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Sometimes stories for my column do not just fall into my lap. Sometimes I go pawing through folders of saved material looking for some interesting facts and fiction to put down on this page.
I found some good information from Aunt Nemie on my e-mail. No matter that it was sent Jan. 31, 2012, it is still timely. Actually they are questions I could see my 5-year-old granddaughter, Maggie, asking me and really stumping me in the process.
Here we go with some of the questions that might have no answers.
Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
What disease did cured ham actually have?
Why is it that people say they slept like a baby when babies wake up every two hours?
If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a stupid song about him?
Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They are both dogs!
Do the "Alphabet Song" and "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" have the same tune?
Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you. But when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?
Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?
Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?
If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?
Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?
Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the end on your first try?
How do those dead bugs get into those enclosed light fixtures?
Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that is falling off the table, you always manage to knock something else over?
In the winter, why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer when we complained about the heat?
How come you never hear father-in-law jokes?
Once you are in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?
Why are people starring IN a movie but they are ON television?
How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?
And the last one that will give you a moment of thought: The statistics on sanity is that one of every four persons is suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're OK, then is it you?
This is an e-mail from Natalie Doty, a teacher herself in earlier years, and it tells that teachers and animal lovers will enjoy these British classified ads that were actually placed in a United Kingdom newspaper.
Free puppies - Half Cocker Spaniel and half sneaky neighbor's dog.
Joining nudist colony - Must sell washer and dryer.
These are questions asked by the teacher and the answer of the student:
Teacher: Why are you late?
Student: Class started before I got here.
Teacher: Johnny, why are you doing your math multiplications on the floor?
Johnny: You told me to do it without using tables.
Teacher: George Washington not only chopped down his father's cherry tree, but also admitted it. Now, Louis, do you know why his father didn't punish him?
Louis: Because George still had the axe in his hand?
Teacher: Simon, tell me, do you say prayers before eating?
Simon: No sir, I don't have to. My Mom is a good cook.
Teacher: Clyde, your composition on 'My Dog' is exactly the same as your brother's? Did you copy his?
Clyde: No sir. It's the same dog.
Teacher: Harold, what do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?
Harold: A teacher.
This was popular when Erma Bombeck, an author who told of life as it went on humorously in her household.
When Bombeck learned that she was dying of cancer, she wrote words that makes one think that it is time to stop and smell the roses. And is worth repeating now.
I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren't there for the day.
I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.
I would have talked less and listened more.
I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained or the sofa were faded.
I would have eaten the popcorn in the good living room and worried much less about the dirt when someone wanted to light a fire in the fireplace.
I would have taken time to listen to my grandfather ramble about his youth.
I would have shared more of the responsibility carried by my husband.
I would never have insisted the car windows be rolled up on a summer day because my hair had just been teased and sprayed.
I would have sat on the lawn and got grass stains.
I would have cried and laughed less while watching television and more while watching life.
I would have never bought anything just because it was practical, wouldn't show soil or was guaranteed to last a lifetime.
Instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I would have cherished every moment
When my kids kissed me impetuously, I would never had said, "Later. Now go get washed up for dinner." There would have been more "I love you's. More I'm sorry's."
But mostly, given another shot a life, I would seize every minute, look at it and really see it. Live it and never give it back. Stop sweating the small stuff!
Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more or who's doing what. Instead, let's cherish the relationships we have with those who do love you.
I cut this happiness thought out of a Good Housekeeping magazine, and I think that it is appropriate right here.
"Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
The week of May 12 holds three important days to celebrate.
May 12 is Mother's Day. Remember the one who roused you out of bed for school each morning, nursed you through sickness and cooked special foods at that time just for you and continues to worry about you today, even though you are almost into middle age.
May 15 is a very tasty day as it is National Chocolate Chip Day.
May 18 is Armed Forces Day. Thank a member of the military for their service to you and the entire land of the good ole U.S.A.
I want to close with a tribute to someone who has been a special friend of mine through the years - Gerald Hasley, who died on April 17.
I think my respect for his dedication started when I was covering the Jefferson County Fair in my initial years. He served as fair secretary, the "go-to" person when news needed to be obtained. If he did not know, he would find out and would spend as much time as was needed to write my story.
It extended to when he was active in the Smithfield Masonic Lodge 182 F&AM, and they had community projects that needed to be introduced and with the Mount Moriah Baptist Church, where he served as treasurer for 50 years. He served as District Deputy Grandmaster of the 24th District, Steubenville Commandery 11, member of the Knight York Cross of Honour and the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite.
My sympathy to his wife, Betty, and Wayne, his son. He did get to meet and welcome his first great-granddaughter, Avery Lee, who was born two days before his death. He reached out and tenderly touched the baby's little leg and smiled a big welcome into the family.
(McCoy, a resident of Smithfield, is food editor and a staff columnist for the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times. She can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.)


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How to Get to Retirement? Practice!
There has been a steady drumbeat of downbeat news about retirement lately.
More than half of us won't have enough money to maintain our living standards in retirement—even if we work to age 65, about two years past the average retirement age, according to various estimates. No wonder more people are working into their golden years, or planning to do so.
But here's the good news: Working longer allows you to start playing sooner, says Christine Fahlund, vice president and senior financial planner at T. Rowe Price Group.
In her view, there are three kinds of retirees: the "cliff diver," who works to normal retirement age and then retires; the "worker bee," who works longer and delays retirement; and the "retiree in training," who works and starts retiring throughout his or her 60s. Which type of retiree you choose to be can have a big impact on how much money you will have to spend.
The share of people age 65 and older in the workforce rose to 16% in 2010 from 12% in 1990, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Nearly one-third of 65- to 69-year-olds were working or actively looking for work, compared with less than 22% two decades ago.
Meanwhile, 62% of 45- to 60-year-olds surveyed last year plan to delay retirement, according to a recent report from the Conference Board. In 2010, only 42% of workers in this age group planned to do so.
The reasons are painfully familiar by now: fallen home values, job losses, depleted savings and low interest rates—not to mention the disappearance of guaranteed pensions and retiree health-care benefits, the rise in Social Security's full retirement age and people simply living longer, healthier lives.
"I am not surprised that more people are working past 65, but I hope they make a point to enjoy the decade of their 60s by practicing retirement," says Ms. Fahlund. "Work, but start living some of your retirement dreams at the same time."
Working through your 60s, even if only part time, allows you to spend from your wages instead of your savings, she explains. This gives your nest egg more time to grow and shortens the time you'll need to support yourself on savings alone.
It also allows you to delay taking Social Security benefits and to scale back, or even discontinue, contributions to your 401(k) retirement plan.
Although you can begin receiving Social Security benefits as early as age 62, your starting benefits will increase approximately 7% to 8% for every year you put off taking them, up to age 70. In addition, the higher your initial benefits, the larger the dollar value of any annual cost-of-living adjustments.
The result: By waiting until age 70, your Social Security benefits would have almost twice the purchasing power than they would if you had started them at age 62, says Ms. Fahlund.
As for your 401(k), she says contributions in your 60s are the least important because there's less time for them to compound, so you should consider contributing only enough to qualify for any employer matching contributions.
What this does is free up money to get your financial house in order and start enjoying the life you envision for yourself in retirement.
Take a couple, both age 60, with a combined salary of $100,000 and a $500,000 nest egg. If they saved 15% of their annual income until age 62 and then retired—the cliff-diver approach—their retirement income from savings and Social Security would be $52,000 per year, and their cumulative total income from age 60 through 69 (net of retirement-plan contributions) would be $586,000 pretax, assuming various investment, inflation and withdrawal rates.
If instead they saved 15% from age 60 through 69 and retired at age 70—worker bees—they'd have $96,000 a year in retirement income, plus total income in their 60s of $850,000.
And what if they stopped saving at age 60 and retired at 70—retirees in training? They'd have $88,000 a year in retirement income—$8,000 less than the worker bees—but $1 million in total income through age 69 because they stopped making contributions to a (401)k—$150,000 more than the worker bees and nearly twice as much as the cliff divers.
With that extra money they could, for example, pay off their mortgage, make some home improvements, or buy some big-ticket items, such as a new car or recreational vehicle.
If after two times in the wilderness they decide RVing isn't for them, they will have learned a valuable lesson without squandering their nest egg in the process.

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The Leaflet - Heartland's Valentine's Day in Topeka
Next week experts from Heartland will spend Valentine's Day in Topeka, Kansas testifying on a bill that would amend the state's renewable portfolio standard (RPS). The bill would postpone the deadlines by which utilities are required to increase the percentages of electricity they sell from renewable sources, which are more expensive and not as reliable as traditional sources of energy.
Kansas is one of many states considering reforming their renewable portfolio standards to improve their business climates and provide significant relief to ratepayers, especially those on low or fixed incomes. The Institute for Energy Research reports electricity prices are 40 percent higher in states with mandates than in those without.
According to a joint report by the Kansas Policy Institute and Beacon Hill Institute, the RPS mandates as currently written would cause 2020 electricity prices to be 45 percent above baseline estimates and cost the state 12,110 jobs and $1.483 billion in real disposable income.
If you would like Heartland to come to your state to provide a fresh, independent, free-market voice to your state capitol, call John Nothdurft at 312/377-4000 or email him at firstname.lastname@example.com. In addition to RPS reform some of our other main areas of focus this year include:
- Medicaid Expansion/Health Insurance Exchanges
- Income Tax Reform
- Pension Reform
- Parent Trigger
- Vouchers
- Hydraulic Fracturing/Mining
This week's edition of The Leaflet features research and commentary addressing 9-1-1 fund raiding, frac sand mining, attracting independents and Democrats with school choice, Louisiana tax reform, tax breaks for banks, and Medicaid expansion.
John Nothdurft
Director of Government Relations
The Heartland Institute
Research & Commentary: 9-1-1 Fund Raids
The 9-1-1 and emergency response systems play a key role in public health and safety. These services are funded through fees added on to telephone bills;; the fees are then placed into a fund that is supposed to be used only to maintain and improve these systems. In some states, however, these funds are being used for other purposes or even moved into the general budget.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently issued a report examining how states were maintaining their 9-1-1 funds and if they were using the funds for purposes unrelated to emergency response. The report, which covers state management of the funds during 2011, found seven states and territories used 9-1-1 money for other purposes that year.
A common method states use to help balance budgets are fund sweeps, under which states divert unspent money from dedicated funds into their general funds. In 2011, five states—Arizona, Illinois, Maine, New York, and Rhode Island—reported to the FCC they moved 9-1-1 fees and charges from their dedicated fund to their state's general fund. Georgia also reported it used 9-1-1 funds for non-9-1-1 purposes, but it did not provide details on how the funds were used. Guam used 9-1-1 money for other purposes related to public safety. The District of Columbia and Louisiana did not respond to the FCC study in 2011.
Raiding 9-1-1 funds, vehicle taxes, or any dedicated revenues for reasons other than their intended purpose is bad public policy. Public safety groups have criticized states for using 9-1-1 funds for other purposes. The National Emergency Number Association, National Association of State 911 Administrators, and 9-1-1 Industry Alliance called these sweeps "less than honest" and stated the diversion of funds places the nation's 9-1-1 systems at risk while breaking "the trust established with the public."
In addition to the public safety problems these fund raids create, taxpayers also should be concerned about how their tax dollars are being managed. When states are allowed to raid dedicated funds and divert those taxes from their stated purpose, these dedicated revenues become de facto slush funds and additional phone taxes will likely be tacked onto phone users' bills. If a dedicated 9-1-1 fund builds up "extra" revenue, lawmakers should reduce the tax to a more reasonable level and not raid the fund for other expenditures.
Research & Commentary: Minnesota Frac Sand Mining
According to Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton, topping the list of environmental issues for the 2013 state legislative session is silica or "frac" sand mining. Newly usable reserves of natural gas have sent demand for frac sand skyrocketing because it's one of the main ingredients in the energy extraction technique known as hydraulic fracturing. Some Minnesota residents are concerned about what the expansion of frac sand mining in Wisconsin could mean for their state, especially since Minnesota roads are used to transport Wisconsin sand to North Dakota oil fields.
Policy Analyst Taylor Smith writes, "Economic activity related to frac sand mining supported 19,000 good-paying jobs in [Minnesota], and the number is expected to grow to 42,000 by 2035 – 1.2 percent of the state's labor force," and "banning or overregulating any form of sand mining is unnecessary and inhibits job creation and tax revenues."
Blog: How to Appeal to Independents and Democrats: School Choice
Republicans looking for policy issues that can appeal across party lines and to independents without sacrificing conservative principles ought to look toward schools choice. In a Heartland Institute blog post, Research Fellow Joy Pullmann walks us though the charts and numbers that support this idea.
Joy writes, "[School choice] is a way to champion the downtrodden while simultaneously making the most of tax dollars and reducing the liberal indoctrination camps 90 percent of the country's kids are required to attend. Republicans should make more of it, and white suburban and rural conservatives should stop putting their own prejudices ahead of a better education system for all."
Research & Commentary: Louisiana Tax Reform
Budget & Tax
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal recently announced a new tax reform proposal that would eliminate Louisiana's personal and business income taxes while increasing state sales taxes and removing certain tax breaks. Gov. Jindal says these reforms will save Louisiana families money and encourage businesses to come to Louisiana, invest, and create new jobs.
In this Research & Commentary, Senior Policy Analyst Matthew Glans says Jindal's tax reform plan is a strong step towards improving Louisiana's economic competitiveness and returning tax dollars to Louisiana citizens and businesses. Income and corporate tax cuts have improved state economies across the country; while more details are needed about how the plan will work, Louisiana should give this proposal serious consideration.
Banks Pay Billions to Settle Complaints, Receive Billions in Tax Breaks
Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate
In this article from The Heartlander digital magazine, Steve Stanek examines an interesting story that questions the support financial institutions receive from the federal government. Stanek points out the seemingly contradictory fact that the banks that are now paying billions to settle government complaints over banking and mortgage lending practices are also receiving billions of dollars of tax deductions.
The story collects comments from various legislators who oppose the practice. In a letter to federal financial regulators and the U.S. Department of Justice, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) argued, "The acts of these institutions are doubly harmful to ordinary Americans. They suffer first as homeowners, consumers, and investors, but they suffer again as taxpayers because companies can deduct the cost of penalties from their federal tax bills. It is simply unfair for taxpayers to foot the bill for Wall Street's wrongdoing."
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) also voiced opposition to the banks being allowed to deduct the settlements from their taxes. "The government is abetting the behavior by not preventing the deduction," Grassley told Marcy Gordon of the Associated Press. "The taxpayers end up subsidizing the Wall Street banks after the headlines of a big-dollar settlement die down. That's unfair to taxpayers."
Policy Tip Sheet: Medicaid Expansion
Health Care
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also known as Obamacare, states must now decide whether to expand their Medicaid programs by accepting a larger federal subsidy.
Kendall Antekeier argues expansion adds to state costs as well as expands a system already producing poor quality care. She states, "In reality, the money isn't free. Accepting federal funds to expand Medicaid rolls will impose new costs upon states and, ultimately, state taxpayers."


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School Violence/Shooting: Myths and Information - 10-10-2007, 03:31 PM
With the recent upsurge in school violence and shootings, I felt it was appropriate to make a post about this important issue. I've included a list of common myths regarding school shootings as well as information/advice that should be followed in such a situation. More information will be added in the future, but for now here are some things that should be read.
10 Myths About School Shootings
10 myths about school shootings - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com
By Bill Dedman
Investigative reporter
Updated: 7:59 p.m. ET Feb 5, 2007
The profile of the gun-toting student in a trench coat is just one of the myths about the rare but murderous attacks in the nations schools.
Here are 10 myths about school shootings, compiled by MSNBC.com from a 2002 study by the U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Department of Education. The researchers studied case files and other primary sources for 37 attacks by current or former students, and also interviewed 10 of the perpetrators.
Myth No. 1. He didnt fit the profile.
In fact, there is no profile. There is no accurate or useful profile of students who engaged in targeted school violence, the researchers found.
The stereotypes of teens in Goth makeup or other types of dress are not useful in preventing attacks. Just as in other areas of security -- workplace violence, airplane hijacking, even presidential assassination -- too many innocent students will fit any profile you can come up with, and too many attackers will not.
The demographic, personality, school history, and social characteristics of the attackers varied substantially, the report said. Attackers were of all races and family situations, with academic achievement ranging from failing to excellent.
Most, but not all, have been male, though that fact alone doesn't help an adult rule in or out someone as dangerous.
Myth No. 2. He just snapped.
Rarely were incidents of school violence sudden, impulsive acts. Attackers do not just snap, but progress from forming an idea, to planning an attack, to gathering weapons. This process can happen quickly, but sometimes the planning or gathering weapons are discoverable.
Myth No. 3. No one knew.
Before most of the attacks, someone else knew about the idea or the plan. "In most cases, those who knew were other kids: friends, schoolmates, siblings and others. However, this information rarely made its way to an adult." Most attackers engaged in some behavior prior to the incident that caused concern or indicated a need for help.
Myth No. 4. He hadnt threatened anyone.
Too much emphasis is placed on threats. Most attackers did not threaten, and most threateners did not attack. A child who talks of bringing a gun to school, or seeking revenge on teachers or classmates, poses a threat, whether or not a threat is made.
Myth No. 5. He was a loner.
In many cases, students were considered in the mainstream of the student population and were active in sports, school clubs or other activities.
Only one-quarter of the students hung out with a group of students considered to be part of a fringe group.
Myth No. 6. He was crazy.
Only one-third of the attackers had ever been seen by a mental health professional, and only one-fifth had been diagnosed with a mental disorder. Substance abuse problems were also not prevalent. However, most attackers showed some history of suicidal attempts or thoughts, or a history of feeling extreme depression or desperation. Most attackers had difficulty coping with significant losses or personal failures.
Myth No. 7. If only wed had a SWAT team or metal detectors.
Despite prompt law enforcement responses, most shooting incidents were over well before a SWAT team could have arrived. Metal detectors have not deterred students who were committed to killing themselves and others.
Myth No. 8. Hed never touched a gun.
Most attackers had access to weapons, and had used them prior to the attack. Most of the attackers acquired their guns from home.
Myth No. 9. We did everything we could to help him.
"Many attackers felt bullied, *****cuted or injured by others prior to the attack," and said they had tried without success to get someone to intervene. Administrators and teachers were targeted in more than half the incidents.
Myth No. 10. School violence is rampant.
It may seem so, with media attention focused on a spate of school shootings. In fact, school shootings are extremely rare. Even including the more common violence that is gang-related or dispute-related, only 12 to 20 homicides a year occur in the 100,000 schools in the U.S. In general, school assaults and other violence have dropped by nearly half in the past decade.
There often isnt much that can be done by people who dont know the shooters or perpetrators of violence, but by no means does that mean you are helpless. If you hear rumors of violence, see a weapon in a persons possession, or even speak to a person who discusses how they are going to shoot up the school, REPORT IT! The number one thing that couldve prevented these instances were friends who had knowledge, but refused to come forward. Most schools have hotlines where you can report this information anonymously and, if they dont, you can always speak to your parents who will help you choose a way to contact the authorities. Dont decide its just a joke; dont brush it away because youve heard it before.
Your school is no exception to the norm and has the same risk as all others to have violence occur.
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I have been digging into the RText and RSyntaxTextArea code quite a bit for a project I am working on and I have a few questions. I'm planning on using RSyntaxTextArea in my Google Summer of Code project making a light weight Clojure http://www.clojure.org editor for creating music with Overtone http://overtone.github.com/ (a sound synthesis library). Since I am using the RSTA lib via Clojure interop, I am trying to figure out the best way to have different key binding modes. My goal is to have a default key map as well as vim and emacs style mappings.
I have looked through the code in RTextAreaUI and I think I understand how RTSA is using the swing UIManager to set the inputMap and actionMaps for the most part.Unfortunately though I can't find any access functions for getting or setting these input and action maps. I am also not familiar with these swing classes and I am worried about building some additional key mapping system on top of something already there. Not only could this create issues potentially but it would be nice to handle this in a proper format if there is one. The perfect scenario for me would be if I could define my own map of keys and actions (or groups of actions) and then just pass them to a setInputMap if there is one.
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We know that $GF(p^c)$ is a subfield of $GF(p^{cn})$. Also we know that elements in $GF(p^c)$ can be represent by degree $c$ polynomials with coefficients in $\mathbb Z_p$, where multiplication is done by usual polynomial multiplication modulo a degree $c$ irreducible polynomial $p$.
The question is, given the representation of $GF(p^c)$ and $GF(p^{cn})$ (by giving the two irreducible polynomials), can we find what an element in $GF(p^c)$ should be in the representation of $GF(p^{cn})$? Can it be found in polylog($p^c$) time?
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I'm making an experience design for a place page, knowing that I am working on a reviews writing and sharing site.
If a place in real life is now closed and no longer in service, what kind of information can we keep on its page?
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I'm just asking because I'm curious. I was seeking references on the following problem, that a friend exposed to me last holidays :
Given $n$ red points and $n$ blue points in the plane in general position (no 3 of them are aligned), find a pairing of the red points with the blue points such that the segments it draws are all disjoint.
This problem is always solvable, and admits several proof. A proof I know goes like this :
Start with an arbitrary pairing, and look for intersections of the segments it defines, if there are none you're done. If you found one, do the following operation :
r r r r
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b b b b
(uncross the crossing you have found), you may create new crossings with this operation. If you repeat this operation, you cannot cycle, because the triangle inequality shows that the sum of the length of the segments is strictly decreasing. So you will eventually get stuck at a configuration with no crossings.
- What is the complexity of the algorithm described in the proof ?
- What is the best known algorithm to solve this problem ?
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that this problem is a classic in computational geometry, however googling didn't give me references. Since some computational geometers are active on MO, I thought I could get interesting answers here.


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How can I get the
'Guardin' Gnome' achievement in Left 4 Dead 2?
The text of the achievement is the following:
Rescue Gnome Chompski from the Carnival.
So I suppose it has to be done in the
Dark Carnival campaign, but how?
How can I get the
The text of the achievement is the following:
So I suppose it has to be done in the
There is an eHow article detailing how to unlock the achievement.
Basically, you need to score 750 on a shooting game in stage 2 of the Dark Carnival. Upon winning, you get Gnome Chompski. You have to carry him into the escape vehicle (at the end of the campaign). You can drop the gnome as much as you want, but you must carry him to the end.
One little tip:
When you are in the safe room at the end of each map, you need to be holding the Gnome for the map to really finish. Closing the door is not sufficient. Might not be obvious for some (like me :))


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i want an event handler for document library (itemadding and itemChekingIn) that does not allow to add a file to that document library that already been in there.does anyone can give me hint for this??
@amin ba...yes we can do this based on which parameter/metedata field you want to check for duplicate item?
you can use CAML query to find if the item with that metadata field and based on no. of results returns you can identify if item already exist or not.
Yes it is possible here are some links, this should help you to get started into the right direction:
Shows you the events for document library event handler http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd587315(v=office.11).aspx
this talks about the types of events handlers and recivers http://sharepointlogics.com/2008/12/event-handlers-and-event-receivers-in.html
this person is making an event handler for document library http://johanolivier.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/sharepoint-simple-event-handler.html
In depth on Event Handler Feature http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/17989/Extending-SharePoint-Server-2007-by-using-Features
with all these you should become a pro ;) . The documentation from msdn alone is gold dust!
EDIT** as ketan has said you can just check if item exists to not add it in ;) but i guess if you want to learn and/or do other functions than the above is more than enough to get you going!
hope this helps :)
I had a somewhat similar requirement when I needed to prevent uploading of duplicate files to document library. You may find this link useful to get started: http://sharepointnadeem.blogspot.in/2011/12/prevent-duplicate-files-to-be-uploaded.html


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I need to find an archive of some Wordpress plugins.
Previous webmaster of the site installed some plugins and then made modifications to some of them. He did not document these modifications in any way, so I have no idea what was changed and where. There's also no contact with him. And now I need to upgrade Wordpress and its plugins - there's a security update released.
I could compare installed plugins to originals but I can't find an archive of old versions of these plugins anywhere. Is there any?


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From what I see here, it seems kerning is just rearranging the space between letters. However, the comments here lead me to believe there's more to the story. Is kerning really that simple? Is the only purpose of it to look nicer or is there some practical reasoning for it?
I think the Wikipedia kerning article essentially covers it, but the bulk of the article is about adding kerning information to a font during its design, or applications automatically using this built-in information to improve composition of a font's characters -- rather than the a fine-tuning a designer might do on a particularly problematic pair of characters in a headline.
As an example, say the revolutionary new product, the
was launched; that combination of italic/oblique and roman characters would probably not have been foreseen by the font designer, and so would require special treatment to avoid the dot of the i from colliding with the V.
Letter-letter, or letter-punctuation combinations that are only used in some languages are other situations that might require custom kerning by a designer.
Also to note, fonts contain widely varying amounts of kerning information - this is one of the key differentiators between amateur and professionally produced fonts, or even between different versions of the same font.
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Yes, that is essentially it. From Wikipedia:
the point of making it looking nicer is the only point, but it can be very important for a clean-looking typeface. The Wikipedia page shows how massive the difference can be:
The main reason to pay close attention to kerning is for readability. Visual appeal is also very important. Another reason is that a properly kerned word will typically take up less horizontal space than an unkerned word, therefore allowing larger type sizes (this is useful for book cover design and poster design).
For more information, check out this previous article by me: What the Heck is Kerning? The Fundamentals of Good Typography


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How do you send the output of an upstart script to a terminal so to find tracebacks in python code? It's taking me for ever to do things without trace-backs that used to take just a second. I'm having to place several file write calls to track down errors. What took second to find before with a traceback is turning in to several minutes minutes. This is miserable. This has been going on for a few weeks now and I'm sick of it. would some speak up on this please. I feel like I'm using assembly without a debugger again.
If you use Upstart 1.4 or newer, put
There's a whole section on debugging techniques in the Upstart Cookbook. The easiest thing you could do is add
When I write a python daemon I catch all the exceptions and throw then to the log file. I not only use for debug, but in production too. I have a a small script that I run every morning that looks for something upsetting in the logs.
It also helps in keeping the daemon running, of course.
Some sample code (I remove the not interesting parts):
Where actua() is the real daemon (it writes to log too). Note that I also have a DEBUG variable in a settings file, when it's True, I don't fork the daemon so it's executes on the console.
Daemons are the unix equivalent to windows services. They are processes that run in the background independent from other processes. That means that their father is usually init, and that they are detached from any tty. As they are independent, there is no predefined place to put their output.
There are lots of python libraries and snippets to make a daemon, in the above example I use my own function, that combines some ideas from Steinar Knutsens and Jeff Kunces versions. It's as simple as possible, note that I fork twice.


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According to Wikipedia Q source is sometimes called the Q Gospel. My understanding of Q though is that it is proposed mostly as a collection of sayings. Is it proper to call it a "Gospel"? Why or why not?
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The Gospel of Thomas consists mostly of sayings, and it explicitly claims to be a Gospel in its first sentence. So that's pretty good evidence that something like Q would have been thought of as a gospel around the time when Thomas was written (which is sometime between the mid 1st and mid 2nd century, we don't know).
On the other hand, we don't know when "gospel" was first used as a name of a genre or writing. One theory is that it was first used to refer to a genre of writing in Mark 1:1. So it might be anachronistic to refer to Q as a gospel, since the genre may not have yet existed.
To me, in order for any book to be considered a Gospel the first thing it would have to have is the teaching of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ since that's what the word means in the underlying NT Greek in the canonical Gospels. That is the good news after all; that Christ died, was buried, and rose again!


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I'm just wondering about the Bible with the Old Testament and New. Most Christians prefer to use the New Testament (especially the rules).
Some of them don't follow the rules in the Old Testament.But why?
I'm just wondering about the Bible with the Old Testament and New. Most Christians prefer to use the New Testament (especially the rules).
Some of them don't follow the rules in the Old Testament.But why?
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Not to be picayune here, but the Old Testament is not one book. It is 39. Likewise, the New Testament is 27. This question is akin to asking "Which is more important - the Shakespearian corpus or writings of Camus, Satre, Locke, Asimov, Vonnegaut, C.S. Lewis, and Orson Scott Card. You are asking to compare two libraries from different historical eras with different purposes in writing.
In a nutshell, the Old Testament is a collection of works from about 1000 BC to 400 BC, chronicling the story of the Jews - God's chosen people, to whom he chose to love, redeem, and instruct. It includes:
The New Testament contains the story of Jesus, who was born a Jew, and the people who knew Him. Specifically, there are:
After that, there are 23 other books, including:
It was written between about 50 AD and 100AD, and focuses on the idea that God became a man, died, was buried, rose again, and through that act of unmerited favor, saved mankind from sin.
Finally, what you are asking - to pick "the most important" violates the principle that all Scripture is fully important, and to pick a 'canon' within a canon is considered heresy. Not that Christians don't regularly do that, but technically, its considered wrong.
To answer the question very crassly, given a choice, most Christians would, if forced to choose, say "the New Testament," because it focuses on the saving power of Jesus. This is evidenced by the fact that Christians will sometimes carry "abbreviated bibles" with just the New Testament and the Psalms.
Then again, there are lots of people who will only eat their meat and dessert, and not the refreshing goodness of bread and vegetables either. To live on just the NT is to deny yourself the background and the full story of God's redemptive purpose. For Christians, it is all profitable and all important.
Christianity is incomplete without both the Old Testament and the New Testament, so neither one is more important than the other. They are intertwined. As one person put it,
The Old Testament records Creation, God's interaction with mankind, mankind's failure in the age of innocence, conscience, and law. It reveals that, just as Adam's attempts to cover over the shame of his own sin was futile, so all our efforts to atone for our own sin are futile. As mankind is helpless, God points to His own provision to come.
The New Testaments is the fulfillment of this promise of God. He promised He would come, and He did. He promised He would atone for sin, and He did. He promised a new covenant, and He introduced one.
Only the Old and the New Testaments together make sense. The Old without the New tells of a Messiah that never comes. The New without the Old tells of a Messiah that came, but with no indication why He did. Furthermore, the New Testament references the Old quite often, which is also testimony to the fact that the two are inseparable.
Regarding the "rules" of the Old Testament, those were introduced by Moses as the Mosaic Covenant around 1500 B.C. and were in effect until the New Covenant was revealed with the coming of Jesus Christ. The Old Testament spans much more than 1500 years, so these laws were in effect for just a fraction of that time. The Mosaic Covenant was a specific covenant for a specific time with a specific people--from 1500 B. C. to the time of Christ and with the Jewish people. So, while God still commands us to live holy lives, we, as people living in the New Covenant, are not bound to the ceremonial laws of the Old Covenant.
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While researching the orphism question I came across a mention of the Derveni Papyrus. While its content is highly interesting, I got curious as to how a papyrus showed up in 4th century BCE Macedonia to begin with. Was it grown locally? Was it imported from Egypt? If the latter, then are there known references to such a trade, its volume, etc?
Papyrus was known to the Greek world since the 8th century BC, as it's mentioned in the Odyssey:
The scene described takes place in Ithaca after Odysseus return, and "the cable of a curved ship, made of byblus plant" suggests that the Greeks were at the time familiar with the various uses of cyperus papyrus, the papyrus plant.
Moving on, Herodotus starts his Histories by describing an event that involved Phoenician traders carrying Egyptian and Assyrian merchandise in Greece:
Trading between the two civilizations became more regular in 570 BC, when Naukratis was established in the Nile delta. Naukratis was the only permanent Greek colony in Egypt until the Ptolemaic times, and Egypt's larger harbour. Papyrus was one of the commodities regularly traded through Naukratis and Herodotus, who probably spend some time in the city during his visit in Egypt, gives us a good description of how the Egyptians... cooked it:
The word "byblus" (βύβλος/βίβλος) was the common Greek name of the papyrus plant and its use supports Herodotus story of Phoenician traders introducing the plant and other Egyptian commodities to the Greeks as it comes from the Greek name of the Phoenician city Gebal, the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. Theophrastus in Enquiry into Plants used the word "papuros" when referring to the plant used as foodstuff.
In all probability, papyrus was imported from Egypt and not grown in Greece, all authors that mention the plant, including Theophrastus and Pliny the Elder, note that it was grown in Egypt. Nevertheless, Demosthenes, in Against Dionysodorus, mentions that paper (i.e. papyrus) in 4th century BC Athens was relatively cheap and in common use:
Later on we learn that Dionysodorus' trade route was from Athens to Egypt via Rhodes:
The speech gives us a pretty good idea of how established the trade route was, with several financial and logistical details, suggesting that, at the time, it was a common route. Dionysodorus cargo was grain, but it's not hard to imagine that papyrus would reach Athens and Greece in general from a similar, or even the same, route.


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I have a brand-new Ubuntu 10.10 installed in a VMWare 7.1 Workstation. I am in a LAN and we're connected to Internet through a proxy which requires authentication.
I use 3 (three) browsers: The latest versions of Opera, Chrome and Firefox. Each one of them is set up to look for our proxy at the IP 192.168.3.1 (example given) and the port 8081. Each one of them finds the proxy, asks for the username and the password and after this connects correctly to the Internet.
The same thing applies for the Synaptic Package Manager: Having the correct proxy data in the Settings -> Preferences -> Network it works ok.
However the Ubuntu Software Center fails to install any package which I will choose. The error(s) is/are
Authentication failure.
Also in Terminal issuing a
sudo apt-get install mypackage the APT cannot connect to the needed repository to fetch the data from there.
Also I mention that I have set up in the Ubuntu's Main Menu in System -> Preferences -> Network Proxy Preferences the correct values for proxy (IP address, port and the authentication bits: username & password).
The interesting thing is that if I do the following steps, it works:
- Start the Synaptic.
- Start the Ubuntu Software Center.
- Choose something to install from Ubuntu Software Center. It will throw a 'Waiting for Synaptic to close...'
- Close the Synaptic.
- Install what you want from the Ubuntu Software Center. (and perhaps also from terminal - not tested)
What I'm missing? How can I set up other programs (mainly the Terminal and the Ubuntu Software Center) to succeed connecting to internet?
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The huge Calabasas, Calif. mansion once used by the late Eazy-E to throw wild, all-night parties was foreclosed on earlier this year because his widow allegedly stopped making payments, reports TMZ.
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BERLIN— Angela Merkel's conservatives won a resounding victory in Germany's elections on Sunday, despite a surge by an anti-euro party that helped push her junior coalition partner out of parliament.
Chancellor Merkel appeared set to win a third term as the leader of Europe's biggest economy, according to official preliminary results. But the 59-year-old former physicist will need a new, left-leaning coalition partner after her Christian Democratic Union fell just short of an absolute majority in the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament.
A so-called grand coalition with the center-left Social Democrats, who finished a distant second in Sunday's poll, appeared to be Ms. Merkel's most likely option. Such a pairing would send a strong signal to the rest of Europe that Germany remains fully committed to the euro despite a better-than-expected showing by the upstart Alternative for Germany, which wants to break up the common currency.
Like Ms. Merkel's Christian Democrats, the Social Democrats are strong backers of European integration and have a similar policy to Ms. Merkel's on the euro-zone crisis, although the party has attacked the chancellor for imposing excessive austerity on southern European countries in return for aid.
The Alternative for Germany's surprise strength sent a warning to Germany's political establishment about some voters' frustration with bailouts of debtor nations such as Greece. The fledgling party, known by its German initials AfD, robbed Ms. Merkel's coalition allies, the Free Democratic Party, of crucial votes, pushing the pro-business FDP out of the Bundestag for the first time in postwar history.
The CDU and its Bavarian sister party won nearly 42% of the national vote, according to the preliminary results. The party's strongest showing in 20 years was seen as a reward for Ms. Merkel's high personal popularity as well as Germany's stable economy and low unemployment.
"This is a wonderful result," Ms. Merkel told supporters. "We will treat this trust with great care."
In the 630-seat lower house of parliament, Ms. Merkel's parties fell five seats short on an absolute majority. The CDU/CSU won 311 seats, the SPD 192 seats, the Left party 64 seats and the Greens 63 seats, according to the preliminary results.
The CDU's strong support also was an endorsement of Ms. Merkel's handling of the euro zone's debt crisis since 2009. Although her emphasis on fiscal discipline and market-friendly overhauls has divided Europeans, it has won widespread backing from Germans across the political spectrum.
"We have a broad fundamental consensus regarding Europe policy," Ms. Merkel's veteran finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, said on public television late Sunday. "We will continue to play our part as an anchor of stability in keeping Europe together."
Hopes around Europe that Berlin might pursue a more generous approach to the euro zone's financial and economic crisis—even in the event of a grand coalition—are likely to be disappointed. All parties are now inclined to be wary of anticrisis measures that might feed the AfD's rise and allow the rebel party to establish itself firmly in Germany's political landscape.
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Though German backing for the euro is certain, a grand coalition could further slow down plans for a "banking union" that requires euro-zone governments to put their collective financial strength behind a safety net for the region's banks—a project already viewed with skepticism in both Ms. Merkel's party and among Social Democrats.
And German politicians are even less likely now to agree to forgive part of Greece's bailout loans—even though many economists say Greece has more debts than it can realistically repay.
The euroskeptic AfD, like the ruling Free Democrats, narrowly failed to win the 5% of votes needed to enter parliament. But the AfD's emergence could influence the tone of German politics, making mainstream politicians even warier of extending more aid to struggling euro-zone countries.
That influence was already apparent Sunday night, when Mr. Schäuble faced down AfD leader Bernd Lucke on a television talk show. Mr. Schäuble said it was easy for "demagogues" to rile up German voters over paying for others' debts.
"It's a bit more responsible to say, 'What's at stake if this European currency breaks up?' " Mr. Schäuble said.
Mr. Lucke, meanwhile, told supporters that the party would seek to take Sunday's momentum into German state elections and European parliamentary elections in the next year.
Ms. Merkel's probable third term cements her place in history as one of the longest-serving and most influential European leaders in the postwar era.
But on thorny questions such as Greek debts, important nuances of Ms. Merkel's euro-zone policies will depend on the makeup of her next government.
The CDU is expected to sound out center-left parties in coming days about a possible coalition government. The conservatives' two options are the Social Democrats or the Greens.
A coalition with the SPD, which won about 26% of the vote, would mark a return to the bipartisan grand coalition of Ms. Merkel's first term in 2005-09.
The SPD might push to control the powerful finance ministry as part of its price for joining a Merkel-led government. But Mr. Schäuble has said he is eager to keep the position, which has made him the most powerful German official after the chancellor. Many in the SPD want to raise taxes on wealthier Germans—a stance that could lead to tough haggling with the CDU in coalition negotiations.
Ms. Merkel's other potential partners, the Greens, are Germany's most pro-European party and the most open to putting Germany's financial muscle at Europe's disposal. But a CDU-Green coalition, while possible, is seen as hard to achieve because of differences over taxes.
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- How to Connect your Camera to a Wireless Network Using the WPS ( Push Button ) Method.
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SpecificationsExpand All
- Dimensions (W x H x D) 108.3 x 58.9 x 27.7 mm / (4.26 x 2.32 x 1.09 inch)
- Weight Approx. 172g without Battery and SD Memory Card (0.38 lb) / Approx. 198g with Battery and SD Memory Card (0.44 lb)
- Camera Effective Pixels 18.1 Megapixels
- Sensor
- Sensor Size / Total Pixels / Filter 1/2.3-inch High Sensitivity MOS Sensor / 18.9 Total Megapixels / Primary Color Filter
- Lens
ApertureF3.3 - 6.4 / Multistage Iris Diaphragm (F3.3 - 8.0(W), F6.4 - 8.0(T))
Optical Zoom20x
Focal Lengthf=4.3 - 86.0mm (24 - 480mm in 35mm equiv.) / (28-560mm in 35mm equiv. in video recording)
- Extra Optical Zoom (EZ) 24.5x (4:3 / 12M), 30.0x (4:3 / 8M), 38.2x (4:3 / 5M), 47.8x (Under 3M)
- Intelligent Zoom 40x
- 2- Speed Zoom Yes
- Optical Image Stabilizer/Five Axis Correction HYBRID O.I.S.+ (On / Off) / Yes
Digital ZoomMax. 4x
- Focus
- Focusing Area Normal: Wide 50 cm - infinity / Tele 200 cm - infinity / Macro / Intelligent AUTO/ motion picture: Wide 3 cm - infinity / Tele 100cm - infinity
AF Assist LampYes (On/Off)
- AF Metering Face / AF Tracking / Touch Area (in Touch AF/AE)/ 23-Area / 1-Area / Spot
- Shutter Speed approx. 4 - 1/2000 sec / 15sec / 30sec in Sarry Sky mode
- Finder
- File
- File Format Still Image: JPEG(DCF/Exif2.3) / 3D Image: MPO / Motion picture: AVCHD, MP4
- Recording Modes
- Mode Dial / Mode Button Intelligent Auto, P, A, S, M, C1, C2,Panorama Shot, SCN, Creative Control
- Creative Control mode Expressive, Retro, High Key, Low Key, Sepia, Dynamic Monochrome, Impressive Art, High Dynamic, Cross Process, Toy Effect, Miniature Effect, Soft Focus, Star Filter, One Point Color
- Still Image Scene Mode Portrait, Soft Skin, Scenery, Sports, Night Portrait, Night Scenery, Hand Held Night Shot, HDR, Food, Baby1, Baby2, Pet, Sunset, High Sensitivity, Starry Sky, Glass Through, Underwater, High Speed Video, 3D Photo
- Continuous Shooting Mode Full- Resolution Image: 10 frames/sec Max. 6 images with AF Tracking: 5 frames/sec, 2 frames/sec Max.100 images Intelligent Burst Shooting / High- speed Burst: approx. 40 frames/sec (recorded in 5M/3M/0.3M for 4:3, 4.5M/2.5M/0.3M for 3:2, 3.5M/2M/0.2M for 16:9, 3.5M/2.5M/0.2M for 1:1) / approx. 60 frames/sec (recorded in 2.5M/0.3M for 4:3, 3M/0.3M for 3:2, 3.5M/0.2M for 16:9, 2M/0.2M for 1:1) / Flash burst shooting
- Motion Picture Recording (*2)
- HD Video 1920 x 1080 pixels, 60p (FHD: 28Mbps / AVCHD) (Sensor Output is 60fps) / 1920 x 1080 pixels, 60i (FHD: 17Mbps / AVCHD) (Sensor Output is 60fps) / 1280 x 720 pixels, 60p (HD: 17Mpbs, HD: 17Mbps / AVCHD) (Sensor Output is 60fps) / 1920 x 1080 pixels, 30fps (FHD: 20Mbps / MP4) / 1280 x 720 pixels, 30fps (HD: 10Mbps / MP4)
- STD Video 640 x 480 pixels, 30fps (VGA: 4Mbps / MP4)
- High Speed Video 1280 x 720 pixels, 120fps (HD) / 640 x 480 pixels, 240fps (VGA)
- Continuous recordable time (motion pictures)
- AVCHD approx. 75 min (FHD / 60p), 80min (FHD / 60i)
- MP4 approx. 90 min (FHD)
- Actual recordable time (motion pictures)
- AVCHD approx. 30 min (FHD / 60p), 35min (FHD / 60i)
- MP4 approx. 40 min (FHD)
- Exposure Parameters
ExposureProgram AE, Aperture Priority AE, Shutter Priority AE, Manual
Exposure Compensation1/3 EV step, +/-2 EV
- Auto (AE) Bracketing 1/3 -1EV step, Max +/-1EV, 3 frames
- Light Metering Intelligent Multiple / Center Weighted / Spot
ISO SensitivityAuto / i.ISO / 100 / 200 / 400 / 800 / 1600 / 3200 / 6400 * (* Extended ISO) / High Sensitivity mode (ISO 1600-6400)
- Picture Quality
- Still Picture Recording [1:1] 3664x3664 (10.5M) / 2992x2992 (7.5M EZ) / 2448x2448 (6M EZ)/ 1920x1920 (3.5M EZ) / 1536x1536 (2.5M EZ) / 480x480 (0.2M EZ) / [4:3] 4896x3672 (18M) / 4000x3000 (12M EZ) / 3264x2448 (8M EZ)/ 2560X1920 (5M EZ) / 2048X1536 (3M EZ) / 640x480 (0.3M EZ) / [3:2] 4896x3264 (16M) / 4000x2672 (10.5M EZ) / 3264x2176 (7M EZ)/ 2560x1712 (4.5M EZ) / 2048x1360 (2.5M EZ) / 640x424 (0.3M EZ) / [16:9] 4896x2752 (13.5M) / 4000x2248 (9M EZ) / 3264x1840 (6M EZ)/ 2560x1440 (3.5M EZ) / 1920x1080 (2M EZ) / 640x360 (0.2M EZ)
- Image Quality Fine / Standard (3D mode: MPO Fine / MPO Standard )
White BalanceAuto / Daylight / Cloudy / Shade / Incandescent / White Set / White Balance Adjustment (Except Auto)
- Photo Style / Film Mode -
- Color Mode / Color Effect / My color Color Mode : Standard, Black&White, Sepia, Vivid (in P, A, S, M), Happy (only in iA mode)
- Aspect Bracketing -
- Other
- Digital Red Eye Correction (Red-Eye Removal) Yes
- GPS Yes(GPS / GLONASS) / Map / GPS LOG
- Wi-FI IEEE 802.11b/g/n / 2412MHz - 2462MHz (1-11ch) / WPA / WPA2 / Infurastracture mode / WPS / Wi-Fi Direct / Wi-Fi Button
- NFC Yes
- Zoom in Motion Picture Yes
Self Timer2sec / 10sec
- Display
Playback ModeAll, Slideshow, Filtering Play(Picture Only, Video Only, 3D Play, GPS Area Play, Map, Travel, Category Selection, Select Date, Favorite), Calendar
- Thumbnails / Zoomed Playback 12,30-thumbnails / Yes (Touch Magnification)
- Calendar Display / Dual- Image Playback Yes / No
- Set Favorites / Rotate Image Yes / No
- Show Histogram Yes
- Show Highlights -
- DPOF Print Setting / Set Protection Yes / Yes
- Edit
- Retouch Creative Retouch / Auto Retouch
- Resize / Cropping / Aspect Conv. / Leveling Yes / Yes / No / No
- Copy / Title Edit / Text Stamp Yes / Yes / Yes
- Cut Animation Yes
- Video Divide Yes
- PictBridge Support Single / Multi / All / Favorites / DPOF
- OSD language English, Spanish
- Monitor
LCD Monitor3.0"(7.5cm) TFT Touch Screen LCD Display (920K dots), Multi-Touch / Field of View : approx. 100% / AUTO Power Monitor mode, Power Monitor mode
- Flash
- Built- in- Flash Auto, Auto/Red-eye Reduction, Forced On, Slow Sync./Red-eye Reduction, Forced Off, 0.6 - 6.4m (Wide/ISO Auto), 1.0 - 3.3m (Tele/ISO Auto)
- Media
- Recording Media Built-in Memory, SD Memory Card, SDHC Memory Card, SDXC Memory Card
- Built- in- Memory Approx. 12MB
- Audio
- Microphone / Speaker Stereo / Mono
- Battery life (approx.) 300 pictures (CIPA Standard)*1
- Standard Package
- Included Software PHOTOfunSTUDIO 9.1 PE / Adobe Reader
- Standard Accessories Battery Pack, AC Adaptor, USB Cable, Hand Strap, DVD-ROM
Further Specifications
- NOTE *1 / Recording conditions by CIPA standard / - CIPA is an abbreviation of [Camera & Imaging Products Association]. / - Temperature: 23 oC (73.4 oF)/Humidity: 50%RH when LCD monitor is on. / - Using a Panasonic SD Memory Card (32 MB). / - Using the supplied battery. / - Starting recording 30 seconds after the camera is turned on. (When the optical image stabilizer function is set to [ON].) / - Recording once every 30 seconds with full flash every second recording. / - Rotating the zoom lever from Tele to Wide or vice versa in every recording. / - Turning the camera off every 10 recordings and leaving it until the temperature of the battery decreases. / *2 / - These are standard times taken at a temperature of 23 oC (73.4 oF) and a humidity of 50%RH. / - The time available for recording varies depending on the environment, the interval between recordings, and the manner of use. / - Actual recordable time is the time available for recording when repeating actions such as switching the power supply [ON] / [OFF], starting/stopping recording, zoom operation etc. / - Maximum time to record motion pictures continuously with [AVCHD] in [FHD/60p]/[FHD/60i] is 29 minutes 59 seconds. / - Maximum time to record motion pictures continuously with [MP4] is 29 minutes 59 seconds or up to 4 GB.
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I am a professional photographer who is seriously considering switching to the Lumix mirrorless cameras. Does Panasonic have, or can you suggest, a web site that demonstrates how professional photographers are successfully using the Lumix professional cameras?
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Have you seen sport.woot?
Yup, it exists!
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All right, maybe Sport.Woot will offer a WBO Welterweight Title Belt. I hear they're for sale these days.
hope this doesn't mean we're in for a scary.woot or posh.woot
Maybe Dallas can buy a real football team. LOL
Aww, I was holding out hope for Pets.Woot to be the next one. But then again, I'd probably be broke if that existed. Welcome, Sport.Woot!
@heyjoie: just keep a lookout on the woot job postings for the next buyer they're recruiting for. when you see a "Buyer: Pet Items" job listed, wait a few months and BLAM! pet.woot!
@w00tgurl: YES! Or better yet, I'll just send them a resume and 50 pictures of me with my cat and maybe they'll hire me?
Am I the only one who thinks Woot is getting really diluted? I even embraced Home.woot. But now with Woot Plus (that we can't even discuss the deals of) and yet another Woot site, it just is starting to feel like yet another discount site. That's too bad, because Woot was special.
Nice. No, it's not shooting.woot, but I'll take it!
Hopefully all these new woot sectors and stuff.woots won't leave 'ol @brutherford without anything to do :D - Looks like Moofi's still going strong though.
Woot's had some pretty good deals on "sporting" stuff lately, so it'll be interesting to see what they have lined out for the debut,
Funfact: sportS.woot.com doesn't exist :)
@tsfisch: I'm with you. The more the site is balkanized, the less interesting and more cumbersome it becomes.
On the other hand, though, I feel about sport.woot.com pretty much the same way I feel about sports on TV: I'd be happy never to see it again, ever, so perhaps moving the sports crap to its own woot site will work better for me personally.
@tsfisch: No, you're not, although I've only been here a few months so maybe my perspective is clouded by so many changes since I've been on the site. But I liked the initial site I found. That's why I started participating more. Now...well, I'm beginning to wonder how much time I'll spend here because my head is beginning to spin.
@tsfisch: 100% in agreement. Just like every other flashy, too busy site. From "1 deal a day" to as many deals as we can stuff into the site. plus! more. Sad. Apparently not only has their business plan changed, but they've also decided they need a new demographic. I'm not one of the 'new ones.'
Let's get some ice hockey gear in there!
I guess it gives them a place to put all the hiking and golf stuff...
@palady: I'm kind of in a similar situation.
I started coming here for the shirts, and just started participating in the community because I liked the basic idea behind woot, and the community seemed rather fun.
Now I'm here just for the community, and even then I already am finding myself coming less and less.
They are Netflixing Woot.
I'm so glad that the switch to Anvil blanks is subsidizing the expansion into new dot.woot domains.
Needs more Schwetty Balls
I'm kind of with @magic cave on this one: I generally don't need or want sports stuff, so (hopefully) this will keep that stuff away from the main woot site. (I feel the same way about the kids stuff since mine are older, but not yet old enough to have their own kids; kids.woot is the only woot site where I have zero purchases... I almost got the Kinex video coaster for the older one twice, but she stopped me both times.)
Other than the lack of discussion threads for the plus items, I don't see a problem with them, though the plus items I want keep selling out before I see them.
The remodelled site is very bright, but turning down the brightness on my monitor fixed that problem.
I was hoping for vacuum.woot where all the Dyson, Roomba, and any other vacuums could be posted leaving the regular woot sites for other offers. Even today, there's another Dyson DC25 posted. Woot is going down-hill fast because the variety of products has decreased.
I'm still holding out hope for Vice.woot where they'll sell liquor, cigars, bad-for-you food.
On the other hand it seems like they are listening to feedback. I don't know how recent it was b/c I've been busy but at least wootplus deals don't show on the page automatically now. It's a work in progress and I think they're really trying.
I have some misgivings about sport! In fact, I have some misgivings about woot! home! sport! kids! shirt! wine! sellout! & community sourced deals! too. All those exclamation points on the tabs across the top of the site strike me as sort of bizarre. When it was just Woot!, a case could be made that the exclamation point was, um, ironic. Now I half expect to go to home! and find an infomercial about shamWow!
If I were visiting Woot for the first time, I think I wouldn't feel drawn in & I think I probably wouldn't return.
I don't mean to (merely) complain; I feel somewhat lost on the beta site, and that concerns me.
BTW, am I the only person whose mouse fingers click on home! and expect to wind up on the woot! home page, as distinct from the home! page? And see, I know about woot.home!, and I do it anyway. I can only imagine landing here as a newby and trying to figure it out.
Anyway. This rant is brought to you courtesy of Monday morning, eased a tad by a cup of coffee.
These changes and additions are things people have been asking for. True, not every wish is granted but they never are, sometimes you have to be careful what you ask for...you may get it.
Maybe I can finally pick up that curling set I've been wanting for my back yard...
Nothing against sport woot, though I'll likely ignore anything on there not camping gear, but I was a little miffed that my daily email listed its deal rather than my usual kids one. Completely threw off my daily wooting order! Now the day feels all wrong.
@lavikinga: Um.. wine.woot already exists. I've seen chocolates, caramels, etc on there.
I knew I could count on the community!
I just saw it this morning as I was browsing around the site, and went, "wait a minute -- where'd that come from, I'll go check the community" -- sure enough, there was a question and discussion going already!
Thanks guys!
I think it's an interesting marketing idea, but think they would be more successful with Starwars.Woot.
I think there are getting to be too many whatever.woot.com -- I'd rather see fewer deals at much deeper discounts.
@tsfisch: Can I upvote your comment like 5x :) - I agree that woot is getting dilluted and complex. I'm starting to fall out of love.
Time to show us some luvin', Woot!
@okham: Or that set of Lawn Darts... Anyone up for a game?
@theselected: My set is wearing out.. I need to find someone willing to part with their set soon! :)
@theselected: Don't you have to be them in separate pieces now? sport.woot could have a weeklong promotion and offer a different part each day!
@ki4rxm: Wine is wine. Beer is beer. And I don't see a beer.woot happening anytime soon. I meant liquor, as in the spirits: scotch, gin, vodka, etc., and the other things out there that are supposed to be bad for us. Butter, cheese, dangerous men, cigars, guns, fast cars and loose women can all go on a Vice.woot site. I'd rather have wine.woot for wine & wine related products.
"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker."
The real problem isn't woot itself, but all the whiners. Good deals, good website, but lots of babies crying about dilution, lack of deals, etc. if you think it's so bad, try your hand and make your own deals site. Unbelievable. I'll keep buying happily from woot and understand that it is what it is, just like life; you can't always get what you want. Didn't your mom teach you that?
I can't see that I'll ever buy anything off of sport.woot unless they start considering video gaming a sport...
One thing I just posted over there, and want to make sure gets expressed here too:
If you have been involved in a particular sport (fishing, marathons, etc.) and want to share tips, talk shop with others, or even start something new sport-wise and don't know where to begin, feel free to start those threads!
@jeremytheindian: Not sure what you mean by the WootPlus comment, but I do agree they're listening - I noticed they changed (not me) to (sign out) next to the user name.
Woot, I am dissapoint...
I barely even noticed it was there. Only realized after opening the new video podcast...
@heyjoie: Make that a picture of you and your 50 cats and the job is yours!
Woot: Green
Home.Woot: Orange
Kids.Woot: Yellow
Shirt.Woot: Blue
Wine.Woot: Maroon/Deep Red
Deals.Woot: Gray
Sellout.Woot: Dark Green
Local.Woot: Light Blue
And now Sport.Woot: Light Green?
Couldn't we introduce a new color like Bright Red or even Purple?
@wvutkep1002: My parents certainly taught me that the world does not revolve around me. However, they also taught me that I shouldn't sit back and "happily" accept whatever is handed to me. They taught me to speak up when my voice would add to a discussion, to ask insightful questions to elucidate information and situations, and to listen when I didn't know enough to contribute meaningfully. They also taught me to keep my mouth shut or walk away gracefully when my disagreement with a discussion or situation wasn't going to be productive.


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The Effects of Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy Given Together
Last Modified: May 8, 2012
My doctor wants me to take chemo and radiation at the same time. Won't this make me too sick?
Ursina Teitelbaum, MD, Medical Oncologist at Penn Medicine responds:
When we deliver chemo-radiotherapy, the chemotherapy is dosed lower than we treat with chemotherapy alone. My patients have very few side effects attributable to the chemotherapy itself at these low, radiation sensitizing doses, although it may contribute to feeling of overall fatigue. We are very experienced at helping patients through combined chemotherapy and radiation and offer IV fluids if needed as well as nutritional support. I have many patients that are able to keep working if they were working before, depending on the timing of their radiation treatment. It is usually the most difficult for the final 2 weeks and sometimes for the 2 weeks after completion of therapy so it is important to manage your expectation about how well you will feel during this time. We are usually able to keep people feeling well enough and avoid treatment delays or hospitalizations. Please keep in mind that the chemotherapy administered is at a fraction of standard doses and serves only to make the radiation work better.
This question and answer was part of the OncoLink Brown Bag Chat Series. View the entire transcript from the Focus on Pancreatic Cancer Webchat.


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Reviewer: Neha Vapiwala, MD
The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Last Modified: October 9, 2005
Source: Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2005 Jun 1;62(2):373-8.
Authors: Smith RP, Bloch P, Harris EE, McDonough J, Sarkar A, Kassaee A, Avery S, Solin LJ.
During radiotherapy, a major goal is to deliver radiation to the target tissue while minimizing exposure to normal tissues. In tangential breast radiotherapy, the breast is the target and the lung and heart (during left-side irradiation) are the organs at risk. Maximizing the therapeutic ratio is a guiding principle during radiation portal design, however, what is actually delivered to the patient can deviate significantly from what is planned. Patient motion during treatment (intrafraction variation) and daily set-up errors (interfraction variation) during breast irradiation are evaluated in the study using EPID (electronic portal imaging device).
This paper uses a relatively new technology, electronic portal imaging, to assess how accurate radiation delivery is during tangential breast irradiation. Variations from daily set up errors were several-fold larger than variations from breathing. Similar studies in prostate radiotherapy have lead to incorporation of daily position verification techniques, such as ultrasound or fiducial markers. Here we see that similar problems plague breast radiotherapy, which is especially important in left-sided breast cancers where the heart is an organ at risk. Daily verification and adjustment of tangent fields using electronic portal imaging would likely make a bigger impact on sparing heart and lung than IMRT or ABC.


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We're talking about an expansive game that is not divided in levels or checkpoints. A 3D adventure, for example.
Simple answer: the game is divided into chunks, while you move around chunks are constantly being loaded behind your back before you can see them and thrown away when you leave the area. To every simple answer is a complex solution that weighs innumerable trade-offs in implementation... but you get the idea.
For games where you think you can see tens or hundreds of miles away, everything out there is fake. The real far stuff is just a bitmap, the medium range is a very light mesh. The real stuff gets loaded in and placed on top of the fake stuff before you get to it.
When chunks get unloaded they save the state of any objects or puzzles in progress so that when you come back they reset themselves to where you last saw them.
All this bypasses your main question so here's the real answer: there is always a loading time when you first start up the game but either you don't recognize it because it "always takes time to start up a game" and you expect that or it's hidden behind loading cinematics or happens while you play around in the GUI.
Previous answer pretty much nails it all. Also worth mentioning is Dungeon Siege I.
Here's a paper from one of the developer which actually goes over some of the architecture needed to make it work and common pitfalls:
I'd say it's a must read if you actually want to implement something like that.


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I'm looking at a QNAP NAS setup, and in the options for disks they have the very enterprisey Western Digital RE3. I'll be using the box for backing up my laptop, and streaming media either to the laptop or a media device using the built-in media server, possibly both at once.
My question is, would I notice any benefit at all in splashing out for the high-performance drive, or should I stick with something quiet and cool (and cheap) like the Caviar Green?


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Beautiful, rg.
Posted 10 July 2012 - 10:02 PM
What a beautiful face!
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Having met and entertained Galina Ulanova for an afternoon with Geoffrey Whitlock when curating the Anna Pavlova Memorial Museum, I am always delighted to see unfamiliar photographs.
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