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Our Norwegian Partner Conduct is shortlisted for the outstanding work implementing Pentaho for WiMP Music, a music streaming service similar to iTunes that is very popular in Northern and Central Europe. Its not the first recognition of their great work – they already won the 2013 BI Award for Innovation in Norway given by the Norwegian Computer Society last October. You can read more about the implementation here.
Our OEM partner Kirchhoff Datensysteme Software GmbH (KDS) is shortlisted for its tool Poly.MIS, an industry specific Business Intelligence (BI) solution for plastic compounders built on the Pentaho business analytics platform. The specialised analytics tool helps plastic compounders to lower costs and maximize profits. You can read more about the implementation here.
Pentaho has been growing impressively in Europe for the past two years and we know that our partners play an important role here – when they succeed, everybody wins. As many have limited marketing resources, we are here to help and support our partners with their marketing activities.
If you have impressive customer stories like WiMP or an outstanding embedded solution like KDS, our team is on hand to help you promote and celebrate them by writing up case studies, press releases, co-hosting a webinar or completing award applications.
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'I can remember the first time that a work of art knocked my socks off. It was Van Gogh's 'Peach Trees in Blossom,'" recalled Douglas Druick, the wiry, diminutive president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago. The 67-year-old, now in his second year on the job, was promoted from within after 26 years in the Art Institute's curatorial ranks, most recently as chairman of both the department of prints and drawings and the department of medieval to modern European painting and sculpture. We are talking in his office hard by one of his old haunts—the department of prints and drawings.
Mr. Druick was 15 years old when he first saw that Van Gogh painting in Montreal in 1960, and from then on this Canadian-born son of an American mother and Canadian father, raised in Montreal, has been passionate about art. After completing his studies at Oberlin and Yale in art history and philosophy, Mr. Druick headed back north, quickly taking charge of European and American prints at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. But as early as 1981, Chicago's Art Institute had its eye on him. Harold Joachim, the curator of prints and drawings, was thinking of retirement and, according to Alan Artner, the Chicago Tribune's former art critic, "expressed a hope that it would be Douglas Druick" who succeeded him. Two years after Joachim's death in 1983, Mr. Druick did take that post, and he hasn't left the Michigan Avenue building since.
Appointing a curator with no executive experience to lead an encyclopedic museum on a par with the Metropolitan Museum and the National Gallery is unusual. His predecessor, James Cuno, had previously headed the Courtauld Institute, the Harvard University Art Museums, the Hood Museum of Art, and the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts. But the timing was right for Mr. Druick. Mr. Cuno oversaw the final planning and fund-raising for the $294 million, 264,000-square-foot Modern Wing of the Institute, designed by Renzo Piano, and John H. Bryan, former chairman of the Art Institute's board of trustees, said that "Douglas is his perfect successor. He is internationally regarded for his curatorial talent, and nobody knows the Institute's collections and its staff better than Douglas. He was my choice and the unanimous choice of the trustees. And, Jim Cuno himself recommended Douglas as his successor."
"One major contrast between being a curator and what I'm doing now," Mr. Druick told me, "is that a curator is largely doing his own work—maintaining and enlarging collections, organizing exhibitions, writing. Now, I'm facilitating the good work of others. That's why I'd have been reluctant to take this job 20 years ago. But now, it's gratifying to foster those ambitions in others."
He also points out that "many museum directors, including both James Wood and Jim Cuno, my predecessors here, had experience as curators. I still play an important role as sort of chief curator. A solid grounding in art history and working with objects is great background for a director in terms of my ability to evaluate what's going on, and help my curators make tough decisions with limited resources. After all, as a curator, I had exhibition budgets, so that wasn't an ivory tower existence, believe me."
Shortly after the new wing opened in 2009, the museum announced that it was laying off 22 people—3% of its staff. "We were facing what everyone else was facing in the recession," Mr. Druick said. "It wasn't because of the Modern Wing. In fact, our attendance has been up since it opened. But we suffered a hit to our endowment that made it necessary for several years to cut budgets, freeze hiring. We weathered that storm and rethought what we were doing operationally. I've worked on reducing costs in ways totally invisible to the public. We cut our expenses even on such things as where and how we purchase paper and other mundane supplies. We made art handling more efficient by deploying people more effectively in taking art to conservation, readying it for exhibitions, consolidating who reports to whom, and so on. A bunch of small decisions really made a difference. We had some gallery closings when I started, but not now. We've become more nimble and flexible, attendance is strong and now the endowment is performing well.
"We are also learning a lot about how to market," he added. "For example, last year's Roy Lichtenstein exhibition would probably have drawn 120,000 visitors three years ago. With some reservations, I promised the trustees 175,000. We ended up with 350,000, by being very bullish on advertising. We worked with Blue State Digital, the same outfit that helped re-elect Obama."
Mr. Druick also spends a lot of time working on ways to extend the museum's reach. He talked enthusiastically about the half-million-dollar grant the Institute received last year from India—that government's first such grant to a U.S. museum. "It honors a landmark 1893 speech given in Chicago by Swami Vivekananda, who introduced Hinduism to the U.S. So we will be working with various Indian museums over the next four years in the preservation, exhibition and promotion of India's cultural heritage," he said.
He is also looking closely at the museum's strategy. "We're now in the process of reviewing each collection—what we have, where we're going to grow, and what we're going to show. The central tenet as we develop this plan is how we fulfill our mission as an encyclopedic institution. We're focusing our collection development in specific areas such as Asia. People are making fascinating art in India and China, places we haven't focused on before. I want to offer exhibitions involving different cultures, including Latin America and India.
"But," he continued, "the big word for me is 'access.' That sounds trite, but it's anything but. . . . I want us to increase our focus on placing the visitor at the center of the museum. We're looking to make the collections more accessible outside and inside the walls of the museum. I want to empower our visitors. Just for example, I want visitors to be able to customize what they want to see and what they want to hear about what they see. Are you with children or not? If something catches your interest, do an image capture with your iPhone and our new technology will tell you more about it. And I also want vastly to enrich our website so we can also offer access world-wide."
Also, "I want to be more seasonally sensitive to our audiences. We're still in the early stages of planning, but, for example, we are scheduling 'Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity,' which will combine entertainment with history, for a summer audience. I want other exhibitions to run during the academic year so teachers can take full advantage of them." The first will be "They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910–1950," which opens March 3.
Migration to Chicago is a subject Mr. Druick knows about first-hand.
Mr. Henning writes about the arts and culture for the Journal.
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R. Moshe Feinstein allowed trusting ingredients lists in Igros Moshe YD 1:55 (in the context of whether one can trust that vegetable shortening is being used in a manufactured good, based on the ingredients, and not being substituted with animal fat).
Although, in Igros Moshe Y.D. 2:41 he writes that it is a 'davar m'chuar' (an ugly thing) for a kashrus agency to give a hechser to a product made on equipment which has been used for non-kosher, even if all the ingredients in the product are kosher.
My rav is "old school", involved in kashrus and would recommend items without hashgacha based on his knowledge and experiences. Some examples:
So effectively, a lot more people than we think eat products based on ingredients.
Rabbi Eidlitz of kosherquest.org permits this for certain things, such as most juices.
His rulings are widely accepted.
Rabbi Moshe Heisler, shlita, former head of the Association of Kashrus Organizations (AKO), Kashrus Administrator for the Vaad of Denver (Skroll K) and a regional kashrus supervisor for other national kosher certification agencies, such as the OU, Star K, Chof K, and the CRC, twenty years ago told me that although there are some products for which the ingredients on the label are sufficient, there are many substances included in food, or which comes into contact with food, that are not listed on the label. More recently he expounded on the subject in an article for the Intermountain Jewish News.
Rabbi Heisler also gave me examples where there are concerns, l'hatchila (before the fact) which a supervising council must be concerned with before giving kashrus certification, which the consumer would not be responsible for if he learned about it b'dieved (after the fact). For example, when he started giving hashgacha to Coors for the O-U, his concern was that they would ship partially finished beer in railroad tank cars from Colorado to another plant in Tennessee. He was concerned that the tank cars might come back carrying some other type of food -- a major concern for the transport of food oils in tank cars. He was pleased to learn that Coors ships back the tank cars to Colorado empty. He said that this is not a concern for consumers purchasing beer since oils from the tank cars, if any, would be bottel v'shishim (nullified because of their relatively small amount). He noted, however, that there are kashrus organizations that imprerly rely on bottel v'shishim l'hatchila, and therefore one must CYLOR.


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Yesterday's Red Sox game was notable primarily for the fact that�if you could boil down the entire 2014 season to-date into one single game you would have witnessed all that has plagued the World Champions of baseball in defense of their title during Houston's 8 - 1 victory.
Unlike 2012, when the team had clearly checked out, this year's club has seemed to continue to battle despite their place in the standings.� Even the July 31st blood-letting hasn't caused the Sox to head into any type of tailspin - heading into yesterday's game they were 8 - 6 since the trade deadline.
During the Sunday matinee against the Astros; however, the issues that have caused Boston to fall out of the hunt surfaced all at once - there was Xander Bogaerts throwing the ball to first before stepping on second to complete an inning-ending double-play, there was Yoenis Cespedes misplaying a ball in leftfield, there was Joe Kelly grinding through a tough appearance without his best stuff, there was Daniel Nava inexplicably getting caught straying too far off of second base after his no-out double had plated the Sox' first run of the game, there was the lack of production to score runners from third with less than 2-outs, and there was Dan Butler swinging at a 2 and 0 pitch with one-out, two-on, and�tiring pitcher on the mound.
All in all, the malaise that has affected the Red Sox was on display at Fenway yesterday.� Even the questionable umpiring that has impacted the outcomes of games from time to time was called out by John Farrell when he came out and argued after Jose Altuve hit the grand slam that ended the game in the top of the second - after the Bogaerts "in the neighborhood" play was over-turned after a lengthy review by the men in blue.� Incidentally, there was no question that Bogaerts was not in possession of the baseball when he stepped on second to initiate the double-play, but it was questionable whether the umps could review that type of call.� One thing I'll add - I was sitting over near the photographer's area near first base - is that John Farrell is a big man and he�came out and started pointing down at Doug Eddings in the top of the second and I thought that if I was Doug Eddings I would be scared that Farrell would turn violent and harm me.
The biggest issue I had was Butler's at-bat in the sixth.� First, with two men on and both Dustin Pedroia (feeling the affects of an illness) and Mike Napoli on the bench - why was Butler allowed to hit when a three-run homer would have brought the Sox back into the game?� Second, after Astros starter Collin McHugh (nice name for Boston) walked two batters and went to 2 - 0 on Butler (who had no hits), why wasn't the Sox catcher given the take sign?� Why didn't Butler - who has presumably played baseball since his youth - not understand that McHugh was tiring and was over 100 pitches and the Astros were stalling ahead of his at-bat to gain McHugh a little time to re-energize himself while having the bullpen get warmed up in a hurry?� To swing at that single pitch - and he made good contact - was what the Sox season has been about.� Just bad decisions.
When Butler walked back to the dug-out after Houston completed the double-play to end the inning, someone yelled, "Why'd you swing?"� The young catcher seemed to pause and consider the question and then he disappeared into the dug-out to get on his equipment and the season continued just the way it had gone for the first 122-games.


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I was trying to figure out, how many degrees of freedoms a $n\times n$-orthogonal matrix posses.The easiest way to determine that seems to be the fact that the matrix exponential of an antisymmetric matrix yields an orthogonal matrix:
$M^T=-M, c=\exp(M) \Rightarrow c^T=c^{-1}$
A antisymmetric matrix possesses $\frac{n(n-1)}{2}$ degrees of freedom.
BUT: When I also thought about how to parametrize these freedoms explicitly (without the exponential) I remembered, that rotations in $\mathbb{R}^n$ can be parametrized using $n-1$ angles or cosines.
I dont' understand, where the remaining parameters are hidden?
My guess is, that a orthoganl transformation in $n>3$ can be more complicated than a rotation or that there are different types of rotation (containing reflectiong or such things) and that all the combination of these different types accounts for the rest of the parameters.
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Consider the set of all non-intersecting walks of length $n$ on a $d$ dimensional lattice starting at the origin. Now group the members of this set into conformations, where members $x_i$ and $x_j$ belong to the same conformation if they have the same set of nearest neighbors. Let $C(n,d)$ denote the cardinality of the number of unique conformations.
Does anyone have any insight to the bounds of $C(n,d)$ or prior work that deals with this question?
[Please feel free on rephrasing/clarifying the question with more mathematical rigor]
Edit: As a concrete example consider the case where $d=2, n=4$, small enough that I can enumerate all the cases here. Using 0 as the origin, _ as an empty lattice site the paths can be enumerated as:
[Nearest neighbor set: Empty]
[Nearest neighbor set: Empty]
[Nearest neighbor set: Empty]
[Nearest neighbor set: Empty]
[Nearest neighbor set: (0,3)]
Since there are two different
configurations, $C(4,2)=2$. It's easy to work out $C(5,2)=4$ as the only possible combinations are $[ [], [(0,4)], [(1,4)], [(0,3)] ]$. For $C(6,2)=6$ the possible combinations are (assuming I haven't missed any): $[ [], [(0,5),(1,4)], [(2,5)],[(0,5),(2,5)],[(0,3)],[(0,3),(2,5)]] ]$.
Edit++: Douglas rightly pointed out that $[(1,4)]$ can not possibly belong to the set $C(4,2)$ due to a simple parity argument. Leaving the original up to keep the thread continuity.


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19 Feb 2007 12:48 PM #11
My script does not seem to get called on paging toolbar click.
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The GET/POST variables changed to be more mysql friendly.
"page" is now "start" and is the zero based first record to show (not the page anymore). "pageSize" is now "limit".
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Edit: Got rid of the numbers, turned out I was starting at 1 (old page value started at 1), but it needs to start at 0.
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What is your current this.ds.load line? Maybe there is still an error hidden there that leads to this erratic behaviour.
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kjordan: the error that says "invalid label" for your ScriptProxy will also be resolved if you put ()'s around your entire JSON literal.
IE if you change your resultset to:
({"ResultSet":[{"index":1,"Subject":" network key","Sender":"James Asher <email@example.com>","Recipient":"Kevin Jordan <email@example.com>","Date":"Tue, 30 May 2006 15:23:09 -0500"}],"totalCount":311})
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Now I just have to fix whatever's causing my inner layout on my border layout not to show up.
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Cool, has anyone else noticed the behaviour that ScriptProxy requires ()'s around your JSON but HttpProxy does not?
Maybe this there is a difference with how the returned JSON is eval'd?
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For a big-data Chinese corpus, have a look at this one:
I haven't found a large corpus, but I have used the results of some projects that analysed all Usenet newsgroups from 1993-1994. You could probably contact Shih-Kun Huang for information about the original corpus.
The files I used were a list of character frequencies and a list of word frequencies.
It's probably smaller than you want, and it only contains individual sentences, but you might find the translations at tatoeba.org interesting. You can download the raw data.
I don't know if they can be downloaded, but there are lots of example sentences on jukuu.com.
You can download all of the Chinese language Wikipedia. (you would probably want: zhwiki-latest-pages-meta-current.xml.bz2)
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RIDGE, N.Y.—For five days each November, hundreds of hunters come to Long Island to score the ultimate Thanksgiving centerpiece: a wild turkey.
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"I have been doing this for three years," said Bob Baglio, 55, of Shirley, N.Y. "I have never shot one."
Ever since Long Island reintroduced its turkey-hunting season four years ago, it has become a ritual for the sporting minority seeking a tougher, gamier bird for their holiday meals. When cooked right, the meat of wild turkey is richer in flavor, some say, than its commercially farmed counterpart.
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As of Tuesday, state Department of Environmental Conservation officials said they had recorded only two turkey deaths on Long Island this year, although that number will likely grow. Hunters have 48 hours to report their kills.
In interviews, local hunters acknowledge a number of reasons why the fowl manage to elude them.
Shooting wild turkeys is easier in the two-day spring hunting season, when they are mating and more responsive. "You just have to call them," explained Joe D'Ambrosi, 50, of Manorville. "In the fall, it's a cat-and-mouse game."
"We just got our turkey today," he added. "It's a 20-pounder from Pathmark."
Other unsuccessful hunters pointed to the keen eyesight, sharp hearing and blinding speed of the wild turkey.
"It's impossible to sneak up on a turkey—can't do it," Mr. Corea said.
And then there is what many describe as an obstacle specific to Long Island: many safe zones where hunters can't pursue their prey. Those no-hunting locations include busy roads, backyards and parks where shooting is understandably prohibited.
Mr. Krupski recalled a previous season when he found a spot from which he felt certain he would get the drop on a turkey. When he arrived on opening day, the turkeys had migrated across the street to a safe area.
"It was almost like they were mocking me," Mr. Krupski said.
Tom Jerhada, 27, and his brother Jalal, 22, both of Bayshore, were trying to catch Thanksgiving dinner for the second year in row.
They started shortly after dawn on Saturday, spending more than 10 hours in two spots where they saw signs of turkeys. But they came away empty-handed.
"They are not stupid," Mr. Jerhada said. "They will probably start walking out now after sunset."
The turkeys have had a two-decade head start on the hunters, said Bob Hildebrand, a 30-year veteran turkey hunter in locations up and down the East Coast who helped form Long Island's first chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation.
"The problem with the Long Island birds is that they are savvy to people," he said. "Even though they are not intelligent, they are the wiliest things on the planet."
"The odds here of getting a bird—buy a lottery ticket and play the numbers," Mr. Hildebrand added. "You have a better chance."
He was one of the lucky ones this year.
Out for the second straight day Tuesday, Mr. Hildebrand was in the process of trying to locate a large tom he had seen—and lost—the day before.
Leaning motionlessly against a tree, he had just started his turkey call when he found himself about seven paces from a different bird.
"It never happens like you would expect," Mr. Hildebrand said. "It's always a pleasant surprise when one comes within range. I feel very lucky to have gotten one."
It's a trophy that isn't going to be mounted. Mr. Hildebrand plans to cook his 10-pound prize for what he calls "a nice game Thanksgiving dinner"
"This one," the hunter explained, "is going to be deep-fried in peanut oil."


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Constellation Leaders talk about Barnard's new program geared toward creating a sense of community while helping students navigate the College, the university, and New York City.
Barnard welcomes its newest class to campus.
Move-In Day will take place on Monday, August 29th, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.


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The 7 Most Hilarious Foreign Twists on Common Movie Clichés
#3. The Big Heist (With No Money and Spontaneous Musical Performances)
The Familiar Cliche:
A bunch of guys wearing masks and/or sunglasses pile out of a van carrying automatic weapons and bags with dollar signs on them and lay siege to a bank in the middle of the day. With the exception of Val Kilmer and the Joker, none of them live much longer afterward.
The Foreign Version:
The 2010 Swedish-language film Sound of Noise has a gang of ski-masked bandits burst into a bank with guns drawn, shouting people down to the floor and demanding cartloads of money. One of them then proceeds to run the cash through a shredder while the rest of the gang plays Stomp the Yard with rubber stamps, clacking keyboards, money counters and adding machines. It should be made clear that there's no political statement behind any of this -- they're literally just doing it because they like how it sounds.
The career of C+C Music Factory destroyed exactly the same amount of money.
This is because in Sound of Noise, the heist isn't being pulled by bank robbers at all -- they're a terrorist cell of rogue percussionists on a rhythm quest through the city, breaking into places and creating tasty beats by banging unconventional objects together.
At one point in the movie, they actually invade a hospital and drum defibrillator paddles on a patient in cardiac arrest.
"Play the beat to 'My Heart Will Go On'! The irony will revive him!"
#2. Destroying the Mothership (With the Power of Rock and Roll)
The Familiar Cliche:
You remember the scene in Star Wars where Luke sends a missile down the exhaust port of the Death Star and blows the whole thing into space dust? Yeah, us too. You may also remember the almost exact same thing from Independence Day.
The Foreign Version:
1999's Wild Zero was Japan's take on this iconic movie moment. In it, a fleet of spaceships loaded with zombies has come to our planet, and it falls to a Japanese greaser named Guitar Wolf to save the Earth from certain annihilation. Fortunately for Earth, Guitar Wolf has complete mastery over the power of rock and roll, which he demonstrates every chance he gets.
Eighty-three percent of motorcycle rides in Japan end like this.
At the end of the movie, Guitar Wolf uses his awesome power in quick succession to electrocute his creepy evil band manager, teleport to the roof of a skyscraper and shred a bitching guitar solo. This focuses his abilities into a glowing purple light saber that he uses to bisect the alien mothership as it flies overhead. It explodes, killing all of the zombies under its control and saving the human race.
Incidentally, the Wild Zero drinking game is a faster path to suicide than a .45 to the temple.
Instead of fucking about with pseudoscience, mystical religions, narrow escapes and heroic sacrifices, Wild Zero just shouts "ROCK AND ROLL" at the top of its lungs and destroys all the bad guys with situationally existent magic loosely related to a musical instrument. And to be honest, the Rebel Alliance would've been way more awesome if it had been led by a Japanese man named Guitar Wolf.
#1. The Zombie Apocalypse (With a Giant Mega-Zombie Cluster)
The Familiar Cliche:
Zombies take over the world, and our heroes must learn to survive amid the chaotic remains of society in any way they can.
The Foreign Version:
The Japanese movie Helldriver from 2011 introduces us to a world where an alien starfish has filled Japan with exploding zombies, causing the government to build a huge wall sectioning them off from the uninfected. They then recruit a fierce warrior named Kika to assassinate her mother, the zombie queen (who is being controlled by the starfish, of course). They outfit Kika with a chainsword and some cybernetic attachments (complete with inexplicable tubing) and toss her over the wall to cleave through the flesh-eating masses.
"I'd kill for a purple rock-and-roll-powered light saber right now."
After defeating a zombie made of swords (with a truck also made of swords) ...
... and a multi-limbed zombie armed with half a dozen guns and disturbing nudity ...
... Kika finds her mother, who has fashioned herself a skyscraper-sized battlemech of writhing undead corpses. The Japanese government, under the command of Japanese Hitler, launches orbital missiles at it, but the zombie-mech grabs them and uses them to fly into the upper atmosphere, rearranging its feet-bodies into a more aerodynamic tailfin shape.
"Hey, make sure we address the aerodynamics issue. We don't want people questioning the realism of this."
Kika leaps onto the meat robot as it takes off and manages to climb all the way to the top as it screams toward space. She then beats her mother to death and rips her heart out while screaming "Give my pudding back!" for some unfathomable reason, at which point everything in the movie explodes.
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I'm new to panoramic shootings (with proper equipment), and I thought I'd get my hands dirty and join the club..
Top on the list is probably a NN3 (mainly budget restrictions).
I'm using a 550D, with grip and 10-22mm currently. I intend to upgrade to a fullframe/a 8mm FE, sigma or maybe canon's, but not within the year, maybe next year. I'm not sure if the NN3 supports my current equipment with grip, but I think I can lose it, so no issues there. Was asking a guy on a local forum and he says he still uses the NN3 with his 5Dmkii/iii, so.. I don't know..
Let's just say the NN3 fits my usages:
I'm keen on the ez-leveller2, it seems, well. useful..
so many combinations:
NN3 + NN3 w/RD3L 6-8-10? - most likely option?
NN3 + RD16 + ezleveller? - expensive option
NN4 + etc..
-will I really need a RD16?
I only shoot wide/UW/soon fisheye.
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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps people with little or no money buy food for healthy meals at participating stores. SNAP benefits increase a household's food buying power when added to the household's money.
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Assistance With SNAP Benefits:
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Any household meeting basic income and other requirements may be able to receive SNAP benefits.
A household is any person, family or group of people who live and buy and eat food together. Adult children older than 21 who live with their parents may qualify for their own SNAP benefit accounts if they purchase and prepare food separately from their parents. Adult siblings living together, but not with their parents, who purchase and prepare meals separately may also have separate SNAP benefit accounts.
The following people must be included in one household account, regardless of whether they purchase and prepare meals separately:
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Your household's SNAP benefits will be deposited into a SNAP benefit account each month. Your household will receive an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card in the mail along with instructions on how to activate the card and how to choose a Personal Identification Number (PIN) in order to access your food benefit account.
Sign the back of your EBT card right away. SNAP benefits can be used just like money to purchase almost any food item, except ready-to-eat hot foods. You may also use SNAP benefits to buy seeds and plants to grow fruits and vegetables. The following items cannot be purchased with SNAP benefits: tobacco, alcohol, pet food, soap and other household products, medicines, and other non-food items.
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It's that time of year when we attempt to "rediscover" the true meaning of the holiday season. Who could blame us for trying, as the search becomes more challenging each year? Let's face it; as Christians, we get hammered with conflicting messages. Either we're told by the atheists that our whole belief system is a lie, or we are exploited by advertisers who are eager to profit from the "spirit of the season." As for me, I found it early this year with the help of a couple of friends.
Ron is my friend of almost 50 years. I tease him that he is a disguised Catholic (a non-Catholic who displays Catholic "behavior"). Ron married Alicia, a practicing Catholic, and together, they faithfully bring their two children to church every Sunday. Another friend Jane, not unlike most of us, has questioned her faith in the past only to discover it in its most endearing form: her husband.
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My knowledge of Galois theory is woefully inadequate. Thus, I'd be interested in an exposition that assumes little knowledge of Galois theory, but is advanced in other respects. For instance, it would be nice if it were to include remarks like the following:
A finite field extension $K / k$ is separable iff the geometric fiber of Spec k -> Spec K is a finite union of reduced points.
[I was never able to remember what "separable" meant until I saw this equivalence while studying unramified morphisms. The proof is by the Chinese Remainder Theorem. Also note: this definition is incomplete, in the sense that it does not specify when a non-finite extension is separable.]
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Is Invisibility possible according to physics? Is there any backing theory to prove it true or false?
This is an active area of research in both optics and acoustics using diffractive elements.
You can think of these diffractive elements as guiding all the incoming light around them, thus reproducing the input radiation at the output, resulting in invisibility. The are often referred to as "cloaks."
The current reason why they don't work in practice is because they have only been shown to work at specific wavelengths (or colors), and not over a wide band of wavelengths simultaneously.
See this Wikipedia page for more details.
Yes it is possible
If the object has the same refractive index as a surrounding fluid it is not visible.
If the object does not produce or reflect light (such as a black hole) it is invisble.
complex systems are being produced to create nanoscale invisible objects now.


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What Happens to the Baby After Delivery?
In This Article:
General evaluation; jaundice
The Nursery
If the baby is doing well and is considered stable, then it can spend a short time with its mother before proceeding to the nursery. At the nursery the baby will be cleaned more thoroughly, as well as evaluated once again.
Immediately after the baby is born, it becomes the patient of another doctor (not your OB, but one who is expert in the care of newborns). The general evaluation of a normal newborn includes the observation of the baby's transition from intrauterine to extra uterine life. The neonatal teams will be establishing feeding habits of either the breast or the bottle, watching for normal patterns of urination and bowel movements, and keeping an overall surveillance of the baby for any problems. Concerning signs might include a change in the baby's activity rate, a refusal to eat, temperature changes, skin color changes, jaundice, a rapid respiratory rate, or vomiting. The neonatal team will also be giving vaccinations if necessary and doing mandatory state screening tests on the infant.
What Is Jaundice?
The most common difficulty in newborns is jaundice (yellow-looking skin), and in most cases it will disappear in two weeks or less without any special treatment. For most full-term babies, jaundice should not last longer than one week.
Jaundice occurs when excess bilirubin is released into the baby's circulation, caused by the destruction of circulating red blood cells. Jaundice may be attributed to physiological causes (immaturity of the baby's liver), prematurity, breast milk (occuring in one to two percent of breastfed babies), blood group incompatibility (Rh or ABO problems), or hepatitis (rare).
If a doctor does a blood test and decides to treat the baby, the baby will be placed under special lights (also known as phototherapy). If jaundice is prolonged or associated with other metabolic abnormalities, additional measures may be necessary.
A small percentage of babies who are breast-fed can develop breast milk jaundice. The cause of this is not entirely clear, but it's thought to be related to the composition of the mother's milk. It's normal for breast-fed babies to have higher bilirubin levels than formula-fed babies; however, the mother should continue to breast-feed.
The nursery will weigh the baby for the first time. Contrary to popular belief, the baby is not weighed right after delivery for a couple of reasons. First, there is no baby scale in the delivery room. Second, the neonatal providers have more important responsibilities when taking care of the baby than determining its weight. Although the weight is important and the most common question that parents ask, the baby will be weighed and measured later at the nursery's convenience.
The baby will be wrapped snugly in a baby blanket and placed under the warmer whenever it's not with the mother. The mother provides warmth to the baby by holding it close and transferring her own heat to it. When the mother is not holding the baby, she's asked to keep the baby wrapped in a blanket to aid in heat preservation. When the baby is cold, extra energy is expended to maintain its core temperature, and this can add stress to the baby if it occurs for a prolonged period of time.
If the baby is showing any signs of distress, which could be caused by an infection or a metabolic disorder, the baby may undergo blood tests. Amazingly, there are tiny blood pressure cuffs that can be placed around the baby's arms or legs to measure blood pressure. If necessary, intravenous lines may be placed in the baby so that it can receive extra fluids and medicines. However, most babies don't require these measures or anything much beyond the initial evaluation. The more reassuring and healthy the baby appears to the nursery staff, the sooner the baby will be returned to the mother for bonding.
If the mother desires, she can begin breast-feeding shortly after the birth, but the baby may be tired and want to sleep for several hours before its first feeding. And it goes without saying that the mother may be tired as well.
Shortly after the baby's birth, the hospital will notify your pediatrician, and he or she will visit the hospital to check on the baby's status. At that time, the pediatrician will probably perform some of his or her own tests. The nursery will also give the baby a series of immunizations, one of which is the hepatitis vaccine.
Spotting Jaundice in Your Baby
Jaundice usually begins around the second to third day of life. The baby's face will appear yellow first and then the color will spread to its chest and legs. The whites of the eyes can also be yellow.
To test for jaundice, press your fingertip on the tip of your child's nose or forehead. If the skin shows white (works for all races), then there is no jaundice. If the skin is yellow or slightly yellow, contact your pediatrician immediately. Because many babies are released from the hospital before the baby develops jaundice, it is up to the parents to spot it. Remember: jaundice can be dangerous to the baby, possibly causing deafness, cerebral palsy, brain damage, or even indicating the presence of hepatitis.
Screening Tests for Newborns
Each newborn baby gets its heel pricked for a blood test, but the specific tests that blood gets screened for depends on the state where you live.
There are several rare conditions that can be picked up in a screening and save lives (for example, some genetic diseases and immune disorders). Find out what your state screens for and make the decision yourself whether or not you want to pay for additional screening if it's not offered. Usually, you can order a test from a private laboratory that may be fairly inexpensive (it may cost as little as an extra $25), and that test can give you peace of mind if it is negative, or save a life if it is positive.
The Absolute Minimum
Finally, finally, finally, you have a baby! Rest up while you're still in the hospital and enjoy that wonderful new being in your life. But that new infant brings with it a new set of mind-boggling responsibilities. You will immediately be thrust into parenthood, and it starts right now.
- Once the baby is born, you'll have a chance to connect with him (or her) for a few minutes and longer if the baby is healthy.
- Suddenly, you'll realize that there are additional people in the delivery room, and the extra ones are devoted to taking care of your new baby (what a relief!).
- Choose a pediatrician (or general practitioner for the baby) ahead of time so that your baby is in good hands once it is born.
- Be an aware parent know what to look for in case your baby develops jaundice. Also, decide in advance what types of screening tests you want your baby to have, regardless of what the state offers. Make sure that you know what vaccinations are suggested or required for a newborn.
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TOPEKA, Kan. – City of Topeka officials are excited to announce the hiring of the City's first-ever Bikeways Planner. Julie Anderson joined the City's team this week as a Planner I, to lead the charge on multi-modal transportation planning.
Anderson will spend half her time working as a transit planner with the Topeka Metropolitan Transit Authority, and the other half with the City's Planning Department, coordinating implementation of the Topeka Bikeways Master Plan.
"This new position proves our community's commitment to sustainability," Planning Director Bill Fiander said. "Julie's skill, along with the adoption of the Bikeways Master Plan and complete streets policy last year, will allow the City to increase transportation connectivity, capacity, and choices for all citizens."
Anderson earned her Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from University of Utah in 2007. She then moved to New York and fell in love with transit and non-vehicular transportation choices. She went back to the University of Utah, where in 2012 she earned a Master in City and Metropolitan Planning, with an emphasis in transportation planning. Anderson also worked for Bountiful City, Utah, in zoning code administration and for Morgan County, Utah, where she prepared a transit study.
The bikeways/transit planner position is funded 80% with federal highway and transit grants, and 20% through the TMTA.
Anderson will coordinate the activities of the bikeways advisory committee to assist the implementation of the Bikeways Master Plan. The plan was approved by the governing body under Resolution 8426 on May 8, 2012. Anderson will be directly supervised by Carlton Scroggins, Transportation Planning/MTPO Manager.
Unlike trails, bikeways are bike lanes and routes on City streets.


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I don't see anything wrong with, "I'm up here and I don't know why." It sounds natural; it would catch my attention. (I imagine the next part of the speech would explain why, to some extent or another.)
Just my two cents: Strive to speak from your heart, rather than seeking words of eloquence. The speech will be easier to deliver, and more enjoyable to hear.
Perhaps, though, you mean to say:
I think you should try to be natural and write/say what comes to you naturally. Though you might want to come up with a great speech, those hearing it may prefer to get a few laughs out of you and I think your original 'I'm up here and I don't know why' phrase might just do that.
However, if you wish to be more poetic, consider this, 'I can't believe that I'm standing up here, it's such an honour,' or something to that effect.


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My device is already rooted, this is why I'm asking.
Do you need root to monitor the logcat stream on the phone? If I ran the logcat command from within a Terminal on the phone, would that work?
My device is already rooted, this is why I'm asking.
Do you need root to monitor the logcat stream on the phone? If I ran the logcat command from within a Terminal on the phone, would that work?
These free apps in the Market claim to be able to display your logcat, and don't make any mention of root. Should only take you a few minutes to try them out:
EDIT: Thanks to @mente for reminding me that these apps will only let you view the full logfile in older versions of Android. Android 4.1 brought in a new security model around logfiles that meant that apps could only read their own logfiles and logfile entries, and can't read logfile entries written by the system or other apps.
There is however still both a way for an app's user to generate a logfile of the app's recent log entries to be sent to a developer, and for a phone's owner to grant permissions to allow an app to read the logfile without full root, but this does require you to use an ADB command, which unfortunately takes it out of the reach of most normal phone users:
Excerpt from a post on Google Groups by Dianne Hackborn, Android Framework Engineer. My emphasis.
The mentioned ADB command to grant an application permission to read the logs is:
This setting should survive reboots and upgrades of the app (but not uninstalls/reinstalls).
You don't need to root your phone to run
So yes: if you have root on your phone you can run logcat from a terminal on your phone.
No, you don't need root to get logcat information.
To do it, you probably want to download the Android SDK and run "adb logcat", using the adb tool that comes with the SDK. Alternatively, you could install the ADT Eclipse plugin and use its handy streaming Logcat viewer.
No, you don't need root to access logcat. My device (Samsung Galaxy Note, Gingerbread 2.3.6 with stock ROM) is not rooted (yet!) and I have used the following ways to access log on my device:
However, the Terminal app doesn't allow you to run logcat, and gives you "permission denied". I'm not sure why.
It seems you cannot run logcat from Terminal Emulator without having root on your phone. In this case you have to su first. AFAIK, it comes from Android Permissions: Terminal Emulator simply doesn't have enough permissions to view device's log. So the system says Permission denied.
On the other hand, as others said, there are plenty of apps that allow you to view device's log just because they request the permission.
The application Android System Info has the ability to output log info to the screen which as far as I can tell is the same log info as logcat spits out.
Logcat does not need root. Simples - its a de-facto standard across the board in respect to different Android versions and is part of Android irrespective if you're rooted or not, and is a standard means for diagnosing problems as in for example - you install an app, the app force close, you complain to developer of said app, chances are quite high the developer will ask "send over the logcat" regardless if you're rooted or not!
aLogCat is one way of gathering the information, with the option of logging to webpage layout or plain text, bear in mind, if you schedule it to log at a certain frequency such as every 15 minutes, the SDCard will fill up quite quickly.
Another aspect, usage of logcat will be dependent on the kernel in terms of how much it can store - in any kernel that is used by the ROM, the source for the logging from a kernel level, where it reserves the memory for the logcat service can be found in
Again, mileage will vary, some developers of such ROMs will choose to minimize consumption to reduce memory overheads...


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I have camera Canon 550d and a standard 18-55 lens. My question is: is the Tamron 18-200 lens for Canon good for macro photography?
The lens has a maximum magnification of 1:3.7, or 0.27 (augh, editing! The decimal number is created by dividing the first number by the last, and I got it super wrong) so it's really not that good a macro lens. By comparison, your current lens's maximum magnification is either 0.28 or 0.34 depending on whether it's the IS one or not, so it's actually higher.
So what that number means is that the image of the subject on the sensor (assuming a flat subject) is 0.27 times its actual size in real life. And the 550D's sensor is 22.3x14.9mm, so at the very closest, the smallest object you're going to be able to fill up the whole screen with will be those dimensions divided through by 0.27, or 82.5 x 55.1mm. Which is... about the size of a playing card, I think.
For more visual examples, I shot this (terrible) photo of ants and their larvae with a kit lens whose maximum magnification is about 1:4.5 (0.22). It is a crop - they were a bit smaller at full res. So that lens may be perfectly acceptable for your purposes if you're not going to go much farther than that. However, this picture of an ant (also a crop, but note the much higher detail) was taken with a specific-purpose macro lens (the Sigma 150mm f/2.8 macro), which has a 1:1 (1) maximum magnification.
'Proper' macro lenses usually have a maximum magnification similar to that of that lens; you can double the magnification on any of your lenses (at the cost of two stops of light) using a 2x extender/teleconverter like this one, but of course it depends on whether that two stops will be a problem, and what your budget is like.
Your camera has enough megapixels that if you're not shooting rapidly moving subjects and you're using a tripod or otherwise minimizing camera shake, you should be able to crop down to get decent pictures with your kit lens, more so than with that Tamron. But proper macro photography, as far as I know, does require a bit of an outlay for specialized equipment (and it will usually be a prime lens, not an ultrazoom like that one, that will have the magnification you need).
Canon 18-200 or the Tamron 18-200 lenses are arguably the best all-purpose lenses for average photographers, or for that matter starters. They are by far the most economical and fairly decent lens which captures great indoor and outdoor photographs. I'm using the Tamron 18-200 and it saves me the burden of changing lenses for different needs.
But they are not specifically suited for macro photography. I also use the 50mm Canon lens which is the best and the most economical lens for macro photography.


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29 Jan 2012 5:10 PM #1
Syncstorage completely unreliable in ST2PR2 with SDK3
Unfortunately, it looks like I'll need to implement syncstorage myself, with my own back-end. In PR2, an application which works well with localstorage randomly breaks with syncstorage.
Data is lost, the amount of records returned and available after the 'load' event randomly varies, and random errors are thrown within sencha-io.js. Given a store with 4 entries, I would receive 4 entries on the second load, 1 on the third, 5 on the second, and then at some point, all records would double during a load, and then return normally on the next.
The experience was extremely inconsistent, and my attempt at simple cloud data sync was a complete failure.
30 Jan 2012 12:42 AM #2
Localstorage doesn´t work in PR2:
So Syncstorage won´t work too.
Did you try PR3?
PR4 won´t work with IO SDK3 because the api changed.
So we have to wait for IO SDK4....
30 Jan 2012 6:28 AM #3
Ah, okay. I was told in a prior post that PR2 was my best bet, but the last time I had to migrate to PR3, I quit due to localStorage breakage.
I think I'm going to implement a dumb sync-all system of my own, and I'll re-evaluate Sencha IO when ST2 goes final. The changing cost will be much less when I don't have to port an application to ST2 at the same time.


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What I mean is, in the Hierarchy of Sins against Humanity there are entries for "manslaughter", for "murder". However, one might argue that the Kindred are already dead. So, would you argue that causing the Final Death of another Cainite constitute murder? What if the victim is a wight (i.e., a vampire with a Humanity/Path rating of 0, therefore arguably a mindless beast)?
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I would say yes, killing another vampire calls for a degeneration roll and may lead to the loss of Humanity.
Vampires (on the path of Humanity, which we're concerned with here) consider themselves, or at least try to consider themselves (at least partially) human - that is what's reflected by their Humanity score. If a vampire strictly and unquestionably believed that vampires are completely dead as humans, said vampire would have to apply the very same thought to herself too, ie. consider herself dead as a human as well. Were she able to do so, it would mean she would have no Humanity left in her either at all (Humanity: 0.) (Once again, we're dealing with vampires on the Path of Humanity only here.)
As for destroying a vampire with a Humanity/Path rating of 0: I think vampire characters have no means of learning the Humanity score noted on the character sheet of a PC or an NPC. They might very well consider said vampire to be a madman, an utter degenerate worse than the worst of humanity... yet they would consider the vampire in question to be a mad, utterly degenerate... human+Beast combination (see the previous paragraph.) And killing a human, even if that human is a walking horror, may lead to the loss of your own Humanity (as you're getting closer to accepting and utilizing the horror's methods... even if to eliminate the horror.)
If the would-be destroyers somehow gained certain, unquestionable, in-game proof of some other vampire's zero Humanity rating and they gained similarly rock solid proof about the impossibility of vampiric redemption (your ST discarded Golconda?), they could probably kill the zero Humanity vampire without risking losing Humanity for the act. But I highly doubt such proof would be available in the stories of most Storytellers.
AFAIK that question is never answered on any corebooks. In V:tM, and other WoD many things are left to the discretion or imagination of the Storyteller, specially when it comes to ethic. So, this question can not be given an absolute answer, as there is no absolute ethic answer to that dilemma. It depends on the worldview of the Storyteller.
What would make killing a vampire do to the character mind?
Could the character feel remorse for killing a sentient being with feelings, memories, and its own motivations?
Would an innocent mind be affected after that kill?
If the answer is yes (I think that way), the character must make a degeneration roll to see how much innocent he preserves.
Notice that Humanity is not for punishing the character to do the wrong thing (at leas it's not always that). It's for roleplaying the character evolution as his values and ethics erodes. Sometimes doing the right thing will cost you Humanity.
If a character kills his best friend because he has become a wight, or because the Sabbat has abducted him and now he is a serial killer, probably killing him is the right thing to do, but I would make his player roll for degeneration.
I think the answer is actually a bit more complex than this. Does final deathing a vampire save others? Is the target vampire killing a lot of humans or causing significant human misery? Id adjudge that more as impassioned violation than murder.
Consider the consequences of non-intervention. If the enemy is incredibly powerful, there's little to blame a PC for not acting immediately (survival, risk of breaking the masquarade, etc).
Consider it as essentially the same thing as killing a mortal--vampires on this path are trying to hang on to their humanity and psychologically would be affected much the same way anytime they killed a thinking, feeling creature--human, vampire, or otherwise.
But killing isn't necessarily murder, and murder may be impulsive, planned, or even enjoyed by the perpetrator. A lot depends on that. For example, killing mortals. Killing a five-year-old child, versus killing a bum you were feeding on, versus assassinating Hitler... they're different things. It's got to be taken on a case-by-case basis. A vampire with a humanity of 7 probably wouldn't feel guilty for having to destroy a vampire that's lost their humanity altogether and gone on a killing spree, because that was the only way to save the lives of those potential victims. But they wouldn't enjoy it, either. It would be like shooting a rabid dog--a tragedy, not a victory.
At very high humanity, just killing at all--even the equivalent of killing Hitler or a 0-Humanity vampire--will cause regret. But 9 and 10 Humanity are supposed to be saintly, the sort of person who values life and wants to protect others; killing, even killing an absolute monster, goes against everything they believe in. These are the guys who would want to immobilize the 0-Humanity vampire and look for a way to cure them (and let's face it, at 0 humanity, it's not like they're going to be coming out of torpor anytime soon, so your saintly character just has to stash them away and go off to research the problem). I've never tried playing a character with a humanity score that high, but it seems like an interesting logistical challenge, always having to out-think not just your opponents but your own Beast.
Depending on the vampire, much of the time you probably won't have to worry about humanity loss because your character will be killing, for example, Sabbat vampires who are quite happy to feed in serial-killer fashion and will continue doing so if not stopped. If you're playing at a typical 6-7 Humanity, that's killing in defense of self or others and thus not murder; it doesn't degrade your humanity.
How cruel a ST do you want to be. And how "Humane" is the killer. If he had a humanity of say 10 and it was me he would have to make a degeneration check. However I know some ST where it would be perfectly fine. Also If you don't want him to lose humanity or you do and he passes the check then you can always have the Prince call a Blood Hunt for the killer. Thus solving the humanity issue. Unless of course the PC is more powerful than the Prince. Not likely but possible.


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If any user click on "New Posts" in this site then he is able to see new posted before some time. I mean that new post is made on the basis of ti,e constrain. But It should not be. It should per USER BASIS. Means on clicking on new post, all posts should be displayed after user's last visited date and time.
A small suggestion for this site.
Clicking on View First Unread would do that.
Also clicking on the search results would take him to the newly unread post.
Yes, agree with you. The site should provide the new post in the topic which the user is interested. It's a user's oriented time, right?
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In a statement on Monday, the U.S. Treasury Department said it will launch an underwritten public offering to sell its remaining 234,169,156 common stock shares in insurer American International Group Inc., better known as AIG.
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