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Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (NRTIs) for Chronic Hepatitis B
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How It Works
Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) are medicines that slow the ability of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) to multiply in the body. They are taken as pills once a day for at least a year, and usually much longer. Entecavir is also available as a liquid that you swallow.
Adefovir, entecavir, telbivudine, and tenofovir are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in adults. Lamivudine is approved for use by adults and by children ages 2 to 17.
Why It Is Used
NRTIs are used to treat long-term (chronic) HBV infection in adults and children who are at risk for liver disease. The American Association for the Study of Liver Disease has made recommendations on who should receive treatment for chronic hepatitis B based on the presence of hepatitis B antigens in your blood, the level of hepatitis B virus DNA (HBV DNA) in your blood, and the levels of the liver enzyme alanine aminotransferase (ALT).1
How Well It Works
Treatment for HBV infection is considered successful if blood tests show that the virus is no longer multiplying in the body, if liver enzyme levels return to normal, and if liver damage (such as inflammation and scarring) improves. NRTIs work in most of the people who take them, but relapse (the virus starts to multiply again) is common after a medicine is stopped, so you may have to take the medicine for a long time.1, 2
Some studies of entecavir show that it works better than lamivudine or adefovir.3, 4, 5
Adefovir is effective against HBV infections that have become resistant to lamivudine.1 A study showed that treatment with adefovir worked better for some people with chronic hepatitis B if the medicine was taken for 144 weeks than if it was taken for only 48 weeks.6
Tenofovir is effective at reducing the amount of hepatitis B virus in the body.7
The hepatitis B virus may develop resistance to some of the NRTIs:1
- After 1 year of treatment with lamivudine, up to one-third of hepatitis B viruses may be resistant to the medicine. After 5 years of treatment, up to 70% of HBV may be resistant to lamivudine.
- Resistance is less of a problem with telbivudine than with lamivudine. But resistance to telbivudine goes up greatly after one year of treatment.
- Resistance is less of a problem with adefovir. After 5 years of adefovir treatment, about one-fifth (20%) of HBV was resistant to the medicine.
- Resistance is rare with entecavir, especially when it is used as the first medicine to treat hepatitis B. It is more common when entecavir is used after lamivudine treatment.
- Tenofovir works better than adefovir against hepatitis B virus that is resistant to lamivudine.8
- Not many studies about resistance to tenofovir have been reported..
Side Effects
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
- Usually the benefits of the medicine are more important than any minor side effects.
- Side effects may go away after you take the medicine for a while.
- If side effects still bother you and you wonder if you should keep taking the medicine, call your doctor. He or she may be able to lower your dose or change your medicine. Do not suddenly quit taking your medicine unless your doctor tells you to.
Call911or other emergency services right away if you have:
- Trouble breathing.
- Swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Call your doctor if you:
- Have belly pain or unusual muscle pain.
- Have weakness or pain in an arm or leg.
- Feel sick to your stomach or feel unusually cold.
- Feel dizzy or have a fast heartbeat.
- Notice yellowing of your skin or the whites of your eyes (jaundice).
- Develop hives.
Common side effects of these medicines include:
- Fever.
- Feeling tired or weak.
- Headache.
- Sore throat.
- Diarrhea.
Adefovir and tenofovir may harm your kidneys if you are at risk for or have a kidney problem.
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
What To Think About
It is important to talk to your doctor about all the medicines and herbal remedies you are taking. These may affect how well your medicine for chronic hepatitis B works.
After treatment with any type of NRTI is stopped, your infection may come back (relapse), and you may need to start taking the same or a different medicine again.
There have been some studies combining lamivudine with peginterferon. The studies have had different results about how well combining these medicines works compared to using only one medicine.9, 10
Adefovir may affect how well medicines for HIV work.
Taking medicine
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Advice for women
If you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant, do not use any medicines unless your doctor tells you to. Some medicines can harm your baby. This includes prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, herbs, and supplements. And make sure that all your doctors know that you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
Lok SFL, McMahon BJ (2009). Chronic Hepatitis B: Update 2009. Available online: http://www.aasld.org/practiceguidelines/Documents/Bookmarked%20Practice%20Guidelines/Chronic_Hep_B_Update_2009%208_24_2009.pdf.
Hadziyannis SJ, et al. (2003). Adefovir dipivoxil for the treatment of hepatitis B e antigen-negative chronic hepatitis B. New England Journal of Medicine, 348(9): 800-807.
Chang T-T, et al. (2006). A comparison of entecavir and lamivudine for HBeAg-positive chronic hepatitis B. New England Journal of Medicine, 354(10): 1001-1010.
Lai C-L, et al. (2006). Entecavir versus lamivudine for patients with HBeAg-negative chronic hepatitis B. New England Journal of Medicine, 354(10): 1011-1020.
Leung N, et al. (2009). Early hepatitis B virus DNA reduction in hepatitis B e antigen-positive patients with chronic hepatitis B: A randomized international study of entecavir versus adefovir. Hepatology, 49(1): 72-79.
Hadziyannis, SJ, et al. (2005). Long-term therapy with adefovir dipivoxil for HBeAg-negative chronic hepatitis B. New England Journal of Medicine, 352(26): 2673-2681.
Reynaud L, et al. (2009). Tenofovir and its potential in the treatment of hepatitis B virus. Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, 5(1): 177-185.
Hann H-W, et al. (2008). Tenofovir (TDF) has stronger antiviral effect than adefovir (ADV) against lamivudine (LAM)-resistant hepatitis B virus (HBV). Hepatology International, 2(2): 244-249.
Chan HLY, et al. (2005). A randomized, controlled trial of combination therapy for chronic hepatitis B: Comparing pegylated interferon alfa-2b and lamivudine with lamivudine alone. Annals of Internal Medicine, 142(4): 240-250.
Janssen, H (2005). Pegylated interferon alfa-2b alone or in combination with lamivudine for HBeAg-positive chronic hepatitis B: A randomised trial. Lancet, 365(9454): 123-129.
ByHealthwise Staff
Primary Medical ReviewerKathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine
Specialist Medical ReviewerW. Thomas London, MD - Hepatology
Current as ofNovember 14, 2014
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The Hahn-Banach theorem implies that Lebesgue measure can be extended give a "measure" on all subsets of [0,1], but this measure is only guaranteed to be finitely additive. It might magically turn out that this measure is countably additive, but this can only happen if the continuum is a real-valued measurable cardinal, a strong set-theoretic assumption. My question is: if it turns out that measure is countably additive on the measure zero sets, does this imply that the measure is countably additive everywhere?
The answer is no. A proof can be found here.
Note that even if the measure is only finitely additive, the ideal of null sets will still be countably saturated. The usual arguments involving Ulam matrices, such as can be found in Jech (Chapter 10) or other texts on set theory, show that if there is a countably additive, countably saturated ideal on some set then there is a weakly inaccessible cardinal. Hence, if no such cardinal exists then, as Emil has corrected me, the Hahn-Banach extension of Lebesgue measure will be countably additive on Lebesgue null sets but not on all nulls. This does not answer your question, but does show that the weaker hypothesis still requires large cardinals.
By the way, you may want to look at the paper by Joan Hart and Ken Kunen titled "Weak Measure Extension Axioms" in Topology and Applications 85 (1998) 219-246 to see what can be said about extensions of measures to measure certain sets.


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Deep Trouble EliminatorWritten by on October 4, 2012
It's not a long-forgotten factory racing secret. The quickest way to move a '60s muscle car down a dragstrip faster is to equip it with a swift-shifting, close-ratio four-speed and a set of deep rearend gears. This time-proven combination works great for lower e.t.'s, but at the end of the quarter-mile the engine is revving at its maximum. On the street, making a habit of running near redline can lead to a host of mechanical problems, not to mention uncomfortable sound levels and rotten gas mileage.
That was the challenge facing Bob Wells of Laguna Beach, California, owner of a mint '62 Ford M-code Galaxie optioned with 4.56 gears. He wanted to bring down the rpm for street use without destroying the car's legendary dragstrip acceleration.
For those unfamiliar, the M-code in the car's VIN means it's one of just a few early '62 Galaxies specially built by the Ford factory for drag racing. Bob's car in particular was race prepped by the late Les Ritchey and competed from 1962 to 1964. Bob holds a special affection for this car since Ritchey was his first boss. In addition to preserving its instantaneous acceleration, Bob wanted to keep the M-code's original personality, so the answer wasn't to slap in a late-model five-speed. The gear spacing is incorrect, and Bob says attempting to shift one fast feels like trying to churn broken glass into butter.
Researching the subject, Bob learned about Gear Vendors, which manufactures an under/overdrive unit with a one-size-fits-all design that's suitable for every application imaginable thanks to a vast selection of special adapters. The adapter—an extension housing—bolts directly in place of an automatic or manual transmission's tailshaft housing. Mounted inline behind the transmission, the stubby Gear Vendors unit requires shortening the driveshaft about a foot. The unit weighs about 32 pounds and is capable of handling up to 2,000 hp.
For a street/strip car such as Bob's, there's a lot more to be gained by installing a Gear Vendors under/overdrive than just the benefits of bumping its 4.56 rearend up to a taller ratio, though that is one happy result of the installation. The overdriven Fourth gear gives the Galaxie the equivalent of a 3.56 final drive ratio (see chart), bringing all the fuel economy and noise muffling improvements that come with fewer revs at highway speeds. Gear Vendors says most cars with performance rearend ratios (3.42s to 4.10s) should see a 22- to 28-percent improvement in highway fuel economy.
There's another benefit too. Imagine the fastest-shifting Art Carr TorqueFlite or B&M Turbohydro ever beefed, and then multiply its quickness times two. In between the Ford Top Loader's 2.32-ratio First gear and 1.69 Second, the GV unit splits the difference with a 1.80-ratio First-Overdrive gear, actuated using a concealed button on the Hurst shifter. The driver doesn't need to use the clutch or let off on the throttle during that shift, so the engine's speed doesn't drop between shifts, keeping it in its optimal powerband. The driver can then decide to upshift into Second, Second-Overdrive, or even Third depending on conditions.
The unit also has what Gear Vendors calls an AutoLaunch feature, which drag racers will surely appreciate. This allows you to launch the car in First gear with First-Overdrive preselected. The GV unit will automatically shift into First-Over at a set speed, getting you farther down the track before you have to hit the clutch pedal to upshift again. A tech tip from Gear Vendors: Flip the Third-Fourth shift lever upside-down and you can then go straight to Third in what had been the Fourth gear gate. That lets you do the entire run with just one clutch depression: First, First-Over, Third, Third-Over.
The Gear Vendors under/overdrive's ability to split gears up or down at a second's notice without having to lift off the gas, coupled with dropping revs on the highway, makes it hard to beat. Bob said after driving the M-code home from El Cajon in overdrive, he just might put a Gear Vendors unit in every car he owns—including his '61 Starliner with a built 427 and 4.11 gears.
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At the heart of the M-code Galaxie is the 390-inch, 401hp Tri-power FE motor. A veteran of the early Super Stock wars, this engine was all business, from its high-performance solid-lifter block with heavier webbing to its cast-iron headers.The Gear Vendors high-performance under/overdrive, manufactured in California, provides a 22-percent reduction in engine rpm at a given road speed. At 4,500 rpm, for example, it will knock off nearly 1,000 rpm.Gear Vendors includes a template to check that there's enough clearance for its unit to fit inside the transmission tunnel.The tight transmission tunnel on '62-'63 Ford Galaxies reflects the era's insistence on a flatter floor. A 2-pound ball-peen hammer was used to slightly open up the area.The first step in the unit's installation was to remove the driveshaft and then pull the M-code's BorgWarner Super T10 transmission. Four bolts attach it to the stock cast-iron bellhousing.After the rear of the engine was supported with a transmission jack placed under the bellhousing, the transmission crossmember was removed. Up top the shifter and shift boot were removed, and then it was time to drop the Super T10.Gear Vendors manufactures an extension housing to adapt its unit to a Super T10, but using it will move the location of the shift lever rearward by about 2 inches—a tough fit, given the Galaxie's bench seat.Considering the Ford Top Loader's capacity to handle high horsepower much better than a Super T10, Bob opted to swap the BorgWarner trans for close-ratio Top Loader. Here Rick Johnson compares the slight gain in overall length the Gear Vendors adds to a Top Loader. Using the Top Loader maintains the shift lever's stock position. We want to give Mopars by Jack in El Cajon, California, special thanks for going through the Top Loader before it was installed.
A straight shot is essential: A clutch pilot tool ensured that the new clutch and pressure plate were aligned and centered on the flywheel. Attempting to force the transmission into a misaligned clutch, or allowing the transmission's weight to hang on the clutch plate, will warp the clutch disc.With the Top Loader's four mounting bolts tightened at the bellhousing, the next step was to bolt the transmission mount and crossmember into place.There's only one clearance to check before bolting the Gear Vendors unit to the extension housing. A straightedge determines whether you need the shim that Gear Vendors includes with its kit.Hurst's Competition Plus shifter has ruled the dragstrip since its introduction more than 30 years ago. A good tech tip to save time and make installation easier: Rick Johnson showed us how to tape the shift linkage together to prevent losing its adjustment.This look from directly below shows the Gear Vendors unit being positioned. Special care was taken not to overtorque the quarter-inch mounting studs. Overtorquing can break studs, leaving a hideous mess to clean up.This view reveals Gear Vendors' speedometer angle-drive unit attached to the company's speedometer cable extension kit. Returning to a stock speedometer cable arrangement is easily done. Note the drain plug in the finned aluminum oil pan. Oil capacity is 28 ounces, and the recommended change interval is 5,000 miles.There's not a lot of wiring involved other than two wires that run to the solenoid. Given the evidence that the driveshaft was blown out of the car at some point in its life, it might be a good idea to add a driveshaft loop in the near future.Gear Vendors offers a full assortment of pushbutton gearshift knobs, including Hurst's distinctive T-handle. Bob preferred to go with the stealth treatment and opted for a stock-appearing black four-speed knob fitted with a barely visible black pushbutton.


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The Jefferson County Fourth Street Health Center held its Young Ambassadors kickoff pizza party Nov. 18 at Wintersville United Methodist Church.
Young Ambassadors were educated on the workings of the health center by Dr. Frank Petrola, the center's medical director.
Kelly Camarote of WTOV TV 9 discussed the importance of volunteering in the community.
Any Jefferson County sophomore, junior or senior interested in becoming a Young Ambassador can contact Jaye Lynn Needham, Young Ambassadors co-chair, at (740) 283-7220. Young Ambassadors work on fundraising projects to benefit the health center. The students compete for scholarships to be awarded at the health center gala held in April.
Upcoming projects for the Young Ambassadors will include a comedy show in February featuring Heywood Banks, a nationally known comedian. Heywood will perform a family oriented show on Feb. 17 at the Mingo Knights of Columbus Hall. Opening for him will be magician-comedian Dennis Regling.
Tickets are $30 and available by contacting Barb Steitz, Young Ambassadors co-chair, at (740) 283-7028.
Young Ambassadors include Katherine Moore, Catholic Central High School; Katie Ching, Steubenville High School; Sarah Mamula, SHS; Lashauna Wilson, SHS; Faith Bauman, SHS; Alyson Westfall, SHS; Mark Lopez, CCHS; Anthony Young, Indian Creek High School; Jake Mamula, ICHS; Jocelyn Wolpert, ICHS; Malieka Gurrera, ICHS; and Nikki Skeens, SHS.


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BERARDUCCI, Pete N., 86, of Follansbee, WV, passed away on November 6, 2012, at Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA.
Pete was born on June 28, 2012, in Follansbee, WV, the son of the late Nicola and Italia (Monaco) Berarducci.
Pete was a veteran serving in the United States Army. He was a member of St. Anthony's Catholic Church, Follansbee, WV, and St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church, Weirton, WV. Pete was a member of Theta Khi Alpha Fraternity and the Garibaldi Lodge, both of Follansbee, WV. He retired from Timet, Toronto, OH.
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In addition to his parents, Pete was preceded in death by his wife, Edna (Powell) Berarducci, a son-in-law, Raymond W. Jones, two sisters, Evelyn Manley and Angeline Kurcina and an infant brother and sister, Daniel and Isalene Berarducci.
Pete is survived by a daughter, Brenda Jones of Delaware, a grandson, Jeffrey McManus of Ft. Wayne IN, a brother, Isadore (Josephine) Berarducci of OH, twin sisters, Inez Oliver of Weirton, WV and Anna Crocetti of CA, and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Family and Friends will be received on Friday, November 9, 2012 from 5-8 p.m. with a Vigil Service at 7:30 p.m. at the James Funeral Home 1245 Main Street, Follansbee, where funeral will commence on Saturday, November 10, 2012 at 9 a.m.
Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Saturday, November 10, 2012 at 10 a.m. at St. Anthony's Catholic Church, 1017 Jefferson Street, Follansbee, WV with his cousin, Father Pete Giannamore, presiding
Interment will follow with full military honors by the Ohio Valley Veterans Memorial Squad in Oak Grove Cemetery, Follansbee, WV.
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I eat a hot pocket for lunch at least twice a week. They almost always split down the sides when I microwave them. I don't just the full time (2 minutes instead of 2:15) but they still regularly split. This makes them very hard to eat.
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How to Make School Lunches Eco-Friendly
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School lunches can be a controversial issue as the government worries about the rising levels of childhood obesity, schools worry about funding for meals, and you worry about your child getting healthy, green meals. Address all these issues by making a presentation to the principal and possibly the school board to persuade them that the food the schools serve should be as green as possible.
Outline the health issues involved. Cutting down on fat and sugar content and boosting fresh fruit and vegetables, for example, can help children maintain healthy weight levels and boost their attention span and energy. Much seasonal food can be bought locally rather than imported, thereby promoting green living on a number of fronts.
Take a look at current costs compared to the costs of supplying healthier options. You may need to do quite a bit of research, but your school's annual report or administration should be a good starting point for current costs and suppliers. Local catering companies operating healthy lunch programs in other schools may be able to help in terms of providing costing alternatives in your school.
Offer ideas for additional funding if necessary. The National School Lunch Program is a federally assisted school lunch program that provides funding for schools that follow the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Dietary Guidelines for child nutrition. The program is especially applicable if the school has a number of children who receive free or reduced-price lunches due to their family financial or other circumstances. Alternatively, consider fundraising efforts to cover additional costs, or suggest a vote by parents on the issue of raising fees to cover the costs.
School administrators have limited budgets to spend on school meals, so they may be resistant to changes that cost more money. One of the best resources to help you help the school to change is celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's Web site. Although Oliver focuses on the United Kingdom and uses some terminology that may be unfamiliar (school governors instead of school boards, for example, and head teachers instead of principals), his campaign to get British schools serving healthy, greener school lunches (also known as school dinners) offers lots of background information about why this issue is important, along with detailed instructions on how you can get involved with change as a parent.
If the school can't go green in terms of food, suggest a vegetable garden on school grounds. If you can only make a change on the small, personal level, send your children to school with green packed lunches.


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I am trying to learn some calculus 3 and I understand HOW to do the problems but I just don't understand WHY I'm doing what I'm doing. So does anyone have any good recommendations on books that are really down to earth, and explain the concepts in terms that humans can understand. Here are the topics that I want to understand:
A. Calculation of Geometric Quantities
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2) Arc Length
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b) speed
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Anselm Grün is a prolific author. My understanding of the meaning of the book titled Die Freude wird Vollkommen sein is The Joy Will Be Complete. This book was translated into Spanish under the title La Alegria, Contra el Desconseulo de nuestro Tiempo, which I think means something like Joy against the Dispair of our time. I have looked for Anselm Grün+Joy, Anselm Grün+Happiness, but I cannot figure out what this book translated into English would be published as. Can anyone tell me?
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I guess the title alludes to Philippians 2,2, which reads in German:
The English Standard Version has:
so your translation is fine.
Grün's German publisher Herder translates the title as
(see herder.de/foreign_rights) and informs us that the Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Slovenian, Spanish (AR), Spanish (ES) rights of the book have been sold - no mention of an English translation.
"The joy will be unflawed" (or completed) I am not sure about the context, but this seems accurate.


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Max and gmax work great with a 3 button wheel mouse
The wheel is used for zooming in and out of the selected view port Right click brings up the QUAD menu any of the default and most commonly used tools move, scale, rotate, extrude edge, extrude poly, and is completely customizable so if you select group of poly's are selected and you wanted to scale them by right clicking them you could chose and scale and use left click to do the scaling right click again and choose move and keep right on going making work, quicker and smoother.
When viewing the model in the perspective view port or all view ports. Right click the name of the view port and turn on edged faces this enables you to see any possible mistakes and allows you to see your wire frame over your smooth shaded model. Simple but very effective I turn this on before I even convert my model to editable mesh
When building your model over an image or an existing model you would like to maintain the look of. Go to the material editor click new > chose standard > apply a default material by dragging and dropping the white sphere to your model and turn the opacity down to 20 or 40 so this will help line things up.. a mask for example over an existing pc head or the image of a sword or gun so you can see where thing are supposed to line up.
Always check all of your view ports when modeling don't concentrate on modeling in the perspective view port, it leads to trouble. Something may look lined up in it but when you see it in the front view port it's miles away. Using your orthographic views top / left / front will help. Arc rotate in the perspective to see all sides of your model
Box modeling goes along way ! Using extrude, scale, and rotate, and move you can model almost anything from a simple box as your starting primitive. Take a look at the default saber hilts they started with a 5 sided NGon extruded poly, scaled, extruded poly, rotated, scaled, extruded poly, scaled, extruded poly, scaled, and that just about does it. The final touch make 2 buttons and the world worst ever uv map
Spline modeling is also a great way to start but be careful not to add to many anchor points. There is not a lot of support for this type of modeling in gmax , unless you use the surface tools , spline cage method.
When using the lathe modifier in the front / back or left / right view ports turn your segments down, 16 is default in gmax and 32 is default in 3dsmax this is way to high, aim for 6 to 10 segments maximum I keep with even numbers my self it makes for a better looking model . As well as one that can easily be sliced in to and half on the Y axis In some cases your smooth mesh will look funny almost half inside out, you may have to flip normals. There is a small check box on the right in the creation roll out. click to do this you can also check on cap start or end this will create a capped end on you model or ends try all of the 3 settings min / max / center to see your shape most likely your saber hilt or sword handle trying the X, Y, Z, axis will give you different results.
A general rule in game design is keep your poly count DOWN
Look at what the poly count is on the game models to give you a better idea. A standard character model has fewer than 2000 polys. An item, mask, or weapon should really not exceed 500, 1000 should be a max number to work with. Not everyone has a high-end system to chug along rendering your 20 000 poly model so keep this in mind.
When modeling save your self a lot of trouble by modeling one half only! Tweaking it to you're liking and then clone / mirror the other half, weld both sides together avoid instance mirroring as it will cause problem when compiling.
Save often as your model progresses. I try to save every half hour but if I make any major changes to the model I will rename it by adding a number to it so sv_blaster becomes sv_blaster2 , I do this because if my idea for sv_blaster2 doesn't pan out I can revert to sv_blaster and continue from there.
Don't model in the dark. Import a model of similar type to model yours after. This helps for two reasons 1 you can constantly check proportions and 2 there is already a base for masks and swords and for blasters this is a must because the bullet hook is already there. [The helper object that tells the game engine where the muzzle of the gun is.]
Using images as a guide on the view port backgrounds helps a lot as well most useful in the left / right if you have a profile image or in the front / back if you have a front view or the image.
With masks import some of the pc heads to check for size use an existing mask to place yours is the same place and the last step is delete the original one.
For helmets.. Heads will clip the hair on females and head tails. So good luck getting a helmet that is proportioned right that will work on females or aliens…not much of a problem on males but not all players characters are male and the same goes for the gamers
Delete whatever extra geometry in your scene except for the Aurora base, Ngon, bullet hook in some cases, and of course your new model before exporting.
To delete any geometry make sure you are out of any sub objects editing, verts, faces, polys, ect.. Select the extra geometry and hit Delete on your keyboard.
Before attempting a radical change to you model, a Boolean operand or slicing it in 2 Make a copy of it by selecting the model mesh. Not the sub objects and holding down Shift and dragging it on either X or Y axis. I like to do this in my left or right view port and drag up on the Y axis this way the clone is not in the way of any of your other views apart from top. In the clone options box simply hit ok. Now go nuts on the clone and if it turns out like you want, then go ahead and do the same to your model. Or if you want SAVE drag the clone down then delete the original model, and continue using it in place where the original was.
Restrictions for models in Kotor:
Use mdlops click [read and write] on your freshly Extracted mdl from Kotor tools
In order to make the ASCII file both original mdl and mdx file must be in the same directory
Importing on the NWNMAX speed bar under MDL Loading click the radio button Import Geom Only then hit browse now find your ASCII mdl and hit import on the speed bar.
I use my meshes folder in gmax to extract my final ASCII mdl to you can change this before extracting of course if you click the name of the Aurora base you will see that the base is name of the model and not the model it's self change the name from ex: w_HvyBlstr_004 to w_HvyBlstr_048 just something that will not override any of the other models in the game.
You must start Gmax by the NWNMAX icon The GREEN & BLACK one Not the gmax one you or will never export your final ASCII mdl. When you click the NWNMAX icon you will see the snoop running in the system task bar
*{A personal note I can not test my models in Kotor with gmax still running or the snoop, THE GAME CRASHES I have to right click the snoop in the system task bar to turn it off even if gmax is already closed the snoop still runs}
If you use 3dsmax start it normally the NWNMAX snoop doesn't appear in your system task bar but you will see the NWNMAX speed bar in the left when the program starts
Use the NWNMAX speed bar in the mdl to import section your ASCII mdl model to begin Notice that the back is the front and front is back do not change this
And don't' move the Aurora base or NGon
All models must have the Aurora base and Ngon [ bullet hook only when making gun models ]
Diffusion colour of the shader material must be set to white or the model appears far to dark in the game. Especially in the lower city of Taris and under city Use a metal shader setting change the default to metal in the dropdown on the left or use blinn
The two important slots are diffuse: and Ambient: when you set diffuse to white ambient fallows suite.
Like any file name for Kotor and NwN file names must be shorter then 16 characters or they get truncated, and any other files that depend on them will not work.
Add an AuroraTrimesh to the top of you modifier stack for each piece of your model. You really should only have one fully welded model but in some cases using different shader types and materials all the pieces will require there own AuroraTrimesh modifier.
Because these are simple models you can link the model up to the Aurora base bullet hook and NGon by selecting everything in your scene and in the NWNMAX speed bar under General Utils you see a button called Fast linker hit it and now you are just about ready to export click the Aurora base and on the right side under the modifier stack you will see Export Geom only Click that and providing all went well there would not be any sanity check box come up.
NWNMAX site's are more then helpful a must book mark for any one getting in to modeling although they are porting their at the moment many of the links relevant to modeling for NWN still work so the same for KotOR
Bioware's own NWN developers site has some great tid bits as well. You better think twice before adding cast shadows to your models, trust me on that
All file formats for NWN tuts explanations 3d modeling and more NWNMAX documentation
NWNMAX documentation
These movies are all very helpful for modeling texturing ect.. but the down side is they are around 45 mb each not to bad for high speed dsl / cable but bad news for 56k users. Anyways for the best of the best check these out.
Here are some tutorial links to help you they range from beginner to expert
GMAX tuts
[ spline modeling a sword ]
[official gmax forum]
Lots of helpful stuff here
LEARN to grasp the very basics of 3d modeling short lessons
[FRENCH web site]
[FRENCH web site]
[ Danish + English site with 140+ tutorials ]
Now you know your XYZ….. and here are a few for UV ………..mapping
this is the normal method for uv mapping however to get a uv map that will not stitch it self back together you MUST segment your model up in the exact same way as you lay out your uv map.
For online tutorials
This is the preferred technique used for nwn uv mapping check out danmars video tutorial for the best explanation on how to uv map your models.
I will add to this thread as we progress past simple item models.
I hope this info helps all of you, and may the force be with you
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Is there a length-preserving encryption scheme, that preserves the lengths of input sizes such that the length of the input plain text is same as length of the output cipher text ?
Your are looking for a encryption scheme that supports length preserving encryption. I recommend to use an authenticated encryption scheme like OCB or McOE. There are two common techniques to achieve this goal:
Note that you need at least either a nonce or authentication tag -- or better both -- to preserve data privacy, i.e., security against chosen plaintext attacks (CPA).
Maybe I got you wrong. Maybe you are looking for format-preserving encryption or something else. Hence, a more detailed problem description would be great.
One could design length (and format) preserving encryption schemes using Luby Rackoff Constructions (which are based on Feistel Networks)
While there are variety of variants to achieve (especially , the FFX modes of encryption ) one more notable work is done by Naor and Reigold [1]. They introduce another layer to classic Feistel networks by using Pair-wise Independent Functions ( PWIP), which they prove to be more secure than classic version.
We have very recently re-designed their work and proposed a new, FNR mode of encryption [2] which is practical arbitrary length block cipher algorithm to do the same . One could build format-preserving-encryption using such scheme. Which is variant of Naor and Reingold's work .
[1] Naor, Moni, and Omer Reingold. "On the Construction of Pseudorandom Permutations: Luby—Rackoff Revisited." Journal of Cryptology 12.1 (1999): 29-66.


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On the users profile page it lists their answers to questions as gray or green if they are the accepted answer. I think if they are not the accepted answer but are the highest scored answer to the question they should come up as a different color, orange maybe. This would indicate that although the asker didn't think it was the best answer, the community did.
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Alternatively, it could display something like "#1 of 5" or "#3 of 10" to indicate the answer's rank for that question.
One of the things I like about the design of SO is that the design looks clean; even though, there's a lot of information presented.
I think a new color / rank, would not add much information, and it would sully the design. The absolute number of votes is generally a good indication of the quality / popularity of the answer. There's no need for the added nuance of relative rank.
Would this help the general body of users, or would it just serve to give individuals another way to keep score? I don't go to profile pages to see what other questions someone answered well as a matter of course, although I do look at mine to feed my ego from time to time. But I might be atypical.
If the idea is purely to give us more info about ourselves, eh, can't say it seems necessary. If looking for top-ranked answers is something people do often on someone else's profile, then it might be handy.


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Coslet has been a recruiter since 1995, and says a new marketing campaign and an updated recruitment process that reflects Internet and email technology, coupled with newfound patriotic enthusiasm have created a push for armed service recruitment.
Coslet also says he expects the currently high level of sign-ups to continue through this year because of a sagging economy, and the financial benefits the military has to offer.


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It's distracting at first: the fact that you're looking at Joseph Gordon-Levitt but he doesn't look exactly like the Joseph Gordon-Levitt you've come to know and love. Aren't his eyes brown? Isn't his nose longer and thinner? Even the blasé smirk on his face seems like an unfamiliar expression given his usual likable, boyish cool.


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Book Review: Oracle ADF Real World Developer's Guide
By Frank Nimphius-Oracle on Nov 29, 2012
Recently PACKT Publishing published "Oracle ADF Real World Developer's Guide" by Jobinesh Purushothaman, a product manager in our team. Though already the sixth book dedicated to Oracle ADF, it has a lot of great information in it that none of the previous books covered, making it a safe buy even for those who own the other books published by Oracle Press (McGrwHill) and PACKT Publishing.
More than the half of the "Oracle ADF Real World Developer's Guide" book is dedicated to Oracle ADF Business Components in a depth and clarity that allows you to feel the expertise that Jobinesh gained in this area. If you enjoy Jobinesh blog (http://jobinesh.blogspot.co.uk/) about Oracle ADF, then, no matter what expert you are in Oracle ADF, this book makes you happy as it provides you with detail information you always wished to have. If you are new to Oracle ADF, then this book alone doesn't get you flying, but, if you have some Java background, accelerates your learning big, big, big times.
Chapter 1 is an introduction to Oracle ADF and not only explains the layers but also how it compares to plain Java EE solutions (page 13). If you are new to Oracle JDeveloper and ADF, then at the end of this chapter you know how to start JDeveloper and begin your ADF development
Chapter 2 starts with what Jobinesh really is good at: ADF Business Components. In this chapter you learn about the architecture ingredients of ADF Business Components: View Objects, View Links, Associations, Entities, Row Sets, Query Collections and Application Modules. This chapter also provides a introduction to ADFBC SDO services, as well as sequence diagrams for what happens when you execute queries or commit updates.
Chapter 3 is dedicated to entity objects and is one of many chapters in this book you will enjoy and never want to miss. Jobinesh explains the artifacts that make up an entity object, how to work with entities and resource bundles, and many advanced topics, including inheritance, change history tracking, custom properties, validation and cursor handling.
Chapter 4 - you guessed it - is all about View objects. Comparable to entities, you learn about the XM files and classes that make a view object, as well as how to define and work with queries. List-of-values, inheritance, polymorphism, bind variables and data filtering are interesting - and important topics that follow. Again the chapter provides helpful sequence diagrams for you to understand what happens internally within a view object.
Chapter 5 focuses on advanced view object and entity object topics, like lifecycle callback methods and when you want to override them. This chapter is a good digest of Jobinesh's blog entries (which most ADF developers have in their bookmark list). Really worth reading !
Chapter 6 then is bout Application Modules. Beside of what application modules are, this chapter covers important topics like properties, passivation, activation, application module pooling, how and where to write custom logic. In addition you learn about the AM lifecycle and request sequence.
Chapter 7 is about the ADF binding layer. If you are new to Oracle ADF and got lost in the more advanced ADF Business Components chapters, then this chapter is where you get back into the game. In very easy terms, Jobinesh explains what the ADF binding is, how it fits into the JSF request lifecycle and what are the metadata file involved.
Chapter 8 then goes into building data bound web user interfaces. In this chapter you get the basics of JavaServer Faces (e.g. managed beans) and learn about the interaction between the JSF UI and the ADF binding layer. Later this chapter provides advanced solutions for working with tree components and list of values.
Chapter 9 introduces bounded task flows and ADF controller. This is a chapter you want to read if you are new to ADF of have started. Experts don't find anything new here, which doesn't mean that it is not worth reading it (I for example, enjoyed the controller talk very much)
Chapter 10 is an advanced coverage of bounded task flow and talks about contextual events
Chapter 11 is another highlight and explains error handling, trains, transactions and more. I can only recommend you read this chapter. I am aware of many documents that cover exception handling in Oracle ADF (and my Oracle Magazine article for January/February 2013 does the same), but none that covers it in such a great depth.
Chapter 12 covers ADF best practices, which is a great round-up of all the tips provided in this book (without Jobinesh to repeat himself). Its all cool stuff that helps you with your ADF projects.
In summary, "Oracle ADF Real World Developer's Guide" by Jobinesh Purushothaman is a great book and addition for all Oracle ADF developers and those who want to become one.


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15 Dec 2011 11:21 PM #21
I thougt so, but I was not able to use just the Imageviewer
Another usage example for that case would be a great help, thanks!!!
16 Dec 2011 1:43 PM #22
I just posted expanded examples to the GitHub repo, here's the one for a standalone image viewer: https://github.com/JarvusInnovations...ple-image.html
I found a bug in the ImageViewer component that may have been causing your trouble -- it was waiting for an "activate" event to initialize itself. This keeps unseen images from loading in the carousel but had the side effect of keeping the image from loading at all if the viewer wasn't contained in a card layout
ImageViewer now initializes itself afterrender instead, and has a config option initOnActivate which if true causes it to wait for activate instead. The PinchCarousel component has been consequently updated to supply initOnActivate=true when it instantiates viewers.
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20 Dec 2011 3:19 AM #23
Hi; love this plugin...
does the original image size determine the max zoom size I can pinch to? it seems like I cant 'pinch to zoom' small images...
also, can some one please explain the delay:10 thing? why is a delay needed?
21 Dec 2011 4:55 AM #24
This works almost perfectly. There's only one thing that spoils the experience: the moment you stop pinching the image it jumps out of place and then quickly jumps back. It's only for a few milliseconds but gives you the impression of flickering. The reason can probably be found in the part where the scroller is adjusted. If this was fixed this would be a pretty nice component.
10 Jan 2012 3:41 AM #25
no PNGs/GIFs on iPhone viewable, no pinching on Android?
Hi Chris,
thanks for the quick bug fix and the advanced examples, that helped me alot and your component works fine for me.
It seems that PNGs and GIFs can not be displayed on an iOS device, Android and Safari for Win works fine. Any idea how to fix that?
On Android phones it seems that the pinching gestures don't work, just the double tap function works on mine...
Thx again for sharing this great component with us!!!
18 Jan 2012 1:44 AM #26
but this is not working in multi screen devices.
have u checked????.........
18 Jan 2012 3:26 AM #27
I have found a solution how to show PNGs or GIFs inside the component, actually there's no bug in the component, it's a problem on iOS devices. There seems to be a 'magic' resolution border of about 5 Megapixels; if the image is bigger than that size, the bowser just show a question mark respectivly the component can't load the image. Maybe the 5MP border changes on different iOS devices, in my case an iPhone 4. Any idea, if it is possible to show bigger images on iOS devices???
Still didn't find a solution how to get the pinching gestures to work on Android phones...
12 Feb 2012 1:10 AM #28
porting to sencha touch 2
is there a port to sencha touch 2 in the works? anything planned? maybe even something based on Ext.Image?
12 Feb 2012 1:23 AM #29
re: pinch on android
it's not going to happen, at least not on current devices... the browser doesn't pass multitouch events
re: sencha 2 port
i'm going to tackle it soon, I just started getting the hang of ST2. Basing it on Ext.Image is a good ideaChief Architect @ Jarv.us Innovations
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15 Feb 2012 5:48 PM #30
Thanks for the great plug-in, it is really nice and helpful.
I can't get the viewer work if I am using the store. I am storing the image path as 'Path' in the store and assign the store to the pinch-carousel byCode:
view.carousel.store = App.stores.floorPlanStore;
,imageField: 'Path'
,previewField: 'Path'
Can anyone please kindly advise? Thanks a lot.
Ext.regModel('FloorPlan', { idProperty: 'Code', fields: [ {name:'TypeCode', type:'string'}, {name:'Code', type:'string'}, {name:'Description', type:'string'}, {name:'Path', type:'string'} ] });Code:
this.store = new Ext.data.Store({ autoLoad: true, model: 'FloorPlan' }); this.carousel = new Jarvus.mobile.PinchCarousel({ fullscreen: true, /* images: [ 'http://placekitten.com/800/600' ,'http://placekitten.com/1024/600' ,'http://placekitten.com/2048/1024' ], */ store: this.store, imageField: 'Path', previewField: 'Path' });
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Why did HaShem create twins (Yaakov and Esuv) if he could just create one righteous person who would be Yaakov with the good traits of Esuv? I know Esuv was supposed to support Yaakov, but Yaakov didn't need support so long as he followed the path of HaShem. We see that even when Esuv was hunting him, he somehow became rich with food and gold.
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Another Kabbalistic idea is that Eisav and Yaakov represent, respectively, the spiritual worlds of Tohu ("chaos") and Tikkun ("correction"). A presentation of this idea is here. A couple of key paragraphs:
The Zohar in Breishis says the reason all the avos until Yaacov had one good and one bad child is because after the sin in Gan Eden of eating from the tree of knowledge, the zuhamah (spiritual taint) was still in them. So in order to remove it there had to be a bad child for each until Yaacov who had all 12 good children.
He was the klipa before the pri (the shell before the fruit). It says that first comes the klippa, then comes the person who mevarers the shell and reveleals the fruit (sort of like "Mah" mevarers "Ban" which originally came from "Sag" and gets put into "Ab")
I always felt the reason the Avos had Yishmael, Aisav, brothers fighting, story of Dinah, etc. was to give us Chizuk. When a parent has a child that is at risk, children fighting or not talking to each other, or any other tragedy it gives them Chizuk when they can look back at the Avos HaKedoshim and see it happens even to the best parents.
I heard that Eisav had the power to be greater then Yaakov but he didn't take it!
It should be a lesson to us. We have the power to be the greatest person! But if we don't take the opportunity, we can fall as low as Eisav!


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I am going to make a list of options. Which the correct form to use as an option: 'other' or 'others'? The option may contain several members.
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No matter if the option contains one or several members, the term to use is
Firstly, this is the term most commonly used.
Also, the reason seems to be that the word 'other' here is not a noun but an adjective: it does not refer to 'the other' but the set of 'other options'. As other is not a noun here, it cannot be pluralized.
It depends what you are asking.
What is your requirement? If two other unlisted modes of transport should be entered in the last choice (say helicopter and skateboard), then that could say Others, which would indicate that more than one can be entered.
On the other hand, if you want each of the "other" choices to be specified separately, it would be better to indicate that:


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1984 Monte Carlo - Resident EvilWritten by on July 27, 2006 A quick glance won't come close to doing this '84 Monte Carlo justice. Benieth its sinister black facade lies no less than 1000 hours of extensive bodywork and subtle details that make this Monte unlike any other ever witnessed.
It's safe to say that no two project cars are alike, and every street machine has a unique story. Some are destined to live the pampered life of a 100-point concours resto, others find themselves duking it out at the dragstrip. Then there's the lucky few that get built by car crafters who help them live up to their true purpose--to be driven.
Meet Larry Cheffer, a veteran bodyman from Kankakee, Illinois, and his subtle, yet extremely radical '84 Chevy Monte Carlo. Trust us, you need to take a long look to fully appreciate the amount of creativity and work that went into this long-nosed cruiser, but what makes this story even more fun is how the car evolved into what you see here.
Like most of us, Larry had originally set his sights on building a brutally wicked weekend street car--one with NASCAR flare that could hit the 200-mph zone. Crazy? Maybe, but it's no worse than those of us who dream of taming a 1,000hp engine to cruise down the boulevard.
With the first Monte Carlo project well underway, Larry took a step back and realized that a machine with a 20-point 'cage and a 46-inch-tall roofline was a little out of the ordinary. And while it was well on the way to becoming everything Larry had imagined, it wasn't something that he could enjoy with his entire family. The project was quickly stripped and abandoned.
Fast forward a few years. The Monte Carlo cruiser concept kept haunting Larry, prompting him to purchase a new vehicle for his better half. Unlike the previous project, this one had to be a reliable, family-friendly, go-anywhere cruiser that still embraced the NASCAR theme. Over the next five years, Larry employed every spare moment and all his skills to meet that goal. The body modifications were fairly extensive, and included dropping the rocker panels to hide the framerails, lowering the front spoiler 13⁄4 inches by channeling the core support for a perfect rake, and adding a unique set of brake cooling ducts molded into the quarter-panels.
The modifications Larry performed certainly aren't for amateurs, but Larry believes in "sweat equity." According to Larry, "If you simply put in the time, anything can be built for relatively cheap." It just goes to show that with dedication and realistic goals, you're never that far away from owning the street machine you always wanted.
Car Craft: How many hours did the bodywork take?
Larry Cheffer: If you include all the sheetmetal work, you're looking at close to 1,000 hours. Matter of fact, I'm willing to bet that I've welded the length of a mile on that car.
CC: How did you come up with all the subtle modifications?
LC: Actually, every modification has a reason. For example, I dropped the rocker panel by 2 inches because I didn't like how you could see the frame from a distance.
CC: What does the ZR3 designation represent?
LC: I've always been a Dale Earnhardt fan and wanted to pay tribute to him after his untimely death. My buddy Bob Thrash, who painted the emblems for me and also came up with the idea for the brake cooling ducts, suggested using GM's code for its fastest production cars and adding the number three to it.
CC: Would you consider the Monte a completed project?
LC: As much as I would like to install an overdrive transmission, I think I'm done, and it's definitely time to move on to another project.
Car: '84 Chevy Monte Carlo
Owner: Larry and Chris Cheffer, Kankakee, Illinois
Engine: 350ci small-block
Heads: Aluminum Edelbrock RPM, 2.02/1.60-inch intake/exhaust valves, 1.5:1 Harlan Sharp roller rockers
Induction: Edelbrock Pro Flow Fuel Injection
Camshaft: Edelbrock hydraulic flat-tappet, 234/244 degrees duration at 0.050-inch lift, 0.488/0.510-inch lift
Transmission: GM TH400, TCI 10-inch 3,000-stall torque converter
Rearend: Ford 9-inch, Richmond 3.80:1 gears, aluminum centersection with Detroit Locker
Front suspension: Air Ride Tech with G-body 2-inch-drop airbags, all PST polyurethane bushings
Rear suspension: Art Morrison street rod-style four-bar Air Ride system
Brakes: Baer 13-inch discs, front; Baer 12-inch discs, rear
Wheels and tires: 17x8 Billet Specialties Chicanes with P275/40R17 Michelin XGTZs, front; 17x11 Billet Specialties Chicanes with P335/35R17 Michelin XGTZs, rear
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In two reports published Wednesday, the IEA said there was massive potential for fuel efficiency improvements to reduce demand for transport fuels by 2050, even if the number of road vehicles doubles in the same period. The reports highlight technology available or about to enter the mainstream market.
By SARAH KENT
LONDON -- The tools are at hand to halve the fuel used by
the world's transport sector by 2050, but government action is
needed to encourage the use of better technology and fuel efficiency
improvements and prevent demand reaching unsustainable levels,
the International Energy Agency said Wednesday.
One way or another we need to reduce the dependency of
the transport sector on oil, said the IEA's deputy
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governments must take political action to promote fuel
efficient technologies.
In two reports published Wednesday, the IEA said there was
massive potential for fuel efficiency improvements to reduce
demand for transport fuels by 2050, even if the number of
vehicles on the road double over the same period.
The reports highlight technology already available or
about to enter the mainstream market that is capable of
significantly improving fuel efficiency.
The uptake of these technologies should be encouraged by
government policy packages, the IEA writes in
Policy Pathway: Improving the Fuel
Economy of Road Vehicles.
Better labeling, fiscal policy and standards should all be
used to in the next decade to start the necessary turnover of
inefficient vehicle stocks, the IEA says.
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Cucumber and Radish Salad with Feta, Red Wine Vinegar, and Buttermilk Dressing
(Makes about 4 servings, dressing recipe adapted from Creamy Feta-Red Wine Vinegar Salad Dressing from David Lebovitz.)
4 small Persian cucumbers (or other small cucumbers without large seeds)
10-12 large radishes
1/2 cup + 1/4 cup crumbled Feta cheese
1 T red wine vinegar
1 tsp. chopped fresh thyme
1 T olive oil
2 T buttermilk (or use regular milk or water)
Stir the dressing into the salad. Season to taste with salt and fresh ground black pepper (I didn't use much salt.) Serve with the extra 1/4 cup crumbled feta sprinkled over the salad.
This will keep in the fridge for a day or two, but it's better freshly made.
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Sauteed Radishes and Sugar Snaps with Dill from Smitten Kitchen
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Generally speaking, the Seer would remain quiet until they have a bead on a wolf, whereupon they would out themselves to catch the bugger. After that wolf is lynched, the villagers would rally behind the Seer in support as long as he/she still lives and searches for the remaining wolves. All villagers the Seer has seen become confirmed villagers
In this game, however, the same strategy doesn't apply. Once the Seer outs him/herself, the wolf can turn him/her into a wolf. Or the wolf can turn any one of the declared confirmed players into a wolf. So long as we don't know when the second wolf was turned, nobody can ever be a confirmed villager, not even the Seer.
So after the first wolf is killed, the Seer gets mauled during the night. Well, that or he/she lives on to maul other players if the Seer was the one turned. Either way, it will be a guessing game to find the last wolf. We can't depend on the Seer like we normally do.
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Going through some old papers, I came up with a simple-looking problem I thought about 5 years ago or so.
MO wants motivation ... Associated to a probability measure on a metric space is something called "quantization dimension" ... this involves defining a function $D \colon (0,\infty) \to (0,\infty)$. Exactly how is not the point here, but see for example
Lindsay, L. J. and Mauldin, R. D. Quantization dimension for conformal iterated function systems. Nonlinearity 15 (2002), no. 1, 189--199.
It was observed numerically that $D$ is increasing and concave, but proof was lacking. When we do this for the simplest possible self-similar measure (similarities with ratios $s_1, s_2$ and probabilities $p_1, p_2$) I still did not solve it, even though it looks like an elementary calculus exercise. Here it is.
Let $s_1, s_2, p_1, p_2$ be positive real numbers such that $s_1 < 1$, $s_2 < 1$, $p_1+p_2=1$. For $r>0$ define $D = D(r)$ implicitly by $$ \left(p_1 s_1^r\right)^{D/(r+D)} + \left(p_2 s_2^r\right)^{D/(r+D)} = 1. $$ Then:
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Does it follow that $D''(r) \le 0$? [OPEN]
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Working in pairs, Street Law student volunteers teach classes designed to provide knowledge of everyday legal problems and develop problem-solving skills necessary for dealing with these issues. Since its founding at Rutgers School of Law–Newark, more than 150 law students have taught 44 classes in local schools and youth facilities, reaching more than 1,500 youth.
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Is a cube database, simply an RDBMS—such as PostgreSQL or MySQL—configured for OLAP via a star or snowflake schema? Or is a cube database different from an RDBMS, and if so how?
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The short answer is no.
Cubes are very a different beast from a traditional database. There are several different kinds of cube storage processes depending on need (OLAP, MOLAP, ROLAP, etc.) which are all done differently depending on how real time the data needs to be.
I actually did a webcast with another Microsoft MVP a couple of weeks ago where we talked a little about the BI process and how it impacts the traditional database, which might be interesting to you. The recordings (which are free) aren't available yet, but should be soon.
Simplistic answer: A cube allows you to define dimensions (things you'd need to filter on like Dates, , regions,....), hierarchies (eg months within a year, countries for Continents,...) and measures and rules on how these measures relate with the dimensions... Then you can query values based on that using MDX
More simplistic view?
An RDBMS would be an spreadsheet and a cube a Pivotable...
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I'm trying to get Ward-Takahashi identities using the approach used in Ryder's book (pages 263-266). I like that he starts from demanding gauge invariance of Z in a explicit way and them explores the consequences of that to functional generators of vertex functions. But the actual calculation is bugging me out.
The author seems oblivious to the fact that the fermionic fields and sources ($\psi$ and $\eta$) are Grassmann variables and keeps commuting them out with no regard for my sanity. For instance, equation (7.102) has a term:
$$i e (\bar{\eta}\psi-\bar{\psi}\eta) $$
that promply becomes (exchanging the fields by ${1\over i}$ times the derivatives on the sources, acting on Z to the right):
$$ e (\bar{\eta}{\delta \over \delta \bar{\eta} }-\eta{\delta \over \delta \eta }) $$
In my opinion that should be:
$$ e (\bar{\eta}{\delta \over \delta \bar{\eta} }+\eta{\delta \over \delta \eta }) $$
This one has no consequences because he commutes them again right after. But when I try to calculate it being careful with the Grassmann variables, I can never get the right signs in (7.111). I'm specially troubled by the derivatives below (this is what I'm getting, but one of them should have a different sign in order to get the right WT identities):
$${\delta \over \delta \bar{\psi}(x_1) } {\delta \over \delta \psi(y_1) } \left[{\delta \Gamma \over \delta \psi(x) }\psi(x)\right]_{\psi=\bar{\psi}=0}=-\delta^4(x-y_1){\delta^2 \Gamma \over \delta \bar{\psi}(x_1) \delta\psi(x) }$$
$${\delta \over \delta \bar{\psi}(x_1) } {\delta \over \delta \psi(y_1) } \left[\bar{\psi}(x) {\delta \Gamma \over \delta \bar{\psi}(x) } \right]_{\psi=\bar{\psi}=0} =\\=-\delta^4(x-x_1){\delta^2 \Gamma \over \delta \psi(y_1) \delta\bar{\psi}(x) } = \delta^4(x-x_1){\delta^2 \Gamma \over \delta \bar{\psi}(x) \delta\psi(y_1) }$$
Does anybody ever did this calculation in detail and has some pointers? Are there any other references that follow this same approach?
EDIT: Just a shameless bump: I still looking for some light on this. Any reference on where this is done in detail would help.


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Visitors to the ancient city of Teotihuacan—with its pyramidal structures arranged in careful geometric patterns, its temples, and its massive central thoroughfare, dubbed Street of the Dead—in Mexico may have the sensation they're gazing at the remains of a society profoundly different from their own.
But new research from anthropologists armed with a bevy of recently derived mathematical equations shows that in some fundamental ways, today's cities and yesterday's settlements may be more alike than different.
In a new study led by a University of Colorado Boulder researcher and published in the journal PLOS ONE, scientists show that the same equations used to describe patterns of development in modern urban areas appear to work equally well to describe cities settled thousands of years ago.
"This study suggests that there is a level at which every human society is actually very similar," said lead author Scott Ortman, assistant professor of anthropology at CU-Boulder. "This awareness helps break down the barriers between the past and present and allows us to view contemporary cities as lying on a continuum of all human settlements in time and place."
Over the last several years, Ortman's colleagues at the Santa Fe Institute (SFI), including Professor Luis Bettencourt, a co-author of the study, have developed mathematical models that describe how modern cities change as their populations grow. For example, scientists know that as a population increases, its settlement area becomes denser, while infrastructure needs per capita decrease and economic production per capita rises.
Ortman noticed that the variables used in these equations, such as cost of moving around, the size of the settled area, the population, and the benefits of people interacting, did not depend on any particular modern technology.
"I realized that if these models are adequate for explaining what's going on in contemporary cities, they should apply to any settlements in any society," he said. "So if these models are on the right track, they should apply to ancient societies too."
To test his idea, Ortman used data that had been collected in the 1960s about 1,500 settlements in central Mexico that spanned from 1,150 years B.C. through the Aztec period, which ended about 500 years ago. The data included the number of dwellings the archaeologists were able to identify, the total settled area and the density of pottery fragments scattered on the surface. Taken together, these artifacts give an indication of the total population numbers and settlement density of the ancient sites.
"We started analyzing the data in the ways we were thinking about with modern cities, and it showed that the models worked," Ortman said.
The discovery that ancient and modern settlements may develop in similar and predictable ways has implications both for archaeologists and people studying today's urban areas. For example, it's common for archaeologists to assume that population density is constant, no matter how large the settlement area, when estimating the population of ancient cities. The new equations could offer a way for archaeologists to get a more accurate head count, by incorporating the idea that population density tends to grow as total area increases.
In the future, the equations may also guide archaeologists in getting an idea of what they're likely to find within a given settlement based on its size, such as the miles of roads and pathways. The equations could also guide expectations about the number of different activities that took place in a settlement and the division of labor.
"There should be a relationship between the population of settlements and the productivity of labor," Ortman said. "So, for example, we would expect larger social networks to be able to produce more public monuments per capita than smaller settlements."
The findings of the new study may also be useful to studies of modern societies. Because ancient settlements were typically less complex than today's cities, they offer a simple "model system" for testing the equations devised to explain modern cities.


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Let $X$ be a compact Riemann surface with genus $2$ and $M^2$ the moduli space of stable principal $SL(2)$-bundles of rank $r$. We know that $M^2$ is a complex projective variety of dimention $r^2(g-1)+1=r^2+1$. I have to prove that if $p \in M^2$ is a smooth point then $T_pM^2 \simeq H^1(X,\mathfrak{sl}(2))$. With $\mathfrak{sl}(2)$ we mean the adjoint bundle. I suppose that $H^1(X,\mathfrak{sl}(2))$ is the sheaf cohomology with coefficients the holomorphic sections of $\mathfrak{sl}(2)$ and they can be regarded as an infinite dimentional Lie algebra. How can I prove the isomorphism $T_pM^2 \simeq H^1(X,\mathfrak{sl}(2))$? If I have $M$ the moduli space of stable principal $G$-bundles ($G$ is a simple Lie group) over a compact Riemann surface $X$, how can I prove, in general setting, that $T_pM \simeq H^1(X,\mathfrak{g})$?
This is the general method of deformation theory. The two immediate papers that will give you sufficient detail are:
Holomorphic Vector Bundles on a Compact Riemann Surface (by Narasimhan-Seshadri)
I am more familiar with the specific scenario of the moduli space of flat or anti-self-dual connections on a principal bundle, where everything is translated into an elliptic chain complex, and the Zariski tangent space is the kernel of the linearization of some operator modulo the infinitesimal action.


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Are there sources that say women do not have to cover elbows? Because I've seen Orthodox women not covering them and I want to be able to say that there are sources that support their actions.
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The best development I've seen on this is Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin's Contemporary Tseni'ut. It appeared in Tradition 37:3 (2003), as well as its own book. The Tradition article is available online, paid subscription required. Here's his conclusion, as relates to your question:


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13 Jun 2008 5:46 AM #1
Getting data using the outputformat=JSON parameter
I have been testing getting grid data using Dominos new parameter for JSON. Its quite nice and suits well for lots of things. especially small amounts of documents or responses in "embedded view" type fashoin.
You will reqognice most of the code from a previous post about jsonreader but here we go.
NOTE!! outputformat=JSON is only available in Domino 7.02 and above. but then..Who wouldnt upgrade to at least 7.02 anyway..right?!!
NOTE 2!! outputformat=JSON can be combined with the usual parameters fro readviewentries
Simple form with Ext initializing in HTMLHead and some passthrue HTML in body. nothing else
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Here is the code from the forms onLoad event
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// JavaScript Document
var jsonReader;
var myDataStore;
jsonReader = new Ext.data.JsonReader({
root: 'viewentry',
totalProperty: '@toplevelentries',
id: 'id',
fields: [{name:'@position', type:'int'},{name:'unid', mapping:'@unid'},{name: 'description', mapping: 'entrydata[0].text[0]'}]
myDataStore = new Ext.data.Store({
proxy: new Ext.data.HttpProxy({
url: 'testjson?ReadViewEntries&outputformat=JSON',
method: 'POST'
reader: jsonReader,
autoLoad: true,
remoteSort: false
function renderTitle(value, p, record) {
return String.format('{0}',
value, record.data.unid);
function renderBold(value) {
return ''+ value + '';
var colModel = new Ext.grid.ColumnModel( [
{header: "id", width: 100, sortable:'true', resizable: false, renderer:renderBold,dataIndex: '@position'},
{header: "name", width: 220, resizable: false, dataIndex: 'unid'},
{header: "Descripion", width: 220, resizable: false, renderer:renderTitle, dataIndex: 'description'}
var grid = new Ext.grid.GridPanel({
viewConfig: {
forceFit: true
sm: new Ext.grid.RowSelectionModel({singleSelect:false}),
grid.on('rowdblclick', function(){
var selection = grid.getSelectionModel().getSelected();
The "mapping" config in the jsonreader field section are very useful for extracting the correct column from the entrydata array, but still be able to use a readable variable name for the column.
Its possible this way is faster compared to getting the data using an agent and when it comes to encoding and strange character sets i beleive we can run into trouble by forcing the charset like we do in the agent variant. The outputformat=JSON has all possibilities to deal with this in the appropriate way since its built in.
I hope more Ext newbies find this example valuable.
13 Jun 2008 7:09 AM #2
Nice Example Fredric, thanks! We would personally love to switch Ext.nd over to JSON but we want to maintain support for those who are stuck in companies that can't/wont upgrade.
Just wanted to mention that we've been continuing work on the new version and have the ability for developers to provide custom renderers as well now. Previously we had been putting everything through the single 'dominoRenderer' that we wrote and you had to hack that one up to make any changes.
15 Jun 2008 10:40 PM #3
Nice to know you are also thinking JSON when it comes to Ext.nd. Cant help but wondering how many companies that are ready to put effort into making Web 2.0 applications out of their databases but NOT willing to upgrade to 7.02.
But its just me thinking again...
23 Dec 2008 10:13 AM #4
Has Anything changed for ext 2.2. and Notes 8?
I have tried to mock this model exactly, but I keep getting an error, H is null.
Should this work with ext 2.2 and notes 8. (local preview)
I'm trying to figure out how to make this data store with with json so I can create a new way to populate an ajax combo box. If you use readviewentries, one should be able to get around the "weird" sorting currently seen when using the viewEntryCollection and documentcollection classes.
Here is the error from firebug..
H is null
initComponent()(null, null)ext-all.js (line 76)
GridView()(null, null)ext-all.js (line 143)
Action()("file-grid", undefined)ext-all.js (line 58)
ContainerLayout()()ext-all.js (line 64)
Action()(Object renderTo=file-grid store=Object colModel=Object)ext-all.js (line 58)
getViewWidth()()ext-base.js (line 9)
getViewWidth()()ext-base.js (line 9)
getViewWidth()()ext-base.js (line 9)
getViewWidth()()ext-base.js (line 9)
(?)()JsonView...?OpenForm (line 101)
getViewWidth()()ext-base.js (line 9)
getViewWidth()(0, undefined, undefined, undefined)ext-base.js (line 9)
camelFn()(renderTitle(value, p, record), undefined, Object)ext-all.js (line 13)
onload()JsonView...?OpenForm (line 11)
31 Dec 2008 6:58 AM #5
However, keep up the work working with Domino's JSON output! It's actually faster than getting the information via XML -- I can't remember where I found, but there's an examination that someone did out there on the interwebs where they extensively tested the speed at which view queries were returned from the Domino server in both XML and JSON formats, and JSON consistently won.
I use it for all my apps, though I leave an easy way to fallback to XML if necessary by just having an alternate Ext.Reader handy.Prototype, jQuery,
YUI, Ext.
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I'd like to one day see.
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1 Jun 2009 12:50 AM #7
Domino URL parameters
Thank you Fredric, very useful this example!
I'm currently working on this subject and try to integrate Domino's native paging system.
For this I set
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paramNames:{start: 'start', limit: 'count' }
In Domino the URL below returns only the @toplevelentries property :
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I think I'll have to derive my own PagingToolbar but if anyone as a simple trick....
21 Jun 2012 1:23 AM #8
Domino view + readviewentries + grid
Hi all,
Since Ext 4.1 remapped most of the grid configs, I wonder if there is somewhere a working example of how to deal with "Domino views + readviewentries + ext grid".
I have (over) looked at the forums, but we can only find old versions of components that uses deprecated methods.
Is there an updated version of "domino view to grid component" ?
21 Jun 2012 1:59 AM #9
Here is what's I've tried
I've tried to apply the same principle with Ext 4.1 objects, but I can't even load the store.
Here is a very simple example (not working) :
jsonReader = Ext.create('Ext.data.reader.Json', { id: 'id', root: 'viewentry', totalProperty: '@toplevelentries', fields: [ {name:'position', mapping: '@position'}, {name:'unid', mapping:'@unid'}, {name:'description', mapping: 'entrydata[0].text[0]'} ] }); myDataStore = Ext.create('Ext.data.Store', { proxy: { type: 'ajax', url: '../lookupResourcesByName?ReadViewEntries&outputformat=JSON', reader: jsonReader }, fields: ['position', 'unid', 'description'], autoLoad: true }); console.log(myDataStore);
Using chrome Network tracking, I can see that the server response is like this :
{ "@timestamp": "20120621T094711,17Z", "@toplevelentries": "4" }
{ "@timestamp": "20120621T094922,72Z", "@toplevelentries": "4", "viewentry": [ { "@position": "1", "@unid": "A30CE56AF0D8C53144257A11004ECFC0", "@noteid": "1B66", "@siblings": "4", "entrydata": [ { "@columnnumber": "0", "@name": "name", "text": { "0": "Resource A" } } ] }, { "@position": "2", "@unid": "5561A36406F4477244257A11004F8596", "@noteid": "1B6A", "@siblings": "4", "entrydata": [ { "@columnnumber": "0", "@name": "name", "text": { "0": "Resource B" } } ] }, { "@position": "3", "@unid": "D6BA9D1324F1909844257A1A0079671B", "@noteid": "1D9E", "@siblings": "4", "entrydata": [ { "@columnnumber": "0", "@name": "name", "text": { "0": "Resource C" } } ] }, { "@position": "4", "@unid": "6A4317E51CF4CFBB44257A1A0052E36D", "@noteid": "1D9A", "@siblings": "4", "entrydata": [ { "@columnnumber": "0", "@name": "name", "text": { "0": "Resource D" } } ] } ] }
Last edited by Bob Wilson; 21 Jun 2012 at 2:10 AM. Reason: Edit broken tabulations
21 Jun 2012 8:04 AM #10
You're using ext 4.x and Domino?
I haven't tried Ext.nd since 2009. Are you guys actually making this work? That is impressive. How is the performance on the view grid when generated by an agent. I always found that to be a bit laggy.