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Wildcats Talk With Media Following Fiesta Bowl Loss
Posted: 11:46 PM Jan 3, 2013
Reporter: Fiesta Bowl, posted by Kinch O'Kelley
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Following the Wildcats 35-17 loss at the hands of Oregon in the Fiesta Bowl, Coach Bill Snyder and team captains met with the media.
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THE MODERATOR: Coach, could we please ask you for some opening comments.
COACH SNYDER: Well, I'll be awfully quick.
Obviously we lost to an extremely fine football team. We made mistakes early in the ballgame that, you know, were very costly. As I said to our football team, no one gave up. I appreciated their effort. We didn't play as well as we're capable of playing.
But that takes absolutely nothing away from the University of Oregon. They're a very, very talented team. We were beaten by a better team. We just didn't play that way tonight, just made too many mistakes.
We got three seniors up here. I appreciate all three of them. They're young guys that have given so much to Kansas State University, to the family of Kansas State, and to our football program. I appreciate all they've done, so...
THE MODERATOR: We'll go to questions for the student?athletes.
Q. With the initial kickoff return, coming out the first time, you are already trailing, how tough was that in a game where kind of keeping pace was the key thing?
ARTHUR BROWN: You know, as a team coming into the game, we knew it would be a fight. We knew the game wouldn't be won in the first, second, or third quarter. We would have to finish.
Oregon, give them credit where credit is due. We weren't able to finish the way we would have liked to.
Like I said, it's a four?quarter game and we had to respond in the proper manner.
Q. Collin, can you talk about the Oregon defensive line, why it was so difficult for you to get on track?
COLLIN KLEIN: Well, I mean, they just made a lot of great plays, moved around, really flew to the football, executed better than we did.
You know, it's hard. But like everyone said, they're a good football team. We just didn't execute.
Q. Collin, your emotions right now. Your college career has come to an end.
COLLIN KLEIN: I mean, I'm just so blessed that God's given me the opportunity to be here at K State, be part of this family, play with all of our guys, play for coach.
I mean, it's hard. It's not the way any of us wanted to go out. You know, that's the way it goes.
Q. Chris, how would you characterize your game plays tonight? You led all players in receiving yards and catches.
CHRIS HARPER: We took an L. That's the only thing that matters. The stats don't matter. I could care less if I had a catch or not. We took an L. It's the last game of our careers at K State, so I could care less what my numbers was.
Q. Collin, on the fourth?and?one where you were called for the false start, that led to the field goal that was missed, were you going to run a play on that particular play or were you going for a hard count? Can you comment on how the game changed.
COLLIN KLEIN: Well, I mean, we were going to try to go hard count. That was one of two drives that we're down there and we said at the very beginning we're going to be able to win the line of scrimmage, score touchdowns, not stall, whether it was kicking field goals or whatever. That's exactly what happened and we weren't able to do it.
Again, we just didn't get it done.
Q. Arthur, how long till you're able to look at this season, the big picture, and remember 11 wins and a Big 12 championship?
ARTHUR BROWN: You know, like Collin said, us as seniors, we had the great opportunity to be a part of this team. This is not the end. This is the beginning of a new season.
We're building for the future. Like Coach Snyder said, he would like for us all to stay attached to the program, to focus on the young guys, just continue to lead. Our leadership as seniors is not over with. We need to continue to invest ourselves leading on in the future.
Q. Collin, I was wondering if you could recount that touchdown run that you had. If your two teammates could share a thought on Collin's toughness, him being able to score, what he's meant to this team.
COLLIN KLEIN: Well, again, I think it was a third down, if I remember right. We had a scheme called, had a good look. Went through my first two or three, didn't see too much. Just kind of saw a little window. Knew the backside was emptied out. Tried to get myself in the end zone.
But, again, like Chris said, and Arthur, it's about our family, it's about giving it all we had. Obviously, we didn't want it to end this way. At the end of the day, we just collectively didn't get it done.
Q. How many of you have heard of the one?point safety rule? What was your reaction when it was called?
ARTHUR BROWN: I can't really say too much about that 'cause I never heard of the one?point safety rule. I have to pass that on to Chris.
CHRIS HARPER: Never heard of it.
COLLIN KLEIN: No, it's one of those weird things that happens, I guess.
Q. Collin, with the loss tonight, Kansas State has gone a decade without a bowl win. What is it that makes bowl games so hard to finish? Is it something for Kansas State specifically or just the opponents?
COLLIN KLEIN: I mean, you'd be making a lot of money if you could find...
It's a combination of a lot of things. Like Arthur said, we had a great opportunity and we just came up short.
Q. Collin, can you at this point put into perspective this incredible ride that you have taken this season? Nobody really expected this from you.
COLLIN KLEIN: Well, I mean, that's one of our team goals. That's what coach tells us all the time. It's what he said at the first meeting to all of us when he first got in, just trying to be the best we can be, improve from where we were the day before.
Again, I'm just so proud to be a part of a team that did that and didn't allow anyone to tell us how good or bad we were going to be, not to let ourselves tell ourselves how good or bad we could be.
It's overshadowed right now, but that is something to hang our hat on. I'm proud to have been a part of it.
Q. Chris, a lot has been talked about the time you spent at Oregon. Did you get to catch up with any of your former teammates?
CHRIS HARPER: Not really. Different schedule. We really weren't doing much throughout the week. No, I didn't really get to talk to them a lot. I seen like one or two of them. It wasn't like sit down and have lunch. I'm trying to beat these dudes. It's not like trying to be friendly. I didn't get to talk to them.
Q. Arthur, after you guys missed the field goal at the end of the first half, Oregon got the ball with a minute to go and went down the field. Can you explain what happened defensively on that drive.
ARTHUR BROWN: Well, at that moment in time, you know, we felt as a team we had the momentum. That was a factor in the outcome of the game.
There's a combination of so many things that could have took place that could have changed the outcome of this game.
We had the opportunity. We let it slip away. Like coach said, we need to make the most of every opportunity we have and not take advantage [sic] of anything. In some cases we failed to do so.
Q. Could you guys speak briefly about Collin, his toughness, what he's meant to this team.
CHRIS HARPER: He mean everything. He sums up what we about as a team. We hang our hat on toughness. Everybody might not see us as the most talented team in America. But we hang our hat on toughness, giving the greatest effort we can do and this dude sums it up to a T. One of the hardest workers and probably one of the toughest dudes I ever met. He sums it up perfectly.
Q. It seemed maybe more in the second half that the secondary keyed on you a bit more, tried to double?team you more. Did it come across that way?
CHRIS HARPER: Yeah, a little bit. I think they planned for it a little bit. The way the players was out there talking in the second half, I mean, it opened it up for other guys.
But, yeah, I think they shaded a little bit more to me, but you still got to go out there and make plays. We got 11 men on the field, they have 11 men on the field. We just didn't come up with the plays we needed to.
Q. Arthur, about their quarterback, as you prepared for him, can you talk about their quarterback and some of the things that you saw him do tonight.
ARTHUR BROWN: He's a great young player. He has a bright future. Just with the team we played tonight, they have a lot of guys around that complement who he is, what he's about. He was able to make some great plays for Oregon tonight. They came up with the win.
Q. How tough is it to realize that you just played your final game?
ARTHUR BROWN: With each step moving forward, I think it will really sink in, at no particular point in time.
It's on us to reflect back on all that we've experienced with one another, the opportunity that we had. Just really embracing the moment now.
Like Collin said, it's been a tremendous opportunity to play with this team and be a part of this team. Moving forward, we just have to remember what we experienced here.
THE MODERATOR: Thank you, gentlemen. We'll dismiss the student?athletes and go to questions for Coach Snyder.
Q. The period on the hard count. You seem to have taken the momentum. You have a fourth?and?one. The false start and ensuing field goal. Is it oversimplistic to say the game swung on that?
COACH SNYDER: I would concur that it had a significant impact on the outcome of the ballgame.
But, you know, by the same token, going in down 10, even though that took the momentum away, nevertheless there was some that preceded that. I think we still felt that we had the appropriate opportunity to finish the ballgame the right way.
But it was a big swing. You're absolutely correct. There's no guarantee that we would have scored. But the intent there, being fourth down, we'd end up kicking a field goal. No guarantee we would have made that one if we hadn't gotten a penalty.
It was mistakes like that during the course of the first half that were instrumental in probably where we were in the first half. We had our opportunities.
Q. What was the hardest thing tonight trying to run the ball with Collin?
COACH SNYDER: I think the hardest thing is we had difficulty throwing the football, which they put you in a position where you had to do that for the most part with the number of people, as most of you say, they bring down in the box.
We had some difficulty throwing it because they got the big rangy guys who got their hands up. All sorts of tipped passes in the ballgame. My recollection is five tipped passes which would have concluded in pass completions, given us a little bit more flexibility in being able to mix the throw and the run.
The second half, when we fell behind, you get to a point after a while where you become one?sided, which we were.
Q. On a night where you've already mentioned it was a subpar night for your team, how would you characterize Chris Harper's play?
COACH SNYDER: I think Chris played well, virtually has throughout the course of the season. I think he's a very gifted young guy. Has excellent hands. Obviously very physical wide receiver. Can advance the ball once he catches it. He did.
I don't think tonight was by any stretch of the imagination out of the ordinary for Chris. He's played well virtually all year.
Q. What has Collin Klein meant to this program? As he moves on, what will you remember about him most?
COACH SNYDER: Well, I think what I've shared so often, so many times. We have a lot of young people like that.
Collin is a wonderful young person. He is genuine. I appreciate that. If I had to say in one word, there's a lot of things that describe Collin, but he wears it on his sleeve. He wears his faith on his sleeve. He wears his enthusiasm for the game on his sleeve. He wears his leadership on his sleeve. He wears the quality of person that he is on his sleeve. He's not embarrassed by it by any stretch of the imagination.
To me, that just makes him so real and so genuine, and I appreciate that about him. There's a lot of things you appreciate. He's a wonderful family man. He's a great teammate with his players. He's a quality student. Obviously a quality athlete, as well.
But he makes the best out of everything that he has. He believes in those things that all of us ? I've overdone this I know ? but he strongly believes in all those things, those values that we talk about so often, that you and I want to teach our children.
Q. The kickoff return for the touchdown, what kind of pickle that put you in to start things off.
COACH SNYDER: As you look throughout the course of the half, yes, it obviously put you in a compromising situation to a certain degree. It's one of those things. We always talk about keep rowing the boat, keep sawing wood, whatever the case may be. That's what our guys did up to the very end of the half.
We had a chance to come away from it even though it was seven points we gave up in a heartbeat. We still had a chance to enter at halftime and feel not comfortable, but feel good about where we were.
But it was a major play in the ballgame surely.
THE MODERATOR: Thank you.
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Ive heard this term of "dragging the shutter" and was wondering what it means and why would i use it
Can anyone answer this?
Ive heard this term of "dragging the shutter" and was wondering what it means and why would i use it
Can anyone answer this?
It just means using a long exposure, usually in the context of mixing flash with ambient light, in order to let in more ambient light to better expose the background. See this related question:
The following applies mainly to "aperture priority" mode of operation - but similar effects can occur if care is not taken in other modes.
When flash is used, maximum available shutter speed is limited by the nature of the commonly used "two curtain" / focal plane / roller blind shutter. For practical purposes these typically have a maximum speed in the 1/100th - 1/200th second range when using flash. (Multi-flash flash is a seperate situation and much less common).
If the shutter speed with flash is say 1/200th second max ( = 5 milliseconds) and conditions are very dark then without a flash in the same conditions you might require a shutter speed of say 1/10th second. In that case, as the actual shutter speed is 1/200th second with flash = 20 times faster, the ambient light will contribute minimally to the overall exposure.
However, if you are photographing a stage show with eg brightly spotlit dancers, or are using the flash as fill flash to reduce facial shadowing on a bright day, them if using the ambient light only, your shutter speed might be 1/100 th second, or 1/250th or even 1/500th. Actual value will depend on aperture, ISO and light level. If you now enable the flash the shutter speed will be forced down to the maximum value that thecamera supports in flash mode. As you have set the aperture manually and as the shutter speed is now similar tp or even slower than the value that you would use with ambient light only, the ambient light will contribute substantially to the end result.
On sunlit day with fill flash the result can be massive overexposure as the camera is not able to increase the shutter speed adequately.
With a stage show with fast motion the effect can be more subtle but just as undesirable. The flash will now expose the scene about correctly but the overall slow shutter speed and high ambient light levels will allow extended images of moving dancers to be recorded. You may get a sharp image from the flash with the dancers surrounded by a movement "halo" from the lower speed ambient exposure. Wit care this can be used tp produce very "arty" and desirable effects. Without care this can produce a blurred and fuzzy mess. Actual result depends on actual shutter speed, aperture and ISO and amount of movement.
If yu wish to avoid or at least minimise this sort of effect set aperture and ISO such that the requried shutter speed with ambient light is far lower than the max flash-sync shutter speed. eg if ambient light requires 1/200th second at ISO 400, f/2.8, then using ISO 100 and f5.6 would push the required shutter speed down to about 1/15th second. If the camera is now arranged to expose correctly with flash at 1/200th second the ambient light will provide only about 5% of the light. Smaller apertures will further reduce ambient contributions.
Even if the scene is relatively static, varying desired results may be achieved by adjusting flash and ambient balance. A photo of a speaker at a podium lit with a halogen spot and with other dignatories seated close behind may benefit with more flash and less ambient to achieve better overall colour balance and colouring. A DJ at a party with several coloured spots washing his equipment may require some flash to allow equipment details to be seen but benefit from substantial mounts of ambient light so that the spot colours are not totally washed out by the flash. Dancers will generally look better if at least some of the lighting comes from coloured spots - while limiting the blurring which will occur if too much ambient effect is allowed.
By careful juggling of aperture & ISO and possibly also adjusting the flash power level you can produce any mix of flash and ambient in the image that you desire, with appropriate effects accordingly.
Dragging the shutter refers to allowing the shutter to stay open a longer time in flash photography to allow more of the ambient light to be captured. By only partially exposing the shot with a brief burst of intense light, the shutter can be left open longer than the flash burst to allow more influence from the ambient light and potentially give a more natural feel while still limiting the duration the shutter has to be open for a standard exposure.
There is still a slight trade off in the time stoping properties of a fast shutter, but since a lot of the light is captured in a fraction of the shutter time (from the flash) there is less impact than would occur in an exposure without a flash at all.
Dragging the shutter (also known as slow-sync) is a term used in the context of flash photography. It refers to the practice of leaving the shutter open longer than required by the camera's sync speed. The sync speed is the shutter speed needed to allow the relatively short duration flash to fire while the sensor is completely exposed between the time the first curtain has completely opened and the second has not yet begun to close.
Many times dragging the shutter is combined with second curtain sync.
This video explains in simple terms how a focal plane shutter works and why sync speed is important when a focal plane shutter is used in concert with a portable flash unit.
The purpose of dragging the shutter is to allow more of the ambient light in the scene to strike the sensor. Areas of the scene that would be too dark because they are too far away from the flash unit that is adjusted to properly expose the main subject can then be seen in the photo.
Another use of dragging the shutter is to allow light trails. Imagine a car driving from left to right at night. By dragging the shutter the lights on the car will create a trail of light across the frame. The short duration flash will illuminate the car and freeze it for the instant the flash is lit. If first curtain sync is used, the flash fires as soon as the first shutter curtain is open. The result of this looks unnatural to our eyes because that leaves the light trail leading in front of the car as the lights continue from left to right after the flash has fired. By using second curtain sync, the flash will fire just before the second curtain begins to close. Thus the light trails are exposed before the flash fires, and they appear to be trailing the car.

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Nearly 300 guests attended the event, which featured cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and a special preview of the "Top Drawer" exhibition before it opened to the public on Nov. 17.
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Tuning MySQL on Linux
By allanp on Feb 25, 2008
In this blog I'm sharing the results of a series of tests designed to explore the impact of various MySQL and, in particular, InnoDB tunables. Performance engineers from Sun have previously blogged on this subject - the main difference in this case is that these latest tests were based on Linux rather than Solaris.
It's worth noting that MySQL throughput doesn't scale linearly as you add large numbers of CPUs. This hasn't been a big issue to most users, since there are ways of deploying MySQL successfully on systems with only modest CPU counts. Technologies that are readily available and widely deployed include replication, which allows horizontal scale-out using query slaves, and memcached, which is very effective at reducing the load on a MySQL server. That said, scalability is likely to become more important as people increasingly deploy systems with quad-core processors, with the result that even two processor systems will need to scale eight ways to fully utilize the available CPU resources.
The obvious question is whether performance and scalability is going to attract the attention of a joint project involving the performance engineering groups at MySQL and Sun. You bet! Fruitful synergies should be possible as the two companies join forces. And in case you're wondering, Linux will be a major focus, not just Solaris - regard this blog as a small foretaste. Stay tuned in the months to come...
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On to the numbers. The tests were run on a Sun Fire X4150 server with two quad-core Intel Xeon processors (8 cores in total) and a Sun Fire X4450 server with four quad-core Intel Xeon processors (16 cores in total) running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1. The workload was Sysbench with 10 million rows, representing a database about 2.5Gbytes in size, using the current 64-bit Community version of MySQL, 5.0.51a. My colleague Neel has blogged on the workload and how we used it. The graphs below do not list throughput values, since the goal was only to show relative performance improvements.
The first test varied innodb_thread_concurrency. In MySQL 5.0.7 and earlier, a value greater than 500 was required to allocate an unlimited number of threads. As of MySQL 5.0.18, a value of zero means unlimited threads. In the graph below, a value of zero clearly delivers better throughput beyond 4 threads for the read-only test.
The read-write test, however, benefits from a setting of 8 threads. These graphs show the throughput on the 8-core system, although both the 8- and the 16-core systems showed similar behavior for each of the read-only and the read-write tests.
The following graphs show the effect of increasing the InnoDB buffer cache with the innodb_buffer_cache_size parameter. The first graph shows read-only performance and the second shows read-write performance. As you would expect, throughput increases significantly as the cache increases in size, but eventually reaches a point where no benefit is derived from further increases.
Finally, we've seen that throughput is affected by the amount of memory we assign to the InnoDB buffer cache. But since the default Linux file system, ext3, also caches pages, why not let Linux do the caching rather than InnoDB. To test this, we tried comparing throughput with and without Linux file system caching. Setting the innodb_flush_method parameter to O_DIRECT will cause MySQL to bypass the file system cache. The results are shown in the graph below. Clearly the file system cache makes a difference, because throughput with the InnoDB buffer cache set to 1024 Mbytes supported by the file system cache is also as good as throughput with no file system caching and the InnoDB buffer cache set to 2048 Mbytes. But while the Linux file system cache can help protect you somewhat if you undersize your InnoDB buffer cache, for optimal performance, it's important to give the InnoDB buffer cache as much memory as it needs. Bypassing the Linux file system cache may not be a good idea unless you have properly sized the InnoDB buffer cache - disk read activity was very high when the buffer cache was too small and the file system cache was being bypassed. We also found that the CPU cost per transaction was higher when the InnoDB buffer cache was too small. That's not surprising, since the code path is longer when MySQL has to go outside the buffer cache to retrieve a block.
We tested a number of other parameters but found that none were as significant for this workload.
So to summarize, two key parameters to focus on are innodb_buffer_pool_size and innodb_thread_concurrency. Appropriate settings for these parameters are likely to help you ensure optimal throughput from your MySQL server.


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The event attempts to provide healing to families of victims of violent crime by lighting candles that signify hope and peace.
Victims' Families and friends are invited to bring an angel ornament to place on the tree which will be on display throughout the holiday season.
The event starts at 6:30 p.m. at the Bellmead Civic Center.
The coalition is made up of several city departments, Bikers Against Child Abuse, Mothers Against Drunk Drivers and others.


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So, there was an incident and now one of the mats has a hole in it. The hole is about 1 x 0.5 cm wide. What is the best way to repair it so it is still safe to train on said mat?
The mat is a plastic covered foamed judo mat similar to this one.
That doesn't sound like a huge hole. I would at least consider taping it and moving it to the to a spot off to the side.
If that solution sets off your safety or insurance alarms, I'd look into a mat repair kit. The Swain one includes:
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David B. Kopel - The Truth About Gun Control
Who is sovereign in the United States? Is it the people themselves, or is it an elite determined to rule citizens who are seen as incapable of making choices about their own lives? This is the central question in the American gun-control debate.
In this Encounter Books Broadside, David Kopel explains why the right to keep and bear arms has always been central to the American identity – and why Americans have always resisted gun control. The American Revolution was sparked by British attempts to confiscate guns.
After the Civil War, the U.S. changed the Constitution to defeat the nation's first gun-control organization, the Ku Klux Klan. When Hitler and Stalin demonstrated how gun registration paves the way for gun confiscation, which paves the way for genocide, Americans resolved to make sure it never happens here.
Gun control is not an issue of left vs. right or urban vs. rural. The right to bear arms is crucial to prevent large-scale tyranny by criminal governments and small-scale tyranny by ordinary criminals – and to protect our Constitution.
Listen to a Heartland Daily Podcast with David about his book here.
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David Kopel, associate policy analyst at the Cato Institute, is also research director at the Independence Institute and adjunct professor of Advanced Constitutional Law at Denver University, Sturm College of Law.
He is the author of No More Wacos: What's Wrong with Federal Law Enforcement, and How to Fix It, Antitrust After Microsoft, The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy: Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other Democracies?, and nine other books.
David is an expert on firearms policy, juvenile crime, drug policy, antitrust, constitutional law, criminal sentencing, and environmental law.
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Let $X$ be a variety over $k$ of characteristic $p>0$ (you can assume $k$ algebraically closed and $X$ normal) with an action of the group scheme of $p$-th roots of unity $\mu_p = {\rm Spec}\ k[\varepsilon]/(\varepsilon^p - 1)$. Denote the quotient $X/\mu_p$ by $Y$ and the quotient morphism $X\to Y$ by $\pi$.
Let $D$ be a Weil divisor on $X$. Is the sheaf $\pi_* (\mathscr{O}_X(D))$ a direct sum of sheaves of the form $\mathscr{O}_Y(E)$ for some Weil divisors $E$ on $X$?
For an action of $\mu_n$, $n$ not divisible by $p$, we get the above statement because the push-forward decomposes according to the characters of $\mu_n$, and if we assume that there is an orbit on which $\mu_n$ acts freely, then all these summands are nonzero - hence all have rank one and are reflexive. So we need a form of ,,diagonalizability'' for $\mu_p$. I don't see how the proof for $\mu_n$ above could be translated to a proof for $\mu_p$.


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Algae in water supplies: an illustrated manual on the identification, significance, and control of algae in water supplies.
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A college student faces felony charges of making, possession and discharging a destructive device after police say an explosion rocked a dorm at Florida Institute of Technology.
Melbourne police say the incident happened early Sunday.
They say 19-year-old Christian Barnes Duke told authorities he learned how to make the device by watching "Mythbusters" on the Discovery Channel.
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This release from the side-splitting ACE VENTURA comedy franchise includes three movies from the series, each focusing on the titular private eye, whose uncanny ability to understand animals helps him do his job. Films in the collection include ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE, ACE VENTURA: WHEN NATURE CALLS, and ACE VENTURA JR. PET DETECTIVE.
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They made three of these?
@kylemittskus: I was unaware of the third movie myself. I watched a trailer and wish i hadn't :|
Love the first two but I'm not so sure about the third sadly
Ah that's nice... never knew they made one of those straight-to-dvd desperate cash in deals from Ace Ventura. I'm glad those don't really occur all that much anymore. What was the last one... that American Pie thing?
@starbob: They must have made a million American Pie direct to DVD releases, it doesn't help they have just as many box office sequels either. That movie was really not all that funny... Die already American Pie!
@neoxjoker: "I'm not so sure about the third sadly." Well that is just about the nicest way for saying "I'd rather gouge my eyeballs out than watch that movie" that I've ever heard.


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My Drobo that acts as my media server and Time Machine host for my family's Macs has become read only. While this would normally be a nuisance, it's become a real problem in that I can't change it back from the Get Info Window I've also tried chmod +w to no avail. Any hints on what to do?
In the attached photo, you'll see that the options are dimmed and say that I should have access, but the disk is still read only.


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SAN ANTONIO (March 2, 2013) – The San Antonio Rampage will honor the men and women who have served and continue to serve our country with their 10th annual Military Appreciation Night, sponsored by Champion A.C., tonight (Saturday, March 2). The team will wear specially designed camouflage jerseys when they take on the Chicago Wolves at 7:00 p.m. at the AT&T Center.
The team's military-themed, camouflage jerseys will be auctioned off following the game with proceeds benefiting Operation Comfort and the Rampage Sled Hockey Team. The Rampage have raised more than $200,000 to benefit San Antonio's military community in the past nine years.
The Rampage and the Rampage Sled Hockey Team, which was the first team to form that consists of all wounded military service members, partnered up for a sled hockey clinic on Thursday afternoon at Northwoods Ice Center. Following the Rampage practice at 11:15 a.m., several members of the team got on the sleds and learn the ins and outs of the game from members of the two-time defending Midwest Sled Hockey League Champions. Media was also invited to give sled hockey a shot on Thursday morning.
In addition, the Rampage Sled Hockey Team will be recognized during a special pre-game ceremony on Saturday. The Rampage Sled Hockey Team is run by Operation Comfort, a nonprofit organization that works with wounded Service Members coming from Iraq and Afghanistan who are recovering at Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) in San Antonio, Texas. The team features three U.S. National Sled Hockey Team members – Rico Roman, Josh Sweeney and Jen Yung Lee.
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February 09, 2012
A day in the Kitchen with the Foodbarn's Franck Dangereux
Ask any patrons of the Foodbarn Restaurant in picturesque Noordhoek why they keep coming back to this delightful eatery, and chances are the answer will be for impressive master chef Franck Dangereux's creative and tasty menus.
A culinary wizard of note, Franck whips up gourmet treats in his spacious kitchen and clients just can't get enough. From his impressive start as a trainee at three-star restaurants in France, to planting roots as a restaurant owner and chef in Cape Town, Franck has garnered quite a following.
I chatted to Franck about his favourite culinary pastimes and his love for Cape Town:
What are your top five food markets in Cape Town and why?
I don't have a particular favourite. I am encouraged by the rise of organic markets in Cape Town but prefer to find one less trendy and where there is an abundance of choice.
Going to get your fresh food for the week is an absolute treat.
What are the cooking rules you live by?
To try to buy the best fresh ingredients I can, and to treat cooking with respect. Respect the slaughtered animal, fish must be sustainable and not endangered, and veggies must be organically grown.
If Cape Town was a gourmet meal, what would she be and why?
She would be a fondue, a dish in which you cook meat in all sauces. The Mother City has so many cultures that it is like a fondue with influences from a variety of sources.
What is your best kept Capetonian secret?
Probably the Made in China shop in Claremont where you can find the best Asian food.
How does Cape Town inspire you?
Cape Town inspires me because it is in Africa and it is a noble piece of land with an incredible history. My adopted home has made me feel welcome for more than 20 years.
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These EA Sports UFC female fighters are creepily realistic in the latest trailerWritten by: / / 4 Comments
We knew that EA and EA Sports were shooting for realism in the pair's upcoming mixed martial arts fighter, but these EA Sports UFC female fighters and their movements are all too real!
Due for release on June 17th in the US and June 20th in Europe and related regions, EA Sports UFC is exclusive to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One which let developers EA Canada focus on the new generation of hardware and squeeze as much visual detail out of the latest consoles as possible.
In previous EA Sports UFC videos we've learned how much attention to detail the team is paying to the creation of the fighters in the game, going to great lengths to realistically recreate every movement, muscle bulge and tattoo, and in the gameplay video below we get to see the results of their labour:
EA Sports UFC Female Fighters Gameplay
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5 Celebrity Instructional Videos They'd Like You to Forget
It turns out that celebrities love the spotlight almost as much as they love acting like they're trying to avoid the spotlight. Otherwise everyone in the videos below would have just said, "You know what? I can clean pools as well as the next guy," and walked away from what a normal person would see as soul degradation.
But whether it was for drug money or sandwich money, the following celebrities just couldn't turn down the chance to whore themselves out for ridiculous instructional videos that, deep down, they knew would help no one except future comedy writers.
#5. Vin Diesel in a Break Dancing Video
You know how Generation X has a reputation for being cynical and ironic? What no one tells you is that members of Generation X are forced to act that way because every single one of them lives with the knowledge that somewhere out there is footage of them attempting to break dance in the 1980s. Fortunately, for most of us that footage exists in the form of a video cassette tape that no one has the equipment or willpower to play. Unless you're famous, in which case all the VCRs in the world will conspire to make sure that shit gets seen. Just ask Vin Diesel:
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The non-USA version is basically the same thing, but with cheap knockoffs of our name-brand outfits.
Before Vin Diesel became the chrome-domed action star that we know today, he was Mark Vincent, tracksuit wearer and break dancer. And he starred in an instructional video in 1984 called Breakin' in the USA, alongside luminaries like Fresh Jome and Mr. Fantastik.
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Break dancing: The bastard origin of duck face.
The future Vin Diesel was only 17, sporting an afro and a lot less muscle mass. A while back, we revealed that Mr. Diesel is one of the world's most hardcore Dungeons & Dragons geeks, and after seeing what he used to look like, that somehow doesn't seem so surprising.
You can watch the video all you want, but you'll never have an explanation for why anyone ever believed that dance moves like "walk like you have a dump in your pants" ...
... and "crotch watch" ...
This one is called the "I may poop directly onto your forehead -- you just never know."
... would get you anywhere but a knee to the neck. Then again, it was the '80s. To understand the times, you really had to be there, and on cocaine. Today, all we know is that Vin really didn't seem to be all that good at break dancing, and that it was probably irresponsible to put him in a position where he would be seen as an authority on the subject.
"I dunno, man -- just sort of bend your elbow or something. People won't know the difference."
Then again, this video does impart one incredibly important and inspirational message: No matter how big of a dork you are in your teens, with enough access to free weights and a razor, you can eventually turn yourself into Vin Diesel.
Now the world knows: D&D is one of the least nerdy things about Vin Diesel.
#4. Leonard Nimoy and a Talking Rock Demonstrate Laserdiscs
Before the days of DVDs, Blu-rays and illegal downloads, cinephiles had to spend between $50 and $150 to own a digital copy of their favorite movie. The big digital format was laserdisc, and movies were released on discs the size of record albums, because back then no one trusted any technology that was smaller than your dinner plate.
One of the earliest models of this format was the Magnavox Magnavision VH-8000 Laser Videodisc Player, or MMVH8000LVDP for short. In 1981, the company produced a demo disc for the player and spared no expense at finding a special celebrity host: Leonard Nimoy.
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In any truly ethical society, that mustache would be a felony.
Nimoy describes Magnavision as "a record player for your TV," and to demonstrate what cutting edge technology this is, he plays an ABBA video in not just one, but two tracks of stereo sound. Sadly, he does not use "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" as his demo. He also assures us that there's virtually no wear-out factor as long as nothing touches the disc's surface ... and says this while making love to the surface of the disc with his greasy Nimoy hands.
"And definitely don't lick it. Like this ..."
Now, if this were just a video of Leonard Nimoy endorsing outdated technology, it would be amusing, but not a trainwreck. However, Magnavox decided to go for broke by providing Nimoy with a co-host: a talking rock.
Or rather, a trash bag with a blinking light underneath it.
At the beginning of the video, this glowing rock materializes out of nowhere and starts making beeping noises, which leads to this classic exchange:
*beep* *beep* *beep*
"Yes, I can understand you. I'm Leonard Nimoy."
So, yeah, it apparently wasn't enough to have a major celebrity describing the player's features. Instead, Magnavox wanted to turn their demo disc into a stoner's paradise, with endless scenes of the glowing rock beeping out instructions while Nimoy translates.
"The fuck did you just call me, you oversized chunk of crack?"
You can watch the whole video here, but if you're not inclined, here's a transcript of one of their more trippy exchanges:
"Are discs such as this one available now?"
*beep* *beep* *beep*
"Really? A complete library of programming?"
*beep* *beep* *beep*
"Like The Art of Swimming, Hitting a Golf Ball or Learning to Play Better Tennis?"
Oh man, if you're able to watch Hitting a Golf Ball in digital format, who wouldn't want to own a laserdisc player? It's amusing to think that Leonard Nimoy did Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan soon after this and was initially pretty intent on killing off Spock for good. We'd like to think that his decision to resurrect Spock was driven by the fear of playing second fiddle to a talking rock again.
#3. Russell Crowe in a College Recruitment Video
Imagine you're watching a video that starts off with a shot like this:
And soon follows it up with this exchange:
"Well, it's a strong desire. It's an urging. It's a prompting. It's an urging to ... go out and try it."
"You mean like a temptation?"
"Yes, sort of. Only it's a temptation to do right, not a temptation to do wrong."
And it takes place between these two guys:
"The urge to go out and do things. Ass things."
Yeah, we know exactly what you're thinking. This is so obviously a ... recruitment video for a Christian college? That's right: This video, entitled A Very Special Person, was produced to entice young folks to sign up for the theology program at Avondale College in Australia, a school that happens to be affiliated with the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. To represent the type of young man they were hoping to recruit, the college enlisted the services of an unknown 18-year-old actor who was just starting out his career: none other than future Academy Award winner Russell Crowe.
"Man, even I thought this was porn."
The guy in the short jorts is Crowe's former teacher, who tries to convince the youngster to follow the call of the spirit and study to become a pastor at Avondale. At first, the video almost feels cultlike in the ways it tries to recruit him. When we first meet young Russell, he's a leather-vest-wearing, motorcycle-riding sinner who has no direction in life, but after attending a theology class at Avondale, he suddenly morphs into this clean-cut dork:
Apparently, God had no strong opinions about his disastrous proto-mullet.
Near the end, he asks his teacher what the prospects are for finding a job after college. The teacher tells him not to worry about it:
"We're always seeking bright young men and women to serve in the ministry, especially right now. This church is a worldwide organization, and it's getting bigger all the time. There will always be a constant demand for workers."
"You think that girl at Avondale College was a theology student?"
So yeah, in spite of all the preaching about doing the Lord's work, it seems the only real reason Crowe wants to attend this college is to get laid.


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Wednesday, April 20, 2005
The Columbia College Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team brought home the trophy for first runner-up at the SIFE USA regional competition held on April 7 in St. Louis, one of 21 regional competitions nationwide.
The Columbia College SIFE club had 100 percent participation at this year's event. Team members included Andre Amos, Jacob Black, Eric Ewigman, Tiffany Foote, Mariuska Hamilton, Hea-Sun Kim, Ji-Young Kim, Lisa Kowaleski, Mindy Mitchem, Jin-Seon Park, Nathan Rover, Ji-Hae Seo, Terrance Smith, Shannon Wagner and Jin You.
SIFE faculty advisor Dr. Steven Heller, who accompanied the team to the competition, said that because the club focused on fewer projects of a more intensive nature than in previous years, they were able to have a greater impact on the community. Team members Shannon Wagner and Lisa Kowaleski agreed. "We hope we've helped students to be able to relate these experiences to real jobs in the future," said Kowaleski. "The SIFE team worked hard to impact different sectors of the community," added Wagner. "We feel privileged to have been part of these projects."
The Columbia College SIFE club organized and implemented a variety of outreach projects throughout the year. Some of the projects included teaching elementary school students about personal finance, holding roundtable discussions for college students to learn from business and community leaders, and helping a local small business manager with marketing strategies.
SIFE is an international non-profit organization active at more than 1,800 colleges and universities in more than 40 countries. SIFE clubs organize outreach projects to teach market economics, entrepreneurship, personal financial success skills and business ethics within their communities. Each club sends a team at the end of the year to compete against other campus teams for trophies and cash awards at regional, national and international competitions. Projects are judged for creativity, innovation and effectiveness.


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Leaders Pay Tribute to Thatcher
LONDON—Global and political leaders across the world remembered former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, who died on Monday, as a leader who altered the U.K.'s political and economic landscape and shaped global relations, even as she sharply divided opinion.
Tributes poured in from past and present leaders including U.S. President Barack Obama, former president George W. Bush and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as British political leaders and Queen Elizabeth II. While many praised her strength of character and hailed her achievements, some detractors said her policies had been damaging to the U.K.
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- Gerald F. Seib: The Thatcher/Reagan Mutual Admiration Society, Remembered
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The reaction followed the announcement on Monday morning of the death of Mrs. Thatcher, aged 87. "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning," said Mrs. Thatcher's spokesman, Timothy Bell.
Mrs. Thatcher took office in 1979, becoming the U.K.'s first and only female prime minister, and remained there until 1990. Her championing of free-market economics and individual choice transformed Britain's economy and she played a role in the end of the Cold War.
"America has lost a true friend," Mr. Obama said. "Here in America, many of us will never forget her standing shoulder to shoulder with President [Ronald] Reagan, reminding the world that we are not simply carried along by the currents of history—we can shape them with moral conviction, unyielding courage and iron will."
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, with whom Mrs. Thatcher formed a close relationship, said in a statement on the Gorbachev Foundation's website: "Thatcher was a politician whose words carried big weight."
"Our first meeting in 1984 laid ground to the relationship that was at times complex, but always even and on both sides serious and responsible," Mr. Gorbachev said. "In the end we managed to achieve mutual understanding, and this was a contribution to the changing atmosphere between our country and the West, and to the end of the Cold War," he said.
David Cameron, the U.K.'s current prime minister and leader of Mrs. Thatcher's Conservative Party, said: "We've lost a great prime minister, a great leader, a great Briton." Mr. Cameron, who cut short a Europe trip to return to the U.K. on Monday afternoon, added: "She saved our country and I believe she will go down as the greatest British peacetime prime minister."
But Mrs. Thatcher was a hugely divisive figure in British politics, with her detractors criticizing everything from her economic policy to approach to Europe.
"Margaret Thatcher did great hurt to the Irish and British people during her time as British prime minister," said Irish politician Gerry Adams, president of the Sinn Fein party. "Working-class communities were devastated in Britain because of her policies."
Mr. Adams called her role in international affairs "equally belligerent," saying she supported Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and opposed sanctions against apartheid South Africa. And, in Ireland, "her espousal of old draconian militaristic policies prolonged the war and caused great suffering," Mr. Adams said.
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said Mrs. Thatcher was "a formidable political leader who had a significant impact on British, European and world politics."
"While her period of office came at a challenging time for British-Irish relations, when the violent conflict in Northern Ireland was at its peak, Mrs. Thatcher signed the Anglo-Irish Agreement which laid the foundation for improved North-South cooperation and ultimately the Good Friday Agreement."
In the U.K., the head of the main opposition Labour Party, Ed Miliband, said his party disagreed with much of what she did and that "she will always remain a controversial figure." But he added, "We can disagree and also greatly respect her political achievements and her personal strength."
"She will be remembered as a unique figure. She reshaped the politics of a whole generation," Mr. Miliband added.
Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats, called Mrs. Thatcher "one of the defining figures in modern British politics." He added, "Whatever side of the political debate you stand on, no one can deny that as prime minister she left a unique and lasting imprint on the country she served. She may have divided opinion during her time in politics but everyone will be united today in acknowledging the strength of her personality and the radicalism of her politics."
Queen Elizabeth was "sad to hear the news of the death of Baroness Thatcher," a spokesman for the British monarch said. "Her majesty will be sending a private message of sympathy to the family."
Mrs. Thatcher's funeral service will be held at London's St. Paul's Cathedral, which will be followed by a private cremation.
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I have my mind set that I'm learning Java as my second language (I am a Perl developer). But just from reading a little of the online tutorials, I really can't find any similarities between the two. What will I have an easy time understanding when learning Java?
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Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, multi-paradigm, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Java is a high-level, general-purpose, mostly single-paradigm, statically typed programming language.
So, both are high-level:
and general-purpose:
In essense this means that everything you can do with Perl, you can also do with Java. And as @KyleHodgson mentions, both their syntaxes derive from C and C++ and the syntax for simple stuff like
But that's where the similarities stop. Perl is multi-paradigm, supporting a wide range of programming paradigms:
Perl does not encourage one single paradigm, they are essentially equal and you are free to choose whichever you think best suits whatever you're building, without of course limiting you to a single paradigm, you can mix and match. On the other hand, Java is mostly a class based object oriented language. There is support for generic programming, but as a beginner you should think of Java as strictly a class based object oriented language.
So Perl allows more than one ways to structure your code1, whereas Java just one. That's not a bad thing (or a good thing), it's just different. If you haven't written any object oriented Perl code, Java might seem a little bit alien at first. Don't be discouraged, object orientation is something that you will eventually have to learn, if you are considering a career in software development, and learning Java is a good way of learning the basic concepts of object orientation - not a perfect way, but definately a good way.
And as you know, Perl is interpreted, whereas Java is... well... a different beast entirely. In Java you write your code as you would in Perl, and then you compile it. The result is not an executable, but Java bytecode. This intermediatery format is executed (finally!) in the Java Virtual Machine, which is somewhat analogous to the Perl interpreter. A JVM must be installed beforehand for a Java program to run, simirarly on how you need to install a Perl interpreter to execute a Perl script2.
Coming from a Perl background, the most important thing to remember is the compilation to bytecode step: Every time you make a change to a Java source file you need to re-compile it. It might sound crazy at first, but compilation has a very nice consequence: Your code is checked for a variety of errors at this stage, and the compiler refuses to finish the process if there are any, and sometimes will help you pinpoint the errors with helpful messages (There are always messages, but only sometimes they are helpful).
Which brings us to the last major difference:
Perl is dynamic3:
and dynamically typed4:
and Java is statically typed:
Which, to put it as simply as possible, means that in Java you have to declare the type of your variables and methods before using them. There are other differences, but I wouldn't want to spoil the fun of discovering them by yourself :)
And, finally, there is one very important difference: Java is the sweetheart language of the academia5 and the corporate world, while you will rarely meet Perl in an academic setting anymore (where I first met her), and its career perspectives are shrinking (still quite a few jobs, but nowhere near as many as Java, .Net languages or PHP). I will not comment on the reasons, I'm just stating the (sad) facts. Since you are still very young, by learning Java you will be a little bit more prepared for a Computer Science degree, if you chose to follow that path.
Don't give up on Perl, of course, but do explore Java. The fact that they are more different than similar also means that you will learn quite different approaches and programming mentallities, it's a hard path but one that will ultimately make you a better programmer.
2 The Perl community is actively exploring the possibillity of a Perl virtual machine, via Parrot.
3 Dynamic doesn't always mean dynamically typed.
4 Perl is dynamically typed for user defined types, statically typed with respect to distinguishing arrays, hashes, scalars, and subroutines, and strongly typed via
5 To the point of abuse, as Joel Spolsky writes in The Perils of JavaSchools.
Well, they both use a C like syntax - semicolons, curly braces and the like. Personally, when I tried to make a switch from Perl to Java a number of years ago - the biggest thing that tripped me up was object oriented programming. I had developed some objects in Perl, but it hurt my head to try to imagine life in the Kingdom of Nouns.
Taking a stab at an alternative answer since the currently selected one seems to be focusing on differences between the two (truly there are not a lot of similarities between Perl and Java).
If your Perl code is very rigorous and orthogonal (well-tested, well-documented, uses Moose or strict object-orientation), then those concepts will carry very well into Java, since Java is extremely orthogonal and not as expressive.


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I am trying to create a PDF Form using LibreOffice. I can create the form elements and export as PDF. However, the form fields are giving me problems. The text in these fields always centers on the bottom, and often the text you input is cut off at the bottom.
I found that if I make the fields larger, the text no longer cuts off, but the field is exceptionally large with lots of space above the text.
I have made an odt (source) and a pdf (export) file to show what I'm running into. I tried a number of different fonts and sizes, but to make things easier, I made the field names all "field1" so that once you fill out one entry, all fields show as filled in.
My main question is how do I make form fields that don't cut off the text without having to make the fields way oversized?
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So, I am looking at a paper by Rosenfeld, "On a problem of C.E. Shannon in graph theory", where he gives necessary and sufficient conditions for a graph $H$ to satisfy $$\alpha(G \boxtimes H) = \alpha(G) \alpha(H) \qquad (1)$$ for all graphs $G$. Here, $\alpha$ represents the independence number, and $\boxtimes$ represents the strong product. But, he does it in terms of linear programming which I am not great at. So, I'm wondering if what he did corresponds to some known graph parameter. Below I transcribe the relevant portion of the paper for completion.
Let $G$ be a finite graph. $V(G) = \{g_1, \ldots, g_n\}$. Let $\{C_1, \cdots, C_s\}$ be a fixed ordering of all the different cliques of $G$. Define $y_i^{(j)}$ to be 1 exactly when $g_i \in C_j$, and 0 otherwise. Also, let $$ P_G = \left\{(x_1, \ldots, x_n) \quad \left| \quad\sum_{i = 1}^n y_i^{(j)} x_i \leq 1, \quad x_i \geq 0, \quad 1 \leq j \leq s \right. \right\}. $$
Theorem: A finite graph $H$ satisfies (1) for all graphs $G$ if and only if $$\max_{x \in P_G} \sum_{i = 1}^n x_i = \alpha(H).$$
So, my question is simply, can this be stated much simpler (to someone who doesn't know much about linear programming) in terms of some graph parameter, i.e., is that linear programming problem a way of describing a known graph parameter? Can the theorem simply say if and only if $\alpha(G) = \beta(G)$ for some graph parameter $\beta(G)$?


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In Hero Academy, if I lose one of my units and step over him in the next turn (so I save him), do I also save any equipment he's carrying? Or, is the equipment lost, but the hero is saved?
Both the unit and the equipment are lost when you stomp your own unit. If you want to save the unit and equipment you'll need to revive them with a healer or an item that has that ability.
Stepping over a unit that is "knocked out" does nothing to the unit. When a unit is "knocked out" they retain all their power-ups and equipment. If they are revived on that turn, there is no loss at all. If they are not revived on that turn, the unit and all of their equipment is lost.
Reviving is different for each race of heroes. For example, in the case of Team Fortress, a
The only offensive bonus I know of given for a downed unit is for the "Tribe" race. When one of their units is "stomped" by the other team, every "Tribe" hero is given an offensive bonus.


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Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Multi-threading with OpenMPI ?
From: Ashika Umanga Umagiliya (aumanga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-09-25 02:59:04
Thank you Dick for your detailed reply,
I am sorry, could you explain more what you meant by "unless you are
calling MPI_Comm_spawn on a single task communicator you would need to
have a different input communicator for each thread that will make an
MPI_Comm_spawn call" , i am confused with the term "single task
Best Regards,
Richard Treumann wrote:
> It is dangerous to hold a local lock (like a mutex} across a blocking
> MPI call unless you can be 100% sure everything that must happen
> remotely will be completely independent of what is done with local
> locks & communication dependancies on other tasks.
> It is likely that a MPI_Comm_spawn call in which the spawning
> communicator is MPI_COMM_SELF would be safe to serialize with a mutex.
> But be careful and do not view this as an approach to making MPI
> applications thread safe in general. Also, unless you are calling
> MPI_Comm_spawn on a single task communicator you would need to have a
> different input communicator for each thread that will make an
> MPI_Comm_spawn call. MPI requires that collective calls on a given
> communicator be made in the same order by all participating tasks.
> If there are two or more tasks making the MPI_Comm_spawn call
> collectively from multiple threads (even with per-thread input
> communicators) then using a local lock this way is pretty sure to
> deadlock at some point. Say task 0 serializes spawning threads as A
> then B and task 1 serializes them as B then A. The job will deadlock
> because task 0 cannot free its lock for thread A until task 1 makes
> the spawn call for thread A as well. That will never happen if task 1
> is stuck in a lock that will not release until task 0 makes its call
> for thread B.
> When you look at the code for a particular task and consider thread
> interactions within the task, the use of the lock looks safe. It is
> only when you consider the dependancies on what other tasks are doing
> that the danger becomes clear. This particular case is pretty easy to
> see but sometime when there is a temptation to hold a local mutex
> across an blocking MPI call, the chain of dependancies that can lead
> to deadlock becomes very hard to predict.
> BTW - maybe this is obvious but you also need to protect the logic
> which calls MPI_Thread_init to make sure you do not have a a race in
> which 2 threads each race to test the flag for whether MPI_Init_thread
> has already been called. If two thread do:
> 1) if (MPI_Inited_flag == FALSE) {
> 2) set MPI_Inited_flag
> 3) MPI_Init_thread
> 4) }
> You have a couple race conditions.
> 1) Two threads may both try to call MPI_Iint_thread if one thread
> tests " if (MPI_Inited_flag == FALSE)" while the other is between
> statements 1 & 2.
> 2) If some thread tests "if (MPI_Inited_flag == FALSE)" while another
> thread is between statements 2 and 3, that thread could assume
> MPI_Init_thread is done and make the MPI_Comm_spawn call before the
> thread that is trying to initialize MPI manages to do it.
> Dick
> Dick Treumann - MPI Team
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> users-bounces_at_[hidden] wrote on 09/17/2009 11:36:48 PM:
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> >
> > Re: [OMPI users] Multi-threading with OpenMPI ?
> >
> > Ralph Castain
> >
> > to:
> >
> > Open MPI Users
> >
> >
> > Sent by:
> >
> > users-bounces_at_[hidden]
> >
> > Please respond to Open MPI Users
> >
> > Only thing I can suggest is to place a thread lock around the call to
> > comm_spawn so that only one thread at a time can execute that
> > function. The call to mpi_init_thread is fine - you just need to
> > explicitly protect the call to comm_spawn.
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LA MIRADA, Calif.-- The Azusa Pacific women's swimming and diving team edged out Biola for a 120-115 win in the Cougars' first dual of the season on Saturday morning. Azusa Pacific won just four events on the day, but saw its depth prevail as the team recorded its third consecutive victory over the Eagles since 2012.
Azusa Pacific had two top-three finishes in 11 events, highlighted by a 1-2-3 performance in the 100 free. Sophomore Erica Knudsen, who had a part in three of the Cougars victories, placed first in the 100 free with a mark of 54.76. Ingrid Cardenas touched second (55.65), and Lauren Turner registered a third place time (57.45).
Knudsen also won the 50 free, clocking in at 25.45, and was a member of the Cougars' winning 'A' relay team in the 200 free (1:42.49). Cardenas also swam on the winning 200 free relay team, and recorded a first place time of 2:01.39 in the 200 free. Sydney Bello posted a third place mark of 2:02.67, with Brooke Miller coming in fourth at 2:09.34.
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April Fautsch and Robyn Dozier traded second and third place scores in the 1-meter and 3-meter boards, with Fautsch tabbing a second place score of 169.30 in the 1-meter and a third place mark of 157.30 in the 3-meter. Dozier posted a 159.70 iin the 1-meter, and scored 160.30 in the 3-meter, just barely getting edged out by Biola's Alyssa Roden, who scored 160.40 to sweep the diving events.
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How do you determine the order of tasks in a usability test? Do you for example avoid putting tasks with similar paths one after another?
Put them in the order that's most realistic. It doesn't matter if repeated tasks will become easier due to parallels between them if they'll be repeated in real life. It does matter if a test reveals a piece of info that inflects a later task when the latter will usually be done first.
If there's no obvious order, you might ask your users what sorts of things they'd do after completing the current task, and see if that leads on to any obvious action.
This is my general approach.
First I see if the things I want to test can be turned into a higher level task that touches upon the issues that we want to look at in a way that reflects 'normal' usage patterns. For example we might be interested in looking at whether people:
Might turn into:
If groups of tasks are independent I'd likely randomise the order I present them to see if there are any dependency-related issues that pop out.
I'd also worry that if I have a lot of tasks with repetitions that I might be trying to get people to do things that they normally wouldn't do in a session with the system.
If your testing is set up in a way that the recruitment is an expensive task it's tempting to get a few users in for long test with many tasks. If the thing your testing is only normally used for 10m then you're then not testing a realistic scenario. It may be better to figure out ways to do more small tests with few tasks, than few long tests with many tasks.
I would suggest that you put the tasks which are most important or of interest to you first, simply because users might be most engaged and focused at the beginning, and as they get towards the end other factors (e.g. familiarity, fatigue, disinterest, etc.) sets in. But many of these factors can be mitigated by good experimental design to remove these biases.
Someone with more experience answer this, but I know in Steve Krug's usability tests the first thing he asks is what the site is. "Can you tell me what this website does?" or something to that effect.


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Fulham will be happy that they don't have to play in Manchester
again for a while after losing 2-0 to City in the league and then being beaten 4-1 by Utd in the FA Cup.
West Ham were humiliated 5-1 away at Arsenal in their last game.
It had been 1-1 at the break but a dramatic collapse allowed the Gooners to score 4 times in 10 minutes.
I'm still waiting for some sort of apology from Allardyce or our captain Nolan
for that shameful display but there has been nothing but silence from Upton Park which has angered me even further.
I still want that big oaf to be fired as he doesn't seem to know what he is doing with his formations/line ups or tactics.
Can our owners please hire a manager who knows what he is doing? Surely that can't be too hard?
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I pop the filter out and wash with hot water, dish scrubber and soap. While it's drying I put in another clean filter. This way I reuse what I have.Seems to be working great!
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Roomba uses filters too quickly
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These filters are not really necessary to replace and toss. I clean my used filters with a soft toothbrush and some gentle dishwashing soap. Rinse well, and let air dry.
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I use my Roomba once or twice a week, much more with company here. The bin and filter catch a LOT of dust and debris. I empty and clean it every time it's used, plus I clean the filter with cleaner and run hot water over it. Comes out looking new. I dry it throughly before I put it back into the bin as there should be no moisture in there. I have had my Roomba a year now; I'm still using the first filter, and overall it is a wonderful machine. My only problem is that the filter holder broke where it swings out. That part is plastic and needs to be made more durable. I have no trouble keeping the filter holder in, it just makes it easier when it swings out as it should.
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These filters are so great that my son's allergist asked what we were doing new this past year, that caused our son's symptoms to improve so much. It's because of the roomba with hepa filters! We love it, both for the convenience and the thoroughness of cleaning.
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The Jefferson County commissioners should consider the purchase of the Towers building on Market Street. It appears to be a good financial investment for the county in several ways....
If the commissioners really cared about the people of Jefferson County the would not purchase the Tower Building. The commissioners must give up on downtown Steubenville, just like 80% of the residents of the county, there is no future in downtown Steubenville. It would be nice to see a Herald Star poll with the question: When was the last time you did anything in downtown Steubenville?
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