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Or should perfmon be limited to a Dev/QA server with load tests that simulate production activity?
I'd like to run perfmon for two days (like Sql Server master Brent Ozar suggests) to get an overall feel of my web app's database performance.
Or should perfmon be limited to a Dev/QA server with load tests that simulate production activity?
I'd like to run perfmon for two days (like Sql Server master Brent Ozar suggests) to get an overall feel of my web app's database performance.
SQL Server, and most other products, generate the counters all the time, no matter if there are listeners or not (ignoring the -x startup option). Counter tracing is completely transparent on the application being monitored. There is a shared memory region on which the monitored application writes and from which monitoring sessions read the raw values at the specified interval. So the only cost associated with monitoring is the cost of the monitoring process and the cost to write of the sampled values to disk. Choosing a decent collection interval (I usually choose 15 sec) and a moderate number of counters (50-100), and writing into a binary file format usually leaves no impact on the monitored system.
But I'd recommend against using Perfmon (as in perfmon.exe). Instead get yourself familiar with with logman.exe, see Description of Logman.exe, Relog.exe, and Typeperf.exe Tools. This way you don't tie the collection session to your session. Logman, being a command line tool, can be used in scripts and scheduled jobs to start and stop collection sessions.
There's nothing wrong with running perfmon on production boxes. It's relatively low key, and can gather a lot of good info for you. And how would you accurately simulate production loads if you didn't run some analysis on the production server? From Brent Ozar in your own link:
I've run perfmon on a number of production Exchange boxes with no adverse effects.
Ever since I listened to Clint Huffman, who wrote PAL a utility for analyzing Perfmon Logs, on a podcast once. I have setup what I call the Flight Recorder on all of our production application servers. This practice has come in very handy for diagnosing problems and monitoring trends.
Below is the script I use to setup an auto-starting Perfmon Collector, with log purging. If desired, it can bevfed a file listing performance counters to collect (one per line) or a PAL Threshold XML file. I like to use the PAL Threshold files.
We do it quite frequently. It is also essential for establishing a baseline in the real environment, so you can compare later if there are issues or you need to perform a capacity study.
I recommend not going below a 10-second interval though. If you are collecting many objects/counters and the interval is too frequent, it may impact operations.
Microsoft has a PerfMon Wizard that will setup the task for you.
In an ideal world where a production server exactly mirrors what a dev server, does and is also an exact duplicate of the dev server, perfmon should never be required on the production server because the results would be the same as those on the dev server. Of course that mythical situation never happens, so we do need to run perfmon on production servers and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Amongst other things, we may need to use perfmon and other tools to learn why the production server isn't behaving the same as the dev server.
Why perfmon? I mean, recent versions of SQL server have their own method of doing that including building a (central) data warehouse of performance counters that can then be queried and reported against. There is zero sense in running perfmon there.
I am, like always, astonished by all the posts here of people who obviously never read the documentation ;)
http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/learn-sql-server/sql-server-2008-performance-data-collector/ is a good start. IMHO that should work on almost every sql server that is used for production purposes.
Nothing wrong with running Perfmon as many have suggested, but I would run Profiler instead or in addition, with the same caveats, don't capture too much too often, just capture long running queries, i.e. duration > x seconds, or cpu > xx, or reads > xxxx; very little impact, and you'll quickly see the queries that would benefit most from tuning.


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The 5 Creepiest Disappearances That Nobody Can Explain
Back in the Dark Ages, people disappeared all the time. Crusades, disease and nearly nonexistent bookkeeping made it easy to slip through the cracks without so much as a footprint left behind. Luckily, the modern world makes such disappearances damn near impossible -- when people vanish, it usually turns out they were killed or kidnapped, or at least they were very likely to have been. The point is, usually we have some kind of an answer.
Which makes it all the more mind-boggling when people actually do vanish into thin air, under very weird circumstances. Like ...
#5. Ray Gricar
For 20 years, Ray Gricar was the district attorney of Centre County, Pennsylvania. He was a solid man with a tough reputation. On April 15, 2005, Gricar phoned his girlfriend and told her he was driving in the countryside and would be back soon.
But hey, mystery schmystery, right? Dude was a hardass DA, he was bound to make enemies. He was probably making that call under duress from some gang member or something.
"Tell her I send my love. No, I couldn't do it myself, it's embarrassing."
That's pretty much what the cops must have figured when Gricar's car was found outside an antiques store. Pretty much everything but his cellphone was missing. There were no signs of a struggle, but it must be noted that DAs seldom put up a fight at gunpoint unless they're played by Aaron Eckhart.
A search ensued. Gricar's credit cards and accounts were monitored, with no signs of activity. His laptop was retrieved from a nearby river, too damaged to recover any files.
Although thankfully not too damaged to run Windows ME.
So what makes Gricar's disappearance any different from those of countless other guys who could have been killed, or killed themselves? Well ...
It Gets Weirder:
Want to guess what case he was working at the time he disappeared? Here's a hint: It's Pennsylvania, home of Penn State University.
Hey, what a coincidence! Something big happened there just the other ... year ... oh.
Yep. Investigators found that at the time of his disappearance in 2005, Gricar was working on what would be known as the Penn State sex abuse scandal, which may or may not end up revealing an assistant football coach as a horrible dickbag who deserves all the prison. You know, that scandal that just broke last year. Gricar was working on it six years earlier.
Then he vanished.
Furthermore, investigators found out Gricar had in 1998 mysteriously refused to press charges against the coach despite having more than enough evidence. In 2005, same thing. It was almost like he was stacking evidence for the mother of all judicial beatdowns.
"You're about to be as screwed as those k-- oh, shit. I probably shouldn't say that."
Many officials have since said that Gricar's disappearance must have something to do with the Penn State scandal, goddamnit. And true enough, even without the whole case-building thing, Gricar had a history of animosity with the university. But here's yet another curve:
Remember that laptop we mentioned, the one that was found in the river? You know, implying that the killer dumped it there? In 2009, someone got around to searching Gricar's home computer. Its search history showed that Gricar had made a whole lot of Web searches for things such as "how to wreck a hard drive," "how to fry a hard drive" and "water damage to a notebook computer." It's as if he was planning to destroy the computer himself, in a way that would make its contents unrecoverable.
"Haha! Now no one will discover all that incriminating evidence! Wait, shit."
So that would mean he dumped the computer, and then vanished. Why?
It's looking like we'll never know.
#4. Louis Le Prince
Louis Le Prince was a 19th century inventor who specialized in cameras and was so far ahead of his time that he actually created the world's first true moving picture. With such pioneering technology at his disposal and loads more up his sleeve, Le Prince was well on his way to becoming the most influential Frenchman since Napoleon. So ... why haven't we ever heard of him before?
Because he vanished. From a train.
"That's odd. Coal almost never screams when you burn it."
In 1890, Le Prince was traveling to America to get new patents and show off his newest wonderful toys. In Dijon, France, he checked his baggage, boarded a train bound for Paris, retired to his cabin and ... that was the last time anyone saw him.
It Gets Weirder:
No passengers saw anything suspicious. There were no noises from Le Prince's cabin. All windows were tightly closed. Yet when the train pulled into Paris, not only was Le Prince not on the train, but his baggage -- kept in a separate compartment -- was missing as well. Both the train and the railroad were searched in their entirety, but neither the man nor the luggage was ever found.
Which is a shame, as his luggage held the upgrade for this ... trouser press?
Some were certain that Le Prince had performed an elaborate suicide by essentially vanishing into thin air, despite being in the middle of a trip to go show off the work he was so proud of. Others claimed his family had ordered him to disappear due to financial problems, and he took it a bit literally. Others still stretched the family theory even further, claiming his brother had murdered him and somehow managed to magic the corpse-luggage combo away because screw you, logic, we're conspiracy theorizin' here.
Occam's razor clearly points toward weaponized spontaneous human combustion.
Of course, there is also that other theory.
Le Prince was in heavy competition with an American film pioneer. Said American actively blocked the Frenchman's U.S. patents, while Le Prince returned the favor by having the American's camera designs bleed out to French cameramen before he could get European patents for them.
So, a slightly dickish, insanely competitive American inventor who was keen on cinematography? Hi, Thomas Edison! We've been missing you.
What's that, Edison? A "murdering train-bound Frenchmen" potion? You scamp!
In a sweet (for Edison) twist of fate, Le Prince's disappearance meant there was no one to hold Tommy back from hogging all the credit for discovering motion pictures. Many investigators noticed this, but there was absolutely no way to connect Edison to the case. And even if he was behind Le Prince's disappearance somehow, that would take us no closer to the grand question: How?
We actually have film footage, but people are waiting for the 3-D rerelease.
Still, we can't help thinking that if you wanted to come up with someone who could make a dude just flat out disappear, the guy whose actual nickname had the word "Wizard" in it might warrant more than a passing glance.
#3. Jean Spangler
Jean Spangler was one of the many denizens of the shadowy underbelly of Los Angeles -- a gorgeous actress who didn't let her limited success stop her from leading as sparkling a life as she could manage. She had just finished filming a bit part in the movie Young Man With a Horn (tee hee!), among numerous other small roles, and it might just have been a matter of time before she'd make it big. Or not. We'll never know, as fate had other plans for her. One October day in 1949, she set off to meet her ex-husband about child support and was never seen again.
And the creepy headline floodgates opened.
Her purse appeared two days later, untouched and exactly as cashless as it had been (she didn't carry money -- the investigation ruled out robbery). The only thing inside was a cryptic note:
"Kirk, Can't wait any longer. Going to see Dr. Scott. It will work best this way while mother is away."
"Cont. in next tweet."
Nobody knew who "Kirk" was. But there was one Kirk she knew that made the case all the more curious ...
It Gets Weirder:
And when we say curious, we mean the case was intriguing enough to become a nationwide sensation. Publicity brought plenty of new tips and leads, each turning out to be completely useless. All clues pointed in different directions, and each path was a dead end. Yes, even the ex-husband she was on her way to see.
And then we have that "Kirk" she had worked with. Specifically, actor Kirk Douglas of Spartacus and Being Michael Douglas' Dad fame.
Winner of Cracked's "Holy Crap Is That Dude Still Alive?" award 2012.
Douglas managed to become entangled in the case by going out of his way to tell everyone that the "Kirk" in the note totally wasn't him, honestly, guys, he barely knew her. Curiously, up until then the police hadn't even really thought of him as a suspect, despite at the time checking out pretty much every Kirk and Scott within their jurisdiction, just in case.
"To prove it, here's a creepy photo of me in my new film The Champion, out this year."
Douglas could, of course, just have been covering his back, as he'd recently starred in a film Spangler also had a role in. And his involvement was just one of many odd little facts that kept popping up. For instance, three weeks before Spangler's disappearance, a shady abortion doctor named, yes, Dr. Kirk had been threatening all his former patients over the phone, and a close associate of his actually disappeared without a trace. But no evidence ever turned up connecting him with Spangler's disappearance.
In yet another lead, two mobsters who had been partying with Spangler had also vanished at around the same time. Any evidence they were involved with her disappearance? Of course not!
We suspect this child. Because just look at that ghoulish little face.
In fact, no definitive theory or suspect was ever named, as every day it seemed more like Spangler had just flat out walked right off the earth. Lacking gruesome details, the case slipped through the cracks of public consciousness within months. Soon, it was little more than a shrug and a bucketload of half-assed assumptions of botched abortions and various fatal encounters. Thus faded the memory of Jean Spangler.
You know, except for that one time when a mysterious woman who looked exactly like her was spotted in Texas the following year. However, police never pursued the lead.
"Oh yeah, faces like hers are 10 a penny."


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I have detected some attempts to probe the security of my site. Should I blacklist their IP address? What are the considerations or tradeoffs to use in deciding when to block their IP address and when not to?
As a rule, the returns on this type of defense are nearly zero. There are exceptions, but even then this technique may offer only a small amount of security.
Exhaustive vulnerability scans of randomly-chosen hosts offer extremely low returns on scanning resources. Instead, successful attackers generally choose one of the following two options to increase their odds:
The important point is that in neither of these cases does the attacker make more than a few attempts at a given site. Either they're successful immediately, or they move on.
That's not to say that you won't see the occasional persistent attacker. There's always some misguidedly optimistic individual running Nessus against a /16, but such attacks are by their very nature self-limiting and very rarely successful, since the vast majority of the attacks target software that a given server doesn't even run.
Could such an attack be successful? Yes. Does it ever happen? I deal on the average with several compromised servers per day, and so far I have yet to see even one come from nessus-style full-spectrum scans. But the probability isn't exactly zero. And in the world of random attacks, statistics and probability matter quite a great deal.
The exception is when the attack is not random. If you run a high-value or high-visibility site, you'll attract a lot of direct attacks against you in particular. Sites like Facebook, Twitter, Hotmail, etc., see an extraordinary amount of attack traffic. If you deal in this type of site, you probably already take security very seriously and aren't looking for advice.
A note about SQL injection: This type of attack does take some refinement; after catching an SQL error message in a cursory scan, an attacker may send several dozen queries to a given server to get the bits centered right. So theoretically a clamp-down response may prevent such an attack... but probably not, since he'll probably just return using a different IP. Since he's already alerted on your server, he won't be deterred by a blacklist. Better advice is don't run crappy software. There's no excuse for using non-parameterized queries today.
Arguments in favor of blacklisting: Might as well make the attacker's life harder. While this is not a strong defense, it might give a little bit of additional time to investigate the attack and put in place stronger defenses.
Arguments against blacklisting: In the case dynamic IP addresses, blacklisting them may end up blocking other benign users. You might never know that you are blocking other benign users, or it might lead to hard-to-diagnose errors in the future. In addition, there is some potential configuration complexity to managing a blacklist.
If the attacker is attempting to disrupt the site by overloading it (to mount a denial-of-service attack), then blocking the IP address might be the right answer. A temporary block might be enough.
If the attacker is just probing or scanning, I would be less inclined to blacklist their IP address, but you can take the tradeoffs into account in each situation and make an informed decision about what makes the most sense.
It obviously depends on what your site does, the downside of blocking IPs (could you inadvertantly block real non-attacking customers), and the risk that something could be compromised (is it likely that some users have weak guessable passwords on the site?)
Short term blocks seem perfectly reasonable varying from anywhere from 5 minutes to a day. This may allow an attacker to try ~1000 attempts a day, versus a ~1000 per second in an online attack. Granted, you need to be sure that you do not block legitimate users who forgot their password.
Personally, for example, I block large ranges of IP addresses from China/Russia on a website I run for a local business. I observed that the ssh server for the website had a couple thousand attempted logins with non-existent usernames. While they weren't close to guessing my username, let alone my random high-entropy passphrase, I wasn't comfortable with the attempts and so no reason to let them continue. So I installed fail2ban with loose settings (five failed logins = 30 minutes ban; whitelist for my static IPs -- so I can still login if needed -- also I login 95% of the time with a RSA key so a single failed login is rare). I also changed the ssh port from 22, yes this is only security by obscurity that's easily defeated by a port scan (though I could setup a honeypot for that; but didn't), but that's ok if its part of defense-in-depth. Implementing these changes caused the number of attacks to go down to zero in the past month (as far back as the logs go).
Edit: This answer does not consider login brute-forcing, just attacks which attempt to exploit system vulnerabilities. Of course it seems legit to me to temporarily ban an IP which attempts 30 logins in 5 minutes. /edit.
If you don't have an automatic system in place to check and block requests, don't ban IP addresses that attempt to hack your service. If you block them, they can't make anymore requests, and you won't know if there is a leak. Attacks are going on day and night, and more often than not, you won't be watching the log while an attack is attempted. Block an attack now, and some day someone else will find the leak.
Of course, blocking attacking IPs is a precautionary measure which will help your security. It is not real security, but it might just ward of an attack while giving you early warning.
Doing this in an automated manner might have an advantage when you give a default response back (like a HTTP-200 response) so that automated tools won't detect the block. If you keep logging the requests, you can later check if any of the attempts would have been successful.
There are some problems with this though:
Overall, I would not block any attempted attacks. There may be situations where this is a good idea (perhaps in high-security environments, like for a bank or website with millions of visitors), but in general I don't think it will really help, or may even give you a false sense of security.
The only exception is a DoS attack. Here is no security risk, the only thing being exploited is processing time or bandwidth, so there is no reason not to block this. Though even then, only temporarily ratelimit or ban: these attacks are likely done from a botnet, thus making you block user's IPs.
I would monitor the situation a bit more before moving on with blacklisting an IP, even temporarily. Besides the cons mentioned by D.W., I don't think a serious attempt at attacking your site would employ the same IP more than a couple of times; it's not very hard to spoof it after all. If, however, after a short time spent monitoring, I were to observe repeated probes from that specific IP, I would definitely consider blocking it.
Another thing I might be in the lookout for is the nature of the probes. If the range of offending IPs all share common characteristics in a given window of time, there is a good chance they have been made by the same attacker.
Finally, if the attacks were persisting and / or I had some time to spare, I would attempt to get an idea of what the attacker sees by repeating the probes myself. At the very least, I would get more information about my site 's security.
This is an "it depends" tradeoff.
1 - what is the priority of accessibility vs. obstruction of attackers?
For any block, you want to determine whether you are blocking legitimate usage as well as attackers. For example, if the IP comes from your customer and one of their machines has been hacked to scan you - you may want to alert the customer and work with their security team rather than shooting off your own foot.
2 - what is the impact?
Do you have the helpful protocols that expose your network turned off? What can the attacker see when they port scan you? Scanning yourself on a regular basis is a good practice, so you can know what you're vulnerable to. If you've locked things down fairly well, your risk here is minor.
Also - what damage is the scan doing? Is it slowing down legitimate usage?
3 - what is the nature of the risk? What is your capability to manage it?
The typical classics - availability, compromise of assets or information, reputation of the organization. What can you loose from the port scan, what can you loose if they find something and how frequently is it occurring?
And what is your staffing and your capability to address it? In some networks, putting in a block is fast and easy, in others it takes a significant degree of due diligence. If you put it in incorrectly, what is the harm?
The most reasonable thing right now is to follow that scan and make sure that attacker didn't find anything vulnerable in your application. Secondly you should check that IP. Blocking someone's IP address isn't always the best solution. The attacker could be hidden behind the NAT. So if he shares his IP with a lot of different users, you will lose visitors (they will be also blocked). The scan could be also started from the innocent victim (his PC could be a part of the botnet). However you should make sure that:
If you have annoying visitors, site scrapers, or spammers, you may find it useful to block these users from accessing your website content. You can block bad visitors by IP address or blocks of IP addresses using a .htaccess file.
Read more some useful examples: http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/1699/Block+a+specific+IP+address+from+accessing+your+website#gs


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I am looking for references related to the terms "Harish-Chandra pair" and "Harish-Chandra modules", and also to the term "category O". I know what these are, or I think I do (a Harish-Chandra pair is a pair (Lie algebra; subgroup) with the subgroup acting in the Lie algebra, satisfying some natural conditions). The question is about any standard or classical sources I could refer to.
- What are the standard or classical references for the terms "Harish-Chandra pair" and "Harish-Chandra module"?
- The same question for algebraic Harish-Chandra pairs and modules (with an algebraic or proalgebraic subgroup).
- One example of a category of Harish-Chandra modules is the category "O" of representations of, e.g., a simple Lie algebra, integrable to the Borel subgroup. Another version is the category of representations integrable to the maximal unipotent subgroup. What are the standard or classical references for either or both of the above definitions of the category "O"?
- My understanding is that what was called "Harish-Chandra modules" in the classical representation theory was not the above example 3. at all, but rather the modules over a real Lie algebra integrable to the maximal compact subgroup. What are the standard or classical references for this notion of Harish-Chandra modules?


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15 Nov 2012 11:00 AM #1
Sencha Touch 2.1.0 not loading on iOS?
Sencha Touch does not seem to fully load up on iOS (but works fine on my Android devices). Here's a few examples of namespaces that are undefined:
I'm using Sencha Touch 2.1.0 commercial (Build date: 2012-11-05 22:31:29, 08c91901ae8449841ff23e5d3fb404d6128d3b0b) and PhoneGap 2.1.0.
The following is a super simple template that can be used to recreate the issue. I used weinre to inspect the app.
<!DOCTYPE HTML> <head> <script type="text/javascript" src="./sencha-touch-all.js"></script> <script src="http://localhost:8080/target/target-script-min.js#anonymous"> <!-- weinre --> </script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./sencha-touch.css"> </head> <body> </body> </html>
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You're thinking an issue with PhoneGap then? Sigh. Thanks for testing that.
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I have the same problem. Sencha Touch 2.1.0 Commercial, Safari 6.0.2, OSX 10.8.2, All caches emptied. Restarted Safari.
I am using Sencha provided example files and nothing loads. White blank page, no error messages in Inspector.


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The Straight Dope ran an explanation of why nomads often wear black clothing - it absorbs heat better from the body. On the other hand, white clothing reflects sunlight better. Is it possible to get the best of both worlds and wear clothing that is black on the inside and white on the outside?
The color of a surface doesn't reliably indicate the emissivity at non-visible wavelengths. The color in the visible spectrum is more of a side effect than anything. Most thermal radiation around body temperature or room temperature happens in the infrared region, not the visible, and that's not reliably indicated by visible color:
The visibly transparent glasses are opaque to the body's infrared emissions, while the visibly opaque trashbag is transparent to infrared. So one property has no relation to the other.
The emissions of the sun occur mostly in the visible region, which is why white clothing reflects solar energy and stays cool while black clothing absorbs solar energy and gets hot:
But your body's thermal radiation is in the infrared, so this rule doesn't apply to the inside of clothing (unless your body is hot enough to radiate visible light, but then you have bigger problems).
Your basic idea would work, though, if you found a material that reflects visible light while transmitting infrared light (but that material would probably have the same properties on the inside and outside, and thus be visibly white on the inside, too).
NASA is experimenting with such materials:
Direct sunlight falling on people walking in the desert calls for white or light colors.
The coolest sun shades are white, also sun umbrellas. Coolest clothing, black versus white, is light colored. The reason is that in direct sunlight the energy of the sun, could be 1200 watts/metersquare all falls on the cloth. White reflects the visible light, which is most energy from the sun, so much less is absorbed to reach the shaded tables underneath .
As one can see the dominant dress is colored white. Black is the color of mourning and it might be that some women wear black even in the sun, and one will see light colored or brightly colored clothing occasionally due to the human tendency for decorating the self, but white is predominant. I checked on google and the statement in your link that Tuareg wear black is not correct. Most photos are white or light colors (similar arguments). Maybe they wear black for camouflage at night if on the war path?
Flowing robes also can be seen , no tight clothing, so that the air circulates and by convection cools the body as it perspires.
So the question becomes: would a black ( black in the infrared, totaly absorbing infrared material ) lining inside a white robe help in cooling the body by removing infrared radiation faster? My guess is yes, but cannot guess how much faster. The infrared radiated from the body would be better absorbed and transmitted to the outside but the main mechanism would still be convection.
Since outside interacts with the radiation both ways, it would not help. But, there's something that would:
You need to have clothes which are Black (totally absorbing) in visible light and White in Thermal-infrared wavelengths (totally reflecting). This color is called Red (well, to some extent: if you shift the spectrum into visible terms).
Since both absorption and radiation depend on color in the same way, this would decrease the energy that is radiated off into the surroundings. So if radiation were the only way to lose heat color wouldn't matter, and in the long term you'd have the same temperature as the incoming light.
But since nomad's don't live in vacuum there are other ways of heat transportation. What color is best depends on which forms of energy transportation dominate.
Since I guess that you lose more heat to other sources than radiation, while a large part of the incoming heat comes from light, making them white on the outside and black on the inside could make sense. But there are complicating factors such as wind, vaporization of sweat,...
If the temperature inside clothing is the same as outside, the wear will not do anything.
This is because white surface worse adsorbes light but also it worse emits infrared radiation. Conversely, dark surface better adsorbs, but also better emits.
In the case the outside temperature higher than inside, such wear will help to be cooler, but even better wear would be that one which has the both sides white. Similarly, if you want to keep heat in winter night, you would prefer the all-white wear because it better keeps the difference in the temperatures.
Conversely if you want your temperature to be as close to that of environment as possible, you should prefer all-black wear.
theoretically yes. If the white garment on the outside is opaque enough, it will block more of the sun's light from reaching the inner black garment. The black garment will actually help you keep cooler if you have both garments made properly. This is because black does not actually absorb heat, it traps it therefore not allowing the "cooler" air to heat it up. Of course cold mixed with warm creates HOT as is with starting a fire, for instance. You'll notice in the summer time it's harder to start a fire than in the late fall.
People toss the word absorption around as if they know what they are talking about. Black doesn't ever absorb heat because it doesn't get as hot. It can but not for the same reasons. White will do the absorption but that's not something you need to worry about. You want the white to absorb the heat because that's the only way it can be reflected back out. Like a sponge that is filled with water, only to reflect the water with it's added weight and eventual slow purging. Of course liquid is slower than light, so that explains the time it takes for the sponge to become dry again (on it's own). You'll notice the lighter the color the less dense the material is - if it's not just the dye, of course.
The reason you will probably die with a black garment on the outside while walking in 110 degree desert heat is because the heat the sun is shining on you doesn't seem to want to move anywhere except where it meets the garment. So the synergy of your body heat and the sun's heat being trapped create more heat. If you wear white on the outside however, it will do better to reflect most of the sun's rays, while the black garment on the inside provides you with further protection from reflection of the sun's rays getting through the white garment. That's why most power cables that run from the telephone pole to your house are coated in thick black rubber or composite material. Painting power cable rubber white will actually help protect the copper wiring from heat damage, that much is true. But the paint will just wear away and rubber is naturally black so...
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In Bush v. United States, nineteen partners of Dillion Oil Technology Partnership were assessed penalties by the IRS for substantial underpayments of tax. The partnership experienced considerable losses that the individual partners claimed as deductions on their respective federal personal income tax returns. The IRS rejected most of the deductions. The tax was paid and sued for a refund. The dispute centered on whether the losses were associated with tax motivated transactions. The determination of whether a transaction is tax motivated is a partnership-level decision because it reflects the intent of the partnership in undertaking the transaction. The determination is not an individual partner-level decision. However, the partners are still liable for the partnership and the partners paid the tax and penalties in 2004. In 2006, the partners, as individuals, initiated a suit for refund.
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In this sessions the instructors will go over ASP.NET MVC 4 and provide several demos on creating a new site; adding a model, controller and view, to entity framework code first. Lastly they will demo how to deploy to Windows Azure Web Sites.
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Lol at the last few minutes.. so what broke the code?
profesional mistake ha ha
Awesome Post guys !!
How can i install the ASP.Net ? who would help me to provide me the basic learning about ASP.Net.
Great one
Great stuff guys, kind of CSI Part I finish... I can't wait for next episode!
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Should have watched this before I started MVC. Hella' informative.
Superb videos
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This did a good job of presenting a visceral feel for the role of controller, model and view. I had tried understanding through a number of texts, but this one is the first to really convey the mvc purposes. Seemed to draw a little on prior understanding of the interplay between model building and the generation of code.. The 1st trust source, kind of alluded to but assumed a good understanding of it.
A little frustrating how having only a few years ago gotten training in developing with traditional .net forms and n tier structure, to have already such a significant development shift. Still this is an excellent introduction. thanks
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I'm using the LM algorithm to do gradient descent in a model fitting context. I'm minimizing:
$$ c(x) = \sum ( f_i(x) - y_i )^2 $$
I'm noticing that after a few steps when I'm close to the minima, I often wind up with a zero somewhere on the diagonal of the Hessian -- which I approximate in the usual Gauss-Newton way:
$$ H \approx J^T J $$
where $J$ is the jacobian of the residuals, $f_i$. Now, mathematically speaking, the Hessian will only have a zero on the diagonal if I've reached the true minimum. But with limited precision computers, one or more diagonal elements can easily go to zero, even when I'm quite far from the true optimum, since the curvature of different dimensions can easily differ by many orders of magnitude. This means that I wind up halting the gradient descent even when I'm not very close to the optimum.
As a side note, I am of course using the LM damping trick in which the diagonal is multiplied by $(1+\lambda)$, but this makes no difference when a diagonal element is numerical zero.
What is the correct thing to do here? Some options:
- Switch to first-order gradient descent near the optimum
- If one element on the diagonal is zero while the gradient is far from zero, then add epsilon to this element.
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BATTING, George E. (Eddie), 91, of Wintersville, OH, died Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, at Life Line Hospital.
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For many years, George and Minnie handcrafted homemade ornaments for children at the church.
George is survived by his loving wife of 69 years, Minnie V. Chappell Batting, whom he married Aug. 23, 1943; special daughter, Mariann Nelson of New Philadelphia; sister, Dorothea (Ralph) See of NC; stepsister Betty Foley of Steubenville; four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
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When you see a question or answer you might normally down-vote that already has one or more down-votes, do you find yourself more or less likely to down-vote it? In other words, are pre-existing down-votes encouraging you to go ahead and pile-on or are they discouraging you?
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I have no qualms about 0->-1 downvoting a question or answer that is poorly thought out or incorrect. If it already has a downvote, I normally won't add to it unless it's a really egregious example, or if it's a user I recognize as having a history of similar poor posts. In these cases, I will happily downvote them to oblivion just out of sheer frustration that they aren't learning. (These are the types of people who get posts on meta about them -- see posts tagged with [users] [behavior] for many such examples.)
I'll be honest, I tend to do all my upvoting/downvoting based on what score I personally think the post should have. So if it should be -2, and it's at -1, yeah I'll pile on. If it's at 24, and I think it should be 20, I won't downvote (because it's obviously good!) but I won't upvote, either.
So no, I don't pile on. I just vote based on where I think something should be.
Of course, the rules are totally different on Meta. On Meta I vote based on agreement -- up if I really agree (or you saved me the trouble of writing my own), or down if I disagree. (In fact, I have more Meta downvotes than all other Trilogy and StackExchane downvotes combined for my OpenID.)
If it's at -2, I will (peer pressure badge). Beyond that, only if it is horrendously bad.
More likely, but then again, I love to downvote as is
Most of the time when you see something hit -3 or less it should simply be flagged or closed (although sometimes that Grammar Gestapo have just gone overboard on someone for whom English isn't their first language) so there doesn't seem much point on downvoting. This is particularly true for questions that simply need to be migrated.
Many if not most of the downvoted questions are from users with low or 1 rep. Downvoting does nothing but cost me rep at that point. So usually no.
I don't vote as much as I probably should.
I don't down-vote, so it's never an issue.
I factor in current score before I down-vote. I rarely down-vote questions unless the person asking the question changes the meaning of the question in the discussion - then I down-vote for the obvious hideously worded question.
I will up-vote just about anything I agree with - especially those with low scores.
I will up-vote an answer, even if I don't agree with it, if I feel it was unfairly down-voted to bring them back to "0".
I will down-vote any question that is flat-out wrong (but I won't pile on).
Finally I will down-vote any question that questions the motivation of the original poster.
I completely avoid pile-on downvoting. It just seems really snippy, and I can't imagine that anyone - from the answerer to the community - gleaning any useful information from a -8 vs -9 score.
I'm much more likely to pile on an upvote, probably because I am more of the "reward good behavior" rather than "punish bad behavior" mindset.
I kinda disagree with the idea of downvoting because of "frustration". Its like saying "how dare you waste the time I spent on the intartubez by your useless drivel!" which might be someone's sentiment, but really shallow. Pile-on downvoting is like the SO equivalent of a flamewar. "j00 n00b, ur stoopid gtfo"
Serial offenders (if you can even call "posting on the internet" an "offense") will be dealt with by the moderation team anyway.
I'm more likely to UPvote it, if I think it's not deserving of the -score.


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Today in Tweet Beat, Eric Roberts is trying not to be a pothead, Kim Zolciak gives an update on the new season of Real Housewives of Atlanta, and Kelly Bensimon gets inspirational.
Tweating By Remote to answer y I'm doing CELEBRITY REHAB . It's not 2 get people 2 stop asking y I'm doing Y&R as some have proposed. LOL.
I'd like to move out of the weed garden & into a place where things can blossom & grow. The people @ #CelebRehab have been fantastic 1 & all
I have an hour lunch break then 2 more hrs of work...then fun times ahead...I am wrappin a very great season today ...It will air in Oct..
Eleanor Roosevelt was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness. Aspire to that
man so what do yall feel about truth.
people and the world.
what are your thoughts on wildlife and nature?
I go outside and feel the beauty of nature. It reminds me of the natural order of things. I feel such gratitude!
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I just realized that today is almost 22 years to the day that The Smashing Pumpkins played our debut show at The Metro. Time flies...
Women often tell me that they used to steal their mom's copies of my books.
Hoda's hogging the camera for our promo shoot.
And tea baggers can stop being so racist and touch their balls to my forehead
I'm doing my own reality show. You'll know it's 100% realistic because we're filming every episode in a plastic surgeon's office.


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Will regular use of a whammy bar cause your guitar strings to come out of tune significantly faster than normal?
Yes, it will exacerbate detuning issues, sure, but a good quality tremolo combined with a locking nut will minimise this.
The main problems come from the movement of the string beyond the nut if you don't have some way to lock it, and slackening or stretching the strings.
Ways to minimise the issue:
It certainly can, but the impact it will have on your tuning depends on a lot of factors:
One thing that helped me keep tune with use of a vibrato (both Fender-style and Bigsby) is using a tuning lubricant at the nut and saddle. Particularly with the wound strings, a deep bend can cause the strings to slide a little bit over the nut and/or saddle, and if they can't slide easily back into position, this might put you out of tune.
I personally like "Big Bends Nut Sauce" tuning lubricant, but I haven't done a lot of comparison. It was recommended to me by a local luthier. You put just a tiny but in each groove in the nut and each saddle when you re-string, and it really helps keep the guitar in tune (even if you don't have a vibrato -- it still helps keep in tune through deep bends and such.)
Careful setup of the guitar will help to minimise the effect that it can have. As mentioned by other answers, a good double locking unit will reduce the problems drastically, but even a fender style can work pretty well if you put the time and effort in. Check out this vid


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I'm looking for a one-way hash function that can be performed by A on an encrypted piece of data E(D) provided by B, without the performer A able to figure out D or H(D). This similar to HMAC(Message, Key), except the output hash cannot be known by A.
- B encrypts data D => E(D)
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I believe there may be a solution involving public/private key cryptography, but I'm not about to roll my own.


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Professor González earned his B.A. in political science with high distinction from the University of Michigan, and his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. After graduation from law school, he earned an M.A. in political science from Stanford University, and practiced litigation and employment law at Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe in San Francisco. He joined the Rutgers faculty in 1997 and became a full professor in 2005.
Professor González's current research interests include statutory interpretation, direct democracy, popular sovereignty, federalism, and methods for mediating conflict between legal norms. His most recent publications include "Trumps, Inversions, Balancing, Presumptions, Institution Prompting, and Interpretive Canons: New Ways for Adjudicating Conflicts Between Legal Norms" in the Santa Clara Review (2005) and "Representing Structures Through Which We the People Ratify Constitutions: The Troubling Original Understanding of the Constitution's Ratification Clauses" in the UC Davis Law Review (2005).


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n boys' eight-and-under free relay of Michael Bert, Antonio DePaolis, Kipp Gleason and Gabe Leihr placed first
n boys' 10-and-under Devin Stutz was second in backstroke, breaststroke and individual medley
n girls' 12-and-under Alyssa McCarter placed first in freestyle, butterfly and individual medley
n girls' 14-and-under free relay of Meredith McKnight, Matilyn Stout, Haven Stutz and Miriam Testa were first
n girls' 18-and-under Rachel Jessup was first in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and individual medley
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Chief Judge Nancy Parrish said Covington played a major role in planning and coordinating the nine defendants who planned to burglarize the victims' home. The women were shot when they arrived home while the crime was in progress.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/13EXRI3 ) Covington has testified against his co-defendants during a preliminary hearing and in three jury trials so far.
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Beijing (CNN) -- Two courts in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region sentenced 20 people for alleged terrorist and separatist activities on Tuesday, a spokesperson at the Kashagar Prefecture Intermediate People's Court told CNN.
They received sentences ranging from five years in jail to life in prison in five separate cases in Kashgar and Bayingol prefectures.
The case was reported in Chinese media, including semi-official website Yaxin in Xinjiang. Chinese media did not reveal the ethnicity or gender of the accused, however they are believed to be Uighurs -- a Muslim minority of northwest China -- because of the ethnicity of their names.
The northwestern province of China has been the scene of periodic unrest. Xinjiang was rocked by the worst violence in decades in July 2009 when rioting between Uighurs and Han Chinese left nearly 200 people dead and 1,700 injured in the regional capital Urumqi.
Riots last year left 12 dead in Kashgar last year, according to Xinhua.
The 20 suspects in court on Tuesday were accused of spreading ideas of religious extremism and terrorism as well as participating in terrorist organizations, provoking incidents and incite separatism, according to state media. They used the Internet, mobile phones and digital devices for their crimes.
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I am installing new shelves in my pantry, 12" x 55" with walls on three sides. The shelving material is laminate over particleboard. Considering how heavy a shelf full of canned goods is, can I get away with just using 1" nailers on all three walls to rest the shelves on, or do I need L brackets in the middle as additional support?
55 inches is a rather long span for a 12 inch wide shelf that is supported on the ends and back side by the wall. One way that you could provide some more support for the shelves would be to add some center front supports for the shelves working up from the floor to the top shelf.
Other important factors are how thick the shelving is, and what the shelf to shelf vertical spacing is, and how the back edge is attached, if at all, to the support. Assuming typical home improvement store shelving and common 12" to 16" vertical spacing, and simple nail attachment, the shelving is structurally adequate (meaning it will not actually collapse), but over time, a heavily loaded shelf will develop a very noticeable, unsightly bow without added support.(Which in itself could be called structurally inadequate by some) Particle board will creep, or slowly deflect, over time even under modest loads.
An alternative to L brackets might be a deep banding strip attached to the front of the shelving. The attachment would need to be carefully detailed, as you can't simply nail the banding into the edge of particle board and expect satisfactory results.
Another way to add some support to the shelves, expanding from my first answer, is to add angle supports as shown. This keeps the front edge of the shelves open and takes advantage of the fact that the back side support strip under the next shelf down is fastened securely to the wall. This approach works well in that the angle pieces do not need to be aligned or anchored into a stud.
I agree with the answer by @bcworkz and would add an alternative to L brackets. Wooden brackets would be more attractive and offer comparable support


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- Residency: National Naval Medical Center, 1994
- MD: St. Louis University Medical School, 1991
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ResearchDr Olson is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at SUNY Upstate Medical University. He is currently the Associate Program Director for Resident Education where he is responsible for curriculum development. Aside from his interests in medical education his clinical areas of focus include pediatric international health and behavioral pediatrics. He is the director of the Pediatric International Health Clinic at SUNY Upstate Medical Center where he cares for a large pediatric refugee population. In the last several years his area of focus has concentrated on medical education and curriculum design. He recently obtained a Masters Degree of Education in Instructional Design & Development from Syracuse University and has worked with the School of Education faculty from Syracuse University in the development of a novel online core curriculum for pediatric resident education.
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Address: 3rd Fl., 90 Presidential Plaza, Syracuse, NY 13202
Phone: 315 464-4357
Fax: 315 464-7212
Insurance Info: Pediatric Service Group, LLP
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Address: 4900 Broad Road, Syracuse, NY 13215
Phone: 315 492-KIDS (5437)
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More than 260 Kentucky teachers were awarded national certification in 2012, ranking the state seventh for the number of teachers earning the achievement.
National Board Certification is administered by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and is considered a top achievement in the profession.
The Kentucky Education Professional Standards Board said in a news release Tuesday that the top 10 states with the highest number of teachers certified in 2012 were North Carolina, Washington, Illinois, California, Arkansas, South Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland and New York.
Overall in Kentucky, 2,721 teachers have achieved the certification. The national board's website says the state is ranked 10th nationally in overall number of teachers certified.