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VIDEO: Atlantic finally coming to life with tropical activity
For Atlantic hurricane hunters, this season has been a serious bust, but the season's not over yet.
Since the season began on June 1, it's been a rare moment to see a single system brewing in the Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico.
Now, the National Hurricane Center is monitoring Cristobal, the third hurricane and named storm of the season, as well as three other hotspots - one in the Gulf of Mexico, one in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and a third which hasn't even left the coast of Africa.
As of right now, it looks like the hotspot in the Gulf of Mexico and the disturbance in the middle of the Atlantic have a slim to none chance of becoming a named storm in the next week.
The third spot, which hasn't even left Africa yet, is still at least two weeks away, which also happens to be the height of hurricane season.
So far this year, we've seen three named hurricanes: Arthur, Bertha and Cristobal.
The worst of these was Arthur, which not only ruined many Fourth of July plans, but also caused millions of dollars in damages.
Bertha was minor since it never made landfall as a hurricane, but as a tropical storm, it brushed against numerous islands in the Caribbean.
Now, Cristobal is the third named system this year, and although it's a hurricane, it won't be making landfall in the United States.
On one hand, we've usually seen at least four named systems at this point, but on the other, the third hurricane usually doesn't show up until September 9. In fact, we usually don't see the second hurricane until two days from now, on August 28.
In the coming weeks as things pick up and we reach the peak of hurricane season, everyone should keep an eye on the latest tropical forecasts.
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A bizzaro world, or altered states.
After enjoying a few weeks of rest, it's time for congratulations to cease and for us to get back to work changing this country for the better.
Just to get started, I would feel remiss in my duty if I didn't respond to the dubious thoughts of the editorial board of the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times in the Nov. 8 "Our opinion."
Aside from hiding behind the nebulous title of "Our opinion," thusly avoiding responsibility for your completely erroneous, severely deranged or profoundly ignorant commentary, it should be understood that an unsigned opinion should be valued equally with the author's acceptance of responsibility for his or her comments.
What is it that you have been smoking or drinking to make the following delusional statement: "(President Barack) Obama's re-election Tuesday may set the stage for progress - but only if he is willing to compromise and recognize the mistakes of his first term." Following this twisted view of pretzel logic would force one to buy into the following: "To the loser go the spoils."
Oh, I'm sorry - did I enclose the previous statement in quotation marks? That's not exactly the way it goes, is it?
To be sure, there must be compromise, but this compromise must lean toward the president and the Democrats in order to fulfill the wishes of the American people.
In the recent past, the president has displayed his willingness to compromise even as the Republicans have obstructed as much as they possibly could.
Would you ask for a little back-up? It is as follows:
First is that in the last four years, the filibuster has increased to 300 percent of what it has been since its inception - a completely political, cynical and obviously obstructive strategy.
Second, at a presidential primary debate, the candidates were asked if they would accept a 10-1 cut vs. tax policy on the debt. All declined. The president signaled he would accept a 3-1 deal.
Third, the Affordable Health Care Act was conceived at the Heritage Foundation, supported by Newt Gingrich, enacted by Mitt Romney and supported by nearly all Republicans in the 1990s.
I am positive that the president would have preferred single-payer, or at least the public option, but in an effort to get Republican votes, he compromised and still gathered no Republican votes.
Perhaps the editorial board of this paper should consult the dictionary on the meanings of the following words: democracy, cynicism, hypocrisy, obstruction, insanity, ignorance, intelligence, honesty and integrity.
While I do understand the need to educate and enlighten the many misguided and misinformed tea-partiers who grace the pages of this publication, it should not be necessary to do so among those who should know better. It's almost as if some of these comments are made not as much to provoke thought as to stimulate circulation.
Elections have consequences. Republicans must learn from their mistakes or suffer them in 2014.
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These days, kids see their mouths as gold mines. Every lost tooth is a cause for celebration, probably because they get a couple bucks per tooth. Inflation, I guess. I never got more than a quarter for mine.
I remember having a loose tooth and my dad, Grampy Grumpy, tying one end of a string to my tooth and the other to the bathroom door and slamming it shut, violently yanking my tooth out of my mouth in a gout of blood. I was terrified. Kids today would probably come running and want to pull teeth that weren't loose.
It's just a baby tooth, they don't need it, they'll gum their food.
I don't know what to do with all these teeth my kids lost. I have a box full of human teeth. I feel bad throwing them out, but, on the other hand, it's creepy and looks like a serial killer's trophy box.
Swapping the Little Professor's teeth for cash always was easy, because he sleeps like a rock. On the other hand, the Sassy Saint wakes up if a floor board creaks. One night, I waited until almost 1 a.m. for her to fall asleep, and she still woke up mid-swap. I'd already retrieved the tooth, but hadn't yet stuffed the money under her pillow.
"What are you doing?" she asked, groping under the pillow.
"Checking on you."
"The tooth fairy took my tooth ... there isn't any money!"
I panicked. "Go look in the bathroom! Maybe the tooth fairy left it in there!"
She must have been tired, because this made sense to her, and she jumped out of bed and ran into the bathroom. As soon as she left the room, I hurled the cash under her bed.
"Sassy! I found it! It fell under the bed!"
I am a bad tooth fairy.
My nephew, Fatty Lumpkins, lost a tooth recently. As soon as I walked in the door, he sprinted over, hoisting the tooth like an Olympic gold medal and caterwauling, "Auntie Sum, Auntie Sum, I lost a tooth!"
These kids always have the volume turned up to 11. Always.
"That's cool," I said. "Don't forget to put it under your pillow tonight."
"The tooth fairy's gonna bring me money!" He was dancing with the tooth. He loved this tooth. This tooth was going to make him a rich man.
"Nope," I said. "The tooth fairy retired."
He stopped, his eyes as big as dinner plates. "No more tooth fairy?"
"Nope. She retired. Spider-Man took over."
If his eyes got any bigger, they'd fall right out of his head. He loves Spider-Man. "Really?"
"Nuh-uh," scoffed the Heathenish, his older brother. "Spider-Man doesn't do that!"
"Spider-Man is uniquely suited to collecting teeth," I told them.
"He can climb up walls and hang upside down. He doesn't even have to come into your room - he can shoot a web under your pillow and grab the tooth. If I were you, I'd look around for webbing tomorrow morning."
By this point, even the Heathenish was unsure. "You're lying."
"Aunties don't lie, it's against the rules."
The next day, Fatty Lumpkins was shrieking before I even got the door open. "Auntie Sum! Spider-Man came! He came and took my tooth! It was Spider-Man!"
Aunties don't lie; we spin yarns.
(Wallace-Minger, a Weirton resident, is community editor of The Weirton Daily Times and can be reached at email@example.com.)


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It seems there is a difference of opinion as to what the definition of a prequel is on this question Why did Ridley Scott decide on doing a prequel? So what are the defining characteristics of a prequel? Are there varying degrees or is everything that happens previous to the first story and sharing elements ( characters, scenes, items, companies, nouns of all kinds) able to be considered a prequel?
This forms a vague descriptive definition as it does not dictate what or how far the movie precedes the story, or if the events do lead up to the film.
So to speak, Prometheus is a prequel because it takes place in the same universe as Alien and happens before its time.
Technically, Prometheus is not a prequel. Although the story is same in the same arc (universe) the plot or the film does not lead to the events of happening from Aliens, although it influences certain events. Prometheus thus is like a soft prequel, not entirely unrelated to Alien. The main thing to be a prequel is the continuum of the story. Alien is a prequel for Aliens because the two are connected by storylines and events.
I believe that a prequel, in order to be considered such, should not only take place in the same "universe" of the original movie/book/game but its plot should also be linked to the original plot, in some way. If a tale is simply set in the same universe of another one without having nothing to do with the original tale, I just cannot consider it a prequel. For instance: Star Wars I, II and III are prequels because they tell us how Anakin became Darth Vader, how the Empire was created and how Luke and Leia came to life; all these elements are the core of episodes IV, V and VI. But the events told in "Knights of the Old Republic" (written AFTER the movies and taking place 4000 years BEFORE the movies) are completely detached from the six episodes we all know. In my opinion that is not a prequel. Is just a story set in the same universe.


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I'm running OpenSuSE 11.2 and I would like to upgrade to the newest version of Firefox (v 8 I believe at the time of this question). I'm not interested in extracting a tarball, I would like to do it via RPM.
Going to this website, http://en.opensuse.org/Firefox#Latest_version, it points me to the Firefox repositories here at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/. I added both the SLE 11 and OpenSuSE factory repositories via
YaST->Software->Software Repositories. When I go to
Software Management and search for firefox, I do not see version 8 but my current version.
If I browse the repositories in the browser, however, I plainly see version 8 in both repositories. Installing by clicking on the rpm doesn't work, however, as it cannot manage dependencies that way.


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I've heard from Harav Mansour Shelit"a as well as other Hachamim that Yitro was rewarded by getting a Parasha named by him. With that in mind, why did Balak get a Parasha named after him?
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What Rashi actually says regarding Yisro is that a parasha was added because of him. Thus:
This was drawn from the Sifrei on Behaalotecha.
In the popular retelling of this midrash, this was that he Yisro a parsha named after him. It is worthy to point out the difference between parasha and sidra in the language of Chazal. A parasha is the Biblical text from one gap to the next (petuchot and setumot), or in another context, the Torah portion of Eretz Yisrael, where they finished once every three years. Meanwhile, the term sidra refers to the Torah portion they read in Bavel, and which we read, in which we finish every year.
I don't think there is any need to justify the popular retelling of this, in which it is naming rather than adding, and it is the modern redefinition of parasha rather than Chazal's use of the term.
Besides that Chazal called it parashat Bilaam, as Double AA noted, the naming of parshiyot generally come from their opening words, and we need not find special merit to Balak.


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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt won't release before February 2015Written by: / / 2 Comments
If you were looking forward to diving into The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt's sprawling world later this year then you'll be disappointed to learn that the game has been delayed until 2015. In an open letter to gamers and shareholders, CD Projekt RED revealed that it's now targeting a February 2015 release date for The Witcher 3 in order to "achieve the quality that will satisfy us, the quality gamers expect from us".
Here's the open letter in full for further clarification on why CD Projekt RED felt it needed a few extra months to complete work on The Witcher 3:
"Ever since we started working on the third installment in The Witcher franchise, it has been our aim to produce a title that would take our 11 years of experience in creating RPGS and distill them into a quintessence, into a game that would effectively crown those years. At the same time, we have wanted The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt to expand creative boundaries, set new benchmarks, develop the genre as a whole.
"Ultimately, you, the players, must get an unforgettable adventure to experience in a vast, open world – and that's most important. We've created a story that flows naturally, cinematically, rendered it in amazing sound and visuals, while preserving full freedom of choice – all for you. We knew this to be an ambitious plan, but believed we could achieve it by bringing together our team with its creative energies and current gaming platforms with their technical capabilities. A project this vast and complex would inevitably require special care in its final stages, manual fine-tuning of many details, thorough testing time and again.
"We recently reexamined what we had achieved thus far, and faced a choice about the game's final release date. The decision we made was difficult, thoroughly considered, and ultimately clear and obvious. We could have released the game towards the end of this year as we had initially planned. Yet we concluded that a few additional months will let us achieve the quality that will satisfy us, the quality gamers expect from us. Consequently, we have set the release of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for February 2015.
"Dear gamers – we know many of you would have liked to play The Witcher 3 sooner, as soon as possible, even. We're sorry to make you wait longer than you, or we, initially assumed you would. At the same time, we believe the game will prove to be worth the wait and meet the expectations you have of us. We believe The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be an exceptional RPG, one of the best, providing many hours of wonderful entertainment.
"Dear shareholders – we are aware of the responsibility that rests with us and thank you for the trust you have granted us thus far. We firmly believe that quality – more than any other factor – determines a game's success, and that the decision we have made is thus equally valid in business terms.
"The Board of CD PROJEKT SA"
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I just opened up a couple bottles of a brown ale I just brewed, and there is much less carbonation then I had hoped. The beer was in the primary for a week, secondary for 3 weeks, then primed and bottled for two weeks before tasting. Is there anything I can do at this point? In the future, what should I be looking out for to prevent this?
I'd give it another week or two before opening any more. Sometimes you need 3 - 6 weeks to get full carbonation.
That said, you may not have used enough priming sugar. Using this priming sugar calculator can help in future batches: http://www.tastybrew.com/calculators/priming.html
(There could be other problems, but this is the most likely one. Other potential causes are too little head space between the beer and cap, using screw top bottles that can allow air to escape, and a few other random issues, but the priming sugar is likely the culprit.)
I'm adding this as another answer because I agree with all of Markskar's answer and the first part of Jordan's (though I admire his dedication re: the 2nd part of his answer).
I'd just wait. Make sure to age them in an area that doesn't get too cold or too hot-- like 60 - 70º. Depending on your ABV and the amount of priming sugar you used, carbonation time varies. I made a barleywine last year and the 10% ABV killed off the majority of the yeast in there. It took 3 months to fully carbonate, but now it's pouring a head you can almost stand a fork up in. So be patient and see what happens. So if you have high ABV, that's a factor for sure. It was also quite cold in my garage for the first month, and I'm suspecting that summer temps encouraged the remaining yeast to come out of hibernation.
I've definitely seen carbonation increase substantially in the third week. Beyond that, it drops off, but doesn't stop. I tend to bottle in various sizes (12oz, 500ml, 22oz, 1L). I've heard others say that the bigger bottles tend to get more carbonated than the smaller ones, due to an approximately equal amount of head space for a larger volume of beer.
After a week, try a couple of bottles of the same size from different sides of the batch. If you get different carbonation levels, it may be that you didn't have your priming sugar adequately mixed through your batch. To mitigate this:
Give it time and make sure you're storing your beer at a reasonable temperature while it conditions. I generally cellar mine upon bottling (~60-65 degrees year-round) and have only once had an issue with low carbonation, which did correct over time.
I had this same issue back a few months ago. The problem was that there were not enough yeast still alive to consume my priming sugar. I ended up dumping out every bottle very carefully into a bucket, boiled some water and added 2 cups of priming sugar to it, siphoned all of it back into a carboy, added more yeast, and let it ferment out. Then I rebottled and everything carbonated fine and the beer turned out just fine. This probably is not the proper way to handle the situation, but it worked.


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Why do we have an elementary charge $e$ in physics but no elementary mass? Is an elementary mass ruled out by experiment or is an elementary mass forbidden by some theoretical reason?
Let me add two references to points already mentioned in this discussion:
Today, there is no reason known why the electric charge has to be quantized. It is true that the quantization follows from the existence of magnetic monopoles and the consistency of the quantized electromagnetic field, which was shown first by Dirac, you'll find a very nice exposition of this in
AFAIK there is no reason to believe that magnetic monopoles do exist, there is no experimental evidence and there is no compelling theoretical argument using a well established framework like QFT. There are of course more speculative ideas (Lubos mentioned those).
AFAIK there is no reason why mass should or should not be quantized (in QFT models this is an assumption/axiom that is put in by hand, even the positivity of the energy-momentum operator is an axiom in AQFT), but a mass gap is considered to be an essential feature of a full fledged rigorous theory of QCD, for reasons that are explained in the problem description of the Millenium Problem of the Clay Institute that you can find here:
Charge comes from discrete symmetries and is countable and additive. Mass comes from continuous 4d space, is exchangeable with energy and, in quantum mechanical dimensions not linearly additive, thus not countable.
Suppose you have an elementary quantum of mass, $m_q$. In the world we know two such quanta would not end up as $2m_q$.
One would add the four vectors and take the measure in 4space, and square root it, to get the invariant mass of two of them, etc for higher numbers at will. Given a mass, you could never know/count of how many $m_q$ it is composed. It is a continuum. Whereas charge is simply additive and countable.
The only way an elementary particle rest masses could be a linear sum of $m_q$s is for there to be no binding energy, and experiments tell us the elementary particles are bound, if stable. If there were no binding energy then the composites would crumble into the constituent $m_q$ with the slightest scattering.
Dear asmailer, the reason is simple and completely understood: the electric charge is the generator of a $U(1)$ symmetry which is compact and may be parameterized by an angle, $\phi$. So wave functions may only depend on the angle $\phi$ in a periodic way, $\exp(iQ\phi)$ where $Q$ is integer (or an integer multiple of $e/3$, if I look at the elementary $U(1)$ rescaled by a factor of three that also allows quarks).
On the other hand, the mass is nothing else than the energy measured in the rest frame. The energy generates translations in time - and time is noncompact. So the corresponding phase $\exp(Et/i\hbar)$ isn't constrained by any condition of periodicity. So the energy is continuous even in the rest frame.
In the other frames, the continuous character of the energy is even more obvious because the "already continuous" rest mass is multiplied by the Lorentz factor $1/\sqrt{1-v^2/c^2}$ which changes - and has to change - continuously as we vary the velocity; the latter is required by the principle of relativity. So the mass and energy are continuous, have to be continuous, and will always remain continuous.
You could continue to ask "why" and in fact, you could get even deeper answers. You could ask why time is not periodic - which was used for the continuity of energy in a particular frame. Well, time has to be "aperiodic" because a periodic time would cause the grandfather paradox and other bad things - closed time-like curves. Time is also unbounded in the future because we live in a space with the positive cosmological constant.
On the other hand, groups such as $U(1)$ have to be compact and are compact in any quantum theory of gravity. This was argued e.g. by Cumrun Vafa in his Swampland program. For $U(1)$, the situation is simpler: the electric charge has to be quantized because of the Dirac quantization rule and because of the existence of the magnetic monopoles which is also guaranteed in a consistent theory of quantum gravity as was explained in another question on this server.
The coupling constant for gauge theories is dimensionless, such as the fine structure constant $\alpha~=~e^2/(4\pi\epsilon_0\hbar c)$ $\simeq~1/137$. Mass has naturalized units of reciprocal length. This makes the establishment of a charge more reasonable, and a unitless number is something which is benchmarked as being an absolute constant. In other words, if $\alpha$ changed it would be a pure numerical variation. Occasionally there are claims of this. A quantity which has an actual dimension in units is so in relationship to other quantities.
This is a question related to the problem of quantum gravity. The Planck mass $m_p~=~\sqrt{\hbar c/G}$ can be thought of as the fundamental unit of reciprocal length, and the gravitational constant $G$ has units of area. This area corresponds to the unit area of a black hole event horizon. For a Yang-Mill field theory the coupling constant functions in a field which is unitary. By contrast units of mass are related to this reciprocal length, which in turn is not just a unit involving gravitational modes, but also the degeneracy of modes which have an entropy --- or entanglement entropy.
So mass does not quantize in quite the elementary fashion we might expects with charge and other coupling parameters for interactions.
Mass can't be quantized because the contribution of a particle to a system's mass is not a scalar, but a 0 component of a 4-vector, so if you have a system of quantized mass particles, their bound states would not obey mass quantization.
In semi-classical gravity, there is a simple reason that charge has to be quantized. If the proton had a charge infinitesimally bigger than the positron, you could make a black hole, throw in some protons, wait for an equal number of positrons to come out in the Hawking radiation, and then let the resulting wee-charged black hole decay while throwing back all the charged stuff that comes out. This would produce a small mass black hole with charge equal to any multiple of the difference, and it could not decay except by undoing the process of formation. This is obviously absurd, so the charge is either quantized or there are particles of arbitrarily small charge.
Further, the small charge particles can't be too heavy, since the polarizing field of the black hole with these wee-charges must be strong enough to polarize the horizon to emit them. If their mass is bigger than their charge, then they are net-attracted to the black hole, which causes a constipation for the black hole--- it can't get rid of its charge. So the wee charged particles must be lighter than their mass generically.
These types of arguments reproduce the simpler swampland constraints. That out universe is not in the swampland is the only real testable prediction that string theory has made so far (for example, it excludes models where the proton stability is guaranteed by a new unbroken gauge charge).
I think it's beause do not have a fundamental understanding of mass. If we did, maybe that fundamental unit would have some relationship (i.e. tiny fraction) with the Planck mass.
The current effort in that direction probably begins with understanding the Higgs. There are several competing theories of the Higgs. They don't even agree on the number of such particles. So in that sense, the ball is in the experimentalist court.
Mass is determined by how a particle interacts with the Higgs boson(s). Mass is also determined by the relativistic mass-energy equation $E^2=m^2c^4+p^2c^2$ or more simply $m=\sqrt{(E^2-(pc)^2)}/c^2$ The energy values are a continuum, so there is no discrete elementary mass unit. In General Relativity, things are more complicated. In Stationary spacetimes, for example, the gravitational potentials (metrics) are not functions of time and the ST has time translational symmetry, so energy is conserved-- but while the stress-energy tensor is Lorentz covariant, in a non-isolated system, the system exchanges energy-momentum with its environment and its "mass" is not invariant--once again, no elementary or fundamental mass. I hope this is what you meant, but maybe you just meant the Planck mass... Frank Wilczek spends quite awhile in his popular book "The Lightness of Being" trying to say what mass is and isn't. He does quite a good job in non-technical terms- http://www.amazon.com/Lightness-Being-Ether-Unification-Forces/dp/B004HEXSXG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1296458301&sr=1-1


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26 Jun 2012 11:47 AM #1
Unanswered: Override field at framework levelHello everyone,
I want to apply a plugin to all fields(numberfield, textfield, datefield, etc.) in the library ExtJS 4.1. Is there anyone who knows how can I do this?As I know, all fields are extended from BaseField. So I tried this; but it didn't work at all. I'll be happy if someone can guide me.Thanks in advance.Code:
Ext.form.BaseField.override({ init : function() { this.plugins = [ 'clearbutton' ]; } });
26 Jun 2012 12:23 PM #2
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You should be able to override using one of the following in Ext4
Ext.define('Ext.form.MyBaseField', { override: 'Ext.form.field.Base', functionToOverride: function (id) { } });Code:
Ext.override(Ext.form.field.Base, { functionToOverride: function (id) { } });
26 Jun 2012 4:45 PM #3
You may have more luck trying to override initComponent rather than init, I'm not sure init exists. Be sure to call the overridden method too or you'll get all sorts of problems.ConsultJS: http://consultjs.com/
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26 Jun 2012 10:40 PM #4
First of all, thanks a lot for your care.
I'm not going to override a function; I just want to add a global config to all fields with overriding Ext.form.BaseField..
I've already tried to override initComponent function too..


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I just beet Tranmere Rovers on penalties
But now its saying i lost 5 - 4 even though non of my players missed
I am really gutted now and feel like giving up on this game
I just beet Tranmere Rovers on penalties
But now its saying i lost 5 - 4 even though non of my players missed
I am really gutted now and feel like giving up on this game
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Are you patched up? I think there was an issue like this on one of the patches on FM08, where you would win a cup on penalties but were being told in the press that you'd been beaten.
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Im on the latest patch 9.3.0 yeah
FWIW, I think this is known bug that SI are looking into eradicating for FM10, not a lot that can be done about it now seeing as the final patch has been released. It is a pretty rare bug however, most people will never experience it, it is just unfortunate that you have
golfpunk: I would be careful about boasting about/announcing you have achieved an amount of posts, a fair few people don't take kindly to it, including the mods. Remember what happened to Meeko?
Well i'd go report this in the bugs forum then mate, in here!
ftg87:- Oops never realied people didn't take kindly too it, my bad! What happened to Meeko? Also, I never realised this was a known bug, i've never seen/heard of it before. Unfortunate for theBantams
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done it golfpunk i just it doesn't happen too often in the game
TBF Meeko went a little more OTT, he opened a thread in OTF saying "1000 posts Wahoo!" and the mods put his post count down to 100 and even changed the thread title to read "100 posts" Was proper funny
Ftg87 - in fairness I don't think golfpunk did much wrong. I've seen a load of other posters do this when they hit 100 or 1000 posts, and I don't think many see a problem with it. However, if you're going to post a new thread to make such an announcement, well then you're bound to get punished!
If I was a mod I think I would go mad with power. Changing people's post counts, impressive. I can't even begin to imagine the other perks.


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Suppose I want to understand classical mechanics.
Why should I be interested in arbitrary poisson manifolds and not just in symplectic ones?
What are examples of systems best described by non symplectic poisson manifolds?
Suppose I want to understand classical mechanics.
Why should I be interested in arbitrary poisson manifolds and not just in symplectic ones?
What are examples of systems best described by non symplectic poisson manifolds?
For many reasons and purposes, it is the Poisson bracket, not the symplectic form, that plays a primary role.
On the other hand, many natural systems have a degenerate Poisson bracket and/or are infinite-dimensional.
Finally, a related practical consideration: even if you are interested in studying a symplectic manifold, frequently this is best accomplished by embedding it as a symplectic leaf into a simpler Poisson manifold, whether or not it has direct physical meaning. In particular, this applies to flag manifolds of semisimple Lie groups, which are topologically complicated objects, but can be identified with coadjoint orbits, thus embedded into a vector space with a linear Poisson structure.
The following article by J. Butterfield suggests 3 reasons motivating Poisson manifolds (over symplectic manifolds)(page 81)
3.Reduction: When the configuration space is a Lie group, it is natural to use T*G/G as the reduced phase space. This is a Poisson manifold isomorphic to the dual of the Lie algebra and having a Lie Poisson structure.
Well, first of all, you would have to dive pretty far into classical mechanics in order to require either of these two tools. A typical introduction to the subject, based e.g. on the book of Goldstein, Poole and Safko, would not need such advanced mathematics.
That being said, non-symplectic Poisson manifolds do occur in classical mechanics, when studying the time evolution of systems, most commonly in the transition from classical mechanics to quantum mechanics.
A fundamental tool in quantum mechanics is the commutator between two operators, written e.g. [x,p]. The classical analogue of this is the Poisson bracket between two functions of the coordinates q_i, p_i and t, e.g. { f(q,p,t) , g(q,p,t) }.
Now for the geometry: suppose that your coordinates q_i lie in a Riemannian manifold, Q. Then Q together with the two-form w, which is the exterior derivative of the so-called canonical one-form on the phase space, usually form a symplectic manifold.
Now, a theorem (which I can't remember the name of) states that if (Q, w) is a symplectic manifold, then ( Q , {-,-} ) forms a Poisson manifold. This, again, turns out to be the requirement for constructing a Lie algebra homomorphism from the set of bounded sequences on Q to the set of vector fields on Q, and now we are very close to quantum mechanics.
For a specific system: consider standard 3D Euclidean space. This is odd dimension, so not symplectic. Construct the Poisson bracket such: {x,y} = z , {z,x} = y, {y,z} = x, where x,y,z, are the coordinate functions, i.e. this is the cross product in awkward notation. Now let F be in C^inf(Q), consider {F,-} acting as a derivation on the set of all polynomials. Then, by Weierstrass theorem, you can approximate a definition of {F,G} for all F, G in C^inf(Q).
So we have just constructed a very simple system (a point in Euclidean space) and represented it with a Poisson manifold. Note, however, that it has the set of all spheres centered at the origin as a foliation, and this is a foliation consisting of symplectic manifolds, which turns out to be a general feature.


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STEUBENVILLE - "Annie Jr.," one of the best-loved family musicals of all time, is about to take center stage at the Berkman Theatre in Lanman Hall at Catholic Central High School.
The pupils of Bishop John King Mussio Junior High will perform the musical for two evenings beginning at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Tickets for Annie Jr. are $7 for adults and $5 for students and pupils and can be purchased in the junior high office. Due to recent renovations in Lanman Hall, which were funded by the Berkman Foundation, all seating is reserved, and only pre-sale ticket holders will have their choice of seating. Tickets at the door will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
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"Annie Jr." will be the first musical performed with all renovations completed in the Berkman Theatre, including new lighting, sound, curtains, refinished stage, carpeting and brand new seating.
"This is a project unlike any other we have taken on before," said director Helena Muckle. "In the past, we have done plays based on cartoon and fanciful characters, such as 'Aladdin' and 'Seussical.' This year, the pupils really had a challenge in front of them - they had to learn how to play the parts of adults and children in the 1930s, a task not easily accomplished. With much practice and many hours of hard work, they are ready to show Steubenville what's behind those curtains."
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So, to save her from the process of learning it the hard way, and in hope that the last two can be avoided, can someone reccomend some book that covers in general "linux way of work and thinking" (I swear, I've no idea how to put it better than this) ?
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Chevron found the virus in its systems after the malware's existence was first reported in a blog post in July 2010, according to Mark Koelmel, general manager of the earth-sciences department at the big US oil company. The US government has never officially acknowledged the Stuxnet program.
By RACHAEL KING
Stuxnet, a sophisticated computer virus that former US
officials say was created by the US and Israel to spy on and
attack Iran's nuclear-enrichment facilities, also infected Chevron
Corp.'s network in 2010, shortly after it escaped from its
intended target.
Chevron found the virus in its systems after the malware's
existence was first reported in a blog post in July 2010,
according to Mark Koelmel, general manager of the
earth-sciences department at the big US oil company.
The US government has never officially acknowledged the Stuxnet
"I don't think the US government even realized how far [the
virus] had spread," said Mr. Koelmel, who oversees
earth-science research and development at Chevron and is
familiar with how information technology is used at the
"I think the downside of what they did is going to be far
worse than what they actually accomplished," he said.
Chevron, which is based in San Ramon, Calif., wasn't hurt by
Stuxnet, said Chevron spokesman Morgan Crinklaw. "We make every
effort to protect our data systems from those types of
threats," he said.
Chevron's experience with Stuxnet appears to be the result
of the malware's unintentional release into cyberspace, much
like an experimental virus escaping from a medical lab.
But many companies also are being specifically targeted by
viruses, sometimes by less-sophisticated groups or individuals
attempting to retaliate against perceived cyberaggression by
the US. Although they have fewer resources behind them, those
guerrilla campaigns are nonetheless capable of doing real,
physical damage to the targeted facilities.
Chevron is the first US company to acknowledge that its
systems were infected by Stuxnet. But most security experts
suspect that the vast majority of hacking incidents go
unreported for reasons of security, or to avoid
The devices targeted by Stuxnet, called programmable logic
controllers are used to automate factory equipment. PLCs are
made by huge companies, including Siemens of Germany, whose
devices were in use at the Iranian facility.
Millions of the devices have been sold world-wide, exposing
the industrial companies that depend on them to the risk of
being infected.
US officials, meanwhile, blame Iranian hackers with
government ties for the so-called Shamoon virus that destroyed
data on 30,000 computers belonging to Saudi Aramco in August.
Defense officials said a Qatari natural-gas company called
Rasgas was attacked in August.
The incidents show how cyberattacks have escalated in speed and
scale during the past few months.
"All told, the Shamoon virus was probably the most
destructive attack that the private sector has seen to date,"
US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said in an Oct. 11 speech
at a Business Executives for National Security dinner.
Aramco said it quickly recovered from the August attack, but
expects more such threats in the future. Rasgas said the August
attack had no impact on its operations.
"The real worry that a lot of us have been talking about for
a year or so is that instead of just stealing information,
[hackers are] gaining control of target systems so that they
can cause" physical damage, said Ed Skoudis, who teaches
cybersecurity classes at the SANS Institute, a private
organization that trains cybersecurity experts and conducts
information-security research.
Employees who have a deep understanding of cybersecurity and
their company's systems are the only defense against viruses
like Stuxnet, which often target vulnerabilities that
securities researchers haven't yet identified or software
vendors haven't patched, said Alan Paller, who founded
He said those employees need to understand malware and
techniques for fighting them, such as deep-packet inspection,
which involves a very detailed examination of traffic on a
computer network.
They must also have a deep knowledge of what network traffic
should look like.
"There are probably only 18 to 20 people in the [US] who
have those fundamental skills," he said.
Unleashing potent cyberweapons involves the risk of
blowback. "Somebody could recover malware assets, tweak them
and use them" against their creators, according to Skoudis. He
said portions of the Stuxnet code already have been used to
commit financial cybercrimes, such as stealing credit-card data
and bank-account information.
The US government's purported link to Stuxnet makes American
companies an even bigger target, said Mr. Paller. Hackers last
summer went from stealing information to using cyberattacks to
cause destruction, he said.
Stuxnet "opened Pandora's box," he added. "Whatever restraint
might have been holding damaging attacks back is gone."
In the end, companies are left to clean up the mess
associated with viruses such as Stuxnet.
"We're finding it in our systems, and so are other
companies," said Chevron's Mr. Koelmel. "So now we have to deal
with this."
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What if Darth Vader took an active role in raising his son? What if "Luke, I am your father" was just a stern admonishment from an annoyed dad? In this hilarious and sweet comic reimagining, Darth Vader is a dad like any other—except with all the baggage of being the Dark Lord of the Sith. Celebrated artist Jeffrey Brown's delightful illustrations give classic Star Wars® moments a fresh twist, presenting the trials and joys of parenting through the lens of a galaxy far, far away. Life lessons include lightsaber batting practice, using the Force to raid the cookie jar, Take Your Child to Work Day on the Death Star ("Er, he looks just like you, Lord Vader!"), and the special bond shared between any father and son.
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Highly recommend! Received this as a gift and my six-year-old son loves reading the part of Luke. :)
@luckysevens - This book was out before the buyout took place.
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The cup will pay for itself at this price. A growing number of coffee shops and carryout restaurants give a small discount (typically a dime, but anywhere between a nickle and a quarter) when you provide a reusable cup.
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The free shipping is for orders $49 or more, but the price for that cup is still a good deal. I just bought 4 of them!
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Greetings for the new year. If one of your resolutions for 2013 is to lead a healthier lifestyle, we have some great ideas here for greening up your home.
The average person probably doesn't have time to research all that goes into traditional cleaning and home care products. So we've done the research for you. A couple of years ago I was invited to make a presentation to a group of Extension staff in Wichita and share ideas for how to live in a healthier home. I thought I knew a fair amount about the topic; when I started digging as I prepared my PowerPoint presentation for the audience I was dumbfounded by what I uncovered.
I knew, generally, that there are health concerns associated with many of the traditional cleaning products on the market. That research has found that conditions such as asthma, allergies, and immune illnesses are associated with exposure to certain chemicals found in everyday off-the-shelf household products. However, what I didn't know was staggering. Did you know that the average American house is home to 60 hazardous products? That indoor air quality in a typical home is 2-5 times more toxic than outdoor air? That nearly 80% of the chemicals used in the home haven't even been tested for safety? And that companies are not even required to list the ingredients in the products they sell? These statistics (are there are MANY more where these came from) are not meant to scare you, but rather to inform you and invite you to consider healthier alternatives for yourself and your family. Knowledge is power.
Fortunately, there are a LOT of non-toxic options that are quite effective at cleaning and deodorizing your home. Here is a small sampling of ideas and suggestions for some products that we have used with great results. An added benefit is that most of these approaches will save you money as well as improve your indoor air quality.
Ten ways you can use lemon juice instead of toxic chemicals from the website The Nourished Life is a very straightforward, easy-to-follow guide.
I highly recommend the book Clean: The Humble Art of Zen Cleansing. It is chock full of recipes using only these natural ingredients: baking soda, borax, lemon, salt, and white vinegar. (In 2010 author Michael DeJong and partner Richard Haymes gifted the community of Greensburg with 600 copies of this guide. It was a big hit! They later journeyed from New Jersey to Kansas to demonstrate multiple recipes from the book and offer a couple of educational sessions on the concerns associated with traditional cleaning products.)
E-cloths are a remarkable invention and will do away with the need for purchasing paper towels and most household cleaners. The cloths were originally designed for use in Swedish hospitals that aimed to lower patients' exposure to toxic cleaning products. My personal favorite - so far - is the cloth that is used for cleaning glass. (The E-cloth company also generously donated product for the folks of Greensburg after the 2007 tornado.)
Commercial air "fresheners" are a personal pet peeve. The list of toxic ingredients they spew into the air is lengthy and rather frightening. Here's an easy recipe for homemade air freshener from the website Thank Your Body.
Here are some recommended brands of household and personal care products, in case you're not quite ready to make your own.
If you'd like to experiment with homemade products, here are a couple of easy recipes to get you started, from Michael DeJong's book, Clean: The Humble Art of Zen-Cleansing:
Bath & kitchen cleanser - "Mix one-quarter cup borax and one-quarter cup baking soda to make the best bath cleaner and kitchen cleaner ever. Add some salt as an abrasive if necessary."
Baking soda cleanser for your car - "Add a quarter of a cup to a bucket of water to remove bugs and tree sap from the chrome, windshield glass, mud flaps, auto roof rack and auto-body paint on your car. It's really effective as a scrub, too. Just apply a bit onto a rag or sponge to get the really nasty stuff up. Rinse with clean water. Try it on the vinyl seats inside, too."
If you are just starting to wean yourself off traditional household products, be gentle with making changes. It can be challenging to let go of trusted name-brands and use "alternatives" - even though "alternatives" are older than the hills, when you're talking lemons, vinegar and salt! I must confess to having been "addicted" to Comet cleanser in my youth. When I read that chlorine gas was used as a weapon during World War I - well, let's just say that cleaning with chlorine bleach no longer appealed to me.


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I came across a news story recently where a passenger was restrained using tape for unruly behaviour on an Icelandair flight.
Under what situations is a flight crew allowed to take such action, and what methods of restraint are they allowed to use?
I came across a news story recently where a passenger was restrained using tape for unruly behaviour on an Icelandair flight.
Under what situations is a flight crew allowed to take such action, and what methods of restraint are they allowed to use?
Laws are a regional thing, and while many flights are international, whether or not the crew's actions are legal will depend heavily on which country the court proceedings take place in. My expertise is only in United States law and the FAA regulations, but similar regulations exist abroad as well. Here are some key points:
1: The airline (and in particular, the Pilot in Command) is ultimately responsible for the safety of the flight, whatever that may mean. If something goes wrong, the pilot (and by extension, the crew acting under his authority) has both the responsibility and authority to address the situation to preserve safety, however they see fit.
2: For the duration of the flight, the instructions of the crew are law. Literally -- it is illegal to disobey the instructions of a crew-member. This sounds like a bit of a stretch, but this interpretation has held up so far. The actual FAA regulation says:
And it turns out that disobeying any instruction from a crewmember constitutes interference with that crewmember's duties, whether or not you intended to interfere with his/her duties by disobeying.
A good example of this in court is United States vs. Meeker -- here's the narrative, trimmed for space:
Meeker argued that in his refusal to comply with the request to return to his seat, he was not doing so with the intent to interfere with the crew's duties, nor was he interfering with the pilot's ability to control the aircraft. The court said it didn't matter. Meeker got consecutive prison terms and fines for his behavior, which included consecutive sentencing for both his physical assault on the crew as they restrained him and his refusal to follow their instructions.
The moral of the story is this: if you're in a position where crew decide they have to physically restrain you, chances are good that you're going to prison already. Fighting them about it means you'll be going to prison longer.
Looking over cases, it appears that you can expect at least 6 months in prison, no more than 20 years, and typically around 2 years.
The BBC actually has an article related to this entitled "Who, What, Why: Is it legal to restrain air passengers?". It explains:
In addition, the IATA published a "Guidance on Unruly Passenger Prevention and Management"(1.29 MB), which states:
It advises that there should be more training and support for cabin crew.
I do not think there is a rule written somewhere that gives the cabin crew the right to restrain a passenger, and I do not think there is a training for that to cabin crew (how to restrain a passenger). The rules vary from an airlines to another, from one civil aviation authority to another, but the guide lines will always be the three steps way of dealing with unruly passengers:
Now those were the guidelines, but sometimes these aren't enough and unruly passenger might compromise the safety of the passenger/aircraft. If that's the case and the unruly passenger is way out of control and starts to freak other passengers, then no specific rules will apply! Just common sense! The cabin crew have to act according to common sense in any emergency case, the emergency procedures and policies are to be followed literally in many cases but sometimes common sense has to take over especially when the book does not cover that scenario.
What would you do if you make a party in your house, and one of the guests starts to make problems and break things and harm other guests? you will call the police, kick him out or restrain him. In aircrafts you are only left with the latter, I think that's what lead the cabin crew in that flight to restrain the passenger - common sense.
Legally, if the cabin crew followed the guidelines mentioned above, with the existence of many witnesses, then they are clear! Some people might think this is inappropriate and against human rights and blah blah, but they have saved many passengers and the aircraft from a bigger problem!
One more thing to mention, after 9/11 things are much different, authorities are super sensitive to any kind of unruliness in aviation. Airports security, carry-on luggage rules, customs and passport control. So I think it is normal if the cabin crew got some of this sensitivity. just guessing.
Regarding the methods to restrain unruly passengers, I never heard of an airlines that provide restraining tools for the cabin crew. Icelandair said they do and I am skeptical about this, why would they provide duct tape? If they would provide tools to restrain people then they should provide hand cuffs or tie wraps!
Anyway, in my 10 years as cabin crew, I haven't faced a single case of restraining a passenger by cabin crew. Although I have seen many unruly passenger but the three steps above worked in all the cases.
Sky Marshals
Some airlines, in certain routes, have sky marshals onboard. They are usually government agents who are positioned in aircrafts undercover, either as passengers or as cabin crew. They are allowed to restrain people and even put hand cuffs on them. As I said they are government officers and they have their rules.


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Suppose $f : R^n \to R$ is a differentiable function. Say that we can compute in $T$ arithmetic operations the value $f(x)$ at any point $x$. Can we use that to somehow precisely bound the time that is required to compute $\nabla f$? (Intuitively because of finite difference approximations, we might be able to do this, but is a precise statement available, or am I overlooking something obvious?)


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The Pratt Community College Lady Beavers improved to 4-0 Saturday night with a 72-34 hammering of Bethany JV.
Meanwhile, the men dropped their first game of the season, falling to 3-1 after getting edged by Northern Oklahoma-Tonkawa 57-55.
Led by Hayli Jo Smith's 19 points, the Lady Beavers scored early and often against the overmatched Swedes. PCC opened a 39-15 lead at halftime and never looked back.
"We thought we could run on them and score in transition," PCC womens' head coach Stephanie Thompson mentioned. "We needed to work on it so we can do it against other teams as well."
PCC scored 28 points in transition, forcing Bethany into 30 turnovers including 20 PCC steals.
The Lady Beavers dominated on the glass as well, outboarding the visitors 43-24. "We have rebounded well in our first four games," Thompson said. "We haven't been beaten on the boards yet."
An issue early on for the Lady Beavers has been ball security, but against the Swedes, PCC only had 15 turnovers. "We hope to continue having consistency and taking care of the basketball," emphasized Thompson.
It was a back-and-forth mens' game, each team enjoying runs at different times. The contest was close throughout, Tonkawa up 24-22 at the break.
The Beavers opened the 2nd half well, forging the largest lead by either squad, 39-34, at the 10:45 mark.
But a flurry of 3s by the Mavericks coupled with a PCC dry spell gave Tonkawa the lead back 50-45, having gone on a 16-6 run. PCC regained the lead late on a 3 by Randall Rogers and a 1+1 by Lucas Stivrins, but a turnover on an in-bounds play gave Tonkawa the ball back. They scored their final 5 points from the charity stripe to send PCC to their first defeat, 57-55. "It stings to have a game in your hands and watch it slip away," said PCC men's coach Jesse Shaw.
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Don't miss the incredibly creative and dynamic films and videos created by youth in Ohio. The Youth Division of the Ohio Short Film & Video Showcase provides Ohio's younger independent media artists a chance to show their work in a theatrical setting.
Last year's capacity crowd witnessed 16 short works by young artists from around the state. Prizes are awarded to the top youth-produced projects. All are encouraged to attend the screening and the reception afterwards from 6 to 7 in the Wexner Center Lower Lobby. The adult division screening follows at 7 pm.
Brandon Halley, Yellow Springs
The Nightmare
William Dulaney, Columbus
Skating through Effects
Anthony Colangelo, Heath
Winter Thoughts
Zach Inscho, Columbus
Prize Winner
Saturday Afternoon
Alex Caperton, Columbus
Stress Test
Ben Van Cleave, Springfield
Love Is War
Taylor Tietjen, Hilliard
Joe Kell, Mansfield
A Day with Jim
Delissa Simpson, Columbus
The Sad Cowboy
Remy Brommer, Ian Moran, Daniel Zabludovsky, Columbus
The Truth Behind Sunflower Seeds
Trevor Arwood, Mike Capace, Hilliard
Holiday Greeting
Sarah Houston, Heath
What Goes Up
Philip Mendola, Hilliard
Random Dodger
Will Handford, Hilliard
Love is a story.
Kelsey Evans, Columbus
il sorto
Samuel Sheidlower, Matthew Kessler, Blacklick, Gahanna
Grand Prize Winner
I Will
Nick Schoener, Columbus
Life, Death and Pain
Dustin Scarpitti, Hilliard
Prize Winner
Andy Sontag, Sonny Thomas, Nathan Moore, Abeo Miller, Yellow Springs
Pictured are images from Amor by Kate Sweeney and Girl Pants on Guys by Jimmie Hendrickson and Nathan Lundquist, prize winners from the Youth Division of the 2005 Ohio Short Film & Video Showcase.


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VirtualBox 2.2.2 and OpenSolaris build 114 and above - new vbi kernel module necessary
By .tom on Mai 01, 2009
If you run OpenSolaris with a kernel build 114 and above with VirtualBox 2.2.2, you will have incompatible data structures between the kernel and the VirtualBox kernel module. Lucky Solaris users see this very infrequently, but from time to time, these type of changes seem to be necessary. Your Solutions is until the next VirtualBox release is out, to use the kernel module package attached to the VirtualBox ticket http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3981 (and never try the one from Release 2.2.2 on a kernel build 114 or above .
How I got there. My workstations runs build 114 since a few days and I wanted to use VirtualBox 2.2.2 to do some real work with it. But unfortunately the whole machine rebooted if I started the Guest. I wrote an email to the VirtualBox Team once I googled the problem and found the ticket mentioned above .... promptly I got a reply that the new kernel module package has already been attached to the ticket right now (I had the ticket from a few minutes ago w/o the file attached still on the screen). Wow, that was fast! Thanks to the VirtualBox Team!
PS: I'm really really happy, that the Solaris kernel doesn't change it's interface and datastructures every fortnight. Datacenter customers need this as well as Homeusers and Developers and Softwarevendors and everyone .... ?
The response from the VirtualBox Team was so fast, you won't believe me if I tell you how fast.


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Following an open records request, The Kiowa County Sheriff's Department released the dispatch record from last Sunday's carbon monoxide leak at the Night Watchman Best Western hotel. The report details response time of county emergency responders.
The initial 911 call from Best Western desk clerk Debbie White came into the sheriff's station at 3:09 p.m. but was unanswered according to the report.
Dispatcher Toshia Hoover was "in the restroom" when the first call came in, but was able to answer a second call on an "administration" line at 3:09 p.m.
A third call came in through 911 while Hoover was on the administration line speaking with White, but Hoover was not able to answer it before the caller "abandoned" it.
White reported that "a couple dozen" children in the pool area were having "difficulty breathing" and had dilated eyes.
Hoover paged sheriff's officers and county Emergency Medical Services (EMS) at 3:10 p.m. and paged the Greensburg Fire Department at 3:11 on a request from county EMS.
An advisement that all of the children had been removed from the pool area, that all of the children were conscious was reported to all of the responding units that came in soon after.
According to the report a sheriff's officer was on location at 3:13 p.m. and reported that some of the parents had begun transporting children to the Kiowa County Memorial Hospital (KCMH), which is less than a quarter mile away.
EMS and county fire both reported to the site at 3:14, with an ambulance arriving at KCMH at 3:19 p.m.
A county fire official was reported to have left KCMH at 6:27 p.m.
This first appeared in the Dec. 19, 2012 print edition of The Kiowa County Signal.
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Xavier University Commencement Information
The faculty, staff, administration and trustees of Xavier University join me in congratulating Xavier graduates-to-be on the completion or impending completion of their degree program. We welcome them as graduates of a long and rich tradition of Jesuit education.
It is our intention to make this a happy and memorable event for graduates and their guests. Please check here for updates as commencement approaches.
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The Catcher Whose Kudos Can Hurt
ST. LOUIS—On most baseball teams, a player who delivers a game-ending hit will be mobbed by his teammates. He might have his helmet slapped or his backside patted. He might get tackled to the ground. At worst, he'll have a whipped-cream pie shoved in his face.
Watch Out for Buck!
On the Mets, a player who gets such a hit is sentenced to a much different fate: He might get punched in the groin. That is because when it comes to postgame celebrations, Mets catcher John Buck is the most dangerous man in baseball.
After Jordany Valdespin's game-ending grand slam last month, Buck clobbered him in the face with a whipped-cream pie. It was a wonder Valdespin didn't land on the disabled list.
Then, following Mike Baxter's game-winning single last week, TV cameras caught Buck running up to Baxter, cocking his fist back and apparently slugging him below the belt. (Buck swears he stopped his punch before doing any damage, but even an imaginary cup check is too close for comfort.)
In light of these violent celebratory acts by someone they thought they could trust, the rest of the Mets are officially on watch—and they are starting to worry.
"I'm beginning to think he's a mole," infielder Justin Turner said with a laugh. "I don't know what's going on."
Turner is uniquely qualified to critique Buck's overzealousness. He commandeered the pie-smashing duties last season, elevating the act of slamming whipped cream onto one's face into a science. Along the way, he learned a few things, like: use whipped cream, not shaving cream (which burns the eyes more and tastes awful), and try to avoid the eyes.
But most important: When you hit somebody with a pie, try not to fracture his nose.
Buck apparently needs a lesson. As Valdespin tried to complete his postgame interview, Buck emerged from the dugout, reared his left arm back and crushed him.
After seeing the replay, Turner posted on his Twitter account: "I think I'm gonna have to keep that duty 4 myself so no 1 gets hurt." Mets pitcher Dillon Gee described the incident on Twitter as "the most aggressive post game pie I've ever seen."
It would have been easy to give Buck the benefit of the doubt and chalk up the Valdespin situation to poor pie-throwing technique, but the Baxter incident puts that to rest.
As the video of Buck pretending to slug his teammate circulated around the clubhouse, it became clear that nobody is safe. Though Turner said "everyone gets beaten up when they hit a walk-off," he hadn't seen a celebration quite like this.
Upon seeing the clip, Turner summoned shortstop Ruben Tejada and bullpen catcher Dave Racaniello for a group viewing. When it got to the part where it appeared the punch landed, Tejada shouted, "Boom!" Turner hollered, "Oh, baby! Bucky!"
Then Buck walked into the room.
"Hey, get over here," Turner yelled. "You've got to watch this video and explain to us what's going on here."
As his teammates burst into laughter, Buck offered an explanation: "If you're going to get a hit, you're going to get damage [done] to you. That's how you celebrate."
Of course, now that Buck has been outed as a belligerent celebrator, it leaves him in a vulnerable position. What will happen if he gets a game-ending hit later this season?
"Oh yeah," backup catcher Anthony Recker said, "we're going to crush him."
One problem, though: Buck isn't afraid of the threat of retaliation.
"I'll beat the hell out of anybody who comes trying to touch me," Buck said. (To that, Turner interjected, "Yeah, right.")
"I'll run out there with a bat," Buck continued. "It'll be fun, and I'll enjoy every moment of it. Those are punches I'm willing to take. It'll be awesome."
Indeed: At 6 feet 2 and 230 pounds, Buck is one of the burliest, strongest players on the team. That is why relief pitcher LaTroy Hawkins—a physically imposing specimen himself (6 feet 5, 220 pounds)—said, "I'm not punching him." Baxter, sitting at an adjacent locker, said, "I'm not punching him either."
So what are the Mets to do? Although Buck is big, he is a catcher—meaning he is slow. They could just run away from him.
Or they can just rest assured that they play for the Mets. The way things are going, with a five-game losing streak and a 14-22 record going into Wednesday night's game here against the Cardinals, how to properly celebrate isn't a pressing priority anyway.
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I'm being told that I shouldn't be using database IDs directly in HTML code in web applications.
Currently I use the IDs on things like table row IDs (tableRow-454 where 454 is the ID of the row in the DB), in hidden or selects fields in forms or in URLs. (I'm not referring to telling people visually on a page that they are ####.)
The recommendation I was given was to use some math to obfuscate the ID from the user. I'm thinking this will only make things more complicated and add unnecessary complexity. But I can see some good reasons to make it more difficult to determine a database ID from the HTML.
Do you obfuscate the IDs from the user? Or do you care?


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Emporia State Splits Basketball Games At UNK
Posted: 10:52 PM Jan 30, 2013
Reporter: ESU Sports Information (Posted by J.B. Bauersfeld)
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The Emporia State basketball teams split a pair of games at Neb.-Kearney on Wednesday night.
Women's Recap
Emporia State 88, Neb.-Kearney 53
January 30, 2013-For the second straight game Rachel Hanf posted a career high in scoring as Emporia State rolled to an 88-53 win over Neb.-Kearney on Wednesday night. The Lady Hornets jumped out to a 10-2 lead and never trailed in the contest.
Hanf had her second career double-double with career highs of 25 points and 12 rebounds. She was joined in double figures by Desiree Wylie with 12 points, Rheanna Egli and Sarah Wood with 11 points each and Laura Patrick with 10 points. Egli dished a game high seven assists as Emporia State shot a season best 55.2 from the field.
The Lady Hornets are back in action on Saturday, Feb. 2 at Northwest Missouri. Tip off is set for 1:30 p.m. at Bearcat Arena in Maryville, Mo.
Hanf passed Casey Cookson and Kristie Nelson-Lackey to move into 24th on the Lady Hornet career scoring list with 1,033 points.
After scoring 89 in a win over UCO on Sunday, the Lady Hornets have scored over 80 points in consecutive games for the first time since Nov. 25-26, 2011 and the first time in MIAA play since Jan. 1-5, 2011.
Men's Recap
Neb.-Kearney 81, Emporia State 58
January 30, 2013-For just the second time this season the Emporia State men were outscored from the field in an 81-58 loss at Nebraska-Kearney.
The game was tied at 6-6 when UNK went on an 8-0 to take the lead for good. The Lopers had a 30-21 lead with 4:39 left in the half when the Hornets went on a 7-0 run highlighted by three blocks by Paul Bunch. Neb.-Kearney recovered with an 8-1 run to go into the half up 38-29. The Hornets were outscored 43-29 in the second half as they shot just .303 from the field after intermission.
Paul Bunch led Emporia State with 12 points and added six rebounds and a career high seven blocked shots. He was joined in double figures by Kaleb Wright and Tre Boutilier with ten points each.
The Hornets are back in action on Saturday, Feb. 2 when they travel to Northwest Missouri. Tip-off from Bearcat Arena in Maryville, Mo. is set for 3:30 p.m.
The seven blocks by Bunch are the most by a Hornet since Marcellus Steide blocked nine against Washburn on Jan. 20, 1993.
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