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28 Nov 2012 2:28 AM #1
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Hi there!
I'm developing an application with Sencha Touch 2.1.0 (Commercial Edition) with my Mac OSX Lion.
My problem is related with the auto-generated directory "touch" (Where the sdk is copied when an app is created). When I create an app (with the command: sencha generate app PhoneGapTest/Sites/Sencha/PhoneGapTest) the framework generates the directory called "touch" with the copy of the sdk (if not exists yet) outside my app directory.
The problem is that I want to have this sdk copy inside my application root directory (for each new application), basically i don't want a workspace.
I know that i can fix it manually by changing all the files references to the "touch" dir (inside index.html, app.js, etc...) bu it is very annoying.
CURRENT TREE DESIRED TREE "Sites" (Web Server Dir)
- "touch" (SDK Copy Dir)
- "PhoneGapTest" (App Root Dir)
- "OtherApp" (Other App Dir)
"Sites" (Web Server Dir)
- "PhoneGapTest" (App Root Dir)
- "touch" (SDK Copy Dir)
- "OtherApp" (Other App Dir)
- "touch" (SDK Copy Dir)
Is this caused by the workspace configuration? there is any way to remove or change the workspace to the new-created app directory itself?
Thank you in advance!
Marc Cardona Ariza.
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You would need to first create a workspace and then create apps within that workspace. Check out the 'Workspaces in Sencha Cmd' guide in the docs.Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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Ironically, I'd like the exact opposite. Build times are making me cringe with the size of the backups etc - and updating the repo takes ages.
Currently have /sdk/ and /touch/ inside my app folder since updating the project from 2.0 to 2.1 yesterday. I know I can eventually remove /sdk/ once I untangle and remove all the references to the old...
Using Cmd I've been able to set up a complete test working environment as I'd like to use it on my local.
The problem?
The app was created using Architect.
Is there anyway to convert Architect driven projects into "lighter" variants, with the app itself resourcing from a parent directory?
Am I left with manually configuring which files should be archived and which are static/ignored?
P.S. I'm a little rusty with Sencha Touch. Was using it a couple of years ago, then chose other frameworks as the docs here were vague and the copy of Sencha Touch in Action I'd ordered to fill the blanks kept delaying release. I know there's updates in MEAP... the latest one had too many instances of images missing and references such as "I'll go into this in detail later" - and that later not existing - too often for something I wanted clarification for.


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I just wondered what people though play's faster.
The new one or the previous one?
I just wondered what people though play's faster.
The new one or the previous one?
FM2008 by far.
I thought that.
When you watch it in 3d it take ages to start up or it could be my computer.
I think it runs quicker
fm08 by far...i just have commentary and full speed, it is very slow and frustrating!
fm09 is like a snail crawling up the wall on my laptop
FM 09 is the most frustratingly slow game ...08 was amazingly fast
FM09 is an asthmatic ant with some heavy shopping. FM08 is a leopard.
Agreed i just hope there was a version of FM 09 without the 3d so people with crap computers could play it at proper speed but i guess SI have to advance so no problems. Il just revert to FM 08 with data updates
Fm 09 is faster for me! Weird!
It's a bit slower, for sure. Getting rid of the second match slider didn't help this. That said, it's still fast enough for me, running 12 countries.
the new fm is faster, but i dont play with the 3D im not a fan. Though iv'e never liked change.......
FM08 is far quicker on my machine with the same spec as last year...FM09 is very slow on 3d, slow processing and stutters on 2d...was perfectly fine last year :-(
Fm 08 is faster for me.
08 was faster for me
I actually have found '09 to be slightly faster, and more responsive.
I find fm09 much slower and this is making me rather bored of this game now.
Unfortunately FM09 feels slower for me and still hell no idea why TBH (I'm not talking about 3D - I don't even use it).
Me to in 08 i played with 12 leagues. Now i'm playing with 3 in 09 and it's much slower. 8 hours played and still in season one.
My computer specs are:
Amd 6000+ dual core 3.1 ghz
3072 MB ram
nvidia geforce 7900 GTX
so thats not the point
My system specs are fine to run the game, but with 3 leagues running it's stupidly slow.
Even on 2D it's unbearable
Im confused slightly...:confused:
Ive seen a lot of people on this forum suggest that FM 2009 is the best one yet.
However the comments in this thread that suggest it is slow and frustrating must surely contradict this?
Im not getting the game myself until next Friday.
So are people still finding it enjoyable despite it being slow?...Or is this ruining the game for you?
FM08 by a mile, I find it annoying when I go to make a sub, or a tactical switch, there is always a slight pause in the game.
That and the code is getting so clunky that sometimes the interface, particularly on match days, gets ridiculously unresponsive, which I think is related to the dodgy threading coding problem that causes the game to freeze on some multi-core machines.
I think you'll find (judging from comments on these forums) that if you have a good, recent computer, FM09 is actually likely to be quicker.
BUT... only if you at least 4GB RAM, quick dual/quad core processor, a hq graphics card (ie 4850/4870), and fully updated drivers for all hardware.
I.e. all those people with laptops who could happily play FM in the past, are likely to be disappointed by the speed of FM09, unless they have a custom built machine.
it's def slower but i think it's self explanitery. 3d isnt in use every moment the game is loaded so playing matches will obviously need to load it. FM09 is designed to work on high end machines or modern components.
despite what the min specs are, you need way way above them for a quick gaming experiance. if you think FM09 is slow wait untill next year and the year after lol this will seem like a sprinter on steriods.
i fell a little bit slower, sometimes the game have some kind of lag, but its ok
FM 2008 by far!
09 is alot faster on mines i'm playing about 54 leagues were as on 08 i could go about 35 maximum
...Does anyone fancy telling me how FM is likely to run on my laptop?
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Slowly .
reguardless if someone has a powerful machine or a dinasour 09 should be slower. more processes = slower!
google windows update and when you get to site just click update
08 is a lot faster on my laptop
4gb Ram
T9300 core 2 duo 2,5 ghz
GeForce 8600M GT 512mb
Vista home premium 64bit
With FM08 I could run the best league from all contries with a lage db and the wating time was okay, but with 09 it's just muuuuuch to slow to run the same setup
FM08 ran a lot faster than FM09. It has taken me 13 hours to get to January. :|
They run the same when processing after continuing for me, but loading into the ME takes longer in 09 but understandable.
I didn't play FM08. I had FM07 and with quite an old PC now with 512MB, Pentium 4 2GHz and on Windows XP it ran fine. FM09 is so much slower and is frustrating as it takes 5 mins sometimes to process fixtures. It can't even play with 3D and the 2D is just jumpy. So annoying!!!
That is a seriously dated machine though, Trevez, you can't expect FM releases to stay at the same spec year on year on year.
For me 08 was much faster than 09 is. I also get random black screens and white screens while it's starting a new match or i just finished a match. Could probably be because i'm running it in windowed 1920x1200 resolution.
But back to the point.
08 is, by far, faster than 09 on my computer.
Yes and No.
Faster going through menus for me, but slower going through the match engine.
09 is so slow. It makes me feel better that others are having the same problem. But it takes so long just to get thriugh one week of games. It is starting to be a very big annoyance.
09 = Slooooowwwwwww
08 Definitely
I've been doing a lot of tweaking to my system and I actually find now that 09 runs faster than previous versions, especially the fixture processing. I had some slight UI lag before as well, but that seems to be gone now too.
Loading the 3D of course makes viewing the matches a little bit slower though.
I dont play Matches in 3D but still feel that overall 2008 is faster and more smoother doesnt glitch, freeze for few minutes etc etc.
2009 seems to have too many new features and so much bigger then most systems can handle even with updates and software still seems a bit to much to handle as 2008 was pretty simple and ok.
My laptop isn't even 2 years old and it struggles with FM09 badly whilst FM08 was no problem. In short, you better have a PC if you don't want to be drowned out by the noise of laptop fans.
I'm managing to do fine on my laptop, but then I have a fast hard drive in it and have done some nice tweaks for performance in the power settings and in task manager.
Also, I can't believe the number of people who play with their antivirus auto-protect running or not set to exclude FM files, this slows it down massively as well as being IMO the #1 cause of savegame corruption.
I noticed FM09 is pretty fast EXCEPT when i start a match it gets really slow e.g. takes 15-25 seconds to set up the match, in FM08 it only take 5 seconds or less! So i guess SI balanced it out. But i dont wanna imagine what would happen in 2015?
Integrity may need some tweaking in here
FM08 for sure...
In FM08 you could complete a season MUCH faster.
- Bevor each game there are up to 25s loading times. This is despite the fact that I am not using 3d (removed it in the preferences).
- The 2D on my computer has amazingly low "frame rates". Almost kills the game for me, which is very sad...
- ...this combined with the fact that we now only have one slider to control the match speed this means that matches take much more time to process
- The overall processing speed when calculating games also seems to be lower on my machine (for example when calculating world cup qualification games)
For me FM09 is so slow that it is not much fun anymore. I didn´t have similar problems with FM08 or any of the previous games. So, while my computer certainly is not extremely fast (1,6 GHz Pentium M, 1Gig RAM, Ati X600 graphics card), the additional calculations in FM09 are the main problem.
yeah, slightly faster than fm2008
Its a bit faster than FM08 I've found
Well i originally had a laptop that didn't run the games brilliantly... 2d was very jittery. But i just got a new laptop yesterday and its fast and works really well. If you want best performance then a new machine is best! If your machine is real good it'll be quicker then 08 but if you don't it will feel a lot slower and laggyer! ITs only loading of match that takes a little bit
Last edited by PGB_SPURS_FM09; 21-11-2008 at 10:25.
Well 09 is super slow for me and iv gone back to 08 but well im not complaining. SI has to move forward with the times and advance their games. And 09 is a super super game albeit a little slow.
All i can say is make sure your OS is up to date and stuff :s
What are your specs? I got a gaming laptop lol with a 7200RPM HDD and mines real fast Though i haven't got much time to play but as i'm being made redundant i've been given back the holiday that was supposed to be taken at Xmas so I may take a week off just to play FM
They both run exactly at same speed for me... but at least im someone who upgrades the computer more than once every 6 years.
Quad Core powah
It is slower
i just got the demo working last night and its way to slow for me so wont be buying it.
And my specs are : Intel Core2 Quad Q6700 2.66GHz 4GB Ram (3.6 GB Ram in reality)
Geforce GTX 260 896-2291 MB
Display 1920x1200 59Hz
Windows Vista Home Premium
I realize now that i have a different CPU than i thought. Thought it was Q6600 (don't know much about that stuff )
I normally tweak the computer as much as i can so i don't run services i don't need and all that. But it seems like that didn't really make a difference.
I run 6 countries with the lowest divisions on playable in all the countries. Something which is far less than i ran on a CoreDuo 3,06GHZ with 2GB Ram and 7200RPM Harddrive. But that was on Windows XP Home.
I also experience a black (sometimes white) screen everytime i start and finish a match. I take it when it's going in to 3D view and going out from the 3D view.
Any suggestions would be great.
I don't bother with 3D.
I really enjoy before and after the games - that runs pretty much the same as 08 for me.
But the matches are a pain in the jacksie!
That 3D engine (even thoug I don't use it still loads up) is a mole on the ass of society.
Changing tactics/subs mid match is a royal hassle too - setting up match pause for 10-15 seconds! It's so aggravating!!!!
well funnily enough, on my PC, i found out that fm09 was a lot faster than the previous installment!
And the fact we can have higher resolution as well makes it all the more better
I agree with Eshaan.
FM2009 is a very good game but it's very slow.
Compared to 2008 or 2007.
2007 run so fast on my machine and 2008 was quick but not as quick the previous game. But as i suppose every new game that come comes out on the same machine will eventually start running slow because every new game that comes out needs more processing.
I may go back to 2008 because i quite like that game or try and persevere with 2009.
Other than this I can't complain about processing other games (league, cups, internationalls) but, SI, can you improve just a little bit the thing that has been mentioned here by many of us???
Last edited by Mattek; 21-11-2008 at 13:09.
i really thought that it was my laptop that was makin it slow but seems like everyone's on the same boat!
does any1 else think that it doesnt take as long to get through a season??
it seems that thers less to do between games??
I took my fm out of windowed mode and all of a sudden the game quicken up.
It used to take 10 minutes for the clock to play 90 minutes and now it's take 5. I just wondered is it because i took it out of window mode. i could be wrong but all of sudden it is playing quick.
FM09 definitley runs slower than 08 but my PC is a four yr old P4 with only 1.5g of ram so im not gonna start complaining.
I need to buy a new PC anyway but i am a bit concerned that people are saying that 09 runs slower on high end PCs. Anyone got any idea how fast it will run if i get the set up below?
AMD Phenom Quad Core
8gb Ram
64 bit Vista
nVidia 9500 gt 1024mb
^ Pretty quickly but it will still be slower than FM08
Damn! The processing time between days isnt a problem really its going into the tactics screen during the match, it takes about 30 clicks to get anything to happen. Thought it might just be my ancient pc. Gonna buy it anyway and hope the 2nd patch fixes this.
Looks like it is pretty much only with people with quad core processors that are finding the game significantly slower than expected given their specs. hmmmm....
'09 is faster then '07, but slightly slower then '08 (i play with 100+ leagues, all versions). Considering that you are getting something that is playable in comparison to inferior '08(even 07 was better then 08), it's small price to pay.
I got "only" dual-core and 2GB ram , and still running '09 with no problems.
FM 09 is very very slow that i cant enjoy playing it.i wont play Fm 09 anymore and go back to FM 08.
İ have Q6600(3.0 ghz),8800GT,3 gb ram and 500 gb hdd.
That's what happens when you don't code from the ground up and use Java instead. Game can't even take advantage of new hardware. No wonder they don't make a benchmark.
FM09 is definately slower than 08, but not significant enough that it will stop me playing... I'm running around 15 leagues and the slowness is pretty minimal for me. Mainly slow when at the beginning of a match and the 3D is loading.
Just upgraded my pc as 3d wasnt working very well on my machine. Gone from a 128mb graphics card to a 512mb with my p.4 2.8ghz processor and 2gb ram.....3d is watchable but still slightly jerky and it miles above the spec.
Last edited by msadler04; 26-11-2008 at 09:23.
FM09 is rapid on mine, its the fastest I have ever had a FM run on my system. I did upgrade to 3 gig though
For me it's a bit slower than the 2008 version.
I'm running three leagues - Premiership, Bundesliga and Serie A.
If you want to improve the game speed then I suggest changing the detail level to 'minimum' (really, who wants to view every single detail of the Olympic or Euro Championship?).
Ticking the 'skin cache' box should also help.
There is also a 'Threading' option in Preferences (refer to manual for more details)
To improve the save / load speed unmark the 'Compress saved games' box.
09 is alot slower for me than 08
Im running the same three leagues as i did in 08 but it lags and it generally slow.
anybody else's heart sink when you get to processing league cup results!
i find it very slow compared to 08 but only some of the time its strange, seems to be very tempremental And im runnin 2gig of ram on xp as well and find it uses a hell of a lot of it up while playing the game!!
Try this for me please when you don't have a job and click on manager overview how long does it take for this screen to load!! For me its literally about 20-30seconds!!! (Only happens when you don't have a club!!)


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Appartement bien situé et très propre dommage que la chambre double soit bruyante!
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Antonio who did the check-in for us, was available all the time I need, and this was much appreciated to me.
I highly recommend you to stay in this apartment and enjoy Lisbon.
I'll be back there for sure.
Thanks for making our stay comfortable.
The positives:The appartment was clean, modern and cozy!
The negatives: noisy (neighbours) upstairs and a hilly area.
Excellent appartment in the most amazing part of Lisboa. Just within walking diatance of many magnificent places and restaurants. Nice and cosy, with all necessary amenities. Tiago, thank you for your hospitality :)
The apartment was very clean and neat. Situated in the very centre of Lisbon's old town every destination was very easy to access from the apartment. We enjoyed a great stay!
The Appartment is very well located, the host extremly friendly ...we were totally satisfied and everything was perfect. we would come again.
The apartment was good. The best was its location. Alfama's heart is an amazing place to spend a few days. However the apartment isn't clean enough. Ants and hairy floor changed my first impression. Fortunately, my holidays were so good (it's too easy fall in love with Lisbon). I will come back this city but I wont repeat my rest in Wasabi Yellow Apartment.
sweet little apartment, well furnished, right in the center. hard to find, but extremely charming. it has everything worked very well, very friendly helpful host. located at ground level without grid is a small drawback, unfortunately for me.
süße kleine Wohnung, gut eingerichtet, mitten im Zentrum. schwer zu finden, aber dafür extrem charmant. es hat alles sehr gut geklappt, sehr freundlicher hilfsbereiter Gastgeber. ebenerdig gelegen ohne Gitter ist leider für mich ein kleiner Nachteil.
We were a Secher - Men combo on cultural travel.
The apartment was very accessible and offered all that was promised. The rooms were all super clean, beds comfortable and the surroundings totally quiet.
Our Key - goalkeeper was plus to not offer very helpful and at ease.
I would not hesitate to book again this weekend drying.
Wir waren eine Secher - Männerkombo auf Kulturreise.
Die Wohnung war sehr gut erreichbar und bot alles was versprochen war. Die Räume waren alle tip top sauber, Betten bequem und die Umgebung total ruhig.
Unsere Key - Keeperin war dazu noch sehr hilfsbereit und an Freundlichkeit nicht zu überbieten.
Ich würde jederzeit wieder diese Wochnung buchen.
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Joe's a fuckin' lemon squeezer. Every time I walk by his cell he's stroking his cock. Last night he managed to jizz on me before I could get out of the way.
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I'm not asking for the SHOW COLUMNS command.
I want to create an application that works similiarly to heidisql, where you can specify an SQL query and when you execute it ... you get a result set with rows and columns representing your query result. The column names in the result set should match your selected columns as defined in your SQL query.
In my Python program (using MySQLdb) my query returns only the row and column results, but not the column names. In the following example the column names would be 'ext', 'totalsize', and 'filecount'. The SQL would eventually be external from the program.
The only way I can figure to make this work, is to write my own SQL parser logic to extract the selected column names.
Is there an easy way to get the column names for the provided SQL? Next I'll need to know how many columns does the query return?
# Python
import MySQLdb
# connect to mysql
db = MySQLdb.connect(host="myhost", user="myuser", passwd="mypass",db="mydb")
except MySQLdb.Error, e:
print "Error %d: %s" % (e.args[0], e.args[1])
sys.exit (1)
# query select from table
cursor = db.cursor ()
cursor.execute ("""\
select ext,
sum(size) as totalsize,
count(*) as filecount
from fileindex
group by ext
order by totalsize desc;
while (1):
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I'm asked to find the power series representation of $f(x) = e ^ {-1/x^2}$ at $x = 0$.
getting the power series representation is easy of course.
$$\sum_{n = 0}^{\infty} \frac{(-1/x^2)^n}{ n!}$$ I know that it's asking to plug in $0$ for the solution, but what nth term do I choose? I'm assuming $0$. Another point, don't you get $-1/0^2$ if you plug in $0$ in the numerator making it undefined. If you were to plug in $n = 0$ for that does that "override" (for a lack of a better word) $-1/0^2$ being undefined and making it $1$? Just assuming that since anything to the $0$ is $1$. I hope I've made sense. If I didn't please feel free to ask so that I can help you help me.
I'm asked to find the power series representation of $f(x) = e ^ {-1/x^2}$ at $x = 0$.
The function $f(x)=e^{\frac{-1}{x^2}}$ is not defined at $0$.
If we set $f(0)=0$, our function becomes continuous at $0$ (because $\lim_{x\to 0}f(x)=0$).
For $f^{\prime}$: $$\lim_{h\to 0}\frac{f(h)}{h}=\lim_{h\to 0}\frac{e^{-\frac1{h^2}}}{h}$$ For $h>0$, $h=e^{\ln h}$ and $$\lim_{h\to 0}\frac1{h^2}+\ln h=\lim_{h\to 0}\frac{h^2\ln h+1}{h}=+\infty$$ since $\lim_{h\to 0}h^2\ln h=0$. Therefore, $$\lim_{h\to 0^+}\frac{f(h)}{h}=\lim_{h\to 0^+}\frac{e^{-\frac1{h^2}}}{h}= \lim_{h\to 0^+}e^{-\frac1{h^2}-\ln h}=e^{-\infty}=0 $$ For $h<0$, $$\lim_{h\to 0^-}\frac{f(h)}{h}=-\lim_{h\to 0^+}\frac{e^{-\frac1{h^2}}}{h} =\lim_{h\to 0^+}e^{-\frac1{h^2}-\ln h}=-e^{-\infty}=0 $$
$f$ is differentiable at $0$ and $f^{\prime}(0)=0$. For $f^{(2)}$, $$\lim_{h\to 0}\frac{f^{\prime}(h)}{h}=\lim_{h\to 0}\frac{\frac{2}{h^3}e^{-\frac1{h^2}}}{h}=2\lim_{h\to 0}\frac{e^{-\frac1{h^2}}}{h^4}=...=0$$ Via induction one can show $f^{(n)}(0)=0$ and so it's Taylor series at $0$ is $0$.


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I have a partition windows 7 400GB and 200GB, I want to install ubuntu 12.04 on the 200GB using a USB but am not sure how to identify 200GB when the installation process because it never shows a hard drive with that exact available space. I am not sure what to do, and I am not very familiar with ubuntu. Help please
Based on the information you gave:
Under Windows this is probably accessed as D: drive. Only proceed if you have not used it and there is nothing in the drive, else backup whatever data you have put there.
You can then proceed as Robert has said in his answer.
If you want to have a swap partition however, things are a little more complicated because the manufacturer (OEM) has already used up all four primary partitions that it is possible to have. The way around this is to delete /dev/sda4 completely and create an extended partition in its place. You can then have two logical partitions within this extended partition - One for Ubuntu / (root) and one for the swap file.
Two reasons why a swap partition is desirable:
I have the following suggestion which will get you installed in the easiest manner, with a swap file.
Since there will be blank unformatted space Ubiquity (the installer) will make an extended partition on which it will then make the / partition and a swap partition and install Ubuntu accordingly. If you want to do a more manual operation you can create the Extended partition, and then create the logical main partition and swap partition inside it if you wish, but the end result will really be the same.
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By MARY ALAN WOODWARD
Contributing Writer
There was a time when many Louisvillians celebrated the Kentucky Derby by watching celebrities get off the train.
In 1956, however, a handful of influential citizens invited everyone to the party by assembling the first Pegasus Parade in the fledgling Kentucky Derby Festival (KDF).
"A lot of people soon thought of the parade as their Derby," said Mike Berry, KDF's president and CEO. "Today we have all kinds of ways to celebrate, whether you're young in age or young at heart."
Mike joined KDF as an event manager in 1986. He later sold corporate sponsorships, and was promoted to his current post 15 years ago.
During his early days, there were nine employees and an annual budget of around $3 million.
"The festival was like Brigadoon — it appeared for eight or nine days, then went away," he said. "Now we have a full-time staff of 23 with a budget of $6 million, and it's a two- to three-week festival, depending on how the religious holidays fall, with events outside that time period. We're ten events, including the Spring Fashion Show, into it by the time Thunder comes."
He credits his predecessor, Dan Mangeot, with positioning the festival as an economic driver in the community. That required turning what started out as a party into a business.
"We could no longer be only in the business of fun; we needed also to be in the business of good governance," he said. "We're a not-for-profit, but the government requires us to do things formerly reserved for businesses. For example, conflicts of interest might arise if any of our board members work in companies we consider hiring. In the past, we'd just been putting the spit in the papier-mâché and hoping it wouldn't fall apart until the day after Derby. But we're not putting on a play in the backyard — we're on Broadway."
The public's expectations have grown along with the festival, which now has approximately 70 events.
Occasionally, people vote with their feet to tell festival organizers which ones need reworking.
The Great Steamboat Race, for example, became predictable — fewer people thronged to the riverbanks, and one broadcaster likened it to watching paint dry.
Now, the boats are involved in additional activities, such as a tug-of-war between captains, and the American Queen will participate in this year's race.
The Run for the Rosé started out as a lively race among restaurant workers, but isn't on the current schedule.
"Restaurants are crazy as Derby approaches, so it's hard for people to get off work," Mike explained. "It was getting harder to find sponsorship, because the race was alcohol-related. But if anyone wants to come forward, we can talk about 2013. One nice thing about the festival is that something can go away but then come back."
His favorite events include the steamboat race and the Stock Yards Bank Great Bed Races. The latter take place on Monday of Derby week and creative silliness always wins.
"We could probably blow up the city and not get as much nationwide coverage as the bed races get," he said.
Another of his favorites is the Ford Motor Co. KDF Spelling Bee.
Emily Keaton, 12, of Pikeville has won three consecutive contests, earning $30,000 in U.S. savings bonds.
"That event is special for me because of its educational value, and because it's our largest outreach," he said.
"More than 60 counties in Kentucky and southern Indiana send representatives," he said. "It's a way the festival gets its message to places that aren't reached by our advertising or by our footprint here in metro Louisville. People in Pikeville know more about the Derby because of the spelling bee than because of Thunder."
Attracting more than a million attendees from near and far, including the 50 states and 17 countries that send athletes to the Marathon and miniMarathon, helps KDF generate $128 million in annual revenue for the community.
Almost half of the festival's budget is raised through corporate sponsorships, with additional funding provided through sales of Pegasus pins, tickets, entry fees and concessions.
The numbers are important, but so is the festival's magic.
"Louisville is fortunate to have two Christmases," he said. "This festival is so loved and embraced by the public. We used to have themes such as 'Spring Fever Reliever,' but that was confusing. All people needed was the KDF brand, because it's about tradition, pride and fun. People wanted a lot of family-oriented events at the waterfront, so we started Fest-a-Ville. We're simply caretakers of this community tradition."
That's why KDF sets up its Morning Line radio network, through which stations from regional cities and towns broadcast from the Kentucky Derby Museum.
"We get jockeys, the governor, all kinds of people going from one table to another, talking to the broadcasters," he said. "It's a long commercial for what's going on. Mr. Paducah, you're only a few hours away, so come spend the night. Enjoy the Chow Wagon and the steamboat race, and stay for the parade. Then go tell your friends — and bring them with you next year."
The Kentucky Derby Festival office, 1001 S. Third St., opens at 8:30 a.m. and closes at 5 p.m. Monday-Friday. For more information, visit www.kdf.org or phone 502.584.FEST.


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Andy, You Don't Represent ME!
Andy, contrary to your rhetoric and misleading representations…you DO NOT represent the people of the 1st District and you do not represent me! You continue to mislead and misrepresent the facts about every issue that is important to the people. As an example, raising the debt ceiling has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with spending, except that it allows the Treasury to pay the ALREADY existing obligations of the United States. Included in that is the $4billion a year you have given to big oil companies…the same oil companies that continue to report BILLIONS of dollars in profit, EACH AND EVERY QUARTER!
This shutdown, contrary to your continuing rhetoric, occurred because you and your Tea Party cohorts, put ideology above the security of our country and the welfare of our people.
The thinking voters in our District see through your political double-talk and the nonsense you espouse. They will remember how you treated them, and the full faith and credit of the US. You are no better than a seditionist, putting ideology first, no matter what harm it causes. Here is your latest error in judgment:
Oct. 16, 2013 H.R. 2775: Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014 – Bill Passes (285 – 144) HARRIS VOTED: NAY
In true fashion, Andy "Dr No" Harris voted NAY to ending the Federal government shutdown. He voted, along with 143 of his fellow Tea Party seditionists, who wished to see the continuance of the shutdown, along with the loss of $24 billion to the American economy.
Even though it was clear to the majority of Republicans and all Democrats, that the stalemate was hurting Americans, from children and seniors who were cut off from food programs, to the millions of new home buyers, trying to get their FHA/VA-backed mortgages through the gridlock, not to mention the 800,000 Federal workers, kept from their jobs, Harris stood his ground and refused to vote for the best interests of his District and the country.
This is perhaps, the best example yet, of Harris' inability to separate ideology from what is best for the country and the American people. Whenever he approaches a question that involves his political philosophy, he will always choose that philosophy over the needs of the people and the best interests of the country.
He has shown this over and over, from his refusal to support Sandy relief, to his votes against the Violence Against Women Act, the 2013 Farm Bill, the SNAP program, the ACA, care for our Seniors and the Disabled, and his support to shut down the government and to keep it shut down…the list just keeps growing, on and on. He has done nothing to create jobs or fix infrastructure in our District, and continues to be a hypocrite about the security of our country and the welfare of our people!
Thankfully, our President has finally stood up to Harris and his Tea Party's terrorist threats (remember, the US doesn't negotiate with terrorists), instead, listening to the majority of voters who elected him…TWICE! The President has tried, in the past, to negotiate with the GOP in good faith, only to see threats of a default, a shutdown and the sequester turn into a real shutdown and the 11th-hour rescue, by moderate Republicans and all Democrats, of the full faith and credit of the United States.
And what did this $24 billion hit to the American economy (not to mention the loss of international prestige) gain Andy and his fellow seditionists? NOTHING! ZILCH! NADA! ZERO! Correct; every single unreasonable, extortionist demand, made by the Tea Party GOP, was denied! Many reasonable GOP members and voters are now abandoning their hopelessly sinking ship, realizing that there must be an end to "ideology over people and country." In so many ways, and on so many levels, this act of sedition, over the past 2 weeks, has brought the GOP closer to irrelevancy than even the candidacy and losing run, of Mitt Romney. As the old saying goes, "You made your bed…now lie in it!"


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No Monday meeting of Country Friends
Country Friends has canceled the Monday meeting at the Memorial Hall on Old Police Lodge Road in Colliers because of the Labor Day holiday.
The regular schedule will resume after the holiday. While the Monday meeting will not be held, the Friday and Saturday ones will.
The doors open at 4 p.m. on Friday, the covered-dish meal begins at 5 p.m., and open mic starts at 6 p.m.
On Saturday, Stone Street Station will entertain from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Doors open at 5 p.m.
Country Friends Foundation Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting Christian friendship and brotherly love through music. All proceeds go to charity. For information, call (304) 527-4253 or (304) 479-1270. The website is countryfriendsfoundation.com
Knights of Columbus plan corn roast
Immaculate Heart of Mary Council No. 472 is having its annual corn roast with hot dogs, beginning at 5 p.m. Thursday at the council hall located at Two Ridges Road, Wintersville.
Special guests for the evening will be Dick Sperry, Area 9 Special Olympics director; Ruth Sperry, Area 9 treasurer; and Jane Bodo, Jefferson County Special Olympics coordinator.
The three will be presented checks by the council with monies collected during the Measure Up Campaign in April to benefit individuals with mental disabilities.
All members, their families and guests are invited to attend. The cost is $5 for adults and $3 for those 12 and younger. The social room will be available for refreshments at a minimal cost.
New members for Toronto Seniors
The Toronto Senior Citizens met Aug. 22 with Doris Matyas presiding and welcoming new members Joyce Zimmerman and Jack Lesnick and guest Sandy Lesnick.
Robert Haught gave the blessing for the pizza party, and Kenny Woodward led the members in opening exercises.
Reports were given by Shirley Rebich and Rosemary Bonofine.
Lola Swanagan updated members on remaining trips, including the next trip to Hartville on Thursday. The bus will leave Stratton at 8 a.m. and Toronto at 8:30 a.m. There are two seats available for the Smokies trip to Dollywood, Biltmore, Pigeon Forge and Mt. Aries on Sept 16-19. The Riverboat Cruise will be Oct 19.
The kitchen committee for September will be Mary Alice Meyer, Robbie France, Paula Krensavage, Shirley Rebich, Sally Bauman, Pat Ferrell, Dorothy Kliner, Becky Swickard and Cecilia Petras.
Members having birthdays and anniversaries were announced. The 50/50 was won by Tony Farrister. Door prize winners were Ben Cicone, Deanne Starr, Marilyn Peckens, Jim Kliner, Bill Baier, Theresa Troski, Dorothy Farrister, Pat Balser, Carol Thompson and Barbara Lyons. Bingo winners were Nancy Ludewig, Angie Kurty, Norma Montgomery and Bob Richardson.
Scat winners were Bob Richardson, Bill Baier, Irene Miller, Dee Fouts, Doris Matyas, Terry Mamula, Pat Rose, Pat Pfabe and Huck Hanuscin.
The next meeting will be held Sept. 12 at the Roosevelt Building.


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Our team is in need of a performance testing process. We use ASP.Net (both web forms and MVC) and performance testing is not currently built into our projects. We occasionally do some ad-hoc analysis, such as checking the load on the server or SQL Server Profiler, but we don't have a true beginning to end, built into the project performance testing methodology.
Where is a good place to start? I'm interested in both:
- Process - General knowledge, including best practices.
- Essential list of tools.
I'm aware of a few tools, such as what's built into the pricier versions of VS 2010 and JetBrains products, though I haven't used them.


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Congress finally took action this week, to keep us all from going over the fiscal cliff. But there are still several big financial challenges looming.
We are inching ever closer to the debt ceiling. President Obama wants Congress to raise the ceiling to keep America afloat. But Kentucky Senator Rand Paul opposes that idea, except under one specific condition.
Sen. Paul: "Ya know we owe $16 trillion. We're borrowing over a trillion dollars every year. And it just seems like we had that battle last year; we're gonna have it again this year. I've said there's one condition I would vote to raise the debt ceiling, and that's if we attach a balanced budget amendment to it and amend the constitution to say you can no longer borrow money that you don't have. You have to actually balance your books every year."
Gene Birk: "But what are the chances of that happening?"
Sen. Paul: "Hm, pretty slim."
Senator Paul says the biggest drain on our budget is entitlements: Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, which he says takes up two-thirds of our budget.


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This is just magical! What a great shot! Thanks for sharing!
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This is just magical! What a great shot! Thanks for sharing!
Hello Massimo! Congratulations! This is an incredible photograph. Will you please share the camera settings for this? I am trying to capture fireflies for sometime now, but never get a decent one. Will appreciate your help.
Of the many firefly images I have viewed, none have been as impressive as this. Nice technique, like fireworks, allowing for movement and capturing more light.
sunflowers in the night ....
Oh this is....surreal
just amazing....
thanks for sharing, so beautiful.
looks like a fairy garden right out of a fantasy book!
how beautiful our world is...............
wow......no other words come to mind great shot
I remember when I was a kid, there's a lot of 'em in the country where I grow up but because of continuing population growth I barely seen one of this mystical creature. :(
Like a scene from fairy tale. Congratulations..
As a enchanted garden...
I'm glad to see the Sele valley is still a healthy habitat;as a child, I used to spend my summer holidays in Contursi Terme, where my father was born, so I love that area. Thank you!
I think this is a magical picture and I like it very much.
This work made me feel like stepping into the scene. Thank you!
I love it when a photo stops me and I have to ask. "Oh my, what is this?" This stopped me and "oh my!" I can't wait to try it.
Extraordinary shot and magical
simply superb
My jaws are still open!
Oh my god! This is magical!
Wow !
Massimo, Ciao, Fantastic shot of fireflies.
simply fascinating........
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6 Famous Unsolved Mysteries (That Have Totally Been Solved)
One of our favorite pastimes here at Cracked is sucking the mystery out of life like the cream out of a Twinkie, leaving only the bland, dry sponge cake of reality behind. To that end, we've decided to list the often mundane solutions to some of the world's most enduring mysteries, and once again, you're welcome.
Note: As much as we like to act like we have all the answers, the truth is that we're probably even more freaked out by this weird-ass world than you are. After all, we've dedicated a sizeable portion of our site just to pointing out things that no one has been able to figure out yet.
But the weirdest thing that we haven't figured out is, ironically, what we haven't yet figured out. This Cracked Classic is about the misconceptions we have about what's actually mysterious. Are you still with us? What we're saying is that things you think of as simple mundanities are more likely to be mysteries than the things you think of as mysteries. Do you follow? There's nothing strange about Amelia Earhart and Atlantis -- that's our point. -Cracked
#6. Amelia Earhart
The disappearance of Amelia Earhart is probably the most well-known mystery in the world that doesn't involve Tom Hanks looking for clues in old paintings. In 1936, Earhart planned to reserve herself a page in the record books by flying around the world; a 29,000-mile journey. On the last 7,000-mile leg of her second attempt in 1937, she disappeared after giving her last radio transmission. The transmission was not anything helpful like, "I'm going to try to just fly through this mountain. I saw it in a cartoon once."
More has been speculated about her disappearance than has probably been written about her life. One of the more epic theories is that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, went down over part of the Japanese Empire and were captured, interrogated as spies and executed. Some assert that she was actually a spy for President Roosevelt, and that she secretly lived to the end of her days in New Jersey. Still others, with less imagination, think that she deliberately flew her plane into the Pacific because fuck it.
Maybe her gigantic head popped at high altitude.
The Answer:
Remarkably, we've pretty much had the Earhart mystery solved ever since partial remains were found on an island... in 1940. That's right, 70 years ago. Only four years after she vanished.
To be fair, half of the bones were carried away by giant crabs, and the rest have since been lost because nobody thought it was important or even curious that a skeleton should turn up on an island just southeast of where Amelia freaking Earhart was going. Neither did it strike a chord that the remains turned out to be those of a white woman with Earhart's measurements, or that they were found alongside a pocket knife, a broken cosmetics jar, a piece of glass from an airplane windshield and the same exact type of navigational system Earhart had been using. It's inconclusive, dammit!
The truth is out there. And we won't rest until we find it, or we get too drunk to remember how to spell "Eaerhurt."
Even though all of this evidence is circumstantial, it's a freaking slam-dunk compared to what we have been forced to swallow from conspiracy theorists, who rank Earhart's disappearance right up there with the mystery of the Mary Celeste.
Which reminds us...
#5. The Ghost Ship Mary Celeste
In 1872, the ship was spotted off the Azores in the Atlantic completely intact and undisturbed, aside from its missing crew. Not a single person, alive or dead or undead, could be found, despite everyone's personal belongings still sitting undisturbed where they had been left. Even little things like valuables and piano music were right where they should have been. It was as if its crew had simply evaporated.
The strange case of the disappearing crew of the merchant ship Mary Celeste is not only the most famous maritime mystery in history, it is the episode which served as midwife to the Bermuda Triangle hysteria.
We are through the looking glass here, people.
So how did everyone just vanish? Ghosts? Aliens? Sea monsters? Dimensional vortex? According to the History Channel, yes. After all, the case has proven a tough one to crack. All the ship's papers were missing, but the logbook was still safe and sound. Piracy is unlikely since there were no signs of a struggle and no booty missing. The main hatch was sealed, and there were no storms or time/space disruptions reported in the area.
Reports of elevated Old One activity remain unconfirmed.
The Answer:
Scientists now point to the one baffling clue that the ship left us with: Of its cargo of 1,701 barrels of alcohol, nine were empty. We know what you're thinking: The crew threw their captain overboard so that they could get drunk off raw alcohol and take the lifeboat out for a joyride, which went splendidly until they crashed it into a whale. Sounds like one hell of an interesting weekend, but the truth is actually a billion times more awesome.
You all ready for this?
The single greatest maritime mystery in history is now believed to have been the subject of one of the most incredible explosions in the history of alcohol. Dr. Andrea Sella, a professor of chemistry at University College London, created a replica of the Mary Celeste's hold back in 2006 just so he could find a MacGyverish way to blow it up without leaving a single sign of a fire. He simulated a leak of the ship's nine barrels of alcohol and found that once the vapor was ignited, say by a pipe or a spark, it created a "pressure-wave type of explosion... There was a spectacular wave of flame but, behind it, was relatively cool air. No soot was left behind and there was no burning or scorching."
Dr. Andrea Sella.
That's right, the Mary Celeste was likely subject to a freaky ghost explosion powerful enough to blow open all the hatches, but ultimately leave everyone and everything on the boat completely unharmed. The crew, however, would have experienced a freakout akin to when the Nazis opened the Ark of the Covenant.
It appears the missing crew were so utterly horrified that they piled into the ship's lifeboat without any useful things like food or water, eventually sinking or dying of thirst and exposure. Yes, the Mary Celeste would have still looked perfectly fine as they sailed off into Death's open arms, but ask yourself: Would you have volunteered to go back onto that ship?
#4. The Fate of Atlantis
Atlantis sure is one hell of a tantalizing story. First documented by the ancient Greek philosophers, it serves constantly as a warning for modern society against every possible threat from war to climate change to alien invasion, where applicable. They were the most advanced civilization on Earth, but even they couldn't stop whatever catastrophe managed to sink their island into the Atlantic. For centuries we have dreamed about finding this lost city and unlocking the secrets to its fate, so that we might prevent the same thing happening to us!
And make an Indiana Jones video game with a better plot than two of the movies.
Unfortunately, the search for Atlantis has yielded exactly no results ever. Plato is pretty much all we have to work with, and he's too dead to return any of our calls. However, this hasn't stopped proponents of the theory of the lost city to draw fancy maps of it, which sure does feel like a step in the right direction for some reason.
The fact that they avoided Oklahoma is clear evidence of their status as a super-advanced society.
Nevertheless, Atlantis has turned into a bit of a super-conspiracy theory which absorbs just about anything you throw at it, and has served as a tentative answer to basically every other mystery in this article.
The Answer:
Atlantis is not a thing.
First of all, our knowledge of plate tectonics rules out the possibility of sunken mystery continents. But there's a far more convincing reason than even this: That is, Atlantis was something that Plato completely pulled out of his ass just so Socrates could have something to talk about, and he specifically mentions in his writing that Atlantis is a completely hypothetical city.
"No one will take this 'Atlantis' shit seriously. They'd have to be even more drunk and ignorant than ancient Greeks."
This is part of the reason why Atlantis was not taken seriously until modern times. Most ancients actually took Plato's dialogues as the thought experiments they really were.
What's more, the book that mentions Atlantis, the Timaeus, is fewer than 100 pages long. This is shit you can seriously knock out while you're killing time at the bus station. Though it should not come as much surprise that countless books and god knows how many hours of the History Channel have been dedicated to asking a riddle as easy to solve as looking up a word in the dictionary. It's pretty damn easy to pass yourself as an expert in a book that most people have never actually read past the first few pages.
The History Channel: For People Who Hate Reading.


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Weird fetish you have.littleguru wrote:I'm going to enjoy it.
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- Can I boot to Linux using the Vista bootloader (without using a Linux bootloader)?
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- Why do we have to create a dos floppy to flash a bios?
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littleguru wrote: I'm going to enjoy it.
Interesting video I'm enjoying it, and what is amazing me is that is running without bios hmm kind of suprised.
Great job definitivly !
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Pronouncing Hashem's name in a song
Many songs we sing and the Shabbat table we use the word Hashem instead of Hashem's real name even when the song was written in rhyme or the tune clearly calls for the word Ado-ni as the clear word that rhymes. For example Tzur Mishelo. Where does this custom come from and why?


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Hi community. I'm looking for some input on building or buying a computer. I'm leaning toward a build for price, but let's put the cart before the horse. I HAVE to put Windows on it, at least one release bootable. The others I can vbox. Ubuntu will be the main OS I use. I don't do anything that requires a lot of beef, but I do want to build the most powerful computer I can. I occasionally will get on a gaming kick, but short of that it is general surfing, text editing, java, video etc. Here is the rest of the story.
I am looking to stay in a $500 US budget. I already have plenty of video cards, cases (ATX, mid ATX, but prefer the bigger case), PSUs from 850W to 1050, 8 Gb of DDR2 (I'll drop that in favor of DDR3), lots of sata HDDs (but would prefer SSD for the OSes). My old mobo died from the build I had about 5 or 6 years ago. Served me quite well, but now I need a new one. I'm willing to buy a new box if the price makes sense or use the stuff I have now or any combination of the two. I'm looking for 6 or more memory sockets, I am not brand loyal to AMD or Intel, and I am looking for a great deal. I tend not to overclock anything. I'm not really for or against it, but aside from curiousity it never really was a big deal for me. Oh, and I would like to RAID from 2-4 SATA drives, depending on what I have laying around.
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Let's say you have some detailed moulding around several interior doors and you want to strip the paint off with the least amount of labor (time-wise)? How would you go about it? Heat gun, chemicals, removing the trim and reinstalling, etc are all options.
The least time route would definitely be the "remove the trim and replace with fresh" route.
However, this would depend on you being able to get a suitable replacement.
Heat gun is quite quick, but you have to be careful of a) the chemicals released when heating the paint and b) not scorching the wood. Heat guns shouldn't really be used where you've got lead based paint.
Chemicals will be useful where you've got delicate/intricate mouldings but will probably take the longest as you might need several applications if you've got lots of layers of paint.
You will definitely need to sand the mouldings if you use a heat gun, you may have to if you use chemicals. This might not be practicable for delicate/intricate mouldings.
Getting someone else to do it is always the least labor-intensive: if you have a paint stripping service nearby, ask them about doing it. They'll have access to stronger chemicals than you will, and they'll also have the physical setup for taking care of fumes and toxic waste. The service that I used dunks the pieces in a bath of heated solvent which dissolves the paint: no scraping, so no potential for damage to any intricate detailing.
I had a door done a while back; IIRC, they charge by surface area of the piece being treated and it was around US$100 for that (80"Hx30"Wx1.5"D) door. When I got it back, I just had to sand lightly to get the surface back to a milled condition.
This really depends on the age and type of paint, number of layers, and how intricate the wood is. I'd test one or all of the methods on a small area to see what works best.
By far, taking the wood off the wall, stripping it and putting it back is faster and safer. It is much easier to scrap it once its not attached to the wall. Then it is a lot easier to use chemicals.
Heat works very well, but be very careful to test it as you go and not to burn it. As soon as it starts to bubble, scrap it. In my experience, heat has not been useful when there is new latex paint over old paint; it just made the top layer sticky and harder to get off. I usually try to scrap as much off as I can first before using heat. Latex paint sometimes peels off in nice long strips. I've used heat on lead paint before, but wearing a respirator mask and with good ventilation in the room. If you take the woodwork off, this is less of an issue as you can do it in your garage or something.
A heat gun and a sharp triangular scrapper works very well on old mill work and corners. You can also get quartz heaters that can heat a large section of the trim at once and are very effective (but expensive).
A good sharp putty knife works well on latex paints and flat surfaces. You can get good, cheap scrappers of all shapes at flea markets and sharpen them up to snuff. Often the challenge is hitting the paint at the right angle, so try different scrapers if you find that what you are doing isn't working.
If you go with chemicals, wire brushes work really well. My neighbor told me that acetone works well for removing excess sludge that gets stuck in woodwork, but I haven't tried this yet. I try to avoid chemicals as I always seem to spend more time trying to get rid of the sludge than I would just scrapping paint!
Good luck. Restoring wood work is such a pain and there is really no "easy" way to do it. The results can be worth the pain though!


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XVIIth International Congress
for Analytical Psychology
August 12-17, 2007
Cape Town, South Africa
Call for Participation
The Program Committee for the XVIIth International Congress for Analytical Psychology is pleased to invite proposals for presentation at the IAAP Congress in Cape Town, South Africa, to be held from August 12 to 17, 2007. The theme of the Congress will be:
Journeys Encounters
Clinical – Communal – Cultural
As Analytical Psychology engages the contemporary world, the richness of our tradition is finding exciting confirmations and challenges in numerous spheres, internally among schools of Jungian theory and practice as well as externally from other disciplines. The multi-faceted quality of analytic life in the 21st century is apparent; we anticipate our Congress will reflect this.
With this first IAAP Congress in Africa, the host country, South Africa, will be highlighted with its highly diverse, multi-ethnic society, and complicated history and politics. It is anticipated that an exciting optional program of cultural events and visits before, during and after the Congress will be arranged to make the most of being in South Africa.
In preparation for this Congress, which will entail journeys of many sorts, the Program Committee seeks to accent the fullness and diversity of our multiple encounters. Therefore, we enthusiastically encourage you to submit proposals that speak to such engagements, as they touch upon archetypal, scientific, developmental, religious, political, sociological, or imaginal aspects of our work.
To enhance the depth of engagement, in addition to the usual format of lecture-papers, the Program Committee envisions a new format of presentations by small groups extending over several days in a given time slot. This will create a series of horizontal bands each with a focus on clinical, communal or cultural aspects of our field. The emphasis is on discussion and debate of key topical issues, both among the presenters and with audience participants.
The Congress will be open to scholars. To enhance the exploration of interdisciplinary approaches as they interact and impact the theory and practice of analytical psychology, we encourage groups to consider in their presentations including experts from various disciplines such as cultural anthropology, the cognitive and neurosciences, sociology, evolutionary psychiatry, politics, history and so forth. Similarly, bands devoted to the Arts are anticipated, with attention to music, movement, film, along with fine arts.
Bands for clinical discussions: proposals involving small groups of analysts focusing on the clinical encounter are invited. To support good containment of the materials presented, these may require pre-registration as well as being limited to members of the analytic community only.
Workshops, debates and other creative formats as well as poster sessions also will be entertained. Candidates are welcome to submit proposals for posters if this is permissible by their Institutes.
Please send Proposals to:
Toni D'Anca, Administrator
1015 Orilla del Mar #7, Santa Barbara, CA 93103 USA
805.965.4837 Phone / 805.962.1878 Fax
Proposals should be no more than 500 words, including a title. Please include names of presenter(s) and their affiliations, and specification of the language of presentation. The deadline for submitting proposals is October 15, 2005; program decisions will be announced in the spring of 2006.
Please note that, should your proposal be accepted, no honorariums or expenses can be paid to presenters. All presenters must pre-register at the full congress fees. Submission of a proposal will be understood to indicate a willingness to attend the entire Congress if the proposal is accepted.
Inquiries about the program should be sent (electronically or by regular mail) to:
Joe Cambray, Chair of the Program Committee
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TEMPLE (November 26, 2012)--The Ronald McDonald House will host a Christmas lighting event Tuesday.
The community is invited out to view the exterior and interior decorations set up by a select group of Temple High students.
Temple native Jenna McDaniel will sing a selection of songs and area schools will perform song and dance routines.
Children will also have the opportunity to take their portrait with Santa Claus and special guest KWTX Chief Weather Anchor Rusty Garrett will add to the fun.
For $10, residents can sponsor a light which will help with the organization's expenses.
The lighting event will last from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. at 2415 South 47th Street.
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We all know that the Rubik's Cube provides a nice concrete introduction to group theory. I'm wondering what other similar gadgets are out there that you've found useful for introducing new math to undergraduates and/or advanced high school students.
I made these ropes with rare earth magnets in the ends for demonstrating knots. The materials (rope, magnets, PVC pipe and glue) are inexpensive. I've used Tangle before to play with knots, but it doesn't tend to move over itself very easily and it can be hard to see at a distance which strand is on top at a crossing.
A few months back we taught a course on curves and surfaces to undergraduates and asked them to slice a bagel into two linked halves as in here. Of course, you need at least two bagels per student since inevitably most of them end up cutting the first bagel into two unlinked pieces.
The 15-tile sliding puzzle (may be a bit outdated by now) is also a good way to introduce permutation groups and even permutations in particular.
And lastly, the game of Sim (not to be confused with sim city) where two players take turns in drawing edges in red and blue on set of 6 vertices. The rule is that if an edge already exists between a and b then one cannot draw another one. The aim is to avoid a triangle in your own colour. It is known that this game always has a winner. Obvious generalizations to more colours and more vertices lead to Ramsey theory. I actually took this route while lecturing to high school kids and they get into it if you start your talk by playing a few games on the blackboard.
The Lights Out game, for the utility of linear algebra over nonobvious fields (here, ${\mathbb F}_2$). It's easy to find on-line versions.
Please forgive me for tooting my own horn, but you might be interested in this link and this link (scroll down to the section "sporadic simple puzzles"). I worked on these puzzles around the same time that I learned about basic group theory, and thinking about them really helped clarify certain ideas (such as group actions, conjugation, and the utility of studying the orders of groups and their elements). I think they could be quite valuable as teaching aids.
Slightly off the mark, however you can build a toy model to accomplish the same objective.
I took my section out of the classroom to a spot not far away when I was a TA for calculus. There was a domed window with panels on it that curved. It was a bright day, and we could see the shadow below. I used this as a model to demonstrate the need for a Jacobian in doing multivariate change of variables in integration. I probably could have drawn on a balloon for a pedagogical equivalent, but I thought it was good for the section to walk to an example.
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I have been using these 3D printed models of quadric surfaces in my multivariable calculus classes. It is perhaps hard to believe at first that the hyperboloid of one sheet is a ruled surface (at least if depicted as it is in the model). But holding the straight edge of a piece of paper up to the model immediately makes it very plausible.
Very low-tech - I cut a square out of a piece of cardboard and use it to illustrate the group of symmetries of a square, first day of a group theory course.
Replying to Dan Brumleve's recommendation of the card game "Set" as an answer because my comment was exceeding the maximum allowed size.
The card game "Set" is most analogous to playing tic-tac-toe on a 4-dimensional lattice of size $3 \times 3\times 3\times 3$, allowing for lines to wrap around in that 4-space.
As Douglas Zare described it, the "game asks you to recognize lines in affine 4-space over the field with 3 elements." There are $3^4=81$ cards, with each card showing a design that can be described by 4 attributes, with each attribute containing 3 elements: 3 colors, 3 shapes, 3 levels of shading (outlined, striped, solid), and 3 cardinalities (1,2, or 3).
Twelve cards are initially dealt with players competing to find a grouping of 3 cards such that their attributes are collinear in the 4-d space: either all the same or all different. Thus each line in affine space can also be described by the vector $v\in ${$-1, 0,+1$}$^4$ (but excluding $\{0\}^4$) and a representative member of that grouping. Each card can be also be seen as describing a permutation on the group of the 81 cards.
One quick question that comes out of this is
The answer to that is no. If the people playing concur that the 12 cards initally dealt does not contain 3-points in the 4-d lattice that are collinear, then 3 more cards are dealt, etc.
What is the maximum number of cards that can be played which do not contain a collinear group of three? (ans=20)
The card game misuses the mathematical term "set" in its name and in its directions for playing the game, since it asks the players to yell out "set!" when they find such a collinear grouping in the 4-d lattice. It should be rightfully called "line", or perhaps most correctly "4-dimensional affine space line over the field with 3 elements". But yelling that out each time would certainly slow down playing the game. :)
http://www.springerlink.com/content/l816l24678517v44/ has an article from the Mathematical Intelligencer about this game by Benjamin Lent Davis, Diane Maclagan and Ravi Vakil.
I'm amazed no one mentioned using the Towers of Hanoi to teach recursive thinking and inductive proofs. The question to answer is `what's the minimum number of moves to shift a stack of n disks from the far left to the far right?'
Wooden models of the tower game can be bought very cheaply here. I love giving this to students to play with as they work out the algorithm then try to write down the inductive proof.
The Tangle is a plastic manipulative toy that can be used to introduce students to knot theory. This is what the Tangle looks like:
Colin Adams has published a book entitled Why Knot: An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Knots with Tangle.
The publisher's blurb says: "Each copy of Why Knot? is packaged with a plastic manipulative called the Tangle®. Adams uses the Tangle because 'you can open it up, tie it in a knot and then close it up again.' The Tangle is the ultimate tool for knot theory because knots are defined in mathematics as being closed on a loop. Readers use the Tangle to complete the experiments throughout the brief volume."
The Tangle that is included with the book is much longer than the one shown in the photograph above, so it can be bent to create fairly complicated knots.
I have used Polydrons (triangles,squares, etc. that snap together) to illustrate why there are only 5 platonic solids, to describe their symmetry groups. They also are useful to describe Euler characteristic.
I have also used Set (as others have mentioned) to give an application of modular arithmetic and ask interesting probability/combinatorics questions, such as: "what is the largest possible number of Set cards that contains no set?"
You can also use two jump ropes to illustrate the group PSL(2,Z) as in Conway's "rational tangles." See Conway's lecture on it.
I don't happen to own a planimeter, but there are simulated ones on the internet. These use Green's theorem to compute area of a traced curve - you trace out the curve and a gadget mechanically collects the dot products of a fixed vector field and your tangent vector. If you take your vector field to have constant curl, then the gadget has computed for you the area of a region. I have demonstrated this to calculus students after teaching them Green's theorem, and they find it impressive, generally.
Here is a link to one: http://www.hpmuseum.org/planim/planimtr.htm#the_applet . There is a link to a guide which describes how it works, but you may have to work it out yourself, since it's rather terse.
Another classic is to ask them to construct a Mobius strip out of duct tape, and to cut it down the middle, three levels deep (so 1 + 1 + 2 = 4 cuts in all, recording their observations. This serves as an enticement for vector calculus students to learn topology.
A chess board. Preferably with two opposite corners missing.
David Bachman has been experimenting with using 3d printing to make models for multivariable calculus. For example, models of the graph of $z = x^2 - y^2$, showing the vertical slices and the level curves.
I enjoyed playing the card game Set. http://www.setgame.com/set/index.html
I have not yet experimented this, but I plan to use a hat and a skirt (with bottom larger than top) to illustrate curvature.
Tadashi Tokieda invents and uses a lot of toys to explore some problems in applied mathematics. Some of these toys along with explanations can be see in this youtube link.
He even made a speaking in National Museum of Mathematics this year:


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Let $U$ be the line intersection of the planes $x + y + z = 0$ and $4x + y + z = 0$. Let $T:\mathbb{R}^3\rightarrow U$ be the projection of $\mathbb{R}^3$ onto U. Find the formula for $T(x, y, z)$
This is a problem in my textbook. Finding the equation of the line is easy: The equation of line is: $[0 -1 1] * t$
But second part, finding the formula, I don't understand so much. And I cannot find connection in the phrase "onto U" to solve this problem.
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5 Shockingly Crazy Judges Who Presided Over Modern Courts
Most of us, if accused of a crime, aren't crazy about having our fate decided by a jury (as the old joke goes, it's a dozen people who weren't clever enough to get out of jury duty). But the judge is a different story -- these are seasoned, esteemed experts in the law who have earned their robes by proving their knowledge and impartiality.
Well, most of the time. Sometimes you wind up with one who, let's just say, doesn't inspire as much confidence ...
#5. Judge Sends Courtroom Sexts (and Has Courthouse Sex)
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A picture is worth a thousand words, so instead of telling you what sort of thing Judge Wade McCree did, we suppose we should just show you:
A few inches down and we'd have seen his gavel.
Yes, the Detroit judge texted his way to infamy when he sent a shirtless photo of himself to one of his female bailiffs. To give a sense of the kind of guy we're dealing with, consider that McCree, who also handles sexual misconduct cases, brushed aside the impropriety of his actions with this brazen reply: "Yep, that's me. No shame in my game." And that's just the beginning for the self-proclaimed "king of latex."
When one Geniene La'Shay Mott entered McCree's courtroom to settle a child support dispute, McCree resolved to enter her. After securing a lunch date with Mott through one of her hearings, McCree began a 20-week affair with Mott, during which he used his position on the bench to get nookie in his judge's chambers, assist Mott's relatives in lowering their bond, and, according to Mott, get her pregnant. All while he was still presiding over her case.
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"'Your honor'? I barely knew 'er!"
For a moment it seemed that all was not completely lost for McCree, who had an ace down his pants in the form of a psychiatrist who said that McCree suffers from hypomania. That's a mental condition that could explain the judge's overly confident statements (which, to be honest, sound kind of awesome) and rash behavior. The commission deciding his fate, however, saw it otherwise, suspending McCree without pay.
But hey, at least he didn't whip out his dick on the bench. Which brings us to ...
#4. Judge Jerks His Junk During Trials
Yes, Oklahoma Judge Donald Thompson violated what has to be one of the first two or three rules they teach you in judge school when he was caught exposing himself during court proceedings. And no, this wasn't just a one-time jerk-and-work -- according to court reporter Lisa Foster, Thompson exposed himself at the bench at least 15 different times between 2001 and 2003. And on at least four other occasions, he used a penis pump.
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If we wanted judges to keep it covered, we'd make them wear pants.
To make things extra awkward, this all occurred during jury trials, which means that while attempting to focus on evidence, jurors were being serenaded by the wet whoosh of a handy-dandy dick plunger. One such case involved a man on trial for child murder. Disturbingly, Thompson was heard pleasuring the old flesh gavel every day of those proceedings. When confronted by jurors about the noise, the judge denied hearing it at all, likely because the intensity of his mechanized fapping had dulled all his other senses.
Once caught, the judge attempted to dismiss the claims as a friendly misunderstanding, explaining that the pump was a gag gift that he innocently toyed with during hearings, not some secret pleasure device (not that it could have been much of a secret with all that goddamned noise). However, Thompson had been so ballsy with his stroke-a-thons that he failed to hide his love pump from the prying eyes of a policeman during a fateful murder trial.
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This surprised Thompson, who'd heard that justice was blind.
During a lunch break, officers photographed the courtroom crime scene, and a subsequent investigation of Thompson's robes, carpet, chair, and desk yielded semen. Police had hit the jackpot, earning this crazy chronic masturbator a four-year prison sentence.
#3. Multiple Judges Pulled Guns from the Bench
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We have to admit, being a judge probably means constantly wishing you could circumvent all the convoluted legal crap and just whip out a gun. In fact, it's mostly the ability to resist that impulse that qualifies a person to be a judge in the first place. But don't tell that to Florida judge J. Leonard Fleet, who pulled a .38-caliber revolver on a defendant when the man made unruly comments in the courtroom.
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His Second Amendment right.
To be fair, those comments were "If I had a gun, I'd kill that judge." Still, a calmer, saner man would have responded to the remark by charging the guy with contempt of court and getting him out of the room. But Judge Fleet was neither a sane nor a calm man. Witnesses reported seeing him place a single bullet in the chamber before uttering, "There's one bullet in the cylinder. Do you want to take your best shot? If you're going to take a shot, you had better score, because I don't miss." Then he calmly left the loaded gun on the bench for the rest of the morning session, just so everyone would realize he was batshit insane.
Clearly Fleet's courtroom theatrics were out of line, but this was back in the lawless days of 1992 (and it was Florida), so we can maybe give him a pass. We certainly wouldn't find that kind of behavior going on in 2013. It did, however, occur in 2012. In what was perhaps the world's worst attempt at advice-giving, Georgia judge David Barrett pulled his gun on a witness when he decided her testimonial skills were lacking. "You might as well shoot your lawyer," he suggested.
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"If brandishing guns and threatening lawyers is against the law, throw my ass in jail."
We should have mentioned that this woman was testifying as a victim of sexual assault and that her assailant once held a gun to her head. As you probably imagine, Barrett's behavior did not sit well with the other judges, and an inquiry, complete with finger-wagging, followed. The judge, apparently unable to take being in the hot seat himself, opted to resign rather than face continued scrutiny over his disastrous communicative style.