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5 healthy alternatives to coffee: Postum back on the shelves
With its basic ingredients including cocoa powder, sugar and milk, a sweeter alternative to coffee is hot chocolate.
Hot chocolate can also provide health benefits; a 2003 Cornell University study concluded that the antioxidant concentration in cocoa on a per-serve basis is two to three times stronger than that of green tea and four to five times more than black tea.
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Its about time, a wonderful drink. Where?
- 7:59 a.m. Jan. 11, 2013
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It's served hot. doesn't that violate the WOW.
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But we don't need an alternative to coffee. It's good on its' own.
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Love Pero in my hot chocolate.
- 10:19 a.m. Jan. 12, 2013
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Can someone set this non-Mormon straight, because I've asked different
Mormons I know, and I always get a vague (and often contradictory) answer. What
is it about coffee that the Word of Wisdom prohibits?
Some say caffeine, some say hot drinks.
If caffeine is the culprit, how come Mormons can eat/drink chocolate? (I believe Marie Osmond called chocolate the Mormon narcotic.)
If hotness is the culprit, how come Mormons can drink hot herbal teas, soups, Postum, etc.?
We Jews have a similar confusion. We're not allowed to eat beef and milk products together because "you shall not cook a calf in its mother's milk" (this is considered great cruelty)--and how do you know the milk you'd be using isn't the calf's mother's?
Yet, it's perfectly okay under Jewish law to eat chicken and eggs together. Huh???
Maybe that's why I'm a "spiritually but not religious" vegetarian.
Anyway, I'd appreciate any input regarding my question.
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Admiring: There isn't really a logical explanation. Your reference to Kosher laws is right on. Even though some Kosher rules make sense from a health standpoint, mostly its just a sign of being a practicing Jew. There was a time when the Word of Wisdom was more of a guideline, but around the 1920s it became a litmus test for faithfulness to get into the temple. Since then, the focus has been on the obedience rather than the health benefits. Health arguments for the WOW don't hold up that well since, as you point out, there are a lot worse things that Mormons consume than tea and coffee. Health wise, a can of beer every day would be better for you than a daily can of soda pop filled with corn syrup, artificial flavors and colors. Yet Mormons will happily imbibe the latter while viewing the former as a breach of Orthodoxy. So, in short, it's a symbol of orthodoxy just like being kosher.
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@Admiring Gentile - I'm not LDS either and have puzzled over this too. I checked out the official LDS Encyclopedia that you can find online which provides a rationale too long to reprint here. At the end of the day, not everything prohibited by religious law in the LDS or other faiths has a clear secular reason behind it.
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"The Brethren" have interpreted "Hot Drinks" to mean Tea and
Coffee--and so Mormons have to live it.
I agree, the WOW can't reasonably be explained. Better to think of it in terms of the spiritual blessings one gets for being obedient because preaching the physical side of it just won't hold up.
BTW: A long time ago, in a country far far away, in my mission we were told to teach that the only kind of 'prohibited' tea was "Black Tea" and that Yerba Tea and/or Green Tea were acceptable.
Since my mission I have been told Green Tea and Yerba tea are not acceptable...so even within "The Brethren's" interpretation there is still confusion.
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Thanks, everyone, for your input. To SL, I especially appreciate your detailed
response. And it confirms for me why I decide these things for myself.
I think both the WOW and Jewish Kosher laws need desperately to be revised if their purpose is truly to be keeping their adherents healthy. In the Mormon case, dishes like Funeral Potatoes (so aptly named: a fat bomb) should be discouraged; and in the Jewish case dishes like those overstuffed deli sandwiches (another fat bomb).
And in both cases, anything that has ingredients like partially hydrogenated fats in it.
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Not having grown up drinking coffee, I don't feel like I need an alternative. My favorite beverage is water.
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I LOVE Postum! The problem is, I have read in a few places that the new version is made by a different company which has bought the rights to use the name, but doesn't have the original recipe. It may not taste the same. Anyone out there tried it yet?
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Teleste: Perhaps when the Word of Wisdom was received, early church members
were familiar only with black tea, it being the tea known and used most widely
in Great Britain, the ancestral home of many of them.
A quick search of Wikipedia today on the topic of tea informs us that black, green, white and oolong teas all come from the same plant, Camellia Sinensis. Joseph Smith most likely did not know this, but today we do.
We also know that all herbal and fruit teas are for our consumption and enjoyment.
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Admiring Gentile: Thanks for your interest. We LDS do not yet know what it is
about coffee that causes the Word of Wisdom to prohibit its use, but then again
it was also not known at the time the WOW was given what it was about tobacco
(smoking or chewing it) that was bad for human consumption.
A 25-year-long study by Enstrom & Breslow that followed actively-practicing Church members in CA starting in 1979 shows a much longer life expectancy among LDS versus the general population; for males, 84 years, and for females, 86 years. That's more than 5 years of additional life for women and nearly 10 years of life for men than the national average.
We don't consider this "confusion", but rather a great blessing of knowledge given to us by a loving Father in Heaven who created our bodies.
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Admiring Gentile: You are a breath of fresh air. I hold to my beliefs although I do not know all of the answers. Your approach is refreshingly honest in your inquiry. Rather than make fun or ridicule, you respectfully make your points. I hope to have the same attitude when I have questions of any idea or opinion or belief that differs from mine. Thank you.
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I grew up as a third generation LDS Postum drinker and my children were the fourth before it was removed from the market. Out chef/daughter was taught in culinary school in 2009 that Postum was removed due to the Acrylamide levels in grains roasted at high heats. Postum has 22.3 grams of Arylamide per serving verses 1.9 grams for coffee. With that said, our family line has only one known cancer related death in the last 3 generations in spite of Postum being part of our sometimes daily routine. Due to FDA, new recipe will have had to pass the FDA rules of roasting at a lower temp which likely is a different taste. Haven't found it on shelves in Michigan yet but looking. Google "Roasted grain beverage" and "FDA acrylamide per portion".
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We just bought 3 jars of Postum online for $46.00 plus tax! Robbery. I'm
looking to have my brother buy from Reams or Harman's (I don't live in
Utah) and ship to me. Should be over $5.00, so to pay almost $18/jar including
tax shows you how anxious we were to start up again.
Postum is made with wheat and molasses, per the bottle, so not exactly a health food by the time you add some sugar and milk to it, but if you love it and have always loved it, there's nothing like it.
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I am new here so please bear with me in my learning.
Where did this WOW come from? Is it OT or NT theology or an extra-biblical writing?
I read in the NT where in Paul's letter to the Colossians he has this to say:
Colossians 2:20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
If I'm to understand this correctly he is telling us that these things in vs 21 will perish and are only commands of men. Doing these kinds of things only serve to satisfy our fleshly desire to feel good about ourselves and have nothing to do with any laws or ordinances of God.
Thanks, Hans
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Can the Yang-Mills or Chern-Simons action functionals be considered as [possibly perfect] Morse functions? I assume we would be in an equivariant scenario due to considering the configuration spaces with gauge-groups/transformations. Or at least how far away are they from a Morse-Bott function (and from being perfect)?
The problem with the CS functional is that the Morse indices of its critical points are infinite. In particular, this functional cannot be perfect. The Floer complex does not compute the homology of any particular space (though it might compute the homology of a certain spectrum).
On 4-manifolds the YM functional has some analytic deficiencies: it lacks Palais-Smale condition. This lack of Palais-Smale manifests itself in the form of "bubbling" which is a nagging issue to be taken seriously when defining Donaldson invariants.
On 2-manifolds it was investigated thoroughly by Atiyah-Bott. In that paper they describe how equivariant cohomology can be used to establish some forms of perfectness.
Let's consider CS functional for concreteness. The problem is that CS is neither Morse nor Morse-Bott (because its critical points are flat connections and character varieties of 3-manifold groups could be rather bad). The trick is to perturb CS to a Morse function. This was done first by Taubes ("Casson's invariant and gauge theory") and then developed into Floer theory.
How far is CS from being Morse-Bott? If you consider $SU(2)$ connections then for Seifert manifolds the character variety can have quadratic singularities, so it's not a manifold. There are examples of hyperbolic manifolds so that the $SU(2)$ character variety has cubic singularities. In fact, for $SO(3)$ flat connections over 3-manifolds the situation is much worse and you can have any singularity over ${\mathbb Z}$. I suspect the same happens even in $SU(2)$ case but it's harder to prove. So, perturbation to a Morse function is the only way to go.
There's a generalization of Morse-Bott called Morse-Bott-Kirwan that you can read about in Kirwan's book. Basically this condition guarantees that the unstable sets are manifolds, but not the stable sets, so the negative of a function that's Morse-Bott-Kirwan may not be.
If one defines a "Yang-Mills functional" very generally to be the norm-square of a moment map, Kirwan proves that for $M$ finite-dimensional, this norm-square is a perfect Morse-Bott-Kirwan function. (Of course the original example of such is on $M$ a space of connections, where Atiyah-Bott did the same, as I recall.)
Here is a non-technical answer to your question, which I bring up only to illustrate that your question is deep and well-studied. A good cartoon picture of the homology groups Floer assigned to 3-manifolds is that they are the "Morse homology" of Chern–Simons as a "function" (really, closed 1-form with integer periods) on the stack of principal bundles with connection over the manifold. Choosing a metric on the manifold picks out a metric on this stack, and for that metric the gradient flows are the anti-self-dual pure Yang–Mills instantons on the infinite cylinder over the manifold. This is, I think, well explained in Atiyah's paper 1988 paper "New invariants of 3- and 4-dimensional manifolds", given at the Hermann Weyl centennial conference.
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Atiyah and Bott showed that the Yang-Mills functional on a Riemann surface is equivariantly perfect, i.e. it's perfect for gauge-equivariant (integral) cohomology. To be a little more precise, they showed that a certain stratification (the Harder-Narasimhan stratification) of the space of connections is perfect in this sense, and Daskalopoulos showed (using Uhlenbeck compactness among other things) that this stratification does in fact agree with stable manifolds of the Yang-Mills functional. (Atiyah-Bott had conjectured this, but did not prove it in their paper. Note that Uhlenbeck's compactness theorem came just after Atiyah-Bott.)
For non-orientable surfaces, the situation is different: in some cases the YM functional is "anti-perfect" in a certain sense, and in some cases it's neither perfect nor anti-perfect. These ideas are discussed in recent work of Melissa Liu and Nan-Kuo Ho, and also in recent work of Tom Baird.


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I want to make root beer, what are the ingredients required to produce that signature flavor?
The primary ingredient in the root beer flavor is traditionally sassafras root. However, modern root beer uses artificial sassafras flavoring because the US FDA banned safrole, the oil from sassafras root. It is considered a weak carcinogen as well as a List I chemical by the DEA (used in the manufacture of illicit substances).
Beyond sassafras the ingredients vary widely and drastically between manufacturers. The most common include vanilla, wintergreen, cherry/spruce bark, licorice, anise, and many more. A more complete list of root beer ingredients can be found on the wikipedia page.
If you're looking to make your own, I suggest finding a recipe and following it. Given the vast array of ingredients present, you'll have to do a ton of experimentation to stumble upon a suitable flavor without a recipe.
I am not a root beer expert, but to me (and a few others, including root beer homebrewers :)) Russian квас / kvass (a fermented rye beverage) is very similar to (family-made) root beer, so I think you might be interested in it too, as the ingredients for kvass might be easier to find in your vicinity.
Kvass variants run from clear and light to dark and heavy with all sorts of additives (usually fruit) possible. People use different kinds of bread, and some people cook or fry the bread first. Most kvass has a little alcohol in it (depending on its age) -- some has more, but usually not so much as to be dangerous if drunk in normal amounts.
A lot of enthusiasts give different recipes, but the usual ingredients are:
Root Beer Extract + sugar + champagne yeast
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Since upgrading to Mac OS X Lion, I consistently have issues sending mail from Mail.app. I can receive mail but when I send mail it stays in the outbox. Sometimes I can send the mail in the outbox by deleting it, rebooting my MacBook Pro, and then recreate the message and send it out.
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Some possible solutions that may address the issue, discovered in the last few years since first posting this question:
- Google Voice - Exactly addresses my issue at hand, except that Sprint is the only carrier fully supporting this service. Not a complete solution for all other providers because you must operate using a separate Google Voice assigned number, and the integration is still not seamless with non-Sprint devices.
- AirDroid - Not a complete solution if you use iOS obviously. Also, I have been less than impressed with AirDroid's functionality. Bugs often cause crashing either on my phone as the server or in my browser while accessing.
- MightyText - Probably the closest thing to a real solution I have found thus far. However, your found must be turned on & connected to a network to function properly (with the accompanying server app installed). Still, I find there are delays & interruptions of service at various times so that the service is not completely reliable just yet.
Any suggestions to a good alternative?


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What is the difference between External martial arts and Internal martial arts?
This is not the best answer, though it is an answer.
"Internal" and "External" can be traced through Sun Lu Tang's writings on the "Neijia". Being of the Chinese literati, he used the words 內 (internal) vs. 外 (external) because it has double meanings. Besides the connotations of "esoteric" and "exoteric", those words were widely used to describe "domestic" and "foreign." Some martial arts express Taoist (that is, "domestic") philosophical principles. Some martial arts express Buddhist principles. Since Shaolin, like Buddhism, came from India, this makes Shaolin and Shaolin-derived arts as "foreign" arts.
When you dig deeper into the histories, it gets murkier. But in general, the Chinese are proud of being Chinese and like to point out things that originate from the Chinese as evidence of a superior civilization.
When American practitioners came back from China and Taiwan, the connotations of "domestic" and "foreign" got lost in the translation. The connotation of "esoteric" and "exoteric" got exaggerated out of proportion. And now the Internet has amplified this confusion.
I'd spend less time worrying about exact definitions of "internal" vs. "external" and more time in practicing the art. "External" arts will eventually take you through the "internal", and "internal" arts will eventually express through the "external." Don't cheat yourself.
Update 2014/02/19: To clarify the controversy, I'm well aware that the sense of "internal" vs. "external" in use, particularly in America, refers to some notion that external arts tend to use brute physical strength, and internal arts use whole body motion or perhaps refined with qi (氣). There is further, an argument that English is a living language, and should reflect the actual usage. That is a fair point. However, in this case, the popular usage of "external" vs. "internal" is a misconception -- a distortion that happened when it was taken out of context of the original culture and further distorted for marketing purposes.
For example, Shaolin (少林) is considered many by Western practitioners as an "external" art in the sense that it seems to use a lot of brute physical motions. This is a misconception. There is quite a bit of whole body motion training, ground path, and qi development. In other words, if you used "internal" vs. "external" to designate power generation in a lineage, this distinction is fuzzy. It is fuzzy because that distinction only appears in the minds of people who are marketing their art, either as teachers trying to attract students, or students trying to posture.
As another example, from what I've seen with Systema practitioners, their body movements and power generation expresses many of the principles found in what Western practitioners would call "internal". My encounter with Systema is fairly shallow, but I have never heard a Systema practitioner talk a big deal out of "internal" vs. "external" or posture about it. These folks train hard.
Further, if you investigate the origins even further, you'll find that what we now considered "internal" as far as the woo goes, that is, the neigong (內功) was traditionally taught as separate practices. It was not unknown for say, a Xingyi (形意) or a Shaolin practitioner to learn neigong from a different lineage. Neigong as a practice has never been restricted to a martial art, and so there are no martial art for which there is an inherent practice of neigong. It was only when the literati like Sun Lu-tang practiced it, they also did what they did best as one of the educated elites: documented, categorized and talked about it, and perhaps befuddled it.
So the neigong, what could arguably distinguish "internal" from "external" was never a distinguishing factor of a particular lineage. It was a distinguishing factor of the individual practitioner.
In other words: there is no such thing as an "internal art" or an "external art". However, there are individual practitioners who might express an art "internally" or "externally". If we want to use the Western sense of "internal" vs. "external", then use it distinguish the skill attainment of a practitioner rather than the art itself.
If you want to use it to distinguish lineages, the original distinction is a lot more useful ... if you are Chinese or Taiwanese and want to be proud of your homegrown Taoist lineage, defend the honor of your civilization, and all that crap.
Update 2014-04-10: I've seen some new things. I don't have anything coherent to share yet. I would have preferred to delete this answer outright but StackExchange will not allow me to delete accepted answer. Instead, I've made edits to say that this is an answer, not a bad story to tell about on this subject, and not the final word on the subject. I'm tempted to just erase the text, but people can check revision edits so there is no point.
An external martial art is one in which the emphasis is on physical application of force (whether your own or the opponents force redirected) to cause damage to your opponent. This is the case whether you are relaxed (re-directed force or joint locks etc.) or applying force directly via the application of brute strength.
An internal martial art is one in which the emphasis is on application of chi energy in order to disable the opponent. Once again, this is regardless of whether you are relaxed or applying what looks to be a strong, physical movement.
Internal martial arts stress the training of chi via exercises like Chi Gong and External martial arts stress the training of physical/muscular strength. This generalisation is true particularly at beginner levels. Later on both schools of thought tend to come back closer to the centre more often than not.
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The above info is the classical definition of an Internal or External martial art.
There are also hard and soft styles. For example an external martial style can use redirection and deflection instead of applying direct opposing force, without it being thought of as internal. Similarly an internal style can apply what appears to be direct application of force to combat an attack, once again without being thought of as external.
The Neijia mailing list, which was the vehicle created by Mike Sigman in the late 1990s to promote serious development of the internal martial arts, defined the internal martial arts to be those that respected the six harmonies (Sigman 2012a, 2012b).
The list followed the classical definition of the six harmonies due to (Dai Longbang 1750), a master of Xingyi:
(Dai Longbang 1750) The Six Harmonies Fists, verse translation from http://www.centrosanti.com.ar/articulos/ver/the-6-harmonies
(Sigman 2012a) Silk Reeling, aka Six Harmonies Movement
(Sigman 2012b) "Internal" and Bragging Rights Perhaps a bit deeper than that?
External and internal martial arts are the same thing, but they start from a different place. All martial arts follow different paths up the same mountain, but the end result is the same. Because a teacher can't take you all the way up the mountain does not mean the style is incomplete.
The limited point of view is this:
In truth, here is what is most likely accurate:
It is the same mountain. Just a different path.
Try reading Doug Wile's 3 tai chi books "Tai chi touchstones", "Lost tai chi classics from the late ch'ing dynasty" and "Tai Chi Ancestors", all available from Amazon. Wile traces the first use of "internal" to (From the Lost Classics book)
You may also find this blog post by Mike Sigman of interest where he covers a lot of ground in relation to internal arts.
A recently-created false dichotomy
From Kennedy & Guo's excellent book, Chinese Martial Arts Training Manuals: A Historical Survey:
Chapter 7, page 78 of my copy. They go on to discuss the Shaolin/Wudang scheme, which as noted above is identical in grouping Taiji, Xingyi, and Bagua in opposition to other arts. The most relevant passage, quoted here, is on page 84:
To me, this explanation is the most convincing, and has clear implications. "Internal" is now recognized as a marketing term. It is meant to promote those three arts by excluding and subtly, by implication, denigrating others. It dovetails with mysticism and with the exotification of Asian culture to give Xingyi, Bagua, and Taiji cachet: they are the arts that can grant metaphysical powers. Other arts are merely physical.
External: the force is generated by local muscle.
Internal: the force is generated by the whole body, in which your waist and hips are the key part you need to coordinate well.
Any martial arts that can effectively use your whole body to generate the power of punching, grasping, etc., can be considered as an internal martial arts, or at least shares the same base of internal martial arts.
For high level practitioners, internal martial arts means you can not only generate power with your whole body, but also can change the direction, the amplitude, the position quickly and easily, up, down, in, out, left, right, front, back, clockwise, counter-clockwise, etc. Once you know how to do that, how to apply that to different scenarios, you know Yin-Yang, or in Tai-chi, you know how "jin" works
I realize this subject is a minefield, in part because it is difficult to find common points of reference in discussing things like qi. With that in mind, I will try to illustrate concrete differences I have personally experienced in studying martial arts without direct reference to qi, and how it may help you to understand the content of different styles in a way the other answers here may not. The manner in which I differentiate between internal and external is in part an artifact of the schools where I have studied; these may not be totally representative of other internal or external styles/teachers. The points below are not meant in any way to be exhaustive.
A martial arts system need not have fighting as a primary goal. Internal systems first address the question, "How do we build a healthy human?" The originating question was probably, "How do we live forever?", but because the answer to that question so far is that we cannot, we have to look for the next best thing(s). Exercise is clearly an important element of building health, and it happens that the process of building a healthy human is also good for fighting applications. This internal process may take a LONG time. The general wisdom is that preparing the body for fighting takes much longer than learning fighting applications.
Some external practices may lead to profound fighting ability but also bodily damage, like say continually pounding metal plates may lead to devastating punches but also arthritis in the hands. This would be frowned upon in internal systems because it is damaging to the body.
There is a large emphasis on breathing in internal systems. The basic goal is to create a long, even, and relaxed breathing pattern that becomes the body's default. When I first started internal training, a full breathing cycle (inhale and exhale) was ~4 seconds. Now my resting breathing cycle is >20 seconds, and I have found this has a profound effect on both endurance while sparring and general health.
In external training, the guidance was usually along the lines of when to exhale, or to breathe through the nose rather than the mouth, or to breathe at a normal rather than rapid rate.
There are a lot of internal exercises for training relaxation. One example is standing in a natural posture with arms in the air without moving (zhan zhuang). If you try to do this for 10 minutes, you will probably find this becomes quite uncomfortable; your arms start to burn, or you feel like you need to shift your weight to relieve your legs. This exercise is not difficult in the same way that weight training is difficult; it forces you to understand what your body is doing in a situation where you may start thinking that your body is not doing anything. After regular practice, 10 minutes will not be a challenge.
In external training, there is a lot of guidance to "relax more" or to practice your form more times.
There are a lot of joints in the human body. As the human body ages, there are a lot of people who lose mobility in their joints, which leads to all manner of other health problems. Think about hunched posture among the elderly, the loss of mobility in the upper vertebrae is a bad sign of health problems to come. Internal systems basically try to train all joints, first for health reasons and then because it allows you to hit harder and push with more force.
I have done external training for leg splits using isometric and dynamic stretching. This kind of training is not easily transferable to other joints like those in your back, nor was it suggested that back flexibility could have a significant fighting utility.
When first learning striking, principles like rotation around the centerline and whipping power are easiest to learn with big motions to strike at distance. With proficiency, these same principles can be applied with condensed motions to strikes at very close distances or when already in contact. This is similar to Bruce Lee's one-inch punch (not sure whether to classify this as external or internal, or if it's even worthwhile worry about that). Sure, there is a loss in power versus the big motion where you have space to windup, but the power remaining at the master proficiency level is more than sufficient to drop a human.
Internal martial arts use lots of chi to generate internal power (neijin). This force is not related to body mechanics, leverage, or muscular strength. At an advanced level, it can be exploded from any part of the body. Qigong is used to generate this power. Internal arts are known for producing extremely healthy practitioners.
External martial arts use bones, muscles, and body mechanics to generate power. It is dependent on muscular conditioning.
There really aren't clear cut lines though. There are plenty of taijiquan teachers who don't have neijin and use boxing-type moves in sparring. There are also shaolinquan exponents who have great internal power. Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit says this:
On the very front page of his website, Master Waysun Liao says
Here is a Q&A style answer to almost this exact question by Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit.
This is a blog post by my Sifu regarding internal strength.
I don't think I need any sources to verify that external martial arts use bones, muscles, and body mechanics to generate power. That is easily verifiable as well as common knowledge.
According to the history of Kung Fu, "internal" arts have their roots inside China while "external" arts have their roots elsewhere, e.g. India. In the context of America, MMA is an internal martial art, whereas greco-roman wrestling is external.
The distinction between Internal and External martial arts I believe is primary around kung fu and other Chinese martial arts and was a way to categorize the distinct styles of kung fu that existed.
An internal kung fu is one with progressive and slow forms that allow for almost a moving meditation. They are much more of a finesse art. Your focusing more on your soul, mind and chi to control and opponent and not relying brute strength or force. Using principals of rotation, deflection and evasion to overcome an opponent, making them beat themselves. A good example of an internal kung fu would be Tai Chi.
An external kung fu is more of an outward showing of force and aggression, can be characterized by sharp, fast and succinct motions. Moving with deliberate motions and with purpose. In an external style you will have direct attacks, your will beat your opponent with your force and will oppose your will on theirs. An example of an external style would be Wing Chun.
I think the distinction is pretty blurry, and possibly moot, now a days. A lot of martial arts have elements that one could categorize as either internal or external.
External MA is about explosive power. Think of a sprinter. Boom! He goes OUT from the gate. Internal is about implosive power. Think of a figure skater. Watch as she brings herself IN towards her core in order to spin faster.
may help clarify
External martial arts focus on concussive impacts. These impacts cause damage by hitting with more force. Training focuses on developing strength, speed and specific techniques.
Internal martial arts focus on using the leverage of the relaxed body to control an opponent. Training focuses on internalising (making second nature) a holistic set of attributes including correct posture, control over the tension-relaxation of muscles and correct positioning of the limbs and body without focusing on specific techniques.
I believe that internal-external is a spectrum, rather than absolutes.
There are no internal and external martial arts. Martial arts are of two kinds; Combat type ans Competive type. Combat type martial arts focuses mainly on real life situations, well-being, self-defense, etc. (Varma Kalai, Butthan, Bando, Kalaripayattu, Wing Chun, etc.) Competive type martial arts focuses mainly on tournaments, mat fights. (Taekwondo, Judo, Karate, etc.)


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Is there such a thing as a durable, functional, LONG-LASTING Bluetooth headset?
My Bluetooth is dead. Again. I have never gotten a Bluetooth to last longer than a year. My pricey Jawbone sounded phenomenal, but only lasted a few weeks before crapping out. I'm beginning to think this rather expensive technology incorporates planned obsolescence.
Has anyone ever had one of these things last? If so, what manufacturer/model was it?
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I've had a Plantronics headset for about 3 years now and it still works great. Granted, that may just be because I only use it for 2-3 hours a month, but then again maybe not.
I've had a set of sony headphones for 1.5 years and still going strong.
Plantronics Voyager 510. I've had this for a year and a half and it totally rocks.
I've used a Motorola H710 for about two years, and love it. I used a previous Motorola model for about two years, until I lost it - but it worked great too. They're comfortable, good sound quality, and I've had zero problems.
I have a Jabra Bluetooth headset, I think it is 3 years old. Still works great. Noise cancelling is not so good, at least not in a convertible :-)
Which model of Jawbone? I have both a v1 and a v2, and both last and work excellent (though I prefer the v2 as I wear glasses; first one that the earloop was optional).. did you get one of the newer models?
Also have a pair of LG HBS-250 stereo headphones that work great... people have said that the earclips break, but mine have yet to show any issues at all.
I too want to know the Jawbone Model. I just recently got one and would probably tone down the abuse if it were the same one as yours.
I bought that Jawbone quite some time ago. I think it was just called the Jawbone 2. Just quit on me one day.
I love my Plantronics Voyager Pro.
I have a dinosaur Plantronics 220 that is a few years old, and it has never failed me. They can still be bought at a good price.
@rlapid2112: I'd purposely use a headset with poor noise cancellation if I drove a convertible, just so I could give. The. Explanation. Every. Time.
I have two Jawbones...using the current one as my daily in the office and the last version as a back-up and in the car. They've been great and held up so far.
i've been buying cheap refurbed jawbones when i see them on sale here. i got a jawbone prime for $15 with free shipping and an Icon for $20 and free shipping. so far they both have worked great with no issues. i even got pissed and hurled the prime at the wall (i was pissed at customer service, not the bluetooth). after collecting the pieces and snapping it back together it still works fine. just stock up on cheap refurbed jawbones and you'll be set. fyi, both came from bedeals.com
I've lost a few but always had great luck with the samsung WEP line. They run between 30 and 40 bucks but tigerdirect.com runs them fairly often with a rebate that drops the cost down to 5 or 10 bucks.
up the motorola 710--so popular and they are actually decent. Any in that lineup. As well the moto h17 is nice as well.


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I try really hard to look at things in a completely different manner than the rest.
So, when I heard that Branko Busick was given five years probation and no jail time, I felt good for the young man, but also knew he was going to be tried, convicted and sentenced in the court of public opinion.
Always remember that we do not know what went on behind closed doors and in all those meetings. We just see the outcome.
I wasn't outraged that he wasn't going to the clink.
I was happy he had a new life, so to speak.
I also think his life will be much tougher and better in the next five years than if he was given some sort of prison sentence.
Last week, Busick was sentenced to five years probation after he had pleaded guilty to two counts of assault during the commission of a felony.
The Steubenville Big Red graduate must also perform 250 hours of community service.
Prosecutors were seeking a term of four to 20 years for his actions 10 months ago, and I am guessing Busick himself thought he was going to be put behind bars.
Five character witnesses testified on Busick's behalf - kudos to them - and the judge chose probation instead of jail time.
Understand these were not mistakes on Busick's part.
They were all choices and decisions and all of them bad, foolish, terrible and unacceptable.
He embarrassed himself and his family and now he must go forward and be a far better man than he ever was before this happened.
Dana Holgorsen did not kick Busick off the team, Branko did that himself.
He has to be Mr. Squeaky Clean for the next five years or face jail time.
And, once that probation is over, he must continue that Mr. Clean outlook on life. He needs to be the best he can be each day and that is something hard for any of us to do.
He must continue to go to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and, basically, not step out of line for any reason or any one.
His life will be far from perfect, but he gets a second chance at life. It is something that every hater out there would want if their child was standing in Busick's shoes.
People look at this sentence and claim there is zero common sense involved.
This is one case that can be debated ad nauseum and people in the room will have to agree to disagree.
Many people cannot wrap their heads around the probation. They do not understand it and seemingly never will. They all claim that if they were in Busick's shoes, they certainly would be in jail and not under house arrest, so to speak.
I understand that, too.
Everything Busick does now not only has his signature on it, but also those who testified on his behalf.
His actions are not just of one, but of six.
The way he looks speaks, acts and lives is about a half-dozen people, not just himself.
If he had been given jail time, life would be all about him and him alone and trying to survive that jail time.
I understand how people think he beat the rap.
I have also listened to people in the system tell me that his five years probation was not out of line.
I have to accept their answers because they are in the system and not myself.
I do know that Busick must grow up, accept and acknowledge what he did, and move on with his life to be an active, positive member of society.
You see, Branko, far too many people still want to see you fail.
That is selfishness.
You know about selfishness because that, among other things, is what got you at this juncture in your life.
You do not need to prove anyone wrong.
You also know that you are living in a world that is far from perfect, as are we people.
We want what we want and we want it now.
People want you in jail.
Make sure they do not get the satisfaction of seeing that happen.
I have said before and will continue to say the same thing, Busick and his family need our prayers continually.
This is not over for them.
They are listening to haters claim their son is a thug and should be tossed in jail.
These last 10 months sure have not been easy on them.
"Let brotherly love continue." - Hebrews 13:1
Did Busick show it during his two months of stupidity?
But, he, like all of us, still deserves it. Busick failed as a son, brother, friend, athlete and student.
He is being allowed to take that failure and turn it around.
That is one thing Busick must take quite seriously and I am sure he is and will.
I would like to see him be a leader again, this time in another role.
The young man knows what to expect.
How did Branko get to where he got during those months?
I do not know.
But, I do know this - he put himself above others and when we do that, bad things happen.
We, as individuals, are No. 5 on the list - behind 1. God, 2. Family, 3. Friends, 4. Others.
If we all can do that on a daily basis, our lives get better and so does the lives of others around us.
We must look in the mirror only after the other four have been tended to first.
"Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." - Matthew 16:24
Jesus is talking about taking responsibility, developing character and renouncing selfish pursuits.
"...Let him deny himself..."
It is not easy to do things that take character.
We all know that.
Jefferson County Prosecutor Jane Hanlin is taking way too much grief for her testimony as a character witness.
She easily could have said "no" when asked to be a character witness.
She easily could have looked at the potential backlash and been selfish.
She easily could have followed herself and only herself and not helped a young man.
She chose to help and she is getting beat up for it.
Maybe this will make her even a better prosecutor.
She took her responsibility after being asked and talked about Busick's character as she had seen it.
She was not around him while he was at WVU.
She talked about Busick as a leader and a role model - something he clearly was not during his time of self-afflicting wounds.
If you do not want to vote for her because she stood up and took a stand, so is your right.
She was not selfish. She denied herself.
Hanlin did not run away from the hot seat.
She sat on it.
Congratulations to her.
"For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" - Matthew 16:25-26
Busick must pay $1,500 in court fees and restitution. During his probation he cannot come into contact with a convicted felon, cannot be with people using drugs or alcohol and cannot come into contact with drugs or alcohol.
He must continue to go to school or work and must stay in AA.
Let me ask you this - what would have been better, two years of jail time or five years of probation?
"You are treasured, you are sacred and you are His." - Mercy Me
(Mathison, a Weirton resident, is the sports editor of the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times and can be contacted at email@example.com).


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I'm assuming there's a history to it, but why does the stack grow downward?
It seems to me like buffer overflows would be a lot harder to exploit if the stack grew upward...
I believe it comes from the very early days of computing, when memory was very limited, and it was not wise to pre-allocate a large chunk of memory for exclusive use by the stack. So, by allocating heap memory from address zero upwards, and stack memory from the end of the memory downwards, you could have both the heap and the stack share the same area of memory.
If you needed a bit more heap, you could be careful with your stack usage; if you needed more stack, you could try to free some heap memory. The result was, of course, mostly, spectacular crashes, as the stack would occasionally overwrite the heap and vice versa.
Back in those days there were no interwebz, so there was no issue of buffer overrun exploitations. (Or at least to the extent that the interwebz existed, it was all within high security facilities of the united states department of defense, so the possibility of malicious data did not need to be given much thought.)
After that, with most architectures it was all a matter of maintaining compatibility with previous versions of the same architecture. That's why upside-down stacks are still with us today.
program memory is traditionally set up as
heap and stack can be exchanged
but buffer overflows can still be exploited if the stack went the other way
taking the classic
with stack memory as
this would mean that when the copying is done the return address for
Some hardware has the heap starting at high memory, growing down, while the stack starts at low memory growing up.
HP's PA-RISC hardware, among others, does this: http://www.embeddedrelated.com/usenet/embedded/show/68749-1.php
The venerable Multics Operating System ran on hardware that had (one of possibly many) stacks growing up: see http://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf, end of section 2.3.2:
That's a rather interesting statement. Did buffer overflows become such a huge problem only because of the "customary" procedure-call-stack-frame arrangement? Also, how much of Multics' reputation as Totally Invulnerable was just a fluke of hardware design?


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Using Special relativity theory, of course. Can Lorentz transformations to "tell" something about it? "Wikipedia's" article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_speed_of_light .
The big misunderstanding about this "one-way speed of light" thing is that there is something to be proven experimentally. While it is just a matter of convention about
Let me explain with an example. Consider a following experimental setup:
Here is the space-time diagram for the process with the "standard" speed of light:
But now the observers have some doubts -- why do they presuppose that the speed of light is the same in both directions? So they agreed to change that and see what happens. Say that right-speed is three times as fast as the left-speed:
The description has changed. But it is just a change in the coordinates. It couldn't possibly affect any experimental predictions by any theory that observers have.
So it is just a convention. And there is nothing to be "proven" experimentally.
Revision: use a stationary and moving dielectric
My first answer is wrong--- you can easily imagine a model in which light components are independently cancelling without being equal. The best way is by a version of Fizeau's experiment: put a dielectric along the ongoing leg of an interferometer and not the return leg, then shift the same dielectric to the return leg while at the same time removing it from the outgoing leg (you can do this instantly by a small motion of the two beams). You can do this easily with a diamond shaped dielectric, where the back and forth directions cut on opposite tapering sides. Then you slide the diamond back and forth, removing a portion from one leg and adding the same portion to the other, and look for fringes. You won't find any.
If you believe there are mysterious fitzgerald contractions making this experiment work out, you can do Fizeau's experiment--- make the interior of the dielectric a fluid moving in a given direction. If your model is consistent with both dielectrics and Fizeau, at all seasons of the year, then you will be forced to the relativity transformation for the moving frame.
I should point out that nothing prevents you from taking the time in the rest frame of the sun (say) to be the true global time, and then doing boosts by Galilean transformations. This won't preserve the metric, but it will give different laws according to the Galilean transformed metric. In these coordinates, the light travels at different coordinate speeds back and forth, and the cancellations in the two experiments above look like miracle.
Original experiment that doesn't work
This answer is updated. Originally, I said you should make an equilateral triangle of mirrors in a Michaelson interfermeter, and check for interference fringes as you rotate the apparatus slowly. I assumed that the "back and forth" speed can't cancel on back and forth paths and triangle paths simultaneously, but this is wrong--- in the Galilean boost model, the different components parallel to the velocity do the cancelling. But in more complicated models, you could get an effect here too.
This idea is sort of silly--- the light would have to be conspiratorial for something like this to work. You didn't give a definite model, if you did, it would be easier to rule it out.
A nice animation about Michelson and Morley's Experiment can be found on: http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/more_stuff/flashlets/mmexpt6.htm
It clearly shows that the Aether doesn't influence the speed of light if you rotate the whole experiment about 90°. In fact Aether doesn't even exist.


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New Disney resort an animated adventure
|The long-awaited opening of the Art of Animation Resort at Walt Disney World takes its name and nomenclature from a 1958 touring exhibit of Disney art work from his films. Credit: contributed
This year saw the long awaited opening of the Art of Animation Resort. It takes its name and nomenclature from a 1958 touring exhibit of Disney art work from his films, and more or less completes the Pop Century value resort that has remained half finished since its opening. It is located directly across Hour Glass Lake from Pop Century and you need only walk across the Generation Gap Bridge to traverse back and forth between the sibling resorts.
Art of Animation comprises four areas that are themed to a particular Disney film. The Finding Nemo, Lion King and Cars areas will compromise 1,120 suites designed to accommodate six people. There is an area themed to the Little Mermaid, which will have 864 traditional motel rooms that accommodate four people.
All the buildings, rooms and surrounding areas are comprehensively themed to their respective films and the public areas are landscapes that literally transport you into these beloved stories. The Cars section opened in June, The Lion King opened in mid August and Finding Nemo opened on May 31. The Little Mermaid opened in the fall.
The lobby was decorated with rough colored sketches resembling storyboards, as well as a cascade of lights that embodies the spectrum of colored paints used for inking animation cells. Adjacent to the lobby is the Ink and Paint gift shop that leads to the impressive Landscape of Flavors food court.
The swimming pool is themed appropriately enough to "Finding Nemo," with the deck adorned with palm trees and statues of giant jelly fish and sea anemones. A giant statue of Crush and Mr. Ray greet guests by the main entrances to each of the buildings. It is very colorful and particularly beautiful in the luminescence of the night lights. The pool is spacious and can accommodate swimmers of all ages and abilities. The pool is well staffed with lifeguards as well as "funmeisters" who lead the guests in games and contests every afternoon. Music is almost always playing, comprising a tolerable mix of insipid music from Disney Channel programs with delightful songs from classic Disney films. Music was also broadcast underwater. There is a splash pool decorated with Nemo and other characters from the film as well as a turtle playground.
A Finding Nemo suite was boldly colorful. The rooms were designed with children and devotees of the movies in mind, but the overall effect is more childish than childlike. Still, the kids love it and the adults adjust to living in the Great Barrier Reef as envisioned by Pixar animators.
The suite sported two LG flat screen televisions. As promised, the room slept six. Much of the furniture and furnishings are shaped to look like coral. There was a master bedroom with a private bathroom and the common areas had a foldout couch and a dining table that imaginatively converted into a bed.
Once the conversion from table to bed is complete, a recessed area featuring a painting of Nemo and his Dad sleeping blissfully in the strands of an anemone acts like a headboard. The painting is framed on the bottom by a shelf, and on the top with stylish recessed lighting that can be dimmed. The overall effect makes one think of what Hugh Hefner's childhood bedroom might have looked like. All the beds are extremely comfortable.
There was a small kitchenette (emphasis on small) that included a refrigerator, sink and microwave. The generous size bathrooms keep with the overall theme, yet reflect more mature sensibilities. The master bathroom was spacious, with a particularly luxurious shower. There is an additional full bathroom as well.
Budget conscious families or families who love "Finding Nemo" and the other films featured in Art of Animation will enjoy their stay at this new resort.
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Mrs. Donna Marie Shugars, age 73, passed away on Thursday, March 21, 2013, at the Borgess Medical Center following a brief illness. She was born in Hartford, Mich. on Jan. 25, 1940, the daughter of Allen R. and Mildred L. (Chapel) Smith.
Mrs. Shugars has been a resident of Three Rivers since 1966 where she and her husband Wayne worked the family farm and raised their three children. Donna was well known for her excellent macaroni and potato salad, which was always plentiful at family gatherings. She enjoyed before taking ill working in her flower garden at her Baldwin Lake home, where she and Wayne and the family enjoyed many summers. She also enjoyed playing bingo where she made many friends and attending her grandchildren's sporting events. Donna's greatest love was for her family, especially her grandchildren and great-grandchild and the time they shared making wonderful memories together.
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How do they vote in the United Nations?
The majority of the various Arabic/Islamic States vote against the United State more than 70 percent of the time. These votes are recorded at both the U.S. State Department and the United Nations.
Yet the United States sends Foreign Aid to those that hate us.
Egypt, for example, after voting 79 percent of the time against the U.S., still receives $2 billion annually in U.S. foreign aid.
Jordan, which votes 71 percent of the time against the U.S., still receives $192,814,000 annually in U.S. foreign aid.
Pakistan votes against the U.S. 75 percent of the time yet receives $6,721,000,000 annually in U.S. foreign aid.
India, which votes 81 percent of the time against the U.S., receives $143,699,000 annually in foreign aid from the United States.
Our government is willing to send money to these countries even though they do not like us, even though if it means cutting Social Security and Medicare for our own seniors and even though our country is on the verge of bankruptcy.
These countries that receive U.S. foreign aid only continue to bite the hand that feeds them.
It's time to cut the foreign aid, get out of the U.N., and give the tax savings back to the American workers who are having to skimp and sacrifice to keep their own families fed, clothed and sheltered.
Get the U.S. out of the U.N. and the U.N. out of New York.
E-mail, phone, write to your senators and representative and tell them it's time for the United States to get out of the U.N. and to stop funding it.
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when is EntLib 5.0 coming out ?
See the roadmap here: http://blogs.msdn.com/agile/archive/2010/01/20/announcing-enterprise-library-5-0-and-unity-2-0-roadmap.aspx
By the way, we have already released Beta1 of both Enterprise Library 5.0 and Unity 2.0:
Your feedback is invited!
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Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 has been released!
See public announcement here. Happy coding!
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IS there any link to hands on labs of security application block ????
here is the book that includes all chapters for the latest release candidate. The book is now going through layout, indexing and other production steps and will be in print this summer
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Why is it that when people make kiddush/havdallah they insist on filling up the cup all the way to the top, sometimes till it overflows just a little? Is this a documented minhag/custom etc...?
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The Rema writes (Orach Chaim 183:2) that the cup used for a berachah (the context is talking about the cup of wine for birkas hamazon, but the same applies to kiddush, etc.) should be מלא על כל גדותיו, filled to the brim.
Though Taz (ibid. :4, end) points out that it is (or was, in his times) quite common to leave a space at the top. He questions the propriety of this, but concludes that perhaps it's okay in order to prevent wine from spilling on the food and ruining it.
The Ram"a brings down in Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim 296:1 that two customs exist entailing spilling out wine at havdala:
It could be that overfilling automatically achieves the first one.
See the following article, quoting Rav Tuvia Goldstein, "Remember what is minhag and what is Torah Law," with respect to overdoing the wine-spilling thing. Wasting wine unnecessarily is a violation of Bal Tashchit.
This was in reference to the custom of spilling a bit of wine during mention of the ten plagues. I wonder if it is also applicable to the minhag quoted by the OP.
I heard that by Kidush it isn't necessary to fill it all the way to the top (its just a nuisance if it spills) just one should have a "Kos Maleh", a "Full Cup", but that probably means how a regualr person will fill up a cup, i.e with some space at the top.


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What tool can I use to see if a hard drive supports Sata3 (6Gb/s)
The SATA 3 interface has been out since 2009 so it is likely most new hard drives support it.
I would use Disk Utility to inspect the drive and it will tell you what model it is then you can get the specs from the manufacturers website.
The issue will be with the motherboard - if it is a older model the chipset may not support the transfer rate.
There is a good article for reference of the SATA standard on Wikipedia.
Maybe something like this
Forgot that hdparm had the option to see Sata1, Sata2, Sata3, NQC and more. But a gui tool would be much better.
This would show what technologies the drive supports (assuming it is the sda):
will do the trick.
Really old drives that don't do SATA at all will only list a Model.
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Launched in May 1911, the triple-screw steamer Titanic was the pride of the White Star Line and at that time the largest passenger ship in the world. Built to carry passengers in comfort and luxury on the lucrative transatlantic route, her design, fittings and on board facilities epitomized the spirit of the age in terms of elegance and style. Cuisine was advertised as the equal of Europe's top restaurants, while libraries, state-rooms and cabins were decorated in a range of architectural styles to appeal to the tastes of the most discerning passenger.
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Exceptions occur when an application experiences some unexpected problem at run time. This lesson discusses how to use the try catch finally block to anticipate potential problems and attempt to shield the end user from those problems as much as possible. We discuss best practices when checking for exceptions and discuss the mindset of the conscientious software developer who seeks to provide the best possible experience for his users.
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I liked this video because it offered technique as well as theory and motive. Instead of just showing me how to handle exceptions so that I'm pleased with my software, it went on to explain why that should be a priority in my coding practices: I'm the advocate for my customer. Carrying that to conclusion: if my customer is unhappy, I've both angered somebody and lost a customer. Both could be avoided by being conscientious in my coding.
@a14437: Awesome, thanks for that feedback. I try to be empathetic in my explanations ... sometimes I hit and sometimes I miss. Glad I "hit" on this one.
It would be nice if you proceed with our casts and cover every basic aspect of C#.
Covering casting, generics, delegates, events etc.
Just like an ordinary programming book.
That would be really great. I wish you would find a time and effort for it :)
Very nice casts though. Thanks a lot!
@Paul: My friend, sounds like you're already way beyond this course. It was intended for absolute beginners. The innards of delegates and events, and even generics to an extent is not a beginner topic. I do have videos demonstrating those topics on my own website, however it was out of scope for this one. Thank you and best wishes!
Thanks for the response :)
Im just reading "Pro C# 2010" by Troelsen and it seems he is covering it in this way. I've just passed Exceptions topic in the book and trying to fix it in my mind by watching your casts :)
Found even that you explained it much better than he does. I had been a little confused by his examples. :)
Can you share your personal website here on send the link to my email?
I would really appreciate that. Thanks a lot!
Thanks a million for this. Found what i had been looking for. Would like to go beyond this... on to ultimate expertise in practice! Advize...
Thanks for this tutorial, it was pretty clear.
However, I have a question: Since you included the finally part, where, as you said, we release connections to files, shouldn't you move the myReader.Close() in that finally block?
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@Andrew: On my own website I've got an extended version (22 hours) of this series complete with exercises & video solutions to challenge you. It is so popular that moving forward, I'm structuring all new content around challenges / exercises / missions /etc. Besides "instructor created challenges", the best way to get all of this solid in your mind? Write code! Dream up a project and create it! It will force you to think on your own feet, and struggle -- hopefully a positive / good kind of struggle (as opposed to the kind where you're just spinning your wheels and getting no where).
@Sebastian: Yes, probably should have ... I don't have the code handy here right in front of me, but that would be a good place for it. I *may* have been thinking it's possible for .NET to croak on closing the file, in which case, putting it in the finally would throw a second exception, this time, not caught. But generally, yes, you are correct.
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Showing Pre-Loaded Html Pages in a Panel or TabPanel
I have just downloaded EXT JS and I would like to pre-load some HTML pages that contains javascript using AJAX.
These pages would be used in a panel alternativelly, and I would like to switch the pages displayed in the panel using a button.
I do not want to use card layouts. I just want to switch and show a page as asked by the user.
I have a class, using jQuery that already load the pages and store their content in an array. So I have an array that stores the content of the pages. I just want to switch the content of a panel using the pages stored in this array.
I could not find an example similar
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You can use the update() method of the panel's body (which is an Ext.Element) to load HTML dynamically and run scripts that are found in the HTML blob. You also should consider setting the preventBodyReset config option of the panel to true to prevent Ext's CSS to mess up your display.
Ext.onReady(function() { var htmlBlob = "