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I am looking for a great template to create usability study results document without putting anyone to sleep. I have created plenty of them before but would like to see if there is something better that could also work for wide audiences. I have found a few templates in Google but nothing amazing yet. I am looking for something that you find works very well and excites the audience to pursue design recommendations.
I would make a distinction between presenting the usability study and the usability study results.
Generally the results of a usability study are for managers or other non UX people who are only interested in what you found and what they can do with it. Their interest usually has nothing to do with you methodology or details about who you asked etc.
By all means, you should have a document (even if only for yourself) detailing the study thoroughly, but that is not what you should present to most people. Now try to think like a manager that just wants results, and who has no time or inclination to read a long document. No disrespect meant to managers out there, but you should try to explain it as if you were explaining to a 5 year old. The same goes for any time you are explaining a specialist topic to non-specialists.
Know your audience. For most people that is all they will be interested in, but if you know they (not you) will be interested in some other aspects, include those as well. If anyone really wants to know more, they will ask for the full study.
The same goes for presenting your results. Keep to what your audience is interested in. The goal is to show the information that they will find useful, and not to show how much work you have done.
Rough format for the sections.
When I get the chance (and resources), I like to actually document the entire tasks and scenarios in a series of storyboards, captioned with the description.
I generally like to describe the participants in more details (if the information is available or can be disclosed), and put these somewhere near the results to allow people to think about things that might cause some biases or influence the results.
I've yet to come across a well documented and detailed usability study, not to mention that most of them don't seem to draw good conclusions, or extrapolate too much.
46 pages is a lot to read, but if you provide a summary that is concise and informative, then people who are interested will be glad that you have detailed information recorded and can judge the data for themselves.

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Kutai Sultan Palace is situated in Tenggarong, the capital city of Kutai Kartanegara district. After the Kutai Sultanate government ends in 1960, its 2,270 m2 palace was then occupied by Sultan A.M. Parikesit until 1971. The Palace was then handed over to the East Kalimantan provisional government on 25 November 1971.
On 18 February 1976, the provincial government then handed over the Palace to the Ministry of Education and Culture to be managed as a state museum called Mulawarman Museum (up to now). At present, Sultan Aji Muhammad Salehudin II is recorded as the 20th king of the Sultanate.
Tenggarong is actually a small area. Therefore, it is not difficult to find hotels in the city center, not far to reach any area you like to visit in Tenggarong. Staying overnight in Samarinda should not be a problem, because of relatively short travel time from Samarinda.
When shopping in souvenir shops in this tourist destination, you should be good in bargaining. Sometimes, we can get a cheaper price than the one offered in Kebun Sayur Market in Balikpapan or Citra Niaga Market in Samarinda, popularly known as souvenir centers in East Kalimantan.
Visitors can travel around the Palace/Museum on foot, visiting from one room to another storing various historical items. To its right, we will find cemetery of kings and their royal families. Not far from the cemetery, we can drop by to souvenir shops selling their merchandises and stalls selling foods and drinks.
This tourist destination is situated at Diponegoro street, Tenggarong, Kutai Kartanegara district in East Kalimantan. Tenggarong is easier and closer to reach from Samarinda. From Sepinggan airport in Balikpapan, you can take a local plane to Samarinda. Alternatively, you can also take a taxi for Rp250.000-Rp300.000. It takes about 60 minutes to reach the palace from Samarinda. Since it is situated in the city center of Tenggarong, you should not find any difficulty to find this museum. Public transportation from Samarinda to Tenggarong is also available.


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Normally a peaceful wilderness retreat, the Jackalberry bush camp has suddenly become a ghastly crime scene and Detective David "Kubu" Bengu is assigned to the case. Zimbabwean teacher Goodluck Tinubu and another tourist have been found bludgeoned to death, while another guest at the camp rumored to be a dissident wanted in Zimbabwe has disappeared without a trace.
With the local police unable or unwilling to provide much assistance, Detective Kubu must rely on his own instincts. But a startling piece of forensic evidence from Goodluck Tinubu's murder adds a complicated twist to the investigation, and Kubu has to work fast to solve a seemingly impossible riddle before more Jackalberry guests meet their deaths.
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Michael Stanley is the writing team of Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip. Sears was born in Johannesburg, grew up in Cape Town and Nairobi, and teaches at the University of the Witwatersrand. Trollip was also born in Johannesburg and has been on the faculty of the universities of Illinois, Minnesota, and North Dakota, and at Capella University. He divides his time between Knysna, South Africa, and Minneapolis, Minnesota.


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Is there a way to use the emacs installed my local computer to access remote files I have in a remote server? I have googled and found out that I should use TrampMode however it is necessary for me to know the exact file path. Isn't there a way for me to open an ssh connection to the remote server and from there open the files with the local emacs in my computer?
There are various ways to do this, but in generally you are going about this problem backwards. Copy your emacs configs to the remote machine and use emacs local to the files you are editing.
The "various ways to do this" would fall into two categories. First would be ways of mounting a remote drive locally through something like sshfs, some fuse file system, samba, nfs, or any number of other mounting systems to bring file level access to your machine. Second would be various programs that allow you to login and browse a remote system, then operate on files by transferring a copy of them to a local temp file, editing it, then transferring it back. Several programs make that process look pretty seamless, but it's a hack.
Or you can open emacs, run eshell, then cd to the remote machine, like:
Now, run shell commands, navigate to the file you want and open it:
I do think that Tramp is what you are looking for. You can use Dired mode to browse the remote directories and look for the file you want.
For example, if I'm looking for some file in
You'll get an output like this:
Then you can use e.g. the arrow keys to find the file you wanted to edit. Hit enter when the cursor is on the file to edit it.


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I know that you can charter a helicopter, it is expensive but possible. But can I go on a scheduled flight with a helicopter? If so, which connections?
Not lots of airports, but lots of rich people:
Heli Air Monaco operates a regular flight between Nice airport and Monaco every 30mn.
Fee is 105€ from Monaco to Nice and 120€ from Nice to Monaco, or 210€ for both.
Copterline operates a frequent helicopter service between Helsinki, Finland and Tallinn, Estonia. They advertise it as follows:
With a quick look, one way prices are 89 - 270 €, depending on flexibility and cancellation options. (This is pretty expensive compared to the abundant ferry services between the cities–it's clearly aimed primarily at business travellers.)
Some history: Copterline Oy, a Finnish company, operated a regular and fairly popular service between the capitals from 2000 to 2005. In 2004, for instance, they carried 75,000 passengers. The operations came to a dramatic halt in 2005 when their Sikorsky S-76C+ helicopter crashed into the Gulf of Finland near Tallinn, killing all 14 people onboard. There have been attempts to restart the business over the years, but it seems they only managed to do so in late 2011. (Now the service is run by Copterline OÜ, a different company apparently, which is Estonian but wholly owned by Finnish FastClass Ltd.)
Update (April 2012): I just tried, on a whim, flying with Copterline from Helsinki to Tallinn, so I can now confirm that these scheduled flights indeed take place! This was my first time in a helicopter and all (so forgive me being hyped about it).
There were 8 passengers in total (12 seats) on my flight. The sole helicopter forming the current fleet is an AW139. In Helsinki, the copter leaves from a small heliport in Hernesaari (IATA code: HEN), complete with a security checkpoint and waiting lounge. One must check in 10 mins before scheduled flight time at latest. In Tallinn, the heliport (IATA: CHE) is located adjacent to Linnahall, a strange Soviet-era ode to raw concrete. Service was nice overall; this is certainly very convenient compared, say, to spending 2-3 hours in a packed ferry & terminals.
Some photos I took:
Passing one of the competing travel options (Tallink's M/S Superstar) overhead:
Looking west (the side windows coloured everything blue):
Passing another ferry:
Approaching Tallinn; you can see the heliport on the left:
After landing:
The 18 minutes in the air set me back 169 €, and I'm not planning to make this a habit. (I booked the ticket the same day; might've been slightly cheaper otherwise.) Also, I'm very happy this time there were no accidents whatsoever!
In the past there was such a service in New York. I was booked on it once to get to Newark from LaGuardia and once between JFK and LaGuardia. Both times the weather was "bad" - helicopters set a really low bar for "bad" - and I had to make the connection on the ground. I am not sure if the service still runs but New York, with lots of airports and lots of rich people, is the place to look for it.
A quick search finds this: http://www.newyorkhelicopter.com/airport-transfers/ but I assure you I did not pay $800/person for whatever I had booked a few decades ago.
When I was in Vancouver earlier this month, I noted it was possible to do a flight from either Vancouver Harbour, or indeed Vancouver International Airport to Victoria, with Helijet. So it's a viable connection there, if pricey - a quick search for a flight next month revealed around $290 one way...
The Scilly Isles, off the tip off Cornwall, UK have such a service. Further information on the British International Helicopters page on Wikipedia.
Sky Shuttle flies between Hong Kong and Macau every 30 minutes from 9 AM to 11 PM, seven days a week. Flights take 15 minutes. At HK$3700 (~US$475) a pop, it's not exactly cheap though, especially given that ferries cover the same distance in an hour and cost around a twentieth of the price!
Pity that I only learned about this service, AFTER returning from Morocco :( There is a regular helicopter service between Europe and Africa. INAER offers regular services between Malaga/Algeciras and Ceuta, and that already for 12 years.
I even found two youtube films this one and this one.
The service seems to connect with flights arriving at Malaga airport in Spain, as well as with Algeciras on the Bay of Gibraltar.


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The 10 Geekiest Pieces of Furniture in the Universe
#5. Rubik's Cube Coffee Table
Rubik's Cubes were once a huge part of our culture, and back in the 80s everyone had one. The fact that most people "solved" it by breaking it apart or rearranging the stickers didn't matter.
But for some puzzle geeks, the Rubik's Cube remained the exemplar of cool. In a masterstroke of unnecessary and inexplicable inspiration, someone gambled that those people might need a table to keep coffee on, or to toss out some copies of Wired magazine when friends were coming over. And thus, the Rubik's Cube Coffee Table was born.
The Downside:
We know what you're thinking. Get a bunch of friends together to try to solve this huge bastard, and you'll have a great time.
Sorry to spoil your fun, but retailing for $600, this table combines all of the function of a table with none of the fun of the Rubik's Cube, since it doesn't actually work. So really it functions as a table in much the same way any object of a similar size would, including the box the table comes in.
#4. The Scrabble Couch
For anyone with even a smattering of nerd genes somewhere inside them, Scrabble was the awesomest of board games for one simple reason: it made you look smart. Sure, if you walk around all day spelling difficult words at people, you'll eventually get shot. But do it in the context of a Scrabble game, and suddenly you're the life of the party.
So it only makes sense to give us the game in furniture form!
The Downside:
"Does anyone have enough letters to spell 'this party blows?'"
Oh, wait. No. That actually doesn't make sense at all. What do you do, have each player sit on the floor behind their sofa with a stack of letter pillows? The novelty of that will wear off about three seconds before you finish suggesting it to your party guests.
And what do you do between games? Shaped like the game's tile holders and probably made of the same wood, comfort couldn't have been high on the list of requirements during the design stage. Sure, it looks kind of cool and you could spend hours spelling out dirty words to make yourself laugh in those lonely wee hours of the morning. But who would want to sit on it? Its sharp edges and unforgiving angles look like something from the lab of an evil genius chiropractor.
#3. The Star Wars Home Theater
For some folks, it takes a little more than one piece of furniture to geekify their domains. They'll turn a whole room into a shrine to some piece of pop culture. Like these wealthy nerds who decided to trick out their home theater to look like the control deck of the Death Star.
For an extra dash of coolness they added a life-size model of badass bounty hunter, Boba Fett, and a life-size model of closet case, C3PO. Throw in a massive flatscreen and a few wicked chairs, and you have the ultimate place to watch Star Wars. Having any kind of home theater is pretty awesome, but a Star Wars home theater is double deep-fried awesome with extra awesome dipping sauce. What we're saying is it's awesome.
The Downside:
It's pretty much only good for watching Star Wars. It might get a little weird having Boba Fett see you cry when Macaulay Culkin dies at the end of My Girl. And forget about porn. Can you imagine rubbing one out under the never-ending robot gaze of Threepio? His cold, robotic stare, observing you. Judging you.
#2. The Star Trek Apartment
Not enough to just deck out one room? Well, you and Tony Alleyne of England will have a lot to talk about. A big fan of Star Trek: Voyager, he completely stripped his apartment and refitted it to look like the starship.
The Downside:
We like Seven of Nine's futuristic boobies too, and arguably there's something cool about living in an immersive world in which it seems like they're only a warp core breach away, but come on. We're talking about freaking Voyager here. While late at night after binge drinking Yoo-Hoo and schnapps it might seem like an awesome idea to model your entire home after Star Trek, but dressing it up as the second worst Star Trek series ever? Not Star Trek, not The Next Generation or even Deep Space Nine, but fucking Voyager?
This is right above the toilet.
And in the harsh light of day, the fantasy falls apart a bit. For instance, there is no longer the harsh light of day. Lacking windows as the dank starship Voyager did, Alleyne's home, the one that forced his wife to leave him, is a shut-in's dream cave making its owner a little more Gollum-like with each passing day.
#1. The Star Trek Coffin and Urn
Any claims adjuster with glasses can live the nerd life, but it takes a special kind of geek to die a nerd death. If for some reason you want to be picked on in the afterlife as much as you were here, why not go to Valhalla in style?
The folks at Eternal Image have created two ways for you to spend your eternity safe in the knowledge that you probably were more disturbing to Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner than millions of other ravenous, reality-challenged fans could ever dream of being. The Star Trek coffin and urn can help you carry your love of sci-fi with you as you boldly go to the undiscovered country six-feet under.
The Downside:
On the one hand, it beats the shit out of the standard dollar store urn or pine box most of us will find ourselves in. But really, the funeral isn't for you. You'll be dead.
No, the funeral service is for all your friends and family to get together and celebrate the fact that you could have been a much worse person if you had really tried. But with these, you'll be reminding them that your entire days spent on this mortal coil were devoted to the show that gave us Tribbles and Ricardo Montalban's prosthetic chest.
For more geeky stuff that will make you weep for humanity, check out The 7 Most Impressive (And Depressing) Geek Collections and PathetiCon: 8 Geek Conventions God Never Intended.
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With the release of Canon EOS M, the only question I have in mind is how will it perform as a second/alternative/backup body for prefessional/semi-professional photographers? We can use our existing EF mount lenses, also the sensor is APS-C sized. Will it provide better optical performance than Canon G11/G12 or G series cameras in general? Also how does it compare to people who uses FF mainly but have APS-C DSLRs as an alternative body.
The EOS M has essentially the same image pipeline (sensor / image processor) as the latest digital rebel. You can therefore expect it to produce very high quality images considering the form factor (though not necessarily any better than the competition mirrorless). Image quality should be better than the G series, though similar to the G1X (which has a slightly smaller sensor, but has a lens optimised for that sensor).
The option to produce DSLR quality images will obviously be attractive to those looking for a backup camera to bring abroad or on remote shoots however there are a few factors to be aware of:
Finally there's the price which puts it on a par with the 650D. I think you would have to be seriously concerned about size to forgo the viewfinder and phase detect AF. Replacing your backup rebel with an EOS M will result your camera bag being 277 grams lighter. If you have a couple of lenses in there already you're unlikely to notice. The space saving is slightly more being about 35% of the volume of a rebel. You might be able to sneak an extra (small) lens into your bag.
The other potential advantage to the M is to use where you don't want to draw unnecessary attention to yourself, or to take photos where "professional cameras" are not allowed (you'll just have to find some other way to disguise your 400 f/2.8)
The Canon EOS M stands virtually no chance of being a professionally used backup body and I speak strictly in the sense of professional event photography.
The EOS M is certainly an advancement for the compact size yet great quality department, but it simply does not have the demanding feature set that is required in any professional capability. Some significant cons to using the EOS M in a professional capacity include:
Using the Canon M does have some advantages. It is small in size(can be an advantage), can utilize existing EF and EF-S lenses with an adapter, should be quite quiet at shooting, and the price is reasonable.
As I mentioned in a comment elsewhere here, I think that the Canon EOS M's biggest advantage is it's size. It isn't really cheap, it isn't really the best quality(think AF and APS-C), and it isn't full of the most professional features. So why would you choose this as a backup camera? For it's great size advantage? I really don't think so. The only use case I can think of is someone who does a significant amount of destination weddings, where you have to worry about the portability and size of your kit on a whole new level.
Overall, I don't know of any professional that would carry a Canon G11 or a S100 in their bag and consider it a backup, and I don't see that happening with this either just because they can now use the full range of EF lenses. If you are using this as a backup for PERSONAL use, certainly it will capture images and fit the majority of use cases for personal use.


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Waco, Texas (CNN) - Mitt Romney picked up Texas-sized donations on Tuesday during a fund-raising blitz through the Lone Star state.
The Republican presidential candidate expected to raise $15 million from four campaign fund-raisers Tuesday and Wednesday in Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Houston, a major donor to his campaign told attendees at one event on Tuesday.
Dallas entrepreneur Ray Washburne divulged the high-dollar figure to nearly 500 people attending the first event held at the historic Belo Mansion in Dallas, which was expected to raise $3.5 million when combined with the haul from another dinner at a private residence Tuesday night. Participants contributed $2,500 to get in the door and paid as much as $10,000 for a photo and $50,000 for dinner.
The checks are split between members of the Romney Victory Fund, an umbrella organization including Romney's campaign, the Republican National Committee, and several state-level groups.
According to a reporter who was permitted to cover the fund-raiser and brief other reporters, Romney stepped to the podium and joked that Washburne had assured him that if the $15 million figure wasn't reached, "he'll write a check for the balance."
The Romney campaign has so far raised more than $5.9 million in Texas, according to the Federal Election Commission reports including donations through the end of April. President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies have raised more than $6.4 million from the Lone Star State in the same time period.
In addition to helping fill his campaign coffers, Texas also helped Romney towards becoming the GOP presidential nominee. Last week he crossed the 1,144-delegate threshold after picking up more than 100 delegates from the Republican primary here, but he won't be crowned the party's official nominee until the Republican National Convention in Tampa this summer.
Romney also scheduled two public campaign events during his two-day visit.
According to the FEC, Texans have raised more than $30 million for Republican and Democratic candidates for various offices combined this year, coming in second behind California, which has brought in more than $43 million in 2012.
In May, Romney hauled in about $15 million from more than eight fund-raisers during a weekend swing through New York and Connecticut.
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A Portia Come to Judgment!
Margaret Sullivan, the Public Editor of the New York Times, has a blog post in which she addresses readers' complaints about the Times' coverage of the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS. She writes:
In essence, these readers believed The Times gave too little prominence to the story initially in Saturdays paper and placed emphasis on the wrong aspect of the situation the apology and the politics rather than the problem itself.
Her conclusion:
I agree that The Times seemed to play down the story originally, placing it inside the paper and emphasizing the second-day angle of the apology rather than the misconduct itself. In Mondays paper, the headline, as Mr. Greenfield noted, emphasized the Republicans seizing on the issue rather than the widening problem. A Wall Street Journal front-page headline, by contrast, read, Wider Problems Found at IRS.Many on the right as noted last week in my blog posts about Benghazi do not think they can get a fair shake from The Times. This coverage wont do anything to dispel that belief.
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Rev. Robert P. Imbelli, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, is Associate Professor of Theology Emeritus at Boston College.
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Well, call me a dewey-eyed optimist, but I'm more sympathetic to the Times and the IRS here. I tend to believe the dull explanations for misconduct. Here the dull explanation is that these groups were proliferating in 2011 and the IRS was doing what it's supposed to do--keeping a sharp eye for tax cheats exploiting and piggybacking on a political movement. Naively, the IRS didn't consider the optics of their watchfulness. The Times, rightly I think, moved slowly on the story because, though the rush to presuming malfeasance makes good copy there might not really be a story. The praise gotten by the WSJ here is yet another straw on the camel's back of responsible journalism. Did this have to be Watergate on its first day for us to trust the Times? Sorry, but--O tempora! O mores!
"WSJ 1 NYT 0." Really? I guess the last 120 years were just the preseason.
Father Imbelli,You can criticize bishops, archbishops, cardinals and popes but not the New York Times!
Mr. Gibbons,Have you spotted a trend?Mr. Commonweal,Just this game.
Sen. Marco Rubio released a letter demanding that the Treasury Secretary and the president fire the IRS commissioner immediately. Alas for his latest attempt to look presidential, the IRS doesn't HAVE a commissioner at the moment. The last one, Douglas Shulman by name, resigned in November and has not been replaced. For good measure, Shulman was a George W. Bush appointee.
Sorry about that, Fr. Imbelli. "Mr. Commonweal" was me, as you may have guessed. (I wasn't properly signed in.) So you're scoring this like tennis? Maybe one day the Journal will win a whole match.
If all Government srewups.e.g. fast and furious, Benghazi, IRS, etc are conspiracies orchestrated by Obama, shouldn't he be given credit for having his hand on so many levers at the same time? Should the GOP just surrender to Obama?Machiavelli?
Bob, You have attacked a sacred cow. I wish you luck (but you may want to run for cover).AA
Father Imbelli,Why, yes, I have.
I am a big supporter of the Obama administration and defender of the New York Times, but the IRS is guilty as charged here, and so is the Times. I don't think anyone in the Obama administration ordered the IRS to go after conservative organizations.On other fronts, those of us (myself included) who defended Susan Rice and the administration for what was said in the two weeks or so following the Benghazi attackRice was just reading the CIA talking points!were lied to, and Jay Carney's responses in his last grilling by the press on the subject were laughable. However, conservatives are blowing the whole idea of a "coverup" way out of proportion for their own nefarious purposes.
"Father Imbelli,You can criticize bishops, archbishops, cardinals and popes but not the New York Times!"Robert Imbelli criticizes the NY Times but rarely the others above. But his bias has always been transparent. Nor did he and Gibbons do anything when the Bush IRS was targeting progressive churches.
Those on the right who think they can't get a fair shake from the Times should check out the Times article today on the Archbishop Myers/Father Fugee scandal. Not once, but 3 times the reporter speaks of "unsupervised" contact with minors, as if "unsupervised" contact is all that is prohibited. Essentially the Times adopts Bill Donohue's position on the agreement.See this post from Mollie Wilson O'Reilly on why Donohue is simply wrong: http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=27017 Here is the Times article:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/nyregion/newark-archbishop-is-criticiz...
" I dont think anyone in the Obama administration ordered the IRS to go after conservative organizations."If it is possible for low-level IRS functionaries to do the wrong thing in the IRS, perhaps it is also possible for low-level reporters and news editors to get the story wrong without it being a grand conspiracy orchestrated by the paper's senior editors?
"I tend to believe the dull explanations for misconduct. Here the dull explanation is that these groups were proliferating in 2011 and the IRS was doing what its supposed to dokeeping a sharp eye for tax cheats exploiting and piggybacking on a political movement. Naively, the IRS didnt consider the optics of their watchfulness. "Here is Megan McArdle on this line of thought, which she terms, "the emerging case for the defense of the IRS agents":"Its not like the IRS needs a way to flag the new groups that were created in the wake of the Citizens United decision. They have all the information they need to do that without any special filter. They can search for the date of the application. If what youre concerned about is that most of the new groups being created are in fact thinly disguised electioneering vehicles, then what you want to do is take a random sample of the new groups, review them, and see what percentage turn out to be self-dealing or otherwise engaged in inappropriate behavior. Instead, the IRS method for dealing with the volume was to take an unrandom sample. And how did they decide that you deserved extra scrutiny? Because you had tea party or patriot in your name. Since the Tea Party was a brand-new movement in 2010, they couldnt possibly have had any data indicating that such groups were more likely to be doing something improper. So how exactly did they come up with this filter? There is no answer that does not ultimately resolve to political bias."If Tea Party groups really were driving much of the postCitizens United explosion, there was no need to specifically search for the words tea party or patriot, because those words would naturally be overrepresented in a random sample of new applications. The reason you specifically search for those words is that you want to target those groups specifically, and not, say, applications with Progress, Organizing, or Action in them. "http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/13/why-did-the-irs-target-...
A justifiably cynical interpretation: When The Times has alienated its last middle-of-the-road readers it can charge higher ad rates in exchange for access to a perfectly homogeneous audience. Sulzberger is making a desparate gamble to stave off an ignominious end to his empire by creating a smaller but purer constituency, the shrinking (but perhaps profitable) liberal fundamentalist demographic. To paraphrase their IRS headline, this dispute gives the NYT an issue to seize on.
Jack: maybe the NYT just doesn't care. It's not that they're trying to put a gentle light on the archbishop's decisions. It's just that religion is not important enough to need to be careful to get it right.
@MBI was not saying that dotcommonweal or the magazine itself treats the Times as a a sacred cow. I have been a paying subscriber to the journal since 1993 so I think you can say that I am reasonably familiar with its contents. I was simply teasing a bit that some commenters here seem to rush headlong into defending the paper whenever even the slightest criticism is raised. AA
I take it for granted that any accurate, final description of what happened at IRS will involve frequently-repeated use of the word "dumb." Certainly some people will need to go to the woodshed: there at least has been lying to Congress, and probably other violations or regulation or law. What does make me a little crazy is the fact that the whole description of this as a partisan scandal depends exclusively on one premise so preposterous that no one has said it out loud--nor are they likely to. IRS is a bureaucratic agency that hires and promotes career professionals under a merit system. It is insulated entirely from the political process. The idea that IRS is a liberal enclave persecuting conservative groups is absurd. Statistically it's almost certain that some IRS employees are Tea Party sympathizers, married to them, etc. All this is why I still applaud NYT for its responsible restraint in the face of this interesting story that is not yet for any reason that makes sense a presidential scandal.Maybe there is a partisan bent to IRS that goes as high as the White House. But no facts supporting that are un evidence. I'd so much prefer the press would stop acting like they are.
Matthew (aka "Mr. Commonweal"),Thanks for calling to my attention Peter Steinfels' post of last year. He wrote:"How could the paper similarly break the stifling hold of that political and cultural progressivism? How could it go about enriching itself ideologically and culturally (and culturally, I think, is the stickler) without just recreating Beltway-style standoff or new versions of the culture wars? I hope the new public editor, Margaret Sullivan, gives this some thoughtful attention."I was applauding Ms Sullivan's judgment in this particular case regarding the "Times'" reporting -- even according her Shakespearean praise. She seems not to have made even a cameo appearance in the comments.Stephen Millies,i hope I have not in any way contributed towards making you "a little crazy." However, do I detect some modification in your sentiments from your first comment (@6:32 p.m.) to this last (@7:28 a.m.)? Or is it only wishful thinking on my part :-)
Just a minor note: Portia was a fake judge.
Good morning, Fr. I--I think it goes something like this. In the post-Citizens United environment a new political movement spawning a deluge of tax-exempt applications should rightly be viewed as a potential candy store for hucksters. Vigilance and watchfulness was the right thing to do. There was no left-wing equivalent to the Tea Party deluge. Had there been, it would be much harder to paint this as partisan. Oh well. What we have looks like the right thing done artlessly, stupidly. Bureaucracies behave this way. Locked in their own cultures, they miss things like the political implications of focusing on Tea Party applications. I'm no expert on the Internal Revenue Code, but they may even have overlooked some regulatory bar against politically-imbalanced enforcements. By 2012, perhaps realizing how this looks or that they may have violated the IRC, they indulged the human instinct to cover up. Where there was wrongdoing there should be consequences. But the rush to call this partisan motivation or a presidential scandal just doesn't add up for me.This is all my speculation. We don't know a lot. We'll know more later this week when there are hearings. But for now, my account seems more sober than the press coverage. Human foibles explain almost everything. Here I think the specific foible we call bureaucratic culture is the real culprit. Can't the journalistic community hold off, stop fanning the flames, until we're sure it's not?
I guess I am missing something. I hope it is not simply because when I see the word "targeting" in this context, I think of "paying attention to" not "attempting to murder." The IRS agents in charge of recommending on allowances for tax exemption paid special attention to applications involving "tea party" at the time the tea party groups -- for which reporters still have trouble finding a collective noun because they are so heterogenous -- blossomed like mushrooms after a monsoon.Where the monsoon was generated I will leave to the reader's discernment. Like any other ginned up social phenomenon in this nation of ginned up social phenomena, the tea party whatever spun off official suppliers (i.e. tee shirt and bumper stucker makers), tin cans to be filled that eventually helped pay for Las Vegas vacations for the patriots who put them out, and well-financed, lawyered and directed organizations waiting to help various causes. If the IRS had not tried to sort out the legal from the Las Vegas-bound, it would have been derelict in its duty.The public servants taxed with the wheat-and-chaff decisions found a quick and dirty method of separating what needed attention from the ebb and flow of tax avoidances, and that can be made to look bad. (Especially when we use a NRA verb for a bureaucratic action). But Obama and Rubio and Collins and all the other howlers, wailers and screamers to be in such a state shows how out of touch Washington is. And those who are criticizing the Times for giving the story about what is worth are thinking like Washington, as far as I can see.
And that includes Jon Stewart.
Steve Millies @ 9:59 +1Anthony A, headlong defending? I don't follow. This is a conversation, in which people voiced their differing views. Calmly, I thought. Or is any opposing view ipso facto intemperate?
@Rita. In this thread here, I have not seen any blind defense of the NYT. But to be honest I have seen it in past dotCommonweal discussions. I am by no means a "Times hater" but in fact a subscriber. However, if there are people who will bend over backwards to defend the bishops not matter how wrongheaded they might be on a particular issue, I have also found that to be the case with others in regard to the NYT. That has simply been my experience.
I wish Newsday would cover NYC again; it was the only good newspaper we ever had.
Thanks for clarifying, Anthony!


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Let $G$ be a finite group. Let $H \trianglelefteq G$, with $\vert H \vert = p$, a prime, where $p$ is the smallest prime dividing $\vert G \vert$. Prove that $H \leq Z(G)$. (Hint: If $a \in H$, by normality, its conjugacy class lies inside $H$.)
My approach so far:
Let $a \in H$. Then $C(a) = \{gag^{-1} : g \in G\} \subseteq H$. Now, since $\vert H \vert$ is prime, it follows that $H$ is cyclic and moreover $H$ is abelian, hence $C_H(a) = H$ for all $a \in H$ and equivalently $[H: C_H(a)] = 1$ for all $a \in H$.
Try to show $\vert C(a) \vert = [G:C_G(a)] = [H:C_H(a)] = 1$.
So, since $\vert C(a) \vert = 1$ for all $a \in H$, we have $C(a) = \{a\}$ for all $a \in H$ and equivalently $a \in Z(G)$ for all $a \in H$, so we can say $H \subseteq Z(G)$ and moreover $H \leq Z(G)$.
My main question is, how to show $[G:C_G(a)] = [H:C_H(a)]$. But also, I haven't used the fact that $p$ is the smallest prime dividing $\vert G \vert$, so is my reasoning wrong anywhere?


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great to have you back kip, knew you would be this experiment is nowhere finished yet.
come on you sheriffs.
great to have you back kip, knew you would be this experiment is nowhere finished yet.
come on you sheriffs.
Season 2015-16
Club reports – Summer Transfers
After a remarkable Championship season, both the Bandits and Sheriffs had been promoted. But neither had the players to cope in the Premiership, and both squads would need heavy investment.
To give you an idea of the standard of player required in the top league, here at the number of players at each level prior to the season:
With the Bandits' best player reaching 148 and the Sheriffs 135, neither side had anyone to frighten their new opposition. They needed to see if they could entice anyone with 150 CA to join a newly promoted side, otherwise they would be in trouble.
Interesting point to show how difficult it is to attract the top players – there may be 62 players of 170 CA in the league, but 47 of them play for the Big Four, another 12 for Man City or Spurs, leaving just three others, two at Newcastle and one at Sunderland. There is no even spread – you need a high reputation to get these guys. The Bandits and Sheriffs would have to aim lower.
Perhaps aware of the challenges ahead, the Bandits resisted their usual summer clearout, losing only a handful of substandard players, and focused instead on new recruits. They jumped straight into it, purchasing Aaron Lennon from Hearts for £2.6m. The right winger, now 28, had never fulfilled his potential of 165 but his CA of 143 but him behind only Dyer at the club. A good start.
Then they started to stun the world of football by flashing the cash. Xisco arrived for a whopping £14.75m from Sunderland, the 29 year old striker becoming the club's best player with a very healthy CA of 154. But not for long – Jose Palma was the next to join, for a jaw-dropping £24m from Reading. The 23 year old central midfielder was a superstar – his CA of 167 was good for the league, and could still rise to 175. At this point, the division began to take notice.
Next, the manager turned to the goalkeeping situation, signing 18 year old Vincenzo Albanesi from Chelsea for £10.75m. Already comfortably the club's best keeper with a CA of 136, he could reach an impressive 170 in time.
Deciding Xisco needed a partner up front, he then turned to Dinamo Kiev, signing Chinese frontman Xu Qi for £12m. Having scored 52 goals in 54 games for the club, it was time for the 24 year old to step up to a top league, and with a CA of 163 and a PA of 176 he has every chance of becoming a star.
Finally a cheap signing arrived, in the form of Kim Dong-Jin, a 33 year old left back who arrived from Bolton, who cost £950k. His CA of 140 makes him a good squad player at worst. But soon the Bandits were back to spending big money, and having already given Reading £24m for Palma, they contributed another £17.75m to their account for Michael Mancienne. Now 27, the centre back has a CA of 158.
Most positions were now sorted, but no left winger had arrived, so Brek Shea was purchased for £13.75m from Bolton. The 25 year old American has a CA of 157 and a PA of 168, and is another in an incredible set of signings. But he wasn't the last – Christian Ribeiro, a 25 year old left or centre back with a CA of 145 was signed for £10m from Middlesbrough, and left wing back Thomas Fontaine cost another £11.75m from West Ham. The 24 year old can only add one to his CA of 151.
One signing left, and it was one of the most exciting. Michael Williamson is an attacking midfielder or striker with a CA of 142, but at just 20 years of age he has plenty of time to improve. And with a PA of a massive 184 he could become a legitimate world star. Costing £8.75m from Watford, he could be a bargain.
And with that, the chequebook was closed. An astonishing £127m has been spent, and the Bandits had been transformed from relegation favourites to a dangerous force. They have no absolute stars – Palma's CA of 167 puts him 76th in the league, but the league still had to be wary.
The Sheriffs had spent an extra year in the Championship before gaining promotion, but didn't really have the squad to show for it. Any player with 140 CA would instantly become the club's best, so investment was required.
Like the Bandits, they resisted a massive clearout, and instant focused on recruits. The first was Steve Standing, a 20 year old central midfielder costing £1.9m from West Brom. Definitely a long term signing, his 125 CA could rise to 175, but he isn't one for today.
That is certainly not the case with the second signing, Falcao, who cost a stonking £23m from River (yes, the same Falcao that scored THAT goal for Porto against Arsenal recently – anyone who mentions it gets a slap). Prolific in Argentina, the 29 year old striker is at his peak, with a whopping 165 CA. Nice.
Next to arrive was Mark Bunn, a 30 year old goalkeeper with 133 CA. Costing £1.8m from Middlesbrough, he is quite expensive for his ability, but he is better than what they have.
Middlesbrough also sold the Sheriffs their next player – Kevin Thomson, but his signing was much more notable. With a CA of 160, the 30 year old central midfielder is quite the player, and even at £9.5m worth the outlay.
Only one more signing was made, Iliass Bel Hassani, a 22 year old attacking midfielder picked up for £4m from Le Mans. His CA of 146 could rise to 155.
And that was it. Three of their signings became their three best players, but you worry a little about their strength in depth – beyond the few stars there is not too much to get excited about. That said, the manager is talented, so you never know.
Man ¢ity level spending here....
Bandits go crazy! Be interesting to see if all the new recruits can gel quick enough - certainly no question of relegation for them now.
Sheriffs are gonna struggle I think bottom 6, Bandits could get Europe
It'll be interesting to see what that's done to the clubs financially. At last report, the Bandits had a balance of £124m, yet they've spent £127m. Obviously there's prize money and season ticket earnings and the like to be added in, but they must have felt it. I hope that they haven't used all their buying power in one go. They're going to need similar investment again next year (and the next) in order to compete.
The Sheriffs are simply not good enough. All they can hope is that they come out on top in the games against the other relegation candidates. If they survive, the boost in rep should make it easier for them next term.
Prediction: Bandits finish 9th after hovering around Euro places for a while. Sheriffs finish 16th, dipping into the drop zone all year long, but saving themselves with a week or two to go, thanks to a couple of decent quality January signings.
The Bandits have released the beast within Definitely a top half finish is on the books now \o/ Sheriffs will be struggling till January and need to make some nice moves there or they'll be quickly back to where they belong!
Excellent window for the Bandits. Worried about the Sheriffs though. In answer to Betterspud, i reckon financially the Bandits will always be on a sound footing. Season tickets, TV revenue and a massive support should see them ok. Im just glad they are spending it properly in this experiment. I was always a touch disappointed in the original that they didnt exploit their spending power early on. It seems the AI has definately improved in this aspect.
Wowsers! 127 million!
Well as it is prediction time, I am going to go for, Sherrifs in a relegation battle by Christmas (lets hope the scum bags go down).
Bandits, have an appalling start to the season as the new team gel, lurching from victory to loss with no run of form, but by October they turn it around and scrabble up to 6th for Christmas.
Wow, The Bandits are really going for it. It's really nice to see them actually using their financial muscle in this experiment. On the back of those signings they'll be at least mid table, and we've still got January to go yet. Williamson is a really exciting prospect, I hope they can hang onto him.
The Sheriffs may struggle a little this season, they could have really done with a few more new players.
Crazy spending.
I am worried about the Sheriffs though. That Keeper Mark Bunn though is terrific. Signed him in my game (a desperate signing at the time) but he performed tremendously well. He's under-rated. Watch him.
Necessary spending. I think the Bandits will limp to mid-table, still not enough quality to reach Europe, unless they sneak a cup win.
Sheriffs are going down unless they strengthen heavily in January.
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What the hell was Aaron Lennon doing at Hearts? No matter, great to see him coming in to the Bandits, and good to see them flashing the cash as a team in their financial position reaching the Prem for the first time really would.
And good to see Falcao coming in to the Sheriffs, what's the betting he scores against Arsenal? Oh wait, he's already done that! *dodges Kip's slap*
Liking the look of the Bandits transfers, hoping they finish well (mid table I'd assume, with a decent cup run) and bring in some real stars next season.
The Sheriffs look set to go straight back down without some serious strengthening in January.....
Great to see you back again Kip. I think your style has, if anything, improved even further lately. Sympathy about Falcao - nice to know you're a fellow gooner. How have Arsenal been doing?
Spending was predictable and if anything I'd say it was a little lower than I expected. Bandits to get Europa League football, Sherriffs should survive but will be outsiders in the relegation battle, I'd say. They will probably splash the cash in January. Bandits might not need to....
Damn, he's back. Just when I'm about to go to sleep...
I'll look forward to reading it tomorrow.
Bandits gone on a spending spree.
Sherrifs look like they'll struggle this season. Only got Falcao who's of any note. Look like a one man team. Need to spend in January and get off to a good start. Hopefully Falcao can settle in England too.
I knew there was a reason that I preferred the Bandits over the Sheriffs
Can't wait for the updates!
lordy, no messing from the Bandits there. They've gotta be aiming for Europe straight away with that investment. Wouldn't think that they'll ever be short of money in the coming years either, what with the giant stadium alone. The Sheriffs, I'd put them down for a decent lower-middle finish - having someone with "that little bit of quality up front" being the factor between that and a relegation struggle.
Good job to SI for much improving the AI this time around.
KUTGW as always, Kip!
Go Sheriffs!
They did spend a lot of money, but the players they bought aren't really top-class. With the manager they have, they have a decent chance of getting to Europe, but those are players needed just to stay afloat in the Premiership. After all, the rest of the team are still much weaker.
As for the Sheriffs, they'd better make up for the lack of upgrades in the January window, or they could be headed straight back down...
Ohhh, that's right, I forgot, this is on FM09. Goes to show how long has this thread been going on and how fanatics we all are
Wow, you weren't kidding about the big spending. I'd me amazed if the sheriffs were anywhere near the bandits, though they have got a couple of good ones so I'm not going to predict their demise. Bring it on.
Bandits to be in the top half most of the season but drop in form in the last few months and finish about 12th/13th.
Sheriffs to struggle all season and maybe produce a couple of shock results, but ultimately they will be relegated in 19th position just a few points from safety.
I also predict an FA cup final defeat for the Bandits.
Go on the Bandits
Starting to get the shakes...
Need a bandits fix!
Please... ;0)
FML's Down Come on KIP fill the void for us
Kip is a tease
Checking this thread every day. I'm always happy like a little kid when I see kips name. Kip your status turned to Continental!
proberly gonna be a big update coming, can't wait
This is gonna be an awesome update! I can't wait.
Wow! Big spending there by the Bandits! I'm sure we'll get to European competition and the Sherriffs will surely go down!
In all seriousness though, I am looking forward to this update hugely and I am loving the competition between the two sides!
Gutted...... Everytime I see this thread near the top of the page I get all excited that we've got an update.
OH well the wait is always worth it.
why does he punish us so.
I have a theory. I think Kip is an alien life-form who is spying on us and trying to make us so desperate that when his race finally lands on earth, all he'll have to do is announce a Bandits Update, and we'll all bow down before them and he'll control the earth.
Ah well - at least it's something more interesting to think about!!
I can understand leaving long gaps between updates, that make sense. But to start an update and then waiting over three weeks to post the rest of it?
I'm starting to believe that Kip is experimenting on us after all.....
I can handle kip being some kind of alien life form that will take over earth. As long as such takeover brings an update
If that's all it takes for an update, I welcome our new alien overlords.
I think we're all agree'd enslavement is a small price to pay for an update.
Enslavement? I'd stand in front of a firing squad...as long as I got to read the update first.
Bread and updates.
Hmmmm a better way to see if Kipfizh has posted is click on the number of replies on the 2nd to right column.
Kip currently has 315 replies in this thread so if it goes up then maybe an update??
Maybe better than all of us seeing someone has posted thinking maybe someone has replied to a Kip update and then seeing it's a "wonder when we'll get an update" post and be all disapointed?
Just like I have done as well.
Took me a few days to do it but it was well worth it. The player reports are my favourite part of the Experiment. Maybe Striker three will break the 1000 proffesional goals barrier!
Let's just hope that the experiment lasts long enough to fond out. (And that we all live long enough to see another ten seasons of updates, which may be an achievement in itself.) That was a joke by the way, before anyone accuses me of having a dig at Kip's update frequency.
Folks, an update will be coming soon, I'm probably going to have to cut out a couple of less interesting (or more time consuming) sections as work has got INSANELY busy - I've barely been in the country for the last few weeks.
great news....don't worry, we'll be here waiting
Nice to hear from you Kip. Cut what you need to. I doubt you'll get any complaints. Looking forward to the report.
Prediction: Bandits to make European football - via the Europa League.
Sheriffs to struggle all season and to just barely drop - in 18th, missing out on GD.
Dont worry Kip. We'll wait I don't know what other people will think but i enjoy it when a whole big new update is out. If you didn't cut it. You could just post it up in bits. Either way. I eagerly await the next bit.
Could there be some bits you can do every two years or so?
Pretty sure he's in IT? Software developer IIRC
Yeah, pretty sure he's in IT-related field.
I remember in the last experiment, he mentioned something about how he was curious to see how the game's AI would react under extreme measures, because his daily job involved designing/analyzing artificial intelligence.
So, IT/robotics/DSP and such would be my guess.
A little click on his profile and it gives "Software Developer"
More teasing
4 people currently viewing this thread despite no update in weeks!!
I'm pretty sure some people have this thread as their homepage.
Good idea there Mravac
This thread is at the top of my favorites, which is the next best thing to my homepage.
Yeah this is on my bookmarks to. I'm so starved of an update
bumpity bump
This doesn't really need a bump from anyone other than Kip... You get my hopes when I see a new post.
I must apologise ffor getting the hopes up of everyone who looks at this and thinks there has been an update, I found this yesterday and haven't stopped reading since. Gutted to have caught up actually, wass enjoying waiting about half an hour between updates.
A few things i've noticed:
It has been mentioned once before but I find it interesting that players don't seem to reach their full PA, being one point off. I can't see why this would be programmed in tbh.
Are there too many world cup shocks? Maybe I am underestimating real life but surely there seems to be too many quality nations not going far enough.
As I have read all updates pretty close together (only broken up by at times tedious begging, although who can blame you, I shall now join as a begger for more updates, and at times wonderful poetry ) I have noticed that extra time fails to produce a result too many times for my liking. We seem to have an exttraodinary amount of shootouts compared to my experiance of real life.
The AI seems utterly incapable of closing out a result! I've lost count of the amount of times teams have been 3-0 up and nearly loose the lead with it ending 3-2!? It happens at least a couple of times an update by my reckoning. Maybe this is a reason for the extra time rarely yielding results?
Maybe all these points are wrong, just my personal observations.
This has enspired me into planning my own AI experiment but for now I shall settle back as a lurker lapping up each and every word of your updates.
P.S. Please don't leave for months on end Kip, don't know how I would have managed it if I had been in real time rather than seeing months fly by as I scrolled down!
Oh don't worry, you'll get used to it.
And no apology needed, as your post actually has something relevant to say... I haven't noticed that issue, but maybe someone else has. I wonder if any of the other AI experiments have it?
I realise Kip is busy, and I know this experiment isnt dead, but I cant help but wonder if we'll even get to see the starlets retire in this incarnation...
What a rea, just read the entire thread, at work for the past week. Where has kip disappeared to? Do you reckon hes on the run from Interpol lol
I actually got quite excited for an update there!
What happened in the FM07 experiment that he did, did any of the stars become managers etc
http://community.sigames.com/showthr...=28789&page=44 is where the old one was
68 seasons bloody hell, thats like a full time job
Not much chance of this one getting that far
I never thought I'd say it, but if Kip can't commit to it then I'd rather he called it a day, or provided the save to someone else who does have the time to continue.
I completely and utterly disagree.
If he can't commit to it, then I'd rather he post whatever he can, when he can, in his own time.
Of course, I have nothing against someone else giving a shot at a similar experiment... though, I doubt many have the determination it takes to do it properly.
Regardless of wether Kip continues like this or someone else takes over this thread will die. Well in my eyes its already dead. Kip obviously hasnt got the time for the experiment anymore (not a criticism) and if someone else takes over i very much doubt it will be the same as the glory days of the last experiment!
I hadn't checked this thread for a while and have to admit I'm pretty disappointed not to find an update, oh well, it was fun whilst it lasted.
We should message kips blog and ask him for the DB or to please post again, begging if need be.
Am I reading that right? It has actually been 3 months since Kip posted the season tranfers? I enjoyed the experiment, and im sure kip will be back just to say its over, but its nevertheless a real shame...
I NEED MY BANDIT FIX!! I'm having withdrawal symptoms, i need it! it is my drug.... i am definetly addicted. Please come back soon....
I can sense an update coming soon!
I would really hope so
My Spidey Sense's are tingling.
It might be over but we all still come here and check regularly, in the slight chance that it might not be.
Got to give him props for keeping it going as long as he did though. Well done for a great story and experiement. It kept me well entertained for years.
Sorry for upping everyone, but I have only just come across this experiment and have to say that it is awesome. Big kudos to Kip for the effort he has put in, as i have thoroughly enjoyed the last 4 hours of reading.
Go me wanting to play FM again after 2 years of not buying it.
Spent almost the whole of yesterday reading through this thread. It's brilliant! But a real shame kip hasn't had the time to update it for 5 months. I suppose life caught up with him in the end.
I honestly think i will check this page everytime until Kip himself says that it is finally over!
Same here unfortunatly
Me to, but I guess the upside is that it keeps me finding other good little stories that I wouldnt normally find when I try and fill in the time between bandits updates
This whole thread is a sad sight It was fantastic while it lasted but maybe someone else like Kip will join the forums and do an experiment similar to this soon.
I could do an experiment like Kip easily. But i don't want to be compared to kip because nothing could beat Kips reports and writing.


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I have just written a pseudo-code (actually in Python) of a binary search algorithm.
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left = 0
right = len(lst) - 1
while left <= right:
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if number == lst[middle]:
return True
if number < lst[middle]:
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left = middle + 1
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It seems intuitively correct, but I'd like to use some stronger tool to be absolutely sure that my algorithm is correct.
I've read on Wikipedia, that I have to prove two things: Convergence (the algorithm will stop) and partial correctness (the algorithm will end with the right result). This is the proof of total correctness.
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I was looking back over Genesis 9, just after the flood, when God allowed man to eat animals for food. The text is fairly interesting here:
4 "But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. 5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being. 6 "Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind.
Much has been made of Genesis 9:6 in regards to capital punishment, but I had never really noticed 9:5 before. What does God mean that he will demand an accounting from every animal?
Practically speaking, humans have a tendency to put down any animal that attacks a human - is this practice the intent of this verse? Or is there more to it?


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I have trouble sleeping at night and usually get 5-6 hours max. I lift 3x's a week and do cardio 2-3 times a week (including heavy bag work). Does afternoon napping help with recovery? How does it affect fat burning? I read somewhere that enough sleep is a factor in weight loss.
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There is indeed some research that links sleep deprivation to a greater incidence of obesity, so it does not seem illogical to conclude that sleep plays some role in properly burning fat.
There is also some other research linking sleep deprivation to hindered sports performance. There are better resources than the one I just linked on Google, but they appear to be screwing up and not loading at this time. I will update this answer when I see it working. For now, please accept the search term 'sleep deprivation athletic recovery' as a springboard for your own resource search.
From a purely logical standpoint, all of this makes a lot of sense. Sleep deprivation, in many ways, mimics alcohol consumption. Alcohol's effects on athletic performance and recovery is well known, due to the disruptions it causes in both your digestion and your nervous systems. Hormonally, a lack of sleep also taxes your adrenaline glands, which now must pump adrenaline just to keep you at base line alertness. Properly rested, you would instead be using this adrenaline to meet your athletic demands.
Finally, anecdotally, napping has been part of the training regimen for some sports for centuries. Sumo comes immediately to mind where junior wrestlers are woken up at 5AM, work hard for about 4-5 hours, then have a huge lunch and go back to sleep. While I'm not sure one would want to take weight loss advice from a sumo wrestler, I don't think anyone could argue that their musculature and fitness level is also very impressive.
From what I know, a nap will not have any significant effect on your fat loss or recovery. However, it would be great if someone can link to a decent study in this regard.
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I have a homework problem that I can't get started on, below is the first bit. I feel like I should just be able to integrate to find $C$ but I get a divergent integral. Can someone give me a hint as to where to go here?
A particle of mass m is in a one-dimensional infinite square well, with $U = 0$ for $0 < x < a$ and $U = ∞$ otherwise. Its energy eigenstates have energies $E_n = (\hbar πn)^ 2/2ma^2$ for positive integer $n.$ Consider a normalized wavefunction of the particle at time $t = 0$ $$ψ(x,0) = Cx(a − x).$$ Determine the real constant $C$.


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2.1 and BlackBerry support
I've just tried the demos coming with 2.1 rc2 on a PlayBook and on a BB10 device.
Most demos don't load (from a URL). They work fine when loaded on a Nexus 7.
Is this just a problem with the demos or has support for RIM's tablet been dropped?
ST makes the browser crash (not your fault).
After looking at the themes/css folders, I can't see the promised BB10 theme.
Will it be released with 2.1 or has this been postponed?Olivier - interfaSys
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21 Oct 2012 5:37 AM #2
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Well, Sencha publicly stated that the theme would be released by the end of October, so I was assuming it would be released along with 2.1, but there has been no news since.Olivier - interfaSys
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23 Oct 2012 7:55 AM #4
Looking for more info as well
We were really hoping that there would be something to play with at the end of the month that would work on BB10 and PlayBook. Is there an ETA on the release of 2.1 GA?
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I assume you are using the Beta 3 build for the BlackBerry Dev Alpha device. The issue about the Sencha Touch 2.0 crashing the Dev Alpha browser is fixed now and you will be able to get the fix in the next public refresh of build, which is currently scheduled for mid November. The issue was tracked in the BlackBerry developer issue tracker, https://www.blackberry.com/jira/browse/BBTEN-300.
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Still crashes
BB10 theme from Sencha released as beta in November has some errors looking for an image called tip2_left.png
So it is 12/14/12 and trying to get ready for end of Jan Blackberry launch. Newest Alpha phone takes the bar packaged file - when you go to open the file on the phone it still crashes. Can not give any more info. If the Sencha developer for RIM is in the San Francisco office I can come over to the office and show exactly what is happening if this helps.
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We have the latest Webworks SDK online now and also an updated OS build as well. You can the find the latest Webworks SDK at https://developer.blackberry.com/htm.../#blackberry10 and you can get the lastest OS build for your dev alpha from, https://developer.blackberry.com/bla...alphas/update/.
Please re-package it using the latest SDK and test it on the latest OS build.
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27 Jan 2013 9:07 AM #8
The theme needs an update. The scss file is either looking for graphics in a non-existent folder or for pictures which don't exist in a default install of ST2...
It's a shame that RIM and Sencha failed to deliver a working theme for the launch of BB10.
Here is how to fix it for people who just want to quickly compile this theme.
1) Make sure you also copy the bb10 folder from the zip into
<project root>/resources/themes/images
2) Now edit your config.rb file in /resources/sass
and replace
$theme-name: 'bb10';
$theme-name: '../../../../resources/themes/images/bb10';
3) Now you should be able to go back to your root folder ad type:
# compass compile resources/sassOlivier - interfaSys
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27 Jan 2013 7:59 PM #9
Hi There,
Thanks for the tips. Sencha is working on their new release 2.1.1, which has the BB 10 Theme support. It is being tested at the moment and will be released soon. There will be blogs on the RIM side as well as on the Sencha side as well.
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28 Jan 2013 1:55 AM #10
OK, thanks for the heads up.
Here are things I think need to be improved
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- The theming "engine" needs to be updated so as to support both local and global themes folders so that we can merge our app's theme with a global theme like bb10
- There needs to be better documentation regarding where to put files and how to use components like Ext.bb.CrossCut
- Would be great if the pictos could be the official ones from RIM. The pack we can download from RIM doesn't contain everything we need
- The top blue toolbar is missing
- Would be nice if more colour variables were defined, so that we can re-use them in our css definitions
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