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15 May 2012 5:24 PM #1
Ext JS 4.1.1 RC1 Now Available
We are pleased to announce today the availability of Ext JS 4.1.1 RC1.
Of particular interest in this release are some significant fixes for community reported layout issues. We wanted to get these fixes out as early as possible to provide an opportunity for community feedback.
The plan is to close as many community-reported bugs as possible for the final Ext JS 4.1.1 so a big "thank you" to everyone who has taken the time to report their issues.
Bugs fixed:
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- EXTJSIV-5964 - Buttons do not show 'pressing' animation when clickEvent is 'mousedown'
- EXTJSIV-5989 - Changing text in some buttons does not layout properly in Chrome 16+
- EXTJSIV-6109 - Button contents are cut off when using scoped CSS
- EXTJSIV-5981 - Bound of Area Series incorrectly calculated.
- EXTJSIV-6074 - Column chart with all zero data renders poorly and throws css warnings
- EXTJSIV-6088 - Pie chart is broken after resize
- EXTJSIV-6052 - DragZone determines wrong target el causing subsequent JS error
- EXTJSIV-5988 - Falsy Ext.data.Operation id property lost during Ext.data.Request creation.
- EXTJSIV-5993 - Ext 4.1 RC3 HasOne Assocation Bug
- EXTJSIV-6024 - Problem in extending from a model with associations
- EXTJSIV-6063 - Ext.data.Store.add() behave inconsistently when groupField is used
- EXTJSIV-6082 - Hidden data view breaks when updating
- EXTJSIV-6110 - Ext.view.AbstractView indexOf throws error if argument is invalid or null
- EXTJSIV-6112 - Errors and omissions in the MVC Application Architecture guide
- EXTJSIV-5983 - beforerender event not fired for Viewport (or component with configured 'el')
- EXTJSIV-6045 - GroupTabPanel ux bug - Missing lower rounded corner
- EXTJSIV-5389 - TextArea marks form as dirty
- EXTJSIV-5458 - Delete key does not work for textfield (email vtype) in Opera 11
- EXTJSIV-5965 - TextField placeholder text shifts up by 1 pixel on focus
- EXTJSIV-5994 - FieldSet label component is not available before render
- EXTJSIV-6016 - MultiSelect / ItemSelector : "Clear" and "Reset" Buttons are not working when all items are dragged to right panel in Item Selector Table.
- EXTJSIV-6054 - Spinner setReadOnly does not hide triggers
- EXTJSIV-6065 - TextArea special keys stop working at maxLength with enfornceMaxLength on
- EXTJSIV-6081 - A HiddenField occupies visible space in the form
- EXTJSIV-6104 - Slider readOnly has no effect
- EXTJSIV-6134 - Labelable insertion templates do not have access to component id
- EXTJSIV-5984 - [4.1 RC3] Grouping expand() not working
- EXTJSIV-6057 - Calling Ext.grid.Panel.reconfigure before rendering causes error
- EXTJSIV-6066 - Grid does not always show its loadmask properly
- EXTJSIV-6083 - scope has no effect on actioncolumn
- EXTJSIV-6092 - Grid header Container getVisibleHeaderClosestToIndex does not check previous only next
- EXTJSIV-5797 - Autosized tooltips are not layed out correctly
- EXTJSIV-5861 - Fit layout does not adjust sizes based on autoScroll triggered by minHeight
- EXTJSIV-6026 - Splitters in HBox layouts have no height
- EXTJSIV-6042 - getPosition method doesn't return page coordinate
- EXTJSIV-6035 - Menu destroy method can cause JS error on keyNav
- EXTJSIV-5982 - Stacked bar/column chart leave a ghost shadow when all items are hidden
- EXTJSIV-5716 - Panels with min/max constraints misbehave in a box layout with stretchmax
- EXTJSIV-5916 - Problem with Panel.setTitle without header
- EXTJSIV-6051 - 4.1 Grid to Tree DnD not working any more
- EXTJSIV-6076 - Changing TreeStore's defaultRootProperty breaks the tree
- EXTJSIV-6113 - TreeGrid is not repainted after the vertical scroll bar disappears
Don Griffin
- EXTJSIV-6048 - Frame: true should not cause a window to display badly
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15 May 2012 6:24 PM #2
Hi Don,
Any chance that EXTJSIV-4350 will make it into production any time soon?
16 May 2012 6:02 AM #3
This is still labeled as TDB, but I will let Don elaborate further.
16 May 2012 8:43 AM #4
Hi Scott,
Thanks for replying. That code may be a bit outdated for 4.1 but I think the idea is quite obvious.
In fact, while we're at it I have another Ext.Direct issue: we need to have a centralized way to intercept Ext.Direct responses and cancel callbacks if criteria is not met. One clear example is calling some actions that require authentication: server side would return an error and we need to intercept it before original callback is fired. Right now I'm forced to override Ext.direct.RemotingProvider.runCallback to have this kind of control, but this is kinda icky. I think it would be nice if RemotingProvider would fire 'beforeevent' event and if it gets canceled, won't fire the callback.
16 May 2012 5:50 PM #5
Bug EXTJSIV-6081 is still there
EXTJSIV-6081 - A HiddenField occupies visible space in the form
I upgrade to 4.1.1 RC1 and I found this bug is still there(I have more than one hidden field).
16 May 2012 5:58 PM #6Don Griffin
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16 May 2012 11:38 PM #7
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17 May 2012 5:31 PM #9
Yea, it is easy to forget to rebuild your css with every release if you are using a custom SASS build.
17 May 2012 11:58 PM #10
Hello Don,
could this quick patch still make it?
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In John 12:20-22 some Greeks come up to Philip and ask him if they can see Jesus. The disciples pass along this request to Jesus in v22 and all the sudden in v23 he replies that the hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified and then he continues seemingly to predict his death.
How is this reply connected to the request Jesus receives and why does Jesus all the sudden know that "the hour has come"? These men don't necessarily seem like they mean to harm him.


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The problem lies of course with the identifier ('a') before Field3. There are no views, aliases or join with that name but for SQL Server 6,5 that is a valid query.
Since I'm not familiar with SQL Server 6.5, do any of you remember the meaning of this syntax?
The software using this query is an old one of which I don't have any sources (and the company that made it is now closed...), so changing the query is not an option.
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I have read a lot of stuff that says the brain is one of the parts of the body that consume the most oxygen. Is this true? Does that mean when you're thinking hard, you're actually burning a lot of stuff? Is chess considered a sport in this sense?
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According to this article on Livestrong, your brain burns ~20% of your body's energy (pretty impressive, considering it only accounts for 2% of your body weight). Here's a more acedemic source to support this (Thanks matt!). However, according to Livestrong, this is not really due to thinking:
According to the amazing book: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress Related Diseases, and Coping by Stanford Professor Robert M. Sapolsky:
Have you ever seen a fat physicist or mathematician? Go to some university and look for a string physicist who is actually overweight. You won't find many!
So does this prove that the thinking uses a lot of calories? No! But from my experience as a graduate student in astrophysics I can say that thinking hard about a fascinating topic distracts you from eating and drinking. You will simply forget about it. And I believe that is the reason why you might loose weight from thinking.
So thinking doesn't use a lot of calories. But it prevents you from eating to much calories.
What is true is that the brain uses alot of energy. Relative to its size it's the most energy-consuming of all.
I think this ACNP study would be a perfect place to start.
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6 Insane (But Convincing) Theories on Children's Pop Culture
#3. The Smurfs Are Tiny Blue Nazis
In the world of reading too much into children's cartoons, it's a well-known fact that the Smurfs are secretly Communists. But Antoine Bueno, senior lecturer of sociology at Sciences Po University in Paris, decided to smurf that right in the smurf. In his The Little Blue Book (Le Petit Livre Bleu), Bueno claims that the Smurf village is actually a Nazi, totalitarian utopia full of micro-fascists. He additionally accuses the Smurfs of being anti-Semites because, hey, while he was at it ...
KiTes. He said "kiTes."
Why It's Not That Crazy:
The creator of the Smurfs, Pierre Culliford, aka Peyo, was born in Belgium in 1928, which means that he spent his childhood under Nazi occupation and, according to Bueno, might have consequently reflected the spirit of those times in his later work, whether he was aware of it or not.
We can all agree that a person's early years can have a great influence on his or her later life. It's like how the creator of Mario allegedly based his design on his annoying landlord, except in this case Peyo drew little blue Nazis. It makes sense.
For one, the Smurfs are all united against a common enemy, the sorcerer Gargamel, whose large nose supposedly makes him look like a Jewish stereotype:
This is the face of a man set to take over Hollywood.
Gargamel also has a cat named Azrael -- a name that comes from Jewish mysticism -- and is the creator of Smurfette, who becomes a vision of Aryan beauty after Papa Smurf "fixes" her with magic.
Maybe if the Nazis got laid more often they wouldn't have been so uptight.
The most damning evidence, however, seems to come from a comic titled "The Black Smurfs," where the Smurfs get infected, via bites, with a mysterious disease that turns them black, mindless and aggressive, which Bueno interpreted as concerns for blood purity. The book would not have appeared in the U.S. to this day if the color of the sickness wasn't eventually changed to purple.
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#2. Babar Is a Colonial Apologist
Babar the Elephant might not be as famous as other cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse or Bugs Bunny, but he still achieved great success. First created in 1931 by Jean de Brunhoff, the Babar books are published today in over 17 languages with more than 8 million copies sold worldwide.
And -- if you believe experts like Herbert Kohl or Ariel Dorfman (the Donald Duck guy from before) -- that's over 8 million copies of sneaky colonial propaganda, simply because the titular Babar, an African elephant, is raised in France and later returns to his homeland to reform it using the superior power of Western civilization.
We're not sure we'd have gone with bowler hats to symbolize cultural superiority, but hey.
Why It's Not That Crazy:
In the first book, The Story of Babar, we find out that Babar's mother was shot by a hunter, and the small elephant was taken in by an old lady in Paris, given clothes and enrolled in school, like some reverse Tarzan. Later, after the death of his father, Babar is declared king of Elephant Land because he has lived among humans and "learned much," though apparently the concept of representative democracy wasn't part of it.
He then proceeds to civilize the fuck out of his kingdom by introducing it to French culture, much to everyone's excitement.
"Yay, a palace! We'd have preferred a hospital, but still, yay!"
It isn't hard to see why someone would have issues with a story like this. In Babar, the Western culture is presented as obviously superior to the African one, with the regions of the African continent outside Babar's control being populated by spear-chucking political incorrectness.
This is terribly inaccurate. What kind of elephant wears flowery dresses?
Even the native African elephants are originally depicted as naked and walking on four legs until the bipedal, clothed Babar and his family (who saw the light of European civilization) make them aware and ashamed of their primitive, naked ways. It's as if the books were trying to say, in an almost Biblical sort of way, that accepting Western civilization is akin to finally being human.
"Instead of fostering equality, we're introducing the feudal system. Welcome to civilization!"
A lot of this stuff does make sense, especially considering that the first book came out at the height of French colonialism in Africa, but looking for religious undertones in Babar sounds like the biggest ass-pull since the 2010 Proctology Olympics. We'd definitely need to see something more convincing before we buy into it; something like ...
There it is.
#1. Thomas the Tank Engine Lives in a Totalitarian Dystopia
Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, a story about sentient trains learning about responsibility, friendship and all that noise, might possibly be the most sickeningly wholesome children's show in existence. With that in mind, it'd take some pretty massive balls to accuse said show of, say, promoting totalitarianism, fascism and racism.
Shauna Wilton, a professor of political sciences at the University of Alberta, has just such balls. She argues that the world of Thomas the Tank Engine is in reality a fascist, racist hellhole where dreams go to die and where only "useful" elements are allowed to continue to toil away in pointless misery.
Oh yeah. Stick more proles in the carriage and it would totally be 1984.
Or maybe ... maybe someone switched Wilton's Thomas DVDs with Schindler's List.
Why It's Not That Crazy:
Here's a totally hypothetical question: What if one of the trains on the show decided that he wanted to do something else with his life, like travel or star on Snakes on a Train 2: Snake Harder? He'd probably get yelled at and told to get back to work.
Trains can never really follow their own path. It's like a metaphor or something.
You see, on the island of Sodor where the show takes place, there is only room for really useful engines. That's not only the show's catch phrase, but also the basic summary of every episode in the series. That is, the engines are either trying to prove themselves or worrying that they aren't working hard enough (see "James and the Coaches," "Thomas, Percy and the Post Train," "Tender Engines" and many more).
This totalitarian obsession with usefulness is instilled in the engines by the iron fist of Sir Topham Hatt, aka the Fat Controller, who swiftly punishes all those deemed as "useless."
Look at his hands. There's no way this guy has ever contributed anything to society.
In the episode "Break Van," Hatt has two twin engines, Donald and Douglas, compete against each other to determine which one he will send back to Scotland to be destroyed. In "The Sad Story of Henry," when an engine refuses to go out of the tunnel because of the rain, Hatt actually gives orders to brick him alive in the tunnel.
"Oh man, what the fuck ...?"
You can't really defend any of this by saying that the trains are Hatt's property. They are obviously sentient beings capable of emotions ... one of which unfortunately happens to be racism. In the show, there is a clear feud going on between the steam engines like Thomas and Percy and the diesel engines, who are depicted as stubborn, lazy and shifty.
In the episode "Daisy," a diesel named Daisy arrives on Sodor and flat out refuses to do chores. In "The Diseasel," a diesel called BoCo is accused of stealing trucks. In "Thomas's Day Off," a new, lazy diesel, Dennis, tricks Thomas into doing his work. Even the closest thing the show has to a villain is a diesel fucking named DIESEL.
But maybe there is some perfectly reasonable, nonracist explanation for why the trains that run on clean white steam dislike the trains powered by dirty, black diesel oil. So, if you can think of one, please tell us, because we're just dying to hear it.
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Abe and Bill are playing a game. A die is rolled each turn.
If the die lands 1 or 2, then Abe wins.
If the die lands 3, 4, or 5, then Bill wins.
If the die lands 6, another turn occurs.
What's the probability that Abe will win the game?
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The company also issued two more security warnings, about a flaw in Content Management Server 2001 rated as important, and a moderate-rated vulnerability in Outlook 2002. The company posted patches for all three flaws in the warnings, which were posted Wednesday.
The Windows flaw is in the Microsoft Locator service, which lets users map easy-to-remember logical names of systems on a company's network, such as printer servers, to the actual network addresses. An attacker could take over by sending a malformed request to the Locator, although a firewall set to block external NetBIOS traffic will prevent attacks from the Internet.
The Content Management flaw would let attackers intercept data that an Internet user shares with a site created using the Microsoft software and change data shown to the user. And the Outlook flaw will stop Outlook from sending encrypted mail when users use V1 Exchange Server Security Certificates, which aren't commonly used, Microsoft said. Instead, Outlook 2002 is set up to use Secure MIME (SMIME) certificates by default.
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Say I have two finite groups G and H which aren't isomorphic but have the same character table (for example, the quaternion group and the symmetries of the square). Does this mean that the corresponding categories of finite dimensional complex representations are isomorphic (ignoring the forgetful functor to vector spaces), or just that the corresponding representation rings are?
In the particular case of the non-abelian groups of order 8, their categories of modules are not equivalent as monoidal categories. That they're not equivalent as pivotal categories can be proved by looking at the Frobenius-Schur indicator (I learned this from a paper of Susan Montgomery). That they're not equivalent even as monoidal categories can be proved by counting the fiber functors to vector spaces and seeing that one has more in one case (I can't remember which paper I saw this in, but almost surely Pavel Etingof was one of the coauthors).
This is a great question, and the answer leads to one of the best arguments for why category theory should be studied at all!
Every undergraduate mathematician should discover for themselves that character tables alone don't determine finite groups --- and then, just as their faith in the beauty of mathematics is about to shatter, they should be reassured that character tables are just a 'shadow' of the group's compact monoidal category of representations, and that DOES determine the group (or in general, groupoid).
The procedure for reconstructing a groupoid, up to equivalence, from its category of unitary complex representations, is stunningly beautiful: if G is our groupoid and Rep(G) is its representation category, then construct the groupoid which has objects given by symmetric monoidal functors Rep(G)-->Rep(1), and morphisms given by monoidal natural transformations between them. Here, Rep(1) is just the category representations of the trivial group --- in other words, just the category of finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, with monoidal structure given by tensor product. This is known as "Doplicher-Roberts style" reconstruction, and the best reference is Muger's appendix to this paper. It's more elegant than "Tannakian" reconstruction, as there's no need to start with a given fiber functor (i.e., a specified functor Rep(G)-->Rep(1)).
This should remind you strongly of the way you recover a compact topological space from the commutative C*-algebra of functions from that space into the complex numbers ... and there are indeed deep connections!
They're not necessarily equivalent as tensor categories.
However, there are examples of finite groups (smallest of order 64) with representation categories which are equivalent as tensor categories but not as symmetric tensor categories (see e.g. http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0007196). In other words, in some cases the same abstract tensor category might be endowed with inequivalent symmetric structures (you can think of these as the pullback of the standard symmetry of the category of vector spaces through inequivalent embedding functors).
What structure do you want to remember on the categories? If you just remember they're abelian categories, any groups with the same number of conjugacy classes will have equivalent categories.
On the other hand, if you remember the forgetful functor to vector spaces, you can get the group back: it's the automorphism group of the forgetful functor itself.
By the way, you get more than just that the representation rings are isomorphic (if you tensor with Q, the isomorphism type of the representation ring also only depends on the number of conjugacy classes), but with the same basis, which is much stronger.
As far as I know, If you consider the corresponding categories as Tannakian categories, they are not isomophic, for you can rediscover the group from the Tannakian category (as its fundamental gp?)


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Miscues Costly for WLU
WEST LIBERTY – Every team enters a new season with plenty of excitement and hope, but coming off a one-win season, Coach Roger Waialae was ready to begin anew in 2012 with his West Liberty football team.
Unfortunately, excitement and hope does not always lead to victory and a new campaign did not mean a new result for the debuting Hilltoppers on Saturday afternoon against visiting Catawba.
The Indians took advantage of an ineffective West Liberty offense, collecting eight turnovers and good field position most of the day, and the Catawba defense did the rest in a 24-3 season-opening victory against the Hilltoppers at Russek Field.
Overall, West Liberty finished with negative 33 yards rushing on 36 tries, the brunt of that coming on 11 Catawba sacks while three Hilltoppers quarterbacks, and a wide-out, combined to throw for 225 stripes in the loss.
While the defeat was hard to take, the biggest thing for Waialae was not being able to understand what happened to his offense.
"This was actually the last thing I expected," Waialae said. "The offense played so well together in camp, actually better than the defense, so I don't know where this came from. And I believe we actually have more talent on offense this year than we did last year."
West Liberty had a chance early on, taking its opening drive and moving all the way to the Catawba 28 before senior L.D. Crow fumbled on a fourth down play giving the visitors the football.
It took the entire first period, however, when the Indians finally flipped field position on the Hilltoppers the entire complex of the game changed.
Taking over at the enemy 41, senior quarterback Jacob Charest needed four plays to cover the yardage, hitting junior Payton McCollum with a pretty lead pass down the near sideline from 26 stripes away for the score. Chad Hollandsworth made it 7-0 at 12:42.
Things got even worse real quick for the hosts on the very next play when Crow was hit, fumbled the football, and junior Jarred Cave rumbled 18 yards for the score just 18 seconds later as the margin grew to 14-0.
West Liberty finally dented the scoreboard with 5:08 to go in the half after recovering a Catawba fumble, but then losing four yards on the series. Junior Jeff Hoak's 43-yard field goal was right down the middle and the score was 14-3.
Crow, who had been benched for a series earlier in the game, was done for the day following a hard sack and a head injury as was relieved by freshman Dylan Lagarde of Los Alamitos, Cal.
"Any time you have a head injury you have to sit out at least a week, so I don't figure we will see him next week," Waialae added. "That is what the doctors say and I don't argue with the doctors and the training staff."
It was the defense stepping up once again early in the third with Nick Augustyn forcing a fumble and Martins Ferry graduate Marco Ricchetti recovering at the enemy 41.
Lagarde managed to hit a huge 33-yard pass to Dominic Cooper down to the five to convert a fourth down call, but after a sack Hoak's 34-yard field goal attempt sailed wide.
A fumble recovery led to Catawba's next score with just 11:28 to play as the Indians moved 38 yards on five plays with Bobby Morrison going in untouched on a six-yard pitch play and a 21-3 tally.
Hollandsworth capped the scoring with a 31-yard field goal with 9:12 to play for the final outcome.
"For some reason our offense just did not play very well, but even with four or five turnovers and seven sacks, we were still in the game at the half," Waialae added. "Defensively I thought we did a real good job, but they were able to get 24 points off of a short field.
"I feel like I may have to make some changes in how we play and get a little more conservative on offense, that is just the way I feel as a coach. We had some drives, we just weren't able to finish.
"I am very proud of my defense, but it can't be one-sided, the offense has to step up also. It just really surprises me that this happened."


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DWU Sets Dedication For Brand New Science Facility
When Dakota Wesleyan University laid its first cornerstone in 1884, Dakota was still a territory, campus was far from the "diversions of town," and the people of Mitchell gathered for a parade and festivities to celebrate the beginnings of what was once a one-building campus.
They knew that one building can be the difference.
Throughout its 128 years, DWU has grown, and this fall it renews its commitment to educating tomorrow's leaders in the sciences and medical fields with the grand opening of the Glenda K. Corrigan Health Sciences Center, 100 years after students first walked the halls of the campus's first science building.
The dedication of the Glenda K. Corrigan Health Sciences Center will be held at 11 a.m., Thursday, Aug. 29, in the Sherman Center, concluding in front of the new science center and followed by a noon picnic in East Main Dining Room (within Rollins Campus Center). There will also be a public dedication of the Arlene Gates Department of Nursing within the Corrigan Health Sciences Center at 9:30 a.m. on the third floor. Classes will be suspended during this time and the entire campus and Mitchell community is invited to celebrate this historic moment.
"Dakota Wesleyan celebrated its 125th anniversary three years ago, and we as a campus spent a lot of time commemorating our history and celebrating the achievement of 125 years of education, but we had no idea then that we would be here today creating a new chapter in that history," said DWU President Amy Novak. "And we could never have gotten here without the most amazing and generous collection of alumni and supporters that any university could ask for. This building is theirs as much as it is for our current students, and we want to share this historic moment with all of them."
Paul and Donna Christen, of Huron, kick-started the campaign to raise funds for a new science facility three years ago when they pledged $5 million toward the project. It was a generous, unprecedented offer made by alumni who had also given toward the Christen Family Recreation/Wellness Center. It was a dream come true and equally unprecedented when alumna Glenda Corrigan and husband, Fritz, of Edina, Minn., came forward in 2011 and announced that they, too, would contribute $5 million to build a new science facility.
History was being made and the landscape of campus was about to change.
DWU broke ground for the Glenda K. Corrigan Health Sciences Center, which houses the Donna Starr Christen College of Healthcare, Fitness and Sciences and the Arlene Gates Department of Nursing, on Sept. 30, 2011. A ground breaking ceremony was held during Blue & White Days that year with the donors present, as well as community leaders and alumni.
"It was a lovely and special day for Dakota Wesleyan," Novak said. "There has been so much energy on campus since we announced the building; students, staff, Mitchell residents, everyone has been looking forward to this day.
"The return on this investment is already paying dividends for DWU and the regional economy. We have seen an increasing number of students enrolling in the science-related majors and overall enrollment is up. Many of those students are choosing to stay in our region contributing to the overall economic vitality of South Dakota."
The four-story, 48,000-square-foot building contains chemistry, biology and physics labs; two undergraduate research labs equipped with state-of-the-art equipment for student use; four nursing simulation labs; classrooms for nursing, athletic training, the sciences and mathematics; and faculty offices.
There have been other gifts to the project as well. Ron Gates Sr., of Mitchell, made a gift to rename the nursing department in memory of his wife, Arlene, who passed away in 2011. The Arlene Gates Department of Nursing is on the third floor of the building, and nursing staff and students have been able to enjoy their state-of-the-art classrooms since moving in in March.
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Florence Louise Payne
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Florence Louise Payne, 93, of Traverse City and Cheboygan, passed away Saturday, March 9, 2013 at Bay Ridge Assisted Living.
Florence was born on Feb. 23, 1920 in Hart, Mich. She married John Douglas Payne on Dec. 29, 1940 in Ypsilanti, Mich.
Florence was a career kindergarten teacher in the Van Buren Public School Systems for over 30 years and served as a member of the AFT Teachers Union. She loved to garden and knit. She and John enjoyed living on Mullet Lake during retirement and later moved to Traverse City area.
Surviving Florence is her son, Richard Payne, of Cheboygan.
Services will be held at a later time. Memorial contributions may be directed to Hospice of Michigan. Interment will take place at Hillside Cemetery in Bellville, Mich. Please sign Florence's online guestbook at www.reynolds-jonkhoff.com. The family is being served by the Reynolds-Jonkhoff Funeral Home in Traverse City.
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April 08, 2013
Cape Town International Jazz Festival 2013: photos and videos
Those who know me will say that "she lives for travel and music", and every year the best event to hit our beautiful city has to be the Cape Town International Jazz Festival, this being the 14th year that it has delighted me and provided food for my soul.
The line-up was something out of my vinyl dreams, starting off with a free concert on Wednesday April 3, featuring acid jazz greats The Brand New Heavies.
The two-day event, running over Friday 5 and Saturday 6 April, had over 40 international and local artists under one roof. It's become known as Africa's Grandest Gathering, and after attending Saturday night's line-up, which included Grammy award winner Jill Scott and the Robert Glasper Experiment, I'd say this is no lie.
Some of this year's performers included Thandiswa Mazwai of Bongo Maffin, who was one of the pioneering sounds behind kwaito in the 90s, and our own local songbird, Claire Phillips, who won my heart back with her album Say My Name.
Hailing from Belhar on the Cape Flats, Phillips has a unique and beautiful understanding of jazz, having grown up listening to South African jazz legends; she proved that local is lekker!
With so many performers and so many stages spanning the Cape Town International Convention Centre, it was so hard to choose who to watch, but top of my list was Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club, featuring Omara Portuondo.
Her voice has always captivated me and her stage presence reminded me of one of our own great singers, Miriam Makeba. At the age of 82, this dame of Cuban ballads had the Cape Town crowds dancing.
Below are some of my highlights of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival 2013 – bring on Cape Town International Jazz Festival 2014!


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Does anyone know the solution?
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Problems with Container Event
I want to add a tap event to a Container.
The following solution works outside sencha architect:
HTML Code:
listeners: { tap: { element: 'element', delegate: '#test', fn: function(e) { alert('Element with id "test" was tapped!'); } } }
But I couldn't figure out how this works with Sencha Architect. If I open up the architect after adding the code it will erase my changes. Why?
How to add this in Sencha Architect?
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set up a controller function for that panel and add the below
container.element.on('tap', function() { }, container);


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5 Myths You Probably Believe About Famous Landmarks
The whole point of landmarks is that they let you know at least one thing about a place you've never been. Maybe you've never set foot in New York, but you know you'll find the Statue of Liberty there, welcoming immigrants. Go to Stonehenge and you'll find a bunch of rocks the ancient druids put there for some reason. But, as with anything else we think we know, the most basic facts about famous landmarks turn out to be mostly wrong.
#5. No, There Isn't an American Flag Standing on the Moon
The Myth:
On the gray, desolate surface of the moon, you'll find a vivid symbol of freedom: the American flag, planted into the lunar surface by Neil Armstrong. Its stars and stripes offer both a promise of freedom and the message that if anyone drives recklessly past the flag on their way to Earth, they can soon look forward to being punched in the face by Will Smith.
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"Your emissary's haymakers were as flawless as his enunciation."
In fact, given the number of Apollo missions, there should be half a dozen or so flags on the moon now, making its surface more visibly American than a NASCAR race on Independence Day.
But Actually ...
According to Buzz Aldrin, he and Neil Armstrong accidentally placed the original American flag too close to their spacecraft, and when they took off, the flag was blown away. Whoops.
The film crew was already on overtime, so the director decided to wrap instead of shooting the scene again.
It's true that subsequent flags planted by astronauts are still standing, but the message we're sending out to any passing aliens is less "America, fuck yeah!" than "WE SURRENDER."
Which is to say, they're not American flags anymore, just hunks of white cloth. You know how dye tends to fade in the sunlight, like when depressing old video stores used to leave their movie posters in the window too long? Well, when you leave fabric outside on a barren space-rock without the protection provided by the atmosphere, it fades even quicker. All the American flags lost their colors a long time ago, and are now a surrender-friendly shade of white.
NASA via Gizmodo
"Look! The Earthlings are displaying the white flag of war! Man your battle stations!"
Maybe that's not such a bad thing: If alien invaders do stop there first, perhaps it will make them let their guard down.
#4. No, Stonehenge Wasn't Built by Druids
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The Myth:
Stonehenge, the mysterious giant monument in England that looks like a drunken domino game played by God, is a work of the druids -- the priestly caste of an ancient Celtic tribe -- for use in their mysterious ceremonies. This Stonehenge/druid connection pops up everywhere, from the Spinal Tap movie to real-life seasonal druidic ceremonies at Stonehenge, which have been going on since the early 20th century and offer a slightly more socially acceptable way to dress up in white robes and call yourself a wizard.
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They're also not afraid to cut any Harry Potter fans who encroach on their turf.
But Actually ...
The fact is, no one knows much about the people who built Stonehenge. The builders didn't leave any written documents or little self-portraits carved into the rocks or anything. We do know one thing, though: It wasn't the druids. Carbon dating puts the finished monument centuries before the Celtic tribe with druid priests even arrived in Britain, and since it took over 1,000 years to build, we're pretty sure that means they weren't around during the initial building consultations.
This isn't exactly surprising, though, because everything we know about druids has them worshiping in oak groves, not in open plains more suitable for picnicking.
Real druids weren't much into the whole "dancing naked under rocks" thing. They hadn't invented Ecstasy.
So how did the monument become so connected with druidism? We can thank 18th century archaeologist William Stukeley, who popularized the theory. Stukeley was a member of a historical re-enactment club in which he played a druid called Chyndonax, and in his spare time was fond of re-enacting druidic ceremonies with his wife (as weird as you think it is, trust us, it's weirder).
So, given that this druid-obsessed dude was basically the 18th century version of the Ancient Aliens Guy, it wasn't surprising that when it came to Stonehenge, his opinion was "Screw it, probably druids." He was the kind of guy who probably thought druids were behind everything.
"I'm telling you, it was the druids who left an upper-decker in your toilet, Steve."
#3. Four Corners Monument Is Not, in Fact, at the Intersection of Four States
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The Myth:
Four Corners Monument is a quadrilaterally neutral landmark to celebrate equality, cooperation, and the joining of different tribes and peoples into a single, proud entity: a modern American nation spanning both coasts and everything in between.
World Atlas
Nothing says "patriotism" like the arbitrary intersection of two imaginary lines.
There's no other place in the country where four states meet up at the same point, and this monument is unique because it stands at the exact intersection of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado, allowing countless tourists to take photos proving they have "stood in four states at once."
But Actually ...
If it's not exactly in the right spot, then it's pointless and just a stone blemish set against a serenely beautiful desert backdrop. Plus, "Come see the point where a bunch of states almost come together" is a much less effective slogan to draw crowds of tourists. However, recent surveys have shown that this is, sadly, the case. Originally, critics claimed the monument was 2.5 miles away from the actual spot where the states join, so the government did a survey to prove them wrong and found that it's "only" about 1,800 feet away from where it's supposed to be.
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"Bet you critics feel dumb now!"
Incidentally, the government has declared that, regardless of its location, Four Corners Monument is legally in the correct spot. Except that in reality it isn't. And even though geology has had a 4.5 billion-year head start on bureaucracy, the latter wins because lawyers.
We don't feel like this is being pedantic here -- we can understand if maybe some battlefield monument isn't exactly where Custer was killed or whatever. Hell, we don't even mind if a famous tomb doesn't contain the figure supposedly housed there -- the idea is to give people a place to pay their respects. But the Four Corners Monument only exists because of its physical location. That's the entire point.
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Welcome to ... just some random part of Utah.


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8 Safety Tips for the Win-Win Workout: Walking the Dog
If it weren't for my dog, there would be many days I wouldn't get outside. As my kids have grown into busy teenagers, it has gotten harder to convince them to walk with me due to their busy social lives. But my darling dog never denies my invite for exercise!


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Published on Sun, Oct 27, 2013
The AIC's Executive Director, Ben Johnson, was recently featured in an op-ed piece in the Illinois newspaper, the State Journal-Register. The piece focused on what the cost of congressional inaction on immigration reform would be for the state of Illinois. It was based off of a recent fact sheet released by the IPC titled, "The Cost of Doing Nothing: Dollars, Lives, and Opportunities Lost in the Wait for Immigration Reform." [1]
In the piece, Johnson writes:
"Immigrants make up 14 percent of Illinois' population, and 20.3 percent of all business owners in Illinois are foreign-born. The state has everything to gain from a smoothly functioning immigration system and much to lose from a system that is not in tune with current economic and social realities.
"Yet, two-and-a-half months after the Senate passed immigration reform legislation (S. 744), the House of Representatives continues to dawdle. Other than giving speeches and mulling over a few backward-looking, enforcement-only bills, the House has done nothing to revamp the broken U.S. immigration system or put forward any vision of what to do with the 11 million unauthorized immigrants now living in the United States — 525,000 of whom call Illinois home."
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Upon receipt of the check(s) from your bank, complete the Bad Check Complaint and Statement of Probable Cause forms, attach the check to the Bad Check Complaint form, and deliver or mail both to:Bad Check Unit
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Roughly speaking, a theorem by Vershik says that every ergodic invertible measure-preserving transformation is isomorphic to some "adic" transformation on the spaces of paths of a Bratelli-Vershik graph. What is the adic transformation corresponding to a Bernoulli shift ?
The short answer is that nobody knows. The reason is that Vershik's proof uses Rokhlin's towers and is thus virtually non-constructive.
As far as I know, the only known examples of explicit adic realizations are substitutional dynamical systems and the irrational rotations of the circle. Even for a simple ergodic rotation of the 2-torus this is an open question, let alone Bernoulli shifts.
I think you can realize the Bernoulli shift on $k$ symbols as an adic transformation on the following Bratelli-Vershik diagram: put $k$ nodes on the first level. Suppose levels 1 to $n$ have been defined, and call $L_n$ the set of nodes in the $n$-th level. Then nodes on the $(n+1)$-th level are pairs $(i,j)\in L_n\times L_n$, where $(i,j)$ is connected to $i$ and to $j$ (in this order) to the $n$-th level. Does not this work?


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The objective of Wolf PAC is not theory, it is results. We will pass the amendment and we will regain our democracy. Here is how we're going to do it.
We must gather up a fighting force. We need programmers and organizers and lawyers and leaders. We need this movement to be in all 50 states. So, first we are doing a call for generals in this army. Please write us and tell us what your expertise is and how you can help.
Our Congress is completely infected with the virus. So proposing an amendment through Congress seems hopeless. But luckily there is another way. We can do this purely at the state level. The states can call for a constitutional convention and they can ratify an amendment that comes out of one. And there is nothing our corrupt federal government can do about it.
We are hoping that the first wave of volunteers help us organize at the state level. Let's go occupy the states!


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Yesterday was the cutoff date for submissions of videos for BBQ Pitmasters Season 3 !
The competition is really heating up for a spot on the hit show. Lots of great audition tapes posted to Youtube and Vimeo. Some are new faces and some are people you may have just seen before. Good Smoking Luck to all who applied!!
BBQ Pitmasters 2012 from chris hart on Vimeo.
Pitmaster's Audition from Bourbon Barrel BBQ on Vimeo.


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The 6 Most Bizarre Things Ever Discovered in Space
Humanity has been looking out into space for thousands of years, and the most important thing we've discovered over that time is that everything is crazy weird out there, and it just keeps getting weirder. Here are some of the more baffling and often terrifying things that astronomers have found in recent years.
#6. God's Liquor Cabinet
If anything is going to replenish the public's waning interest in space exploration, it's probably this: Below is a photo of Sagittarius B2, a huge cloud a few million times the mass of our sun, floating around near the center of our galaxy. Scientists have discovered that it's basically a giant river of raspberry-flavored rum.
Via ESO
Jesus is a wine lover, but God has distinctly trashier tastes.
No, really. Sagittarius B2 contains about 10 billion billion billion liters of alcohol. That's enough booze to get Galactus to make a pass at Ursa Major, but the cloud is also packed full of molecules called ethyl formate. This chemical, said to smell of rum, is the same chemical that gives raspberries their flavor.
Not only did God apparently decide to "Irish up" the Milky Way, but this also represents the next best thing to finding life outside our world. Alcohol is an organic compound, so if scientists could learn more about how it manages to form in space, they might be able to figure out how life formed. And they can get blitzed doing it.
#5. A Giant Magnifying Glass
Gravity does some weird things to the universe, and we don't just mean scary things like galaxy-swallowing black holes. The power of gravity also bends light, which means that the objects astronomers are looking at might not actually be where they appear to be. Scientists call this bizarreness gravitational lensing. Here's a particularly weird-ass example:
Via NASA, ESA, J. Rigby (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Ants are so totally fucked.
What you're looking at here is a blue thing that's actually directly behind the red thing. Due to gravity bending the light around it, it looks like that red dot is wearing the blue one like a bracelet. Astronomers are pretty excited about this effect, because it means that they can study things that are directly behind gravity sources, like large galaxies, without having to send a fleet of warships into space to destroy the obstruction, which is often cost prohibitive.
The trippy thing about this effect is that the gravitational lens can actually make multiple copies of objects in the sky, so you really have to know what you're looking for. In the next image, the objects marked "lensed galaxy" and "lensed quasar" are actually the same galaxy and the same quasar. They've just been cloned by gravity effects so that they look like they're ganging up on us.
Via NASA.gov
The other cool thing is that by manipulating this effect, we can actually tell where invisible but terrifying objects like black holes are, which means it's our only chance against most of the later stuff on this list.
#4. Unicorns, Corporate Logos, and More
Believe it or not, the below is not a cartoon image of the galaxy where My Little Pony takes place. This is the Trifid Nebula, a giant gas cloud that happens to look exactly like a sparkly space unicorn. You can even see the long, flowing mane and kind of make out the side of its snout as it turns its gaze away from us like the stuck-up bitch that it is:
Via NASA Hubble
Shit, how do you spell a unicorn noise?
That is of course just an example of pareidolia (the sciency term for our tendency to see patterns in random smudges, like Jesus in a piece of toast, or a unicorn in a gas cloud). And the vast randomness of space is full of this crap, like this nebula that formed into a giant terrifying ghost hand chucking a Molotov cocktail:
Via NASA/CXC/CfA/P. Slane et al.
"I'm about to loot the balls off of Sagittarius."
Or the Mickey Mouse logo they found branded on the side of Mercury:
Via NASA / Rex Features
But at least it wasn't on the backside of Pluto. OOOOOOOHHH!
Or in this other space cloud, which looks just like a giant, radioactive bee:
Via Leahy and Perley (1991)
Made entirely out of bees.
Just kidding: That one actually is a giant, radioactive space bee, and it's coming this way. The biggest folly would be to resist it.
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I have moved into student accommodation which only has hard wired broadband. Please can anyone tell me how I can connect my Galaxy 10.1 tablet to the internet via the wall point provided?
You can't. The Tab doesn't have an ethernet jack and doesn't support it anyways.
If you don't want to get yourself a wireless router, you can set up a WiFi network through a computer with a WiFi card. There's a guide on LifeHacker on this for Windows 7. The basics:
If you have trouble getting the PC portion to work, you should ask how to get it working on Super User since they handle PC stuff like this.
Similar to what Matthew said I'd also suggest a wifi router but use it as a repeater, any cheap wifi router will do just turn off DHCP, use as AP, change the gateway to something other than 192.168.x.x and probably check the option to use as a LAN extension.
There are some adapters that will provide yu with a USB port, where you could connect a USB-based network adapter. however, I had no chance with the one I had. I installed an access point in my wired setup, and it worked fine. Mine is a D-LINK DAP-1350.


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I am trying to find a copy of a picture "Mathematische Gesellschaft: Group Portrait, Faculty, University of Göttingen (1899)."
This picture was published by Springer-Verlag as a poster in 1985, but Springer has been unable to find a copy for me. I also sent an email query to the Mathematics library at Göttingen, but received no response.
So, as a last resort, I would like to ask whether any MO members have access to a copy of the picture. I want to use it in a talk about Max Dehn I am giving in Frankfurt in June, because Max Dehn appears in the picture.


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William Alvin Allers III died when his HUMVEE was hit by a roadside bomb in Iraq.
The 28-year-old Allers was assigned to the National Guard's 617th Military Police Company.
His sister-in-law Tonya Vanmeter, says: "He was well-liked by everyone, everywhere he went he made friends. I never met anyone who didn't like him."
Vanmeter remembers her brother-in-law as a hero who gave his life for his country.
Governor Ernie Fletcher says: "We're here to honor and memorialize Staff Sergeant Allers. He certainly epitomizes our National Guard as a soldier who exemplified extreme bravery.
Allers' family remembers him as a man who loved his family, his friends, and the military.
Vanmeter says: "He was very proud of being in the military, that was his life, he loved it. He loved the people that he served with, he enjoyed doing what needed to be done."
After giving his life for his country, Allers was posthumously awarded the bronze star, Purple Heart, and promoted to Staff-Sergeant.
The Baltimore native was the eighth member of the Kentucky National Guard to die in the Iraq war.
He is survived by his wife, two children, and one on the way.


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Sustainability in All Industries
ASTM Committee E60 Provides Resources for Standards Developers
ASTM International Committee E60 on Sustainability develops standards that promote sustainability in construction, hospitality, manufacturing and other areas. E60 also aids other ASTM committees in the development of sustainability standards. In both cases, the goal is the same, says Michael Schmeida, vice chairman of E60: "E60 works to promote the creation and adoption of sustainability standards throughout all industries."
Dru Meadows, chairman of E60, says that emerging interest in sustainability is reflected by the development of E60, founded in 2008 after having been a subcommittee in Committee E06 on Performance of Buildings.
"The fact that we have E60 is huge and it's not been without some effort," says Meadows. "In 1994, a subcommittee on green buildings attracted two people to its initial meeting."
Today's E60, with hundreds of members and many standards under its jurisdiction, illustrates the evolution of sustainability. Meadows and Schmeida speak of the innovative ways in which E60 presents sustainability issues.
Meadows, principal at the theGreenTeam Inc., Tulsa, Okla., says that the Sustainability Database compiled by ASTM and other organizations and now maintained by E60, highlights more than 800 standards, including over 500 ASTM standards.
Schmeida, director, compliance and sustainability at Tremco Commercial Sealants and Waterproofing, Cleveland, Ohio, notes that he and Meadows have visited the executive committee meetings of other ASTM committees to describe E60's work. E60 offers assistance whether a committee opts to develop sustainability standards through its own subcommittees or via an E60 group. In cases such as work on standards for vegetative green roofs, E60 and Committee D08 on Roofing and Waterproofing established a coordinated effort that best utilizes the expertise in each of the committees.
E60's latest workshop, Sustainability Standards and Methods: A State of the Union, will be held Oct. 21 in Jacksonville, Fla. The workshop will bring standards organizations together to get an understanding of what standards are needed and to identify possible areas of collaboration. Information on the workshop can be found on the Committee E60 home page.
E60 also presents awards of appreciation to members of other ASTM committees who promote the cause of sustainability. Recipients have been:
- Don DeVisser, for leadership of Subcommittee D07.08 on Forests, part of Committee D07 on Wood.
- Andrew Garrabrants, for leadership of D34.03 on Treatment, Recovery and Reuse, part of D34 on Waste Management.
- Mark Gilpatric, F26 on Food Service Equipment, for work in developing F2916, Practice for Environmental Impact Analysis of Commercial Food Service Equipment.
- Darden Hood, D20 on Plastics, for work in developing D6866, Test Methods for Determining the Biobased Content of Solid, Liquid and Gaseous Samples Using Radiocarbon Analysis.
- Karthik Obla, C09 on Concrete and Concrete Aggregates, for leadership of C09.49 on Pervious Concrete.
"Committee E60 definitely wants to be a partner to any other committee," says Schmeida. "We want to be a resource and an incubator for sustainability standards."


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6 Insane Conspiracy Theories (That Actually Happened)
#3. Everyone Is Nazis
The Conspiracy Theory:
Calling someone a Nazi is the easiest way to out oneself as a lunatic. As we've covered before, Hitler comparisons are par for the course on the Internet. You can't legitimately call yourself a politician if you haven't been compared to Hitler. But when someone calls someone else a Nazi, it just makes you wonder why they didn't go full Hitler.
Do they think the accused is actually a card-carrying member of some secret Nazi party? It gives off the lunatic aroma of the weirdo Nazi memorabilia collectors like Marge Schott and Charles Manson. Hitler comparisons make it clear that they're angry and probably stupid, and that their Caps Lock key could probably use a breather. Nazi comparisons suggest a much more permanent brand of insanity. One that suspects that behind closed doors in the halls of power (or just at parties they're not invited to), everyone's secretly goose-stepping around in Nazi armbands, waiting for the right moment to make their move.
Dan Comstock
It's hard to have a secret agenda when your right arm keeps seizing up.
The Reality:
Unfortunately for sane people everywhere, even the craziest people on the face of the earth are right every once in a while, and that time was during the space and nuclear arms race during the Cold War.
After the Nazi regime collapsed in a pile of starving jackboots in May 1945, the Allies had no qualms about going through the rubble of Hitler's failed empire for stuff that might be useful. In some cases, they went sifting for actual Nazis.
"In a couple of years, people won't even remember this whole 'world war' kerfuffle."
In the closing years of the war, the Nazis were desperate to create a superweapon that might save the Third Reich and destroy the rest of the world. Once the war ended, the U.S. government decided that they needed to tap some of those Nazis minds before the commies got their red hands on them. To this end, the Americans drew up a plan to round up German scientists, giving jobs to the best and the brightest even though most of them deserved to be on trial for war crimes.
President Truman approved what was known as Operation Paperclip soon after the war, but added strict directives to ensure that the worst Nazis not be included, presumably in a last-ditch effort to be able to go to sleep at night.
Trying to figure out who the good Nazis are is like deciding which kick in the nuts hurts the least.
Of course, this turned out to be a completely empty gesture. The most valuable scientists would also have been the most heavily utilized in the Nazi regime. To get around Truman's moral objective, the American military created the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency, which was tasked with creating fake background information for brilliant scientists who were unapologetic, Dr. Strangelove-grade Nazis. With their records bleached, hundreds of Nazis were able to get past Operation Paperclip's "only good Nazis" vetting process and move to America as high level government employees.
Key Nazi figures like Arthur Rudolph became key figures in the U.S. space program, even though the U.S. government knew they were responsible for tens of thousands of inmates' deaths.
The German scientists were punished by sending them to Texas.
#2. The KGB Was Involved in the Kennedy Assassination (But Not How You Think)
The Conspiracy Theory:
We can't blame JFK conspiracy theorists. We all want to be the only person on the planet who knows something really important, and it's hard not to feel intriguing while quietly confiding to someone that "There were men who wanted Kennedy dead. Powerful men. Men who would kill me if they knew I was telling you this." To quote True Lies' Bill Paxton, our favorite movie spy of all time, people "need some release! Promise of adventure, a hint of danger."
"You get their pilot lit, they could suck start a leaf blower."
Whether they're doing it to get laid, to feel smart or because taxes make them furious and they don't have the luxury of being a Libertarian, there's one thing the JFK conspiracy theorists would never suspect: that they themselves are unwitting parts of a vast conspiracy drawn up by powerful men, and that if those men knew they were explaining "the truth" about the Kennedy assassination, those powerful men would probably have hugged them.
"Why are you hugging me? Is it BEES?"
The Reality:
Of the acronyms that people like to blame for the Kennedy assassination -- FBI, CIA, LBJ, NBA (one of Bill Simmons' more far-fetched David Stern conspiracy theories) -- the KGB has always been one of the least popular, even though it's probably the most straightforward. Oswald was a communist sympathizer who spent a couple years in Russia, giving the KGB easy access to his washable brain.
Of course, the Russian intelligence community was probably aware that assassinating Kennedy would be strategically pointless and needlessly risky, since the U.S. Constitution doesn't grant power to whichever political party killed the president. We didn't say it was perfect, just the least convoluted. Which of course is why it's probably unpopular with conspiracy theorists, who tend to prefer more surprising theories like the ones that appeared in Oliver Stone's movie.
"The KGB? Heh ... where's the fun in that?"
But the one thing the KGB theory has that none of the others do is documented proof that they were actively involved in a conspiracy connected to the JFK assassination. In 1992, when a former high level KGB official defected to the U.K., he brought along an archive of detailed, top secret information known as the Mitrokhin Archive. Since it hit the intelligence community like a new Harry Potter book, the information it contains has been authenticated by everyone from the FBI, members of the British Parliament, the United States Air Force Academy, the American Historical Review and perhaps most impressively of all, Wikipedia.
One of the more surprising revelations was that the KGB was actively involved in an extensive campaign to spread misinformation about the Kennedy assassination and undermine the U.S. government. In short, there was a KGB-led Kennedy conspiracy... to spread conspiracy theories!
We're not too worried. It's probably a crazy conspiracy theory.
That might sound suspiciously meta for a Russian intelligence community not written by Dan Harmon, but it makes sense when you realize that the CIA and the KGB were openly engaged in a culture war (even backing opposing styles of modern art). The KGB was acutely attuned to American popular culture, and were particularly impressed with Americans' ability to generate and believe new JFK conspiracy theories that fly in the face of the evidence.
"How are these people winning the Space Race?"
Using handwriting samples and phrasing from letters written by Oswald while he was in Russia, the KGB forged a letter from Oswald to a known CIA operative that referenced a secret meeting just days before the assassination. It was so expertly done that everyone from handwriting experts to Oswald's freaking wife confirmed that it must have been written by him. After the KGB sent the letter around to conspiracy theorists in America, the letter eventually made it to the mainstream media, in accordance with the trickle-up law of sensational b.s. The New York Times reported that three handwriting experts had confirmed its authenticity. An official government inquiry was launched into the letter. By the late '70s, the KGB were pleased to find that "far more Americans believed some version of [the KGB] conspiracy theory ... than still accepted the main findings of the Warren Commission."
Because convincing Americans to believe a conspiracy is about as difficult as convincing dope fiends to take another hit.
So, there's good news and bad news, JFK conspiracy theorists. There was a JFK assassination conspiracy! Unfortunately, you were the puppets, making this the saddest example of fans getting manipulated by their obsession prior to the Star Wars prequels.
#1. The Fictional Attack That Started a War
The Conspiracy Theory:
Any time America starts a controversial war, people are going to ask questions, and crazy people are going to shout them. By now, you're probably familiar with the nonsense theory that the U.S. government orchestrated the attacks on 9/11 in order to justify the Iraq War, but what about the Pearl Harbor Truthers? A popular conspiracy theory after America entered WWII was that FDR was in on the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
It seems that no war is just enough to keep crazy people from doing the political equivalent of claiming that America was secretly begging for it, and wouldn't have been dressed like that if it wasn't looking for trouble.
You know what that is, conspiracy nuts? Strut shaming.
The Reality:
On the night of August 4, 1964, at the height of the tensions between the U.S. and North Vietnam, the communist navy made the bizarre decision to attack two American destroyers -- the USS Turner Joy and the USS Maddox. The American ships were outside of North Vietnamese territory when they radioed that they were being attacked by three North Vietnamese torpedo boats.
Since this constituted an act of war, this meant that America had the right to invade Vietnam. Hours after the first radio message from the Maddox, President Johnson was on TV announcing that the communists had attacked us in international waters and asking for permission to make the beef real in Vietnam. The incident is often cited by historians as the key inciting event that started America's involvement in Vietnam, and a few years ago, it was cited by the National Security Agency as utter b.s.
"These could be ships, or they could be kamikaze seagulls. But whatever, let's declare war."
In 2005, an NSA report on the records from the night of the Gulf of Tonkin incident concluded that the event was blown out of proportion on purpose, which is pretty significant, since the NSA was the one who did the initial blowing. According to the report, "It is not simply that there is a different story as to what happened; it is that no attack happened that night." Yes, the North Vietnamese attack that started the Vietnam War didn't actually happen, and American officials knew it almost immediately.
An hour after the battle, the commander of one of the destroyers sent a message that there might not have been a single Vietnamese boat in the area, explaining that "Freak weather effects on radar and overeager sonar men may have accounted for" the initial reports. When the sun rose on the gulf and there wasn't a single shred of wreckage from the two torpedo boats they'd fired on and believed they'd sunk, it was pretty clear to everyone involved that the U.S. Navy had been playing with itself in the dark the night before.
You keep your turrets away from that stern, mister!
Unfortunately, within 30 minutes of the imaginary attack, Johnson had already decided to retaliate. America had been aiding the South Vietnamese army for years, and they were just looking for an excuse to make their relationship official. While the Gulf of Tonkin attack was completely imaginary, there's no telling how long it would take the North Vietnamese to actually attack them. So Johnson and the NSA said good enough and made a "conscious effort" to make it look like there was an attack.
So in light of the truth about the Tonkin incident, is it really so crazy to think that 9/11 was an inside job? Yes. Still crazy. In fact, the Gulf of Tonkin conspiracy makes such elaborate conspiracy theories seem even more unlikely (to the sane). It proves that you don't need to orchestrate elaborate conspiracies to justify an unjust war. All you need is the ability to ignore 90 percent of the facts and focus on the ones that support the case for war. In that way, the Tonkin incident bears a much closer resemblance to the many intelligence oopsies that happened in the run up to the Iraq War.
"Sir, I think we've progressed into full 'whoops.'"
Now that was a conspiracy worth getting pissed off about. Like the Tonkin incident, the Bush administration's case for war in Iraq featured an ass-backward intelligence-gathering process that was designed to justify a war, rather than to answer the question of whether there should actually be one. But conspiracy theorists aren't interested in boring stories featuring things like incompetence and the truth. They want the story where evil people cause explosions. In this way, they're exactly like the presidents who they believe are a species of lizard people.
And now the rest of us can't ever unsee it.
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Pain Control Therapy - Analgesia
Please use for reference only.
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Last Modified: November 1, 2001
Subcutaneous and intravenous analgesia is a method of giving pain medication constantly to help control your pain and make you more comfortable. Your medication will be infused into your using a Catheter.
Your pain medicine is given constantly via a pump, to keep adequate levels of pain medication in your blood stream. This prevents periods of increased pain that can occur when medication is not given regularly. Your doctor will determine how long you need to be on pain control therapy.
The pain medication comes already mixed. A nurse will replace the cassette as needed. You may have a pump that is programmed to give you extra medication if you need it. This extra amount of medication is called a bolus. Whenever you feel increased pain, you can push the button and receive extra medication or bolus as prescribed by your doctor. If you are not receiving adequate pain relief, call your physician or pharmacist.


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I have noticed that my Google Chrome extensions are no longer working on Ubuntu or Windows, and the context menu of each extension is no longer showing up. I have noticed that this problem seems to occur on both Linux and Windows in Google Chrome, so it is most likely not platform-specific. EDIT: The problem has been resolved in Windows after disabling all extensions.
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The problem seems to be back now, and it affects my Chrome installation on Windows as well as Ubuntu. I tried disabling all extensions, and everything seems to be working again, at least for now.


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For grown-ups, it's a haven of bliss – for children, the city's biggest sandpit. The Kulturstrand in Bavaria's capital city is a welcome relief for all, especially city-dwellers who, according to the organisers, are always needing a holiday.
There's no plane journey, simply a dream island in the midst of the metropolitan ocean. You can meet on the square, have a chat and swap news. It's like switching from stressed urbanite to cool flaneur. Don't rush past, join in with the rest.
Right there, in a public space in the city centre, the Kulturstrand conjures holiday feelings the second it comes into view. Roads become beaches, the buzz of the city becomes the swish of the sea, traffic islands become urban atolls, is how it's seen by die urbanauten, the brains behind the beach.
There's a stage programme and a bar – everything's nice and laid-back, relaxed and chilled. In the evenings there's live music and Munich DJs, films or plays. In the daytime the children's programme turns it back into a family island – and the biggest sandpit in town.
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I've somehow managed to ruin my reputation with the Steamwheedle goblins, and they don't talk to me anymore. What should I do to quickly and easily regain their support?
There is a very good guide linked from a similar question on Epic Advice that details killing a bunch of Bloodsail Buccannears to gain reputation quickly with the Steamwheedle.
The rest of the guide details the order in which to farm reputations to get the best bonuses possible, and also includes many alternate methods you may find useful.
As of patch 4.2 on August 18, 2011, the answers listed here are largely out-of-date; Dire Maul no longer offers a way of repairing Steamwheedle rep, and many of the linked guides have not been updated to reflect changes from Cataclysm.
The fastest way to repair rep with the Steamwheedle Cartel is to do the "Bloodsail Forgiveness" quests with the goblins standing outside each of the towns. These quests are Making Amends outside Everlook (requiring 40 Runecloth and 4 Coal with each turn-in), Mending Old Wounds near Ratchet (requiring 40 Linen Cloth and 4 Crystal Vials per turn-in), Traitor to the Bloodsail outside Booty Bay (requiring 40 Silk Cloth and 4 Red Dye), and finally War at Sea outside Gadgetzan (requiring 40 Mageweave Cloth and 4 Strong Flux).
Each quest contributes 500 rep to the adjacent city and 250 to the other three cities. This means that, starting from maximum hatred, you can complete a specific quest 84 times (requiring 168 stacks of relevant cloth and 336 of the extra material) to raise your reputation to neutral with that city; the next quest can be exhausted after 42 turn-ins (requiring 84 stacks of cloth and 168 materials). The third quest is finished in a mere 21 attempts (requiring 42 stacks and 84 materials), while the fourth quest is done after just 11 turn-ins (requiring 22 stacks and 44 materials). Each of these quests is no longer available once your rep with the associated city becomes neutral, so don't over-stock on materials!
If you want to minimize your cost, you should complete the quests in this order: Ratchet, then Booty Bay, then Gadgetzan, then Everlook. This is the most cost-effective way of achieving neutrality in the fastest possible way. However, if you want to subsequently raise your Steamwheedle rep to exalted (whatever the reason), you'll actually want to do Everlook first, followed by Ratchet, then Booty Bay, then Gadgetzan. The reason for this is because the spillover rep from subsequent quests will continue to raise your rep with the earlier cities, and the location of farm-worthy pirates is such that Everlook (and, to a lesser degree, Ratchet) are considerably harder to raise than Booty Bay or Gadgetzan.
If you don't want to buy the cloth outright, the next best option is to farm pirates in one of three locations: in Lost Rigger Cover in Tanaris, on the three ships south of Booty Bay in Stranglethorn Vale, or on the ship that appears in Booty Bay proper during Bloodsail attack on the city. The pirates in Tanaris and Stranglethorn will drop cloth that can be turned in outside their city in addition to the rep you gain from outright kills, but it's still a much longer process than just buying everything you need outright.
If you're trying to get rep past neutral, though, those three farming locations are really your only options. They each come with their own sets of advantages and disadvantages. A particular note about farming: when one or more other players is also in the area killing mobs, the respawn rate will try to increase to match the rate they're being killed at. In general, if you can get in a group with somebody else killing guys in the same spot as you, you'll have much higher rep-per-hour gains.
You should probably try each location and determine which one works best for you. It's important to note that killing mobs for rep in one location alone cannot get you to exalted with the associated city; when I was doing it, I farmed Lost Rigger Cove until I stopped getting Gadgetzan rep, moved to the Bloodsail ships and farmed until exalted with Gadgetzan, and then moved back to Tanaris to get exalted with the other three factions.
Lastly, as I mentioned briefly above, any quests you can get in the various Steamwheedle cities will award a little bit of rep as well, but you'll have to be at least neutral or better to even have the opportunity to take them. Since this method isn't repeatable, and many people will have already done these quests prior to this situation, it's not as important as the methods above.
Besides killing thousands of Pirates you can spend 20Mageweave Cloth + 4 Strong Flux for 500rep each time until Neutral. The Npc is in Tanaris north of Gadgetzan.
The short answer is that the most efficient way to do this is killing some Bloodsail Buccaneers NPC.
There are more ways (Diremaul grinding, repetable quests) but they are more tedious.
A full explanation of all possiblities are detailed on WoWWiki