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2019/20 - Forest Green Rovers - League Two
League Table - Finances - Graph - Transfers
Season Review
We burst out of the blocks with three wins, which set the tone for a season during which we were never out of the top four. We rode our luck through some injuries and general poor play to take our chances when they came, and by Christmas we were well and truly in the ascendancy as far as the title race went. Seven points in the three games between Boxing Day and NYE only reaffirmed this.
2020 started with a 0-3 home loss to Premiership high-flyers Newcastle in the third round of the FA Cup (they finished 4th), but we got the cash and eradicated any further fixture congestion, having exited all other cups early on. We established a double figure points lead over 4th place and by this point, anything less than promotion would be a massive choke.
By the time the choke did come, it was already March and all that was threatened was the title itself. When we beat Coventry 2-0 on the 7th, we held an eight point gap over them in second. Five games later they were on top by a point, as we were insipid. They still held that margin going into the final three fixtures, but we won the lot and them only two, crowning us league winners for the third consecutive season and giving me manager of the season honours.
Goal of the Season
The goal that secured the title, fittingly scored by the skipper. A fair goal too.
Key Men
Ramon Phillips - He ran hot and cold, but still ended up with 20 goals, and a call-up to the Euros as a result, in addition to the L2 player of the season award. Has plenty of development left in him.
Marcus Hewlett - He was underwhelming in a loan spell last season, but upon joining permanently and being given a starting role, he proved a more than adequate replacement for Rooney. His 19 goals included a hat-trick on his "second debut" for the club.
Nicolai Risvig - Re-united with my captain at Supermarine and he didn't disappoint, notching nine goals and 17 assists in a seamless transition to league football.
Kenny Coton - A very solid campaign for the teenager, and his consistency showed a maturity beyond his years. Earned an England under 19s cap too.
Bo Nøhr - Kept a clean sheet in nearly half of his appearances, and a 6.91 average rating for a keeper is excellent.
Next Season...
From experience, the jump from League Two to League One is greater than from the Conference, so I think we'll need some more quality to avoid a relegation dog fight. A couple of quality central midfielders are at the top of my shopping list. Will get my scouts looking closely at youths released by Prem clubs because we're at a point where the better ones may consider the club now.
Swindon Supermarine
2011/12 - Evo-Stik Southern Premier - 1st (promoted as champions)
2012/12 - Blue Square South - 2nd (lost in play-off semis)
2013/14 - Blue Square South - 2nd (lost in play-off semis)
2014/15 - Blue Square South - 4th (play-off and FA Trophy finalists)
2015/16 - Blue Square South - 1st (promoted as champions)
2016/17 - Blue Square Premier - 9th (resigned)
Forest Green Rovers
2017/18 - Blue Square South - 1st (promoted as champions)
2018/19 - Blue Square Premier - 1st (promoted as champions)
2019/20 - League Two - 1st (promoted as champions)


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Following his presentation at the East of Toronto .NET User Group (@easttorontoug), Gladstone Grant (@gladstonegrant) takes on Jonathan's questions as well as some from the viewers about the opportunities developers have working with the Microsoft platform.
Software is an "innovate or die" business. It's the kind of business that attracts restless, positive people like Gladstone Grant. As VP of Microsoft's Developer and Platform Group, Gladstone has the enviable job of being focused on the future, on what's next, on the things most of us haven't even dreamt of yet. After nearly 20 years in the technology industry and more than 12 years with Microsoft Canada, Gladstone's passion for technology, for learning, for new challenges and for competition are stronger than ever. When Gladstone turns his attention to the present, rather than the future, he indulges his passions for sport and home renovation.
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I use the blackberry every couple of hours mixed in with the other flavors, or when needed for the extra boost of caffeine. They do the trick. Might be to sweet to use for an entire long run though.
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Some scholars believe that the ending of Mark is unoriginal due to it appearing to have a different style and the fact that it's missing from some key manuscripts. At the same time, several early Church fathers are believed to have quoted from these passages. What are the primary arguments for and against its authenticity (along with sources, please)?
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My understanding is that a strong majority of scholars (including conservative scholars) take the position that the long ending of Mark was not in the original and was not written by the same author as the rest of the text, but nonetheless was added very early on (probably in the early 2nd century). However, the evidence is not as overwhelming as for the Comma Johanneum or the Pericope Adulterae, in part because the long ending of Mark is significantly older than the those two.
The main arguments are as follows. Certainly people dispute some of these arguments, but on the whole each of them is a strong argument, and taking several together gives an even stronger argument.
The textual evidence, which covers the first three arguments, as found in Nestle-Aland is summarized ably at the end of the Wikipedia article under "Summary of manuscript evidence." At any rate all of these are largely undisputed facts, though there are some interesting features of that part of Mark in Sinaiticus and Vaticanus which are worth noting (explained thoroughly with images, though also with a bit of an agenda, here).
A quick summary of the argument from style and vocabulary is given by Bruce Metzger in A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament excerpted online here. A much more in depth examination is given in a paper of Travis Williams.
For the last point, you want to first notice many similarities between the long ending and Luke/Acts (as well as a small overlap with the great commission in Matthew), and then you have the trickier point of arguing that it's the long ending taking from Luke and not vice-versa. Wikipedia lists the overlaps (I haven't found a good scholarly resource for this point, though of course you can compare the passages yourself). I haven't found a good reference for arguing in which direction the borrowing is going, but if you want to argue the other way you'd need to explain why Matthew drops almost all of it (despite containing 94% of Mark) and why Luke substantially rearranges it (despite usually following Mark's order reasonably well).
It's worth noting that unlike with say the Comma Johanneum, I don't think it's been conclusively proved that the long ending of Mark is not original. Assuming it was added, it was added earlier than any copies of the text that we still have! All sorts of things are unlikely but possible. Nonetheless it seems the evidence is pretty solidly on the side of inauthenticity.
Short Answer: After weighing all of the evidence (both internal and external), it would seem that Mark 16:9-20 was indeed originally part of Mark's Gospel.
As noted by the OP, the "problem" is whether the end of Mark (16:9-20) was originally part of Mark's Gospel. Essentially the matter comes down to three factors.
1. External evidence
Dr. Constable summarizes the external evidence concerning verses 9-20:
DETAILS AGAINST: absent from א, B, itk, Sinaitic Syriac, ~100 Armenian mss, the two oldest Georgian mss. Some mss that do include it mark it with asterisks or obeli. Clement of Alexandria and Origen show no knowledge of the existence of these verses.3
Despite the absence of these verses in some old manuscripts, and the silence on these verses in the teachings of some church fathers (which could be said for any verse in the New Testament), the fact remains that most old manuscripts do contain these verses, and many church fathers do refer to them. Dr. Constable concludes well that:
Thus, while external evidence in this case is far from conclusive, the evidence does weigh in favor of these verses originally being part of Mark's Gospel.
2. Internal evidence: structural coherence
Dr. Constable mentions an important structural consideration in this debate:
This makes sense in light of Mark's target audience. Mark wrote his Gospel to disciples in Rome who faced a serious decision:
Mark's Gospel served as an exhortation to these Roman disciples to lay down their lives and preach the gospel with boldness. In light of this, it is hard to imagine Mark ending his Gospel "with an example of disciples too fearful and amazed to bear witness to the resurrected Jesus."1 Yet this is exactly what we would have if Mark 16:8 were the end of the Gospel. Thus, structural coherence also weighs in favor of Mark 16:9-20 originally being part of Mark's Gospel.
3. Internal evidence: stylistic clues
Bruce Metzger elaborates on the two main considerations:
Commentator J.R. Dummelow adds a few more:
In favor of Mark 16:9-20 being authentic, Scrivener responds to these arguments with the following dismissal:
Scrivener is highlighting a major weakness in "stylistic clues": they tend to be easily bent to the will of the interpreter! This has been my experience as well, and so I tend to place less weight on such arguments (though they can be very telling in some cases.) But for example:
The arguments against authenticity seem to be rooted in the writings of Eusebius,4 who, ironically, seems to have favored the inclusion of these verses.5 Regardless, both external evidence and internal structural evidence weigh in favor of the authenticity of Mark 16:9-20. Some have argued that internal stylistic evidence points to the contrary, but upon closer examination, these claims seem to be weak at best. Stylistic clues should be considered, but only with the utmost caution, given the nature and track-record of this method of analysis.
Thus, the evidence -- both internal and external -- seems to indicate that Mark 16:9-20 was, in fact, originally part of Mark's Gospel.
1: http://www.soniclight.com/constable/notes/pdf/mark.pdf, pp. 206-207
2: http://www.bible-researcher.com/endmark.html citing A Commentary on the Holy Bible, edited by J.R. Dummelow (New York: MacMillan, 1927), pages 732-33
3: http://www.bible-researcher.com/endmark.html citing Bruce Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (Stuttgart, 1971), pages 122-126
4: http://www.bible-researcher.com/endmark.html citing F.H.A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, fourth ed. (London: George Bell and Sons, 1894), volume 2, pp. 337-344
5: https://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=13&article=704 citing Aland, Kurt and Barbara Aland (1987), The Text of the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans), page 287
6: https://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=13&article=704
7: https://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=13&article=704 citing Broadus, John A. (1869), "Exegetical Studies," The Baptist Quarterly, 3:355-362, July.
If you have not read 'The last twelve verses of Mark' from Dean John Burgon, I'm sad to say that you have not fully researched this subject. Please read it, it will honestly vindicate these verses as a true part of the Holy Scriptures as they truly are. This book has not been fully answered by the critics since it publication over a hundred years ago, simply because it takes the right stand for the Word of God. It's too long to put into this little answer box. The book.
Another link to the book in PDF format.
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established - John William Burgon
The only two missing these verses are the corrupt א and B.
The CNTTS database shows that the following manuscripts contain
verse 9 A C D05 E07 G011 K017 L019 M021 S U Wsupp Y D Q P Y W 1 2 13 28 33 35 69 118 124 157 346 565 579 700 788 1005 1071 1424 1582 2358 2372
and then jumping to verse 20 A C D05sup E07 G011 H013 K017 L019 M021 S U Wsupp Y D Q Psup Y W 1 2 13 28 33 35 69 118 124 157 346 565 579 700 788 1005 1071 1424 1582 2358
So at least above all of these the testimony of Codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus are taken to be the true and therefore these God-inspired verses are left out.


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The players will first arrive at Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center at around 4:45 p.m. before heading out to Providence Hospital.
The teams have completed a variety of service projects including assisting in the compost sale at the Cameron Park Zoo in an effort to help keep Waco beautiful.


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Swatches first! I didn't label them in the pictures because it would have been way too complicated to try to squeeze in brand and shade names, so I'll add the labels underneath each picture.
Natural light outside:
Indoors under my Ottlite:
L-R: Maybelline Color Tattoo in Fierce and Tangy (permanent), Maybelline Color Tattoo in Tough as Taupe (permanent), Stila Smudge Pot in Bronze (permanent), Maybelline Color Tattoo in Rich Mahogany (new and LE), MAC Fluidline in Rich Ground (permanent)
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Now for the reviews. Honestly, when I swatched Barely Beige I was disappointed at first; it looked sheer and boring. But THEN, I swiped some on my eyes with a finger and quickly blended it as a wash from lashline to brow and it was MAGICAL. I AM IN LOVE. I intend to swap/sell my Shiseido Lemon Sugar and my MAC Chiaroscuro now and try to get my hands on a backup of Barely Beige. Yes, it's subtle, but it's such a simple way to create a lovely, polished, professional look in about 3 seconds. This is LOVE! I promise an FOTD with it soon.
Bad to the Bronze is a beautiful shimmery taupe, and quite pigmented. Whenever I wear it to work, someone who works in the cosmetic department there asks me as I'm passing through what eyeshadow I have on. Definite winner there too.
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The Café Under the Tree is a small building in Little Haiti, Vice City. It is located under a tree, and is seen when coming off of the bridge from Leaf Links Golf Course on the western side. It is inaccessible, however. The cafe replaces Le Singe d'Arbre in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.
The Café takes place in the mission Dirty Lickin's, where is a fight between Haitians and Cubans at the green area in the café's entrance.


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- You may be interested to know wat ur system does while booting windows(behind that boot screen). (only in Xp and above)
Step 1: start->run and type "msconfig" Step 2: go to boot.ini tab Step 3: Check the /SOS option Step 4: Reboot
First it will load all the drivers necessary to make the OS work.
Then it will check all the volumes,whether a checkdisk is needed or not. If the volume is not clean, then it executes checkdisk.
- To display a custom message at logon
Step 1: start->run and type gpedit.msc Step 2: In that navigate to Computer Configuration->Windows Settings->Security Settings->Local Policies->Security Options Step 3: Look for a value "Interactive logon: Message text for users attempting to log on" Step 4: Double click that and type wat ever message u wish to display. Step 5: If u want to give a title for tat message,Look for a value "Interactive logon: Message title for users attempting to log on". Doblue click that and enter the title for that window. Step 6: either log off or reboot.
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This question was prompted by my interpretation of a question by cosmologist Berian James.
Some cosmologists have suggested using the cosmological dark matter density, which defines a function $f:M\to \mathbb{R}$ with $M$ the spatial universe, in order to probe the topology of $M$. (edit: Berian comments below that this may not be what this is about! Listen to him... not to me!) The original reference seems to be this paper by Gott et al.. Although the paper does not mention it explicitly, it seems that the natural mathematical framework for this proble is Morse theory.
Berian is interested not just in functions, but also e.g., vector fields or more generally sections of bundles on $M$. Hence the following
Can one extend Morse theory beyond functions to sections of bundles? or perhaps to differentiable maps $f: M \to X$?
Pointers to the literature would be most welcome.


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Is there any way to convert a semi transparent object to a vector using live trace or any other feature in Illustrator? (For instance, a simple cloud)
Personally I am against live-trace.
Why? — It's lazy and, in mu opinion, completely unprofessional. You can create way better effects and greater quality if you do it yourself (''by hand''). Yes, it is way more time consuming, but you add your own touch to the picture and fix errors it has while doing it.
Another plus is you may encounter something you never knew how to do and learn in the process and end up gaining much more than being lazy and just live tracing something.
I couldn't find a way to do this with Illustrator, but Flash Pro's bitmap tracing (Modify > Bitmap > Trace Bitmap) does handle images with multiple levels of transparency. It only has 4 options (color threshold, minimum area, corner threshold and curve fit) and doesn't always seem to get the colors right, but it will give you a place to start from.
I also prefer Flash's vector drawing tools and shape optimization to Illustrator's. They're simpler, but I find them more intuitive and easier to use.
You're best bet is to make the image opaque via Photoshop or some other Raster app. Then place and Live Trace with AI. Then set the opacity how you want it.
If you mean an image which varies levels of opacity within itself, you could use the raster image as an opacity mask rather than trying to trace it.
For example...
A transparent PNG image:
Then a red rectangle created in Illustrator. File > Place used to place the transparent png. Select both the png and the rectangle and choose Make Opacity Mask from the Transparency Panel menu.


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Great info on robots.txt file. It is definently a tool that a lot of people don't utilise. Most likely its because they are not aware of it. Great post!
It is easy for robots/spiders to crawl your site if you have this file..
Good. can you show how to write when we want to say nofollow url?
one should also include sitemap path in the robots.txt file for better results.
We Use Robots Tag on all pages that we want indexed for the website. This will instruct the robots to crawl the page of the website.
Robot tag is implemented in following way:
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Robots.txt file is a special text file that is always located in your Web server's root directory. Robots.txt file contains restrictions for Web Spiders, telling them where they have permission to search. A Robots.txt is like defining rules for search engine spiders (robots) what to follow and what not to. It should be noted that Web Robots are not required to respect Robots.txt files, but most well written Web Spiders follow the rules you define.
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The 5 Most Impressively Convoluted Traps Set by Animals
There is a natural order to things, a set of immutable rules that all beasts must adhere to: The strong eat the weak, the fast catch the slow, the early bird gets the worm, don't fuck with the honey badger, never go to Australia without life insurance, and so on and so forth. But just like with humans, some animals refuse to play by the rules ...
#5. Stoats Exploit a Glitch in the Rabbit Matrix
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Stoats employ an ingenious hunting tactic, carefully refined over countless millennia, and it goes like this: They flip the fuck out.
When a stoat encounters a rabbit, its natural prey, the standoff is intense. The bunny is both instinctively wary of and much faster than the stoat in a straight-out chase, but if the predator gets close enough to its prey, it can strike faster than the rabbit can run. There's a small moment of opportunity between when the rabbit registers the stoat as a threat and when it bolts. In that moment, the stoat goes methodically, scientifically nutbar. It starts jumping, twisting, rolling, and flopping around at complete random. The jerky movements are somewhere between "stop, drop, and roll" and "the worm," as performed by an octopus in the middle of an aneurysm.
But with every confusing twitch and convulsion, the stoat inches ever closer to its target. And for no particular reason, the rabbit stays put. The bunnies display some classic signs of hypnosis: They're both curious and lethargic, seemingly mesmerized by the ridiculous shenanigans going on in front of them, unaware of emotional cues like "this thing is crazy" and "I'm pretty sure it usually eats me at this point." Soon the stoat's flailing, undignified dance brings it within striking distance, and boom: No more rabbit. Researchers don't fully understand why Mr. Hoppy just sits there and watches his ridiculous spastic death break dance inexorably toward his own face, but the stoat's epileptic war dance works consistently. This is not a one-off thing. This is not a handful of stoats occasionally deploying lethal funkiness. This is a persistent hunting strategy employed by whole stoat species throughout the ages.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a tactical freakout.
Via Rolf Mueller / Kett's News Service
Above: 50 megatons of military-grade crazy.
#4. Birds and Cats Are Deadly Ventriloquists
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Humanity has just begun to truly appreciate how sophisticated animal language is. Most of the complex language skills employed by animals are social or defensive: They primarily communicate emotional states, or warn the pack of danger. Most are defensive -- but not all.
In the unforgiving Kalahari Desert, meerkats are the adorable treat hawks love to eat. Fortunately for the meerkats, they've got lookouts. When one meerkat screams "hawk," they all take off for cover. That's standard animal stuff, though, right? The cry is probably no more verbally complex than "danger," which doesn't put them beyond the level of, say, a paranoid squirrel. But something else has been learning the meerkat language as well: the drongo bird.
When the drongo sees that a meerkat has found something tasty, the bird will maneuver into position, wait for its moment, and then suddenly yell out the pitch-perfect Meerese word for "hawk." And of course, every one of the prey animals drops what it's doing (or eating) and runs for its life. That's when the drongo swoops in and nabs a free meal.
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If it were after human food, it would yell, "Jonah Hill movie!"
It's not a simple case of meerkats being stupid, either: Scientists studying these interactions have found that the bird calls are practically indistinguishable from the real thing. And it turns out that the drongo is multilingual: They not only mix up the types of danger calls to keep the meerkats guessing, but run the same type of scam on a bird called a babbler -- but with the drongo using the Babblonian word for "hawk," obviously.
Babblers don't speak Meerese; that would be ridiculous.
On the other side of the world, in the jungles of South America, a tamarin hears the cries of a lost baby coming from the bushes. Confused and concerned, it goes to investigate. When it pokes its head through the brush trying to locate the sound, an adorable bug-eyed squirrel-cat rips its friggin' head off.
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"Betty! NOOOOOOOOO!"
There have long been anecdotal reports of jaguars and pumas mimicking primate calls, but now scientists have witnessed it happening firsthand. A jungle cat called a margay has been observed luring a monkey down from the trees by emulating the distressed cries of baby monkeys. We don't want to overstate the creepiness of this development or anything -- we're just saying that next time you hear crying on the baby monitor, bring both a bottle and a gun.
There's probably a tiger up there.
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"Did someone yell out 'Free beer'?"
#3. Guppies Conduct Psychological Rape Warfare
The animal kingdom is pretty blase about the whole rape thing. Take the guppies.
No, seriously -- they have bladed dicks and they're raping everything, somebody get those crazy fuckers out of here.
"Mom, we need to make an amendment to your birds and bees theory."
But that's not to say the female guppies are defenseless, or even morally blameless: They've evolved a number of cunning strategies to stay murderously chaste, such as actively seeking out and hanging around with their own predators. Females in the wild are typically a dull brown color, while males are much flashier and therefore more prone to predation. A drab female might not be spotted by a nearby predator, but her bright potential rapist could be ...
Jesus. Imagine how bad the sexual situation has to be to make "chillin' with things that want to eat me" a reasonable defense mechanism. Picture it: One night you find yourself stranded in a neighborhood notorious for its sexual assaults, so you put on a beige sweater and seek out the scariest looking murderer you can find. If any rapists come rapin' along, you just sit real still and hope that the murderer gets all his murders out before he notices you squatting in the corner.
That seems like a terrible trade-off. But then again, it does sound marginally better than being prodded by hooked boners all day.
"I can't take it anymore! I'm going to drown myse- Oh. Well, shit."
And that's not the sketchiest thing female guppies do in their attempt to get a little sexual reprieve: Terribly shallow human females will sometimes hang out with less attractive friends to make themselves look better. Guppies exhibit the same behavior, but in reverse: Female guppies can recognize their own level of sexual receptiveness as compared to other females, and they use this comprehension not to make themselves look better by comparison, but to look worse. A hot, sexually active young guppy swimming through a strange pond might find a whole clique of prudish new friends suddenly following her everywhere she goes. But they're not there to support her. Oh no: When confronted, the unwilling guppies use the receptive ones as decoys so that they can get away from the males unmolested.
And if all else fails ... crazy eyes.


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What are the advantages of having a USB mic over having a XLR, 3.5mm, or 1/4 inch connector? I.e. quality, price, portability. I am looking at recording sound for video and I'm not sure what type connector I should get. No matter what connection, I think I will be recording the sound straight to a computer. One thing about USB mics is that I have to get a long USB cord. Will this lower the sound quality at all?
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When it comes to just the connector, the XLR is the best. It is a "pro" audio connector. 1/4" would be second. Stay away from the mini plugs if you can. If you are doing "double system" audio for video, your best bet is a shotgun mic and a separate audio recorder.
The USB mic will be much easier to connect to the computer (no extra cables or equipment needed) and, as a bonus, bypass the notoriously noisy internal sound card.
The only issue you might have with the USB mic is the sound quality, which will be based on the quality of mic and the quality of the D/A converters in the mic itself.
I would recommend finding a couple of USB mics in your price range and checking out some reviews to see if anyone complains about excess noise or poor quality sound. If you can't find a good one, you may need to go with a regular mic with an XLR connector and a USB interface.


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Two URLs pointing to almost the same content
If I have a page, that has this url:
- domain.com/category/something/
but can also be accessed through these urls:
- domain.com/category/something/1
- domain.com/category/something/2
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where the last number is used as an image-index to display a certain image on the page. So the content of the pages are the same, just with one image changed.
How do I avoid google indexing the versions with /number at the end, so it only shows up once in searches - and is not considered duplicate content?
Is it enough to put a rel="nofollow" on links to the /number links?


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And in what sense are they 'non-local'?
The higher the number of derivatives the more initial data you have to provide. If you have some Lagrangian that contains an infinite number of derivatives (or derivatives appearing non-polynomially, such as one over derivative) then you have to provide an infinite amount of initial data which amounts to non-local info, in the sense explained below.
If you think in terms of Taylor expansions around your initial value, then you have to provide the full function (and thus non-local information) if you have an infinite number of derivatives. This is to be contrasted with cases where you provide only the field and its first derivative as initial values (and thus rather local information).
Personally, I would not call any higher-derivative Lagrangian "non-local", but only those theories where the number of derivatives is formally infinite in the Lagrangian.
In any discretization scheme you literally see the non-locality induced by higher derivatives: to define the first derivative you need to know the function on two adjacent lattice points, to define the second derivative on three and to define the n-th derivative on n+1 lattice points. Thus, the more derivatives the more non-locality. If you have an infinite number of derivatives you need to know the function on an infinite set of lattice points.
Clearly, an interaction involving $\phi(x+h)$ deserved to be called nonlocal. But since $\phi(x+h)=\sum_{k=0}^\infty \phi^{(k)}(x) h^k/k!$, any nonlocal interaction can be expressed as a power series involving arbitrarily many derivatives. Therefore an action (or Lagrangian) is called nonlocal if it involves infinitely many derivatives.
If there are only finitely many derivatives, they are not nonlocal. Indeed, by introcing additional fields for the derivatives togetyher with squares of the differences between the new fields and their definition, one can rewrite these in terms of a new action/Lagrangian which leads to identical equations of motions. (Unfortunately, this doesn't help with quantization, as the corresponding Legendre transformations to the Hamiltonian form is singular.)
Disillusionment with systems described by higher order Lagrangians harks back to a 1950 paper by Pais and Uhlenbeck, in which they showed that such systems were prone to pathologies, including states with negative energy and states with negative norm. There's a more recent discussion of this in arXiv:hep-th/0408104.


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Europe and North America are falling behind. Their economies are growing at long-term rates of around 2% per year compared with 8% in India and 10% in China. A seismic shift in global power is taking place, as the economic core shifts from West to East.
High tax levels are partly responsible for the rapid relative decline of the West. During the 19th century the tax burden was typically under 10% of GDP. Now it is generally around 40%, compared with about 20% in China.
A recent study by the Institute of Economic Affairs,
Living with Leviathan [2]
, suggests that higher taxes have had a negative effect on the economic growth of many Western countries. If tax levels had been kept at 1960 levels (around 30% of GDP) growth would have been much higher the UK would now be twice as rich, while France and Italy would be three times as rich.
Economic theory explains why low-tax countries consistently grow more quickly than high-tax countries. Taxes reduce economic efficiency by undermining incentives and reducing private investment.
At current tax levels, governments confiscate two-fifths of peoples earnings with devastating conseqences. Many growth-creating entrepreneurial activities are no longer viable. Businesses face crippling compliance costs to follow tax rules. And high-income individuals spend vast amounts of time and money trying to reduce their payments by employing armies of lawyers and accountants. This "negative-sum game" is a gigantic waste of highly skilled people, who might otherwise be profitably employed in wealth-generating activities.
Unskilled people may choose a life out of work and on welfare benefits when they have to start paying substantial taxes on relatively low earnings. And employment taxes mean that businesses are less likely to recruit them.
It is therefore unsurprising that high-tax Europe is cursed with chronic unemployment, much of it hidden through sickness and disability provision. A vicious circle has developed in which high taxes are needed to finance mass welfare dependency but at the same time reduce job creation.
Endemic worklessness damages the economy by reducing the supply of labour and in the context of welfare states requiring additional taxes to fund public support for jobless individuals.
Of course a proportion of people receiving out-of-work benefits are actually working. A high-tax burden provides strong incentives for individuals to conduct business in the informal economy. In some high-tax countries, such as Italy, the "black market" accounts for about one third of GDP. Yet investment is a problem for informal businesses they cannot expand like formal businesses and therefore do not contribute as much to economic growth in the long-term.
Indeed, the effect of taxation on private investment may be particularly damaging to economic growth. The rate of investment will tend to be reduced when the state appropriates a high proportion of the returns. The incentives for entrepreneurs and investors to take risks are also damaged.
This in turn means taxes act as a barrier to the new technologies that drive economic growth. Without sufficient investment potentially valuable innovations are never developed and exploited, while the implementation of productivity improvements is delayed.
While governments may use tax revenues to fund investments of their own, returns are likely to be poor. Many state investments, such as new hospitals, schools and railways are fundamentally uneconomic. They require continued taxpayer subsidies to fund their running costs and their effect on economic growth therefore tends to be negative.
Whereas private investment and consumption are driven by individual preferences, government spending priorities are decided by politicians and officials under the influence of special interest groups. Bureaucrats are generally not good at picking winners and do not make successful entrepreneurs. Unlike private investors, they do not suffer personal financial losses when a venture goes wrong. Thus government spending has tended to be horrendously inefficient.
It can also be argued that state intervention, funded by taxes, actually does very little good, even when it is well-intentioned. Government-run health and education systems have often lowered standards without achieving the equality of outcomes so valued by politicians.
In the UK one in five school-leavers is functionally illiterate, while the National Health Service is plagued by long waiting lists and poor hygiene conditions. Welfare states, which absorb the majority of tax revenues in the West, have encouraged long-term unemployment and associated social breakdown.
Perhaps the only taxation that can be justified on economic grounds is that needed to fund the basic institutions required for markets to operate.
Governments arguably play a vital role in maintaining law and order, the enforcement of contracts and organising defence from external threats. Yet even here there is scope for greater private sector involvement.
It is therefore clear that current tax burdens are far above the optimum level for economic growth. Fortunately, some governments have recognised this.
Ireland was one of Western Europes poorest countries in 1980. It is now one of the richest, having overtaken Switzerland in terms of GDP per head, thanks to a radical programme of tax cutting and deregulation.
Ex-communist nations, such as Estonia, have followed suit, with spectacular results. These examples show that Western countries can achieve high growth rates if their politicians have the courage to cut taxes and reap the economic rewards.
Dr Richard Wellings is Deputy Editorial Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs
Article published in Offshore Investment [3], Issue 190, October 2008.


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I'm finding the special attacks from bosses to be very difficult to deal with since the AI doesn't seem smart enough to actually block or evade these attacks. I can manage against a single-target special by switching to the AI and forcing them to block, but special attacks which hit the entire party seem to be impossible to deal with. I have a hard time believing there is no way for me to defend my party against these attacks, which leads me to believe I'm doing something wrong.
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WELLSBURG - Another key piece is in place at the Brooke County Veterans Memorial Park, with the arrival Friday of a 7-foot-tall cast bronze statue paying tribute to the many local men and women who have served their country over the years.
Created by Canadian sculptor Tim Schmalz and weighing hundreds of pounds, the piece was delivered by train and truck from Ontario to Wellsburg.
Stored temporarily at Eagle Manufacturing on Wednesday, it was lowered onto its concrete pedestal at the center of the park on Friday morning by crews with Dan Hukill Contracting of Wellsburg using a crane owned by Bowers Contracting of Wintersville.
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A GOOD FIT — Crews with Dan Hukill Contracting of Wellsburg on Friday lowered a 7-foot tall cast bronze statue to the center of the Brooke County Veterans Memorial Park overlooking the paddle boat pond at Brooke Hills Park. The statue was created by Canadian sculptor Tim Schmalz and delivered by train and truck from Ontario to Wellsburg this week. -- Warren Scott
Several volunteers with the Brooke County Veterans Memorial Park were on hand to observe.
Among them was Howard Armstrong, the group's president, who said he was relieved the statue has been conveyed safely to its proper place, but he added there's still work to be done.
Local contractor Mark Van Horn is expected this weekend to begin laying 267 granite pavers between the statue and the granite wall that bears the names of 186 local veterans who died while serving their country in military conflicts and 27 who were prisoners of war.
A dedication for the park, which sits beside the paddle boat pond at Brooke Hills Park, will be held at 2 p.m. Nov. 11.
Sam White, a retired Brooke High School art teacher who provided the sketch for the park's design, was among several taking photos of the statue's installation.
"I just think it's fantastic to be able to get a world-reknowned sculptor to be involved with something here in Wellsburg."
Schmalz' involvement was an unexpected surprise for the Brooke County Veterans Memorial Park Foundation.
There had been plans for the park to feature a bronze statue of a soldier, standing and saluting before the wall.
While members of the foundation were reworking the park's design to reflect input from local veterans and meet cost limitations, Schmalz learned of the project through the Internet.
He had designed a statue of Jesus Christ for the Franciscan University of Steubenville so he was familiar with this area and e-mailed Armstrong, offering to create a statue for the park.
Armstrong learned Schmalz had designed various statues, many of them massive, for such sites as the Canadien Veterans Memorial in Ontario and the Mother Theresa Memorial in Calcutta, India.
"At first I ignored him because I didn't think we had the budget for him," Armstrong admitted.
But Schmalz insisted he could create a unique and impressive monument within the group's budget.
Noting Schmalz' promised to deliver something unique, Paul "Bud" Billiard, the group's publicity coordinator, said, "He was right. It is something like I've never seen before."
On one side the wings of an eagle frame a scene of a soldier accepting a reddish pink flower from a young girl, with many other service members behind him.
On the other side the wings of a dove frame a scene of tombstones representing military graves, an image of a peaceful European village behind them. A reddish pink flower has been placed at one of the graves.
Schmalz, who was interviewed by phone, said the eagle is appropriate because it represents for Americans valor and national pride, while the dove is known by many as a symbol of peace.
The scene with the young girl was inspired by the custom, during World War II, of people in European villages presenting flowers to troops that had liberated them from Nazi occupation.
Often the flowers were presented by a child, and he drew upon a magazine photo from that period of a barefoot girl in Italy carrying out that custom, Schmalz said.
"I thought how amazing that this little girl is giving this war-weary soldier a flower," he said.
He often sees his sculptures as stories, and he envisions the flower at the tombstone on the other side of the piece being left by the girl years later, now grown.
Both flowers were created by applying a reddish patina to the bronze, a rare instance of his using color to create an effect, Schmalz said.
Schmalz said it was important to him to incorporate the images of many service members.
"When you're dealing with subject matter as significant as the sacrifices of soldiers, a single soldier is not enough," he said.
The soldiers' faces were inspired by photos of about 25 local veterans who were killed in action.
Schmalz said limited space prevented him from creating exact likenesses from the photos but they served as inspiration as he sculpted the piece.
Some appear courageous, others weary. They wear the uniforms of various wars and eras and some have bandages on wounds they sustained in battle.
"As I'm working, I'm looking at this young soldier who was killed in Vietnam, for example," he said.
Schmalz said the concept of a statue with an eagle on one side and dove on the other came to him before he learned of the park. When he saw photos of the park's future site, "I thought this would be the perfect spot for such a story to be expressed."
Schmalz said he hopes the statue will help to convey to future generations the values and sacrifices of those who have served, including those who have given their lives.
"One thing that impresses me is how young many of them were. They were kids and what a burden they put on themselves and what responsibility they assumed," he said.
Asked if he plans to visit the park, Schmalz said he hopes to arrange an art exhibit at the Franciscan University of Steubenville in the next year or two and will stop to see it then.


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20 Feb 2013 1:13 PM #1
Ext4j : Another approach on Ext JS development
Hello commnunity,
Today i m exited to share with a tool that we ve been using internally for quite a long time now and that has helped us take our Ext JS developement to another level.
Working on a heavy J2EE based environment we were always looking for a way to improve our developement experience.
Tooling around Ext(and JS in general) has become verry powerful over the time(Designer, Eclipse plugin,IntelliJ, Cmd, etc ...).Libraries like ExtDirect, DJN have make (Java) backends integration enjoyable. Even though we were always able to get things done, we were not really satisfied with this approaches.
What we wanted is the ability to leverage the same language all over the application stack (from front to backend).On top of that we wanted even powerful tooling. We wanted our code to scale as the code size becomes bigger and bigger.
Meet Ext4j
Ext4j is a library that leverage Ext JS and the Google Web Toolkit(GWT) to help developers write Ext JS apps in Java and have it compile to JavaScript using the GWT compiler.
Not only do you get a high optimised JS output(The GWT compiler is one the best at generating performant JS), you also get all the tooling around Java Enterprises Softwares for free.
Why use Ext4j ?
If you are looking for strong tooling support with a language designed for big scale applications and must not use JavaScript to create Ext JS applications then Ext4j might a good choice for you.
Convincing customers of this approach could be difficult but once they see what Ext4j brings to the table their opinion will change real fast.
What does Ext4j has to offer ?
1) First the library will be FREE to use with an Apache 2 license(Ext JS licensing still applies though).
2) 100% coverage of Ext JS API. Whatever s possible in JavaScript the library aims to support and better.
3) Strong typing and IDE support at NO COST.
This means code completion, compile time errors, real debugging, refactoring all FOR FREE.
4) Real Softwware Engineering
Interface design, Composition, Design pattern must not be emulated. BecauseExt4j leverages the Java langague everything is there ready to use.
5) Declarative User Interface
Ext4j support GWT UI Binders giving you the ability to layout the UI in a XML based declarative way.
<x:TabPanel height="500px" width="800px" activeTab="1"> <x:Panel title="Chart Panel" closable="true" layout="fit"> <x:ToolBar> <x:ToolBarFill/> <x:Button text="Reload Data" ui:field="button" /> </x:ToolBar> <x:Chart ui:field="chart"/> </x:Panel> <x:Panel title="DatePicker" closable="false" bodyPadding="10" layout="vbox" > <x:DatePicker/> <x:Button text="Ext Button"/> <x:Slider increment="5" minValue="0" maxValue="100" width="200px"/> </x:Panel> </x:TabPanel>
6) Seamless Java(and others) backend integration.
Because Ext4j leverages the Google Web Toolkit you get the ability to invoke Java backend methods right from the client in Java.
7) Even more...
Version 1 is just the beginning. We are planing(with the help of the comminity of course) to make this the best tool possible for creating Ext JS application.
We are confident that after using Ext4j your Ext JS development experience will never be the same.
Real world example
While getting ready for the GA release. We are also implementing a set of applications to demonstrate what s possible with Ext4j. Below is the picture of the Ext4j Explorer.
The explorer allready contains more then 50 demos(and counting). You can see it in action here:
What s next ?
Stay tuned for more infos here while we are getting the library ready for release.
20 Feb 2013 1:37 PM #2
Very nice ... thank you for sharing!
21 Feb 2013 1:32 AM #3
Brillant !
After a lot of PHP based solutions(Bancha, Ext4 Yii, etc...)
Finally something for us Java Devs.
When should we expect this ?
21 Feb 2013 3:50 AM #4
Interesting indeed.
Nice demo app by the way.
The app is written with Ext4j ?
Why should one using your tool instead of Sencha GXT ?
21 Feb 2013 2:51 PM #5
Thx. Really appreciate
As a Java Devs myself i understand where you are coming from.
There is not ETA yet. I will definitely share more in the coming days.
GA release is not faar away.
Yes the Explorer is written with Ext4j
Like i said in my previous post we will be adding more demos before GA.
"Why should one using your tool instead of Sencha GXT ?"
Well we created Ext4j because our customers wanted an Ext JS solution.
We just convinced them that that solution must not be written in JavaScript.
Most of them allready have a Ext JS license and were not willing to buy a GXT license.
The library primary aims to help people in the same situation.
Beyond that we simply aim to be a great alternative for Web development period.
Combining Ext JS and Java in the way we do has a big potential and hopefully you guyz will also see it that way
27 Feb 2013 3:40 PM #6
A better real world example will follow in a few.
Stay tuned
1 Mar 2013 3:16 AM #7
Every once in a while somebody comes around and says XML is so much better...
For me personally this is a mess:
PHP Code:
<x:TabPanel height="500px" width="800px" activeTab="1"> <x:Panel title="Chart Panel" closable="true" layout="fit"> <x:ToolBar> <x:ToolBarFill/> <x:Button text="Reload Data" ui:field="button" /> </x:ToolBar> <x:Chart ui:field="chart"/> </x:Panel> <x:Panel title="DatePicker" closable="false" bodyPadding="10" layout="vbox" > <x:DatePicker/> <x:Button text="Ext Button"/> <x:Slider increment="5" minValue="0" maxValue="100" width="200px"/> </x:Panel> </x:TabPanel>
1 Mar 2013 5:06 AM #8
Well some people prefer a more declarative approach. Specially non programmer.
Plus XML layouting gives a basis for a visual editor (Stay tune for more in that direction )
But you must not use XML. One can do it all in code
PHP Code:
Panel p = new Panel(Layout.FIT);
p.add(new Button("Click Me");
//more code here
Give it a try .
4 Mar 2013 1:01 PM #9
I'm not very familiar with GWT world. Can you explain how to implement custom new component created with ExtJs to Ext4j?
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A new approach to social media called "Tweak the Tweet," conceived by CU-Boulder graduate student Kate Starbird and deployed by members of CU's Project EPIC research group and colleagues around the nation, helped Haiti relief efforts by providing standardized syntax for Twitter communications.
Through consistent use of specially placed keywords, or "hashtags," in Twitter posts to communicate critical information such as location, status, and road conditions, the "Tweak the Tweet" approach made information computationally easier to extract and collate.
"Project EPIC has done extensive research on the use of Twitter and other social media during disasters," said Starbird, a National Science Foundation graduate fellow who is pursuing her doctorate in technology, media and society in CU's ATLAS program. "A slight change to current Twitter behavior allows the platform to be used as a broad-reaching crisis communication tool for anyone with access."
Starbird conceived of the "Tweak the Tweet" idea with Jeannie Stamberger of Mountain View, California, at a national hacker competition in 2009. A group of eight CU-Boulder students and professors worked alongside dozens of colleagues nationwide to develop and diffuse the syntax across the Twitter community immediately following the Haiti earthquake. The group members have tweaked hundreds of help messages on Twitter into the standardized syntax to fuel adoption by others and have built a bilingual instructional website.
Starbird said the project has been a way for computer scientists, who would otherwise feel helpless, to contribute to relief efforts.


text: I'm Popeye the Sailor Man, I'm Popeye the Sailor Man. I'm strong to the finish Cause I eats me spinach, I'm Popeye the Sailor Man (toot! toot!). Another blast from the past in this tutorial on a very popular face that was once played by Robin Williams. Here is "how to draw Popeye easy", step by step. Popeye has always been entertaining to watch on television when I was a kid. The way he used to be obsessed with Olive Oil and the fighting he did with Bluto makes every episode better then the next. Anyways, drawing Popeye easy should be finished in a few minutes not hours. Hope you have fun folks, I'll be back in a bit.


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Panjiva data shows a 14 percent decline in U.S.-bound shipments from November to December
In another sign that the pace of the economic recovery remains bumpy, data from Panjiva, an online search engine with detailed information on global suppliers and manufacturers, noted that the number of waterborne shipments entering the United States dropped 14 percent from November to December.
This follows a 2 percent decline from October to November and marks the fourth straight month U.S.-bound waterborne shipments have been down.
December shipments came in at 868,365, following November's 1,013,564, said Panjiva officials.
And with U.S.-bound waterborne shipments down, the number of global manufacturers also dipped, falling 9 percent from November to December to 118,728, which was ahead of previous declines, including 1 percent and 5 percent decreases in 2007 and 2008, respectively, according to Panjiva. The company also pointed out that the previous high for global manufacturers shipping to the U.S. was a 10 percent drop in February 2009.
In an interview with Modern, Panjiva CEO described December's data as grim.
"These numbers, though, are not terribly surprising," said Green. "We would definitely expect to see seasonal declines from August-September down through February. But the decline was pretty steep, and my read on it is that these are the shipments that were the result of orders placed before the holiday season. What was going on, was that people did not know how the holiday season was going to turn out, and nobody wanted to be receiving a lot of inventory after that until they had more clarity about what direction the economy was going in."
Green added that it was hard for companies to look past the holiday season and as a result did not order significant quantities for post-holiday season, with the result being a significant November to December drop-off.
Early into this year, Green said the most businesses are confident that the economy is in a stable place as far as demand goes, with more concern focusing on the trajectory of costs of things like labor and raw materials, which are heading up, and pose a concern that consumers are not going to accept price increases, with businesses having to accept lower margins.
"That is the greater concern right now, with demand somewhat stabilizing and is a nice change from where we have been," said Green.


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[natural gas]
By LIAM DENNING
Like the truth, US natural gas will come out -- provided
Washington doesn't block it.
US natural gas trades for a little over $3/MMBtu, while in
Europe the price is closer to $12. A supply boom coupled with a
lack of export options has kept gas prices low in America. Europe, meanwhile, depends on
imports from countries, such as Russia, that demand prices
linked to those of oil, which is relatively expensive.
Cheap stuff attracts buyers, and gas is no different. French
utility EDF has announced plans to develop floating barges
that could liquefy North American gas to be shipped overseas.
In theory, this could offer a cheaper, faster way to get US gas
on the high seas than some land-based projects.
That remains to be seen. The bigger point to draw from this
move is that Europe needs cheaper energy, and its
companies are getting creative in how to tap it. In December,
Austria's Voestalpine announced plans to build a facility in
North America to use cheap gas to make a precursor to steel
that will then be shipped back home for final processing.
Europe needs the help. Its power stations are burning more
US coal these days, which has been displaced by cheap gas at
home. That helps with costs but does nothing for Europe's carbon emissions targets.
Alistair Buchanan, who runs the UK's energy-market regulator,
warned again this week that the country's reliance on imported
gas to power its electricity grid looks set to intensify,
raising energy bills.
Meanwhile, Jonathan Lane of research firm and consultancy
GlobalData calculates that German residential consumers last
year paid more than 2.5 times what Americans paid for
electricity. High renewable subsidies in Germany are a big part
of this, but the cheaper underlying cost of gas-fired power
also gives US bill-payers an advantage.
Exporting US gas to Europe, undercutting the likes of
Gazprom, is a no-brainer from the market's perspective. The
question is whether US politicians allow much of it. For them,
a gas glut at home means less inflation and a basis for more
competitive manufacturing.
Even if EDF and friends build their barges, they may
struggle to find a welcoming dock.
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Hello All,a) Shale gas find in the US:What's the potential availability of gas and also reservoir prospects in TCF (Trillion Cub.Ft) so that one can think of competitive advantage while comparing with 4 times cheaper gas in the Middle East.b) May be, middle eastern big weights would try to take advantage, thru' innovative foreign direct investment, to test the American market, by way of constructing Petrochemicals ventures.c) If Gas pricing is linked with Crude Oil pricing, the oil price would plummet and also demand for oil would further go down; Still refinery margins continue to be low, and many small oneswill be out of business.What are your thought process on the above factors?Thanks.
Ramesh Nageswaran
Americas gas should not be exported . The whole infrastructure including electrical power and significant parts of the transportation fuel sector should be converted to gas and liquids made from gas .Foreign companies should be encouraged to utilise gas resources in the USA. A reformed business tax structure will help immensely
how gas resource is comparable to liquid resource and solid resource? one need to think if gas is lying under the earth, then earth will be shapeless rather tha solid. I am doubtful that shale gas and natural gas are the real potential energy resource? no wonder at last it would be another big scandal. regret me if it is not in line of truth.
Malcolm Brown
Let's export our gas so the price we will have to pay will be higher, and we will run out of it faster so our kids will not have any.
Fernando de Tezanos
Barato por ahora que no hay los suficientes medios de distribución ,al momento que ya existan estas barcazas seguro que le subirán el precio
Ron Wagner
Natural gas is the future of energy. It is replacing dirty old coal plants, and dangerous expensive nuclear plants. It will fuel cars, trucks, vans, buses, locomotives, aircraft, ships, tractors, air conditioners, engines of all kinds. It costs far less. It will help keep us out of more useless wars, where we shed our blood and money. It is used to make many products. It will bring jobs and boost our economy. It lowers CO2 emissions, and pollution. Over 5,000 natural gas story links on my free blog. An annotated and illustrated bibliography of live links, updated daily. The worldwide picture of natural gas. Read in 74 nations. ronwagnersrants . blogspot . com
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Engineers and designers are highly skilled individuals. Forcing them to enter design changes using tables, forms and spreadsheets is unproductive and uneconomical, and it increases the likelihood of human error—this is the way that most instrumentation software systems currently work. For too long, software vendors have denied engineers and designers the simple practicality of a graphical visual engineering interface with "drag and drop" capability and inbuilt intelligence, ensuring changes are automatically replicated into all the associated data and databases.
Is 2016 the peak for US gasoline demand?
Too soon to tell
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I know that Ubuntu will not and can not write to a live CD-R/DVD+-R when it is booting from it, as it is a read-only medium. However, the procedure (at least on the data level) for running Ubuntu off an optical disc is different from a USB drive, which is usually write-enabled. if I make a live USB, turn off persistent files, and boot from it, will any data be written to the USB drive (e.g. settings, error logs, temporary files)? Or will Ubuntu just read from it, nothing else?
A live USB acts just like a live CD. Like a live CD, booting is accomplished by extracting a 4 GB filesystem from a highly compressed 700 MB SquashFS image. SquashFS is read-only, so any data that is "changed" in the live session is written to a ramdisk, which (as it's name implies) is kept in RAM and removed on shutdown.
However, you may choose to actually install Ubuntu to a flash drive if you wish. This will cause Ubuntu to treat it as a hard disk, therefore causing it to write to the drive. Note that because Ubuntu needs to be installed on a write-enabled filesystem, you will not be able to use SquashFS and will need the full 5GB (as opposed to ~700 MB) of space required by an uncompressed Ubuntu install.
I suppose Ubuntu writes data to the USB drive, because it saves the configs we choose. For example, if I install Ubuntu in a computer choosing "Portuguese" as language, the next time I start Ubuntu from a live USB it will use "Portuguese" as the default language.
But I dont know where it writes the data.


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I have a question. How does tuning come into play in guitar songs? See, I can find the tab of a song in the guitar by ear and I was taught that in tuning standard the fifth fret of the low e string is same sounding as the open a when plucked. This means I could derive a same sounding note from one string to another, isn't this correct? So why does one need to alternate tune sometimes? Is this because in some songs some notes go from low to very high? So that the player could easily play that song because the notes would be nearer to each other?
You've pretty much answered the question yourself. Sometimes the guitarist needs access to other notes (usually lower, such as in drop-D tuning) or to take advantage of chords that would be difficult/impossible to form in standard tuning. Two other options are wanting the change in sound (particularly with the open strings) or simply preference (preferring to play songs one way over another). Naturally, tunings can be combined with a capo to create many variations.
The change in sound is a big reason, especially in folk styles… I've learned one song that is played in DADGAD tuning for a specific type of sound, one with a lot of suspensions in most of the chords. It's simply not possible to play it in standard tuning and keep the same character of sound, and it's what makes the song what it is. However it's also used for the ease of playing specific things. It's also sometimes used as a songwriting tool, at least by some, as it lets you escape the progressions you know, and explore the ones you don't, completely by ear. I've used it on occasion, and though I'm about as far as you can get from a gifted songwriter, it has certainly helped get me out of many a rut.
In addition, some individual guitarists use alternate tunings, especially open tunings, to overcome physical difficulties. My father cut two fingers of his left hand off on a table saw, and now has only his thumb, pinkie, ring finger, and minimal use of his index finger (won't bend, so usable mostly just for barre chords). He has no middle finger any longer. He used to be a phenomenal guitarist, and although he primarily plays bass now, he does play guitar in open tunings, which help him do what he needs to.
The character of the sound, rather than ease of playing, is most often the reason seasoned guitar players use open tunings. I don't know what kind of music you anticipate playing in alternate tunings, but they are frequently used in everything from blues to country to rock. Guitarists from Mississippi John Hurt to Doc Watson to Keith Richards to Neil Young use alternate tunings.
To really answer your question, find a song you like that you know was done with an alternate tuning and try to learn it in standard tuning. You'll almost certainly succeed. Then relearn it in the alternate tuning and you'll appreciate why it was done that way.


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I'd always wondered. The blocks usually seemed designed to have the knives go in blade down, so that the blade touched wood coming in and out. But I know that when I whittle, cutting the wood wears the blade of a knife down very, very quickly. I'd always wondered if that regular contact with the wood from sliding into and out of the blocks could be wearing my knives down. Does it? If so, does putting them in blade up (against the design of the block - it would seem) do any better for them?
Wooden blocks are ideal for knife storage because they keep the blades dry (the wood absorbs some of the humidity in the air), preventing rusting.
The motion of inserting and withdrawing blades over wood will not noticeably dull them, because you're not actually cutting the wood or indeed even applying any pressure as you do so.
A good tip is to use a good quality steel to sharpen your knives with just one or two passes on each side before each use. Wash them with hot water by hand, avoiding dishwashers unless you like replacing your knives annually, then return them to the block once they're fully dried.
Technically, yes. While wood is a preferable surface to many others for drawing your blade across it will still cause wear. If you're using a block, the slots should be horizontal.
Your knife block is poorly designed. I have a Shun knife block, the blades go in sideways. I just searched for J.A. Henckels and Wusthof blocks on Amazon as well, all horizontal.
Is this worth buying a new block over? Probably not, as the other answers in this thread indicate, it's not that big of a deal. It is less than ideal however.
We have two knife blocks. One has vertical holes, the other has horizontal holes. The horizontal block gives us all the advantages of wood, without the big disadvantage you just pointed out. The cutting edges don't rest against wood all the time, and are less likely to be in contact with said wood when being placed/removed.
I'm not a whittler, but I think that what causes the blade to wear is pulling it across the wood. The blade should be fine as long as it is drawn lengthwise (like you are cutting something in half). Blades are very strong this way, but since the edge is very thin, it can easily be bent by having things pull across it.
Since wood is much softer than metal, I suspect there would be very little impact on the integrity of the blade. It it were pushed very hard into the wood, it might bend, but under normal use, I can't see any problems.
It's much better to put the knife in a wooden block than to put it in a drawer and have it rattle around with other metallic objects. Most pro knife sets come with a wooden block so I would assume that is the preferred storage method.
If you are concerned that pulling the knives out along the wood will dull the blade than as you pull out, also pull away from the blade side so the knife blade doesn't rub against the wood.
It shouldn't matter all that much. I prefer a magnetic strip on the wall, though.
Frankly, I think the constant up and down and sliding across the maple cutting board will do much more to dull my knives than storing them in a vertical slot block.
Yes, they can wear a bit in a vertical block, but only if you store them point-side down. When I had a vertical block, I stored them points-up. Assuming there's a little extra room in the slots, the tip should touch nothing when you remove the knives.


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Is there a known non-trivial system with plausibly secure public key encryption where:
1. $\;\;$ the $\:$ time $\:$ function is efficiently computable
2. $\;\;$ [pubkey,privkey] $\:$ pairs are generated with $\:$ time(privkey) = 0
3. $\;\;$ when encrypting under $\:$ pubkey $\:$, $\:$ the encryptor chooses a value of t in the appropriate range
${}$4. $\;\;$ given privkey0 and t such that $\:$ time(privkey0) < t $\:$ and t is in the appropriate range,
$\qquad$one can efficiently compute privkey1 such that $\:$ time(privkey1) = t
${}$5. $\;\;$ given $\:$ privkey' $\:$ generated from the original $\:$ privkey $\:$ by zero or more
$\qquad$ more applications of 4, and a message encrypted under pubkey
$\qquad$ with $\:$ t = time(privkey') $\:$, $\:$ one can efficiently decrypt the message
${}$6. $\;\;$ given $\:$ privkey' $\:$ generated from the original $\:$ privkey $\:$ by one or more
$\qquad$ applications of 4, and a messgae encrypted under pubkey with
$\qquad$ t < time(privkey') $\:$, $\:$ it is infeasible to learn anything about the message
The trivial system is generating keys with $\:$ privkey $\:$ as 0 paired with a (randomly chosen) state for a forward-secure pseudo-random number generator, and $\:$ pubkey $\:$ as a list of public keys for an ordinary PKE system generated using the pseudo-random output from the state. $\;\;$ The $\:$ time $\:$ function is taking the first entry in the pair. $\;\;$ The range for t values is non-negative integers less than the number of (ordinary) public keys in the list. $\;\;$ Encryption under $\:$ pubkey $\:$ is the pair of t together with (ordinary) encryption under the t'th (ordinary) public key in the list. $\;\;$ The step 4 updating is changing the first part of $\:$ privkey $\:$ to t and changing the state to what it was after generating the first t (ordinary) public keys. $\;\;$ The step 5 decryption is by using the known state to regenerate the
(ordinary) private key for the t'th (ordinary) public key in the list, and using
that private key to decrypt the second part of the encrypted message.
The problem with the trivial system is that the size of $\:$ pubkey
grows linearly with the desired size of the range for t values.


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QUIP: I love making kabobs but I hate it when the food goes flying off, sticks to the grill or spins while you are trying to turn it. Making for a struggle and stress over a hot grill – yuck! Is there a way to skewer these issues?
TIP: There sure is! Use two (2) skewers per kabob. What this does is stabilize everything on the kabob and stop it from spinning, flying off and – if you spray the grill – from sticking too!