steels can go as low as 8 degrees per side, while softer steels may be better served by a comparatively dull 20 degrees per side. Harder steel also will retain an edge against wear for longer.
Japanese steels are known for being harder but more brittle than German steels. This trade-off means they require special care to use and sharpen; I've heard of a tortilla chip taking a chunk out of a particularly thin and hard knife. Japanese knives should NEVER be used to cut hard materials, particularly bone, or to pry at things. They can even shatter when dropped. In contrast, softer German steels are easier to sharpen, and more forgiving. They tend to bend rather than breaking, and can be restored more easily with honing. As I said before, edge maintenance matters more than steel. In the hands of a gifted sharpener, low-grade stainless steel can become quite sharp; however, a better steel will allow them to refine the edge to an unbelievable result.
Construction: Forged vs. Stamped Knives
Blades may either be forged or stamped. In the past, stamped knives were generally of inferior quality, but improvements in manufacturing mean that extremely high quality stamped knives are now available. Stamped blades are generally lighter and thinner; due to their thinness they may cut more easily than thicker forged blades. Common manufacturers of stamped blades include Global, Victorinox, and Shun. If you want a knife that is easy to maneuver, precise, and not tiring to use, a stamped blade is for you.
Forged blades are generally heavier and more durable, and some people find the edge is easier to sharpen. The thicker blades survive wear and sharpening longer than thinner stamped blades. Wusthof and Henckels are traditionally known for their forged knives. Forged knives often feature a bolster, a raised ridge between the blade and the handle. A bolster makes the knife considerably stronger, but also more difficult to sharpen, and it reduces the usable knife area slightly. If you want a knife that is heavier, with some momentum to help your cutting, and durable against punishment, a forged knife is for you.
It is a personal choice whether to use a stamped or forged knife. With proper care, both types will stay sharp and last a lifetime. There is also some crossover; stamped knives may also have a bolster welded on to them, and some manufacturers will produce both stamped and forged knives. The forged version is generally more expensive, due to higher manufacturing costs.
Personal bias: I prefer the sharpness and lightness of stamped knives. They let me do 15 or 20 pounds of julienne onions without fatigue.
Construction: Handles and Balance
A knife should be evenly balanced when you wrap your fingers around the handle and pinch the blade with thumb and forefingers. If the knife tips toward the handle or the blade, it is off-balance and will be less comfortable to use. As far as construction, "full-tang" knives are preferred; these have blades extending fully into the handle. This makes the knife slightly heavier, but provides a stiffer, more durable construction, and makes it much harder for the handle to break off the blade.
Handles come in a variety of materials, including plastic, wood, steel, bamboo, and bone. There is often some texturing to help grip a handle; this can literally be a life-safer (or at least finger-saver) if you work with greasy, slippery sides of bacon, meat, or fish. In my experience, the Victorinox Fibrox handles have fantastic grip even when oily, and absorb impacts. In contrast, the dimpled steel handles of the Global knives are worthless and should carry a "slippery when wet" warning. The most common wood or synthetic handles fall in between, with Wusthof's Classic line being more or less the standard.
Wood and bamboo handles deserve special mention: although these are beautiful, they also require special care to avoid wearing out or splintering. They should not be washed in a dishwasher or allowed to sit in water; although this is true for any quality knife, it goes doubly for these materials.
Specific Knives and Reviews
Cooking for Engineers and Cook's Illustrated both did excellent knife reviews. My main knives are a 8" Victorinox Fibrox and a MAC MTH-80 granton-edge. Both definitely deserve their strong reviews; the Victorinox is a phenomenal value, and the MAC takes an absolutely unbelievably edge. I've met duller razor blades.
This is the best info I could find.
Also look at Kitchen-Confidential-Adventures-Culinary-Underbelly from Anthony Bourdain:
Also look at this online resource for knife choices.
Most important thing is comfort of the grip. If it's not comfortable, you will not want to use it. If you don't want to use it, you have wasted your money. A "fancy" knife that doesn't get used is a paperweight.


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What are the names of angels mentioned in Jewish scriptures ?
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The only place angels are mentioned by name in Tanakh is in Daniel (chs 8-10). In the Yerushalmi, we find a statement of Resh Laqish that the names of the angels we brought back from the Babylonian exile, and were unknown in pre-exilic Israel (Yerushalmi Rosh haShana 1:2). The later one moves, the more names of angels there are, beginning with a few more in the writings from Qumran, then more in the Bavli, then many more in Kabbalistic literature.
This link from Wikipedia has a long list, however I do not know if it is accurate as I do not know the source for it.
Some of the more well-known angels are Gabriel, Refael, Uriel, and Michael; however, there are many angels. They serve many purposes in Scripture, including being messengers, fighters, and other roles.
An exhaustive list would be quite long. Here is Wikipedia's attempt at it. That list includes angels from many religions, but it lists the religion to which each angel is applicable, so you can find it there.
you might find some answers here http://www.scribd.com/doc/53748980/A-Dictionary-of-Angels-Including-the-Fallen-Angels-by-Gustav-Davidson, just look for kaballa sources not other religions

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4.2 Grouped grid sends empty records to convert function in model
In 4.2 if I group a grid by a column that has a convert function in the model the grid will not render correctly when grouped.
I have this convert function in my model:
{ name : 'someDate', type : 'string', mapping : 'some_time', convert : function(value, record) { return Ext.util.Format.date(Ext.Date.parse(value, 'c'), l10n.dateTimeFormatStrings.shortDateFormat + " " + l10n.dateTimeFormatStrings.shortTimeFormat); } }
So, here is the grid pre-grouping:
Here is the grid while on a breakpoint in the convert function where the value is ALWAYS "". Interesting that it renders correctly BEFORE processing the null record values...:
And here is what it renders at once it has processed the convert function:
Now, I could avoid doing the convert here and do it on the renderer function of the column in the grid. The problem with that is that the grouped header then has the UNCOVERTED value displayed. So the value in the grid and the value in the grouped header is not the same?! If there is at least a way to CONDITIONALLY render the groupHeaderTpl that would be an acceptable workaround.
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Recently, one of my christian friends died of cancer. My Christian friends told me that Yahweh is very merciful. But if he got well, Yahweh would be merciful, too.
So, HYPOTHETICALLY (see the note): could there be any possible real action proving Yahweh to be cruel? By real I mean not requiring faith in soul, heaven, sin and other christian stuff, clear to non-Christians.
In other words: If Yahweh did X, he would be cruel. - Is there any X from christian perspective (any doctrine)?
Note: I expect many downvotes here, but please help me improve it instead of closing votes: I don't mean this as holy war against Christians, I just want to know any reference to this question. Thank you.


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6 Movie Mysteries the Characters Should've Solved Way Sooner
Secrets drive the plots of some of the best movies. Memories are erased, alibis are fashioned, characters are killed or imprisoned and Jedi knights are kept working on farms for far too long, all to keep us guessing, interested and watching. That being said, sometimes a secret is only as good as the writers' ability to cover huge gaps in logic -- gaps that, when you think about it, are so huge that you can drive a bus through them, such as how the hell no one figured out Bruce Wayne was Batman in the Dark Knight trilogy.
#6. The Dark Truth Behind Robert's Magic Trick in The Prestige
Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) is a magician hell-bent on winning a battle of wits against a rival magician to see who can better perform a specific trick, because this is 19th century England and women would have sex with you for such a thing.
"No syphilis and magic tricks? Deal."
Robert commissions Nikola Tesla to build him what is essentially a teleportation device, with the hopes of using it to dazzle audiences with the greatest magic trick anyone has ever seen (and not, for some reason, to rob all of the banks in the world). The problem is, Tesla's machine makes a copy of whoever uses it, teleporting either the user or the copy in the process and leaving the other standing in the device like a jackass. Robert decides to go ahead and use it for the trick anyway, installing a trap door beneath the machine to drop whichever clone was unlucky enough to be left in the device into a water tank beneath the stage, drowning him like a contemporary orphan (because at this point of the movie, Robert's brain is plucking the screaming bowstrings of insanity). This leaves only one Robert to take a bow after his apparent teleportation across the theater, and only one Robert to cash the subsequent paycheck.
"I'M ALIVE! Uh, I mean ... ta-daaaa!"
To keep the true nature of the trick a secret, Robert only hires blind stagehands and allows no one else backstage, and gets a new water tank for every performance. He has his blind employees cart out his floating dead Robert clones and store them in a warehouse, for reasons that are never adequately explained.
Perhaps because the greatest sin against nature is hiding your sin against nature.
OK, so when Robert books the theater for his Transported Man trick, he specifies that he'll be doing five performances a week for a total of 100 performances. That's 100 tanks over the course of 20 weeks. Where the hell is he getting all of them? There's no way to invoice that many tanks of that size and be subtle about it. And anyone who checks that order and reads a review of his magic show will immediately notice that not a single tank is being used onstage.
And it isn't like Robert is doing the trick once or twice before folding his tent like a gypsy to move to another town. He is performing his show five times a week in the same city for five damned months. He's parading his dark secret around in the open for anyone with half of a brain not poisoned by mercury from a yet-unregulated fishing industry to figure out. That's like hiding treasure in a box labeled "THIS IS NOT WHERE THE TREASURE IS." Moreover, Tesla, the guy who built the machine for him, knows full well how the device actually works and is bound to hear about Robert's famous trick sooner or later. How long do you think it will take Tesla, one of the most famous geniuses in history, to deduce what Robert is up to?
#5. Charles Xavier's Whereabouts in X-Men: First Class
Persecution, racism and the right to anonymity are the underlying themes of the X-Men series. After all, a person's ability to melt buildings with their eye lasers or lift submarines out of the ocean with their mind is nobody's business but their own. This is why Charles Xavier decides to keep his school hidden from the government, because as the climax of X-Men: First Class demonstrates, people tend to overreact to things they don't quite understand.
Calling in Michael Ironside is nearly always an overreaction.
Up to this point in the film, however, both Xavier and Magneto have been working openly with the CIA to help take down a much more devastating threat to the world. In fact, they put together an entire team of mutants to help, and manage to work together fairly effectively until the government turns on them and tries to melt them into radioactive goo (see Michael Ironside, above).
As a result, Magneto vows to murder humanity and Xavier gets paralyzed and goes into hiding. His final scene takes place at his countryside battle mansion/training school, where he and CIA agent Moira MacTaggert discuss the fact that obscurity is the key to the X-Men's success.
While Moira insists that she would never reveal his whereabouts to the CIA, Xavier decides to make doubly sure by erasing the knowledge from her head with a memory-boiling mind laser.
If he can do that, why can't he use his superbrain to make his fucking legs work?
But how exactly is erasing Moira's memory going to keep the CIA off of Xavier's back? After all, he's been working for them for months, using his real name. They know everything about him -- his family, his field, where he went to school and the location of his mansion.
The final scene in the movie shows Moira's CIA superiors exasperated and seemingly helpless at her loss of memory ... but how could this be? Could their frustration really last any longer than a few minutes of grumbling and a demotion? After all -- they know exactly who Charles Xavier is. He's the wealthy, prominent mutant who worked for them for months under absolutely no disguise. We cannot stress that enough. He probably filled out a freaking W-2.
"If only we had some way to locate him using only his name and address ..."
#4. Peter Parker Keeping His Secret Identity from Friends and Family in Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2
All superheroes want to keep their identity a secret (unless they're one of the Avengers, in which case it doesn't seem to matter). Spider-Man is no different. He wants to keep his life as Peter Parker separate to spare vengeful, inciting attacks on his friends and family.
Peter turns Mary Jane down at the end of the first film because he knows that to be with her would expose her to his self-spun web of constant mortal danger.
And not because she tried to make out with him in a goddamned graveyard.
Peter continues to deflect her throughout the second film, even as she parades a wedding to some spacedouche in front of his face, until he finally just tells her that he's really Spider-Man. Even with that out of the way, he still fights her, saying, "If my enemies found out about you ... if you got hurt, I could never forgive myself."
It sucks, but it makes sense, right?
Actually no, it makes the complete opposite of sense. You see, while Parker doesn't publicly reveal himself as Spider-Man, he does admit to being Spider-Man's friend and "personal photographer," a title that covers exactly as much ground as you care to allow it.
"No one will guess I'm secretly a stupid kid."
We now ask you this -- what, to a hostage-taking supervillain, is the difference between being a superhero and being a superhero's friend? If you don't want your friends to be in danger because you are Spider-Man, it's not really a great plan to go around announcing that Spider-Man is a friend of yours. That's actually worse than just coming out as Spider-Man, because if everyone knew you were Spider-Man, no one would dare fuck with you or anyone in your general vicinity without expecting a full-on superpowered melee. However, if the bad guys think you're just another ransom note in the making, you are spreading a big fat target over yourself and everyone you care about.
"Mary Jane! I swear this is the last climactic battle you'll be involved in!"
Peter Parker's friends and family get attacked in both movies for this explicit reason. Remember when Dr. Octopus hurls that car at Peter and Mary Jane while Peter is busy stutter-mumbling his way out of guaranteed sex? Doc Ock isn't doing that because he knows that Peter is Spider-Man -- he's doing it because he knows that Peter is friends with Spider-Man. Keeping his identity secret doesn't help anyone if he singles out himself, Peter Parker, as a viable target. In fact, in that case it would be better if he told Mary Jane and Aunt May he was Spider-Man so they wouldn't be totally confused by all the maniacs that ambush them.


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How do the first users of new Stack Exchange sites get reputation? You need 15 rep before you can upvote, but if nobody has rep, nobody can upvote. And if nobody can upvote, nobody can gain rep.
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
- Your voice helps shape the way Stack Exchange operates
As long as you have an account on a sister site with at least 200 rep, you can get an initial 100 rep from linking your accounts. As long as this is true, that will never be a problem.
If you were starting from scratch without any sister sites, you'd want to remove the restriction on required rep to upvote for at least the first week or so, or have an admin/moderator give out the initial upvotes, or maybe have a "beta" period where any participants get an automatic +100.
But even if you didn't, you can still accept an answer to a question, which gives you +2 and the answerer +15.
This has been taken care of now by allowing users to associate their accounts to other accounts they may already have on other sites, and doing so will give them an immediate +100 boost to their new profile.
A StackExchange site, be it part of the SO/SF/SU 'family' or the hosted commercial brethren without sisters sites (and bonus), is about more than upvotes and scores. There is a significant 'community' dimension, and that needs building. To that end, these sites start out with some moderators and they can upvote whoever they please, which can kick start the community and resolves the apparent vote-score paradox. Receive two upvotes and a user is in the game...


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To improve productivity, I would attempt to reduce the amount of travelling time, especially if it is for a meeting where the resources can be shared online. I have recently used TeamViewer as a tool for sharing and collaborating, prior to that I have been using NetMeeting.
That has been working well for simple sharing of documents such as pdfs or Powerpoint presentations. To move beyond that to something like drawing on a white board simultaneously would be a challenge for TeamViewer.
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Teaching Checklist
Use this teaching quality checklist as a planning tool for designing an online course. Most of the items in the checklist also apply to in-person courses. After you've finished developing your course materials, use the checklist again to review the completed materials, making sure you've included all of the necessary elements. Also review the e-Learning Center's Technical Quality Checklist to make sure your course web pages meet certain federal and university standards.
Principle 1: Encourage contact between students and faculty.
Tell students how and when to communicate with you.
- Provide accurate and appropriate instructor contact information.
- Include a schedule of online office hours or chat times.
- Indicate which types of communication should take place over which channels.
Personalize communication with students.
- Include a picture of yourself along with brief biographical information.
- Include an introduction activity during the first week of class (but be aware of students' FERPA preferences).
- In learning objectives and assignment instructions, address students as "you" rather than "the student."
Create a welcoming, safe online environment.
- Make your course hospitable for people of different genders, cultural backgrounds, and learning styles.
- Encourage and reward participation from all students.
- Discourage snide remarks, sarcasm, kidding, and conversation domination.
- Give negative comments to students privately.
- Post policies describing appropriate and inappropriate types of course communication.
Use online course features to encourage communication.
- Use asynchronous tools such as discussion boards and email.
- If feasible for your students, use real-time features such as chat rooms, whiteboards, and Elluminate.
- Provide telephone access as necessary, and consider conducting one or more teleconferences during the course.
Principle 2: Develop reciprocity and cooperation among students.
Facilitate student interaction.
- At the beginning of the course, include an introduction activity that helps students get to know each other and gives students practice in using online tools such as discussions and email and uploading attachments.
- Organize your course material to enable student interaction with the content, with other students, and with the instructor.
- Provide discussion forums encouraging open and honest dialog.
- Explain why you are using online discussions and how students will be evaluated on their participation in discussions.
- Serve as a moderator for regular question/answer sessions throughout the class, and post summary remarks in a discussion open to all students.
Encourage group collaboration.
- Create teams of students to interact, collaborate on projects, and solve problems via discussions and email.
- Explain group members' roles, and establish guidelines for group interaction.
- Encourage students to hold virtual study sessions via chat or discussions.
- Post students' completed papers and assignments so that students can respond to others' work.
Principle 3: Encourage active learning.
Provide opportunities for students to discuss and interact with the course material.
- Actively involve students through writing and interaction.
- Provide opportunities for students to articulate and revise their thinking, which aids in knowledge construction.
- Encourage students to "talk" about what they are learning via discussion boards.
- Craft questions to foster discussion and understanding.
- Assign students to present work to the class via bulletin board postings, chat, presentations.
- Post responses to frequently asked questions.
Provide content that enables critical analysis and reflection.
- Explain to students how the course readings, activities, assignments, and assessments help them achieve the learning objectives.
- Provide guiding questions to foster discussion and understanding.
- Make ancillary resources available as part of the course content.
- Give students opportunities to record their observations and to do self assessments.
Use real-world data or situations in assignments.
- Present problem-solving situations in a realistic context.
- Give assignments that provide students ample opportunity to practice and apply concepts and skills in realistic and relevant ways.
- Use real world experiences in teaching content to make subject matter more relevant.
- Ask students to relate outside events or work experiences to the subjects covered.
- Give students concrete, real world situations to analyze.
- Use simulations or labs in class.
Principle 4: Give students prompt feedback.
Set expectations in writing.
- Tell students how quickly and how frequently you will respond to email and discussion postings.
- Tell students the turnaround time for grading assignments and assessments, and then stick to it.
- Provide weekly guidance and encouragement to the class.
Provide prompt feedback on assignments.
- Return assignments with comments quickly and within the stated period of time.
- Make sure comments on student work are constructive and nonthreatening.
- Grade assignments consistent with criteria set forth in the syllabus/module.
- Give students detailed feedback on performance early in term.
- Contact students who miss a chat.
- Provide both information feedback and acknowledgment feedback. Information feedback provides information or evaluation. Acknowledgement feedback confirms that some event has occurred.
Use quizzes and tests for feedback.
- Utilize built in, auto-graded quiz feature when appropriate.
- Give proctored examinations or other assessments.
- Align quizzes and tests with course objectives.
- Prepare classroom exercises and problems that give students immediate feedback on performance (self tests, for example).
Provide quick feedback in both synchronous and asynchronous settings.
- Provide students with continuous feedback and frequent support via email, chat and discussion postings.
- Take an active role in moderating discussions, providing feedback and participating in other interactive components.
Principle 5: Emphasize time on task.
Organize the course so that students and instructors use their time efficiently and effectively while focusing on the learning objectives.
- Establish clear goals and deadlines, and communicate these to students explicitly.
- At the beginning of the course, tell students how much time you expect them to spend on course activities, including assignments, studying, and preparing for and participating in class.
- Allow more time for student interactions than in traditional face-to-face courses.
- Make the first few reading assignments available online to allow students time to get the textbook.
- Make clear to students the amount of time needed to understand complex material.
- Include a list or calendar that shows all course deadlines in a single place so that students don't have to hunt for the information.
Use online tools effectively.
- Use Bb Vista's built-in email for all course-related email to avoid storing, searching, and sorting separate messages.
- Emphasize the importance of good study skills throughout course.
- Use teaching assistants to help with tasks, or assign some course tasks to students.
- Identify key concepts and allow sufficient time to cover them.
- Create an interactive learning environment, but do not overwhelm students (or the instructor) with excessive amounts of time-consuming interaction.
- Give students adequate time to complete assignments.
- Consider both in-class and out-of-class time requirements.
- Emphasize the importance of regular work, steady application, self pacing, and scheduling.
Principle 6: Communicate high expectations.
Provide clear and detailed written expectations.
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- Provide a guide to overall class structure.
- Provide a guide to appropriate language use.
- Explain grading criteria clearly, providing weights and values of graded components of the course.
- Clearly define expectations for participation, stating the minimum level of acceptable participation from students.
- Tell students that you expect them to work hard.
- Spell-check and proofread all of your course material, and tell students to do the same for their coursework.
Make sure that content and assignments are challenging.
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- Write detailed, accurate instructions for assignments, and include examples of the types of finished assignments that you expect from students.
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- Help students set challenging goals for their own learning.
- Provide lists of suggested extra readings that support key points.
Reward excellence publicly.
- Use past students' projects and papers as examples for students to refer to.
- Tell students that you hope to use their excellent work as examples for future students.
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Principle 7: Respect students' diverse talents and ways of learning.
Provide avenues for students to ask for and receive assistance in understanding course materials.
- Suggest various learning strategies.
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Consider assessing students' learning styles at the beginning of the course.
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- Consider giving a Myers-Briggs type learning style assessment at the beginning of class.
Make your course accessible for students who have disabilities.
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- Provide equal access to materials in the course.
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Provide course content in a logical, consistent manner.
- Make content available to students in manageable, easily navigated segments.
- Establish and maintain a consistent style for the course materials.
- Content is presented in a logical progression.
- Explain theory from a practical approach first, then add the structural approach.
- Designed with a consistent structure, easily discernable to students of varying learning styles.
Use a variety of techniques for presenting course material.
- Provide opportunities for students to construct knowledge collaboratively, incorporating multiple perspectives, discussions, and reflection.
- Use links, notes, quizzes, self tests, graphics, photos, audio, video, and interactive multimedia to address different learning styles.
- Vary the types of interaction between students and the course material, students and the instructor, and among students.
- Use diverse teaching activities to address a broad spectrum of students.
This checklist was adapted from Distance Learning Dean's Approved Quality Assurance Check List for Online Courses, created by the Distance Learning Task Force of Southern Polytechnic State University. Its framework is Chickering & Gamson's "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" (.pdf, 148 Kb; requires Adobe Reader or other PDF viewer).
"Best Practices for Electronically Offered Degree and Certificate Programs." http://www.sacscoc.org/pdf/commadap.pdf (68 Kb; requires Adobe Reader or other PDF viewer)
Chickering, Arthur and Ehrmann, Stephen C. (1996) "Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever." AAHE Bulletin, 1996, October, 3-6. Reprinted at http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/seven.html
Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education http://www.tss.uoguelph.ca/id/ta/tahb/tah8f.html
Graham, C, Cagiltay, K., Lim, B-R, Craner, J. and Duffy, T.M., "Seven Principles of Effective Teaching: A Practical Lens for Evaluating Online Courses." The Technology Source, March/April 2001. Available online at http://technologysource.org/article/seven_principles_of_effective_teaching/
King, James W., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Seven Principles of Good Teaching Practice http://www.agron.iastate.edu/nciss/kingsat2.html
Panitz, T., Cape Cod Community College, "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education Implementation Ideas." http://home.capecod.net/~tpanitz/7ideas.htm
"Quality On the Line: Benchmarks for Success in Internet-Based Distance Education." Prepared by The Institute for Higher Education Policy, April 2000.
Raleigh, Cheryl, "Re: Student evaluation forms for online courses." Online posting. 27 August 2004. Association of Teachers of Technical Writing.
Sunal, D., Sunal, C., Odell, M. and Sundberg, C., "Research-Supported Best Practices for Developing Online Learning." Journal of Interactive Online Learning, Volume 2, Number 1, Summer, 2003. http://www.ncolr.org/jiol/issues/showissue.cfm?volID=2&IssueID=6
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The Blue Ridge Community College concert series will continue its 20th anniversary season with a performance by pianist Kirill Gliadkovsky at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Thomas Auditorium in Flat Rock, N.C.
The program, titled "Russian Spectacular," will consist of music by Russian composers — a prelude and fugue by Taneyev, two fairy tales by Medtner, two etudes-tableaux by Rachmaninoff, and "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Mussorgsky.
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10 Jul 2012 1:18 AM #21
I would like to see some examples linked from here: http://docs.sencha.com/architect/2-0/#!/guide
All the examples in that guide just show where things are in architect, rather than explain how to use them.
For example: http://docs.sencha.com/architect/2-0...de/controllers
The above shows just what a controllers is, defines what an action is, what is a model.
But there are no examples of models, or controllers, or how to use them in Architect-->
17 Jul 2012 11:28 AM #22
I started using Architect with ExtJS until I realized that Architect just wasn't that useful for developing real applications. I couldn't figure out why someone would use Architect when they could simply use a text editor, like Aptana, and the ExtJS documentation. The text editor in Architect is really finicky (you have to click in weird places to get the cursor to work) and it doesn't give you all the possible options available in the framework. I'd like to see some examples on how to use Architect as part of a full application development cycle. I just don't know where Architect is supposed to be in the development workflow.-->
19 Jul 2012 7:11 AM #23
I started to port some Sencha Examples to SA2. If anyone is interested in taking a look, here is the link:
If you are also interested in a particular example from the extjs 4 or sencha touch 2 examples page, pls let me know. I'll do my best to port it and try to help you.
A complete extjs 4 app, using viewport with border layout, and a tree panel as menu - loading the views dynamically is already on the way. As soon as I completed, will update the thread above.
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20 Jul 2012 3:21 AM #24
I think some real work application examples would be useful. A very common web application is a "Company Intranet", I feel this would be a good way to show off the framework and also Architects capabilities.
25 Jul 2012 8:44 PM #25
Sencha IO + Sencha Architect 2 Project (Sencha Touch or ExtJS)
Does an example exist of a Sencha IO project documented from creation to existence using Sencha Architect? I can't find one, and I'm struggling to the point where I dont think I can use both products in the same project!
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4 Aug 2012 3:28 PM #26
A Live Update Chart Example (any chart example) would be grea
I'm having serious issues with the chart object when trying to use the Time axis with Hours:Minutes:Seconds (a real "time") instead of dates. A working example would be awesome.
Right now, my project is crashing SA... (I'll post it separately)
9 Aug 2012 3:57 PM #27
Decoupled UI from Controllers
Current extjs examples lack of Architect's MVC pattern that is hard to replicate in Architect.
For example there is a nice alternative using Action objects and message bus to decouple Controllers from UI elements, where both parties only know about action objects that can be fired and subscribed for by anything.
Also, constantly "promoting to class" really clobbers all the Project Inspector's viewable space.
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On Christmas Eve 1991, my husband was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. He was not a smoker. In eight months, he went from a man who jogged, wind-surfed, skied, and loved life to a man who couldn't walk, didn't want to eat and had trouble communicating. I was his primary caregiver until his death at home on September 10, 1992.
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I would like to run x11vnc (or another VNC server) on my desktop, but I'm unable to find a way to get it to start before any users log in. Back when I was using vanilla Ubuntu 10.10 Vino did this by default. However, I can't find a way to do it now in Xubuntu.
I usually suggest an alternate VNC server, x11vncserver or FreeNX.
FreeNX how to and download info
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4 Apr 2010 10:15 AM #1
What is playpen?
i see a lot of examples very nice...
But for what is that directory?
I like the look and feel of some examples....
SB.... will see
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All the examples you see at http://extjs.com should be in your download examples folder (except those that may have been created with new version of the framework than you're currently on)Tim Ryan
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We are constantly shown nutritional information on food packaging stating this food contains "x" amount of your guided daily amount. A linked to the values is here. How were these values calculated? How do we know that men as a recommendation must not consume more than 2500 calories, 55g of protein 300g of carbohydrate etc...
In the USA, they refer to this as the recommended daily values (DVs) for a variety of nutrients. All I can find regarding these recommendations is that they were calculated for adults and children over 4 years old with a daily energy intake of 2000 kilocalories (often referred to as calories in the US).
The total calories are not in fact a recommended value - they are an example amount that is derived from some calorie intake that seemed reasonable to someone (I don't know the details). It does not mean that the government is recommending that you eat exactly 2000 calories per day.
The relative content is, however, a recommended value, based on presumably research. So, if you do take 2000 calories a day, then you know how much of it should be fat/carbs/proteins.
I think that there is some controversy about whether the recommended values were influenced by industry lobbying. Moreover, science is definitely not clear on what the optimal food content for a human is, which is why we keep having the different diet fads, oscillating from no-fat to no-carbs.


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If you come up with a proof of a mathematical proposition, how do you verify the proof is correct? Put it another way, how do you avoid a wrong proof? I guess there is no definitive answer to this. However, I believe this question is important. Any idea, suggestion or method to help make sure a proof is correct would be appreciated.
EDIT Thanks for all your suggestions. I'd like to add my idea which is perhaps similar to Leslie Lamport's (I haven't read his paper yet). My idea is basically "divide and conquer". Divide your proof to small propositions or lemmas. The smaller, the better. Ideally each of these small proposition should be trivial. To do this, first divide the main theorem into several propositions. The main theorem should be almost trivial assuming each proposition is correct. Then divide each proposition into several propositions. Repeat this process until each proposition cannot be divided or trivial enough. Then apply some or all of your ideas to each proposition. Generalizing your theorem can help make this process easier(there is an adage(?): if your problem is difficult, generalize it).
I got this idea from the Grothendieck's approach in his EGA. See the article "The rising sea; Grothendieck on simplicity and generality" by Colin McLarty.


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Crossbow Hunting
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Welcome to CPC, you're off to a great start.
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How can Cabellas & Bass Pro sell so many on those types of bows if they can't hit the broad side of a barn?
I've seen your handy craft over the years...and I still can't figure out how you creep up on those critters.
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Most hunters who bowhunt that I have talked to only pick it up to extend their seasons, as soon as they get the chance they change to a gun.....again that's most...
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And I will be shooting my bow.
I don't know where this kid got his facts,
but I hope we didn't scare him away.
Posted 14 October 2012 - 09:13 AM
This kid made 3 posts then never came back
Dave, he was a flash in the pan. He apparently already knew everything so he didn't need our help. He wouldn't want to hear anything from us as we are obviously ignorant and his facts were correct.
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So that means Im not normal. OK Bisley say something.
I'm still a little too scared to to say anything after the other day when you were talking about concealing your bow while wearing just a loin cloth and blue paint!
hahaha. Only in the movies are crossbows silent. They are typically louder than a compound bow.
The Hell you say! Next thing you know you're going to tell me that revolvers don't hold 18 rounds and lever actions don't hold 50 rounds! Or that the old single actions that were carried with one chamber empty can't still shoot 6 rounds
Posted 16 October 2012 - 09:21 PM
I want to see his cross bow croups at 20 yrds. I'll go to 30 yrds .
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Crossbows do have good power but they are not quiet even with limb and string silencers. One of my hunting buddies shoots a 70lb compound and it's a little quieter than my crossbow. He's also very accurate. It's all about the shooter. He practices often and it shows.
If you want quiet, try a compound between 40 and 50 lbs with string and limb silencers.
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Here is a picture of accuracy.
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Very nice, Tom! did you get that in CA?
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Nice deer. Nice shot Most guys would never take that shot But that is a good spot to hit the pumper.
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The braid group on 3 strands is a central extension of the modular group. By definition, \[ B_3 = \langle \sigma_1, \sigma_2: \sigma_1\sigma_2\sigma_1=\sigma_2\sigma_1\sigma_2 \rangle \] This group has a central element (commuting with both $\sigma1$ and $ \sigma_2$): \[ \sigma_1\sigma_2\sigma_1\sigma_2\sigma_1\sigma_2\] The coset get mapped to elements of PSL(2,Z) (which can act on the hyperbolic plane). \[ [\sigma_1] = \left[ \begin{array}{cc} 1 & 1 \\\\ 0 & 1\end{array}\right] \text{ and } [\sigma_2] = \left[ \begin{array}{cc} 1 & 0 \\\\ -1 & 1\end{array}\right] \] I wonder, in terms of the hyperbolic plane, what is being braided here (modulo the garside elements).
Without thinking about this too carefully: I think what's getting braided are three of the Weierstrass points of an elliptic curve. More precisely: consider the space of distinct 3-tuples of points p,q,r on A^1. On the one hand, you can braid these points around. On the other hand, every path in this space (i.e. every braid) gives a family of elliptic curves
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I have a conjecture which I cannot prove or disprove.
Denote the $i$'th digit of $x$ in binary expansion by $d_i(x)$, where for $i=1$ the MSB is taken. Example: $d_3(110.1)=0$ and $d_4(110.1)=1$ (so it just ignores the dot).
Denote by $p_i$ the $i$'th prime number, i.e. $p_1=2, p_2=3, p_3=5$ and so on.
Let $$h_i^j(x)=\frac {d_i(x)} {p_i^{p_{2j}}}$$ if the $i$'th digit of $x$ is left to the decimal point, and $$h_i^j(x)=\frac {d_i(x)} {p_i^{p_{2j+1}}}$$ otherwise.
Define $f(x):\mathbb R^n\rightarrow\mathbb R$ as:
$$f(x)=\sum_{j=1}^n \sum_{i=1}^\infty h_i^{j+in}(x_j) $$
Conjecture: $f$ is injective and finitely integrable over any finite measure balls on $\mathbb R^n$.
Caution: some explanations might work well for rational numbers only.
Please, if you think if it's incorrect, try to see if you can slightly modify $f$ to make the conjecture correct.


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Sponsored by the Rod Tossers Car Club, and scheduled to run 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., cars and people were showing up and leaving throughout the day. In fact Rob and I unintentionally tag-teamed the event, as I showed up halfway through the day just as he was leaving, ensuring total coverage. Are we dedicated or what? OK, it was luck! I took the opportunity, along with countless others, to wander back to Winfield's kustom graveyard of unfinished and abandoned projects, then farther back to his personal junk yard, containing enough donor vehicles to keep him busy for a while! You could spend hours wandering around back there dreaming! Winfield also had a number of the cars he's built over the years on display, adding to the atmosphere of the event, and it was great to see cars I've only ever seen displayed in indoor shows like the GNRS, parked in the dirt outside Winfield's shop.
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Air Force Staff Sgt. Luis Walker arrives for the fourth day of his trial at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas on July 20, 2012. (Billy Calzada,AP Photo/San Antonio Express News)
(CBS/AP) SAN ANTONIO - A military jury has convicted an Air Force instructor of rape, sexual assault and all other counts he faced as part of a sweeping sex scandal at the Texas base where all U.S. airmen go through basic training.
Staff Sgt. Luis Walker showed no emotion as the verdict was read Friday in an Lackland Air Force Base courtroom. The jury made up of seven military personnel convicted him on all 28 counts he faced. He faces up to life in prison.
Walker is one of 12 Lackland instructors investigated for sexual misconduct. He faced the most serious charges among the six instructors who have been charged.
Prosecutors say Walker raped one female trainee and sexually assaulted or had inappropriate sexual or personal contact with nine others.
Walker's trial is seen as the cornerstone of a major investigation into trainers at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, where every American airman receives basic training. Six instructors have been charged on counts ranging from rape to adultery. Walker is the first to stand trial.
Maj. Patricia Gruen said trainees arrived at Lackland "terrified" of their instructor, and Walker used that fear to take advantage of them.
"He is the wolf in sheep's clothing. Consummate predator," Gruen said.
He took his victims to hallways and other areas where surveillance cameras would not catch him, she said.
Trainers like Walker "rule their worlds," Gruen said. "They get off that bus and, bam! Their world is changed."
Gruen took just less than an hour for her closing argument.
Prosecutors called 14 witnesses, including one alleged victim who gave a video deposition because she had recently given birth and could not travel to the base.
On Tuesday, one alleged victim fought back tears as she testified that Walker lured her into his office and sexually assaulted her on a bed, ignoring her pleas for him to stop. She and others told jurors they were afraid that reporting Walker's actions would get them kicked out of the Air Force.
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The defense called just one witness, Tech. Sgt. Richard Capestro, who testified that instructors and trainees at the Lackland base are under constant surveillance and officials conduct surprise inspections of trainee dormitory areas without warning — seemingly attempting to cast doubt on the possibility Walker could have committed rape and sexual assault on the premises.
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I am looking for a resource that clearly exposes the concepts of a particle source and a particle detector in the context of Quantum Field theory. I want to understand Irreversibility in this context.
Typically one thinks of the sources as being at infinite past, and the detection at infinite future; then a reversible S-matrix description applies. For photons, a corresponding treatment of sources and detectors can be found in Mandel & Wolf's treatise on quantum optics. But their treatment doesn't give any hint on irreversibility.
[Edit] Detection is always irreversible; nothing counts as detected unless there is an irreversible record of it. There is no really good account from first principles how an irreversible detection event is achieved. From the 1999 article ''Some problems in statistical mechanics that I would like to see solved'' by Elliot Lieb http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378437198005172:
A field theoretic discussion of irreversibility necessitates a statistical mechanics treatment. This more detailed modeling is done in practice in a hydrodynamic or kinetic approximation. They treat sources as generators of beams with an extended distribution in space or phase space, respectively. The dynamics of both descriptions is irreversible, and may be computed in terms of $k$-particle irreducible ($k$PI) Feynman diagrams for $k=1$ and $k=2$, respectively.
The kinetic description is based on the Kadanoff-Baym equations in the 2PI Schwinger-Keldysh (CTP) formalism. The Kadanoff-Baym equations are dynamical equations for the 2-particle Wightman functions and their ordered analoga, and are used in practice to model high energy heavy ion collision experiments. See, e.g.,
The hydrodynamic description is based on the simpler 1PI approach, but it is
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Just curious, normally if a person is not appreciating another person that's helping him, the person can tell him to show some gratitude. But how about "grow some gratitude"? It implies the person has no gratitude at all and have to undergo natural development by changing physically or psychologically to develop the quality of being thankful.
Will people think I am strange if I tell them to "grow" some gratitude?