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Now maybe players will start moving without the ballMike Dunleavy (broken thumb) has been cleared to play. Not expected to play 2nite vs Boston though due to lack of practice time
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder... especially on PD.
Wonder what happens with the rotations and playing time. Brandon is shooting well, PG needs the minutes for continued development, imo. Maybe Danny gets some time a PF? It'll be interesting to see what happens.
What I would do is move PG to the second unit, I wanted him to stay there anyway. However, I'd make him a key offensive generator with the second unit, if not the primary guy. Bench Brandon. Thats completely just my opinion, I could probably see a different argument on it, though.
If O'Brien were still the coach, he would bench Paul George completely, start Dunleavy and bring Rush off the bench. Have no idea what Vogel will do, but I expect he'll play Mike some regular minutes (depending on how his conditioning is)
If they are planning on playing him at all, they should start tonight IMO. Practice first would be ideal, but I don't think it's so important to purposefully withhold a productive player from the game entirely.
He should play tonight IMO. He won't, obviously, but I don't like it.
Yeah the most overrated player on PD is coming back ..................
No he's not a savior, but what he brings is one of the things they are sorely missing.
I just hope Vogel doesn't go with an 11 man rotation.
The 'Dunleavy is a net loss' posts are hilarious in a they're-not-humorous sort of way.
"I had to take her down like Chris Brown."
-Lance Stephenson
Mike Dunleavy is not walking through that doo...
Oh wait, actually, he is.
He's still not the savior at SG, though.
Offense looks stagnant/pathetic. Dun could be a shot in the arm. You still lose the game, likely, but maybe you get Dun some court time in preparation for Detroit and Milwaukee. Milwaukee almost seems like a must win, I mean really a must win, not like when people would post that in January.
Or reference anything I ever said.
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While I am not a Dun fan, we do seem to play better with Dun on the floor. Hopefully he can come in and give us a spark. A much needed spark.
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I dont think its a coincidence at all that the ball movement has become non existent. Bash Dun all you want ( I dont want to be a hypocrite here cause I have beat Dun up to)
but he is a very very gifted offensive player, and while his defense is below average , his team defense is not
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Dunleavy is perfect for our second unit. My four wing rotation would include Granger, Rush, George, and Dunleavy. Dunleavy needs to be on the second unit for his scoring. We hide his defense more there as well.
This might be a hell of an excuse to play Dunleavy at SF again. He is better suited there anyway and if we can use him at SF, it would limit his minutes and bring him back a little slower. I want George and Rush playing the 2. I don't care who starts.
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Giselle's "Initiation" scenea technical question.
Posted 16 April 2010 - 09:13 PM
1-Is the Cuban practice of raising on pointe with the working leg in attitude to finish the last three-(and sometimes four)-pirouettes done in other companies...?
2-Is it common to see the supporting leg flat during the turns-(as in the Cuban version)-instead of doing it in relevé...?
3-(This is probably more difficult to answer, but still let's try...) Does anybody remembers how were these steps done in the pre-Makarova times....?
Thank you in advance...!
Posted 17 April 2010 - 10:06 AM
2- That's the standard original choreography.
3- Sure, I did my first Giselle in 1964. Makarova didn't work that much change into the part, at least none that have stayed.
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Posted 17 April 2010 - 07:13 PM
My question rose after reading a comment from a Youtube poster who seems to have followed Alonso's career very close since the 50's, according to all that he usually recounts. In one "Initiation" clip he wrote:
[size=3]"Since the late 50's Alicia has kept this version of Giselle's graveyard exit, where she executes the last three pirouettes in attitude rising on pointe. Alonso-who for many years was a leading exponent of this role-maintained this technical difficulty during her performances, even when vision problems made much more difficult for her to maintain the shaft during the rotations. But if the technique is said to keep staring at a distant point and head back to that same point while turning in order to keep the balance, how is it possible that Alonso having no vision in her last 20-year career kept those turns on pointe? I read an interview years ago with Erik Bruhn, who said that he was surprised to see Alonso try to pirouette from fourth position with eyes closed, maintaining control of her body, and that when asked how he could do that, she had responded that she had found that the distant spot would not work with her specific limitations, so she had develope this form of exercise to keep the speed of the head, and that the point had to be found within one's body, instead of a physical object on the outside. It is true that with the passing of the years, those attitude/turns on pointe of the "Initiation" have been refined in the CNB, having been ballerinas to do them with excelled virtuosity..."[/size]
Then, I started watching all the clips that I could find to compare, and even from the oldest ones I watched of this scene-(Makarova, Mezentseva, Bessmertnova, Fracci)-to the very recent ones -(like Cojocaru or Zakharova)- they all just finish the turns by lowering the working leg and spinning some more before the diagonal, but with both legs on the floor...(sometimes even in demi-pointe). Also, some of them seem not to be totally flat on their supporting leg while turning-(which I suspect gives them more speed, like the clip with Osipova).
That piece of information on how it is notated in Stepanov is priceless...after that there's really no more to add. Thanks!
It is funny, but on my way from work tonight I was thinking on how silly that I forgot to ask Miss Serrano a couple of questions that I had elaborated about old pieces of choreography when she was recently here to receive a lifetime achievement prize during the last Miami Ballet Festival. I knew that she started dancing all those roles in Ballet Theatre right after Alonso left the company for Cuba in 1960, so she might have remembered some details. Well, I just got her autograph on my playbill and forgot to ask her anything...
Also, it is interesting to note that Dolin-(and Markova sometimes)- coached Alonso during her lifetime, even for the 1980 performance with Vasiliev...
Here's another example: Miss Barbara Garcia doing the attitude turns on pointe...
vs. Makarova spinning her final three with both legs...
to Mezentseva just omiting the whole thing just to go straight to the diagonal of jumps...
Posted 18 April 2010 - 05:58 AM
As for multiple pirouettes on pointe in attitude in a Romantic ballet, I think that falls into the category of "Just because you can do it doesn't mean you must."
Posted 18 April 2010 - 06:37 AM
Posted 18 April 2010 - 09:35 AM
But again...this falls, I guess, on Macaulay's recent "bizarre" clasification of the company's dancing and takes on choreography...probably not for eveyone.
Posted 18 April 2010 - 03:19 PM
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Posted 18 April 2010 - 06:13 PM
Ah, but is it truly necessary for a dancer to be off the ground to appear incorporeal? I think to the extent that she can make the spin look like milkweed in an eddy of wind, she's probably better off on the flat-footed, fondu level.
Oh, of course Carbro...if you look at my original post, I actually questioned the use of the slightly releve position used by some dancers during the grand pirouettes, instead of the full flat one done by the Cubans. The incorporeus detail came from me explaining how do I justify the use of the attitude turns on pointe after the grand pirouettes.
About the bravura...weeell, a little dose here and there has always been a part of Giselle...starting with S's solo and Act I to the very grand pirouettes that we're discussing now, right...?
As Mel and Hans have indicated, bravura is not the point here.
Posted 19 April 2010 - 07:53 PM
Don't forget Lorna Frijoo doing the attitude turns on point..this clip shows it a little closer to the action!
Posted 19 April 2010 - 09:17 PM
Divine Lorna, iczerman. No, of course I didn't forget her-(haven't been able even to fall under the spell of a ballerina ever again...Jeanette Delgado from MCB very close, but not there yet). I was just saving that clip for a future thread I want to open for the one and only "Queen of Accents", but hey...glad that you found her anyways...
Don't forget Lorna Frijoo doing the attitude turns on point..this clip shows it a little closer to the action!
And here's her sister Lorena during the same sequence.
Posted 26 May 2010 - 07:53 PM
Oh...and the sequence was filmed 62 years ago, BTW...so talk about a modernism..!
Does anybody want to guess where does the sequence come from...? (It is quite a famous source, BTW )
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I have just finished a master's degree in Mathematics and want to learn everything possible about algebraic number fields and especially applications to the generalized Pell equation (my thesis topic), $x^2-Dy^2=k$, where $D$ is square free and $k \in \mathbb{Z}$. I have a solid foundation in Modern Algebra and Elementary number theory as well as Analysis. Does anyone have any suggestions? I am currently reading Harvey Cohn's 'Advanced Number Theory' with slow but marked progress. Thanks.
I know of very few more endearing books on the subject than Ireland and Rosen's A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory.
Though Mariano's comment above is no doubt true and the most complete answer you'll get, there are a couple of texts that stand apart in my mind from the slew of textbooks with the generic title "Algebraic Number Theory" that might tempt you. The first leaves off a lot of algebraic number theory, but what it does, it does incredibly clearly (and it's cheap!). It's "Number Theory I: Fermat's Dream", a translation of a Japanese text by Kazuya Kato. The second is Cox's "Primes of the form $x^2+ny^2$, which in terms of getting to some of the most amazing and deepest parts of algebraic number theory with as few prerequisites as possible, has got to be the best choice. For something a little more encyclopedic after you're done with those (if it's possible to be "done" with Cox's book), my personal favorite more comprehensive reference is Neukirch's Algebraic Number Theory.
Marcus's Number Fields is a good intro book, but its not in Latex, so it looks ugly. Also doesn't do any local (p-adic) theory, so you should pair it with Gouvea's excellent intro p-adic book and you have great first course is algebraic number theory.
Many people have recommended Neukirch's book. I think a good complement to it is Janusz's Algebraic Number Fields. They cover roughly the same material. Neukirch's presentation is probably the slickest possible; Janusz's is the most hands on. I love them both now, but I found Janusz understandable at a point when Neukirch was still completely impenetrable.
Neither of these is particularly strong on the Pell equation, though.
It might be at too basic/introductory a level for your purposes, but as an undergraduate I really liked Stewart and Tall's Algebraic Number Theory (2nd edition?)
I would recommend you take a look at William Stein's free online algebraic number theory textbook. It is especially useful if you want to learn how to compute with number fields, but it is still extremely readable even if you skip the details of the computational examples.
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Look at: Map of Number Theory
The book recommended there (Manin/Panchishkin's "Introduction to Modern Number Theory") does seem amazingly comprehensive, and very readable.
I could be wrong, but I think Borevich and Shafarevich cover material related to Pell's equation. If not, then it is still an excellent book on algebraic number theory as is Serre's "A Course in Arithmetic". However Serre does not discuss Pell's equation.
(I also found Cohn difficult to read =)
In particular, in view of the focus of your studies, I suggest the following additional book; where additional is meant that I would not suggest it as the only book (see below for explanation).
There is a fairly recent book (in two volumes) by Henri Cohen entitled "Number Theory" (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Volumes 239 and 240, Springer). [To avoid any risk of confusion: these are not the two GTM-books by the same author on computational number theory.]
It contains material related to Diophantine equations and the tools used to study them, in particular, but not only, those from Algebraic Number Theory. Yet, this is not really an introduction to Algebraic Number Theory; while the book contains a chapter Basic Algebraic Number Theory, covering the 'standard results', it does not contain all proofs and the author explictly refers to other books (including several of those already mentioned).
However, I could imagine that a rich exposition of how the theory you are learning can be applied to various Diophantine problems could be valuable.
Final note: the book is in two volumes, the second one is mainlyon analytic tools, linear forms in logarithms and modular forms applied to Diophantine equations; for the present context (or at least initially), the first volume is the relevant one.
Serge Lang's Algebraic Number Theory has a lot of general theoretical material.
See Solving the Pell Equation (reviewed here). You probably know Lenstra Jr.'s article in the AMS Notices. There's also Primes of the form $x^2 + ny^2$ by Cox.
If you want to learn class field theory (which you should at some point, after you have read an introductory book on algebraic number theory), then "Algebraic Number Theory" edited by Cassels and Fröhlich is a classic that doesn't get old. It has been recently reprinted by the LMS.
I am amazed not to see the book "Introductory Algebraic Number Theory," by Alaca & Williams, listed here. I find it to be one of the most clear math books on an advanced topic, ever.
The book Number theory II by Koch (translated by Parshin and Shafarevich) is very good, and contains some hard-to-find material. For example, they give a presentation of the absolute Galois group of a local field.
Also (I can't imagine someone else hasn't suggested this) the conference proceedings Algebraic number theory, edited by Cassels and Fröhlich, is a pretty standard text with lots of useful stuff (including Tate's thesis!)


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- 2 large strawberries, hulled, rinsed and coarsely chopped
- 1 cup of chopped, seedless watermelon
- Juice of one lime
- 1-1/2 to 2 ounces of simple syrup, or to taste
- 5 mint leaves
- 2 ounces of good rum
- Ice to fill glass
- Club soda or lemon-lime soda
- Lime curls and/or extra mint leaves, for garnish, optional
In a blender, whirl the strawberries and watermelon. Strain out pulp if desired. Add the lime juice and simple syrup. In a tall highball or collins glass, add the mint leaves and muddle with the handle of a wooden spoon, just enough to release the oils of the mint. Add 2 ounces of rum on top and fill glass with ice. Top it off with the strawberry watermelon mixture and a splash of lemon lime or club soda; stir well and garnish.
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10th World Conference on Lung Cancer
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Conference Dates: August 10-14, 2003
Conference Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Sponsoring Group: International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer
Conference Web Page URL: www.2003worldlungcancer.org
Topics Covered: Review of eepidemiology of the global lung cancer problem Update on the monecular biology of lung cancer CME by foremost lung cancer authorities Leading edge research on lung cancer management
Conference Objectives: Th conference will highlight important advances in lung cancer in the aeras of prevention, early detection, molecular biology, biothecnology and therapy.
Who Should Attend: Surgeons, oncologists, radiation therapists,pulmonologists, radiologists, pathologists
Conference Agenda: Reconize the importance of tobacco smoking inthe global lung cancer epidemic Re-evaluate the role of lung cancer screening Identify the latest improvements in lung cancer diagnosis Reconize current standards of treatment for lung cancer Identify new molecular targets for lung cancer therapy
Registration Information: Visit the conference website for registration information, in October 2003
Conference Fees: IASLC members: $630 USD. Non-members: $730 USD. RN's and developing Nations: $300 USD
Continuing Education: Yes
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Speakers at "Crude Oil: Legal Implications of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill," to be presented by the Eric R. Neisser Public Interest Program at Rutgers School of Law–Newark on Wednesday, October 6, 2010, at 4 pm, will explore the environmental and community impact of the BP disaster in the Gulf region.
Rachel Jacobson assists the Solicitor of the U.S. Department of the Interior in managing an office of 300 attorneys. She was previously director of the impact-directed environmental accounts at the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and, before that, worked at the U.S. Department of Justice where she represented the government in nationally-significant civil litigation under federal environmental statutes. Sarah Chasis of the Natural Resources Defense Council is a long-time advocate for healthy oceans. In recognition of her work, she was selected as the first Coastal Steward of the Year by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Professor Steve Gold was senior attorney in the Environmental Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department of Justice before joining the law school in 2007. During his tenure at the Department of Justice, he received numerous service awards from both the department and the Environmental Protection Agency.
The event represents the law school's annual First Monday participation in Alliance for Justice's Student Action Campaign, programming on social justice topics held around the country each year in conjunction with the opening of the new U.S. Supreme Court term. The program will begin with a screening of Crude Justice, an Alliance for Justice documentary on the topic.
Following the panel discussion, Oda Friedheim '96, staff attorney at the Law Reform Unit of the Legal Aid Society, will receive the 2010 Eric R. Neisser Public Interest Award.
|"Crude Oil: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and the Search for Justice"
|• Steve C. Gold, Associate Professor of Law and Director, Environmental Law Clinic, Rutgers School of Law–Newark, Moderator
• Rachel Jacobson, Principal Deputy Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior
• Sarah Chasis, Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., and Director of Its Ocean Initiative
Neisser Award Honoree:
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Maybe I have just grown up with too much American TV, but when I think of a fort, I think of a small log barricade to keep the "Indian's" out. These ones are huges, and keep the Indian's in.
Over the couple of weeks I have seen some amazing forts (as they are called in India), which I would be calling castles (don't get me started on the Palaces… especially my dinner in one the other night).
The one in Jaiselmier is still inhabited, 45 generations down the track, there are still 4,000 people living in the fort. The fort in Jaipur holds the largest cannon on wheels, which could shoot a cannon ball 35km (and took 2,200 elephants to pull into place in the fort)
Anyway, in lieu of anything worthwhile from a Warcraft point of view, here are a few shots of forts (I will stick with one for now).
The fort in Jodpur
Another shot of the fort from another hotel we stayed in… yes, both at the foot of the fort.
and just in case you were thinking it would be easy to scale those walls, try it from this angle.
On a final note, let me assure you that Gnomes can not wield 2 handed weapons… not that they need to, I have seem some pretty deadly contraptions here.
Anyway… get back to that FrostFiring… and I will head off to more palaces and soon a bit of backwater relaxation down Kerala way.
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In the third Necropolis mission, after I take the first Orc Stronghold, when I see the screen that says what artifacts I have won my graphics card appears to reset (both of my monitors reset) and after that the entire Heroes VI screen is invisible, so I cannot play. This happened exactly the same way again after I reloaded from a save. Can I avoid this and still defeat the Orcs?
This graphical glitch has happened before, but the other times it went away when I reloaded from the save.


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Where's the WMD editor open source project?
I'd like to know if the version of Markdown that SO uses, with the same header with blank background and the same help button in the top right corner, is available for download.
I'd like to know if the version of Markdown that SO uses, with the same header with blank background and the same help button in the top right corner, is available for download.
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Try wmd-new at Google Code or the Stack Overflow fork of WMD at GitHub.
Here's a quick demo of wmd-new (pulled from GitHub), with the styles slightly modified to look closer to those on SO. There are still a few differences (hover color on buttons, help question mark, etc), but it's really just a matter of tweaking the styles; the styles on Stack Overflow are built into their main stylesheet, and haven't all been applied to wmd-new.
In order to change the look of the buttons, or their hover states, you'll need to edit the image sprite that contains them all. That can be found in
You shouldn't have to edit any JavaScript to get it to look like Stack Overflow, I don't believe, unless you want to get the textarea resizer, which you can find as a jQuery plugin.
The StackOverflow branch of the WMD editor is hosted on github.
More info:
Stackoverflow branches of WMD are maintained on GitHub here and here. If you have trouble making a specific customization, start a new question describing what you've attempted and what isn't working and you'll get plenty of help.


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I wonder how much the fear factor has to do with shock? Once we know the monster will die, we can sit there in safe superiority and watch it happen.
This question has been dancing out in the back of my head all week. I can remember two instances where I was surprised -- not quite frightened, but not completely sure of the outcome (aside from Romeo and Juliet, where it so often looks as though the men have been given their swords an hour before showtime, and I just can't watch). Once was Nureyev in "Swan Lake" (Royal Ballet, c. 1977) in the final fight with Rothbart. For a few seconds, you really thought Nureyev would win. The moral force of his fighting made Von Rothbart seem weak and evil. I think Von R had to remind him that HE was the winner here, because the impetus of the fight changed rather suddenly, but for just a moment.....
Another time was in the Royal Dane's Giselle, with Peter Bo Bendixen as Hilarion. He's a tall man and looks like a stage villain. When he's first surrounded by the Wilis, he scoffs at them. You could hear him think, "Get real, they're only girls." When they begin to dance around him, his reaction to them makes them monsters -- they're just dancing, he's terrified, like a man caught in quick sand. You can see the moment he realizes that they are not just girls, they're malevolent and he is going to die.
In the 19th century, story telling was often done by inference. In Folk Tale, you know the earth moves not because the stage shakes, but because Ove looks at the ground in something between wonder and terror. Maybe the monsters in Firebird don't look quite as scary to us now at least partly because the other characters don't react to them?
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Monsters at the Ballet! Is Ballet ever scary?
Started by Leigh Witchel , Feb 01 2002 02:48 AM
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Posted 03 February 2002 - 11:10 AM
Posted 03 February 2002 - 01:05 PM
Stephen Jefferies as Archduke Rudolph in MacMillan's Mayerling was truly terrifying in the wedding night pas de deux with Stephanie. If the dancer playing that role had run off the stage and locked herself in her dressing room, it would have been quite understandable.
Posted 05 February 2002 - 06:58 AM
Drosselmeyer in the PNB movie version of the Nutcracker gave me a GIANT case of the willies!
We have often had small children cry during the Battlescene in Nutcracker.
We did Firebird with a bug theme and Kaschai was a spider and she was REALLY scary!
We have often had small children cry during the Battlescene in Nutcracker.
We did Firebird with a bug theme and Kaschai was a spider and she was REALLY scary!
Posted 11 February 2002 - 01:09 AM
Two creatures by Yacobson were really scary. First is Shurale in ballet with the same name. All children in the auditorium were frightened and even we, children who danced on the stage, were afraid of the dancer, specially, when this part was danced by Sapogov. Yacobson used his unique talent also in "Wonderland", where Sapogov was an evil creature without bones, so, he even can't walk himself and has to be carried by two servants.
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Posted 11 February 2002 - 08:36 PM
Andrei, in that "other" company, didn't Shamil Yagudin create the role of Shurale for their production? It would be hard to imagine anybody backstage being afraid of him! I remember him as a pretty humorous fellow.
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I've got two snmpd.conf files, one on a server that works, and one that doesn't. How can I diff the two config files while stripping out irrelevant comments and newlines?
To avoid blank lines, and lines containing nothing but spaces, in addition to identical lines that have a single difference of added leading spaces...
By this point though, I'd probably put that into a script and write something like the original suggestion that's a little more readable.
If you are somewhat comfortable with vim, I would strongly encourage you to use vimdiff:
This will open a vim session with two panes, with one file on each side. Highlights and color will indicate differences between the files, and all identical parts will be hidden (folded, but expandable).
Then, if you want to selectively merge differences from one file to the other, you can use the following commands:
(Consider the "current file" to be the one where the cursor is)
^W^W to change focus from one file's window to the other file's window
]c to advance to the next block with differences
[c to reverse search for the previous block with differences
do (*d*iff *o*btain) to bring changes from the other file to the current file
dp (*d*iff *p*ut) to send changes from the current file to the other file
Note: Both do and dp work if you are on a block or just one line under a block.
u to *u*ndo
zo to unfold/un-hide text
zc to re-fold/re-hide text
zr will unfold both files completely (use :help fold for more about folding )
:diffupdate will re-scan the files for changes
As you start moving changed text over or bringing changes in, the now-identical parts of the files will automatically fold, too.
When you are finished, you can quit and write both files with :xa!
You can also write, quit, discard changes, etc., one pane at a time just as you would normally do with vim.
You can use all the common vim commands to edit the files at will ; I've only described the most common and useful commands you're likely to use in a vimdiff session (as opposed to a generic vim one).
Beyond Compare is the ultimate tool for this!
Link: http://www.scootersoftware.com/
Available for Windows and Linux.
Jeff wrote a good overview article about the tool awhile back:
Expanding on nima's one-liner, you could do that as a shell function and drop it in your .bashrc
becomes (using -u because I like unified diffs)
If you like GUI diff viewers, meld is nice, and understands revision controlled dirs/files.
After cleaning the comments, I would advise using KDiff3, it's a pretty good diff/merge tool and you dont need vim fu to use it :)
There might be a more elegant way to do it, but pragmatically (and quickly):
If you're using a bash-like shell, you can try this:
Then invoke it like this:
You can also change
Extending Xerxes' solution, you can use more sophisticated tools than
On Ubuntu and other Debian-based systems, just
Meld is a nice GUI alternative, but its "Text filtering" feature has some issues. Instead of using text filtering, I remove comments altogether before showing the results in Meld. The drawback is losing the ability to edit the files while comparing them. Here's a simple script for using Meld:
Sometimes, several additional common lines can be stripped of by sorting files prior to the diff, so I would add to what already written the following:
this of course makes sense for files where lines' order does not effects it's content (so be aware).
This is the same as nima's one liner, but will filter out blank lines too as somebody requested.
(I'd also install colordiff if possible and use that in place of normal diff)
I use WinMerge http://winmerge.org to diff files, granted I have to pull them down to my machine, but it works for.


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I'm not sure the best way to ask this, but is it possible to reuse a custom object type defined in one app so that it aggregates on the timeline with objects of the same type from another app?
I see news articles doing this in my own timeline, such as Guardian and Yahoo news articles appearing in the same aggregate box. I'd like to do this with my main blog as well as another blog project, both of which are about puzzles. Since I have the object type defined as thegriddle:puzzle in my app, can I use that object type with a second app in order to make the items aggregate together? (i.e. "Solved Puzzles" listing puzzles solved on The Griddle and on the second blog)


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I am having trouble getting my nfs to mount on boot. I am running Lubuntu 12.04 and mounting from a NAS (Synology-if it matters). I should add that am very new to using Lubuntu or any Linux distribution.
To mount on boot I tried to add the following to
192.168.2.15:/volume1/Family /home/john/nfs-Family nfs rw,async,hard 0 0
No luck when the computer mounts, the nfs file doesn't mount.
I should add that when I use the mount command the nfs mounts just fine. This is the command I use:
sudo mount 192.168.2.150:/volume1/Family /home/john/nfs-Family
Any advice would be appreciated.


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The Lady Is a Vamp (Mass Market Paperbound)
New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands, one of paranormal romance's original superstars, delivers a scorching and delightful story of a mortal man on a mission--and the Vamp who is his only hope.
One late night leads to . . .
Kidnapped When Jeanne Louise Argeneau left work, she never thought she'd end up tied down by a good-looking mortal. More attracted than annoyed, she quickly realizes there is more to her abductor than meets the eye.
One desperate act leads to . . .
Love? Paul Jones has need of a vampire, and only Jeanne Louise will do. He just has to convince this beauty of a Vamp to help him . . . never imagining that he would fall in love. But with the immortal world's answer to law enforcement hunting them, their time together is running out . . . and Paul and Jeanne Louise will need to risk everything to spend an eternity together.
About the Author
Lynsay Sands is the nationally bestselling author of the Argeneau/Rogue Hunter vampire series, as well as numerous historicals and anthologies. She s been writing since grade school and considers herself incredibly lucky to be able to make a career out of it. Her hope is that readers can get away from their everyday stress through her stories, and if there are occasional uncontrollable fits of laughter, that s just a big bonus. Please visit her on the web at lynsaysands.net.


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I have made 3 custom pagelayouts, 2 of them just inherit the correct version of the masterpage whilst the last one uses the same masterpage, but an older version of it.
It contains the exact same divs and controls as the masterpage the other 2 pagelayouts inherit, but not the same HTML structure. I can't seem to find the source of this evil.
I tried deleting the cache, rebuild and redeploy the custom masterpage etc. Nothing has helped so far.
How come this behaviour?


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Deroy Murdock: Three Cheers for the 1 Percent!
That's the title of Deroy Murdock's presentation. Intrigued? You should be. Murdock will refute the Left's relentless, increasingly violent class-war rhetoric and explain how affluent Americans pay more than their fair share of taxes; create jobs, careers, and wealth for others, and contribute heroically to charity. Rather than demonize rich people, America must create more of them.
Join your friends in liberty at The Heartland Institute's library at One South Wacker Drive in Chicago for lunch and a talk with this provocative nationally syndicated columnist.
About the speaker:
Deroy Murdock is a contributing editor to with National Review Online, a Senior Fellow with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in Washington, D.C., and a Media Fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. Murdock is a nationally syndicated columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service. His column, "This Opinion Just In…," frequently appears in the New York Post, Washington Times, and Orange County Register, among some 400 U.S. newspapers he reaches weekly.
Murdock is a Fox News Contributor. He was a founding staff commentator on MSNBC, and has appeared on ABC's Nightline and Politically Incorrect, CNBC, CNN, C-Span, and NBC Nightly News, among other TV and radio programs.
Murdock was named the runner-up "Worst Person in the World" on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann after writing an article titled "Three Cheers for Waterboarding," in which he called waterboarding "something of which every American should be proud." For writing "Lefty, It's Cold Outside" – an op-ed he penned on Democrats, liberals, and socialists who oppose the theory of so-called "global warming" — Murdock was dubbed "Muckracker of the Day" on the February 2, 2009, edition of MSNBC's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with David Shuster.
In conjunction with the Manhattan Institute, Murdock collaborated with former New York congressman Herman Badillo on One Nation: One Standard (Sentinel, 2006). He has contributed to Standing Athwart History 24/7: One Year in the Life of National Review Online, 2007 Edition (National Review Books, 2008), Economic Strategy and National Security (Westview Press/Council on Foreign Relations, 2000), The Race Card: White Guilt, Black Resentment and the Assault on Truth and Justice (Forum, 1997), Black and Right: The Bold New Voice of Black Conservatives in America (Praeger, 1997) and The Third Generation: Young Conservatives Look to the Future (Regnery-Gateway, 1987).
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If I have a message that I need to send to another person, how do I achieve non repudiation ?
Is digitally signing the message sufficient ?
If I have a message that I need to send to another person, how do I achieve non repudiation ?
Is digitally signing the message sufficient ?
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No. Digital signatures are not sufficient for non-repudiation -- not by a long shot.
Non-repudiation is a legal concept. It means that, if there is a dispute, in a lawsuit it will be possible to hold one party to their commitments.
For example, mathematical schemes that claim to provide non-repudiation have to withstand the "jury attack". Some expert witness is going to have to be able to explain, in non-technical terms that an ordinary juror (and judge) can understand, why the mathematics proves anything at all. Meanwhile, an expert witness for the other side is going to be arguing the opposite. If the scheme uses fancy mathematics, it is likely to be incomprehensible to the jurors and the judge, and hence not likely to be of much use in a lawsuit. This is a kind of attack that most mathematical schemes in the literature are unlikely to be able to stand up to.
I'm afraid much of the cryptographic research community has screwed this up. Researchers have written many technical papers that claim to address "the non-repudiation problem", trying to solve it with mathematics -- but what they've failed to accept is that there is a tremendous gap between the crypto-mathematics and the pragmatics and legal issues. And unfortunately, the hardest part of the problem to solve is not the mathematics, but rather the pragmatics and legal issues. Unfortunately, this seems to be a long-standing blind spot within the cryptographic research community.
Here are some of the challenges to achieving true non-repudiation that a court or lawyer would be satisfied with:
If you'd like to learn more, there has been a great deal published on these gaps between what's called "non-repudiation" in the cryptographic literature vs what lawyers would accept as adequate. Here are some example publications where you can read more:
Non-repudiation is about having a proof that the announced author really wrote the message -- and such the proof can be verified even without the consent of the said author: the author must not be able to repudiate his message.
This calls for asymmetric cryptography (since verification can be done without the author consent, it cannot use whatever secret keys the author may own), namely digital signatures, which are the tool meant for that.
However, with a digital signature, you have only done half of the work, and that's the easy half. The digital signature does not tell you: "the author is Bob". It tells: "the author is whoever controls the private key associated with this public key". You still must have a way to reliably (in the sense of: in a way acceptable as a proof) link Bob's public key with Bob's identity. This is where certificates come into action. A certificate is a piece of data which contains an identity ("Bob") and a public key, and is signed by a "Certification Authority": the CA, when it signs the certificate, says: "this is the public key owned by that guy". Since the CA uses itself a digital signature, it also falls under the scope of non-repudiation: the certificate "proves" that the public key is Bob's only insofar as the CA is honest and used reliable procedures (e.g. meeting Bob face-to-face with ID card verification) to establish the link between the key and Bob. If the CA fails, the wrong certificate can be used to sue the CA. On a practical point of view, the main interest of the CA is that the certificate can be verified automatically, and knowing a single CA public key is sufficient to validate the millions of certificates that the CA produced. Web browsers do that, when they connect to a HTTPS site: they validate the server's certificate against the "root CA" which are hardcoded in the browser code (or in the operating system). A few dozens of root CA public keys are sufficient to verify the whole Internet.
Bottom-line is that while digital signatures are the proper cryptographic tool to use, most of the solution is non-cryptographic; it is mostly a matter of procedures and an awful lot of lawyer-compatible papers.
It also helps if there's some assurance that you're the only one who has access to the private key used to sign the message. For example, non-repudiation is harder to assert if a copy of the private key is also held by some kind of key escrow service, because you could always claim "I didn't sign the message, it must have been an evil sysadmin with access to the escrow database".
X.509 certificates have a "non-repudiation" bit in the keyusage attribute, to identify the intended use of the key. rfc5280 talks about this.
None Repudiation referes to having proof of any transaction made from the requester to the authoriser and also from the authoriser to the requester. this is an electronical proof that will have information of the person who made any transaction.
eg: a client will go to a bank and request to change a password for his/her bank account, the teller or the authoriser will assist the client but will have to login to the system by using biometrics, this is to ensure the identification of who was assisting the client incase anything goes wrong with the client's bank account then the investigation team can track down who was incharge of the client's bank account, because this is a biometric application, the authoriser cannot denie any accusations being pointed to him/her should there be any form of fraud on client's bank account.
The client would also use the biometrics application just to ensure dat he/she really did come to the bank and make that change request, at times a bank account holder would send someone over to the bank to make changes on sensetive information, the use of the none Repudiation would be used as a proof to ensure identification of who came to the bank and made change request shuold there be any form of fraud to the client's bank account details.
There will be a vault (report) on any change of sensetive data which will show all the information before it was changed and after a change request was made. This report will also show details of the client who made change request and also details of the authoriser who authorised changes made by the client. this report can be used by investigating team when any fraud has been reported on client's bank account after the change was made.


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Aviation Heritage Park hosted it's annual Hanger Party at the Bowling Green Airport tonight.
There was food music, and of course the highlight of the evening, historic planes.
They also revealed their new F111 "Aarvark."
The airplane participated in the 1986 Libyan raid and flew in numerous missions including Operation Desert Storm.
The event raises money for the non-profit to help in the park's efforts to preserve the planes and bring a piece of history to the area.
"South Central Kentucky has many aviators that have made significant contributions to the history of aviation and their stories go largely untold and what we want to do at Aviation Heritage Park is to use the artifacts that we restore to tell the story, especially to the younger generation," says Col. Arnie Franklin.
Aviation Heritage Park accommodates up to a total of seven planes.
Currently there are three air crafts.
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A bit of cheater post tonight (turns out I am tired and shagged out following a prolonged day of work and then coming home to four overactive kids. Who knew?) in that this recipe is a variation on another I recently posted. The kids were wary of the seaweed, but Vegan Mom and I totally loved it.
- 1 pkg extra firm tofu
- 4 sheets nori
- 1 1/4 cup plain soy milk
- 2 tbsp mustard
- 2 tbsp hot sauce
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1 tsp salt
- large pinch ground pepper
- 2 tbsp kelp granules
- about 1 1/2 cups cornflake crumbs
- oil for frying
1. Cut tofu into 12 slices. Line a baking sheet with a towel, then place the tofu on top. Put a towel on top of the tofu, then put another baking sheet on top of that. Put a weight on top and press the tofu for 15 mins.
2. Cut the nori sheets into 3 equal strips each. Brush one strip with water, then tightly wrap around a piece of tofu (don't worry if you don't cover all the surface area). Repeat with remaining nori and tofu and set aside.
3. Get a frying pan heating on the stove over medium to medium high heat.
4. Whisk together soy milk, mustard, hot sauce, and salt in a medium bowl. Whisk together flour, salt, and kelp in a another. Place 1/2 cup of the cornflake crumbs in yet another bowl.
5. Dip a piece of the tofu into the soy milk mixture, then dredge in the flour mixture. Set on a baking sheet. Repeat with all the tofu.
6. Add about 1/4 inch of oil to the frying pan. Re-dip 4 pieces in the soy milk mixture, then toss in the cornflake crumbs (one at a time, of course, adding more panko to the bowl if needed). Fry for a few mins per side, until golden and crispy (adjusting heat as needed. Cornflakes burn mch easier than panko crumbs, so watch the heat). Drain on paper towels or a paper bag.
7. Add fresh cornflake the bowl (another 1/2 cup or so) and repeat step 5 with another four pieces, adding more oil as needed. Repeat again with the remaining four pieces.
8. Serve with tartar sauce: vegan mayo, minced onion, and chopped sweet pickle in whatever ratio suits you.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Tofu O' the Sea
A bit of cheater post tonight (turns out I am tired and shagged out following a prolonged day of work and then coming home to four overactive kids. Who knew?) in that this recipe is a variation on another I recently posted. The kids were wary of the seaweed, but Vegan Mom and I totally loved it.
16 comments:
- wendysue said...
I just made the golden crispy tofu last night for the first time, and we loved it. Picky granddaughter called it chicken and dipped it in ketchup. We adults dipped it in a sauce made with vegan mayo, sriracha sauce, garlic & lemon juice. It was delicious, and easier than I expected. I'm now excited to try this variation - yum! Thank you for sharing your creativity & talent
- April 26, 2011 at 9:26 PM
- Jesse said...
I've always been hesitant to try mock seafood - but this recipe makes it more tempting. The picture looks great!
- April 26, 2011 at 11:06 PM
- vegan.in.brighton said...
Oh yum, that looks completely delicious! I'll be trying the recipe soon.
- April 27, 2011 at 6:20 AM
- Meri said...
What a cool concept for your blog! I am not a vegan but I eat pretty close to it most of the time, and its exciting to see vegan food made fast and family friendly, as in- won't freak people out haha!
- April 27, 2011 at 11:36 AM
- Jennifer said...
This looks amazing! I just bought tofu and I happen to have some nori waiting to be used. I don't have or have access to the kelp flakes though. Do you think more crushed up nori would work?
- April 27, 2011 at 4:36 PM
- Joey said...
Hi Vegan Dad:
Love this recipe, but I don't like to fry my foods, what temperature would you suggest to cook these at and for how long. I love breaded and I'd love to try this.
thank you
Jo :)
- April 27, 2011 at 6:03 PM
- Sam said...
I have to ask, since I'm rather terrified of fried food...could these be baked? >.> They sound amazing. I wouldn't have thought of wrapping the tofu in nori first!
- April 28, 2011 at 3:14 PM
- Sneaky Vegan said...
This looks amazing!! Perfect sub for my random fish-n-chips cravings! Just came across your blog. So nice to see a Vegan Dad out there. Bravo!
- April 29, 2011 at 9:18 AM
- VegPsychology said...
Can't wait to try this, I used to love seafood!
- April 30, 2011 at 4:59 PM
- beetfriseur said...
Amazing! SO good!
The cornflake coating is really great and both with and without nori the tofu is very delicious. Thanks for sharing!
- May 1, 2011 at 4:58 AM
- ceder said...
Dear Vegan Dad,
I would like to give your book to my wife as a present, do you send bound - and signed - copies overseas (in this case Germany)?
Kind Regards
Niels C.
- May 2, 2011 at 3:52 PM
- todd said...
This would be a fantastic finger food for kids, and the healthiest "fish sticks" ever! It was wonderful as tofu steaks, too.
- May 2, 2011 at 8:35 PM
- Rob Parsons said...
Vegan Dad I am new to this world of vegan food. The more I venture into this lifestyle the more I am enjoying it. I am wanting to host a cooking class at our local college in Welland, ON. and I am wondering if you would suggest a couple of recipes I might be able to use from your blog. I have tried a few and they have been a hit with my teenagers. My wife is the one who has been really moving forward with respect to what we are putting into our bodies. I am not completely vegan, but i have noticed my grocery shopping habits are changing and I am starting to tire of meat. So, any help with a couple of recipes and with your permission to use them for the purpose of educating others on healthy choices that taste great would be very much appreciated. Thanks Rob
- May 9, 2011 at 7:21 PM
- Phoenixville Philosophy said...
made these last night! so so yummy... thanks for another successful meal!
- May 12, 2011 at 2:47 PM
- thatdamnvegan said...
Wow that looks amazing. I can't wait to try it!
My sister and I love your blog!
- May 18, 2011 at 5:28 PM
- Andy said...
First mock seafood that I actually enjoyed-- thank you!
- June 6, 2011 at 11:49 AM


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5 Of the Most Badass Soldiers Ever (Happened to be Dogs)
#2. Sallie the Bull Terrier
Sallie the bull terrier was adopted by the captain of a Union regiment when she was just a puppy. She grew up among the soldiers as they were preparing for what came to be the bloodiest part of the Civil War. During the drills, she would run alongside the soldiers and stand at attention during the daily dress parade. Her antics gained her widespread fame -- even Lincoln himself was known to give Sallie a salute.
When fight time finally came, Sallie took part in every battle. She would run to the frontline and bark at the enemy, terrifying her foes and encouraging her own troops. She was so happy and effective at this fear-mongering that despite her near-celebrity status, taking her to the relative safety behind the lines never even crossed anyone's mind. She stood along with the rest of the battle-hardened soldiers, charging against Gatling guns and rifles like it ain't no thing.
Via Stubbydog.org
"Let me know when you pussies invent dive bombers."
The Heroism:
During one particularly nasty battle, Sallie's regiment was pushed back into a nearby town. They were eventually able to push the Confederates back, and when they finally recovered what had been their absolute frontline days earlier they found Sallie standing vigil over wounded Union soldiers and watching over the dead bodies of her fallen allies. She had been doing that for three whole days. No hunger, no thirst, and definitely no charging Confederate army had been able to make her flinch one bit.
If she'd previously been something of a symbol of Union fighting spirit, this made Sallie a bona fide living legend. She kept on fighting, shrugging off enemy soldiers and the occasional bullet, until a fateful February 1865 attack in the Petersburg lines that led to the demise of the whole first wave of the Union attack. Men of the second wave found Sallie's body and actually paused the attack to bury her while under heavy enemy fire.
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The statue was later constructed from her solid brass balls.
A few decades later, when a monument was constructed to commemorate the brave efforts of the 11th Pennsylvania regiment, the surviving soldiers insisted she be included.
Though now technically an ex-dog, Sallie was far from finished. She'd done her part in elevating her breed from mere flesh to an idea, V for Vendetta style -- a popular movement actually attempted to establish bull terriers as the symbol of America, a trend that lasted well into the world wars.
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That's right -- Sallie and her ilk were once very close to kicking the American eagle's ass as the go-to U.S. animal.
#1. Gander the Newfoundland
With his large build and goofy, friendly demeanor, the Canadian Newfoundland dog Pal was loved by the local children. They would wrestle him and have him tow their sleds, until one day Pal accidentally gave one of the kids a scratch from his paw.
Via Dogsincanada.com
"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads."
His owners feared that the authorities would take action against their beloved gentle giant, so they donated Pal to a local rifle regiment. The soldiers, who already knew Pal and recognized the potential of having a dog the size of a small car on the team, renamed him Gander, "promoted" him to sergeant and made him their official mascot.
Gander adapted to military life well enough, and the next thing he knew, the unit was sent overseas to assist in the battle for Hong Kong in 1941.
Via Dogsincanada.com
The soldiers are in the back because Gander goddamn said so.
The Heroism:
In December 1941, the Japanese found that attacking a unit under the cover of night is only a good idea when the enemy doesn't happen to have a giant black hellhound guarding their camp. Gander noticed the impending sneak attack, decided to drop the silly puppy act and switched his Hound of the Baskervilles knob up to 11. And that's when things got fucking metal.
The first wave of the attack was stopped by a gaping, furiously barking maw followed by 170 pounds of pitch-black, furry battering ram, mowing down the terrified Japanese at thigh height.
After doing away with them, Gander roared down on a second Japanese unit he spotted advancing on a group of injured Royal Rifles, this time adding biting to his already impressive "invincible night demon" repertoire. Again, the enemy fled, because who wouldn't?
When Gander sat down to guard the injured soldiers, the Japanese finally collected themselves enough to remember that they were a fighting unit, with weaponry and all that jazz. So they opened fire and chucked a grenade at the terrified group.
Gander took a calm look at the grenade, seconds away from exploding. Then, almost nonchalantly, he picked the thing up and charged right the fuck again, at the terrified Japanese troops that had just enough time to realize how badly karma was about to bite their ass about that whole "kamikaze" thing.
Via Dogsincanada.com
Gander went out in an explosive blaze of glory, later receiving a posthumous medal for his unbelievable bravery and becoming the only nonhuman soldier whose name is included in the Hong Kong memorial wall in Ottawa. And while there are many reasons as to why Japan and Canada enjoy a healthy relationship based on mutual respect, we can't help thinking that the several thousand Newfoundlands drooling about in Canada don't exactly hurt Japan's motivation to stay on friendly terms.
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Wanna read some Calvin and Hobbes comics?
In my internet shambling I came across this website. It's a Calvin and Hobbes search engine. You can search for any phrase/word and it'll search every comic and return the ones with that phrase/word with information on that comic. I've been playing with it for a bit now and thought I'd share with you guys.
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why is this even a question, the answer is always yes. thanks for the link gid
@raremonkey: ha! I was just going to say the same thing :)
@mkdr: lol..me too.
Major UPVOTE shall ensue.
Perhaps I should rephrase that? "You want to read Calvin and Hobbes comics!"
Why, yes. Yes I do!
you are my new hero!!! thanks!!
posted before & will post again. (click on newer entries at the bottom, 4 strips total)
@wilcononomous: That's awesome.
Nice find. It's bookmarked now. :)
I have a Calvin and Hobbes strip, cut out of the newspaper years ago, on my refrigerator.
This new strip is a nice continuation. I hope it becomes a daily strip again!
Damn you ...shakes fist... Now I bought a box set of all the Calvin and Hobbes strips at Costco.
I never would have if I didn't read this the other day.
Over the past year and a half I have purchased every original C&H book on Amazon. They were what my childhood was based on.


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text: Alright everyone, I'm back today with some more fun. To kick things off I will start by teaching you "how to draw chibi Palkia", step by step. This chibi Pokemon character is going to be a bit more complex than some of the other chibi style Pokemon figures I've submitted in the past. One of the reasons why chibi Palkia is going to be challenging is because this species is full of detail and definition. As you guys know Palkia is a water/dragon type, and you can see that this chibi version looks so much like the original. Anyways, there's not a whole lot I can say about this Pokemon except have fun learning "how to draw chibi Palkia", I'm sure you will enjoy yourself if you're a fan of the card game or series. Adios amigos, and peace!


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Anna M. Griswold, 94, of Ionia passed away on Dec. 30, 2012 in Lowell. She was born June 6, 1918 in St. Louis, Mich., the daughter of George and Julia Lukas. Anna married Eugene Griswold Sept. 16, 1944.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Eugene F. Griswold, and brothers George and Frank Lukas.
During the war, Anna Worked at AC Spark Plug, later at the Brown Corporation of Ionia. After retiring in 1980 from Brown's, she worked for the former Jones Jewelry store in Ionia until 2004.
Anna loved working in her flower gardens, going dancing with her many friends, and of course talking about and riding motorcycles. She and husband Eugene were members of the Ionia Motorcycle Club in the early 1940s. In 2006 Anna was honored to be the Grand Marshall of the Harley owners gathering parade in Ionia.
She is survived by her son Gary (Ann) of Caledonia, Mich.; sister Helen Malynek; brother Edward Lukas of Owosso, Mich.; and many nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 4 at Lake Funeral Home of Ionia.
You may make memorial contributions in Anna's name to Ionia Commission on Aging. Online condolences may be made at www.lakefuneralhomes.com.
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First let's state a well-known characterization of gamma function.
If f is a positive function on positive real numbers such that: (1).f(x+1)=xf(x); (2).f(1)=1; (3).logf is convex, then f(x) is gamma function.
Now here I'm wondering how many ways can we characterize gamma function like the above? Especially if we consider it as a function on complex plane with poles.
ps: I'm not asking different ways to express gamma function explicitly, but the abstraction of it.


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Koons' Heart Sculpture Is Unveiled
Crystal Bridges Museum Is Home to the 3,032-Pound Work
A heavy heart isn't always a bad thing.
At least, not at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Artin Bentonville, Ark., where a one-and-a-half ton metallic heart by the artist Jeff Koons went on display this week. The piece, which the museum acquired directly from the artist, took up permanent residence in a spot dangling over the restaurant.
A crew from a metalworking company on the outskirts of Leipzig, Germany, with experience fabricating and installing work by Koons traveled to Bentonville to put the heart in place. "They've done this a zillion times before—they've got it down to a science," said Elizabeth Weinman, the museum's head registrar.
Museum president Don Bacigalupi said the institution had been talking about obtaining a Koons piece for at least five years, since before Crystal Bridges' 2011 opening, and acquired the heart late last year.
Koons made the hearts in an edition of five, one of which sold for $23.6 million at auction in 2007. Last fall, Koons became the most expensive living artist at auction with the $58.4 million sale of a balloon dog.
The gold-colored heart, made of highly polished stainless steel, is now the heaviest indoor sculpture at the museum—weighing in at 3,032 pounds. It arrived via cargo flight from Germany in a crate too large to fit beyond the loading dock. Instead it had to be unboxed outdoors and transferred to its spot using a specially designed trolley shipped by the Koons team in New York. Workers used a forklift to suspend the piece on a custom mount.
The mirrored heart goes up in time for the museum's Valentine's Day dinner, allowing guests to gaze upon themselves drinking Riesling and eating scallops with micro-cilantro and wonton chips. On other days, Mr. Bacigalupi expects the sculpture to reflect a different kind of activity: "This will become truly the destination for marriage proposals and anniversaries and who knows what," he said. "It does create the perfect location."
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- Jena Economic Resea...
- Volume 6
- Effects of entrepre...
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- Mon Jun 4 2012
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- keyword(s)
academic entrepreneurship
difference-in-differences approach
entrepreneurial intentions
entrepreneurship education
- abstract
This study analyzes the impact of entrepreneurship education at universities on the intentions of students to become entrepreneurs or self-employed in the short-term (immediately after graduation) and in the long-term (five years after graduation). A difference-in-differences approach is applied that relates changes in entrepreneurial intentions to changes in the attendance of entrepreneurship classes in the same period. To account for a potential bias due to self-selection into entrepreneurship classes, only individuals having no prior entrepreneurial intentions are analyzed. Our results indicate a stimulating effect of entrepreneurship education on students' intentions to become entrepreneurs or self-employed in the long-term but a discouraging effect on their intentions in the short-term. These results support the conjecture that entrepreneurship education provides more realistic perspectives on what it takes to be an entrepreneur, resulting in 'sorting'. Overall, the results indicate that entrepreneurship education may improve the quality of labor market matches, the allocation of resources and talent, and increase social welfare. Not distinguishing between short- and long-term intentions may lead to misleading conclusions regarding the economic and social impact of entrepreneurship education.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- JEL-Classification for JER
- A20 - General ; I20 - General ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; L26 - Entrepreneurship ; M13 - New Firms; Startups ; H43 - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate


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Just wanted to be the First to Post.
Remember...Terrorist are attacking Civilians; Not the Government. Protect Yourself!
I'll second that
You'll never hear a person on their death bed wishing that they hadn't had so much fun living their life.
OK, here goes:
Author, New! The M1911 Complete Owner's Guide
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I like the wood furniture on your gun. Tell me more about it.
How far NE are you in Ohio?
King's Island is just a stones throw away for me.
Do you recognize any of this stuff Walt? heh heh
Nice pics boys. Here is my M4
Officer...The devil made me do it.....thats my story and I'm sticking to it.


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Here we have two magnets and they are sticking to each other. What I've learned that could possibly explain it is one magnet holds positive charge and the other one holds negative. But when the eletrons travel from the negative one to the positive one in order to be equilirium (just like static electricity won't stay long between a ballon and the wall), will they become both natural and are not sticky anymore? Maybe one day?
First, magnets are not magnetic because "they hold an electric charge". The total electric charge of any permanent magnet is zero. This is true even for its separate ends. Electricity and magnetism are related but independent forces. Magnetism may be obtained by electric charges running in the loop (imagine a coil, i.e. a spring with electric current in it), but the total charge may be and usually is zero.
Second, and it is related, magnets don't lose magnetism just because they're in contact. There's nothing flowing in between them. But yes, there are rules how to store magnets so that they're more likely to preserve the full strength of their magnetic field. A usual rule is to keep several magnets in such a way that they repel each other. But if their magnetism is weakened, it's not because something is flowing from one magnet to another. There's nothing to flow.
Third, the word "natural" should have been "neutral", right? The magnets have been neutral from the beginning.
Assuming you're thinking of the sort of magnets used in everyday life, these are magnetic due to ferromagnetism.
Iron atoms have an inherent magnetic field. This field is permanent and can't be changed except by destroying the iron atom. In an unmagnetised chunk of iron you get small regions of the iron, called domains, where the iron atoms line up to give a net magnetic field. However in the chunk of metal as a whole the direction of the domains is random so the magnetic fields cancel out and there is no net magnetism. When we magnetise iron all we're doing is lining up some of the domains so their magnetic fields reinforce each other instead of cancelling out. We're not adding any form of charge to the chunk of iron.
Once you've magnetised your chunk of iron it will stay magnetised without needing any extra energy to maintain it. To demagnetise it to need to randomise the domains again, and there are generally two ways to do this. Firstly you can heat the iron until the thermal vibration of the atoms overcomes their tendancy to line up. This is called the Curie temperature, and above this temperature the net magnetism disappears. The other way is to take your piece of iron and start remagnetising it in the opposite direction. If you stop halfway you end up with no net magnetism. This is essentially what degaussing does.
The point of all this is that if you line up two magnets so their fields align with each other the magnets will stay magnetised, and can even increase in strength if you wait long enough (though you'd be waiting a long time). The converse it that if you line up two magnets so their fields oppose, e.g. north pole to north pole, and wait long enough their net magnetisation will decrease.
In both cases the change in net magnetism is due to thermal fluctuations within the iron, which is slow at room temperature. You can speed up the process by hammering the magnets.
Magnetism is not due to electric charges.
Practically, the magnets lose their magnetism if they stick to each other for a long time.
Theoretically, considering them as perfect magnets. No, they wont lose their magnetism.
if you suspend a magnet with another (one should be hanging just by magnetism), then I think it should loose magnetism even faster as it is using its magnetic force against gravity. and gravity is always on. but if the magnet is sticking to an iron then it would even drain faster than 2 magnets system.
and about storing a magnet, it should be kept away from highly magnetic materials. tell me if I'm wrong or right.


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Doctor Wallach discusses a recent press release from the NIH (National Institutes of Health) that states in cannot find any research to support a recommendation that people should take daily multivitamins. Although, NIH also stated they would not recommend people already taking mulitivitamins should stop taking them. Doc asserts that this is at least a step in the right direction. Because the NIH is preparing to conduct their own study and in the past had stated that supplements did no good in preventing disease.
Pearls of Wisdom:
Dr. Wallach and Doug discuss a news article regarding a victim of a recent clinical drug trial. Ryan Wilson participated in a trial of drugTGN`1412 and immediately had multiple organ failure along with 5 other participants. Wilson the most severely affected was unconscious for three weeks and will lose parts of his fingers and toes.
- Martin has two questions the first concerns himself and an impending corneal transplant. Next he asks about his mother who was recently diagnosed with diabetes.
- Mike's wife has been diagnosed with diverticulitis.
- Dale asks Dr. Wallach about non-Hodgekins lymphoma. Jeff has questions concerning RLS (restless leg syndrome).


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Hello I'm "TiBooX" from Germany, one of the admins of the flickr NodalNinja group.
we've got allmost 300 members there who have posted more than 1500 amazing panoramas or NN-setup pictures
Thanks to all of them and especially Bill and Nick who did a great job with NodalNinja.
I invite you to become a member of the group for free
Greetings from D?ºsseldorf, Germany


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Christmas may seem far from now, but Bowling Green Municipal Utilities is already collecting Christmas cards for our military overseas.
They're asking members of the community to bring in bought or hand-made Christmas cards with messages of support for our servicemen and women. They say it's a nice way to show support for those who cannot be with their families during the holidays.
"Sending cards to the soldiers serving overseas... It's just something we want to do to show them our appreciation, especially during the holiday season," said BGMU Marketing Coordinator Shelley Vance.
This is the seventh year BGMU has sent out Christmas cards to our military.
They usually send out 13-to-15 thousand cards each year, and Lowe says you can drop off your cards at BGMU's main office at 801 Center St in Bowling Green.


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I played FreeSpace 2: Colossus quite a while ago, and I remember one mission in particular. The mission involves (not surprisingly) some dogfighting. However, partway through the mission, an enormous enemy vessel shows up, and you're ordered to retreat as fast as you can.
However, if you stay behind and defeat the remaining enemy dogfighters, all becomes quiet. The large ship doesn't actually attack you, nor are more fighters released. In fact, by sitting there with my fighter's weapons firing for around half an hour, I remember that I was able to lower this enemy giant's health(?) down to the 20% range.
What happens if you take the time to lower the health of this ship to 0%? Is it even possible? You're certainly not supposed to even attempt to engage with this particular ship, at least not at this point in the game.
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WASHINGTON (November 14, 2012)—Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III, the hometown hero turned NFL star, says he hasn't forgotten his roots.
"I miss Texas, miss everyone there…miss the environment of being in Central Texas," he said in an exclusive one-on-one interview with News Ten's Julie Hayes.
In a matter of months Griffin, the Copperas Cove and Baylor standout, has become a household name and a multi-millionaire as well.
But in many ways he's the same old Robert.
"It's nice not being a broke college student anymore," he admits.
"It is a dream come true," he says, "but there is so much more to do than people realize. It's not just playing football and getting paid for it," he said.
When asked if life as an NFL superstar has changed him, Griffin answered, "I keep people around me that make sure I don't change."
And he says he hasn't forgotten where he came from.
"I hope I can do some things in Copperas Cove, he said," and when I'm retired, I want to be able to go back to the city (where) I grew up and be able to do anything I can to help it prosper."


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White House Outlines Plan To Give Illegal Immigrants Path To Citizenship
The first details of an initial proposal by the White House to tackle the nation's immigration system include an eight-year path to legal residency for illegal immigrants.
A draft of the plan, which USA Today says was leaked to the newspaper by a White House official, proposes the creation of a "Lawful Prospective Immigrant" visa for those living here illegally.
According to USA Today, those who qualify for the new visa could eventually apply for U.S. citizenship:
"The immigrants could then apply for legal permanent residence, commonly known as a green card, within eight years if they learn English and 'the history and government of the United States' and pay back taxes. That would then clear the path for them to apply for U.S. citizenship."
They would also need to pass a criminal background check and would be disqualified if they were imprisoned for at least one year, or a total of 90 days for three or more crimes.
The draft, released late Saturday, elicited a quick response from Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who called it "half-baked and seriously flawed."
In a statement, Rubio, a key GOP member of the bipartisan gang of eight senators working on immigration, said the plan, if offered up to Congress, would be "dead on arrival."
"It's a mistake for the White House to draft immigration legislation without seeking input from Republican members of Congress," Rubio said. "President Obama's leaked immigration proposal is disappointing to those of us working on a serious solution. The President's bill repeats the failures of past legislation."
Yet White House officials say they are simply planning ahead in case Congress can't get its own bill together.
"We are doing exactly what we said we would do," White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said on NBC's Meet The Press.
"We'll be prepared in the event that the bipartisan talks going on the Hill, which by the way, we're very aggressively supporting, if those do not work out then we'll have an option that we'll be ready to put out there," McDonough said when questioned about the leaked proposal.
Meanwhile, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., says he is optimistic that he and his Republican congressional colleagues will be able to have a bill ready by next month.
"The president and those of us working on immigration are working very well. Sens. [Dick] Durbin, [Robert] Menendez, [Michael] Bennet and I met with the president Wednesday, and he agreed to give us the space we need to come up with a bipartisan proposal," Schumer said Sunday on CNN's State of the Union. "We're working well together."
Schumer is also a member of the group of eight senators; other members of the group include Republicans John McCain and Jeff Flake of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Florida's Rubio. The group began working on an immigration bill earlier this year.
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I was thinking whether it is a good idea to backup of all directories starting with dot in my home folder, so that all settings can be restored if anything goes wrong. I just had an instance when I had to clear the home folder as Ubuntu was not logging in. As my home folder is huge, I don't want to backup the entire thing.
- How can I backup just the .folders.
- Will there be any permission issue when I restore.
Is this a good backup option.