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A step back from the past 3d games as a whole. The games used to emphasize exploration and freedom more so than relationships. This is entirely absent in IV since the missions are mostly scripted, lacking in variety and creativity. There is nothing creative like Expresso 2 Go or Sayonara Salvatore in GTAIV. These missions in III completely allowed the player 100% freedom with no tutorial or hand holding, and stomps the shit out of every mission in IV. In fact, IV's best missions are the more simple missions like the one where you date the gay guy from Love Meet. Those are the wacky, zany, creative missions you'd see in a ps2 gen GTA. Stuff like that rarely pops up in GTAIV.
It's hardly rose tinted, I just have an understanding of what ps2 GTA's did best and what GTAIV has entirely abandoned.
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I agree with ash_735
big whoop, you're lacking being a paramedic etc
but the graphics are a thousand times better, multiplayer, euphoria, car damage, living beathing city etc!
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So the graphics are better, there's euphoria, and there's car damage...and there's a living breathing city. Big whoop. How does this add to the gameplay at all? You're basically admitting you prefer flash over substance and that you're shallow.
It's not even the lack of paramedics. If there's not paramedics then add more content so I don't care about the lack of paramedics. Give me rewards so I can actually care about the lack of content. GTA used to reward players for everything. Now, I mostly get some silly little Achievement.
I havne't been able to play multiplayer because MS has my account on hold because they're bastards who charge credit cards even when they are declined.
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erm... how does realism, and impoved graphics not add to the gameplay experience?
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Not to mention shooting people IS ACTUALLY FUN.
The gameplay in GTA IV completely stomps the shit out of the previous GTA games, they've refined everything instead of just chucking in the same features(vigilante, paramedic, taxi misssions, driving school, gym, triathalon) as the previous ones. All of these things where boring and very sloppily made. The only thing I can think of that I really miss is the parachute, but that's no big deal. The next GTA games will add more features, more things to do, but they will polish them this time, like they did with the shooting, driving, story, characters, physics, detail and graphics in GTA IV.
EDIT: For the record I'll probably purchase Saint's Row 2, I love my crazy shit as much as the next guy.
I think we should stop comparing these games and respect them for what they are. They are really very different. GTA IV for the realism, characters, story, humor etc. whereas Saint's Row 2 will be good when pissed with a couple of mates, just fucking around doing completely retarded shit.
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Heres to all the people who think all the little half-ass'd features in SR2 are going to be full blown games inside of it!
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How did realism add to GTA"s game experience? We ended up with less content, less options, less variety, less customization, less open ended mission structure in the name of "realism". What's hilarious is that this "realism" is entirely inconsistent. It's okay for Niko to ride a Faggio but not a BMX. It's okay for Niko to get inside an attack helicopter or use an rpg, but not use a flamethrower, chainsaw, and other varied weapons. It's realistic for Niko to fall 200 feet in the air, be able to avoid cops simply by driving a lil faster than them, even while in the air via helicopter, but it's totally out of Niko's character to have a more varied ward drobe, do Crazy Taxi-esque missions, or use an RC car to blow someone up.
My problem isn't the realism per se, but the misuse and inconsistent use of it.
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GTA SA had basically taken the same game engine with the same character models and cars for the 3rd time in a row. It's not hard to make 20 cars and make 50 outfits for the PS2 and then spend time adding in things like BMX bikes and what not because everything else was already done the first two times they released it. In GTA 4 they had to make all of the cars and characters and everything inlcuding the engine itself from scratch. Also consideer that most of these options and deep creative side activities from past GTA's were actually pretty hollow and many of them were not even worth doing. Why have 100 outfits when most of them look stupid and people are only going to use 4 of them the entire game?
Why have 10 differant vehicle missions that are all the same thing? Go from one point on the map to another in a certain time limit. Pimping, Parametic, Taxi, fire fighter, it's all the same thing. Whats the point in working out? Is their some kind of challenge to working out? Nope it was just another option to give the game a feeling of variety where there was none. Flying a jet pack out of area 53? sounds retarded and very unlike GTA to me. All in all I think GTA 4 refined the gameplay for everything that worked and cut out the stuff that was repetative or rotten while adding in new things that actually enhance the way the game interacts with the player like the cell phone for example. What GTA 4 does it does really well and to be honest alot of the things that have been cut out were totally pointless in a gameplay sense to begin with. GTA 3 and GTA 4 have alot in commen when it comes to break through technology and new controls mixed with the same gameplay variety.
I never expected GTA 4 to have more cars and odd ball side missions because it is the first game to be done on this engine. But I have noticed that an intentional effort was put into making the game seem a little more realistic as a whole. Realism isn't everyone's bag so it's not going to please everyone. Like the Taxi and police missions were handled in a more down to earth mannor. I think the dating aspect as lame as it may sound was actually pretty cool and something I wouldn't lable as GTAish either. In the end I think they are on to something with the whole character interaction thing. It was done well but it could be improved much more.
GTA 4 is a great game and the physics, lighting, bump mapping, ect... are all technical features that allow the game to be more immersive and tense. I would agree that the missions feel dry sometimes but I have felt that way since Vice City was realeased. I felt that the majority of the missions in SA just felt off or shallow. Some of them were multifaceted but they never clicked with me. GTA 4 isn't much differant when it comes to the missions but the realism of the game engine has added a bit more of a movie like feel to the missions that has helped me enjoy them more and the new controls have added a little more debth and challenge to the missions overall.
Saint' s row 2 is comming to the PC and I think I will pick it up when it comes out. Considering this will be the second game using that engine I expect a bit more variety but I doubt it will have the polish that GTA 4 had. Also as was mentioned earlier, most of the crazy stuff you can do in Saints row is just another play on things that GTA has done in the past. I don't consider Saints Row to be a break through title but it is still cool and worth playing and considering they have had their game engine out longer than Rockstar it gives them a distinct advantage for adding new features. Hopefully it won't dissapoint. Overall I don't feel that GTA 4 was a dissapointment. I didn't like the ending but it was done well and was worth the price of admission.
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The attempt, I appreciate.
Saint's Row still will probably kick ass in the way of fun/silly gameplay.
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I say that the GTA fan that made that video is one of the true GTA fans. Saints row does a good job at blatently copying over GTA games because look at the first Saints Row game, doesen't anyone here find it irronic that it came out very soon after San Andreas and it had pretty much the same theme of San andreas?
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Wow!! Great debate here.
Ive played all the GTA titles and I really like GTA 4. I haven't gotten board of the game at all, but I think Himuro has made some excellent points here and that Ash is in a bit of denial.
1. All the taxi stuff IS a bummer: The problem is the distance between safe houses. You go through a large chunk of the game with basically just the safe house in Bohan. Driving to missions and dates, etc. took so much time I started using the taxi to get everywhere. That was really sad because just simple driving was one of my favorite parts of GTA.
2. The relationship stuff got overwhelming: At first I really liked the idea of the relationships. There were times in the game though when the cell phone was ringing constantly. Roman, and Brucie and Packie were all giving me grief for not calling and it made me actually feel guilty!! Video games should be an escape from real life. Once it feels like the same kind of hassle of your job, I think some thing has gone wrong. Rockstar needs to scale down the neediness of the supporting cast.
Himuro, in terms of your charge of hand holding and lack of freedom of GTA 4, I completely agree, but I feel like that change happened back in Vice City. Thats one really cool thing about GTA III is that there are multiple ways to do missions and most missions have a non-cheat way to cheat the mission like blowing up the enemies getaway car. Maybe San Andreas and GTA 4 have the most scripted missions though. You wonder if on some level Rockstar wishes they were making movies. I always find it annoying when the controls are pulled away for some long, drawn out cinematic scene.
In terms of the realism VS mayhem, I think its hard to say. San Andreas was a very different beast than the rest. If you compare GTA 4 with GTA 3 or Vice City, is it really that limited? Personally, I found the ambulance missions to be the thing I dreaded most in getting 100%, I was glad to see that and the fire trucks gone. Himuro again made a good point though; it was nice in the previous titles to get some reward for completing side-missions. You felt like you were building towards 100%.
I disagree that the visuals are nothing but fluff though. I mean, it IS a video game. Graphics count for a lot. And its more than eye-candy; its the way Rockstar creates a fully immersive world. GTA 4 has pushed that further than any of the other titles. The sound design of the pedestrians and ambient noises are a HUGE leap forward (playing the game in surround sound, hearing someone sneak up on you, is unreal). The humor and satire of American culture in the game is as razor-sharp as ever. So often overlooked, I think GTA is on par with The Simpsons (albeit from a VERY different angle) in terms of observations of American culture. Lazlo and Dan H are geniuses. Finally, I wont even get into the Euphoria engine stuff, but has anyone else been totally blown away with the dynamic changes in light and shadow?
ONE THING TO TRY: Go to a section of Algonquin with dense buildings right before sunset. Stand in one place and just watch the sun pass overhead. Watch the way the shadows actually move and grow along the ground as the sun sets. Watch the way the light quality changes as the day ends. Ive never seen anything like it.
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I like the way the above poster says I'm in denial because I like the game! This forum is great, apparently if you like GTA IV then you're a fucking idiot. Just for the record, if you use the Taxi's too much, your problem, I always drive between safe houses after missions. Relationships, I agree, they are annoying, I get them to 100% and never go out with them again, just do the damn trick, agree to meet them and cancel, you lose nothing.
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Hey, I completely love GTA 4. That being said, I think there's been some really good criticism of the game here. I said that because you seem to disagree with any criticism, accusing people of just living in the past.
I AM bummed the way it seems like so many people are turning on Rockstar and GTA. But considering the MASSIVE success and sales the game has had, it seems like the backlash is a natural trend (whether or not it's actually justified).
The nice thing is that with the success, we're guaranteed more GTA titles. I'm confident the series will get better and better.
I should also say, I have ZERO interest in playing Saints Row 2. Whether it be that or the True Crime series, it's sad how little effort the GTA copy cats put into making their games distinct. "F" for effort....
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Recently, I had the pleasure to interview two ODTUG (Oracle Development Tools User Group) members:
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The night between Sunday and Monday, we lost the 40 y.o. Bowmore decanter from our shop (whisky World) at the airport of Copenhagen.
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text: I had so much fun drawing this adorable dragon! Toothless is my new favourite character! He is just so cute... anyways, Toothless is a character from Dreamworks' origonal cartoon, How to Train Your Dragon. In the movie, Toothless belongs to the elusive Night Fury species, one of many dragon species. Night Fury's are never spotted, save for Toothless. Toothless is the only Night Fury ever seen by anybody. Night Furies are all black, with a round head and bunny-like ears. They appear at first to have not teeth, hence the name "Toothless", but the teeth actually retract into the gums when not in use, but the will come up when a Night Fury attacks, or is eating. I hope you enjoy drawing this adorable dragon as much as I did! Enjoy!


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Liberty Bell Mountain Climber's Log
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Date Climbed: Jul 8, 2011
|My first "alpine" lead... so I was psyched. Loved the committing slab move!
|Posted Jul 21, 2011 9:40 pm
|Beckey Route
Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2011
|Perfect climb for us, scenic, challenging, good rock and pro and I didn't loose any gear...that I remember...
|Posted Jul 7, 2011 8:51 pm
|alpine climber
|link up
Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2011
|Started off with the Becky route before continuing onto the other 4 summits. Great route to cruise on.
|Posted Jun 23, 2011 11:07 am
|Various routes
|North Face (not recommended), Liberty Crack, Thin Red Line, Beckey Route (one of the best for the grade).
|Posted Dec 27, 2010 11:13 am
|Becky Route Consolation
|Got rained off the Liberty Crack so we went up the other side. Great views!
|Posted Jan 18, 2010 12:08 pm
|Beckey route and too much time on top
Date Climbed: Sep 7, 1990
|A very fun climb. Even I (not much of a rock climber) thought the finger traverse pretty easy. Spent too much time on the top on a beautiful day, got caught behind others going down, and had to hike out in the dark. The drive home was by far the hardest part!
|Posted Dec 30, 2009 3:36 pm
|Beckey Route
Date Climbed: Aug 28, 2007
|Great climb with classic views. A must climb.
|Posted Aug 31, 2009 5:30 pm
|Beckey Route
Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2009
|With Andy Mac. Fun route (but not as good as north face of Concord Tower).
|Posted Aug 2, 2009 12:35 am
|Becky and Over Exposure
Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2009
|Two good routes, fun climbing... Just wish it was longer
|Posted Jul 28, 2009 7:51 pm
|Beckey Route
Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2009
|A very fun route with relatively easy approach. Lots of drag by the end of the 3rd pitch.
|Posted Jul 19, 2009 1:00 am
|Fun climbing.
Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2009
|Lots of fun, climbed Overexposure, a two pitch 5.8 route that climbs up to the rap anchors that drop you into the Liberty-Concord gully.
Also climbed the Becky route, lots of fun, but not as classic as I was lead to believe.
Also climbed Spontneity arete on the neighboring La Petit Cheval, a 5-7 pitch 5.7 with lots of harder variations. By far one of the best routes in the area for its grade, much more interesting climbing and pitch after pitch goodness than the Becky route in my opinion, very highly recommended.
|Posted Jul 6, 2009 3:04 pm
|Becky Route
|Fun climb.
|Posted Jun 27, 2009 2:56 pm
|One of my first climbs
|Good introduction to climbing
|Posted Apr 4, 2009 11:51 am
|Liberty Crack and Becky Route
|Becky route 4 or 5 times, twice solo. 1st '93, last Sept '08.
Liberty Crack, 3 attempts solo DNF all.
July '94 -2 days. July '95(Medusa var), July '00, July '01, all in 1 day.
|Posted Oct 4, 2008 4:37 pm
|Route Climbed: Liberty Crack
Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2008
|Loved it! The view from the top is beautiful.
|Posted Oct 2, 2008 12:27 am
|Beckey Route
Date Climbed: Sep 15, 2008
|Awesome day on quality rock!
|Posted Sep 16, 2008 1:50 pm
|Beautiful Views
Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2008
|Beckey Route. Beautiful views in a beautiful area with extremely easy climbing. No snow on approach.
|Posted Jul 13, 2008 1:53 am
|Beckey Route
Date Climbed: Jul 6, 2008
|Fun route.
|Posted Jul 8, 2008 5:37 pm
|Becky & Liberty Crack
Date Climbed: Aug 11, 1997
|Climbed the Becky Route and Liberty Crack. It's good to do the Becky Route first, so you'll have the descent down at the end of a long day on Liberty Crack. Both climbs were great
|Posted Nov 11, 2007 6:27 pm
|Left some skin
Date Climbed: Sep 5, 2007
|We were the only climbers on the Becky Route on a Wednesday. There were some guys climbing on the next tower south. I thought the first pitch was easy (even for 5.3) once we figured out to go under the rock and not out onto the right ridge. The 2nd pitch seemed to have a few moves above 5.6 (just factor out the "aid slings" hanging there), but even so with a pack is sort of awkward. The 3rd pitch finger traverse wasn't so bad, but the step up at the corner was the crux move in my opinion because it didn't protect right above the move, a fall in that spot would hurt, and the rope drag gets bad here. By the top of the 3rd the drag was nearly holding me back. I could have used some more longer slings also. I would go with 6 48 inch slings, and 6 24 inch slings. The 4th pitch was only the boulder move (5.6 but seemed more 5.4-5.5) which was cake compared to the previous moves. To rappel off in 1 rap, scramble below the top of Pitch 3 amongst some trees and find a large ledge with bomber anchors.
I thought the scramble approach wasn't really as bad as some say, in fact it was straightforward and easy, but then again I'm used to that type of approach stuff in the Sawtooths, Tetons, and Lost Rivers.
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FAYETTEVILLE — Bret Bielema had a message Monday for anyone up in arms about comments he made during a recent Razorback Club event.
Chill out.
Bielema, using his Twitter feed, responded to the growing buzz regarding his thoughts about Alabama and coach Nick Saban's record at Michigan State during the Saline County Razorback Club fish fry last Wednesday. Bielema, according to Hootens.com, said Saban's record in the Big Ten was "no comparison" to his own.
Bielema responded via Twitter, calling his comments a "joke."
"Things to chill out about today: 1- I'm only driving my car today 2- Alabama quotes were a joke to a question from a fan at pep rally. #wow," Bielema said via Twitter.
The first point appears to be in reference to Monday's one-year anniversary of former coach Bobby Petrino's motorcycle accident, which led to Petrino's firing a few days later. Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long hired Bielema on Dec. 4 after the Razorbacks went 4-8 under coach John L. Smith in 2012.
Bielema has not been shy about his intentions with the Razorbacks since.
Bielema said during his introductory press conference he wanted to lead the Razorbacks to an SEC title, something it has never accomplished. He also fired up fans in Bud Walton Arena during a men's basketball game this winter, telling the crowd: "We didn't come here to play in the SEC, we came here to win the SEC."
Bielema emphasized the point again when asked about competing against Alabama in the SEC's Western Division during the Saline County Razorback Club event.
"The reason the SEC is talked about all the time is one team, because of their dominance," Bielema told the club, according to Hootens.com. "But I didn't come here to play Alabama. I came here to beat Alabama.
"You can take Saban's record when he was at Michigan State and when he was a coach in the Big Ten and put it against mine, and he can't compare."
Bielema did enjoy more success than Saban as a Big Ten coach. He went 68-24 with three Rose Bowl appearances from 2006-2012. Saban was 34-24-1 in five years (1995-99) with the Spartans.
Saban, of course, has become the most successful coach in college football in leading Alabama to three national titles the past four seasons. He also won a national championship at LSU and has a career coaching record of 154-55-1.
Bielema, whose team will be back on the field for their seventh spring practice session today, was not available for further comment Monday. But he isn't the first coach to create a stir with comments made about Saban this year.
Vanderbilt coach James Franklin referred to Saban as "Nicky Satan" during a speaking engagement earlier this winter. Franklin later called the comment a joke and apologized to Saban, according to multiple reports.
Bielema and the Razorbacks will play at Alabama on Oct. 19. Arkansas has lost six straight games to the Crimson Tide and hasn't won in Tuscaloosa since 2003.


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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- Road crews in Manhattan continued working Friday, clearing streets in the aftermath of this week's snowfall.
While many businesses reopened, schools were still out and Kids found some great spots for sledding, including the hills at Cico Park.
"We're having so much fun with a couple of days off school and we get to just play. We don't get out and drive in it too much so we stay safe. We're from Louisiana so this is a novelty for us so we're super excited," said Melita Bizette who brought her daughters to the park.
But for others, this massive blast of winter meant all work and no play.
City road crews worked to tackle Manhattan's main roadways and then residential areas.
"We're still working on those side streets and residential areas. We're plowing and treating all of those. It takes a while to make it through all of those but our hope is that we'll be through will those later tonight and have that pretty well wrapped up," said Jeff Walters, Manhattan Street Superintendent in an interview Friday.
The snow from places likes Downtown Manhattan, the Aggieville District and city-owned parking lots was hauled to the city park. Those streets can't be plowed because then people wouldn't be able to park there and access the sidewalks.
"This storm was of some significance. I think we probably had in the 7-8 inch neighborhood and that's a decent storm for us. One of the things that presented a little bit of a problem yesterday was how fast the snow came down. It came down at a very high rate," Walters added.
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The difficulty of being pregnant while holding down a fulltime job is that your life as a working person trudges on, but your body (and mind) may have a hard time keeping up. For example, in the first trimester, you may have to deal with morning sickness. It's not really politic to go rushing out of a meeting or an important phone call to up-chuck. Instead, if you can identify times when you're likely to be sick, then you can try to reschedule meetings or phone calls for a different time of day when you will feel likely better. Also, take preventive measures as much as possible that is, keep crackers on hand or soda or whatever works to get you through it.
As the pregnancy proceeds, you'll notice that you're more tired, and your feet will start to swell. You can handle these issues by taking short naps during the middle of the day (perhaps the restroom has a couch) or getting outside to take 10-minute walks at break time or whenever possible. Drinking lots of water will increase your profusion of blood to the brain, which will make you feel less tired. . Above all, be kind to yourself and give yourself time off at night when you are at home. Plenty of rest in the evening will go a long way toward making you feel better the next day, and you'll think more clearly.
Put simply most people will not cut you much slack just because you're pregnant. They will expect you to keep up with your job and pretty much do everything you did before. Your challenge is to figure out how to be kind to yourself but keep up with your responsibilities.
Maternity Leave
Thanks to the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), most federal employees are entitled to take a total of up to 12 work weeks of unpaid leave off from their job following the birth of a baby. The good news is that most other major employers have followed suit and apply similar guidelines. (Some large corporations even offer up to a year off unpaid, of course.) However, be aware that if you are working for a small business of fewer than 50 employees, this act does not apply to you, as it isn't enforced on smaller businesses.
During this time off, you are entitled to receive your benefits, although you may have to pay your share of the costs. Also, your job must be held for you while you are away on leave, or if your job is no longer available when you return, then you must be offered comparable employment.
There are some guidelines, however, that you must follow. You must have worked at least 1,250 hours during a 12-month period prior to taking your leave. And you have to provide a 30-day advance notice for a foreseeable event (which obviously applies to your pregnancy). You also might be asked to provide certification from a medical provider that you are indeed pregnant. You could also be contacted while you are away on maternity leave and asked to verify your status and that you do intend to return to your job.
If you find that you need additional time off due to an emergency with your baby or unexpected circumstances, call your company and ask first before making any assumptions that they can't help you. Often, a company will have an emergency plan in place for just such occurrences.
Receiving Pay While You Are on Maternity Leave
The first thing to do before you get pregnant (preferably) or as soon as you know you are pregnant is to meet with the human resources person in your company to find out what your specific company's policies are for maternity leave and how they apply to you. Each company is different and much will depend on your own circumstances for example, how long you've been with the company, how much leave you've accrued, and what your position is.
Some companies (usually major corporations) offer full pay and benefits while you are on maternity leave; most do not. In lieu of this, many workers decide to use their sick time or vacation time to be paid while they are on maternity leave, if their employer does not offer compensation during this period. Obviously, if you can build up some cash reserves to use while you're on maternity leave, so much the better.
Paternity Leave
Paternity leave is the time a father takes off after the birth of a child, presumably to help the mother adjust and to bond with his child. Paternity leave is still in its "infancy" stages (pardon the pun). Some companies are quite progressive and offer fathers a paid leave, sometimes as long as six to 12 weeks; however, most companies who offer paternity leave do not necessarily give paid time off. The same stipulations for maternity leave apply to paternity leave in terms of time worked, etc. the one difference being that if the man is in the highest paid 10 percent bracket of wage earners at his company and the company can show that his absence would cause substantial harm to the organization, then the employer isn't required to keep the job open for the man.
Although more men are beginning to take paternity leave, in some cases, there still might be a stigma attached to it among co-workers or bosses. For this reason, some men are unwilling to take paternity leave, fearing that it could affect their jobs. If your husband is reluctant to take paternity leave, perhaps you can convince him to use some of his vacation time instead.
Creative Options for Going Back to Work
Some women can't wait to go back to work, but most find it difficult to leave their newborns. For this reason, many companies have created job sharing and split schedules. You might want to look into the options available in your particular industry.
If you job share with another person, then you will work part-time, splitting your job with someone else. The benefit is that you get to spend more time at home and are more flexible with your schedule. The downside is that you only make half your normal income, and you might not move up the corporate ladder as quickly. It's also important that you pair up to job share with someone who works in a similar fashion as you do so that you're not stuck doing twice the work in half the time.
Another option might be to telecommute to your job, either all of the time or working from home a specified number of days per week. Many women have opted to do this successfully. If you choose to do this, remember that you are still responsible for actually "being" present in your home office during normal business hours.
Some companies let women work 10-hour days so that they can get more days off in-between that is, three days off and four days on. If this time is split up over a weekend, there is the potential for your partner to babysit some of those days, thus saving the cost of a sitter.
You also can inquire about flex time (flexible schedules), seeing if you can work odd hours, say a morning schedule from 5 a.m. until 1 in the afternoon or an evening schedule, so that your husband can cover some of the time you would be gone. You never know until you ask what might be possible.
For Single Moms...
No doubt about it everything is harder for single working mothers. If you're in this situation, try to find some back-up help, whether it is a relative or a family friend. Situations will arise where you simply have to have help. It's best to get it arranged as early as possible before the baby comes.
I've been a single working mother, and I don't know how people do it (or how I did it for that matter). But somehow, you just do what needs to be done. If at all possible (and it usually isn't), try to create some space for yourself, particularly some quiet time. Also, negotiate to get away from the baby for a break now and then. No matter how much you love your child, you'll be a better mother for having been away and coming back refreshed. If there is a father in the picture, make sure he has time with the baby. Kids need both parents, assuming that the father is a good parent.
You'll find that you can't always put your kids first ahead of your job, nor can you put the job ahead of your kids. It's a perpetual dilemma because you need to have money to support the kids, but you want to be a good mother. Cut yourself a break and do the best job you can. It's all you can do.
Choosing a Daycare Provider
Choosing a daycare provider when you go back to work can be a nightmare. Take time with this decision and decide in advance what type of facility you want. An ideal situation is to have someone come to your home (i.e., a nanny), but good, qualified people are often difficult to find and can be extremely expensive. If you decide to go this route, make sure you use a reputable agency (if you use one) and do extensive cross-checking of the nanny's references. Most nannies are perfectly safe, but there have been enough cases of child abuse in the news lately to know that there are plenty of deviants out there.
The best alternative might be for a family member or friend to care for your child. But this decision also has positive and negative aspects to it. First, it's difficult to tell someone who is close to you how you want your baby handled. Feelings might get pricked or ruffled, particularly if that person thinks they know all there is to know about babysitting. And it could damage a long-standing friendship if you disagree about how the person handles your child or you are too critical of them. So, be sensitive and informed of the pitfalls before you take this route. And remember that your way is not always the right way, but simply your way.
Perhaps the most common daycare provider is a certified daycare provider, either in a home or in a stand-alone facility. These facilities should be monitored by the state, which can mean something or nothing, depending on your state and how proactive or overburdened they are. Here are some questions you might ask a potential sitter for your child:
Your Mental Health and Guilt
Every parent who works feels guilty at one time or another. Here's my best advice: You'll just have to deal with it. Leaving a baby who is crying or ill is one of the hardest things in the world to do. Sometimes, you can take off work and use sick-time to stay home, but more often than not, you have to leave your baby and hope for the best.
The only way to get rid of guilt is to just give it up. It's not worth the time you waste on it.
The Absolute Minimum
As a working parent, you face obstacles and challenges galore when making your personal life and your job mesh two areas that are normally at odds with one another. Everyone will seem to want your time, from your boss to your baby to your husband. In the beginning, it's an extremely cumbersome juggling act, but have faith that everything will settle down as you adapt to your new baby, a new way of life, and a new schedule. Impose on your family and friends as much as possible for help and don't be hesitant about taking it. Your baby will be richer for it in the long run.
Reproduced from Absolute Beginner's Guide to Pregnancy, by John Adams and Marta Justak, by permission of Pearson Education. Copyright © 2005 by Que Publishing. Please visit Amazon to order your own copy.
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I want to verify whether the complex-valued function $f(z)= \dfrac{1}{z}+\dfrac{1}{z^5}$ is analytic at $\infty$.
I attempted to do this by approximating the function by its power series expansion $$\dfrac{1}{z}+\dfrac{0}{z^2}+\dfrac{0}{z^3}+\dfrac{0}{z^4}+\dfrac{1}{z^5}+\frac{0}{z^6}+\frac{0}{z^7}+\ldots. $$ Since the function is expressed in this power series, I would say that it is analytic at $\infty$ with a simple zero at $\infty$. What if I considered the following function: $f(z)=\dfrac{z^2 +1}{z^2 -1}$? I was able to figure out that it is also analytic at $\infty$ through use of the power series expansion. However, does this function have any zeros of some particular order at $\infty$? In the series, my constant term $a_0=1$, so I would think not, but I'm not sure if I'm correct. I would appreciate any expert input, thanks.


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Need some example graphs which are not hamiltonian, i.e, does not admit any hamiltonian cycle, but which have hamiltonian path. It has unique hamiltonian paths between exactly 4 pair of vertices. I have identified one such group of graphs. Would like to see more such examples.
This answer elaborates on Willie Wong's comment and also provides another class of examples. Start with a clique $K_n$, pick two vertices $u, v \in K_n$, and glue two triangles onto $K_n$ at $u$ and $v$. It is easy to see that for any $n$, this graph is not Hamiltonian but there do exist exactly four pairs of vertices that are the endpoints of a Hamiltonian path. Furthermore, instead of using $K_n$, any subgraph such that there exists a Hamiltonian path between the distinguished vertices $u$ and $v$ will still do the trick.
Another class of examples is to take the 4-wheel (a 4-cycle with an apex vertex) and to glue one end of a path onto the hub of the wheel. Again, there are mutations of this construction.


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[Note: My discussion of the three answers can be found just after the question.]
Imagine three points in space that differ only by a phase angle of "something" (what doesn't really matter).
One way to represent the difference in phase angle between the three points is assigning each one a specific angle designation, e.g. $0^{\circ}$, $90^{\circ}$, and $180^{\circ}$, or in the equivalent complex number forms, $1$, $i$, and $-1$. [1]
However, assigning phase angles assumes that the starting angle of 0 degrees is a universal constant across the entire space in which such points could exist. For many phenomena, especially in quantum mechanics, it turns out that how you select this universal or global $0^{\circ}$ setting doesn't really matter. The ability to select the $0^{\circ}$ point arbitrarily -- or equivalently, the ability to add any arbitrary angle or phase to each point in the space -- is typically described as a symmetry of physics.
If you don't mind exploding the number of mathematical quantities involved, you can instead express the relationships without assuming any global constants to exist. More specifically, you can use a Mach-like approach in which phase angles only exist between pairs of locations in the space. With this approach and assuming transitive phase relationships, you can use $n$ phase vectors (that's a phrase I made up, so don't bother looking it up) to specify all phase relationships between all particles, where $n$ is the number of points (or particles) in space that have phase angles:
$p_1 \rightarrow p_2 = i = 90^{\circ}$
$p_1 \rightarrow p_3 = -1 = 180^{\circ}$
Notice that in the above example, setting all phase vectors to start at the same location provides a close equivalent to assuming a universal $0^{\circ}$. The only difference is that here you have explicitly stated which point will serve as the universal $0^{\circ}$ value by referencing all other particles to it.
The above two phase vectors fully define the phase relationships of the three points I described earlier, but there are many ways to capture the phase relationships. The full expansion of phase vectors implied by $\{(p_1=1), (p_2=i), (p_3=-1)\}$ is:
$\{(p_1 \rightarrow p_2 = i), (p_2 \rightarrow p_1 = -i),$
$(p_2 \rightarrow p_3 = i), (p_3 \rightarrow p_2 = -i),$
$(p_1 \rightarrow p_3 = -1), (p_3 \rightarrow p_1 = -1)\}$
Now, at last, my questions. Feel free to answer any or all, or create your own. Answers of the type "Terry you dunce this is just [...] phrased badly!" are not only welcome but hugely appreciated, if accurate.
Is phase symmetry real, or is it just an artifact of using mathematical methods that assume the existence of a universal $0^{\circ}$ value that has no real physical meaning, since phase can only be measured by using pairs of locations?
Phase arrows have their own symmetry, since any set of $n-1$ phase arrows [2] that fully connects $n$ particles can be used to represent their phase relationships. So, do phase arrows just obscure phase symmetry by representing it in an oddly particle-centric way?
Or is it the other way around: Is the equivalence of all fully connected sets of phase arrows the deeper symmetry, since it reflects an entanglement-like preservation of phase across measurements of many, many particles?
If phase symmetry is just an artifact of assuming a global $0^{\circ}$, what does that imply for expressing electromagnetism as a phase symmetry? What would change?
2012-09-02 - Assessment of the three answers
All three answers were useful and as best I can discern, accurate. I have selected @NickKidman's as "the" answer mostly due to the nice link to the Wikipedia page on heaps, which most succinctly addressed my underlying question of why it seems possible to represent such issues in an affine-like way. But the @Kostya answer was also very nice from a somewhat different mathematical perspective, and I appreciated the answering of each of the four sub-questions. Finally, I think @RonMaimon best caught the important difference in just how phase symmetry is used in gauge theory. So, my recommendation to anyone coming across this question is that you should go carefully through all three of the answers provides as of 2012-09-02. Each adds value. My thanks to all for such excellent answers, and my apologies that I forgot about not closing this one out earlier.
[1] This note is for any readers who may not familiar with complex-plane phase angles. You may be wondering why @Kostya's complex-plane angle notation looks so different from my assertion that $1$, $i$, and $-1$ represent "angles." We really are talking about the same thing, I assure you!
Angles are very often represented and calculated in physics disciplines using a compact exponential notation with remarkable computational properties. That notation works like this: If you raise the mathematical constant $e$ ($\approx 2.71828$) to an imaginary exponent -- and yes, once upon a time and many years ago, a lot of deep mathematical thinking went into figuring out what it even means to raise a number to an imaginary exponent -- then a most curious relationship emerges.
The first part of what happens is the magnitude $\phi$ of the imaginary exponent -- that is, the real number by which $i$ is multiplied in the exponent -- ends up specifying a complex value that is always one unit away from the origin ($0$) of the complex plane.
Next, if you interpret the origin $0$ of the complex plane as the vertex of an angle, and the line from $0$ to $1$ as one side of that angle, then the line from $0$ to the unit-length complex value generated by $e^{i\phi}$ will define the other side of that angle. To make that work correctly, the angle $\phi$ must be expressed in units of radians rather than degrees, where $180^\circ = \pi$ (radians). (Side note: The truly amazing relationship between $e$, $i$, $\pi$, and $-1$ that this relationship produces is known as Euler's Identity.)
So, if you start out with a real angle $\phi=\pi/2=90^\circ$, then what the function $e^{i\phi}$ does is "translate" that somewhat abstract real angle into a tangible and easily visualized angle formed by the complex-plane vertex $0$, the unit value $1$ (which defines the "always assumed" horizontal side of the angle), and the output of $e^{i\phi}$, which in this case would be $i$. Since $i$ is straight up from the vertex $0$, the resulting angle is $90^\circ$.
So, I sort of cut to the chase and spoke only of a few carefully selected examples of how $1=0^\circ$, $i=90^\circ$, $-1=180^\circ$, and $-i=270^\circ$ show the potential for complex numbers to represent angles. That potential is realized in the $e^{i\phi}$, which enables unit-circle complex angles to be represented simply and elegantly.
Still, using complex numbers alone for angles has advantages too. In particular, simply multiplying two unit complex numbers is the same as adding two angles -- a neat trick indeed, and a lot faster than doing a pile of trig functions! It also provides a different way of understanding why $i^2=-1$. If those numbers are instead interpreted as angles, you are simply adding two $90^\circ$ angles (represented by the two $i$ values) to produce a new angle of $180^\circ$ (the -1 result).
[2] Corrected from $n$; thanks @NickKidman!


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Although I've started to see this phenomenon after I upgraded my notebook from
Oneiric to
Precise, I'm not sure what is influencing.
(1st one of the following image) I dragged the window on right to the bottom. Then while I move around cursor, (2nd image) the window moves back to the top rim.
In this example the one on left remains at the bottom for some reason. And this can happen to other application window (e.g. Firefox, System Monitor etc.) Any idea??
(Environment) NVIDIA Driver version: 295.40,
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Here is a video from my trip at Nemo 33, the deepest indoor pool in the world:
Edited in Kdenlive on Ubuntu 12.10, and filmed with a GoPro HD Hero2 and its underwater housing, at 1080p in 25 fps.
Tue, 04/23/2013 - 22:02
Nice place. You should attach the camera to something heavy, perhaps water filled tank to stabilize it?...
Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:22
I like the trailer where you are sitting upside down in the opening. Very nice idea.
Hero 2 ... oh well ... even under the good lighting conditions in Nemo 33 you can clearly see the white balancing being unbalanced. In shallow depths you have almost normal colors while with more depth everything is drowning in green, albeit not as bad as in free water conditions. Some color correction in post could correct this to make the different scenes match colors to some extend.
That's why I put my Hero 2 on the shelf and am using the Hero 3 Blackies, because they allow me to switch white balancing off "wb raw" in Protune modes. Color correction then becomes much easier in post, I can tell you.
Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:21
@lefthook: I think Kevin did that on purpose; it's okay in this context. Of course, nothing for a slow pace underwater film, but that's not the intent here I would assume. It's more about the fun.
The only thing giving me the creeps is not the filming but the SCUBA girl ascending by swimming upwards. This is dangerous as she can easily gain too much ascent rate and she doesn't have proper buoyancy, otherwise she wouldn't use her fins. Safe ascending is in horizontal position, lying in the water and slowly ascending by using your lung volume and closely controlling your BCD's air volume at any time. You don't use fins for ascend, except in emergency.
Wed, 04/24/2013 - 23:25
Hey Diveo just watched it again to see "SCUBA girl ascending by swimming upwards". But I can't see the dangerous bit. At what time code?
Very nice video by the way.
Thu, 04/25/2013 - 09:28
1:30 and following. Her ascending speed is much more than 10m per minute. Remember: 10m/min is one meter every six seconds. She seems to be around 1m/s, approx six times as fast. She is stressing her body extremely, especially if she has been at 10+ meters as there will be a lot of at least microbubbles forming that act as kernels for larger bubbles. If she goes up and down all the time, her blood will be full of bubbles.
She should ascend very slowly and not in upright position ... albeit this is what PADI and SSI are teaching against better medical knowledge.
The problem is that your body may very well tolerate your bad behavior for a long time. Then, some day, you are on a trip, hot temperature, sunny to the max, you didn't drink enough, some stress ... and bang! bends. Or you get a DCS an hour after your dive when you carry your heavy equipment to the shore. It always the same...
Saw that many times and many doctors told me also so. If just they would teach beginners correct diving there would be much less diving accidents.
Thu, 04/25/2013 - 11:33
Man that was 2 secs of footage. You don't know that that was an accent. You can fin up for a few secs. It is all about the the total overall assent rate right?
Anyway. Very off topic for this forum. Whoops. Might have to ban my self.
Thu, 04/25/2013 - 11:34
Man that was 2 secs of footage. You don't know that that was an accent. You can fin up for a few secs. It is all about the the total overall assent rate right?
Anyway. Very off topic for this forum. Whoops. Might have to ban my self.
Thu, 04/25/2013 - 15:17
Its not about overall ascent rate, but about the current rate at any moment of time, as this is about simple fluid and tissue physics and physics don't care about your two seconds. But please go for yourself, I know why I'm sticking with experienced and seasoned divers that survived several decades of diving without problems. And they taught me to be very careful about ascents because they have seen all that.
Thu, 04/25/2013 - 16:34
At the risk of having to ban my self for off topic chatter
So now that we know what the ascent should be, how can we actually perform these slower ascents. Ascent rates can be viewed as "mini decompression stops" and can be performed in stages. There are two ways to perform this ascent rate in a very easy manner. The first is to come up 10 feet and wait until the time catches up. In other words, for an ascent rate of 30 feet per minute, it should take 20 seconds to come up 10 feet. For example, if it takes the diver 5 seconds to come up 10 feet, the diver then waits another 15 seconds before going up another 10 feet. The ascent rate between the different 10 foot "mini stops" isn't overly critical as long as one does not ascend more than 10 feet at one time and does not "rocket" to the stop.


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Back to School: 10 Tips for a Smooth Start
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Start Your School Schedule Early
Adjusting from a lazy summer schedule to a hectic fall schedule can be tough. To make the transition a little easier, start your back-to-school schedule before the summer comes to a close. By slowly easing your child into his new bedtime and wake-up, he'll have no problem hopping out of bed on the first day of school. Preparing a special breakfast on his first day is also a good way to lure him out of bed and get him excited for his new adventure.
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Starting a 3 day a week exercises routine and I am wondering what supplements I should be taking. If you have been following my posts you can see I have posted several time already today. I am really serious about getting healthy and I am trying to avoid the beginning mistakes and really trying to maximize the benefits from the new life style right out of the gate. So this boils down to knowing how/when to eat, how to exercise and how often, and what supplements should be taken to round everything out.
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None really if your eating 5 times a day and getting enough protein. but
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Visual arts faculty member Ann Pibal, alumnae Kiran Desai '93, Anne Waldman '66, and Cora Cohen '64, and MFA faculty members Major Jackson (poetry), J.C. Hallman (nonfiction), and Brenda Shaughnessy (poetry) are among the 175 artists, scholars, and scientists—out of nearly 3,000 applicants—to receive 2013 Guggenheim Fellowships.
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Anne Waldman '66 is the author of the long chant poem Fast Speaking Woman, the selected volumes Helping the Dreamer and In the Room of Never Grieve, and four long hybrid poems from Penguin Poets, including the most recent Gossamurmur. Other book-length poems include Marriage: A Sentence, Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble, and Manatee/Humanity. Her thousand-page three-volume feminist epic The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment won the PEN America Literary Award for Poetry in 2012. She is a former Director of The Poetry Project at St Mark's Church In-the-Bowery and co-founded The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University (the first Buddhist-inspired university in the west) with Allen Ginsberg in 1974 where she continues to direct its innovative Summer Writing Program. She is the winner of the Shelley Memorial Award, the Dylan Thomas Memorial Prize, the National Literary Anthology Award, the Poets Foundation Award, and is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
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Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Our Andromeda. Her other books are Human Dark with Sugar, which was a finalist for the 2008 NBCC Award and winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Interior with Sudden Joy, finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Harpers, McSweeney's, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Yale Review, and elsewhere. Shaughnessy was the recipient of a Bunting Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, an NEA/ Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Fellowship, and a 2010–2011 Howard Foundation Fellowship from Brown University.
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If my desktop run out of memory and swaps a lot then I free or kill the application wasting my RAM. But, after that, all my desktop/applications have been swapped and are horribly slow, do you know a way to "unswap" (reload from swap space into RAM) my desktop/applications?
If you really have enough RAM available again you can use this sequence (as root):
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Just for completeness, GDB can dump process image. I didn't check that it unswaps it, but it has to---there's no other way to read the whole process memory:
swapon/swapoff will completely clear your swap space, but you can free some of it via the /proc file system too. You want the first one:


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I believe the tradition of communion stems from the last supper Jesus had with his disciples. Jesus had the last supper with just his 12 disciples, not all of his followers. Does this mean that only priests should take communion, or should we assume that all followers should take communion, and if so why should we assume this from what is written?
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It is pretty clear that when Jesus called his disciples together on various occasions was to teach them things that they were to pass on to the entire church, this is one of them. Just as various commands on how we aught to live was only said to them, and not other disciples, so this practice was initiated with only them.
The text does not specifically say 'only you should do this in remembrance of me' nor does it say 'tell everyone else to do this in remembrance of me'. Therefore we must turn to other scriptures to confirm that natural suspicion that Jesus must have been changing the meaning of Passover for Christians, just as all Jews used to eat the meal in remembrance of their deliverance from Egypt.
Turning to the Corinthian's where the subject had come up due to their abuse of the practice we see clearly that all believers who sincerely believe in Christ should partake of the Lord's Supper.
Notice above 'we all' partake, that is all believers.
However Paul makes it clear than this should only be done in a right frame of mind by true believers and is not to be made light of like it was just an opportunity to party and get drunk.
Notice above Paul is speaking to all the believers and saying they should all partake but not to do it in an unworthy manner.


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As I understand, $\begin{eqnarray} \frac{\mathrm{d}}{\mathrm{d}x}\ln(x)\end{eqnarray} $ is generally specified as $\begin{eqnarray} \frac{1}{x} \end{eqnarray}$. Would it be more appropriate to state it as $\begin{eqnarray} \frac{1}{x}, x>0\end{eqnarray}$ since $\ln(x)$ is undefined for $x\leq0$? If not, why not? In addition, what does this imply about the indefinite integral of or the definite integral with negative limits of integration of $\begin{eqnarray} \frac{1}{x} \end{eqnarray}$?
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Magical. I know it sounds obvious but that simply is the best word to describe the movie Oz The Great and Powerful that premiered last weekend. The new movie that is the prequel to The Wizard of Oz, a cinema masterpiece of its time, provided the perfect date night with Hubby, who grew up watching the beloved classic, based on L. Frank Baum's novel, every year on television with his family.
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I am currently using two monitors with one in landscape mode and the other in portrait mode. Video card is Nvidia Geforce 9600 GT with nvidia's propriety driver.
I was able to force the issue in 11.10 by assigning a separate X screen for each monitor and rotating the screen assigned to the portrait monitor. ( :0 for the landscape and :1 for the portrait)
I heard that 12.04 improved greatly on multi-monitor configurations. But it doesn't work for me: I had to resort to TwinView mode in order to take advantage of seamless multi-monitor experience but TwinView mode doesn't work with my situation where one of the monitor is in portrait mode!
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[4.2.0 beta 2] TreePanel in menu in IE9: clicking quickly expand/collapse hides menu
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- Ext 4.2.0 beta 2
- IE9 in IE8 mode and IETester IE8 - FAIL. So, I suspect it is reproducible with original IE8.
- Chrome - PASS
- <!DOCTYPE html>
- IE9, IE9 in IE8 mode, IETester IE8. A TreePanel is into a menu of a button. If click quickly a collapse/expand icon of a node it causes hiding a menu. It can occur after 3-4 clicks, sometimes it requires a lot of clicks, sometimes it happens just after two clicks. Well, it is not a problem if it requires a lot of clicks, but hiding a menu after 2 clicks can annoy a user. But, that is more important, there is, probably, a problem in the sources which, potentially, can lead to another issues.
- It is not reproducible in FireFox and Chrome.
- Click the Button to get the Menu open
- Click quickly the expand/collapse icon of any node
- At some moment the menu hides. It can occur after 3-4 clicks, sometimes it requires a lot of clicks, sometimes it happens just after two clicks.
- The menu doesn't hide
- The menu hides
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>TreePanel IE9 menu collapse if clicking fast</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../resources/css/ext-all.css" /> <script src="../ext-all-debug.js"></script> <script> Ext.onReady(function () { Ext.create("Ext.window.Window", { height: 200, width: 300, tbar: { items: [{ text: "Menu", menu: { items: [{ xtype: "treepanel", height: 350, width: 300, animate: false, // it is also reproducible with true root: { text: "Composers", expanded: true, children: [{ text: "Beethoven", children: [{ text: "Concertos", children: [{ leaf: true, text: "No. 1 - C" }, { leaf: true, text: "No. 2 - B-Flat Major" }, { leaf: true, text: "No. 3 - C Minor" }, { leaf: true, text: "No. 4 - G Major" }, { leaf: true, text: "No. 5 - E-Flat Major" }] }] }] } }] } }] } }).show(); }); </script> </head> <body> </body> </html>
Debugging already done:
- The menu hides here.
onMouseDown: function(e) { var me = this, active = me.active, lastShow = me.lastShow; if (Ext.Date.getElapsed(lastShow) > 50 && active.length > 0 && !e.getTarget('.' + Ext.baseCSSPrefix + 'menu')) { me.hideAll(); } }
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Are you saying you need to quickly click after the menu is displayed, or repeated clicks on expand/collapse for the same node?
Either way, I'm not able to reproduce it. Seems like a pretty obscure bug at best.Evan Trimboli
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10 Jan 2013 11:42 PM #3
Hi Evan,
Repeated clicks on expand/collapse for the same node.
Yes, agree it is a bit obscure. Sometimes it is hard to reproduce, but sometimes it is really easy, it can happen just after two clicks.Object.NET
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11 Jan 2013 12:34 AM #4
I was able to reproduce this as well. Based on the debugging that I have done, at one point the expression e.getTarget('.' + Ext.baseCSSPrefix + 'menu') evaluates to null and me.hideAll() is invoked. It is as if the target element of the click is outside of the menu.
The bug may seem obscure but it can be extremely annoying. Please don't discard it. Can you ask another colleague to try it?
The other option would be trigger the mouse click programmatically and simulate the clicks. I would have to look into it.
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I can add that my colleague is also able to reproduce.Object.NET
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There is a very easy way to reproduce this without straining your hand. I will describe it here.
I downloaded a program called autoclicker that simulates mouse clicks. You can get it from here:
It is free to try and it doesn't seem to have any viruses (in case you are concerned about that). I have a windows 7 64 bit VM that I used to test this.
- Open the page that Daniil created in IE 9 (click on the Menu to display the tree, the Composers button is expanded and the Beethoven node is collapsed) and run autoclicker, having both side by side.
- Set the delay between clicks to 100ms and set the number of clicks to 50.
- Click on the L button. A new dialog pops up where you can set the mouse location. Select 'Specify a fixed location' and click the Pick Location button. Then click on the + sign for the Beethoven node. Click ok to close the dialog
- Click the Start clicking button. The menu disappears after a few seconds and the cursor becomes a red arrow while the clicks are still played. This is reproduceable 100% every time I replay the clicks.
- Repeat the steps above with FF and Chrome. You'll see that the menu doesn't disappear and the node is collapsed and expanded properly.


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Here's my issue.
I have a server created from a windows image that includes SQL Server 2008 and two specific windows users, these windows users are a part of the sysadmin role and are users for the SQL Server instance.
If I detach then reattach the database everything works fine, the two windows users are able to connect no problem.
If I detach the database, re-image the system, then re-attach the database the windows users will still be listed as I can see them via Management Studio.
I'd imagine that the attaching and detaching of the database has nothing to do with it since the logins are listed under 'Security' for the SQL Server instance and not the db.
At this point users exist and have rights, but they can not connect unless you delete and re-add the windows users, I believe this is because the SID's are messed up.
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Are there Protestants in Italy today and what became of the Protestants reformers from the peninsula during the reformation? The reason I ask is that I've never heard of any particular persecution either way in the old nations surrounding the Rome, all the fighting and carrying on seemed to happen in German nations or England, but the absence of hearing about something doesn't mean nothing happened, it just means worse things happened in other places so I'd just like to know what became of the Protestants in what is now Italy and how they're carrying on today.
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Apparently, protestantism used to gather some heat there in Italy. However, with the Vatican Council II, relations improved and protestants aren't as persecuted as much.
There are a total of about 725,000 protestants in Italy, most of whom are Assemblies of God (400,000). There are also about 175,000 mainline Protestants, the largest and oldest of which are the Waldensians.
The Waldensian church has roots dating back to the 12th century, but they aligned themselves with Calvinism in the 16th, which transformed the denomination.
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I've had this model for a while and works quite well.
I don't often use a Bluetooth cause I feel people might think I'm just talking to myself and gesticulating, but I go on long bike rides and often have to be on-call for work. It's small and doesn't interfere with my bike helmet. I have used this little thing on a bike and the other person can barely tell (if I'm not huffing or puffing).
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Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz chaired the Cabinet session at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah this evening. The Council began by commending the address of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz and the Crown Prince delivered on the eve of the holy month of Ramadan. In the speech, the Saudi leadership confirmed that Islam is the religion of love, forgiveness and tolerance and that it promotes peace and dialogue, while rejecting division.
The Cabinet also expressed its thanks to King Abdullah for the attention and care he has provided towards the construction and expansion projects of the Two Holy Mosques.
Turning to international events, the Cabinet listened to a number of reports on regional developments, including the situation in Syria. The ministers deplored the suffering of the Syrian people during the holy month of Ramadan, which is being caused by the sieges and human rights violations directed against them. They reiterated the Kingdom's appeal to the international community to put an end to the genocide and starvation faced by the Syrian people and to enable the delivery of relief aid.
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I am looking for a saying or common expression to say that it is not advisable to anticipate or celebrate something before you know the actual outcome. I am thinking about political elections or football match results, but also more everyday expectations about a possible positive outcome.
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Don't sell the skin before you've caught the bear.
Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
The die hasn't been cast (yet).
The final/last word hasn't been said/spoken.
It hasn't all been said yet.
It ain't (all) over (and done) yet.
One must not be too hasty in one's rejoicing.
I think this is a useful saying that may fit what you are looking for
Don't count your chickens (before they're hatched)
"It isn't over till the fat lady sings".
Also, "It isn't over till it's over". (Politicians and journalists in Britain and America alike trot out this platitude all the time when elections are on.)
"Don't speak too soon" - could also work here.
And then there's the Yogi-ism, It ain't over till it's over.
Yogi-isms are the sayings of Yogi Berra,a famous baseball player and manager. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra
In addition to the other good answers, there's also:
To keep a lid on it is used in Australia and the UK, to mean to not get carried away by the euphoria or early or temporary success.
Note this phrase can also mean simply to keep quiet about something, or to keep something a secret.
According to superstition, a jinx is someone who always brings bad luck; "jinxing it" implies that talking about recent good luck can ruin the good luck and can bring about bad luck before the outcome is fixed.
It's more common to say:
than to use early.
I think most of these other possible answers are either a bit too general, or off target in terms of celebration. I prefer:
It implies there will be celebrating in the near and foreseeable future, but not immediately, so we will continue to keep the bubbly on ice.
However, it could also be used ironically or derisively, to burst another's bubble if they seem to be a bit too optimistic.
These are a couple of more general expressions, not necessarily only used for celebration.
And, of course,
Which is the most general case for situations you describe.
It's easy to get carried away when you've put all your eggs in one basket. It's best to not get your hopes up until you know it's a done deal.
Nothing is carved in stone.
Meaning we haven't written the future, we write the past and the future can be changed.
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Hi everyone! OK this completes the trilogy! When I did the first filer sketch it was just a stand alone drama-Gwynn sketch. It was only when doing the Zoë art that a concept came together of a story of suspense and horror with a twist ending in three panels. Now I know I only planned on running these Friday and Sunday, so I was going to save the third for the next time I needed emergency filler but realized these three had to appear close together to make any of sense.


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As we know DH algorithm based upon 2 large prime numbers, which are used to be called as prime and base
I am writing app which implements DH key exchange algorithm. From security point of view should I take care for securing prime and base numbers? And what are implications if I wouldn't do that?