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When you are travelling and you stay less than 2 days in the same place, specially in winter time when there are not a lot of sun hours or even rains outside, it's really difficult to dry clothes. Sometimes you can find laundromats that may help, but you cannot depend on it always. So, the question is: how do you dry your clothes when you are continuously moving?
Here are some of the 'hacks' that I've used:
To speed up drying of clothes (particularly if staying in hotels where you have laundered towels), you can wring your clothes as dry as possible, place them (individually) on top of a towel and then roll the towel/clothing article up as tight as possible.
Then stand on this roll. The aim being to absorb as much water as possible out from the clothes into the towel.
This won't get the clothes dry, but it will get a lot dryer than wringing them out will do alone. This will make air/heater drying work a lot faster.
The downside is each towel is probably only good for a few shirts/socks before it's too wet.
(I used this to avoid paying $$$ for hotel laundry fees when travelling through europe last year - they were ridiculously expensive!)
The general advice is to choose clothes that dry quickly. These are made of synthetic fabrics.
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In addition to Marks answer http://travel.stackexchange.com/a/24255/4584 if you have an iron handy, you could iron the clothes and that would dry them too. Although in my experience I have rarely come across a city where I can't find a coin operated dryer.
Well, if you have not something which causes heat like a fire / a radiator / a laptop or at least a warm room, you effectively cannot dry your clothes as you already found out. This is an old problem for travelers in polar or high-altitude mountain regions. Even in low temperatures you are still perspiring and this humidity cannot be removed because it remains in your clothes or freezes at the surface. It could be so bad that you are forced to sleep in your sleeping bag fully clothed because if clothes remain outside they are likely to freeze into a form solid as wood which you cannot put on. So the only way is in fact using clothes which are either functional (wicking action to move the humidity outside) or are still warming even if wet (Meaning synthetics or wool, but be careful because some synthetics get brittle in low temperatures). Cotton is the worst fabric in winter and should be avoided.
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our application wants to be able to create static, searchable pages based on user profile information, which would be linkable to other public profiles.
I am looking at LinkedIn as an example...it seems like they actually auto-generate the page to be a static file that is indexable and searchable.
Can someone suggest how we would do this? I am thinking there would need to be a cron job that runs and writes a the path and file name.
The user may want to keep the whole page private, in which case I imagine it would need to delete it.
There's alot of sub-requirements but that's the general concept and wanted to start getting ideas and feedback.

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Sorry, I misuse the concept of quasi-isometry, I mean almost isometry(also called a Hausdorff approximation).
As we known, isometric Riemann manifolds have the same spectrum of Laplace-Beltrami. And it defined a class of isospectral manifolds which is a highly identical signature of manifold. However, in application, almost-isometry is more useful. Does anyone provide me an overview or reference of the relationship between spectrum and almost-isometry?
Almost isometry say for two metric space(Riemann manifold). there exist $\varepsilon$ and $f: X\rightarrow Y$ s.t.
- $|d(x,y)-d(f(x),f(y))|<\varepsilon$ for $x,y\in X$
- for any point $y\in Y$, there exists an $x\in X$ s.t. $d(f(x),y)<\varepsilon$
the question is: Given two riemann manifold, how to check almost isometry and estimate inf $ \{\varepsilon\}$ from spectrum data.


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Are many sharing buttons good on a web app? How about design for a online book reading app. What matters on choosing sharing tools? My feeling is to know the function of sharing widgets and know the audience who might use those. Then determine some. What your opinion?
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If you know the most used sharing options of your audience that would be best for chosing the right services. Entry paths from analytics or surveys could solve that.
If you have to guess I agree with Ben D. I would consider aditionally the region of your service. Add This provides interesting stats about services, countries and the amount of use.
I prefer to provide 3 services. More is clutter. You could start with 5 services and track what performs good. Add those the users request. Finally you could leave the 3 most popular services.
If you don't want to have it too complicated: Email (for the older generation), Facebook (for everybody) and Twitter (for the tech-savvy). This would work for most countries in Europe and US. But you could check the Add This stats for a specific region.
If you find an API connecting to reading related services thats a plus.
I think it's important to consider both your audience and your content.
Audience: Older and/or less tech-savvy audiences would probably want an easy way to share by email, while younger or more tech-savvy people might think twitter, facebook, or reddit are more important.
Content: Online book reading would probably benefit from sharing between friends (email, twitter, facebook, etc). Something like Reddit or Digg would be less relevant.
I've never seen sharing icons of any benefit to the user but rather only a benefit to the site owner in terms of SEO. I could be wrong, of course. Just my perspective. If I'm going to share an article, I'm quite capable of doing it on my own without the need of digging through 2 dozen icons.


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WATERBURY -- Both Wilby and Sacred Heart left Alumni Hall feeling disappointed; Wilby because it had numerous opportunities to put the game away and didn't, and Sacred Heart because it had a chance to pull off an upset and didn't.
The Wildcats were in control for most of the evening, then held off the Hearts in the end, 60-53, Wednesday night.
Wilby (3-0) used a fast start to build a comfortable lead and looked in control until some harrowing moments in the fourth quarter.
The Wildcats did it the way they will likely do it all season: with superb play on the perimeter. Walter Wright led Wilby with 26 points, including some clutch free-throw shooting in the final minutes, while Denzel Mitchell scored 21 and Ryan Spears added three steals. The fourth member of the guard crew, Taifa Wright, did not play for a violation of team rules.
"Walter is unbelievable," said Mitchell, who played for Crosby last season and averaged nine ppg. "Nobody can stop him. Me, I just do what I've got to do. The coach (Alan Piccolo) told me to go in the game and score and play hard."
That's what the guards did early to build the lead, as Wright scored on a spinner, a 3-
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pointer and a drive in the opening minutes. Mitchell scored on a break off a Wright steal, Spear hit a jump shot, and it was 15-5 Wilby fast.
Mitchell added a 3-pointer, and Wilby was running away, 20-11.
But that was when the game got interesting. The Hearts haven't beaten anyone yet. Watching them play the final three quarters, that seems hard to believe.
Sacred Heart (0-4) led Crosby at the half, took Naugatuck to overtime and put a scare into Wilby.
Hearts coach Jon Carroll said his team needs to develop a killer instinct. "They have the tools," he said, "but the essential part is that they have to believe in themselves, (believe) that they can, and should, win these games."
They almost did, with some dazzling play from 6-foot-5 sophomore Malik Petteway. He put in 25 points, grabbed 11 boards, added three steals and went on a personal rampage to open the fourth quarter. He grabbed a defensive board and sprinted to the Hearts' hoop for two, put in a runner off the glass, scored on a scoop shot and then went coast-to-coast again. It was a 10-2 Hearts/Petteway run.
When Isaiah Rasco (nine points, three assists) added two free throws, the Hearts, who had trailed by as many as 13 points, were now down by three, 49-46, with 4:07 to play.
Wilby, though, showed veteran poise as Wright hit a 15-footer, Mitchell made a steal and a bucket, and Wright made five free throws.
"We expected that," Piccolo said of Sacred Heart's run. "They played Crosby and Naugy tight. I was disappointed with the way we played. There were a couple of points where we could have put them away. We got a little selfish at times. We need to do a better job running the offense."
Wright and Mitchell combined for 47 of the team's 60 points. Devon McClellan added 10 rebounds and three blocks.
Vin Lombardi added 10 for the Hearts, while Petteway's 25 were close to half his team's points.
"We are finishing well at the end," Petteway said, "but we have to play at the beginning and the end."
True. The Hearts outscored Wilby in the final three quarters
The Wildcats walked into Alumni Hall on Wednesday, expected to win and did. Soon, the Hearts will think the same thing.
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- 1 cup water
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 lemon, juiced, rind peeled and cut into strips
- 3 cloves
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- Make a poaching syrup: Bring to a boil the water, sugar, lemon juice, strips of lemon rind, and cloves.
- Prepare the fruits: If you prefer, you do not have to peel them. In general, just remove all seeds and pits, slice larger fruits, and halve the smaller ones like apricots and plums. If you have a cherry pitter, leave the cherries whole; if not, halve them, too. Leave the grapes whole.
- Add any combination of fruits to the boiling syrup, allowing one large and several smaller fruits per person. Poach, uncovered, for about 10 to 15 minutes.
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I wonder if there ever could be a star (really small) which may orbit around a planet (really big)?
One thing to keep in mind is that objects that are bound gravitationally actually revolve around each other around a point called a barycenter. The fact that the earth looks like its revolving around the sun is because the sun is much more massive and its radius is large enough that it encompasses the barycenter. This is a similar situation with the Earth and Moon. If there were three bodies, where two bodies were of similar size (like a binary star system plus a massive planet) then an analysis of three body systems shows that there are stable configurations where the objects will be in very complicated orbits where it would be difficult to say one orbits the other.
Update: The short answer is yes, it is possible when you look at the complete dynamical system, for the reasons stated above. More evidence of this can be found in the study of regular star orbits where very complicated orbits are possible and can be stable. Currently the cut off for classification of a planet and a brown dwarf is 13 Jupiter masses, which is arbitrary to some degree. The lightest main sequence stars have a mass of 75 Jupiters. This will put the barycenter well outside the radius of either body for binary systems.
A quick check of the two body system using the equation:
$$R = \dfrac{1}{m_1 + m_2}(m_1r_1 + m_2r_2)$$
Setting $m_1 = 75$, $r_1 = 1$, $m_2 = 13$, $r_2 = 2$ gives:
$$\dfrac{75 + 26}{75+13} = 1.147$$
Indicating a barycenter at roughly $\dfrac{1}{7}$ the distance between the objects. More bodies will cause more complicated orbits, where again, it would be difficult to say which object orbits which. It should be noted that if the system was composed of 3 objects, 2 of which had similar mass, it would be possible to develop a system that appears to have two larger objects orbiting a third smaller object. A quick check reveals:
$$R = \dfrac{1}{m_1 + m_2 + m_3}(m_1r_1 + m_2r_2+ m_3r_3)$$
Setting $m_1 = 75$, $r_1 = 1$, $m_2 = 13$, $r_2 = 2$ $m_3 = 75$, $r_3 = 3$ gives:
$$\dfrac{75 + 26 + 225}{75+13+75} = 2$$
Whether such an orbit system is realizable when you consider the full dynamics of a natural system is debatable, but I am not aware of a specific proof that would rule it out.
It should be noted that there are new periodic solutions to 3-body problems when the objects have the same mass.
Anything the mass of a star is going to get hot like a star and fuse hydrogen like a star. In other words it will be a star not a planet!
While it's technically possible to have a rocky planet the mass of a star, in practice when stellar systems form there aren't enough metals available to build such a large object. Large objects are invariably built from hydrogen (and helium) and would therefore form a star.
There are plenty of binary systems with a star orbiting a white dwarf or neutron star, but even a dead star is still a star and not a planet.
Typically, a star (or stellar remnant, such as a neutron star, white/black dwarf, or black hole) will be the most massive thing in the area, by far. Planets, even gas giants, are a small fraction of the mass of a typical main sequence star.
Now, as in Hal's answer, the relative mass of the planet and its star does make the center of mass, the barycenter, of the planet-star system a point that is different from the center of mass of either body alone. This will cause the star to appear to "wobble" as its planet moves around it. Tracking this wobble over time is how we have discovered most of the extrasolar planets we know of (which is why most of the exoplanets we know of are huge gas giants several times Jupiter's mass; the wobble's easier to see). However, as orbital motion's primary determinant is relative mass (another is relative distance, and the third is tangential velocity), the more massive star will be very close to the barycenter of the system, and the planet will be further away.
Our best-known example, Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has a mass of about 1.9e27 kg. Our Sun has a mass of about 2e30 kg. In other words, Jupiter is about 1/1000 the mass of the Sun. Thus, while Jupiter does indeed have an effect on the position of the Sun as it orbits the Sun, the center of mass of the two objects is still much closer to the Sun than to Jupiter (pretty much on the Sun's surface, as explained by the comment). In fact, all 9 planets of our Solar system (throwing Pluto a bone here), all their moons and rings, and all other orbiting celestial objects such as asteroids and comets, all pooled together into one super-planet, would still be only about .15% of the Sun's mass. That would bring the barycenter of thus dual-body system out into open space a few million miles (depending on the distance between the two), but still far closer to the Sun than the super-planet.
While Jupiter is not even close to the most massive planet we have discovered (http://xkcd.com/1071/large/), we have not yet found a planet more massive than any star we've ever found, much less a planet more massive than its own star. The most massive non-stellar body we have discovered is about 55 times Jupiter's mass (still only about 5% of the mass of our Sun), and is a rogue body (not orbiting a star) that blurs the line between planet and star; it's dense enough to generate temperatures that cause deuterium combustion (not quite true fusion) and thus it produces its own thermal energy. Masses of this type are known as "brown dwarfs". As objects become more massive, they become progressively hotter, until they reach the threshold of true fusion at about 80 MJ and become "red dwarfs".
Thus, not only is there no known planet more massive than its star, it's thought to be impossible for any non-stellar body to gain enough mass for any true star to orbit it, without it becoming a star itself. As the mass of something like a gas giant increases, by attracting nearby wisps of gas, aging comets, etc, the density of the mass also increases as gravity does. This increases the core temperature of that body. Eventually, as with these brown dwarves, the temperature increases to a state of dense pre-fusion plasma, and then from there, things just continue to transition toward true fusion. It's conceivable that a planet could aggregate a mass primarily consisting of something other than hydrogen, that wouldn't fuse until much higher temperatures had been reached, but given what we know of our galaxy it is extremely unlikely for there to be enough of anything but hydrogen available to give a planet that kind of mass.
It is possible, though we haven't seen it yet, for a planet that's not quite a brown dwarf (maybe 40 MJ) to be found orbiting a red dwarf (about 80 MJ); this would meet our definition of a "planetary system" of a planet and star, and not a "binary system" of two stars. However, with the gas giant being only about half the mass of its star, the center of mass, and thus the barycenter of orbit, would be well out into open space between them, and you would, more or less, see them orbit each other. That's about as close as you could get to a geocentric system, and we have not yet observed it.
John Rennie has already covered most of it in his answer, I just wanted to add a few explanatory notes.
Usually when stars are "born", they form from dense clouds of hydrogen and helium. Once the cloud gets dense enough, it starts to get really hot, and eventually fusion occurs.
The universe doesn't have an abundance of heavier elements, like calcium and iron. These are the by-products of stellar fusion, so for a planet to form, there needs to be (or have been) a star at some point to generate those elements. If the star that created those elements is still there when the planet is being formed, it is fully possible that the star has a smaller radius than the planet orbiting it (like a neutron star), but the star will also be much denser than the planet, ensuring that the centre of the orbit is nearer to the star than the planet. A star that has a smaller radius and a smaller density would have never turned into a star in the first place, it would have just remained as a nebula or a brown dwarf.
But as has already been pointed out, it's much more likely that a planet that massive will just get really hot and start it's own process of fusion, turning into a star.
Planets appear because of stars:
So you have a 'big guy' in the center and 'small guys' in other parts of the cloud. If theoretically one of those small guys appear to be larger than 'big guy', then it would become a star instead, right?
So now - you can't have a star going around a planet because from the start it was larger. For instance, take a look at Solar system objects, the Sun is something like 98% of the mass.
And even if we could have a body that is heavier than a star and is located close, it would start to grab the higher layers of the smaller star. Which actually happens, but there are anyway two stars participating in this to form nova.
Theoretically YES: But, it has a constraint sticking to it. So, "Yes" slightly. This would be possible only when there already existed a system like such. If the mass of the small star (orbiting mass) is low (enough to be tidally locked with the "BIG" planet), the system would be possible.
But still, This is totally ridiculous. Because, such a thing cannot be formed on its own.
So Practically, it is NO for sure: To understand this, let's skim through their definitions. Though both the celestial objects have a common origin (Nebulae), a Planet is an object whose core hasn't fused enough hydrogen to maintain the reaction. So, it can be named as some kind of "inactive star". On the other hand, a Star satisfies all the necessary conditions, sustaining the fusion reactions.
When a planet has acquired enough mass, so that the core fusion reactions are sustained, it becomes a star. That's all. A star-planet system is somewhat different, because they have a common center of mass. In some unlucky way, a star is already in a negligible orbit around the the common center of mass, while the planet orbits a star (which can be considered that it orbits the planet slightly).
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Hazard: The wires inside the oscillating heater can short circuit and spark, posing a fire hazard to consumers.
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#2. Alternate Timelines
As if the time travel paradoxes weren't complicated enough, the narrow thread of continuity holding this franchise together frays into two completely different--but equally disappointing--directions after the second movie.
According to the third movie, once Terminator 2 ends, Sarah Connor dies, John Connor becomes a migrant worker, and mankind gets blown to smithereens in 2004. Terminator Salvation will follow from this course of events, with Batman, new Chekov and the blind girl from The Village fighting off the machines of Skynet in a bleak, post apocalyptic landscape without sweet laser guns.
Not the John Connor these robots want, and not the John Connor they deserve, but the John Connor they need.
Alright, we can live with that. If we need to see a continuation of this series, might as well be with Christian Bale taking charge.
But then there's a television series out there.
According to The Sarah Connor Chronicles, our heroes stay on the run after Terminator 2. Sarah Connor is sick, but she ain't dead yet (and is surprisingly badass for someone who's supposed to be on her way out). More Terminators have been sent back to kill John and inexplicably fail at something a barely competent hitman should have no problem with. Summer Glau, another reprogrammed Terminator, has been sent back to protect him.
According to this timeline, Judgment Day doesn't happen in 2004, although odds are it will strike in 2011.
So... the two futures are obviously incompatible (the different Judgment Day dates completely change all subsequent developments, from the war to the resistance to the invention of time travel itself). So is this all in an alternate reality, like the new Star Trek movie? Does it mean that one course of events is legitimate, and the other isn't?
Or does it mean that none of the outcomes really matter, since no matter what happens, there is invariably some other alternate timeline where the opposite has occurred? Is there some timeline where the machines are friendly? Where the Terminator is a sassy black kid? Where the human sent to protect mankind is Zach Braff?
#1. No Fate But What We Make Up As We Go Along
Huge sci-fi franchises often revolve around a central philosophical conundrum. For instance, The Matrix ponders existential questions like "what is reality?" and "should the sequels exist?" For the Terminator franchise, it has always been the question of determinism: Can the future be changed, or is it set in stone? Luckily for viewers, it's one of the very few franchises that has the balls to have an advanced machine from the future objectively answer the film's central question. Unluckily, it's also the only one with the balls to have the exact same machine give the exact opposite answer later on.
At first glance, the fact that the Terminators are sent back in time to kill John Connor would suggest that clearly the machines think they can alter the course of history so that they won't have to deal with his crap once they take over the world. A major theme of the second film is that the apocalypse can be avoided, that there is indeed "no fate but what we make."
By the end of that movie, it seems clear that Judgment Day has been avoided, and we can all rest easy, knowing that at least one pressing question from the franchise has been cleared up. And then Terminator 3 rolls around...
Arnold shows up again to protect John Connor, who insists that he and his mom prevented the destruction of mankind in the last film. Arnold clarifies things for the little twerp by confirming that Judgment Day cannot be prevented, only postponed. In his words, it is "inevitable."
Which is kind of funny, since he said the exact opposite in the second movie. You might remember the scene. Linda Hamilton has just woken up from the collective subconscious nightmare of every Cold War kid on earth...
...and is dead set on killing the guy responsible for creating Skynet, hoping that his death will prevent the nuclear war. Little John Connor flips out annoyingly as is his tendency, at which point Arnold tells him that killing Dyson might actually prevent Judgment Day.
Got that? The objective, all-knowing machine just gave two different answers to the question "can we stop the end of the world?"
So... if Judgment Day can't be prevented, then the war and mankind's ultimate victory of the machines can't be prevented either, right? If fate can only be nudged a couple of years in one direction or another, then nothing any character does at any point in any of the movies makes any motherfucking difference at all.
Enjoy Terminator Salvation, kids!
Before you go dismissing the franchise, just remember that it could come true, as evidenced by the movies in 7 Completely Unrealistic Movie Plots (That Came True). Or check out some more mind-boggling bad guy schemes, in The 6 Most Pointlessly Elaborate Movie Murder Plots.
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A variety of manufacturers make snap in wedge bag mounts. The mount attaches to the saddle rails and the bag snaps into the mount. Does know which brands if any interchange?
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I have not found a quick connect system that works with different manufacturers, but have found a bag that I can easily swap between bikes without needing to buy two bags.
I use a Topeak Aero Wedge Medium saddle bag and have found on their support website (store.todson.com) that you can buy extra "fixers" to put on each of your bicycles. The medium Aero Wedge saddle bag carries a couple tubes and my compact pump. It has the quick connect and a single velcro strap which goes around the seat post. Very secure.
I have not had any problems with the Wedge saddle bag when mountain biking (I don't go off many jumps but lots of cross country, single track and rough terrain).
After about 4 years, I did have the thin plastic slot thingy (official term I think) on the bag become brittle and crack. I found the replacement on the store.todson.com website and did not need to purchase a new bag, as such I still recommend the Topeak Wedge bags.
I can now say that at least as far as Avenir and Zefal are concerned they do not interchange. I did find that Avenir sells a kit to convert any wedge bag to quick release. It involves making a small hole in the bag,inserting a small plate inside and screwing it to the clip on the outside.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
Name of Product: Mattress Sets (Mattresses and Mattresses with Foundations)
Units: About 15,000
Manufacturer: Tropical Bedding Mfg., of Caguas, Puerto Rico
Hazard: The mattress sets fail to meet mandatory federal open flame standard and pose a fire hazard to consumers.
Incidents/Injuries: None reported.
Description: This recall involves crib and bunkie mattresses and mattress sets (mattresses and mattresses with foundations) in sizes twin, full, queen and king. The crib and bunkie mattresses do not have any labels. The other mattresses have "Classics," "Classics II," "Imagine," "Sweet Mysteries," "Treasures," or "Comfort Dream" printed on a label located at the top of the foot of the mattress. The "Classics" model manufactured between August 2008 and April 2009 is not included in this recall. This model has a federal label attached that includes the date of manufacture and "Classics" (see below).
Sold at: City Mattress and furniture stores in Puerto Rico from July 2007 through September 2009 for between $30 and $135.
Manufactured in: Puerto Rico
Remedy: Consumers should stop using the mattresses immediately and return them to Tropical Bedding Mfg. for a refund.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Carmen Martinez at (787) 586-1139 between 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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$700 Off TreadClimber TC10 Plus Free Shipping
coupon code: DEAL4
A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the TreadClimber, amirite?
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I was curious about the actual numbers, so here you go:
Pre-code price is $2200 + $200 shipping. Total shipped with code = $1500. Still a bit steep for me, but significant savings indeed.
Something's wrong with their landing page right now, but I was able to get to the tc10 on their site (http://www.treadclimber.com/bowflex-treadclimber-us/products/tc10/prdcd~100198/Bowflexreg+TreadClimberreg+TC10.jsp) and add the deal4 code manually.
Link goes to TC20 which is $3200
Think I will just use my sidewalk and mother nature
I didn't bother to check the price when I saw $700 off. I knew it would be overpriced.
Guess I'm stuck walking up and down the stairs without the mechanical device.
@sportyrider: I know, right?
$700 OFF of something to let your legs go up and down, and it still costs money?
@superllama7: Do you know if this coupon code is still in play? I typed it in and hit apply, but the price did not change.
@chresther: this was a pre-xmas deal, long dead now


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Short links for February 24th, 2009
Some interesting things I found recently:
# iPhone attack: TR-808, TB-303, Sampler, Synthesizer
Oliver Chesler puts together a track with some iPhone apps (Audiorealism technoBox, Tapestri and Andriod FX by Pure Profit).
Oliver writes:
I was having some music fun on my iPhone and I put together a quick Acid track. I recorded three apps into Ableton Live. There really is something to be said for bringing in audio from the outside world, even if it's from another computer. I like the slight noise and live interaction the iPhone apps forced. The combined price of all the applications I used here was $11.97. Imagine what a Roland TB-303, Roland TR-808, Akai S950 and Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 would have cost you 15 years ago?
# AudioTag.info — your music recognition robot
AudioTag.info allows you to identify almost any unknown piece of music quickly and easily. Its use is very simple: you upload a short audio fragment or an entire song, the robot analyzes it and provides you with the information about the track title, artist name, album title, etc. Your audio fragment can be in almost any file format and of almost any quality (aurally recognizable, of course) — it can be an MP3 file downloaded from the Internet or a short recording made with your old tape recorder and stored as a low-quality .WAV-file.
# Want Josh Freese to join your band? Got $75,000?
Former NIN drummer Josh Freese is promoting his new album with some limited edition deals.
There's a lot of funny stuff between the regular $7 digital download of Since 1972, and the $75,000 limited edition which includes things like going on tour with Josh for a few days, have Josh write, record and release a 5-song EP about you and your life story and taking a flying trapeze lesson with Josh and Robin from NIN.
Link via Soundcheck
# Apogee discontinues Windows development
From the Agogee news page:
As of 2009, Apogee Electronics will no longer develop products for the Microsoft Windows platform. Apogee has made this decision in order to focus all research, development, and support resources on the Apple platform with its unparalleled power and stability. Apple offers a wide range of affordable, powerful desktop and laptop solutions ideally suited for music creation and audio production.
Check CDM for discussion on the matter.
Ryan Gruss has a cool blog where he posts some free drum tracks.
I am a drummer based in Boston, Massachusetts. I previously lived in NYC and Los Angeles where I had the chance to record, collaborate and tour with a wide range of artists. I started this blog with the intention of sharing, transferring and exploring musical ideas with my friends around the world… as well as anyone else who might stumble across this site.
All of the drum tracks (unless credited) are recorded at my studio using Logic Pro 8. I include mp3s of all my recordings for quick previews as well as a separate link to the original, multitracked Logic files. Feel free to download, cut-up, eq, compress, distort, and mutate my drum parts and use them for your own projects. All I ask is that you send me a link to the final product when you're finished. Let's see what happens…
Currently at Loop #17.
# AT-AT Boom Box – Combining an AT-AT Walker with an old skool boom box, AT-AT Boom Box FTW!
# Reyn vs Björk – I've Seen It All [Dancer in the Dark] (link to YouTube)
Loving this video of Reyn Ouwehand's mix of this Björk track.
Reyn writes:
I found this track on the album Family Tree. It's Björk together with the Brodsky string quartet.
Really love this track and version and thought it would be nice to do some looping over it.. Enjoy!..


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How to deal with answers exactly copied from other SO answers
I came upon a question yesterday that had been voted for close once, for reasons of being an exact duplicate (which, when following the auto-generated in-comment link, it very clearly was.) I voted to close as well. A couple minutes later, an answer was posted that I'm almost 100% certain was copy/pasted from the (well researched) accepted answer to the linked duplicate. The question was eventually closed, but the answer poster still received a few upvotes prior to that occurring.
The question: C# Enum compiler bug/glitch? The duplicate: .NET Enumeration allows comma in the last field
Now, my questions:
Do you keep rep from questions that are closed? I know that if it is eventually deleted then a recalc will reclaim the rep, but what of closed but extant questions? (I would imagine that you would, since the fact it's not closed meant that it was deemed worth keeping the duplicate around.)
What is the current thinking on this kind of situation? On the one hand, I find it annoying that a clearly cribbed answer garners rep for the poster. On the other hand, maybe I should be blaming the upvoters, since they could just as easily not voted (or even downvoted.) I suppose voting is the community's way of making their opinion known, but I'm still curious to hear what others think about this topic.


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The thinner QR rail plate is only recommended for QR with lever lock. It is not recommended with Arca Swiss style clamp with scew knob. the knob will bump into end of NN rail. We will develop new clamp that will match the NN rail in 2 months. Next month will will have QR system compatible with Manfrotto plate and gitzo plate. It will be an excellent low cost solution for non-Arca Swiss system.


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For quick stable flights indoors or outside, the Pocket Drone by Odyssey Toys is an excellent option for its features and cool, collapsible design.
The Lenovo Pocket Projector lets you share photos, videos and presentations from your phone.
Soundfreaq is showing its updated line of Bluetooth speakers at CES 2014, including the ultraportable 1.2-inch thick Pocket Kick.
The company famous for its affordable 4K camera announces a $995 compact camera with a Micro Four Thirds lens mount that generates HD Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) and lossless compressed CinemaDNG raw files.
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The HP Pocket Playlist joins the list of growing Wi-Fi storage expander/digital servers.
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While it has a few small shortcomings and is somewhat pricey at $300, the sleekly designed Brookstone HDMI Pocket Projector is one of the better 2012 pico projectors.
Better than Instapaper and other competitors, Pocket is the app to beat when it comes to bookmarking and managing links.
If you want a new angle on the perpetual running genre, Pocket Climber is a worthy purchase, with an excellent swipe control system, randomly generated obstacles, and plenty of challenges.
This gaming accessory has it all, including two analog joysticks, shoulder buttons, and an adjustable arm to secure your smartphone for some heavy gameplay.


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'Malware' is the general term we use to describe any and all computer threats including Trojans, Worms, and computer Viruses. Sophos Anti-Virus allows you to quickly and easily clean up the majority of malware detected. However, depending on the specific threat detected, the cleanup process may involve a number steps.
This article provides instructions on how to clean up the majority of malware using either the central Enterprise Console or the local anti-virus program.
Applies to the following Sophos product(s) and version(s) Sophos Anti-Virus for LinuxSophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS XSophos Anti-Virus for OpenVMSSophos Anti-Virus for UnixSophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000+Enterprise Console
To clean a detection in the console:
Any item successfully cleaned up will disappear from the list. If the endpoint needs to be rebooted for complete cleanup you will see 'Restart required' and hence should reboot the endpoint to finish cleanup and clear this alert. For other cleanup statuses see the Further help cleaning up malware section below.
Follow the section that applies to the operating system installed on your computer.
To remove malware from the local computer:
Select the items displaying this option and then click 'Perform action' | 'Clean up'. If further action is required (e.g., reboot) the Available action will change and it is described elsewhere in this table.
Click the 'move' option and select either 'Yes' or 'Yes To All' (for multiple items). The detected item(s) is moved from its current folder path to C:\ProgramData\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\INFECTED\. Moving does not delete or cleanup the item.
This option is useful when trying to obtain a sample of the file to submit to SophosLabs but it is blocked by the on-access scanner.
The item detected will be categorized as a virus or spyware - not adware or a PUA. Therefore you have the option to 'delete' the item. Note: If the option to delete appears alongside the option to clean up, we recommended you use the clean up option first. If clean up is unsuccessful use the delete option.
Click the 'Delete' option and Sophos Anti-Virus will remove the entire item from your computer. It will not attempt to remove malicious parts of the file and save the good parts (i.e., a disinfection process).
This option is generally OK for completely malicious files like Trojans (detected as 'Troj/...'). However if the file being detected is a legitimate file (like an important office document you created yourself) you should consider selecting 'Clean up' rather than 'Delete' as this may save enough information in the file so it is not completely lost - however this cannot be guaranteed. If you do have a backup of the file then you can delete the entire file now and restore a clean copy of the file from your backup once your computer is clean.
For further details on running a full scan locally see article 61665.
Normally if cleanup is successful, items should clear from the Quarantine Manager completely. If cleanup fails it should mark the item 'manual cleanup required' (see below).
Manual cleanup is commonly required for one of two reasons:
The item detected may actually be a program that can be uninstalled so check this first.
Delete the item from the folder by clicking on it once with the left mouse button and then pressing shift + delete on the keyboard - this by-passes the Recycle Bin. Click 'Yes' to confirm the deletion. Note: You can delete multiple items in the same folder at the same time by dragging the mouse cursor over them and pressing Shift + Delete. You don't have to delete item like this - it's just recommended, but if you delete items in the normal way ensure you empty the Recycle Bin afterwards. If the item no longer exists you will see an error message saying Error displaying this folder's content - this means the location no longer exists and you can try to open the location of the second item and check if that exists. Note: If the component detected ends with FILE:0000 or similar then the component was detected as it was attempting to run and will not exist on disk - you can therefore ignore all detected components that end like this.
Error displaying this folder's content
Once you have manually deleted the files from your computer, clear the item from the Quarantine Manager.
We recommend that you now run a full scan to confirm your computer is free of malware.
For more information on removing problematic malware see the Further help cleaning up malware section at the bottom of this article.
The item has been detected in an area of the computer's hard drive that your account (that you use to log on to the computer with) does not have permission to access. Generally this occurs because your account is not a local administrator of the computer - the account used to perform actions changes depending on the action. You should log off the computer and log back on with a local administrator account (try another admin account if you believe you should have the correct permissions, or log on with just a local admin account if you are using a domain admin account).
If you are not an IT administrator of the computer, contact your IT service desk to assist with cleanup.
It's also important to check your user account's rights for the Quarantine manager. From the Sophos Endpoint Security and Control Home screen, select Anti-virus and HIPS | Configure anti-virus and HIPS | Configure | User rights for Quarantine manager. If you are logged on as a Windows administrator, ensure your are configured as a 'Sophos Administrator' too.
If you are given the option to 'Authorize' an item then Sophos Anti-Virus has detected that it is either Adware or a Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA). These items are not necessarily malicious.
The option to 'Authorize' may be shown on its own or you may get the choice to either 'Authorize' or 'Clean up'.
This can be reported when the rootkit disk scan finds 'hidden' files.
Most malware can be cleaned up in a few clicks. However, as there are many different types of malware that infect, or attempt to infect, a computer by various methods, you may need to take extra steps to complete the process.
Understanding your particular scenario can help reveal the problem with cleanup. Common problems are shown in the table below, along with suggested further actions.
From the Enterprise Console the cleanup status shows 'Cleanup failed'
From the Enterprise Console the cleanup status is stuck on 'Cleanup in progress' for a long time or says 'Cleanup timed out'
From the Enterprise Console the cleanup status shows 'Not cleanable'
Sophos Anti-Virus requires a full scan but it has not been run.
Run a full scan. See article 61665 for how to run a full scan locally, or article 25358 for how to run it from Enterprise Console
Note: For Mac computers, most commonly the item that fails to be cleaned up is in a Time Machine backup - see article 118117 for more details.
If your problem isn't listed in the table above let us know in the article feedback box. Provide as much detail as you can and we'll endeavor to update this article. Note: We cannot reply to individual support requests from the article feedback form. If you need further support contact us and for more advice on removing problematic malware files see article 14443.
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I have looked at offerings from MemoryMap and Anquet, but once you scale beyond a small area they become prohibitively expensive.
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You don't say what area specifically you're looking at, or what your budget is - but Anquet seems to do a number of electronic copies of standard OS maps for prices I wouldn't consider unreasonable here.
Of course, if you mean the whole of the UK / Europe then the cost will be high, but I don't think there's really much getting around that. It unfortunately seems to be the case that if you want this level of detail, you have to pay for it! Who knows, in the future perhaps prices will come down somewhat.


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Union County College is offering a free screening of this powerful documentary to our students as well as interested members of the community and professionals at local agencies. Nancy Schwartzman's courageous documentary shines a light on issues of consent and female sexuality in way that we don't usually see elsewhere. Rather than asking whether or not women can or should say yes to sex, it's more a matter of how often our "no" often goes unheard or unheeded and that the question "Is it okay if we do this?" is rarely asked to begin with.
See the movie and join the conversation. Reservations are not required and anyone can attend. The movie does include some mature content that may not be appropriate for young children. Additionally, the College does not provide child care services. Please plan accordingly.
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The basic problem I have been running into is making readable code, where in other languages I am more familiar with I might have been using class or struct like objects. For example, you can imagine I might want to create a circle object, which would, at the very least, store the radius and position of the circle. In an object-oriented language, I might access the $x$-coordinate of the center of the circle using something like
circ.pos.x. In Mathematica, however, I find myself using nothing more than nested lists, and as a result, wind up with code looking something like
circ[[2]][[1]] (
circ[[1]] is the radius and
circ[[2]] is the position vector, say). You can imagine how code like this could become very unreadable very fast. Presumably, this is because I'm not 'doing it right'. So, then, what is the 'right' way to implement something like this? Does Mathematica support built-in object-oriented features I'm not aware of?
The basic problem I have been running into is making readable code, where in other languages I am more familiar with I might have been using class or struct like objects. For example, you can imagine I might want to create a circle object, which would, at the very least, store the radius and position of the circle. In an object-oriented language, I might access the $x$-coordinate of the center of the circle using something like
It is probably debatable to what extent it has built-in object oriented features. In any case, this answer is not intended to lead you to try to emulate object oriented programming, which is in general a bad idea. (see @Leonid 's answer)
However, it is not debatable that Mathematica is tremendously flexible (as to style and notation at least, the evaluation model is quite limited) and offers you a lot of more options than the one you mention you are taking to write clear code. (With great freedom comes great responsibility)
The most natural way of doing what you want the Mathematica way is using immutable data structures, as recommeded by Leonid in a comment in his answer. For example, storing a circle as
A few others options
I am being serious when I say these are just a few. You could even end up creating your own graphical language if you start adding input aliases and playing with boxes. Useless example
Now, in a new cell write
At the risk of repeating myself, I would like to stress that one has to be critical towards the superficial flexibility offered by Mathematica, when (particularly mutable) data structures are concerned. Using mutable data structures assumes a programming style for which Mathematica is not optimized. It can emulate it, yes, and we have seen a number of such emulations in the mentioned and newly posted answers (and I am myself responsible for a number of such emulations), but I personally find most of them unsatisfactory in several important aspects. For mutable data structures, some of them are:
For immutable data structures (such as lists of rules), which some folks suggest to use to emulate structs, the main issues I see are
I suspect that the above are some of the reasons why most or all of the multiple suggested approaches based on the top-level code did not massively take off. The main reason must be, of course, performance. Here and here are two recent examples of how much the choice of the right data structures in Mathematica may affect the performance (how about 3-4 orders of magnitude difference?). The problem is, you will not get a good performance from mutable data structures implemented in the top-level, and you have to understand Mathematica really well to pick the right (for a given problem) fast immutable structures.
So, my suggestion is that we stop offering countless new emulations and stop praising Mathematica flexibility where it does not serve us well, since data structures are not the place where we have to be flexible - it is a place where we have to be clear and fast and compositional. Let's face it, currently Mathematica does not have a native support for mutable performant general data structures in the way that C or Java do. Perhaps, at some point it will, and then it will be different.
Now, why I am so much against emulations? Because at the end, you waste your time. I found that when I really need mutable data structures (which is usually for performance - demanding problems), I do things much faster in Java and link to Mathematica, than write in Mathematica and spend hours to optimize the top-level code. So, a pragmatic advice: either reformulate your problem in such a way that you can handle it with constructs natural to Mathematica (immutable lists, trees, rules, symbolic heads as containers for types, etc - if performance requirements of your problem allow that), or, if you really need mutable data structures, implement that part in a language which natively supports them, and link that to Mathematica. You will save your time.


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Food Drive to Raise Awareness, Help Seniors
Published: Saturday, August 30, 2014 at 10:55 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, August 30, 2014 at 10:55 p.m.
WINTER HAVEN | Comfort Keepers Winter Haven will be accepting donations to benefit the Feed Seniors Now food drive to raise awareness of the importance of nutrition among senior citizens.
According to Feeding America, millions of older Americans who are trying to remain healthy and independent are faced with having to choose between food and medical care.
This puts a large portion of seniors at risk of malnutrition.
Seniors who go hungry can be at greater risk of falls, accidents and extended hospital stays.
"National Hunger Action Month is in September, but seniors go hungry all year," said Gail Bagley, director of educational programs at Comfort Keepers Winter Haven. "We cannot fight every factor affecting hunger, but we can start here in Polk County by creating awareness about the issue and helping family members become more aware of the signs of hunger and malnutrition."
According to Bagley, signs of malnutrition could include sudden weight gain or loss, bruising, dental difficulties, sudden changes in taste, or a general lack of interest in eating.
The food drive will be held from Monday through Nov. 30.
Proceeds will benefit the Lake Wales Care Center and Meals on Wheels.
Donations can be made in the form of nonperishable items at food collection bins in these locations:
Comfort Keepers, 1104 Cypress Gardens Blvd. SE, Unit C, in Winter Haven.
Patton Tires, 1370 N. State Road 17 in Lake Wales.
Center State Bank, 300 West Central Ave., Lake Wales and other branches.
Comfort Keepers, an international organization that specializes in in-home care for seniors and adults with special needs, also has launched a nationwide campaign called Nourish Senior Life to raise awareness about the importance of healthy diets in senior citizens.
For more information on the local Feed Seniors Now food drive and Comfort Keepers' Nourish Senior Life initiative, call Comfort Keepers Winter Haven at 863-293-4055.
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Did you know Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark has a co-op mode?Written by: / / 5 Comments
If you had read about the announcement of Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark earlier this year, your answer to the question above would have been a solid 'yes,' but we'll forgive you for not following along… this time.
If details on a co-operative mode for Rise of the Dark Spark are new to you, or you simply want to know more, then let no-one stop you from watching the reveal trailer for the game's four-player 'Escalation' mode below.
It looks and sounds like a full-on 'Horde' mode similar to Gears of War, where you'll need to survive waves of enemies while setting up defences like barricades and turrets:
Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark – Escalation Mode Trailer
Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark is out on June 24th in the US and June 27th everywhere else, across PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, 3DS, Wii U and PC.
Find out more about the action game with El33tonline's previous coverage.
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Saudi Arabia has donated $100 million in aid to Yemen after torrential rains and floods devastated the Hadramout, Al-Mahra and Al-Hudaida provinces.
A Saudi airlift began delivering relief supplies to Mukalla, Yemen November 2. The plane carried 88 tons of foodstuffs, tents, medical supplies and blankets. A second plane arrived in Mukalla November 3 carrying 82 tons of foodstuffs, electric generators, tents and quilts.


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text: I'm trying to integrate Amazon GameCircle and I have been able to successfully initialize GameCircle in my app, but the problem is when I click on the button that displays achievements, the GameCircle achievement list comes up but it says "You have unlocked 0 of 0 achievements". Same happens with leaderboards i.e there are no leaderboards for this app. I have created a Leaderboard and a few achievements on the online developer portal for Amazon but they don't show for some reason. Can someone help me with this. Any links/resources that help with integrating GameCircle will be appreciated.


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How much knowledge is enough to start applying jobs for a Game Designer
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2 years ago, when I was still a university student, this question made me struggle to find an answer. Now, after graduating and having 1 year of work experience as a game designer, I am still unable to answer it. Therefore, I would like to ask for advices from industry veterans about it, please help me !
First of all, you may question why I could still be asking about this when I already worked in the industry, even though for only a brief one year. The fact is that the company I worked for also isn't a veteran in the game development scene, thus it was easy for me to get accepted to work there.
So that's my background. I know the question in the title was a bit obscure, that's why I will try to rephrase it to be more specific, so if you can give me any advice or lesson, it would be great. Here they are:
1. How much background knowledge about programming and art should a game designer know ?
From many sources I studied so far, everyone often says either "learn as much as you can" or "till you can talk the same language with them". They made me confused. It's ideal that one should learn as much as he/she can, but I think it's actually impossible for a game designer who also has to study about many other fields. Therefore, could anyone tell me just how good at programming/drawing do you think a game designer should be before he/she starts applying for a game designer job ?
2. Are all professional game designers scientists ?
This might sound like a joke question, but the reason I'm asking it is because I have read so many game design-related books and articles about scientific things such as
Procedural Content Generation: Thinking With Modules
On Player Characters and Self Expression
Really, they scared me out. Do professional game designers always talk about these things while working ? Please straighten me out.
I know the post is pretty long and my questions may look childish or immature for you, but please explain to me with your experience so I could know how the industry is like. Thank you very much for your time !
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The Department of Modern and Classical Languages (MCL) offers two major programs with two tracks: A B.A. with a Language and Culture Track, and a B.A. In Foreign Language Education (FLED). Both of these tracks are offered with degrees in Spanish or French.
MCL also offers a minor in Spanish and French as well as a certificate (18 hours) in Latin American Studies, Spanish for Professionals (SFP), and Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages (TESOL). Students, who are taking the FLED track, can complete the 9 hour endorsement in TESOL as part of their teacher certification program. All other students may take the certificate of 18 hours as a standalone certificate in TESOL.
MCL and the Center for International Programs (CIP) also offer other courses that students may take to meet their language requirement. UP to 12 credit hours are offered in most courses including Latin, German, Russian, and Japanese. Other courses may offer up to 12 hours or may be substituted in the language requirement. These courses include: Mandarin Chinese, and Arabic.


text: Have any of you ever heard of the manga 'Doraemon'? Well I haven't, but I have seen the main character scattered all over the internet which means the only thing I'm familiar with is the cat. Someone asked if I could make a tutorial on "how to draw Doraemon", step by step so here it is. From what I understand Doraemon is about a cat that is sent back in time from the future. The Japanese manga was created by 'Fujiko F. Fujio, but a while after it became a popular anime series. Believe it or not, but this series of Doraemon was first created back in 1969. I guess Doraemon is a robotic cat from the future that travels back in time to help a boy named Sewashi Nobi. Doraemon has no ears, is the color blue, and wears a red collar with a yellow bell. He is like an Asian style of an Inspector Gadget because he can pull any type of concocktion from his pocket whether it be some sort of tool, medicine, or another gadget that we have never even heard of. He was great fun to draw because to me Doraemon is adorable. As you can imagine drawing Doraemon is going to be as simple as eating pie. He is a rounded feline robot that has very little detailing. I hope you enjoy this lesson, and like I always say, stick around because there is still more to come. Peace people!


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5 Things Nobody Tells You About Living in Japan
#2. You Will Always Be an Outsider
Since this is the Internet, you're undoubtedly familiar with Engrish.com and Japan's many hilarious (hirarious?) failings with the English language. But honestly, Japan is an industrialized nation full of well-educated people, and English is one of the most widely spoken languages on the planet. Zany out-of-context Internet photos aside, how alienating could it really be over there?
The short answer is very.
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The long answer is more rambling and incoherent.
Simply put, the country just isn't very accommodating to people who can't speak Japanese. Without the language, you will barely be able to buy food or get around, let alone establish any kind of permanent living situation that doesn't involve keeping a bilingual girlfriend/boyfriend/hostage on hand 24/7 to translate every commercial that comes on the radio. You can't just exchange shouts with people and come to a working understanding like Han Solo and Chewbacca. Real life doesn't work that way.
So how is that different from moving to any other country where English isn't the native language? Well, for starters, Japanese is one of the hardest languages for Americans to learn, requiring 2,200 hours of study if you want to be considered truly proficient. This is partly because of the difficulties of learning a new language as an adult, and partly because English and Japanese have about as much in common with each other as Halloween and Halloween III.
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Dear God, imagine what their text messages must look like.
That being said, once you actually got the whole language thing down, you might expect to finally be able to integrate yourself into Japanese society and thrive, right? Well, here's how it was with me: I've been coming to Japan for nearly a decade, my wife is Japanese, I speak the language fluently, I know the culture inside and out, and yet I'm still "that foreign guy" to most people here (even the ones who have known me for close to 10 years).
"Hi! My name is Vanillaface McCheeseburger! My hobbies include 'not being Japanese'!"
Japan is one of the most homogenous nations on Earth -- roughly 98 percent of the population is ethnically Japanese. No matter what you do to try and fit in, you will always stick out like a sore thumb in a room full of people who have had their thumbs removed by rototillers.
For instance, one of the biggest hot button issues in Japan concerns people of Korean ancestry who live in the country. In most cases, these are people who were born in Japan, have Japanese names and speak almost exclusively Japanese, but because of their Korean lineage, they are still legally considered foreigners and as such face several restrictions (such as the inability to vote or hold management positions in the public sector, a law that the Supreme Court actually upheld in 2005). The government literally decided that all Koreans are dastardly shitheads who are not to be trusted and mandated it to the entire country.
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"Take your incredible goddamn barbecue and piss off!"
So now ask yourself this -- if the Koreans in this example (who by all rights should be full Japanese citizens were it not for ethnic prejudice) are given the same treatment as convicted felons, what chance does a white kid in a Gundam T-shirt have to not be considered a complete outcast?
I'm not saying that every single person in Japan hates foreigners, but if you live here, you will be constantly reminded that you are most decidedly not Japanese, nor are you likely to spontaneously become so. Still, it's a small price to pay to live in a place as outlandishly crazy and fun as Japan, right?
Yeah, about that ...
#1. The Country Really Isn't That Weird
I'm guessing that one of the top reasons people want to move to Japan is because of how eye-poppingly insane everything here is. Japan is the patron saint of the Internet -- everything is either batshit crazy or adorable (or both), with the sole requirement of being impossible to explain in any conceivable context.
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For example, this is food.
Man, I'm about to destroy a lot of illusions.
To start, let's talk a little about Japanese TV. You may have seen clips of some X-rated Japanese game show floating around the Internet wherein an audience full of young women eagerly compete for the privilege of having sex with some random guy on stage in front of hundreds of people (if not, you're probably searching for them right now). Here's the shocking truth behind those videos -- they are porn.
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We know, it's easy to get thrown off by the high production values.
As in, they are professional pornographic videos dressed up to look like a game show, because ... you know, just because. Does porn need a reason? There's a Simpsons porn out there featuring people sweatily groping each other in jaundiced yellow body paint, for Christ's sake. Nobody is posting clips of that on the Internet and claiming it's the new season ... well actually, somebody probably is, but nobody would seriously believe that.
The porno game show I'm referring to is called Kobe Surprise, and it is every bit an actual game show as Walt Disney's Pocahontas is a historical documentary. Just like those goofy "true life" pornos MILF Hunter or Bang Bus, nothing about it even approaches reality, yet all you apparently need to do is tell everyone it's from Japan and suddenly people think it comes on every night after Wheel of Fortune.
Kobe Surprise (NSFW)
Amazingly, this has never aired on network television.
Don't get me wrong -- there are some daffy game shows in Japan, and there is definitely erotic programming on late night TV, but the country isn't full of shamelessly sex-crazed lunatics who have stopped trying to measure the immensity of the shits they no longer give.
"So what about those infamous vending machines that sell used panties?" you might ask. Well, they do exist, but they were outlawed nearly 20 years ago. You can still find one from time to time, but they are illegal as fuck and usually hidden in sex stores or fetish clubs, and not in a bus station next to the Mr. Pibb machine.
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That's where they sell the pure strain gold.
I shook my head particularly hard when I read about the Japanese fundraiser that allowed people to squeeze some hot girl's breasts if they donated money to AIDS research, because every website that reported on it wrote about it like it happens every Tuesday in Japan. It doesn't. The event was hosted by a freaking porn channel -- that's like if Hugh Hefner held a topless car wash at the Playboy Mansion and the BBC told the rest of the world that there was one next to every McDonald's in America.
But maybe you dream of living in Japan not because the porn flows like water (it doesn't, at least not any more so than in any other country where the Internet is a thing), but because of your love for anime, which is so popular and widely accepted among Japanese adults that you could enjoy your obsession in peace with the approval of your peers. Even though we've moved on from porn, don't put those tissues away just yet -- you may need them for the next paragraph.
After all these years in Japan, I can honestly say that animation (major studio productions notwithstanding) is still mainly considered kids' stuff. There is shockingly little anime on television, and most of it is unapologetically meant for children. The only adults who really get into it (referred to as otaku) are usually perceived by the media as overweight, unwashed weirdos who are probably child molesters. Sound familiar? You're bound to spend just as much time hiding your Trigun DVDs from company here as you would anywhere else.
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With the added burden of the traditional Japanese Head of Shame.
Japan does have its eccentric side, but at the end of the day (and especially outside of Tokyo), it's pretty normal and boring. I'm not trying to discourage anyone from moving here (because I live here and I'm not planning on leaving anytime soon), but if you are really considering buying a place in Japan, make sure you know what you're getting into. Because if you step off the plane armed with nothing but what the Internet teaches you about this country, chances are you will be arrested before you make it out of the airport.
For more on Japan, check out 6 Japanese Subcultures That Are Insane (Even for Japan) and 9 Beloved Characters Made Horrifying by Japan.
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Big Data in Media? Here's Why all the Hype
By Oracle_Media-Oracle on Jan 10, 2014
Big Data in the media industry seems confusing: Google, Apple, Amazon & Co use it against you, early success stories like Netflix's House of Cards get analyzed everywhere - and tech vendors try to sell you big stuff. Why all the hype? Well, here's an answer.
First of all, why "Big"? If you have thousands – or millions – of digital consumers, capturing their every click, every search, every browse, every view, every comment, every recommendation creates a vast amount of data. Netflix, for example, is gathering data from 40m+ users and billions of hours of streaming video each day (including every pause, rewind and skip), along with millions of ratings and searches – all linked to data about the device used, the location, the time and place – and external rating and social media data. Moreover, as all other industries – your advertisers - also connect their products and services building the "Internet of Things", our digital universe explodes and already reached the zettabyte level (1 billion terabytes).
But is there any value-add in the new "Data"? Yes, and it's entirely different from the "old" structured data tracking corporate results: formerly "invisible" consumer behavior - using, searching, selecting, complaining, recommending products – now becomes accessible data for our business IT systems. So all of this new unstructured data is a huge asset and strategic advantage, especially when connected with traditional sales and subscription activity, customer service contacts, responses to marketing campaigns and external demographic data.
And that's why all the Hype: Consumer Experience
In other words, for the first time in history organizations can build a complete digital view to monitor and optimize their customers' experiences. Using this "Big Data" it is now possible to build a personalized connection to every individual user and customer. Understanding their likes, dislikes and interests. Their propensity to consume and buy. Their membership of any number of micro-segments. And at any stage of the customer lifecycle.
How can Media Companies benefit from Big Data?
With this deep understanding of the customer in place, it becomes much simpler to automate a whole range of incredibly valuable business activities that simultaneously create a vastly-improved customer experience, and drive increased revenues through better targeting and engagement, such as:
- Highly-targeted marketing – based on a precise understanding of which customer micro-segments will be most interested in a new piece of content or subscription offer – all joined up across former business silos
- Increasing acquisition and retention – understanding why people subscribe and why people churn and reacting with effective product and promotion strategies
- Content acquisition strategy – what content will be most popular with the most profitable customer segments?
- Programmatic advertising – increasing digital CPMs by offering precise and detailed customer segments to advertising networks and exchanges
Startups like Netflix, Flipboard or Spotify delivered initial success stories and demonstrated the value of their Big Data media platforms. But how should established companies join in? Many media entertainment businesses lack the ability to unlock the value from the new data universe. This is a result of both the vast volume of data (far more than traditional IT systems are geared up to cope with) and its unstructured, complex nature – how do you really understand a customer from their seemingly random click stream behavior?
Until recently, launching a Big Data project required very complex technology, and an expensive team of data scientists. Today, simpler and integrated tools are available to launch a Big Data project quickly and cost-effectively. Three case studies from Oracle customers might help on how to successfully start into the Big Data era:
#1 Foundation: Single View of Consumer Data before you go Big Data
In many Big Data projects, we see media & entertainment providers discovering they don't get one consistent consumer view due to their silo legacy systems. Is the classic subscriber the same person who's tweeting or buying on Amazon Kindle, Apple Newsstand or the web offering? The problem: without a unified data foundation and consumer context, all additional Big Data streams would be pointless.
Sony solved this challenge using Oracle Master Data Management in the Oracle Cloud to manage a consistent view of 77m Sony Playstation consumers. http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/profit/big-ideas/071013-bi-cloudcontrol-1974881.html
#2 Usability: Big Data for Automated Social Media & Marketing
Big Data success often comes from routing tons of small data to the right place, at the right time – especially in all web or social media related use cases. The value of automated audience monitoring and engaging comes from enabling your editorial, marketing, service and sales teams to efficiently connect with millions of consumers. That's why employee usability is a key success factor for Big Data enabled marketing automation or enterprise social relationship platforms.
For example, see how NBC sports achieved double digit growth in TV ratings using Oracle Social Cloud for monitoring and engaging with millions of consumers http://medianetwork.oracle.com/video/player/2036473045001
#3 Real-time: Content Discovery and Programmatic Advertising
Big Data is often about fast data: it's not another monthly board-room analysis, but the real-time consumer recommendation or programmed advertising which makes the difference - and will challenge both your teams and technology infrastructure. Oracle simplifies the use of in-memory systems, NoSQL, Hadoop, Real-Time Recommendation and other Big Data technologies.
Oracle's Media Intelligence solution provides a cost-effective, quick-to-deploy platform for collecting, connecting and using digital media Big Data to drive immediate benefits. See for example how Thomson Reuters or Immonet, an Axel Springer Digital Classifieds company, use Oracle Big Data products to drive their business. http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/customers/customersearch/immonet-1-exalytics-ss-1927903.html
So, what's the art building a Big Data media platform?
However you start into Big Data, make consumer privacy your number one priority - don't compromise on security, governance and user transparency. Based on this foundation, focus all teams on the customer experience: establish a no-compromise consumer-centric culture to create a Big Data media platform that makes a difference for your customer journey.
Inspired? Get in touch via oracle.com/goto/media and oracle.com/bigdata


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Someone who is very cool and well-dressed.
Mah man Antonius is always duggy around dem bitches!
by staccato brainstem February 16, 2005
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A state of freshness in which one is recognized by others as being the shit.
Yo did you see Marcus today? He always walks out the house looking duggy.
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a haircut
Adam loved Emily's new duggy when they met for the first time in Florida.
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My Duggy Is Pimp
My Duggy Is Gansta
My Duggy Is Gansta
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A personal favorite or obsession. Similar to saying you "dig" something.
Man, I love BLT sandwiches. They are my duggy.
I don't care what you like. Cold beer and baloney is my special duggy when I watch football.
I don't care what you like. Cold beer and baloney is my special duggy when I watch football.
by adamogron October 22, 2008
back shots with your own prefered dance. While your hommies videotape your performance.
i went over to my girls crib and pulled the duggy on her all night long.
by P P D D February 21, 2004
A person who pretends to hit someone but instead uses it as an excuse to grab thier dicks.
Man that alex is such a duggy.HE JUST GRABBED MY PENIS.
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Municipalities in the state approved just 216 permits for new housing units in November, the second fewest for any month this year, but Connecticut remains on pace for the best year it's had since 2008, according to data released Friday.
The 216 units approved last month by the 128 municipalities that report monthly data were the fewest since the 154 issued in January, according to Census Bureau data released by the state Department of Economic and Community Development.
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I've just received my new NN3II with R-D8. I'm very pleased with the design and workmanship.
I do have a problem, though. With my camera mounted, the horizontal rail pivots downwards at the point where it is mounted to the vertical rail.
It takes a great deal of tightening to hold the rail in position through a full circle series of shots. Any fiddling with camera settings is sure to cause downwards movement.
There's a thin, black plastic washer between the knob and vertical rail. It's very slick. I hope to use the bracket outdoors in our Canadian winter, where plastic parts become even more slippery and brittle in the cold. I'm afraid of breaking the knob or stripping the threads.
My camera and lens together weigh under 2.5 lbs, so I'm well under the 7 lbs load limit.
I'm wondering if less slippery washer would work better. Do I need a washer that screws on to the threads as the supplied washer does? Any suggestions?