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When drawing multiple monsters and placing them is there a choice in which monsters go to the outskirts?
Do we get to pick what monster goes on what gate?
When drawing multiple monsters and placing them is there a choice in which monsters go to the outskirts?
Do we get to pick what monster goes on what gate?
Just for reference...
For normal gate openings, on Pages 9/10:
For monster surges, on Page 9:
You are right, the rules don't explicitly say anything like draw and place monsters one at a time, though most everyone I've seen discussing this on the Fantasy Flight AH forum and the BoardGameGeek AH forum agree that hand picking which monsters get to go where is against the spirit of the game.
What would that mean thematically anyway? That the investigators can somehow allow two Cultists passage into Arkham but force the Gugs into the outskirts? The Mythos Phase is virtually completely free from investigator influence (save for things like the Psychic and Arcane Insight) and allowing the players to choose which specific monsters end up where on the board gives them a large degree of control that it doesn't make sense to have.
For monster placement, I just draw and place one-by-one, so it's pretty unambiguous which monsters are the ones the go over the limit. For surges I just draw monsters from the cup one-by-one and place them around the board going clockwise-ish starting at the surging gate. Any monsters that would get places but are over the limit go to the outskirts and I don't worry about fine tuning the placement in that instance.
That said, there's absolutely nothing stopping you if you feel like manually choosing the end locations for the drawn monsters.
Monsters are placed randomly in the outskirts and on the gates. You cannot choose to place the toughest monsters in the outskirts.
During a monster surge, follow these steps:
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Would someone explain the requirements to daven (pray) in a minyan, when the minyan is needed and what can't one do absent a minyan? Where can I confirm this? Thanks.
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What you need a minyan for is mentioned in the Mishnah Megilah 4(3); the link is to the Blackman edition with English translation. The paragraphs in the Wikipedia article entitled "Rituals requiring a minyan" and "Prayer with a minyan" seem to be reliable.
Shulchan Aruch 90:9: Try to daven in shul. If he is "annus" and can't make it at least daven "together" with the congregation (at the same time). And if is "annus" and couldn't make it on time to the minyan at least daven by himself in the shul. Mishan Brura (28) explains the power of the davening together with a congregation: Hashem doesn't "moes" (dislikes?) the davening of a congregation.

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How to unlock Huawei M835 by code ?
Unlocking Huawei M835 by code is very easy, it is also safest and non-invasive method of unlocking your phone. To get code for unlock Huawei M835 you need to provide IMEI number of your Huawei. Type on keyboard *#06# or remove battery from your Huawei M835 to check IMEI number. IMEI is written on the information label as shown in this picture.
This service is used to remove a network blockade from all Huawei models. To generate an unlock code, we need an IMEI number which can be found by dialing *#06#, or by checking in the phone settings.
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Yesterday, HBOS and Lloyds were locked in merger talks. Apparently they were "nudged" by Gordon Brown, the Financial Services Authority and the Treasury. These events followed rapidly after the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
At least we have reined back from the dangerous precedent of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, where the US government seemed to be developing a giant welfare state for bankers. But, nevertheless, there are growing calls for more regulation: is this the end of our liberal, capitalist financial system?
In fact, we already have an extensively regulated financial system. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae had well over 200 regulators all to themselves.
In the UK, the FSA has frighteningly wide powers. Arguably, the very financial instruments that have caused recent problems - securitised mortgages - have been designed to avoid the inflexible regulation of the traditional banking sector. The more the regulators regulate, the more the whizz kids put their efforts into designing more complex products.
There are two further salutary lessons for those who believe that more regulation is the answer to our problems. As Eamonn Butler from the Adam Smith Institute has noted, US banks were forced by regulation to make loans to people who had poor repayment histories.
Also, when the dust has settled, we will probably come to the view that the underlying cause of the current crisis is that, as some of us warned, monetary policy was far too loose for far too long in both the US and the UK.
Low interest rates led to the underpricing of credit. This was also the cause of the boom that preceded the Great Depression. The US government overreacted with the introduction of draconian financial regulation then. Our government should avoid making that mistake today.
Markets may misallocate resources at times, but we should not think regulators can do better. The all-knowing, beneficent regulator is a creature of the imagination of social democrats.
We should begin by determining precisely what the limited objectives of financial regulation should be and develop institutions to achieve those objectives. Two aspects of the regulatory system introduced by Gordon Brown about 10 years ago need to be overhauled. Brown gave very general powers to the FSA to "promote public confidence in the financial system" and to "secure appropriate degrees of protection for consumers". This was a big mistake. The FSA has developed thousands of pages of regulations to try to achieve the unachievable, while missing the obvious.
Secondly, Brown simultaneously managed to put all the regulators under one roof, while leaving gaps between those authorities responsible for managing the most acute forms of crisis: quite an achievement! We saw the effects of this in the Northern Rock affair.
There are some very specific problems that we know can arise and regulation should focus on those. By ensuring this is done, it is possible for a future government with strong beliefs in free markets - if there is to be one - to respond effectively to the crisis and to reduce financial regulation.
The Bank of England should be the lender of last resort, with no ambiguity. And it should be the banking system's regulator again. The Bank should have its capital provided by the private sector - as it did from 1694 to 1946.
Any bank that wished to make use of lender of last resort facilities should submit to the regulation of the Bank of England regarding liquidity and capital requirements. This would be a simple regulatory response to a well-defined problem. It is a liberal response too. Banks could choose to remain outside this system but they would have to make it clear to their customers that they would never receive any support from the Bank of England if there were problems.
Much of the detailed regulation currently carried out by the FSA could be undertaken by stock exchanges. Competition between exchanges for business is fierce and the market already is divided between those exchanges that compete on the tightness of their regulation and exchanges, such as the Alternative Investment Market, where regulation is looser.
Instead of focusing on the detail, the financial regulator should then concentrate on ensuring that there is an orderly winding up of institutions that fail and, if necessary, oiling the wheels to prevent failure. This seems to be happening with Lehman Brothers in the US, and with HBOS in the UK. Often our legal systems cannot cope with the complex web of transactions left behind when financial institutions fail.
It is not for the government to provide guarantees - as the US government did in the case of Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Rather, the regulator should make sure that promises are honoured, insofar as they can be, and that an institution is wound up with as little disruption as possible. In any winding up, the customers and counterparties should come first: if there is nothing left for the shareholders and bondholders - too bad.
To sum up, Gordon Brown created a regulator that has a giant footprint on the financial system. Meanwhile, financial institutions try to develop complex instruments to wriggle out from under the boot. The FSA cannot do its job properly because it has an impossible job. We need regulators with some specific roles to step in to deal with problems that we all know we will get from time to time in financial systems. It is time to break up the FSA.
Philip Booth is Editorial and Programme Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs
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The Regulation of Financial Markets by Philip Booth and David Currie.


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16 Oct 2011 8:19 AM #1
Problem with DirectStore
I am trying to use Direct b DirectStore in my application, but I have some problems with them.
I write in MVC style and add in my app.js file this:
Ext.direct.Manager.addProvider({ 'type': 'remoting', 'url': '/places/remoting/router/', 'namespace': 'Recruitant.places', 'actions': { 'city': [ { 'formHandler': false, 'name': 'load_cities', 'len': 1 } ] } }); Recruitant.places.city.load_cities();
Ext.define('Recruitant.model.City', { extend: 'Ext.data.Model', proxy: { type: 'direct', url: '/places/remoting/router/', directFn: 'Recruitant.places.city.load_cities' }, fields: [ {name: 'id', type: 'int'}, {name: 'name', type: 'string'} ] });
Ext.define('Recruitant.store.Cities', { extend: 'Ext.data.DirectStore', model: 'Recruitant.model.City' });
Help me to solve this problem, please.
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My code works if I create grid, store and other objects in app.js, but it is not work if I write Store, Model and other stuff with Ext.define.
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On the client side, remove the quotes around the directFn specification: it needs to be a function, not a strong.
You have:
directFn: 'Recruitant.places.city.load_cities'
You should have:
directFn: Recruitant.places.city.load_cities
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@oniseijin - not true, docs say: "The directFn may also be a string reference to the fully qualified name of the function, for example: 'MyApp.company.GetProfile'. This can be useful when using dynamic loading. The string will be looked up when the proxy is created."
I am using it as a string in my application now and it is necessary in case the JS gets loaded out of order, although I have gotten intermittent errors about the directFn is null whether I use the string or function symbol formatChief Architect @ Jarv.us Innovations
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Carrot and Orange Soup
Categories: Easter, Low-fat, Vegetarian
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Type: Soups and Stews
A light, refreshing soup with a hint of spice, this is the perfect start to a summer meal
Prep Time: 10M
Cooking Time: 40M
Serves: makes 4 servings
- 1lb ( 450g) carrots, sliced
- 1 leek, white and pale green parts only, sliced
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1 small baking potato, about 4oz ( 115g), peeled and chopped
- 1/2 tsp ground coriander
- pinch of ground cumin
- 10fl oz ( 300ml) orange juice
- 2 cups vegetable or chicken stock
- 1 bay leaf
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tbsp chopped cilantro, to garnish
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- Combine the carrots, leek, and oil in a large saucepan and cook over low heat, stirring frequently for 5 minutes, or until the leeks have softened. Stir in the potato, coriander, and cumin. Add the stock, orange juice, and bay leaf and stir well.
- Increase the heat to high and bring to a boil. Return the heat to low and cover. Simmer about 40 minutes, until the vegetables are very tender.
- Allow the soup to cool slightly, then transfer to a blender or food processor and process until smooth, working in batches if necessary.
- Let cool slightly. In batches, purée in a blender with the lid ajar. Return to the saucepan and season with salt and pepper. If the soup is too thick, thin with a little water. Ladle into soup bowls, garnished with the cilantro.
- low fat
- Prepare ahead: The soup can be made up to 2 days in advance.
- Good with a spoonful of low-fat plain yogurt or a swirl of cream.
Sweet Potato Soup: Substitute orange-fleshed sweet potatoes for some or all of the carrots. Use apple juice instead of orange juice, and replace the ground coriander and cumin with 1 tsp sweet paprika.
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I'm really terrible at faith. I understand that it's a choice to have or not have faith, I'd really like to choose the former, but my very much neurotic nature often gets the best of me, and often holds me back I think... So my question is "How do I get more faith?"
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Faith comes by reading and hearing the Word of God.
I personally try to speak out loud the Word of God as often as i can so that i can hear it. I have also heard from others (but have not tried it yet myself) that they enjoy listening to the audio versions of the Bible.
The answer to this can be found in a solid understanding of what faith is.
In three different places in his epistles, in different contexts, Paul quotes Habakkuk 2: 4, that "the just shall live by faith." (See Romans 1:17, Galatians 3:11, and Hebrews 10:38.) So faith, to a just (righteous) person, is not simply mental "belief," but something you live by. This is consistent with James's teaching that faith unaccompanied by genuine good works "is dead, being alone."
So we see that faith is a principle of action, that impels a person to do good. As a principle of action, a good way to develop stronger faith is to act upon it. If you have a choice to make, and you're uncertain about it, but the Gospel teaches that a certain decision would be the right one to make, act on it. Choose the decision that your faith guides you towards. Then try to observe the results of your actions, and you will find your faith confirmed in some way.
This will help your faith to grow, as you now have experience to base future decisions on, instead of simply "blind faith." It doesn't come all at once. It's a learning process, and you learn a little at a time, precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little and there a little, until eventually your faith has grown and been confirmed and strengthened so much that you reach the answer to your other question, where you arrive at a point where you can honestly say, "I do not fear death, because I know what awaits me. Even though I haven't seen it, I have been told, and God has never steered me wrong in the past, so I have no reason to doubt."
According to Vine's, faith is having a firm persuasion that something is so. It is being utterly convinced something is true. We will increase faith in things and people by searching out evidences of what to believe. I gain a greater faith in my wife, for instance, by being with her, learning of her character, seeing her hard work, finding she keeps her word, etc. My faith in her grows the more I know her.
So it is with faith in God or in other things or situations. If you want faith regarding the fear of death, then learn more about God and heaven. Read up and find reasons that convince you that your fear of death is groundless. Read the scriptures and believe what God says; become convinced in your daily walk with God that his word is trustworthy and dependable. Listen and read of other Christians' experiences to gain further insight into how God works. Become more convinced in spiritual matters in the same way you become more convinced in secular matters. Growth in faith is not really a mystery when looked at this way.
Contrary to popular opinion, faith does not mean believing in spite of facts or reason; the Bible doesn't add a method to the definition of faith. The Bible presents plenty of reasons to help us believe.
Don't ask yourself how you can get more faith, and remember that God can do amazing things even with a barely visible faith, you know, like the size of a mustard seed or smaller...
I'm going to try a more scientific / psychological response to this question... let's see how this goes:
Firstly, one dictionary definition of faith (from dictionary.com) is "belief that is not based on proof."
It is therefore logical that if you have proof of something, you cannot have faith, therefore the goal of faith is never to try and prove something, but merely to believe whether there is proof or not.
The first thing I would do is ask myself the question, "Why do I want to have more faith?" If you don't believe in Jesus, why would you want to believe in Jesus? If you believe in heaven and hell, then you probably already believe in Jesus, and you do have faith. If you doubt Jesus, then it's probably better to try and understand why you doubt him, rather than to simply try and have faith.
You said "It's a choice to have or not have faith". I don't think that's entirely correct. One can have faith that the sky is blue, but it's not a choice... your brain simply tells you that the sky is blue. One can, however, trick one's mind into believing things whether they're true or not, and many people do it without even knowing that's what they're doing.
If you still want to have faith, then the way to do it is by ignoring any evidence that suggests that the subject of your faith is false, and read all evidence that suggests that the subject of your faith is true. Cognitive dissonance (look it up if you don't understand) will eventually kick in and will prevent you from believing anything contrary to the subject of your faith.
Do not ever test the subject of your faith... either it could prove that it's false, in which case you will lose your faith, or it may prove that it's true, which will (based on the dictionary definition of faith) also kill your faith.
One of the most beautiful definitions of faith i heard is from Andrew Wommack. He defines faith as "The positive response to grace(unmerited favor)"
1) We are all given a measure of faith, are we not?
2) The disciples believed (because they had seen some miracles), but they asked the Lord to help their unbelief (prior to the resurrection).
3) We need to GROW in our faith; does that mean we should "get more faith"? I don't think so. I think it means we need to exercise what we have received.
Pray for more faith, and be ready to accept it when it comes to you. It's not necessarily something you can work at like weightlifting. It's a gift from God.
There is a wonderful treatment of faith, obtaining greater faith, and knowledge found in this passage of scripture. I have found it to be a "go to" reference when learning about faith.
First, a definition and a reminder:
And then, a little later, Proposing An Experiment
and an promise of results, using An Allegory
Alma encourages us to act on our desire to believe. That is, to come to Christ, to believe Him, to nurture our tiny faith through prayer, scripture, service, repentance. And as we do, we will find that our faith enlarges our soul and, in turn, our faith will continue to grow.
Verse 22 is also a wonderful reminder that God is merciful and desires that we believe. Consequently, He will bless our desire to believe, and our willingness to act on that desire, with greater faith.
I thought this was not the place to seek spiritual guidance...
Are you sure that "getting more faith" in spite of your instincts and talents is a worthy goal? Perhaps you can apply your qualities such as they are to the betterment of the world, in Christian ways.


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What does the Bible say about ecology, or how we should relate to nature?
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In advance: Neiter the Old nor the New Testament contains consistent statement regarding ecology.
Nevertheless, three interesting passages:*
The dominium terrae in Gen 1:28
The passage in it's context (Gen 1:26-1:28):
The ideal world in the first chapter can be called a "Utopie of Nonviolence"1 The seeds, fruits and green plants are sufficient as a food base and neither a human nor an animal has to kill another creature for food procurement (cf. Gen 1:29). A harmony between human, animal and plant world is possible.
Only in the eary modern period (Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes), the "subdue it" (Vers 28) was interpreted as exploitation of the nature. Note that today's interpretations don't think of it as an invation for violent trampling but rather as a passage, that highlights the aspect of colonization and livestock2: The humans shall make the earth habitable by their work and tame the forces of nature.
The confrontation with the reality in Gen 9:1-7
God's blessing is still given. But here breaks through: The actual human experience of imperfection and the possibility of human error – the paradisical state of nonviolence is reduced.
Erich Zenger calls the force by which the man is equipped necessary to keep things in order. In order to prevent that the living space becomes a place of death, the man got the capability to protect threatened lives.3
In conclusion we can say …
… that the humans, as the preservers of life, received the order to deal with that in a responsibile way.
The sufferings of this present world (Rom 8:18-23)
In these passage a new eschatological dimension is added.
The eary Christian community was familiar with the thought of the World's imperfection. Paulus names that the suffering which is by the people and in the creation. By the fall of men every human-being and the whole creation is subjected to futility. But by Jesus Christ the humans and the world around is enlightend.
Ofcourse eschatology isn't interesting for ecology at all. But nevertheless this passage is to be noted from an ecological view of point because it states the close relatedness between humans and the creation.
*: Simone Birkle, Zukunft wagen, Ökologisch handeln (2002)
When this subject is raised, I always think of three passages. First is mankind being given dominion over the Earth and everything that's in it, as cited by Karl von Moor already. And the others are the Parable of the Pounds (Luke 19: 12-26), and the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25: 14-30).
These parables have slightly different setups and several details are different between the two, but in both, Jesus explains that we will be held responsible for what we do with what God gives us to take care of. Remember that the Earth is not ours, it is His; we were given temporary stewardship over it just as the servants in the parables were given stewardship over their Master's money, and expected to take good care of it, and when the Judgment comes around, an accounting of our stewardship will be required at our hands.
In regards to conservation, I believe there is a good warning in Revelation 11:18.
(emphasis added by me)
Please see Job 38-41. http://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Job+38-41


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CHIODI, Giovanni, 90, of Weirton, passed away Thursday at his home.
Born June 9, 1922, in Gallo Matese, Italy, son of the late Antonio and Francesca Boiano Chiodi.
He was also preceded in death by his wife Rosa Palumbo Chiodi on September 2, 2001, granddaughter Julie Chiodi, a brother Frank and three sisters, Rosa, Maria, Madelena.
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During World War II, Giovanni served in the Italian Army, and was held a Prisoner of War for 2 and a half years in Hamburg, Germany.
He was a police officer while living in Italy. On December 22, 1969, he moved his family to America, where he worked in security for Starvaggi Industries for 19 years.
He enjoyed sharing stories with his family and neighbors and loved singing and playing the accordion.
He was a member of St. Joseph the Worker Roman Catholic Church.
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Kemp Remillard's been featured here on Fine Art before, for his work on Skyrim. Today, things are a little more technologically advanced.
He's provided art for Star Citizen, the upcoming space shooter from Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts, and that art is making my inner twelve year-old lose his shit. Seriously, there are cutaways. Cutaways.
Every single image here is for a single Star Citizen craft, the 300i, which is built by Origin Jumpworks in a cute nod to Origin, Roberts' old studio. Those curious about the creative process that goes into designing a starship, you can see on several images the discussion notes between the artist (Remillard works for concept studio Massive Black) and the development team.
If you like what you see, you can check out more of Kemp's work at his personal site and CGHub page.


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5 Hidden Practical Benefits Behind Common Religious Rituals
#2. Polygamy Makes Men Live Longer
Although it has its advocates, polygamy isn't an especially popular marriage arrangement. Not for women, anyway, and it's probably not that hot for the guy either when he comes home to find that his dozen wives are all pissed at him.
"Honey, I told you I was going to be busy today!"
So Why Do They Do It?
One benefit seems obvious -- back when rapid breeding was everything, one virile dude with 10 wives could get 10 buns in the oven instead of just one. But there's another, more unlikely benefit as well. A study finds that men from polygamous societies live, on average, 12 percent longer than those from predominantly monogamous ones.
Scientists aren't quite sure why, but there are theories. One possibility is that polygamous men take better care of themselves so they can keep attracting and impregnating younger women, whereas a monogamous man might just let himself go once his one brood of kids moves out and his wife's fertility clock runs out. In a monogamous society, a genetic predisposition to long life does you no good if your wife stopped breeding half a century ago.
"Your menopause is literally killing me."
Another possibility is simply that old polygamous dudes live longer because they have more wives around to tend to their crusty asses' every whim. Communities in which polygamy is the norm tend to be a little less progressive on the gender equality front, so in these societies, a woman's well-being tends to rely on her husband's social status. So taking care of his needs and keeping him healthy rather than making him bust his ass to build a pergola is in a woman's best interest.
In any case, it's good to know that there's some reason Hugh Hefner is still alive.
We'd suspect he was bathing in the blood of virgins, but we doubt that Hugh knows any.
#1. The Latin Rosary Is Good for Your Heart
For those of you who haven't polished up on your Catholic rituals, the rosary is a series of short prayers that you repeat over and over again to remind you that God is awesome. But even from God's point of view, it seems like saying the "Hail Mary" 30 times isn't good for anything other than as a really tedious punishment for a sinner.
Particularly when you discover that it's actually 53 "Hail Mary"s.
So Why Do They Do It?
Science has recently shown that it's actually good for your heart. Physically, we mean. A 2001 study found that saying the rosary in Latin improves your heart rate variability and baroreflex sensitivity, which the science types assure us are both good things for your heart. They compared it with a yogic mantra and found that the benefits were about the same. Of course, the rosary isn't going to do shit for your flexibility, so score another one for yoga.
They're not saying that the effect is supernatural -- apparently, the rhythm of saying the rosary just helps to regulate your breathing. And any old Latin prayer won't do, either. It's the constant repetition that keeps your breathing rate down, which, if practiced regularly, can make your ticker fitter and reduce the risk of heart attack later in life.
"Praying? Oh no, I'm just staving off death for a few more years to spite my husband."
The scientists who did the study speculate that this may have been part of the reason the rosary tradition evolved -- it feels good doing it, and it makes you more receptive to the religious message. If you believe in God, it doesn't change anything -- maybe He's just looking out for your cardiovascular health.
Side note: If you're wondering how we got all the way through this list without explaining Pentecostal snake-handling, we're going to go out on a limb and say that they do it because it looks freaking badass. Duh.
Eric Yosomono writes for GaijinAss.com and has a Facebook page here. Patrick McCarty co-stars as Paul Crane in The O.C. Club, a new Web series. You should also follow him on Twitter.
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The conversation often continues in the Comments and important information is held in the comments. I'd like to have threaded comments there. It would make it easier for people who are editing answers to be able to see the real useful information in the comments separately from the conversations that occurs in the comment stream below each answer.
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Jeff really hates threaded comments. Personally I like them - when represented in a useful way, with easy ways to mute/highlight appropriate subthreads, but I doubt that we'll ever see them on SO.
Having said that I like them, I'm not even sure they'd be appropriate for SO anyway, which is more designed for Q&A than discussion. Sometimes I wish there were some way of leaving the questions/answers as they are, but launching a new discussion (with threading) where suitable. Can't see it happening in the near future though.
As Jon seems to address, threaded comments are great for following discussion. Jeff has said before that he explicitly wants to avoid discussion on SO, so if threaded comments help discussion, it would seem that adding threaded comments would, in a sense, be giving a blessing of sorts to discussions on SO. It's nice in theory, but it goes against the current mission of the site.
I do like the idea of a discussion area, though. Often times, I have a question or discussion topic that I would very much like to bring in front of this particular community, but it's not necessarily programming related. Sometimes you want to ask your "work peers" questions not necessarily related to your "work."
Threaded comments would be useful.
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Threaded comments and threaded answers would be great - for another site.
On this site, it would just encourage discussion, which is discouraged.
I truly wonder why discussion is so discouraged herein. Some answers can be very difficult to get at and discussion about the answer could help a really good answer to emerge instead of having an endless list of partial answers or a hard to follow comment stream that needs to be completely followed through to get at the real juice.
On the other hand, I realize that many questions in the Stack Exchange sites are simple enough and warrant that a single right answer can do it.
A certain form of argumentative questions can be supported through the wiki mode. Perhaps having threaded comments only in the community wiki mode would be of great help in getting these hard questions to emerge. Since there are no reputation points involved in community wiki mode, editing them also solves the difficult task of assigning proper reputation points though there are some solutions to this.
It is true that arguments can be difficult to manage and often degenerate. That said, the community participating in the Stack Exchange sites is thus far very disciplined in this regards and seldom stray off topic. Yes, sure you can find plenty of examples where things just went wrong, but overall it is the exception.
Stack Exchange sites have gone a long way since their inception and are quickly becoming THE reference in many subjects. But it still lacks a certain depth, discouraging discussion certainly helped with the discipline, but it also gave the community a glass ceiling, shackles of sorts, that prevents more difficult answers to emerge on some questions.
In short, encouraging argumentation and discussion at large would most likely not be a good idea. But allowing some question to generate discussion and providing a specific UI enhancements to support discussion would benefit the whole community. Perhaps Community Wiki is the way, but perhaps a new mode of providing answers would be required to support argumentation in a constructive way.


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create and destory grid and store.load to fill will get slower at each iteration
I am creating a tab with a panel and a grid inside it. It gets filled from the DB. The first time, its very fast, about 2 seconds. now each time I destroy the grid, remove the tab and than recreate the tab with the same grid, same data, the system slows down adding about 1 second. Using the profiler I can see that the number of calls within EXTJS increases by about 40000 ! on each create. The data are displayed within a second but the loading mask will not go for a while. This is the same behaviour in 4.1.0 and 4.1.1. Is that a known problem ?
According to the profiler, its the following piece of code that gets called thousands of times:
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19 Jun 2012 6:46 AM #2
This should not be happening .. if you have autoDestroy set to the default true, this should be handled automatically.
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I have not changed any of the defaults, below a few lines of code if that helps:
var overviewGrid = new Ext.grid.GridPanel ({ id : 'overviewGrid' + id, autoHeight : false, autoWidth : true, columns : overviewColumnModel, store : tomcatOverviewStore, loadMask : true, features : [filters], autoExpandColumn : 'managedBy' }); tomcatOverviewStore.load(); tabs.add({ title : recName , id : id, closable : true, border : false, iconCls : 'icon-' + recKey, items : overviewGrid, autoScroll : true }).show(); Ext.getCmp( id ).on( 'close', function() { releaseToolbar(); // Just deactivate some menu items });
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"Burritos" The mission obviously has a ton of amazing burrito joints - but here are some that are vegan friendly without hassle: Mariachi's - 508 Valencia St - http://www.yelp.com/biz/mariachis-taqueria-san-francisco Pancho Villa -3071 16th St - http://www.yelp.com/biz/pancho-villa-taqueria-san-francisco Papalote - 3409 24th Street - http://www.yelp.com/biz/papalote-mexican-grill-san-francisco
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Therefore the graves are not your typical cemetery graves - whilst you can visit them we ask that they are not tended but be allowed to form a natural part of the area.
To develop the meadow area and to encourage wildflowers the grass cutting will be limited to twice yearly. To enable visitor's access to graves the grass will be cut in designated areas to give natural pathways.
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i'm new in this forum (sorry for my english).
I would like to know if it's possible to use the Sigma 100-300 f/4 EX IF HSM APO with the Nodal Ninja 5 (i have a Nikon D300).
Thanks in advance.
i'm new in this forum (sorry for my english).
I would like to know if it's possible to use the Sigma 100-300 f/4 EX IF HSM APO with the Nodal Ninja 5 (i have a Nikon D300).
Thanks in advance.
what is your purpose of using this lens? high resolution lanscape of distant objects? macro panorama?
The lens seems long (223.5mm). depending on the NPP, you may/may not rotate about the NPP. But NPP is not important for distance objects.
you can follow John's instruction to estimate the NPP/ entrance pupil position.
You can find the approximate position of the entrance pupil (which is commonly called the nodal point) simply by looking into the front of the lens with your two eyes. To see it, though, you will need to stop the lens down to f/22, say, with the depth of field button and point the eyepiece on the back of the camera towards a bright light like a window. This will illuminate the entrance pupil by light reflected through the reflex system, so you just see a bright spot. As you alter the zoom, the entrance pupil will be seen to move forwards and backwards. In some zoom lenses, the entrance pupil can move right back behind the sensor, making it difficult to position it on the rotation axis to avoid parallax.
The NPP to lens collar tripod socket distance must be smaller than 150mm for NN5.
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Thank you for Your answer.
Sorry another time for my bad english, i have some questions:
My purpose is to use this zoom lens for high resolution mosaic "landscape-mountain" panorama.
I would like to buy this lens because my Nikkor 18-200 VR is a little "short" for some high resolution mountains panoramas in my country.
For my purpose the nodal point is not important for stitching the panorama or it's possible to have some parallax problem if in the panorama are present some object (example fir-wood) not enough distance to the shooting position (less 30-40mt)?
There is the possibility to calculate in base to the focal lenght of the zoom lens the minimum distance of the near object for not have parallax or other problems?
Thanks in advance for Your answer
the expert and pioneer in high resolution mosaics, Max Lyons, has a few useful Photography Calculators available.
you will find the parallax calculator there too.
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Thank You very much for Your information and to everyone support this forum.
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What was the most important cause of the Second World War? Obviously there was the Treaty of Versailles which played a significant part; the War Guilt Clause, Reparations, Disarmament and territorial clauses, etc. But, what about Hitler's actions? The failure of appeasement and the failure of the League of Nations?
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I think the cause was the same as of the WW I: German militarism and expansionism. Since Kaiser Wilhelm gained power in Germany, it has been pursuing an aggressive foreign policy (e.g. the Morocco crisis) and launched an arms race with Great Britain. It resulted in one world war, which did not prove conclusively to Germans that militarism doesn't work, so they launched another one 21 years later.
Read the book "Dreadnought" by R.K. Massie. It describes the German sentiments in great detail. You'll see that Hitler's rhetoric was nothing new in German politics, at least qualitatively. (except for the genocide part, but even that just barely) He was more rabid than, say, Bulow, but the substance was the same.
The most important cause of WW2 (as of WW1) was imperialism.
By that, I mean a specific development of capitalism that features concentration of capital which has enough influence in state affairs to dictate expansionist policies in its favour.
As a result, nations struggle to expand their spheres of interest, i.e. access to markets and resources, which will lead to war as soon as there are no 'free' markets left (cf Boxer war – unity amongst European powers to open a fresh market) and opposing power blocs have formed (various European crises in the early 20th century did not result in a war because involved great powers were not sure enough their allies would support them in a war, power blocs were not formed).
Not surprisingly it was Germany who stroke first to challenge its rivals (1914) – after all, France and Britain had established their colonial empires long before Germany was united and became Europe's strongest industrial power, however with limited access to markets and resources compared to UK and F. However, WWI failed to resolve the tensions. Germany was beaten, but after the economic crises in the early 20th century her economy still proved to be superior in comparison to her direct competitors. Furthermore, due to the revolutions, Germany was also not occupied or disarmed. So it is no surprise, that with the economic power base and imperialist ambitions still in place, German imperialism would surface again to challenge the unprivileged position in the international system imposed by the Versailles treaty.
In my eyes it is wrong to reduce Germany's war ambitions to revanchism due to Versailles. After all, the other main challenger of the status quo, Japan, was never disadvantaged in any comparable way. Japan started the war due to imperialist motives – to conquer China and Oceania for their resources and manpower.
Neither the treaty of Versailles nor the failure of the League of Nations are causes for the Second Word war. These events are just consequences of imperialistic brinkmanship.
Suggested reading: Mandel, The Meaning of the Second World War
I'd argue that the biggest reason the war began is that other nations did not do enough, if anything, to prevent it. The Allies of course were not ready economically or militarily for conflict, until they finally took action after Poland. The League of Nations, while a good idea on paper, was also ineffectual against Germany in Europe and Italy in Africa.
Surely the Allies/LN could have seen what was happening and where events would lead. There were attempts by insiders to warn outside powers of what was coming, but to no avail. Hitler's rise to power in Germany could not have been missed. It seems like the Allies were just really, really hoping that nothing bad would happen.
Yes, I agree with all of your reasons, but I'd say that the Treaty of Versailles was the biggest cause. If you listen to Hitlers speeches, they are all about how evil the other nations are for making Germany this weak. (along with some racist statements) I've heard it argued that Hitler just wanted power and used public opinion to his advantage, but I'd argue that he truly believed in what he said because even when the Nazi party was being destroyed by larger parties, he stayed with the Nazis. Hope that helped.
the Nazi-Soviet pact because if Stalin hadn't made the pact with Hitler Germany would have had to face a war on two fronts(Britain and France from the west and Russia and Poland from the east)


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"We have the biggest backlog of new business in the company's history," says Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt in response to the too-big-to-grow question. The backlog, $223 billion, is equal to more than a year and a half of GE's revenue.
Last quarter, GE reported operating earnings of $3.7 billion, or 36 cents a share, down from 38 cents a year earlier. A rise in energy efficiency combined with a weak economy in Europe has led to sluggish electricity demand and double-digit profit declines in the company's power and water business, which sells turbines, generators and other equipment.
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That is masking double-digit gains in other units, like oil and gas, aviation and transportation. Six of the company's seven industrial units posted profit gains last quarter. As economies grow and electricity demand firms, the power division should stabilize and recover, which will make strong growth in other parts of the company more obvious, says Barclays analyst Scott Davis.
GE says it can increase overall industrial revenue by 2% to 6% this year and 5% to 10% long-term, not counting acquisitions, while driving profit margins higher. It is also transforming itself into a seller of services rather than just equipment.
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Chrysler's subsequent sudden decision to sell the Bologna company to a group of unknown Indonesian investors seems far more difficult to explain. This change of hands became official on 21 January 1994, destabilising the company management.
Despite these problems, the Diablo was developed and many collateral models were derived from it, some of which would prove to be very popular with certain consumer ranges. Some of the most interesting were the 1995 SV, a lighter and more powerful model that placed a premium on driving pleasure over comfort, and the VT Roadster with a Targa-style removable roof, which was instantly a hit, particularly in the United States. Other special editions, such as the SE, Jota, Monterey, Alpine and many others, were derived from these models. Also in 1995, Giorgetto Giugiaro demonstrated the Calà to the trade press, and this was another car with a V10 engine designed to replace the Jalpa. Interesting as it may have been, however, it never left the prototype stage. In 1996, a single-make championship was also inaugurated thanks to the organisation of a series of races to be held in Europe, with regulations similar to the ones followed by established international championships. A circuit version of the Diablo - the SVR - was made for this championship. In 1999, its on-road evolution was announced (the GT an ultra-sporty road version produced in a limited series of 83 units) as well as the circuit model for the new cycle of races for this trophy GTR, with a 6-litre 590-hp engine, produced in a limited series of 32 units).
In the meantime, Luigi Marmiroli left Lamborghini for personal reasons and Massimo Ceccarani took his place. The need to develop new models and thus to make major investments along these lines was evident. By this time, the Diablo was more than seven years old, a very long time in this difficult market.
Lamborghini turned to several top-level carmakers, including Audi, to request their technical collaboration. The initial idea was to ask for the 8-cylinder engine of the 'A8' flagship to power the future 'baby Lamborghini', but Audi's technical staff went back to company headquarters in Germany with very positive reports on the status of the company, its newfound good management and the professional level of the development work being done on its cars.
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I have an ubuntu 12.10 server installed, got a static ip from my ISP. Pinging the ip results in success. I also have a huawei Echo-Life modem. Following this site I was able to set the ports to be forwarded. I also checked this with the guys at huawei. The problem is that when I enter my static ip in the browser, I always get stuck at the modem/router login interface.
Going to the ip address assigned to my ubuntu server (on my network) I can see that nginx serves pages correctly. Another thing is that getting my modem/router interface is only possible via my local network. I asked a friend to try my static ip but he said he got a blank page. I think this means that the gateway is not accessible from the outside world.
I think I'm missing something minimal here as it's not supposed to be this complicated setting up a home server. Any help would be appreciated.


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