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Can anyone help? I am using a nikon d7000 for sports photography. My husband kindly bought me a sigma 70-200mm telephoto lens 2.8 as I shoot a lot of low light indoor sports. I have only just started testing it but I am finding that it will not focus in some low light situations. I am keen to know what the best settings to use would be for low light indoor sports. I often get a blur with my 3.5 lens.
Indoor sports photography is a big challenge. You're going to have to be shooting wide open likely in high ISO ranges. If you can set up a remote flash somewhere to pick the scene up a couple stops you'll likely be better off.
I've got a Canon 70-200 f/2.8 and it was really tough to stop the motion (~1/500-1/1000) even at the high school level without getting up to 1600 ISO.
Well, the three values that matter are aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. All of these are in your control, but only if you know what they do for you. I apologize if you know all this, but others may ask the same question, so...
Aperture - This is the ratio of the focal length of the lens to the diameter of its opening. The smaller the aperture number, the bigger the opening, the bigger the opening, the more light it gathers for any given shutter speed. However, typically the more wide open a lens is, the less sharp it is, there's a "sweet" spot that varies a little by lens and sensor size. In any case, in very low light, you're going to want to be wide open or very close to it.
Shutter Speed - Well, this obvious, but it's important to note that when you do not control the light, then the shutter speed is what freezes motion. So, depending on the sport, you're probably going to be anywhere from 1/500s and above to freeze motion.
ISO - The sensitivity to light of the sensor. Low ISO is less sensitive, but usually much less noisy. High ISO is much more sensitive, but also noisy. Nevertheless, in a low light situation, even with the lens wide open, the ISO is going to be at the high side. The good news is that the D7000 is very strong at high ISO, you can get very nice images at 6400 and not bad at 12,800 with a little work.
Autofocus on a camera requires enough light for the electronics to pick out distinct edges in the subject.
In daylight it's pretty easy because the changes from shadows to lit areas, or patterns in clothing, or the difference in tone between the subject and the background, help the camera.
It's easy to test how the camera determines how to focus by trying to focus on a monochromatic surface, i.e., one that has no changes in color. A smooth blank white wall can make a camera nuts because, if there are no changes or edges or shadows, it can't latch onto anything and will just seek a focal point then give up.
Similarly, when the light levels drop it gets hard for the camera to find the edges, because the contrast has dropped too. New cameras use more sensitive sensors to pick up focus, but still, they get fooled once the light gets too low. At that point you can try to help the camera out:
The f2.8 lens gives you two extra stops of light when focusing, compared to a normal consumer lens which is f5.6. The aperture you have selected for the exposure won't matter when focusing because the camera has the aperture wide open until the shutter is released. At that point the aperture is stopped down, the shutter opens, the picture is exposed, the shutter closes, and the aperture opens to full again. You can prove this is what happens by setting a slow exposure, looking into the lens, releasing the shutter, and watching the blades of the lens close down. Once the shutter closes, the blades will reopen to the full aperture of the lens. If you have a depth-of-field preview button, you can press it while looking down the lens barrel and see the same thing occur. The camera does this so the full amount of light is getting down the barrel while you're setting up the shot and focusing.
I have shot a lot of fast action in lousy light, and acquiring and maintaining focus can be a real problem. I'm using a Canon f2.8 70-200 also, and had to figure out how to quickly find something on the subject that would help the camera acquire and track focus. Once I had focus I could fire, and my strobe system would provide enough light for the right exposure. There were plenty of "hail Mary" shots, where I hoped it had focus because I could barely see - I'd prefocus then wait for the subject to get to that distance then fire, which is an old trick from the days of manual focus. At least the exposures looked good because of the strobes though often the action looked horrible.
It's a tough trade-off and the best answer is to practice with the camera in similar situations so you have your bag of tricks ready when you encounter similar problems while shooting for real.
Sigma 70-200mm is very inconsistent in the AutoFocus department and well known for major focus problems. Life is good when it focuses right, but a sharp lens will not delivery sharp images if not focused properly. You might consider getting another copy of the lens. If possible, get Nikon 70-200 f/2.8 which is more likely to solve your problem. Just so you know, its okay for your camera to hunt a little bit in low light conditions unless you buy a top end piece of optics. In this case, bumping up ISO seems to be the best option for you.
EDIT: Bumping up ISO solely isn't gonna solve the issue, bumping up the ISO gives you chance to use smaller aperture and most lenses perform better when stepped down. I personally never used the Sigma 70-200mm but when my lens starts hunting, I generally bump the ISO up and use a smaller aperture, this solves the issue most of the case.
Thanks to rfusca for pointing it out.
I have been setting the camera to manual exposure with f/4 and shutter 1/1250 and auto ISO on the basis of getting best aperture/shutter combination and the camera setting ISO as the cameras now have higher ISO settings.
I have been pleased with JPEGs which were strong and sharp.
I have tried aperture priority with fixed ISO but get exposure problems when sun pops out or those dark clouds appear.
Make sure you are using Continuous Servo AF, which is displayed as AF-C. That means it is continually focusing on a moving subject, instead of focusing once then waiting for you to take the photo. With AF-C, the D7000 will determine what the subject is, focus on it, and keep it in focus as it moves. This is especially important in sports photography where your subject is moving around alot.
A shutter speed of at least 500 is recommended for sports photography


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KILLEEN (December 12, 2012)—Maj. Gen. Anthony Ierardi, the commander of Fort Hood's 1st Cavalry Division, met Wednesday with post-area community leaders at a Greater Killeen Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee luncheon.
He outlined the trip some of his troops will soon take to the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California.
"What we will see in this particular national training center rotation is the requirement to conduct that broad range of tasks which includes a combined arms maneuver using all of the capabilities that the division has at its disposal," Ierardi said.
There are still 4,000 troops from the division's 4th Brigade Combat Team in Afghanistan.
Ierardi said soldier and family readiness have also been a big focus for his troops.

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24 Sep 2012 11:29 PM #1
Unanswered: Change xtype of Architect generated code
Hi everyone, I try to use Sencha Architect for some time and get stuck with such problem. I want to use BoxSelect extension but I can't set xtype property of my default Combo. How can I use custom xtype? Can I somehow override my Combo and in Constructor or initComponent replace it with my BoxSelect control?
25 Sep 2012 6:24 AM #2
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25 Sep 2012 6:30 AM #3
This isn't actually about SA, I solve this only adding event binding on my "main" panel and creating my custom Control there:
abstractcomponent.add({ xtype: 'boxselect', id: 'tags', name: 'tags', clearable: true, autoHeight: true, fieldLabel: 'Тэги', labelAlign: 'right', displayField: 'title', minChars: 1, multiSelect: true, queryParam: 'cmstartsortkeyprefix', store: 'Tags', valueField: 'title', delimiter: '|' });
26 Sep 2012 7:59 AM #4
In a future release of Architect, 2.2+ we are experimenting with allowing users to set an additional architect specific configuration on every component like `createAlias`. This would allow you to drag out a standard combo, and configure all of the options you want and then later change the createAlias to `boxselect`.Aaron Conran
7 Jan 2013 8:58 AM #5
We've got a TreeGrid with a few columns.
I needed to change one of them to checkcolumn.
To do that, I've had to override the whole of the initComponent for the grid, because I can't promote the column to a class for treegrids.
Is there a cleaner and less intrusive way to change the xtype without having to copy the whole of the initComponent?
9 Jan 2013 4:54 PM #6
10 Jan 2013 12:14 AM #7
I ended up solving it like this:
Ext.define('Ext.treegrid.plugin.MyGrid', { extend: 'Ext.AbstractPlugin', init: function(grid){ var me = this; me.grid = grid; // Take the columns, remove them, and turn them into check columns for (var i=1;i<=2;i++){ var initial_config = grid.columns[i]; initial_config.xtype = 'checkcolumn'; grid.columns[i] = Ext.create('Ext.ux.CheckColumn', initial_config); } return; } }); Ext.define('carsplus.view.override.MyGrid', { override: 'carsplus.view.PermissionGrid', plugins: [ Ext.create('Ext.grid.plugin.CellEditing', { ptype: 'cellediting', clicksToEdit: 1 }), Ext.create('Ext.treegrid.plugin.MyGrid') ], });
Note: For this use-case, I just wanted to convert columns 1 and 2.
Could be replaced with changing columns whose attribute matches a pattern.


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Basically it will not boot without holding down the power key. It has taken as long as 10 minutes.
I found the fix in this and this, based on the idea that the Intel atom CPU is used by both computers.
Basically, the
Open a terminal (dash, type in
Type in the terminal sudo nano -B /etc/default/grub and your password if asked…
and the nano editor will open, thus (for mine)...
Using the arrow keys. move the cursor down to the line
Then type in a space and nomodeset nohz=off so it now looks like this.
Then type in Ctrl-O, the Enter key to save, and then Ctrl-X to exit nano.
Important last step
Now you have to run update-grub to update the system generated grub.cfg file in the /boot/grub directory.
Type into your computer sudo update-grub and your password if asked…
Now the boot should be much shorter.
Notes on nano
nano is especally easy to use in the terminal. Move around with the arrow keys. Type in you addtions, delete the unwanted.
The " -B" (or " --backup") option backs up the previous version of it to the current filename suffixed with a ~. Very handy in case of the dreaded Fat pfinger effect.
When you are though, Crtl-O will allow you to save your edits by hitting Enter. Closing nano without saving, Ctrl-X These and other options are shown at the bottom of the terminal screen with the ^ indicating Ctrl
Notes about nano, sudoeditor, and other editors.
Some in the Ubuntu community suggest sudoedit instead of nano. I recommend nano (which is the default sudoedit editor in later distributions of Ubuntu) instead of sudoedit because the default can be overridden in non-obvious ways (unless you are an administrator). sudoedit is safer in that it automatically saves a backup copy of the edited file, but the "
If you prefer not to use the nano editor and prefer the Gnome Text Editor, instead of sudo nano -B use gksu gedit. I generally do this for large files, and


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6 Companies That Rigged The Game (And Changed the World)
Living in the age of countless corporate scandals and skyrocketing CEO salaries, it's no coincidence that we've become a cynical bunch when it comes to corporate America. We've almost come to expect companies to screw everybody over so that their top executives can spend their time buying solid cocaine statues of Gordon Gekko and betting on hooker boxing matches hosted on yachts in international waters.
However, sometimes when you see the scheming that goes on behind the scenes, you do have to kind of admire it. Not approve of it, mind you -- just appreciate the kind of balls it takes to ...
#6. Convince the World That a Common Substance Is Rare
So, why do you think diamonds are valuable?
Most people will probably tell you the same reasons: they're very strong and visually striking, but most importantly, they're rare.
"We only have enough for the first several millions of you."
There's only one problem with that: that last one isn't true. To explain why you think diamonds are scarce, let's rewind about a hundred years.
Via Wikimedia Commons
That's one diamond mine. That thing to the left is a town.
For much of human history, diamonds were valuable because they could only be found in a select few places in the world. In the 19th century, however, that actually changed as people started to find massive deposits, most notably in Africa. Those deposits were large enough that the rarity of diamonds was quickly becoming a thing of the past.
"Sir, if you continue dropping these on the ground, I'll have to give you a ticket for littering."
Faced with stockpiles that were on the verge of being significantly devalued, the owners of those deposits had three options:
A) Compete against each other and watch the value of their diamonds plummet as the law of supply and demand drove prices down;
B) Forget the diamond market and just use their land to invest in Six Flags Over Zimbabwe;
C) Band together to form an evil multinational monopoly that would inflate prices and earn them billions upon billions of dollars.
We know. Stupid morals.
Go figure, they chose the third option, forming the cartel we know as De Beers. To maintain the perception that diamonds were rare, De Beers not only significantly limited how many diamonds they mined each year, but also literally started buying up all the other diamonds and just stockpiling them (along with their own excess supply). Combined with a decades-long advertising campaign, they created a perception out of thin air that diamonds were rare and valuable, and that you had to drop thousands of dollars on one to prove you loved your spouse.
So, if all that's true, how in the hell do they get away with it? Shouldn't it be illegal?
And if so, what time does the riot start?
Actually, it totally is. The monopoly De Beers holds is so blatantly illegal by U.S. antitrust laws that they've been banned from selling in the U.S. (they're forced to sell to intermediaries on the international market). Until they pleaded guilty to price fixing charges in 2004, their executives wouldn't even set foot on American soil because they feared they'd be arrested on sight.
While there are indications that the cartel might finally be slowly losing its grip on the market, it's been a pretty damn impressive run.
#5. Fix an Auction Via Secret Code
Let's say you're on eBay, shopping for some Pokemon cards, but somehow you know all of the other bidders -- like they're people you play against all the time. Rather than get into a bidding war that would leave one of you spending $1,000 on a foil collectible Charizard, it would make more sense for all of you to get on the phone and negotiate out who needs what. If they let you win the Charizard, they can have the prism foil Squirtle. You designate who is going to "win" each auction, and everybody else submits artificially low bids to keep up the charade.
What, you thought we were kidding?
Everyone gets what they want, but you all wind up paying the seller way less than you would have under a real, competitive auction. And while it makes sense, in the business world it is illegal as shit. When large companies do this, they have to get clever, which brings us to one of the biggest auctions of all time: when the FCC decided to auction off spectrum resources to major phone companies in 1994. These bits of the spectrum have to be reserved by particular companies to keep different signals from interfering with each other, and all of this is enforced by the FCC. Prior to 1994, the FCC simply gave those rights away for free. Then, realizing that they were missing a prime opportunity to make money, they decided to start auctioning them off by region.
So, the companies all submitted their bids for the various regions, all of which were made public.
But some experts noticed an odd trend with a few of the major companies involved. Not only were these companies winning markets for much less than anticipated, but also they did so while submitting oddly specific bids. For example, instead of simply bidding $313,000 for a market, they'd bid $313,378. So why tack on $378 to the end of a bid?
"Sold, to the guys who gave us coke money."
According to analysts, it was code. Remember when we said the bids were made public? Those three digits at the end of the bid were area codes of markets that they wanted other companies to stop bidding on. In other words, the major telecoms were divvying up markets by telling each other, "We'll stop bidding on this one if you stop bidding on that one." The result? According to the aforementioned study, the companies involved "won more than 40 percent of the spectrum for sale and paid significantly less for their overall winnings."
It appears that the telecom industry had just made out like bandits, and they did it in broad daylight.
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It wasn't the first time, either.
#4. Invent a Disease, Then Cure It
When Listerine first hit the market in 1879 as a surgical antiseptic, its creators weren't entirely satisfied. While there was certainly money in the surgical antiseptic market, there wasn't the "use your profits to buy a small island in the Pacific and staff it with monkeys dressed like little maitre d's because fuck you" kind of money they were looking for. So, in an attempt to expand their business, they sought out new ways to sell their product.
But how do you rebrand a surgical antiseptic? Well, if you're Listerine, you just start making up random illnesses your product cures and hope people believe you. After all, the stuff does kill germs -- they're not exactly lying. They scoured medical textbooks, found the words "chronic halitosis" (which was at the time nothing more than an obscure medical term for a condition that didn't really exist) and decided that their product would be the be-all end-all cure to it. See, your breath doesn't just smell bad, you have a medical problem.
Hope you have health insurance, asshole.
Naturally, when you tell people that they're sick and you hold the only known cure, they're probably going to listen to your pitch. People who lived their entire lives without mouthwash suddenly felt the need to cure their newly discovered ailment, and within a few years Listerine's sales increased to around 70 times what they were before.
Via Mandydale.com
Oh, and did we mention that they're still doing it today?
Listerine tried to ride the "make up random applications for your product" train for as long as they could, marketing their product as a cure for dandruff, and later trying to market their own brand of cigarettes. None of those ideas ever really caught on, but the mouthwash business seems to be working out just fine for them.
Via Tobaccodocuments.org
It was a good try, though.


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by Melissa Brunner
I vaguely recall the quote from Pres. George H.W. Bush's inaugural address in 1989. I was in high school, but it was one of those defining calls to action which you had to be totally tuned out to avoid hearing. The first Pres. Bush had a vision of a "thousand points of light," bright spots in their communities, reaching out to help their communities.
The next year, he would begin presenting a daily "Point of Light" award, to recognize someone shining brightly through their service. Today, he joined Pres. Obama at the White House to present number 5000. Among those in the audience was winner 4851, Brian "Jude" Quinn of Topeka.
Quinn hasn't always been a Topekan, but it is here that he's chosen to shine his light and, in doing so, he'll say he's helping others shine their lights. The people whose lives he's chosen to illuminate are people who are homeless. It all started with the thought that perhaps they would need water on a hot day. It grew into the group SilverbackKS. Now, each Sunday, Quinn leads a group of volunteers every Sunday, handing out water and sandwiches and coffee and other items to people in need.
Quinn's concept is simple - you don't need to have a lot of time to make a difference. Join him for a couple hours late on Sunday mornings and see the impact you can have. His influence has spread to other SilverbackKS efforts - collecting prom dresses for teens or bras for women because, frankly, it's a need that often goes unmet.
It is so simple, but so effective. A bottle of water may not sound like much, but it makes a person who often feels forgotten feel human, feel like someone cares. That's another part of Quinn's personal focus - to shake each person's hand because that simple act gives them a measure of dignity. For those whom society often deems untouchable, that human contact is a signal their life does matter.
No, I have not personally joined Quinn's Sunday crusade, but I follow the SilverbackKS efforts each week on Twitter. I even cleaned out my closet (much to my husband's delight!) during their prom dress drive earlier this year. Their efforts are inspiring and we are blessed to have these "points of light" shining brightly in the Capital City.


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The second jail escapee suspected of abducting a South Carolina woman during a multi-state crime spree was caputured Wednesday in Indiana.
Chadrick E. Fulks was in custody after being caught sometime after 11 a.m. CST in Elkhart County, Ind., said Tom VanWormer, an FBI agent in Evansville, Ind.
It wasn't immediately clear Wednesday if authorities were any closer to finding the missing woman, Alice Donovan, VanWormer said. Authorities believe she was kidnapped Thursday from a Wal-Mart parking lot in Conway, S.C., by Fulks and another escapee, L. Branden Basham, who was arrested Sunday in Kentucky.
Fulks, 25, and Basham, 21, who escaped Nov. 4 from the Hopkins County jail in western Kentucky, also are suspected of abducting a 42-year-old Kentucky man who was able to free himself after he was left tied to a tree.
Basham was arrested Sunday after allegedly trying to hijack a car from a woman and her 15-year-old daughter at an Ashland, Ky., mall. After a foot chase during which Basham and an officer exchanged gunfire, police found him in the Ohio River.
Without elaborating, Kentucky police said Basham's arrest yielded ``a lot of leads'' in the search for Donovan. He was being held in lieu of $2 million bail on charges of attempted robbery, criminal attempt to commit murder on an officer and fleeing or eluding a police officer.
Details of Fulks' arrest were not immediately released.
Ohio troopers said they believe they spotted Fulks late Monday sleeping in a blue BMW parked in a rest area in north-central Ohio. The man sped off when the trooper ordered him out of the car and nearly ran over another officer. The pursuit was halted to make sure the officer was OK.
``Our trooper did not see anyone else in the car but we don't know if there were possible victims or abductions inside the trunk,'' Lewis said.
Donovan's relatives have said they hoped her knack for gaining trust and her friendliness would buy her safety.
``She's a good listener and cares about other people,'' her sister Gloria Lindsey said. ``I can't help but think that if the kidnappers just let her talk, gain her trust and get to know her, they would not harm her.''


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I am trying to delay various calculations. I have functions of the following form,
(defn a-fn [a b]
(let [a (if (fn? a)
#(identity a))
b (if (fn? b)
#(identity b))]
(+ (a) (b))))
this allows me to pass a-fn, a value or a function that returns the value,
(a-fn 1 2)
(defn x [] 1)
(defn y [] 2)
(a-fn x y)
(a-fn x 2)
what I do is build a list of functions (like the one above) to operate on some data, fns may use other fns to retrieve their arguments or in some cases things don't change and they are assigned values as arguments. I was wondering is there a better way to achive this kind of behavior?


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After installing Ubuntu 12.04 on a Toshiba NB510 the screen resolution is 800x600 instead of the native 1024x600. This is a netbook that contains the infamous GMA3650 (aka PowerVR SGX5450) which is poorly supported by the Linux kernel. I've looked around and tried several different solutions. Namely:
- I've tried installing a newer kernel (3.3+), since some people have reported success with it. That didn't seem to fix the resolution problem.
- I've tried installing an older version of Ubuntu (10.04), since someone suggested there's an older driver that should provide basic support for the card, but the liveCD image wouldn't boot.
- I've tried using this ppa. On first reboot, the screen resolution was correct. Subsequent reboots lead to a blank screen immediately after grub.
- I've tried passing the kernel option
video=1024x600with the above PPA, to no avail.
- I've tried installing a daily build of Quantal. The live image boots with the correct resolution. The installed system boots to a blank screen. The
video=1024x600option doesn't work here either.
- On Quantal I've blacklisted the
gma500_gfxdriver to force the use of
vesa. This causes Ubuntu to boot into a 800x600 resolution.
After this, I've tried using the following
Section "Device" Identifier "card" Driver "vesa" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "panel" Modeline "1024x600_DDC" 54.03 1024 1048 1184 1344 600 603 609 670 -hsync -vsync Option "PreferredMode" "1024x600_DDC" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen" Device "card" Monitor "panel" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x600_DDC" EndSubSection EndSection
where the modeline comes from DDC, as reported in
/var/log/Xorg.0.log. This seems to have no effect, with the resolution stuck at 800x600.
- Additionally, adding
nomodesetto the kernel command line does not help with either the resolution problem or the blank-screen problem.
Ideally, since I don't think I can trust the
gma500_gfx driver or that from Meego (the one in Sarvatt's PPA), I would like to use the
vesa driver (probably reverting to 12.04), and specify the resolution in a
xorg.conf file, but I can't seem to get this to work. Any ideas?
BTW, this is a problem I'm helping a friend with, I don't have direct access to the machine.


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Phone: 503-823-7300
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
1900 SW 4th Ave, Portland, OR 97201
Phone: 503-823-7300
Email: email@example.com
1900 SW 4th Ave, Portland, OR 97201
Fees for Bureau of Development Services are updated periodically and adopted by the Portland City Council. Fee related services include Permits related for new and altered buildings and their properties, land use reviews, certificates and registrations, inspections and other compliance services, and fees collected for other City Bureaus.
Includes fees for residential, commercial, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, site development, signs & awning permits, home occupation permits and enforcement penalties.
SDCs are one time fees assessed for new development and property user changes.
In 2007, Oregon State Legislature passed a law (SB1036) that will help Oregon school districts pay for a portion of the cost of new or expanded school facilities
The Online Fee Estimator attempts to capture the typical permit fees required to obtain a commercial or residential building permit.


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Most applications use blue as their central color, particularly business applications (e.g. Windows uses blue in most of it's chrome). I am being pushed to use purple throughout our current application (because that is the color of the business logo) but I think it looks more professional in shades of blue, so I need to argue my case (more eloquently than saying 'purple sucks'). Is the preference for blue perhaps a cultural thing or physiological thing (i.e. less taxing on the rods/cones in the eye)? Why is blue preferred over purple?
See http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/pages/trust-and-the-theory-behind-color.aspx:
"Blue, often associated with stability, symbolizes trust, wisdom and confidence. Blue has been shown to produce a calming effect and is often used to promote products and services related to cleanliness. More accepted by males than females, it is a preferred color for corporate America."
From http://www.pallasweb.com/color.html: "•Purple: creativity, mystery, (reddish purple) royalty, mysticism, rarity. Purple is associated with death in Catholic cultures, as mentioned above. •Blue: loyalty, security, conservatism, tranquility, coldness, sadness. Light blues create a feeling of openness, clean air and freshness, while dark blues can convey tradition, trust and solidity."
It all depends what you want to convey with your site!
Blue is the color of communication.
Blue is also a color that isn't effected by color blindness, or at least not as often as red-green.


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I wanted to record a linux session so I could use it as documentation for a "how to install" guide. I found something on the internet that suggested that the script command would be good for this, and so I started it and ran through my installation.
Of course, I didn't read closely enough to realize that the script command actually records keystrokes, so when I go to create my documentation it's full of lines that look like this:
$ make test[K[K[K[Kinstall[1@s[1@u[1@d[1@o[1@
I know that I can use script replay to play the script back, but what I really want to do is run something like scriptreplay but pipe the list of commands that would get executed to a file (I don't want to actually run them).
Is this possible?
I know about the history command, which I probably should have used instead, but I don't have access to the session's history anymore.


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Will there be an update any time soon for a fix on the command line shortcuts? Some work, others do not.
WISH LIST ADD: A way to edit the shortcuts for user preferences.
i.e. instead of the "li" for line, the ability to change to "s" for line... etc...
I like to try to keep my shortcuts on the left side of the keyboard.
I would also like to commend you on an excellent product.


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8 Dec 2011 2:33 AM #1
Unanswered: send JSON to List Without Store
I have a search form, the script send me a Json String formated of the results of the store. I would like to display this results in a list.
Is it possible to send this Json string to the list without pass by a store??
Thanks by advance
9 Dec 2011 7:02 AM #2
Sorry that's not possibile.
Store object is a required config of Ext.DataViews / Ext.List components.Sencha Inc
Andrea Cammarata, Solutions Engineer
Owner at SIMACS
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TUX components bundle for Sencha Touch 2.x.x
11 Dec 2011 10:41 AM #3
okey, thanks for the answer. Then, i must to pass the json string in a file, and read the file with the store??? this is the only one way i found for the moment, but the problem is if there is some users on the app ... the file will be erase each time and create some bugs ...
Is there another solution ?


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14 Mar 2012 5:58 AM #1
table to model
wouldnt it be nice to have a feature in st 2 (designer) , where its possible to import an table from mysql to a Model or something like that?
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This would only be able to work in Designer and moved to their discussion forum for discussion there. It would be nice for new people I guess.Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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Definitely already in discussions we are having for nice features post GA. Great idea!Aaron Conran


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5 Insane Ways Fear of Masturbation Shaped the Modern World
The Middle Ages had the Black Death, 1918 had the influenza epidemic. But the scourge sweeping the land at the end of the 19th century? Masturbation.
We're not exaggerating. According to the medical minds of the time, "No single vice causes so much mental and physical debility ... It impairs the intellect, weakens the memory, debases the mind, ruins the nervous system, exhausts the vital power and destroys body, mind and soul." They thought masturbation could result in insanity, impotence, epilepsy and "puny offspring."
Fortunately for sufferers, doctors back then had almost as many cures as there were symptoms ... cures that helped shape the world you live in. Like ...
#5. Circumcision
The process of taking a male baby and cutting off the skin around the head of the penis is common in the U.S. now (about 75 percent of American males are circumcised), but that wasn't always the case. So why did it become standard? Partly to keep American boys from touching their wieners.
It's fairly recent, too. As recently as the 1860s, circumcision was still primarily thought of as a "Jewish rite," something that for non-Jews would be done as a last resort in response to infections around the foreskin and other medical problems. But in the late 1800s and early 1900s, America wound up in a frenzy over the problem of masturbation that sounds suspiciously similar to the fears about recreational drugs a half century later -- masturbation was spoken of as a new, addictive fad among our children that doctors said could cause everything from psychosis to epilepsy.
While some might say hallucinating Megan Fox and getting the shakes can only be a positive.
And then, somehow, they decided that circumcision would prevent masturbation (because no Jewish man had ever been caught masturbating up to that point, we guess?). The benefits were claimed to be twofold:
First, it supposedly reduced the secretions that would get inflamed around the foreskin and thus get young boys in the habit of rubbing themselves. Seriously, books at the time treat genital itching as a gateway drug to masturbation -- a 1914 public school sex ed manual says keeping kids from scratching their junk is the only way to keep them out of the insane asylum, where all masturbators end up.
Masturbators and early 21st century rappers.
Second, many doctors thought that removing the foreskin made masturbation much more difficult (which, as about half of our readers know, it totally doesn't). By the way, that 1895 medical journal suggests that another way to prevent boys from masturbating is to sever the fucking nerves to the penis, so there just wouldn't be any feeling there at all.
On the plus side, you'd make a damn good living in bar bets.
Again, it makes perfect sense if you are under the impression that masturbation is a drug 10 times more dangerous than heroin. It's a telling sign of how villainous masturbation was that "Jewish penis surgery" sounded like a sensible alternative, particularly since the 1860s weren't exactly an enlightened time in Anglo-Jewish relations (it was around then that Union general and soon-to-be president Ulysses S. Grant signed the order expelling all Jews from some Southern states). And yet, by 1895 this "Jewish rite" had become the physician's "closest friend and ally" in the battle against masturbation.
Other suggestions: Setting the fingers on fire and spinning the balls around like a dreidel.
Anti-masturbation crusader John Harvey Kellogg then came along and upped the ante by insisting that circumcision should be performed with no anesthesia. Why? So the kid would feel the pain and remember it the next time he was tempted to "self-abuse":
"The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases. The soreness which continues for several weeks interrupts the practice, and if it had not previously become too firmly fixed, it may be forgotten and not resumed."
Actually, we reckon associating the penis with pain would lead to a different conclusion entirely.
Oh, and the follow-up to the procedure isn't creepy at all, saying the patient ...
"... should be so carefully surrounded by vigilance that he cannot possibly transgress without detection. If he is only partially watched, he soon learns to elude observation, and thus the effect is only to make him cunning in his vice."
And yes, this is Kellogg of "Kellogg's cereal" fame. Which brings us to ...
#4. Corn Flakes, Grape-Nuts and Graham Crackers
Kellogg, as you can tell, was really into keeping kids from masturbating. An entire segment of the food industry would be born as a result of this crusade.
At some point, masturbation experts decided that a major culprit in provoking the urge was diet. Certain foods were "excitants" known to fire the blood. Of course in the late 1800s "excitants" included such exotic fare as cloves, vinegar, pickles, candy, eggs and pork. Thankfully, to protect children from the evils of peppermint, anti-masturbation dietitians invented the opposite of tasty food, namely cold breakfast cereal. Grape-Nuts, and later Corn Flakes, were specially designed to be non-stimulating alternatives to "food."
"Shhhh ... Let Daddy Grape-Nuts take care of those sexual urges."
So when you would see ads for cereals like Grape-Nuts back then (invented by CW Post, a competitor of Kellogg from the same era), you would see innuendos about how it won't "heat the blood" the way other foods do. The ads also boasted that it was "predigested," because if you're trying to remain cool and unexcited, clearly you should model your diet after a baby bird. Mr. Kellogg, meanwhile, believed eating his "corn flakes" would do the trick. If he was smart, he'd have advertised his cereal as the only way to prevent forceful circumcision, without anesthesia, followed by a 24-hour masturbation watch. That's some pretty strong damned motivation right there.
Also corn flakes make terrible lubrication.
Another inventor of "food to make you stop jerking off" was Reverend Sylvester Graham, of Graham cracker fame. His cold breakfast option to suppress sexual urges was originally called Honey Biscuits (which ironically would be a great porn name). It was specifically recommended as an important part of the diet for those recovering from masturbation for the same reason as the cereals: a bland taste and ease of digestion designed to provide nutrition without any hint of stimulation.
The crackers in 1916, before they started to get a whole bunch of unfortunate product placement.
Graham crackers were also sold as the perfect food to help children gain weight and thus have the strength necessary to resist temptation (and this was even before kids started eating them with chocolate and marshmallows).
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"Our research suggests that fat kids don't get laid. Gentlemen, I have an idea ..."
And given that chocolate was thought to be an aphrodisiac, this made s'mores an existential battle for a Boy Scout's soul. But more on the Boy Scouts later.
#3. Your Daily Shower
Bathing is one of those things that seems to go in and out of fashion totally at random. For instance the Romans were big on bathing, but early Christians like Saint Benedict thought it should be avoided ("baths shall seldom be permitted"), partly because they thought Roman-style bathhouses tended to encourage spontaneous orgies. The anti-bathing trend was continued in early America, based on the fact that the nudity involved could not lead to anything good (including "French moral corruption and the sexual license suggested by nudity").
Which is ridiculous, as everyone knows French people don't bathe.
But the tide turned in favor of baths by the end of the 19th century. Yep, the same time period we keep returning to, the very climax of the War on Masturbation. It's not a coincidence.
It was the fear of masturbation that drove doctors and preachers alike to recommend daily baths, particularly for children. The theory was similar to the one behind circumcision -- if you didn't keep the genitals clean, they would itch, and soon little Billy would be scratching a little too much. Guess who weighed in on the subject? Why, it's John Harvey Kellogg again. In Plain Facts for Old and Young:
"A daily bath is indispensable to health under almost all circumstances; for patients of this class [masturbators] it is especially necessary ... Sun baths, electric baths, spray, plunge and other forms of bath, are of greatest value to those suffering from the effects of indiscretions."
We just find the judging eyes of Mr. Quackers enough to stop us dead.
But he certainly wasn't the only one. Sylvanus Stall's What a Young Man Ought to Know (1904) says:
"But we must here make some helpful suggestions to those who seek to avoid this form of sexual weakness ... First, cleanliness of heart, of thought, imagination and of purpose must be reinforced also by cleanliness of body. Every man, woman and child should bathe at least once or twice a week. In addition to the ordinary weekly bath, there should also be added the daily morning sponge or hand-bath."
Make sure you get thoroughly lathered up for your "hand-bath."
The 1909 YMCA manual From Youth into Manhood added:
"Here are a few rules that will help the young man who wishes to overcome the habit just described [masturbation] ... Arise three-quarters of an hour before breakfast every morning, take a cold sponge or shower bath."
Meanwhile, the Boy Scout manual Scouting for Boys mentions a cold shower or bath as a good masturbation cure. Bathing wasn't just in again, it was now being thrown around as a preventative medical treatment that one avoided at his own masturbatory risk.
They would have suggested cleansing the brain, too,
if they could find a way to keep the bleach from pouring out of your ears.
Wait, why were the YMCA and Boy Scouts writing about masturbation? Well ...


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Other that invalidating an access token doesn't remove the app from the apps tab (why not?) whats the difference between these two methods?
I'm going to lay some ground work about authentication and access tokens before answering, because I think you have some misconceptions.
When a user authenticates an application they have given permission for it to access their data in certain ways (via
Significantly, just because an application doesn't have any valid access tokens (for instance, they all could have expired) that does not mean the application is not authorized to access a user's data. Practically, this means that when the application next puts the user through a OAuth flow they will not be prompted to Accept/Reject the app; a new access token will just be given to them.
This is why invalidating a single access token doesn't remove the application from the apps tab, the application is still authorized. Additionally, an application can have multiple valid
To draw parallel's with another OAuth 2.0 implementation; Facebook's App Settings page behaves similarly. The Stack Exchange app used for login doesn't request perpetual access nor does it refresh access tokens, yet the app stays in the list long after all created access tokens must have expired.
So the distinction between these methods is:
Some use cases for /auth-tokens/{tokens}/invalidate:
The use case of /apps/{tokens}/de-authenticate is primarily allowing applications to implement uninstallation as part of the application. Without this method, developers would have to instruct users on how to reach the app tab and manually remove their apps. That'd be both bad UX, and rather brittle as any tweaks we made to the app tab would risk invalidating those instructions.


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what are the steps to such thing, i want to write an episode to beavis and butthead and send it to MTV ,i don't live in the USA,i don't know if that a problem , please provide me with all the details that can help.
While I don't work in the TV industry, as I understand it, most shows have their own stable of writers and generally don't accept unsolicited manuscripts. (Some of the Star Trek shows did, but I gathered that was unusual.)
At the very least, if you do want to write for a show which does accept outside manuscripts (and I don't know of any), you would need to get an agent to submit it for you. Even a show which does take manuscripts from out-of-house writers is not going to take one without representation.
ETA References. The upshot is "it's extremely probable that you need an agent, but there's an outside chance you can get by without one."
How do I submit my scripts to TV Shows?
Writer's Guild of America: Companies with episodic television shows and once-per-week serials must hire freelance writers each season for each series, depending on their network order, but it explicitly says you must have spec scripts for an agent to submit. A lot of good instruction at this link.
What's the Process for Submitting a TV Script?
About.com: "You must secure an agent to be considered a professional writer."
Two references for companies which will apparently take unsolicited scripts without an agent, in the UK.


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Mikhailovsky Don Q Broadcast
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Posted 17 July 2012 - 03:21 AM
Wow! The listing says 7.30 pm (not the norm for European countries, which use the 24-hour clock). It suggests they are making a play specifically for U.S. audiences with that listing. On their "playbill" schedule, it says 19.30, so this seems to be the real time in St. Petersburg. What does that 7.30 mean for the U.S. time zones? I'm guessing it will be Wednesday morning with a 10-12 hour time change, but does anybody know?
Mikhailovsky will have live internet broadcast of Don Quixote w. Osipova and Vasiliev on July 25th: http://mikhailovsky.ru/en/live/
Posted 17 July 2012 - 07:56 AM
Posted 17 July 2012 - 08:12 AM
Posted 17 July 2012 - 04:58 PM
Wow—Livestream of Osipova & Vasiliev in Mikhailovsky's Don Q at http://www.mikhailovsky.ru/en/live/ on July 25 1130EST!! (Tx
@GWDanceWriter @AliceLagnado)
Except that the U.S. is on daylight time this month, and I don't know if St. Petersburg is. I'm thinking I should log in early, just to be safe!
Posted 17 July 2012 - 08:10 PM
The live broadcast of DonQ will happen at 11:30AM, Eastern USA time, if the starting time in StPete is 7:30PM.
Posted 18 July 2012 - 02:06 PM
It's an 8-hr difference with the US East Coast...11 hrs with West Coast. For work situations, I have to Skype around my 8-9AM to catch Russian colleagues before they leave their offices. For personal situations, I normally have to stop Skyping with Russian friends around my 4PM...their midnight.
The live broadcast of DonQ will happen at 11:30AM, Eastern USA time, if the starting time in StPete is 7:30PM.
Someone brought up the daylight savings time change, and I know that Germany had a different changing time than the U.S. Natalia, has Russia already changed over to daylight savings?
Posted 19 July 2012 - 03:15 AM
Posted 19 July 2012 - 04:01 AM
A couple of years ago, the Russian Government made the decision to no longer implement the one-hr switches of time in the fall and spring due to scientific studies on adverse health effects (just one hour's difference apparently has detrimental health effects, when people keep doing it every 6 months)...so there is, for example, a 9-hr time difference between Eastern USA and Moscow during the fall/winter period.
They are so smart to do away with it! I think we should also. Falling back is no problem. Springing forward is the big nightmare! Everyone is totally exhausted springing forward, b/c you are essentially waking up and working an hour earlier. It makes total sense that it has a detrimental health effect. Everyone is totally exhausted! Why do we even do it anymore?
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Posted 25 July 2012 - 06:56 PM
What a lovely production the Mikhailovsky has (sets), although the inn scene comes before the gypsy/puppet show/windmill scene. The dream scene has a very pretty tropical paradise backdrop.
The chairs in the orchestra look like loose chairs. Has anyone been to the Mikhailovsky? Are those loose chairs that can be moved around? That's what they look like!
I thought Osipova seemed tame for her during her entrance, but she got better and better and was simply lovely during Don Quixote's dream.
It is a joy to see both Osipova and Vasiliev together, but I have seen Vasiliev dance Basilio with tiny little extra things thrown in like lifting Kitri and going into arabesque and also cambres that are inhuman. So he seemed a bit tamer in this version. His dancing looked smoother too, so maybe he is taking less risks now that he's a star, but I don't mean to say there weren't exciting things that he did today. There were!
By the way, was that the cutest donkey ever or what????
Posted 25 July 2012 - 09:41 PM
Bubelnikov kept the pace going. And going.
The toreador, an excellent short-haired blond man, reminded me of Jude Law.
Sancho Panza was great.
Irina Kosheleva as the Dryad queen was elegant, as was Osipova in the ballet blanc.
Vasiliev needs Pilates.
Posted 25 July 2012 - 09:47 PM
Vasiliev needs Pilates.
Posted 26 July 2012 - 12:58 AM
Vasiliev needs Pilates.
I second that.
Posted 26 July 2012 - 01:09 AM
heavens what a brisk tempo!
palm trees?????
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I am currently doing a research project with a professor and 3 other students in an area that is usually seen as a "recreational" math topic; that of change-ringing and its relation to group theory. The papers regarding change-ringing that I have managed to find on JSTOR are generally of an expository nature, and since we do have one or two somewhat original results (we were trying to see what subgroups of Sn can be enumerated using transformations allowed under the restrictions of change-ringing), I think we might have something at least worth trying to submit to a small journal.
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One of the things I often have occasion to write about at my personal blog is the curious punditry of Ed Glaeser. Glaeser is a very good economist who has done work on urban growth and land-use, upon which I rely very heavily. But when he writes for laypeople, he frequently ends up saying things that are peculiar, or simply wrong.
Let me give you an example. At Economix today, Glaeser writes that the Superbowl was an upset, kind of, because the city of Pittsburgh has spent the last half-century falling apart while Phoenix was one of the past decade's fastest growing metropolitan areas. And he's basically right about those two trends. But he omits some important details about the story and says some other strange stuff to boot. He writes:
There is no variable that predicts urban population growth in the 20th century better than January temperature. The figure below illustrates the connection between metropolitan area population growth from 1980 to 2000 and the January temperature. While 19th-century cities formed in places where companies had a productive edge, generally because of access to water ways or coal mines, 20th-century cities formed in pleasant places where people wanted to live.
The transport cost story for manufacturing cities is indisputably true, and the "sunshine is pleasant" story sounds plausible. But then I scoot over to a list of Glaeser's recent academic work and find a paper from April of 2007 titled, "The Rise of the Sunbelt, and I read this:
We infer that new construction in warm regions represents a growth in supply, rather than demand, from the fact that prices are generally falling relative to the rest of the country. The relatively slow pace of housing price growth in the Sunbelt, relative to the rest of the country and relative to income growth, also implies that there has been no increase in the willingness to pay for sun-related amenities. As such, it seems that the growth of the Sunbelt has little to do with the sun.
Which, you know, is the opposite of what he says in the blog post.
Or consider this bit:
The fact that Phoenix has experienced a 42 percent housing price drop since its June 2006 peak is a sign of the area's strength, not weakness. The high housing prices were always unsustainable, because of Phoenix's capacity to build. Unrestricted supply meant the price boom was always a mirage. The decline in prices reflect the ability of Phoenix's great growth machine to create inexpensive housing.
This passage, at least, is consistent with his research — Phoenix, like other Sunbelt cities, has grown largely because of its willingness to build massive amounts of new housing. And he's right that the high prices in Phoenix were unsustainable. Phoenix basically caught the bubble from Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Price increases didn't reflect inadequate supply relative to demand.
But this is more troubling for Phoenix than Glaeser lets on. Because supply was built based on phantom demand, the metropolitan area has an enormous inventory overhang. This has led to ghost streets and neighborhoods which will have difficulty recovering, and millions of dollars worth of infrastructure that's unsupported by residential taxpayers. Worse still, the metropolitan economy of Phoenix relied extraordinarily heavily on home construction. Construction came to employ about one in ten workers in the area during the long housing boom. Given the massive housing overhang, it's unlikely that most of those jobs will come back, even after the national economy recovers. It's not surprising, then, that there are signs of population decline in the Phoenix area. I believe the city will ultimately recover, but there is little in this tale that reflects strength, and little worth emulating.
Meanwhile, Pittsburgh isn't doing all that badly. The New York Times opened a recent piece on the city's transition from steel to knowledge economy with this:
Unemployment is 5.5 percent, far below the national average. While housing prices sank nearly everywhere in the last year, they rose here. Wages are also up. Foreclosures are comparatively uncommon.
Pittsburgh has focused heavily on using local universities to catalyse growth outside the old industries — the collapse of which did nearly kill the city. Population is still falling in the city, but the fundamentals are far stronger than they were a decade ago, and the lack of a substantial housing boom has enhanced Pittsburgh's economic position relative to many peer cities.
In the end, Glaeser's post seems oddly out of sync with other things he's said and with actual conditions. It's like part of his brain shuts off when he starts writing something for a non-academic audience.


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So – it's that time of year again isn't it? I checked my calendar the other day, and realised it's 6 weeks until Feis Ile. 6 weeks. I've got no idea who's stealing all the time, but as whoever it is takes with one hand, they surely give with the other – we're only 7 weeks away from the release of this year's Ardbeg Day special edition.
This year's offering is called 'Auriverdes' – a portmanteau of the latin 'Aurum' (Gold) and Portuguese 'Verdes' (Green) – Gold for the colour of the whisky, and Green for the iconic green* bottle in which Ardbeg is presented.
Why Portuguese, I hear you ask? Well apparently there's some sort of kickball tourney on later this year in Brazil? Not really my sort of thing, but I'm sure Jake will use it as an excuse to bore the crap out of you / keep you entertained (delete per your preference).
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What would be importance of cover in topological space?
And how is the concept of cover being used in other areas, more specifically set theory?
What would be importance of cover in topological space?
And how is the concept of cover being used in other areas, more specifically set theory?
It would take a whole book really to explain the importance of covers, and especially of open covers, in topology. For starters, compactness is a topological property of central importance, and although this fact wasn't immediately apparent in the early years of topology, it is best defined in terms of open covers of spaces. Metric spaces are clearly important, and not just in topology proper; one of the less obvious reasons for their importance is the fundamental fact that they are paracompact: this property, which is also defined in terms of open covers, is the reason for some of their nicer properties. Study of metrization theory, i.e., of when a space is metrizable, has led naturally to the study of a large variety of so-called covering properties, properties defined in terms of covers of various sorts.
In purely set-theoretic terms a cover of a set $X$ is simply a family $\mathscr{C}\subseteq\wp(X)$ such that $X=\bigcup\mathscr{C}$. Covers aren't generally interesting or useful unless they have additional properties, however. One might, for instance, require that the members of a cover be pairwise disjoint and non-empty, in which case one has a very familiar object: a partition of a set $X$.
If $X$ is partially ordered, one might be interested in covering it with chains (linearly ordered subsets); the Dilworth decomposition theorem says that a partially ordered set of finite width $w$ can be covered by $w$ chains, which can actually be chosen to be pairwise disjoint. There is some interest in theoretical computer science in algorithms for carrying out partitions into as few chains as possible when the partially ordered set is presented one element at a time (together with its relationships, if any to previously presented elements), and the elements are irrevocably assigned to chains as they are presented. In general the Dilworth limit cannot be achieved, and the on-line partitioning problem for partially ordered sets is to establish the best achievable value.
I would expect other applications of covers to be similarly specific to the types of structures in which they're used.
When we thinks of characterizations of compact set in $R^{n} $ ,we may have many equivalent charizations: such as
When it comes think to compact topological space, or compact subset. we may need have the essential charization of compact sets, so we choose to use open cover to characterize compact set.
I think the conception of 'totally bounded' and 'finite $ \epsilon$ net', also can been seen as cover used in functional analysis.
Now I will give you nontrival applications of conver


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Einstein predicted that the gravitational force can act on light. This was verified in one solar eclipse that light from a star near to the sun's disc bent due to Sun's gravity as predicted. Since Sun's corona is very hot, there should be hot gases filled beyond the corona through thousands of miles forming a convex-lens. Can it be refraction through convex lens that causes bending of light from the star rather than Sun's gravity?
Although the corona's temperature is very high, its density is extremely small, in the order of ~10^-11 kg/m^3. Therefore coronal refraction would be negligeable.
Michael Luciuk's answer is right, but there's an even stronger reason for rejecting this hypothesis: refraction in the corona would be wavelength-dependent, but the gravitational bending due to the Sun has been measured over a wide range of wavelengths (at least from visible to radio) and has been found to be independent of wavelength.
Clifford Will's review of tests of general relativity is a good source for details on this. This particular test is in Section 3.4.1, but the whole thing is worth reading if you want to think seriously about this subject.


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For every product in a category, there exists an operation $\langle\cdot, \cdot\rangle$ that turns morphisms $f : C \to A$ and $g : C \to B$ into morphisms $\langle f, g\rangle : C \to A \times B$. How are this operation and its results usually called? Calling $\langle f, g\rangle$ the product of $f$ and $g$ does not make sense to me, since I would expect $f \times g$ to be the product of the two morphisms.
Furthermore there is the generalisation of binary products in the form of arbitrary products $\prod_{i \in I} A_i$ for families $\{A_i\}_{i \in I}$ of objects. These products have, of course, variants of the $\langle\cdot, \cdot\rangle$-operator. What is the usual notation for these variants? So far, I wrote $\langle\{f_i\}_{i \in I}\rangle : C \to \prod_{i \in I} A_i$ for families of morphisms $f_i : C \to A_i$. Is this standard?


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The Expo offers "one-stop shopping" for students looking to learn more about Geneseo's welcoming and diverse student run organizations. Average attendance surpasses 1,200 people and over 120 student groups promote their organizations and recruit potential members. This event will feature live performances by student organizations, giveaways, food, a balloon artist and lots of fun.


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The 6 Most Baffling Science Experiments Ever Funded
We tend to think of scientists as mature, somber, finely tuned thought machines to be regarded with awe and respect. But scientists are only human, and some humans are just plain crazy. Which is why, on occasion, those serious old men in their fine white coats up and throw sense straight out the window, and we wind up with experiments such as ...
#6. Coked-Up Rats and Jazz
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Researchers at Albany Medical College placed a group of rats in an experimental sound room and proceeded to play one of Miles Davis' more famous songs, "Four" -- presumably because, like most people in college, they were incredibly high and it seemed like a funny thing to do at the time. The song played continuously on a loop for 90 minutes, after which the scientists switched from jazz to classical, treating the rodents to Beethoven's "Fur Elise."
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"We tried playing Drake's 'Successful,' but too many rats committed suicide."
When the researchers turned the music off, they discovered that the rats much preferred silence over any music, but if forced to choose, would go with "Fur" over "Four." And that probably would have been the end of it -- congratulations to all, we've scientifically proven that rats aren't very good music critics -- but then, in keeping with our "all scientists are just bored stoners in white coats" theory, the researchers brought in some cocaine.
For the rats.
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The rats were injected with cocaine for seven consecutive days, after which they suddenly couldn't get enough Miles Davis. So there you go. Rats, pretentious Brooklyn kids, and that guy driving a Porsche to Whole Foods: They all agree that cocaine and jazz are just the best.
#5. Chickens Don't Like Ugly People
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Dr. Stefano Ghirlanda at the Zoology Institution of Stockholm University set out to disprove the mate-quality hypothesis, which states that physical attraction to others is inherited due to genes, rather than learned.
Mmm, that sounds nice and sciency, doesn't it? We're sure that's how Ghirlanda describes his work to swooning coeds, but here's the slightly less impressive reality: Ghirlanda accomplished this studious feat by gathering horny chickens and showing them photographs of people to see which ones they pecked.
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Nothing says "do me" like piercing your partner's skin.
Ghirlanda took 35 pictures of females and 35 pictures of males and mashed them together to create digitally altered average male and female faces. After cocks pecked the girl (as is their wont) and hens went after the guy, researchers then created seven different faces by morphing the average female and male ratios and showed them to the chickens again.
Elsewhere, a group of college students were asked to rate those same faces on a scale of 0 to 10, and get this: The preferences of the college students matched the chickens' a whopping 98 percent of the time!
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"You can make a deal breakers list all you want, your turn-ons are still the same as an animal that can live with no head."
So there you go: Definitive proof that there is absolutely no difference between a college student and a horny chicken. Thanks for putting that age-old quandary to bed, Science!
#4. See-Through Animals
In what was probably the first phase of animal breeding experimentation that will eventually end with some sort of giant monster running amok in Tokyo, researchers from the Japanese universities of Mie and Nagoya spent two years developing, among other things, this Hellraiser goldfish.
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"The box. You opened it, we came."
Scientists carefully plucked out a certain string of mutant hatchery goldfish and bred them together to create the above goldfish with completely transparent skin. The fish are perfectly healthy and can live up to 20 years, or until you solve the golden puzzle box and send them back to their fiendish netherworld.
But we're not stopping there! Why, Science hasn't even BEGUN to piss in the eye of God! The Japanese have also bred a clear frog ...
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"Hey, this means you won't have to kill us and cut open our corpses in biology class anymore! Right? Guys?"
... which was actually an accident. They'd initially set out to create glowing frogs by attaching fluorescent protein to certain stretches of their DNA. But when the adult glowing frogs mated, they produced transparent offspring. The scientists were astounded to realize that they had essentially just produced a new species by genetically altering the previous generation -- which we're pretty sure was the plot of Prometheus, come to think of it.


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2004 hurricane victim finally returns home
|Linda Lipofsky and her grandson, David, look over the kitchen of her home as Ed Green, from left, Tim Parsons and Victoria O'Banion of Rebuilding Together look on. Lipofsky spent eight years dealing with contractors trying to rebuild her home that was destroyed in a 2004 hurricane in South Orange County, Florida. A national non-profit organization helped the retired teacher finally get her home rebuilt. (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel/MCT)
Late October marked her return to the three-bedroom home in south Orange County, Fla., where she had planned to spend the rest of her life - before hurricanes Charley and Jeanne destroyed the roof. It took eight years of displacement and contractor mishaps before she found a team of volunteers, sponsors and nonprofits to rebuild it for her.
"I always wanted to get back in it," said the 66-year-old grandmother, who had paid off the home's mortgage long ago. She added with a laugh: "I'm old and poor."
Few Central Florida residents were immune from Charley's 90 mph wrath on Aug. 13, 2004. The strongest hurricane to enter Southwest Florida since Hurricane Donna in 1960, Charley slanted northeastward across the state, leaving 1.5 million Central Floridians without electricity for days. It was blamed for billions of dollars in insured losses.
Standing recently in the like-new kitchen that she had waited 3,000 days to reclaim, Lipofsky recounted the beginning of her odyssey.
"I was alone in the house, and it was being bombarded," she said of Charley as it raked the Meadow Woods community where she lived. "Shingles were coming off. They were all over every place, and I saw one part of the ceiling about to fall in."
In the days that followed, she had a tarp draped over the remains of her roof, but the plastic sheet didn't last long: Three weeks later, Hurricane Frances hit, and three weeks after that, Hurricane Jeanne blew through. The tarp blew off during Jeanne, and torrential rains seeped inside, ruining the home's walls, electrical wiring and floors.
From there, Lipofsky's story stands as a cautionary tale for homeowners left to pick up the remains from a disaster.
Under the supervision of a contractor, unskilled workers never completed any of the work. She balked when a contractor was preparing to install shingles that had been recalled, and she said he then stretched out the job. One company took money for materials but then disappeared to seek work in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit there in 2005. Her insurance company, which reimbursed her $84,000 for materials, labor and temporary housing, went out of business.
About a year after the disaster, workers had done little, and her insurance stopped the reimbursements for temporary housing, so Lipofsky moved back into the shell of a house.
It had concrete floors and one electrical outlet, which was in her bedroom. To bathe, she said, she would fill a hot pot with water, plug it into the outlet, heat the water and pour it into the bathtub. She would repeat the ritual nine times until the tub had some standing water.
Early each morning, she was one of the first to work at Harcourt Inc.; in the evening, she was one of the last to leave. And on weekends, she spent a lot of time visiting her daughter in downtown Orlando.
The former schoolteacher also tried to pursue the absentee contractors. She sued one and filed complaints with the state but got no results. She wrote to everyone from members of Congress to Oprah Winfrey. Then, in 2007, she was laid off from the publishing company.
By 2009, she had enough of her patched-up existence and moved in with her daughter - but her daughter forbade her from talking about the house.
"She said, 'If you're going to be in my house, you're not going to constantly drag things down by constantly talking about the (Meadow Woods) house," Lipofsky said. "And she was right."
Lipofsky, who had worked hard to pay off the mortgage years before, could not rent the house or sell it.
Laid-off and displaced, she returned to the house on Carolina Woods Lane once or twice a week to feed two cats - the schedule recommended by the vet, she said.
Sometimes, she walked through Orlando's IKEA home-furnishing store looking at affordable, easy-to-install products that could make her house habitable again. And she watched makeover shows on HGTV with her daughter.
It was on HGTV that her daughter saw a promotion for a program that reclaimed houses ruined in disasters. The two began emailing the group and soon connected with Rebuilding Together.
Volunteers from that nonprofit and from the Orlando office of CBRE Group, a commercial-real-estate brokerage, started working on the house in August. Grip-Rite, a construction-products dealer, donated equipment and about $50,000.
"We are happy to help Ms. Lipofsky get back on her feet by contributing to the rebuild and providing her with a safe home," said Ken Fishbein, chief executive of PrimeSource Building Products Inc., distributor of Grip-Rite products.
Members of those organizations and hired crews worked to complete the repairs and renovations. Tim Parsons, associate director of Rebuilding Together, said Lipofsky has asked for little.
"I remember Linda said to me when I first met her: 'Just give me my kitchen so I can live here,'" he said.
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In Mini Six, the rules for multiple actions are brief:
Characters may attempt to do more than one thing on a turn by withholding one die from every action they attempt for each action beyond the first. For instance, if a character tries to shoot twice, he will subtract one die from each attempt.
Similarly, the rules for impairment as a result of being wounded are only printed in the wound table:
Stunned: -1D for all remaining actions this round and next round.
Wounded: -1D to all actions until healed.
I don't know if damage rolls are affected by this penalty, but I can see fluff arguments both ways. If you're using a melee weapon, you're not going to hit as hard when you're about to pull the weapon and go for another attack. However, if you're shooting somebody with a gun, it makes sense for it to do full damage, unless damage rolls are factoring in how well you hit as well as how powerful the weapon is.
My question is this: under RAW, do these penalties apply to damage rolls as well as to-hit rolls, or not? If there's no definite answer in the Mini Six PDF, I'm happy to accept an answer citing another D6 System game.


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Heavy Rotation: 5 Songs Public Radio Can't Stop Playing : NPR - 5 free MP3s - November 2012 for $0
NPR November 2012 - 5 Free MP3's
Just right-click the download link after the description of each artits and song and select Save Link As.
Artists and songs are:
Rayna Gellert, 'Nothing'
Marcus Miller, 'February'
Esme Patterson, 'My Young Man'
Foxygen, 'Shuggie'
Mary Bridget Davies, 'Wanna Feel Somethin'
There are links to previous month's selections at the bottom of the page.
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Don't forget to check the links to previous available downloads, too - LOTS more music for free!
@098raynman: Great advice! I keep forgetting NPR does this and I've missed a few months...


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BREAKING: North Korea Test Launches Missiles
One landed in the Sea of Japan, according to an AP report. "Japanese government officials were trying to determine whether it was a long-range ballistic missile that had been readied for launch recently."
UPDATE: "North Korea launched a long-range Taepodong-2 missile early Wednesday in an apparently unsuccessful test that failed in flight, a senior State Department official said. North Korea also tested at least two smaller missiles, U.S. sources told CNN."
A Pentagon official, contradicting the CNN report, tells the AP the long-range missile was not fired. "North Korea test-launched two missiles Wednesday that landed in the Sea of Japan, but a Pentagon official said they were Scud missiles and not the longer-range variety that has been the focus of international concern." The AP now reports the Taepodong-2 was fired.
UPDATE III: The New York Times says a long rangle missile was fired. "North Korea apparently test-fired several missiles in the early hours of Wednesday, July 5 (Tuesday afternoon Eastern time), including the Taepodong-2, the long-range missile at the heart of diplomatic tensions with the United States and its allies, according to reports by Reuters, The Associated Press, CNN and other agencies."
UPDATE IV: CNN now reports there were five total launches, including the long-range Taepodong-2, which failed after 42 seconds.


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diff can produce a side by side difference listing of two files. The files are listed in two columns with a gutter between them. The gutter contains one of the following markers:
Normally, an output line is incomplete if and only if the lines that it contains are incomplete. See Incomplete Lines. However, when an output line represents two differing lines, one might be incomplete while the other is not. In this case, the output line is complete, but its the gutter is marked '\' if the first line is incomplete, '/' if the second line is.
Side by side format is sometimes easiest to read, but it has limitations. It generates much wider output than usual, and truncates lines that are too long to fit. Also, it relies on lining up output more heavily than usual, so its output looks particularly bad if you use varying width fonts, nonstandard tab stops, or nonprinting characters.
You can use the sdiff command to interactively merge side by side differences. See Interactive Merging, for more information on merging files.


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Multnomah County Food for All!
Photo shared under a Creative Commons license by cafemama James McWilliams, food movement skeptic and author of the new book, Just Food: Where Locavores Get it Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly, recently took his argument to the New York Times, where he […]Read More →
Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town
"Here at Slow Food we have delighted in watching Douglas Gayeton's growing body of work documenting the slow lives of farmers and ordinary people. These photographs are rich and undeniably authentic, and could only have been made by someone with a deep sensitivity and understanding […]Read More →
This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, we hope that you'll join us in the audience for the Portland premiere of Ingredients, a new film about our current food system, and how we can get back to its healthier, tastier roots. It's a very Portland story that […]Read More →
Food, Art, and Words
Slow Food Portland continues its artistic exploration of food with WORD, a special exhibit/collaboration with the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center and the upcoming Wordstock literary convention. Wordstock is the largest gathering of writers and readers in the Pacific Northwest and this year the festival opens […]Read More →


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I have quite a messy desk at work, and that messiness state is reflect on my desk (or kitchen counter or some other work space) at home. Not matter what I do, it returns to this state of messiness in a few days.
What can I do to keep my work space tidy and clean?