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How to make a message into a polynomial on NTRU encryption? for example how we can conver 'hello world' to polynomial... i have read the converting operation on IEEE Std 1363.1- 2008, but i can't understand the process without example, can anyone show for the small example?
According to Wikipedia:
So, lets say you have a message encoded in base 2 as
Now, moving that to your string. First encode your string in base 2 (you can do this how you want), then construct your polynomial. If you have more bits than the degree of the NTRU polynomial, you'll have to split up the message into blocks. I'm sure you know about the standard warnings with using public key encryption for large messages. Unless you have a really, really good reason you shouldn't do it. Encrypt a random key with the public key cipher and encrypt the plaintext with the random key.
To encrypt the message "hello world", using the ASCII conversion table (http://www.albany.edu/~yx152122/ASCII.pdf) you get the hexadecimal representation as
Then you can input this as your message in NTRU


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WINTERSVILLE - The Indian Creek softball team took a pair from Weir, 10-0 and 12-2, Saturday at Bantam Ridge.
Paige Geanangel picked up both wins in the circle. She struck out 11 and surrendered just one hit in Game 1's five-inning win. She gave up just four hits and struck out three in the six-inning Game 2.
Paige DeMattio led the way offensively for the Redskins in the first win, singling and smacking a home run to go with three RBIs. Megan Markja added a single, double, and an RBI. Mallorie Sullivan had a pair of singles and Marissa DeFallo had a single and drove in a run.
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Harrison Central's Nick Pelegreen
Indian Creek's Paige Geanangel
Weir High's Micah DiBacco
Weir High's Mitch Viakley
Ashlyn Drizake picked up a single for the Red Riders lone hit.
In Game 2 Bre Mays had two singles, a home run, and three RBIs. Geanangel added a home run and two RBIs with Bethany Davis hitting a pair of singles and driving in a run. Cheyanne Allan and Sullivan each had a single.
Drizake, Meikka Buffo, Haley McLaughlin, and Emily Zatezalo each singled for the Red Riders.
Indian Creek (2-0) hosts Harrison Central Tuesday while Weir hosts East Liverpool Monday.
Game 1
Indian Creek 10, Weir 0
Weir 000 00 - 0 1 1
Indian Creek 300 7x - 10 7 0
WEIR: DiBacco (LP, 4K, 4BB) and Buffo. Drizake S.
INDIAN CREEK: Geanangel (WP, 11K, 1BB) and Orr. Markja S, D, RBI; DeMattio S, HR, 3RBI; Sullivan 2S, DeFallo S, RBI.
Game 2
Indian Creek 12, Weir 2
Weir 000 002 - 2 4 3
Indian Creek 111 306 - 12 9 1
WEIR: Pratt (LP, 3K, 4BB) and LeMasters. Buffo S, McLaughlin S, Drizake S, Zatezalo S.
INDIAN CREEK (2-0): Geanangel (WP, 3K, 2BB) and Orr. Mays 2S, HR, 3RBI; Geanangel HR, 2RBI; Cheyanne Allan S; Davis 2S, RBI; Sullivan S.
Bruins nipped
by Magnolia
NEW MARTINSVILLE - The Brooke softball team fell 4-3 to Magnolia Saturday.
Brette Geary had a single and a double to lead the Bruins at the plate.
Brooke hosts Big Red Monday.
Magnolia 4, Brooke 3
Brooke 000 000 3 - 3 7 1
Magnolia 103 000 x - 4 5 3
BROOKE: Kaylee Kuchinski (LP, 3K, 0BB), Kati Castellucci (6th, 1K, 0BB) and Preston. B. Geary S, D.
MAGNOLIA: Chapman (WP, 3K, 0BB) and Audrey Gibb. Chapman T, 2RBI; Gibb T, RBI.
Edison splits pair
RICHMOND - The Edison softball team split a pair Saturday at home, losing 12-2 to Wheeling Park while knocking off Beaver Local 2-0.
Molly McCoy smacked a pair of home runs in the loss to the Patriots.
Mikayla Tice threw a no-hitter the win over Beaver Local, striking out 12 and walking two. McCoy had a double and Lynsey Morrison had a pair of singles.
Edison (1-1) heads to Brooke Tuesday.
Wheeling Park 12, Edison 2
Wheeling Park 102 060 3 - 12 11 0
Edison 000 100 1 - 2 3 2
WHEELING PARK: Carrington (WP, 11K, 1BB) and A.Sidon. Tucker S, D; A.Sidon 2HR; Johnson D; HR, S; Greer HR; Karnell S, D.
EDISON: Westfall (LP, 5K, 1BB) and Stewart. Molly McCoy 2HR; Stewart S.
Edison 2, Beaver Local 0
Beaver Local 000 000 0 - 0 0 2
Edison 001 100 x - 2 5 0
BEAVER LOCAL: Kidday (LP, 6K, 0BB) and Withrow.
EDISON (1-1): Tice (WP, 12K, 2BB) and Stewart. Morrison 2S; McCoy D; Stewart S; Hunter S.
Huskies sweep
Red Riders
WEIRTON - The Harrison Central baseball team swept a pair from Weir, 11-1 and 13-8, Saturday.
The Huskies received a complete game effort on the mound from Nick Pelegreen in the Game 1 victory. Pelegreen helped his own cause at the plate with a single, home run, and three RBIs. Dustin Redish and Kalub Mitchell each drove in a pair with Redish hitting two singles and Mitchell a double.
Ryan Duke had a single and a double for the Red Riders in the first game.
Rashaen Mitchell, Rhett Kuryn, and Redish led the offensive charge in Game 2 with two RBIs each. Rashaen Mitchell had two doubles, Kuryn a single and a double, and Reddish a single.
Jeremy Swartzmiller drove in three runs for the Red Riders on a single and a double. William Larch drove in a pair on two singles.
Harrison Central (2-0) is at St. Clairville Monday while Weir hosts Bishop Donahue Wednesday.
Game 1
Harrison Central 11, Weir 1
Harrison Central 200 252 - 11 10 3
Weir 100 000 - 1 5 4
HARRISON CENTRAL: Pelegreen (WP, 3K, 3BB) and Staten. R. Mitchell S; Kuryn S, D; Pelegreen S, HR, 3RBI; Redish 2S, 2RBI; K. Mitchell D, 2RBI.
WEIR: Viakley (LP, 3K, 4BB), Knuutila (5thm 1K, 2BB), Swartzmiller (6th, 2K, 0BB) and Curtis. Duke S, D; Larch S; Viakley S.
Game 2
Harrison Central 13, Weir 8
Harrison Central 132 043 0 - 13 7 2
Weir 012 032 0 - 8 11 3
HARRISON CENTRAL: Horn (WP, 4K, 5BB), Porter (5th, 4K, 2BB), Redish (6th, 4K, 1BB) and Staten. R. Mitchell 2D, 2RBI; Porter S; Kuryn S, D, 2RBI; Rose RBI; Pelegren RBI; K. Mitchell S; Redish S, 2RBI.
WEIR: Larch (3K, 7BB), Knuutila (2nd, 5K, 6BB), Cessna (6th, 0K, 2BB), Russell (6th, 1K, 2BB) and Pulice, Beck (2), Pulice (6). Cessna S; Curtis S; Duke S; Davidson S; Knuutila RBI; Russell S, RBI; Swartzmeiller S, D, 3RBI; Viakley S, D; Larch 2S, 2RBI.
Red Knights take two
TORONTO - The Toronto baseball team allowed one run in 12 innings as it opened the season with a doubleheader sweep of Beaver Local, 9-0 and 15-1, Saturday at the Knight Baseball Complex.
Nate Stewart picked up the Game 1 win, striking out 10 and surrendering just a pair of singles over five frames.
Bill Solomon had a single and a double, Blaze Glenn had a single and two RBIs, and Austin Lucas had a pair of singles in the first game. Chez Glenn and Tyler Antinone each had a double and Tyler Owens singled.
Logan Allen earned the five-inning Game 2 win, striking out two. Blaze Glenn tripled, doubled, and drove home five runs in the second outing. Lucas had a single and two RBIs Brad Melville and Solomon each had a pair of singles while Chez Glen and Owens both singled.
Toronto (2-0) hosts Buckeye Local Tuesday.
Game 1
Toronto 9, Beaver Local 0
Beaver Local 000 000 0 - 0 2 3
Toronto 216 000 x - 9 9 0
BEAVER LOCAL: Campbell (LP, 0K, 5BB), Boehm (3, 1K, 2BB), Cornell (6, 0K, 1BB) and Cain; Fetty S; Marsden S.
TORONTO: Stewart (WP, 5, 10K, 3BB), Miller (6, 3K, 0BB) and Solomon; C. Glenn D; B. Glenn S, 2RBI; Antinone D; Lucas 2S; Solomon S, D; Owens S.
Game 2
Toronto 15, Beaver Local 1
Beaver Local 000 10 - 1 2 6
Toronto (11)01 3x - 15 10 0
BEAVER LOCAL (0-2): Muscari (LP, 0K, 0BB), Cornell (2nd, 0K, 1BB), Mick (4th, 2K, 0BB) and Marsden; Mick S; McLaughlin S.
TORONTO (2-0): Logan Allen (WP, 2K, 1BB) and Solomon; B. Glenn D, T, 5RBI; C. Glenn S; Owens S; Melville 2S; Lucas S, 2RBI; Solomon 2S.
Brooke gets swept
PARKERSBURG - The Brooke baseball team was swept 12-2 and 11-1 at Parkersburg South Saturday.
On the day Kelaen Welch had four singles, Austin Schambach had three singles, Russell Schwertfeger had a pair of singles, and Chad Harper had a double.
The Bruins host Wheeling Park Monday.
Game 1
Parkersburg South 12, Brooke 2
Brooke 011 00 - 2 9 5
South 005 34 - 12 14 4
BROOKE: Hildreth (LP, 0K, 3BB), Johnson (5th, 0K, 0BB) and Hardesty. Schwertfeger S; Schambach 2S; Hildreth S; Buchmelter S; Welch 2S.
SOUTH: Cottrille (6K, 0BB) and B. Braniff. Walters S, D; B. Braniff S, D; Jackson S, 3-run HR; Wilcox S, D; Berry 3S.
Game 2
Parkersburg South 11, Brooke 1
Brooke 100 00 - 1 7 5
South 245 0x - 11 9 0
BROOKE: Johnson (LP, 0K, 1BB), Sole (2nd, 1K, 1BB), Molnar (3rd, 0K, 1BB) and Harper, Hardesty (2). Schwertfeger S; Schambach S, Hildreth S, Welch 2S, Harper D.
SOUTH: T. Braniff (WP, 4K, 1BB), Bester (4th, 2K, 0BB) and B. Braniff. Walters 2S; B. Braniff D; Jackson 2S, D; Goodmaker S, D.
Golden Bears,
Panthers split pair
NEW CUMBERLAND - The Oak Glen and Buckeye Local baseball teams split a doubleheader Saturday at Oak Glen's Field of Dreams Complex.
The Golden Bears won 13-3 in Game 1's six-inning contest behind Bub Haddox's complete game, eight strikeout performance. Kyle Woodruff had a double and three RBIs to lead the offensive assault. Alex Shuman added a single and drove in two runs.
Jonathan Borkoski had a home run for the Panthers.
In Game 2 Buckeye Local took home an 11-6 victory. Borkoski and Austin Marshall combined on the hill in the win. Borkoski picked up the win with Marshall the final four frames.
Marshall had three singles, a double, and three RBIs at the plate. Josh Figurski had two singles and two RBIs while Brian Zeroski had a single and also drove in a pair of runs.
Trey Smith and Justin Bailey each drove in two for the Golden Bears.
Buckeye Local hosts Martins Ferry Monday while Oak Glen travels to Harrison Central Tuesday.
Game 1
Oak Glen 13, Buckeye Local 3
Buckeye Local 120 000 - 3 3 0
Oak Glen 300 109 - 13 9 0
BUCKEYE LOCAL: Hopkins (LP, 4K, 4BB), Ostijich (6th, 0K, 2BB), Panepucci (6th, 0K, 0BB) and Sokolowski. Hopkins S, RBI; Borkoski HR, RBI; Sokolowski D; Marshall RBI.
OAK GLEN: Haddox (WP, 8K, 5BB) and Smith. McLaughlin S; Steed S, RBI; Haddox S; Smith 2S, RBI; Bailey S, RBI; Shuman S, 2RBI; Porter S; Woodruff D, 3RBI.
Game 2
Buckeye Local 11, Oak Glen 6
Buckeye Local 030 620 0 - 11 11 2
Oak Glen 023 010 0 - 6 6 1
BUCKEYE LOCAL: Borkoski (WP, 2K, 4BB), Marshall (4th, 4K, 1BB) and Sokolowski. Duncan D, T, RBI; Marshall 3S, D, 3RBI; Zeroski S, 2RBI; Banal 2S; Figurski 2S, 2RBI; Sokolowski 2RBI; Hopkins RBI.
OAK GLEN (1-3): Steed (LP, 4K, 3BB), Porter (4th, 0K, 4BB); Woodruff (4th, 6K, 4BB) and Smith. Steed 2S; Haddox 2D; Smith S, 2RBI; Bailey D, 2RBI.

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11 May 2009 3:44 PM #1
DirectStore callback from save?
Because Ext.Direct writes in the background after a timeout, I am perplexed about how to do the following:
1) A user clicks a button to save a form.
2) The button click triggers store.loadData({jsonRoot: form.getValues()})
3) DirectStore automatically writes the record and receives a success code
4) The success of the write triggers a callback to close the form,
My question is: where do I pass this callback to close the window? I am trying to fully integrate my old Ext JS 2.0 app with 3.0, for learning purposes. I know I could use the automatically generated Model.save() function to save the data but I want the store to be updated at the same time.
How do I callback from the save?
13 May 2009 5:39 AM #2
In current SVN code Ext.data.Store has a 'write' event. That gets fired when a save, create or destroy action was performed. Older RCs had distinct 'save', 'create' and 'destroy' events.
E.g. this is code from one app I already Ext.Direct'ed to handle server validation errors. I'm optimistic and close the form right away. Only when a validation error occurs the form pops up again with the erroneous record.
initComponent: function() { // ... this.store = new Ext.data.GroupingStore({ // ... listeners: { write: this.onStoreWrite, writeexception: this.onStoreWriteException, load: this.onLoad, loadexception: this.onLoadException, scope: this } }); } // ... showForm: function(record){ if (!this.form) { this.createForm(); } this.formRecord = record; record.beginEdit(); this.valueRecordBinder.setRecord(record); // custom plugin that keeps form fields and record in sync this.form.show(); } // ... commitEdit: function(){ if (this.form.formpanel.getForm().isValid()) { var r = this.formRecord; this.formRecord = null; r.endEdit(); // if r is not new, this will trigger a update via the writer if (!r.store) { this.store.add(r); // this will trigger a create } this.form.hide(); } else { // some fancy validation error notification } } // ... onStoreWrite: function(store, action, result, transaction, rs){ console.log('onwrite', store, action, result, transaction, rs); if (!transaction.status) { this.cancelEdit(); this.showForm(Ext.isArray(rs) ? rs[0] : rs); // some fancy validation error notification } }Daniel Jagszent
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13 May 2009 7:35 AM #3
Yeah this is the conclusion I came to, that you would have to subscribe to Direct's create, save and destroy events.
The problem is that you have no guarantee that the next write event will be from your form. In many cases you might be able to rely on this code without a guarantee, but not always. For instance, if your form does two writes to the server -- or maybe to two different servers -- and one succeeds while another fails, how do you know which one failed?
A real-world example could be a form where the user adds the information about an author, and then enters titles for all his books. The author might be sent to one url, and books to another.
This might seem contrived but really, without these kinds of guarantees our apps just skating by on coincidence. This seems like a decidedly inferior solution compared to what we were doing before Ext.Direct: having our forms receive the response from the server directly and decide from that how to proceed.
Perhaps we need something like an Ext.DirectForm which would return a non-phantom record that is ready for insertion to a store.
13 May 2009 7:51 AM #4
I meant the create, update and destroy events of the Store (or, the write event in newer builds)
These events are only fired for this particular store. No ambiguity there with other Ext.Direct stuff. There is however an ambiguity when you create records for this store in another way than through this form. You could e.g. use a single-shot event listener (@cfg single:true) for the write event if that's the case.
function onWrite(store, action, result, transaction, rs){ store.un('writeexception', onWriteException, this); // remove the other listener that was not fired if (transaction.status) { form.hide(); } else { // error handling } } function onWriteException() { store.un('write', onWrite, this); // remove the other listener that was not fired // error handling } store.on('write', onWrite, this, { single:true } ); store.on('writeexception', onWriteException, this, { single:true } ); store.loadData({jsonRoot: form.getValues()});Daniel Jagszent
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13 May 2009 8:04 AM #5
Okay so subscribe to the DirectStore instead of Ext.Direct. I think that's better.
It still limits you to only one way of creating records, which is probably ok. Plus you still have to engineer your app in such a way that when your user clicks submit, the very next write event must result from your record create attempt.
But then you also don't get to use the cool features of a Form, like the automatic determination of success and failure based on the success property returned from the server. Also you have to manually invoke client-side validation. All this stuff was wrapped up within the Submit action which is not Direct-friendly.
Perhaps I will write a DirectForm class that can be associated with a DirectStore, if one is not already in the works.
Thanks for your response!


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Don't blame me. I voted for Romney!
- 8:18 p.m. Nov. 20, 2012
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Thank me. I voted for Obama!
- 7:00 a.m. Nov. 21, 2012
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Hobby Lobby has another possible course of action if the court rules against
them. They can make all their employees part-time and not have to violate their
beliefs to run their business because then they won't have to buy Obamacare
for them.
Actually BO is a genius with this plan (or whoever it was that drafted it). Retailers and restaurants and other low-wage employers will all have to cut ALL their employees to part time so they won't have to buy Obamacare, thereby creating more part-time job openings and reducing the apparent unemployment rate. Of course, all those people will be even poorer and MORE dependent on big brother and therefore more likely to vote for the dependency party - uh, the dem party - and BO therefor even more solidifies his party's base. So what if the people are poor just so long as the dems maintain power?
- 7:18 a.m. Nov. 21, 2012
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So it's all about keeping the poor people poor...? Brilliant!
- 8:32 a.m. Nov. 21, 2012
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r.e. NedGrimley. That's the way that Obama designed the program. Actually, in his book, The Audacity of Hope, Obama said that he would organize a committee or group of health care professionals, insurance people, and other specialists who would design a good health care program. I thought this was a good idea. But, like so many of his promises, once he was elected, this group never materialized. He lied and just turned it over to congress and we ended up with a 2600 page monstrosity. Obama bragged in the debates that he knows how to work in a bipartisan way, but Obamacare was passed without even one Republican vote! Like Benghazi, just another Obama deception to add to the long, and growing list. I am amazed that so many people can't see how non transparent he is. Or maybe they just don't care.
- 8:59 a.m. Nov. 21, 2012
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Do you think Hobby Lobby is aware that their so-called "Christian
beliefs" are not in harmony with the Bible? On multiple occasions, biblical
passages give divine approval to the termination of unborn human life.
I'm glad that my own church does not condemn contraceptive use but allows members to decide for themselves about using them.
- 9:06 a.m. Nov. 21, 2012
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Those who claim to be pro-choice - but refuse to allow anyone the choice to say
NO to participating in an abortion (or providing abortifacient drugs); are
merely faux-choice hypocrites
They personify everything they claim to despise.
- 9:13 a.m. Nov. 21, 2012
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Steve C. Warren - "On multiple occasions, biblical passages give divine
approval to the termination of unborn human life."....
Uhhhh... Not in the bible the rest of us read.
- 9:42 a.m. Nov. 21, 2012
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@Mint Julip
You admit to that? LOL!
Hobby Lobby should not be forced to provide health coverage for things they feel are immoral. What a nightmare.
- 9:54 a.m. Nov. 21, 2012
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Did he really renege on that promise? The law was endorsed by the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Mayo Clinic, and the Cleveland Clinic.
- 9:57 a.m. Nov. 21, 2012
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Ok, So I don't get how birth control is the same as an abortion. It stops the process before it ever starts. Men have nocturnal emissions if they don't have sex. Using the hobby lobby logic that's the same as an abortion as well.
- 9:57 a.m. Nov. 21, 2012
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@Belching Cow,
Would you feel the same way if you were employed by someone who is religiously opposed to scientific medicine, believing only in faith healing via their God? Would you feel the same way if you were a female employed by someone that believes it is immoral for women to work or to show their faces? These beliefs exist and fortunately so do laws that require employers to follow certain rules despite their religious beliefs.
- 10:09 a.m. Nov. 21, 2012
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I agree with your view of birth control. But, it is against his religion and because of the 1st amendment he should not be forced to violate his religious beliefs. The government is getting involved in a lot of things that are not its business and it is limiting people's rights.
People have argued here that Democrats are socialists. I disagree, if anything they are on the other side of the political spectrum and they seem to be moving us towards a "kinder, gentler" fascism.
- 10:10 a.m. Nov. 21, 2012
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"So I don't get how birth control is the same as an abortion."
Therein lies the Obama obfuscation: Although the law is billed as a contraception mandate, the offending portion of the mandate includes abortofacient drugs, commonly known as abortion pills, that cause miscarriage AFTER pregnancy occurs
Hobby Lobby is not suing over birth control, they are suing over abortion pills
Even if they were suing over contraception - there are religious denominations (Catholics) that prohibit contraception and their tenets are supposed to be protected by the First Amendment guarantees of religious freedom.
Those who myopically argue that everyone should obey the law continue the obfuscation; there is a vast difference between telling a religious person they CANNOT do something that is OK with their religion and telling them they MUST do something that violates their religion ( i.e telling someone they CANNOT have a polygamous marriage is vastly different than telling them they MUST have one).
- 10:17 a.m. Nov. 21, 2012
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Why should a company be allowed to impose their religious beliefs on their employees?
- 10:31 a.m. Nov. 21, 2012
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If this business owner was Jehovah's Witness, would you deem it acceptable for him to refuse blood transfusions as part of his employees health care, since it would mean forcing him to 'violate his religious beliefs'?
At what point does a business owners religious belief system supersede the religious rights of his employees? In my opinion, they are completely separate. My religious beliefs are between me and my church, not me and my employer. If I am a devout follower, it doesn't matter if my company insurance provides contraception...it's up to me to choose not to use it if it violates my belief system.
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@Mint Julip
"Would you feel the same way if you were employed by someone who is religiously opposed to scientific medicine, believing only in faith healing via their God?"
That is a false narrative. Just because the employer does not pay for your "scientific medicine" does not deny you the right to get it on your own; either by paying for it directly or getting supplemental insurance yourself.
Your argument is a rather passive/aggressive backward way of saying that simply because YOU want something means that someone else must provide and pay for it. When the real question is; why don't YOU do it yourself and leave them out of it.
YOU are making the argument of the perpetrator, imposing YOUR values onto others - you are not the victim because you have not been harmed - you merely weren't successful in manipulating someone else to do what you want (and they don't want) rather than do it yourself
So how would I feel if I were employed by someone who is religiously opposed to scientific medicine (or anything else)?
I would respect their opinion, live with it, get my own insurance or find another job
- 10:32 a.m. Nov. 21, 2012
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mintjulip, you raise an interesting comparision, though you may not be aware of
some of the exceptions given to Muslims for their religious beliefs.
The other point is the fact that the government is using our taxes to pay for abortions that most Americans don't approve of or believe in.
It's outragious to think that someone can get pregnant, not have the money to pay to have the living infant aborted, but they can ask the government to pay to have it done and they can use my taxes to pay for it.
And they can force medical personnel to perform the abortion against their beliefs if the hospital performs abortions.
Now tell me that is a fair and just way of running the government.
- 10:35 a.m. Nov. 21, 2012
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"The government is getting involved in a lot of things that are not its
business and it is limiting people's rights."
How right you are! But that is where BO wants to be. He wants to be the king of America. He is a power grabbing narcicist and wants to control everyone; under the guise of helping. He claims to be a constitutional attorney - and yet he violates it every chance he gets. During and before the debates, he claim to support the 2nd amendment and now is pushing for the UN resolution to turn gun control over to them. Everything he has done and is doing is in violation of his sworn oath as POTUS. I can't blame the secessionists. It's 1776 all over again.
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Women have the right to good and proper health care with decisions made between
them and their medical providers. Hobby Lobby does not have the right to
interject their morality into that decision making process.
IUD's that inhibit the implantation process of a fertilized egg are used for far more than birth control. Just ask my sister who nearly died from a rare blood disorder that causes life threatening bleeding. Her IUD saves her life every month. As if that's not enough, just this week a women in Ireland lost her baby and her own life because religious influence stopped doctor's from giving her what would have been a life saving abortion.
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11 Oct 2012 6:54 AM #1
How to share a custom theme in a multi-page ExtJS application
I am wondering the best way to go about sharing a custom theme and resources like images in a multi-page ExtJS application build. It seems like it currently requires you to rebuild the theme for each individual page in your application.
I would like to store the theme at the workspace level and be able to build the "app" (all pages) by issuing the `sencha app build` command from the workspace directory. Then each page would just reference the theme from the build root.
Something like this..
build\ build\resources\ build\resources\images build\resources\css build\page1\ ... build\page2 ...
12 Oct 2012 1:40 PM #2
I am having this same problem as well.
15 Oct 2012 6:50 AM #3
Bump. Don't want this to get buried until we hear some official response from a Sencha dev.
15 Oct 2012 12:12 PM #4
I'm also interested to hear what the "proper" way is, if one exists. The best I could do was hack together a not-too-great solution using the Ant integration of Sencha Cmd.
15 Oct 2012 2:20 PM #5
Sorry for the delay. I promise I haven't been ignoring your question ...
At present, elbow grease is about the only answer (and leveraging Ant is a good choice there). You could create a "theme app" (an app with just one theme) to help isolate the theme from "real" apps.
We will be working on a more elegant answer for future releases.Don Griffin
Director of Engineering - Frameworks (Ext JS / Sencha Touch)
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16 Oct 2012 4:09 PM #6
Thanks for replying Don. I have a work around for now but hope this makes it in.
26 Dec 2012 5:02 PM #7
The migration is underway - 3.0.2 moves themes into a proper package structure and 3.1 *should* see that structure be shared in a workspace.
http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...s-in-Cmd-3.0.2Don Griffin
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Does anyone have any historical information about the following picture: when was it taken? Who is in the background? Where was it taken? What was the occasion?
I found the same picture at several websites.
According to this blog, the picture was taken in 1942 at the Kenkoku University. It also mentions "(Manchria)" but that's probably a typo for "Manchuria", the old name for north-east China which at that time was under Japanese control.
Another website mentions that the building in the background is Shimbuden Hall and describes the man standing on the right as "Hideo Oba".
This page confirms both the year, location and identity of Hideo Oba. Since the people in both photo's have a similar position and are wearing the same outfit I'm guessing that both photo's are taken on the same day. If this is correct then the occasion was "the 10th anniversary of the founding of Manchukuo", which is the Japanese name for Manchuria. Between 1940 and 1942 Ueshiba visited Manchuria several times for teaching and demonstrations and it has been said that this was the last time he visited.


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Netcat I/O enhancements
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When Netcat integrated into OpenSolaris it was already clear that there will be couple of enhancements needed. The biggest set of the changes made after Solaris 11 Express was released brings various I/O enhancements to netcat shipped with Solaris 11. Also, since Solaris 11, the netcat package is installed by default in all distribution forms (live CD, text install, ...).
Now, let's take a look at the new functionality:
|alternative program name (symlink)
|-b bufsize
|I/O buffer size
|use exclusive bind for the listening socket
|-e program
|program to execute
|no network close upon EOF on stdin
|-i timeout
|extension of timeout specification
|-L timeout
|linger on close timeout
|-l -p port addr
|previously not allowed usage
|-m byte_count
|Quit after receiving byte_count bytes
|-N file
|pattern for UDP scanning
|-I bufsize
|size of input socket buffer
|-O bufsize
|size of output socket buffer
|-R redir_spec
|port redirection
|syntax of redir_spec
|bypass zone boundaries
|-q timeout
|timeout after EOF on stdin
Obviously, the Swiss army knife of networking tools just got a bit thicker.
While by themselves the options are pretty self explanatory, their combination together with other options, context of use or boundary values of option arguments make it possible to construct small but powerful tools. For example:
- the port redirector allows to convert TCP stream to UDP datagrams.
- the buffer size specification makes it possible to send one byte TCP segments or to produce IP fragments easily.
- the socket linger option can be used to produce TCP RST segments by setting the timeout to 0
- execute option makes it possible to simulate TCP/UDP servers or clients with shell/python/Perl/whatever script
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5 Massive Hit Songs That Almost Didn't Get Released
#2. "What's Going On" - Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye is responsible for more unstoppable sex than prison. We owe so much to "Let's Get it On," and the fact that at one time Marvin Gaye wasn't given his way is downright terrifying, but it's true. About a decade into his career, Gaye had already established himself as an extraordinarily singular Motown talent, despite frequently bristling against the regimented structure of the Detroit label. But in 1970, after a crumbling marriage and the death of close friend/duet partner Tammi Terrell, Gaye became suddenly reflective and nearly ready to quit music altogether, even going so far as to try out for that year's draft of the Detroit Lions.
We like to think that this is how he showed up at tryouts.
The main thing Marvin had resented about the Motown system was its separation of songwriter, performer and producer as individual cogs of a hit-making machine whose responsibilities and talents were not to be mixed. With some production credit under his belt--with Motown session-band The Originals--and new songwriting partners Al Cleveland and Renaldo Benson of Four Tops fame, Marvin Gaye was ready to break out of his previous station in the machine and take control of all aspects of his destiny; his decision to buck the system influenced countless other talented artists--from peers like Stevie Wonder to later artists like Michael Jackson and Prince--to also take production and songwriting control of their product. He was about to completely shake up the music industry, but first he had to get released.
"What's Going On" pleads for understanding. In the background of the master track, you can hear a party going on from which Gaye's voice is markedly detached; a lonely, but passionate, voice in the crowd. The result of Gaye's complex songwriting, mixed with his abilities as a producer and an arranger was startlingly different from anything previously released by Motown. When the final master 45 was presented for release, The CEO of Motown called it "the worst record he had ever heard." Oh, did we mention that the CEO of Motown, Barry Gordy Jr., was Marvin Gaye's brother-in-law?
Gordy apparently believed that the music-buying public at the time would not be able to identify with a heartfelt cry of confusion and despair over social unrest and injustice. We here at Cracked are guessing he hadn't picked up a newspaper since early November of 1963.
Marvin stood his ground, however, threatening to walk away from music forever and, after a short stand-off, "What's Going On" was released, and critical and commercial response was almost instant. It became Motown's fastest selling single, the biggest hit of 1971, became Gaye's signature song--even topping out all the other massive hit songs he was already known for--and paved the way for the even more massive hit album "Let's Get It On."
#1. "Billie Jean" - Michael Jackson
Off The Wall was Michael Jackson's first album outside of the Jackson 5 franchise and his initial departure from Motown. He regarded it as his finest work, and it actually did well both critically and commercially, but it wasn't enough. He felt cheated that Off The Wall didn't win Album Of The Year, and he wasn't going to be happy until he was at the helm of something too big to ignore. In his first step, he did something every 21-year-old has dreamed of doing and fired the shit out of his dad.
With producer Quincy Jones, the two collaborated on a monolithic pop masterpiece. It's estimated that 300 original songs were penned for the project and condensed down to nine.
"I'm gonna burn this record and I don't even know why. Fuck it, you know?"
While composing "Billie Jean," Jackson knew he had a hit. He frequently relates a story about leaving the studio so focused on the song that he didn't even notice that the car he was in was on fire. Strangely enough, a few years later during the recording of a Pepsi commercial featuring a revamped version of the track, he caught the fuck on fire again. Once is a weird coincidence, twice is just damn spooky.
Jacko may have thought he had a hit, but Quincy Jones sure as hell didn't think so. Quincy thought the track, inspired by a homicidal-suicidal stalker and that apparently made its singer burst into flames, was "too weak" for the album. He hated the demo, especially the bass-line, and he wanted to change the title. Eventually he relented, insisting amongst his studio musicians that this track needed to have a "unique sonic personality" to be worthwhile. Vocal overdubs were sung through giant cardboard tubes and the drum pattern was overlayed with sounds of cinder blocks and chunks of wood. They even brought in a guy to play something called a lyricon, an instrument that looks like it should have been played by a member of the Mos Eisley pub band.
So the track made the album, but its problems didn't end there: MTV refused to air the video. MTV's policy at the time was that black performers were not "rock" enough; a view that's shocking not only because it's racist as all hell, but also laughably ignorant of music history. It took Walter Yetnikoff, president of CBS, the record label Jackson was on, threatening to both pull all CBS artist's videos off of MTV and publicly exposing them as the racist fucksticks they were to get the "Billie Jean" video on rotation. Rotation that quickly became heavy rotation as the song rocketed up the charts.
"Billie Jean," as you know, became a massive hit, Jackson got his Album Of The Year, and Thriller went on to become, by all accounts, the best-selling album of all time. Having achieved everything he had set out to do and significantly more, Michael Jackson moved to his dream home at Neverland Ranch and lived happily ever after... oh wait.
Ralf Bakr has many strange obsessions and compulsions that drive his existence. Rather than seek treatment, he chronicles them all at his personal blog "(Maybe) The Dorkiest Thing You'll See All Day." Ralf would also like to thank fellow Cracked writer Nick, without whose suggestions this article might not have happened. He'd also like to pat himself on the back for managing to write over 700 words about Michael Jackson without once using the words "child" or "plastic surgery."
Now check out some albums and songs that probably shouldn't have happened, in The 12 Most God Awful Tribute Albums Ever Recorded and 6 Musicians Who Predicted Their Own Death in Song.
Or, visit Cracked.com's Top Picks because their might something music related in there. Or boob related. Either way it's win-win.


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Why are conversions from a smaller colorspace to a "larger" one often lossy? How can a smaller gamut have colors that cannot be represented in a larger (overlapping) gamut?
Color values are quantized by the bit depth of the format used to store the data. For example, in most standard formats and modern displays there are eight bits per color, per pixel, sometimes referred to as 24-bit True Color. There are 2^8 = 256 levels, which is why RGB colors are typically represented by three values in the range 0 to 255. Unless the conversion of a particular color results in exactly an integer value in the target space, it has to be rounded to the nearest accurate value. (Incidentally, dithering is used to make this rounding less deterministic, thereby reducing banding.)
To illustrate, let us define some fictional color spaces in one dimension.
Let Profile1 cover the entire range from "true black" to "true white," represented arbitrarily as the black and white values of our displays. Let it be a 4-bit space, with 2^4 = 16 levels possible. A gradient in this space would look something like this:
Let Profile2 cover only half the range of Profile1, such that the darkest value it can represent is a dark gray, and the lightest is a light gray. It is also 4-bit. A gradient in this space would look something like:
If we wish to convert the gradient image in the smaller Profile2 to the larger Profile1 we have to "map" each of the values from Profile2 to a new value in Profile1. If we did not, and simply changed the profile while preserving the color numbers, the colors would shift: in this case the contrast would increase. Let us see what happens when we map each of the colors in Profile2 gradient to its nearest color in Profile1:
Even though Profile1 is a larger color space this is certainly not a lossless conversion.
The grayscale space simplifies the illustration and the limited bit-depth exaggerates the effect. Nevertheless, the exact same process affects conversions between all color spaces. The higher the bit-depth the more precision is available, and the closer to "lossless" the conversion may be. (You must still of course contend with color gamut, and the tradeoffs that are made to fit one gamut to another.)


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There are two opposing sides with different arguments, YOung Earth Creationists and Old Earth Creationists. Could you please provide a summary of what is the most common scientific evidence that is used on both sides?
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I'm very hesitant to answer anything on this as no matter what position I take, it will incite endless debate and comments. However, I believe there is a simple answer that all sides can hold as acceptable truth.
The fact is that we all have the same evidence. Whether Atheist, Christian, Buddhist, Wiccan, YEC, OEC, the evidence never changes.
The difference lies in how we interpret the evidence.
To list off a few:
Note, the OEC view is lumped with the Naturalist view, simply because they are similar. OEC incorporates the idea of old-earth, and even the possibility of evolution after creation. I'm not attempting to make any statement beyond that.
The list goes on forever. The expanding universe, evidence for the Big Bang, geologic structures, dating methods, all have the same physical evidence. The tests we can perform have the same results regardless of who is performing them. Again, the difference is in the interpretation, not evidence.


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I know, this is very simple and dumb question, i just cannot come to understand, the problem is:
Why and how happens this in mathematics?
$$-5 \pmod 4 = 3$$
I know how to get this for positive numbers, but how does it work for negative ones.
I need the explanation of what happens in the background when solving this. Is it the distance from $0$ to $4$?


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The 5 Stupidest Excuses Ever Given in a Political Scandal
When the inevitable day arrives where they get caught participating in their deviant activity of choice, some politicians take the high road, fessing up to their transgressions and either resigning or begging their constituencies for forgiveness in a last-ditch attempt to salvage their careers. Others, however, decide to invent an elaborate story that wouldn't fool a toddler.
#5. I Had to Offer Oral Sex for My Own Safety
The Scandal:
This kind of scandal has almost become a cliche at this point: Florida State Rep. Bob Allen was a family-values conservative who opposed gay rights and, shockingly, then got arrested for offering to blow some random black guy in a public park restroom, and to pay the guy 20 bucks for the privilege. The guy turned out to be an undercover cop.
Who could possibly have seen that coming? But let's hear Allen's side of it ...
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"Seriously, this big. How could I not ask?"
The Excuse:
First off, Allen wasn't in the park that day hunting for some gay sex, oh no. You see, he had helped secure funding for that park and was just checking in to see how it was coming along. When a thunderstorm brewed up, he decided to duck into the public restroom -- presumably because somewhere deep inside, he knew that outwardly homophobic politicians who secretly love to blow random dudes are like human freaking lightning rods.
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Oh, and Allen's "Recreational Interest" according to the House website? Water sports. You're welcome.
After he was nice and comfy in his bathroom stall, Allen noticed that there was a "stocky black guy" in one of the other stalls. Fearing for his safety (he said he didn't want to become a "statistic"), Allen did what anyone would do in that circumstance: He offered to take the guy out to his car, blow him, and toss him a 20 to sweeten the deal. It was the only thing he could do to avoid a savage murder at the hands of a stocky black man.
For some reason, the authorities didn't buy his "blowjob as a self-defense technique" story, and he was brought up on prostitution charges that would prove disastrous for his political career. But Allen wasn't quite done displaying his master excuse-making skills just yet. You see, the real reason he was being stripped of all his committee assignments had nothing to do with the prostitution arrest -- it was to give younger lawmakers the chance to serve in leadership positions.
Just like he gave that stocky black dude the chance to have an orgasm in lieu of a life of crime.
That Bob Allen, always the giver.
#4. It Wasn't Groping, It Was a Tickle Fight
The Scandal:
In March of 2010, New York Congressman and former naval commander Eric Massa abruptly resigned after only 14 months on the job amid allegations that he had sexually harassed a member of his staff. Nothing new there -- this kind of stuff happens all the time. So with the damage already done and his resignation already signed and sealed, that was pretty much that. Right?
Massa, seen here sexually harassing a Chevy Equinox.
Not quite. Before dropping out of the public eye, Massa apparently decided to try for some kind of excuse-making world record ... and one of his excuses was "It was just a tickle fight."
The Excuse:
When details of the harassment allegation began to come into the light, Massa (who is married) claimed that it had all stemmed from one innocent quip at a wedding. In his own words:
... after, I don't know, 15 gin and tonics, and goodness only knows how many bottles of champagne, a staff member made an intonation to me that maybe I should be chasing after the bridesmaid ... I grabbed the staff member sitting next to me and said, "Well, what I really ought to be doing is fracking you." And then [I] tousled the guy's hair and left ...
"All I did was get shitfaced and make some unwanted sexual advances. How is that harassment?"
Apparently deciding that this story didn't dissuade the public from believing he was a sexually repressed closeted gay man, he then said that the whole thing was a setup by the Obama administration, because Massa opposed the health care bill ... but then added the completely unnecessary detail that Obama's chief of staff confronted him in a shower room while they were both naked. He made sure to point out that no one was wearing a towel. Dripping wet, steam ever so slowly rising from their manly bits ...
Finally, Massa told TV host Glenn Beck that, sure, he manhandled a staffer, but there was nothing sexual about it: It was all a routine office tickling.
For more information, read Think Globally, Tickle Locally: Eric Massa's Guide to Leadership.
Or, as he put it, "Not only did I grope [a staffer], I tickled him until he couldn't breathe." Come on, man, why didn't you just say that from the beginning? If a couple of grown men can't play Tickle Monster in the halls of power, then what are our troops fighting for?
#3. I Was Drunk at the Strip Club Because I Was Undercover
The Scandal:
Many people would be honored to have been portrayed by Burt Reynolds on the big screen, but it's probably safe to say that J. Herbert Burke wasn't one of them. He's the lucky son of a gun who was the inspiration for Reynolds' sleazy character in Striptease, a congressman who gets caught in a strip club.
We'd consider it an honor to be portrayed by a shirtless, greased-up Burt Reynolds in any medium.
In 1978, Burke, then a six-term congressman for Florida's 10th District, was arrested outside the Centerfold Club in Dania after "conducting himself in a loud, vulgar and offensive manner." The cops hauled him off and tossed him into the drunk tank. And, for most of us, it'd just be a matter of paying the fine and serving some community service or whatever. But we are not silver-tongued politicians, able to weave masterful tales to get ourselves out of trouble.
The Excuse:
According to the good man himself, Burke wasn't drunk, and he certainly wasn't at the strip club to watch bare lady parts jiggling in time to a disco soundtrack -- that type of behavior simply wouldn't be becoming of a member of the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control. So what was he doing there, you ask? He was doing his job, goddammit. You see, Burke had witnessed two drug dealers who were about to make a sale, and, being an ever-vigilant member of the aforementioned committee and thinking only of his constituents' best interests, he followed them to the titty bar to observe their nefarious activities.
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Above: Herbert Burke, not understanding the difference between "narcotics detective" and "congressman."
But rather than being praised for his superior sleuthing abilities, he instead found himself "abused" by the local police, as he recorded on the wall of his jail cell, in words that clearly only a perfectly sober person could compose:
My name is J. H. Burke. The time is 12:20 a.m. I have not been charged. I want to make a charge against the (illegible) by Dania police. I was molested by the Dania police without right of counsel with charges being made against me. I was abused, molested, abused and prevented from calling a lawyer, a friend or making a complaint. J. Herbert Burke.
Poor guy -- abused twice within the space of a single rambling sentence. And the abuse didn't stop there, because his story failed to impress either the judge (he was sentenced to probation and fined) or the voters of the 10th District (he lost his seat the following year).
But at least he can rest in peace knowing that, nearly 20 years after the events of that fateful, drunken night, his actions were indirectly responsible for bringing a few moments of joy into the lives of the countless adolescent boys who were able to sneak away with a VHS copy of Striptease.
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I'm just starting to study quantum mechanics. Please explain the error in this thinking:
You set up decay of two $\pi$ mesons and get $2\mathrm{e}^-$ on Mars and $2\mathrm{e}^+$ on Earth.
On Earth you may or may not measure the spin of those positrons, with 50% probability that they are the same spin.
On Mars, your buddy "immediately afterwards" takes a $\mathrm{He}^{2+}$ ion and adds the electrons.
If you made the measurement, the $\mathrm{He}$ has a 50%+ chance of being in a higher-then-base energy level due to Pauli exclusion.
If you didn't make the measurement, the $\mathrm{He}$ has a much lower chance of being in a higher-than-base energy level.
Your buddy measures the energy state.
Result: You just superluminally transmitted $\approx 0.8$ bits of information.


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I am trying to "decode"/derive an expression for the macroscopic rate constant for the tunneling of protons through a potential energy barrier that I read in a journal article: $$ k_{\rm tun}(T)=(2\pi\hbar)^{-1}\int_0^{V_{\rm max}} Q(V,T) P_{\rm tun}(V)\ dV. $$ So basically: the authors say work out the probability of tunneling at each point up the potential energy barrier (from 0 to $V_{\rm max}$), multiply this by the Boltzmann factor ($Q(V,T)$), integrating over all energies (i.e. we are taking a Boltzmann average )and then convert from energy in J to rate by multiplying by $(2\pi\hbar)^{-1}$.
The authors use $(2\pi\hbar)^{-1}$ to convert from an energy in J to a rate in per second. This implies that the relationship between energy and frequency being used is: $$ E=\hbar\omega $$ I thought this just applied to electromagnetic radiation and free particles not in a potential. Is it OK to use this relation for protons tunneling in a potential? Or should you use some info about the shape of the potential?
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January 10, 2013
Visit Ceres – the 'Eden of the Cape'
Often referred to as "the Eden of the Cape", the town of Ceres is world famous for its exceptional deciduous fruit production. Fruit tours present a great way to appreciate the journey from tree to table, while sampling fresh fruit along the way.
Apples, plums, grapes, peaches and pears are grown in the region, along with potatoes, onions and wheat. Spring water is also bottled at source here.
The Ceres district is a mere 150km or 90 minutes' drive from Cape Town, and is accessible only by a number of scenic mountain passes, comprises the fertile valley of the Warm Bokkeveld; the potato and onion packing industry at Prince Alfred's Hamlet; and Bo-Swaarmoed, famous for its cherry picking and proteas.
Mid-November to end-December is cherry-picking season, when locals and visitors head for places like the Klondyke Cherry Farm to fill their baskets with sun-ripened cherries. World-famous Ceres fruit juices are available for tasting at the Ceres Transport Riders' Museum.
While in Ceres try some local cuisine, like oxtail potjie (a dish cooked in a three-legged pot over an open fire), minted lamb chops or curried tripe and trotters. Produce outlets like Baba's Jêm sell homemade preserves, chutney, jams and atchars, so it's well worth stocking up while you're there.
The Koue Bokkeveld, with its village called Op-die-Berg, lies on a plateau, where apples and pears are grown. The unique scenery of the region has been inspirational in South African literature, and there are strong historical ties to some of the country's oldest farms, many of which can still be visited today.
Koelfontein is the region's sole wine producer, where tastings are by appointment only. They also offer visitors a unique opportunity to experience life on a working fruit farm. Spend the night at farm cottages or chalets, and step into a farmer's boots for a few days.
Over the Theronsberg mountains in the semi-arid Tanqua Karoo, indigenous flora and fauna may be viewed and spectacular sunsets enjoyed. Other game-viewing localities include the Matroosberg Private Nature Reserve, Big Five country at Inverdoorn Game Reserve and Iziba Safari Lodge, and 6 000-year-old rock art at Kagga Kamma private game reserve.
The town's surrounds also have strong historical and cultural connections, with the Ceres valley, Koue Bokkeveld and Tanqua Karoo first occupied by the San and Khoi people thousands of years ago.
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During the winter months, the mountains transform the region into its alter ego, Little Switzerland. Many snow-based activities, such as skiing and snowboarding, hold the promise of family fun from June to August.
There are many arts, crafts and gift shops to be found in and around Ceres, which also hosts a bonsai centre.
Ceres, in the heart of the Cape Winelands, is the gateway to the Cederberg area (to the north) and Route 62 (to the south). The Ceres valley can be reached through Mitchell's Pass (from Cape Town, via N1, R43, R46), Theronsberg Pass (from Touws River, R46) and Gydo Pass (from Citrusdal, R303).


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6 of the Most Heartwarming Stories Ever (Happened in Wars)
When your grandpa gets in "that" mood and starts telling old war tales, you don't expect your reaction to be "awwww, so cute" -- you cover the ears of any children present and brace yourself for a sleepless night. And yet, there are plenty of real stories of war so ridiculously adorable that they make a Disney movie look like Vietnam. For instance, there's the time when ...
#6. The U.S. Air Force Bombs Berlin ... With Candy
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Apparently it kinda sucked to live in Germany for a while. In 1948, after the country was split up among the winners of World War II, Russia decided to cut all rail and transport routes to Berlin in the hope that a little food deprivation would convince the democratic side of the city that communism is awesome. That's when the U.S. and the other Allied nations remembered that they had things called airplanes -- thus began Operation Little Vittles, also known as the Berlin Airlift, in which military planes spent a year dropping sweet democracy (also food) on the city as a huge "fuck you" to Stalin.
Berlin was now getting everything it needed, except one essential thing -- candy.
"I bet it's Skittles this time! Wait ... nope, more grain. Dammit."
Utah-born Air Force pilot Gail Halvorsen was moved by the sight of a bunch of candyless children in Berlin and gave them a pack of gum he was carrying, promising he'd return the next day with sweets they could actually swallow. So Halvorsen began dropping chocolate on the children with (hopefully unused) handkerchiefs as adorable little parachutes. He'd wiggle the wings of his plane so the kids would recognize him and brace themselves for the chocolate rain, earning him the name "Uncle Wiggly Wings." The whole thing was like something out of a children's book.
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"Sorry, kids, ran out of handkerchiefs and went with TP today. That's not chocolate."
Of course, "magical deeds out of children's books" are strictly against regulation, so Halvorsen was told to cut that shit out ... until his bosses realized how much Germany loved them for doing this. That's when the Air Force deployed a bunch of planes whose sole purpose was to shower West Berliners with tons and tons of candy donated by the American Confectioners Association.
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Stalin panicked and ordered that they drop hot borscht on the kids to compete.
Even when the airlift ended in 1949 after the Soviets finally gave up, the now zit-filled and hyperkinetic Berlin children never forgot about Uncle Wiggly Wings. Halvorsen is still known throughout Germany for throwing candy at kids from high altitudes and had a couple of schools named after him. This is how Santa-like legends get started.
#5. George Washington Returns a British General's Dog
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If George Washington had a nemesis, that was probably British general William Howe. During the Revolutionary War, Howe's forces defeated Washington's a bunch of times and forced the future president to retreat from New York to New Jersey and then to Delaware. Whenever you see a painting of General Washington in battle, chances are he's screaming "HOOOOOOOOOOWE!"
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Or "God dammit, not New Jersey again."
In October of 1777, Washington and Howe met again at Germantown, Pennsylvania. Both sides fought hard, but Howe led a flood of British and Hessian troops and annihilated Washington's forces, killing over 100 and taking over 400 prisoner, winning the battle. Which is probably why you don't read so much about this one in the textbooks at school.
However, despite the loss, the Americans still managed to take a prisoner -- a dog. More specifically, General Howe's terrier managed to flee during the fight and ended up in the rebels' camp. On the other side, Howe worried for two days just what those barbaric Americans were doing to his pet.
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"We're not barbaric! Anyway, set up the barbecue. Dibs on the heart."
But two days later, the dog came out of the woods and went right to Howe, with a note attached. It simply said, "General Washington's compliments to General Howe. He does himself the pleasure to return him a dog, which accidentally fell into his hands, and by the inscription on the Collar appears to belong to General Howe."
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"P.S. Eat a dick."
You see, Washington was a big dog lover himself, and even though Howe had literally killed hundreds of his men, he just didn't have the heart to take advantage of the situation -- like, say, sending over the dog's turds with a plate and a note that said "Let's see how much you want it back. Bon appetit!" (We're just spitballing here.) Washington even called a cease fire to get the dog back in a touching moment of common love for man's best friend. Then they went back to killing each other.
#4. England Saves a Dog by Enlisting Him in the Royal Navy
Just Nuisance was a Great Dane who lived on a British naval base in South Africa during World War II. He got that particular handle because he had a habit of lying down in the narrow bridges leading between the ships and the docks, and at 6 feet 6 inches, he wasn't exactly easy to avoid.
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A second later, he snapped the man's neck -- the guy was a Nazi spy.
Still, the sailors loved Nuisance and let him follow them off base and onto the local trains. Sometimes Nuisance would guide the sailors back to base when they'd had too much to drink or intervene when fights broke out between them (presumably by licking his own balls and distracting everyone). The problem was that the local train workers didn't share the sailors' appreciation for the large, noisy sack of fleas -- the sailors would try to sneak him onto the trains undetected, but it probably would have been easier to get away with bringing in an armed torpedo.
Despite offers from local passengers to simply pay the dog's fare, the train dicks were adamant that the pony-size dog had to go, one way or another. It got to the point where they said that if he was caught on the train again, they'd have to put him down.
The navy's solution? Well, we'll just show you:
Simon's Town
"Dogs with hats" is the answer to a surprising number of life's problems.
The Royal Navy simply enlisted him. Like enlisted in the same way as a person. This meant not only that the train dicks couldn't kill one of His Majesty's sailors, but also that as a service member he was entitled to ride the trains FREE. Nuisance even "signed" his enlistment forms (which listed his religion as "Scrounger") with his paw, had to pass the routine medical examination, and got to sleep in the sailors' beds from that point on. He later served as an admiral during the Falklands War [citation needed] and was buried with military honors.
Simon's Town
Yep, that part was true.