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I'm looking for a word describing someone that felt undermined, stepped on by an action I did. It would work in a sentence like "I am sorry if I (word) you". I'm looking for a softer word than "offended", something with a more emotional connotation.
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Consider slighted, the past participle of slight, which has senses including "To treat with disdain or neglect" and "To act negligently or carelessly." Much less formally, to diss means "To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour."
I think of slight and diss as slightly more neutral words than offend, rather than "more emotional". Perhaps what you want are words that are "more sensitive" rather than "more emotional". For example, to say either "I'm sorry if I cut you off at the knees" or "I'm sorry if I knocked the stuffing out of you" would be more emotional but less sensitive.
The other option is to apologize for what you did, and not for how you made them feel:
In other words are you sorry for what you did, or do you feel justified in what you did and are just sorry that they felt slighted in the process?
You could use upset or disrespected there.
Both abrogated and derogated would work, but I think jwpat7's answer fits better.


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I got this in an email and the use of to seems a bit awkward to me. I think of two better alternatives: either change between to from or to to and. What do you think?

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I have a YouTube account that is under my Hotmail account. The issue I am having is that everytime I send an email to a contact that uses Gmail, the profile picture (that I use for my YT account) shows up as my profile picture in that email...I do not want a profile picture to show up, and I have no profile picture in my hotmail account. I want my youtube accounts profile picture to remain the same, but I don't want it to show up to contacts that use gmail when I send them an email. How do I delete/change the avatar that shows up in the emails I send?
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6 Tricks Movies Use to Make Sure You Root for the Right Guy
#3. Make Them American, Even if They're Not
As Seen In:Kingdom of Heaven, Braveheart, 300, The Ten Commandments, Robin Hood
Sometimes, being anachronistically modern just isn't enough. How do you make sure your audience is rooting for Historical Tribe A over Historical Tribe B, when frankly they have no reason to care either way? The answer is easy: just change one side into America! It doesn't matter if the movie takes place in 3,000 B.C., you always make the good guys sound like they're quoting the Declaration of Independence.
Even When it Doesn't Make Sense ...
The Spartan war-masturbation film 300 doesn't just add in monsters and leave out the unpopular stuff about Spartan pederasty. No, the Spartans also declare themselves to be "rescuing the world from mysticism and tyranny." Never mind that Sparta's population was made up mostly of serfs, and that in reality the famous "boy vs. giant wolf" scene at the beginning of the film would have involved a young warrior killing not a animal but, uh, those same serfs. There's even a crack about the rival Athenians being "boy-lovers" just so you know that the United States of Sparta frowns on such behavior.
"We fight for heterosexuality, apple pie and the future right to shoot guns at clouds whenever we get too excited!"
Likewise, in Braveheart, Mel Gibson tells the local aristocracy: "You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom!" 2010's Robin Hood featured a Robin fighting for an imaginary version of Magna Carta that guaranteed democracy and equal rights.
Which is why the English are allowed to rob the Queen and shoot at the Welsh.
In 2004's King Arthur, set in fifth-century Britain, Clive Owen leads native Woads in their fight against invading Saxon hordes. But for Clive, this isn't just about warring tribes, it's about an idea: freedom. "All men are free, equal, and each man has a right to choose his own destiny!" he says. Throughout the film, he tells serfs, Roman conscripts and anyone who will listen that they are all free and equal by virtue of birth.
"Apart from me, because I'm the Goddamned King."
Goddammit, this guy didn't just invent the round table. He wrote the U.S. Constitution!
#2. Excuse Violent Behavior With a Tragic Death of a Loved One
As Seen In:Lethal Weapon, Terminator 2, Kick-Ass, End of Days, Death Wish, Mad Max, The Patriot, Gladiator, Collateral Damage, Law Abiding Citizen, The Punisher, The Brave One
Humans tend to see the world through something called the actor/observer bias: The more we know a person, the less we blame their actions on their personality and the more we blame outside circumstances. So for the stranger, it's, "He just shot the TV, what a psycho!" But for a friend, it's, "He just shot the TV. It must have been Cake Boss."
"He was trying to replicate that adorable cake they had last episode but couldn't quite get the icing right, poor thing."
This is important when it comes to movies, because it means that a film can show two people doing the exact same thing, and still have one of them come off as the good guy and the other as the villain. The difference is that the audience is given reasons for the good guy's actions. And there's one trope Hollywood uses again and again as a get-out-of-psychopathy-free card: dead loved ones. How dare you criticize anything he does? Your loved ones are still alive, you insensitive bastard!
Now get out there and start tolerating them!
Even When it Doesn't Make Sense ...
In Lethal Weapon, a suicidal man stands on the ledge of a tall building, ready to jump. Suddenly, a mulleted cop approaches, his eyes as wild as his half-Australian accent. It's Mel Gibson! This cop isn't exactly following procedure, though: He handcuffs the would-be jumper to himself, and then pulls them both off the building together, luckily landing on an air cushion.
"Wheee, wasn't that great? Now let's go for a beer and I'll tell you about my suicidal depression!"
It's OK that this police officer just exposed this man to potential death or a lifetime in a wheelchair, though. After all, Mel Gibson's character just lost his wife. Never mind that most people manage to grieve without going crazy or, say, constructing an elaborate bat-themed costume and waging a one-man war against crime.
"Screw you, gun barrel, I'm the goddamned Batman."
It's the same for the whole revenge movie genre; like the Death Wish series, in which an attack on his family causes Charles Bronson to singlehandedly solve New York's crime problem using only mass murder. And Mel Gibson, in addition to being crazy for the Lethal Weapon series, used a dead wife and child as an excuse to commit grotesque war crimes against the British in two separate films. Man, we should have seen the whole Mel Gibson thing coming years ago, shouldn't have we?
#1. If He's the Villain, Give Him a Classy Hobby
As Seen In:Hannibal, Leon, Die Hard, X-Men, Karate Kid 3, Cape Fear, The Untouchables, A Clockwork Orange, any James Bond film ever
Yes, you need to build audience sympathy for the villain, too. That is, if you're looking to make a movie with any kind of character depth. It's the difference between a really good villain the audience loves to watch, and a sneering cartoon character. You need the audience to not just fear the villain, but respect him.
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But for some reason, this is usually done by giving them some kind of quaint, aristocratic hobby that shows they have sophisticated tastes. So he'll probably be watching opera, like the bad guys in The Untouchables or Quantum of Solace. Or he'll just mention his taste for the finer things in life, like Alan Rickman in Die Hard. It differentiates movie villains from most of the bad guys we'll probably run into in real life, whose finer tastes will mostly extend to which sort of iPhone will get them the most meth money.
Even When it Doesn't Make Sense ...
On one hand, the "evil genius" is clearly a villain archetype that goes way back (before even Sherlock Holmes dueled with the evil Professor Moriarity). We know why a high IQ and education makes Hannibal Lecter scary -- he's smart, and therefore formidable.
He also has a considerably better hat than you.
But then they cram this trait into the most nonsensical places. In Tim Burton's Batman, we get a scene where Jack Nicholson's Joker is on a rampage through a museum, destroying priceless works of art. One of his henchmen goes to slash a painting and the Joker stops him with, "No, I like that one." So even there, with that character, in that scene, they stop everything to show he appreciates what is being destroyed more so than his henchmen. But why would he? Before he was the Joker he was just a mob enforcer.
A fabulous mob enforcer.
Likewise, in The Professional (or Leon if you prefer to watch deleted scenes that were voted out by test audiences), the villain played by Gary Oldman murders women and children with a shotgun, and spends most of the film trying to kill a 12-year-old girl. Oh, and he has a classical music obsession. He listens to Beethoven on headphones while conducting drug business, and even monologues about music with his victims. What a classy, sophisticated guy! You know, for a corrupt DEA agent.
Of course it's not that there's no such thing as a DEA agent who listens to classical music in the real world, it's just weird that it's considered a sign of sociopathy in the world of film. The good guy is always a down-to-earth everyman. A John McClane type, or some other down-on-his-luck cop -- even Bruce Wayne, a billionaire, is shown to shun his fancy things in favor of his dank cave. He only flashes his wealth as part of his cover.
Being Batman is hard.
So is the idea that the people who enjoy stuffy, intelligent, ivory tower entertainment like operas and classical music are the enemy? Because that means they're not like us, the Joe Sixpack movie-goer? And that to be a hero, you need to enjoy down-to-earth entertainment, like ...
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The Leading Edge
Columbia Law School graduates serving as managing partners and chairmen at some of the world's most successful and respected law firms take a close look at the state of the elite bar. How has the economic crisis impacted large firm practice, what has changed over the years, and what's on the horizon?
It has been a rough few years for the legal industry. The financial crisis of 2008 hit Wall Street clients hard, and many law firms were affected by that downturn. Revenue growth during 2012 was slow, and it is unclear when, or if, law firm business will return to pre-2008 levels. Meanwhile, the risks that some firms were taking became apparent when Dewey & LeBoeuf collapsed in 2012, shocking an industry unaccustomed to spectacular failures.
Although the financial pressures are front-and-center, important developments within the legal industry extend beyond just economics: Globalization has meant even New York City's top law firms can find themselves competing with foreign shops, while technological advances have helped turn large swathes of legal work into a commodity business.
From inside the glass-clad office buildings of Manhattan's elite law firms, managing partners and chairmen—many of them part of a new generation of management at their firms—are searching for the right strategy for the new legal environment. Some are expanding overseas in an effort to ride the global economy, while others are focused on strengthening core practices and building-out related businesses that suit the times, such as financial regulation and antitrust work. All hope that their culture, their training, and their expertise with respect to the highest-of-high-end work—complex transactions, thorny litigation matters, and the like—will give them an edge.
Columbia Law School Magazine spoke with seven graduates who serve as managing partners or chairmen at some of the world's most prominent law firms—Boies, Schiller & Flexner; Cravath, Swaine & Moore; Davis Polk; Dechert; Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy; Sullivan & Cromwell; and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz—as well as two top in-house general counsels. We wanted to get a sense of how the elite bar is reacting to changes in the marketplace, and what clients that use large law firms expect when it comes to representation. Change, it seems, is everywhere.
"There used to be an oligopoly of New York firms," notes Joseph C. Shenker '80, the chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell. "Now there is not." Shenker ticks off components of the current legal landscape: increased globalization and competition from foreign firms, an oversupply of lawyers, increasing consolidation, and the possibility of additional firm failures.
"The world has changed," echoes Dechert chairman Andrew J. Levander '77. "There is fee pressure, and there is a proliferation in the number of lawyers. So where firms like ours operate, and want to operate, is doing the cutting-edge, value-added work. If it is humdrum work, clients can hire a small firm or a regional firm to do it."
That bifurcation of the legal market has resulted in top firms vying ever harder for the plum assignments, and for the brightest law school graduates, at a time when nationally both law school enrollment and demand for top-shelf legal services are down.
Against that backdrop, how does an elite firm maintain, or even improve on, its standing? In discussions about the future of the elite bar, key topics—such as globalization, fee pressures, recruitment and training, and how much (or how little) to expand—came up again and again. So, too, did the Dewey collapse, and what it might signify for the legal profession.
While each of the seven firm leaders has made different choices based on their own firm's history, culture, and expertise, they largely agreed on one thing: Many of the old ways of doing business are gone. And they are not coming back.
The Rise of Alternative Billing
Four years ago, Evan Chesler, of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, caused a stir with an opinion piece in Forbes, titled "Kill the Billable Hour," which argued that the way law firms charged clients made no sense—even for lawyers. "If you are successful and win a case early on, you put yourself out of work," Chesler wrote. "If you get bogged down in a land war in Asia, you make more money. That is frankly nuts."
He may be right in theory, but, in practice, it has proven extremely difficult for law firms and their clients to agree on how to replace the billable hour. Alternatives abound, including fixed rates for projects, monthly retainers, and variations on contingency fees that call for firms to provide discounts for broken deals and lost cases, but allow for a premium payment when achieving success.
Moving away from the billable hour is "not an entirely comfortable notion for lawyers," says C. Allen Parker '83, who became Cravath's presiding partner at the beginning of 2013. "So you have to step back and ask, why do we bill by the hour? It's like democracy. It's the worst system, except for everything else. We don't always know how to value a law firm's contribution, so we've fallen to rate-times-hours."
While Cravath has become more proactive about proposing alternative-billing arrangements, Parker argues that clients need to understand that alternative billing is not a code word for discount. "What the most thoughtful clients mean is having law firms put some skin in the game in the early part of the assignment," he says. "So maybe we'll work for 80 percent of our billable rates on a summary judgment motion, but on victory, you will pay us an amount that brings us up to 120 percent of our billable rates. A bad arrangement is: We'll work for 80 percent, and if we win we'll get 100 percent."
While the pressure for alternative-billing methods has been building for years, the recent economic climate brought the issue to the forefront. "In this environment, every client, whether they are under duress or not, is looking to control and limit fees, and to make their outside legal work as productive and efficient as possible," says Jonathan D. Schiller '73, the co-founder and managing partner of Boies, Schiller & Flexner. "In that effort, they are turning to flat fees and alternative-billing arrangements, and trying to get away from unbudgeted hourly billing."
At the same time, the balance of power between firms and some large corporate clients has changed, as in-house corporate legal departments have grown in both talent and size—with legal teams at some companies now comprising hundreds of lawyers.
"Everything is about navigating around the billable hour," says Eve Burton '89, the senior vice president and general counsel at media giant Hearst Corporation, which now does the majority of its legal work in-house. "It's not just about cost. It's about the way we want to have relationships with lawyers who help us."
In other words, at Hearst, as with most corporations, business units must come up with estimates of costs and revenues, and show how big decisions make sense for the company as a whole. A law firm that does not fully understand this reality, Burton argues, fails to grasp how business operates today.
She shares a story about a very large firm Hearst had hired for a fixed monthly fee. The firm recently came to Burton and asked for more money to account for extra hours it had worked. "I said, 'That's not how we look at it,'" she recalls. "'We can't afford to pay any more than this. You've got to change what you do to fit the budget. You want to create a Cadillac, and I need a Volkswagen. To the extent that you want to take my VW Bug and turn it into a sedan, you do it at your own cost.'"
In some instances, technological advancements have allowed firms to change the way they offer advice, thus impacting fee arrangements. Thomas J. Reid '87 LL.M., the managing partner of Davis Polk, provides an example of a practice that is becoming more common within the profession: The firm chose to upload elements of its advisory work on the Dodd-Frank regulations to an online database. The subscription price per client for database access is much lower than any one client would pay for advice, but the firm has not seen its profits on the work decrease, since multiple clients use the service. "In places where the delivery of advice can be effective, but does not necessarily need to be individualized, we have responded to the changing dynamic," he says.
In such instances, as with some other alternative-billing scenarios, the potential for a win-win situation exists.
"If I was a client, I wouldn't be happy if I gave a law firm something I thought was straightforward to accomplish, and it took them twice as long to accomplish it, and therefore I had to pay them twice as much," says Daniel A. Neff '77, the co-chairman of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz's executive committee. "It's not wrong for lawyers to ask to be paid for the expertise they have gained over their careers, and it's not wrong for clients to say they want to pay for competence, not for things that take too long."
From the clients' perspective, the issue is not only about fees, but about the types of projects for which companies seek assistance from outside counsel, says Ellen Oran Kaden '77, the senior vice president and chief legal officer at Campbell Soup. With larger in-house legal departments, often staffed by lawyers who worked at large law firms earlier in their careers, companies are more likely to handle in-house work they might previously have sent out, while retaining outside counsel to do more routine work, like reviewing documents. "In many respects," Kaden says, "the tables have really turned. For many years, the structure of the fee system at outside law firms was predicated on rewarding inefficiency. The more people, the more time, the more large rocks you could hammer down into small rocks and glue back into large rocks, the more lucrative the assignment. Those days, for most companies, are long gone."
The new normal is still likely to include standard hourly billing, but with alternative-billing arrangements becoming more prevalent as a viable alternative. At Boies Schiller, for example, alternative billing expanded to more than half of the firm's total billings for the first time in 2010. At Dechert, meanwhile, the firm has begun talking with associates at an earlier stage about both alternative billing and business development. And none of the firm leaders interviewed, even those who expect that their own firms will continue to predominantly bill by the hour, would dismiss the shift out of hand.
Expansion: Why? Where? How?
During the boom years, many large law firms rushed to add overseas offices, but even in tougher times some remain committed to building their business abroad. Among the elite firms, there are primarily two distinct ways to confront globalization: Some are continuing to expand abroad, particularly in major financial centers such as Hong Kong and Frankfurt, while others are sticking to core practices at home, or partnering with foreign firms on an as-needed basis. The first strategy addresses globalization head-on, but can be riskier—global markets could shift, and there are inherent costs that go along with opening far-flung offices and finding the right lawyers to staff them.
At one end of the spectrum is Dechert, with more than 900 lawyers and 26 offices, as far afield as Dubai, Almaty (Kazakhstan), Tbilisi (Georgia), Luxembourg, and Dublin. "We have tried to position ourselves as doing really high-quality, cutting-edge work in the global arena—cross-border transactions, cross-border litigation, arbitrations—so some of the offices we have opened are part and parcel of that strategy, and some are more fortuitous," Andrew Levander says.
Similarly, Sullivan & Cromwell has 12 offices—including those in Frankfurt, Hong Kong, and Tokyo—and has added practices in the laws of the U.K., France, Germany, and Hong Kong. The firm, which earns nearly half its revenues from non-U.S. clients, has long had a program that allows foreign lawyers to spend time at the New York City office.
"The challenge we all have as the world becomes more global, and New York becomes less of the dominant financial center, is how do you remain globally relevant?" Joseph Shenker says. "That's the big picture. We need to make sure that we are not insular. For a firm like ours, which specializes in global transactions, we need to compete with the European law firms and, in time, the Chinese law firms."
At the other end of the spectrum, consciously going against the trend toward opening foreign offices, is Cravath, which operates out of locales in just two cities: New York City, where the bulk of the partners practice, and London. When the firm's work requires more foreign expertise, Cravath teams up with a foreign firm, such as Slaughter and May in the U.K. "We obviously understand that there's a lot of globalization going on, but we have made a decision that our clients are best served by having us focus on the things at which we are best," Allen Parker says.
Wachtell's Daniel Neff, similarly, argues against opening overseas offices, raising the question of whether an office of a U.S. firm abroad can adequately maintain the culture and caliber of its headquarters.
"The model where you have under one roof one of the best Dutch tax lawyers and one of the best Chinese competition lawyers is an expensive proposition," he says. "I don't know how the other firms are doing, but I hear enough grumbling that certainly, for now, we're very comfortable not having gotten involved in geographic expansion."
Milbank is in the middle of the pack when it comes to overseas expansion. It has 11 offices and one-quarter of its lawyers work outside the U.S., but the firm is moving cautiously. It has experienced both successes abroad, such as its office in São Paolo, and failures, such as its Moscow office, which was shuttered in the wake of the 1998 ruble crisis. "We are very careful in making the decision to open an office, and we spend an inordinate amount of time deciding which new location fits within our global strategy," says Milbank Chairman Mel M. Immergut '71. "Since we have a relatively small number of offices compared with many firms, it's about being in the right places."
Beyond geography, the shifting legal environment has also led some firms to consider adding new practice areas, or to shift focus in the direction of legal fields that are especially relevant at the moment. But those decisions involve numerous variables, as well as an array of considerations that are unique to each firm. "We are not looking to pick up some unrelated area," says Wachtell's Neff. "We just don't see it. We're not interested in growth for the sake of growth. It's got to support our core practices."
Other firm chairmen also noted the importance of pursuing practice areas that either were integral to their core businesses or that made sense for long-term growth. Sullivan & Cromwell, for example, has expanded in the areas of intellectual property and international tax enforcement. Dechert, meanwhile, is expanding its white-collar crime practice (adding a group in London focused on the U.K. Bribery Act), and in the fields of international arbitration and global M&A.
Davis Polk recently expanded its Washington, D.C., office to grow its antitrust and financial regulatory practices—enforcement work has been a hot area since the economic crisis. "Expansion is always going to be constrained by our core practice areas, or adjacent essential practices to the core," says Davis Polk's Thomas Reid. So, for example, its expansion in Washington, D.C., has included a partner to do work related to the Committee on Foreign Investment, which reviews transactions that have the potential to result in control of U.S. businesses by foreign countries. "We had not had that practice before, but because we saw foreign investment in the U.S. become larger and larger, we added it," says Reid.
While macro-level developments in the U.S. and internationally can be useful in assessing opportunities for increased profits, leaders at elite New York City firms tend to be skeptical when it comes to taking on trendy or unproven niche areas of practice.
With respect to development and growth through the recruitment of young attorneys, many firm leaders reported that the current economic climate has resulted in a seemingly counterintuitive reality. In a difficult market that includes more lawyers than jobs, it would be easy to assume that law firms have the upper hand with respect to hiring. But these partners say that the competition for the best law school graduates, from Columbia Law School and elsewhere, has never been tougher.
Milbank is spending "more time, money, and effort" recruiting associates, Mel Immergut says, even though the size of the firm's summer classes and first-year classes has shrunk since the financial crisis.
Other firms, meanwhile, view their individualized training programs, or lower partner/associate ratios, or abundance of international offices, as pluses when it comes to recruiting new associates. Sullivan & Cromwell, for example, has expanded its hiring to include Asian and European law students, in addition to graduates rom schools in the U.S., as it becomes an increasingly global firm. "It's a brains business, and you want to make sure that your talent is drawn from as big a pool as possible," says Joseph Shenker.
With the competition between law firms more intense, effective and efficient training has become even more important. One recurring issue is how best to train junior attorneys to specialize—at a time when clients expect increasingly deep knowledge about specific legal areas—but also make sure those attorneys are flexible enough to shift as the economy does. At Cravath, for example, which has its own rigorous training system that seeks to produce generalist lawyers, when bank lending evaporated in January 2009, the partners who had specialized in that area moved into M&A and securities work, Allen Parker says. Adds Wachtell's Neff: "If you're a junk bond lawyer, and the market shuts down for three or four months, you need to be able to know how to do other things, even if they are in the securities field."
Going Forward
So what do these trends add up to, and what will the future bring for the nation's top firms at a time of market consolidation? While each managing partner and chairman interviewed for this story believes that his firm is well positioned for success going forward, these leaders of the elite bar understand that challenges lie ahead. Many did not hesitate to point out risk factors and potential pitfalls that could invite trouble down the line.
For instance, despite Dewey's collapse, some partnerships continue to offer big bonuses and guarantees to lure top lawyers—and their business—in an increasingly competitive market. "The firms that give bonuses and guarantees to people are at risk if the work they are doing dries up," says Jonathan Schiller, the managing partner of Boies Schiller.
More broadly, the bifurcation of the legal market—between the elite firms and more commodity-driven ones—seems to be here to stay. For the latter, "There will be really intensive fee pressure," says Cravath's Allen Parker. "It's possible you will see more failures of law firms that just don't have an understanding of what they are and how to act on it."
The Dewey blowup is "absolutely" a sign of things to come, Davis Polk's Thomas Reid adds. "There are more mergers now, and there may be more failed law firms," he says. "That just goes back to the supply/demand imbalance. I think that will test a lot of firms to the max, particularly firms that don't have a strong culture and don't operate as teams."
On the other hand, even as the weak get weaker, the strong and the focused can indeed get stronger, with the best-run firms gaining from that coming shakeout. With increasing choices regarding whom to call, clients will look to the smartest lawyers, and the most trustworthy firms, to do the job.
"Clients are more vocal today about making sure that they are getting good value for the dollar," Parker says. But ultimately, he adds, their needs are the same. "Clients want first-rate legal advice for good value."


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What formats supporting animation are suitable for the web and what are the pros and cons of each.
It depends on what type of animation you need.
This is in addition to Virtuosi Media's great answer:
It can also be interactive. If you scroll to the Smart Cover section of Apple's iPad page, you can see it in action: http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/
When overlaying images that contain a transparency on-top of animated images on layers beneath the image. You will find that PNG24 is the only image format where the anti-aliasing blends correctly with the background imagery. With GIF and PNG8 you are going to find that your edges are all chunky. Doesn't look very good, but really easy to miss.


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I'm displaying gps track data (e.g. points in time, like the path a vehicle covered) and I need to allow the user to "play back" the track, by having the markers change color one at a time in sequence. So imagine a sequence of yellow markers and then during playback I change the first one to a red marker, then the next one, etc.
I've done a prototype using point features because it seemed easier at the time to implement this with Points because I could do the following (pseudo code):
p = getpointFromLayer(); // get the yellow point from the layer
p.style = myRedStyle; // change it's style
p.layer.drawFeature(p); // redraw the feature using the red style
Now I'd like to re-do this functionality using Markers because Markers seem to generally be more flexible for other functionality, but I don't know whether it's possible to somehow change a specific marker's appearance. Any ideas?


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This seems to be a concern people bring up from to time so I thought I would start a thread dedicated to the topic.
I've shot panoramas and generl photography in public places myself. I get stopped in places like shopping malls (private property) and was actually stopped once at a carnival held on public land. Security pointed out child protection safety laws. Personally I am not aware of any such laws here in AZ but more public venues are prohibiting photography especially if children are involved such as swimming pools, school plays and events, etc.
Google street views as been hit with concerns by people over privacy issues as well catching some where they shouldn't be, license plates, house numbers etc.
Here is a very good link I found that addresses many of these issues.
If anyone can share their own personal experiences or knowledge of local laws please share them.


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Last night I succesfully installed Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, and then I tried to install Mac OSX Theme from this site
But after and after I followed I don't know what's going on terminal, after I installed the last thing, thats gnome tweak tool, I run compiz and I don't know why it's like something going wrong, my Ubuntu bar dissapear, then it's frozen, so I restart my Ubuntu. After the Ubuntu is showing up, all I see is wallaper, do icon, no bar.
I think the way is to recover the Ubuntu system files like new, if you may help me I really appreciate
Now I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 Live CD. It's all I can use, live CD.
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Some South-Central Kentucky students will soon be getting a fresh look at American History, thanks to a new grant from the federal government.
The United States Department of Education has awarded $990,827 to the Green River Regional Educational Cooperative, to help history teachers and students make the grade in American History.
The grant will enable 116 area teachers to receive training in teaching strategies, technology, document retrieval and integration, as well as allow them to participate in history expeditions and hands-on workshops.
The training these teachers receive will impact more than 6,000 students from elementary to high school levels. The grant has been awarded to the G.R.R.E.C. in behalf of nine school districts. Those include: Allen County, Barren County, Cloverport Independent, Daviess County, Glasgow Independent, Hart County, Logan County, Metcalfe County and Monroe County.


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Are you one of those asking us for modifications of existing lens rings to allow full access of controls on the lens? Here they are.
We've made modifications to the plastic insert and outer metal ring to allow for reading the focus distance in both landscape and portrait orientations. And in some cases, switch(es) on the lens can also be accessed through these windows. As with V1 the new V2 is compatible with R1, R10, RS1/2, and M series model heads.
Version 2 is now available for pre-order only and will begin shipping May 20th.
Current lenses supported for V2:
Sigma 8mm / 15mm Fisheyes (all mounts)
Canon 8-15mm fisheye.
The modifications to the lens rings unfortunately results in a slightly higher price at $149.95. However V1 (older version) rings will remain available for $109.95.
It's important to note that the V2 merely offers extended functionality. The V1 still works fine and users rarely have need to adjust settings once mounted.


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If Only Baseball Had a Bracket...
How All 30 Teams Size Up in NCAA Tournament Terms; the Cubs and Mets Are 16 Seeds
If you're trying to come up with a sound, logical pick to win the World Series this year, then you also have to accept this: There's a very good chance you're going to be wrong. Parity rules the day in Major League Baseball, which returns next week. From the Boston Red Sox collapse of 2011 to the Baltimore Orioles revival of 2012, upsets are becoming the norm.
Maybe it's best, then, to think of the MLB season like the NCAA tournament—a really long, best-of-162 slog of an NCAA tournament, followed by an October tournament in which more randomness prevails. There may not be a bracket, but the unpredictability is very much the same.
With that in mind, here's a handy guide to the field going into Opening Day.
The No. 1 Seeds
Nationals, Reds, Tigers, Angels
You don't want to think too hard, so you save yourself a lot of time and energy by simply picking one of these four teams. You may not end up being right, but no one will question your judgment. Coming off a 98-win season and with a dynamic young core of talent, the Nationals could be baseball's only true dominant power. The Reds return most of last year's 97-win team. The Tigers might be even better a year after reaching the World Series. And the Angels added slugger Josh Hamilton to an offense that already included slugger Albert Pujols and wunderkind Mike Trout.
The Trendy Picks
Blue Jays, Dodgers, Giants, Braves, Cardinals
You want to pick a good team, but not a No. 1 seed like everyone else, so you think you're being clever in picking one of these teams. But really, everyone else is doing the same thing. The Dodgers are a $213 million juggernaut. The Blue Jays were the darlings of the winter. The Giants are coming off their second championship in the last three years. The Braves and Cardinals have been among the National League's best teams the past few years. But go ahead: Tell your friends all about your bold pick and why you made it.
The Name-Only Picks
Yankees, Red Sox, Phillies
You don't know much about the sport, but you know the marquee teams in the Northeast, so these seem like safe picks, just like you thought North Carolina was a safe pick in the South region despite being a No. 8 seed. But red flags abound. The combination of age, injuries and a lack of depth leaves the Yankees vulnerable. For similar reasons, the Phillies' championship window appears to be closing. And Boston's has already closed. The Red Sox aren't punting on 2013, but they are rebuilding, as much as a big-market power can. Sorry to be the one to break this to you, but baseball's epicenter has moved west to California.
The Bracket Busters
Athletics, Rays, Diamondbacks, Orioles, Royals
These are the baseball equivalents of mid-majors, in terms of payroll and market size, and so they'll be called surprise teams if they win. But they shouldn't be. The A's and Rays are models of efficiency, loaded with young talent. The Orioles are coming off their first playoff appearance in 15 years. The Diamondbacks are the sleeper team of the NL West, because of their depth, balance and lack of stars. And the Royals are finally out of perpetual rebuilding mode, having traded for pitcher James Shields. When your trendy pick implodes, chances are you'll be cursing one of these five teams.
The Recent Memory Picks
Rangers, White Sox
You'll pick these teams for the same reason you might have picked Butler or VCU this year, because you remember them being good fairly recently, which obscures the fact that they may not be as good this time. The Rangers made it to the World Series in 2010 and 2011 but lost in the wild-card game last year and lost Hamilton over the winter. The White Sox won 88 games in 2010 and 85 games in 2012, but blew their division lead last September and had a quiet off-season. Neither team figures to be dramatically worse, but it's not clear that either has improved.
The Potential Cinderellas
Indians, Brewers, Mariners, Pirates
These teams seem just bad enough to be largely overlooked but just good enough for you to think one of them could be this year's version of the 2012 A's or Orioles. The Indians' starting rotation is thoroughly unimpressive, but an off-season highlighted by the signings of Nick Swisher and Michael Bourn has created some hope. The Brewers just added pitcher Kyle Lohse to help complement what was the NL's best offense in 2012. The Mariners and Pirates are, if nothing else, due for a good year.
The 16 Seeds
Mets, Cubs, Padres, Rockies
At best, maybe these teams are good enough to keep things close in the first half. If they make it entertaining, their fans would settle for that. But they have a pretty good idea of where they're headed, and it's not to the postseason. Not this year, anyway.
The NIT teams
Astros, Marlins, Twins
What, you thought all 30 teams made the tournament in this analogy? Nope. These three are competing for the consolation prize known as the No. 1 pick in the 2014 amateur draft. The Astros and Marlins are the odds-on favorites, but don't overlook the Twins. It would be a major upset if they finished with baseball's worst record. In this era of unpredictability, that's reason enough to consider the possibility.
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This question is rather historical one.
kilometres can be defined in metres, metres in centimetres, centimetres in millimetres.
There must be some elementary unit (like millimetre or smth.) which cannot be defined in smaller units.
The question is : How does this elementary unit came into being?? e.g. How did scientists decide about exact distance between point A and point B which is considered millimetre??


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Keenan Reynolds rushed for three touchdowns and threw for two more, and Navy had a season-high 563 total yards in a 56-28 rout of East Carolina on Saturday.
Gee Gee Greene had 131 yards rushing while Reynolds scored on runs of 1, 1 and 2 yards. The Midshipmen quarterback also had TD throws of 15 yards to Casey Bolena and 20 yards to Geoffrey Whiteside while improving to 3-0 as Navy's starter.
Marcus Thomas added a 17-yard touchdown run and Noah Copeland scored from 5 yards out for Navy. The Midshipmen (5-3) rolled up a season-best 512 yards rushing and won their fourth straight. Playing on a field that was soaked because of the approaching Tropical Storm Sandy, Navy scored on eight of its 11 possessions.
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Is there a better way to browse Amazon Black Friday Lightning Deals (300+ of them today)?
Amazon's web site seems to only allow me to view 2 of the 300+ (just for today) Black Friday lightning deals. That means hundreds of mouse clicks to see if there is anything I might want. Not doing it. Is there a better way? Can I see 20 at a time, or something like that, on some secret page? Other ideas besides endless mouse clicks and terminal boredom?
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I wish there was a way to not see deals that were already sold out or otherwise unavailable. It is also annoying to have to start scrolling through from the beginning every time you click through to look at the details of something. I guess they are trying to keep us there as long as possible.
@cf: There are "sub-tabs" under the "Today's Lightning Deals" heading the middle of the page. You will find "All Available / Upcoming / Missed Deals" available to click.
You can also select a category of goods to look at, like electronics, video games, etc. That makes it much more manageable. It would be great if they had a "go to page __" option, but I haven't found anything like that.
I guess I was hoping for a link to the secret page :)
Thx for replies! More ideas out there?
I have a feeling it's to pace people. If you see all of them and can just blast through and click "add to cart" on all of them at once, it would hammer them.
Have you tried it lately? I think it's getting easier as they sell out of items.
It's strangely weak on iPad. Very frustrating. It's better on a desktop/laptop.
Yes, much easier as many of the ittems either sell out, or the discount window comes to an end. But I do find the format way frustrating. I try to go thru some of them - as many as I can stand to click thru - on my Samsung S3. Very easy to tap the wrong spot and have to start over. And difficult to deal with - hard to right-click to look at the details of something I might want, hard to remember to check back 4 times a day when the stuff i might want comes up.... unless I just happen on a deal that's live, I don't bother to try to buy stuff that way. I wish it were easier to track, was hoping Wooters knew the secret. Thanks anyway!
It turns out the Amazon App for Android does this better than the Amz desktop site, at least for me. Possibly also true for Iphone app?
With the Android App hit MENU then MORE then TODAYS DEALS then LIGHTNING DEALS. You can then scroll them.
I dislike the app for general browsing of the Amz site, but for Lightning deals, might save much frustration.
Side note: in my experience, the Waitlist' feature will NOT work on mobile browsers.
Secret page is linked to in various places as "holiday calendar" eg: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_366799802_3?ie=UTF8&docId=1000747021&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=04Z2QR1BD7RGAEMZV1FM&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_p=1430156102&pf_rd_i=1000845091


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Who said enterprise apps have to be boring? Check out Biztalk's future XSLT Mapper, which makes use of new information interaction technologies. Here you get to meet two researchers from Microsoft research and see how they worked with the product teams to come up with an improved version of the schema mapper.
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Sorry if it wasn't clear but the concepts and technologies shown in the above prototypes are not going to be in BizTalk 2006.
The current Mapper (BizTalk 2006) is not standalone at the moment but it is something we are looking at for its follow up release. Feel free to contact me directly (eddie dot churchill at microsoft dot com) and I will be happy to put you in touch with the folks working on that effort. They might be able to give you a better idea when a standalone version might be available.
Glad you like what you saw. There is a lot more but that was all we were allowed to show.
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They might be able to give you a better idea when a standalone version might be available.
Glad you like what you saw. There is a lot more but that was all we were allowed to show.
I thought this was going to be about XSLT, which is why I started to watch it. But it turned out to be a mind expanding foray into the Windows user interface. Amazing.
All the way through the demo I assumed that at some stage the interface was going to become 3D, but no, maybe because the Windows UI is too far from that right now.
I wonder, did you investigate the idea of making the lists on the left and the right smaller in height by giving them a depth dimension? Some sort of categorisation that would let items sink into the distance, or come into the foreground?
Hey guys, I must say, it's looking good! All those little improvements will make a big difference!
Can I make a suggestion? I have an idea for something that is effectively "two stage" mapping that should simplify and clean up the UI (and all those mapping links/lines!).
One can start off with high level mapping: "complexType(s) to complexType(s)", and then once you have these "high level" structures mapped, you can drill down into one of the above links/maps and start the low level mapping: "elements to elements". This low level mapping only shows the complexTypes that you chose/linked/mapped to in the high level view.
So, how would this look/work: Take the Biztalk mapper. The first high "level view" will have the source schema on the left, the mapping surface in the middle and the destination schema on the right (exactly like now) except the schemas on the left and right will only contain lists of all the complexType's in the schemas. One can then click and drag to link two (or more) complex types from left to right (similar to how mapping is down now). Once this link is created, you can then double click on this link, and it takes you to the "low level mapping" view. All that's changed in this view is that the compexTypes "linked" in the previous view, and only those complexTypes, are now expanded in the source and destination surfaces to show the elements and only the . Now one can map individual fields/elements.
We have quite huge and complicated schemas where I work, and mapping from one xml instance to another is an almost impossible task, abstracting things a bit like possibly just mapping complexTypes, will simplify mapping a great deal!
Hope all this made sense, drop me a mail and I will be more than willing to discuss it.
Keep up the good work! … and let me know what you think.
The sibbling coalesce is a good idea IMO and also a simple "sort by" click like on a dataview column to sort by the items that have existing links, might be another option.
despite its problems i would hope by now that the MSN search team is using the same kind of technique for searching the way as demonstrated in this video.
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The 8 Most Successful Politicians (Who Weren't Human)
Sometimes politicians get so bad that we make jokes about how we'd rather have a monkey, or drinking bird toy, or [other humorous hyperbolic metaphor] in charge, but then we never do anything about it. Such is the apathy of our voting citizenry today. Well here's some cases where voters put their money where their mouths were, starting with ...
#8. Incitatus, the Horse Senator
The Roman Emperor Caligula, most popularly known for being crazy, is said to have appointed his horse to the Senate which probably explains why he was popularly known for being crazy. Some historians say he wasn't crazy, that he appointed the horse as a sort of satirical joke about politics or something, and that his enemies were just bitter. These historians are no fun.
They won't even order pizza from Little Caesars because it's "historically inaccurate."
Senator Incitatus came from humble beginnings, born under the undignified name of "Porcellus," or "little pig." He rose through the ranks of chariot racehorses to become an undefeated champion, and like many sports stars, moved to politics. He got so close to the Emperor that when Caligula got married, he fretted that Incitatus would be jealous.
Caligula built the horse a palace, where Incitatus would somehow invite people to have dinner with him. The horse also owned slaves. How do you deal with being owned by a horse?
Ask any of Secretariat's competitors. ZING!
Although there's no description of Senator Incitatus' influence on policy, he was possibly the first recorded animal government official and his brave, pioneering example paved the way for other embarrassments to society, such as ...
#7. Boston Curtis the Mule
In 1938, the people of Milton, Washington elected Boston Curtis as their Republican Precinct Committeeman with 51 votes. Boston Curtis was, of course, a mule.
It wasn't Boston's idea to run for office. Most of Boston's ideas centered around eating grass, or maybe pooping, until one day, the mayor of Milton, Kenneth Simmons, dragged him downtown to the courthouse and put his hoofprint on some documents. One election later, Boston was a republican precinct committeeman.
He brought a lot of baggage to the position ...
A precinct committeeman's job involves getting out the local vote for their party and helping to register new voters. This is the sort of job that they would give an old retired guy that complains about politics a lot, so he can feel important. So while there's no record of whether Boston served out his full term, he probably did, because precinct committeeman? Who gives a shit.
The glamorous world of precinct committeeman training.
When asked his motive for the stunt, Simmons, a democrat, said he wanted to embarrass the republicans, as well as teach people a lesson about responsible voting, or something. However, the next year, he organized a really stupid stunt that involved appointing the town's rowdiest young men as policemen for a day, which, to no one's surprise, ended up in a fight that had to be put down by the state police.
This makes his motivation for the mule stunt pretty obvious. He was clearly a retarded attention whore.
#6. Cacareco the Rhinoceros
Republican precinct committeeman is small potatoes, though, compared to City Councilmember for Sao Paulo, the largest city in Brazil and the entire Southern Hemisphere. This office was won, fair and square, by a rhinoceros.
Cacareco, a female zoo rhinoceros, won the 1959 city council seat in a landslide with 100,000 votes. She accomplished all this by the time she was five-years old. Doesn't that make you feel inadequate?
Not so proud of that bean painting anymore, are you?
No one had to be tricked into it, either. The politics of Sao Paulo, and Brazil, were a complete mess at the time. The majority of the population was essentially voting, "Fuck this" in different ways. Most by voting for the rhino, but some by putting black beans into the ballot envelope and mailing them in, and possibly some of the more direct citizens just writing, "Fuck this" on the ballot.
Some of the vote tallies.
Cacareco's votes were nullified, and another election was held, showing exactly how screwed up and lacking in humor the system was. While she never took a city council seat, Cacareco did send a powerful message to Sao Paulo and Brazil at large: "We would rather vote for a rhino using beans than keep these jokers in office" -- which remains a catchphrase for protest voting to this day.
#5. Bosco The Pro-Democracy Lab-Rottweiler Mix
In 1981, the citizens of Sunol, California held a mayoral election where the choices were some guy, some other guy and a dog. Of course they voted for the dog, Bosco Ramos.
Sunol is an unincorporated town with a population of 1,300 that I don't think can even legally have a mayor, so you might think it barely counts. However, the government of China thought differently.
In 1989, China tried to convince citizens that asking for democracy was a bad idea by shooting them in a crowded square. In 1990, they moved on to more subtle tactics when the Chinese government paper The People's Daily of Beijing printed an article highlighting Bosco's election as everything wrong with democracy, saying that it should serve as a "wake-up tonic for those kind-hearted people who are naive and ignorant and blindly worship Western democracy."
Wonder what they said about Jesse Ventura 10 years later.
Not one to take such anti-democratic sentiments lying down, Bosco responded by joining local Chinese students in a pro-democracy protest in front of the Chinese consulate in San Francisco where I hope he peed on something.
Bosco died in 1994, but if you go to a Sunol bar, you can get a likeness of him to piss beer into your mug when the bartender lifts his leg. Isn't that how we all want to be remembered?


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Greatest game ever!
Same price right now on Steam and since they're in the middle of their holiday sale, I'm sure it'll be a nickel or something over the next few days.
i payed about this much for every GTA last steam sale. so hold off a few more days it will be coming soon


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Gerben Valkema began his artistic career in 1996 with contributions to fanzines like Impuls, that was edited by Reinder Dijkhuis and Kilian Hekhuis, and De Stripper. He self-published two small books called 'Grappen en Grollen' in 1996 and 1997 and was a member of Studio Jan Kruis from its creation in 1999 until its demise in 2007.
As an apprentice, he assisted Daan Jippes on 'Hoi Pipeloi', short illustrated stories with Jeroen and Catootje, two of the main characters from 'Jan, Jans en de Kinderen', for Bobo. Shortly afterwards, he became one of the main artists of the regular 'Jan, Jans en de Kinderen' page in Libelle.
In addition to his work for Studio Kruis, Valkema has done contributions to Okki ('Luuk en Lotte' with Frank Jonker) and Razzafrazz, and cooperated with Jan-Dirk Barreveld on the strip 'Corduroy' in Myx. He has drawn covers for Tom & Jerry, Donald Duck and even Bamse in Sweden. He also makes comics for the educational magazines of the publishing house Zwijsen. His comic 'Tommy' has appeared in Roetsj, and 'Kik' appeared on the backpages of school magazine Maan Roos Vis.
Valkema created the daily strip about the cynical little girl 'Elsje' together with Eric Hercules in 2007. The strip is published in several regional newspapers in the Netherlands. Valkema and Hercules collected the 'Elsje' gags in a series of self-published books, before the collection was transfered to Rob van Bavel's Don Lawrence Collection. One page gags starring 'Elsje' are additionally published in Eppo magazine.
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In 2012, Valkema joined forces with his former Studio Kruis colleague Michiel van de Vijver to set up Kijk en Lees, a label through which they publish their educational children's comics (Valkema's 'Kik' and Van de Vijver's 'Joep') in book format. In 2012 it was also announced that Valkema would become the artist in the case of a revival of Marten Toonder's 'Tom Poes en Heer Bommel' strip. Valkema's first Bommel story was 'Heer Bommel en de i-Padden', a story written by Patty Klein in commission of the Dutch Association of Information Professionals NVB.
Eric Hercules, Elsje and Gerben Valkema


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The FAR program
far runs on blacklight and operates in one of two modes:
- Single-line mode, permitting you to execute one far command. This mode is best suited for use within batch jobs.
Following the single-line link will also take you to documentation describing the error codes returned in single-line mode. We recommend that you use single-line mode in batch jobs and check the error code returned to see if your far command was successful.
- Command mode, permitting you to start far and execute as many commands as you wish before exiting. This mode is best suited for your interactive work. Since you are not checking error codes to see if your far commands have succeeded you should use other means, such as a far ls command, to check that your far commands have worked.
Regardless of the mode you use, you communicate with the storage resource, PSC's Data Supercell (patent pending), through a variety of far sub-commands.
far help for a complete, current list of commands available in the FAR user interface.
Single-line mode
Using far in single-line mode allows you to execute only one far sub-command at a time. It is very useful in batch jobs, when you want to retrieve a file before you begin program execution, or store the output of a job.
To use far in single-line mode, type
far sub-command
You are returned to the machine prompt immediately after the command executes.
There are many far sub-commands available.
I/O redirection is available in single-line mode but not in command mode.
Error codes
In single-line mode, you can trap the exit code returned by far, and act upon any errors you'd like. We recommend that you always check the error return code to see if your far command succeeded.
These are the error codes returned by far:
0 - Successful 1 - Failure, retry necessary. 2 - Unknown far command, don't retry. 3 - Far command argument problem. 4 - File doesn't exit. 5 - Unknown machine type.
Command mode
To use far in command mode, type
You will get an far> prompt. You can then use any of the available commands. When you want to exit far, type quit.
Wildcards can be used in command mode in the ordinary way, without being "escaped" as in line mode.
You cannot use piping or I/O redirection in command mode. Command mode cannot be directly used in a batch job. However, you can use a "here document" in a batch job as input to far:
far <
For more information on here documents, refer to your favorite UNIX reference manual.
far commands
Most of the far commands are standard UNIX commands. They work in the usual way, and all of their switches and options are available. Additional information for the standard commands is available via the man pages.
far commands fall into these categories:
- Storing and retrieving files
- Displaying archived files
- Navigating and modifying your archive hierarchy
- Modifying the protections of archived files
- Working with your local directory without exiting far
- Getting help
Storing and retrieving files
The put and get commands allow you to store and retrieve archived files:
- put source-file target-file
- copies a file from the current working directory to the archive. Both source and target filenames are required. The file is archived but not deleted. Existing archived files of the same name are overwritten.
- put -R source-directory target-directory
- copies an entire subtree from the source directory to the archive. Both source and target directories are required.
- get source-file target-file
- retrieves a file from the archive and saves it in your current working directory, unless you specify another directory in the target filename. Both source and target filenames are required. The file is not deleted from the archive. Existing files of the same name in the target directory are overwritten.
- get -R source-directory target-directory
- copies the entire subtree of the source directory to the target directory. Both source and target directories are required.
put output run1.dat
Saves the file output on the Data Supercell*, naming it run1.dat.
put output run1/data
Copies the file called output to the Data Supercell, storing it in directory run1 and naming it data.
put prog.f inp.dat out.dat simulation
Copies prog.f, inp.dat, and out.dat to the archiver directory simulation.
get file1 file2 file3 $TMP
Copies file1, file2, and file3 from the current archive directory to your $TMP directory.
Displaying archived files
These commands allow you to display archived files:
- head
- prints the first few lines of a file.
- tail
- prints the last few lines of a file.
- cat
- displays the contents of a file.
- ls
- displays a directory listing for the archive. To determine if the file has an ACL associated it with it, type ls -le, which prints an afollowing the permissions strings for files with ACLs.
- more
- displays a file in paged mode.
For additional information on any of these commands, refer to the man pages.
Navigating and modifying your archive directories
These commands allow you to move around within, and modify, your archive hierarchy:
- cp
- makes another copy of a file in the archive.
- cd
- changes your working directory in the archive. cd is futile in line mode, since once you are moved to the appropriate directory, far exits. When you invoke far again to issue the next command, you start from your home directory.
- mkdir
- creates a new directory in the archive.
- mv
- renames or moves a file from one archive directory to another.
- pwd
- prints your current directory in the archive.
- rm
- deletes a file from the archive. Please note that there is no delete recovery provided; a file cannot be restored after it has been deleted.
- rmdir
- deletes a empty directory from the archive.
For additional information on any of these commands, refer to the man pages.
Modifying protections on archived files
Files copied into or out of the archive retain their permissions. New versions of files replacing older versions in the archive inherit the protection of the older version.
The file protection scheme used on the archiver matches that used by Unix. Use chmod to change the protections on a file and chgrp to change a file's group ownership. For more information on these commands, see your favorite Unix documentation.
Working with your local directory without leaving far
Two commands allow you to see and change your local directory - your working directory on the machine that you connected to the archiver from - without leaving the far interface.
- lls
- prints the directory listing of your working directory on your local machine.
- lcd
- changes your working directory on your local machine.
Getting help
Type help for more information on far commands.


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spoiler:It seems Darth Krayt is A'Sharad Hett. Can't believe I didn't figure it out. It was pretty friggin' obvious. Darth Krayt and the face tattoos (which you see when he takes off his Tuskan Mask in one of the Clone Wars comics).
spoiler:Krayt is A'Sharad Hett. His father, Jedi Knight Sharad Hett died in 32 BBY, long before the Vong even appeared on the galactic stage.
A'Sharad was the one who was captured by the Vong:


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The hiv antigens that are used in the oral rapid tests, are they infectious? The tests do not contain any actual virus but I am curious if the antigens themselves could somehow create the virus on their own if they get into the bloodstream? Like do they contain all of the parts needed for replication inside them? (Not the actual virus but the antigen).
nope - the test contains antibodies to HIV proteins, but nothing from HIV itself. The 'antigen test' tests for antigens, it doesn't itself contain any antigens.
Antibodies are proteins that animals (like humans) produce to fight of viral and bacterial infections, they don't come from viruses.
Even if the test did contain HIV proteins, it could not infect anyone. You really have to have the HIV RNA, and almost certainly the rest of the virus too, to cause any infection.
No, the protein components of viruses may be able to initiate the infectious process, i.e. injection, but if there is no RNA or DNA, there is no virus to inject into the target cell. Hence none of the viral genome's action such as replication or transcription will occur and the cell itself will remain unchanged.
However, some effects of viral infection are actually part of an immune response of some kind, and these are often triggered by viral proteins themselves.


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The Changing Mat is a lightweight folding mat that will keep your wheel out of the dirt when changing a flat. The pocket it packs into becomes a temporary storage place to keep all the small parts, like your axle nut, valve stem or tools when doing a tire change. It will keep your socks clean when changing out of your riding gear. It serves as a door mat when getting in and out of your tent. Use it for a food prep station when you don't have a picnic Mat. Only your imagination will limit the many ways you can use The Changing Mat.
After a long, dusty day of riding, a refreshing backcountry shower is just what you need.


text: Boiled/Stewed Chestnuts (煌焖板栗) June 3, 2010 · by linuxishbell · in Food wine beer. · Alternative to Roasted Chestnuts, Stewed Chestnuts (煌焖板栗) Winter in Armidale is a season for chestnuts. That refreshed my memory of roasted chestnut in Lanzhou. Today (05/29/10), after visited Bunnings' grant opening in Armidale, we bought a bout 1 kg of chestnuts, looks like good quality, as there were fatty round and big. I can't make roasted chestnuts here. Instead I cooked it as boiled chestnuts. The finished product is not bad. 1st Cut chestnut halfway through. This is an important step, to peal shell after cooked. 2nd pour into pan and add water, just cover the nut. Put on oven and boiling for 30 minutes. this is the finished product. taste great! Rate this:Share this:Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Like this:Like Loading... Related


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Coffin At The Capitol: A Heartbreaking Protest In Alabama
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Alabama residents protested in front of the Capitol on Saturday to demand that Gov. Robert Bentley (R) expand the state's Medicaid program. The move would provide health insurance coverage to 200,000 low-income residents who fall into a coverage gap in the Affordable Care Act.
More than 40 organizations under the umbrella group Save OurSelves: A Movement for Justice and Democracy, or SOS "presented 13,653 signatures to the Capitol doorstep in a coffin carried by six pallbearers," the Montgomery Advertiser reports. Individuals told personal stories of waiting years to access coverage, with some eventually dying from lack of health care. A recent study conducted by Harvard researchers estimated that as many as 17,000 people will die directly as a result of their states refusing to expand Medicaid.
"It's really not about Republican or Democrat, it's not about Washington D.C.," organizer Sophia Bracy-Harris said. "The people who are here today are putting a face on who the 300,000 people are. They're people, they are our neighbors, they are our family, and working people in this state." A spokesperson for Bentley said that the governor still opposes growing the Medicaid program and is instead considering options for reforming it.
If Alabama were to accept Medicaid expansion, the federal government would provide $1 billion in funding, while the state would have to kick in $700 million by 2020. A study from University of Alabama at Birmingham has found that the additional federal spending would generate more than $1.7 billion in new tax revenue and create 24,613 to 51,918 new jobs.
Nearly six million low-income Americans have been left without any access to affordable insurance whatsoever because they earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to qualify for premium tax credits in the Affordable Care Act's exchanges. However, momentum for expanding Medicaid has culminated in public protesters across the country. Residents in Georgia, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Missouri have been protesting and rallying legislators to implement the provision.


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11 Signs Your Teen Could Be Depressedby Lindsay Hutton
Teen angst and moodiness is something you expect your child to go through somewhere around middle or high school. Although general sulkiness is par for the course during these hormonal years, sometimes these behaviors can signal a deeper problem. How can you tell if your teen is depressed or suicidal? Read on for signs and symptoms of teen depression, and find resources to help your child cope if you think she needs help. If you think your teen is suicidal or in immediate danger, call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline right away.
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Withdrawal from Friends and Family
Although all teens go through phases of wanting more independence and the need for alone time, most balance it out with close friendships and a good family life. If your teen completely isolates herself from loved ones and starts having trouble with her relationships with friends, she could be suffering from depression. Try to set aside time each day to talk to your teen about how she's doing — these 10 simple ways to connect to your teen can help get the conversation started.
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Author(s): Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, Children's Bureau
Year Published: 2004
This manual provides the foundation for effective supervisory practice in child protective services (CPS). It outlines the roles and responsibilities of the CPS supervisor and provides practice-oriented advice on how to effectively carry out supervisory responsibilities, with a focus on best practices and critical issues in supervisory practice.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 Purpose and Overview
CHAPTER 2 The Nature of Child Protective Services Supervision
CHAPTER 3 Making the Transition from Caseworker to Supervisor
CHAPTER 4 Building the Foundation for Effective Unit Performance
CHAPTER 5 Building Staff Capacity and Achieving Quality Performance
CHAPTER 6 Supervisory Feedback and Performance Recognition
CHAPTER 7 Results-oriented Management
CHAPTER 8 Clinical Supervision
CHAPTER 9 Recruitment and Retention
CHAPTER 10 Managing from the Middle
CHAPTER 11 Taking Care of Oneself and the Unit
Appendix A Glossary of Terms
Appendix B Resource Listings of Selected National Organizations Concerned with Child Maltreatment
Appendix C State Toll-free Telephone Numbers for Reporting Child Abuse
Appendix D Overview of the Child Protection Process
Appendix E The National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics
Appendix F Child Protection Service Pyramid
Suggested Citation: Child Welfare Information Gateway. (2004). Supervising child protective services caseworkers. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children's Bureau.
This material may be freely reproduced and distributed. However, when doing so, please credit Child Welfare Information Gateway.


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Is there an app for the Mac that will alert me if my Internet connection is lost?
Sometimes I work from home and lose my connection without knowing it.
Is there an app for the Mac that will alert me if my Internet connection is lost?
Sometimes I work from home and lose my connection without knowing it.
The following script will alert you when your wireless network no longer has a connection. Though you could modify the script to require a check to locate a specific SSID, the following script simply looks for any wireless network connection. The script can be run via a Launch Daemon (login option preferred) or by simply running the script manually when you decide.
NOTE: This script contains an internal loop. The loop is designed to sleep for 2 min intervals so as not to constantly beep and verbalize said phrase. This interval can be modified to your liking by modifying the "SLEEP_TIMER" variable found within the script.
ALSO: If you are interested in setting up a Launch Daemon but do not have a lot of experience with Daemons, I recommend using Lingon (was once free but Lingon 3 is $2.99).
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Please remember to utilize a testing environment prior to running on your primary environment. Feel free to modify the script in any way that suits you, enjoy.
Growl manages this as well as alerts from all manner of other events, including from the many apps which support it, quite well.
You can use
You might be able to use ControlPlane for this.
If you take a look at the features list, it suggests that you can use the "state of the network link, connected or disconnected" as an "evidence source". Once this indicates its been disconnected (or reconnected again), you can perform a practically limitless set of "actions". Some that immediately spring to mind are to display a Growl notification or speak some text.
I use pingdom for this and they have a free plan for a single monitoring trigger as well as a free iOS app. It's geared to more system administrator, but could be of use to you if you don't mind spending some time to configure a service that would then be free to use.