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A Strange and Wonderful World Called Las Vegas
I started off the year with two adventures rolled into one. I've never been to Las Vegas, that legendary desert oasis also known as Sin City. So what better time to go than during the city's largest tradeshow of the year.
Of course, you know I'm referring to the 2012 International CES show. This was my first CES experience and I was blown away by the latest and greatest in innovation and technology. I've heard about the show, but could never have comprehended the enormity of it without having seen it firsthand. It literally holds the city captive for five days.
Some Fun Facts of About the Show
- The International CES is the world's largest consumer technology tradeshow.
- Exhibit space at CES covers 1.7 million net square feet of space-the equivalent of more than 35 football fields.
- The show draws more than 140,000 attendees-3 times the number of slot machines on the Las Vegas Strip.
- Some 30,000 international attendees travel to CES-more than double the population of Santorini, Greece.
- By attending CES, attendees avoid 700 million miles of business travel-enough to travel from the earth to the sun seven times.
- The show recycles 122 tons of waste and has been named North America's Greenest Show.
- There are 17,135 cups of coffee sold at CES-enough coffee for one person to drink a cup a day for 47 years.
- A person walking the carpeted aisles of the CES show floor would walk almost 15 miles-and burn up to 1,500 calories.
- The average U.S. household has 24 consumer electronics products and U.S. consumer electronics industry sales exceeded $190 billion in 2011.
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Velodyne kicked off 2012 by unveiling the vPulse at this year's show. It was a huge success. And I'm not just saying that because I work at Velodyne. Just take a look at the cnet vPulse review. I was blown away by the buzz these headphones generated. Our suite at the Venetian Hotel was jam packed all week long. I have the blisters to prove it.
Although we exhibited at the Venetian, I was able to make it over to the convention center to take in some of the main floor. And it was impossible not to notice that headphones dominated the show. There is no denying that 2012 is the year of the headphone. There were headphones in every price range and style. And strong branding was the cornerstone of this market.
The other undeniable was color. Most booths were dominated by shades of primary colors, although white seemed to be popular too. A splash of clean white or pop of bright color combined with sleek industrial design brought new life to classic products.
And speaking of industrial design, some of the docking stations I saw could take center stage in an art gallery. They were truly works of art.
So, that's a quick rundown of the highlights. I'll be off to ISE 2012 in Amsterdam soon. I look forward to sharing the highlights with you, so be sure to check back in with me.
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There are a huge number of companies operating today that take care of sports betting in its many forms. Whether it's someone putting a few dollars on the big game on a Saturday afternoon, or it's a big spender putting a huge wad on the Stanley Cup final; each and every game, sport and event that you can bet on is different in some way. Even the variety between the locations in a larger series can make a difference, and an experienced gambler has spent at least an afternoon researching these differences and making sure that the money they are wagering will go on the best pick for them.
Sports betting requires a certain amount of background knowledge of the game, the competitors and the likelihood of certain outcomes, so the fan is always in the best position to tell what might happen and why it might be worth betting on. All this knowledge is compiled and from the results comes a favorite pick. It's not as easy as it looks to pick a winner and it can be made to look effortless if you know what you are doing.
There are a lot of different ways to gamble and sports betting is just one of them. Another more lucrative option is online casino gaming. Games like poker and slots have been around for years and they have been the most popular way for people to make huge jackpot wins for just as long. The demand has created dozens of different variants of each game, and there are even games dedicated to different sports, just like the recently launched ice hockey slot Break Away.
Click here to have a look at the slots selection in one online casino. As long as all of the players know the rules of the game the game can go on. There is no need for background knowledge, although knowing how to bluff your way into a big win can come in useful, and it might also be useful to know what to click to make each thing happen. This comes with time though, and outside of that there is little else that you need to know to start making the big jackpots come to you. For a sports fan a quick slots game may be a nice break from the more technical world of sports betting.


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Your baby's first year is full of rapid growth and development, which require adequate amounts of calories and nutrients. One of the first decisions parents have to make about their new child's nutrition is whether to breastfeed or bottle feed. If you decide to breastfeed, these tips and suggestions will help make this bonding experience easier on you and your baby.
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Prevalence of herbal medicine use in the UK
Numerous surveys have attempted to define the prevalence of alternative medicine use. In the UK, self-care life-time prevalence rates were much higher than practitioner only � in the region of 40�50 per cent compared with 10�30 per cent (Thomas et al. 1991, 2001; Ernst and White 2000). Thomas et al. (2001) report that over 12 months (data relative to 1998), herbal remedies accounted for 19.8 per cent of over-the-counter (OTC) transactions. Another UK survey conducted in 1999 found an overall one-year prevalence of 20 per cent and suggested that herbal medicine was more popular than any other form of alternative medicine (Ernst and White 2000) (cited in W.H.O. 2000). With the forthcoming regulation of herbal medicine in the UK and its continued integration into healthcare practices, public use is set to increase. The number of suspected adverse reactions to herbal remedies is likely to increase as a result.
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dotCommonweal Regular on CNN This Sunday
Our regular dotCommonweal contributor Rita Ferrone will be among the interviewees on a CNN special this weekend, "Pope Francis: A Man of Many Firsts." The schedule at cnn.com has it set for Sunday at 7:30 PM eastern time. If it doesn't seriously conflict with your football viewing, give it a try.
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Thanks, Tom! I'm identified as a writer for Commonweal, so you guys have a stake in how it all turns out. ;) Seriously, though, even if I didn't have a personal interest I'd recommend the program. It's a good 30 minute overview of the first six months' of Francis's papacy, with some wonderful footage of iconic moments.
Rita, how exciting for you! Now I have to figure out what channel CNN is on my television :-)
Great! But what is CNN?
CNN, Sunday, 7:30 p.m. is on my calendar.
On my cable channel lineup CNN (100) is pretty far away from FOX (118). (wink)
Helen, very cute :-). Fwiw, typically I would turn off the television rather than settle for any of the all-news stations, but I've found that CNN is less indigestible than the others (and I will certainly watch Rita). I do occasionally watch CNN in an airport when a seat is available that faces the monitor.
Great I will watch it. I am always curious as to what the people I read, discuss with, and listen to her3 actually look like! Plus I am sure the insights will be excellent!
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I am always curious as to what the people I read, discuss with, and listen to here actually look like!
Mr. D. -- Google Image is remarkably useful in this department. You will definitely find photos of someone as accomplished and notable as Ms. Ferrone.
Rita gave some really good video reports from the most recent National Association of Liturgical Musicians (NLM) convention, so I've already seen her in action! Here's a sample:
Sorry, that's NPM and National Assn of Pastoral Musicians. Sheesh, can you tell my membership lapsed a few years ago? Sorry, NPM!
Is watching football now the default American activity, what we're likely to be doing, absent evidence that we're doing something else?
And has watching football now become the gold standard by which we measure the worth of other activities ("Do your homework tonight if it doesn't seriously conflict with your Monday Night Football viewing")?
Or . . . is referencing football simply a nervous tic -- a conventional, possibly Hemingwayesque way for a male to assure everybody that he's (really) a regular guy?
In any case, it seems that viewing Ms. Ferrone is merely "worth a try" -- but not if you have something better to do. Mr. Baker's tepid recommendation is appalling.
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Dear Chuck,
Thanks for bristling on my behalf over the thought that this might be a veiled put-down rather than an endorsement. I've known Tom a long time though, and can say with confidence that it's humor (well, possibly not wanting me to get a swelled head either...). Anyway, you can rest assured there was no offense meant or taken.
Dear All,
I think I also had better mention that I am only one of several observers who were interviewed for the program. The others are: John Allen (CNN analyst and NCR blogger), Chris Belitto (who teaches church history at Kean University in New Jersey) and Cardinal Theodore McCarrick (retired archbishop of Washington DC).
Maybe once the program airs, I'll put up a post to get reactions to it. The main character, after all, is not the commenters but Pope Francis, and he's a pretty fascinating figure!
Cheers, Rita! We'll be watching.
I have no doubt that Rita is accomplished. I just feel a bit odd googling people out of just curiousity. Plus I think it is improper netiquette, at least according to my daughter. They have a name for it. It's called creeping on people's facebook (or whatever the medium) and apparently it's bad form to publicly at least, say that is what your are doing !


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OK, I know that a 45 pound bumper plates weighs the same as a 45 pound iron plate. My experience, however, is that bumpers seem to go up easier. True or myth?
If true, wondering if people have explored or exploited this idea.
OK, I know that a 45 pound bumper plates weighs the same as a 45 pound iron plate. My experience, however, is that bumpers seem to go up easier. True or myth?
If true, wondering if people have explored or exploited this idea.
I haven't experienced bumper plates feeling any lighter than iron or iron-coated-in-rubber plates. Mass is mass.
Psychological tricks
Most probably you're experiencing a psychosomatic aversion to the iron plates because you're envisioning the bill from your landlord about the floor if you have to dump the bar loaded with iron plates.
Like entrepreneurship increasing alongside universal health care, bumpers (and a proper platform) make going for tough lifts a little psychologically easier because you've got a safety net for the rare occasion when things go wrong.
Barbell rotation
The other difference I've noted is that I lift iron with my crappy old bar that doesn't rotate so well, whereas I lift bumper plates with my less-crappy, less-old bar that rotates pretty well. How smoothly the bar rotates makes for a stunning difference in the difficulty of the fast lifts.
Similarly, the size of the plate might also affect the difficulty of the lift, due to rotational inertia. If you're comparing 25-pound iron plates to 25-pound bumper plates, the shorter 25-pound iron would seem easier.
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Maybe your iron 45s are actually 50s. Maybe your bumpers that say 25 are actually 23.5. Maybe the bar you load with bumpers is 40 instead of 45--that happened to me. Take your plates and bar to the scale and be sure that they're labelled properly.
In the interests of clutching at straws: the only physical differences between plates of different density could be:
So yeah, mass is mass is a pretty adequate summary. Your plates may well actually be slightly lighter. Have you weighed them?
Assuming you have weighed the bumpers and the metal plates and found them to be the same (or at least close enough), the difference is one of perception. One way to dispel that in your mind is to hold the lockout on a deadlift as long as you can. After a few seconds or so, those bumpers will feel just as heavy as the metal plates.
Now, some people have taken to cheating with their lifts when using bumpers. This cheat is more effective with high-bounce bumpers than the more firm competition bumpers. Essentially, they start off the deadlift by pushing down on the bar first to use the elastic energy from the bumpers to help them break the bar from the ground. That is not doing anyone any favors, least of all you.
Depending on the gym you go to, not all bars will weigh the same. You may have some 35lb bars and 45lb bars. That will definitely lead to the perception that 45lbs in bumper form is not the same as 45lbs in iron. But at the end of the day a pound is a pound is a pound. Even if you had a 45lb plate made from feathers (assuming you could get the density right), it's still a 45lb plate.


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The 5 Most Absurd Uses of Product Placement Ever
Television shows cost money, and if the networks aren't being generous enough with theirs, producers need to sell out a bit and include some product placement. But some shows go the extra mile when hawking for their sponsors, directly weaving them into the storyline with all the grace and subtlety of a drunken hippopotamus.
#5. The Cast of Survivor Pretends to Enjoy an Adam Sandler Movie
Survivor is a reality show where a bunch of privileged First World folks get together and act like it's an accomplishment to be proud that they didn't die after two weeks without dental floss. For their 23rd season, Survivor: South Pacific, the producers struck a deal with, of all people, Adam Sandler. This sadly did not involve sticking Sandler alone on a desert island and starving him until he ate his own feces, but rather forcing the cast to watch his latest film, Jack and Jill. You know, the one where he dressed in drag and played his own sister, also known as the Murphy gambit.
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"Thank God we can get away from this for a few hours and watch the guy who made Little Nicky."
The show's host, Jeff Probst, insultingly passed this off as a reward for the tribe that successfully completed the day's challenge, rather than as a general punishment for all of humanity. So the winning tribe went to the Survivor: South Pacific Cinema (how did they survive with only one cinema?!) and the contestants got to sit back and absorb some of Sandler's wacky hijinks.
The captive audience really seems to enjoy the funny voices and frequent pratfalls, judging by their raucous laughter. Like this guy ...
And yet his cup looks like it came from the neighborhood deli. Coke wouldn't bite, eh, CBS?
... who is laughing uncontrollably at the scene where Sandler's Jill character appears for the first time. This is especially notable since that scene had no jokes and wasn't meant to be funny. He's laughing at the setup to a joke -- that's like cracking up when somebody says "two men walk into a bar." Why, we're starting to think something on this Survivor show might have been staged!
Wait, does that mean they never really set fire to a mass grave?
#4. The Agents of Hawaii 5-0 Want You to Bing Like They Do
Hawaii 5-0 is a reboot of the original cop drama about police officers fighting tropical crime, because fuck it -- Jin was already in Hawaii when Lost wrapped, and the most delicious meal is the one in your belly. Jin -- sorry, Officer Kelly -- is attempting to impress detective Kona Kalakaua, and does so by showing her a Popsicle tower that looks like scrambled porn.
"So, are we having Popsicles later, or is this just a big tease?"
She hears that this thing is a "Clifton Bowles original" worth $25,000, but doesn't believe it, because a museum showcasing expensive and original artwork is just the stupidest idea imaginable. Kelly then begins Phase II of Operation: Flirt Horribly by telling her to "Bing it." Shockingly, she does so, even though that phrase sounds like a guaranteed sexual harassment case to us.
What museum is still open at half after 10?
She types in "cli" and, because this is TV, "Clifton Bowles" is the one and only suggested phrase. On the phone of a woman who's never heard of the guy until 10 seconds ago. Nice try; a real Bing search for "cli" reveals far more interesting search results -- especially with safe search off.
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"Ladies ..."
Kalakaua, inexplicably impressed by the ability of a man to read the little plaque that clearly lists the title and author of every piece in a museum, says to Kelly, "Who knew you were an art connoisseur?" Why, silly girl! He's not an art expert at all. He just Binged it ... on Bing, using his Bingers ... to type in the relevant Bingformation ...
#3. Everybody on Shark Tank Worships T-Mobile
You would think a show all about creative ways to make money would itself have a creative way to make money, but nope! Shark Tank puts riesling on the mahogany table the old-fashioned way: by slapping a T-Mobile device into everyone's hands and telling them to treat it like the black monolith from 2001.
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"But don't look at it from this angle; it's terrible for your eyes."
To kick things off, a contestant announces that he has filmed several infomercials for his product and, because he just happens to have a T-Mobile phone, he can "just share it on that TV." He points the phone at the nearest TV, and the infomercial starts playing. Wow, that's almost like magic!
Magic whose main application appears to be pissing off everyone else in a sports bar.
Probably because it is. Sure, you can send videos from your phone to your TV, as long as the two are properly connected beforehand. But you can't use any old TV; it has to be a specially equipped one that can handle a T-Mobile hookup. Later on, when another contestant wants to transfer sales figures from his phone to one of the rich people's phones, he actually says, "Let me beam them to your T-Mobile device." Not "send them to you" or even "send them to your phone" -- he somehow tamps down the vomit rising in his throat and spurts out "beam them to your T-Mobile device."
"I- I said it ... please, just let my family go."
That guy stepped off camera and found that he no longer technically counted as a human being. Automatic doors no longer registered him; his breath didn't fog up glass anymore; his children kept forgetting his name, and he was doomed to wander the Earth as a formless wight, wailing about the superior coverage and peerless service of the T-Mobile company.
Another contestant takes a picture of Dallas Mavericks owner Marc Cuban. He then says he's going to "share it with the world," which Cuban asks him not to do because he hates publicity.
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After this, you should be over the whole photographic embarrassment thing, Mark.
The contestant denied Cuban's request, saying, "It's too late, baby, I got my T-Mobile superfast 4G, oh yeah!" Amazingly, he didn't spontaneously combust from the incredible amount of friction caused by his soul fleeing his body at supersonic speeds.
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With the threat of a big tax increase in January, investing in a Roth IRA now might be a good idea. Why? A Roth IRA is a source of potentially tax-free retirement income. Here are some other reasons why you might want to consider a Roth.
Before exploring that move, it's important to understand why Roth IRAs can be appealing. "That starts with the fact that qualified withdrawals of earnings are completely free from federal income tax," says Dan McNamara, president of USAA Investments. That means every dollar in your Roth can be used for retirement needs -- unlike traditional IRAs and 401(k)s, where withdrawal of earnings essentially comes with a tax bill attached.
Roth IRAs also have a few more things going for them:
There are three ways to add a Roth to your retirement mix:
Converting generally makes the most sense when you'll be in a higher tax bracket in retirement (when you need to take withdrawals from the account) than at the time of conversion. For example, if you are subject to a current 25% tax rate, consider converting to the Roth account and taking potentially tax-free distributions when you'd otherwise have to pay tax at a 28% rate.
Unless Congress acts, nearly every American faces higher tax rates starting Jan. 1. "If that happens, converting in 2012 could be cheaper than waiting until next year," says McNamara. For example, picture a married couple with $150,000 of taxable income and a $50,000 traditional IRA funded entirely by pretax contributions. If they convert their IRA in 2012, they'd pay $14,000 for the privilege. If they convert it in 2013, the same move would cost $15,500 — almost 11% more.
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Players A en B play a game. They take an empty n-by-n matrix (n > 0) and place one by one an element (say a rational number) in an unoccupied place of this matrix. Player A starts. The game ends if there is no move left. Player A wins if the matrix is invertible, player B wins if it is not. Is there, for a given n, a winning strategy for one of the two players?
It is not hard to show that for n = 3, player A can win. Also if n is even player B has a winning strategy. But what if n is odd and n > 3?


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I'm in a project were we would like users to interact with a 3D object. Users should be able to zoom, pan and rotate in all dimensions without using extra tools. I'm looking for best-practice design patterns used in other applications today. Examples of 3D applications using multi touch would be appreciated.
Zen Bound (and Zen Bound 2) is an iPad app (usually installed on the Apple Store demo machines) that involves rotating a 3d shape to bind it in a ribbon. You might track it down; it is all about fiddling with a 3d object and its interface was reasonably intuitive.
PS: don't forget zoom. It becomes really important when dealing with complex 3d objects.
PPS: Look into Google Sketchup for more examples of good 3d interaction. It's not touch-based, but their "sticky tools" approach is a major breakthrough: for example, once you start drawing a line, you can switch tools to pan and zoom and generally reposition the camera to your heart's content, and when you resume drawing a line, it is as if you never interrupted the drawing process.
The Google Earth iPhone application does everything you are interested in. Multi-touch interactiong for zooming, rotation, tilt and spin all without the need for a toolbar.


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Is there any solution for finding whole of a video using some of its snapshot or a clip of it?
If you want to search with Google, you can use searching by image in Google Images. It's possible that you will find what you are looking for, but it's not sure. I tested it now by making a screenshot of a "What if Money Was No Object - Alan Watts" video on YT and searching with this image - Google found this video. As you can see on my search results first result is the video I was looking for, but on Vimeo, not on YT. And there are also some other videos that have the same part, so the screenshot matches all of them, and there are also some not connected results, too. I think it highly depends of uniqueness of the screenshot and the video you're looking for.


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Once our remaining license keys are sold out we will no longer offer Easypano software. So buy now and take advantage of closeout savings.
This is for Pro Edition version 4 - Pro Edition v5 is now available from Easypano website for $799.95 (v4 to v5 upgrade only $200 saving you $200).
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The new rules will cut costs for diesel-generator users by $139 million a year, while reducing hazardous air pollutants, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and other pollution, the EPA said. Diesel generators emit pollution that can cause cancer and can aggravate respiratory and heart diseases.
By CASSANDRA SWEET
The US Environmental Protection Agency
issued new emission rules Tuesday for diesel generators used
for oil and natural-gas production, emergency situations and
other uses that the agency said would cut costs while reducing
air pollution.
The rules are in line with a settlement agreement the EPA
reached with EnerNOC Inc. and other companies to resolve an
appeals court challenge the companies had filed against the EPA
over an earlier version of the regulations.
Shares of EnerNoc closed Tuesday more than 25% higher at
$15.76, following release of the new rules.
The new rules will cut costs for diesel-generator users by
$139 million/year, while reducing hazardous air pollutants, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and
other pollution, the EPA said.
Diesel generators emit pollution that can cause cancer and
can aggravate respiratory and heart diseases as well as cause
neurological or other health problems, the EPA said.
EnerNOC and other providers of what are called
"demand-response" services, arrange with large electricity
users to agree in advance to cut their power use during times
of peak power demand.
Quickly removing large chunks of energy demand can ease a
strained power grid on a hot summer day. In the US Mid-Atlantic
and other power markets, such removal of power demand is
considered akin to providing additional backup power to the
Many demand-response customers use diesel generators during
times when they reduce the amount of power they take off the
Under the EPA's new rules, diesel generators used during
emergencies, including during times of peak power demand, can
operate for up to 100 hours a year and the operators must file
a yearly report detailing the dates and times of their
The new rules are good for EnerNOC; however, power-plant
operators that compete to supply power to the grid in the US
Mid-Atlantic are likely to request additional changes to the
rules, said UBS analyst Julien Dumoulin-Smith.
"Expect vigorous appeal by the generators, and potential for
state-specific air regulations," Mr. Dumoulin-Smith said. He
noted that power-plant operators FirstEnergy Corp. and Exelon
Corp., among others were likely to be negatively affected by
expanded opportunities for demand-response providers afforded
by the new EPA rules.
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A searchable database of project activity in the global hydrocarbon processing industry
Engineers and designers are highly skilled individuals. Forcing them to enter design changes using tables, forms and spreadsheets is unproductive and uneconomical, and it increases the likelihood of human error—this is the way that most instrumentation software systems currently work. For too long, software vendors have denied engineers and designers the simple practicality of a graphical visual engineering interface with "drag and drop" capability and inbuilt intelligence, ensuring changes are automatically replicated into all the associated data and databases.
Is 2016 the peak for US gasoline demand?
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20 Jun 2009 1:40 PM #1
Unanswered: [Ext Core]Ext.ux.MessageSlider
MessageSlider is my first simple UX based on Ext Core.
It's really simple and same effect as the top right corner message slides box of extjs website.
(** if you extract the attachment but to find lost file extention ('.zip'), please use zip software open/extract it, thanks...)
-Tested on FF2+, IE7+, Chrome2, Safari3
-MIT License
-MessageSlider demo
-ExtWebPPT demo
-Git source
-UX doc
Example usage:
Ext.onReady(function() { new Ext.ux.MessageSlider('msg-slider-section', { displayIndex : 3, intervalTime : 5, items : [{ content: 'Ext Carousel example »', url: 'http://extjs.com/playpen/ext-core-latest/examples/carousel/', tip: 'The Carousel example provides a widget for browsing a set of objects', target: 'show-example' }, { content: 'Ext JSONP example »', url: 'http://extjs.com/playpen/ext-core-latest/examples/jsonp/', tip: 'The JSONP example shows how you can fetch JSON data from a different domain', target: 'show-example' }, { content: 'Ext Core 3.0 - API Documentation', url: 'http://extjs.com/products/extcore/docs/' }, { content: '<img src="images/ext-site-logo.gif" />', url: 'http://extjs.com', tip: 'Welcome to ExtJS.com' }] }); });
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20 Jun 2009 7:19 PM #2
22 Jun 2009 12:49 PM #3
very nice
Question for you
On the init method you use
this.items = cfg.items;
Ext.apply(this, config);Code:
22 Jun 2009 5:58 PM #4
you are right, no need for that line, I've did an update
23 Jun 2009 2:10 PM #5
Added to ExtJS Core MIT UX Code Library
Thanks for posting the control.
Per our PM's your code has been added to the ExtJS Core MIT UX Code Library.
Note: The location in the tree may change as there is open discussion on SVN structure.Joseph Francis,
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The Warlord Class Feature Canny Leader grants a "+2 bonus to Insight checks and Perception checks" to you and allies within 10 squares.
Does this also apply to checks against Passive Perception and Passive Insight?
From the compendium entry on Vision and Light:
If you aren't actively searching an area, the DM determines whether you see hidden objects or creatures by using your passive Perception check.
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Health & Pregnancy
Strokes During Pregnancy, Childbirth on the Rise
July 28, 2011 -- Strokes during pregnancy and after childbirth have increased at what one CDC researcher calls an alarming rate.
Elena V. Kuklina, MD, PhD, a CDC epidemiologist, and colleagues compared stroke rates during pregnancy, during childbirth, and after childbirth. They used a national database that included discharge information from 1,000 hospitals.
The researchers compared the pregnancy-related stroke rates in the years 1994-1995 and 2006-2007.
"What we found was there was approximately a 50% increase in all stroke," she says. Pregnancy-related strokes totaled about 4,000 in 1994-1995, or about 2,000 each year. In 2006-2007, they totaled about 6,000, or 3,000 annually.
The number of deliveries in the two periods was comparable, she says.
Kuklina says rising rates of high blood pressure, as well as other factors, are to blame.
The study is published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Stroke During Pregnancy, After Pregnancy
Kuklina also looked separately at the three different time periods: during pregnancy, during childbirth, and immediately after childbirth. Compared to the earlier years, she found a 47% increase in stroke during pregnancy and an 83% increase after childbirth. The rate during delivery did not change.
Younger pregnant women -- those 25 to 34 -- were most likely to be hospitalized for stroke, she found.
''We have a population of pregnant women who have a higher risk of having stroke now compared to 10 years ago," she tells WebMD.
Each year in the U.S., about 795,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke, according to the American Heart Association.
The researchers looked at all types of strokes, including those caused by clots and by reduced blood flow. They also looked at so-called mini-strokes or transient ischemic attacks (TIAs), which are considered a warning sign of stroke.
More women hospitalized for stroke had high blood pressure in 2006-2007 than in the first period studied. For instance, nearly 41% of those who had a stroke after delivery had high blood pressure. Having high blood pressure increased the risk of pregnancy-related stroke up to about six times, Kuklina says. Having heart disease boosted the risk of stroke by as much as about 10 times.


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31 Jan 2012 11:46 PM #21Don Griffin
Director of Engineering - Frameworks (Ext JS / Sencha Touch)
Check the docs. Learn how to (properly) report a framework issue and a Sencha Cmd issue
"Use the source, Luke!"
1 Feb 2012 1:25 AM #22
Is there a fix for this bug ? My app wont run. Or should I wait for a next release (still suck in 4.0.7 maybe for ever ...).
1 Feb 2012 1:43 AM #23
Did you realize, since the Ext 4.0.7 (slow version, with lot of bugs on scrollbars...), you made 3 releases, and none work with my app ? I spend lot of time tweaking my app in order to run with new releases but each time I never get something working. For this last release I can't even display anything (with the bug describe by jvdwiel). Each time there is a good reason but, the result is I can do anything with my app, I can deploy in production. I can run it on Explorer.
You should create a big demo application with ExtJS 4. I'll help you to test each release, before send it to all users. With my app it takes 5 mintutes to see there a major bug and should be fix before send the release. A big demo with source code will also help new user to see best practice.
1 Feb 2012 4:16 AM #24
1 Feb 2012 5:09 AM #25
Thanks for the link.
I don't have time to spend looking around all forum bugs. There is no official fix for this one. I have no more time to spend, on beta releases. I think I'll wait for a 4.1 release or 4.1.x stable release.
2 Feb 2012 7:36 AM #26
just tested if for 4.1.0 theming works without any workarounds, by changing in sass file in examples/panel/bubble-panel. And again doesn't work, disappointing. How many releases will be to have theming working without bugs and workarounds !!!
3 Feb 2012 6:25 AM #27
RTL support?!
When I was checking the roadmap I see u write Right To Left Support, does it suppot ver 4.1 RTL !?
thank you
4 Feb 2012 4:19 PM #28Don Griffin
Director of Engineering - Frameworks (Ext JS / Sencha Touch)
Check the docs. Learn how to (properly) report a framework issue and a Sencha Cmd issue
"Use the source, Luke!"
5 Feb 2012 1:21 AM #29
7 Feb 2012 1:03 PM #30
We have just refreshed the Ext JS 4.1 beta 2 build in our download site to expose one of our internal tools: the Page Analyzer tool. This Page Analyzer tool can help review application performance and is particular useful in identifying duplicated layout processes.
The MD5 of the refreshed beta 2 build is: 1489824ebbcdf701922909bb99e543b2
More details on how to use the Page Analyzer tool will come in about 2 weeks.
For those who are eager to try now, launch the page-analyzer page in the examples folder: examples/page-analyzer/page-analyzer.html, enter the application URL of the application into the Test URL box and hit the Load button. If you see the red "Disconnected" string changes to green "Ready", the page analyzer is connected to the application and you can see some results from the tool.Edmund Leung
Sencha Product Management
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I'm having issues with artwork I would like to use for my website. Unfortunately, the artwork I have came included with a white background behind it. I realize I can manually remove the white background using tools like the Magic Wand in Photoshop, but I've found that the edges of the artwork lose their sharpness. Is there anyway in Photoshop to just save an image out where the white background is picked up as the part of the artwork that is suppose to be transparent?
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I have a trick I developed for this exact situation. You may be best to use slightly different settings for each element you want to be a separate graphic but try the following steps:
See the screenshot below for details of stage 3
As you've mentioned in your question, there are various tools to remove backgrounds from images.
However, there is no automated method to simply designate a color as transparent when saving unless you save as a GIF image. However, GIF would be entirely inappropriate if you have a photograph as opposed to a drawing. Without knowing what the actual image looks like, it's very difficult to recommend the GIF format.
You can use the magic wand tool, magnetic lasso tool, eraser tool, etc and make sure that your white background has been deleted. Then just save it as a png or gif. I recommend png because it has a greater color palette i.e can reproduce more colors.
Photoshop cannot determine what the background is, but you can while saving change a color to transparent. For white it will change ALL white, not only "background white". So you'll only be able to use this technique if the object doesn't have white in it.
go to Save for web devices and just chose png format for the website..you will get the image with transparent background.


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Legal issues aside, how is whisky made?
Do you make a beer (presumably without hops), ferment it with regular beer yeast and then distill?
Legal issues aside, how is whisky made?
Do you make a beer (presumably without hops), ferment it with regular beer yeast and then distill?
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If you're talking about Scotch whisky, the answer is yes! And it's known as "distiller's beer", made from just barley, yeast, and water.
Some more info here: http://www.maltmadness.com/malt-whisky/beginners-guide-04-distilling.html
Whiskey is typically made primarily from corn (fermented in the same way as beer) and then distilled. The trick is, after distillation it has to be aged in wood barrels for a couple years, which is what gives it the flavor and color.
Technically you can distill beer. If you do it a couple times you'll basically end up with the same spirit, which can then be aged in a barrel the same way, but corn is much easier, cheaper and traditionally the main ingredient.
One big difference is that distilled spirits are fermented at relatively high temperatures (70s-80s) to speed up the yeast and produce as much alcohol as possible. This also results in undesirable components like higher-order alcohols and methanol which are later removed in the "heads" and "tails" of distillation.
This is why homemade "bathtub gin"-style liquor during prohibition could be dangerous, because the people making it often skipped this step.


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The geometric nature of the fundamental lemma
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Abstract: The Fundamental Lemma is a somewhat obscure combinatorial identity introduced by Robert P. Langlands in 1979 as an ingredient in the theory of automorphic representations. After many years of deep contributions by mathematicians working in representation theory, number theory, algebraic geometry, and algebraic topology, a proof of the Fundamental Lemma was recently completed by Ngô Bao Châu in 2008, for which he was awarded a Fields Medal. Our aim here is to touch on some of the beautiful ideas contributing to the Fundamental Lemma and its proof. We highlight the geometric nature of the problem which allows one to attack a question in -adic analysis with the tools of algebraic geometry.
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Health & Parenting
Is Your Cell Phone Toxic?
Oct. 3, 2012 -- Gadget gurus who just upgraded to the iPhone 5 can feel good about one thing: It's one of the greenest and least toxic cell phones on the market, according to a new report.
Other phones that did well include the Motorola Citrus, which was the least toxic of all the phones tested, the iPhone 4S, the LG Remarq, and two Samsung devices, the Captivate and the Evergreen.
Still, none of the phones was 100% hazard-free, says Jeff Gearhart, research director of the nonprofit Ecology Center, the Ann Arbor-based environmental group that tested the phones. All of the models contained concerning levels of bromine, chlorine, lead, cadmium, or mercury.
"We really want to make people aware that these electronics have [these] kind of embedded hazards that come with them," Gearhart says. "We want to highlight the fact that that exists and let people know what those are."
The most toxic phones were Palm's Treo 750 and m125, the Blackberry Storm 9530, the Nokia N95, and the Motorola MOTO W233 Renew. The worst of the worst was the iPhone 2G.
The test results are striking because they show how one company, Apple, has made great strides in getting toxic materials out of its products, Gearhart says.
Apple did not respond to a request for comment.
The full report on the testing can be found on the web site healthystuff.org.
Many Mobile Phones Are Hazardous Waste
Cell phones can contain more than 40 toxic chemicals and heavy metals. While there's no evidence to suggest that these are dangerous to users, they are a problem when the phones are being made and after they are thrown away.
"Cell phones are particularly problematic because they are small, so people can easily toss them in domestic waste in a way you wouldn't think of doing for large computers," says Oladele A. Ogunseitan, PhD, MPH, a professor of public health and social ecology at the University of California, Irvine. Ogunseitan studies the toxicity of mobile phones, but he was not involved in the current research.
Americans toss millions of phones each year in favor of newer technology. According to the EPA, 141 million mobile phones were junked in 2009, the latest year for which numbers are available. Only about 12 million of those were collected for recycling.


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Western Digital Red 3TB Internal Drive for $149.99 + free shipping
NAS compatible
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What's the difference in the WD disk colors - red, black, blue, green?
From what I understand this is it in a nutshell:
WD Red = Specifically made for NAS systems
WD Green = Eco-friendly\low power drive, good for storage.. Wouldn't recommend as your OS drive
WD Blue = I guess you can say this is their "Normal" drive
WD Black = High performance drive
Blue is a balance
Black is performance
Green is low power
Red is mainly used for long-term storage in servers. It's considered the NAS series of drives.
Red is a new one for me....but generally you would want the Black....green and blue are the energy efficient/recycled byproducts which seem to more often than not fail. Dont get me wrong there are those that will buy green/blue that will work flawlessly, but when compared to black just terrible. Seems after reading reviews that red is for NAS environments, but general use is good too....but i guess there have been bad batchs like all hard drives... lol typical buy and hope that they work lol....i miss my good ol hitachi
Green - 5400rpm (which is all right for drives 1TB and larger)
Blue - 7200rpm
Black - 10000rpm usually
All above designed for a single computer use.
Red - "NAS", network attached storage, they claim it is meant to operate continuously and serve multiple files in and out at the same time. Supposedly uses less power and generates less heat than the others for this use. They don't spec the speed of the drive so I GUESS it is the normal 7200. My GUESS is that there is a change in the logic of how it stores files on the platters inside, so that the heads on the different platters can operate on different files simultaneously, while the other three "colors" are optimized for speed on a single computer which could mean splitting one file over several platters for maximum speed with the one file. Think of large video files or large database files. In a real NAS use, with multiple files being accessed at the same time, this design could make things a tiny but measurable bit faster. The difference will be small and you could use this in your one or two drive desktop normally without noticing any difference. This is a semi-informed GUESS.
When you look at the reviews you get 8 one eggs and 19 four eggs. That's almost half which is slightly better than horrible. I found that when the review 5 eggs to 1 eggs is half. it's a sucker's buy. So this seems to be only a bit better than that.
I believe @unkalledfor and @aidman123 have it right with regard to the color designations for the drives.
I will add that the black drives have a five-year warranty. The blue and green have a two-year warranty. The red has a three-year warranty.
Always read the 1 egg comments. Newegg does NOT have the best people packing things in their warehouse. A large number of 1 egg reviews on drives are because Newegg screwed up, didn't pack the drives for profanity(a recommendation against buying BARE drives from Newegg specifically) and the drives arrived DOA or arrived with degraded life-span as a result... Not all the 1 eggs are because the piece of technology is crap.
Same price on amazon.
Notes to keep in mind before buying:
1) Direct link to the HD page rather than shell shocker page - this is a one-day-only deal: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236344
2) This is for a NAS drive - in a sense, that means it is good to use in your NAS system which is network/shared storage - not great for your normal computer if that is all you have.
3) RPM not specified on the site.
4) However, there is a green (Eco-friendly AKA slower) one on sale on new egg for the same size/price, and that one IS meant for internal PC storage. (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136874)
@indigohaze: Seconded. Though newegg's return policy is honorable and time-tested, I have noticed on more than one occasion my new hard drive poorly packaged.
I recently purchased 3 of these for my new NAS at $200 each. This price is great - I would pick one more up to completely fill my 4 drive bays - BUT I am waiting for a 4TB for that slot...
Thank you everyone for decoding the colors for us.
5400 rpm... that makes sense that it would be a lower rpm for NAS setups. The throughput on those even at gigabit lan speeds are not really high enough to justify 7200 sata drives.
So that should put red below green in the raw performance category. This has a 64MB cache so its burst speed will be fine, but on larger files it will not hold up well.


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September 13, 2011 8:00 PM
The Arab League has called for "immediate change" in Syria, urging President Bashar al-Assad to end the government's violent crackdown on dissent and launch a comprehensive national dialogue.Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo Tuesday demanded that Syrian authorities implement measures agreed upon during a visit to Damascus last week by the league's secretary-general.Qatar's foreign minister Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, who chaired the meeting, said the the current situation remains critical and that Syria must stop what he called its "killing machine."Also Tuesday, Turkey's prime minister told the Egyptian newspaper Al-Shorouk that he fears the crisis in Syria could descend into a sectarian civil war between the Alawites and the Sunnis.Syria's ruling elite belong to the minority Alawite sect - an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam - while most of the country's citizens are Sunni Muslim.In separate comments before several thousand people in Cairo, Erdogan said civilian deaths have increased in Syria, but reforms have not followed. He said that neither the Syrian people nor the Turkish government believe anymore in Assad.Earlier Tuesday, activists said Syrian security forces carried out sweeping arrests and raids in areas outside the capital, Damascus, and in a string of cities including Daraa, Latakia and Banias.Demonstrators also burned Russian flags in the flashpoint cities of Homs and Daraa to protest Moscow's support for Assad. Both Russia and China oppose a draft U.N. Security Council resolution backed by European nations and the U.S. that would impose an arms embargo and other sanctions on Syria.The United Nations estimates that 2,600 people have been killed in Syria's six-month-long uprising.An aide to Assad disputed the U.N. figures Monday, saying that 1,400 have died. A Syrian government spokesman said the casualties have been evenly split between government forces and opposition activists.


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The April 2008 issue of School Reform News reports on experiments in Baltimore and Atlanta with merit pay ... for students. Noting the efforts are controversial, David Kirkpatrick of the U.S. Freedom Foundation asks, "If a school district's administration, staff, students, parents, and general taxpayers have no problem with a different approach that shows promise, why should anyone else be able to cause problems just because the idea offends their sensibilities?"
On page 1:
- The Wisconsin State Senate has voted to limit the number of students allowed to enroll in the state's 18 virtual charter schools after Gov. Jim Doyle promised to veto any virtual schools legislation that did not include such a cap.
- Reformers in Missouri are cautiously optimistic about a proposed tuition tax credit program targeted to special-needs students.
- A school district in Eugene, Oregon is considering retooling its decades-old open-enrollment policy because schools are becoming socioeconomically segregated.
- The Georgia House of Representatives has passed a measure that would make it easier for charter schools to be authorized.
Also in this issue: school voucher programs in the District of Columbia, Milwaukee, and Ohio; failing schools in California; a new charter school for autistic kids in Minneapolis; and higher education, teacher pay, curriculum standards, and more.
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(CNN) -- In frank remarks Friday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the fact that discussions are even taking place to reopen Pakistan's supply routes into Afghanistan is a good sign.
"We continue to have a line of communication with the Pakistanis to try to see if we can take steps to reopen the (Ground Lines of Communication)," Panetta said. "And the good news is that there continues to be those discussions."
Pakistan shut down the key supply routes, stretching from Afghanistan through the lawless western tribal regions of Pakistan and down to the southern port of Karachi, in November after dozens of its troops were killed in a mistaken U.S. airstrike.
The routes offer a shorter and more direct path than the one NATO has been using since, which goes through Russia and other nations, avoiding Pakistan altogether.
It has cost the U.S. $100 million more a month to use the alternative northern routes.
The remarks were made during a news conference with Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey.
This month, Panetta expressed frustration with Pakistan's failure to go after militant safe havens within its borders, particularly those of the Haqqani network.
Gen. John Allen, the U.S. military's top commander in Afghanistan, met with Pakistan's army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, this week. Panetta said Kayani was receptive to Allen's concerns over the threat from the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network.
"They too have been the victim of terrorism," Panetta said. "They lost 17 Pakistanis on a patrol to the (Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan), and so every day, they too are the victims of terrorism. So we have a common enemy. It would make sense if we could work together to confront that common enemy."


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For the standard 10-gallon, cylindrical cooler, what's the upper limit of grain I can reasonably expect to mash?
Assuming that this is for a standard 5-gallon batch, and assuming typical mash thickness, you need 1.25 quarts of water for every pound of grain, so the upper limit would theoretically be 25 lbs. (1.25*25 = 31.25 quarts = 7.81 gallons of strike water). The 7.81 gallons of water is displaced by the weight of the grains, so further compensation is needed for space.
This is where I cheated and used the "Can I Mash It?" calculator on the following page, showing that you need 9.81 gallons of space for 25 lbs. of grain: http://www.rackers.org/calcs.shtml
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Would you care for an achievements page on deals.woot?
The reputation page is nice and all, however I think it would be cool to see more in depth stats or achievements, something similar to unlocking steam achievements with the ability to view other's pages.
Obvious one one be Black Triangle Operative, but here are some others that I have thought about:
Receive 100 upvotes in a single deal
Earn the top voter
Submit the top deal for the day
Be active every day of the month
Tattle on 1000+ deals
Receive 25+ upvotes on a single comment
Up to the more difficult:
Remain a black triangle for a year
Obtain 10,000 upvotes
Be in the top 10 in all leaderboards
Gain 100% reputation
Also, something with a summary showing Current Day/Week/Month/Year/All Time:
# of deals submitted,Total number of upvotes,Total clicks, questions asked, tattles submitted etc
Granted this would be a lot of work to implement, however I think it would also add some more friendly competition and give people something to work towards besides rep. What are your thoughts?
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That could be a lot of fun. I think most of those would be hard if not impossible to apply to pre-existing deals/ tattles, etc, but where would the fun be in retroactive application anyway?
@thedogma: Indeed, I wouldn't want it to be retroactive, everybody should start with the same blank slate. Possibilities for achievements are endless.
Nice idea but really only for those people who come here to deals.woot for the rep score.
I come here for the great conversations and the deals that people post. That's all. Anything else I get like rep scores or jumbowoot coupons is just a bonus on top of all that.
no, not at all.
I think it's a neat idea, but like @cengland0 kind of observed, it would all only mean something to people who already try to do those things anyways. With Woot! being a business, the case for taking the time (money) to implement things like that isn't really there.
nifty idea. Not sure how many people would be into it but I think it would be kind of cool
Admit it, @lichme, you're just bored of sitting there at the top of the heap and want something else to work toward :)
It's an interesting idea, but I think there are a lot of people here who are not interested in posting deals or aren't interested in the ATC side (apologies for overuse of 'interesting/ed'). But then again, those may be people who don't care if they get achievements either. Who knows?
I'm actually curious how much work/time it would really take (being, admittedly, basically an idiot when it comes to those sorts of things).
Personally, I like the idea.
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Unlocked for leaving an answer on a deals.woot.com community question.
Hey! We could title the achievement page: "Barnabee, You're a Failure!" Really, I don't care one way or another about reps or achievements or whatevers. I just like to roam around here, enjoy the deals (and I thank everyone for their hard work finding them), and chat with people. So, do what you want or rather what will be allowed. It's okay with me.
If anyone is interested, I'm hosting a boosting lobby. Just message me what Deals.Woot achievement callsigns you are wanting to unlock.
I think somebody has been spending too much time on Xbox.
Most things don't get you achievements. Although it would be interesting if it did. As in:
Achievement Unlocked: BOOZER
BOOZER: Consume at least 12 alcohol units in a 3 hour period.
and so on.
Perhaps @kalira is correct, that @lichme is bored. I got bored long ago and just started playing a different game, using the existing playing field.
We know that lots of activity gets top rankings and pretty much anyone can do that and many have (witness the leaderboard).
However, I've always been a minimalist, by which I mean that I will frequently try to discover just how LITTLE one can get away with and still be counted among the top players. (On deals.woot, I count having a black triangle as being among the top players.) Thus the reason why I haven't posted a question or deal since January (and yet I maintain a rep right around 96%, ranked 145 at present).
BTW- As for @lichme's list of suggested acheivements, I think that keeping a black triangle for a year is much much easier than most of the things listed in the first section of the OP.
This is not Xbox Live. Let's keep the "achievements" where they belong. My opinion.
@baqui63: Indeed, I have been experimenting with what bare minimums are to get by. I have been dethroned today at the hands of @carl669. Why? Because he is awesome, and I am testing the system. I expect tommorow it will revert back, but by limiting questions asked I can say with confidence that you must ask a question at least once every 6.5 days in order for your ATC rep to be maintained. There is approx 12 hours of delay from your actions to stats being updated. I also noticed that the suggestions to up your rep do not take the future into account and do not suggest what you need to do to maintain your rep.
Please no. I'm already and achievement/trophy whore on Xbox/PS3, I don't need something else to try and concur.
We're not 15, and this is not Xbox Live. Please leave.
@lichme: "... but by limiting questions asked I can say with confidence that you must ask a question at least once every 6.5 days in order for your ATC rep to be maintained. There is approx 12 hours of delay from your actions to stats being updated."
You might want to check again.
Note that I haven't asked a question since January, which is many times your 6.5 days.
My AtC rep has dropped slightly since January, but overall it has not changed much at all. And about three weeks ago it went up slightly for some reason.
@baqui63: I dont mean that it will go from 99% to 10%, however it will drop significantly from where it originally was. Both times I have failed to ask a question in 6.5+ days, my question rep dropped from 99.x% down to 96.x% and my overall rep dropped down from #1 to #2.
My guess would be that a % of your rep is based off of short term (last week), a % based off of a slightly longer term (a month), then the majority of your rep being based off of last year.
Completely agree w/@pinchecat. Please don't make reps any more like the woot Olympics than it already is. This should be light-hearted fun, not a contest to see who's best at what. Being ranked is a nice side effect; should not be a tedious bean-counting goal.
Related aside: Still think ATC (questions) should NOT be included in the rep algorithm. It's interesting to me that maintaining a spot in the top 15 requires a question w/i 7 days. Posting a deal (the purpose of this site!) does not. You can remain in the 15 w/o posting a deal for at least 15 days. (Yes, there is a current 'sitting' member who has not posted a deal in that time frame.) That's pretty sad, eh?
No, not interested at all.
No. I think people should attempt to achieve at life, not a website.
@gmwhit: Good point. I'm with you on this one. As for the OP: Meh. I'm here for a bargain, not a contest. If this happens, it happens but I am not interested.
I'd rather have a pat on the back.
I guess this boils down to how large a change is significant. I would call what you're talking about rather INsignificant.
But then, I think I've made it quite clear that my interest in deals.woot rep is of a mostly academic nature (I'd say purely academic, except that I would care if my rep dropped below 90.0%.)
But then someone would be able to disprove my claims of Woot awesomeness.


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I want to start making iPhone games, but sadly I'm a Windows geek.. Is there a way to make good profesional iPhone games without Xcode/owning a Mac computer?
If not, what do you recommend, a Mac Mini?
Thanks in advance!
There are a few options available to you:
Again, buying a Mac is probably the "best" all around option, albeit the heftiest. Depending on your needs, a cloud mac service may be viable too.
I friend of mine just released his game with MonoTouch (http://xamarin.com/monotouch). You just need to create your game in C#, then this software can compile the source to iOS and Android. (And of course, because of the C#, you can also release it on Windows Phone.) Really good stuff.
I've been programing on a mac mini for about a year now and it's been great. They are quite honestly the most powerful mac for the buck. I bought an i3 w/ 2G of ram and installed 8G later on for $40USD. Its much better programming iOS apps on a Mac than any other computer.
Let me know if you have any questions. I'd love to answer them for you
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Unless you have advice for what sort of bracelet to pair with a Rolex and an Armani suit.
Go to those places and you will find the men of Pinterest ... but you'll also find toddler chore list systems, green smoothie recipes and "Quotes to Live Buy (sic)" that were accidentally posted by women who clicked the wrong section. In other words, women won't let the men even have those tiny little sections. Shh -- don't tell the men's right's guys. They don't need anything else to cry into their lattes over.
In America, Pinterest is dominated by women, composed of as much as 83 percent according to one analysis. How did this happen? Why isn't Pinterest like Tumblr, where all the sexes mingle as friends and equals and lovers? Media experts are still trying to figure out the answer, while man-centered copycat sites like Dudepins and Manteresting struggle to find the same success. By posting pictures of girls in tank tops and mugs of beer.
We already have porn and liquor stores. What does this add?
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Holy crap .... is Pinterest what Ayn Rand predicted all along?
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If the Google is to be believed, khichri means a hash of rice and legumes. I thought this would be a nice change from the dal recipe I keep making again and again (it's awesome, to be sure, but it's time for some change). This is really comfort food--mellow, warm, easy to chew, and nourishing. It does not make for the greatest picture, but don't let that stop you from making this amazing dish.
- 1 sweet onion
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 cup basmati rice
- 5 cups water (more if needed)
- 2 tsp salt (or to taste)
- 1 cup red lentils
- 3 tbsp margarine
- 2 shallots, thinly sliced
- 2 tsp garam masala
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
Preheat oven to 300 degrees
1. Get water boiling in an ovenproof pan with a lid. Rinse rice and put in boiling water with onions, garlic, and salt. Reduce heat and simmer on low, uncovered, for 20 mins.
2. Rinse red lentils and add to pan. Cover and simmer for 15 mins.
3. By now the rice and lentils will be mostly cooked and getting fairly dry. If too dry, mix in some more water, then place in the oven. Bake for 20-30 mins, until fully cooked.
4. Heat margarine in a small pan over medium heat and fry sliced shallots for 5-7 mins, until golden. Add in garam masala, then gently stir into khrichi along with the cilantro. Add water, if needed, to reach desired consistency. It can be more dry like a biryani, or wetter like a porridge. Season to taste and serve.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
If the Google is to be believed, khichri means a hash of rice and legumes. I thought this would be a nice change from the dal recipe I keep making again and again (it's awesome, to be sure, but it's time for some change). This is really comfort food--mellow, warm, easy to chew, and nourishing. It does not make for the greatest picture, but don't let that stop you from making this amazing dish.
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- Kate said...
When you say "sweet onion," do you mean a red onion? Or do you mean a different variety? I will be trying this for sure.
Your blog and cookbook are helping my family so much. My 2010 goal is to cook vegetarian/vegan 5 days a week. (We were down to about 3 days a week in 2009 and the gradual transition has gone quite well. I am ready to add more days of meatless or animal-free cooking.) While my husband used to complain about all my vegetarian dishes in the past, he now brags to friends about how good vegan food is and there are lots of choices and tasty things to eat.
Thank you, Vegan Dad!
- January 7, 2010 at 10:09 PM
- Tanya said...
Well it LOOKS tasty to me! Wonder if I can make it with already cooked rice....added to the lentils after they're done cooking? (I always have cooked rice from a rice cooker) Will have to try this.
- January 7, 2010 at 10:12 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
Any onion will do, I think. I like vidalia or spanish onions, but yellow or red would work, too.
I don't think you would get the same texture and consistency, but I am sure it would still work.
- January 7, 2010 at 10:42 PM
- nora said...
That looks great! so simple, but in a good way!
- January 7, 2010 at 11:51 PM
- flamencokitty said...
I've been eating mujadarah a lot lately, and it's basically the same thing as this but with different spices :-P. I think I'll try it out!
- January 8, 2010 at 1:52 PM
- Bianca said...
I love this Indian food kick you're on!
- January 8, 2010 at 4:47 PM
- Sarah Goblot said...
Can you get vidalia onions in winter time?
I swear, for living it a isolate northern Ontario town, you have way better selections than me in Montreal.
There is also a middle eastern dish that is similar. Rice and brown lentils, with onions. Simple but yummy!
Thanks for all the amazing recipe.
- January 8, 2010 at 9:53 PM
- Cardamom said...
this is the ultimate comfort food....there are SO many variations of the 'khichdi', I also use moong daal and oatmeal sometimes instead of the rice for a healthier version.
Your recipe looks wonderful!
- January 9, 2010 at 6:43 AM
- LaValle Linn said...
Came for a soup recipe and decided to make this for dinner. Great job...
- January 9, 2010 at 10:49 AM
- Beatrice said...
This looks delicious -- I like that it uses red lentils.
- January 9, 2010 at 5:07 PM
- vegbooks said...
Yum, lentils, garam masala and cilantro. I know what my family is having for dinner tomorrow night!
- January 9, 2010 at 10:19 PM
- Judy's Nutrition said...
It goes by many names, but kitchri/kitchdi is a very nourishing and healing dish according to ayurvedic beliefs. It is traditionally made with mung beans and rice, since both are exceptionally easy to digest and very healthful. Different spices and vegetables can be added depending on the desired health effect and flavour of the dish. Anyway, all that to say that I love kitchdi too, and it never looks pretty to photograph but that can be ignored!
- January 10, 2010 at 8:58 AM
- vegbooks said...
Yum! I made this the other night and it was delicious, especially as leftovers today. (Though I might kick up the masala a bit next time -- we like things spicy.) Thanks for a great recipe!
- January 11, 2010 at 7:41 PM
- Anonymous said...
These look good and healthy! I wonder if you could use quinoa instead of the rice. Maybe too drastic a switch.
- January 15, 2010 at 1:54 AM
- LaValle Linn said...
I did make this the other night. Instead of cooking in the oven though I did it on top of the stove. Worked fine.
- January 22, 2010 at 7:05 PM
- Willie said...
Loved this dish, and just glowingly blogged about it here:
Also, I thought you may want to clarify that the sweet onion is supposed to chopped (or whatever else you had in mind). I don't think many readers of your blog would be all that thrown off, but you never know.
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A rolling chassis is a major step in the creation of a new car, but you can't race a roller. Last month we documented the construction of a unique Super Late Model chassis with a truck arm rear suspension by our friends at Hess Racing Products. But just like eating only half of a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich, why stop when you've got a good thing going? So we hung around while body hanging specialist Jim Callard, owner of MetalMaster Custom Fabrication, and the Hess' crew hung the body and fabricated the interior tin.
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are there any shapefiles for a simple road network of the UK that are similar to what you would find on google maps?
Indeed there is! Look at the Ordnance Survey Open Data website, and the product you probably want is Meridian 2. It's free to download and use for even commercial exploitation, but check the licence just in case.
It has layers other than roads, but they're in separate shapefiles, so naturally you can ignore them. It's designed for mid-scale mapping, so don't expect very high resolution. You can combine it with OS Locator if you want to do some more complex searching.
You could also try OS Vector District, but I've got a feeling the road layers are derived from Meridian 2 anyway.
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- Herringbone trim with matching 2-style backstrip
- Pre-war scalloped bracing
- Tortoise-style celluloid pickguard
- High gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish
- Mahogany neck
- Square headstock with volute
- 15 degree headstock angle
- Ebony peghead overlay with inlaid Collings logo
- Ebony fingerboard with ebony belly-style bridge
- Mortise and tenon hybrid neck joint
- 20 Frets, neck joins the body at the 14th fret
- Modified V neck profile with 2 3/16" string spacing
- 14"-26" Compound fingerboard radius
- 1 11/16" Bone nut and drop-in saddle
- 24 1/8" Short scale Length
- Medium 18% nickel-silver fretwire
- Abalone diamond and square fingerboard inlays
- Fully adjustable truss rod
- Ebony bridge pins and end pin
- Nickel Waverly tuners with 16:1 ratio
- Recommended string gauge - D'Addario EJ-16 (.012"-.053")
- Collings deluxe hardshell case by TKL
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There Are No Shortcuts: Collings Acoustic Guitars
This short documentary film examines acoustic guitar building at Collings Guitars and the focus on quality that has come to define the company culture.
- Body Length: 17 1/8"
- Body Depth at Side: 3 15/16"
- Lower Bout Width: 12 1/2"
- Total Length: 36 1/2"
- Scale Length: 24 1/8"
- Standard Nut Width: 1 11/16"
- Factory Strings: D'Addario EJ-16 (.012"-.053")
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- Interview: Bill Collings interview from Acoustic magazine
- Acoustic Guitar Options: Neck Profile and Bridge Options Diagram
- Artists and Sightings: Jill Sobule - Collings Baby 2H