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Are there any web apps which allow multiple users to chat, while preserving the chat history for all to see?
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The only ones I've found that don't totally suck, are ...
edit: and now webapps very own chat!
We now have our very own chat web-application! Check out http://chat.webapps.stackexchange.com.
You can use Google Talk. All chats are archived within Gmail.
Quassel IRC is not web app, but solve some problems
It allow multiple users connect to single core each with own accout, so in core keeps all chat logs. And again it just IRC.
You can use RumbleTalk online group chat. It is HTML5 (works on mobile) and it has archive, so you can search your chat history and even export it.


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Is there any public bank of clipart images in Tikz / PSTrics, much like those found in tools like Visio?
Both TikZ and PStricks are used for creating images, rather than simply pasting them in. As such, you won't find clipart as such, but will find galleries of example images. For TikZ, you should look at TeXample while for PStricks there are 2D and 3D galleries on the PStricks website.

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The 5 Most Ill-Advised Celebrity Endorsements Ever
#2. James Garner and Beef
The year is 1986, and people have become more health conscious, much to the chagrin of the Beef Industry Council of the Meat Board and the Cattlemen's Beef Board. To fight this madness, these Knights of the Beef Table launched their "Beef... Real Food for Real People" campaign, all but calling non-meat eaters fags.
Their spokesman was James Garner, a likable actor who some of you young readers only know as "the old guy in the Notebook." In the ad, Garner uses his kabobs as a metaphor for a healthy all-beef diet.
The Problem:
You know that tomato in the commercial, the one Mr. Garner so callously threw away? Seems he probably should've eaten a few more of those and a few less beef kebabs. In April of 1988, Garner underwent quadruple bypass surgery (that means four blood vessels in his heart were blocked). The Beef Council and Garner tried to blame his clogged arteries on his years of smoking, not the cholesterol-laden red meat he'd been eating. What, did they find a bunch of cigarette butts jammed in there?
The Fallout:
Needless to say it doesn't look too great when you're spokesperson nearly drops dead from the very health problem you hired him to gloss over. The Beef Council people and Garner agreed to an amicable split. In retrospect, it looks kind of short-sighted considering Garner is still alive and working today, at age 81. Come on, guys, why not sign him up for a "BEEF HAS MADE ME IMMORTAL!" campaign? What could go wrong?
#1. Martha Stewart and Kmart
Martha Stewart, for that two percent of Cracked readers who don't know, is a media mogul known for her cooking, gardening, etiquette, arts & crafts and pure evilness. Ms. Stewart has amassed a rather large fortune, courtesy of various ventures done through her Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia creation (if you didn't believe us on the "evilness" thing, the fact that she put "omni" in her corporation's name should convince you).
The evil didn't bother Kmart, struggling to keep pace with Wal-Mart and Target, as they signed a deal with MSLO to sell the Martha Stewart Everyday housewares collection in 2001. For the first year it worked out well for both parties, as Kmart sold $1.5 billion dollars worth of this shit, and those licensing fees accounted for nearly 25 percent of MSLO's profits.
The Problem:
Well, there was the thing with Stewart going to jail in 2003. She was indicted for securities fraud, obstruction of justice and other charges (including totally stabbing a dude because she thought it was funny). This was even worse news for Kmart than it was for Stewart because, unlike Martha, Kmart was on the brink of bankruptcy. Whoops!
The Fallout:
Considering how grim the situation looked, everybody came out better than you'd think. In 2003, Kmart avoided corporate oblivion by merging with Sears, Roebuck and Company. Stewart served five months in jail, where she taught the inmates much better ways to sharpen a toothbrush into a shiv.
Martha Stewart is currently still under contract to Kmart (as well as Macy's), and as of 2007 has a net worth just under $640 million. See? A desperate deal with the devil can pay off, kids!
For more ridiculous celebrity endorsements, check out 8 Humiliating Japanese Ads Starring Oscar Nominees. Or find out about some commercials that were made by people who thought they could win an Academy Award for directing them, in 7 TV Ads That Take Themselves Way Too Seriously.
Or check out some websites that might be borderline retarded for letting us advertise their shit in Top Picks section.


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Why should I put up with the inconvenience of lugging around a DSLR?
They look cool, but is there more substance to it?
Why should I put up with the inconvenience of lugging around a DSLR?
They look cool, but is there more substance to it?
It depends on what you wish to do. If all you need is to take a few shots of your friends and family in various life situations, a P&S will serve you well. However, if you wish to have total control over your photos, and are interested in the composition, lighting, and ultimate quality of your shots, a DSLR will serve you better.
I personally don't think of my DSLR as "cool". It is a tool that lets me accomplish something that has value to me. With a DSLR, you don't just get higher megapixels and a heavier camera. You get more features that give you the power and control you need to fine-tune your shots, and capture the moments that you find meaningful in the best way possible.
Here are some of the benefits of a decent DSLR over a P&S:
A DSLR is an amazing device, and if you have the need for any of the above, it can serve you well. It is certainly not an ad-hoc camera that will let you quickly and cheaply capture those zillions of friend and family moments that happen every day...but it will let you capture those fantastic moments that you pass by on rarer occasions in perfect clarity and quality.
They aren't better per se; They just tend to allow greater artistic control over the result. They're useless for just keeping in your pocket for that surprise sunset, or random performance in town.
I'd advocate having the right camera for you. In my case, I'm quite indecisive so that's a DSLR, film SLR, and a digital compact.
To answer my own question, my reasons:
The above is not true for all P&S cameras. Please comment on notable exceptions.
If you're not feeling the limitations of your point-and-shoot camera, then you probably don't need a DSLR. (Not least because, if you're happy with the P&S, you'll probably leave the DSLR at home when you go out!)
DSLRs have loads of extra capabilities, but will you actually use them?
I solved this dilemma for myself by taking a weekend photography course with my P&S camera (it has a fairly limited manual mode, which was enough). I learned a lot, took lots of photos that were much better than usual, and I got a really clear idea of what I personally could do with a DSLR. And then I bought my first Canon about a month later...
The "better" camera is the one that best fulfills your needs.
If you want to always carry the camera without being burdened by its weight (and the weight of extra lenses) and be able to take a picture quickly and unnoticed, and IQ is not of paramount importance, then a P&S is better.
If you want to spend time thinking about the perfect shot, set up your tripod, put on filters, figure out individual settings for shutter speed, aperture, iso, etc. and post process the RAW file in an image editing software to create a piece of art, then the SLR is better.
Basically, a larger and better sensor and the ability to use a variety of lenses, from cheap and crappy to astonishingly expensive and good - which don't always go together. :)
The Micro 4/3 cameras are somewhat of a middle ground.
Speed has been mentioned. Here is an example of speeds of two P&S and two DSLR from roughly the same price level.
Canon S100 is a pretty nice P&S pocket camera, Samsung EX2F a slightly bigger P&S with features left out from many small pocket cameras, Nikon D5100 a DSLR with optical viewfinder and Sony A37 a DSLR with electronic viewfinder.
Shutter lag is the time camera needs to take the photo from the moment the shutter release is pressed. There is variations in how to do it. Shortest lag usually happens when camera has already focused and only needs to take the shot, which happens when you have the shutter release pressed halfway and focus has locked:
Shutter lag after half-pressing and holding the button:
More typical shutter lag for the idea of "point and shoot" would happen when we simply point and press the shutter release down, and the camera takes its time to focus and exposure metering:
Shutter lag after fully pressing the button (with center area autofocus):
Next, you have your camera at hand, but power turned off, and you see something you want to take a photo of. Forgetting about the time needed to pull your camera out from pocket or bag, here is the time needed between turning power On and having the first photo captured:
Here it shows how Nikon D5100 as a true DSLR with optical viewfinder beats them all, and the pocket cameras perform typically slow on power-up. Anyhow, when you know you are going to take a photo, and your target is relatively still, you should let the camera focus itself by half-pressing the shutter release button and wait for your moment. Then you'll have almost the same shutter lag with any one of these four cameras. You will get the hand-shake captured, or whatever it was you waited to happen.
links: Canon PowerShot S100 / Samsung EX2F / Nikon D5100 / Sony SLT-A37
Also remember, Point&Shoot is a photographying style, not really a camera type. You can use an expensive DSLR as a P&S on full Auto mode, and similarly you can go using all the possible manual controls there is on those small pocket cameras. Differences are found in weight, image quality and possibilities. With a DSLR you can do so much more than just point and shoot.
Adding two sample shots. One representing point-n-shoots and one representing entry level DSLRs. Both photos were taken with settings ISO 200 and f/8.0 and lens at maximum zoomed-in. Shutter speeds varied a bit due to them being different cameras, but also roughly the same anyway. Both cameras can take RAW photos, so that was used.
^^ Olympus SP-550 ultrazoom (18x zoom was "ultra" when released in 2008) - 35 mm equivalent focal length: 500 mm
^^ Sony SLT A37 (released in 2012) with Sigma DG 70-300 mm zoom lens. - 35 mm equivalent focal length: 450 mm


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Double cursor in Skyrim
The white arrow (operating system cursor) shows up at all times whilst playing the game on windowed mode after tabbing out. In screens where the Skyrim cursor is also present, they are both visible.
Solutions like "pressing Esc before you tab out" aren't useful because it won't work whilst in a crafting window. The main use of tabbing out for me is to use web-based tools for Alchemy recipes.
I know there must be a better way of fixing this since I've played the game before on this computer for a whole playthrough without this issue.


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Is there a space-filling curve $C$ that has the property that, if $C$ passes through $p_1=(x_1,y_1)$ at a distance $d_1$ along the curve, and through $p_2$ at $d_2$, then if $|p_1 - p_2| \le a$, then $|d_1 - d_2| \le b$, for some constants $a$ and $b$? In other words, any two points of the plane within distance $a$ are separated by at most $b$ along $C$. Call this property distance locality. So I am asking whether a curve exists mapping $\mathbb{R}$ to $\mathbb{R}^2$ with distance locality.
Although I doubt the answer differs, permit me also to ask the same question for $\mathbb{Q}^2$, and for $\mathbb{Z}^2$.
I have little experience with the properties of the known space-filling curves. Those better schooled on this topic can likely answer these questions easily. Thanks!
Addendum. I noticed a paper just released today which is focused on "locality properties" of 3D space-filling curves: "An inventory of three-dimensional Hilbert space-filling curves," arXiv:1109.2323v1 [cs.CG]. The author explores several different locality measures that have been considered in the literature, and cites a wealth of references.


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I have to migrate an ASP.Net web site from IIS6 to IIS7. I tried to copy the all files for a web site from IIS6 (c:\inetpub\wwwroot\MySite) to another box with Windows Server 2008 R2 where IIS7 is the default web server.
However, the simply copy seems not working. Should I rebuild the web site for IIS7 or should I make changes on the new box with IIS7 such as web.config?
Thanks for the comments. Further investigation I found that http handers seems caused exception:
<add path="Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd" verb="*"
type="Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.HttpHandler, Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms, Version=220.127.116.11, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
After I comment out the above handler in web.config, the web page works fine. This is just my initial test. I am not sure if I should rebuild the web site from source codes or not. If so, do I need to specify for IIS7?


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CHARLOTTE, NC - The Charlotte 49ers (7-0), who are off to the best start in school history, play cross-county rival Davidson (4-3) on the road, Wednesday, December 5 at 8:30 pm. The game will broadcast on ESPN3.
Chris Braswell leads the 49ers in scoring at 15.2 points per game. He also leads the 49ers in rebounding at 6.7 boards per game. Braswell has recorded five double-figure scoring games off the bench this season. DeMario Mayfield and Terrence Williams are tied for second on the team in scoring at 10.6 points per game. Mayfield has recorded four double-figure scoring games off the bench this season. Williams has recorded four double-figure scoring games this season. Pierria Henry is fourth on the team in scoring at 7.7 points per game. He leads the team in assists with 28 and steals with 18. Denzel Ingram, who scored 11 points against Texas State, is fifth on the team in scoring at 7.5 points per game. Willie Clayton, who recorded his first career double-double with 14 points and 13 rebounds against East Carolina, averages 7.4 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. Denzel Ingram, who has started the last four games, averages 6.7 points per game this season. Darion Clark averages 6.3 points and 5.9 rebounds per game. E. Victor Nickerson, who did not play in the Great Alaska Shootout due to an ankle injury, returned to the 49ers lineup against East Carolina last Saturday. He averages 4.5 points per game. JT Thompson has given the 49ers quality minutes off the bench. He averages 4.7 points per game. Ivan Benkovic has knocked down at least one three point field goal in four straight games.
The 49ers stellar defense has been one of the keys to the 49ers hot start. Charlotte ranks seventh in the nation in field goal percentage defense. The 49ers have held their seven opponents to 34.6% shooting from the field.
This game will mark the 39th meeting between Charlotte and Davidson. The 49ers lead the all-time series, 27-11. Charlotte has won 11 of the last 14 meetings in a series that dates began February 19, 1979. Davidson defeated Charlotte, 82-58, in their last meeting at Davidson, December 11, 2010. Charlotte leads the all-times series, 6-5, in games played at Davidson. Charlotte defeated Davidson, 84-61, in their last meeting which came in Halton Arena, December 10, 2011. Braswell led the 49ers with 10 points and 10 rebounds. Henry and Nickerson each scored 10 points in the game. Former 49ers standout Javarris Barnett scored 15 points. The 49ers outscored Davidson, 54-30, in the second half.


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I would like to buy a new camera. Maximum I hope to use is around 15-16k INR ($240 - $300 USD). Can anyone suggest me some good options in that range. :)
It will be a great help. I wish to give it as a present. He is not a beginner, I mean, he is almost good at photography. So please keep that in mind too. :)


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One can correct the errors in a quantum channel iff the coherent information of the input state is not reduced by the channel. This is analogous to sending quantum entanglement through a channel. If the loss of coherent information by the channel is $ < \varepsilon$, can one still correct errors? Can one restore the loss of information to provide for perfect correction?
The quantum channel capacity is the asymptotic amount of quantum information that can be carried by a quantum channel. There is a formula for it: it is given by the maximization of the regularization of the coherent information, as discussed in this paper by Graeme Smith which is a recent, short survey article. No single-letter formula (the Holy Grail of information theorists) is known.
If there is a density matrix on the input space of a channel for which the coherent information is positive, then there is an asymptotic sequence of quantum codes whose rate approaches this coherent information. Because coherent information is not additive, you can sometimes (although explicit examples are quite rare) improve the rate by using input states on the tensor product of $n$ copies of the channel.
Unlike classical information, which can be carried by any channel whose output is not independent of the input, there are some channels (such as classical channels) which are too noisy to carry quantum information. For these, for any input density matrix, the coherent information formula is always non-positive.
As for the OP's question, as best as I can interpret it, if the channel is not too noisy to carry quantum information, then for any $\epsilon$ there are codes (with block length going to $\infty$) for which the output quantum state is within $\epsilon$ of the input quantum state, although you cannot generally ensure perfect transmission of the input quantum state. Otherwise, the channel cannot be used to establish near-pure-state entanglement between the sender and the receiver, which means that any quantum information sent through the channel will always be degraded by some fixed amount.
The question as you have it formulated currently has "no" for an answer. If the loss of coherent information means you cannot correct the errors, then obviously the loss of coherent information means you cannot correct any errors.
@unknown (yahoo) question asker, I think I follow the gist of what you are asking, however.
In non-quantum coding, it is possible to generate error correcting codes that are capable of correcting $a$-bit errors per $n$ bits (obviously, $a \lt n$), and of detecting $b$-bit errors per $n$ bits, ($a \lt b \lt n$), while greater than $b$ erroneous bits would be a catastrophic undetectable and uncorrectable error. These error-correcting codes depend on sending redundant information, decreasing the information content or the information content below the maximal Shannon information density possible on that communication stream. There is no way around having to reduce information density to increase the quality of the transmission.
Hamming codes allow for 1-bit error correction, 2-bit detection; Reed-Solomon codes are used to perform error correction on audio compact-discs. While your comment says you "meant not PERFECT error correction", your question still says "to provide for perfect error correction". Perhaps you could edit your question to provide more rigorous mathematical definitions and ask explicitly exactly what you mean.


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I am a gamer and a web developer.
- MMOs are the ones I date for extended periods of time.
- Guild Wars 2 is currently my main squeeze.
- EVE Online is more like a friend with benefits and I just can't quit her.
- World of Warcraft is my ex-wife. She kept the kids and still calls on occasion.
- FPSes are the booty calls when I need some quick fun for the night.
- Titanfall reminds me of my exes whenever we spend time together.
- Tribes: Ascend was always fun, but refused to change her ways.
- Quake Live was fantastic, but forced me to move on when she deleted my number.
Oh, and Rocket League is so much fun!
Web Development:
- JavaScript is my homie.
- Node.js makes me grunt when we do it and gulp when nervous.
- Backbone.js and I have a love affair.
- jQuery is the old friend I just can't get rid of.
- Angular.js and Knockout.js have a love triangle with me.
- PHP is my loving pet that I adopted from from DevNetwork.net. Good times.
- Wordpress is that friend that pops up everywhere.
- CodeIgniter is a fun guy to hang out with.
- HTML5/CSS3 is one we all know, and namedrop whenever we can.
- SASS is my fiancée, but LESS is my mistress.
- IE is... Well, we don't talk about IE. But I support him, no matter what he does.
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NEW CUMBERLAND - Hancock County veterans who get medical care from the Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Calcutta now also can sign up for in-home services.
Hancock County Senior Services recently received approval from the VA Cleveland Healthcare System, of which the Calcutta clinic is a member, to provide in-home services to Hancock County veterans who go there, said Executive Director E. Mark Knabenshue.
"We have a great number of World War II, Korean War and Vietnam veterans in our county. This is our attempt to provide them with as many services as possible, with the ultimate goal of keeping them in their homes as long as we can," Knabenshue said.
Hancock County Senior Services has been providing home-based services, including assistance with bathing, dressing, grooming, light meal preparation and light housekeeping, to county senior citizens since 2005, Knabenshue said.
Approval from the Cleveland VA replicates an arrangement Senior Services already has with the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Knabenshue said.
"This is just another expansion to our menu of services," he said. "This is something we have been working on for quite some time."
Veterans who wish to receive such services must first contact the VA, he said.
"Once the veteran contacts the VA, the VA determines the number of hours of services needed each week," said Sandy Dodd, nursing services administrator for Senior Services. "I receive the paperwork from Cleveland, schedule a home assessment of my own and get them on our schedule."
Costs for the in-home services are picked up by the VA, Knabenshue said. Respite care also is available.
"Many of our veterans in Hancock County go to the Calcutta clinic. ... The VA health care system is outstanding," Knabenshue said.
For information, call (304) 564-3801 or (304) 387-3251.
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I am a student of the Seido karate fighting style, I would like to know why weapons training starts only at the black belt level?
Sorry if this is a vague answer, and I don't know the first thing about the Seido karate style, but I remember an instructor (I can't remember what style. Kajukenbo, perhaps?) at a martial arts camp once telling me that they only taught weapons at black belt level to avoid weapons bias.
The idea was that a practitioner should be fully proficient in empty hand fighting before learning how to handle a weapon. If you first learn to fight with a weapon, and then got disarmed, or dropped the weapon or something during a fight, you might not be able to make the switch back to empty hand fast enough if your mind is still fixated on the weapon. Or you might get so focused on weapon fighting that you neglect other perfectly good striking opportunities during the fight. The classic example of this is in the movies where two people fight over possession of a knife/gun/weapon completely ignoring the fact that they could have just let go of the weapon and beat the snot out of the bad guy in the time it took them to recover the weapon.
He also said that once they do start weapons training, the weapon would just become an extension of their normal fighting style.
As for Seido karate, I think you'll have to ask a Seido karate instructor.


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Even if you shot out of the womb wearing Nike sneakers and terry cloth wristbands, you probably need the occasional nudge to get working on honing the perfect bikini bod. Download these playlists to your iPod for instant motivation for all your summer workouts
I've always wondered how people hit the gym without some type of music fueling them forward. The sound of my ragged panting just isn't my jam when it comes to workout music. I prefer something a bit, uh, catchier.
Since my go-to workout mix is getting a little tired, my fellow Total Beauty editors and I have come up with five workout playlists for whatever your mood may be.
We've got the playlist for when you've had an overly indulgent weekend in Vegas and need to work off those buffet pounds, stat. We've also come up with the soundtrack perfect for a mellow hike with your dog. Basically, whatever type of get-off-your-butt activity you've got planned, we've got the playlist.
Because even if you shot out of the womb wearing Nike sneakers and terry cloth wristbands, when it comes to working out, everyone needs some motivation, and music is that perfect motivator.
"We're affected by our external world, so therefore the music we're playing is crucial," says yoga instructor and celebrity trainer Sara Ivanhoe. "It completely influences the nature of a workout."
Ready to give your iPod a major overhaul? Keep clicking.
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Looks like I'll be adding some new music to my playlist.
by NillaButterfly Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 02:09PM Report as inappropriate
Awesome, I love the first playlist a lot :)
by cindy11052 Sunday, March 3, 2013 at 06:19AM Report as inappropriate
I smiled my way through this piece--I can't BEGIN to work out without music. Some of the songs made me laugh aloud. Okay, I know this is considered "old" music, but when I want to make sure I stay with my workout, I pop in Janet Jackson's "Control" DVD. Her inspirational words about being in control in the beginning get you pumped; every time you want to quit, another song with a different but great beat comes on ("Nasty," "What Have You Done for Me Lately?", "Pleasure Principle," etc.). I can't stop. Before I know it, I've worked out far longer than I intended and truly enjoyed it!
by GigiSD Saturday, February 23, 2013 at 11:32PM Report as inappropriate
I love listening to upbeat music while I work out, but I don't recognize a lot of the songs listed. But that means I'm way behind when it comes ot music and I'll have to check out some of these recommendations!!
by tallredamanda Saturday, February 23, 2013 at 08:13PM Report as inappropriate
Cool lists. I love working out to happy music too.
by yestfl Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 04:03PM Report as inappropriate
good lists!
by Yecenia Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 04:51PM Report as inappropriate
Love this article, music is such a good motivator! That´s why I created a workout music website - musictosweatto where I post a new workout song every day. Check it out! It´s on Facebook and Twitter as well :)
by soleym Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 04:02PM Report as inappropriate
I feel like working out now. lol
by Monique3 Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 07:30AM Report as inappropriate
Amazing list
by HxCookie Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 01:29PM Report as inappropriate
Thank you... it's always nice to change up the playlist!! -:)
by Kinipela Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 11:24AM Report as inappropriate
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WEIRTON - Milton Fabianich quietly read 94 names Sunday evening marking the second year he remained the last living member of the Weirton Last Man's Club.
"It all started in 1956 when Robert Adams and Norman Gracie started the World War II Last Man's Club. They got the idea from John Hertnick who had started the World War I Last Man's Club. Bob Adams was the first commandant of our club but he died in 1959," related Fabianich.
"When they organized the club a signup sheet was placed at the American Legion hall and the Veterans of Foreign Wars downtown for 60 days. You had to bring your honorable discharge papers in when you signed up," Fabianich said.
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LOOKING FOR FRIENDS — Milton Fabianich, commandant and the final living member of the Weirton Last Man's Club, and Guy Ceraolo of Weirton examine the memorial board listing the 95 members of the club formed in 1956. Ceraolo, a World War II veteran, never joined the Last Man's Club but joins Fabianich for the annual dinner hosted by the American Legion Post 10 Ladies Auxiliary. - Dave Gossett
"I was hoping Johnny Moore would still be here with me. I had no idea Johnny was so ill last year. We were on the telephone planning the dinner and I learned later he was in a wheelchair. When he passed away I was shocked," said Fabianich.
"There is no joy in being the last man. So many friends have gone on before me. But I will toast the 94 men who were members of the club until I am gone," the 85-year old Fabianich said after he made the traditional toast.
Fabianich was joined by three friends for the dinner at the American Legion Post 10 Sunday, including 94-year old Guy Ceraolo of Weirton.
"I don't know why I never joined the Last Man's Club. I guess I never really thought about it. But I will be here for Milton as long as I am around," Ceraolo promised.
Vic Folden, commander of Post 10, also sat at the table and toasted the 94 late members of the Last Man's Club.
"We made it through another year. And I still think you are the greatest generation ever. I first met Milt last year. It has been a pleasure to know him. It is truly an honor to be with Milt and Guy. You guys paved the way for the rest of the veterans. My family has had a relative in the military since the Continental Army and now my grandson is in the Marines. Thank you for your service and God willing we are all here next year," Folden remarked.
Folden also asked Fabianich to present the Last Man's Club wreath on Memorial Day at the Veterans Memorial Wall.
"I want to thank the Post 10 Ladies Auxiliary for making a great dinner and taking care of us tonight," added Fabianich.
"We told Milt we will host this dinner as long as he is here, which I hope is for a very long time," Ladies Auxiliary President Shirley Brecht said.
And following the dinner Fabianich reflected on his life that has included serving as a military policeman in the Third Army at the War Crimes Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany, following World War II.
"We were initially serving under Gen. George Patton, who always insisted on his men wearing clean uniforms no matter what the conditions were. We were responsible for moving armored vehicles around and then later I served under Gen, Telford Taylor at Nuremberg," Fabianich said.
"I came home in 1946 and went back to my job in Weirton Steel. That's where I met my wife. We will be married 66 years later this year," recalled Fabianich.
"How did you end up marrying a woman from Mingo Junction. How did you ever meet her," asked Ceraolo.
"Eva was a tin flopper in the mill. I was running a buggy moving the material and had to stop for a minute and she started talking to me. Two hundred women in the mill and she was the only one who talked to me. We got married and have been together ever since," explained Fabianich.
"Guy was also in the Third Army but he is older and went to the war before I did," Fabianich said.
"I was in Patton's 41st Armored Infantry. We were called 'Hell on Wheels' But I was captured by the Germans near the Elbe River and spent a month in a prisoner of war camp before the Russians liberated us," said Ceraolo.
"I am glad to be here with Milt. I congratulate you," added Ceraolo.
"I consider you my brother," Fabianich told Ceraolo.
"Next year's Last Man's Club dinner will be held on May 18. It is always the Sunday preceding the Sunday before Memorial Day. I will call all of you and hope you can join me," stated Fabianich.
Following a final silent toast to Fabianich and the Last Man's Club, the three men parted with handshakes and hugs from the members of the ladies auxiliary.
"We always hug our veterans," said Brecht.


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Nearly a quarter-century has passed since The Los Angeles Times published a piece by the late David Shaw, then its media critic, arguing the anti-abortion viewpoint didn't get fair treatment in the news media. Among the anecdotes he used to illustrate his case was that of a Boston Globe reporter who turned in a story on late-term abortions only to have an editor reject a sentence that described the operation "destroying" the fetus by "crushing forming skulls and bones." Said the editor: "As far as I'm concerned, until that thing is born, it is really no different from a kidney; it is part of the woman's body." So to use the word "destroy," the editor continued "is really to distort the issue."
At the time, I had two thoughts. One was that if the editor thought you can't destroy a body part, he ought to look at some pictures of lungs that have been exposed to cigarette smoke for 20 years. The other was how he could draw such a bright moral line: a crushable "thing" one moment, a baby the next. Is the act of passing down a birth canal really so momentous that it confers humanity on what is otherwise merely a discardable wad of tissue?
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STEUBENVILLE - A Jefferson County family has pulled the plug on a defamation suit they'd filed against an Internet blogger and other individuals who'd posted comments concerning the alleged rape of an underage girl by Steubenville High School student-athletes at an end-of-summer party in August.
The suit, filed in Jefferson County Common Pleas Court in October by Jim and Johna Saltsman, had sought to force blogger Alexandria Goddard of Columbus to purge postings referencing their son, Cody, from her website, prinnified.com, and to provide authorities with identifying information for 15 other "John Doe" bloggers who also posted comments on the site.
It also had sought in excess of $25,000 in damages.
On Thursday the Saltsmans' attorney, Shawn Blake of Steubenville, filed a notice of voluntary dismissal with prejudice, meaning the charges cannot be refiled. The Saltsmans could not be reached Thursday afternoon for comment, and Blake, speaking on their behalf, would say only that, "The Saltsmans' are pleased to have reached a resolution in this case."
Blake declined further comment, saying any other questions could be answered by perusing the statements posted on the prinniefied.com website.
But American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio Volunteer Attorney Scott Greenwood hailed the dismissal as a victory for Goddard and her "John Doe" bloggers' First Amendment rights, saying that "when confronted with speech we may not like or agree with, the answer is more speech, not less."
In a statement released minutes after Blake filed the notice of dismissal, the ACLU said in exchange for the Saltsmans dropping the suit, Goddard had published a statement attributed to Cody Saltsman on her website.
That statement said Saltsman "deeply regretted" his actions on Aug. 11.
"While I wasn't at the home where the alleged assault took place, there is no doubt that I was wrong to post that picture from an earlier party and tweet those awful comments," the statement read. "Not a moment goes by that I don't wish I would have never posted that picture or tweeted those comments. I want to sincerely apologize to the victim and her family for these actions. I also want to acknowledge the work of several bloggers, especially Ms. Goddard at Prinniefied.com, in their efforts to make sure the full truth about that terrible night eventually comes out."
Two Big Red students-athletes - Trent Mays, 16, of Bloomingdale, and Malik Richmond, 16, of Steubenville - have been charged with raping the underage girl, said by witnesses to have been intoxicated and unresponsive, on Aug. 11. Mays also is charged with illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material.
Goddard and the 15 John Doe bloggers singled out in the original suit had posted comments suggesting others who were at the parties could and should have been charged.
Saltsman's statement indicated that the suit was not intended to "stop anyone from expressing themselves online."
"We only wanted to correct what we believed were misstatements that appeared on Ms. Goddard's blog," it read. "I am glad that we have resolved our differences with Ms. Goddard and that she and her contributors can continue their work."
Goddard herself had posted word of the settlement on her blog and said that "no restrictions were placed on future commentary, no statements were retracted and no money changed hands as part of the agreement," and said she was pleased that her blog was able "to provide a forum for locals in Steubenville to engage in important speech protected by the First Amendment."
The ACLU's Greenwood, meanwhile, said the settlement upholds the bloggers' right to free speech, "while the family is able to share its point of view as well."
"Technology may change, but the basic principles of free speech do not," Greenwood said. "Our nation was founded on the belief that people may express their views freely, even anonymously. By using the court to discover these individuals' identities, the family was attempting to pressure them into silence. We must not allow our courts to become a muzzle for constitutionally protected speech."
The ACLU statement indicated the agreement had been reached Dec. 22, "fully executed" on Wednesday and announced Thursday.


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I'm reading a paper in which the following construction appears: Let $(\mathcal{C}, \otimes, I)$ be a (dagger) monoidal category, and $(X, \triangledown, \bot)$ be a monoid in this category.
Step 1. Externalise the monoid by turning it into a monoid $(Hom(I,X),\cdot,\bot)$ where for $a,b : I \rightarrow X$ define $a \cdot b = \triangledown \circ (a \otimes b) \circ \lambda_I ^{-1}$.
Step 2. Represent every element of $Hom(I,X)$ as and element of $Hom(X,X)$ by defining
$Y : Hom(I,X) \rightarrow Hom(X,X)$
$Y a = \triangledown \circ (a \otimes id_x) \circ \lambda_X ^{-1}$
(where $\lambda_X : X \otimes I \rightarrow X$ is the appropriate structure map)
The author claims this is an example of the Yoneda-embedding. I can almost see how this is the case as $Y a$ is similar to $(a\cdot)$.
My questions are essentially: is this a standard construction, where can I read more about it? Is it really an instance of the Yoneda-embedding?
Also the two steps seem to be similar to the construction of the Kleisli category of a monad. The Wikipedia article on the Kleisli category includes two different presentations. Step 1 resembles the definition of the Kleisli category and Step 2 looks like the $^\star$ operator used in the definition of Kleisli triples. Are these constructions instances of a more general one?


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Accessing the system clipboard
this wiki
Duplicate tip
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These tips need to be merged – see the merge guidelines.
created 2005 · complexity basic · author JimD · version 6.0
One of the traditional disconnects between vi and modern graphical environments has been using mouse-driven copy/paste between a terminal or command prompt window, and any other application (for example, a web browser).
Vim has extended vi to allow use of the
* register as a reference to the system clipboard. So we can use normal mode commands like:
"*dd or
1G"*yG to copy things into the
* register and
"*p to paste text from it. We can also use this
* register with the ex yank command, so
:%y * will accomplish the same goal as
gg"*yG (copy all text into the system clipboard so it can be pasted into an X or MS Windows application).
The * register acts just like any of the normal (single letter) registers in vi except that it also refers to the system clipboard in X11 or MS Windows.
I've also found that it's much faster and more reliable than pasting a large body of text into Vim through an xterm. Normally I run Vim under the Linux screen utility and any more than one screen full of text is often corrupted, and large selections (>10KB) take several seconds of gnashing and flashing to finish pasting (almost always corrupted). By contrast, pasting 100KB text using
"*p is very reliable and fast.
I searched though the tips and found only a few passing references to this feature: VimTip71 (implies it's a feature of gvim, but I find it works in console Vim just fine under Linux; I only use gvim under MS Windows). VimTip771 and VimTip964 refer to an extra utility named xclip which is only for X11 and seems to be completely unnecessary for Vim using the
* register), and VimTip960 (misses the point but the comments mention it a few times).
VimTip21 is spot on but the title suggests it's for MS Windows only. It also mentions that we can change out settings so the "anonymous" register is aliased to the
* register using:
set clipboard=unnamed
- Note: in vim 7.3.74 and higher you can set
clipboard=unnamedplusto alias unnamed register to the
+register, which is the X Window clipboard.
VimTip432 and VimTip600 use the
* register in some native Vim code (using
@*) without explaining it in general. VimTip448 also uses it (for converting hex to decimal) but explains it in passing. VimTip478 uses it in a function for copying the results of a
:g search into the
* register. VimTip687 suggests that Mac OS X doesn't implement the * register (yet?) but suggests a workaround using the pbcopy and pbpaste utilities. VimTip876 also makes passing reference to it.
There are several tips for copying the current filename into the clipboard including: VimTip432, VimTip891, VimTip600 (most of the fuss is resolving forward slashes and backslashes for MS Windows paths).
X11-clipboard support in terminalEdit
Getting Vim to work with the X11 clipboard can be a struggle if you want to run Vim in a terminal. In this case, you will have to check for X11 clipboard support. The GUI version of Vim always has clipboard support.
From the console, type:
% vim --version | grep clipboard
If you see "
+xterm_clipboard", you are good to go. If it's "
-xterm_clipboard", you will need to look for a version of Vim that was compiled with clipboard support. I have found that the Vim that ships with Ubuntu has clipboard support (not vim-tiny, you need vim-gnome or vim-gtk), but the one with Redhat/CentOS does not.
If you are running Redhat/CentOS, you can install the vim-X11 package (if you have gvim then this is already installed). This provides the vimx command, which is a console version of Vim with X11-clipboard support. Or if you are running Debian (only test on 7.0), installing vim-gnome package fixes the problem. I like aliasing Vim to vimx by adding this line to my .bashrc/.cshrc:
.bashrc or .zshrc: if [ -e /usr/bin/vimx ]; then alias vim='/usr/bin/vimx'; fi .cshrc: if (-e /usr/bin/vimx) alias vim '/usr/bin/vimx'
If you are running Gentoo, emerge vim with the 'X' USE flag. For instance, adding this line to /etc/portage/package.use:
app-editors/vim X
Some basic clipboard commands:
"+2yy– copy two lines to X11 clipboard
"+dd– cut line to X11 clipboard
"+p– paste X11 clipboard
See alsoEdit
Under Windows, the * and + registers are equivalent. For X11 systems, though, they differ. For X11 systems, * is the selection, and + is the cut buffer (like clipboard).
Text selected, or otherwise highlighted in one X11 app is available in the selection buffer, and text explicitly copied or cut is available in the cut buffer.
All my inter-window copy & paste to gvim is handled by the <F7> key. This works for all OSes only for gvim.
"copy vmap <F7> "+ygv"zy`> "paste (Shift-F7 to paste after normal cursor, Ctrl-F7 to paste over visual selection) nmap <F7> "zgP nmap <S-F7> "zgp imap <F7> <C-r><C-o>z vmap <C-F7> "zp`] cmap <F7> <C-r><C-o>z "copy register autocmd FocusGained * let @z=@+
The + and * registers do not work running Vim under cygwin without an X session (for instance running Vim directly from a cmd or rxvt window). They also don't work under Mac OS X using Vim from the command line (via Terminal.app or iTerm.app). This should be documented (as should workarounds).
- For such systems, fakeclip plugin provides comprehensive and extensible emulation for the clipboard registers.
in response to above comment (cygwin vim sans X session), as of the software versions below, there doesn't seem to be any problems using the "* register in or outside of rxvt, in a cmd window:
WinXP (SP3)
cygwin (2.831)
rxvt (20050409-21)
vim (7.3.1314-1)
If you're having trouble with GVIM on Ubuntu, and it doesn't seem to be doing what everybody is saying it should, try closing it completely and reopening. It's supposed to "just work" in the case of copy-paste integration with the system clipboard, especially if you use GVIM's GUI buttons or menus. However, sometimes it just stops working, and you have to close and reopen.
The Ubuntu vim-gtk package contains the +xterm_clipboard option, while the standard vim package does not ...
If for some reason your version of vim under Unix-like system has no support for clipboard, you can use a handy utility called xsel. Xsel lets you manipulate X selections (check man xsel for more info). To work around the lack of clipboard I use following mappings:
" Copy to X CLIPBOARD map <leader>cc :w !xsel -i -b<CR> map <leader>cp :w !xsel -i -p<CR> map <leader>cs :w !xsel -i -s<CR> " Paste from X CLIPBOARD map <leader>pp :r!xsel -p<CR> map <leader>ps :r!xsel -s<CR> map <leader>pb :r!xsel -b<CR>
So, to paste from X clipboard, you use :r!xsel -p|-s|-b depending which X clipboard you want to access. To copy, use
:w!xsel -i -p|-s|-b.
This was recently added, but there is no indication why it is useful or needed. I have moved it here for now because to my knowledge the normal clipboard access commands should work and are much more desireable.
--Fritzophrenic 17:30, November 8, 2010 (UTC)
I am running ubuntu 10.04 with vim-gtk. The * register works as described for gvim but not the command line. vim --version does show the " +xterm_clipboard" option. This is version 7.2.
- I had a similar issue on Ubuntu 14.04. It turns out the default clipboard setting is
"autoselect,exclude:cons\|linux"and I was changing it with
set clipboard+=unnamedplus, which turned it into
"autoselect,exclude:cons\|linux,unnamedplus". However, according to the help page for clipboard-exclude, the exclude option must come last. Changing my code to
set clipboard^=unnamedplussolved the problem by prepending the unnamedplus setting, rather than appending it.
- BTW, I have Vim GNOME 7.4.52 from the Ubuntu repositories, and
clipboard=unnameduses the X clipboard, while
clipboard=unnamedplususes the (GNOME) System Clipboard.
- --LeahCim (talk) 02:01, September 1, 2014 (UTC)
I have found using the autocutsel package on X11 in conjunction with set clipboard=unnamed provides a seamless experience.
Simple workaround for X clipboardsEdit
There is a convenient workaround to create a few commands for pasting/copying selections into/out of various X11 clipboards with `xsel`.
:command -range Cz :silent :<line1>,<line2>w !xsel -i -b :command -range Cx :silent :<line1>,<line2>w !xsel -i -p :command -range Cv :silent :<line1>,<line2>w !xsel -i -s :cabbrev cv Cv :cabbrev cz Cz :cabbrev cx Cx :command -range Pz :silent :r !xsel -o -b :command -range Px :silent :r !xsel -o -p :command -range Pv :silent :r !xsel -o -s :cabbrev pz Pz :cabbrev px Px :cabbrev pv Pv
With this code blob dumped in your ~/.vimrc you can do the following
1. Select a blob of text in visual mode 2. Step into command line with ':' 3. :`<,`>cz
and your selected text will be copied into one of X's 3 default clipboards.
there are 6 commands, 3 for pasting, 3 for copying, and each command represents a buffer.
z = "X11-Clipboard" x = "X11 Primary Selection" v = "X11 Secondary Selection"
DISPLAY environment variable on Linux systemsEdit
Make sure your DISPLAY environment variable is set appropriately - otherwise vim can not connect to your x-session to access the clipboard.
To check run:
echo $DISPLAY
which should output something like:
Workaround using x11 minimum packages (under Linux)Edit
If nothing work and you would like to copy from vim (under xterm) to leafpad, you may use this add-on to your ~/.vimrc
Press F9, and it will copy to the x11 clipboard.
function Func2X11() :call system('xclip -selection c', @r) endfunction vnoremap <F9> "ry:call Func2X11()<cr> vnoremap <m-c> "ry:call Func2X11()<cr> vnoremap <ESC-c> "ry:call Func2X11()<cr>
I hope that it may help you.
Workarounds for xtermEdit
:version shows "
+xterm_clipboard", but using the clipboard still does not work, try using other system tools as a workaround. For example, you can search for a clipboard.sh script which can be used like '
cat a.txt | clipboard' to copy the contents of file a.txt to the system clipboard. When using kubuntu, the system clipboard is managed by 'Klipper', you can use 'Klipper' shortcut to paste anything to the system clipboard from anywhere because its shortcut has the highest precedence. --Changc11, October 10, 2013
- Has a case like this been discussed at the vim_use mailing list? If clipboard support is provided by Vim, and if the versions of Vim and the system are not excessively old, the clipboard should work. This idea is better as a comment until something more conclusive is known. JohnBeckett (talk) 10:27, October 13, 2013 (UTC)
Using gnome-terminal Edit
If you are using vim inside gnome-terminal the default copy/paste shortcuts are Shift-Control-C (copy), and Shift-Control-V (paste).


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I have a number of private web design projects that I work on during my spare time. Non of the projects have any real deadline, other than my own urge to finish them.
As there is no real deadline, I sometimes find it hard to prioritize what project to work on, and I find my self swapping between the projects, focusing on more than one project at the time - which doesn't feel like the most productive way to do things.
How would you best go about to manage a situation like this? I have perhaps a few hours at a time, a couple of days a week that I can spend on these projects. Should I focus on one project a day, or divide the hours so that I work a little bit on each project every time? How do I get the most out of my time?


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Today in Tweet Beat, Sarah Palin is all sour grapes over President Obama's appearance today on The View. Plus, The Situation has custom-made GTL Reeboks.
President w/no time to visit porous US/Mexican border to offer help to those risking life to secure us,but lotso' time to chat on The View?
I'm headed to border in near future... let's see how quickly his travel schedule will allow that border visit after all.
Photo: Mike "The Situation" holding his custom Reeboks. http://tumblr.com/xzgehcf46
Hermes is EVERYTHING! RT @kanyewest Vintage Hermes travel bags are tight yo!!! http://twitpic.com/29rqdt
Leonard Bernstein is dead. right now. RT @kanyewest Leonard Bernstein is the shit!!! Hit flute player is snapping write now!!!
Note to self, when you clean out your garage...you find ALL kinds of things. Waffle Irons, Electric Knives, Porcelain Pig Napkin Holders.
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I've been wondering if one can still classify a Waterfall type development approach, where the length of the waterfall cycle is 1-2 weeks, as Agile.
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Traditional (and incorrect) waterfall is a single iteration through the phases of the lifecycle. First, you perform requirements engineering. Using those requirements, you architect and design the system and verify/validate those designs. Then, you implement the system. Once the system is implemented, you test it to ensure it works as intended. Finally, you ship it off to the customer for deployment and use. The project enters a maintenance cycle where you fix bugs and release updates, until the project is end-of-lifed. The process looks something like this:
In reality, this is a bad model for developing software. The paper where a lot of people learned about waterfall actually proposed something very different. It involves a high level of customer involvement at each phase and transitioning back to previous phases to correct and revise artifacts. You can read more about it in Royce's paper, Managing the Development of Large Software Systems. It looks something more like:
Finally, we have the agile approaches, which are iterative and incremental development models. There are many variants on iterative and incremental models. The idea in all of them is that you perform all of the lifecycle phases - requirements, architecture, design, implementation, testing, release - many times in the life of the product, until customer wants to end the product. There's no real detailed diagram of what iterative and incremental development looks like, as there are many variations, but the result is typically a feedback loop.
Agile development allows you to:
One of the points is to avoid the whole Big Design Up Front problem that traditional Waterfall developments which lasted for years before anything was delivered led to.
So if you are delivering something every two weeks then you are effectively doing agile (notice the lower case "a"), but not Agile (with the upper case "A"). You should be able to respond to changes as long as you are only doing the design for the current iteration and don't have some "Big Design" you're not deviating from.
Short answer is, no. Agile implies iterative, adaptive development where as Waterfall implies design upfront. So, either you're not doing agile or you're not doing waterfall, or (most likely) you're not doing either.
tough call.
In case like you describe I'd probably use cost of design errors as determining factor.
If you are shipping a version every 2 weeks, then you must have something a bit unusual.
Either your business is constantly changing, the size of implementation you are undertaking in each cycle is so small, or your user is not providing the full picture of requirements.
All of the above is very risky and can be fixed by proper up-front analysis and design.
If you release your software every 2 weeks, you will possibly need to spend considerable time in regression testing, documentation, production support education, user training, etc. Also, the water fall style is not based on iterative cycles and has no accommodation for regression testing.
I am also concerned about the end-user feel for a change in the software every 2 weeks. Personally, I don't want to see a new menu item on the application every so often that does something new...
If I were you, I would study the true value of having a 2-week cycle.


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That's a basic thing, but, surprisingly, it is very difficult to find concise explanation of:
- What is the definition of jet multiplicity?
- Why is it interesting?
That's a basic thing, but, surprisingly, it is very difficult to find concise explanation of:
Jet multiplicity , jets in general, came to the forefront with the parton model, advocated by Feynman way before QCD was established as the theory of strong interactions.
It was experimentally observed that colliding particles formed two jets, i.e. the particles in the debris of the interaction formed two jets. The parton model, modeled them as the parton that was incoming, and had a leading effect, most of the energy, and the parton at rest which had low energy . In the center of mass system they showed the two body reaction.
Back in 1977 John Ellis et al, analysing the phenomenology of QCD proposed the mercedes diagram, where one could see in the center of mass system three jets, the two interacting partons plus a gluon.
The model is that the hard scattering of the quarks may involve a hard gluon and each of these partons is dressed by soft gluons as it materializes. High pt 3jet events clinched the existence of gluons and made the simple parton model history.
So each high pt jet is a materialization of either a primary quark or a gluon, so the multiplicity of jets has to do with QCD predictions.


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The boom in oil and gas is creating both demand side (e.g., pipe mills, oilfield machinery) and supply-side (e.g., chemicals, fertilizers, direct iron reduction) opportunities.
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The global economy has reached a
critical state. Last year represented the third year of the
global economic recovery. However, the pace of improvement
slowed as higher energy prices, the disasters in Japan, the
Eurozone crisis and the influence of other negative factors
spread. A global soft patch emerged and has been centered
in manufacturing. Unfortunately for chemistry, the
manufacturing sector represents its major end-use or customer
The consensus forecast is for
continued but slow economic growth, well below trend growth
through 2013. This is consistent with a recovery from a
financial crisis, and it is likely that economic growth will
not reach long-term trend levels until 2014. The recovery is
fragile, however, and multiple risks remain. Sharply higher oil
prices present the gravest risk. The European debt crisis (and recession)
continues to weigh on the world economy; as does a potential
hard landing in China and the uncertainty about US debt levels,
policy and long-term economic
prospects. The wrong trade, tax or other policy initiatives could derail
activity. Economic prospects going forward represent a
two-speed world in which the developed nations (constrained by
debt and adverse demographic factors) grow slowly, while the
emerging markets grow rapidly as a result of industrialization
and rising consumer-driven economies.
Most major end-use markets for
chemistry have recovered in the US, especially those tied to
export markets and business investment. The manufacturing
sector, which is the largest consumer of chemistry, strongly
rebounded during the recovery, but growth slowed in 2011 as
demand weakened. US manufacturing output still remains below
its pre-recession peak. A two-speed manufacturing sector, with
about one-half industries soft and others doing well, has
emerged. The boom in oil and gas is creating both demand side
(e.g., pipe mills, oilfield machinery) and supply-side (e.g.,
chemicals, fertilizers, direct iron reduction) opportunities.
There is strength in light vehicles and aircraft; a recovery in
construction materials and
industries involved with business investment (iron and steel,
foundries, computers, etc.) are still strong. Elsewhere,
industry dynamism is sapped, with some structural issues
remaining in a number of industries (textiles, paper, printing,
The softening of the manufacturing
recovery will likely dampen chemical demand. Inventories can
mean the difference between a slowdown and a recession. In
general, lean inventories along the supply chain support future
production gains. Chemical inventories in the US are relatively
balanced, although some destocking emerged during the fourth
quarter. With the exception of Europe, chemical exports
continue to grow, driven by a favorable oil-to-gas price
The consensus is that US chemical
output is expected to improve during 2012 and further gain
through 2016. As a result, petrochemicals and derivatives,
following the 6.9% gain in volumes during 2010 and essentially
flat performance in 2011, are expected to have a 1% gain in
2012 before improving to 3.3% by mid-decade. Strong growth is
expected in synthetic rubber and later in petrochemicals,
organic derivatives and plastic resins as export markets
revive. For the long term, domestic petrochemical growth is
expected to expand at a pace exceeding that of the overall US
Strong gains in capital spending by
US chemistry are expected over the next several years, stemming
from new investment in petrochemicals and derivatives arising
from shale gas developments. The need to add capacity and to
improve operating efficiencies will play a role as well. This
emerging shale gas story is noteworthy.
Access to vast, new supplies of
natural gas (NG) from previously untapped shale deposits is one
of the most exciting domestic energy developments of the past
50 years. After years of high, volatile NG prices, the new
economics of shale gas are a game changer. Low NG
prices are creating a competitive advantage for US
manufacturers, thus leading to greater investment and industry
growth. US manufacturers use NG as fuel and power for a wide
variety of chemical processing facilities to produce a vast variety
of manufactured goods. The relatively low NG price provides US
manufacturers an advantage over many competitors around the
world. Growth in domestic shale gas production is helping to
reduce US NG prices and is creating more stable NG supplies for
fuel and power. As economic theory teaches and history shows, a
reduction in the cost of a factor input, such as NG, leads to
renewed competitiveness and a positive supply response. This,
in turn, leads to new private-sector investment, which fosters
job creation.
For the petrochemical industry, the
stakes are even higher. In addition to using NG for fuel and
power, this industry also uses NG as a raw material or feedstock. In the US, it is
historically cheaper to crack ethane, propane and other NG
liquids than to crack naphtha (from oil refining)the primary petrochemical feedstock in Western Europe and Northeast Asia. The
steam-cracking process using ethane is simpler, and the
hardware is less expensive. Nearly 90% of North American
ethylene is now derived from NG liquids. Over eight years ago,
the US Gulf Coast (USGC) petrochemicals were being written
off by many industry observers. The industry was in a position
near the top of the cost curve and it was in a worse position
than Western Europe and Northeast Asia. A pending wave of
capacity in the Middle East (ME) only added to dour sentiments.
With the revolution in shale gas, however, this has changed
radically (and for the better). By 2011, the USGC cost position
had so improved that this region now follows the ME. Moreover,
ethane supplies are tightening in the ME and are constrained.
The era of low-cost feedstocks in the ME may end
As a rough rule of thumb, when the
ratio of the Brent oil price divided by the Henry Hub price for
NG is above a band between 6:1 and 7:1, then the
competitiveness of (US) Gulf Coast-based petrochemicals and
derivatives such as plastic resins vs. other major producing
regions is enhanced. Other factors such as co-product prices,
exchange rates and capacity utilization have played a role in
competitiveness as well. As a result of shale gas, this
important ratio has been above 7:1 for several years. The ratio
of oil prices to NG has recently been around 40:1, and it is
very favorable for US competitiveness and exports of
petrochemicals, plastics and other derivatives. This condition
has fostered strong gains in US plastic exports. The only
reason that thermoplastics exports have stabilized has been the
crisis in Europe and weakness in that regions economy;
all have dampened US exports. In addition, capacity constraints
have occurred. Due to rising domestic demand for plastic resins
in North America, some overseas customers need to source
elsewhere, as the ability to export is hindered somewhat.
In the US, shale gas has been a
game changer in the domestic NG markets and has improved the
competitiveness of the US petrochemical sector, resulting in
boosting exports. The benefits are being felt beyond
petrochemicals and now include fertilizers and other downstream
products. Capital investment in North America is being
reconsidered, and a slew of projects have been announced. For petrochemicals alone, the new project investments could total $20
billion with an additional $23 billion likely for other
downstream and specialty products. With an eventual recovery in
Europes economy, along with
the startup of some of these projects and sustained
competitiveness, the medium- and long-term outlook for US
production and exports of petrochemicals and plastic resins is
quite good, with the US beginning to capture market share in
global markets. In turn, this will generate new business and,
importantly, jobs, and it will play a large role in the
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In every problem solving there's always people who think differently, who come with a 6th option when only 5 were suggested by others, who think "out of the box". Please tell how one can achieve such ability? And what it takes to achieve it?
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There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
There is no box!
Don't make assumptions.
Think abstractly.
Don't think abstractly.
Don't forget the goal.
Never stop learning.
Be a good programmer, not just a good at [programming language].
Don't assume someone is too inexperienced to help.
Have an open mind and go out of your way to explore as many options as you can about anything. Use this with life, not just programming.
If you only stick with what you know, you'll never have anything to compare with. If you go out there and explore alternatives you'll start to see other ways of doing things. After time, you start realizing you can find links in unrelated objects. A video game you enjoy might have some feature that you would absolutely love to see in the business application you're working on even if it is totally unrelated. Your microwave might have a really cool configuration setting you'd like to implement.
Learn to see the box
Look at the box and understand its constraints. Consider which of those constraints are actually beneficial to solving the problem, and point out which are either in the way or not necessary.
You might think that the answers mentioning assumptions are exactly the same thing, but I'm not sure that they are. Knowing the realm of the problem is important, too. Once you've got a clear picture of the problem and already considered solutions, you can pick up one piece and and see if other potential solutions come to mind.
Expand your box
You can never think outside of the box which is your own mind. So, keep expanding on what you know and have heard about. Things that may seem uninteresting to other people should hold interest for you. There is almost always some detail that you actually could find unexpected and exciting.
All of these random, insteresting bits of information can come together in odd ways when you are analyzing a problem. You just never know what will happen.
Oddball answer:
For fun and practice, listen to what people say in normal conversations and see how it would work out both literally and by using alternative meanings for the words they've chosen. This can turn into puns or other entertaining misuses of the language, but it also is a rather frequent way to exercise "thinking outside the box".
A lot of it either comes with practice, or is simply innate: some people are more creative than others. But I think a big part of outside-of-the-box thinking comes from having a breadth of knowledge, and knowing (or having the experience to know) when to apply that knowledge to different problems.
I'm not sure that everyone can achieve such an ability, but here are my suggestions for ways to possibly try to get there, assuming you don't already:
There's no single answer to this. It helps if you mentally exercise thinking out of the box regularly, even in mundane day-to-day activities.
Reversing Assumptions As one of the many possible approaches, you could try focusing on reversing inherent assumptions of a solution or problem:
You start with the problem. Think of an easy solution, a solution that anyone could think of. Then ask yourself: What are the assumptions underlying this solution? Or what are the assumptions on the problem? Now take one (or several) of those assumptions and ask yourself: what if dropped/reversed this assumption? Or what if instead of directly addressing some requirement, I could satisfy it as a side effect of another solution?
Be Bold
Know the Box
Break your Mindset
Change Perspective
Change Language
Think of the problem as:
Change Representation
Start at the Other End
Change Size
Do Something. Anything
Ask Someone Else
I read somewhere that those who consider themselves creative are the ones who are generally more creative in their work or brainstorming. In other words, it strongly suggests that a creative person is a person who's simply not afraid of thinking differently.
I think a large part of "thinking outside the box" is getting a handle on the problem. If you understand the problem well, you will see that sometimes the wording of the question is misleading or would lead people to think down a very specific path when in fact there remains an obvious solution standing in front of you. The other day there was a question on stackoverflow.com in which a person was attempting to convert a input textbox into a textarea once it reached a certain number of characters (I think it was 10). In his complicated solution, it would carry the 10 characters but nothing that exceeded it, which meant that typing quickly frustratingly removed anything beyond 10 characters.
With his code posted, many people were trying to correct it and provide suggestions to retaining the value. I suggested he retain textarea and forget the textbox altogether, modifying only the attribute rows. I saw outside the box not because I'm such a clever guy but because I tried to understand his objective: make an text input field that grows with increasing text. When you put it that way, it seems silly to start with a textbox and then replace it.
Just my 10 cents. ;)
By solving this puzzle. You must connect all the (equidistant) dots in exactly 4 straight lines:
BTW This was the original out of the box question, because...
Since we are adding varying amounts of cents here, I will add some of mine.
There is no algorithm..but here are helpful some activities..
1. Puzzles
2. Pet Programming Projects
3. Question Everything, Don't be Shy
4. Unexpected
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There's a page for each individual badge (eg. The Teacher Badge), which shows the description & the list of people who recently earned it. Given that the URL is based off the badge's Id, why are there some badges that appear not to exist (eg. 16 and 29)? Were they removed? Have they not been discovered yet?
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I'll give you a hint. So far, 16 and 29 are the only missing numbers in the sequence. 29 is a badge (secret) and 16 is just a gap in the identity field for that table, which as gnovice points out was the number for the original "Specialist" badge.
Number 16 was the original "Specialist" badge. It existed at one point as evidenced by the revision list for the SO badge FAQ (revision #8), but it was not "turned on" since they hadn't decided on the requirements for it yet. Once they made tag-specific specialist badges, it disappeared. Maybe there's still a place-holder for it?
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I have a folder with a dozen Arcmap compositions (.mxd files) I need to print. They're all ready to go, I don't need to do any editing. Do I really have to open up each one, wait to refresh, and press print?
I have found the following utility to be quite helpful.
It was written by Ben Slater. In this blog post, he has given the code as well as the executable for Batch Printing ArcMap MXD Documents
Edit: Added more information about the Utility, as per Matt Wilkie's suggestion
You could look into using COM automation to open the MXD, call the print, and then close the document. http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=93&f=1170&t=197049
I'd start with the Print Active View sample, but change it so that it uses IMapDocument to retrieve the pagelayout for each mxd.
We solved it, with caveats, by a batch file. It is a bit quirky and doesn't always work. The most annoying things are a) it ignores the .mxd page size setting and always uses the printers' default page, and b) Addons like MapBook need to be uninstalled or else there will be an error dialog after each .mxd (the map still prints though).
Not verified yet, but apparently as of Arcgis 9.4 (aka v10) you can:
(answer cribbed from http://yukongis.ca/How_To/BatchPrintMaps)
You should use Print Conductor for Batch Printing documents. I use it daily for my batch PDF Printing work. It prints all files at once with its DRAG and Drop feature. You can just select multiple folders or files and get them printed.
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I have a road bike with a triple, a track bike with a high gear ratio. Which should I use on my trainer for use with training videos? Should I use a geared bike, freewheel single speed or fixed gear?
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The bike to use will depend on the reason for using the trainer. If your use of the trainer is for off season track training use the track bike, road racing use the triple,etc. If you just want some saddle time, the triple will simulate all of them to an extent, you can select the gearing of the track bike,the fixie or the single and leave it there.
It depends. You've thrown out a few options. I'm a track cyclist, so I prefer the track bike on the rollers. However, that's mostly to work on form and comfort at high RPM's in my race position. That's the main benefit of rollers.
For strength training and resistance, I used to use a mag or fluid trainer. I would do so with a road bike. The main benefit there is the ability to change gears/resistance by shifting. That would be more appropriate if you're looking to ride along with a video...
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I want to rotate a form with three given angles fo each of the three axis. But the GLM
rotation function takes only one angle and a vector as arguments.
How can I convert between both formats?
GLM's rotation function uses Euler's rotation theorem, which implies that any rotation or sequence of rotations of a rigid body in a three-dimensional space is equivalent to a pure rotation about a single fixed axis.
However consecutive calls to GLMs rotate function just multiply the rotation so rotating a rigid body by Yaw, Pitch, Roll is as simple as this:
Edit: please also read this article where they explain the differences and how you can go from Euler angles to Quaternions to Axis Angle :)
The angles used to build a rotation for each of the three axes are known as Tait-Bryan angles (often confused with Euler angles).
Wikipedia has all the formulas you need to convert Euler or Tait-Bryan angles into a rotation matrix.
Here is some code to build a rotation matrix from three Tait-Bryan angles and the order of the rotations: