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12 Feb 2009 12:17 PM #1
I'm trying my hands by announcing my first plugin, CellToolTips, here. It's a small plugin for the GridPanel to add different tooltips to individual rows of a grid. Each column tooltip has its own XTemplate that is dynamically filled from the underlying data record.
The 'magic' behind the plugin is that only a single ToolTip is created for the whole grid, making it quite memory friendly.
Note: to work in Ext 2, it needs Animal's triggerElement override for the ToolTip.
The source can be found here.
A demo is here.
Let me know what you think.
Last edited by BitPoet; 12 Nov 2010 at 9:12 AM. Reason: Updated links for version 1.3
13 Feb 2009 7:41 AM #2
It doesn't work in IE6 or IE7....
But in FF it does work. Nice.
14 Feb 2009 12:27 AM #3
Thanks for the feedback. Made a stupid copy&paste mistake, now the demo also works in IE and Chrome.
14 Feb 2009 5:47 AM #4
15 Feb 2009 11:22 PM #5
These kind of improvements are really nice! Thanks!I`m from Holland!
16 Feb 2009 12:24 AM #6
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FYI, the delegate config, and the triggerElement property of Tooltip are going to be in 3.0, so when you upgrade, you can remove the override which adds these capabilities.Search the forum: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=01...%3Az7of1ufqccu
Read the docs too: http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/docs/
Scope: http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.ph...642#post257642
16 Feb 2009 1:39 AM #7
29 Sep 2009 12:44 AM #8
the tooltip doesnt work well when use a table.
My tooltip doesnt work well when I use a table in tpl, here is my code:
var myData = [
['3m Co',71.72,0.02,0.03,'9/1 12:00am'],
['Alcoa Inc',29.01,0.42,1.47,'9/1 12:00am'],
['Altria Group Inc',83.81,0.28,0.34,'9/1 12:00am'],
['American Express Company',52.55,0.01,0.02,'9/1 12:00am'],
['American International Group, Inc.',64.13,0.31,0.49,'9/1 12:00am'],
['AT&T Inc.',31.61,-0.48,-1.54,'9/1 12:00am'],
['Boeing Co.',75.43,0.53,0.71,'9/1 12:00am'],
['Caterpillar Inc.',67.27,0.92,1.39,'9/1 12:00am'],
['Citigroup, Inc.',49.37,0.02,0.04,'9/1 12:00am'],
['E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company',40.48,0.51,1.28,'9/1 12:00am'],
['Exxon Mobil Corp',68.1,-0.43,-0.64,'9/1 12:00am'],
['General Electric Company',34.14,-0.08,-0.23,'9/1 12:00am'],
['General Motors Corporation',30.27,1.09,3.74,'9/1 12:00am'],
['Hewlett-Packard Co.',36.53,-0.03,-0.08,'9/1 12:00am'],
['Honeywell Intl Inc',38.77,0.05,0.13,'9/1 12:00am'],
['Intel Corporation',19.88,0.31,1.58,'9/1 12:00am'],
['International Business Machines',81.41,0.44,0.54,'9/1 12:00am'],
['Johnson & Johnson',64.72,0.06,0.09,'9/1 12:00am'],
['JP Morgan & Chase & Co',45.73,0.07,0.15,'9/1 12:00am'],
['McDonald\'s Corporation',36.76,0.86,2.40,'9/1 12:00am'],
['Merck & Co., Inc.',40.96,0.41,1.01,'9/1 12:00am'],
['Microsoft Corporation',25.84,0.14,0.54,'9/1 12:00am'],
['Pfizer Inc',27.96,0.4,1.45,'9/1 12:00am'],
['The Coca-Cola Company',45.07,0.26,0.58,'9/1 12:00am'],
['The Home Depot, Inc.',34.64,0.35,1.02,'9/1 12:00am'],
['The Procter & Gamble Company',61.91,0.01,0.02,'9/1 12:00am'],
['United Technologies Corporation',63.26,0.55,0.88,'9/1 12:00am'],
['Verizon Communications',35.57,0.39,1.11,'9/1 12:00am'],
['Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.',45.45,0.73,1.63,'9/1 12:00am']
var store = new Ext.data.SimpleStore({
fields: [
{name: 'company'},
{name: 'price', type: 'float'},
{name: 'change', type: 'float'},
{name: 'pctChange', type: 'float'},
{name: 'lastChange', type: 'date', dateFormat: 'n/j h:ia'}
var grid_tip_tpl =
'
'+
'
'+
'comapny  {company}	'+
'price  {price}	'+
'change  {change}	'+
'
'+
'lastchange  {lastchange}	'+
'company-price  {company}-{price}	'+
'change  {change}	'+
var cellTips = new Ext.ux.plugins.grid.CellToolTips([
{ field: 'company', tpl: grid_tip_tpl },
{ field: 'change', tpl: 'Change: {change}' },
{ field: 'lastChange', tpl: '{company}
Last changed: {lastChange}' }
var grid = new Ext.grid.GridPanel({
store: store,
columns: [
{id:'company',header: "Company", width: 160, sortable: true, dataIndex: 'company'},
{header: "Price", width: 75, sortable: true, dataIndex: 'price'},
{header: "Change", width: 75, sortable: true, dataIndex: 'change'},
{header: "% Change", width: 75, sortable: true, dataIndex: 'pctChange'},
{header: "Last Updated", width: 85, sortable: true, dataIndex: 'lastChange'}
stripeRows: true,
autoExpandColumn: 'company',
title:'Array Grid',
plugins: [ cellTips ]
The red part is the only change of my code, my project need to use a table to finish the tpl, and it just doesnt work well, the tooltip seemed not well.
here is the screensnap:
can the writer of the this plugin resolve it?
29 Sep 2009 3:04 AM #9
Hi suntory,
the rendering issue is due to the maxWidth setting of the ToolTip that defaults to 300px. If you want to change it, you have to use a more complex configuration like the following:
var grid_tip_tpl = '
'+ '
'+ 'comapny  {company}	'+ 'price  {price}	'+ 'change  {change}	'+ '
'+ '
'+ 'lastchange  {lastchange}	'+ 'company-price  {company}-{price}	'+ 'change  {change}	'+ '
'+ '
'; var cellTips = new Ext.ux.plugins.grid.CellToolTips({ tipConfig: { maxWidth: 500 }, ajaxTips: [ { field: 'company', tpl: grid_tip_tpl }, { field: 'change', tpl: 'Change: {change}' }, { field: 'lastChange', tpl: '{company}
Last changed: {lastChange}' } ] });
29 Sep 2009 5:38 PM #10
Thanks very much, I modify the maxValue according to your suggestion and it work very well.
Your reply is so in time. I have to thank you a million times. Thanks.


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Permanent Exclusion
|The Headteacher decides to Exclude Permanently
|The City of Birmingham School (formerly the Behaviour Support Service) contacts the family to arrange a meeting and discuss full time education provision from sixth day of exclusion. The parent / carer will be invited to attend a planning meeting with the City of Birmingham School to discuss the interim and possible future placement of the pupil.
|A copy of the permanent exclusion form and other related papers will be sent to the parent / carer and copied to:
|A Governors' Discipline Committee will meet within 15 days of the date of the exclusion to decide whether or not to have the pupil back in school (reinstate).
|The family (including the excluded pupil), Headteacher and Exclusion Team should be notified of the date of and be invited to attend the meeting of the Governors' Discipline Committee.
Prior to the meeting, documentation concerning the permanent exclusion should be sent to all parties
|The parent / carer may put their case in person or in writing to the Discipline Committee. The Committee will be made up of school Governors, (minimum of 3).
|The Discipline Committee meeting will take place. The Governors will make a decision regarding the pupil's future at the school.
The Governors can make one of two decisions (refer to 8 and 9 below).
|The Governors can decide to reinstate the pupil. Therefore he / she would return to school on an agreed date.
This decision would mean that the exclusion process is now over for the pupil. However, the school may wish to implement a Home / School agreement and can access support from the City of Birmingham School.
|The Governors can agree with the exclusion and uphold the Headteacher's decision to exclude. The parent / carer can be told this decision at the meeting or in writing. A letter confirming the governor's decision should be sent out to all parties without delay.
|A parent / carer may challenge this decision and has a right to request a review by an Independent Review Panel.
Both the Clerk to the Governors and the Exclusion Team can give the parent / carer information on how to do this in writing.
|If the parent / carer does not wish to appeal they may wish to inform of their decision by contacting the Exclusions Team.
|If the parent / carer wishes to appeal they must write giving grounds for appeal to:
Council Regulatory Team, Democratic Services Division, The Council House, Victoria Square, Birmingham B1 1BB
OR in the case of an academy, the Academy Trust (address details should be included in the governors' decision letter).
This must be done within 15 school days of the date of notification of the Governors' Decision.
The Council Regulatory Team / Academy Trust will then make contact with the parent / carer to confirm the meeting date for the Independent Reveiw Hearing. The meeting will take place within 15 school days of the Committee Section receiving the request to appeal.


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I have created a second instance of MySQL on the server for replication, if I start the process manually it works but need it to start at bootup.
I used to just do a bash script in the init.d folder but apparently that no longer works on 11.10
Can anyone point me in the right direction? I even copied the mysql service, changed it and tried that but it refused to work.
P.S It is the server edition so only Shell access.


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A friend of mine posed this problem and we have had a disagreement on the answer.
The problem:
- There is a 90% chance that some event will happen in the next year.
- There is a 95% chance that the event will happen eventually.
- What is the probability that it happens after this year, if it does not happen in the next year?
Hover over here for a description of our answers and arguments:
I told my friend that it is 95%. My reasoning is that there is a 95% chance that it happens from now to infinity. The probability that it happens from now to infinity minus one year is still 95%. In one year, when it hasn't happened, events that didn't happen don't affect your "eventual" odds.
My friend on the other hand, believes it to be 50%. He had two arguments. First, he said if you flip a coin 4 times, the chance that you get heads the first time is 50%, but the chance that you get heads eventually is 93.75% (15/16). If you don't get it the first time, what is the chance that you get it after the first time? 87.5% (7/8), in other words, it has decreased.
To this I responded that the "eventually" is based on a finite set of events, each with their own probability and after the first event has passed, you have fewer chances. In his problem, on the other hand, it is a summary of the probability of unknown events broken in two time periods.
He continued to insist that it is the same because you have two time periods with known odds. The 95% is the combination of two probabilities, 90% and 50%. Eliminating the first 90%, the probability of the remaining period is 50%.
I agreed that's an accurate way to look at it from now, but I don't think that's accurate once you know it did not happen in that time period.


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Installing LibreOffice manually on Ubuntu 12.04 works great following the advice in this answer: http://askubuntu.com/a/182602/103893
It basically is a matter of downloading the most recent release from the LibreOffice site and running
sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-core and
sudo dpkg -i *.deb.
Doing the above I installed LibreOffice 3.6.3 and it works great.
But what is the best way to uninstall this new version of LibreOffice (for when the next release is coming along)?
sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-core will not do anything, and
sudo apt-get remove libreoffice3.6 does not seem to remove all packages installed with dpkg...?


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Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Getting Your House in Order - Inspecting a Proj File
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In creating a build script, we want to automate common tasks for building the project source code as much as possible. Whether you know it or not, you are already using build scripts. When you create a new project, Visual Studio creates a build script for that project in the form of a .csproj or .vbproj file. (MSBuild was introduced with .NET Framework 2.0, so project files created by Visual Studio 2005 and above use the new MSBuild format under the covers.) If you open a project file in a text editor such as Notepad rather than Visual Studio, you will see something like this clip.
To run a build from the command line, simply launch a Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt, navigate to the solution root, and execute:
msbuild ScrewTurnWiki.sln
Running the Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt instead of the standard command prompt ensures that the Visual Studio and the .NET Framework directories are added to the PATH environment variable, enabling you to execute commands like msbuild.exe without specifying the full path to the executable. In addition to compiling the entire solution, you can compile individual projects.
msbuild src\app\Core\Core.csproj
Rather than editing the project files directly, I will create a separate build file for building the solution from the command line. If you are creating a custom build file, the two most commonly used build engines on the .NET platform are MSBuild and NAnt. (Other options include rake, Bake, and psake, among others.) I will use MSBuild since it is installed by default with .NET Framework 2.0 and above.
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On evaluating quadratic equations, It always equals zero:
Why zero? Is it possible to use other number for another purpose?
On evaluating quadratic equations, It always equals zero:
Why zero? Is it possible to use other number for another purpose?
The value of c is a simple number with no variable. So you can move any value on the right side over to the left and it will just become part of c. Example: $$x^2+x-6=6$$ $$x^2+x-12=0$$
Therefore, we can set the right hand side equal to any number we want. We usually set it equal to zero because this helps to solve later. Example: $$(x+3)(x-2) = 6$$ vs $$(x-3)(x+4) = 0$$
The second one is easier to solve because we know anything multiplied by 0 is 0. That means we can solve each part individually.
After we reach the factored form, we know the answer is in the form of something multiplied by something else equals a number. If that number is not 0 then we must take both parts into account. On the other hand, if it is 0 then we can simply ask what will make one of those parts zero? Then it doesn't matter what the other part is.
Compare this to the version not set to zero: $$(x+3)(x-2) = 6$$ Now, we can't make this any simpler. We must figure out what value of $x$ will make that entire thing true from the start.
Absolutely! But think about what you end up with. Consider the quadratic equation
$x^2 + 2x + 3 = 2 \, . $
If we now subtract 2 from both sides we get $x^2 + 2x + 1 = 0.$ Meaning that these two equations are just two ways of expressing the same thing. So, to save you the trouble of substracting 2 from both sides, you'll be presented with $x^2 + 2x + 1 = 0$ instead of $x^2 + 2x + 3 = 2.$
In fact, you don't even need a number on the right hand side. What about
$2x^2 + 5x - 9 = x^2 + 3x - 10 \, ? $
I could subtract $x^2 + 3x - 10$ from both sides and end up with our friend $x^2 + 2x + 1= 0$. Any equation of the form $px^2 + qx + r = sx^2 + tx + u$ can be simplified - tidied up, if you will - into the form $ax^2 + bx + c = 0.$ When you come across one in the form $ax^2 + bx + c = 0$ it simply means someone has tidied it all up for you in advance. (And it doesn't change the solutions!)
DaleSwanson's answer is nice. I just include this as an answer because its too long for a comment:
Consider this, if $a_1,a_2 \neq 0$ then $y=a_1x^2+b_1x+c_1$ and $y=a_2x^2+b_2x+c_2$ give parabolas in the $xy$-plane for particular choices of $b_1,b_2,c_1,c_2$. These parabolas intersect if the equation $a_1x^2+b_1x+c_1 = a_2x^2+b_2x+c_2$ has a solution. Bringing all the terms to the r.h.s yields $(a_2-a_1)x^2+(b_2-b_1)x+c_2-c_1=0$. Let $a=a_2-a_1$, $b=b_2-b_1$ and $c=c_2-c_1$ and we obtain the standard $ax^2+bx+c=0$. Assuming $a \neq 0$ amounts to supposing $a_2 \neq a_1$ and the existence of solutions now characterizes the locations (if any) where the parabolas $y=a_1x^2+b_1x+c_1$ and $y=a_2x^2+b_2x+c_2$ intersect.
More generally, suppose $y=f(x)$ and $y=g(x)$ are graphs of polynomials with $deg(f)=m$ and $deg(g)=n$ and $m<n$ then the number of possible intersections will be at most $n$.
$$ax^2+bx+c=0 \implies ax^2+bx=-c$$
$$ax^2+bx+c-d=0 \implies ax^2+bx+c=d$$
We generally want the quadratic to equal zero, however, because the solutions are the roots of the quadratic. Roots of functions, i.e. the solutions(s) of functions the form $f(x)=0$ are very important.
it is general form ,namely second order polynomial equation and express like $f(x)=0$ where $f(x)=a*x^2+b*x+c$ what if this is equal to some number $D$? $a*x^2+b*x+c=D$ so we can write it as $a*x^2+b*x+c-D=0$


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Suppose $p(x_1, x_2, \cdots, x_n)$ is a symmetric polynomial. Given any univariate polynomial $u$, we can define a new polynomial $q(x_1, x_2, \cdots, x_{n+1})$ as
$q(x_1, x_2, \cdots, x_{n+1}) = u(x_1)p(x_2, x_3, \cdots, x_{n+1}) + u(x_2)p(x_1, x_3, \cdots, x_{n+1}) + \cdots \\ \phantom{q(x_1, x_2, \cdots, x_{n+1}) = } \qquad + u(x_{n+1})p(x_1, x_2, \cdots, x_n).$
It is easy to verify that $q$ is a symmetric polynomial. My question is: Is there a name already defined for such a mapping from $(p, u)$ to $q$? Thanks.


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The Danish String Quartet
Wednesday, November 04, 2015
The Danish String Quartet has established a reputation for possessing an integrated sound, impeccable intonation and judicious balance. With their technical and interpretive talents matched by an infectious joy for music-making and "rampaging energy" (The New Yorker), the quartet has been acclaimed as one of the "best quartets before the public today" (Washington Post). Since making their debut in 2002 at the Copenhagen Festival, this group of musical friends has demonstrated a passion for Scandinavian composers, who they frequently incorporate into adventurous programs, while also proving skilled and profound performers of the classical masters.
Per Nørgaard: Quarteto Breve
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135
Schnittke: Quartet No. 3 (built on Grosse Fuge theme)
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Nutrition and Chemotherapy after Gastric Bypass Surgery
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I had gastric bypass surgery about 5 years ago. Now I am about to start treatment for colon cancer with chemo. I am really worried about how to manage nutrition with this combination. Any advice appreciated!
Katrina Claghorn, Registered Dietician at Penn Medicine, responds:
Managing your nutritional status during treatment may be a little challenging. You should meet with the Registered Dietitian on your medical team for support. You need to know what your nutritional needs are so you have a goal to work towards. You may need to adjust your diet to include more refined foods and calorie dense foods, which are the exact opposite of what you have been taught to eat after gastric bypass surgery, since these foods are generally better tolerated if you experience diarrhea and/or nausea. Small, frequent meals and snacks seem to work best and are best tolerated. And also, it is critical that you take your medications as directed to control the side effects so that you will be able to continue to eat.
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Is there a way for WiFi-tethering without root access.
I mean before Froyo.
I have HTC Hero 2.1, and frankly, I don't want to root it for security reasons.
Is there a way for WiFi-tethering without root access.
I mean before Froyo.
I have HTC Hero 2.1, and frankly, I don't want to root it for security reasons.
I don't know of any way to do wifi tethering without root (before 2.2). You can, however, use bluetooth or a USB cable with PDANet which does not require root.
Here is the ultimate answer:
First, on your phone, install a terminal-emulator from Android market, then run
So, next, you need to cross-compile a privilege-escalation attack for ARM5 (HTC Hero microprocessor). For that, use the RageAgainstTheCage attack made by Sebastian Krahmer of Suse Linux Berlin (in binary only), reverse-engineered here:
Put all, the superuser package, the su program, and the RageAgainstTheCage exploit in the same folder as adb (a program to connect to your android phone from the Android SDK). You need to enable USB-Debugging, and switch of internet sharing.
Next, you transmit the file rageagainstthecage.bin to folder /data/local/tmp on your phone (initially, as normal user, you have write access only to the sdcard and the temp folder, but this is sufficient)
Then you start a shell on your phone:
And change ownership on rageagainstthecage.bin to all
Next, you start rageagainstthecage on your phone as normal user
When the exploit finished, your adb connection should terminate.
If it doesn't type
Now connect again to your phone:
ADB shell now runs with escalated privileges (root). So now, remount the file system so you can write on the system partition.
Now push su and superuser to your phone (remember, you have write access now)
And then change ownership on su to all
Next download and install one of all those free tether apps that require you to root your phone. Start superuser.
Now start your tether app. A popup will appear, which will ask you whether you want to grant this app root access. Say yes, and check remember.
Now switch of your phone and restart.
When it has restarted, everything is back to normal, no more root privileges.
But su is still there and executable for everyone.
So, when logged in, start the wifi tether app.
Since you checked remember in the superuser app, it will use su to switch this application to root, which means it will now run fine, with only the tether app with root privileges :)
BTW, if you use your escalated privileges to export some apk packages for reverse-engineering, you will notice that android lacks the cp command.
You can circumvent that restriction by using cat (copy-cat) instead:
My samsung galaxy s (android 2.1) had a tethering option build in from the start. Settings->wifi-Mobile AP and I only had to check a checkbox for it to work. And it works really great. (not locked here t-mobile/netherlands)
I can't find the application name though.
Easy tether is an awesome app that allows wifi tethering. http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/communication/easytether-lite_eoqh.html
You won't like this answer but your carrier may provide the service if you're willing to pay extra for it. Sprint offered a WiFi hotspot feature for $30/month on the Evo pre 2.2. Ridiculous, yes. But may be your only option.
You can get unrevoked, its an app which gives you root access without changing your kernel/flashing a rom/voiding your warrenty, use that on every startup (its automatic) and then get the superuser app. Then you can use the Open Tethering app which requires root access.
Thats the ONLY free way to do wifi tethering. Otherwise pay sprint or your provider the monthly enable tethering fee.
Worst Case Scenario you can tether using EasyTether app. It creates a forwarding mechanism for HTTP requests through the USB port. Requires software on android + computer. Its not WiFi Tethering, but its free, rootless tethering. For 3 bucks you can get the pro version and do HTTPS as well. Better than nothing (or 30 bucks a month --err thats insane--)
Short answer, you need to root for wifi hotspot tethering, or pay Sprint $30 a month. I thought about purchasing the package, but decided against it because they already charge you $10 extra per line for no legit reason. My thought there is they expect you to tether and can't do anything about it really, so they charge you extra and every month, 10 bucks adds up quickly per line, especially for those on your plan who don't even care to tether at all.


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5 Popular Medications You Won't Believe Mess With Your Brain
If you want to terrify yourself, go into your medicine cabinet and read all of the really weird side effects at the bottom of the label. Beyond the normal "headache" or "upset stomach," you get weird shit that reads like ironic punishments from a vengeful genie.
Sure, most users won't see this kind of black magic side effects, but that just means you're all the more surprised when you run into ...
#5. The Flu Medication That Can Cause Psychosis
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The Medication:
Tamiflu is a wildly popular treatment for the flu, frequently prescribed for parents to pump their children full of at the first sign of a sniffle. Which is about to get a bit terrifying, since Tamiflu ...
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This bullshit.
The Side Effect:
... can send you on a bad trip reminiscent of a ridiculous old-school anti-marijuana PSA. That's seriously the best way we can think of to accurately summarize the symptoms, which range from hallucinations to psychosis to impulsive behavior. Kids taking it have tried to dive out of the windows of moving cars. Dr. Lawrence G. Roberts, aka "the creator of the freaking Internet," blacked out and introduced a tree to the inner workings of his BMW after taking it, while other adults have just gone whole hog and committed suicide.
But instead of slamming that shit to bits with the ban hammer, the FDA has sort of gone in the exact opposite direction, approving Tamiflu for use with newborns and infants. Which we guess actually makes a twisted kind of sense -- being skin sacks full of Jell-O, infants literally can't chase the pretty colors, so running out into traffic isn't really a concern. Also, they lack the fine motor skills to properly operate a handgun.
"Don't make me take my hat off, old man. You know what happens when I'm on the wacky meds."
But the benefits are probably worth the possible side effects, right? After all, the flu is a really nasty, even potentially fatal virus that's implicated in thousands of deaths every year. So if Tamiflu can save people, maybe it's worth the risks. After all, a big-time medication like this wouldn't even be on the shelves if it hadn't been proven effective in numerous peer-reviewed double-blind scientific studies that -- wait, it hasn't? It doesn't seem to have any effect on the flu? Tamiflu, like most other flu medications, doesn't do anything (except maybe trigger a pseudo PCP freakout)?
Aaaaand, several of you are right now trying to think of how you can get your hands on some. Don't say we didn't warn you.
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#4. The Cholesterol Medication That Can Give You Amnesia
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The Medication:
Lipitor is an extremely mundane-sounding cholesterol medication that has become the world's top selling drug. The reason is pretty obvious: Everyone's worried about heart disease in the land of the fried and the home of the battered, and Lipitor promises to scare the heart disease gremlins away.
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Almost as well as not putting ridiculous amounts of it into your body in the first place.
The Side Effect:
Memory loss. And to be clear, we're not talking about the "Gosh, where did I leave my keys?" type of memory loss that even the most intellectually refined of us suffer from daily -- no, this is full-on "Where am I, who is this woman who says she's my wife, and why is there adamantium fused to my skeleton?" amnesia.
That's exactly what happened to 68-year-old Duane Graveline back in 1999 (minus the adamantium part ... as far as we know). One minute the guy was just your average, run-of-the-mill former NASA astronaut; the next, he completely forgot who he was, where he lived, and who he was married to. And that's a veritable tragedy because, while we acknowledge that every life is precious and all that jazz, we're pretty sure that a former astronaut's memories are objectively more valuable than the stupid shit that's filling most of the rest of our heads. Luckily Graveline's amnesia cleared up six hours later, and he stopped taking the drug immediately ... until his doctor convinced him to give it another shot a year later and, sure enough, he had a second episode of the who-the-hell-are-yous.
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Did we mention he was a flight surgeon and a colonel? Because he totally fucking was.
Graveline is just one of the hundreds who've reported similar side effects to the FDA, and the really weird part is that no one knows exactly why Lipitor (and other "statin" drugs) have this effect on some people -- partly because people who take heart disease medication tend to be older, and older people are already prone to dementia and other diseases that the memory loss might be mistaken for. But the leading theory is that cholesterol -- the stuff that you know from commercials as being your arteries' boogeyman -- is actually vital for your brain to function properly because it insulates nerve cells. So while Lipitor is stripping the inside of your arteries, it might also be stripping those nerves and fucking up your brain's capacity to remember stuff.
Of course, the FDA is nothing if not on the ball, and they jumped right on making the manufacturers of statin drugs add "Weapon X Syndrome" to their warning labels ... in 2012.
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Maybe they were taking the drug and just forgot.
#3. The Anti-Malaria Medication That May Make You a Deranged Psychopath
The Medication:
Lariam is the anti-malaria drug that, at least until 2009, was commonly prescribed to tourists, as well as being the standard go-to of the American Armed Forces for preventing malaria, which is a debilitating flu-like illness common in the kind of hot, muggy climates that always seem to be rife with debilitating flu-like illnesses.
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Come for the beautiful weather -- stay because you've been quarantined.
The Side Effect:
Cambridge student Jessica Chapman is found unconscious from a drug overdose in some bushes near her home, one year after Irish student Malcolm Edge was found hanging in a Vietnam hotel room. Nightmares and constant anxiety drive lawyer Francis Macleod Matthews to jump from his London apartment. Four different soldiers return to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, after tours of duty in Afghanistan and go full-on horror movie on their wives. What do all these stories have in common? Each of these people took Lariam while traveling abroad, and not one of them noticed "batshittedness" in the list of side effects (because it wasn't there).
To be fair, not everyone who suffers side effects from Lariam turns all suicidal and/or stabby. Some people just rip off all their clothes and run through the street screaming, while others rip off all their clothes and become convinced that their families are going to be slaughtered by shadow monsters -- like Jane Daehler, who, during a trip to Africa, had to be strapped to her seat with bedsheets and flown home, where she spent a solid month in a "Lariam-induced psychosis."
She couldn't even grocery shop without running over poor bastards GTA style.
Lariam freakouts are in fact so common that men and women in the service came up with slang terms for them: The days they took the medication were known as "Manic Mondays" or "Wild Wednesdays." Sort of like how college students have "Thirsty Thursdays," only with less shitty beer and more psychotic violence.
So how did this drug become so popular despite the fact that it's basically the Scarecrow's fear toxin from Batman Begins? Because the drug company that marketed it, Hoffmann-La Roche, claimed that only 1 in 10,000 users suffered "serious" side effects ... which was completely true, when your definition of "serious" is "fatal or resulting in long term hospitalization." Independent studies, however, found that 1 in 140 people who took Lariam tended to go a bit Mad Hatter, which would technically be a misnomer if it was labeled as a "serious" side effect, we guess.
"The trick is to keep your real life so surreal that you can't tell tripping from sobriety."
Hoffmann-La Roche stopped producing Lariam in the U.S. in 2009, the same year that the military switched back to their old anti-malaria drug, doxycycline. But there's good news for all you aspiring supervillains out there: Lariam, or mefloquine, is still widely available in its generic form.


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I have cracking knees especially in my left knee and sometimes in the right one too, but not much. I have checked it they said it's nothing but it's uncomfortable. I dont like the feeling when squatting and when I go up, the knee just pops back to its place in the knee cap area. I am afraid it will evolve into something bad. Is there any exercise to strengthen the knees and stop this awful sound?
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Since you said you had it checked out:
I hate to say it, but one of the best exercises for your knees is the squat. I'd check out this video with Mark Rippetoe (a respected coach) for good information on proper form to get the most out of it.
That said:
By that time your knees, and all the rest of your stabilizing muscles should be at the same level.
I had the exact same problem when I started training and I could seriously improve the "cracking" noise and the related feeling over time. I read somewhere that this is caused by uneven distribution of fluids in the joints, but I can't find the source anymore.
What's actually helped me was a lot of different leg related exercices, even those where the knee joints are not directly used. Squats, leg extensions, leg curls, hip abduction and adduction, running, cycling, elliptical trainer, ... From that list I think running and the leg curls had the most effect, especially when using cables instead of machines, but I think the key was the broad spectrum of exercises.
As I said I could improve my situation, but the cracking noise sometimes still comes back, especially if I did a halfhearted warmup.


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Is it possible to boot Ubuntu using the Windows bootloader?
So there's the question. I want to preserve my original Windows 7 Loader.
So there's the question. I want to preserve my original Windows 7 Loader.
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Install using WUBI. It keeps the Windows bootloader.
Wubi maybe the easiest way to go, but it will make your Ubuntu 'part of windows'.
The upside is: you can easily uninstall it just like any windows program.
The downside: its just slightly slower and a touch less stable then if you install Ubuntu on its own drive or partition, outside of windows.
But, as you guessed, the Ubuntu installer (grub2) will mess up your Windows bootloader. However, to avoid that is easy: the trick is to place the Ubuntu bootloader in its own boot partition, instead of it modifying the one from windows. Follow the link that Rick Green added below your question.
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If you say
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Was für Kleidung trägst du am Wochenende?
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Was für eine Kleidung trägst du am Wochenende?
Translation of "what"
In the example regarding clothes translating "what" with "was für (ein)" is uncommon, and its usage is more colloquial. We would ask:
or shorter (because in the context "tragen" implies clothes):
Usage of "was für" vs. "was für ein":
Whenever we talk of a group of several items (plural) we may colloquially use "was für":
If we talk of a specific item of this group (singular) we may say:
Same holds true for clothing:
Still, the non-colloquial variant is "welche", which can be used with singular, or plural.
With "Kleidung" both can be possible from a grammatical point of view as it is used as singulare tantum.
Because properly translated, Kleidung means clothes. It wouldn't make much sense to say:
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Let's say you are playing in the WSOP Main Event, and the bubble bursts and you're one of the first people to be knocked out. You go collect your prize of $19,106, how are taxes factored into this? Are you able to declare your buy-in as deductible for this, or do you pay taxes on all of it?
In the US, when you do your taxes, you are required to show your income from poker. This would be the total of all of your winnings, minus your losses. However, you can not show a loss on your tax return, so the lowest amount you can show is $0.00.
This means that you can deduct your buyin from your winnings in this case.
If you are a professional player, you can even deduct other expenses related to playing poker (transportation, meals, lodging, etc.) but not if it is only a hobby.
See here for lots more information: http://www.pocketfives.com/articles/tax-qa-585513/
the taxes are charged on that price you get. so of your $19,106 you have to pay around 30% as taxes, depending on the country you live in. as an american it's 30% for that. -it seems that your buyin is not "part" of it and you have to pay taxes on your own 10k you brought in... Found here :


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What is fine art paper and how is it different from standard photo paper? Is it just a marketing term? When should it be used?
Fine art paper is usually made using 100% cotton rag content, is most often acid-free and therefore is suitable for archival purposes since it addresses the problem of preserving documents for long periods (see "How Long Will Your Photo Prints Last?" at PhotoShelter Blog for example). It qualifies as matte paper, thought it certainly has a texture, a look and tactile experience that is simply lacking in photo papers, which are constructed on a plastic base. It can be an acquired taste, I would recommend you buy a sample kit or a small amount of paper before, just to try. When should it be used? It's an option you may want to consider if you are selling your prints, for example. Galleries and museums generally favor prints on archival paper too.
Luminous Lanscape had a review back in 2007 of high-quality Baryta-based fine art paper ("These papers are akin to the papers used for various non-photographic fine art processes"). It mentions the Hahnemuhle Fine Art Baryta 325, Harman Gloss FB AI, and Ilford Galerie Gold Fibre Silk. You certainly can't go wrong with anything coming from a very old, respectable company like Hahnemuhle. Less expensive, I would also recommend Red River's Aurora Fine Art paper, I actually made two prints on both the Natural and White variations of that paper yesterday, and they look pretty good (I would recommend White). I'm planning on buying some Ilford Galerie Gold Fibre Silk, I'll update this answer accordingly.
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Basketball Primer for Yalies, From a Dukie: It's a Lot Like Squash
A Duke alumnus humbly offers his Yale counterparts a guide to proper spectating at their N.C.A.A. tournament game on Saturday.
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Yankee Hatred Is Losing Its Point
After a couple of down years for the Yankees, including Derek Jeter's swan-song season, even some of the team's devoted foes may have difficulty summoning the enmity required to staunchly oppose them.
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Newtown Shows It's Moving Forward, in Step
The Connecticut town where 20 children and 6 adults were massacred did its best to be respectful of the tragedy while grasping for normalcy at its Labor Day parade.
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Looking back at life and work by the water in a season that was shaped by Hurricane Sandy.
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Bart Palosz's death has a Connecticut community asking whether it did enough to address the bullying or to provide support for Bart, who had posted his suicidal thoughts on social media.
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I know the number of nodes in an infinite binary tree is countably infinite, but I don't understand why.
There are $\aleph_0$ levels, and the number of nodes in a binary tree is $2^{\text{number of levels}}$, so there should be $2^{\aleph_0}$ nodes, which is uncountable. This is wrong, but I can't see why.
Bonus question cause I can't get it either : In an infinite tree where each node has an infinite number of children, what is the number of nodes ?
I guess it's the cardinality of the continuum but I'm not sure, and anyway I don't know how to prove it.


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How and in what kind of situations should it be used?
For myself the easiest way to understand UniWB was the following.
Most current digital cameras have twice as much green light sensors as they have reds and blues (referenced as RGBG). Now to achieve neutral gray by changing white balance, usually the red and blue channels need to be amplified more than green. Just a few examples (for Canon 350D):
So when your camera generates JPG based histogram (where your in-camera white balance setting is taken into account regardless the fact you shoot RAW) under tungsten lightning, the blue channel will be shown as clipped far before it actually is. Same goes for red channel using Shade WB.
UniWB's main idea is to set all WB multiplier's to 1, so your histogram is as close to reality as possible and you can achieve optimal exposure.
To use UniWB, simply find a RAW file for your camera, download, copy to your memory card and set the camera's white balance using that photo (most of the modern cameras can set WB based on taken shot). Files for some cameras and a lot more theory can be found at the end of this page.
Be aware that the colors on your camera display will be way off and need correction during RAW conversion. When shooting with UniWB, you'd better use a color target as a reference.
Here is an example shot using UniWB before correction (RGB values of white square are 162, 253, 197):
And after correction (RGB values of white square are 236, 235, 235):
Most camera bodies (afiak) that display an image histogram, presents a histogram that is based on the JPEG representation of the RAW data captured by the camera sensor.
If you do your post processing work with RAW images (and you should ;) ), and you use the camera's histogram display as a guide when taking pictures, then the discrepancy between the histogram and the actual image may be enough to throw off your image (ie what you see, isn't what you get).
Some bodies allow you to use neutral parameters for contrast, saturation, and brightness which means the JPEG and RAW image are more closely matched (and by relation the histogram), but that still leaves the camera's whitebalance.
UniWB is a way to effectively cancel out the whitebalance, thus allowing for a more "true" histogram for your RAW image.
So what kind of situations should you use it? Well clearly if you're not shooting RAW, then there is not point. If you don't use the camera's histogram after taking the shot, then it makes no sense to use this.
When it does make sense is if you find that the RAW images you work with aren't what you expect, and you're looking for tweaks to make in your workflow to reduce the effort you spend in post processing to correct your images.
Or, if you are a crazy perfectionist that has to do everything imaginable to get the best, most perfect image possible, then this is worth investigating.
As Alan says, it's a way to get an in-camera histogram that more accurately represents the raw capture. So, the times when you would use it are when you are unsatisfied with the histograms you're getting.
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Next week in Denver, 58-year-old Louisvillian Merv Huber Sr. will represent the United States as he competes for the title at the World Masters Bench Press Championships.
Not only is Huber the only U.S. representative in his category, he has held the national title in his age and weight class for the last three years running. He also holds some impressive records in his weight division: the Kentucky State Record as well as the USA Powerlifting National Record, setting the bar at a whopping 270 pounds. The Voice-Tribune got the chance to catch up with this real-life strongman to learn a little more about what weight lifting means to him.
How long have you been lifting weights?
Off and on for my entire life, but I've been doing it really hard for the past twelve years or so.
What made you get into the sport, and why have you stayed with it for so long?
Well for one thing I'm getting up in age and it keeps me young. After I started really getting back into it I went to the doctor, and he told me I must be the healthiest 58-year-old he's ever seen! And I truly enjoy lifting weights; it's something I really love to do.
Where do you train for competitions? Do you have a trainer?
I have no trainer, and I have a weight room in my basement where I religiously train three nights a week. But I never think, "I have to work out tonight." It's always "I want to," or "I get to go downstairs and work out."
What's the most you've ever lifted?
Well in my weight division, which is 145 (pounds), my best competitive lift for bench press was 300 pounds. That day I had already done 270, and then 280, and I was going to go for 290 when one of the coaches said "Why not try 300?" I only did it that one time.
How do you spend your time when you're not training or competing?
I work with Sam Kinnaird's Flooring for a living. As far as hobbies, to relax at night I like to play the piano. It eases the mind.


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Given that $X\ge 0, q>0 $ and $P$ is the probability measure, I need to prove the following in a probability theory perspective:
- $E X = \int_{0}^\infty P(X>x) \,dx$
- $EX = \int_{0}^\infty xf(x) \,dx$
- $EX^q = \int_{0}^\infty qx^{q-1}P(X>x) \,dx$
In proving 1, I want to start with the definition of expected value which is: $EX = \int_{\Omega} X \,dP$, but not sure how to proceed. I checked with the other examples on this site describing this, but they use the existence of density function to prove 1. Can we prove 1 without using it? Also I think if I can prove 3 first, I can get 1 by setting $q=1$. Please help


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Private investigator Dana Cutler and attorney Brad Miller have overcome more than a few daunting challenges and powerful enemies to see justice done. Against tremendous odds, they successfully unmasked an American president's involvement in a chain of murders. They also saved the life of a Supreme Court justice while foiling a conspiracy by rogue members of the CIA to fix a case headed for the court.
Now wicked threats old and new are about to bring them together once again. Convicted serial killer Clarence Little has escaped from death row in Oregon, and Brad receives threatening messages in D.C., where he is working for Senator Jack Carson, a high-ranking member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. A dead body, murdered according to Little's M.O., is found in the senator's Georgetown home, and Carson has disappeared. While Dana is in Oregon digging into Carson's shady background, a terrorist cell is poised to destroy a packed professional football stadium in one of the biggest attacks on American soil. As the senator's personal life begins to dovetail with the cell's evil plan, Brad and Dana will risk it all again to uncover the truth and save their country.
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The euphoric, exhilarating feeling experienced after the ingestion of conventional analgesic medication (i.e. Percocet, OxyContin, etc.).
Yo man, I just stole an oxy 80 mg from my parents. i'm fucking zooming man...
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To be in a crackhead state; bingeing all night on a sweet concoction of Adderall, red bull, and nicotine. Generally experienced by procrastinating college students and skeezers at bars/clubs.
"Dude I'm zooming so hard I could run the train on 50 sorority girls all while memorizing my entire organic chemistry study guide!"
"Those 30 time release got me zooming like a baby sucking on yo momma's teat!"
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Walking in a slow shuffle, with the torso turned or twisted, due to acute back pain.
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Once your cervix is stretched and softened, it begins to open, or dilate, so that your baby can pass through into the vagina to be born. Regular contractions cause the cervix to dilate, and in first labors the cervix dilates at an average of 1 cm per hour; this rate is often faster for subsequent labors. Here, at 2 cm dilation, the cervix has shortened and is beginning to open. Contractions may still be irregular.
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The Boehner Paradox
No, not the latest thriller from the pen of (the late) Robert Ludlum. The intrigue to me is how House Speaker John Boehner is far and away the most prominent Republican in the country and at a time when Republican candidates for 2012 are scrambling for any bit of air time they can in order to convince GOP voters and the wider public that they are presidential material.At the same time, however, the default showdown that has vaulted Boehner to such prominence -- going head-to-head with President Obama at the White House and on the airwaves -- is also demonstrating how weak he is. The underlying dynamic of the default mess is that Boehner can't corral votes from his own members for anything he is proposing. There is even open speculation that his Speaker's job could be in peril from the rank and file if he doesn't do as they like.On the other hand (there's always another hand), if Boehner can secure a deal that looks like a victory for the GOP and can lay any negative fallout (credit rating downgrades etc) at the feet of Obama, then he may be the most successful Republican leader, as well as prominent.But he's not running for president, and this whole episode seems to have diminished the stature of a Republican field that wasn't exactly standing tall to begin with. It has echoes of 1995, when Newt Gingrich led the GOP House to a government shutdown fight with Bill Clinton. The party nominated Bob Dole to run against Clinton the next year, and we know where that went. Boehner is following in this showdown, not leading his troops, and he could have more success than Gingrich did.
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If Obama would take pen in hand and then put pen to paper we might be able to not only crunch his numbers but, even more importantly, also discuss the philosophical implications of his hope and change plans. Apparently thats not going to happen and the best we can do is either 1) argue over whether Boehner is up or down or 2) assess the maxims of game theory and how they apply in the game of chicken which our exasperated leader seems helpless to prevent.As for the prospects of Obama I agree with Krugman when he writes: It turns out, Im sorry to say, that he wasnt the one we were waiting for.
As in the variouds postings at America on the debt limit crisis, number one here, from Mr. Molloy, is partisan.The issue for I now rgink mosr is can congress come tohether in some sort of compromise, when one side, yes one side, doesn't beleive in compromiose?I think the finger pointing at the POTUS is driven by unfortunately less tha noble motives, though we are supposed to asume everyone her eacts in god faith - I think that assumption is crumbling when GOP reps can publicly cry out about "lying" by the pres.What's sad is we're drifting more and more into toxicity and it's running into polotics, religion, culture.
The problem isn't Boehner. The problem is the GOP. It no longer has any overwhelming political principles that unify a real party. It used to be fiscally conservative, something that is often appealing to most voters. But under the Bushes especially it has spent like a drunken sailor, so the skinflints have left it for Grover Nordquist. So what is left? Protectionism for big business, not a theme actually approved by most of us, and a romantic ideal of a country with a glorious destiny -- a destiny autotmatically engineered by God regardless of our sins.What Gertrude Stein once said of Los Angeles is true of the GOP: "There's no there there". There's no GOP, only the ghost of the party of Lincoln, Coolidge, Hoover, and George W. Bush, pretending it still has political heft. No wonder poor Boehner is always crying.
The reason there is no default agreement is that there is no leader in the GOP/TP to bargin with.. Boehner's Speakership is hanging by a thread. McCain is retired? No GOP candidate is at 30% in a primary vote. "Pundits' like Rush, O"Reilly, Hannity are obsequiously bowed to. Canter is a sad imitation of a hanger-on. The present GOP leaders will almost certainly be primaried out in 2012. They are reduced to throwing themselves into the Government gears in hopes the resulting gore will save them. .
Ann, Stein said that about Oakland. LA has too much there ...there. (-:
"What Gertrude Stein once said of Los Angeles is true of the GOP: Theres no there there. Theres no GOP, only the ghost of the party of Lincoln, Coolidge, Hoover, and George W. Bush, pretending it still has political heft. No wonder poor Boehner is always crying."Funny seeing as they were returned with the largest majority in the House in 60-something years and with a 20 point vote advantage among Independent voters.
Bob Nunz,You have the endearing habit of labeling people who hold views that dont fit within your mindset as barbarians. Speaking only for myself, theres no need to be overly polite. Dont restrain yourself - - in the future just call me a barbarian. I wont take your comments any less seriously than I do now.
"Funny seeing as they were returned with the largest majority in the House in 60-something years and with a 20 point vote advantage among Independent voters."Consider the opposition.Consider two possible options:- give voters a third party with a coherent - give voters a "none-of-the-above" option at the polls.And we'll see how long business remains "as usual."I don't think Mr Boehner would be alone in his tears.
... with a coherent mission
Bob Nunz - - Sorry my comment should read:You have the endearing habit of labeling people who hold views that dont fit within your mindset as partisans. Speaking only for myself, theres no need to be overly polite. Dont restrain yourself - - in the future just call me a barbarian. I wont take your comments any less seriously than I do now.
Ed --Sorry about the LA mistake. I guess I associate that saying with this one: Los Angeles is seventy-two suburbs in search of a city :-)
I think the problem is that the two parties are at apoint where they hate and mistrust each other. On msnbc 'closing bell' today, the Washington correspondent was asked "don't they know the american people are watching this?" He responded that nobody in congress cares about the american people. All they care about is the constitluents that they need to get elected. I think that is a true statement. It might be the most accurate statement made yet. The Republicans don't want to anything reasonable to solve the debt crisis because it come during a democratic administration. What we should really should do is organize a million person march on Washington and demand that everyone in this congress sign a letter declaring himself ineligible for re-election, or resign immediately. They truely no longer care about the american people. This will never happen, but I still think it's a good idea. We need a Martin Luthur King to lead this.
If Speaker Boehner gets something passed and signed into law, and retains his speakership, then he isn't weak, any more than Speaker Pelosi was weak during the health care debate. She got it passed. By a whisker, but it was passed. And she didn't have a deadline.Congressional majorities are ephemeral. It seems that it's difficult for leaders in both parties to keep their members united. It's as if each additional member added to the caucus increases its total weight and makes it more likely that it will splinter into factions.
Bob N., of course Patrick Molloy is a partisan. So am I. Isn't that why we're here? It'd be boring to preach to the choir all the time.David G., Rolling Stone did a bitterly hilarious hatchet job on Boehner with the requisite number of f-words, unnamed sources, and disaffected former aides. (Stone's political reporters are all vying to be the next H.S. Thompson, but they just end up making me sad he's gone.) ANYway, the piece was cathartic, and I felt I could look at Boehner in a less jaundiced way after being purged of my own bile.In my view, Boehner's problem is that he has to deal with a bunch of idealistic rookies who think they were elected to "stand firm" and who feel they have the the moral high ground.The rookies and a few of the veterans who have aligned themselves with the rookies are for substantive changes in the way our government works (less of it!) and the way we live our lives (pull yourself up and quit asking for handouts; it makes you weak). They're not in politix for the money or personal power. They're on a mission from God (or Ayn Rand, depending on their religious affiliation or lack thereof). That makes them very difficult to persuade.
If the situation wasn't so dire, it would be funny,The most recent GOP Presidential candidate, John McCain (even though he mispoke -I l;eave the wpord "lie" tp thr right wing extremists) is telling the Tp "hobbits" they're bizarreo" I was hoping he would say "wackadoodle."But of course. the situation is dire and patyisanship is helping sink the ship, including Mr. Malloy....
It's very interesting. Everyone talks about partisanship, or whether Boehner is a successful speaker. Does anybody have any opinion on which plan is best for the American people, and why,or Is that just an academic question that has fallen to the wayside? This is so political its terrible.
Andrew P - I understand that, in the wake of CBO scoring that indicated that both the Boehner and Reid plans don't deliver the savings they promised, both bills are being hurriedly rewritten. This is probably going to be another case of, "We just passed something. Now let's all read it to learn what we passed."
At 1PM Friday with yet no House vote here is my advise to Boehner. The TP freshman want red meat. Give them an amendment lopping 1 million off White House housekeeping budget. Turnstiles to get into Oval Office and Lincoln bed room. Have Michelle do all WH laundry.The TP would love to take those kind of amendments back to their base.
FWIW, here is Kimberley Strassel on Speaker Boehner. Looks like the Tea Party freshmen are under the conservative guns. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190488830457647456365720249...


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Why won't Obama, Democrats explain what 'fair share' is?
President Obama has been saying for several years now that all must pay their "fair share" of income taxes. I want to know exactly what he thinks a "fair share" is. What percentage tax rate or percentage of income is "fair" in his mind? He never says, and the press corps never asks him. Have you ever heard a journalist at a news conference say, "Mr. President, exactly what do you consider to be a fair share for a 'rich' person to pay in income taxes?" Of course you haven't, and if he was asked, he wouldn't have an answer. The same can be said for every Democratic politician living today. So it falls to us to educate them about what a fair share is.
According to the Heritage Foundation analysis of federal budget revenues, in 2009 the top 10 percent of income earners earned 43 percent of all income and paid a whopping 71 percent of all income taxes. By contrast, the bottom 50 percent earned 13 percent of total income and paid just 2 percent of all income taxes, while the middle 40 percent earned 44 percent of all income and paid 27 percent of all income taxes.
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al.cap wrote on Nov 25, 2012 7:30 AM:
KITTY wrote on Nov 25, 2012 2:26 PM:
White Democrat wrote on Nov 25, 2012 3:19 PM:
al.cap wrote on Nov 26, 2012 8:38 AM:
wd- the tech bubble had nothing to do with clinton's success, right? it was all his masterful tax and spend policies? i'm not saying he did a bad job, just asking for a little acknowledgement of the circumstances of the day.
k- since you insist the obviously fair flat tax is somehow unfair, i'll agree to going back to 90's rates....for everyone, it's only fair. the theory that eludes you is this: maybe if everyone was helping to pay the bills, they might be a little more concerned with how the money is spent, on whom, and why. as it is, the pols say the rich white guy will pay, and everyone else gets a free ride. only the people paying the bills wouldn't like that idea. "
linda wrote on Nov 26, 2012 9:48 AM:
KITTY wrote on Nov 26, 2012 1:21 PM:
linda wrote on Nov 27, 2012 9:56 AM:
KITTY wrote on Nov 27, 2012 11:40 AM:
KITTY wrote on Nov 27, 2012 3:10 PM:
Citizen 4 Fairness wrote on Nov 27, 2012 3:23 PM:
The whole problem is your understanding of the the "weathy" as being separate people to the other percentage of the population is completely off the wall.They are the people too. I am actually not a math wizz by any standard, however, wealthy people avoiding paying their fair share of taxes with loop holes enabling them to pay far less than people earning average salaries, even though it's legal (lobbbyists who enable them to do it) is why we are in big trouble. This is what enables people like Mitt Romney and others to pay only a 10% tax rate. This is why when you have the middle class trying to shoulder the tax burden by themselves while allowing the rich and super rich to avoid paying their fair share and corporations like GE paying zero taxes for the year when they make billions, we have such debt and it's not going to change. "
al.cap wrote on Nov 27, 2012 7:13 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Nov 27, 2012 7:32 PM:
Why can't we just pay a flat tax? Eliminate the IRS. No need to file taxes every year.
EVERYONE pays something and has a vested interest in this country.
I will pay an extra 4% Kitty, if EVERYONE pays 4% more. Rich, middle income, and poor.
Al if WE all paid our "fair share" my taxes would go down a great deal. I'm all for a fair share haha. "
conservative1 wrote on Nov 27, 2012 7:42 PM:
@ Kitty. Can you name me one thing you don't agree with Obama on? How do you feel about his refusal to answer to Fast & Furious" and the cover up of Benghazi? "
KITTY wrote on Nov 27, 2012 8:09 PM:
FREEPRESS wrote on Nov 27, 2012 9:09 PM:
Higher taxes are self defeating and that's a fact! "
KITTY wrote on Nov 27, 2012 9:51 PM:
al.cap wrote on Nov 28, 2012 5:23 AM:
on a side note, if there's nothing there, why is o stonewalling? hmmm, big trouble when mitt held his returns, nothing to see here when o hides everything the investigators want. "
todd wrote on Nov 28, 2012 6:14 AM:
He has the top 10% paying $71million, the bottom 50% paying $2million and the other 40% paying $27million.
That's $100million paid in taxes.. A 100% tax bill.
I don't know about you guys, but I am firmly AGAINST 100% taxation, no matter the breakdown! "
conservative1 wrote on Nov 28, 2012 10:53 AM:
Kitty would you be happy with a flat tax? Where everyone pays something? When over 50% of the country receives a bigger tax return than they pay in, something is wrong. Now who isn't paying their fair share? "
al.cap wrote on Nov 28, 2012 10:58 AM:
tcinco wrote on Nov 28, 2012 11:38 AM:
How many other embassies or consulates have been attacked in the last 25 years? How many contractors died in Iraq? Where's your outrage over those? Hey, how about 9/11? We're talking a few more lives. Who got canned in the Rep administration over that?
More election year political bull that Fox spews and you gobble up hook, line and sinker. "
KITTY wrote on Nov 28, 2012 7:40 PM:
@al and free.....that's the point you shouldn't have been happy to barley slip into the next bracket... not had the attitude that "is wasn't worth your while".......you made it not worth your while ......you should have sold as much as possible......if was your lack of ambition that kept you at a certain level not the government....
@conservative.......ever hear of iran contra......... "
al.cap wrote on Nov 28, 2012 7:59 PM:
i wasn't even talking about my business income. i was talking about my regular job. also, i never said i didn't produce or work hard because of a tax situation.....reading comprehension......again. "
KITTY wrote on Nov 28, 2012 10:06 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Nov 28, 2012 10:15 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Nov 28, 2012 10:21 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Nov 28, 2012 10:23 PM:
KITTY wrote on Nov 28, 2012 10:46 PM:
al.cap wrote on Nov 29, 2012 5:23 AM:
just so i'm straight on this....when mitt pays a lower rate than me it's not fair, but when i pay a lower rate than mitt......that's fair??? this is why we will never see eye to eye. "
KITTY wrote on Nov 29, 2012 11:24 AM:
conservative1 wrote on Nov 29, 2012 10:01 PM:
Before you can invest money, you have to earn it. Romney paid taxes when he earned it at Bain. Then more taxes on the profit after investing it. He pays more in one year than most pay in their lifetime.
There is an interesting series on tv. Something like the men who made America. It's about the Getty's, Rockafeller's and the likes. Without these big thinkers we wouldn't be the greatest country on earth. Punishing success will be the ruin of this country. "
KITTY wrote on Nov 29, 2012 11:41 PM:
KITTY wrote on Nov 29, 2012 11:43 PM:
KITTY wrote on Nov 30, 2012 12:55 AM:
al.cap wrote on Nov 30, 2012 5:26 AM:
conservative1 wrote on Nov 30, 2012 9:26 AM:
His administration could use her help. She should be working for turbo Timmy.
Kitty youre such a financial whiz, you can put the millions you've made in the Caymens too. BTW any moneys Mitt has overseas he earned and paid taxes on at least 1 time. Once it leaves this country, yes he stops paying taxes on the interest he makes on it. He also chances losing that money as it is not protected by US insurance or laws.
I do know a little about business, finance, and investment having worked in the family business and being semi successful myself. We paid for 4 children to be privately educated thru grad school with no loans to pay back. We are retired at a relatively early age and own 2 homes free and clear. I'm obviously not as smart as you or Pres Obama because I believe in personal responsibility and being self reliant and that'sobviously wrong.
All I was stating is that without the bog thinkers, the dreamers, those willing to lay their neck on the line, we wouldn't have all the luxuries we enjoy or be the greatest nation on earth, and that these dreamers earned everything they have. Also I worship only one God. His initials aren't BHO. "
conservative1 wrote on Nov 30, 2012 9:29 AM:
Wolcott Fan wrote on Nov 30, 2012 9:44 AM:
KITTY wrote on Nov 30, 2012 10:10 AM:
KITTY wrote on Nov 30, 2012 10:28 AM:
tcinco wrote on Nov 30, 2012 11:17 AM:
Just waiting for all those riches to trickle down or maybe we should cut wealthy peoples taxes more and that'll prompt them to hire more people and reduce the unemployment and spend more money so the economy will improve! "
conservative1 wrote on Nov 30, 2012 5:13 PM:
. Now you're accusing Mitt Romney of tax evasion. You really are a beauty. Mr Romney turned over control of his wealth a long time ago. He has been running for president for at least 10 years. He hasn't done so much as jaywalk. He even voluntarily overpaid his taxes ( which all the wealthy on the left can also do). You do a lot of criticizing for someone who was "let go" from your last job. You really should be helping Barry scale this fiscal cliff. "
Sandy Socks wrote on Nov 30, 2012 6:00 PM:
I'm going to assume we're all middle class folks. In a little while we'll be doing our federal tax returns. What can we deduct?
Our interest on our home mortgage and, taxes on our home and cars, some charitable contributions, some of our kids college cost and medical expenses once they reach a very large amount. That's it. Very limited, documented and easily checked. Unless someone else can name some other common middle class deductions.
The big deductions, the loop holes, the tax credits, the ability to shelter earnings and assets, the ability to hide money off shore - those go to the wealthy. So does their ability to give themselves raises, bonuses and stock options.
Unearned income was considered income taxed at earned income rates. Bush reduced it to a flat 15%.
You want to talk about "gifts"? That was a huge one. But now its time to say enough.
The bottom line is:
What Obama is looking for is to bring their tax rates closer to what they were before the Bush Tax breaks.
That along with entitlement and defense cuts are what have to be negotiated.
Neither side wants to show their cards or make their best offer first. That's where we are now. Negotiating "
KITTY wrote on Nov 30, 2012 8:19 PM:
KITTY wrote on Nov 30, 2012 8:24 PM:
KITTY wrote on Nov 30, 2012 8:29 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Dec 1, 2012 10:25 AM:
People put money there they know they don't need to avoid paying tax on it over and over and over. I guess you're just a better American than Romeny as you chose to keep paying taxes on your millions.
As far as why he lost. He lost because blacks are racists. they voted at over 95% for Obama. 1/2 of them not knowing ANYTHING about his beliefs or policies. Just because he is the same color. 1/2 because they are afraid Romney might make them work or take a drug test before receiving all the free stuff they get. Aren't you embarassed for them?
Obama is the most secretive politician in American history, were not even sure what his name is! What his religion is. How about his school transcripts? Think there is something to hide there? Let's talk in 4 years when the Chinese ships are sitting on our borders.
Sandy. How are you doing? You've been quiet.
Obama will never cut entitlements, if he does I will be shocked and suprised. Should he do that substantially he could save his presidency.
There are pleanty more deductions the averge taxpayer can take if you're spending. The average wage earner (under $80,000) doesn't need more than you've mentioned to end up paying NOTHING in federal taxes. That's the problem. 1/2 the country pays nothing. I'd be embarassed to pay nothing. "
Sandy Socks wrote on Dec 1, 2012 12:26 PM:
Haven't you ever been to a flee market and put in a low ball offer? Or put an opening bid in on a house? What is what's happening now.
There's also a bit of poker playing going on by both sides too. Neither side wants to blink first. Or show how much they're bluffing. Or how strong of a hand they're holding.
So asking, "What's Obama's idea of Fair Share?" or asking, "What are Republicans' ideas of entitlement cuts" simply isn't fair at this point.
Americans are just going to have to sit back and watch how this plays out.
Bloggers here at this heavily Republican site, look for any event to negatively attack Obama. Truthfully, this fiscal cliff is a politcal issue that can't be attributed to either side. "
al.cap wrote on Dec 1, 2012 6:55 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Dec 1, 2012 8:23 PM:
Just like people that are given free rents don't take care of them , those that don't pay taxes, don't care about government(the 50%).
Everyone has to pay something.
I pray the Republicans hold fast on entitlement cuts. By cuts I don't mean cutting those that truly need help. I mean going door to door, case by case and eliminating those gaming the system(about 80%). "
tcinco wrote on Dec 1, 2012 9:35 PM:
George W. Bush spent 32 months at his ranch (490 days) or Camp David (487 days) — an average of four months away every year.
Ronald Reagan was away for 436 days, usually at Rancho del Cielo (his mountaintop retreat in California) or Camp David. "
al.cap wrote on Dec 2, 2012 8:10 AM:
a three week hawaiian vacation...now? and you guy come here and carry his water like lemmings. "
tcinco wrote on Dec 2, 2012 12:43 PM:
KITTY wrote on Dec 2, 2012 2:02 PM:
@tcino.....thay are the fact free zone......just regurgitate what they hear on fox news and what rush says.......they never watch cspan read cbo reports .........try to find the real truth........why they lost the election and will keep losing elections......... "
al.cap wrote on Dec 2, 2012 8:01 PM:
what excuse do you have for moochelle sticking the taxpayers for her family's travel bills? you guys only mention facts that put your boss in a positive light.
and kitty, stop with the tired old fox news line. we all get info from a variety of sources. it would be just as easy for me to say 'oh they all listen to msnbc, and the leg tingler', and just as dumb. "
KITTY wrote on Dec 2, 2012 9:37 PM:
tcinco wrote on Dec 3, 2012 8:53 AM:
al.cap wrote on Dec 3, 2012 8:55 AM:
as i've stated before, i read all the time. my internet access pages include feeds from cnn, msnbc, ap, nyt, rep-am, yahoo,wall st journal, washington post, and, yes, fox news, as well as channels 3 and 8. i, like many on the right, am well read and informed on many subjects. my opinions come from me, and only me.
when i have cited sources, you dismiss them as unreliable, even though i give both lib and con. you and i will probably never see things the same, but using that line is old, and frankly, kind of ignorant. "
al.cap wrote on Dec 3, 2012 9:00 AM:
i don't know if any others did it, or got caught. don't recall ever seeing anything like it before. "
tcinco wrote on Dec 3, 2012 9:56 AM:
KITTY wrote on Dec 3, 2012 11:57 AM:
@ al.....factcheck.org.......is great.......i use it alot......i don't want anyone's spin........just want the truth.....anyone's spin does no one any good....... "
al.cap wrote on Dec 3, 2012 5:15 PM:
factcheck seems pretty straight. but one must always use their own judgement when reading anything. the annenburg foundation can be considered a left leaning sponsor, and the mailbag has a number of references to left leaning mistakes in some of the content. still, from what i saw, it appears that they try to be neutral.
a simple google search returns a wealth of content on any subject, from a variety of sources. i try to read many articles from different viewpoints before drawing conclusions. "
KITTY wrote on Dec 4, 2012 12:26 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Dec 4, 2012 4:11 PM:
Now we go to the gvmt for every penny we are "owed". I have a friend with a deaf son. The gvmt has given him SS money since birth, now this young man is in college with full funding by SS. Because he is deaf, the parents have no financial costs. That is gaming the system. Not what SS is for.
As far as which president takes more vacations, they all take too many. I never voted for Bush, didn't like him until he left office. He loves America and is a gentleman. Playing golf everyday while 20% of the country is unemployed just leaves a bad taste in everyone's mouth. Obviously vacation or not, they are always working and are in 24 hr contact. I would like to see some "public" support for Isreal out of President Barry. "
KITTY wrote on Dec 4, 2012 9:24 PM:
KITTY wrote on Dec 4, 2012 9:56 PM:
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I am starting an internship in London starting October and was wondering what the options for a short-term mobile plan in the UK are.
I use an iPhone so a data plan would be nice but not necessary.
I am starting an internship in London starting October and was wondering what the options for a short-term mobile plan in the UK are.
The "Text & Web" tariff from O2 Pay as you Go might be a good option for you. http://www.o2.co.uk/tariffs/payandgo
Topping up £10 in a month gives you 300 free UK texts and 500MB UK web and Wi-Fi and you get to keep the £10 as credit on your phone to use for calls and additional texts.
The text and data allowance runs out at the end of the month but the credit remains.
However, if you mainly plan to use the phone for calls, a rolling (1 month) contract from a network like Three might be a better option for you: (see the £10 and £12 1 month contracts) http://store.three.co.uk/SIM_Only/iPhone_Micro_SIM
It's not a well publicised network, but a cheap one for PAYG (with unlimited data) is Giffgaff.
It uses the O2 network, and keeps the costs low by not having any phone customer support, it's all forum and online ticket based. £10 gets you 250 minutes, unlimited texts and unlimited data (but unlike the O2 offer the £10 is spent on this offer, it's not still available to you as credit). You get £5 credit on a new SIM card, and they can only be received by post.
The link above is a direct link to their website, but one of the offers that they do is to reward members for referring new users. This following is my affiliate link (assuming I'm allowed to post it here).
Basically to get a reasonable deal you need to have an unlocked phone, so make sure your iPhone is unlocked before you come.
And then you need to do your homework and check all the main providers to see what they have on offer at the time you are ready to buy it - it does change quite often. The main operators are: Vodafone, O2, Three, T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile, there are some smaller ones as well.
You are probably either interested in a pay as you go option or pay monthly (rolling 30 day) contract.


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There are many blogs, articles and even research (including the famous Marshmallow Experiment) conducted on improving productivity through improved willpower and temptation suppression (Basically, improved self discipline). I have myself tried suppressing distractions and temptations to be more productive. This includes denying myself any TV, YouTube, Books etc. till I'm done with my share of work. Usually, this leads to very little time for myself and though I'm getting more productive (through harder and smarter work), I am questioning whether this is a healthy mode of improvement.
If I try to analyze my actions critically, I initially felt like I was treating myself like a strict parent but at times, I border on a "Big Brother" denying basic freedom and enjoyment. I know I won't burn out because I like what I do but I am afraid that the rigorousness of my life would translate to something unhealthy.


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