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AUSTIN – Texas exceeded the national average in the percentage of students who took at least one Advanced Placement exam during high school.
Information released today by the College Board, which administers the AP program, found that 27.5 percent of Texas public school students in he Class of 2008 took at least one AP exam while in high school, compared to 25 percent for the nation.
Universities often award course credit to students who earn a score of 3, 4 or 5 on an AP test so a strong performance on these exams can save Texas students thousands of dollars in college tuition costs.
Of those who took an AP exam, 14.5 percent of Texas students earned a score of 3 or higher, compared to 15.2 percent for students nationally. Texans were more likely to earn a score of 3 or higher on AP exams in the areas of art, English and foreign languages than their peers nationally. They were less likely than their peers across the country to earn a high score on math, science, and social studies exams.
AP participation has steadily risen in this state. Among the Class of 2008, 73,008 students took at least one AP test and many take several exams. That compares to 65,958 students in the Class of 2007 and 8,628 in the Class of 2003.
The most frequently taken AP exams in Texas were English Language, U.S. History, English Literature, U.S. Government and Politics and alculus AB. The top test, English Language, was taken by 38,440 Texans and 45 percent or 17,153 earned a score of 3 or higher.
In the 5th Annual AP Report to the Nation, the College Board cited a Texas school for its exemplary program. The report said the AP alculus AB course at the Michael E. DeBakey High School for the Health Professions in the Houston Independent School District had one of the largest numbers of African-American students who scored a three or higher in the country.
The State of Texas encourages students to participate in AP courses and to take AP exams through a multi-part incentive program. The state pays $30 of the $86 exam fee. Additional fee reductions are often available to low-income students. To ensure rigorous instruction in AP courses, the state reimburses up to $450 for each teacher who completes a 30-hour AP training institute. The Texas Education Agency also funds campus awards, with schools being awarded up to $100 for each student who earns a score of 3 or higher.


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September 27, 2010
Cape Town Tourism adopts a penguin for World Tourism Day
Skye Grove
Skye is a spontaneous traveller, a citizen of the world and is passionate about unlocking the stories of inspiring destinations like Cape Town. She believes in the power of content, loves street photography, anthropology, urban neighbourhoods and counts London's Shoreditch and Cape Town's city bowl as the two favourite places she has lived and worked in.
Jinga, Cape Town Tourism's adopted African penguin. Photos by Skye Grove
Today, September 27, is World Tourism Day and the theme of this year's celebration is "Tourism and Biodiversity". African penguins are a familiar sight to Capetonians and visitors to our city alike, but it is alarming to know that the plight of these beloved seabirds is more critical than most of us realise.
This is why Cape Town Tourism partnered with SANCCOB, the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds, today of all days, to highlight the critical interventions needed to protect the African penguin for generations to come. How? We adopted a penguin. But this little fellow still needs a name, and Cape Town Tourism is offering to adopt another penguin on behalf of the person who comes up with the most original one. You can post your suggestions on our Facebook fan page.
A mere 50 years ago, there were more than 1-million African penguins along our coast, but human activity, like commercial fishing, has reduced this number by a staggering 90%. Today, there are just over 25 000 breeding pairs of wild African penguins living in colonies across South Africa and Namibia. The African penguin, together with over a dozen other sea bird species found in South Africa, is considered to be threatened and vulnerable to extinction. National Geographic recently reported that African penguins have been sliding toward extinction since the advent of industrial fishing around the Cape. The last four years have seen a population crash, prompting BirdLife International to change the conservation status of the African penguin from "vulnerable" to "endangered" in May 2010.
SANCCOB, an organisation that aims to protect and conserve Southern Africa's coastal birds for the benefit of present and future generations, is seeking to address this challenge, and making a remarkable difference. Recent research by the Avian Demography Unit at the University of Cape Town has shown that the African penguin population is 19% larger today than it would have been in the absence of SANCCOB's efforts in rehabilitation. Cape Town Tourism supports SANCCOB in their efforts to rescue, rehabilitate, release and research this precious species, as well as in their initiatives to educate, train, raise awareness and drive advocacy efforts.
The story of the African penguin is just one example of how delicately balanced our biodiversity is. On the one hand we have increased human populations, better technology and greater demand for growth; on the other we have a fragile eco-system, its survival dependent on the strength of every small link in the biodiversity chain. In tourism, our natural bounty is one of our selling points, and one of the key reasons that people are so moved by their visit to the Mother City.
Today, as we consider the role of "tourism in sustaining biodiversity", we pledge that Cape Town Tourism will accelerate its work around the use of tourism as a platform to raise awareness about biodiversity. It is essential to create not just awareness, but also a desire among Capetonians and visitors to protect, conserve and celebrate our environment, so that it is there for future generations.
If you'd like to contribute to SANCCOB's work, why not take our lead and adopt a penguin of your own? More details can be found on SANCCOB's website: http://sanccob.co.za/?m=11&s=2.
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I am trying to prove a small proposition that got me completely stumped, and I cannot find a single counterexample.
(ZF) Suppose that $E$ is such that for every $A\subseteq\mathcal P(E)$ either $|E|\leq|A|$ or $|A|\leq|E|$, then $E$ can be well-ordered.
It is not a biconditional statement since we have models of ZF (e.g. Solovay's model) where $\omega$ serves as a counterexample to this, but I still make true or false of the above statement.
Is this result known, or known to be false?
If the above is indeed false, how about a stronger requirement:
(ZF) Suppose $E$ is such that the cardinalities below $|\mathcal P(E)|$ are linearly ordered, then $E$ can be well-ordered.


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I have been trying to relearn parts of algebra (mostly module theory and (advanced)linear algebra) from Lang, which, frankly, is not going too well.
Now, I have managed to get my hands on 'Aluffi - Algebra: Chapter 0'. And it (specifically the section called linear algebra reprise) seems pretty good. But, before I jump in and start studying from it, I want to make sure that I won't be repeating my experience with Lang. One indicator could be that it is a popular textbook. But, on searching, I found that it is not much used elsewhere.
My question:
Has anyone taken a formal/reading course using this book or studied it at length (not just leafed through it) and can thus recommend it and if it's possible (and not asking too much of their time) could they write briefly the course plan they followed?
Added This is in response to KCd's comments
What I am trying to do before next semester, is to take stock and make notes on some topics in Algebra generally taught in the first year of grad school (I am not in grad school. Will apply for Fall 2013). The notes will be (or on topics from) basic module theory, tensors, some exterior algebra, basic commutative algebra (an example of a topic would be Localization) (Some of these things I have learnt in courses such as Differential Geometry, etc.)
For instance, in the note which will end with a proof of the structure theorem over PIDs (hopefully one that I am truly comfortable with), I began with defining free modules via universal property, instead of how I had learned it from Artin's book.
Earlier, I thought I'll do this while relearning from Lang. But that's not serving me too well, for reasons I am not entirely clear about. Then I came upon Aluffi's book.
[@KCd: Let me also add that when I was trying to write up a note on basic Galois Theory, I came across your expository notes. They are spectacular.]


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Adrenergic Agonists for Glaucoma
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These medicines are given in eyedrop form. The bottle has a purple cap. If you need to use more than one type of eyedrop, you may need to take each medicine in a certain order. You can use the color of the bottle cap to help you keep track of each type of eyedrop.
If you are using more than one type of eyedrop, wait 5 minutes between the different eyedrop medicines.
How It Works
Most adrenergic agonists reduce the pressure in the eyes by reducing how much fluid (aqueous humor) the eyes produce. They also increase the amount of fluid that drains out of the eyes.
Why It Is Used
Adrenergic agonists help lower eye pressure in people who have glaucoma. They are also used to prevent high pressure in an eye after laser treatment for glaucoma.
These medicines may be used along with other medicines to treat glaucoma.
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These medicines work well to reduce the pressure in the eyes.1 Reducing the pressure in the eyes reduces the chances of damage to the optic nerve, preventing further vision loss.
Side Effects
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
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- Side effects may go away after you take the medicine for a while.
- If side effects still bother you and you wonder if you should keep taking the medicine, call your doctor. He or she may be able to lower your dose or change your medicine. Do not suddenly quit taking your medicine unless your doctor tells you to.
Call911or other emergency services right away if you have:
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See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
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Adrenergic agonists may widen (dilate) the pupil. This may trigger closed-angle glaucoma in people who have narrow drainage angles.
People who take a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) medicine for depression cannot use brimonidine. People who take tricyclic antidepressants and people who have severe heart, liver, or kidney disease may not be able to use adrenergic agonist medicine.
If you wear contact lenses, you may need to take your contacts out before you put this medicine in your eye. You can reinsert the contacts 15 minutes after using the eyedrops.
Your doctor may suggest Combigan for you. This medicine has an adrenergic agonist (brimonidine) and another type of glaucoma medicine (timolol) mixed into one bottle.
Taking medicine
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Advice for women
If you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant, do not use any medicines unless your doctor tells you to. Some medicines can harm your baby. This includes prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, herbs, and supplements. And make sure that all your doctors know that you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
ByHealthwise Staff
Primary Medical ReviewerAdam Husney, MD - Family Medicine
Specialist Medical ReviewerChristopher J. Rudnisky, MD, MPH, FRCSC - Ophthalmology
Current as ofSeptember 9, 2014
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I use Ubuntu 11.04 fully updated, classic Gnome DE, Synaptic for installations and uninstallations.
I have uninstalled Banshee, Empathy and Evolution which are I am not going use ever. Did mark for complete removal and also selected some other items like empathy-common, evolution-common, etc..
Everything was fine until I rebooted it. Both top and bottom panels are not showing. I am also using AWN (Avant Window Navigator), so for now I am using it's panels.
I think I have uninstalled something which need to load those top and bottom panels.
Please help me to bring them back. :)


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Skullcandy Lowrider On-Ear Headphones (Multiple Colors) for $15.99 + free shipping
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I picked up some Skullcrushers at Skullcandy's Ebay site the other week and had the item within a week. Great prices, fast shipping. A solid buy.
I'll give it a chance. I need a new pair of headphones and Skullcandy hasn't ever given me any problems.
A friend of mine bought these headphones and they were pretty disappointing in sound quality. They also stopped working after a couple weeks. I lent him my pair of Sennheiser HD 201s and he wished he had talked to me before buying the Skullcandies. They're on sale for just over $20 on Amazon right now. Totally worth the extra couple bucks in my opinion.
I have bought from Skullcandy 3 times (once because I recieved a credit.)
Twice from Ebay (Skullcandy account) and once from the Skullcandy website.
I honestly dont remember the names of the products, but it was in the past couple years.
The first ones I bought were $20 Cleveland Cavalier mesh headphones. They came new in package, and didnt even play sound. Seriously? I RMA'ed them.
The second pair I bought were les comfortable, but had good sound quality. Within 2 months, the left side had shorted out. I threw them somewhere and decided to try one more time with a different [air for $20.
The third pair had worse sound quality, and were less comfortable, and only lasted 4 months before the left side of the ear went out again.
I finally crumbled and bought $10 headphones at Big Lots, which dont have the best sound quality, but are still going strong.
TL;DR: Skullcandy has alright quality in music, but the quality of the physical headphone is lackluster. Avoid if I were you.
In the ~$20 range you can do much better than Skullcandy. Here are some suggestions.
Sennheiser HD201
Sony MDR-ZX300 (The MDR-ZX100 can be had for ~$10 and are still pretty good)
Koss R-10
I got a pair of these, but the gaming ones at a Ross for 20 bucks. They still work. They don't sound great in comparison to a lot of better stuff. I wouldn't game with them. A Turtle Beach headset is gonna get a lot more quality for your money. I also enjoy the Munitio earbuds that I purchased for 20 dollars that were able to be used as my hands free
headset. The were the modern warfare 3 edition. Best sounding earbuds I've had for under 30 bucks.
Skullcandy is nothing more than a marketing company that finds cheap crap to toss their name on- they aren't a 'real' company with a concern for sound quality like Koss, Sennheiser, AKG etc. Brilliant marketing, junk products.


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Desperate people apparently file desperate complaints.Hide replies
desperate times call for desperate measures.
Waaaaaaaaahhhhh! Anybody have a box of tissues they can send over to Media Action Center?
So have they also filed a complaint against MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX, etc? Give me a break!Hide replies
Cable TV stations are not covered by the fairness doctrine.
ABC, CBS, NBC and Public Broadcasting always offer both sides of the story and NEVER promote candidates on the airwaves or demonize one side or the other. If so they would loose their license which is what will happen if Clear Channel and Journal Communications and others left or right ignore the rules of broadcasting.
CNN FOX MSNBC are cable subscriptions and don't apply here.
I will be patiently waiting for a similar action regarding 1290 AM
according to this filing these stations don't have the right to say what they want? they must say things that they do not believe in and have people on that they do not want to? sounds to me like they are trying to take away the free speech rights of these stations.Hide replies
The public owns the airwaves. That's the point.
actually that if a false notion. they people that pay for the air waves own them. just try to start transmitting on 1130AM and see if you get sued by clear channel.
How is this even remotely close to "trying to take away the free speech rights of these stations"??? They're not trying to change a SINGLE WORD of what's been said or is going to be said in the future, they're just saying that equal time needs to be given to opposing views too so EVERYBODY can exercise their free speech rights.
by forcing a station to go against what they believe. if a station does not want to support one side the should not be "FORCED" to they should have the freedom to say and give air time to whom ever they want.
Correct. It's not a free speech issue. Everything is a free speech issue to simple minded right wingers. Black and white. Ask Bill O'Reilly who famously said he has to speak in simple black and white terms for his audience to understand and be appropriately outraged.
it is a free speech issue. does the station have the freedom to say what they want and put on people they want to? yes or no?
The stations don't have to AGREE with opposing points of view, they just need to offer some equal time before an election. I'd bet these radio shows would have an even bigger audience (and might even have more to offer) if there was healthy debate between two hosts with opposing views as opposed to the host and callers ranting about the same things over and over and over...
Another example of why AM 620 should be called "opinion radio" and not "news radio"
Your comment reminds me of the line "no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." H.L. Mencken
"Ask Bill O'Reilly who famously said he has to speak in simple black and white terms for his audience to understand"
Once again, a lefty takes an O'Reilley quote and lies about it. With Bill's self-deprecating style, he often says, "You know I'm a simple man, so let's break down the facts so even I can understand them".
Bill has said many times in the past that his audience is very aware of what's going on. Gilligan... try dealing with the truth for a change instead of your twisted versions.
@Drgilligan, wrong! It is a first amendment issue, it is both about freedom of speech and freedom of the press, that's why the fairness doctrine was thrown out!
Biffet, you are spreading false notions. The airwaves are owned by the public. Broadcasters merely buy a license to use the public airwaves. One of the conditions they agree to when buying that license is to grant opposing views access to the airwaves.
You can compare that to the software on computers. Most of the time you buy a license to use it. You do not buy the software itself. Try giving a copy to someone else (and tell the regulators) and see what happens. Or music. The artists (or their agents) own it, you just buy a license to use it.
Biffet, yes, the station has the freedom to say what they want an put on the people the want. According to the terms of the the license they bought that lets the borrow the public airwaves, they agreed to give opposing viewpoints roughly equal access to those airwaves.
Isn't that what MPR is for?? Look who funds that and how incredibly liberal it is!
over 50 million people a day tune in to talk radio. It is not in the "public interest" to promote one political point of view, left or right, during an election. That is what this action is all about. By willfully promoting Walker and by demonizing Barrett they proved the case against them. This is not news. Period, Talk radio is a partisan political format unlike NPR which always has opposing alternative pundits discussing every issue along with all the boring stuff they broadcast like studies on trees and bugs etc.
These Democrats are a shameful breed!Hide replies
eat a dick, honky
There's no denying that the entire country has become less informed, more "outraged", and more polarized on the right since the fairness doctrine was repealed and right wing talk radio took over our public airwaves.Hide replies
maybe we should ban free speech then?
It's not a free speech issue. Geez educate yourself. Maybe try reading this article for starters.
should a someone be forced to spend their money on something they do not believe in? should someone be forced to give up their time to someone they do not agree with when it is their show?
Biffet, no one is FORCING them to spend their money on something they don't believe in. When they ELECTED spend their money to buy a license to use public airwaves, they agreed to those rules.
No ban on free speech, but definitely a ban on ignorance and opinion masquerading as fact.
Right Wing Radio took over the airwaves? What are you smoking. Remember "Air America"? P.S. They are not public airwaves. Like everything else they are regulated by the government. They are private businesses, don't like what they put on buy your own station and put on whatever you like!
So true. Try buying a radio station. Can't do it. The big signals are bought and paid for by big Republican money to promote: Republican agendas
like "corporations are persons" money is speech, facts are only opinions,
history is not true. science is a liberal conspiracy. The dumbing down of this country began when Reagan ( no genius) revoked the fairness doctrine And radio requires a license to operate on the public airwaves not cable that is a subscription. To keep the license a broadcaster must serve the "public interest" Calling Sykes or Limbaugh or Beck news is
a joke played on all of us. It is turning Republicans into misinformed angry people who actually believe the crap they hear from these guys.
Blow holes like McKenna and Sykes are whats wrong with our democracy.Hide replies
rachel maddow and ed schultz.... enough said.
Almost enough said- don't forget Sly in Madison.
Morons like you Brian having a vote is what's wrong with democracy....
Right back at you slick. And maddow and shcultz are blow holes too.
Anyone on either side who listens to talk radio is a dumb rube who can't formulate opinions of their own and needs others that they can regurgitate their talking points from.
Rachel, Ed, Bill, etc, have shows on cable TV, which does not use public airwaves and follows different regulation.
That's what liberals do, they try to shout down voices that don't agree with them. Hence the fitting term "thug"........
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In Kairobotica, you can research various items, and you get either a special Kairobot, another item, something you can sell in your gift shops, or useless junk.
I find that the special Kairobots are super useful, and I love knowing what they are and what they do.
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From what you've described before, I suspect all you'll need to do is add some code in orte/mca/odls/base/odls_base_default_fns.c that (a) checks to see if a process in the launch message is being relocated (the construct_child_list code does that already), and then (b) sends the required info to all local child processes so they can take appropriate action.Failure detection, re-launch, etc. have all been taken care of for you.I looked at the code that you mentioned me and i realize that i have two possible options, that i'm going to share with you to know your opinion.First of all i will let you know my actual situation with the implementation. As i'm working in a Fault Tolerant system, but using uncoordinated checkpoint i'm taking checkpoints of all my process at different time and storing them on the machine where there are residing, but i also send this checkpoints to another node (lets call it protector), so if this node fails his process should be restarted in the protector that have his checkpoints.Right now i'm detecting the failure of a process and i know where this process should be restarted, and also i have the checkpoint in the protector. And i also have the child information of course.So, my options are:First OptionI detect the failure, and then i use orte_errmgr_hnp_base_global_update_state() with some modifications and the hnp_relocate but changing the spawning to make a restart from a checkpoint, i suposse that using this, the migration of the process to another node will be updated and everyone will know it, because is the hnp who is going to do this (is this ok?).
Second Option
Modify one of the spawn variations(probably the remote_spawn from rsh) in the PLM framework and then use the orted_comm to command a remote_spawn in the protector, but i don't know here how to update the info so everyone knows about the change or how this is managed.I might be very wrong in what I said, my apologies if so.Thanks a lot for all the help.Best regards.Hugo Meyer
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The 9 Most Hilarious Ways Criminals Were Caught
#4. Taliban Commander Turns Himself in for the Reward Money
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In the dusty mountains of Afghanistan, Taliban commander Mohammad Ashan needed some cash for his day-to-day Taliban living. While he was walking around the southeastern province of Paktika he noticed a bunch of wanted posters had been put up by the Americans.
It's probably safe to say that Ashan wasn't the smartest terrorist who ever grace a wanted poster. Apparently mistaking the posters for some kind of scavenger hunt, he walked right into an Afghan checkpoint and turned himself in seeking the $100 for his reward.
The Afgan police quickly released who they had in their custody and arrested him on the spot. Even when arrested he still didn't catch on that he was possibly getting a free vacation to Cuba's Guantanamo resort. When the American interrogators asked him, "Is this you?" Ashan answered, "Yes, yes, that's me! Can I get my award now?"
What we're trying to say is that terrorists tend to be dipshits.
#3. Finding a Hitman in the Yellow Pages
Plotting a murder can be both complicated and time consuming, especially if you're a busy, middle-aged mother of two and the person you want dead is your husband. This was the situation Phoenix housewife Sharleen Bath found herself in in 1990, so she decided to do the only sensible thing and let a professional killer handle the situation for her. The first problem, of course, was trying to find someone willing to kill for money, since Craigslist wouldn't be invented for another decade or so. So she did the only thing she could think of: She checked the Yellow Pages.
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For those younger readers, this was a relic of the pre-Internet days. Much like the magazined pornography your elders speak of.
Unable to find an "assassins" section, she ultimately decided to call a company called "Gunsmoke, Guns for Hire." The name sounded promising, but Gunsmoke is actually an entertainment company specializing in themed parties, since, you know, contract killers aren't actually listed in the Yellow Pages.
We're just amazed she was able to navigate the whole alphabetical order thing.
Having received a fair share of crank calls in the past, owner Leigh Wilson decided to roll with it for a while before he realized that Bath was deadly serious. Wilson gave her a non-committal answer, but Bath called back twice over the next few days and demanded to be allowed to speak to one of the actual hitmen she figured must have been lounging around Wilson's place. After the first time, Wilson figured that this kind of craziness was probably the sort of thing police should handle and got in touch with them.
Undercover police arranged a meeting with Bath at a nearby restaurant, disguised as hitmen, and struck up a deal with her. Eventually Bath settled on one car bombing for the bargain price of $10,000, handed over a $2,000 advance, and their business was concluded. Bath didn't even make it out of the parking lot before being arrested. She ended up in prison, but not before her lawyers did their best to plead insanity. And to be fair, that was probably the best way to go.
#2. Fugitive Lets Cops Scan his License (Just to See How it Works)
With crime-fighting technology getting better every day, the experienced criminal knows it's a good idea to stay up to date on the various ways that they could end up in handcuffs with their face smeared into the hood of a police car. This was probably the thinking of R.C. Gaitlin in 1988 when he passed by a bunch of cops in Detroit demonstrating some of their high-tech gear to local kids and decided to observe.
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Current high-tech Detroit PD gear.
After a few minutes of tips on the finer points of shooting people in the ass on account of tazers not being invented yet, things were going swimmingly for Gaitlin. He was learning a lot and had yet to awkwardly blurt out any embarrassing personal details, like the fact that he was a fugitive wanted for armed robbery.
Things took a turn for the unfortunate when he laid eyes on the driver's license scanner and asked how it worked. The cops replied that they'd be thrilled to show him if he'd be kind enough to provide some ID to demonstrate with. Being the helpful and enthusiastic type, Gaitlin keenly volunteered his driver's license to be used as an example.
Of course, the scan revealed to the bewildered cops that Gaitlin had a warrant out for his arrest, so they had the fortune of showing the kids what it looks like when they arrest a perp, which made it the best field trip ever.
"OK, kids, who wants to pepper spray him?"
#1. Robber Gets Robbed, Reports it to Police
Mauricio Fierro's plan to rob a Brazilian pharmacy started out well enough -- he pulled up outside the store in a newly stolen car and left the engine running so that he could pull off a quick getaway. When he emerged with the loot, however, he was puzzled to find that his stolen car had been stolen. By someone else. You would think that a man dedicated to a career of stealing other people's things would have seen this coming.
"So that's what it feels like."
But Fierro's troubles didn't end there. After standing in the parking lot for a few minutes, arms thrown up in the universal gesture of "what the fuck," Fierro failed to see yet another shady criminal sneaking up behind him -- who snatched the loot right out of his hands and made a run for it. It was a bad neighborhood.
Here is where most people would wearily decide to call it a night, but not Fierro. He was angry, and he was determined to make someone answer for the thefts. So he went to the police station to report that someone had stolen the cash and car that he himself had stolen moments earlier. At the police station Fierro ran into none other than the pharmacist he had just robbed, who was there reporting Fierro's robbery. He was quickly taken into custody.
But Fierro wasn't done yet. Word of the bizarre thefts had spread quickly, and it wasn't long before a local news team arrived at the police station. They interviewed Fierro right there, and he took the opportunity to go on a completely unselfconscious rant about how bad crime was in the city. You've got to admit, he had a point.
Seconds before the reporters stole his hoodie and sneakers.
You can read more from Amanda on Mannafesto or follow her on Twitter. Yosomono writes for Gaijinass.com whose members unfortunately know all about the Japanese prison system.
Related Reading: Badass criminals have gotten themselves caught in even dumber schemes than these. As proof, we present the cold-blooded murderer who revealed his identity through a dating show. We judge these idiots, but crime isn't easy. Something as simple as checking Facebook on a victim's computer can put you behind bars. All this only makes it more surprising when ruthless criminals turn into good guys at the last second. Even carjackers can be heroes sometimes.


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New Sencha Touch 2 Productivity Open Source Project
I just released a new Sencha Touch 2 Open Source Project called ST2 Power Tools that focuses on developer productivity. It handles complete project generation (including configuration of compass and sass) as well as live templates for WebStorm / PHPStorm.
You can view a demo of this in action here: http://davidtucker.net/blog/view/cre...n_just_minutes
View more information about the tools here: http://davidtucker.net/blog/view/int...t2_power_tools
View the Project on Github: https://github.com/davidtucker/ST2PowerTools
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Your screencasts are very clear and provide great information and the ST2 Power Tools look sweet. Hope you continue this series.
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Does the Widom-Larsen theory pose a credible underpinning for Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, often incorrectly referred to as "Cold Fusion"?
No, it doesn't.
"Heavy electrons", such as muons, can catalyze nuclear reactions by screening the charge. And electrons in solid-state crystals often have a high effective mass. So what can go wrong?
Nuclei have to get very close for fusion, far closer than the inter-atomic spacing. The electron needs to be become sharply localized in order to get enough probability in between the protons to screen them effectively. However, this means that there it loses the many-body lattice/phonon/etc interactions that increased it's effective mass int e first place.
First, "LENR" is not incorrectly referred to as Cold Fusion, it is exactly the same thing as Cold Fusion. The renaming is simply an attempt by Cold Fusion folks to politically distance themselves from Pons and Fleischmann, and people have a name for distancing the original discoverers--- it's called "plagiarism". It is fine to choose a name which is agnostic as to whether fusion is going on, but one must always say that this is what Pons and Fleischmann discovered: there is nuclear stuff going on in Pd/d systems.
Further it is very likely that fusion is exactly what is going on in this system, since this is the lowest energy nuclear process available in the system. He4 emissions have been reproducibly detected many times, starting with Paneth and Peters, continuing with Pons/Fleischmann, later McKubre, and most recently in Arata type cells. While these He nuclei could be alphas emitted from heavy nuclei decaying, it is much more likely, given the concurrent heat production, that the alphas are emitted by a process of conversion of deuterons, a cold fusion. All nuclear processes other than fusion of d and d, require more energy to overcome the Coulomb barrier than is conceivable in such a system. Even for d-d it requires heroic contortions, because it's three orders of magnitude in energy to overcome.
The Widom Larsen theory claims that the process going on in the cold fusion systems is that protons are absorbing electrons on the surface of the metal, where there is an inhomogenous electric field which can be very strong, and turning into neutrons. These neutrons then catalyze a bunch of energy releasing nuclear transformations. The mechanism is through the weak force, not the nuclear force.
It is preposterous, because there is a 1MeV mass difference between the proton and neutron, which is greater than the mass energy of the electron. It would be as reasonable to say that electron-positron pairs are produced at the surface of a metal. They aren't, and they can't be.
The strong electric fields at the surface of a metal are only so strong that they produce eV level energies for accelerating charged particles from the metal to infinity. There are no further energies available to bridge the gap to 1MeV of energy, and Widom and Larson simply make up this energy, by unphysical ansatzes for the near-surface field and made up energy balance requirements that pretend that MeV's of energy magically appear in individual particles on a metal surface.
Even if you admit that you made neutrons, we know what happens to metals under neutron bombardment--- the nuclei absorb the neutrons to get one unit heavier, the neutrons decay in a characteristic way in interstitials of the metal, leading to Wigner's disease, the neutrons escape in large numbers to trigger neutron detectors elsewhere (they are an uncharged and therefore highly penetrating form of radiation). They would not lead to any significant energy production (the same energy used to form the neutrons would be rereleased in their decay, aside from the comparatively little energy released in neutron absorption. He wouldn't be produced in any great quantities, although there would be some tritium).
Further, the formation of neutrons would catalyze transformations of +1 mass unit in the nuclei, leading Pd to transform to a heavier isotope, or into Silver through beta decay, if too many neutrons are present. This is categorically not observed in cold-fusion cells, what you see are a bunch of isotopes scattered at random in the periodic table in trace amounts, with all sorts of isotope ratios.
The theory does not work, it is energetically forbidden, and even if you put that aside, it does not explain the observed phenomenon--- heat production, He production, and elemental transmutations in Pd/d cells with a very wide spectrum of atomic weights.
The only reasonable explanation I have seen is the one I explained here: Why is cold fusion considered bogus? . The idea is that the KeV levels of inner shell electrons are exchanging energy with deuterium in the lattice, leading to fusion at 10KeV energies, which dumps its energy electrostatically into electrons or other nuclei, rather than by ejecting a neutron or proton. This process can explain most of the observations. It is possible that the deuterons form some sort of long-lived Rydberg-matter like state using the excitations deep inside the metal, or that they form metastable bands at KeV energies which cannot efficiently decay.
But independent of the true explanation, Widom-Larson doesn't make sense, because the theory is just a bunch of words strung together with no coherent relation to known weak interaction theory, or to energy conservation, or to surface theory of metals, or to known nuclear physics of neutrons. But one must commend Widom and Larson in one respect--- they were willing to believe the experimental data over their more powerful colleagues' head-in-the-sand denials. This makes it a little painful to criticize their theory, even though it is cockamamie nonsense.
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Review of the 1st European Value Chain Summit in Cologne, March 19-20, 2013
By Ulf Koester-Oracle on Apr 10, 2013
We have completed our 1st European Value Chain Summit in Cologne, with great success. More than 300 attendees have seen a great program that addressed all our 7 target industries in the Enterprise PLM Summit, followed by PLM Customer Advisory Board (CAB) sessions and the Special Interest Group (SIG) Meetings on CAD integration. Combined with the Value Chain Planning and Value Chain Execution Summits, we provided a very interesting program for prospects and for current customers, also highly praised by our partners. We provided excellent networking opportunities, and held deep discussions on Value Chain Transformation strategies.
All direct and indirect comments we have got from customers, partners and also from Oracle colleagues are extremely positive. The alchemy we targeted with a mix of customers, partners and Oracle presentations, with hands-on workshops, with networking time during the event and dinner, worked beyond expectations. The visible presence from our North American colleagues from Product Strategy and Development was understood as a clear corporate support to our industry strategies for Enterprise PLM in Europe. Overall, with this Summit we experienced a very strong community feeling among all attendees. From March 19-20, really Cologne was the place to be!
General Event Overview and Statistics
All seats in the main conference room were taken, when Derren Nisbet, Oracle Western Europe Specialist Sales Leader, introduced the conference concept and agenda: With this first Value Chain Summit, we were bringing together the best of the best, including the Enterprise Product Lifecycle Management for the Product Value Chain, we added Value Chain Planning and Value Chain Execution as 3 Solution Summits under one roof to create a comprehensive conference that included more than 40 sessions across all of the value chain solution areas.
With a number of 338 confirmed total registrations, actually 302 attendees really made it to Cologne: This is a really low no-show rate, indicating that the ecosystem we operate in is stable, and that our customers show a strong commitment. We had attendees from 23 different countries (Belgium, Bosnien & Herzigovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA) – so this really was an international atmosphere we were operating in. A very nice atmosphere also could be experienced in the networking dinner in a typical "Kölsch" venue!
Around 65% of total attendees were specifically interested in the PLM summit sessions.
The Value Chain umbrella under which we placed the 3 Summits was reasonably well understood for a first time, although more is needed to support the concept. However, already now the overall perceived value is quite high. CIMdata and Cambashi, the two PLM market analysts that we invited, were highly impressed by the level of the presentations, by the number of attendees and by the expertise that customers, partners and Oracle teams demonstrated all along.
In the next few days, summit participants will receive an email with the link to a follow-up portal. On this portal, they will find links to the presentations that are agreed to be available to the public, as well as photos from the event.
Strategic sessions in the Value Chain Summit
The "massive" impression from Philip Morris and Novartis presentations set the tone very early in the agenda and put everyone in a listening mode. We earned a very high vote of confidence from customers and partners on the Product Value Chain strategy we are developing for each of our target industries. In his keynote, Jon Chorley gave the audience an insight into strategies on how to accelerate Value Chain Transformation. He described the Value Chain Transformation Maturity curve: How to move from Fragmented Silo-Based Processes (Limited Collaboration based on Spreadsheets & Manual Processes) via improved Internal, transactional Processes, Data Integration (based on Standardization, Integration, Foundational) and improved Point Capabilities (Selective Demand, Supply Improvements, with some advanced capabilities & best practices) to an Integrated & Aligned Value Chain with Multi-Enterprise Orchestration. With Value Chain Transformation and a well orchestrated Product Value Chain, our customers are enabled to create winning products, drive market innovation, design for supply, and commercialize rapidly.
In his presentation "From idea to manufacturing" Patrick Deconfin, Manager IS Product Development, Philip Morris International, spoke about how PMI manages all Reference Product Specifications globally in Oracle Agile PLM. PLM is key for PMI to support new product development, with high energy and a common vision. What started with a Packaging Lifecycle project back in 2004, is now a fully-fledged PLM system, embarking PLM Analytics, managing the creation of all product specifications worldwide, with stage-gate project management, handling of finished products, Bill of Materials, Suppliers, and Quality Management. It helps cope with complexity, integrate multiple stakeholders, enable a global operating model, streamline the organization and increase speed to market.
Further in the PLM Summit track, around 200 people wanted to learn "How to eat a dinosaur". This presentation by Antonio Mazzariello, Novartis, highlighted how to orchestrate "Information Management in Pharmaceutical Industry". Antonio is the Project Leader of the Novartis Change Control Excellence project, which is part of their overall Product Lifecycle Management Methodology and the Novartis Product Lifecycle Excellence strategy.
In their presentation, Denis Senpere (VP Enterprise PLM, EMEA) and John Kelley (VP Strategy, Product Value Chain Solutions) discussed the Oracle Enterprise PLM Strategy for the Product Value Chain. According to CIMdata, Oracle is the #2 Worldwide Vendor for Enterprise PLM in 2011, with again the highest growth in the Top 5. Many of the Gartner Top 25 Supply Chain companies are using Oracle Enterprise PLM solutions alongside their SAP ERP installations. As John pointed out, with Oracle, companies can achieve Product Value Chain Transformation. He specifically highlighted the new Fusion Innovation Management solution and PLM Analytics, and gave an overview of the Product Value Chain Roadmap. The investment areas are clearly:
- #1 Invest in the core PLM use cases across all PLM Product Lines
- #2 Invest in Commercialization Use Cases
- #3 Invest in the Fuzzy Front-End Of Innovation
- #4 Invest in Analytics to Expose Business Value
Value Chain Research: Managing the Value Chain in turbulent times
In the early morning of day 2, Dynamic Markets presented the results of their Independent Market Research (commissioned by Oracle), a quantitative research with senior decision makers in large organizations in 9 countries across EMEA (UK, France, Germany, Russia, the Nordics, the Netherlands, Poland, Turkey and the UAE). A total of 677 surveys were collected from companies with more than 250 employees. The report really shows shocking statistics that prove that companies are well advised to look into Oracle Value Chain solutions to overcome difficulties which were identified.
- Two-thirds (63%) of EMEA companies have experienced disruption to their value chain due to unpredictable events in the last 12 months.
- On average, it has taken 2.1 months to get back to 'business as usual' following such incidents.
- The average cost to date has been €519,838 per incident per company; but this is as high as €20.4M in one company.
- Only 25% have performed a risk assessment on all elements of their value chain.
- 79% have to comply with at least 1 type of legislation / trade regulation that affects their value chain, but 30% have been non-compliant during the last 12 months.
- Not all companies are able to gather a comprehensive set of product / service line data, and among those who can, on average it takes 3 weeks to complete this task.
- 85% say departments / groups in their organization struggle to provide timely data and information relating to products and services - those in customer services and finance think their own departments are the worst.
- 94% think there are barriers to internal communication and collaboration within their company and 61% blame data and / or technology problems.
- Also, 87% think barriers exist to external communication and collaboration with customers / suppliers - and 56% blame data and / or technology problems.
- When conducting promotional campaigns in the last 2 years, 71% have seen a negative impact on the company as a direct result.
- Just 12% measure all the elements that they feel are important to measure.
Value Chain Planning and Value Chain Execution Summit Customer Sessions
As part of the inaugural Oracle European Value Chain Summit, a dedicated Value Chain Execution and Value Chain Planning track included presentations by several leading global companies, like IKEA, Lufthansa Technik Logistik, Oracle Sun, Uponor, Lafarge, Smith Medical, Ferring, British Gypsum, Red Dot Corporation, and Zebra Technologies. Alan Braithwaite, visiting professor at Cranfield University, explained the importance for companies to have visibility of their Supply Chain to react swiftly and agile to the changes of the modern business. Companies that make use of Supply chain systems show a higher delivery rate, higher customer satisfaction and a higher profit margin.
Enterprise PLM Innovation Award for Prof. Dr. Martin Eigner
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Eigner is a well known expert for Product Lifecycle Management and CAD/CAM. Back in 1985 he was the founder and CEO of the EIGNER + PARTNER GmbH, and CTO of EIGNER Inc. in Waltham, Massachusetts (USA). In August 2003, Eigner Inc. was acquired by Agile, which later in 2007 was acquired by Oracle for 495 Mio $. In July 2001, Martin founded the consulting company ENGINEERING CONSULT, and since October 2004 was appointed the professorship for virtual product development at the University Kaiserslautern, Germany. In parallel, he is a visiting professor at the University of Applied Sciences Offenburg, Germany and University of Sofia, Bulgaria, and a honorary professor of the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and the Karlsruhe University. It was a special honor for Denis Senpere, Oracle Vice President Enterprise PLM EMEA, to hand over the Oracle Enterprise PLM Innovation Award 2013 to Prof. Dr. Eigner. This was a special appreciation for the dedication, hard work, expertise and innovation that Martin Eigner has brought to the world of product development. Even today, we are working with more than 160 customers who have purchased the former Eigner software, which evolved into today's Oracle Agile PLM for Industrial Manufacturing (Agile e6).
Industry sessions: PLM for Food and Beverage, Retail, LifeSciences, High Tech / Electronics and Industrial Manufacturing
Kim Glenn, Tyson Foods Director Research & Development showed in her presentation "Increase Visibility, Improve Innovation" how Tyson has overcome the difficulty of balancing Innovation vs. Quality & Compliance. Thanks to the implementation of Agile PLM for Food and Beverage (Agile for Process), they have been able to move away from 11 Giant Filing Cabinets to one trusted Online Location. They have significantly improved audit efficiency through visibility of suppliers by item and by company. Tyson has implemented Supply Chain contingency planning with the ability to easily identify components affected by supplier change, and great visibility of supplier documentation – including audits and documentation of company actions. Electronic workflows ensure that appropriate reviews occur.
Benefits for Tyson Foods are:
- Improved Speed to Market
- Better Supplier and Product Quality
- One Innovation Platform for All
In the respective PLM for Food and Beverage breakout sessions we were able to welcome 50 attendees to listen to the case studies about Amadori, United Biscuits and at Raisio. It was great to hear about their specific projects and PLM journey and about the value of their implementation partners SinfoOne and CGI Finland.
With regards to Retail, there were several relevant presentations. Most prominent, Anna Edvardsson from ICA Sweden (former part of Ahold group with around 2,100 own and retailer-owned stores in Sweden, Norway and the Baltic countries) described how to lay the foundation for competitive Product Development in Retail. ICA Sweden is one of Sweden's leading retail companies with Food, Non-food and Nearly-food products. In 2012, ICA Sweden took the first step of implementing Oracle's PLM tool, based on a need to lay the necessary foundation for further growth within the focus area Private Label. The PLM solution was delivered on time and budget in ten months by a joint team Accenture + Oracle Consulting Services. The presentation showed why ICA found the introduction of PLM as inevitable, and what they have accomplished:
- Uniform way of working for all ICA's Product Development
- PLM necessary for completed ISO-certification
- Transparency in process gives support for decision-making and taking action throughout the development and the whole life cycle of articles
- Better support in deciding what products to launch
- Better support in prioritizing maintenance of current assortment
- Better support for following-up different types of projects and the time each project phase takes
- A common source of information for our Product Development and Private Label assortment
Sachin Patel from our Product Management highlighted how to implement multichannel commerce with PIM / PDQ and Endeca. So in the summit we covered our complete offering for the Retail industry with Multichannel Product Catalog and Private Label Retailing.
There were also great presentations for everyone interested in Life Sciences: Adding to the presentation from Novartis, Smith Medical and Ferring Pharmaceuticals presented in the all-hands keynote. These companies have started their Value Chain Transformation journey in the areas of Value Chain Planning and Value Chain Execution. However, they are now ready to further move up the VC Transformation maturity curve and look into Oracle Enterprise PLM. Covering their experience with Oracle PLM in the Medical Device industry,Vibeke Nyrop, GN Resound, highlighted how to achieve FDA compliance with Agile PLM. As a medical device manufacturer, GN ReSound must meet stringent product data control regulations. GN ReSound facilitates compliance with Agile PLM as the foundation for the company's new, global, product information and documentation environment, which provides a complete overview of all products and parts.
Several presentations were given by customers from the High-Tech Electronics industry: Freescale, Cameron, and Domino Printing reported on Protection of Intellectual Property, Obsolescence Management, and CAD Integration.
In the area of Industrial Manufacturing: Doosan Skoda Power, Marel and SPX Cooling presented their PLM success stories and praised the strong backbone capabilities, deep CAD integration and world-class engineering functionality of Agile e6 for managing complex machinery businesses, often unique to a given customer, and requiring worldwide servicing. AutoVue for Agile was recognized as a unique Enterprise Visualization solution that is the natural companion for Agile PLM. More and more customers use AutoVue for supplier collaboration on documents, on packaging documents, on drawings, on 3D mechanical models, on electromechanical models, all under control of the Agile PLM backbone for traceability.
Product sessions on Innovation Management, Product Roadmaps and Strategies
PLM has been adopted by many companies in the world today. 65% of the CPG Industry has adopted PLM for at least specification management and new product development process management: But is that making them better innovators? Market leaders have a more holistic view of innovation. Fusion Innovation Management brings this holistic view from Oracle. We enforce a model in which the wall is gone between PLM and the rest of the Value Chain, and where a company has one holistic view from Idea to Retirement. Fusion Innovation Management is a solution which brings end-to-end data together and shows fit with Business & Innovation Strategy. Accountability becomes clearer for a product during its entire lifecycle, from end-to-end, and with real-time decision-making about project & product portfolios This was presented by the two "Innovation Gurus" Mick Broekhof, Kalypso, and James Ramsay, Oracle, in their presentation "Making Strategic Breakthroughs in Innovation Management". With the NEW Oracle Fusion Innovation Management companies can capture, discuss, enrich & screen new ideas, to improve the ability to identify the best ideas & convert them into business value faster,and to ensure each new product fulfils targeted customer needs & requirements.
With Fusion Innovation Management, companies will be able to
- Build stronger ideas pipeline
- Consistently satisfy customer needs
- Better align product portfolio with corporate strategy
- Optimize lifecycle return of your products
Oracle Product Lifecycle Analytics (OPLA) was a really hot topic on the summit. We started with a common presentation "Making Informed Decisions with OPLA", followed later on the day by a hands-on PLM Analytics workshop. The hands-on workshop created a strong impression with our customers: "This stuff is really easy to use, and there are tons of content that is usable for my business out of the box! ". "I have it on my iPad! This is so cool…".
In the respective product / industry breakout sessions, we were openly sharing the Product News and Roadmap for Agile e6 & AutoVue, for Agile 9.3 as well as for PLM for Process. Matt Johnson and Jeff Pratt presented on "Product MDM and Data Quality: How Fusion Product Hub drives value in your business and in the Cloud." Whether planning, building, selling or shipping products, a value chain can only be as good as its data. Everybody who attended this presentation now knows how Fusion Product Hub streamlines product data processes while improving governance, security and data quality, and learned about Oracle's latest product MDM innovations – such as MDM in the Cloud. Our general attitude towards our products (confident, proud, smiling, relaxed) was also captured by our customers. It was even further extended by the CAB sessions and the SIG. Openness is paying off, for sure!
Oracle Innovation Management survey
On the summit, we were pointing our customers to our current Innovation Management Survey: Are you getting the maximum Return on Innovation? Participate in the ORACLE INNOVATION MANAGEMENT survey and receive a complimentary research report. All you need to do is to invest 10 minutes. As a reward, you will gain insight into:
- Top challenges impacting return on innovation
- How companies are looking to improve their innovation management processes
- How your company's experiences benchmark with those of other leading organizations
Participate in the online survey (for german version, go here).
Partner view: Well-earned Enterprise PLM Partner Excellence Awards!
The partners also reported how pleased they were with this event. The Gold and Silver Sponsors were delighted to receive special recognition awards delivered to them by Denis Senpere and Ulf Köster. While ICP Solution and Kalypso received the Oracle Enterprise PLM Excellence GOLD Award 2013, xPLM Solution, DataSquare, Kallik, Maier CSS, SinfoOne, Systematics and Zensar received the PLM Excellence Award for their support and cooperation. All our PLM partners understood that we care about them and want to do more with them. The PLM partner exhibition on the event was very well attended. The atmosphere was very energetic and inspiring, so that the partners also have taken the opportunity to discuss with other partners, and find areas for cooperation.
Feedbacks: A few words from our customers and partners
Here are some selected feedbacks from customers and partners:
"I want to thank you for arranging this great summit. Great presentations and a very good combination between Oracle and the customer presentation - and great opportunities for networking. I also want to thank you for inviting me to the CAB meeting bringing up- and discussing areas for system improvement. I have learned a lot that will be useful for me and have got some very good contacts to other companies for future networking. It has been the best conference since Agile was acquired by Oracle. I hope that this will not be the last one. Please bring forward my thanks to all the helpful people supporting the summit." Vibeke Nyrop, GN Resound
"It was a fantastic event and quite great experience for me. I would recommend adding a little content for middleware applications that can help value chain innovation requirements (i.e. Enterprise – mobility)" Sayed Mohammed El-Sayed, Savola Group, Saudi Arabia
"The event met my expections. There were many good opportunities for networking and sharing experiences. By meeting a lot of Oracle people, we also got a better sense of how your organization is set up and how we can work better with you." Anna Edvardsson, ICA Sverige AB
"This is just to thank you for inviting me to Köln. I much enjoyed the event and learnt things about Oracle that I had not previously known. Hopefully you feel I made a useful contribution. Also I will be pleased to connect Oracle with Cranfield and it would be good to have you as part of the SCRiP research club. I am following this up with Vikram and Dominic." Professor Alan Braithwaite
"The Oracle PLM Summit was a very well organized event. The summit gave us a good understanding of Oracle products that are coming soon to the market. A pleasant surprise was the multitude of customer presentations – accounts of Oracle Product Implementations, which covered in detail, the numerous challenges faced by the industry. My suggestion would be to arrange the program agenda in such a manner that as far as possible customer presentations should not clash as it is difficult to choose between two equally good presentations." Ashutosh Shrivastava, Mahindra Satyam
"Regarding the Summit, we heard only positive signals from our network. What we would do better next year is to put even greater energy into bringing more clients and prospects to the Summit. Testimonials from this year's attendees will be a good vehicle." Mick Broekhof, Kalypso
"I have seen a strong cooperation between Customers, Partners and Oracle teams: the Customers were pleased to share their experiences with the other people, the Partners had no difficulties to meet each other and find valuable form of collaboration, the Oracle people did their best to facilitate the contacts between Customers and Partners. I also have seen a real interest from the audience in the topics covered at the event, so the sessions were often interactive with many questions and considerations from the attendees." Giuseppe Malorgio, SinfoOne


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So, anybody who listens to the Zero Cool podcast (I forgive you if you don't) knows that I've gotten into board gaming more and more, with this past year having me really going off the deep end. I've been spending a lot of time at BoardGameGeek, which is a fine website, though not as fine as this one. One of the things I do there is participate in play-by-forum games; essentially, they are asynchronous online games, with a moderator handling all of the board aspects.
I want to do that with Dtoiders! But there are a few problems. I don't have a lot of time to produce awesome board images like some people do for games of Battlestar Galactica. More importantly, though, very few people have the games I have, so if I tried to get a game going of Gears of War: the Board Game, I doubt I'd get any players.
Both of those problems are solved with game choice. We'll play Werewolf! Some people know the game as Mafia. It has no board to keep track of, and you can play it without owning any version of the game. One extra benefit of this is that it can seat a huge number of players. For the sake of time, I'm thinking of capping this first game at 15 or 20 players, to see how it flows. If you don't know how to play, don't worry. That's what the next few paragraphs are for.
Werewolf is a game of teams, though the teams aren't explicitly known by everybody. A group of werewolves are savaging a town, and the townspeople need to put a stop to it. The game is played in phases, with a night phase and a day phase. During the night phase, the werewolves choose one villager to rend and devour. This choice is made secretly (PM'd to me). During the day phase, all villagers (werewolves included) discuss what happened, accuse each other of lycanthropy, and eventually call for an execution. If a majority vote is obtained, the player in question is hung and is out of the game. Discussion and voting is done publicly (posted to the forum).The team of werewolves wins if there are ever an equal number of werewolf villagers as there are regular villagers. The team of villagers wins if they successfully root out and execute all of the werewolves.
There are a few special roles that can help the villager team. Roles that will be randomly (and secretly) distributed are the Seer and the Bodyguard. The Seer gets to choose one other player each night to know about. He will be secretly given the information that the chosen player is either a villager or a werewolf. He can make public accusation during the next daytime phase, but it paints him as a target for any surviving werewolves. The Bodyguard can choose one player each night to be protected from a werewolf attack. If the werewolves and the Bodyguard choose the same player, it will be made public that an attack occurred, but that there were no casualties. Who was attacked will not be made public by me, but again, the Bodyguard (or the Werewolves) can make that information public if they so choose.
And that's about it! Of course, there are some play-by-forum-specific rules that I ought to throw in here.
1. Only sign up if you plan on playing. I expect players to check in at least once a day (perhaps less on weekends), and ideally multiple times throughout the day.
2. Keep in mind that with twenty players, this could take a VERY long time. I have nothing to base this estimate off of, but I would not be surprised to see this game last 2-3 months.
3. Make sure that all secret information is handled by PM to me and me only, and any other communication between players occurs publicly in this thread.
4. You may be eliminated from the game after only a single turn (either from a werewolf mauling or from a villager execution). Dead players are encouraged to continue following the game, though they may not share any information they had before they were killed.
5. I'm sure there's something else I'll think of that I haven't considered yet that I'll have to put here.
So without further ado, who wants in?
Game 1 is complete! Werewolves won! Game 2 started here.
Game 2 is complete! Werewolves won! Game 3 started here.
Game 3 is complete! Werewolves won! Game 4 started here.
Game 4 is complete! Werewolves won! Game 5 started here.
Game 5 is complete! Werewolves won! Game 6 started here. (Forumgoers vs. Hackers)
Game 6 is complete! Villagers won! Game 7 started here. (Assassins vs. Templars)
Game 7 is complete! Villagers won! Game 8 started here. (Samurai vs. Ninja)
Game 8 is complete! Villagers won! Game 9 started here. (BLU Mercenaries vs. RED Spies)
Game 9 is complete! Villagers won! Game 10 started here. (Humans vs. the Thing)
Game 10 is complete! The Thing (Artful-dodgeR) won! Game 11 started here. (Mafia Family vs. Mafia Organization)
Game 11 is complete! The Family won! Game 12 started here (Humans vs. Cylons)
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I'm wondering how the concept of convolution can be extended to 2D. As example, let us take a constant function $z=f(x,y)=1$ with support on $[0..1]^2 \in \mathbb{R}^2$ (see Fig. 1).
If we now convolute $f$ with itself (see Fig. 2), in the direction $(1,1)^T$, we should end up with a linear hexagonal hat function (see Fig. 3), which has the value $z=1$ at the center.
There are at least two ways to compute the resulting function/surface, but for both these methods I'm not completely sure how to apply them.
Integrating, just like convoluting two univariate functions $f(t)$ and $g(t)$: $$(f * g)(t) = \int_{-\infty}^\infty f(\tau) g(t-\tau) \; d \tau$$ However, in the bivariate case I guess we should use a double integral, since we're convoluting surfaces now, not curves. Moreover, we have to consider the direction in which we convolute, which in this example is $(1,1)^T$.
Fourier transformation. Since convolution reduces to multiplication in the frequency domain, this seems a useful method. Suppose that we would know the Fourier transform $\hat{f}$ of $f(x,y)$, how should we then involve the direction?
I hope somebody can demonstrate one or both of these methods, using the example above. References to bivariate convolution, preferably with examples, are of course also welcome!
[Edit]: Ok, using the expression $$(f*g)(x,y) = \int f(x',y')g(x-x',y-y')dx'dy'$$ I end up with different values than expected. For example, at $(.5,.5)$ the computed value is $.25$, instead of the expected $.5$.
Just to be sure, the convolution of the unit square (i.e. a constant value $z=1$ on $[0..1]^2 \in \mathbb{R}^2$) in the direction $(1,1)^T$ should result in the hexagonal hat function, correct?
Additionally, instead of the function $y$, I got the function $xy$ for the highlighted green part of the resulting function. How does one end up with $y$?


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I'm doing a bit of research for a tech presentation that touches on the subject of mathematical duality. (To be clear, my presentation is not on mathematics or duality, but mentions duality in passing.)
My question for the math folks is, is it correct to say multiplication is the mathematical dual of division? Or am I completely misunderstanding mathematical duality?
Wikipedia says,
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is considered an example of an "order reversing duality".
So in layman's terms, could a person characterize multiplication/division as an example of mathematical duality?


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I have had a glass top stove for about three years now. I have two spots that have stained black. The stains look like a patch of burnt food, however they are flat to the surface. I have tried to use the white ceramic cook top stuff you can buy (to no avail). I have tried to scrape it off with a razor (also to no avail, and this is why I know that it is flat to the surface of the stove). Any ideas?
First of all, razor on glass is a bad idea. I hope I don't have to explain why. Just think about what you're doing there.
You definitely did the right thing by buying the cooktop cleaner (I assume you used Cerama-Bryte or some similar product), but that's only half the equation; if you just use a cloth or paper towel with that, you won't get good results. There's a product called a "Scrunge" that's specifically designed for cleaning (scrubbing) glass cook tops. Use that with the cleaning solution and it can clean almost anything off.
With a little bit of elbow grease (okay, a lot of elbow grease) I managed to clean off over a year of caked-on grease and charcoal around the burner rings that I was never able to get with the Cerama-Bryte alone. I don't want this to sound like a product endorsement as there may be other, similar kinds of specialized "sponges" on the market, but this is the only one I know of that's safe to use on glass (i.e. won't scratch it like a scouring pad or those double-sided 3M sponges).
You can also try baking soda. Make a concentrated paste (say 3 parts baking soda to 1 part water) and scrub it in as hard as you can. This is often enough to clean by itself, but if that fails...
Finally, you can use the baking soda/vinegar track. Use roughly equal parts of each but don't mix them in advance. Instead, pour vinegar onto the stain and sprinkle on the baking soda afterward, or vice versa, and scrub right away while it's fizzing. That will usually dissolve anything under it.
Have you tried melamine foam (e.g. Magic Erasers)? I use it to clean a lot of stuff, ceramics, stainless steel, glass (glass top stove and glassware) etc. Just soak the foam in water and rub it on the stain. It cleans by friction and won't scratch the surface.
toilet bowl cleaner will also etch the glass. Also using a razor blade flat on the glass will NOT hurt it. How do you get a sticker off a window? Razor blade.
toilet bowl cleaner and an SOS pad will take everything off.
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Is it possible to download the new emails from the Gmail account while online, and then read them while offline? Is it possible to write emails while offline that will be sent when online?
Yes. And not just for the inbox, but inbox and sent may be the only folders synchronized by default.
NOTE: this answer was written about a now obsolete version of the gmail app, which continues to change in its user interface over time. The answer will not be updated to track that evolution, as there are multiple versions in use at any time which behave differently, and it is ultimately the idea rather than the specific steps which are important.
As far as I know, gmail will "cache" your most recent emails. If you have to "search" or browse through any labels, you probably won't be able to get to those emails. But your inbox (or at least the most recent in the inbox) should be available to view since your last sync. Additionally, you should also be able to draft emails while offline (and save the drafts), you just won't be able to send them until online again.
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After about the ninth or 10th time that I picked it up off the floor, I said, OK. I accept that you don't want to be part of the Kiaski reindeer games this holiday so it's back into the storage box for you, you circular green thing with the big red bow. You Frisbee wannabe.
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