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30 Oct 2012 8:58 AM #1
Nimbus Theme for ExtJS 4
We've just released the Nimbus Theme for ExtJS 4. Check it out. We've done our best to give a completely different look and feel to the standard Ext JS theme (not just change $base-color ).
We'd love to know what the rest of you guys think of it!
Take a look at http://EdgeUX.com
Update - To celebrate our arrival on the Sencha Market the complete SCSS Source/CSS and Icons are available for £19.99
We hope you all enjoy it!
30 Oct 2012 11:30 PM #2
31 Oct 2012 1:22 AM #3
What is a theme worth?
Hi zhengeili,
You raise an interesting point. How much are people prepared to pay for Ext JS themes?
As anyone that has ever tried to create a theme knows it's a hell of a lot of work (designing and creating close to 100 new icons, detailed SASS coding changes across the majority of the original Sencha SASS codebase not to mention your basic CSS design), hence the reason we are not inundated with floods of high quality themes that significantly alter the look and feel of Ext JS.
I've seen the value of a theme pay dividends time and time again, it's amazing how differently a user will look at an app that looks like it's straight out of the 90's to something clean and modern and that value should not be underestimated.
So I'd like to put two questions out to our fellow forum users:
- How much are we prepared to pay for CSS stylesheets?
- How much are we prepared to pay for the SCSS source?
31 Oct 2012 9:44 AM #4
First .. nice work! Good to see a new theme.
The other side of this is that while this is a lot of work, I am not sure how many bites you would get on a higher price.
As for my experience in selling shareware software in my ole Win32 days .. we had better luck selling the product at a lower price and getting many sales instead of hoping for a few sales at a higher price.
The theme has already been developed ..
Better to get 100 sales @ 99.00, than to get 10 sales @249.00
Just a thought
31 Oct 2012 10:28 AM #5
Thanks Scott
Thanks for the positive feedback Scott and the words of wisdom.
It's something of a catch-22 on the one hand we all want great themes for Ext JS that go beyond our beloved 'blue' and it would be great if the community could get a thriving market going for themes. The question is at what price point would people be prepared to pay for a theme?
If that price point turns out to be zero then it looks like we're stuck with 'blue' for a while longer
Anyone fancy a straw poll...
How much would you be prepared to pay for the SCSS code of a great Ext JS Theme:
From a personal standpoint, my employers aside (don't shoot me please), I'd say $50.
20 Nov 2012 9:29 AM #6
Hi Brett,
there is a site that I like a lot. It sells themes for sites. I won't publish it here cause I don't know if it is allowed (and i'm lazy to search it ). The top sales theme has 3739 sales of $20. Doing the math, the guy has raised more that 70k dollars for a theme!!
I have no idea the amount of work that takes to create a theme for extjs neither a similar one i'm talking about.
Developers at Apple Store or Google Play makes a lot of money with games of $ 0.99...
I'm not telling that I think a theme most be sold by $0.99. On the other hand, i'd be willing to pay a higher amount for a theme such as Kohive (presented in some sencha con).
21 Nov 2012 6:05 AM #7
Really, 100$ for an enterprise ready theme isn't so much, even 250$. However, anyone ready to pay this is likely to develop is own custom theme and make sure no one else as "that look". So you're looking at a clientele with a smaller scope. Within that scope, 50$ could be looser.
21 Nov 2012 7:34 AM #8
If there's enough improvement and difference over the existing theme, I think there's a market for it. However, imo, your Accent and Nimbus themes do not look that much better/different compared to the base Gray theme. Accent looks decent but Nimbus looks "too simple". I know you are going for the modern look, but it's missing the wow factor. Currently, it looks like you stripped alot of colors/gradients/rounded corners from the base Gray theme and called it a day. Also, the font looks too big on Nimbus, making your demo page very cluttered. I think the base jqueryUI theme looks more simple and more modern: http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/ . Note the smaller font size, more white space, lighter border color, less borders, and better use of rounded corners.
21 Nov 2012 8:17 AM #9
Hi jchau,
Thanks for your input. Lots of very constructive criticism.
With each theme we are trying to target a different type of user. 'Accent' is tending towards the Sencha Touch/iOS style of interface with big fonts/gradients and curves.
The 'Nimbus' theme isn't really done justice by the simple component layout in the demo. The power of this theme lies in the fact that it is very easy to produce applications that very closely resemble the new interfaces within Google Apps. We should probably put up a stripped down version of one of our applications to demonstrate the themes full potential.
I agree a theme with smaller fonts and tighter curves will certainly suit another type of target user.
Most of our clients are corporates, hence the somewhat restrained colors, although if there proves to be a market for themes then yes... we will produce a colorful 'metro' theme with a bit of wow factor
Brett Hannah
22 Nov 2012 9:42 PM #10
Nimbus vs Accent vs existing default themes
Hi there,
I agree with jchau . I'm looking for a modern UI with some Wow factor. I'm considering your Accent theme but I can't see much difference from the 'default grey theme' - which I'm not happy with. Clean lines, white spaces, attractive work space, web 2.0 buttons etc - is what I'm after. Could you provide more example screens of Accent and Nimbus. Could you also advise if you are developing, and if so what stage you are at with, the 'Metro' template. All the best, KC


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Ubuntu 12.10 is so slow and a lot of not responding applications I was using Skype whenever i open it it will go to non-responding state thin back to normal after a while even the software centre the system process is eating the CPU I don't know if the compiz is the problem but issuing the command compiz --replace restore the applications from non-responding state CPU : Intel Celeron D 3.4 RAM : 1 GB VGA : Intel G45 Plz help
Have you tried installing Gnome Shell or KDE Plasma? Unity runs like a dog for me on 12.10 (ran fine on 12.04) but the other desktops ran fine. I'm leaning towards Gnome Shell at the moment.
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26 Nov 2012 2:58 PM #1
Unanswered: Native Build for IOS fails using Cmd 220.127.116.11 with stbuild_template malformed object
I've upgraded to 2.1 and am using the cmd to build a native IOS app but the build fails with:
sencha package build -p ./packager.json Sencha Cmd v188.8.131.52 [ERR] codesign_allocate: object: /webroot/[abc]/sencha_2.1/converted/build///[myapp].app/stbuild_template malformed object (unknown load command 34) ../build///[myapp].app: object file format invalid or unsuitable The application was successfully packaged Failed to execute system command while signing application with error 256 Failed to package application [ERR] stbuild exited with non-zero code : 6
I'm running on OSX.
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{ "applicationName":"[myapp]", "applicationId":"com.[my company].[myapp]", "versionString":"1.2.0", "provisionProfile": "/[my path]/provisioning_profiles/[myapp].mobileprovision", "minOSVersion":"5.0", "bundleSeedId":"[my bundle seed]", "icon": { "57": "resources/icons/Icon.png", "72": "resources/icons/Icon~ipad.png", "114": "email@example.com", "144": "email@example.com" }, "inputPath":"./", "outputPath":"../build/", "configuration":"Release", "platform":"iOS", "deviceType":"Universal", "certificatePath":"../../../certificate/Certificates.p12", "certificateAlias":"iPhone Distribution: [my company]", "sdkPath":"/development/android-sdk-macosx", "androidAPILevel":"15", "orientations": [ "portrait", "portraitUpsideDown" ] }
17 Dec 2012 9:36 PM #2
I had this exact same issue and I resolved it by following the instructions from here:
It turns out upgrading XCode from App Store does NOT automatically upgrade everything.
Go to Preferences / Downloads and make sure the latest Command Line Tools are installed.
6 Feb 2013 10:07 PM #3
is Xcode needed when you are just using the Sencha CMD via Terminal?
I am getting this error too
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The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the flood seems implausible to me due to this detail. How could animals accustomed to thriving in extreme temperatures be found in a common place for preservation aboard the ark?
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First of all I live in the Middle East in the same country as Mt. Ararat where the ark landed. Note this is not in Palestine nor do we know where Noah started from. The problem could just as well have been that he was starting from the Siberian tundra and needed some African wildebeests. You're trying to solve a specific problem that you don't have enough scenario data to build a case for or against.
However back to the plausibility argument. Here in the neighborhood of Mt Ararat there is a zoo here that has penguins. They are kept out of doors and, with the exception of having free access to a small pond, cope with the same baking heat the rest of us deal with. They may not like it but they survive.
Secondly I grew up in the Southwest high desert. The zoo where I grew up had a polar bear exhibit, again out of doors. In more recent years it has acquired some shade and a larger (very fun looking) series of pools but the one I remember as a kid wasn't much more than a concrete box.
As if that wasn't enough to at least cast doubt on the argument against the plausibility of such a thing, let's consider the other implications of the flood.
Hand in hand with the flood come a host of other radical global changes. The arrangement of dry land vs ocean has likely radically changed as tectonic plates rose and fell in order for the water to cover the whole land. How high mountains were, where they were located and even the divides between contents are likely very different.
In the same vein, global climate would have been radically different. Many believe from the Genesis account that there were changes in the atmosphere and that likely post-flood earth has a lot more extremes of hot and cold in different areas than pre-flood earth.
Lastly, it's not always alleged that every variation of species we have today was on the Ark. It's possible a representative of the bear family was all that God required to cover the basis for both polar bears and black bears.
And most importantly, don't you think the God who created the animals in the first place and gives them the instincts that make them what they are could not manipulate the system in a miraculous way to lead a couple of stray bears on a long walk? Similar wild and seemingly impossible journeys by strangely motivated animals have been documented
All in all, the specific allegations you bring up are small items in the big picture. If you really have a problem with the science, you need to start at the other end of the spectrum and work backwards. Those little details sort themselves out in the big picture.
Gen 6:20 reads as follows in the KJV:
(emphasis added)
The sense here is that the animals came to Noah, not that Noah went out and got each animal. I'm not sure that if I were a polar bear, I'd want to walk all the way from the polar regions to the ark, but if God is compelling the animals to come, then come they would have.
Also, remember that Noah had been building the ark for 100 years before the flood began, so there was ample time for the animals to reach the ark.
There are two issues with your question. First, the assumption the polar bears must have been on the ark. The Bible specifies that there were two of each "kind". If we take this to mean two of every species that modern science defines, then that would necessitate many more animals on the ark. If, however, it just means that there were two of each kind, then there would be much fewer animals on the ark.
The idea is that all the genetic information for domestic dogs as well as coyotes (and perhaps wolves) could be contained within two representative wild dogs at the time. Indeed, we can expose the range of variations in domestic dogs to get Great Danes and Teacup Poodles.
So, if there were two bears that contained sufficient genetic information to account for the various species we see today, black, brown, polar, grizzly, etc., then polar bears need not be on the ark, except within the genetic makeup of the two bears that were selected (probably very young bears--one pink and one blue).
The other assumption is that the pre-flood climate is basically what we have today as well. There is sufficient evidence to show that this assumption is probably false. For example, we find wooly mammoths eating tropical vegetation in what are now arctic regions.
Biblically speaking, people lived far longer prior to the flood than they did afterward. A drastically different climate could certainly account for this.
So, Noah probably took one of each "kind" rather than one of each of the isolated species we see today. Noah had 8 people--not 2 Chinese, 2 Europeans, 2 Africans, 2 Native Americans, 2 Computer Programmers, etc. Also, the climate was likely much different then than it is now.
Let's address this question for the different views which are common about the Flood:
Couldn't the answer simply be: "God 'snapped his fingers' and there they were." Because that is how other non-natural events' origins are often attributed in Christian traditions (e.g., the Red Sea parting, the burning bush, virgin birth...or, well, the creation of the entire universe). If God is taken to be omnipotent, what is the point of thinking anything mentioned in the Bible is, in your word, "implausible".
This is an answer for any implausibility you could find with this story (or any others). Not enough room on the ark? SNAP! Sure there is--it's like the TARDIS. Etc.
I have trouble understanding why, if one believes in the existence of an omnipotent being, one is later stymied by "challenges" he and his followers might face.
One school of thought on the flood holds that it was not in fact global, but just occurred in Mesopotamia. The argument is that Psalm 104 indicates the earth would never be fully covered with water after the creation, and the Hebrew words for "whole earth" in the flood account generally indicated a local area. So Noah only had to save "local" animals, which, presumably, did not include penguins and polar bears.
The flood was global, otherwise God most probably wouldn't have instructed Noah to build such a big vessel to accommodate just the regional animals and birds.
Ice floats on water, so the flood wouldn't affect animals and birds that live on ice.
More than 50% (or likely, more than 75%) of the animal kingdom including fish lives on water; then there is another percentage that are amphibians, all of which wouldn't be affected by the flood.
How did all the animals fit on Noah's Ark?
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I have a very large Maildir I am copying to a new machine (over 100BASE-T) with rsync. The progress is slow. VERY SLOW. Like 1 MB/s slow. I think this is because it is a lot of small files that are being read in an order that essentially is random with respect to where the blocks are stored on disk, causing a massive seek storm. I get similar results when trying to tar the directory. Is there a way to get rsync/tar to read in disk block order, or otherwise overcome this problem?
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This has been bugging me, if you choose to save the fake Rachni queen, does she help you? I can't find her in my war assets. Or does she just disapear?
At some point you will get a message that she has betrayed you and you loose the war asset. The Mass Effect 3 wiki also says she will do some damage to your Alliance Engineering Corps but i did not follow my war assets closely enough to spot that happen.
Choosing to save here is a -125 war asset difference compared to not saving her.
You shouldn't have saved the artificial Rachni queen, She will betray you and kill some of you engineers working on the crucible, reducing the Alliance Engineering Corps war asset value.
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spoiler:So, I head to the orbital monitoring station as ordered, and start to clear the station, making my way to the communications deck, and a conversation with a holographic Nomen Karr.
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16 Jun 2011 11:50 PM #1
ext.js (dynamic loading) leads to incomplete app-all.js with sencha build
I try to use ext.js and sencha build to compile my own minimal app-all.js with only those Ext classes that I really need. However, my build stays incomplete, not all required classes are included. The reason is obvious, but I cannot see a good way around this, but maybe someone else has already solved this, since it should be a common problem:
sench build (ext-app-builder.js) runs inspects Ext.Loader.history at Ext.onReady. However, some classes are only loaded when the viewport is created in my application's launch-function, i.e. the required ui classes such as tab.Panel.
A call to Ext.require on these classes early on would probably solve the issue, but I find it very useful to leave it all to Ext to decide when to load what and just have to set the xtype myself.
Any suggestions on this?
13 Oct 2011 5:51 AM #2
Did you solve this problem ? My app-all does not include the required Ext-JS classes .
13 Oct 2011 10:03 PM #3
No, sorry, I never found a satisfying solution to this. I postponed the problem for the moment, since I will still be in development for a few months to come and this only concerns production.
I guess I will have to chose one of the two solutions: Either require the classes early enough so that they are loaded before Ext.onReady or modify the resulting JSBuilder-file and add the classes manually.


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5. Cleaning your oven doesn't have to be a pain. Just mix baking soda and water, rub it on your oven door, wait a few minutes and voila!! All that gunk will wipe right off.
6. Magic erasers are actually just melamine foam which can be purchased on ebay for a lot less than the store bought stuff.
7. Tired of scraping ice off your windows each morning? Mix three parts vinegar to one part water in a spray bottle and spray on you window before bed.
8. Apply car wax to your stove top for easy cleaning.
9. Got a runny nose? Be sure to attach an empty Kleenex box to the one you are using so you have a place to stuff those used Kleenexes. Keep a set next to the couch, one on your night stand and one in the car. This will save you many trips to the trash can.
10. You can actually WEAR milk!! Milk (yes, real milk from cows) can be turned into a fiber which in turn can be made into beautiful clothing.
11. You can freeze green onions! Snip off the top (the green part) of your onions before they go bad. Let them dry completely, then chop them up. Using a funnel put your chopped onions in an empty water bottle. Stick in the freezer and use as needed.
13. Adding a few drops of bleach to your water before adding your bouquet of flowers will actually prevent mildew and your bouquet will last longer.
14. Keep your boots off the floor by hanging them with pant hangers!! You can prevent the hangers from leaving marks on your boots by placing a thick piece of fabric or newspaper around the top of the boots before hanging them.
15. Taking a trip? Forget about packing those huge containers of toothpaste, antibiotic ointment, shampoo, and conditioner. Just insert a small amount into a straw, cut to size and melt the ends together. This could also work for condiments such as ketchup and mustard, couch medicine, even small pills.
17. Make a key chain out of wood pieces. Paint each piece with the colors in your home so when you are out shopping you will know what decor will look good in your house and what will clash. You can even write the brand and name of the paint on back so if you ever need to touch up a wall you'll know exactly what color you need. Make these fun by using wooden stars, hearts, or any other shape you can find.
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19. Revive old paint brushes by soaking them in hot vinegar for 30 minutes. Afterwards, wash them in hot, soapy water, brushing off paint as needed, then rinse and let dry.
20. Use tension curtains to organize cutting boards and sheet pans. No more lifting a heavy stack of pans to get what you need out of the bottom.
21. Use a curtain rod to hang up your pots and pans?
23.Garden planters are a great way to organize kids toys. You could also hang a few in the pantry to hold apples, oranges, onions, and garlic. In the shed to hold small garden tools or seed packets. In your closet to hold scarves, belts, and lingerie. Would even be great above the bath for kids bath toys, loofahs, shampoo and conditioner. So many possibilities!!!
26. Clean your vacuum roller: Use a seam ripper to cut lint and hair that gets caught in your vacuum roller.
27. Having a party? Need extra trash cans? Stick a garbage bag inside a collapsible laundry bin. Once the party is over, collapse the bin and store. These take up little space and come in very handy. Perfect for all the wrapping paper and packaging that adds up around Christmas time.
28. Aluminum foil as a scrubber: Save your used aluminum foil and reuse it to scrub off all that baked on gunk from your glass baking pans. I use this trick all the time. Just be careful of sharp edges. Gloves would be recommended.
29. Mosquito bite? Rub the inside of a banana peel on it to stop the itch.
30. Use a white eraser to erase permanent marker: Also left in the comments of my previous post. I tried this on our entertainment center after my daughter scribbled all over it. I used a white eraser that was attached to a mechanical pencil and it didn't work. Then I tried it with one of those big chunky white erasers and it worked perfectly. I guess it depends on the eraser you use.
31. Tired of getting dead weeds and grass stuck to the bottom of your picnic blanket? Sew a shower curtain to the bottom. This will also prevent soggy bottoms and mud stains. If you don't want to sew anything onto your blanket you can just lay the blanket on top of the shower curtain.
Stick a laundry bag in your dishwasher: Small items like baby bottle nipples, pacifiers, corn holders and medicine measuring cups can get lost in the dishwasher. Throw them inside a laundry bag and place it on the top rack of the dishwasher.
32. Clean your ceiling fan: Slip a pillow case over one of your ceiling fan blades and slowly pull it back. All the dust will fall in the pillow case keeping it off of the floor and you.
33. Save those mesh bags: The mesh bags that your apples, oranges and other random fruits and vegetables come in are perfect for scrubbing dishes with. Using this trick with the tin foil stated above could save you a ton of money on sponges and dish scrubbers.
34. Protect your cake frosting: Ever try to transport a cake only to get to your destination and find the frosting smeared? Stick a few pieces uncooked pasta in the top and around the sides before wrapping it. The pasta will keep the wrapping away from the sides and leave only tiny, barely noticeable holes in your cake.
35. Save your brown sugar: I keep seeing all these tips and tricks for keeping brown sugar soft. Here is what I do (hubby showed me this trick.) Place brown sugar inside a Ziploc bag. Get out as much air as possible and seal the bag. Store this in your pantry. That's it!! If you buy the brown sugar that's already in a bag just place the whole bag inside the Ziploc bag. Do not trust the seal on the resealable brown sugar bags. These do not work. Trust me. I've been doing this for 5 years now and have never had to deal with hard brown sugar.
36. Magnet for easy clean up: Keep a magnet next to your sewing machine. use it to clean up pins that get scattered all over your desk or dropped on the floor. I am always dropping things. This has been a life saver for me.
37. Save those wrapping paper rolls: We all have those tight spaces in our kitchen that no vacuum or broom can get to. Under the fridge and stove, and between the cabinets and alliances. Instead of waiting till the next time you move your fridge to clean underneath, try this. Stick one end of a cardboard wrapping paper roll onto the end of your vacuum hose then flatten the other end. The flattened end can fit under your appliances allowing you to vacuum without moving them.
38. Don't have a funnel! Use an envelope: Cut one end of the envelope off making a large triangle then snip off a piece from the corner. Open your envelope and voila...you have a funnel.
39. Save money on artwork: Instead of buying expensive canvases cover shoe box lids in fancy fabric. You could also paint your own fabric or transfer photos onto plain white fabric before applying it to you box lids.
40. Save your glass jars: Pickle jars, baby food jars, pasta sauce jars. These are great for organizing just about everything. Craft supplies, game pieces, hair clips, office supplies, Pantry items such as beans and rice. Not only does glass look nicer than most of the containers these things originally come in but storing things in clear containers allow you to see what you have so you don't end up buying double.
41. Add screws or nails to the bottom of furniture legs before painting: This will keep the furniture off the the ground and you wont have paper or plastic (or whatever surface you paint on) stuck to your furniture when the paint dries.
42. Crayon marks on the wall? WD-40 removes crayon marks from just about any surface.
43. Use dish soap for an ice pack. Fill a small ziploc bag with plain dish soap. It won't freeze solid allowing you to contour it to your body. Double up the bag to protect for leaks.
44. Tired of taking apart your blender to clean it after every use? Add a little dish soap, fill it with water and turn it on for a few seconds. Empty out your soapy water and rinse. Voila, all clean!
45. De-seeding a pomegranate - Fill a large bowl with water. Cut the pomegranate in half. Holding half the pomegranate. Put the half pomegranate under the water in the bowl. Rub you fingers through it to get the seeds out. All the inedible pulp will float to the top while the seeds will sink making it easy to separate.
46. Cleaning cast iron - Scrub your cast iron with coarse salt and a soft sponge. The salt is a natural abrasive and will absorb oil and lift away bits of food while preserving the pan's seasoning. Rinse away salt and wipe dry.
47. Old carpet stains - Mix ammonia and hot water in a spray bottle. Liberally spay satin. set white rag over stain and iron with a hot iron. The stain will disappear like magic. Click here for more info.
48. Cooking turkey dressing - If you like to cook your dressing inside the turkey, first line the turkey's cavities with a generous piece of cheese cloth. Load the stuffing in and close the cheese cloth over. Roast as usual for stuffed turkey. When you get ready to remove the stuffing to a serving dish all you need to do is pull it out of the turkey and put it into the dish.
49. Grease stains on your clothes - Put a little Dawn dish soap on the spots and wash as usual. Even works on stains that have already gone undetected through the dryer.
50. for static-y hair during the fall and winter - run a dryer sheet (used or unused)through and over your hair. Not to mention it keeps it smelling good


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Science fiction and fantasy are two popular children's books genres.
Writers of science fiction can manipulate settings to fit narratives or make up out-of-this-world settings altogether. Sci-fi writers rely on the utter suspension of disbelief, which is a fancy way of saying that you have to believe what you read no matter how implausible it may seem.
If the writer of science fiction does his job, he sets up the story and characters in such a way that he seems to be describing something that can occur in the not-so-distant future because it's based on things that already exist today. Science fiction takes existing scientific principles and theories and uses them in the plot.
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Fantasy relies on the notion that real people in real settings can encounter magical things and can often perform magic. In other words, some people have special powers, whereas others don't.
Fantasy and science fiction can also be combined. This approach is especially popular for middle-grade and young adult readers. One example would be Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series (Laurel Leaf). It has technological aspects to the plot as well as fantasy-type characters.
Fantasy can also involve mythical creatures such as fairies and unicorns, as well as talking animals that may or may not interact with humans. Subgenres of fantasy include urban fantasy, paranormal romance, fairy tale retellings, magical realism, high fantasy, and sword-and-sorcery tales.


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I am just curious: is there a published proof of the compactness of the Hilbert cube that does not use the Axiom of Choice, or is it well known?
If by the Hilbert cube you mean only $[0,1]^\mathbb N$ then the answer is yes. There is such proof, you can find it in Herrlich's The Axiom of Choice as Theorem 3.13.
If you mean the general case of $[0,1]^I$ then the answer is no, to prove that all Hilbert cubes are compact is equivalent to BPIT/The ultrafilter lemma/Tychonoff for Hausdorff spaces. The proof of that you can find in the same book as Theorem 4.70.
The compactness of the Hilbert cube follows (without AC) from the compactness of $2^\omega$, since $[0,1]$ as well as $[0,1]^\omega$ are continuous images of $2^\omega$.
(Conversely, $2^\omega$ is a closed subset of the Hilbert cube.)
The compactness of $2^\omega$ is just König's lemma for trees of binary sequences, which is easy to prove (hence certainly well-known) without AC. (I think this is called "weak König's lemma", an important principle in reverse mathematics.)
Some of the comments in Goldstern's answer look like they express doubt as to whether choice is required. Here is a proof without choice, in gory detail, just to make sure. The trick is to notice that the construction of an infinite branch $\alpha$ in an infinite binary tree $T$ requires no appeal to the axion of choice because we can specify a concrete choice: go left if you can, otherwise go right.
The Hilbert cube is a continuous image of the Cantor space $2^\omega$ of infinite binary sequences with the product topology. Thus it suffices to show that $2^\omega$ is compact. Given a finite binary sequence $a = [a_1, \ldots, a_n]$, denote by $|a| = n$ its length, and let $B_a = \lbrace \alpha \in 2^\omega \mid a = [\alpha_1, \ldots, \alpha_{|a|}] \rbrace$ be the basic open subset of those sequences that start with $a$.
Consider any cover $(B_{a_i})_{i \in I}$ of $2^\omega$. We build a binary tree $T$ which consists of those finite binary sequences $a$ for which $B_a$ is not contained in any $B_{a_i}$, $$T = \lbrace a \in 2^{*} \mid \forall i \in I . B_a \not\subseteq B_{a_i} \rbrace.$$ In other words, we put in $T$ any finite sequence $a$ such that all of its prefixes are not in $(a_i)_{i \in I}$. Let us show that $T$ has bounded height, i.e., there is $n$ such that every branch in $T$ has lebgth at most $n$.
Suppose on the contrary that the height of $T$ is unbounded. Then we can build an infinite path $\alpha$ in $T$ by recursion as follows. (This is König's lemma, saying that an unbounded binary tree has an infinite path.) We make sure that at each stage $n$ the subtree of $T$ at $[\alpha_1, \ldots, \alpha_n]$ has unbounded height. Start with the empty sequence $[]$. The tree at $[]$ is all of $T$, which has unbounded height by assumption. If $[\alpha_1, \ldots, \alpha_n]$ has been constructed, let $T'$ be the subtree of $T$ at $[\alpha_1, \ldots, \alpha_n]$. One or both of the trees $$T_0' = \lbrace b \in T' \mid b_{n+1} = 0 \rbrace$$ and $$T_1' = \lbrace b \in T' \mid b_{n+1} = 1 \rbrace$$ have unbounded height. If $T_0'$ does, set $\alpha_{n+1} = 0$, otherwise set $\alpha_{n+1} = 1$. (At this point we did not appeal to the axiom of choice, but we did appeal to excluded middle.) This concludes the construction of $\alpha$. Now we have a problem since $\alpha$ is covered by some $B_{a_i}$, and so $a_i$ is a prefix of $\alpha$, but this contradicts the definition of $T$.
Now we know that the height of $T$ is bounded by some $n$. Consider the subset $J \subseteq I$ of those indices $j \in I$ for which $|a_j| \leq n + 1$. As there are only finitely many binary sequences of length at most $n+1$, the set $J$ is finite. But since every sequence of length $n+1$ has some $j \in J$ such that $a_j$ is its prefix, $(B_{a_j})_{j \in J}$ is a finite cover of $2^\omega$.
Thanks for all the answers and sorry about a silly question. I have also figured out that it can be proved using the usual complete metric on the usual (countable product) Hilbert cube and finite $\epsilon$-nets.
Update. Here is a proof.
Let $X = [-\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2}]\times[-\frac{1}{4},\frac{1}{4}]\times[-\frac{1}{8},\frac{1}{8}]\times\dotsb$ be a Hilbert cube endowed with its $\ell_\infty$ metric. For every positive integer $k$, let $N_k$ be the "natural" $\frac{1}{2^k}$-net for $X$.
Let $\mathcal U$ be a given family of open sets such that no finite subfamily of $\mathcal U$ covers $X$. Then let $S_k$ be the set of those elements of $N_k$ which are within the distance of $\frac{1}{2^k}$ from the complement of any finite union of elements of $\mathcal U$. Each $S_k$ is nonempty. For all $m$ and $n$, the distance from any point of $S_m$ to the set $S_n$ is at most $\frac{1}{2^m}+\frac{1}{2^n}$.
Assume that the points of $X$ are ordered by the lexicographic order of their coordinates. Take the "first" $x_1\in S_1$ (i.e. the smallest in the order), then the "first" $x_2\in S_2$ that is within the distance of $\frac{3}{4}$ from $x_1$, then the "first" $x_3\in S_3$ that is within the distance of $\frac{3}{8}$ from $x_2$, and so forth. The obtained sequence $\lbrace x_k \rbrace_{k=1}^\infty$ is Cauchy. Its limit is not in any element of $\mathcal U$.
I have found this paper by Peter Loeb:
Here is the theorem from this paper that implies that the usual Hilbert cube is compact without using the AC.
For the usual Hilbert cube $[0,1]^{\mathbb N}$, the function $F$ can, for example, select the least element in every compact subset of $[0,1]$.


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5 Factors That Secretly Influence How Much You Like a Movie
Movies are a pretty simple experience: As long as there are no jerks texting, babies crying through the action sequences, or mystery fluids spilling onto your arms from some unseen place that is better not investigated, all we need is a good flick and a comfortable seat. But it turns out the movie experience is not quite as simple as that; there are all sorts of things about watching films and television shows that we never consider -- or even outright hate -- that are actually making the whole thing better ...
#5. Spoilers Enhance Your Enjoyment
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If being drawn and quartered were still in practice, it would be chiefly employed on those who reveal spoilers -- at least according to the Internet. Is there anything worse than waiting for the next installment of your favorite franchise, spending months religiously avoiding all teasers, reviews, and human interaction in general, only to have someone in line with you carelessly blurt out that the National Treasure was in our hearts all along?
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"So Bruce Willis was Rosebud the whole time?"
Well, according to science, you're strangling an elderly couple outside a Nicolas Cage movie for nothing. A study at the University of California, San Diego revealed that, much in contrast to popular belief, spoilers actually enhance our enjoyment. In a series of experiments, researchers presented test subjects with one of three different versions of a story: one that was spoiled beforehand, one that was in its original, unspoiled state, and one that had the spoiler incorporated somewhere in the middle -- presumably via a clown face popping up halfway through and screaming "HE'S BEEN DEAD THE WHOLE TIME HUHUHUH!"
To the absolute shock of all, the results unanimously proved that overreacting Internet forum members do not, in fact, represent the sum total of human psychology: Test subjects who knew the spoilers beforehand enjoyed the stories significantly more than those who experienced them unspoiled. Subjects exposed to middle-point spoilers also enjoyed the stories less, but we'll chalk that one up to the Impending Death Clown.
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You ruin everything, Patrick.
Researchers theorize that this is because we tend to focus primarily on the plot and the resulting suspense, which prevents us from chilling out and taking in all the other wondrous elements that make up good storytelling. Or, as Jonathan Leavitt of UC San Diego's psychology department more eloquently put it, "Once you know how it turns out, it's cognitively easier -- you're more comfortable processing the information -- and [you] can focus on a deeper understanding of the story."
Everyone has that one book they can read again and again, or that one movie that only gets better with repeated viewings. If spoilers really were as big of a deal as we make them out to be, wouldn't it stand to reason that your enjoyment would decrease with each subsequent viewing?
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Everything gets worse. Everything.
So the next time some irate Internet denizen yells at you for revealing a spoiler, you just tell them that, scientifically speaking, you're actually doing them a favor. They'll have no cause to type homophobic slurs at you now!
#4. You Like Horror Movies Because of What Happens After the Movie
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A really good horror flick is like a roller coaster ride -- it gets your heart thumping, your blood pressure pumping to eyeball-bulging levels, and your breath huffing like a marathon runner. But what you may not realize is that this state of physiological arousal sticks with you well after the movie's over. It's called the excitation transfer process, and it may be the real reason you keep going back for scares again and again. That's right: You're not an eager horror fan with an appreciation for the art of film; you're a pathetic terror addict.
Seriously, though, ease off a little.
Glenn Sparks, Ph.D., explains that being in this amped-up state after enjoying a good fright causes any emotions you experience to be intensified. An after-movie dinner, bar hopping with friends, a late-night romp with your significant other -- it's all going to feel that much better if you first share your evening with your old friend Freddy Krueger. One study observed participants' reactions to artwork after performing one of several activities -- "sitting normally, engaging in 15 or 30 jumping jacks, or viewing a happy or scary video" -- and watching the scary movie was the only one shown to improve the participants' level of appreciation for the art.
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"You guys suck. But right now I'm too stoned on Hellraiser to care."
Of course, it doesn't always work positively. This phenomenon can also hold true in the opposite direction: If you slip in a Mr. Pibb puddle on your way out of the theater, resulting in a week-long case of the sore-ass, your heightened emotions will amplify the negativity of the incident and it could cause you, on an unconscious level, to forever associate hockey masks with persistent ass pain.
#3. Being Neurotic Helps You Get Immersed in Films
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You'd think neurotic people would have a hard time really getting into a movie, what with spending the entire show worrying about whether or not they remembered to lock their car on the way into the theater, or turn off the stove, or- oh God, what is this spot? Is this cancer?! It really feels like cancer!
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"Ohgod, ohgod ... did breathing always hurt this much?"
However, when researchers gathered up a bunch of worrywarts and sat them down in front of a movie screen, they found something interesting: People who were more neurotic experienced more immersion in the films, reporting that they felt more detached from their physical environment than those participants who tended to worry less. No matter what type of film they were shown -- happy, sad, or scary -- neurotic folk were better equipped to get into the film than their more laid-back brethren. Researchers explain the tendency thusly: "Neurotics usually have a highly reactive sympathetic nervous system, making them sensitive to any environmental stimulation." So there you go: It's precisely because you're such a huge pussy about the garage door opener going off by accident that you are more able to fully occupy a fantasy world.
Don't get too excited, neurotics! Because that's clearly a sign of an impending aneurysm. But also because, prior to this research, it was generally assumed that greater immersion in a film led to greater enjoyment. This study suggests otherwise -- while they reported greater presence in films across the board, neurotics reported that they enjoyed sad or horror films less than non-worriers. They did, however, enjoy comedies more.
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"None of them were sure how to treat Ben Stiller."
So does this mean that people who are neurotic prefer comedy, or that people who prefer comedy are more neurotic? Do you think that's something you should be worried about? Should you maybe seek the opinion of a professional?


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I was unable to find a link to remove a game from the list (in the web interface at least)
You want to go to view your wishlist: (yours is here)
While viewing your wishlist, you will notice the "Added on" line below the title. At the end of this line, there is a remove link. Use this remove link to remove an item from your wishlist.
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You can do this from your Steam Community Profile page. Go to the Games section, then click on the Wishlist tab. From there you should see a remove link for each game.


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Natural Pain Relief in Labor
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Staying active and relaxation techniques
During your labor, encephalins and endorphins (feel-good hormones) are released to provide you with some naturally induced pain relief. Many women now are also more aware of natural techniques, such as staying active, and of the availability of complementary therapies that they can use in addition to, or instead of, medical pain relief during pregnancy, childbirth, and following the birth. Some of these therapies are self administered and some are practitioner administered. A knowledge of the benefits of different therapies and how to use them is important if you are considering using them to deal with pain in labor.
Staying active
Being active in labor has been shown to help women to deal with pain and reduce the length of labor. Historically, women have been active in labor for centuries, but a medicalization of childbirth in the West led to an acceptance that women lie in bed, and a common image of a laboring woman is one lying in bed. Although during labor you may want to rest on a bed between contractions, many women find that when they feel supported, they will instinctively move around and do not cope well lying down, which can increase pain and hamper the progress of labor as your baby pushes against gravity. You may find it helpful to take a walk, roll on a birthing ball, rock in a rocking chair or change positions when you get too uncomfortable. There are certain interventions, such as the use of electronic fetal monitoring, IVs, and some types of analgesia, that will limit your mobility.
Relaxation techniques
There are various techniques you can use to help you relax during labor; if you're relaxed, it will be easier to stay calm and in tune with your body. These techniques include focusing on your breathing; listening to music (perhaps humming to the beat of a favorite tune during a contraction); and listening to a meditation CD.
Learning how to breathe slowly and steadily in labor helps you focus and stay calm. Usually, your breathing responds to how you're feeling and may increase slightly during a contraction, or you may hold your breath, which can make you feel light-headed. If this happens, you need to focus and steady your breathing. Your nurse will remind you to breathe slowly and steadily. Breathing in for five and out for seven slows your breathing down, helps you relax, and stops you from panicking.
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The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents at a planned meeting today voted to grant Chancellor John Sharp and Texas A&M University President R. Bowen Loftin the authority to investigate and pursue an administrative change bringing the Texas A&M Health Science Center under the administration of the system's flagship university.
"This move will place Texas A&M in a unique collaborative and competitive position to realize the extensive academic and research opportunities made possible through the merging of two institutions that are currently leading the way in biomedical education and discoveries," Sharp said. "Ultimately, joining these two exemplary institutions will allow the State of Texas and its citizens to reap numerous benefits through increased scientific discoveries and an influx of highly trained, innovative professionals entering the state's workforce."
Details regarding the proposed realignment now will be considered by a Strategic Oversight Committee led by Loftin and Nancy W. Dickey, M.D., president of TAMHSC and vice chancellor for health affairs for the A&M System, and comprised of representatives from both institutions in the areas of academics, research, finance, governmental affairs and communications.
"The realignment will allow for a strategic prioritization of Texas A&M's resources to meet the critical needs of the state, as well as society's grandest medical challenges," Loftin said. "Students at the Texas A&M Health Science Center in Bryan/College Station have been attending classes, utilizing our campus services, and participating in many campus activities prior to the merger. Now health professions students across all Texas A&M campuses will soon be able to receive an Aggie Ring and other benefits afforded to the Texas A&M student body."
Both institutions will work with the appropriate regulatory and accrediting bodies, including the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, Liaison Committee on Medical Education, Commission on Dental Accreditation, Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, Texas Board of Nursing, Council on Education for Public Health, and Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education to determine the proper steps for enacting such an administrative change.
"Bringing TAMHSC under the Texas A&M University umbrella will afford students at both institutions the opportunity to seamlessly participate in interdisciplinary programs that intersect human, animal, and plant science to more effectively prepare them for careers in the ever-evolving fields of life-science and healthcare," Dickey said. "Additionally, the union will allow researchers at both entities to take full advantage of the comprehensive and geographically expansive Texas A&M network of scientists through expanded collaborations not just in the Brazos Valley, but from as far south as McAllen to as far north as Dallas."
A specific timeline and determination of the exact organizational structure will be developed pending further exploration by the Strategic Oversight Committee, as well as with the appropriate accrediting bodies.
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SMSL, you're just making us all look bad. Now go and think about what you've done!
Seriously, that's just incredible. If you can do the same in the Championship you're probably the best FM player I've ever seen/heard of - if you can do it in the Premiership then I will start a religion
Edit: Forgot to post what I came in here to post - signed off in the Champ's League group stage with a 4-0 demolition of Fenerbahce unfortunately FC Bayern also beat Benfica so we're group runners up by a point /o\


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Planting Seeds of Opportunity in Billings, MT
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
What goes around comes around.
At least that's the motto that Majors Kevin and Linda Jackson have been using since they began working at The Salvation Army in Billings, MT just under two years ago.
Upon beginning their service in Montana, the Jacksons found there was something lacking in the long-term outcomes of their social services. Were they meeting the big picture needs of their clientele by feeding them once in awhile? Were they truly helping to break the cycle of poverty?


text: Here is one last lesson for the Hunger Games enthusiast, and this time it's not going to be on a particular person. Instead we will be focusing our energy on learning "how to draw a mockingjay", step by step. Despite what some may think, the mockingjay is not an actual bird in real life. Instead it is the bird from the Hunger Game series, and it is also the name of the third book from the Hunger Game trilogy. The name mockingjay is a hybrid bird species that is mentioned throughout all three books. They are a representation of hope and rebellion, and they are often used as a symbol of light. The tutorial isn't going to be too difficult, and since I already made a lesson on the Hunger Games pin, you will be drawing the actual hybrid bird in flight. I had fun with this tutorial because it was a bit different and even though the mockingjay is a fictional bird, it is still a very beautiful one. Okay guys, that's about it. Have fun drawing a mockingjay and I will have fun preparing my next submission. Peace people and enjoy!


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This aerial image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows the Royal Dutch Shell drilling rig Kulluk aground off a small island near Kodiak Island Tuesday Jan. 1, 2013. No leak has been seen from the drilling ship that grounded off the island during a storm, officials said Wednesday, as opponents criticized the growing race to explore the Arctic for energy resources. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)
BERLIN (AP) -- Chancellor Angela Merkel highlighted Germany's economic strength as she kicked off campaigning Saturday for an important state vote that comes months before national elections, and she brushed aside worries about the weakness of her party's coalition partner.
Merkel's center-right party faces a tough battle to extend its 10-year hold on Lower Saxony state, a northwestern region of 8 million people, in the Jan. 20 election there. Polls suggest the center-left opposition has a good chance of winning, which would give it a significant boost ahead of September national elections in which Merkel will seek a third term.
Merkel made clear that her Christian Democrats will make "economic competence, together with jobs -- and jobs that are well-qualified and fairly paid," along with economic strength, a keystone of this year's campaigns. She identified opposition plans for tax increases as one battleground.
"We believe that we do, of course, need income for the state, so we are not talking about tax cuts at this point," Merkel said at a televised news conference after her party's leadership met in Wilhelmshaven, a port city in Lower Saxony.
"But we believe that tax increases ... are not good for current economic developments, for medium-sized companies in particular but also for big companies," she added.
The number of Germans out of work averaged just under 2.9 million last year, the lowest since 1991. Germany's jobless rate of less than 7 percent contrasts with figures well over 20 percent in troubled eurozone partners Greece and Spain.
The strong German economy, and Merkel's hard-nosed management of Europe's debt crisis, have helped keep her popularity high and her party ahead in polls.
But the weakness of the pro-market Free Democratic Party, her junior coalition partner, means that her center-right alliance lacks a majority in surveys. The party, which campaigned at Germany's last election for tax cuts that it failed to obtain, has taken much of the blame for frequent coalition squabbling.
In Lower Saxony, polls show the FDP short of the 5 percent support needed to stay in the state legislature, which endangers popular conservative governor David McAllister's chances of keeping his job.
However, Merkel said she is "very optimistic that the (Free Democrats) will, on their own strength, with their ideas and their share in the success of the work of both the Lower Saxony state government and the federal government, be able to convince people."
The Lower Saxony election follows a rough start for Merkel's center-left challenger in the national elections, former Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck.
He drew criticism this week for saying the chancellor earns too little and that Merkel has an advantage because she's a woman -- adding to earlier controversy over his high earnings from public speaking. Merkel coolly dismissed a question about her challenger's performance.
"To be honest, I take care of my own performance and I'm very satisfied with that," she said. "The rest is for others to comment on."
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Spokesmen for Royal Dutch Shell PLC and the Coast Guard say naval architects have pronounced the oil company's drill ship sound and they're preparing for an attempt to pull it off rocks near a remote Alaska island.
Shell incident commander Sean Churchfield says the Kulluk (CULL'-uck) will be moved "as soon as we are ready and able."
The Kulluk ran aground New Year's Eve after breaking loose from its main tow vessel.
Churchfield says a tow plan has been developed and a salvage team is on board the 266-foot diameter barge but timing will depend on weather, tides and readiness.
The Coast Guard reported wind at 23 mph just before noon Saturday and 2-foot waves. The tow plan calls for 30-mile tow to shelter in Kodiak Island's Kiliuda (kill-OO'-dah) Bay.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to the unconditional and speedy implementation of deals reached in September to demilitarize their shared border and allow oil exports to flow from South Sudan's oil fields north through Sudan's pipelines.
Sudan President Omar al-Bashir and South Sudan President Salva Kiir met on Friday and Saturday in Ethiopia's capital to revive a stalled oil exportation deal that has lagged for months over disputes on the setup of security arrangements across their borders.
AU mediator Thabo Mbeki told reporters late Saturday that the two presidents agreed for the "speedy, unconditional and coordinated" implementation of the agreements.
A newspaper is reporting that Flowers Foods and Bimbo are emerging as bidders for the bread brands of Hostess, which in the midst of a bankruptcy-court liquidation of its assets.
The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday that Hostess Brands Inc. could reveal as early as next week that Flowers and Bimbo are in discussions to acquire the bread brands, which include Wonder Bread and Nature's Pride.
The report says the brands could command $350 million.
Hostess, based in Irving, Texas, announced in November that it was shutting down its business and selling its brands, which also include Twinkies, along with its 33 bakeries and other operations.
Grupo Bimbo SAB's brands include Arnold breads, Thomas' English muffins, and Entenmann's cakes. Flowers Foods Inc.'s brands include Nature's Own breads and Tastykake snacks.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's police chief says the Islamic Republic is developing new software to control social networking sites.
Gen. Esmail Ahmadi Moghadam was quoted in Iranian newspapers Saturday as saying the new software will prevent Iranians from being exposed to malicious content online while allowing users to enjoy the benefits of the Internet. He did not say when the software would be introduced.
Moghadam also did not specify which social networking sites would be affected, but both Facebook and Twitter are popular in Iran.
Iranians currently have access to most of the Internet, although authorities block some sites affiliated with the opposition, as well as those that are seen as promoting dissent or considered morally corrupt.
Iran created a government agency last year to oversee Internet usage in the country.


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Not good for concealing fingerprints, but great for spinning.
Short-fingered gloves are by no means a must-have, in the realm of essential cycling gear, as the preference of wearing them on warmer rides tends to dramatically vary from rider to rider. A quick glance through the pro peloton will confirm this, as you'll notice some riders wearing, and others without gloves -- even on the daylong, bone-jarring Spring Classics. Understanding highly varied rider opinion, Capo took an entire year designing and perfecting their Enzo SF Cycling Gloves to appeal to even the most finicky cyclist.
The body of the Enzo SF Gloves is constructed using Capo's instantly-comfortable Enzo fabric. It's the same fabric used in their Roma jersey, and Capo takes advantage of the fabric's durability, lightness, and shape retention. On hot rides, Enzo will help the glove breathe and dump excess heat, but will hold that heat as you set out on cooler mornings. The palm of the Enzo glove utilizes Clarino -- a reliable synthetic leather that follows the same themes of breathability and comfort as the Enzo fabric. Stitched into the Clarino are carefully spaced dual-layer foam pads to relieve pressure on the ulnar nerves and dissipate road chatter in the bars without trapping airflow. But more importantly, the Enzo Glove is the sum of its parts, balancing a fine line between that sublime feeling of bar control, while still housing enough subtle padding for the longest of afternoon rides.
The Capo Enzo SF Glove uses a hook-and-loop closure in the wrist, and pull tabs sewn into the fingers to facilitate simple removal. It available in Black or White, and in sizes Small through X-Large.
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Seem fine to me!
After my wife crashed on her road bike and tore up her hands, I decided to start wearing gloves on my rides as a precaution. I love Capo's gear and decided to pick these gloves up. I own other gloves by Pearl Izumi and Champion Systems, and found these gloves to fit me well and also be durable. Perhaps there was a bad batch that the other reviews received, but I've used these gloves for a good 2 months and they show no signs of wear or tear. I would comment that I own the white model and it's impossible to keep the white fabric looking as new as when I took them out of the box. I wash all my gloves by hand as well.
The padding on these gloves are not extremely thick, but I'm not wearing gloves for padding, but merely some extra protection if I fall. I usualy find gloves annoying, but these are thinner and the velcro strap on top is not noticeble on my wrists. So these get my thumbs up and I expect to get several seasons out of them.
Not a good product
Bought these gloves hoping for similar quality as Capo clothing, so this was a huge disappointment. The pull-off loops are strips of grosgrain stitched horizontally across a couple of the fingers (not the usual loops between fingers). One tore away at the seam before I'd even used them -- when removing after trying them on to be sure they fit.
Must not be made by the same people
All my cycling gear is from Capo and I have come to trust them. But these gloves started to fall apart right away...
I can still use them, but they look like I've had them for 2 years.
Love Capo, but these fell apart in 2 weeks
First, let me start by saying that I take good care of all of my bike gear, maybe even OCD-quality. I have also absolutely enjoyed everything from Capo that I've purchased, however these gloves fell apart within 2 weeks of owning. The stitching in the palm started to unravel, followed by the pads coming out shortly thereafter. They fit well, and I hope I just had a bad batch, but I cannot recommend given my experience, especially at this price. My PI gloves have withstood much worse for much longer without a hitch, for half the price.
I have to agree, the gloves fit great and feel great, but the two pairs I have had literally fell apart in all the ways that Brian described...
I agree as well. The gloves fit great, and I like the lycra on the hand but they are totally falling apart now and I have done maybe 6 rides in them. The stitching is unraveling on the palms and with it goes some of the padding. I was actually looking at them in my LBS and saw a pair that was ripped on the shelf. Thinking that was just a bad pair, I bought them anyway but found the same to be true with mine. If you plan on wearing them only for special events then buy them, because they fit very well. But, they are definitely not everyday training gloves.


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The 6 Most Politically Incorrect Video Game Moments
As much as we love Japan, they do seem to be about 30 years behind the rest of the world in the area of political correctness.
And while it may be wrong to stereotype Japan in an article about cultural insensitivity, we can't help but notice their domination of the game industry has led to some hilariously cringe-inducing moments. We're talking about games like...
#6. Vendetta (1991)
In the Japanese version of this Sega Genesis game, men clad in leather chaps and a bushel of chest hair daintily stroll up to your character and attack. And when we say "attack," we mean "dry hump you from behind."
If there are two of these leather-clad enemies on the screen simultaneously, the other one will sometimes hump a light pole until the bulbs drop on his head, bludgeoning him.
Gay or straight, if two people are so horny that they're willing to risk their lives to have intercourse with a light pole, wouldn't common sense dictate that they'd just have sex with each other instead? And what does that say about the one guy who continues to probe a stranger's anus while he watches his friend die from blunt trauma to the skull?
Maybe he's just afraid of the poison that seems to coat the genitals of gay men in Konami's Vendetta universe (your life bar drains substantially with each thrust of the attacker's hips).
Almost As Bad...
While Vendetta really set the bar for unrealistically flamboyant portrayals of male homosexuals, Sega's Bare Knuckle 3 (Streets of Rage 3 in the US) couldn't back down from the challenge. Thus, they gave us Ash.
He slaps. He cries when he's defeated. He strikes effeminate poses, covers his mouth while giggling and bends his knees inward, all while looking every bit the Village Person.
Yet, you can measure the progress of Japanese game developer attitudes toward homosexuality by the fact that in a game made three years later, the gay character no longer humps you to death.
#5. Square no Tom Sawyer (1989)
Nintendo of Japan licensed Square no Tom Sawyer (Square's Tom Sawyer), a role-playing game developed by the future makers of the Final Fantasy series, meaning that it had met Nintendo's rigorous standards of quality. . . blackface and all.
Square no Tom Sawyer was never released in America, probably because an acute Square executive commented, "Someone, maybe an African-American, may find the blackface on Jim offensive." Hey, better safe than sorry, right?
Almost As Bad...
In 1989, SETA combined racism and incoherence to get The Adventures of Tom Sawyer for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Thankfully, there is no blackface in this adaptation. SETA opted to replace all of Twain's subtle commentary on racial inequality with giant alligators, zombies and gnomes. But then, Tom lands in what is either an underground lava cave headquarters, or Hell itself. There he encounters an American Indian straddling an enslaved brontosaurus:
A few well-thrown projectiles were enough to send the filthy Injun to a watery death. The game then cuts to a young boy apparently reading these adventures in a book, his face frozen in a priceless expression of childish wonder.
"What the fuck did I just read?"
#4. Gekisha Boy (1992)
In Gekisha Boy, a young man, still reeling from the deaths of his parents, finds himself failing photography school. The dean offers him a last-ditch test where his academic career hinges upon the quality of the unusual snapshots he takes.
According to Gekisha Boy, this includes: flying saucers, wind gusting up a decades-deceased Marilyn Monroe's dress and all sorts of African-Americans.
Maybe you could forgive the idea of photographing blacks as if they are exotic creatures to be glimpsed in the wild, but you'd still have to deal with the fact that in the world of Gekisha Boy, African-Americans only come in three varieties: street pimp, prostitute and Michael Jackson.
Almost As Bad...
A word of advice to all future game designers: If one of your characters has even a passing resemblance to Mickey Rooney from Breakfast at Tiffany's, you have a problem. Witness this cutscene:
If you're thinking the graphics there are a little too good to be from the "They Didn't Know Any Better" era of old school gaming, you're right. This is 2003's Kung-Fu Chaos, for the Xbox. And we can't blame Japan for this one, since it's from Cambridge-based developer Ninja Theory.
Thankfully, their attempt to use technology to break new ground in cringingly awkward character interaction mercifully cuts off soon after the "tiny sausage" jokes begin.


text: Well folks, here is another character from the upcoming movie 'Oz the Great and Powerful'. Her character is based on a porcelain style doll. Here is "how to draw China Girl", step by step. China Girl is from the village of China Town. In this village everything is made of china. When I say everything, I mean everything and this includes people. China Girl meets Oz after her village was destroyed. Even though she lost all that she loved, she still manages to stay strong. Oz and China Girl become friends and from then on out, they travel together with the rest of the posse. Joey King is the voice actor for China Girl, and even though I know this is a Disney film, I think it's going to be great. If you like China, you will love drawing China Girl. Adios people and good luck.


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The Park Tool HHP-2 Headset Installation Tool precisely presses in your headset cups, and works with all size headsets. No finer design exists. If you want to build a serious home shop, this will be one of the most impressive tools in your arsenal.
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Yesterday I said "shabbat shalom" to someone and he said we don't do that on Tisha b'Av that falls on Shabbat. I thought that Shabbat trumps the day (and that's why we move the other observances). Neither of us knew a source, and it hasn't come up yet in 9 be-Av on Shabbos .
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The Shulchan Aruch (i will try to find the exact place) says that on a shabbos thats also tisha b'av you should mour n for the bais hamikdash b'tzinah (privately) verbally not saying good shabbos/shabbat shalom is not exactly private and he was doing it because the day was tisha b'av. Although he might have a special minhag (custom) to not say good shabbos/shabbat shalom, you might want to ask your friend about that.


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Textmate on the Mac can be bound to the txmt protocol, meaning that development frameworks (such as the Play Framework) can be configured to use this to display error messages. If a stacktrace appears, each line of the stacktrace is a URL of the format (I'm guessing):
(where 123 is the line number).
Clicking this opens the file in Textmate.
Is this possible with Gedit, Geany or another programmer's text editor?


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A WebApp writes a stream of data coming over a network to disk as key/value pair and then reads & send it over network again after few milliseconds in 99% of case. In 1% of cases write/read can be few hours to days apart (really don't know).
Latency is strict "no" in the app and we have to serve 100% of customers therefore I am planning to put data into RAM and later read and send it over network and only write to disk if the data is not read from RAM within a certain prefixed interval.
What could be possible solution to this problem?
P.S - Memcached looks like a good solution for using RAM instead of disk but Can memcached read/write of disk after time_to_live?
I also looking at Couchbase but I don't want to write to disk in all cases as 99% write/read happens in the matter of milliseconds.
Is it possible that after time_to_die Memcached could write the key/value to Couchbase instead of removing it from RAM and read it on demand?
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After spending last few trying to explore various options. The following looks like a possible solution
- Write the data stream simultaneously to the RAM (using Memcached) and disk using (GlusterFS).
- In case the data is demanded by the application layer check it first in the RAM (Memcached) if it return the data ok, if it does not check the data on disk GlusterFS.
- Remove data stream from RAM if data is demanded by application or when time_to_live is reached whichever is earlier.
Suggestion most welcome.