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Benn away for a while...
Finally got a D3s and managed to get the Nikon 24 mm TS-E shift and tilt lens. Using what I understand to be the method to get the nodal point I got the values of A=86 and B=115 (lower/upper rail). However taking a pano the other week at this setting, the join in PTGui was a little off. On top of that, I used the full shift up and down (10-11 mm).
A number of questions has arisen:
1. Is my figure of 115 correct for the upper rail. Does anyone have a different setting.
2. Is there anything particular to consider when using a TS-E lens, but only shifting in the vertical plane.
3. The figure of 115 was determined with no shift on the lens, in fact just like using a normal 24mm lens. Do I have to many different calculations for a chnage in the vertical shift.
4. Would PTGui have a problem stitching a pano if the 'film' plane is vertical (no lens distortion to really take into account).
If anyone has any experinece in using one of these lenses, and feedback you may have would be much appraeciated. I'll have another go at trying to get the upper rail figure a little later.
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5 Real People Who Life Never Stops Kicking in the Balls
#2. Melanie Martinez Loses Her Home to a Hurricane ... Five Times
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When you live in a flood plain area of Louisiana, you're going to have some hurricane troubles. But while a proud Louisianan fully expects to pay for some flood damage now and again, even they have to admit that Melanie Martinez has probably angered some kind of storm god.
No, not you, Teshub. A cool storm god.
Martinez's troubles began all the way back in 1965 when Hurricane Betsy destroyed her first home. Hurricane Juan took out her next house in 1985. After that, Martinez lived the next seven years in peace before Hurricane George came around to remind her that if you hit Thor's car in a Safeway parking lot, you had better leave a goddamn note. Martinez lost her fourth home to Hurricane Katrina before her luck finally changed: A reality show by the name of Hideous Houses, hearing her horror story, decided to make over her run-down home in Braithwaite. The team spent $20,000 putting in new cupboards, appliances, and a sewing room.
That was in 2012. The year of Hurricane Isaac.
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Why did we mock Teshub just now?! Fools, fools, of all us!
Isaac roared its way in from the Gulf, and although New Orleans itself was protected by its new flood-control systems, the small town of Braithwaite was insufficiently protected by its 8-foot levee. Melanie's entire house was lost. Again.
But at least Melanie finally learned the lesson that nature has been trying to teach her for over 40 years. Leave Louisiana? Haha, no. She now says she is "considering" moving onto a hill.
#1. John "Calamity" Lyne Lives in a Three Stooges Sketch
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Look up "hapless" in the dictionary and you'll find a picture of John Lyne getting hit by an out-of-control hot dog cart. The poor bastard can't seem to catch a break. Here's the highlight reel of the game of whack-a-mole life has been playing with John Lyne's body: He very nearly drowned, has been involved in three car accidents, was hit with a live electrical cable, was struck by lightning -- twice -- and was plowed over by a city bus.
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And when he digs into jelly beans, he keeps finding black ones.
As a child, he fell from a horse cart. And then was promptly run over by a delivery van.
Once he broke his arm falling from a tree and was rushed to the hospital. On his way home, the bus he was in crashed -- breaking the same arm in a different place. That last one even had the decency to take place on Friday the 13th.
John Lyne either was a puppy kicker in a past life or once gave a wedgie to the living avatar of Karma after being mistakenly transferred to the Thales School for Metaphysical Concepts.
He tried looking up that reference. The encyclopedia fell on his foot.
As an adult, Lyne became a miner -- because screw it, why not? He practically died just trying to brush his teeth this morning. Everything is equally deadly to good ol' John "Bus Fodder" Lyne, so he might as well risk it. Sure enough, Lyne soon added "just barely avoided being killed by a tub of falling rocks" to his list of oddly specific mishaps.
Most recently, Lyne got his 15 minutes of fame as "Britain's unluckiest man" after straight up falling down an open manhole. It would be a hilariously cartoonish story if he hadn't seriously hurt his back, legs, and both knees, leaving him unable to work. Funny, that asshole coyote from the cartoons always seems to shake it off just fine.
Taylor is a college student afraid to graduate and can occasionally be found singing with himself.
Related Reading: Luck actually gets worse than this. Ever hear of the couple who wound up vacationing at all three of the worst terrorist attacks in modern history? And did you know people have actually been attacked by animals on the toilet? It's true! Need more? Read about these folks who mixed bad luck with stupidity.


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For the first time ever, the island of Bintan in Indonesia will host the opening leg of the Asian Championship Tour – Kiteboard Tour Asia (KTA) 2013. The event takes place from 20th to 24th February 2013 at the Agro Beach Resort on Bintan in the Riau Archipelago.
The Kiteboard Tour Asia (KTA) is organized by the International Kiteboarding Class Association and the KTA under the auspices of the Indonesian Sailing Federation in association with the Government of Bintan Regency and Agro Beach Resort.
The Event includes the following Disciplines, Divisions and Grades, namely : Course Racing Men, Course Racing Women, Twin Tip Racing Men, Twin Tip Racing Women, Freestyle Men, and Freestyle Women. With a total prize of equipment equivalent to USD 15,000.0 the event will also be graded by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) in accordance to ISAF regulations.
Situated less than an hour away via comfortable catamarans from the neighboring country of Singapore, Bintan Resorts is located on the largest of Indonesia's enchanting Riau islands. A spectacular beach holiday destination in the north of the island that covers no less than 23,000 hectares along the entire sandy white coast facing the South China Sea, Bintan offers plenty of exciting experiences for watersports and adventure enthusiasts.
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DOTHAN, Ala. - Depression in kids is more common than you may think. A local research center is conducting a free clinical trial to help diagnose and treat children with the difficult condition. Dr. Michael Ramsey, a Pediatrician at Dothan Pediatric Clinic states "we have seen an increase in the number of depressed children over the last 10 to 12 years and so now some estimates say that there are probably 4 million depressed children in America today. According to physicians, the signs of depression in children are different than the signs in adults."
Children tend to get more hyperactive, then tend to show a lot more anxiety, a lot more sleeping problems, a lot more school issues, or with drawl from friends and so those symptoms can be different. Some of the causes of depression in kids can include, stresses in the relationship between the mother and the father, if one of the parents is absent, economic stress and fitting in with friends
Ramsey says "especially if you have a child who may not be responding to traditional therapy or if you are in a situation where you don't have insurance or don't have access to medical care, clinical trial could be a way where you can get excellent care, very close follow up and free medication." Free Clinical trials conducted at Harmonex Neuroscience Research in Dothan provide new treatment options for kids dealing with depression.
According to Barbara Skelton, the Director of Clinical Research at Harmonex says "the trial that we are starting is for children age 7 to 17, it's for a medication that's already FDA approved, however, they just want to get the indication so that it can be prescribed openly for children and adolescents." The advantage of participating in a clinical trial is that there is no cost to participants or their parents. The medications, lab work and weekly visits to see the doctor, are all provided by the pharmaceutical company who benefits from the research and data obtained.
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WACO (November 1, 2012)--A Waco woman was sentenced to prison Wednesday after she earlier pleaded guilty to possessing crack cocaine with the intent to distribute the drug.
U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith, Jr., sentenced Roxie Stephens to serve 6 months in federal prison, followed by three years on supervised release, and ordered her to pay a $1,000 fine and $100 in a special assessment to the court.
Federal court documents show Stephens pleaded guilty to conspiring with Scotty Eugene Stephens, Marcus Rae Stephens and Adrian Scott McLendon to possess a large amount of cocaine with intent to distribute the drugs in the Waco area.
Scotty Eugene Stephens was sentenced Oct. 17 to serve 140 months in federal prison followed by three years on supervised release, assessed a $1,000 fine and ordered a $100 special assessment to the court.
Smith scheduled Marcus Rae Stephens and Adrian Scott McLendon for sentencing on Nov. 9.
Court documents introduced say McLendon, Marcus Rae Stephens and Scotty Eugene Stephens, along with Roxie Stephens, beginning in January 2010 conspired to both possess and distribute significant amounts of crack cocaine in and around Waco.
A Waco police Drug Enforcement Unit officer began investigating the ring in the summer of 2009 using a confidential informant to make controlled buys of the drugs.
Between January 2010 and January 1012, police were able to buy about 129 grams of crack cocaine using the confidential informant.
When police served search warrants at several locations in Waco, they were able to recover several rocks of crack cocaine, scales used to measure the drugs and $3,575 in U.S. Currency believed to be the proceeds of the sale of drugs.
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Given a monic polynomial $f\in\mathbb{Z}[x]$, how can I determine whether there is a $k\in\mathbb{Z}^+$ such that $f|(x^k-1)$?
For example, $x^2-x+1$ divides $x^6-1$, but $x^2-x-1$ does not divide any such $x^k-1$ (unless I miss my mark!).
I would also be interested in finding how to answer this for other parameterized families of polynomials, or working over $\mathbb{Q}[x]$—I expect the former to be hard and the latter easy.


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(AP) PORTLAND, Ore. - A 4.2-magnitude earthquake has struck in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Oregon and California.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake struck early Wednesday roughly 140 miles west of Gold Beach, Ore., just north of the California border.
The sheriff's office in Curry County says there are no immediate reports of shaking or damage.
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Yes, working on any kind of projects outside of work help expand your knowledge on a particular subject, allow you to network with other developers, and help you build your portfolio.
As a developer, there is no reason not to have something working on the side, whether it is an open source or commercial project or even a technical blog.
Also, I've found side projects a way to stay passionate about programming. On your own projects you get to do whatever you want which can be exciting and a nice change from the day-to-day corporate programmer life.
The more things you work on, the more you will learn and the more marketable you become.
Well... not especially open source, but working for some hobby project in your free time can really help you with your coding skill and with your cv as well.
As example I started using python for a report generating tool in 2001 and then I was able to apply for a work in python in 2003.
It happened again with Java technologies and now I'm learning Scala...
The most obvious way my work productivity has benefitted from open source is when I submit a bugfix for a bug that is preventing me from doing work.


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The history of the U.S. Navy is not complete without an understanding of the administrative processes under which it was created and developed. Fortunately the details of early naval administration were searched out and preserved before they were buried in the vas accumulation of records resulting from two world wars. Charles Oscar Paullin, who produced the material contained in this book, commenced his work early in the twentieth century and the last chapter was published just prior to World War I.
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Hunter Fan - Thermostats - Comfort Saver 7 Day Programmable Thermostat with Room Control™ - 44668 for $39.99
Lets you monitor or control temperature in a different room from your thermostat. You can control the temperature using the thermostat, the remote sensor (which you can carry with you) or the average of the two.
Despite the so-so reviews in Amazon, I have 3 of these (it saves rewiring thermostats) & they work fine.
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as the manual in the units I had was out of date
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I mistakenly added the link to the Spanish manual - english is here:
http://www.hunterfan.com/uploadedFiles/Support/Downloads/44008-01 Thermostat 44668-44660 Web R02102010.pdf
as a service tech for 15 yrs would not recommend hunter
We decided to buy this a few months back because we have a 3-4 degree difference from our bedroom to the downstairs. The room control works great as we can set the thermostat to maintain the remote temp. So now I can sleep in comfort! Then my wife can bring the unit to whatever room she wants to hang out in while I'm at work. Really cool feature.
I bought one of these from Lowe's in April for ~$50. It failed on us in July and had to be replaced. It also didn't work consistently while we had it. A service guy suggested we stay away from Hunter and other cheap brands and, if we insist on getting something at Lowe's or Home Depot, stick with Honeywell. Did so and it's be rock solid ever since. My recommendation: stay away from this "deal."
This unit is very unreliable. I am trying desperately to find a replacement for the one I own. I didn't realize when I installed it that the batteries actually run the thing, they aren't just for backup. Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of remote thermostats out there to choose from.


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How to use the Ext.ux.form.field.MultiMonth component in Architect 2.1 ?
I'm trying to use the Ext.ux.form.field.MultiMonth component available at https://market.sencha.com/users/30/extensions/61 in Sencha Architect, but I cannot get it to work. It doesn't even come in .xdc format so I can't add it to the toolbox.
Is there a way to add the component to the toolbox, so that I could drag n drop it where I need?
In my application, I did the following:
Added a Loader and a "requires" section:
Ext.Loader.setConfig({ enabled: true, paths: { Ext: '.', 'Ext.ux': 'lib/extjs_plugins/ux' } }); Ext.application({ requires: [ 'Ext.ux.form.field.MultiMonth' ], [...] );
However I still cannot add the component to any container. It seems to be invisible although the browser dev tools show that the component files are found and loaded.
Any help would be very appreciated, and a minimal and working example would be better again.
Best regards,
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I'd really like an answer here. I found a workaround, but it is more of a hack than a solution, so if there is a better solution, I'll be happy to hear it.
Here is my hack:
- Add a container in the Views node
- Set the container's "userClassName" config to "MultiMonthContainer"
- Set the MultiMonthContainer's "userAlias" config to "multimonthcontainer"
- Delete the MultiMonthContainer's "width" and "height" configs
- Ensure that MultiMonthContainer's layout is set to "auto"
- Jump to MultiMonthContainer'scode view
- Click on the "Create Override" button
- Added the following "initComponent" function after the "override" config:
initComponent: function() { var me = this; Ext.applyIf(me, { items: [ { xtype: 'multimonthfield', fieldLabel: 'Période', labelAlign: 'top', labelSeparator: ' :', format: 'M Y', displayRangeSeparator: " à ", rangeSeparatorRE: /\s*à\s*/, startingMonthText: "Mois début", endingMonthText: "Mois fin", okText: "OK", cancelText: "Annuler", clearText: "Réinitialiser" } ] }); me.callParent(arguments); }
Note that the MultiMonth field is not rendered in Architect, nor can I modify its config in the Config pane. So that's not convenient at all.
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I would really, *really* like to have someone's advice on this, if that's not too much to ask. How to use components from the Sencha Market in Sancha Architect, anyway?
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I started out with Windows XP and then I installed Zorin (a sub distro of Ubuntu) and then I installed Ubuntu. This was working great. Then I installed Windows 8 on yet another partition and couldn't get into my other OSs.
I asked my tech teacher at school how to fix it and she said just clear the partition that I installed Windows 8 on, so I booted onto a live version of Ubuntu and cleared the Windows 8 partition. Okay then I rebooted and it still went into Windows 8 for some reason.
So I got back onto live Ubuntu and it turns out Windows 8 partition didn't clear for some reason so I did it again (and I'm positive it was the Windows 8 partition). I still couldn't fix grub but I needed something out of my XP partition so I mounted it on the live Ubuntu and now all the XP partition have are the folders 'Boot', 'Recovery', 'System Volume Information', 'temp' and the files 'bootmgr', 'BOOTNXT', 'BOOTSECT.BAK' and 'Recovery.txt'.
Anybody know how to fix this or what I did wrong? Also, if I try booting from my hard drive it shows the Windows and says 'preparing automatic repair' then 'Diagnosing your PC' then restarts. Any and all help is greatly appreciated.


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Most students use their credits to fulfill their general education requirements. Depending on your area of study and which program you choose, these credits may also count toward your major or minor. It is important to consult with your academic advisor as early as possible, to see which requirements you can fulfill abroad. This way, you can avoid taking classes twice and make sure you still graduate in four years.
For most programs, the tuition and fees are the same as, or similar to, what they would be on campus. In addition, there may be a study abroad fee to cover the cost of group trips and center expenses. In most cases the student will be responsible for purchasing his or her airline ticket through the Office of International Programs. The student is responsible for any extra spending money (this amount will vary greatly, depending on the cost of living in each country, how much extra travel the student plans, the student's spending habits, etc.) For exact program costs, please refer to the Cost Sheet, or the Fact Sheet for the program that interests you.
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Students may go abroad sophomore, junior, or senior year, though the junior year is the most popular (and a few programs require you to be a junior--see the Fact Sheet for the program you plan to attend). Again, you should consult with your academic advisor to see when would be the best time for you to go.
No! Our programs in Reutlingen, Germany, Hirakata, Japan and Hangzhou, China do not require any previous language study (you can learn it there), and the programs in Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin in England, and Windhoek, Namibia are entirely English-based. All other programs do have a language requirement.
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Biologists discovered that regenerating plants can naturally reconstitute their stem cells.
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The quality of the research enterprise is what truly distinguishes a great university, permitting it to draw in the most talented scholars and the top students. NYU's faculty are at the forefront of their scholarly disciplines, and their research helps shape the understanding of an enormous range of academic fields: from the mathematical sciences to economics, from philosophy to neural science, from art history to sociology. In recognition of the quality of this research, NYU received approximately $200 million in government funds in 2008.
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The Shadyside Tigers already know they're headed to the Division VI postseason.
However, there's plenty on the line Friday when they visit Barnesville, which will be celebrating Homecoming.
Amongst the things Coach Mark Holenka's team are trying to lock up are a home game in the opening round of the Region 21 tournament and the school's first 10-0 season since 1977.
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SHADYSIDE'S Chase Kinemond has been the Tigers' field general all seson at quarterback. He and the Tigers will trek to Barnesville Friday seeking their first undefeated season since 1977.
"Both of those would be extremely nice," Holenka said. "We have to come ready to play four quarters again and stay focused if we hope to achieve those goals."
Shadyside has actually had six unbeaten seasons, but only one that was a 10-game slate and didn't include a tie.
"The 10-0 part would be really nice because no matter what would happen in the second season, it's like icing on the cake because the kids have achieved some history," Holenka said. "When you're looking at possibly only the second team in school history to achieve something like that, it's something that people won't soon forget."
Standing in the way of the Tigers' quest are Matt Johnson's Shamrocks, who are trying to end their 2012 campaign on a high note. Not only would it lead to a 5-5 season, but it would also snap a four-game losing skid.
"It takes a toll on you," Johnson said of the skid. "The kids have stayed positive and I can't complain about how the majority of them have come and worked hard every day."
Currently, Shadyside finds itself in fourth place in the Region 21 computer poll after it upended struggling Bridgeport last week.
"We can't pass up a chance to get better in Week 10 because we were caught looking ahead to Week 11," Holenka said.
The Shamrocks started the season 4-1, but have lost four straight by an average margin of better than 37 points a week.
"We've dealt with some injuries and we're just not deep," Johnson said. "When we have one kid go down, it's like losing two or three because we have to move so many people around. We know injuries happen, but it makes it so tough to prepare what you're going to do when you've got numbers that make it difficult."
The challenge this week for the Rocks is big as they must contend with a balanced Shadyside offense that's led by senior quarterback Chase Kinemond. He's thrown for 948 yards and 16 touchdowns. He's also ran for 376 yards and five touchdowns.
The Tigers' ground game has been balanced with the likes of senior Brooks Ramsey (82-505-2td) and junior Chris Littell (43-344-6td) also having solid seasons.
When Kinemond does put the ball in the air, it's normally going to either senior Cody Hudson (27-446-10td) or sophomore Austin Dorris (21-344-5td).
"Shadyside's quarterback makes good decisions, they're athletic and their backs and receivers are good," Johnson explained.
The Shadyside defense, which has been stingy, has pitched three shutouts and hasn't allowed more than 14 points in any game this season. Holenka, who spearheads the defensive unit, cautioned his squad about this Shamrocks' outfit.
"Barnesville makes you defend the entire field," Holenka said. "At any time, they can break one and that's something we have to be concerned with. If we let them break a few and fall behind, things could get quite precarious for us. We need to take control of the game early."
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Update from Chairman Peetz - September 6, 2012
Enthusiasm, optimism and pride were much in evidence on all our campuses as the Fall semester got underway these last several days. Even as a not-too-recent graduate, I strongly felt those positive emotions. I coupled those feelings with the knowledge of our shared values and the hard work of so many, all for the benefit of our great University.
In late August your Board of Trustees met for a special weekend of meetings. As many of you know, in line with our strong belief in the value of transparency, these meetings were available to the public, either in person or via the Internet.
Opening those sessions with four words synonymous with heritage, achievement, leadership and responsibility ---"We are Penn State" --- I explained how Penn State is a place where our ambitious, intelligent students prepare for the future; where our researchers and faculty find solutions to the world's most vexing challenges; where our staff take great pride in their work; where our student athletes excel in the classroom and the playing field; and where the passion and commitment of our alumni are unsurpassed
We also discussed how, as a University, we are accepting the consequences of failure and remedying any wrongs, but also not losing sight of our outstanding heritage. I concluded that after all is said and done, in the final analysis, "We are all Penn State."
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We discussed many important items, including the timeline for our upcoming presidential search and how we, as a representative board, can best serve the Penn State community and chart a course of continuous improvement for our great University.
But how the University moves forward in accepting accountability for these tragic events was, necessarily, the primary focus of the weekend.
As a group, the Board of Trustees sees accountability as more than acknowledging and apologizing for the past; or investigating the entirety of what happened on our campus. Accountability is initiating concrete and measurable change to ensure, with as much certainty as humanly possible, something like this never happens again.
We have already implemented a number of the initial recommendations presented to us earlier this year by Judge Freeh. Some in fact have already been substantially completed. Working in close coordination with President Erickson and his team, we are also assessing the final recommendations and considering paths to implementation. Towards that end, each of the 119 recommendations of the Freeh Report was assigned to a team of University leaders who will develop specific implementation plans. These plans will be reviewed by the Board before and after they are implemented.
Clearly, these are lightning rod issues, sometimes dividing us just at a time when we need to come together. The Board of Trustees recognizes --- and appreciates --- the complex and often contradictory emotions we all feel and the beliefs we all have about the Freeh report, the NCAA sanctions, and all the other issues emanating from these past events.
That is why several points Professor Larry Backer, chair of our Faculty Senate, made in his opening remarks to their meeting on August 28 especially resonated with me, and hopefully will resonate with all Penn Staters.
First, and in my opinion, most important, Professor Backer said we all must remain extremely sensitive to the real pain the Sandusky scandal has caused to real people.
Second, he recognized the value of open discussion, and even disagreement, which I personally believe is part of the fabric of our democratic heritage and a foundation of what we, as Penn Staters, believe and value.
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There are a lot of cycle tracks (mostly old railway lines) in the UK that have bike rental, however very few of them have adult tricycle or recumbent tricycle.
Does anyone have the list of where you can rent an adult tricycle in the UK?
Where abouts in the UK are you? You might want to check out the following places:
Hope you get sorted.
Battersea Park in London has these for rental for both adults/kids. It's only for riding around the park, but this is probably a safer place to experiment on than London's roads...


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I have a windows 7 pc in a windows 2003 server environment. every now and then (about twice a day), the gateway setting is changed to 0.0.0.0 and 192.168.1.1.
Now, the 192.168.1.1 setting is correct, but the 0.0.0.0 is not correct. In fact, it blocks all network traffic.
- There are no other computers showing this behaviour.
- After reinstallation of Windows 7, the problem occurs again.
- windows calls the network adapter 'Broadcom Netlink gigabit ethernet'
How do I stop this particular computer from getting an extra gateway address?


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If the provirus was not formed yet, can the virus make viral enzymes?
(I know that it already has some, but supposing it doesn't)
If the provirus was not formed yet, can the virus make viral enzymes?
(I know that it already has some, but supposing it doesn't)
I am afraid your question is really not clear. You are asking one thing in the title of your question, another in the question body and a third in your comments. If you are asking (as you did in your comment above) what would happen if a virus with no enzymes were to infect a cell, see below.
In the case of HIV (and other retroviruses) some of the most important enzymes contained in a normal viral particle are:
Viruses work by copying their genetic material (their DNA or RNA) into the host cell's genome and then hijacking the cell's replication machinery to make more copies of the virus. So, what would happen if these enzymes were absent?
What you really must remember is that viruses are extremely streamlined. Everything they contain is essential. In some ways, you could say that viruses are the most highly evolved species (assuming they are living species), they are the most highly specialized "life forms" we know of and they have managed to get rid of all non-essential functions. The flip side of this is that everything that is left is essential, the virus cannot function without it.
So, to answer your question, a virus without any enzymes is, essentially, not a virus. It would not work, would not successfully infect cells.


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United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be the keynote speaker for the symposium "Rutgers School of Law–Newark Celebrates Women Reshaping American Law" on Friday, February 13, 2009. The all-day symposium, organized by Associate Professor Suzanne Kim, is one of a series of events celebrating the school's Centennial and its enduring commitment to teaching, scholarship, service, and opportunity.
It was at Rutgers–Newark that Justice Ginsburg, who taught at the law school from 1963 to 1972, began to think about the issue of gender discrimination and to develop into a leading scholar and advocate for women's rights. The contributions of Justice Ginsburg and other lawyers to addressing gender discrimination by the legal system and the profession are told in the new book Equal: Women Reshape American Law (Norton, February 2009). Opening remarks at the symposium will be delivered by the book's author, Fred Strebeigh, a Yale University professor of non-fiction writing. He will discuss his research and the integral role of Rutgers School of Law–Newark in advancing gender equity for women.
The morning panel will focus on the pioneering contributions of women at the law school. Speakers will be: Diane Crothers, Esq. '74, co-founder of the Women's Rights Law Reporter and Deputy Commissioner for Citywide Equal Employment Opportunity, New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services; Janice Goodman, Esq., former director, Rutgers Women's Rights Litigation Clinic; Diana Guza-Wells (Rigelman) '72, J.D., M.D., who, as a Rutgers law student, was involved with Justice Ginsburg's first gender discrimination work on behalf of Nora Simon; and Professor Emerita Annamay Sheppard '58, faculty member in the Women's Rights Litigation Clinic.
Two panels will follow Justice Ginsburg's keynote luncheon address. In the first, women who feature prominently in Equal: Women Reshape American Law will discuss their successful litigation and legislative efforts in the areas of pregnancy discrimination, sexual harassment, and violence against women. Speakers will be: Professor Sarah E. Burns, New York University School of Law; Professor Sally F. Goldfarb, Rutgers School of Law–Camden; Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon, University of Michigan Law School; Professor Victoria Nourse, Emory University School of Law and the University of Wisconsin Law School; Professor Susan Deller Ross, Georgetown University Law Center; and Professor Wendy Webster Williams, Georgetown University Law Center.
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Let $I$ be a non-empty set. $\kappa_i$ is non-zero cardinal number for all $i \in I$.
If without AC, then $\prod_{i \in I}\kappa_i=0$ seems can be true(despite I still cannot believe it).
But what property should $I$ and $\kappa_i$ have?
Can $\prod_{i \in I}\kappa_i\ne 0$ be proved without AC when $I$ and each $\kappa_i$ all is well-orderable?
Conversely if $I$ is not well-orderable, or if some $\kappa_i$ is not well-orderable, is $\prod_{i \in I}\kappa_i=0$ definitely holds?


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I'm wondering if it's appropriate to try and get my user base to upgrade from IE6 to newer browsers? Right now we only have 5% of users coming from IE6 or less, we of course don't want to support IE6 further, but is it bad practice to offer suggestions to those using older browsers?
Most people using IE nowadays either do not want to upgrade or cannot upgrade either due to cost or they are using a work computer and cannot do upgrades to their software. For these people telling them to upgrade will really just be an annoying message (that they're probably getting in a lot of other places).
At this point, just build your websites to take advantage of newer technologies and just be sure they degrade gracefully in IE 6. As long as your site still works for them they'll keep using it. Their experience just won't be quite as good us that of users with more modern browsers.
A small message, which they can choose to remove, is not harmful imo. Can be implemented easily using cookies/sessions and optionally javascript.


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I am beginning to write some short stories and I am trying to find some software that may aide me in brainstorming.
I find I waste time trying to use fancy mind-mapping tools. Instead, I like using a "distraction-free" writing environment such as:
Freemind is a commonly-used program for mind-mapping.
With a little practice, it can easily become a medium for your own thinking process. One of the best features of Freemind is that you can define your own key-mappings, which makes it more productive than other mind-mapping (brain-storming) tools out there. Also, though it is a mature software, it is still actively developed; so you can expect more features coming in as time goes by.
basket is pretty good for it too. It is not so graphical or map oriented, but it allows ideas to be freely explored and different items to be moved around and grouped.
Zim is another wiki-like program that allows you to take notes and brainstorm. It also works with WikiWords and will auto-link notes.
It's a little more difficult than Tomboy to setup, but it's a lightweight and powerful note-taking and brainstorming tool.
Zim is in the repos.
I like to use Tomboy for note-taking and for brainstorming. It works really well, and you can organize all your thoughts into different "notebooks" to keep everything together. IT works with wikiwords, so you can type a word LikeThis and it will automatically link to the note called LikeThis. If there's no note by that name, Tomboy will create it.
Tomboy is automatically installed, or if it isn't, it's in the repos.


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Totient(n) gives the amount of numbers beneath n that are coprime to n. Is it possible to concisely find Totient(n) where all numbers are beneath a limit x so that TotientLimit(n,x) would give the amount of numbers coprime to n up to x? For example:
TotientLimit(10,6) 1:Coprime to 10 2:Not coprime 3:Coprime to 10 4:Not coprime 5:Not coprime 6-9:above or equal to limit, excluded.
So TotientLimit(10,6) is equal to 2 because there are 2 numbers coprime to 10 that are lower than 6.
Is there a function for that? Thanks


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In 2005, Glen Halliday was concerned: His kids were spending too much time on the couch. But Halliday believed that if he could create something compelling enough, he might draw them outside and into imaginative play. So he went into his woodshop and emerged with a colorful, cartoonish, crooked playhouse. His children loved it — and so did family, friends, and neighbors.
Halliday's company, Kids Crooked House, was born. And two years later, when a marketing effort resulted in a rush of inquiries, Halliday turned to iPhone.
Halliday experienced an immediate shift in functionality. "Right away with the iPhone, I noticed a difference compared to every mobile device I've ever used," he says, "in the usability, and how it could be integrated into the business. With iPhone, we could really hone in on the business and be as productive as possible."
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iPhone was different from other devices in another critical way: It allowed KCH to develop custom apps to run their business. First among those was KPI, or Key Performance Indicators, which allows Halliday and his team to track metrics on the KCH website.
"At any given moment," says Halliday, "I can tap into KPI on my iPhone to see where we are with web traffic, what kinds of conversions we're getting, and what kind of requests we're getting, whether it's catalogue or B2B."
And when KCH launches a new campaign or outreach effort, KPI can track that, too. "I can put that line item in and watch the conversions go up or down at a glance," Halliday says. "And this is from a daily, weekly, or monthly analytic report that I can check wherever I am."
In addition to KPI, Kids Crooked House developed an app called KCHQ to track project management. "When a project comes in, we enter it into the database, and it gets put into the queue," Halliday says. "From there, it goes into production, and then it gets shipped. I can then look at our iPhone app, and it tells me where all of our projects are in the process."
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Among the key iPhone features at Kids Crooked House is the 3.5-inch display, not least because KCH's products are so visually appealing. "Having the iPhone in hand when we're talking with clients is a win-win for us," Halliday says. "We show them different ideas, products, and color schemes."
"We're a visual brand," says KCH Partner Rich Rico. "We're all about color and design and funky angles and twists. What's great about the iPhone is that I can view large PDF files from Glen, give my comments, and send that file right back by email. And within a matter of minutes, we're making major design modifications and better meeting client needs."
Halliday and his team also use iPhone's camera to capture inspiration. "[VP of Sales and Operations] Amanda Pike can be out looking for accessories, take a picture, send it to me for approval, and buy it there on the spot," Halliday says. "Or I can be out and about, see a color that feels right or a scene that works, and send it to Amanda. And she can give it to the guys out back so they understand my vision for the build."
In fact, Halliday views iPhone as a "window into imagination." "It allows me to get online, look at different images, and save those images for inspiration. It allows me to use a brainstorming app called iBlueSky to organize my new ideas. And then I take that inspiration to the customer, to kids."
Deep into apps
Now that they've been with iPhone for a few years, Halliday and his team are deep into apps, with a long list of apps their business can't live without.
"We use the Carpenter app at a lot of onsite installs," Halliday says. "It makes it very easy for leveling and getting angles. It saves us from bringing tons of tools to the job site." When dealing with international customers, they rely on You Convert Pro, a currency conversion app, and Word Power, a phrase translator app.
"I'm on the road quite often and the Dragon Dictation app is extremely handy," Halliday says. "Instead of having to stop and type, I can keep moving, record my thoughts, and send it to anyone via text or email."
Halliday and his team use Travelocity and Kayak to book travel and WeatherBug to check conditions prior to arrival. "We do outdoor installs all over the country," Halliday says, "and it allows us to know at a glance what we need to prepare for."
VP Amanda Pike relies on an app called Time Master for help managing multiple elements of a project. "I can track time by task — design, carpentry, delivery. And I can track expenses. So when we're out in the field, I can record costs and mileage. And all of those elements go into bidding the final project and help keep us on budget."
Once packages are shipped, Pike taps into UPS to follow their progress. "It's not a small package, so clients always want to know where it is," she says. "And with the UPS app on iPhone, I can find out, at any time, from any location."
For her part, Pike credits iPhone with giving her everything she needs in a single device. "My favorite thing about the iPhone is that it's everything. I can do everything on it. I can email clients, call them, text them. I can manage my schedule, invoice, and track expenses. I can manage it all on iPhone."
Company Snapshot
- 7 employees
- Based in Portland, Maine
- www.kidscrookedhouse.com
- Kids Crooked House has been featured on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, DIY: King of Dirt, and Jon and Kate Plus 8.
"As a small company, we make sure that every penny we spend gets a return. And that's why we invest in technologies like the iPhone. It helps us stay mobile, connected, and current."
Rich Rico, Director of Marketing
"What the iPhone allows me to do is basically have the company in my pocket at any given moment."
Glen Halliday, CEO
"My favorite thing about the iPhone is that it's everything. I can email clients, I can call them, I can manage my schedule, I can invoice, I can track expenses. There's not really anything I can't do."
Amanda Pike, Vice President
An app for active play
Kids Crooked House has had a lot of success using custom-built iPhone apps internally. And now, they're developing an app for public consumption: a Kids Crooked House Active Play app. Halliday explains: "It gives parents active play ideas, depending on the weather. It generates ideas for parents and kids to play together, or for kids to go outside alone or engage in active play indoors. It's a way to keep kids active instead of dormant on the couch."


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I've always been a shy person, never really speaking up or trying to take the leader role. But I tried to change and step out of my comfort zone, and now I'm not really afraid of most things. I don't have a problem going in front of 100 people and saying something stupid, or taking responsibility.
What I have a huge problem with though, is making phone calls. Whenever I'm supposed to call someone, I delay it as much as possible, trying to find any possible way around other than making the call by myself. It doesn't matter if I'm calling my client or a girl, or even my mom. The idea of the call itself makes me wanna postpone it as much as possible.
I know that this fear is completely irrational, and that there is like 0.0000000000001% chance that something will go wrong, but that still doesn't help me.
The funny thing is, that I wouldn't mind saying the same thing in person, which doesn't make any sense, because that should be percieved as much more dangerous than just a phone call.
To be completely honest, I don't even recall any bad experience with phone calling, it's probably just because I was always afraid to speak.
Any suggestions how to get over this? I know that the answer to I'm afraid of phone calls is to make a lot of them ... but I'd prefer some smaller step advice.


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I am wondering what is the derivative of the following function with respect to $x(t)$ in sense of distributions. $$ I\left(\int_0^t x(\tau)d\tau \leq c\right) $$ where $I$ is the indicator function and $c$ is a constant.
Let me try.
Your mapping is:
Simpler approach, but it might not answer your question:
Suppose $s\mapsto x(\tau,s)$ is a smooth variation of $x(\tau)$, i.e.,
$x\in C^\infty(\mathbb R^2)$.
You are asking for the derivative of a non-linear function on an infinite dimensional space. (You do not specify the latter but the space locally integrable functions seems a natural candidate). The derivative can only exist in a very weak sense so it is natural to go for the directional derivative which has two inputs---the point $ x $ where the derivative is computed and the direction $ y $ in which the rate of change takes place. A back of the envelope calculation suggests that the derivative should then be $$-\sum \frac {Y(a)}{x(a)}\delta_a$$ where we use capitals to indicate the primitives which occur in the formulation and the sum is taken over the $a$ in the pre-image of $c$ under $X$.
Some general remarks: the question was posed in such a vague manner that it is not really possible to give a precise, rigorous answer. Presumably you have some concrete application in view and I suggest that you check the above formula there to see if it leads to the expected result (ones I looked at were the functions $t$---with primitive $t^2$---and $\sin t$ for the function $x$).
As is evident from the above formula, the derivative is in a much weaker sense than the usual concepts of functional analysis---one requires special conditions on $x$ (beyond just smoothness) for the above expression to make sense and the limit of the difference quotients used to define the derivative does not take place in the underlying function space but in a larger space (of distributions---hence the Dirac functions in the formula. I presume that this is the reason for the reference to distributions in your question).


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This was on sale at Target for the same price the other day. Actually, come to think of it, Target had a HUGE rack of br movies on sale under $10 at the time.
terrible movie. Firefly is a horrible show. not sure why people like it.
Don't most people own this by now? (I do). Does this need to be the top sale every day? It's always the same price too, so it's not like it's a breaking new low price.
@iug: Maybe most people do, but some of us (like me) only recently watched Firefly and Serenity for the first time (after being urged by friends for the x^n-th time). I watched both via Netflix streaming, but now want to own them both. I guess I am waiting for a day when I get the itch to buy something online (it happens) when hopefully my deals! woot! peers will have a sale at an acceptable retailer (read BesyBuy, Amazon, Overstock, fye, or somewhere else that doesn't have something like, "Surplus DVD Bargain Bin" in the URL) for the right price. Perhaps both Firefly and Serenity could both be on sale so I can just buy both. The most deluxe editions possible, please. So on behalf of those in my situation, keep it coming until we all actually own it. Sooner rather than later, I hope.
@iug: I agree it gets old seeing the same item here virtually every single day, but ultimately it's up to the users and they always vote it up. What can you do?
@kromo: You're going to the special hell.
@kromo: factual assessment
one of the best modern sci-fi movies
I miss Babylon5
@j5: I am right there with you!
Why the hell is this on woot every farking day.. PEOPLE, WE ALL HAVE IT ALREADY DAMNIT!
@luke727: He probably talks in the theater, too...
I will say to everyone asking why this is on woot all the time...
I first watched Firefly last year. Fell in love on Netflix, didn't think about buying it until I saw Firefly on deals.woot. Bought it up. I didn't do much research and then I saw Serenity on here and it blew my mind that there was a movie: bought it, love it, watch it often.
Keep posting people!
IPersonally I wasn't a huge fan of this
"Why the hell is this on woot every farking day.. PEOPLE, WE ALL HAVE IT ALREADY DAMNIT!"
... This .
Goes double for Tablets.
I don't want to see another tablet unless it has a holographic option.
@zebraitis: Or iPad 3 for $99 :P


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I'm struggling through Lurie's Higher Topos Theory, since it appears that someone reading through the book is expected to be somewhat comfortable with simplicial homotopy theory. The main trouble I've had is computing things like the join, product, coproduct, pullback, pushout, and so forth. I understand them as far as their universal properties, and maybe have a little intuition because the category of simplicial sets is a presheaf category over the simplex category, but Lurie uses geometrical language, so I can't even compute like when working with presheaves. So, could you lot recommend some books or lecture notes, preferably with suggested sections, that won't go too deep into simplicial homotopy theory, but deep enough for me to learn how to compute?
Note: Most of the time I waste is sitting around with that book is trying to make sense of the computations, while I understand the arguments just fine. So please, don't suggest an entire book detailing all of simplicial homotopy theory from start to finish. I have a goal in mind here, and I'm only trying to learn as much as is necessary for me to continue reading HTT.


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30 Apr 2012 9:24 AM #1
Api documentation Search function broken
I feel compelled to let you know that your search as above does not work, does not even allow to enter text properly.
Very inconvenient.
30 Apr 2012 9:25 AM #2
By the way, how do i delete a file that i did not mean to attach?
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Works correctly for me on windows XP SP 3 and FF6 .
I noticed on OS X lion with the latest safari then sometimes the cursor is not actualy in the search box after mouse over but one press of the tab key fixes this .
30 Apr 2012 10:16 AM #4
does not work for me on chrome. Just tested again. It used to work.
30 Apr 2012 1:01 PM #5
I get the same issue with Chrome on Mac (I will have to double check the chrome version when I get home). No issues in Safari or Firefox.


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Fedak and retired school teacher Chuck Freeman stopped their bicycles in Nebraska City Wednesday for lunch at Mary's Cafe on their way from the foothills of Colorado to the Atlantic Ocean.
The retired builder has participated in all of the MS 150 rides and expects to complete his current trip in time for the ride June 29.
"My main goal is to go to all the rides until they have the one that says 'we finally beat it," he said.
He started out May 11 with about 2,000 miles between him and his goal of Brick, N.J. The men have been averaging about 80 miles a day and consider their campsite at Waubonsie State Park in Iowa about a third of the way.
Freeman, 60, had made a bicycle trip through this area 20 years ago. He said he has not continued to ride like Fedak, but is happy to take part in this current challenge to benefit the National MS Society.
"This is his bucket list and I was the crazy guy at the bar who said, Oh, I'll go with you," Freeman said.
Freeman, who rides a portion of the distance, does most of the driving. Both men say they are expecting to lose some of their waistline through the experience.
Fedak rode from Denver to Kansas City 20 years ago, but had long considered a cross-country tour.
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Fedak typically raises $1,000 to $3,000 for the MS Society, but this year has set a goal of $10,000.
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Fedak said he had some friends with MS, but his commitment to fighting the disease as the rides went on.
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The plea was entered before Magistrate Judge John S. Kaull in U.S. District Court.
According to information released by Ihlenfeld's office, Crawford was charged for her involvement in this and five other bank robberies with her then boyfriend, Rudolph Todd Haladyna, formerly of Clarksville, Pa.
Haladyna has already been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for his involvement in these robberies.
Officials state Crawford was the get-a-way driver in most of the robberies, which included two robberies of the Charleroi Federal Savings Bank in Bentleyville, Pa., in September 2010, two robberies of PNC Bank in Redstone Township in Fayette County, Pennsylvania in October 2010 and a robbery of Huntington Bank, Cheat Lake Branch, in Morgantown, in November 2010.
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5 Hollywood Secrets That Explain Why So Many Movies Suck
#2. Gaming the Ratings System
The Complaint:
"Screw Black Swan -- have you seen Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream? Of course you haven't, it got buried by the MPAA, which slapped it with an NC-17 rating. That's despite the fact that I've seen way worse in bigger movies than a little double-ended dildo action."
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Quick, when's the last time you saw a trailer for a movie rated NC-17 on TV? Have you ever seen one showing at the multiplex? We'll save you the trouble of trying to remember beyond last week and tell you that you probably haven't. Television networks refuse to promote NC-17 films, and most large theater chains won't show them. You also can't find them in most rental stores.
To be fair, you can barely even find rental stores anymore.
NC-17 is the bogeyman of Hollywood, long considered commercial death because, to date, none of the NC-17 films released has made more than $20 million at the box office. Ever. Take Showgirls off the top of the list, and you won't find one that made more than $12 million. For reference, Battlefield Earth made $30 million.
Double-ended dildos aren't looking so bad now, are they?
So you've got a guaranteed box office assassination card. What do you do with it? Apparently, the answer is to slap it on your competitors, the independent film industry. You see, the MPAA (the film studio lobbyist group) controls the ratings board and also pays their salaries. So when a film comes along with some edgy content, a big studio can shove it through while an independent film gets hosed.
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South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone got to see both sides of the process when their independently made film Orgazmo was given an NC-17 for lewd jokes and brief nudity in the form of breasts and asses (which doomed it to obscurity until Parker and Stone became household names), while South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut received an R for some pretty explicit cartoon sex and violence. The film even included a real picture of an erect penis disguised as a sex toy.
Not to mention gratuitous usage of Brian Boitano.
When asked why they thought they got a more lenient rating for South Park, Parker said, "The reason we got the NC-17 on Orgazmo was that it was released by October Films, which had no clout, and we didn't have the money to re-edit the film and continue to resubmit it. [On South Park] we got an R because Paramount was behind it, but the independent filmmaker gets screwed."
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Five billion dollars. That's how much money Disney has made off of Cars merchandise (and that article is two years old -- hell, it could be 7 billion by now).
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You can't overstate how huge merchandising looms in the process of getting a blockbuster made. Film merchandising is a $132 billion industry worldwide, and it's also a pretty sweet deal for filmmakers -- they don't have to actually manufacture or sell anything; they just charge a licensing fee and use that money to help fund their movie. So if the toys don't sell, the merchandiser has to take the loss, not the studio. Awesome, right?
Well, no. The more expensive films get (and they're getting pretty expensive), the more the industry becomes dependent on merchandising. So parents concerned about Hollywood's influence on their children will be happy to know that today it's nigh impossible to get a kids movie greenlit if your characters don't look like something you can put inside a Happy Meal.
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Take a look at what will probably be next year's biggest blockbuster:
Seriously. Someone is making a $200 million movie based on some pieces of plastic and a bunch of holes, some of which will be played by Liam Neeson and Rihanna. There's also a remake of Clue and a movie adaptation of motherfucking Monopoly directed by Ridley Scott.
And don't get us started on the product placement. Today, branding experts read drafts, meet with the writers and even write new dialogue. That's why you have scenes in which John Connor drives a 2003 Chrysler in the post-apocalyptic future of Terminator Salvation, even though there are about 67 solid reasons why that doesn't make any sense. You can look forward to seeing a hell of a lot more of that in the future.
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Assume AC. Suppose $X$ is a subset of the irrationals (Baire Space) for which neither player has a winning strategy (i.e. the game $G(\omega, X)$ is not determined). Is $X$ non-measurable in the Lebesgue sense as a subset of $\mathbb{R}$?
(My argument is somewhat easier if you consider games where the players play $0$s and $1$s, so that the payoff set is in Cantor space $2^\omega$, and we use the usual coin-flipping probability measure; but an essentially similar idea works in Baire space.)
For any game with payoff set $A$, where player I wins if the play is in $A$, consider the following slightly modified game $A^\ast$, which is just like $A$, except we insert a pair of dummy moves between each pair of actual moves, and insist that player I play a $0$ in this dummy round, while player II can play anything. Thus, a sequence or play is in the payoff set $A^\ast$ if indeed that sequence shows that player I did play a $0$ in all the dummy rounds (so every fourth digit is $0$), and furthermore, if we omit the dummy rounds entirely from the sequence, we get a sequence in $A$.
Thus, playing the game $A^*$ is just like playing $A$, except that the play is interrupted for these silly dummy rounds. Note that player I has no incentive not to play a $0$ on those rounds, and player II's plays in the dummy rounds are ignored entirely.
Thus, it is clear that a player has a winning strategy for $A$ if and only if he or she has a winning strategy for $A^\ast$, since we can translate the strategies from $A$ to $A^\ast$ and back again. The dummy rounds really don't change the difficulty of winning the game.
But the point now is that because every fourth digit of $A^\ast$ is $0$, it follows that $A^\ast$ has measure $0$. (Every time you insist that a particular digit is $0$, it cuts the measure in half again.)
The conclusion, therefore, which does not use the axiom of choice, is that if there is a non-determined set, then there is a non-determined set with measure $0$. In particular, there is a non-determined set that is measurable.
I have two possible answers. The first is short and possibly not the one you want. The second is probably the right one.
First: take any (co)analytic subset $X$ of the Baire space $\omega^{\omega}$, which is not Borel. Than it is consistent with ZFC that the game $G(\omega,X)$ is not determined (ZFC just proves the determinacy of Borel games), but $X$ is Lebesgue-measurable (in fact universally measurable).
I guess this is a consistent proof of "no", to your question.
Second Assume AC. Then there exists a universally-null set (hence Lebesgue null, since the Lebesgue measure is atomless) $X$ of cardinality $\geq\aleph_{1}$. Then one can show that such a set $X$ can not be a Perfect set. Now let us consider the so-called Perfect-set game $PSG(\omega, X)$, which is technically a Gale -Stewart game $G(\omega, Y)$, with $Y$ of about the same complexity of $X$ (in particular $Y$ is universally-null non-perfect set of cardinality $\geq\aleph_{1}$). This game is not determined since $Y$ is not Perfect nor countable by construction, and it is knonw that such a game is determined only if $Y$ is Perfect or countable. Yet $Y$ is universally null, hence Lebesgue measurable.
This second example is mentioned in Martin's "Blackwell's determinacy", where it is credited to Greg Hjorth.
This is a proof in ZFC of "no", to your quesiton.


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SARASOTA - A local company has sold a convenience store and gas station across from Sarasota Memorial Hospital for $2.33 million.
K41 LLC, which is managed by Clarence A. Griffin, sold the 1,560- square-foot property at 1801 S. Tamiami Trail to a Brooklyn, N.Y., company. K41 paid $1.73 million for it in May 2009.
The buyer, Nako777 LLC, financed its purchase with a $1.2 million loan from Gateway Bank.
Stations have been changing hands at a steady pace in the region this year.
In August, St. Petersburg-based Convenience Center Development Associates sold a convenience store and gas station at 2525 N. Tamiami Trail to Tamiami Partners LLC for $2.83 million. Convenience Center Development paid $1.8 million for the property in January 2009.
In July, three gas stations, at 4933 Fruitville Road, 2800 Bee Ridge Road and 1135 S. Beneva Road, in Sarasota, were bought by ATCO Inc., a Sarasota company managed by Alan M. Elwell, for $3 million.
The seller was McCarley Oil Co. Inc., a Sarasota company managed by Daniel E. McCarley.
In April, SR 776 LLC, of Venice, paid $899,000 to buy a 6,000- square-foot gas station and convenience store at 1800 S. McCall Road in Englewood out of foreclosure from Englewood's defunct Peninsula Bank. A Staten Island, N.Y., company paid $1.5 million for the gas station in June 2005 and ceded it to the bank in March 2009.
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Simple Smoke-Roasted Whole Chickens
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Chicken flavored with garlic and rosemary and cooked with the indirect heat and smoke of a slow, low fire is the kind of dish you could never get tired of.
Serves: Serves 6
- 2 whole chickens, 3lb (1.35kg) each
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 tablespoons minced fresh garlic
- 3 tablespoons roughly chopped fresh rosemary
- 2 tablespoons kosher salt
- 2 tablespoons freshly cracked black pepper
- 2 lemons, halved
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- Light a fire well over to one side of your grill, using enough coals to fill 11/2 large shoeboxes.
- Place one chicken on your work surface, breast side up, and push down hard to flatten it as much as possible. Repeat with the second bird, then rub both all over with the olive oil. Mash together the garlic, rosemary, salt, and pepper, and coat the chickens evenly with this herb mixture, pressing gently to be sure it adheres.
- When the fire has died down and the coals are covered with white ash, place the chickens on the side of the grill away from the coals, breast side down, legs facing toward the coals, being careful that none of the meat is directly over the coals. Put the lid on the grill with the vents open one-quarter of the way. Cook for 30 minutes, then turn the chickens breast side up, add another 1/2 shoebox full of fresh charcoal, and continue cooking for 30-45 minutes more. To check for doneness, make a cut into the thickest part of one thigh, all the way to the bone; there should be no sign of pink. (It's not easy to take the temperature of a flattened bird, but if you do use a thermometer, look for a final temperature of 160°F/71°C.)
- When the chickens are done, transfer them to a cutting board, cover loosely with foil, and allow them to rest for about 10 minutes. Carve each chicken into 6 pieces, squeeze the lemon halves over them, and serve.
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