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Young children are generally eager to learn and grow, and will move naturally toward new stages of development with the support of the adults in their environment. Parents can best help children between the ages of three and five by providing the memory cues necessary to learn a new skill, while still allowing for the strong urge to "do it myself."
Your four-year-old may resist being placed physically on the potty, for example—a technique that works well for many younger toddlers—but respond to a verbal reminder ("Lunch is over. Now, what's next?") that offers her a chance to respond successfully ("Potty time!") and go to the bathroom on her own.
By helping your child picture what she wants to do, plan how to accomplish her goal, and carry through successfully, you can allow her to teach herself to use the potty. In the process, she will learn that she can achieve the goals she sets for herself, and her self-confidence will increase accordingly.
Of course, many children—even three- and four-year-olds—are content to remain in diapers long after their parents have decided it's time for a change. If you have waited until now to toilet-train in the hope that your child will initiate the process but have yet to see any interest on her part, there is no harm in nudging her along in positive ways. You might start by helping her identify the issue ("Look—Chloe and Ann use the potty now.") and formulate a goal ("Do you want to learn to use a potty, too?"). If she still fails to respond, point out occasionally that someone she admires uses a toilet instead of a diaper, show her the big-kid underwear at a store and ask her if she'd like some for herself, or remove her diaper while she's playing, set a potty nearby, and let her make a game out of using it.
These attempts may not "take" the first, second, or third time you try them, but eventually your child will get the idea. (At no time should you try teasing or criticizing her for not responding to your suggestions. Such negative approaches not only backfire in practical terms but can damage your young child's self-esteem.) Keep in mind that a reluctant child may simply be waiting for more direction—for you to take the next step by helping her create and carry out a plan.
"I remember when I first learned to use a potty," one parent said (not entirely truthfully) to her attentive daughter. "I didn't know how to do it at first. But my mom helped me remember when it was time to go and she showed me where the potty was. She let me put a bit of toilet paper in the potty and try to get it wet with my pee. It was fun. Do you want to try?"
Preschoolers love to hear stories about their parents. Talking to your child in a personal way about bathroom use is a good way to support her both cognitively and emotionally. By reassuring her that you've been there, too, and reviewing the steps you took to learn to use the potty, you demonstrate that she will be able to achieve her goals also.
Whether you tell your child a similar story or just suggest a straightforward plan of action for beginning toilet training ("How about wearing that pretty princess underwear today? Don't worry about getting it wet. We'll pay attention to when you need to pee and I'll help you get to the bathroom in time."), your child will welcome your help in laying out the steps she needs to follow.
Once you have created a game plan with your child, it's important to follow through consistently. You may have remarked to her, for example, that you usually need to use the bathroom after meals and before bedtime, and the two of you have agreed that she will try that, too. If so, be ready to remind her to sit on the potty at each of these times if necessary and accompany her there if she is hesitant to go. You may need to exert a little pressure to get her to stick to a plan she's agreed to. Refusing a treat until she's completed this chore demonstrates that this responsibility must be met—just like brushing her teeth and taking a bath.
Since your goal is to help your child move from being reminded to use the potty toward recognizing and addressing the need on her own, it makes sense to support her efforts further by offering helpful tips along the way. Just as you would with a younger child, teach her to be aware of the signals her body gives her and to use them as spurs to action: "Joanne, you're squirming around a lot. Does your tummy feel funny? That means you need to pee." Remind her of what needs to be done to succeed at this skill: "I know it's hard to stop playing when you're having so much fun, but when you need to use the potty, it's important to go right away. Come on, I'll help you."
Support her in unfamiliar situations: "If you need to use the potty at Sandy's house, tell her mommy and she'll show you where it is." Point out how much better she feels after she's used the potty and how nice it is to know she won't wet her pants this time. Like a coach encouraging a player to perform well, your goal is not to control her learning process by constantly directing her, but to "spot" her by making suggestions when necessary and by cheering her on.
One of the strongest motivating forces for a preschooler mastering a new skill is his parents' praise. When your child succeeds at any of the steps involved in toilet training—picturing a goal ("I wanna wear underwear like Daddy!"), creating a plan ("If I have to go, I call you."), or actually achieving his goal ("Daddy, look, I did it!")—be sure to reinforce his feelings of satisfaction with a hug and a kiss. Restate his achievement ("Look at that, Ronnie, you pooped in the potty!") and let him know he should feel good about it ("You must feel proud."). Finally, express your own satisfaction clearly by letting him hear you report his success to others in the family ("Guess what Ronnie did today? He pooped in the potty—just like Sam.") and even offering him a small reward such as candy or a gold star on his "potty chart."
When accidents occur, let him accept responsibility for this experience as well by asking him to help you clean up (if he resists, calmly insist that he comply). Such natural consequences of his own actions motivate him to try harder and are much more effective than criticism or anger in the long run.


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Grandmama is on a new diet. Recent doctor visits have revealed her cholesterol is high and her sugar is, if not borderline-diabetic, borderline-borderline-diabetic. (Whatever that means.)
I have thrown myself into the low-fat, low-sugar diet in support. However, I'm no gourmand, food isn't interesting to me and I suck at cooking.
Before I had the Long Suffering Husband and children, I'm not really sure what I ate. Boiled chicken and microwave peas, mostly. I worked at a fast-food restaurant, and my hair and clothes would reek of grease at the end of the day.
Nothing like staring at rivers of grease and wilted lettuce all day to put you off your food.
Now that I have to cook for other people, my chances of wandering out of the kitchen, becoming distracted and over-cooking dinner are usually around 50-50.
Of course, my children love cooking and baking.
We've been looking at ways to help Grandmama cut fat and sugar out. Our results have been so-so. There was the disastrous pound cake incident, in which we swapped out sugar for applesauce, butter for no-fat yogurt, flour for whole-grain flour, and eggs for egg substitutes.
Like so many things, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
The result appeared bread-like, but tasted bland. There was zero taste. It was the definitive taste of nothing. My nephew, the Heathenish, kindly described it as tasting like bran cereal.
On the other hand, using a similar recipe - only with orange juice instead of sugar - for banana bread went well.
Grandmama recently took me and my Sassy Saint to brunch. We spent a long time mulling over the menu.
"I think I'll have pancakes," Grandmama said.
"You can't eat that," I said.
"I'll have some sausage."
"You can't eat that."
"You can't eat that. Did you even read the low-fat cookbook I bought you?"
"I switched to a butter alternative." She spent several minutes examining the menu. "A ham-and-cheese omelet?"
"You can't eat that. What about a fruit salad?"
She made a face. "I'll eat what I want. I'm your mother. You can't tell me what to do."
"Sass, give her the face," I commanded. "The face" being the most woebegone, sad look Sass can muster.
She complied. Sass' face is excellent; she uses it on me all the time.
"Sass wants you to live for a really, really long time. So you've got to take care of yourself."
Grandmama rolled her eyes.
"What about whole-grain pancakes? Look, they've got blueberries and bananas - blueberries have antioxidants, and fruit has natural sugars that break down more slowly."
"Oh, all right," she grumbled.
I was encouraged. Maybe Grandmama could successfully change a lifetime of eating habits overnight, after all.
She ordered extra syrup.
(Wallace-Minger, a Weirton resident, is community editor of The Weirton Daily Times,)


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Is there any intuition behind surface integrals and their applications? I get that there's some stuff with fluid flow but it doesn't really stick that well, especially when it comes to surface orientation.
Is there any surefire way to figure out the orientation of a surface? And is there any sort of intuition behind that or surface integrals?


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Detroit Metro Airport
LC Smith Terminal - Mezzanine Level, Detroit, Michigan 48242, USA
Telefon: (734) 942 3550
Website: www.metroairport.com
The airport is situated 32km (20 miles) southwest of Detroit.
How to get there
The airport can be accessed from two major interstate motorways: the I-94 Middlebelt/Merriman Road, exit 198, which turns into Rogell Drive, and the I-275 Eureka Road, exit 15 turning into Eureka Road.
Information about parking possibilities at the Detroit Metro Airport
Access by public transport
Amtrak (tel: 1 800 872 7245; www.amtrak.com) serves Dearborn station, 19km (12 miles) away from the airport.
SMART buses (tel: 1 866 962 5515; www.smartbus.org) runs local services to central Detroit from the outer roadway (lower level) outside Smith Terminal, near the ground transportation offices. Greyhound long distance bus services (tel: 1 800 231 2222; www.greyhound.com) stop at Wayne station, 13km (8 miles) from the airport.
Taxis are available from Metro Airport Taxis (tel: 1 800 745 5191; www.metroairporttaxi.org).The airport's ground transportation information desk can be reached on tel: (734) 942 3623.
Information desk
Staff in green waistcoats are designated customer service agents who can provide airport, hotel, transport, shopping and local information (tel: (734) 247 7678). There are also customer service points situated throughout the terminals.
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18 Mar 2011 9:03 AM #1
how to show password by click button
I created a pop win for changing user password. How can I do if I want to show hidden password by click a button. It means how can I change inputType by code.
code below,
items: [{
fieldLabel: "Login ID",
name: "txtLoginID",
allowBlank: false,
anchor: '100%',
disabled: true
}, {
fieldLabel: 'Old Password',
allowBlank: false,
name: 'txtOldPassword',
anchor: '100%' //
, {
fieldLabel: 'New Password',
allowBlank: false,
name: 'txtPassword',
anchor: '100%' //
}, {
xtype: 'textarea',
fieldLabel: 'Comments',
allowBlank: false,
name: 'txtDescription',
height: 80,
anchor: '100%' //
Many thanks
5 Jun 2011 11:18 AM #2
I'm looking for something similair but only for Ext 4.
It doesn't seem possible without hiding the current field and showing another normal textfield.
Other ideas are welcome!
5 Jun 2011 12:59 PM #3
Think I finally nailed it. Not the best solution, but it seems to work. I'm using arrTmp = Ext.DomQuery.select('input[name=txtOldPassword]') which returns an array. And then alter arrTmp.type='text'.
Warning: this for Ext 4 (!), but probably something similair exists for Ext 3.
5 Jun 2011 6:19 PM #4
I don't think there's any need to resort to selectors or direct interaction with DOM nodes:
var passwordField = new Ext.form.TextField({ inputType: 'password', renderTo: Ext.getBody() }); new Ext.Button({ enableToggle: true, renderTo: Ext.getBody(), text: 'Show Password', toggleHandler: function(button, state) { passwordField.getEl().set({type: state ? 'text' : 'password'}); } });
28 Jun 2013 5:51 AM #5
I know it's an old post but I want to do the same and I have a problem. It works fine on Safari/Chrome/Firefox, but not on IE (Windows8)
Any idea about how to make it work?
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June 27-28, 2009
As we approached another race weekend, the Makita USA, Alumi Craft, K & N, and Goodyear Tires #973 pro buggy team had a short distance to travel to Lake Elsinore Motorsports Complex Thursday, June 25th. With the imminent blistering heat, driver Bobby PeCoy, Crew Chief Bruce Kinney, and family sibling trophy kart drivers, Chelsey and Travis PeCoy, unloaded and prepped for the upcoming event (and then found shelter under numerous EZ-ups!).
Friday was a phenomenal beginning to our weekend! The Redline powered Honda pro buggy was running impeccably with an on the mark chassis and suspension set-up by Crew Chief Bruce. Bobby qualified first with the best lap time of 1:07.924 and a speed of 53 MPH. Being the fastest qualifier, we then picked a number out of the 'jar' to determine the inversion, and with a little less fortune, we drew a four which dropped us to eighth starting position. Even though we weren't starting at the head of the pack, Bobby and the team were prepared for Saturday's race.
As Saturday approached, Team PeCoy was doing all we could to beat the heat. With the #973 starting in eighth position, Bobby was patient and started to pick off drivers one at a time. A challenging race filled with aggressive drivers, and at the mandatory caution, Bobby settled into 9th place. After the mandatory yellow, it was an intense fight for positioning. PeCoy was in an experienced group of drivers including Greg Foster, Rich Ronco, and Joe Morgan as they fought to the finish. Bobby improved four positions in what was a tough, muddy race and finished a respectable 5th. "Two more laps and I could have picked off three more positions," Bobby said excitedly after the race!
With Saturday's race being history, Bruce noticed a crack had emerged in the transmission due to bad casting. With the help of Alumi Craft and Team PeCoy a new transmission was installed. Sunday morning approached and as Bobby was getting ready to practice and qualify, to Bruce's dismay, he noticed another fracture in the new transmission (that was only ran in the parking lot the night prior!). Bobby was able to practice and still qualify a meek 12th. Again, surrounded by the support from the 'guys' at Alumi Craft, the faulty-case transmission was replaced by another (totaling 3!) before Bobby's race. The goal today was to improve positioning and capitalize on points even with the down-spiraling luck!
As our team watched the pro buggy from the stands we noticed it wasn't running to its full potential. Bobby was struggling, pulling over and re-starting the engine as he continued to race. Unfortunately, the ignition box had failed, but he was still doing all he could to get completed lap points. Team PeCoy had to find the humor in the weekend as Bobby kept pulling over to restart . . And "it's still racing," we commented! Our team will put this behind us as we prepare due diligently for the next race again at Lake Elsinore.
Chelsey and Travis are also working on improving their driving skills as they finished in the middle of the pack in the Junior 1 trophy kart series both Saturday and Sunday. There is definitely time to watch them grow!
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The Broward Sheriff's Office annual crackdown on holiday crime was a smashing success this past holiday season.
Each year, the BSO initiates "Operation Scrooge", a concentrated effort to catch pickpockets, shoplifters, scam artists, and others who prey on businesses and individuals trying to enjoy the festivities of December.
From the 3rd through the 24th of December last year, BSO deputies made ten felony arrests, busted five people wanted on warrants, took three people in on misdemeanor charges, identified more than 100 suspicious individuals, and gave personal assistance to more than a thousand holiday shoppers throughout the Deerfield Beach area.
In the same district in 2000, BSO arrested five people on felony charges, took in seven people on warrants, made two misdemeanor arrests, and recovered one stolen vehicle.
Every December, there seems to be an increase in crimes reported near shopping centers and other areas where holiday revelers gather. "Operation Scrooge" is a proactive effort by the Broward Sheriff's Office to target those areas and help cut down on crime.
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The deputy consul general in New York and the assistant Saudi cultural attaché in Washington, D.C. arrived in Boston Monday evening to visit the injured Saudi students, check on the welfare of other Saudi citizens, and provide consular services as needed.


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In Alpha Centauri, with Social Engineering -5 Police states: two extra drones for each military unit away from territory. Why do I get two drones per air unit even if they're in the home base?
All offensive air units are considered out of territory no matter where they are. BUT this does not apply to defensive air units like interceptors (planes/choppers with the air superiority ability). See this article for more info: http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=articles;sa=view;article=33
If I remember correctly, some unit types (apparently including air units) don't count as being home for the purposes of police duty. I cannot remember whether this applies to copters, but I seem to remember it applies to needle jets.


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Tutu: Authorized (Hardcover)
Tutu: Authorized is a celebration of the life of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an icon whose humanity and compassion has touched millions of lives around the world. Born in Klerksdorp, South Africa, Desmond Tutu was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1960. He vigorously opposed apartheid and has dedicated his life to fighting all forms of oppression, advocating nonviolence, peaceful reconciliation, and social justice for all.
This extraordinary book features an authorized biography by legendary South African journalist Allister Sparks and includes never-before-seen interviews by Archbishop Tutus daughter, Reverend Mpho A. Tutu, with historical figures who witnessed Tutus life and worked alongside him, such as Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, the Dalai Lama, Kofi Annan, Bono, and Sir Richard Branson, as well as intimate and poignant interviews with his wife, family, and closest friends. Complemented by an unprecedented collection of images and unpublished artifacts drawn from Tutus private files, this is a phenomenal story of one mans extraordinary life and work and will be treasured by all who read it for years to come.
About the Author
Allister Sparks has been a friend to Desmond Tutu for many decades. He was editor of the Rand Daily Mail and South African correspondent for The Washington Post, The Observer (London), NRC Handelsblad, and The Economist. He was named International Editor of the Year by World Press Review magazine and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting of racial unrest in South Africa during 1985. In 1992 Sparks founded the Institute for Advanced Journalism to upgrade the standard of journalism in South Africa.
The Reverend Mpho A. Tutu is currently the executive director of The Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation.
Bono is the internationally acclaimed lead singer and writer for U2.
Gavin Friday, one of Bono's oldest friends, is a musician, painter, and film soundtrack composer, formerly of the band the Virgin Prunes.
Directed by Maurice Seezer, the Seezer Ensemble has produced music with Gavin Friday for films including "In the Name of the Father" and "The Boxer,"
Founded in 1986, the Irish Hospice Foundation works to provide better care for people with terminal illness.
Praise For…
"The history of the long fight to end apartheid in South Africa had many heroes but none quite like a 5-foot-4 Anglican archbishop with an impish sense of humor who became a giant irritant to the white authorities. . . . Tutu was the moral voice of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement. He held no official position with any party and still doesn't. With flowing religious robes as his only shield, he bluntly challenged successive white governments to end apartheid, skillfully led the nation's post-apartheid efforts at reconciliation and later stood up to black leaders when they edged away from the democratic principles they purported to espouse. . . . Those and other moments in the life of the anti-apartheid crusader and 1984 Nobel Peace Prize recipient get heroic treatment in Tutu: Authorized, an unapologetic fan book . . . a high-gloss keepsake filled with historical photographs, pages of Tutu's quotable quotes and dozens of vignette-style remembrances from the global luminaries."
-Nelson Mandela
"Archbishop Tutu has the ability to see our shared humanity in each person he meets, and to get us to do the same."
-Bill Clinton
"One thing I have learned from him . . . is that he has that constant and persistent faith that things can be better and we can do something about it. We should not find excuses not to act or not to speak out."
-Kofi Annan, former secretary-general of the United Nations and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001
"Emotionally and mentally Bishop Tutu and I are very close. I call him my spiritual older brother. . . . He is a freedom fighter, but the fight is carried on with compassion, forgiveness, and a commitment to nonviolence. He is a wonderful person."
-His Holiness the Dala i Lama
"He has become a symbol of kindness and hope far beyond the borders of his native land."
-President Barack Obama
"He was not just an anti-apartheid worker. . . . He was somebody who had thought very deeply about spiritual values and had applied them to what he was doing. In some ways that reminded me of Gandhi."
-Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
"Moments in the life of the anti-apartheid crusader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient get heroic treatment in Tutu: Authorized, . . . a high-gloss keepsake filled with historical photographs, pages of Tutu's quotable quotes and dozens of vignette-style remembrances from the global luminaries"
-L.A. Times
"A wonderful scrapbook of the incredible life and ministry of the Anglican Archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu, prepared in celebration of his 80th Birthday."
-Spirituality and Practice


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The 5 Saddest Attempts to Take Over a Country
#2. Rebels Imprisoned Their Prime Minister on a Warship ... and Then It Sank
This next one became known as the Manhattan Rebellion, but don't worry, it's not about Occupy Wall Street -- Manhattan was the name of a boat that the United States gave to Thailand as an act of goodwill. During the ceremony for the transfer, however, junior officers from the Thai Royal Navy decided the prime minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram had to go, so they kidnapped him and locked him up on the warship Sri Ayutthaya.
It wasn't easy. He had the most highly decorated stomach in all of Thailand.
So that's a pretty successful coup so far. The prime minister is the hostage of the royal navy and he's confined to a boat. Unfortunately, the navy didn't really have a plan beyond that point. They were kind of hoping that naval officers who weren't in on the plan would immediately rush to their aid. They didn't. They also assumed that the prime minister's own backers would want to negotiate to save the prime minister's life. They absolutely didn't.
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"To be honest, we're a lot more concerned about the new boat."
Instead, within six hours of the kidnapping, the army teamed up with the police and launched their own attack on the rebels' boat -- the same one Phibunsongkhram was being held on. Holy shit! They couldn't have been expecting that.
And this wasn't exactly firing some shots across their bow -- they bombed the shit out of that boat. They bombed it so hard that it sank. Amazingly, one of the few survivors was Phibunsongkhram himself, who actually swam back to shore completely uninjured and not the slightest bit bothered that his own army had just almost killed him. Considering what the navy had done to him that day, the army looked completely loyal in comparison.
Plus, they had elephants.
Without a hostage, a cohesive plan or their dignity, the navy conspirators were forced to just give up. And then the navy itself was completely dismantled, you know, just in case they ever thought they were once useful to the country in any way whatsoever.
#1. Hitler Tried to Take Over a Beer Hall
For all you would-be rebels out there, here's a coup that proves that the only thing standing between you and success is willpower. Oh, wait. Never mind. This is a Hitler story.
"Och! Mein Godwin!"
Before Hitler became the embodiment of evil, he was just an angry guy with a mob. So on November 8, 1923, the leadership of the Weimar Republic was hosting a debate at a beer hall, because that's how they do in Germany. Young Hitler knew this was the time to strike.
Now, when you hear "beer hall," don't picture some little rinky-dink honky-tonk with Bavarians line dancing or riding mechanical bulls or whatever. This particular bar sat 3,000 people, and the place was brimming with drinkers listening to one of the leaders, Gustav Ritter von Kahr, speech it up ... until Hitler and about 20 of his friends in the German Workers Party burst in the door. Their "plan"? To kidnap the three leaders and hold a gun to their heads until they joined their cause.
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"National socialism can't move forward without this mustache!"
Hitler had two things on his side -- a machine gun and 600 stormtroopers. So, maybe that's 601 things. The machine gun was position at the door and his mob surrounded the building. Adolf jumped on a chair, shot a bullet in the air and screeched the following:
"The national revolution has broken out! The hall is filled with 600 men. Nobody is allowed to leave. The Bavarian government and the government at Berlin are deposed. A new government will be formed at once. The barracks of the Reichswehr and those of the police are occupied. Both have rallied to the swastika."
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Apparently Hitler was one of those guys who always looked the same.
That would have been a striking statement if any of it had been true -- for instance, the barracks at the military headquarters were not occupied by his men. Pretty much the only thing that was true about the future Fuhrer's statement was the part about nobody being able to leave, on account of the machine gun. All three members of the ruling triumvirate were forced into another room and made to dance while Hitler shot their feet. And also asked to join his new government. To his complete shock, all three refused.
And that was the first failing of the plans: The Putsch Pals really, really believed the country's rulers would just acquiesce and hand over the keys to the national Audi. When they didn't, Hitler rejoined the crowd and did the one thing he did best -- made a bombastic speech -- and the audience loved him. Boom! The Nazi era begins!
Nothing but goose-stepping and evil Boy Scouts from there on out.
Not quite. Thinking he'd won the country, Hitler takes off, and nobody knows what to do next. The next day somebody shouts, "We march!" and 2,000 Nazis just start kind of ambling through the streets of Munich, vaguely hoping the army and police would join them.
Only instead of inspiring millions, these marchers just got shot at and arrested. Hitler, who had rejoined his coup by this point, rode away from the march in a waiting car, leaving his followers to fend for themselves, where 16 of them died. He would later get arrested and sent to prison for treason.
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His first-generation stormtroopers would go on to claim they were into Nazism "before it was cool."
In a perfect world, the last we would have heard of Adolf Hitler was that he was the joker who started a rebellion and then ran away crying when the guns came out. As it is, well, you know the rest.
For more bizarre acts of aggression, check out The 5 Most Retarded Wars Ever Fought and 5 Forgotten Revolutions That Created The Modern World.


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This was already posted on here a few months ago, but I just noticed it's still active and it's really a great deal. Wired is one of the only magazines I actually enjoy.
I just picked up 3 years for $14.97
I'm sure you could do 1 or 2 years too, but I don't see the point in that.
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I had this for a year. Is it me, am I getting OLD, or is the typeface they use hard to read?
Just ordered it, thanks for the deal.
I've never bought a magazine subscription online before, but this line (in the email confirming your order) kind of put me off: "You will receive the first issue of your magazine in 12-14 weeks." ..... 3+ months before my first issue? Is that standard?
Edit: I just noticed it does mention on the product page, after clicking a link for a "more info" type box, to "Please allow 8 - 14 weeks to get your shipment out the door."
Not only are the fonts too small, they try to be fancy and sometimes print it on a shaded page.
They think everyone is reading under a bright task lite.
I really got to like the magazine, it's just loaded with lots of good stories and information.
It took awhile before I got used to the snobby attitude though.
If I could read it on my Nexus 7 instead, I'd jump on this deal.
@geeknik: yeah, I don't see why they only made an Apple app
I subscribe now, and I'm pretty sure you can also get a tablet edition as well as print.
Don't quote me.
Can I sign up for this and have it kick in when my current subscription stops?
If you get/use coke rewards points you can get a year subscription for a few points i think a few bottles/cans worth of coke. My uncle owns a restaurant so i basically get tons of points. I've been getting it free for years now.
I just started a subscription to this great mag again...
About every 5 years or so I try it out with about 15 years ago being the first try. Back then it really was impossible to read. Black ink on top of photos was the norm making it really useless/and a pity really as I am sure there was some great info back then as there is now.
Either I have gotten use to it all or they have mellowed!
@jasontheperson: I'm sure you could.
If they did send you 2, you can just call Wired CS and have them merge the orders and they will probably comp you a free issue.
I've had to do this with a different magazine, but usually they should just merge the order to begin with.
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I followed the steps in this article http://linfiniti.com/2011/06/using-qtcreator-with-qgis/ to compile QGis on Ubuntu 12.04 64bit with Qt Creator.
I got the latest source for master with git.
I get the following error:
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Edit: Problem solved!
The problem is that each post can have maximum of 40 hyphens. Once you put in the 41st hyphen, everything falls apart, and you see the original code, minus all the break lines. For an example, see these two posts in this thread:
- http://www.kongregate.com/forums/7/topics/324916?page=1#posts-6832111
- http://www.kongregate.com/forums/7/topics/324916?page=1#posts-6832131
The only difference between the two is this was the word hyphen was replaced with an actual hyphen. That small difference causes the problem. I hope this helps other people. I've renamed the thread from "Having Trouble with Forum Posts" to "Solved!- Having Trouble with 41 Hyphens" so that when other people search for similar problems in the Technical Forum they will be more likely to see this thread, since the word "hyphen" was the first thing I searched for.
Thanks adv0catus for the help.
I'm an Alliance leader in an Alliance in Legacy of a Thousand Suns. To help my Alliance, I have a forum I use. So far, it's been working fine, until today when I tried to add this link to my first post while edited it: http://www.kongregate.com/games/5thPlanetGames/legacy-of-a-thousand-suns?kv_action_type=raidhelp&kv_raid_id=6894478&kv_difficulty=1&kv_raid_boss=cerebral_ceo&kv_hash=gkT87rGS1L
I did some experimentation, and found out that for some reason if I remove one of the hyphens from "legacy-of-a-thousand-suns" that there is no problem, though that does ruin the link. I've also looked through the formatting guide , but didn't see anything related to this. Nor did I find a previous thread in the Technical Trouble forum.
This link works fine in this post , but when I try to put it in this other post in any place the post just runs together without any spaces. The next post in this thread will show what it looks like when I add the link. I will also add a post after that showing what it looks like without the link in case changes are made to the post I'm having trouble with.
The only change between the two posts is the addition of the problem link between
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As we already know, you can't put one formPanel inside another - therefore you probably have two options:
1.) Think of a way to alter your layout so these two sections can co-exist inside their own separate forms.
2.) Manually handle all the formfields within your "tabpanel1" and submit these via an AJAX call instead of a form submit (i.e. give all your fields IDs or loop through the panel's items object, grab the input values one by one, then submit these as your AJAX params).
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I will try your second solution. Do you have any panel's items object loop code for share?
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I'm not at my computer right now so will be writing this code blind, but it would be something like this (assuming you have a panel populated with form inputs):
var params = {}; var items = panel.items.items; Ext.each(items, function(i, input){ var name = input.name: var value = input.value; params.push("' + name + '":"' + value + '") } // now use your params object in your AJAX call
Actually you won't use .push(), I think inside the each loop you'll just need to do this instead:
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Define a sequence $a_n, n \ge 0,$ inductively by $a_0 = 2,$ and for all $n \ge 0, a_{n+1} = \sqrt{a_n + 1}.$
Using the fact that the polynomial $x^2 - x - 1 < 0$ if and only if $\frac{1-\sqrt{5}}{2} < x < \frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2}$, prove that for every $n \ge 0, a_n > a_{n+1}.$


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A year ago, when Major League Baseball added an extra wild card to each league, some traditionalists howled. Here was MLB further devaluing its regular season, they argued, offering more playoff spots to less deserving teams.
But the upside was simple: More teams in contention. More late-season drama. More of the kinds of win-or-go-home games the sport so rarely offers.
Those benefits were on full display Sunday. The final day of baseball's regular season began with three teams competing for two American League wild-card spots. It ended with two teams still alive for one.
The Tampa Bay Rays and the Texas Rangers will play in a one-game playoff Monday night in Arlington, Texas, for the league's second wild-card spot. The winner will play the Cleveland Indians, who finished the year on a 10-game winning streak to claim the top spot.
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Incredibly, amid all the games with postseason implications Sunday, somehow the most memorable affair occurred in Miami, where the last-place Marlins finished their dreadful season with a no-hitter the likes of which the sport has never seen.
Henderson Alvarez, a 23-year-old right-hander, held the Detroit Tigers hitless through nine innings. But the game was still scoreless when he completed his milestone, so he couldn't immediately celebrate.
The Marlins went to bat in the bottom of the ninth, and with Alvarez standing in the on-deck circle and the bases loaded, they scored on a wild pitch to secure his no-hitter and escape with a 1-0 win. It was only the sixth walk-off no-hitter in major-league history, according to Stats LLC. And it was the first ever to come via a wild pitch. No doubt, Alvarez was also the first pitcher to celebrate a no-hitter while wearing his batting gloves.
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The Indians (92-70) earned their first postseason berth since 2007 with one of the hottest finishes in major-league history, albeit while facing some miserable opponents. With their 5-1 win over Minnesota on Sunday, they became the sixth team since 1900 to end the season on a win streak of 10 or more games, according to Stats.
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The 7 Greatest Pieces of Trash Talk in the History of War
#3. Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, the Eastern Front of WWII
The Situation:
1941 was an unusually rough year for the Soviet Union, what with that whole German/Romanian/Italian/Hungarian/Finnish/Slovakian invasion going on. This didn't stop 18-year-old Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya from signing up for the Partisan-Reconnaissance Unit No. 9903, where she was tasked with burning down the houses in a Nazi-occupied village (preferably while they were being occupied).
Zoya managed to set fire to a few buildings before she was caught, tortured and paraded around town with a sign that said "Houseburner."
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Her guard detail here are easily the most half-assed Nazis we've ever seen.
But before Zoya was publicly executed on November 29, 1941, she had a few words of hard-assed strategy to share with her captors and the audience, pointing out that "There are two hundred million of us, you can't hang us all!"
This was actually part of a larger speech where she kindly instructed her compatriots to "Kill the Germans, burn them, hunt them down like rats!" while the Germans were standing right there, preparing to hang her and feeling super awkward.
"It was the rudest thing I'd seen since we, y'know, killed all those people."
The Aftermath:
Once Stalin heard about Zoya, he immediately named her a Hero of the Soviet Union, the first female ghost to be bestowed with that title. Before the war was even over, she was honored with poems, paintings, statues and even a freaking movie. Just to give you an idea of how big of a deal Zoya became, there is a currently an asteroid named after her.
Everyone will feel just awful if it lands on Germany.
Also, her whole prediction about there being too many Russians for the Germans to hang turned out to be completely accurate -- by the end of it, the Germans were "hanging" themselves (or shooting themselves, you get the idea). We'll bet someone in the Third Reich got fired over that little miscalculation.
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And now attractive young women wash and dress her statues yearly, so it's not a complete loss.
#2. Anne Bonny, Pirate
The Situation:
Anne Bonny was an Irish pirate who enjoyed a successful career during the golden age of piracy in the 18th century. She did her piracy thing alongside her partner Mary Read and her on-again, off-again husband Calico Jack. It was like a sitcom, only with more rape and plunder.
She's a hot-headed swashbuckler, and she's an axe-wielding anarchist, this week on That's My Bonny!
In 1720, their ship was ambushed by a sloop sent by the Governor of Jamaica. Only Anne, Mary and one other pirate fought back, since the rest of the crew were either sleeping or too drunk to fight. After they were captured, Anne and Mary were able to avoid the gallows on account of their respective pregnancies. Jack, lacking a uterus, was not so lucky.
"I tried arguing that my chlamydia was alive, just like a baby, but they wouldn't listen."
As he was on his way to be executed, Anne Bonny comforted her pirate lover by politely pointing out that if he'd fought like a man, he wouldn't have been hanged like a dog. To which he probably didn't reply, "Yeah, good point. Love you!"
And this is the man who practically invented the Jolly Roger flag.
The Aftermath:
Calico Jack was hanged on November 18, 1720, not unlike a dog. Anne Bonny, meanwhile, moved to South Carolina, had 10 children and died "a respectable woman, at the age of 80."
#1. Brig. Gen. Anthony Clement McAuliffe, the Siege of Bastogne
The Situation:
The Battle of the Bulge was the costliest battle in American history. Nearly 90,000 Americans were killed, captured or wounded just in time for Christmas. Smack-dab in the meat grinder were 12,000 U.S. soldiers holed up in a new circle of hell known as Bastogne.
Bastogne: Come for the unimaginable slaughter, stay because you're a corpse.
For eight days, the Germans laid siege to the city, and on December 22, 1944 a German truce party offered Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe a chance to surrender. Upon hearing the terms and carefully considering the situation, McAuliffe offered the above invitation, which we take to mean that they were free to shit themselves so hard that they would be propelled into the air, though historians are split on this interpretation.
His soldiers knew the "C" stood for "Come here so I can punch you in the dick."
Actually, that specific message never reached the Germans. But a version of it did. It went through a couple of revisions.
When McAuliffe first read the ultimatum, his initial reaction was to say, "Aw, nuts!" His aide, Lt. Col. Harry O. W. Kinnard, suggested turning that into the formal reply:
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P.S. Balls.
Col. Joseph Harper delivered the general's reply to their understandably flummoxed German adversaries. The Germans still didn't understand what the note was about (being unfamiliar with the concept of humor), so Harper instructed his interpreter, Army medic Ernie Premetz, "You can tell them to take a flying shit." He apparently thought that would be clearer.
But Premetz, trying to phrase it in a way that would not get lost in translation, told the officers "Du kannst zum Teufel gehen" (which translates to "You can go to hell").
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"And if that fails, just gesture toward your crotch until they get the idea."
The Aftermath:
McAuliffe's men outlasted their German adversaries, earning the nickname the "Battered Bastards of Bastogne," and were eventually relieved by a tag team of Gen. George S. Patton and God. McAuliffe's ballsy response might very well have saved his life: According to the film Patton, the moment "Old Blood and Guts" heard the anecdote, he smiled and said, "A man that eloquent has to be saved." Patton then personally presented McAuliffe with the Distinguished Service Cross.
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I have a very important server running Windows Server 2003 and my System partition is becoming too small, it's slowing down the machine. I have already tried all the cleaning stuff and transferring some "unimportant softs" on the "Saves" partition but it didn't help much at all. Is there a way to re-partition my hard-drive that will work on a 2003 Server, that's not too expensive and that could be used without turning the machine off. If there is no other way, then I'll have to reinstall the OS, but it will have to wait for the weekend. Thanks for your suggestions.
If it's the system partition you want to expand, as far as I know, there's no way around a reboot. Personally, I fire up a GParted Live CD [link] and resize the partition (as long as you have enough space on the disk).
If you're talking about a non-system disk, you can use diskpart.exe with no reboot. Proceed like this:
You can convert the disk to a Dynamic Disk, add more disks to the same pool and then add a second Dynamic Volume to the C:\ partition to increase its size.
The boot partition can be resized with Acronis Disk Director, from what I remember you do have to reboot if you re-size said partition.
Moo is wrong, I've checked, even if you convert to dynamic disk, you cannot expand the system volume. Only simple volume and spanned volume can be extended, though the system is simple volume, it cannot be extended. It will cause problem worse if you convert to dynamic disk, as no software can resize it. You'd better resize the partition in basic disk. I used disk director, it is the best server partitioning tool. If others have this problem, see this tutorial, then you'll know how easy to solve this problem by resizing with disk director
If it is not using the entire disk, you could use diskpart.exe to extend it in size a bit more. By the way your question is phrased, I am assuming that is the case.
If the disk is 100% used, then your only option would be to move the data to a larger drive. This would not require a full re-install of the OS, but it would require down time.
The easiest way would be to clone the drive onto a large disk using something like Symantec Ghost.
If I remember correctly, diskpart will work only in special cases, namely when you have free space without any partitions on it, as it won't shrink other partitions.
Disk Director (or other tools like that) will happily do this when there is enough free space. It can take a lot of time though.
If downtime is a concern, I would copy the disk onto another bigger one with a better disk layout, as you can do most of this in a running system, at least with Acronis True Image.
Also, when you do anything with diskpart, Disk Director or anything like that, remember to have a up-to-date and and tested backup as it's easy to do something fatally wrong, both for you and for the tools.
To increase the partition size, you may try diskpart command line, which is free and provides by microsoft, but has some disadvantages, it is not the best tool to change the partition size.
To increase the partition size with third party partition software, you just need to drag and move on the disk map to shrink a data partition, after that, extend the system partition with the unallocated space.
If the system partition is NTFS, you can extend it without rebooting the 2003 server to save time, see more details how to increase partition size on server 2003
Use ExtPart. Free, simple and allows a live/online extend.
Has some limitations (NTFS format, Basic disk types), but even though it's a Dell driver, it works perfectly on other vendors' hardware. I've been using it to extend the disks on a bunch of legacy VMware VMs (on HP servers) for quite a while and have yet to encounter any issues.
Use EASEUS partition master.
But you need to reboot the server and leave it offline for 2-3 hours
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The question is simple:
I have 30+ projects in several categories : Work, Personal, Daily, Self-improvement etc.
Each project contains several tasks in different aspects of my life: Intellectual, Spiritual, Professional, must-do errands, Health etc.
So I end with 600+ tasks in different projects, different categories and different aspects of life.
Ho do I prioritise ? I mean, how do you decide If 600 tasks are important, urgent both important and urgent or not important/not urgent etc. ? And how do you maintain this list? I have gathered all my tasks and proceed with some of them each day, but I am starting to lose track. Just to keep this list updated I need hours and hours of work each day/week that I should spend in doing things.
I have become paranoid about time management over the years and I am disappointed because after reading every book available out there and testing all methodologies, it seems that some is completely wrong.


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CENTENNIAL, Colorado (CNN) -- Colorado movie shooting suspect James Holmes was charged Monday with 24 counts of first-degree murder -- two counts for each of the 12 people killed in the shooting.
Twelve of the murder counts cite "deliberation," and 12 cite "extreme indifference" to the value of human life.
The 24-year-old former doctoral student also was charged with 116 counts of attempted murder -- two for each of the 58 moviegoers wounded in the attack. Finally, he was charged with one count of felony possession of explosive devices and one count related to the use of an assault weapon, a shotgun and a handgun during the incident.
The 142 counts are all in connection with the July 20 massacre in the Century Aurora 16 multiplex.
Shackled around his wrists and ankles, Holmes was escorted into Arapahoe County Courthouse by two sheriffs deputies. Five other sheriffs deputies were standing in the courtroom.
During the hearing, Holmes appeared calm and frail. He sat at the right edge of the defense table, his dyed-orange hair matted on top, its roots dark.
For a while, he stared blankly at the judge's bench but appeared to be aware of what was going on. When the judge asked him whether he understood why his attorneys were asking for more time before a hearing, he said softly, "Yes."
About half of the approximately 120 seats in the courtroom were filled with victims or their family members; more watched on video in an overflow room.
One young man in the front row of the courtroom leaned forward and stared at Holmes without averting his gaze throughout the 45-minute proceeding.
One observer, her left arm and leg in bandages, sat slumped in her seat. Around her wrist was a hospital wristband.
"It was very important to come today to see him as who he was," MaryEllen Hansen told reporters outside the courthouse. She said her niece, Ashley Moser, miscarried and was left paralyzed in her legs by the shooting; Moser's 6-year-old daughter, Veronica Moser-Sullivan, was killed.
"I got a sense that he was very aware of what was going on," Hansen said. "He had an expression and kind of a persona of evilness to him. But he looked very sane to me, he really did."
Asked if she favors the death penalty, the retired school principal said, "I'm a Christian and I do believe that he should probably be locked away and live with what he did every day of his life."
In his initial court appearance last Monday, Holmes appeared dazed and did not speak.
Arapahoe County District Attorney Carol Chambers said last Monday that deciding whether to pursue the death penalty would take time, since it would involve input from victims and their relatives.
Authorities have remained silent about a possible motive in the case.
A court document filed Friday revealed that Holmes was a patient of a University of Colorado psychiatrist before the attack.
The disclosure was made in a filing by Holmes' public defenders requesting that authorities to hand over a package he sent to Dr. Lynne Fenton at the university's Anschutz Medical Campus, where he had been studying neuroscience before announcing earlier this month that he was withdrawing from the program.
The package seized by authorities under a July 23 search warrant should remain confidential, protected by the doctor-patient relationship, the request said.
"The materials contained in that package include communications from Mr. Holmes to Dr. Fenton that Mr. Holmes asserts are privileged," said the document. "Mr. Holmes was a psychiatric patient of Dr. Fenton, and his communications with her are protected."
In response, prosecutors asked for Arapahoe County District Judge William Sylvester to deny Holmes' request, saying it contained inaccuracies including claims of media leaks by government officials that in reality may have been fabricated by news organizations.
The package is expected to be the focus of a status hearing set for August 9.
Prosecutors say they will begin turning over thousands of pages of discovery in the next couple of days. The defense says they need this information to prepare for the hearing.
During the week of November 12, attorneys expect a preliminary hearing and an evidence hearing that will include several days of testimony.
Monday's court appearance comes after a weekend of funerals and memorial services for the victims. On Saturday, family and friends gathered outside Dayton, Ohio, to honor Matt McQuinn, who died while shielding his girlfriend from gunfire.
"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends," said Herb Shaffer, McQuinn's uncle. "In a moment of crisis, you don't have time to think about what you're going to do, all you have time is to react."
Jessica Ghawi was remembered in San Antonio, Texas, by her brother, Jordan, who encouraged mourners to turn the tragedy into something positive. "If this coward could have done this with this much hate, imagine what we can do with this much love," he said.
Ghawi, a 24-year-old aspiring sports broadcaster, had narrowly avoided a shooting incident at a Toronto mall less than two months before the killings in Colorado.
"If you're putting your dreams on hold, you stop that right now," her brother said. "You don't know how long you have here."
A private service was held in Crystal Lake, Illinois, for John Larimer, a 27-year-old Navy petty officer, who received full military honors.
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I want to build a theme option based on Featured Image code, but I'm not able to find it. I'm pretty sure it is somewhere in wp-admin directory, but I've spent loong time there and found nothing.
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I just got Skyrim today and I am confused by an ability. I am playing as a high elf mage and I have got the Fury skill but cannot figure out when I would use it. Can anyone explain to me when and why this spell is useful?
Fury is good for areas with multiple enemies. You cast fury on a single target, making sure you don't get seen doing it. The victim will then start attacking nearby allies, usually until someone dies. Bear in mind they will attack you if they see you first.
Fury (like Calm) will interrupt the current action, such as a power swing.
While Fury can cause the target to choose to attack opponents other than you, it can also cause other opponents to choose to attack the target instead of you.
Consider this scenario: Bob, Jim and Mark are bandits. They see and attack you. You cast fury on the closest one (Bob). Bob stops his current power swing and must wind up a new one. He happens to attack you (bummer). Jim and Mark see that Bob is emotionally unstable, and are now as eager to attack him as attack you - and Bob is closer. Jim and Mark attack Bob.
It gets even better if the bandits don't see you.
Fury is like forcing someone to fight for their life, even killing allies(they will attack the furied person) use it when sneaking to get someone assassinated, or if your feeling cruel, have a brawl on the street to wipe out entire cities(of non-essentials of course)or, if your me, cause riots......and make a huge pile of dead bodies(still non essentials)
Well I use it during my assassinations to get the target to attack someone and get killed.
An example: I felt like killing Nazeem in Whiterun so I hid and used fury on him. Nazeem then attacks everyone and they all just kill him.


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2012 turned out to be a year of slow but incremental growth for the economy; albeit one that was dominated by the presidential political campaign. Employment gains continued at a reasonable if not robust pace, picking up towards the last few months of 2012. The stock market surged, and
The biggest obstacle in the way of economic recovery may be our representatives in
As stated in the Report, "Retailer expansion in 2013 is still about 'the sure thing;' urban over suburban, Class A and B over Class C, and locations with greater population densities and higher income demographics still winning out most of the time." The same can be said for capital. For the most part, capital in 2013 will chase Class A properties, developers with proven track records and housing and population densities. As was the case in 2012, significant capital was available in the market for the purchase of income producing retail properties meeting these criteria. With interest rates at historical lows and the stock market continuing to show volatility, "cap" rates for these properties remained at historical lows. Also driving investment sales in the fourth quarter of 2012, was the fear of property owners that capital gains rates would rise in 2013 (which, in fact, they did). Title companies reported more volume in the fourth quarter of 2012 than at any time since 2007. We expect interest rates to continue to remain extremely low for at least the next two to five years, leading to more of the same with investment sales. The only significant change may be the return of capital for less than Class A properties as the economy continues to improve. However, as of this date, although assets in secondary cities and tertiary markets offer greater yields, they continue to be outside the risk/reward threshold of a majority of the investment community.
With respect to the debt markets, lending will have many of the same characteristics we are seeing with investment sales. According to 2013 Emerging Trends in Real Estate (published by the Urban Land Institute and pwc) ("Emerging Trends"), "good assets with solid income streams and good credit borrowers will have no trouble attracting financing from life insurance companies and banks eager to choose from the pick of the litter. As markets improve, more properties will enter this worry-free zone, and rich-can-get-richer mortgagors [will] lock in 'exceptionally cheap money.' But players with bad credit and/or marginal assets, who need capital infusions to keep afloat, [will] continue to find themselves cast aside or placed in extend-and-pretend limbo. 'It is still the best – and all the rest." In this environment, lenders will continue to hold onto a significant number of underperforming loans. However, as housing continues to strengthen and a market begins to become available for more than Class A properties, some of this product may start to reach the marketplace.
In 2012, portfolio banks continued to lend but remained cautious about underwriting standards and sponsors. Most new loans continue to chase "core" properties in top tier geographic regions. With no secondary market, these banks continue to "lay off" some of the risk of larger loans by bringing in participating banks or co-lenders. Banks are still in no rush to sell distressed assets and take losses. They will continue their preferred strategy of extending many loans with modifications rather than refinancing or disposing of them. As in 2012, they would rather wait for more promising opportunities and avoid balance-sheet issues until markets improve. It is interesting to note that many of the underwater assets of these banks may be among their highest yielding assets as long as these loans remain current. Much like in 2012, typical loan to value ratios for bank permanent loans will range from 50% to 70%. Terms will be short – typically in the 5 to 10 year range with amortization over 30 years, and interest rates will be in the vicinity of 1.5 to 2 basis points over the 10 year treasury yield. Interest rate swaps will continue to be required of many borrowers as a hedge against significant interest rate fluctuations. Banks will also make construction loans to preferred sponsors with development deals in densely populated "top-tier" markets. However, significant pre-leasing will be required. These loans will be short term (i.e., 3 to 5 years), will require significant equity (20 to 40%), will be recourse, and will typically have interest rates in the vicinity of LIBOR plus 3%, with a "floor" in the neighborhood of 5%.
Life insurance companies remained extremely active in 2012, and will continue to be active in 2013, especially without any significant increase in the CMBS market. As with banks, the underwriting of life insurance companies will remain very strict since they have plenty of options available to them. They will continue to originate record volumes, usually with high-credit clients, and with loan-to-value ratios of around 65%. The life insurance companies are not as concerned about values as they are cash flows. Life company loans will continue to be predominantly permanent loans with terms between 5 and 10 years. They will be non-recourse loans with fixed interest rates between 3% and 5%, and with amortizations between 25 to 30 years. It should be noted that some of the life companies are beginning to require floating-rate debt to hedge against the current low-interest rate environment. The life companies will continue to confine their lending to Class A assets in "top-tier" geographic regions. Unfortunately, they will not fill the lending void in helping troubled borrowers owning Class B or C properties.
CMBS originations continued to remain tepid in 2012, especially compared to the ten year period before 2008. With more stringent regulations and not much capital chasing Class B and C assets, commentators do not see any major strengthening of the CMBS market in 2013. As stated in Emerging Trends, "the CMBS market may need to confront bigger obstacles in order to rebound. Although most interviewees contend that a properly functioning mortgage securities engine is necessary for liquidity in the real estate capital markets, they also express serious concerns about the failures to address evident problems in CMBS underwriting, regulation, ratings and servicing since the marked collapse at the depths of the credit crisis. The problem for bond buyers remains: the people running CMBS shops have 'shuffled around,' underwriting is only marginally better, originators and issuers 'don't have enough skin in the game' for an alignment of interests, the rating agencies still get paid by the issuers, and 'attitudes haven't changed.' In short, 'nothing meaningful has happened' to correct the problems, which sent bond buyers running to the exits."
As in 2012, mezzanine debt and preferred equity will remain plentiful for Class A assets since the returns achieved by these investors far exceed anything that can be obtained on the traditional debt side, although the risks to these investors are considerably greater. This money is necessary for borrowers to meet the stricter equity requirements of lenders and for refinancing or restructuring existing debt. However, this capital will continue to come at a high cost – projected "equity-like returns" in the 9 to 12 % range.


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I18n 360' testing approach at Step-IN 2008 Conference
By Mahipalsinh Rana on Jan 30, 2008
Recently I had been to one of the most beautiful hotel aka. palace
in Bangalore. No marks for guessing its Leela Palace.
I had been there before but this time reason was not for pubbing (athena) as it used to be.I was there to give talk at Step-in 2008 Conference (ASIA's biggest testing conference - as organizers claims).
My talk was on Internationalization(I18n) 360' testing approach , the concept which close to my heart and job. Its fresh , unique and quick at results. Implemented in Portal Server 7.2 aka.OpenPortal development.
My topic was selected for Pre-conference tutorial , A long 210 minutes( 3 hours and 30 minutes). It was indeed long time to stand , deliver and interact but my passion toward the subject was a big help. Curiosity of delegates in terms of their questions regarding I18n , their day to day use cases , their business case has never made me felt that it was long. In fact I had to rush a bit in last stage of Presentation.
Let move to what I shared there.
It was started with Introduction of I18n world (I18n , L10n , G11n) which also covered all the basic terminologies like Character , Charset , Unicode , UTF-x , Glyph , Font , Locale. My audience was enjoying every bit of information as most of them were aware about I18n but this details made them realize what the hack it is. This session was resulted in lots of questions and interesting discussion. They allowed to move ahead with the promise that I will spend quality time after talk to share more of my understanding about I18n world.
session was regarding I18n 360' testing approach , which in simple
teams means involving I18n in every stage of product development ,
starting as early as product planning. How I18n play role in
Requirement phase , Design phase , Implementation phase and most
importantly QA phase. Even in documentation also I18n has role to play.
Usage of real time example and case study has made this session most
entertain one. If it got you curious enough here is the Presentation for you
that I had shown them live demo of how to do i18n testing in stand
alone application and web application. This followed by demo of I18n
testing automation using Open Source automation tool Canoo. At last as
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Local referees chosen for 'LL' title game
EAST HARTFORD — Tonight's CIAC Class LL championship between Xavier of Middletown and Norwich Free Academy will have a local flair in stripes.
The Western Connecticut Football Officals Board, which serves the Naugatuck Valley League, was awarded the game Monday by CIAC Tournament Director Jim Benanto.
The game will be played at 7:05 p.m. at Rentschler Field.
Brian Sullivan, the commissioner of the Western Connecticut board, said Tuesday the crew will consist of referee Tom O'Neil of Ansonia, umpire Sean Rowley of Ansonia, field judge Ron Plasky of Naugatuck, linesman Ron Herrick of Seymour and back judge Mark Ouellette of Bethlehem. The board also will have clock timer Jim Carey of Shelton and 25-second operator Ted Migliarese of Watertown.
The chain crew will also be a part of the Western board.
"It's extremely exciting any time you get assigned any of the finals," said Sullivan, of Middlebury. "We feel very honored (to do the Class LL game)."
There are six officials boards in Connecticut and two of the six, New Haven and Fairfield, are not doing a final this year. The boards work finals on an alternating schedule, according to Benanto.
The Western Connecticut crew couldn't work the Ansonia-North Branford game since the board served Ansonia games during the regular season.
The CIAC asked Sullivan in mid-October to give them a list of the board's top 20 officials, including four at each position on the field.
The officials committee then reviewed the list.
A Western Connecticut crew also officiated the Class LL semifinal between NFA and Staples and two quarterfinal matchups, Staples vs. West Haven in Class LL and New Canaan vs. Avon in Class L.
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I've coded a project with some files in C. To make it easy for the user to start the program I started to generate a cfg-file. For this reason I installed libconf. Unfortunately on compiling with a example file of libconfig I get this message.
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example1.c: In Function »main«: example1.c:43:13: Warning: Format »%s« expected argumenttyp »char *«, but argument 3 has typ »int« [-Wformat]
As I got told I installed sudo apt-get install libconfig8-dev and was hoping not setting up any PKG_CONFIG_PATH. It looks like it's not compiling correct.