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They died. Yosef carried what they taught on.
Differing shitas on what they learnt, but because they lived through the evil generation of the flood, they had better haskafa on living with evil than the rest. So they say they taught the laws of chutz la aretz there, that Yakov only needed once he fled from Israel.
They also taught Torah which was outside of Olam Hazeh opposite to what Avraham taught a Torah that was connected to this world. That is why Yaakov needed to spend 14 years there before spending 14 years at the House of lavan.
When Yaakov had his dream, he dreamt of the ladder which as the posuk says was rooted on earth and touched the heavens, i.e. it tied together both schools of thought.


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BELL COUNTY (February 22, 2013)--Firefighters were able to save a turkey barn Thursday after a fire broke out just before 9:30 p.m.
Moffat Volunteer Fire Department and Morgan's Point Fire Department were called to 9776 Community Center Road, just south of Moody, to put out the fire.
No turkeys were in the barn at the time of the fire and the building, estimated to be 50-feet-wide and about 200-feet-long is useable, Moffat Fire Chief Hal Pagel said Friday.
Two workers who tried to put out the fire before the fire departments arrived were taken to the hospital with minor smoke inhalation and one had an injured ankle.
The fire is believed to be accidental but the investigation has been turned over to Bell County Fire Marshal Steven Casey.

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Thank you for posting! My pair of these mysteriously disappeared, need new ones. I love the in store pickup that you can do at Sears and Kmart. It is glorious!
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Some of the customer reviews don't look very promising, but Craftsman products are infinitely returnable. I'll wait for a better product, though.
I am buying these - to replace an older Craftsman set I have had for over ten years - that I got as a free replacement when my (even older) set went dull. I really push my outdoor tools, I wouldn't buy anything other than Craftsman (since they're guaranteed for life- free replacement whenever).
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CHARLESTON - A bill aimed at decreasing the production of methamphetamine by making Sudafed-like drugs available only by prescription was overwhelmingly passed Tuesday by the West Virginia Senate.
The bill allows an exemption for certain drugs containing pseudoephedrine that cannot easily be converted to meth to still be sold over the counter. Sen. Corey Palumbo, D-Kanawha, said a similar bill was voted down in the Senate two years ago.
"But two things have changed that impact this discussion. There is a wide availability of similar conversion-resistant drugs on the market. And meth has become such a scourge in our society, such a problem, that it reaches every corner of our state," he said. Palumbo noted that the number of meth lab busts in West Virginia has increased from 229 in 2011 to 533 in 2013.
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin said he was open to signing such a measure.
"We'll take a close look at the end product," he said.
Only Oregon and Mississippi currently have similar laws making pseudoephedrine prescription-only.
The bill makes it a crime to possess pseudoephedrine without a prescription, but an amendment approved by the Senate allows people to have charges dropped if they bought the drugs legally in another state. However, someone could do so only once, Palumbo said.
Sen. Evan Jenkins, R-Cabell, who expressed concern over law-abiding visitors and college students from other states being charged with a misdemeanor, said he still feels uneasy that people would have to appear before a judge to have the charges dropped.
"This is a step in the right direction, but a step that misses the mark to truly protect the people we described yesterday. Someone still has to be charged and go to court," he said.
Sen. Clark Barnes, R-Randolph, also spoke out against the bill. He said putting the state's meth problem in the hands of the medical community won't solve it. With prescription pills the state's No. 1 drug problem, the bill may just move pseudoephedrine purchases underground, he said.
The bill will now be sent to the House for action.
Tim Miley, speaker of the House of Delegates, said things have changed since the House first voted on the bill a few years ago. He indicated the bill would affect law enforcement's use of the NPLEX system. The system, new this year, is a tool that allows police to track Sudafed purchases and has been used to identify meth makers.
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My girlfriend has Stitcher's Apprentice, and she thinks that you can activate its ability, use the homunculus to block, and then sac the homunculus. Is this possible, or does the sacrifice have to happen before the homunculus can be declared as a blocker?
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Alex P has the answer right, but I thought it prudent to point out the principles you and your girlfriend are missing when it comes to the declare blockers step and playing and resolving abilities.
The Rules:
Note this well: declaring blockers is a turn-based action that doesn't use the stack. Therefore, if she wants to block with the Homunculus token, your girlfriend has to play the ability to generate the token during the Declare Attackers Step, after you've declared your attackers but before the Declare Blockers Step begins.
To be clear, one of the costs to play the ability is tapping the Stitcher therefore she won't be able to block with it in the Declare Blockers Step.
I point this out to emphasize that the Declare Attacker's Step doesn't end until the stack is empty. There is no opportunity to declare blockers until the stack is empty. Even if she could do something during the resolution of the Stitcher's ability (see below), she couldn't declare blockers.
So the Stitcher's ability resolves:
She could sacrifice the Homunculus just created
(Oops, got this striked-out part wrong. "Enters the battlefield" trigger isn't state-based, it's event-based. A trigger would have to be written as "if you ever have X creatures in play" or something similar for it to be state based. Very tricky and non-intuitive part of the rules, in my opinion!)
As Alex P suggested, she could wait until the Declare Blockers Step, declare the Stitcher as a blocker, then play the Stitcher's ability. (Note he misspoke a bit. There is no "between the declare-blockers step and the combat-damage step" — the ability resolves during the Declare Blockers Step.) When the ability resolves, she could sacrifice the Stitcher and have a Homunculus token on the battlefield.
In that case, During the Combat Damage Step, your attacker is still considered blocked, but has no creature blocking it, so it deals no damage (unless it has trample or some other deals damage as though it wasn't blocked ability.
When an ability resolves, all parts of it are resolved in the listed order. You can't interpose any other actions (including playing another ability, but also including ending a step). So, you must sac a creature immediately after the homunculus comes into play (before any ETB triggers even go off).
What you can do is chump block with a creature you already have on the field (including the Apprentice itself), then activate the Apprentice's ability between the declare-blockers step and the combat-damage step, sacrificing your chump. Even if you end up saccing the Apprentice to its own ability, you're still trading up to a 2/2 and getting a body in your graveyard, which is useful in an Innistrad blue deck looking for corpses to enable cards like Skaab Goliath and Stitched Drake.


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Is there any documentation or evidence of anyone finding gold in California before the discovery at Sutter's Mill in 1848?
The Spanish DID come to the New World to find Gold, and other things, but while I always thought they came across it much earlier than they did it looks like that was not so. At least in the province of California:
The original source is from the California Department of Conservation, learn something new every day..


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6 Dec 2013 6:18 PM #1
Unanswered: Pull Refresh with an empty result set
Is there a known issue that prevents the pull refresh plugin from functioning properly on a list backed by an empty store? When an empty dataset is returned, the 'x-list-pullrefresh' div does not get added to the 'x-list-parent' div. The pull refresh functionality still works, and if the subsequent refresh returns data, the 'x-list-pullrefresh' div is then added.
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I couldn't find any existing bugs in Jira. Nor with a quick search of google and the forums.Get more personalized support via a support subscription.
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Christopher P. Stukenholtz, 33, of Bellevue died Oct. 16, 2012 at his home. Chris was born on Aug. 6, 1979 at St. Mary's Community Hospital in Nebraska City to Ron P. and Debra S. (Bennett) Stukenholtz. He graduated from Nebraska City High School in 1997.
He worked for Sitel in Omaha in their IT department for many years, but his true passion was waiting tables and bartending. After he left Sitel, he worked at a number of restaurants in Omaha and Lincoln. Serving people was what he wanted to do and telling his humorous stories while doing so kept his regulars coming back. His customers thought the world of him and enjoyed his company as much as he enjoyed theirs. Chris's humor and quick wit always ensured that he was the life of the party. He touched many lives through his work and by being an amazing son, brother, and friend. He will be truly missed.
He is survived by parents Ron and Debra Stukenholtz of Bellevue; sister Tabitha Stukenholtz of Omaha; best friends Josh and Brandon; numerous aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews; other family and many friends.
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Funeral services were Oct. 20 at Gude Mortuary in Nebraska City with Fr. Michael McCabe officiating. Inurnment will be at Camp Creek Cemetery southeast of Nebraska City at a later date.
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My father was recently diagnosed with esophageal cancer and was told to quit smoking and drinking alcohol by his doctor. My father feels it won't make a difference at this point. What can I tell him to help him realize that quitting is important and why it is so important?
Christina Bach, Oncology Social Worker at Penn Medicine, responds:
I'm sure your dad is probably thinking "I've already got cancer so why bother quitting." However, studies have shown that many people do actually do better with treatment if they stop smoking and drinking. The bottom line is that smoking and drinking are risk factors for health problems and after a cancer diagnosis, why add insult to injury? Yes, quitting is a challenge but there are some great resources available to help the patient quit and to support this process as part of cancer treatment.
There are both pharmacological (drug) therapies and behavior therapies available...be sure to talk with your oncologist who will be happy to provide you with resources and support to help your dad quite smoking.
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I want to hide some files because they just add clutter to my home folder. I have a folder in there that is called "bin" and is for running startup scripts. I want to have this folder and I'm not sure if adding a . before it will make the scripts not start.
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Add (or edit) this to ~/.bashrc
As a convention, filenames beginning with a dot are hidden in many, but not all, contexts. This is done exactly for the same purpose you want - to hide away clutter that isn't intended to be normally viewed or edited by users.
However, adding a dot to the start of a filename (or directory) changes the filename. It's not like Windows where the filesystem has a built-in "hidden" flag; on Linux adding the dot is actually modifying the filename. Any existing links you had to that filename, or directory, will be broken. If you refer to the directory in a configuration script somewhere, that script will need to be modified. If an application is hard-coded to refer to that directory, it won't find it. If the directory is in your PATH, the new directory won't be unless you add it in again.
create a text files, write bin inside it, and name it .hidden
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Make Flex Plot Chart items toggle
I made an application for generating a plot chart based on previously calculated data (X,Y). After plotting the data on the chart, I tried to make the items (dots) to show a label (through addChild an external custom label component) when a user click on the dots (for example: if a user click on a chart item, the corresponding ID number will show beside the dot).
Although everything works fine, I can't make the items toggled (for example: if a dot is already clicked and label ID is visible, on next click on the same dot I want to hide (removeChild) the label component which correspond to that item)...
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WEIRTON - Offenses put fans in the stands, defenses win championships or at least instant classics.
Catholic Central torched Madonna's defense for two scores during the first seven minutes Saturday. The Blue Don D then slammed the door the rest of the way.
The result - Doug Taylor's club earned a thrilling 22-17 come-from-behind victory before a standing room only crowd at Jimmy Carey Stadium.
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Tony Barber had two interceptions Saturday.
Madonna's Will Bowser had two interceptions.
"Our defense played tough," a jubilant Taylor said. "What people don't understand is when you are playing against a team like Central with that many athletes, it's hard to simulate that in practice.
"It takes a quarter or a quarter and a half to adjust to that kind of speed. Once we got settled in, I think we were pretty darn good."
During the opening half, the Crusaders rolled to 291 yards of offense (195 passing and 96 via the ground). Steve Daley's club compiled 142 first quarter stripes. Madonna's defense held Central to just 31 second half yards.
"We made very minimal adjustments defensively in the second half," Taylor stated. "Our defense just hung tough and made some plays."
After the two quick scores, Central could manage just a 23-yard John Paul McNamara field goal right before the half. The Crusaders' bid for a third six-pointer was thwarted thanks to a Gabe Hypes sack of Brenton Colabella.
Madonna's Will Bowser recorded two interceptions (the first killing a Central threat in the first half and the second stopping an early third quarter march).
"We knew we needed to stop the run and the pass," Bowser noted. "We did a good job of adjusting at halftime. We had some mistakes in the beginning and the game might have been different without them.
"They are pretty quick but we kept up. The win feels good; it was the same kind of game as last year (Madonna rallied for a 21-20 victory in 2012)."
The Madonna defense delivered a huge stop just before the offense began what proved to be the game-winning drive.
Central drove from its own 33 to the Blue Don 15. The march was aided by three Madonna penalties good for 35 yards. After Ryan Fletcher gained a pair on first down, good coverage by the Blue Don secondary produced three incompletions.
"When you take that many penalties and end up keeping them out of the end zone, that's huge," Taylor said. "When you are not dealing with the entire field and you can condense things down to 20 yards that makes it easier on your defense.
"This senior group doesn't know the meaning of the word quit. I talked about their athletes all week but I wanted to make sure at the end of the game, I was talking about our athletes because we have plenty of them."
After the final Blue Don touchdown, the defense delivered two sacks (one by Tyler Ewusiak and the other by Josh Martin) to preserve the victory.
"We pulled through and our defense did a really good job tonight," Ewusiak noted. "We pulled our heads together in the second half; we were kind out of it in the first half. We were able to get a lot of pressure on their quarterback."
As Martin put it, the Madonna defense did step up, but "that's expected of us."
"We do it every week," he continued. "We've only allowed six touchdowns on the first team defense. It was the same thing as last year.
"Our defense stepped up in the second half.
The senior two-way tackle added Central's early success "didn't surprise" him.
"They have a high scoring offense and I expected it from them. They are a good team. The sack felt pretty amazing. I had a lot of adrenaline pumping. As soon as I saw him (quarterback Colabella), I grabbed whatever I could and just fell down.
"A lot of people didn't expect us to win. It really hits home to see this stadium packed on all sides and all around. It feels great to see that much support in this town."
Central's defense wasn't without some memorable moments of its own. Sophomore defensive back Tony Barber picked off two Ross Comis passes His first led to the initial Crusader score.
After recording 115 yards in the first quarter, Madonna was held to just 38 in the second. Louis Fallon, Marty Engle, Chris Murphy and Stone Romano all delivered big defensive plays for the Crusaders.
Central's efforts on both sides of the ball, however, were hampered by penalties.
On its opening drive of the third quarter (set up by a 50 yard Khalil Jones kickoff return), Central had first and goal at the Madonna 10. A major penalty pushed the ball all the way back to the 30. A Bowser pick ended the threat.
Daley's club also drew two flags on its second touch of the half. Central appeared to have Madonna stopped on what ended up being its second scoring drive of the night following a sack by Fallon and Engle and a fourth down incompletion. The officials, however, hit the visitors with a 15-yard roughing the passing call.
Central finished with 10 penalties for 77 yards and Madonna seven for 56.
"It was a tough one for our kids," said Daley, who chose not to talk about the penalties. "Both teams played a whale of a game.
"You have to make plays when they are there. They made a play and we didn't. With both teams coming in undefeated, someone had to win and someone had to lose. We did everything we could not to be the team to lose."


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The forgotten: Reaching out during the holiday season — and throughout the year — gives life meaning
SANDY — John Lee is 6-foot-3, with gray-blue eyes and balding hair. The day after Thanksgiving, he got out his Christmas decorations, including the toy reindeer antlers he'll wear for much of the month. He loves the holidays, especially the chance to sit on Santa's lap and ask for gifts.
When it comes to Christmas, not all children are young. Lee, in his 60s, is developmentally disabled. He used to have family, but his parents are dead and a guardian looks out for him. His caregivers will try to see that he has a nice Christmas, said Jim Jensen, who runs the group home where Lee lives.
Not everyone's so lucky. The holiday "season of joy" shines differently on people depending on their circumstances. It is the perfect time, say experts, to look around and really see and reach out to those nearby, to find them and then remember them not just at holidays, but year-round.
The frail. The grieving. The homebound. The addicted and the recovering. The suddenly single and lonely. The forgotten.
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Lots of her peers will be forgotten this Christmas, Selynah Slusser told the Deseret News. Some have been forgotten for a very long time.
Now 32, Slusser wore her family out with her yo-yo life until recently. What may have been her final and most realistic chance came in a tiny package: Daughter Serenity is 11 months old and is as placid as her name. The thought of losing or just disappointing her keeps Slusser striving to beat the drug addiction she picked up at a very young age.
Now she is a full-time college student studying social work. She attends daylong drug treatment three days a week, too. She and Serenity have an apartment — an accomplishment when you've got a police record, she noted. Only a handful of places would consider renting to her. She would have no hope of rebuilding her life, she said, if others were not willing to reach out to her.
Not all among the 22 million-plus Americans who abuse illicit drugs get the same level of help as they struggle to wrest themselves from the grip of addiction. But help makes all the difference. Slusser bounced between incarceration and rehabilitation for years, straining family ties. "I talked the talk so many times. They're still here for me, but they're leery."
There's a tendency to write off drug addicts and, unlike Slusser, "a lot of our women have very little healthy family support," said Andrea Lunt, day treatment specialist at Valley Mental Health, a private treatment organization in Utah, where moms can keep young children with them while they go through drug abuse treatment. Many of the women have suffered traumas; all are struggling to rebuild. An especially challenging period comes when they're finally clean and sober and help disappears. Some have pasts that place barriers on futures.
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As December races past, Echo Garrett gathers gift cards for teenagers in foster care. The president of Orange Duffel Bag, an organization based in Marrietta, Ga., that tries to provide some basics and life coaching for foster teens, said they're often forgotten at Christmas and in general. Many programs won't provide gifts for children older than 12.
That's not news to many teens in foster care, who may live in group homes because there are so few foster parents or end up homeless. "That's sort of the track," said Garrett. "We find that our kids get left out, especially at the holidays."
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I moved from a 20D to 7D recently and moved my EFS 17-85mm to the 7D. The 7D images are soft so I had to program my own sharpness mode. I use both tripod and hand held, and yes I know to turn off stabilization on tripod.
Has anyone else experienced this on the 7D? Is it camera or lens? I didn't notice this on the 20D even though for most of my images I'm shooting8M jpg / 10M Raw, very similar to the 20D.
I moved from a 20D to 7D recently and moved my EFS 17-85mm to the 7D. The 7D images are soft so I had to program my own sharpness mode. I use both tripod and hand held, and yes I know to turn off stabilization on tripod.
yes, my experience with the 7D is that images are much sharper and more detailed, especially compared to my 30D (which is roughly comparably to your 20D).
A couple of options to consider:
First, make sure the camera is focusing where you think it should be. the 7D is good at showing where the focus points are on the LCD, so you can make sure the softness you see isn't just an autofocus not doing whta you expect.
Second, it's also possible that the lens isn't focusing quite right for that body. But that can be tested for and adjusted using the microfocus controls.
I upgraded from 400D to 7D and things just got sharper (and you should expect the same).
If you still have both bodies, take the same shot with both and compare them on your computer so that both images take up the same amount of screen size.
Are you saying things are fine now you have programmed your own sharper mode?
Also, try taking it into a shop and just ask if you can try out a lens (like canon f1.2 50mm) and just fire a couple of shots. If they look soft then you may have a camera fault... or perhaps you're just used to seeing over-sharpened images ;)
I notice that my images are not really out of focus, but they do not have great edge detail. I'm not talking about over sharpening or anything like that, but just an overall softness to the images. And for me it's on every lens that I've tried.
You can compensate for it in lightroom or something, but it would be nice to be able to just shoot a .jpg and have it look like it does on the preview when you get it on your PC.
I got the 7D just over a month ago and was initially disappointed by image sharpness. However after borrowing a 24-70 f2.8L the camera really came into its own. My advice would be that because of the ultra high pixel density of the sensor it does seem to mandate good quality glass and even then it has to be a good copy of the lens. However that said I have noticed that the 7D is a good deal more challenging to get sharp images as even the smallest camera movement softens the image again because of the very high resolution on a crop sensor. My advice would be to check your 7D using a good lens on a tripod and try some manual focus shots using live view on x10. This will tell you if there is a problem with the body, there are quite a few bad ones out there, my first copy had problems and was sent back. One further note, I have noticed the AF does favor closer objects so focusing on an eye for instance will sometimes lead to the tip of the nose getting the focus even when its slightly outside the auto focus box. Bear this in mind when setting up your shots and consider using the more accurate spot focus mode for very shallow depth of field shots.
So after a month of use, investment in some good glass and a couple of changes to technique I have gone from mostly soft images to mostly sharp. My advice is to stick with it the 7D can take cracking shots.
I have had the 7D since November 2010 (a couple months) and I can not get a consistant good quality image from the camera. I have read and read hundreds of posts about these issues, soft image and focus problems. All the time I am reading "user error", "use different f-stop", "get better lenses".
I bought the 70-200mm f/2.8 IS II USM and this is still giving me the same results - rubbish. I think my the camera suffers from focus problems and also has very soft image. There have been times when I think there is a bit too much noise in the image when at ISO 100 (another problem I read about).
I am thinking of sending it all to Canon and hoping for the best as I don't think I will be able to send it back to where I purchased now. It's been driving me crazy and it's a real shame. I have also seen some great images others have taken with the 7D so it's not all of them that have issues, but mine does and I am sure others also do.
Initially, when I got my 7D, I was disappointed with the image softness. But I managed to fix it myself without any need to send it or my lenses back to Canon, and here's how:
You will need to reset the date and time settings as it will have forgotten these, along with any of your custom function settings.
I know it sounds odd, but this simple act really did help me out and images from my 7D were noticeably better afterwards.
EDIT: Note I had tried everything else before this, including shooting lots of charts and trying to fine tune the Micro-adjust AF for each of my lenses. I wasn't happy with anything until I did this.
I have so far worked with a Rebel xsi, 60D and now my second copy of a 7D. I struggled with high noise and very soft images plus very erratic focusing i.e front or back with my first copy of my 7D. I spent countless hours on the phone with Canon sending many photos for review and was advised to send the camera in for repair which I did. It returned with a notation that electrical adjustments were made to the autofocus system. However, the pictures were even softer and the noise was overwhelming to the point that the camera was not usable. I found a home for my 7D and spoke with a photography store explaining that I wanted to try a second copy though there was a chance that I might return the camera, but was encouraged to proceed and I am grateful for the opportunity, as my second copy of the 7D has produced tack sharp pictures with excellent noise control.
In response to Skip K's post, I do believe that often not understanding the different autofocus modes is a definite issue. However, I also believe that there truly are lemons as you might say. See the site I have listed below for the experience of several users who have struggled with the 7D autofocus, worked with Canon and sent their 7D's in for repair, often up to 4 and 5 times. In several cases, Canon replaced the cameras admitting that they could not be fixed. http://www.michaelmiles.com/2010/03/06/answer-fixing-canon-7d-focus-issue/
I suspect given the variability in copies of the 7D that there may be a problem that Canon has yet to sort out or is not yet willing to fully disclose. I am fortunate that my second 7D is working so well, however, I leave the decision open for the future as to whether I will sell my 7D, 60D, 70-200 f2.8/L IS USM, 135 mm f/2.0 L USM equipment and change to Nikon which has an autofocus system that consistently produces sharp images, though it too like Canon has other concerns.
I wonder if what you're seeing might be over-aggressive antialiasing. As resolution increases, moiré starts to become a real problem, so most camera manufacturers have opted to include an optical low-pass filter to get around the problem (Leica and Phase One being notable exceptions to the rule). I've noticed, for instance, that the Hasselblad 60 MP back produces images that are significantly less sharp than the Phase One 60 MP back, but the Phase One back is almost useless for portraiture and fashion because of moiré in fabrics. There would have been an antialiasing filter in your 20D as well, of course, but it would not have shown the same degree of spread as on the 7D (which has about half again as many pixels per linear millimeter as the 20D). It would be similar to the difference between shooting Tri-X and TMax 100 with a "mushy" lens -- the Tri-X picture would appear to be sharper because of the grain.
Is it generalized softness, or is it missing focus?
Microadjust is certainly a place to start.
But my 7d's autofocus was always a bit dodgy. WAY more focus misses than my 1ds2 or 6d. After two circuit board replacements it finally got fairly close to my FF's in consistency... at which point it got stolen :-(
Wasn't just me, seems AF issues with the 7d weren't entirely rare. Part of why a nice spec body goes cheaply these days.
A certain test is to put it on a tripod and focus with magniified Live View. Keep other factors constant. If this is sharp it's an AF issue of some sort. If even this is soft... maybe you've got smudges on your sensor? Maybe your lens is mediocre and the higher resolution makes it more obvious?
I often wonder whether Canon did a disservice to the consumer by not being crystal clear that this was a pro-level camera (or darn close to it), or if the consumer did a disservice to him or herself by buying a camera that was technically far beyond their capability.
The 7D is, by any measure, an exceptional camera. However, with its vast capabilities comes complexity and a steeper learning curve. I would wager that 95% or more of the people on the net complaining about soft images or focus problems are victims of their own arrogance, not a faulty camera. Photographers need to be realistic about their skills, and about the learning curve that comes with a camera of this caliber. In the hands of someone who has significant camera experience, and has taken the time to learn the AF on this camera (and practice with it), the camera is a gem. For those who have not bothered to truly learn the intricacies of the advanced AF system on this camera and/or not bothered to practice with it, the camera is a 'lemon'.
I have a 7D and I get great shots from it. Pros that I know that shoot it as a primary or backup really enjoy it too. Amateurs, and/or those who haven't bothered to learn the camera, generally are unhappy with it. Is it a fault of Canon, or a design flaw in the camera that a customer bought more camera than they can handle? Of course not. I'd say if someone is struggling to get good images with the 7D they either need to study up more on it's AF system, and practice more, or sell it and buy a Ti or 60D.


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Often when planning food for a backpacking trip, I rely heavily on a very large amount of extremely varied trail-mix, and only throw in some jerky and a scant few "cookable" meals for variety. I haven't had (to my knowledge) any illness from this, but a friend expressed concern that the lack of variety would cause problems given the stress of the hike. Am I doing myself a disservice?
It takes more than 4-5 days to have problems from a limited diet, as long as you get enough of short-term things like salt (which is not normally a problem). Even so, I usually take some Flintstone chewables and dehydrated meals along to be healthy.
I would split your nutritional needs into long, medium, and short term.
Things like Vitamin C and Vitamin A are long term. A week or two of being short on them will not cause you problems during the trip, nor afterwards when you return to your normal eating patterns. You can essentially ignore them, which is kind of a bummer because this would be the easiest shortcoming to fix, by taking a multivitamin or other supplements.
Medium term would be fat and protein. Most people eat lots of protein - beef jerky, nuts in the trail mix, peanut butter - and get enough fat too. If for some reason you were eating meals like "pasta with butter but not cheese" and "white rice with vegetables" then perhaps you would run short of protein. (I say perhaps because grains do have some protein, and we typically need less than we think.) This would manifest itself mostly as feeling hungry too soon given the amount of work you're doing, and maybe not sleeping well. If it kept up long enough you might also be plagued with digestive problems. From reading books about long expeditions it seems to be a month of no fat and very little protein before dysentery sets in.
Short term your big worry is fibre. If you're not eating any fruits or veggies, and you've taken white flour bread and pasta, white rice etc, and no legumes, then you might not be getting any fibre. Depending on your age this can make you feel very uncomnfortable in just a few days. Throw in a little dehydration because you're sweating and drinking water isn't always to hand, and you could be feeling very jammed up.
The solution to fibre may be as close as your trail mix, if it's full of dried fruit. If you ignore the dried fruit, or if your trail mix is full of M&Ms, then you need to make sure you eat some vegetables. A dried soup mix might lead to nice lunches and take care of that for you, or you might try to cook more often. Or you could pay attention to those ads aimed at the 50+ crowd and bring along a fibre supplement - the kind you stir into water would probably be best.
If your concern is "I feel healthy and strong, my body works fine during the trip, but am I setting myself up for a long term health problem with the occasional week of deprivation" I would unequivocally say you are not. A bags-of-chips-on-the-couch habit that lasts for years can do that; a week without enough fibre or Vitamin A will not.
I don't think that a limited diet will cause you health issues. (caveat, I'm not a doctor...)
But, keep in mind that hiking is typically a strenuous activity. You need energy, and lots of it. You need short-term energy, medium-term, and long-term. A meal of whole-wheat pasta with some tuna or salmon from a pouch and some added olive oil and salt will give you short-term energy from the carbs, medium-term from the protein, and long-term from the fats, plus some salt to replenish what you've lost as you're staying hydrated. I can last a lot longer and the hills are less imposing when my diet is on-target. So, you probably won't get sick, but you may be short-changing yourself.
This would also depend on what your limited diet includes. You can live quite well on nothing but beans and rice for many months if needed. Trail mix and jerky, probably not so much.
One of the worst things you can eat on a trail is trail mix. Nuts take a very long time to digest and much needed calories are burned to digest them. Meat of any kind is also more difficult to digest and jerky is even worse. At least the meat or jerky provide you with much needed protein. Trail mix will fill your belly but it's not particularly nutritious or caloric for it's density.
Find some good beans and rice recipes. These are much more caloric per density and provide the carbs, sugars, fats, and protein you need.
Some people have great resistance for limited diet.
I've heard a lot of stories from the people I've met during mountaineering about their high mountain trips, where their diet was based mostly on semolina powder mixed with milk powder (something uneatable for me because of lactose intolerance). One of them said he had lost after about 1.5 weeks 10 kg weight... but he still was feeling good...
However, the caloric usage for middle-difficulty backpacking for a male is about 5000-6000 per day, so quite high (I've participated in measurements).


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Be a Calm(er) Mom
By Julie Taylor
My husband, our two kids, and I were enjoying an idyllic trip to Hawaii, driving up the winding (and dangerous) Road to Hana and taking in the beauty of the cliffs and coastline. And then it happened. For no apparent reason, my son, then age 5, threw a water bottle from the backseat toward my husband, and it hit the windshield with a ferocious bang. By some miracle, we didn't crash, but we did lose control...big-time. Both my husband and I were ranting, raving, screaming, threatening: "Why would you do that? Don't you know we could have been killed? Here we are taking you on the vacation of a lifetime, and you throw a water bottle for no reason?" And on and on we went, spewing way more venom than our preschooler could ever deserve or even comprehend, for that matter.
Tears began rolling down our son's cheeks, and his lip quivered as he fought back sobs. After what I'm sure seemed like an eternity to him, we calmed down and continued on our way, and I tried to bury the incident in the back of my mind.
I had almost forgotten all about it when, a few weeks later, I replayed our Hawaii-trip video. There I was, recording a waterfall out the window of the car. I tucked the camera into its bag — accidentally leaving it still recording — and then the "water bottle incident" occurred. Though the screen was black, I heard my husband and myself screaming at our son, badgering him, shaming him.
Then it was my turn to fight back tears. How could I have freaked out like that in front of my kids, at my kid? The rant sounded so much more vicious and vile than I remembered its having been, but there it was on tape — proof that I was the worst mother in the world. I may have erased that incident from the vacation video, but I don't think I'll ever be able to erase it from my memory.
Like it or not, most of us parents flip out in front of our dear children from time to time. Sometimes the anger is aimed at them, other times not, but it's almost always a deeply unsettling experience. Fortunately, there are simple — sometimes surprising — steps you can take to repair the damage, not to mention avoid meltdowns in the future.
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First, recognize that regularly lashing out at or in front of your kids isn't par for the parenting course. It can do some very real damage to their psyches, says psychologist Matthew McKay, Ph.D., a professor at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA, and coauthor of When Anger Hurts Your Kids. "Studies have shown that parents who express a lot of anger in front of their kids end up with less empathetic children. These kids are more aggressive and more depressed than peers from calmer families, and they perform worse in school. Anger has a way of undermining a kid's ability to adapt to the world," McKay says.
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That said, kids can actually learn an important lesson from seeing you lose your temper and then regain your cool. "This provides an opportunity to show kids that we all get angry, but what really counts is how we repair things afterward," says McKay. Here, the step-by-steps for doing just that.
When You Shriek at Your Kids
Real-mom meltdown: When Jennifer*, of Huntington Beach, CA, went to visit Disneyland with her three kids, she didn't realize the "happiest place on Earth" would be the setting for one of her ugliest parenting moments. "It was a big outing for us, and the park was very hot and crowded that day," she recalls. "Two of my kids have cystic fibrosis and could use a special pass to bypass the lines. But my 13-year-old went and lost his. Out of nowhere, I yelled, 'You've got to be bleeping kidding me. What the hell is wrong with you?' Immediately, my son started to cry. He had never heard me swear or be so mean to him, and he was devastated. Everyone standing around us was looking at me in disgust. I had to keep apologizing. Tears were streaming down my face because I had obviously hurt him so much."
A University of New Hampshire study found that 90 percent of parents admitted to having hollered at their children, ages 2 to 12, within the course of a year (the other 10 percent must have either been angels or had selective memories).
To avoid a scream-fest, try this trick: In that white-hot moment of anger, visualize your child as a baby, says Sandra P. Thomas, Ph.D., a professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and coauthor of Use Your Anger: A Woman's Guide to Empowerment. "Older kids and teens are not adorable like babies, and sometimes they can be very obnoxious," she explains. "When you remember them as the babies they once were, that can do some good."
So can taking a break. "If you're able, take a time-out and walk into another room, even if it's just for a minute or two," says psychologist Laura J. Petracek, Ph.D., author of The Anger Workbook for Women. The key here is getting some literal distance from the situation and recovering your sense of calm.
If your anger has already boiled over, the most important thing now is to own up to what you've done wrong. Don't give in to the temptation to blame your child for triggering your outburst. "Say, 'I am very disappointed at your carelessness, but I shouldn't have yelled like that. It was wrong for me to lose it in that way, and I'm very sorry,' " advises Thomas. (Tip: Don't overdo the apology — if you dwell on it, it can make a kid feel as if he's truly been victimized.) Then promise that you will try your best not to do it again, comfort your child as needed, and move on.
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Jewish funerals usually take place in a synagogue, funeral home, or at a cemetery. By tradition, Jewish funerals are simple (symbolizing the belief that people are all equal in death), but they vary widely and have no set liturgy.
Sending flowers to a funeral or mourner's home is strongly discouraged in Judaism. Not only will the flowers wither and die in a few days (reminding everyone of the painful loss), but it's also trying to "pretty up" or hide a stark reality. Instead, simply offer your presence. It's customary, however, to give to a charity in memory of the one who died.
Just before the funeral, close relatives of the deceased observe the rite of k'riah, making a small rip — in a tie, a coat, a blouse, or perhaps the sleeve of a dress — as a symbol of grief. Many Jews pin a black ribbon to their jacket and then tear that. The point is that Judaism doesn't want you to just show up; it wants you to really show your grief, without regard to vanity or decorum, and the k'riah is like ripping open a bag of grief to allow the tears and strong emotions to fall out.
All men should wear a dark kippah (yarmulke) in the synagogue and at the gravesite as a sign of respect. One is usually provided if you don't have one.
Because idle conversation is generally discouraged during a funeral, it's best to remain silent or only participate in the prayers during the service.
At the end of the funeral, when the casket is lowered into the ground, the closest family or friends throw the first dirt over it, often using a shovel or even their hands. By having the mourners actively participate in the burial — to hear the earth landing on the casket — Jewish tradition ensures that people recognize the reality of death and helps them begin the process of letting go.
After the burial, rabbis often ask friends and more distant relatives to stand in two lines so that the immediate mourners can walk between them — a symbol that they aren't alone and that there is support for their grief. Those assembled say, "Ha-Makom y'nachem etchem b'toch sh'ar av'lay Tzion Veerushalayim." (May God comfort you together with all the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.")


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Following from the book "An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers" - Hardy & Wright I am having trouble with this proof. The book uses a familiar proof for the irrationality of e and continues into some generalizations that lose me.
In the following statement where is the series coming from or how is the statement derived?
$ f = f(x) = \frac{x^n(1 - x)^n}{n!} = \frac{1}{n!} \displaystyle\sum\limits_{m=n}^{2n} c_mx^m $
I understand that given $ 0 < x < 1 $ results in
$ 0 < f(x) < \frac{1}{n!} $
but I become confused on . . .
Again $f(0)=0$ and $f^{(m)}(0)=0$ if $m < n$ or $m > 2n.$ But, if $n \leq m \leq 2n $,
$ f^{(m)}(0)=\frac{m!}{n!}c_m $
an integer. Hence $f(x)$ and all its derivatives take integral values at $x=0.$ Since $f(1-x)=f(x),$ the same is true at $x=1.$
All wording kept intact!
The proof that follows actually makes sense when I take for granted the above. I can't however take it for granted as these are, for me, the more important details. So . . .


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As I come down the hallway, heads start popping out of cubicles and offices, all eyes turning in my direction. Some of my colleagues laugh, some frown. One looks terrified and flees. That's what happens, I suppose, when you show up at the office as a robot.
The robot is acting as my stand-in at work. For a week last spring, it roamed around IEEE Spectrum's New York City office while I sat in my pajamas at home in Brooklyn. From my laptop, over the Net, I could steer the robot, peer through its cameras, and talk to my colleagues. It's a bit like a video game, but instead of a virtual character, you're controlling a real avatar.
The robot has an alien-looking head with two big round eyes that's perched on a thin carbon-fiber pole. One eye captures high-definition video; the other shoots a green laser beam. The laser isn't for zapping coworkers you dislike but for pointing at things. My robotic proxy rolls on a two-wheeled base that balances just like a Segway. This is no humanoid C-3PO. It looks more like a floor lamp.
The robot is called QB, though my colleagues promptly nickname it EriBot. QB is what is known as a telepresence robot. It's the creation of Silicon Valley start-up Anybots, which will start selling the machines this month. Each will cost US $15 000—not exactly a bargain for a robot that doesn't even have arms (or a positronic brain, for that matter). But Anybots says that as a communications platform, QB lets remote workers collaborate with others in ways that a wall-mounted monitor in a conference room could never permit.
Embodying a QB, you'd be able to join impromptu meetings, drop by a coworker's office, even gossip at the water cooler. You could tour a distant facility or observe a live demonstration without having to hop on a plane. To paraphrase management guru Peter Drucker, why transport a whole body to work when all you need is the brain—a brain you can upload into a robot anywhere?
Indeed, becoming a robot has its advantages. Every morning, while my colleagues dragged their carbon-based bodies to the office, I'd open my laptop at home or in a coffee shop and, with a few mouse clicks, incarnate my robotic self. Call it robocommuting.
My goal was to find out how my robotic life compared to the real thing. But I also wanted to explore something more profound: Will telepresence robots eventually take people's places at work, whether we like it or not?
Artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky extolled the promises of telepresence in a 1980 manifesto in Omni magazine. "Eventually telepresence will improve and save old jobs and create new ones," he wrote. "Later, as we learn more about robotics, many human telepresence operators will be able to turn their tasks over to the robots and become 'supervisors.' "
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A Manifesto
Today at least five companies are selling or will soon start selling telepresence robots. Like QB, these are still relatively simple machines—glorified laptops on wheels. But proponents say that as computers, sensors, and motors get better and cheaper, telepresence robots will advance too, revolutionizing engineering collaborations, health care, even manual labor. Could this be the future of work?
To prepare an article like this one, I'd normally travel to different places to talk to people and see things up close. But given that this story is about telepresence, why not let robots do the reporting for me?
Here's how it started. Sitting at my computer in New York City, I log on to a QB robot at the Anybots office in Mountain View, Calif. There I meet Trevor Blackwell, Anybots' founder and CEO, an amiable guy with gray-white hair, thin glasses, and a soul patch. An entrepreneur, he founded Anybots in 2001 because he couldn't believe "there still weren't robots helping around [my] home and office."
Using QB, I follow Blackwell as he shows me around. Hanging from a crane is one of the first robots he and his small crew built. It's a sophisticated humanoid called Monty. Slap on sensor gloves and a backpack of electronics and you can get the robot to instantly replicate your movements, whether you're grasping a teacup or operating a power drill.
Monty also has a technology that became a key part of QB: a custom self-balancing wheel system. Blackwell says it's better than standard three- or four-wheeled bases for driving over bumps and around tight corners. It's also quite stable, which he once demonstrated by planting a kung fu kick on Monty's chest. The robot held its ground.
Blackwell's initial goal was to design a robot servant like Rosie from "The Jetsons." But rather than build an autonomous robot, which technologically was just too difficult, his idea was to have a human worker remotely control the robot. He envisioned the machine doing chores at people's homes or operating the fryolator at McDonald's.
Cost issues and technical complications eventually forced Anybots to scale back its vision. The company decided to focus instead on telepresence. Teleoperated robots have long been used to extend a human's reach into distant locations, such as space and deep under water, and in hazardous places like mines and nuclear reactors. But such robots are designed to perform specific tasks. Anybots wanted to focus on robots that let people be at a remote location. "After 100 years of advances in communications, where we discovered how to transmit text, voice, images, why not try to transmit presence?" Blackwell asks.
Building on what the company learned with Monty, it designed QA, a humanoid-looking robot with a sleek, white plastic body. That design got streamlined further, and QB was born. Behind its simple appearance is a neat combination of hardware and software. Inside the robot's base, the engineers crammed a computer running FreeBSD—a Unix-like operating system—two Wi-Fi cards, two DC motors, a pack of four 14.4-volt lithium-ion batteries, and a set of gyroscopes and accelerometers. Blackwell and three colleagues wrote software from scratch to control the robot and handle all networking and communication functions.
At the end of my tour at Anybots, I asked Blackwell if I could borrow a QB, expecting him to say, "Sure, just send me a $15 000 check." Instead he said, "When do you want it?"


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By Dr. Theresa M. Kelly Metaphysicist
I typically answer this question via my profiling methods, as the methods appear to identify the nature of the source of the anomalous information quite accurately despite the complexities surrounding such a question.
For many years I have worked along side individuals skilled in clairvoyant and mediumistic anomalous communication and have found certain characteristics exclusive to each type.
Typically, clairvoyants rank high in regards to category type Yellow, while mediums typically rank high in regards to category type Black. Throughout formulating psychical profiles, I have obtained more reports from type Yellows suggesting communications with "reality," the "universe" or "Nature" itself (as though Nature itself is a universal information system) then I have in regards to type Blacks.
In reports involving type Black experients of psychical phenomena, multiple or a single "entity" is typically reported. These entities vary in description from ancestors, recently deceased relatives, spirits of the deceased in general, or those describe as non-human (angels, messengers of the gods, etc.).
While such is not always the case, as there are no pure types (i.e. people tend to blend into two to three major types), those who score high in regards to type Yellow typically communicate with Nature, while those who score high in regards to type Black typically communicate with entities. This is of course a generalized answer.
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JavaFX Coding Challenge Grand Prize winner talks about JavaFX and developing Music Explorer FX
By Maijaliisa Burkert on Jul 29, 2009
Reviews Interactive recently sat down with Sten Anderson, developer of the grand prize winning JavaFX Coding Challenge application, Music Explorer FX. Sten has been working with Java since the late '90s and is currently a Senior Consultant for the software consultancy, Citytech, in Chicago. Sten began working with JavaFX at the time of the preview release, in August 2008. Sten said he learned JavaFX through trial and error, but claimed "I found it fairly easy to get up to speed in the new language, which is more of a testament to the language design than it is my ability to learn new things."
Sten found that the most useful aspect of JavaFX in developing Music Explorer FX was "its near-seamless integration with the Java language and platform." Sten also pointed out that he "would not have been able to write the application in the same time-frame without being able to lean on my existing Java knowledge." Sten noted that as a Java developer he "found the syntax of JavaFX a welcome respite from the more verbose Java language."
Read more of Sten's interview and listen to him talk about JavaFX, and how he used it to build Music Explorer FX in a podcast in Reviews Interactive.


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Phones to outnumber humans by the end of the year
There are almost more mobile phones on the planet than there are humans, according to a new report.
Star Citizen crowdfunding total hits $50m
More than $50 million has been donated to Cloud Imperium Games for the development of upcoming space exploration title Star Citizen.
SONY: PS4 install base hits 10m
The PlayStation 4 has sold over 10m units worldwide.
Watch Dogs has shipped 8m units
Ubisoft has confirmed some highly impressive numbers for new IP Watch Dogs.
The six-year-old Apple App Store in numbers
Apple's App Store has reached the ripe old age of six, and as of right now contains some 1,252,777 apps.
eSports viewing almost doubled in 2013
New numbers suggest the boom in eSports is showing no sign of abating.
'Titanfall was a pretty big miss for EA and Respawn' claims Forbes
EA's decision not share concrete sales numbers for Titanfall in its recent financial report suggests the game missed expectations, Forbes has speculated.
Nintendo posts third year of losses as Wii U misses targets, expects machine to increase sales in year ahead
Wii U fell just short of Nintendo's already reduced sales forecasts in Nintendo's last financial year, leading to a third straight annual loss for the firm.
Assassin's Creed series hits 73m units sold
Ubisoft has said that global sales for games in the Assassin's Creed series have now hit 73m units.
GamesAid tenner raises £6,371 at MCV Awards
Thanks to the generosity of the UK games industry, last week's GamesAid Tenner at the MCV Awards raised an incredible £6,371.
InFamous: Second Son sells 1m units in nine days
Sony's PS4 exclusive InFamous: Second Son has broken new records for the series.
PS4 camera boasts 15% attach rate, nears 1m sales
Sony has to date sold around 900,000 PlayStation Cameras designed for use with PS4.
Raspberry Pi sales hit 2.5m units
Credit-card sized computer Raspberry Pi has sold 2.5 million units around the world.
$10bn+ spent on the Apple App Store in 2013
Apple has revealed that over $10bn was spent on its App Store throughout 2013.
Standalone DayZ sells 800,000 copies in 18 days
The phenomenal success of the standalone alpha release of DayZ is showing no sign of letting up.
Xbox One sells 2m units in 18 days
Microsoft has confirmed that Xbox One has sold 2m units on its first 18 days of availability.
PS4 has sold over 250k in the UK
Over 250k PS4 consoles were sold in the UK in the machine's first 48 hours on sale.
Xbox One sells 150k units in 48 hours in UK
Microsoft's Xbox One sold around 150k units in its first 48 hours in the UK, MCV understands.
Now PS3 sales reach 80m units
Sony has revealed that worldwide PS3 sales have, as of November 1st, reached 80m units.
Assassin's Creed series surpasses 6.6m UK sales
Assassin's Creed has now sold over 6.6m units in the UK, Ubisoft has told MCV.
80% of Payday 2's 1.58m sales were digital
The increasing importance of tracking digital sales has been highlighted once again by multiplayer heist shooter Payday 2.
Just Dance eclipses 5m UK sales
Just Dance has now sold over 5m units in the UK, says Ubisoft.
INFOGRAPHIC: Some very large Call of Duty numbers
Activision has just sent out an infographic detailing a history of the Call of Duty series' multiplayer mode.
Nintendo has sold 654.12 million consoles in the last 30 years
654.12m. That amazingly high figure is the number of consoles that Nintendo has sold in the last 30 years.
The quiet success of Ubisoft's Rocksmith
The music genre is dead, right? Erm, no, perhaps not.


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Ext JS 4.1.1 Download/CDN update
Hi All,
A couple folks reported two minor issues with the deployment of Ext JS 4.1.1 GA, so I first wanted to apologize and second wanted to pass along that these issues have been fixed.
#1 - The version number reported was not correctly updated to 4.1.1 (it was still reporting 4.1.0 - http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...rsion-as-4.1.0). This one character is the only content change to the ZIP's and CDN.
#2 - The deployment name was incorrect ("extjs-4.1.1" vs. "ext-4.1.1" - see http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...l=1#post849507). The incorrect name was given to the ZIP's and the CDN URL. The ZIP names have been corrected and now replace the incorrect versions:
Commercial - http://cdn.sencha.com/ext-4.1.1-commercial.zip
GPL - http://cdn.sencha.com/ext-4.1.1-gpl.zip
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Commercial - http://cdn.sencha.com/ext-4.1.1-commercial/
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Any time the Texas Rangers score 7 or more runs, all regular priced items at papajohns.com are HALF PRICE with promo code RANGERS7 the following day. Since the Rangers racked up 18 on the Red Sox last night, the promo code works today. This deal may only work in Texas or the DFW area.
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Probably local, no go in Tampa, Florida. Wish we could get a PJ's code that works in Florida.
no go in Space Coast FL
Orlando FL - Fail. we florida peeps really want a pizza deal.
Good in austin, God bless Texas. Only works with regular price menu items. $8.12 including tax for The buffalo chicken, it's pretty good.
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The 5 Weirdest Ways Music Can Mess With the Human Brain
#2. It Changes Your Drinking Habits
Did you ever wake up in the back of a taxi after a long night of tossing down cognac and prune juice and wonder how your pants got replaced by a thick but clumsily applied coat of colorful body paint? Well, now there's something to blame it on besides your bad childhood: music.
What they play in the bar doesn't just affect how much you drink, but what you drink.
Nothing goes with Lady Gaga like cheap, awful tequila.
How the hell does music do that?
Did you know you can make a person buy more expensive wine just by playing classical music? Experiments prove it. It makes people feel like they're in a wine commercial or in a movie depicting refined, snooty rich people. OK, that one sort of makes sense -- we doubt anyone ever drank Wild Irish Rose while listening to Vivaldi.
But in another blind study, different types of music playing in the background caused drinkers to change how they'd described the drinks they already had. Laid-back music led people to rate drinks as "mellow," and upbeat music resulted in more people calling their drinks "refreshing." Even stranger, in another study researchers placed German and French wines in supermarkets, with small flags next to each display so customers could tell which countries they came from. They then played some unobtrusive international music in the background. When German music was played, the percentage of German sales rose, and vice versa.
Listening to this would inspire us to drink, too.
This wasn't because customers thought to themselves, Ah! Germany! I will celebrate the Fatherland with some nice wine! Questionnaires showed that customers couldn't recall what type of music was playing and thought they'd chosen a particular wine simply because they'd felt like it.
The people selling you the drinks know all of this stuff -- or at least, the successful ones do. We've pointed out before that bars and nightclubs often play fast music to increase alcohol-based profit. But other establishments, particularly upscale restaurants, prefer slow, relaxing music, which, believe it or not, can also make you drink more. The tempo of music is linked to your body's arousal level, or the "speed" at which your nervous system operates. Fast music heightens arousal (heh), so patrons will do everything more quickly, including eating and drinking and leaving their infant by the salad bar. Which is good for a restaurant owner if he's just concerned with getting you out the door so he can serve more (and presumably better) people.
"Here's the check. You have exactly seven minutes to fuck off."
On the other hand, slower music means that you eat at a more leisurely pace. Maybe you'll even stay to chat with your companions after you're done with your meal. All this time passing means you're likely to buy more drinks every time the waiter comes around to ask, and at a restaurant that's charging $70 a bottle, that makes up for any lost table space.
Some restaurants go as far as to purchase a personalized selection of songs specially designed by "sound branding" companies, which select songs based on whatever tempo or atmosphere the restaurant is aiming to achieve.
Italian goes down better with GWAR.
#1. It Makes You a Better Communicator
How does a narcissistic ass like John Mayer, who isn't even that attractive, still have hot women of all ages throwing themselves at him? It's the guitar, isn't it?
Acoustic guitars: Getting douchebags laid since 1100 C.E.
Actually, a trained musician like Mayer would probably be able to talk a woman into his bed without ever even playing a note. It turns out that studying music gives you an advantage when it comes to perceiving the emotions of others, so all those years of being chained to a piano as a child are finally going to work in your favor.
You'll have to find something else to resent your mother over.
People who can play instruments at near-professional level can detect subtle emotional changes and intonations in the vocal tones of others. In other words, they know whether you are actually sad when you say you're fine, even when most non-musicians would have no idea. Not only that, but the fact that they studied music makes them better able to tune out background noise, so they are even better at paying attention to what you are saying in that crowded restaurant or bar.
How the hell does music do that?
Research shows that people who have studied music actually have brains wired differently than non-musicians. This rewiring makes them better able to express emotions they are feeling, but it also makes them more able to understand the emotions others express. Music is very emotional, and people wired to understand those subtle emotional changes can also detect them in the vocal tones of someone talking. The emotion of the music translates to knowing when your boss is secretly mad or your mother is secretly disappointed.
Although let's be honest -- her disappointment has never been a secret.
The sooner you start learning music, the more pronounced this re-wiring is. Scientists think that teaching children music might help kids with autism better understand vocal cues and encode speech. The fact that this brain re-wiring helps them tune out background noise could also help kids stay focused in noisy classrooms. It is also something that gets better the more you play, so sticking to your piano lessons now could lead to a powerful advantage in your future dating world.
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How to prove that $(1 + x)^\frac{1}{b}$ (where $b$ is an integer) can be expressed as a formal power series without using Binomial theorem?
The coefficient recurrence arises from the obvious first-order differential equation, namely
$$\rm\ \frac{y'}y\ =\ (log\ y)'\:=\ \bigg(\frac{log(1+x)}b\bigg)'\:=\ \frac{1}{b\ (1+x)}\ \ \ \Rightarrow\ \ \ y\: =\ b\ (1+x)\ y'$$
Therefore $\displaystyle\rm\ \ y\ =\ \sum_{k\ge 0}\ a_k x^k\ =\ b\ (1+x)\ \sum_{k\ge 0}\ (k+1)\ a_{k+1}\ x^k\:,\ \: $ which, after algebra, yields
$$\rm a_{k+1}\ =\ \frac{1-b\:k}{b\:(k+1)}\ a_k,\ \ \ a_0 = 1$$
As a check, note that it yields the binomial formula for $\rm\ b = 1/n,\ y = (1+x)^n\ $ since then
$$\rm \frac{a_{k+1}}{a_k}\ =\ \frac{n-k}{k+1}\ =\ \frac{n\choose k+1\:}{n\choose k\:}$$
and $\rm\ a_k = 0\ $ for $\rm\ k > n\ $ since the above implies $\rm\ a_{n+1} = 0\ $ hence $\rm\ a_{n+i} = 0\ $ for all $\rm\:i>0\:.$
I don't think you mean it is (literally) a formal power series, because it isn't. It can be expressed as a formal power series (in $x$), because it is an analytic function of $x$ in a neighbourhood of $x=0$. You could use the Inverse Function Theorem for that.
We are looking for a power series $f=1+a_1x+a_2x^2+\cdots$ such that $f^b=1+x$. Writing out $f^b$, you get $1+ba_1x+g_2(a_1,a_2)x^2+g_3(a_1,a_2,a_3)x^3+\cdots$, where $g_i(a_1,a_2,\ldots,a_i)$ is a linear function of the coefficients. Then for $f^b=1+x$, we need to solve a system of equations $$ba_1=1$$ $$g_2(a_1,a_2)=0$$ $$g_3(a_1,a_2,a_3)=0$$ $$\vdots$$ This gives us an infinite system of equations which can be solved iteratively, starting with $a_1=1/b$.
We do it for $b>0$. A similar argument will work for $b<0$. Note that the argument is purely formal.
So we are trying to find $a_0$, $a_1$, $a_2$, and so on such that $$1+x=(a_0+a_1x+a_2x^2+ \cdots +a_nx^n +\cdots)^b$$ where equality is meant in the formal sense. It is clear that we want $a_0=1$ and $a_1=1/b$.
There is a natural proof by induction, if we choose the induction hypothesis correctly.
That is easy. Let $c_{n+1}$ be the coefficient of $x^{n+1}$ in $(a_0+a_1x+ \cdots +a_nx^n)^b$. Define $a_{n+1}$ by $ba_{n+1}=-c_{n+1}$.
We can use Newton's method to find a root to the function
$$ g(t) = t^b - (1+x) $$
by using the iteration
$$t_{n+1} = t_n - \frac{g(t_n)}{g'(t_n)} = t_n - \frac{t_n^b - (1+x)}{b t_n^{b-1}} $$
We can see this converges by observing that if the reciprocal of $t_n$ is a formal power series (i.e. its leading coefficient is nonzero) and we have
$$ g(t_n) \equiv 0 \pmod{x^k} $$
then we must also have have
$$ t_{n+1} \equiv t_n \pmod{x^k} $$
and the Taylor series formula gives
$$ \begin{align*}g(t_{n+1}) &= g(t_n) - g'(t_n) \frac{g(t_n)}{g'(t_n)} \mod{\left(\frac{g(t_n)}{g'(t_n)}\right)^2} \\ &=0 \mod x^{2k} \end{align*} $$
If we set $t_0 = 1$, then it's easy to check that
$$g(t_0) \equiv 0 \pmod x \qquad \qquad t_n \equiv 1 \pmod x $$
and thus the limit of this sequence is a formal power series that is a root of $g(t)$.


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I'm trying to figure out what is using all of the memory in my Macbook Pro running OS X Lion. I have 8 GB of memory total. When I quit all active programs except Finder and Activity Monitor, then run a memory cleanup (FreeMemory) it shows about 5 GB of Free Memory, 1 GB of Active Memory, and 1.5 of Wired memory. Support docs say Wired Memory is full of stuff that "can't be moved to disk". What is taking up all of that memory? Is it the menubar processes? I have mozy, last.fm, dropbox, and growl running in the menubar but they all appear in Activity Manager and don't appear to be using a significant amount of memory. I also run Parallels but it is shut down completely so I thought all of it's stuff should be written to disk. Is it just Mac OS X using a reserved chunk of memory and labeling it "Wired"?
From what I can tell, wired memory belongs to the kernel, the innermost core of Mac OS X. It's many layers removed from the icons in the menubar, which are just ordinary apps showing themselves in an odd way.
Wired memory is used for some of the core functions of the operating system—things like keeping track of all the applications on your system, or open files and network connections, or chunks of memory used by various drivers. The "page tables" that form a map of your system's memory are also stored in wired memory, and a system with more memory needs larger page tables. I suspect that the memory used by the integrated video chips in most Macs is wired as well, but I can't find anything that says that outright. In any case, much of this information is needed to manage and access memory, and so it can't itself be swapped out to disk!
To understand why, imagine an enormous library. Think of, for example, the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, which has eleven million printed items. There's no way you could possibly fit all that stuff into a single building—certainly not one in the middle of a university campus.
So instead, imagine that the librarians construct a vast warehouse. (The real Bodleian Library has about forty sub-libraries of various descriptions, plus storage for really rare books, but this is a thought experiment.) Most of the books are kept in the warehouse, but anything that's been used recently is kept in the library. If you show up at the library looking for a book, and it's in the stacks there, you can read it immediately. If not, ask a librarian and the book you want will be transported from the warehouse and given to you the next day.
The information in wired memory, then, would be things like the card catalog, keys to the book delivery trucks, and maps of the route to the warehouse. If you stored these things in the warehouse, you could never retrieve books to bring them back to the library—so they must be kept in the library at all times, lest the whole system break down.
Anyway, getting back to practical considerations: wired memory is basically used by your computer for internal bookkeeping of various sorts. You shouldn't worry about it.
And don't worry if you have lots of "inactive" memory and little "free" memory, either. Inactive memory is basically memory that Mac OS is keeping something in on the off chance it's needed again; if your system needs that memory for something else, it'll be converted to free memory without any performance hit.
To extend the library metaphor, imagine that the library keeps books that have been recently used in the stacks. The space is there in the stacks; there's no use leaving it empty, so you might as well keep the books you already have there. There's no harm in it, and sometimes someone will be able to pick up a book immediately that he would otherwise have had to wait for.
Similarly, inactive memory can only speed things up; it can't hurt your computer, so don't worry about it being too high.
Really, you shouldn't worry about your memory use unless wired + active starts getting close to the 8 GB in your computer. That's when you could get into trouble, because that's when Mac OS will start consuming disk space to add "extra" memory, damaging performance considerably.
Otherwise, you might as well have something in that memory. Ultimately, unused memory is just a waste of power—if you have it, you might as well put it to use.
Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor
from support.apple.com gives a detailed explanation about the different "types" of RAM.
Mac OS X is a modern OS, thus is uses virtual memory to make it appear to apps that memory space is no object. Most recently used apps will tend to be moved to RAM, less used apps will be moved to the hard disk (page ins and page outs are a sign of that movement). The OS will not use the hard drive until it runs out of space in RAM.
There is no specific app that will "cause" this wired memory to accumulate. The OS is managing every parts of itself and the apps you launched to make the best use of the RAM you have.
Quitting unused apps, or better yet, restarting the computer will be the most efficient way to "clean up" the memory. FreeMemory does a good job, and am surprised the OS isn't doing such operation from time to time… it's nice to have a status on free memory though!
There are several very good answers and I wanted to add a tool that anyone can use to document exactly what wired memory is in use - so a specific answer as opposed to a general explanation of the categories.
In the case where all Applications are quit and there is still a sizable amount of wired memory, you can use the
Then save / move the tar.gz archive of results out of /var/tmp to the Desktop so that they don't get erased upon reboot.
Then reboot your Mac and before launching any extra programs, repeat the
'Oh yeah, and wired memory turns out to be memory "used by the OS [which] is pretty much untouchable. Another application can't 'borrow' wired memory'
from tuaw http://www.tuaw.com/2007/03/06/just-what-is-wired-memory-anyway/
For a definitive, although OS specific, answer, from Memory Usage Performance Guidelines:
virtual memory is basically free __ space used as an extension of ram


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This is showing up as $799.99 for me. Is there some coupon that I'm supposed to use?
Not well reviewed, and deal prolly dead anyway.