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7 Terrifying Creatures You'll Never See Coming
#3. Lonomia Caterpillars
Caterpillars? Really? Ha, don't those things turn into butterflies or some shit? Give us a break.
"Ooh, I'm a fuckin' caterpillar or whatever."
Not so fast. The Lonomia caterpillar calls South America home and is so horrible that it is considered a public health problem. Not even the above mentioned candiru can lay claim to that. So what makes the Lonomia such a scourge to humanity? Well, what from a distance seems to be another lumbering, lovable caterpillar, on very close inspection is revealed to be covered with venomous spines.
When the spines make contact with human skin, the immediate symptoms are a burning sensation, headache and nausea, much like the effects of a one night stand in Vegas. This could be followed some time later by internal hemorrag... hemmorag... internal bleeding. This includes hematuria, which we think is Latin for "blood in urine" and ecchymosis which is essentially bleeding under your skin. The venom contains several toxins that affect the clotting ability of your blood and can, in extreme cases, damage your kidneys.
Actual victim.
Though it seems that things couldn't get much worse, the caterpillars actually have the ability to throw their spines into the air, so you don't even have to actually make contact with the animal for it to fuck you up.
#2. Electric Torpedo Rays
Normally water and electricity don't mix. However, electric torpedo rays don't give a shit about logic and will release up to 220 volts of electricity into the water at any given moment, from their totally hidden spot on the ocean floor.
Electric rays are fairly aggressive and have been known to attack divers, so don't try to tell us that they are more scared of us than we are of them, 'cause we're terrified.
Electric impulses fired from the ray can knock a full grown adult on their ass. Amplify the shock with a conductor like salt water, mix in a lack of oxygen and you have a recipe for dead swimmer. But like every efficient murderer, the rays leave little evidence of their crimes.
The electric rays are like the hit men of the ocean. There are no confirmed fatalities contributed to the rays, but there wouldn't be (they are suspected in several unexplained deaths of divers). By the way, you may be thinking that it's pretty badass somebody named them "torpedo rays" but they weren't named after the explosive ship-killing weapons. No, the weapons were named after the fucking rays.
And if you're comforting yourself by looking at the picture up there and figuring, "Well, that's not all that well hidden. In clear water, I'd surely see that thing." Yeah, give it about one second to bury itself in the silt, and you're not going to see a damned thing.
#1. Naegleria Fowleri
The N. fowleri may not look like much--and won't look like anything at all without a microscope--but of all the creatures on the world that want us dead (and there are many more than we've mentioned here) it might be the worst of them all.
Fuck you.
This little bastard can't wait to kill you. It's preferred method? Like most good horror movies monsters: to feast on your brain until you stop living. In another strange horror movie-like twist, it apparently targets teenagers.
N. fowleri seen here attacking.
The difference is, of course, brain-eating zombies are at least visible. This amoeba, on the other hand, dwells in lakes and ponds. It sits on the bottom waiting for its victim to stir up the water enough for an attack, it then literally crawls into your brain via the nasal passage, sits and gorges itself until it is drunk on tasty gray matter and you ultimately pass away two weeks later. What an asshole.
The only symptoms of this unspeakable horror seem to initially be a headache or fever followed a few days later by hallucinations. But, of course, that's what people get for swimming in murky, amoeba-infested waters in the jungle, right?
Oh, hey, did we mention that it can turn up in your swimming pool?
And because we can't stress enough how much animals must be annihilated from the planet, check out 5 Scientific Reasons People Act Like Assholes. And check out The Galactic Empire's Official Defense Strategy in our Death Star page.
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Can anyone tell me, what is the reliability of Facebook's open graph API when publishing actions to the timeline?
- I've created a new FB iOS App
- Create a new action type "write" with custom object "blogpost" as the generic types don't work for me
- Followed every single bit of the tutorial provided by Facebook at http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/tutorial/ to conform to all the OG requirements
Publishing code:
[self.facebook requestWithGraphPath: @"me/MY_APP:write" andParams: [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithObject: @"http://blogpost.url/here" forKey: @"blogpost"] andHttpMethod: @"POST" andDelegate: self];
Following is the blogpost page head snippet conforming to the OG requirements:
<head prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns# fb: http://ogp.me/ns/fb# MY_APP: http://ogp.me/ns/fb/MY_APP#">
<title>Blogpost page</title>
<meta property="og:title" content="Blogpost page" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://url.to/the/image.png" />
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="123456790123456789" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://blogpost.url/here" />
<meta property="og:type" content="MY_APP:blogpost" />
Testing environment:
- Tested in simulator as well as the actual device
- For every request attempt, I do a fresh app starts to exclude any app's network issues.
- Every time, my request is exactly the same, with the same linked blogpost url.
- I'm using the latest iOS SDK available
- My network is perfectly reliable
- The blogposts pages are accessible and correctly contain all the requirements set by opengraph
The error responses from Facebook API vary each time:
- OAuthException: An unexpected error has occurred. Please retry your request later.
- Exception: Could not retrieve data from URL.
- Exception: Object at URL 'http://blogpost.url/here' of type 'MY_APP:blogpost' is invalid because the domain 'blogpost.url' is not allowed for the specified application id 'XXXXXXXX'. You can verify your configured 'App Domain' at https://developers.facebook.com/apps/XXXXXXX.
(NOTE: Obviously, blogpost.url is being replaced with a real existing page)
The requests success rate is somewhere around 30%.
Is it possible there're any issues on the Facebook's end? Currently, I don't feel like publishing my app in the current shape of Facebook sharing reliability.
Thank you for any feedback, help or advice.

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LAMPASAS (November 27, 2012)—It will only be a matter of months before residents begin to notice a new fire station going up in town.
The City of Lampasas, Lampasas County officials along with J Jacobs Construction will host a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday to kick off the construction of a new fire station at 1107 E. Fourth Street.
The construction company won the bid at $1,063,514 and will serve as the general contractor.
The more than $1 million city-owned two-story facility will have at least twice as many bays as at the current location, allowing two trucks to share one bay, as well as an administration office, separate sleeping areas for men and women, a kitchen, a laundry room, and a workout area.
Water and sewer lines have already been installed.
The county will share in expenses and have access to the amenities.
The public is invited to attend the groundbreaking ceremony slated for 10 a.m. on site.


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This is a bit funny. I had posted a question in June - Use of unused Schengen visa to travel to Switzerland. Based on that i travelled to Norway and faced another problem.
Here is some background:
- I have an Indian passport issued in 2005 and expiring in May 2015. Photo taken in 2005 for issuing the passport shows a very skinny version of me.
- Currently i have put a lot of weight and hence current photo v/s passport photo has significant difference mostly in fat but facial features are same.
- I have a recent photo on UK residence permit issued in 2013 - which usually helps me to use the passport at border control.
- I have travelled back and forth between UK and India for past 3 years with same difference in appearance - but never faced any problem.
This is what happened in Norway at border control:
- I provided my passport with valid schengen visa (type C - multiple entry - expiring in Oct 2014) and UK residence permit to immigration officer and he asked me few questions on my purpose travel and other basic stuff.
- Then he moved on to difference of appearance - my current appearance versus the photo in the passport. This is when the doubt started building.
- He then looked at me again and again - sideways, up, down - comparing with my UK residence permit, previous photos on visas on the passport.
- He called upon other two officers to look at my situation and everybody has same doubts about my appearance. They would look at the recent UK residence permit but again go back to passport photo and ponder what to do with me.
- I tried to build my case by providing other photographic proofs and return ticket to UK- India PAN card (has old photo of me - 2007), Indian driving licence (new photo of me - 2011), my employer id card (new photo - 2010) - but everytime they looked at new photographic evidence and ended up with my old photo in the passport.
- They constantly talked between themselves in local language (maybe Norwegian) which I could not understand at all. This went on for about one hour and still it was not over.
- The immigration officers were not rude but very amazed at the difference and were looking for some way to relate me to old photo in the passport.
- Luckily another international flight arrived at that time and all officers had to take a quick call on what to do with me.
- I was finally allowed to enter with warning to get the passport renewed asap to avoid any further issues at other countries border control in the future.
- I had my biometric information on UK residence permit which I offered them to verify against mine but they said that they dont have access to UK information and that won't work in Norway.
If you have read the question and are still with me - I would like to thank you for your patience with this question :)
I have more trip planned to Europe starting next week and that doesn't give me enough time to renew the passport. I might manage to get through other border controls similar to how I did in Norway but am worried if I get a tough border control official - I might be denied entry.
Is there any other way to prove that I am the same person that was photographed in the passport nearly 9 years ago without renewing the passport?


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BELTON (November 27, 2012)--Scott & White Thrift Store will soon have a new home on Main Street.
The shop closed its doors on E. Central Avenue to provide for more space at its new location.
On Saturday, the store will open at 2160 N. Main Street at 10 a.m. and close at 4 p.m.
After closing, the shop will reopen from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. for the annual Community Half-Price Christmas Party.
All items will be half off and free pictures with Santa will be available.
After Saturday the thrift store will open daily from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.
Proceeds benefit Scott & White hospice patients.


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Talons Custom 5.6 oz T-Shirt
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CUSTOM Gildan DryBlend™ 5.6 oz., 50/50 T-Shirt
- 5.6 oz., 50% preshrunk cotton, 50% polyester
- Gildan DryBlend™ fabric wicks moisture away from the body
- Double-needle stitching throughout
- Taped shoulder-to-shoulder
- Seamless collar
- Heat transfer label
This is a CUSTOM item, and NOT available for immediate delivery.
Order cut-off deadline is 2/17/13. No orders will be accepted after that deadline, and orders will take approximately 3 to 4 weeks from that date to ship.
Custom items are made to your specifications. Please make sure you choose exactly what you want, as these items are Non-Returnable, Non-Refundable and Non-Exchangeable.
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In Race For The Galaxy, I'm usually focused on my own cards, and only find out who wins during the scoring at the end of the game.
Is this a feature of the game — that is, is it low on interaction? Or is my strategy inadequate?
In Race For The Galaxy, I'm usually focused on my own cards, and only find out who wins during the scoring at the end of the game.
Is this a feature of the game — that is, is it low on interaction? Or is my strategy inadequate?
While low interaction is a frequent critique of the game, I think most experienced players would tell you that you're not playing the game as effectively as you could. First, I'm assuming you're playing the game without the Brink of War rules which add direct player conflict to the game. Second, a large part of the subtlety of the game is the need to very carefully make decisions about role selection - optimally, you want to balance your selection against the roles you think other players will select while avoiding selections that benefit other players more than they benefit you (in other words, you want to maximize the value/activity you achieve during a term while minimizing the value/activity of your opponents).
Another subtle point is the need to review other player's tableaus for point scoring combos - when you see someone else's combo fall into place, it's generally advisable to move the game to its end (unless of course your own combo is up and running and superior). The last tidbit that is typically overlooked is card denial. In most games of RftG, the deck will be shuffled a few times, increasing the odds that your opponents will get the chance to play rarer cards that can shift the victory point totals significantly. Holding on to cards that you intend to spend for a bit longer can mean that a useful card never sees play due to the timing of shuffles!
I think it is worth extending the answers already here,
As a big fan of RTFG, I do not think there is low or no interaction with other players. The thing is, that after the learning curve has been surpassed (it is a bit extended) you will find yourself responding to opponent actions or forcing him to do the same.
The model simply doesn't feature card taking (until extensions) nor a visible pool of card that players compete for.
As the game states, it is called Race For the Galaxy, thus you are all racing to build a better empire. To anyone reading this, if you are a new player:
Ever thought that "the game is too fast" or "I was about to play this or that card"? That's precisely the point, you shouldn't look at your hand only and devise the most point combo, but rather look at your hand and your opponent's tableu: that's the race condition right there; any advantage in developping, settling, trade, etc may give him the edge.
Finally about the takeovers, I will add that while it is true that they allow for direct interaction, they are used rarely at least in all the games I've seen, simply because there's always an alternative to them. Even if there are takeovers it doesn't happen more than 1 or twice in a 4+ players game.
The key interaction that we've found has been the timing of production and consumption roles. If your opponent is always playing the consumption roles, they're getting a bunch of extra cards and points that you aren't. Sometimes you have to play these roles a bit earlier than you would like, just to avoid getting scooped.
You can certainly place Race while in your own "bubble". Many newbies do this since they're still learning and have too many things to worry about. However, even though there's no direct or negative interaction (well, exp #2 and exp #3 add takeovers, but you can't always count on that anyways), being able to anticipate what others will call so you can leech off of them, and avoiding phases that help others, while calling phases that help you more are what separate those who win disproportionately more games vs. luck.
heck, uou can even play war games or their rough equivalent like Civilization the Board game, Small World, or Eclipse in your own bubble, but you especially want to pay attention to others here too.


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I don't know how long Jim Leyland is going to be able to keep Brennan Boesch in the number two spot in the batting order if he continues to struggle so much. But the question is, if Boesch was to be yanked, who would fill his place?
I've seen a good bit of internet chatter clamoring for Andy Dirks to get a shot, but while his .282 batting average looks good, he doesn't draw many walks and only has a .300 on-base percentage to go with it. And when you boil it down OBP is the name of the game for your top-of-the-order hitters. They're getting the most plate appearances every game, and it's their job to 'set the table' for the big power guys in the three and four slots. Other than that, though, I haven't heard many suggestions.no comments
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You don't often find interesting relief pitching prospects in the mid-to-low levels of the minor leagues, but flame throwing right-hander Bruce Rondon has gained the attention of prospect rankers. He was named one of the Tigers' top ten prospects by Baseball Prospectus (#7) and MLB.com (#6), and a top twenty prospect by FanGraphs (#14), Motor City Bengals (#15), and TigsTown (#19).
If you glance at his career strikeout numbers, it's impossible not to see the potential. Since coming to the United States from Venezuela to play baseball, Rondon has struck out 127 batters in 93.2 innings of work. That's an incredible rate of over 12 per nine innings.no comments
The 2011 Tigers finished with a 95-67 regular season record, an AL Central Division championship, and an appearance in the ALCS. Even with the loss of designated hitter Victor Martinez, the team was supposed to be even better with a full year from Doug Fister and the addition of Prince Fielder.
But we're now through the first month and change, and still the Tigers find themselves with a .500 record and in a tie for second place in the division. What's wrong with the team? Why is such a loaded roster struggling to meet expectations?
There's chatter around the internet and on talk radio about Jim Leyland needing to be fired, Ryan Raburn's sub-.200 batting average, and the lack of Victor Martinez's clubhouse presence. It's true that this team has had some issues, most notably with hitting and relief pitching, but is it really time to blow everything up? Isn't our panic premature?no comments
Huh? Laird?
On the face it seems like an odd substitiution. Because (1) can Laird really be a better running option than Avila, and (2) even if that was the case, wouldn't there still have been a better option? The answers to those questions are (1) yes and (2) no.
It's true that Laird isn't known as a speed demon himself (a caller on ESPN 96.1 in Grand Rapids Wednesday dropped the never clever "Gerald LARD" nickname), his career speed score of 4.2 rates right between 'below average' and 'average', but Avila has been even worse with a 'poor' 3.3 speed rating.
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See that picture on the right? That's a screen cap of Todd Helton catching a throw from a teammate while two to three feet off the bag. The runner, Jerry Hairston, was apparently called out by umpire Tim Welke (image via FanGraphs.com).
Of course, Tigers fans aren't strangers to blown calls. The memory of Jim Joyce's blown call on what would have been the 27th and final out of Armando Galarraga's 2010 perfect game won't be easily wiped from the mind of any Detroiter*.
*A Google image search for 'Armando Galarraga' yields a handful of file photos and dozens upon dozens of pictures (from all angles) of Miguel Cabrera's throw beating Cleveland's Jason Donald by a full step.
In fairness to umpires, many safe/out plays that fans grumble about are so close that it would be impossible to get them all correct at game speed with the naked eye. But that doesn't mean that baseball shouldn't do something to correct these calls; both the grossly incorrect and the bang-bang varieties.no comments
The numbers aren't particularly flashy for Patrick Leyland: one home run, one double, and eleven singles in 46 at-bats, but the .283 batting average that the above line produces is good for third on this year's West Michigan Whitecaps team.
I don't believe that batting average tells us anything useful about a player's value at the plate, but it does, perhaps, give us an indication (in conjunction with his walk and strikeout rates) of the hitter's approach at the plate. Leyland's 2012 numbers present an interesting case. He has only been called out on strikes in 16.7% of his plate appearances, which is probably a bit below (better than) the average player. But his relatively low strikeout rate isn't necessarily a sign of great discipline because he's only drawn a single walk (2.1%).
We see a similar, though slightly different pattern if we also include his numbers from his last two years in short-season leagues (2010 in the Gulf Coast League, and 2011in the New York-Penn League). For his minor league career, Leyland has only fanned in 10.4% of his plate appearances, and walked in 4.4% of them. So, it appears as though he has tended to swing at the ball to make (any) contact instead of selecting pitches to drive. His career .253 BABIP probably supports this thought, though he's only had 339 total plate appearances.no comments


text: Our CoachesWas there a mentor, teacher or coach who made a difference in your life? The one who gave you the courage and determination to strive to be your best? The one who helped shape both your performance and your character? You can be that important person in someone else's life.Floor hockey players in South Africa gather round their coach for a strategy session before a tournament held near Johannesburg. Photo by Will Schermerhorn More Than a CoachCoaches teach the skills and spirit that define a true athlete. Coaches are role models and character-builders.Special Olympics coaches go even further -- they help athletes with intellectual disabilities find their own strengths and abilities. They also show them how to build upon those strengths and improve every day. As a Special Olympics coach, you bring enthusiasm, commitment and a positive attitude to each practice, event and competition. You will enrich the lives of our athletes in many life-changing ways. The skills and confidence an athlete learns through sports have a long and lasting effect. They can help an athlete succeed in school or even find a job.Coaches also get a lot in return. They get to know athletes who inspire -- athletes who are brave and determined, despite the odds against them. Coaches become more than teachers, mentors and role models -- they are seen as leaders in the community. Coaching ExcellenceSpecial Olympics is committed to Coaching Excellence -- because it benefits both coaches and athletes at the same time. In a supportive learning environment, coaches work to enhance athletes' sport techniques, tactics and fitness.One of our top Coaching Excellence goals calls for ongoing coaches' education; this includes partnering with sports organizations to provide the highest and most up-to-date level of coaching knowledge. Coaching Excellence education helps our coaches better recognize each athlete's potential. It also comes into play as we increase training and competition opportunities so that each athlete can reach -- or exceed -- their personal best.As you can see, the focus and commitment is on the athletes. In this way, appropriate training helps coaches provide the best opportunities and experiences for athletes -- at every developmental level -- to reach their maximum potential. Our coaches aim high and take pride in their athletes' achievements, which can often be life-changing moments. In the words of Annette Lynch, senior manager of Sports Partnerships, Special Olympics North America: "If better is possible, good is not enough." About Intellectual DisabilitySpecial Olympics is a global movement of people who want to improve the lives of people with intellectual disabilities. But what are intellectual disabilities? Learn MoreCoaches Who Inspire -- and Are InspiredBringing Out the Best. Special Olympics coaches play an important role in the lives of Special Olympics athletes. Our coaches give Special Olympics athletes the chance to reach his or her potential --and find their dreams. At the same time, something special can happen. For Mike Cohen, the surprise came after he began coaching young men with intellectual disabilities who loved basketball. With his training and guidance, the team grew in skill and confidence. They soon began competing against other Special Olympics teams throughout Florida. Soon, their classmates and neighborhood began to follow their games. For the first time, the young men were valued and praised in their community. Coach Cohen expected Special Olympics to give purpose to these young men. But he didn't expect to be transformed himself – by their courage and commitment. He also knew he had made a real difference in their lives. Now he is a key player in his local Special Olympics Program. He encourages everyone he knows to get involved.


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Most distributions provide packages for FFmpeg. The required packages for MLT compilation are:
After installation, type ffmpeg to view ffmpeg compilation parameter, which must match our parameters (read below).
If your distribution does not provide a recent version of FFmpeg, it is recommended to compile FFmpeg from git. However you must be very careful to remove your distribution packages before installing the compiled ones, or you may be in trouble. Also remove any file from the Kdenlive installation wizard if you used it.
Install the needed libraries and make sure yasm assemby code compiler is installed.
Note on Ubuntu 10.10: ffmpeg requires libx264 of at least version 1.0 which is not in the repositories yet as of Jan 2011. Please follow this guide instead to install ffmpeg with H.264 support.
Check out the ffmpeg source code from git into a new directory (called
git clone git://git.videolan.org/ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg
(If you get an error message that git cannot be found, you need to install the package
Alternatively, you can use the new Libav:
git clone git://git.libav.org/libav.git
cd libav
To configure ffmpeg with the recommended compilation flags (determine which formats can be encoded etc.):
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --enable-libmp3lame --enable-gpl --enable-libfaac --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-libfaac --enable-libxvid --enable-x11grab --enable-libgsm --enable-libx264 --enable-libtheora --enable-libdc1394 --enable-nonfree --disable-stripping --enable-avfilter --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-version3
It is possible that you get some error messages here, like ERROR: libopencore_amrwb not found. In this case check whether the according library is really installed. If you cannot install it, delete the flag (in this case it would be
--enable-libopencore-amrwb) from the above command and execute it again.
To compile and install ffmpeg, execute the following commands (still from the same directory):
make -j3
sudo make install
Compiling will take some time (possibly several minutes). After ffmpeg is installed you are ready to continue with MLT or, if desired, frei0r.
After some days/weeks you want to update your self-compiled copy of ffmpeg. To do so, first update the source code by running:
cd ffmpeg
git pull
Then run
make clean
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MARTINS FERRY - The city and state are responding to recent traffic accidents at hazardous intersections along Route 7.
Mayor Paul Riethmiller said the Ohio Department of Transportation was currently conducting a 90-day study of the intersection determining if a red arrow could be installed in place of a solid green arrow. If ODOT approves, the change could take place in May. He said a clear signal for motorists would have an effect on the crashes.
"That will fix most of the accidents," he said, noting that recent accidents have been caused by speeding vehicles rear-ending the cars in front of them.
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THIS?FEBRUARY?accident on Ohio 7 near the?Hanover St. intersection in Martins Ferry was the worst of the numerous accidents recently at the troublesome spot.
In a recent council meeting Service Director Charles Bennett Jr. reported on a recent meeting with ODOT and the railway company pertaining to work that is expected to take place in 2016 to increase safety.
"We will hope the Main safety improvements would occur sooner, but after attending I do not have much hope in an earlier date. Already we have had three more accidents on Route 7," he said.
Police Chief John McFarland noted that the police department has increased patrols in the hazard areas to encourage motorists to slow down. He added that the most recent accidents were speed related or caused by driver inattention and failure to yield to oncoming traffic.
"Hopefully with the police presence down there, those people will be a little more cautions in the way that the travel," McFarland said, agreeing that a change in the traffic light would be valuable.
"I'm really pushing for them to change the light configuration at Hanover Street."
He said the traffic light's green arrow gives traffic the right of way to turn into the northbound lane of Route 7. When the arrow disengages and leaves only a solid green light, motorists must yield to southbound traffic.
"A lot of accidents are caused by not yielding, making a left hand turn and getting hit," he said.
He added that the city is awaiting the results of the ODOT study.
"I understand they have to go through their proper steps up there in order to do get things done. In the meantime we're having major traffic accidents in town," he said. "We prefer that would end sooner than later."
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|Peter M. Gioia, vice president and economist with the Connecticut Business & Industry Association, discusses the results of the 2012 survey of northwest Connecticut businesses during an event Thursday morning in Harwinton. Nancy DePocol, Northest Connecticut Chamber
HARWINTON -- Nine out of 10 respondents to a survey of businesses in northwest Connecticut said they are concerned or extremely concerned about the state's fiscal situation and budget deficit, and two-thirds say those concerns have affected their long-term business decisions.
Those were just two of the key findings in the biennial survey conducted by the Northwest Connecticut Chamber of Commerce and the Connecticut Business & Industry Association. The survey results were released during a breakfast event attended by more than 100 people Thursday at the Fairview Farm Golf Course & Banquet Facility at 300 Hill Road.
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Beverly A. Bednasek is the TOPS Kansas Coordinator.
1. Can you tell us about the Take Off Pounds Sensibly group and what they do?
TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) is the short name for TOPS Club, Inc., the original nonprofit, noncommercial network of weight-loss support groups. TOPS offers tools and programs for healthy living and weight management, with exceptional group fellowship and recognition.
TOPS' mission is to support our members as they take off and keep off pounds sensibly.
Almost 170,000 members (women, men, children) make up nearly 10,000 chapters worldwide. Weekly meetings include private weigh-ins and professionally prepared, informational chapter programs, featuring up-to-date information on nutrition, exercise and healthy life - styles. Programs provide positive reinforcement and motivation to adhere to food and exercise programs.
KOPS: (Keep Off Pounds Sensibly) Goal weight is set in consultation with a member's health- care professional. When TOPS members reach their weight-loss goal, they are called KOPS.
These members are maintaining their weight, continuing to attend chapter meetings for account- ability and support as they Keep Off Pounds Sensibly. About 25,000 of our members are keeping their weight off, and many have been recognized with Century Awards for losing over 100 pounds!
The local chapter meets on Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. at the St. Paul Lutheran Church, basement, 311 North 7th St., Leavenworth, Kan. If you have questions, please feel free to call Cindy at 816-858-4201. If you have further questions, or would like a new chapter time, call Beverly Bednasek, 316-755-1055.
2. How many support groups are there in Kansas and is there one in Leavenworth?
Over 175 groups in Kansas-Only one in Leavenworth and wanting to form other group there.
3. How much is a membership and what is included when someone signs up to be a member of TOPS? The cost for annual membership is $28. They receive a new member book, "My Day One" which is a "Ready. Set. Go Guide for Healthy Eating." Also, member receive a monthly "TOPS News" which has healthy articles, recipes, and inspirational messages and recognition type articles.
4. When and where are the meetings in Leavenworth and what is a typical meeting like?
There is a weekly weigh in, and a meeting, which includes, incentives for that weigh in loss, educational program and recognition and fun! Support is a relevant part of our groups.
5. Many people make it their New Year's resolution to lose weight. What would you advise people who ask you the best way to accomplish that goal?
- It would be to focus their goal to become healthier and make it important to them by doing the following:
- Set reasonable weekly goals of 1to 2 pounds.
- Always eat healthy breakfast such as cereal and fruit
- Reduce meal serving sizes for meats to 3 to 4 ounces
- Increase serving sizes of vegetables and fruits
- Incorporate healthy snacks into daily plan
- Reduce Soda consumption and increase water intake
- Limit fast food meals
- Use smaller plates at meal time
- Broil or grill food instead of frying
- Allow yourself to have a small treat periodically reduce craving
- Incorporate some exercise into daily plan. Walking is a good start.
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Detroit snapped back into winter last night, with over ten inches of snow and temperatures in the teens. None of which stopped one Honda S2000 owner from making a top-down commute.
Caught by a number of Jalopnik tipsters, this sporting fellow — whose ambitions run to a personalized "NURBURG" Michigan plate — made the drive on northbound I-75 through downtown Detroit this morning. Everything about these pictures just raises more questions: why take a lightweight roadster out on such a day at all? It's a living rebuke to every mother who ever told their son to put a hat on before going outside under threat of dying from exposure.
Fortunately, one photo caught by Doug on the MTRCTY blog gives us a strong hint about how a Germanic-friendly Honda owner might enjoy such a cruise, from the sticker on his wind splitter.
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Surf's (way) up
Surfing primer offers fresh perspectives on the sport
By Tim Pompey 03/28/2013
A Deeper Shade of Blue
Directed by Jack McCoy
Starring: 100 years' worth of surfers and their boards
Rated PG-13
1 hr.30 mins.
Having grown up in Tennessee, there were two things entirely foreign to me as a boy: hockey and surfing. Hockey I could fathom. It's a game like football or baseball. But surfing was as distant and strange as moonwalking.
It still remains that way for me, but my fascination and admiration have grown for those who have the power to stand on the water and fly like the wind. Honestly, I don't know how they do it. It's a supreme gift that has completely bypassed my arms and legs. So I'm content to watch from the shore; and when a surf film pops up, I'm there as well, cheering from my seat.
I understand that surf aficionados may view surf movies the same way some people pride themselves on tasting wine. I'm not that educated; but from my point of view, if you have any interest in the origin of surfing, A Deeper Shade of Blue is worth viewing because it shows how surfing began and how the surfboard has evolved from the wooden planks of the 18th century Hawaiians to today's sleek hybrid models. In other words, it's a good surf primer.
Directed by surf film legend Jack McCoy, A Deeper Shade pulls its diverse elements into what I would call a good tight shot and reveals precisely how those cameras get such great angles on surfers as they're squeezed inside narrow tubes of water. If you want to be as close to a wave as you can get from your chair, this is the film to watch.
Furthermore, A Deeper Shade is unique because it watches surfers from both above and below water. What most people tend to focus on is the wave's break. McCoy and his photographic crew shoot waves and riders from multiple angles, the most fascinating being underwater shots that look up at surfer and wave. While the wave's power is on top, the real beauty exists underneath as board and rider cut through. It's a world tranquil yet vibrant with motion.
McCoy also focuses on the high level of creativity that has affected the development of the board as an instrument of grace and speed. And this leads to perhaps his most insightful observation: Surfers are creative and innovative thinkers who have deliberately separated from their larger culture to become united with the water. They're as committed to their calling as any priest and perhaps more thoughtful about life and nature.
What's more, in this film, McCoy explains how surfing is really about individual expression and art. Surfers creatively explore moves the way a dancer might choreograph a piece of music. The wave is the inspiration. The board is the connector. The surfer as an artist seeks to highlight that wave, perhaps give it a unique kind of life.
Maybe surf history isn't your bag. Maybe you think that a surf movie should mainly be focused on the surfer's flight. But A Deeper Shade doesn't feel like a history movie because its history is tied so closely to that flight. Traveling from Hawaii to Malibu to Tahiti to South Africa to Tasmania, it only seems natural that as you follow these surfers, you learn about the minds and bodies behind surfing. It all fits like feet to a board.
And that, according to McCoy, is what surfing is all about. One generation to another, from ancient Hawaiians to young Tasmanians, they all recognize how they're joined to each other and to the water.
No wonder, being a weighed-down landlubber, that I can't take my eyes off the screen. Seeing this group of surfers, the most inspiring part of this film is that, just like these superhuman speed demons on boards, when I watch them glide like birds, I really want to fly.
The surf documentary A Deeper Shade of Blue will be showing for one night only, March 28, 7:30 p.m., at the Century 16 Theater in Oxnard.
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I want to create a smart way to execute a SQL script when rolling out DB changes into QA, UAT and production environments in order to smoke test database changes are correct after maintenance has been completed.
What's the best way to do this?
For now I am running multiple such SQL selects to do a visual compare of existing DB values to expected values. Here is my code:
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Charlotte softball team displayed an amazing offensive effort and picked up a pair of wins against Gardner-Webb in a doubleheader at the D.L. Phillips Complex, Friday evening.
Charlotte (11-7 overall) rallied from behind to win game one 7-3. The Niners defeated the Runnin' Bulldogs (3-10) 10-2 in five innings in game two.
After trailing 2-1 in the opening game, Charlotte took a 7-2 lead in the fifth inning where it recorded four of its six hits.
Rookie Courtney Carroll led off the inning with a single to right field. Samantha Slade reached on a fielder's choice and Jessica Plemmons loaded the bases after being hit by a pitch. Briana Gwaltney singled to left field to tie the game 2-2. Gardner-Webb recorded the first out after Chelsea Ingersoll reached on a fielder's choice and Slade was thrown out at home. The same play occurred on the next at-bat as Lang got to first on a fielder's choice and Plemmons was out at the plate. But that didn't stop the Niners' rally. With two outs, Chelsea Stamey hit a double to right center to bring in two runs, giving Charlotte the 4-2 edge.
But it was Lindsey Holloman that highlighted the rally with her second career homer over the centerfield fence to give Charlotte the 7-2 lead. Ironically, Holloman's first home run was recorded in 2010 against Gardner-Webb.
The Runnin' Bulldogs posted a run in the sixth but never threatened Charlotte's lead. Gardner-Webb finished with ten hits.
Offensively, Charlotte was led by Carroll who was 2-for-3 with a run and RBI. Holloman was 1-for-2 with a run and a game-high three RBIs.
Katie Watkins went the distance and improved to 6-6 in the circle. She finished with a game-high seven strikeouts.
Charlotte didn't lose an ounce of its momentum in the second game and seized an 8-0 lead off ten hits in the first inning. Gardner-Webb recorded two runs in the second to cut the lead to 8-2 but the 49ers scored two runs in the fifth to end the game. Chelsea Lisikatos led off the inning with a double to left field and would advance to third on a passed ball. Carroll drew a walk and moved to second off a GWU error, allowing Lisikatos to score. Plemmons was the closing act for the Niners and crushed a walk-off double to left center to end the game.
The 49ers tallied 14 hits as six players recorded a multiple hit game. Slade, Plemmons, Gwaltney, Lang, Holloman, and Lisikatos finished with two hits each. Gwaltney recorded a game-high three RBIs.
Lisikatos improved to 4-0 in the circle and finished with a game-leading four strikeouts.
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Best way to promote in Youtube
Yes it has worked for many for creating a video about something and have powered by YourSite
Through Youtube you can generate good traffic provided your video has captured good video and interesting
Yeah but i think youtube is one of those places where is all about quality . No need for a big quantity of useless things because people just won't visit your site...
Youtube is known for totally video site. So you can create video which can express to people about your business,company and product. Provide some text also in video so that people can understand. And try to present in such a way that all likes your video.
Video promotion is really effective for your products and services.


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Beats apparently wants to end their partnership with HTC
It seems that HTC's struggles aren't there only worries. According to the Wall Street Journal, Beats Electronics is looking towards ending their partnership with the struggling smartphone maker, which still owns 25% of the company.
According to new reports surfacing from the Wall Street Journal, sources close to the matter has said that Beats Electronics is looking to buy back the remaining 25% stake that HTC has in the company, which was halved from 50% just last year. Apparently Beats is trying to scramble enough cash to buy back HTC's 25% stake in the company, just over two years after the companies announced their partnership which totalled $300 million and gave HTC devices exclusive Beats Audio hardware and enhancements. If the deal goes through, Beats will be able to partner up with any mobile manufacturer they want, and HTC is likely to lose an important feature in their devices.
HTC has recently launched a $1 billion marketing campaign in partnership with film star, Robert Downey Jr., while launching their latest comeback attempt.


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Because New York University has ten undergraduate school options, students who decide to change their academic paths, say from philosophy to teaching, can do so by transferring to another school within the University. Current undergraduate students who wish to transfer to another school within NYU must complete an application. Students in the Liberal Studies Program normally complete their bachelor's degrees in the NYU school to which they originally applied. LS students who wish to complete their degrees in a school to which they did not originally apply should consult with their advisors to determine their eligibility. For more information on internal transfers, see the Undergraduate Admissions website.


text: OK, has anyone seen Super 8? I need an objective review of this movie before I decide to drop the cash to go see it. My wife and I tried to view the remake of War of the Worlds, and found the kids so irritating, we sent the Netflix back before finishing it. Now we have another science fiction movie by JJ Abrams, but done in homage to Spielberg, so is it worth watching? Will it be a worthwhile science fiction film, or will it be full of whiny children like WOTW was?


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Cirilia took some intriguing shots at our recent Knitbits photo shoot.
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Great pictures! Love love love the curlers! Where is that beautiful location you used? Lovely gardens and buildings!
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Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your blog. Also, I look forward to getting my "KnitBits" every Friday!! Please don' t stop them. Nora and Cirilia are just meant to be together and I can't wait to see what you two have in store for me each week. Thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy work weeks to share with us.
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I'm guessing Slater Mills in Pawtucket, RI, was the photo shoot site. Thanks–these were fun to see.August 4, 2009


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It takes a team
How physician subspecialists come together to tackle a dangerous, deadly cancer
It was an impressive sight: a lineup of five physicians—each representing a different subspecialty—medical oncology, gastroenterology, radiation oncology, surgical oncology, and radiology. The group was fielding questions from the audience at DHMC's 2nd Annual Pancreas Education Day.
In response to one question, Timothy Gardner, MD, Gastroenterology, said "I wish someone from pathology was here."
Audience members then realized: this wasn't the full roster of the doctors on the all-star pancreatic cancer team. Dr. Ira Byock, a palliative care specialist, and Jeannine Mills, a clinical dietitian at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, sat in the wings waiting to speak. In addition to pathologists, nurses, social workers and genetic counselors are also members of the team that meets weekly to formulate an aggressive treatment strategy for every patient.
"I am overwhelmed that you are all standing here in front of me," said one participant who had raised her hand to ask a question, "and blown away that you all come together and talk so frequently."
Pancreatic cancer treatment managed by a team of doctors
Physicians call this all-star team a "tumor board." Every week more than 13 different tumor boards meet at Norris Cotton Cancer Center, each with more than a half dozen different medical subspecialists at the table.
As physician after physician stood up to discuss his role in the team, it became clear how and why they work so closely together.
- The radiologist does the medical imaging and provides a comprehensive map of where the tumor is and what organs, blood vessels, or nerves it has invaded.
- A medical oncologist delivers chemotherapy to shrink the tumor.
- A radiation oncologist uses x-ray breams to zap the tumor from all directions so they cancer cells die when they try to divide or grow.
Pancreatic tumors targeted with novel approach at DHMC
The physicians call this approach neoadjuvant treatment. It refers to care that occurs before surgery. This approach has been studied and developed here at DHMC, proving to be more successful in treating pancreatic cancer. Since pancreatic tumors can wrap themselves around blood vessels and organs, the strategy is to pull the tumor away from these vital systems with chemotherapy and radiation before operating.
Pancreatic surgery: a complicated but promising treatment
"Removing all the cancer surgically is the only cure for pancreatic cancer," said Thomas Colacchio, MD, surgical oncologist. "But it is a big surgery with long recovery and lots of complications. It's a place that is hard to get to and the pancreas can't be lifted and mobilized in surgery like other organs."
Colacchio reinforced the need for neoadjuvant treatment. "When I am operating tumor cells break off and spread in the body. Neoadjuvant treatment is killing 60, 80, 90 or 100 percent of cancer cells before surgery minimizing any dissemination."
Not all pancreatic cancer patients are suitable for surgery. Age and health are two factors. Where and how the cancer has spread also determines if it is operable. But Colacchio says neoadjuvant therapy helps more people become candidates for surgery, even those in later life.
Complications for pancreatic cancer surgery are about 30-40%, but decreasing in severity over the last few decades. Only 1-3% of patients who undergo the procedure die from the complications. Common complications are anastomotic leak, pancreatic fistula, or delayed gastric emptying.
Given the complexity of the pancreatic cancer surgery and the risk of complications, Colacchio recommends "it be performed at institutions with adequate experience and it should be combined with adjuvant chemo-radiation, ideally in the setting of a clinical trial."
One way he said patients can judge an institution's experience is to ask how many pancreatic cancer resections they do in a year. "You want to find a place that does 20-25 of them safely a year. At DHMC, we do 75-100 per year," said Colacchio.
Risk factors for pancreatic cancer
There aren't any screening tests for pancreatic cancer. Risk factors for the disease include:
- cigarette smoking
- long-standing diabetes
- pancreatitis
- over 50 years of age
- and potentially the Hepatitis B virus
The tendency toward developing pancreatic cancer can also be inherited. Those with a family history should talk to their doctor about their risk or visit the familial cancer clinic at Norris Cotton Cancer Center.
Warming signs of pancreatic cancer
The signs and symptoms of pancreatic cancer include:
- pain
- jaundice
- light colored stool
- dark colored urine
- loss of appetite, weight loss
- blood clots, bleeding
Unfortunately, most of those diagnosed with the disease have had pancreatic cancer for six months before it was detected.
March 25, 2013
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Assume that there are several geographical regions and within each region there may be many buildings. Buildings may or may not be created and destroyed from time to time hence the requirement to capture the total building area at a point in time (i.e., month).
I want to write the following in shorthand notation if possible.
Sum of the area of all buildings within a region that existed for a given month.
More generally I frequently need to describe various summations across sets of data (building areas, building energy consumption, etc) where the set is not a set of integers but a set of objects constrained by another set.
Is there a clear and succinct way to describe this mathematically and not through prose?


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If I buy it, I'll be using it on a D300 or D300s. I would love the budget to stretch for the Sigma 8mm but it won't and if I don't need the Nikkor 10.5 then I 'll save my money.
My main question relates to its use versus say a Tamron 11-18 to capture images for 360x180 panos. Is it going to be easier from a stitching perspective to use images from the fisheye rather than the Tamron irrespective of the number of images and which is going to give the best results.
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Unanswered: Grouped Grid Grouping "Fake/Non-Existing Records"
Ok I am facing another dilemma with my web application that might not even be solvable like that.
Basically what I am using a grid that can have entries for categories. The grid is grouped by categories always and can not be ungrouped.
In the group header I have an add button that leads to a creation dialog of an item for that category.
All of that works fine the problem is that I need to display all of these categories at all times even if there is no actual record in the grid yet because the user has to be able to see the header, see there is nothing grouped there so no record exists and use the add button to create one of those records.
What I do is I create one fake entry with just the category to get the group header for that category. My problem is now that I somehow need to hide the row and remove the expand/collapse functionality from all those group headers that do not include a valid record.
Right now I can't figure out any way to do this. I am 90% to where I want to get with the widget but it seems like I need to solve this with maybe a VBox Layout and for each category its own collapsible Grid?
This is my current look. In this example there are just fake entries but there could be valid entries too. My goal is that the groups with fake entries are collapsed automatically and can not be expanded while the groups that contain valid entries should be as it is now.
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So you have a group with no records so you have a fake one to show the group... when you click add and the form is saved and that record is then created... what you should do is see if there is that fake record and remove it from the Store. To stop group collapsing/expanding, you need to override onGroupClick of the Grouping feature to add additional logic.Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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25 Nov 2011 10:37 AM #3
well yes the thing is how would I iterate over the grouped headers to collapse them or expand them, my problem is I dont know how to access the groups to set properties appropriately and style.
Overriding the expansion even for certain groups is just one of my problems. I don't want to disable the event for the entire grid, only for those grouped records that have only a stub record. I also want to hide the collapse icon if the even is disabled.
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I re-worked my entire code now so that instead of using one grid and grouping records appropriately and then possibly having to iterate over the groups and making changes to events for each group and state I put a vbox layout panel in the center instead of the one grid.
The vbox panel now holds a dynamic number of grids for each category so I can comfortably iterate over the grids and records to set the properties as I need them on certain events.


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Managed Iframe events + Auto height
We are using ManagedIframe in our application . The frameEvents like resize(), documentOnReady() are being triggered the first time when the form loads , but fail to trigger when the form(in the iframe) gets submitted.
Is there any way to set the Managed Iframe height auto ?
We need to capture these events as we do not want scroll bars to be appearing in the iframe.
Did anyone experience this ? Any alternatives to get over this issue. Kindly let me know.
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- Sysadmin group has been rebooted as a sysadmin class, this week was user permissions and next week is xorg. 3-430 in turing, 6-7 in church.
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Does a keyboard specifically designed for mathematics exist (with all the common symbols and greek letters) ?
Would you buy one and why ?
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Does a keyboard specifically designed for mathematics exist (with all the common symbols and greek letters) ?
Would you buy one and why ?
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One almost existed. The program I use to write TeX has several "keyboards". For example, typing Ctrl-g switches to the Greek "keyboard" and then "a" puts "\alpha" in your file; typing Ctrl-s and then "a" puts "\angle" in your file. At one time, the owners of the program were planning to produce a keyboard with the property that the symbol on the keyboard would change when you switched keyboards. So when you typed Ctrl-g, you would see $\alpha$ on the "a" key (I think they were planning to use LEDs). It was certainly an interesting idea, but, no, I wouldn't buy such a thing --- like most people here, I touch-type, and prefer to enter everything with a sequence of normal characters.
There used to be a number of specialized keyboards for APL fans - like the Unicomp keyboard, which comes 'closer' than usual keyboards. Or you could always re-program this keyboard to your heart's content!
I don't know the answer to your first question, but I probably would not buy one, should one exist. (There are programmable keyboards, of course.)
A quick glance at the unicode provision for mathematical symbols (e.g., here) shows that there are too many of them to fit on a standard keyboard with 100-odd keys, even with modifiers.
This is similar, though not perhaps as severe, to the problem of trying to write in Japanese using either kanji or kana on a keyboard. (Same problem in Chinese, of course -- it's just that I've more familiarity with Japanese.) The solution there is not to have a huge keyboard with lots of symbols, but for the software to do the work. All one would need is an input system for mathematics. For me, although I concede it is not optimal, this is TeX. (In fact, TeX is recognised as an input system in Emacs.)
Any keyboard is reprogrammable to your heart's content (assuming you're using a decent operating system). When typing a LaTeX document, I reprogram my keyboard so that the backslash is in place of the semi-colon, the numbers and shift-numbers are swapped, and a few other optimisations. I did this because typing LaTeX with an ordinary keyboard was causing me some pain in my fingers and doing this adjustment fixed it.
Something interesting to do is to count occurrences of characters in your documents. For example, in my latest paper, the top four characters are:
The total number of numbers used was 766. So making the numbers harder to type doesn't mean too much extra stretching, and putting the backslash somewhere easy to reach saves a lot of effort.
(Added in edit): A little while after this question was asked, the site http://tex.stackexchance.com came into being. A very similar question was asked there and I gave a rather more detailed answer there than I did here. Here's a direct link to my answer there.
(Thanks to Peter for reminding me of this and suggesting I link the two.)
If you are using Windows, you can use the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator tool to make your own layout; you will need administrator access to install it, however, and then you will have to switch to it.
As you noticed, however, no layout can cover the entire range of unicode characters.
What I have done is create an AutoHotKey script like this:
I would share the whole list of bindings I've written, but it really is an inelegant, ugly kludge. However, it might do the trick for you.
If you aren't using Windows, this approach should still be available to you through other software. However, I've already used all of my link allowance. :)
If one is using Linux, one can set up compose sequences to have access to a large number of mathematical symbols. If one is using Windows, one can simulate this using a freeware application called "allchars". If one is using a Macintosh, one should be able to do something similar, but as I don't regularly use such a computer, I do not know if a third-party application is necessary.
Does an APL keyboard (e.g., http://www.aplusdev.org/keyboard.html) qualify?
All keyboards are more or less the same, the only difference is in the symbols printed on the keys. Hence the question is really about math keyboard layouts.
My keyboard layout has a lot of math symbols and use them every time I type math. Some examples (typed using my keyboard layout!): α β Γ Δ ψ Ψ (all greek letters are included), ≤ ≥ ⊗ → ∈ ∞ ↦ ≠ 〈 〉 ⊂ ⊃ ⊆ ⊇ ≅ ≃
TeX has about 230 math symbols (including Greek letters). You can easily encode them all, but my keyboard layout has only about 50 most commonly used symbols and 24*2=48 Greek letters.
And note that you can easily setup TeX to recognize Unicode math symbols in UTF-8 encoding.
Incidentally, I also have commonly used punctuation marks that are absent from ASCII: " " ' ' – — …
If you are using the TeX-Editor WinEdt you can do the following:
Go to Options->Settings->Translations->Keyboard. You you can completely customize your keyboard. For example I use ";" -> "$" in order to type the dollar symbol more conveniently.
Optimus Maximus [1] can become just what you need.
Might be a nice touchscreen app, even for a fairly small touchscreen device like an Android phone. Most text typing would be on the computer's normal keyboard, but symbols could be entered on a "virtual" touchscreen keyboard. The software would be set up so that you could type both keyboards simultaneously without having to mouse around and so forth. Hmm, maybe I'll try implementing this.
A German group developed a new keyboard layout, called neo (similar to the Dvorak layout), which is optimized for German words, but also for English.
This layout has six layers; layer 5 is for Greek chars and layer 6 is for math symbols.
You can check their website: http://www.neo-layout.org (in German; you can also consider the English translation of the site by Google).
My maths is just high school level. I want to propose a mathematics keyboard for high school level.
The key arrangement is a bit liked the old cell phones:
[abc]one key [fgh]one key[ijk] [lmn] [pqr] [rst] [uvw] [xyzw] [e $\pi$] [cosh sinh] [tanh sech] [coth csch] [cos sin] [tan sec] [cot csc] $[\Sigma\int\Pi]$ [CP!] [<=>] $[\rightarrow\cdot']$
+ number pad
I would liked to try this keyboard.
I actually have an onscreen keyboard that has these layouts. Here you can find a bunch of layouts, the one called "Special" has Greek, and as many math symbols as I could stuff in, using shift, ctrl, and combinations.
∩∈⊂⊆∼≃≅≈≊× = ∃∄ℯℜ √∐ℹℴ℘∣∥≡ ∀⅀∂ℱℏℌ∫∮ℓ°∞ ℤ∠∁∇ℬℕℳ<> ≌≐≝⋍ ℚ ℰℛ∜ ℑ∅ℿ ℵℋ∭∰∱∲ ⊕⊗⊢⊣⊤⊥⊨⊩⊬ ∪∉⊄⊈≁≄≇≉≉≠ ℇ∛ ℐ∅ℙ∤∤∦≢ ∆ℾℍ∬∯ℒ∙∝ ≥≰≱≮≯
Can use it on the web.
I don't care that I can't actually touch-type all those keys; as long as all the mathematical keys, Greek letters and European accents are somewhere on my desk, that's good enough. I want to be able to press it, not fiddle around in software to insert my characters.
I think it'd be best as an extra keyboard just with these characters, rather than a replacement for QWERTY. Is it possible to have 2 keyboards like this? I'd definitely buy one
For the record, I do NOT find this question off-topic.
Math is moving away from the pen and paper (or chalk and chalkboard) days. Computers are everywhere, and, unlike days of old when computers were notoriously BAD at math, modern languages, such as Python, have built in representations of fractions, complex numbers, positive and negative infinity, etc.
Matrices and vectors, for example, are used in everything from the latest shoot-em-up to bank transactions, to simulation software and drawing programs.
It is about time that we had a real solution for entering and working with real equations on a computer, rather than having to slog it out with --> area = (PI * (r^2)).
Would I buy a keyboard that had all the standard mathematical symbols built into it?
And while, yes, I am aware that I can remap a standard keyboard, and while yes, I touch type... some of these symbols would be used often enough to want on the keyboard, yet rarely enough to have no idea where you put them. (Where the %&@# did I put phi? CTRL-P? Bah, PI... Alt P? Rho? Whats that doing there?)... a quick look down on the proper keyboard could solve this easily.
And yes... I came to this board after doing a Google search for just such a beast... if this question had not been asked here, I never would have wandered to your site.


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A dancing arcade game made by the Korean Company Andamiro after they saw Dance Dance Revolution and decided that it would be cool to make a similar version, but instead of the cardinal directions as dance steps, they made their dance pad with diagonal directions and a center step. While in Dance Dance Revolution, the steps on the screen are coloured differently if they are on the beat, the off beat, or eighth notes, Pump it Up has the upper two steps as orange, the lower two as blue, and the center as yellow.
I have nothing against Pump it Up, but i played Dance Dance Revolution before I started Pump it Up, so it was a little difficult for me. I enjoy playing both, with DDR because I can do the awesome really hard songs, and Pump it Up because the Korean and Banya songs are just kick-ass.
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Pump It Up is a Korean Dance simulation game made by Andamiro, and it was actually created before Dance Dance Revolution. There was a huge legal dispute when Konami brought DDR to the US and Andamiro wanted to bring Pump here, but whatever they're bother here now. They both kick ass, and have their hight and lows. Any DDR player who says Pump sucks is a jackass. Any Pump player who says DDR sucks is a jackass.
I can OWN you at Pump AND DDR. So quit your bitching, fucktards.
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First of all, it's not a Japanese game. It's from Korea and it was developed by Andamiro Entertainment. It's similiar to Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) by Konami but instead of up, down, left, and right buttons, it has up-right, up-left, down-right, down-left, and center buttons. The songs are more of Pop than DDR which contains more Techno.
by Peter Kim August 25, 2003
The greastest dance game ever to grace arcades. The formula of dance smulation was created by DDR, but the gameplay, graphics, music, and presentation was perfected by Pump it Up.
"Are you into DDR?"
"Yeah, but I like Pump better."
"Yeah, but I like Pump better."
by nikkan_hanil November 19, 2003
Sweet fucking dance game. Better than DDR, because of it's corner steps instead of up/down, left/right steps. Also includes a center step.
Can often confuse an avid DDR player, making them look like an ass.
The same goes for an avid PIU player when trying out DDR. Stick to one machine.
Can often confuse an avid DDR player, making them look like an ass.
The same goes for an avid PIU player when trying out DDR. Stick to one machine.
Holy shit man! Look at Zeke on the PIU machine! Is he on crack or something?!
by Zeke May 09, 2003
A song by Joe Budden
Pump pump pump it up
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Tight song by one of rap's newest and realist gangstas.
Going to jail ain't cool, shit. Don't you listen to Regular Joe (Joe Budden)?
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