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Groot Constantia
South Africa's oldest wine producing estate boasting 330 years of legendary wines! Explore the beautiful old manor house, enjoy a cellar tour and wine tasting and eat in one of the two top-notch restaurants. Groot Constantia, a member of the Cape Town Big 6 attractions, offers award winning wines, rich history and friendly people.
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Mangwanani Spa
Mangwanani African Day Spa provides an unrivalled African wellness and relaxation experience. Since opening its first spa in 2002 near the Hartebeespoort dam - the company has grown in leaps and bounds. Today there are 16 different offerings across the country with two more scheduled to open in December – one of which will be a boutique spa at the exclusive, world-class Cullinan hotel.
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Cape Point
The most south-westerly tip of Africa, covered in endemic fynbos and home to breathtaking bays, beaches and rolling green hills and valleys, just 60km outside of Cape Town.
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V&A Waterfront
This bustling shopping, dining and entertainment area flanking the Table Bay harbour is synonymous with a visit to Cape Town.
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Table Mountain Cableway
The Table Mountain Cableway which provides one with a gentle, quick and vista-full trip up to the top of the mountain.
Table Mountain Cableway is an Executive Partner of Cape Town Tourism.
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Tsogo Sun
Stylishly grand and perfectly majestic, Southern Sun The Cullinan offers business and leisure travellers easy access to most of Cape Town's exclusive business and leisure venues.
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The open-top double-decker buses of City Sightseeing are one of the best ways to take in the highlights of Cape Town.
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Table Mountain Aerial Cableway
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Boulders penguin colony
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Robben Island
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Melkbosstrand's 7km-long stretch of white sand beckons visitors to slip off their sandals and enjoy a stress-relieving stroll.Read more
The suburb of Milnerton – with its lagoon, beach and golf course – is the perfect spot for some well-earned rest and recreation.Read more
Montebello Craft and Design Centre
The Montebello Design Centre is one of Cape Town's best-kept secrets. The centre features more than 20 arts and craft studios and workshops, an historic greenhouse and nursery, a forge, stunning restaurant and organic deli farm shop. It's a non-profit development project aimed at promoting good local craft and design, and generating job creation.Read more
Morgenster Estate
The 300-year-old Morgenster Estate, in Somerset West boasts award-winning wines and olive oil.Read more
This laid-back seaside town on the shores of False Bay comes alive in season, with holiday-makers crowding its streets as they make their way down to what is perhaps Cape Town's nicest swimming beach.Read more
Museum of Gems & Jewellery
This unique museum project takes visitors on a journey from when diamonds first began to form three billion years ago and their 150 km journey to the surface, following the unique path of South African diamonds from their origin in extinct volcanoes to the deposits along our coastline. Learn about unique and rare gemstones, and see how jewellery has changed through thousands of years. The story about South Africa's mineral wealth is told, not only for diamonds, but also for our Platinum and Gold deposits.Read more
Mzoli's Place
Mzoli's Place, situated just outside Cape Town in the township of Gugulethu , is known for its vibrant parties, diverse patronage and, of course, its signature meat.Read more
Newlands rugby stadium
Newlands rugby stadium, officially known as DHL Newlands, is where the Springboks play their international matches in Cape Town. The stadium is also the home ground of the Stormers and Western Province rugby teams.Read more
Observatory or "Obs" as the locals call it, is Cape Town's bohemian suburb and lies east of the city centre.Read more
Parliament Buildings
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9 Nov 2012 1:26 AM #1
Advice on Migrating to Sencha Cmd
I am migrating an existing ExtJS 4 (4.1.3) app to use Sencha Cmd (GA).
The app is a single page app and uses a custom structure. I red all the guides for Sencha Cmd and
managed to migrate the app structure and produce a custom build for our app.
This is the test script we use to build all application files (excluding ext files).
sencha compile --classpath=lib/extjs/src,js ^ --debug=true ^ exclude -not -namespace Fms and ^ save AppOnly and ^ concat build/fms-all-debug.js and ^ --debug=false ^ restore AppOnly and ^ concat -yui build/fms-all.js
- js (folder) - app (folder) app.js (Ext.application();)
this is the result:
...class definitions... Ext.application({...}); ...more class definitions
Is it possible to enforce the file app.js to be appended to the build after the build process ?
I tried excluding the file from the build but then I don't know how to append it afterwards.
Any help is appreciated.
9 Nov 2012 2:36 AM #2
It seems that all views, stores, and models declared in the controllers don't get loaded prior to the definition of the controller.
requires: [ 'MyApp.SomeClass' <- this will be loaded prior to the controller ], // these declarations do not get loaded...... stores: [ 'MyStore' ], views: [ 'MyView' ], models: [ 'MyModel' ]
I found that there was a bug connected with this but was supposed to be fixed with Sencha Cmd GA
9 Nov 2012 10:33 AM #3
Can you post the relevant pieces of your Ext.application call and a Controller that is not having its dependencies respected?Don Griffin
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Check the docs. Learn how to (properly) report a framework issue and a Sencha Cmd issue
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12 Nov 2012 1:57 AM #4
Thank you for the replay.
After revising the benefits of migrating to the new front-end structure required by Sencha Cmd we decided that It might be beneficial for us after all. I produced dummy app with the same namespace and migrated our front-end structure to support sencha build command.
The build process works now. The views, stores and models are loaded before the controller - just like they should.
I don't know what was causing the problem before, but migrating to the new structure was not that difficult. I would recommend everybody to do that because it will save a lot of time in the deployment process.


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My coworker says things like
I suspicion that it happened the other day when nobody was here.
I would say
I suspect it happened
I have a suspicion that it happened.
What my coworker says sounds wrong to me. Is it common usage anywhere?
My coworker says things like
I would say
What my coworker says sounds wrong to me. Is it common usage anywhere?
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This question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a standard internet reference source designed specifically to find that type of information.If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
I've never heard or read it used as such, but the OED has an entry for 'suspicion' as a verb, with supporting citations from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Those cited include authors as diverse as John Buchan, C S Forester, Samuel Beckett, Rudyard Kipling and Carson McCullers.
Of course I suspicion sounds wrong. If we take as read that suspicion is a verb meaning suspect, then I suspicion is ungrammatical because suspect requires an object, so suspicion requires an object too.
You cannot just suspect, you must suspect something, much like you can't just hate, you must hate something. So you must suspicion something.
That said, despite suspicion being cited as a verb, I have not heard it and I would not use it as such.
I don't recall ever hearing "suspicion" used as a verb. The conventional verb form is "suspect". I see thefreedictionary.com lists it as a "nonstandard verb". But that's a very rare usage.
Sure. Dictionaries cite it back to 1861, and it's still in use.
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The diagrams I'm able to find online only show the concentric field lines in the particle's plane, perpendicular to the motion, which of course generalizes to the cylindrical shape around a conductor. Can someone share a nice representation of the three-dimensional magnetic field all around a moving point charge?
I highly recommend you look at the VPython programming environment. You can get it free for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Then go to this page on the Matter & Interactions support site and get the file named


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I have a Canon 600d. I need to have a long exposure. What settings should be used to achieve a long exposure in my camera? I tried searching and most of them say bulb mode. I don't see it in my camera. Any suggestions on how to achieve long exposure?
Take a look at page 100 of the manual. It explains how to use Bulb mode.
Put the camera into Manual(M) mode using the top dial, then turn the dial to the left to select BULB.
You can also use an intervalometer to capture long exposures of varying times more accurately then in the bulb mode.
Get Magic Lantern.
Opens up a whole load of neat stuff including an intervalometer. And it's free!
In addition to what dpollitt wrote about using Bulb mode, you may want to consider buying a remote control/shutter release.
It looks like the Canon RS-60E3 will work with the EOS 600D, but there are aftermarket variants as well, and you should double-check compatibility to be certain. The specific model number Canon unit will almost certainly be listed in the manual under accessories.
A remote control will allow you to keep the shutter depressed, or even lock it in a "down" position, without risking vibration to the camera body, thus helping significantly with long exposure photography. This becomes even more pronounced with mirror lock-up (don't know if the 600D has that feature), as it can nearly completely eliminate camera vibration.


text: The next three lessons are going to be on anime characters from series I have either heard of before, or never heard of before. Here is one that I did hear of, and it's on one of the main characters, Let's learn "how to draw Aladdin from Magi", step by step. I really like the character design for Aladdin and I also really love the way that this drawing came out. The hair, eyes and stance or pose makes him look exciting to replicate. I do hope you enjoy drawing Aladdin from Magi, because I really did have a blast with him.


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- BSO Case Number: DR12-10-02488
- PIO Number: 12-11-17
- Date: Oct. 17, 2012
- Time: 4 a.m.
- Place of Occurrence: 900 block of Southeast 21 Avenue, Deerfield Beach
- Jurisdiction: Deerfield Beach
- Jay Harper, 47, male, 3/25/65, 27 Sleepy Hill Rd., Southbury, CT (DECEASED)
- Unknown
Description of Incident:
Broward Sheriff's Office homicide detectives are investigating the death of an adult male whose body washed ashore October 17 in Deerfield Beach.
A BSO deputy on ATV patrol on the beach discovered the body around 4:10 a.m. in the 900 block of Southeast 21 Avenue, behind the Embassy Suites.
Investigators say Jay Harper, 47, was in South Florida for a business conference. Harper went to the beach with a female companion sometime between midnight and 2 a.m. October 17. About two hours later, he was found dead. BSO detectives interviewed the female companion, and she is not considered a suspect in the case.
Detectives believe foul play could have played a role in Harper's death.
According to the Medical Examiner's Office, the cause of Harper's death remains undetermined at this time.
Anyone who recalls seeing the victim or who was near the Embassy Suites the night of October 17 or has any information regarding this case is asked to contact BSO Homicide Detective John Berrena at 954-321-4210. Anonymous tips can be called in to Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS (8477) or www.browardcrimestoppers.org.
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- INVESTIGATORS: Det. Berrena, CID Homicide; Deerfield Beach
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I want to bring small cream-filled snacks for family and friends. Is it allowed? Small things like Twinkies, mini-cupcakes and so on in the one allowed carry-on. Or will airport security confiscate them?
For traveling from or within the United States, foods that are in and of themselves in the form of a liquid or gel are not permitted, but those which may simply contain liquids or gels are permitted. Unfortunately your mileage may vary depending on the interpretation of the screeners. You will find some, mostly older, anecdotes of jelly doughnuts or chocolate liqueur truffles being blocked, so having the food items checked or shipped, or purchased airside of the screening, would be safer options.
The TSA advises (note: not a comprehensive list):
I don't know what kind of "additional screening" one can do on a cake, or how ten ounces of filling inside a pie crust is somehow less deadly than six ounces of soft cheese in wax paper, but that's the government for you.


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Well, everyone was complaining that we need packs that CAN be collected. Devs released HW more than a year ago, and that was the last gold buyable pack, even that not many has been able to put together. But that does not matter anymore since those card are mostly not usable anymore. Ok, beside let's say 5 exceptions. Definitely does not worth 60 K gold. Oh well, maybe it does due to the facto that GOLD IS DEAD and there is nothing else to buy.
You cannot do anything with gold anymore. What we have is more and more new types of currencies. And what you can do with them is basically to convert them to other forms of wortless currencies.
When I was complaining that Awakening is not free at all people said that at least you can get one every week. So what. If you were lucky enough to get some of the usable card, good for you. If you got 5 skiffs, you are out of the game since you will never be able to get the usable awakening cards anymore. So how free awakening sounds anymore? Now the same will happen to terminus, and so on and so on. There are 3-5 real gamechanger cards in each pack, and it is all pure luck whether you get them or not. You could get some 15 awakening packs, 8 Terminus and so on.
Even paying people or unable and at some point just not willing to keep up with this trend. The free player base is shrinking, so if devs want to keep this shit up and running, they should seriously reconsider the current currency system and make this collectible cardgame to something that is actually collectible…
So what do we have: 10+ of currencies that either not accessible or worthless (GOLD, piston, nexus beacon, generator, artemis generator, fuson generator, Capacitor, Hive capacitor, Gateway Node, Awakening Shard, Terminus Shard)
Two artificially limited currency that allows you to get 2 rares a week: The actual shard + conquest token. Out of which the latter is only available to the 630 most active members.
A tendency where each and every new pack consists more rares than common + uncommon altogether. There are mainly 1-2 common uncommon that is usable in a pack and some 20% of the new rares. As a result if you are really good you can get 1-2 usable card every month, unless you buy some from wb, but that is it. No chance to complete ANY NEW PACKS. No chance to get but a few usable new cards. And we should be happy about it.
But what do we expect. They were unable to make nexus accessible for gold after 2000 posts. So right I feel more than ever. Free tyrant is DEAD.


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Is there any way to get all messages in one application. I use 5 email accounts, text messaging and WhatsApp. I dont' want to have to go to 3 different folders when I get 3 different types of messages.
Is there any application, or way to set up my Galaxy S3 to get all messages in one place?


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Is it possible to change Adobe Illustrator settings to create an empty new document each time it is launched?
I would save your blank document as an Illustrator Template (.ait) file and open that from Explorer/Finder instead. The new document will be named "Untitled" until you save it, so you can't accidentally save over the template.
The template can contain swatches, empty layers, view settings, your company logo in the corner, etc.
See also Working Smarter, with Templates on the Adobe Illustrator blog.
On OS X you can use an AppleScript to launch the app then create a new doc based on your settings. I've used this approach extensively, though not to create new docs.
I haven't written AS in a while so I'll leave the complicated stuff to a more qualified person. But I can give you some example solutions.
You can also set up some options to present in a prompt when the script is launched.
Spending a little time setting up the script at the start can result in noticeable cumulative time savings.


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University of Kentucky basketball finally is on the road to getting a special category of athletes that Paul "Bear" Bryant had during his illustrious football coaching career with the Wildcats.
Bryant recruited the versatile Jones twins – Harry and Larry – from Louisville's duPont Manual High School in Louisville. The running backs played for Bryant in 1950, '51 and '52.
Now UK basketball coach John Calipari, fresh off UK's eighth national championship, has landed 6-foot-5 twins Andrew and Aaron Harrison of Richmond, Texas, for the Wildcats. They announced their decision on national television (ESPNU) Oct. 4.
Andrew is regarded as the No. 1 point guard in the nation. His twin Aaron is the No. 1 shooting guard in the 2013 class.
The three years the Jones twins played were the most successful in UK football history. The most special year was 1950 when the Wildcats went 11-1 and put an end to Oklahoma's winning streak with a 13-7 win in the Sugar Bowl. The Sagarin Ratings of USA Today awarded the national championship to Bryant's team after running the results of that year in their computer.
UK beat Texas Christian 20-7 in the Cotton Bowl after the 8-4 1951 season. Bryant's last year at UK was 7-2-1.
Harry and the late Larry Jones were fabulously successful in the plastics business in Louisville.
"I just got a call from a friend who told me that Joe B. (Hall) just mentioned us on his and Denny's (Crum) radio show," said Harry.


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Scooter has priest going places
|The Rev. James T. Gregory and his customized Honda scooter. Gregory's scooter proclaims his occupation on the rear license plate holder. Bud Wilkinson / Republican-American
Jim Gregory, who certainly qualifies as middle-aged at age 48, isn't one of them. He doesn't even ride a motorcycle, rather a shiny black Honda Metropolitan scooter that has been customized to reflect his occupation.
"I haven't been riding very long. I'm not really a biker. I just bought the scooter at the beginning of June of this year," he said last Saturday morning. "People have asked me if I bought the scooter because I was having my mid-life crisis. I told them that I had my mid-life crisis in my 20s. That's why I became a priest."
The Rev. James T. Gregory, as he's more formally known, was seated across a dining room table inside the rectory of St. Mary Magdalen Church. Besides serving the Catholic parish in Oakville, he's also chaplain at Sacred Heart High School in Waterbury.
What was his reason for augmenting four wheels with two? "I bought the scooter to try to reduce my footprint — as in carbon footprint, as in energy footprint," said Gregory. His church is a quarter-mile from the rectory and he commutes on the scooter, leaving his car in the garage. "I feel funny driving my Subaru up and down all the time. I thought a scooter was more appropriate. It's faster than a golf cart and street legal."
Gregory's Honda is a 49cc model that he purchased at Adams of Oakville. It doesn't have to be registered, and he doesn't have to have an "M" endorsement on his driver's license to operate it on public roads. "Because it's such a small vehicle, it took me a while to get used to all the bumps. It's not very smooth. I'm still trying to turn properly," he said.
That's understandable. There's a learning curve to riding for all newbies. "My fear, because it's a small vehicle, is hitting patches of dirt. In the four months, I've gotten more comfortable on it. The thrill of the experience is the wind, the exposure to the elements. No matter how hot it is outside, it's always cooler when you're riding," he said.
So far, he's ridden the Honda only 255 miles. "I haven't ventured too far. I've taken it out to pick up groceries, deposit bags at the bank," all within a five-mile radius of the rectory, he said.
He also had some work done on his scooter. Ram-Art Signs in Oakville painted a white rectangle on the front of the scooter to simulate Gregory's clerical collar as well as the words "Sky Pilot" on the license plate holder on the rear, the term being slang for a military chaplain. Fleurs-de-lys adorn the rear wheel fenders on each side. Gregory explained the fleur-de-lys "represents the Holy Trinity, which is the Christian expression of God."
A native of Manchester and graduate of Central Connecticut State University with a B.A. in mass communication, Gregory originally planned to pursue a career in the media, but ended up working as a church janitor after college. "As I was dawdling, I got my call to the priesthood," he said. He attended St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore and was ordained in 1999.
How do his parishioners regard his new mode of travel? "Most of them like it. One person does not like the idea. He refers to the scooter as a 'donorcycle.' I think that's because he's an EMT and he's seen too much," said Gregory, who does wear a half-helmet when riding.
His parishioners do see the humor in the modest customization of the scooter. "I don't want to overdo it. People have remarked on its simplicity. They find it humorous and not overdone," he said.
Like most newbies, Gregory has been involved in an incident with his ride. "About two weeks after I bought it, I panicked pulling out into traffic. I remained up, but the bike went down. I wasn't in the middle of traffic. I was on the shoulder," he said. The scooter has scratches to prove it.
Whether Gregory ever rides the Honda much beyond his Buckingham Street neighborhood, or eventually trades up to a motorcycle, remains to be seen. "I'll have to see how it goes. The thing that keeps me from getting a motorcycle is the extra expense," he said.
Gregory does have one temptation when it comes to the scooter. He noted that he's officiated at few funerals over his seven years at St. Mary Magdalen where mourners have shown up on motorcycles and ridden them in the procession. "The next time that happens, I just might ride my scooter with them," he said.
Doing this column on Gregory reminded me of a somewhat similar story I did in the late 1970s when working as a reporter for The Columbus Dispatch in Ohio. It was a feature piece on a nun in Kenton who had a three-wheeled scooter — the kind primarily used indoors — and who rode it along sidewalks in town to visit folks.
The story and accompanying picture got picked up by the Associated Press and distributed nationally. A short while later, I was dozing on the couch in front of the television on a Saturday night when the "Weekend Update" segment came on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" and my picture of the elderly nun was projected behind "anchor" Jane Curtin. She told of how the Flying Nun, a character played by Sally Field on a TV comedy of the same name in the late 1960s, was much older and wise, and had adopted a new mode of transportation.
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When I see people doing forms, competing, or breaking blocks of concrete or wood with their hands, they are always vocally expressive in what they are about to do. What names does this "shouting" have and why is it done in techniques?
The shouting, called kiai, has multiple purported purposes. I would note that I'm posting these not out of a necessary belief in them, but out of explanation as they were taught to me:
Something that many people may never learn: the kiai need not be loud. In some arts, the kiai is taught as a voiceless projection, called kage no kiai.
In addition, some arts offer specific forms of kiai, for example (from the Bujinkan; I have no record from which school, I simply have it in my notebook as kihon, but the proper term is more likely kotodama)
It's said the kage no kiai taught in the Bujinkan is a harmony of these three shouts, voiceless or in a low hum, assuring the warrior of victory. This might be viewed as a form of self-assurance, helping to maintain a form of inner calm or mushin.
Depends on the style, but for the purposes of most Japanese martial arts, the "shouts" are Kiai and serve a couple different purposes:
Depending upon the situation they can also act as a battle cry in some ways but I haven't heard that explanation for them given at the dojo.
A Kihap is basically a battle cry, carried over into modern times. But there are actually some very positive benefits.
It doesn't really matter what sound you make, you can achieve benefits 1 and 2 by remembering to breath properly when striking. Some people make a "Tsst" sound when striking; as long it comes from the abdomen it should still provide benefits.
I don't believe letting out a long blood curdling battle cry is beneficial when striking. Your kihap needs to be very quick, one, maybe two syllables max. The reason I'm saying this is because if you have a long kihap when striking your jaw is in a vulnerable state, it's open. A tight jaw will help guard against dislocation or outright breaks.
Another negative might be that you signal your intent if you kihap too soon in your strike against a trained opponent, or signal the end of your attack. For example, in class we kihap at the end of the pattern, which means the attack is over. A large component of fighting is information warfare, you're reading your opponent's weaknesses, trying to conceal your own, and conceal your intentions.
So there is something to this ancient activity. It doesn't summon the power of the spirit world to let you shoot a fireball out of your hands, but it give you more power, a better defense, and might scare your opponent off.
There are two kind of shouts, long and short ones.
Long shouts:
The shouts you're referring,
When speaking about
A cheap trick to know what we're talking about is to look at something in front of you and scream very strongly at it and then turning your head and screaming very strongly at something in another direction (say 90° left). Pay attention to actually look what the objects/persons you're screaming at.
When you do that strongly and shamelessly enough, you should feel subtle differences in your body position. That is: the scream effectively directed your body here or there.
Summing up: it's an easy (when done right) way to achieve something otherwise difficult.
Since it works when you're screaming hard, though, it is difficult to practice in many environments. If you're a novice and screaming less than your maximum then you're doing it wrong and it will serve no purpose.
Short shouts:
They're just a mean to contract the diaphragm, and coordinate breath and body actions to improve breath endurance and marginally augment the power of the strikes.
In addition to Rob Z's answer, kiai force you to breath. This is a good thing, especially when you are in a randori/competition situation where one tends to hold their breath.
There are a few reasons that they claim is why they do this:
I can understand the mentality behind this, if your attacker doesn't want to attract attention, shouting will attract attention and may scare them away.
When it comes to the last one, I can understand that too. it does in face help the power of the technique. Personally though, being that I do Krav maga, and ICS, I prefer using a technique where you breath out quickly with each punch making sort of a quick ssshhh sound. This particular technique is also used in MMA, Muy Tia, Boxing, and other similar fighting styles.
All the answers about aiding concentration and releasing your inner power are good, but mostly for striking moves.
On the Judo side of the house, the Kiai mostly manifests itself as a loud and determined grunt. That said, I have heard a few roars during some particularly impressive standing work ... generally where a smaller player gets a larger opponent airborne. A roar like that is often followed by standing applause from the spectators if the technique worked!
This question is too broad to give it an exaustive answer, because (as you can see from the answers) each martial art gives its interpretation of the kiai.
Speaking of Karate Shotokan, the kiai is performed to stress the power on a technique (for kihon and kata) and to intimidate the opponent (for kumite, and also for validating a successful blow during tournaments).
It is worth noting that the kiai is not performed by "shouting" (after some shout in succession you lose your voice); but instead is performed by a powerful contraction of the abdomen.
One of my partners this weekend reminded me of another reason that it is important to exhale during execution of a technique. If you are hit, or hit the ground (take a fall) while holding your breath, you're going to (a) hurt more and (b) take longer to get up.
I can't quantify the difference, and I would recommend against the experiment . Sadly even though I remember (not pleasantly) the falls I've taken while holding my breath, I still have to work on it every couple of years - it is a bad habit that comes back.
I'd say it's a waste of energy if you aren't using it to scare an opponent. When striking, kicking or blocking it is important to exhale to relax the body so that you can get more power into the strike. This should however be done more or less silently.
People bench pressing also does this to get more power in to the press, most of them without screaming or making to much noise as you want the force to go into your arms not out through your mouth.
A proper 'spirited yell', or 'power exhale' or what-have-you actually is meant to activate the very core muscles, the abdominal band, and the tantien, one of the three main chi centers and the place where the body stores chi). This allows you to release more energy and, well, be successful in your technique. When breaking boards, it's useful so you don't hurt yourself. In a competition, it's to impress the judges, so forget that. In a form, in practice, you are training yourself for specific ways to release this energy (kick, uppercut, elbow, etc).
your inability or fear of embracing the metaphysical will probably keep you from understanding anything outside the realm of the physical world. Understand that the creators of this process are spiritual people and so to truly understand what they are gaining from it and its depth will be beyond you and you may prefer it that way. Not seeking the depth of where the people that created it makes it a waste of your time and disrespects their efforts. I hope only for your growth. Peace...


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Why does Woot have such an affinity for HP products?
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They get a really good deal on them.
@chris12345: Pretty much what I was going to say; there is a lot of HP everything available. After all, they are the top (by volume) PC maker in the world today. They probably pick up huge overstock / off-lease deals on HP stuff on a regular basis.
I think we just have an affinity for bargains.
It's probably because of HP's award-winning customer service.
HP has an affinity for woot.
How many desktops offered on the family of sites are HP vs. any other brand? It's not even close. The only other laptops I remember seeing besides HP were a couple of refurb macbooks.
HP Matches their bag of crap.
Bad junk with good customer service.
I bought the top HP desktop 3 years ago, believing a well known brand would be very good. It had bells and whistles. My experience with this HP has been crash, core dumps, blue screens in the middle of about 1 session per day. I figured it was my dumb luck getting a funky one with an undefined glitch. Later I learned that HP had replaced numerous motherboards on this model desktop with same problem without admitting defects. Tech person at big box store where bought said that the motherboards used as replacements were from the same lot manufactured for the desktops that had problem in the first place. Thus replacing defective motherboard would result in the same likelihood of getting another defective one. He suggested I live with it. So I have learned that when my mouse pointer freezes up, it is going to core dump within 1 minute. My fix is turn it off before the core dump. At least I get a warning. I wish I had advance warning about HP itself.
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Tips for New Moms: Your Mom and You
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The way it isOur Parents Were Younger, Both in Years and Experiences
As youngsters, we ran circles around our moms the same way our children dizzy us. But most of our moms were in their twenties and enjoyed the staple of energy that younger adults possess.
Today, men and women are waiting longer to marry and have children, making us five to fifteen years older and considerably more fatigued than previous generations of parents. Virtually unheard of in our moms' day, some modern women are experiencing first-time motherhood in their forties and fifties.
Experts tell us that older parents do make better parents, lending greater stability, confidence and patience to this most exacting of jobs. Yet, greater complications beset over-thirty parents.
Moms of our era face a previously unimaginable double whammy: the tribulations of early motherhood simultaneous to the onset of menopause. The single mother of a four-year-old she adopted from China, Cathy in Phoenix is coping the best she can. "Menopause, including the surgery I had last fall to ease some symptoms, has been difficult. I make every effort not to inflict my grumpiness on my daughter but I am sure sometimes she senses it."
As older moms, we are more apt to feel the pinch of being in the sandwich generation and the need to care for aging parents as well. "My parents are in terrible health," Keesha from Detroit says. "I can't tell you how much pressure I'm under, working full-time, trying to take care of two kids under the age of five, getting them to the doctor at the same time I'm taking my father to the doctor, or going with my mom to buy a new walker."
We're older in years and in experiences. Those of us who enjoyed independent, career-focused, and self-indulgent but also self-defining years, feel every ounce of sacrifice involved in mothering. Brought up to seek self-fulfillment and individual happiness, we are not wired the same way as was the so-called "greatest generation" who lived during World War II. We were not immersed from birth in societal values that prized God and country, much less duty.
Indeed, researchers at San Diego State University report that older, wealthier couples grapple most with the transition to parenthood. In their formula for happiness, the salaried thirty- and forty-something set includes dinners out, frequent travel, and having time for themselves and their romantic lives. So their sense of deprivation and of having lost their modus operandi is often intense.
Intensive Mothering
Dr. Benjamin Spock encouraged our moms to trust their instincts. But we are subjected to the criteria of "intensive mothering," so named by University of Virginia professor Sharon Hays in The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood. Intensive mothering is demanding, child-centered, expert-guided, labor-intensive, and expensive, Hays says. Ironically, these demands come at a time when 75 percent of all American mothers are in the labor force, nearly 40 percent of them in full-time jobs.
Women accustomed to being overachievers embraced these outrageously heightened ideals for mothering. So that today, many of us manically second-guess ourselves, trying to do everything by the book, or by twenty child-care books that contradict each other. We throw galalike birthday parties for our kids and teach them to overdo and overspend, rather than appreciate simpler and less fabricated delights.
More on: Adjusting to New Motherhood
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The built-in defragment tool of Windows is not the best one. I heard that there are a ton of better ones out there - but which one is really good?
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I use Jkdefrag and read good things about it. Can be used as screensaver as well, have a 64-bit version and is open source.
Edit : As of version 4, it's now called MyDefrag.
For a free option at small shops I've been a fan of Defraggler
The necessity of a good 3rd-party defrag tool isn't quite what it used to be, though they're of course still hotly peddled as cure-alls beside generic system cleaners.
The NTFS file system is quite an improvement over FAT32 in this regard, and this TechNet blog article discusses some of Vista's improvements in particular: Don't judge a book by its cover – why Windows Vista Defrag is cool (nonpartisan I know ;).
For Vista:
I'm putting forward that a 3rd party defrag tool is entirely unnecessary. The system scheduled idle defrag (find it in Task Scheduler->Microsoft->Windows->Defrag) is more than capable of keeping up with system fragmentation and a manual defrag has little benefit of significance. (Although by all means if you wish to target highly specific performance sensitive problem files and directories with the likes of contig as mentioned you should do so.)
I believe this is verifiable by simply running the utilities in question and noting that the reported fragmentation is within practical performance levels. (See the article for possible misconceptions.)
Back to the original question: If you merely want to replace this scheduled task with a good defrag tool then my recommendation is for the Windows one already in use, at least on Vista. ;)
On earlier versions of Windows I'd vote for Perfect Disk merely on the result of my past "x vs x", "x better than *", and "x compared to *" Google queries (try the wildcards). For anyone really gung-ho about a substitute for Vista's I'd probably suggest it there as well, or at least the Google searches for comparative research.
I use the Windows Home Server Edition which gives you 10 licenses for all your home computers.
The normal Home Edition is inexpensive at $30.
Diskeeper is one of the ones that usually gets mentioned. The Microsoft defrag utility is a limited version (severly) of the Diskeeper disk defragmenter, as per KB130539.
defraggler has always suited me fine, I've no idea if its any good. But it's portable and appears to work.
JkDefrag, it's open source, fully automatic, can be run as a screen saver or from a Scheduled Task.
Defraggle is good stuff
Sysinternals (now bought by Microsoft) made a free command line tool called Contig that at least have one nice feature in that you can point it to a directory and it will defrag only that and the subdirectories but not the rest of the disk. I have no experience with the other programs mentioned in the other answers. The performance hit when running contig is noticeable.
My site just deployed 'PerfectDisk'. It looks to be a good tool and can be centrally managed and deployed to the Desktops. I just ran a few defrags with it and it did improve speed and has a detailed interface letting you know what's going on.
IOBit SmartDefrag is fantastic -- we used to shell out for the cadillac version of Diskeeper for our servers, but now we just use SmartDefrag. It's got all the functionality in the sfotware we were paying for, and even has a feature that optimizes the placement of more frequently used files.
Disk Keeper is the best defrag util that you can pay for according to many reviews...
i've tried Diskeeper, O&O Defrag and the rest. i find PerfectDisk to be the best.
It actually defragments my hard drive, rather than complaining when there isn't 20% free space. It also doesn't try to be an enterprise defragmenter, or a defragment-while-you-work product - taking up computer resources and causing I/O delays while i'm working or playing.
i schedule it to run at 1:00 AM. It runs at 1:00 AM, and then stops running.
I recommend the open source UltraDefrag. It has boot time defragmentation, a feature implemented by the author at my request.
I use Magical Defrag, It is pay software at about $20 depending on where u come from but it does a good thorough job.
I like defraggler from Piriform.
I recommened iobit's Smart Defrag
I've found it does a better job than the built-in defragger (Diskeeper Lite in disguise), but so far the best defragger I've used has been O&O Defrag Professional. (I do not work for them.)
I've used IOBit Smart Defrag without any problems. As you mentioned, I like how it defrags in the background. (I too do not work for them)
I'd second PerfectDisk as my defragger of choice. Newer versions also have "enterprise defrag" options like particular defrag strategies for specific environments (eg: VMWare virtual machines & SQL)


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GF Simmons, Introduction to Topology and Modern Analysis Section 11, Pg 68-69
Let $X$ be a metric space and $A$ a subset of $X$. A point in $X$ is called a boundary point of $A$ if each open sphere centered on the point intersects both $A$ and $A'$, and the boundary of $A$ is the set of all boundary points. This concept possesses the following properties:
(1) The boundary of $A$ equals $A \cap A'$;
(2) The boundary of $A$ is a closed set;
(3) $A$ is closed $\iff$ it contains boundary
The first property is wrong I suppose? Else all boundary sets will be empty sets. Any idea what can be a replacement to that property? For example, did the author actually intend to say that
(1) The boundary of $A$ equals $\bar{A} \cap A'$
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A mage in my game would like to have a Roc chick that is about to hatch as his Familiar. The rules on the Familiar edge give guidelines on the size of creature that can be a familiar, and so the young Roc should not be a problem. But, as it grows to a much bigger creature, can it stay as a familiar or would it break free?
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There are two ways you can take this.
1) Figure out how fast the roc grows, and if its growth in size categories outpaces his max familiar size, then it breaks free, and he has to find a new familiar. Presumably it would be wild enough to not stick around the party, but if he hasn't been mistreating it then it probably wouldn't actually attack the party either. He would probably know that his hold on it was breaking several days before it actually stopped being his familiar.
2) Being his familiar could magically slow its growth, so that it only bumps up to a new size category when he can have a familiar of that size category. This allows him to keep it as a familiar for as long as he wants (though it will probably never reach adult size).


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Upon shooting a monster load directly on a partners face, the male uses junk in a clockwise motion to soak up all love juice and insert said junk back into partners pie hole.
Oh man, I can't believe that girl I swooped at the club last night blew me in the bathroom and let me take a victory lap.
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When a collegiate student takes more than 4 years to graduate, each consecutive year after the 4th year is considered a to be a victory lap
Hey man, what year are you?
Second year senior, i'm on my victory lap.
Second year senior, i'm on my victory lap.
by chubaccatron August 22, 2006
When masturbating, the few extra jerks you take after orgasm.
He jerked til he came, but kept going for a victory lap.
by Airplane86 December 29, 2009
When a guy goes around and visits all of the women he has nailed one by one
I took a victory lap last week, it took all day
by SloJamz September 01, 2015
1. to give a girl really hot sex and still have enough stamina afterward to give her more
The way that fox in the open-back dress is looking at me, she pretty much has a guaranteed victory lap.
by FightinEngineer February 13, 2011
When someone graduates from highschool only to return for a fifth year.
Guy 1: Dude your still in highschool, I thought you graduated.
Guy 2: Yea I did, but Im on my victory lap.
Guy 2: Yea I did, but Im on my victory lap.
by Phallic-Man January 27, 2009
when a woman performs oral sex to man, once he is finshed ejaculating in her mouth she does a "victory lap" around the mans anus with her tongue. living a trail of semen around the anus.
last erin sucked my dick so good that she decided to take a victory lap.
she does victory laps like jimmie johnson .
she does victory laps like jimmie johnson .
by green bee May 11, 2011
When you run around in circles after a great achievement or victory.
Halo, 2v2, score 24 to 24. Oh Snap! He is shooting me badly, I'm in red. I only have one bullet in this stupid sniper, and, HEADSHOT!! I WIN!! ~*victory lap*~ Wow. Alright, I'll calm down now.
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I've read somewhere (probably in the nlab) that higher category theory has application in logic. By the way since now the only applications of higher category theory I've seen are in homotopy theory and mathematical physics, so I was wondering if anyone could give me some example of applications of higher categorical methods in logic (any reference would be appreciated).
You would probably enjoy checking out homotopy type theory and Vladimir Voevodsky's corresponding program of univalent foundations for mathematics. Steve Awodey's survey article (linked to from that site) is a good starting point, and includes a spelling-out of a homotopical interpretation of Martin-Lof type theory.
To elaborate on Peter Arndt's answer a bit: indeed, considering terms as 1-cells and rewriting rules as 2-cells, you can indeed obtain a rather productive higher categorical view on various constructions of rewriting theory. Morally, this would mean that cofibrant replacements in various model categories (of modules, or associative algebras) can be described in a rather pleasant geometric way, - computing syzygies becomes building higher-dimensional cells of a cell complex from the low-dimensional ones. There are several good references to master this kind of viewpoint, best processed when viewed together. Those are the paper of Craig Squier "Word problems and a homological finiteness condition for monoids" from which all sort of started, when it comes to theoretical computer science, at least (this paper re-discovered in a somewhat different context results from a paper of David Anick "On the homology of associative algebras"), the paper of Jean-Louis Loday "Homotopical syzygies", and indeed, recent papers of the French computer science school, such as Yves Lafont, Francois Metayer, Yves Guiraud, Philippe Malbos and many others.
Another group of related applications are those in rewriting theory, concurrency theory, directed homotopy theory etc. For this check out the pages of Yves Lafont and his collaborators.
There should be a lot of stuff concerning this in papers and books of Michael Makkai.


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Wilson: Hurlbert the difference-maker for Bears
Let's see. Momentum and recent history on one side, Abby Hurlbert on the other side.
Go with Hurlbert. Thomaston did Tuesday night and kept their Berkshire League girls basketball title hopes alive with a 42-33 victory over dangerous Northwestern in front of a healthy crowd at the Golden Bears' gym.
The Bears (13-4, 12-3 BL) trail both Nonnewaug and Lewis Mills by one game as the final week of the season approaches and still have a game with the Chiefs on tap. But nothing would have mattered had this one slipped away.
And Northwestern has been to the Bears what Notre Dame has been to the UConn women — a royal pain in the paw. The Highlanders beat the Bears earlier this season, putting the two-time defending champions in a hole they still haven't climbed out of. They handed coach Bob McMahon's team their only two league losses a year ago.
The Bears have had their fill of being "Freddied," and it looked for a while to be happening again. Northwestern (12-6, 11-5 BL), fresh off an upset of Mills, erased a 24-12 first-half deficit and drew even, 31-31, with just over six minutes left in the game.
Hurlbert had seen enough of this story, however, and down the stretch the senior All-Stater came up with a package of plays that the Highlanders finally had no answer for. You know, kind of a we've-got-Abby-and-you-don't type of ending.
With the score 31-31, Hurlbert dropped in a rainbow 3-pointer from the corner. At 36-33, Hurlbert came up with a crucial steal on the sideline and drove in for the layup for a 38-33 lead. On the ensuing Northwestern possession, she blocked a shot at the foul line. The next time down the court, Hurlbert found freshman Casey Carangelo under the hoop for a basket and a 40-33 lead.
She would add another steal before the game ended. She got the Bears started early with two consecutive 3-pointers and finished off the Highlanders late. It all resulted in a 20-point, seven-rebound night.
"I know what happened the last game and this was the same type of game," said Hurlbert. "In my head, I was thinking it's not going to end the same way. It was going to be different."
"I wish Abby didn't have to carry as much of the load, but big players make big plays and she did down the stretch," said McMahon. "Personally my highlight in the stretch was the pass to the freshman (Carangelo) for the basket."
Hurlbert's efforts capped off a game of flow and no flow. Northwestern scored the first five points, Thomaston responded with the next 10 and ended the first quarter with a 14-9 lead.
A 10-3 run highlighted by another Hurlbert 3-pointer took up a good chunk of the second quarter as the Bears had the Highlanders doubled up, 24-12, at one point and 24-15 at the half.
But then came the no-flow part. It is mandated that the Highlanders will give the Bears fits. And so it was. Thomaston scored one basket over the next seven minutes, shooting 2-of-12 in the third quarter and Northwestern chipped away.
Consecutive baskets from the Highlanders' Liz Newkirk cut the deficit to 27-23. Emma Beltrandi canned a pair from the line and it was a two-point game.
Amanda Soltis finally tied the game at 31-31, and the Highlanders actually had two chances to go ahead, but missed a free throw and an outside shot. Then Hurlbert went to work.
"I'm pleased with how we played, but we turned the ball over three times and took a bad shot in the final minutes that I don't think we should have taken," said Northwestern coach Fred Williams. "(Hurlbert) is a very, very good player, and we did not defend her well. She loves the 3-point shot, and we didn't defend her. I can think of three times we weren't anywhere near her."
Thomaston also got a rugged nine-point, nine-rebound effort from Morgan Sanson.
It was not easy to execute, but it was easy to explain. Thomaston had Abby, Northwestern didn't.
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A company was trying to buy a new spec building at the Kentucky Transpark when attorneys noticed a roadblock.
During the title search, attorneys found some clouds in the Bowling Green Economic Development Authority's title that had been eliminated, but not signed off on.
Today, the Warren County Fiscal Court stepped in to ensure the sale goes through.
"What we had to do was call a special meeting so I could get authority from the Fiscal Court to sign the necessary documents to remove the cloud of title from this property so it may be transferred to someone who can make a large investment in our community and provide jobs," said Warren County Judge Executive Mike Buchanon.
The court voted unanimously to approve the order allowing County Judge Executive Buchanon to sign off on the title.
"It's important that we make sure this type of investment isn't hindered by little technicalities, and that's all we're doing today," said Buchanon.
The name of the company is not being released pending the sale, but it's not the first to invest in the transpark.
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Cannon Automotive Solutions and Shiloh Industries purchased the first two spec buildings... and created nearly 200 jobs combined.
The Chamber of Commerce says both were closed in record time, something they hope will continue with the third building.
With the quick success of the first three, they already have their sights set on the next building.
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I want to add Hamster applet to my Ubuntu 11.04 installation, I am not able to right click panel and add applet to it.
Please let me know the exact method.
Sorry, But I am novice to linux.
Unity Panel (Unity is new interface for Ubuntu 11.04 with new top panel) doesn't support applets for GNOME Panel.
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If any of you know building a website up from scratch is no easy task - especially when you don't know html, css, sprys, ajax (not the cleaner) php, etc.
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Professor John C. Coffee Jr., director of the Law School's Center on Corporate Governance, originally conceived of the idea to create this forum for corporate and financial analysis. The blog is managed and edited by corporate and securities law expert Jason W. Parsont '07, a post-doctoral research scholar and lecturer-in-law at the Law School. The editorial board consists of many of the blog's regular contributors, including Coffee; Lecturer-in-Law Edward F. Greene, senior counsel at Cleary Gottlieb and a former general counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Professor Robert J. Jackson Jr.; and Professor Kathryn Judge, whose research examines financial institutions and markets.
The name of The CLS Blue Sky Blog is a play on the title given to state securities laws, or "blue sky laws." In addition, the name is meant to suggest a spirit of transparency and the possibility of open discussion.
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