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27 Dec 2012 9:52 AM #1
ComboBox editor in tree panel
ExtJS 4.1.2
Architect 2.1.0
Problem: I want a tree grid panel, with an editable column combobox.
So I want to have a CellEditting plugin on the tree.
In architect, this is where my issue begins.
I can't drag the cell editing feature from the toolbox to the project inspector over the tree panel.
That's fine, so I went to create a custom property for plugins.
When I do that, as soon as I create the desired array object, Architect turns it into a string instead of an object.
It seems to do this as soon as I use Ext.create().
I'm copying and pasting the code that Architect has used for a cell edit plugin elsewhere.
This is exactly what I'm putting into the plugin, in the main window, as an array type:
[ Ext.create('Ext.grid.plugin.CellEditing', { ptype: 'cellediting', clicksToEdit: 1 }) ]
plugins: '[ \nExt.create(\'Ext.grid.plugin.CellEditing\', {\n ptype: \'cellediting\',\n clicksToEdit: 1\n })\n]',
Can anyone suggest how to sidestep this in the short term so that I can create a cell editable tree panel?
2 Jan 2013 11:44 AM #2
Put it in an override.
Architect is unable to determine the JS Expression Ext.create and therefore stringifies what you've put in.Aaron Conran
3 Jan 2013 1:01 AM #3
Is this likely to change/be fixed?
4 Jan 2013 10:22 AM #4
There are some features that we are adding in Architect 2.2 that simplify this like processConfig.
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While conducting a software security assessment, if you have access to the source code of a compiled application (say C++), would you ever do any analysis upon the compiled version, either with any automated techniques or manually? Is fuzzing the only technique applicable in this situation or are there any other potential advantages to looking at the binary?
It depends on the situation - type of application, deployment model, especially your threat model, etc.
For example, certain compilers can substantially change some delicate code, introducing subtle flaws - such as bypassing certain checks, that do appear in the code (satisfying your code review) but not in the binary (failing the reality test).
That said, it is of course more difficult and time consuming to reverse engineer the binary, and would be pointless in most scenarios if you already have the source code.
On the other hand, note that there are some static analysis products that specifically scan binaries (e.g. Veracode), so if you're using one of those it doesnt really matter...
@AviD solid points, totally agree on the root kits on binaries/compilers component.
If you're a knowledgeable sec professional, setting aside the valid points AviD makes, the most vulnerabilities will most likely be in your source code. Having a strong knowledge of programming securely and how reverse engineering is accomplished should give you the best method for fixing/preventing the majority of holes in your source code. Plus, if there is an exploit with a compiler/binary, lots of times there is nothing you as a developer can do to prevent it except to use another compiler/language (which usually is not a viable option).
There are plenty of reasons aside from security-related ones to look into the final binary. Either by means of a debugger, disassembler or a profiler and emulator like Valgrind (which can verify various aspects of a compiled program).
Security and correctness of the program usually go hand in hand.
For me it's first linting the code (i.e. using PCLINT), then building binaries, verifying these with a fuzzer and memcheck (from Valgrind) and that gave me very good results when it comes to robustness and reliability. Only PCLINT in this case has access to the source code.
Binary and source code analysis gives a bit different points of view and thus both of them should be applied. However, binary analysis can be intimidating for humans. Would not say that analysis at source code level can not be frustrating, but analyzing logics of application at assembly level is not that best choice. At binary analysis you are dealing with that what happens in fact and cannot be otherwise. If in source code you can make some assumptions, here is definite state.
However, tests like fuzzing should be run against compiled application to ensure application robustness at least at some level. The code coverage depends on the methodology of fuzzing, application specifics and some others factors - too much to explain here, that's art of fuzzing. Even Microsoft develops tools for fuzzing and applies them in SDL. Here is a paper from Codenomicon as an insight into a process: http://www.codenomicon.com/resources/whitepapers/codenomicon-wp-sdl-20100202.pdf
There's a point that AviD alluded to but should probably be emphasized, and that is that code review tends to be a much more time and effort effective process than binary review. Particularly with C++ the binary is very difficult even for the average security professional to understand, let alone the average developer.
For interpreted languages this is not as much the case. Unobfuscated Java and .NET bytecode can be transformed back into something fairly human readable.


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I have one intranet 192.168.0.x/255.255.255.0 and I want to configure another intranet (192.168.1.x) under the first intranet(192.168.0.x).
(x.x.x.x)modem(192.168.0.x) > computers and one switch to > (192.168.0.53)UBUNTU(192.168.1.1) > computers.
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Written by a retired Fleet Air Arm pilot in the Royal Navy and an award-winning historian of naval flying, this book provides a masterly overview of the history of aviation in the world's navies down to the present day. Heavily illustrated from the author's comprehensive collection of photographs, the book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in navies or air power. The author charts the progress and growing effectiveness of naval air power, concentrating on the advances and inventions that allowed shipborne aircraft to match their land-based counterparts and looking at their contributions to twentieth-century warfare.
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WASHINGTON (CBS News) -- Recordings by musical artists as diverse as Donna Summer, Leonard Bernstein, Bo Diddley and the Grateful Dead, as well as documentary recordings featuring Edward R. Murrow and the voices of former Civil War-era slaves, have been marked for preservation by the Library of Congress.
On Wednesday, the Library named 25 audio recordings to its National Recording Registry, a compendium of sound recordings that will be preserved as representative of America's cultural, artistic and historic treasures. The registry contains commercial recordings of every music genre as well as spoken word, radio broadcasts, anthropological recordings and news.
Among the latest additions to the registry are performances by Dolly Parton, The Dixie Hummingbirds, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Parliament, Sugarhill Gang, and Prince and the Revolution; the only surviving recording of early musical theatre star Lillian Russell; classical performances conducted by Leonard Bernstein and Fritz Reiner; recordings by jazz orchestra leader Stan Kenton, singing cowgirl Patsy Montana and the psychedelic rock band Love; and the Vince Guaraldi Trio's jazz-inflected score for the 1970 TV special "A Charlie Brown Christmas."
And the most unusual sound recording added? The voice for a talking doll, recorded onto a cylinder by Thomas Edison in 1888.
Under the terms of the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, the librarian of Congress -- with advice from the National Recording Preservation Board -- selects 25 recordings annually that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and are at least 10 years old.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the registry, which now contains 350 recordings, including the earliest recorded sounds dating back to 1853.
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Is it possible to integrate Facebook authentication into Sencha Touch
Hi everyone, I was thinking has anyone of you manage to implement Facebook's authentication feature with Touch? I would love to have my app to display the user's profile. But is this even possible in the first place?
How would you integrate with the Ext.Panel, display the authentication page and finally obtain the session key.. before able to obtain JSON queries??
16 Sep 2010 7:43 AM #2
I first try to develop a component for auth on facebook but I quit as I didn't have any project that really need it. Actually, you can get json from facebook for any profile that is public :
If you take the step to make a special component for facebook auth integration, I'll be happy to see it in action.
24 Feb 2011 11:41 PM #3
we did that!
we used Grace monkey user script to change facebook auth window to look on touch screen similar to sencha interface
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Have you obtained more information about auth facebook login screen into sencha app?
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Oscar Predictions 2011: Celebrity Hairstyles
See the celebrity hairstyles we think this year's Oscar nominees, presenters and guests should wear
The 2011 "Academy Awards" aren't much different. But unlike your super competitive "who will win what" office poll (you know, the one you NEVER win), we want to predict which hairstyles will be worn. Why? Because it's a whole lot of fun and, hello, we're a beauty website!
Skip to see which celebrity hairstyles we are predicting for this years Oscars.
Perhaps we also like to make grand guesses about celebrity hairstyles because we want to be in control. And when we're feeling extra delusional, we like to believe that maybe, just maybe, a mentioned celebrity will see the hairstyle we have predicted for them and actually heed the advice.
OK, OK, we know that likely won't happen, but at least making these Oscar hairstyle predictions gives us purpose in life (don't judge).
So, who did we grant gorgeous hairstyles to and how? Well, we picked some of our favorite celebrity hairstyles seen in the past and thanks to Photoshop placed them onto the heads of these actresses that will be at the 2011 "Academy Awards": Nicole Kidman, Natalie Portman, Amy Adams, Sandra Bullock, Claire Danes, Emma Stone, Hilary Swank, Mila Kunis, Anne Hathaway, and Penelope Cruz.
Now, see our Oscar celebrity hairstyle predictions here.
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by LittleBunny Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at 04:21PM Report as inappropriate
Cool story! The photo doctoring looks a lot less awkward than in most stories like this!
by Roxalyn Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at 04:59PM Report as inappropriate
i love celeb hairstyles
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by Nicole2814 Monday, January 23, 2012 at 02:19PM Report as inappropriate
Like a few of them!!
by holly_pereira Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 10:55AM Report as inappropriate
i like only a few of these hairstyles..
by Mssaralee18 Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 03:17AM Report as inappropriate
I thought the hairstyles were cute, but I dont think some of the predictions matched those stars personalities. Others were dead on!!
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I love seeing new hair styles!
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Love it. I change my hair alot, so I love the inspiration that articles/pictures like this one give.
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seriously convincing pictures
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01] John McFarland of Thomasville, North Carolina, came across these three '68 AMXs at Jerry Tucker's Garage in Archdale, North Carolina. He says they are, "awaiting some tender loving care."
02] Scott Taylor of Sacramento, California, photographed his wife, Laura, working on her first-gen Mustang. This isn't her first car build; she owns the Black Mamba '67 Shelby Mustang. Check out MikeyStang.com/BlackMamba.
03] Dan Manly and son built this Bonneville-Jet-Art-Deco Pinewood car to compete in the South Orange County Cub Scouts Pinewood Derby in Southern California.
04] That's Harold Johansen, a legendary dry-lakes racer since 1946. He has been building this '27 T roadster to take to Bonneville with his good friend, Patrick Frye. According to Patrick, their goals are to set a record and document the entire experience. Good luck, guys!
05] Linda McCann from Silverthorne, Colorado, sent us this photo of her brother, Jim Sullivan's, driveway. She said it's obviously a Chevy Country kind of place. There's another Chevy in the driveway out of frame.
06] Mike Harm of Westford, Massachusetts, photographed his dad, John W. Harm III, preparing to weld up an engine run-in stand. He wants to test his '56 Desoto's Hemi before bolting it in. John works out of his farm in Virginia.
07] Joe Fregoso of Anaheim, California, is attending Cerritos College's auto body program (in Norwalk, California). He just bought this '61 T-bird from his boss so that his boss can concentrate on a '33 Highboy. Now Joe is busting his butt to pay his boss back for the T-bird.
08] Grass Valley, California, native Morris Purkey's Cobra is somewhere in the middle of this Shelby traffic jam. The cars are awaiting a parade lap at Laguna Seca in Salinas, California. Morris says the all-Cobra field stretched along the entire 2.2-mile track.
09] Fred Billup of Proctorville, Ohio, built everything on this Ford himself. That's him with his trophy collection. Fred used a Ford 302 and a '69 Mustang rearend to build this all-steel '26 Ford Model T.
10] David B. Owens of Jasper, Alabama, built a '69 Corvette with his brother, creating some of the fondest memories of his youth. He doesn't own that Corvette anymore, but now has been building this '72 Vette with his kids, "In my mind, there is no better way to spend the day," David says.
11] Ed Hoffman of Allentown, Pennsylvania, says his '56 Chevy costs $1 a mile to drive, but he still runs the wheels off of it. This past summer Ed drove it more than 300 miles to four different car shows in one weekend. "Never opened the hood except to show off the engine," Ed says.
12] Shawn Mueller of Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, snapped this photo at Road America in Atlanta during the Hawk Vintage Racing Weekend.
13] Jim Howard of Dayton, Tennessee, has been building this hot rod with basic hand tools in his one-car garage. It's currently finished with a '26 Ford body. The complete car weighs 1,920 pounds and is powered by a 462ci Buick.
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The reason why I ask this question is because of the pattern I've seen with Japanese numbers. Once you have to repeat a number to describe itself, you get a new unit. For example, 十十 = 百, 百百 = 万, 万万 = 億. So it seems that 千 is a number that had some Western influence in its creation. Implying that it was a number that created in more recent times (ie. the last 200 to 300 years). Am I in the right direction with this pattern I'm seeing? Or is this just coincidence?
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The Japanese number system (which I believe is derived from the Chinese one) is pretty similar to the western one (just to call it something), except it breaks at every 4 digits instead of every 3 digits.
(assuming you're from a part of the English speaking world which doesn't use milliards or "thousand million"s).
The confusing thing about the Japanese system, though, is that when written with digits, it still puts commas at every third digit. This is most likely from western influence.
Slightly off topic, but...
Your idea is interesting, since it would be theoretically possible to have a number system where digits break in a "binary" fashion:
0-99999999 億 0-9999 万 0-99 百 0-9 十 0-9
I don't know if any language breaks digits in this way, though.
your theory breaks down at 億。 億億 != 兆 (兆 = 万億) (億億 = 京)
It would to be necessary to have every increment of power of 10 up until 10 000 under the Japanese system. Things would be akward without the 1000 unit as well.
I do think it looks weird though when I see a number like 56000 written as 5万6千


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8 Terrifying Instruments Old-Time Doctors Used on Your Junk
#4. Prostate Warmer
The prostate gland warmer was nothing more than a 9 foot length of wiring that held a blue light bulb on one end, and a dildo-y tube on the other. We were rather discouraged to find out that the light bulb was not activated solely by the mighty electrical currents generated by a human rectum like a potato in a 4th grade science fair project. Instead, the gland warmer was, like most great devices that you cram in to an orifice, a plug-in.
Photo courtesy of The Museum of Quackery.
When plugged, the light bulb would glow and transfer its heat to the dildo-y end which itself was deeply entrenched within your end. The dildo-y portion would then yield its invigorating warmth to your glacial prostate, melting away its erection hindering properties and leaving behind the feeling of a gentle, loving hug on your inner-cock regions. Or, as the gland warmer's advertizing put it, "stimulate the abdominal brain."
"Abdominal brain." Now there's a phrase that should never have gone out of style.
All right, we promise, no more terrifying ass-instruments on this list.
#3. The Recto Rotor
Wait, one more. And it's called the goddamned RECTO ROTOR. Yeah, a name like that deserves the all caps up there.
Standing at six inches tall, it was claimed that the RECTO ROTOR would "reach your vital spot to such good purpose," which kind of insinuates that there are some other products out there that reach the "vital spot" with nothing but malevolence in its heart and world domination plans tucked under its arm.
Now picture this having a seizure in your ass.
Once the vital spot was touched, a simple flip of a switch would send the infernal machine in to a hellish convulsive fit as it vibrated its way deeper in to your ass like an oil prospector drilling for crude. But here's the thing: the Recto Rotor knows there's no crude in your ass. It's smarter than that. So what does it do? It supplies its own crude. With the turn of a dial the vent holes atop the rotor ooze a white-ish lotion all over your prostate like... uh... well... sorry, we just can't come up with a visual comparison for that.
The ad boasts that it's, "Large enough to be efficient. Small enough for anyone over 15 years old." Please Lord tell us that's just an eyeball estimate, and not the result of extensive product testing.
"Okay, so today we learned that 14 is too young, that's good to know.
Honestly, we're beginning to think being a turn of the century inventor meant one had latent homosexual desires that manifested themselves in the form of utterly useless butt-related thingamajigs. We're picturing lots of repressed Doc Brown-looking guys standing over our exposed buttocks, wielding two phallus shaped electrodes bridged by a crackling blue current of electricity.
#2. Electric Belt with Penis Strap
Photo courtesy of The Museum of Quackery.
Well, the good news is this one doesn't go up your ass. The bad news, well, guess what that little loop thing hooks to?
We've mentioned this dong-shocking belt before, but the subject deserves further study.
First, it was intended to cure the completely made-up disease of Neurasthenia (defined by Wikipedia as the "stresses of urbanization and the pressures placed on the intellectual class by the increasingly competitive business environment" with symptoms including headache and impotence--hey, that's us!).
To active the belts' wondrous healing powers one first had to submerge it within an activating solution of sulfuric acid, vinegar and water. Then -- depending on the manufacturer -- the internal batteries were to be sprinkled with a "special powder" to bring the charge to life. The "special powder" was really just baking powder. So the whole thing probably ended with your penis coated with a rabid white froth.
"But why the penis?" you ask. Because the electric belt came with a penile strap that would transfer its healing electrical pulses straight in to your wang in an attempt to shock it out of its perpetual sexual slumber. Oh! And don't feel left out, ladies! There's a genital accessory for you too! Sadly, we couldn't find a clear enough picture of the cooter-shocker, but we can venture to guess that it looks a lot like a maxi pad topped with an array of frayed and rusted copper wiring.
Or perhaps...
In the same vein, the competing product the Manhood belt operated in a different manner. When worn, your natural body sweat activated the healing solution.
And by "healing solution" they meant red pepper.
The red pepper would wrap the penis with a warm, tingly sensation that would make its way up the torso and in to the vocal chords, producing a scream of astonishing anguish. That scream meant it was working.
#1. Foot Operated Breast Enlarger Pump
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Insecure about your lack of enormous boobs, ladies? Husbands, want to modify your wife to suit your needs without expensive surgery? Well back in the day you could always put down some hard-earned money for this set of rubber tubes topped with pink, boob-ish looking suction cups, aka the Foot Operated Breast Enlarger Pump.
All the ladies had to do was slap the cups to their milk silos and repeatedly pump a foot pedal like a person just about to wrap their car around a tree. The suction would elongate the breasts thereby giving the illusion of growth when, in reality, the only physiological response was horrifying bruising that made it look like they had been in a brutal tit fight.
Brutal Tit Fight is also a good band name.
Yeah, those turn of the century folk sure were idiots, thinking they could dupe people in to buying their grossly illogical machines that promised wonder cures for all the genitals they were applied to.
Oh, wait. These were sold in 1976. They sold more than four million of them.
And check out Dr. Swaim's intriguing essays on health issues facing the human race, in Brown Fat: How Evolution Is Saving Us From Our Own Fat Asses and The 5 Most Likely Ways Humans Will Become Obsolete.
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Portland took the lead thanks to Diego Valeri's 13th-minute goal. Colorado defender Drew Moor received a pass in the back, but was forced into a rash clearance by pressure from Maximiliano Urruti. Rodney Wallace put a powerful header to send it back the other way and into the path of Valeri, who beat Clint Irwin with a cool chip.
The win vaults Portland (11-5-13) over Colorado (12-9-9) and into third place in Major League Soccer's Western Conference, snapping the Rapids' two-game win streak and making the Timbers unbeaten in their last three.


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I was looking for a way to carry my RS-1 w/ EZ Leveler, Nikon D800e and 16mm lens in one package, assembled and ready to use. Here's the solution that I came up with. It's a Plasticase Nanuk 915 case filled with Polyethelyne foam that I cut to fit. The case is $50-ish (USD) on ebags when they're having a 30% off sale. I had the foam on hand, but I believe you can get a pick-and-pluck set for that case for about $15 (USD)
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רַבִּי יְהוּדָה הָיָה נוֹתֵן בָּהֶם סִמָּנִים: דְּצַ"ךְ עַדַ"שׁ בְּאַחַ"ב. We call the last Makah "Makas Bechoros" - why didn't Rabbi Yehuda say בְּאַחַ"ם
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This Haggadah (citing Yesod Hatorah) says that in fact R' Yehudah, with his acronym, is implicitly disagreeing with the other Sages.
A Midrash (cited in Tosafos to Shabbos 87b, ד"ה ואותו) tells how when the Egyptian firstborn heard from the Jews (on Shabbos Hagadol) that they were marked for death, they rioted to try to force Pharaoh to free the Jews so that they would be spared, and many Egyptians were killed. The name מכת בכורות hints at this: it means "the smiting [accomplished by] the firstborn." (According to this approach, I suppose, the deaths of the firstborn five days later, on Pesach night, is subsumed under this.)
Whereas R' Yehudah disagrees. He says that the firstborn did not wage war against the Egyptian government, and that the tenth plague was just that - Hashem killing all of the firstborn. So he uses ב (standing for בכורים) for the last makkah, rather than מ.
Aside from this, there are a number of reasons given for R' Yehudah's acronym. A simple one is just that he was in the habit of doing so in other places too (for example, Menachos 11:4).
All the Makkoth could be called "Makkath _". It could just as easily be called "Bechoroth" as "Makkath Bechoroth". The ב fits as well as all the others. The fact that it is referred to in the Haggadah may just be a reflection of the common way it is referred to in the literature and by the general public. That, in turn, could be a reflection of people's (and I include HaZa"L in that) reluctance to just refer to it as "Death of the First Borns" or merely "First Borns" without first appending the title "Plague of __" beforehand to distinguish that they are referring to a very specific incident that only occurred at one time and only in Egypt to the Egyptians at that time as a matter of punishment/Middah KeNegged Middah.
The fact that the Siman leaves out the Mem is probably because he's trying to shorten it; if he shortened it to Mem-Beith it would defeat the purpose. Why not just Mem (without the Beith, as suggested in the original question) could be as I mentioned above, that it's too generic; or see my question below - I wonder if the newly formed words from the Simanim meant something.
The real question is why the Simanim? What do they mean, and why are they more memorable than just the full names of the plagues (assuming the point was to make it easier to remember them)?


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Does the HTML5 with RIA Services supports CRUD(Create, Update, Delete) opperations in Offline mode?
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Hi Israel,
I am new to metro style app, I am trying to load my local html files in windows metro style app in offline mode, So could you share some sample project so that I can implement the same in my app.
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I'm looking for a textbook in quantum mechanics that relies heavily on Green functions and the path integral formalism to supplement my QM books. I want to do some calculations using alternative methods (path integrals, green functions, Lagrangians etc).
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The Feynman integral book by Johnson and Lapidus http://tocs.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/110841727.pdf tries to do everything in QM with the path integral! It is not quite a textbook though.
The book ''Feynman integral calculus'' by Smirnov
Feynman's textbook "Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals - Feynman and Hibbs" has just been reprinted and is now at a very affordable price and well worth the money.
Also could try "Path Integrals in Field Theory - U. Mosel".
Or just search online, there are lots of good lecture notes on this.
Zinn-Justin has a book on Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics.
There is also Kleinert's Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics, Statistics, Polymer Physics, and Financial Markets with extensive applications to many fields.
Schulman's book Techniques and Applications of Path Integration is also very nice.
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I have a dual-monitor setup running Vista. I upgraded to the new Zune 4.0 software, and now I cannot drag the Zune window across to the second monitor because of this "snap to window" feature. I.e. whenever the mouse reaches close to the edge of the monitor, the Zune window snaps to it. I tried the keyboard shortcut to move a window, but the Move menu in the Zune window is disabled!
What on earth were they thinking? Didn't they test this?
Has anyone found a way around this?


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Move sprite in the direction it is facing?
I am attempting to have a projectile follow the direction a gun is facing. When using the following code I am unable to make the projectile go in the right direction.
float speed = .5f;
float dX = (float) -Math.cos(Math.toRadians(degree)) * speed;
float dY = (float) Math.sin(Math.toRadians(degree)) * speed;
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? The degree is the direction the gun is facing in degree's.


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My question is ; How can I solve the following integral question?
$\displaystyle \int_{\sqrt2/2}^{1}\int_{\sqrt{1-x^2}}^{x}\frac{1}{\sqrt{x^2+y^2}}dydx$
Thanks in advance,
My question is ; How can I solve the following integral question?
$\displaystyle \int_{\sqrt2/2}^{1}\int_{\sqrt{1-x^2}}^{x}\frac{1}{\sqrt{x^2+y^2}}dydx$
Thanks in advance,
You've had some time to study this, so let's look closer at the two evident approaches: (a) conversion to polar coordinates, (b) integrate directly with a standard hyperbolic substitution.
(a) Conversion to polar coordinates: Let
$$I = \int_{1/\sqrt{2}}^1 \, \int_{\sqrt{1-x^2}}^x \frac{1}{\sqrt{x^2+y^2}} \text{d}y \, \text{d}x.$$
If you draw a diagram of the situation you will see that
$$I = \int_0^{\pi/4} \, \int_{r=1}^{r=\sec \theta} \frac{1}{r} r \text{d}r \, \text{d} \theta = \int_0^{\pi/4} \sec \theta \, - 1 \textrm{ d} \theta $$
$$= \left[ \frac{1}{2} \log \left| \frac{1+ \sin \theta}{1- \sin \theta} \right| - \theta \right]_0^{\pi/4} = \log(1+\sqrt{2}) - \frac{\pi}{4}.$$
(b) Standard hyperbolic substitution: To evaluate the inner integral set $y= x \sinh u$ and noting that $\sinh^{-1} u = \log(u+ \sqrt{1+u^2})$ we have
$$\int_{\sqrt{1-x^2}}^x \frac{1}{\sqrt{x^2+y^2}} \text{d}y = \left[ \log \left( \frac{y}{x} + \sqrt{ 1+ \frac{y^2}{x^2} }\right) \right]_{\sqrt{1-x^2}}^x $$ $$= \log(1+ \sqrt{2}) + \log x - \log( 1+ \sqrt{1-x^2}). \quad (1)$$
Both the logs can be integrated by parts. The first is standard, $\int \log x \textrm{ d}x = x \log x - x + C$ and the second
$$ \int \log( 1+ \sqrt{1-x^2} ) \textrm{ d}x = x \log( 1+ \sqrt{1-x^2}) -x + \sin^{-1} x + C.$$
You will need (do the integration) to note that
$$\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-x^2}} - 1 = \frac{x^2}{(1-x^2) + \sqrt{1-x^2}}.$$
And so upon integrating $(1)$ between $1/\sqrt{2}$ and $1$ you obtain
$$I = \left(1 - \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \right) \log(1+ \sqrt{2}) + \left[ x \log x - x\log( 1+ \sqrt{1-x^2}) - \sin^{-1} x \right]_{1/\sqrt{2}}^1$$ $$= \log(1+\sqrt{2}) - \frac{\pi}{4}.$$
Try converting to polar coordinates, you should end out integrating $\sec(\theta) - 1$.
Hint:for the y integral, consider x to be a constant. It is a standard form that can be solved by a trigonometric substitution.
Have you tried matlab? If you say:
then you'll get:
But the last part can't be integrated symbolically, so, in matlab, you can evaluate it numerically:
which will give :


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I have heard that mechanical keyboard improve typing speed. Is there any research to support this? I am considering getting a mechanical keyboard, but I already type pretty fast (90 wpm) so I am unsure if it will help.
The argument for a mechanical keyboard is that you don't have to press as hard and get more tactical feedback. Tactical feedback matters (my typing speed is lower on the iPad). I haven't tried a mechanical keyboard, but it stands to reason having to press slightly less distance can speed things up. Especially since you already have a fast typing speed.
I also think back to the old non electric typewriters where you had to push each key much harder. This made typing significantly slower because more force was needed. The new mechanical keyboards presumably wouldn't have this problem, but if you get a cheap one, I'd make sure.
Compared to what? If you are already 90wpm, then I doubt you are currently using a virtual/touch-screen keyboard.
Are you talking about a sharper click sound on your keyboard? Most people don't like the noise, but if you work alone it could be OK.
I like a curved "ergonomic" keyboard like the Microsoft Natural series. Someone asked about ergo keyboards here: Do ergonomic keyboards/mice provide significant productivity improvement over "average" counterparts?


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If you use Ubuntu or Suse you probably already have Apparmor installed on your system, so take a moment and see how this software can help you.
And also if you don't use these distributions, this article can be interesting if you are interested at the security of your Linux Box.
AppArmor ("Application Armor") is a security module for the Linux kernel, released under the GNU General Public License. AppArmor allows the system administrator to associate with each program a security profile that restricts the capabilities of that program. It supplements the traditional Unix discretionary access control (DAC) model by providing mandatory access control (MAC).
It was included as of the 2.6.36 version of the mainline Linux kernel. Since 2009, Canonical contributes to the ongoing AppArmor development.
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I know that Gandhi was involved in the civil rights movement in South Africa during he beginning of the 20th century, but was there a specific person, or group, that he learned how to protest through non-violent means?
Largely from Hinduism and Jainism. Adding onto this was his exposure to Buddhist and Theosophical thought while he was a student in London. His eventual philosophy of Satyagraha came to fruition from his experiences in South Africa.
From Hinduism into which he was born. He was influenced by Jainism later. Jainism borrowed the concept of "ahimsa" or non-violence from Hinduism. Jains adopted and followed it with much greater rigor.
While Indian traditions have certainly influenced Gandhi very much, one mustn't neglect the large influence that Western (broadly construed) thought had on him. For instance, he was very influenced by Tolstoy.
I am quoting the review of a new book that compares Gandhi to the Stoics:
Gandhi was a student in London from 1888 to 1891. Parnell, the Irish leader, died in 1891. His tragic career suggested to Indian intellectuals that
1) Secret Societies and Assassinations were bound to strengthen the hand of the Imperial Police and provoke savage reprisals
2) The politics of 'boycott' could easily get out of hand and take a Communal (i.e. Sectarian) dimension while also setting the 'Classes' against the 'Masses'.
3) Westminster needed to have confidence that an avowal of Non-Violence was indeed genuine. Later, Gokhale, the Moderates, efforts in London were undermined by, his old class-mate, Tilak's Radical grass-roots activism.
4) Just as Parnell was undone by a sex-scandal, so too would any Mass Movement fall into disrepute if the charge of immorality could be levelled against its organizers or grass-roots workers
It was not just Ireland which provided this lesson. The 'Physical Force' Chartists had been crushed by Gen. Napier who pointed out that the Govt. not only had the physical force but the ruthlessness to use it. Still, the working class did get increasingly enfranchised as a result of intra-elite competition. Similarly, the 'Revolutionary' Socialists of the Hyndman type had failed to achieve anything while the 'Slowly-slowly' Fabians were impacting policy. Similar points might be made about the Trade Union, and later on, the Suffragette movements. Radicalism backed by Violence failed. So did hunger strikes and civil disobedience. However, Gandhi did not let anyone fast to death thus there was no need for an Indian version of the 'Cat and Mouse' act whereby a Suffragette would be released if her weight fell too much and rearrested later on. Forced feeding too was not needed in India.
In South Africa, the Chinese protested the Pass Law in the same manner as the Indians. However, the Chinese miners were deported so that Smuts and Botha could play the 'yellow peril' card while showing the Mine owners who was boss. When the Indian working class went on strike (against the poll tax which they genuinely couldn't afford), Smuts couldn't deport them because 1) unlike the Chinese they were British subjects- Britain would have had to resettle them 2) White workers also went on strike thus turning the problem from a 'Racial' to a 'Class' issue.
Gandhi's nephew coined the term satyagraha at a time when Gandhi was shrilly denouncing anyone who didn't go to jail and stay in jail to protest the Pass law. However, as soon as Gandhi himself went to Jail he did a deal with Smuts and came out within a few weeks. He now made an extraordinary claim0- viz that the Pass Law was a good thing. Indians should voluntarily carry a Pass and pay a discriminatory tax and so on because these are inherently good things. His only quarrel with Smuts, Gandhi said, was that Smuts had made the thing compulsory as if Asians were too stupid or vicious to see that being treated like a dog or a slave is actually a good thing. Gandhi was very badly beaten once he came out of prison because people suspected he'd taken money to betray his own people. This wasn't true. At this time 'satyagraha' became very important for Gandhi. He knew in his heart that he hadn't meant to betray his own people. Yet, clearly, his belief in his own genius could not be demonstrated in logical language. Thus 'satyagraha' became Gandhi's vehicle to feeling good about himself after he'd screwed up big time.
Again and again, Gandhi would jump feet first into any topical issue by declaring that everybody else who had done anything useful in the field was corrupt, stupid, evil and cowardly whereas he himself had the solution. He'd then recycle some simplistic nonsense and make great claims for it and link it to his magical idea of 'satyagraha' or 'swadesi' or 'swaraj' because he had shit-for-brains. A lot of money would then be collected and wasted in the most foolish possible manner. Still it provided good 'copy' as well as a Gesture Political Credential of a wholly corrupt kind.
I may mention that that the Jain/Hindu/Irish practice of going on hunger strike as a means of emotional blackmail was only used by Gandhi against Hindus or 'Low Caste' people. It had nothing to do with Non Cooperation or Civil Disobedience which, in any case, had a wholly Indian origin and tradition pre-dating Gandhi;s return to India by a decade. Thoreau may be mentioned in the context of not paying taxes- but that failed immediately and Gandhi didn't actually read much Thoreau. Ruskin has nothing to do with Civil Disobedience. Gandhi liked his stupid essay saying that you can pay your workers less if you pretend to love them in a Christ like way. Tolstoy/Chertkov's views on sex may have been important for Gandhi & Kallenbach but clearly neither engaged in mass political activity.
In conclusion- Gandhi's techniques were the same as that of other Moderate Indian lawyer politicians. He collected money, published a Journal, did a lot of networking, and trained a cadre of agitators who could 'fill up the jails' on demand. What set Gandhi apart was that he had a proven track record of 1) being ultra-loyal to the Brits and totally non-violent 2) being an utterly worthless negotiator adept at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory 3) getting a lot of money from wealthy Hindu industrialists
How did he achieve this? The answer is that he never stood for election. He believed Parliamentary Democracy to be Satanic and the moral equivalent of Prostitution. If for nothing else, Gandhi should get a statue in Westminster for this belief of his.
From understanding Gundhi learned his protest techniques by the Parihaka in New Zealand who did nonviolent protests before him.


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I'm after a stopwatch for interval training (running).
What features should I look for when buying one?
I'm after a stopwatch for interval training (running).
What features should I look for when buying one?
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For me, the gold standard is whether I can use the device to time the Tabata protocol. That protocol is 8x(20s exercise, 10s rest). The most common exercise is sprinting. This is a difficult protocol to time. Your device must:
The other difficulty with timing devices is accidental activation of the device. This happens frequently with watches if you are doing HIIT with barbell work or exercises with wrist hyperextension such as pushups or handstand pushups. Then your left hand frequently presses against the right side of the watch where the timing control buttons usually are. I have never found a watch that conveniently times my crossfit wods, and smartphones are too large and fragile for me to consider wearing one while in the middle of a high intensity workout.
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Are you specifically seeking a "stopwatch", a single-purpose tool, a watch with interval capabilities, or a smartphone app (my recommendation)? Are you looking to track intervals, in which case anything with lap counting will do, or be notified at interval changes? Do you have simple, or complex, interval plans?
I current using Impetus for Android. It can set up complex interval programs easily through its UI, and if you can generate your own XML, you can improve over its UI. I currently get my XML from my stealth startup's DB based on a variety of training criteria.
The MotoACTV can do intervals, although not with the complexity of Impetus. It's a great dedicated device, though, modulo some dumb decisions on Moto's part.
I love my Timex Data Link USB, because it is a 200 lap stop watch. I can lap and lap and lap as needed, review it save it, download it to my computer as an Excel spreadsheet.
Accuracy is as fast as you can push the button. Alas this watch is no longer manufactured.
Although not a stopwatch, the Gymboss is a nice interval timer.


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U.S. Debt Rating Put on Watch by Fitch
Move Comes Amid Budget Impasse in Washington
Fitch Ratings warned it could strip the U.S. of its top credit rating, in the latest sign that the brinkmanship in Washington is eroding investors' confidence in U.S. institutions.
Fitch placed its triple-A rating on the U.S. on "rating watch negative," saying a downgrade is possible by the end of the first quarter next year. Even if Congress reaches a short-term deal to avoid defaulting on U.S. debt, Fitch said the budget impasse has undermined confidence in the effectiveness of the U.S. government and economic policy.
The U.S. Treasury said the Fitch move raises the urgency for action on the debt ceiling, adding that Congress should "remove the threat of default hanging over the economy."
S&P 500 futures turned briefly negative after Fitch's move, then moved up. The dollar fell slightly against the euro and the yen, and gold inched up but then quickly shed the gains. Short-term Treasury securities sold off Tuesday, with bills maturing on Nov. 7 yielding 0.380%, the highest since October 2008.
Fitch is the only one of the three biggest credit-rating firms that has indicated a downgrade is on the table. Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, which stripped the U.S. of its triple-A rating in 2011, doesn't expect to cut again. Moody's Investors Service also has said a downgrade is unlikely.
Rating companies are treading carefully when it comes to the U.S. credit rating, even as lawmakers struggle to form a deal to raise the debt ceiling ahead of Thursday, when the Treasury has said it would run out of emergency borrowing capacity.
In summer 2011, Moody's used the word "downgrade" more than 50 times in its reports on the U.S. credit rating, as lawmakers negotiated up to the last minute to raise Treasury's borrowing limit. This year's Moody's tally: one.
Moody's said last month that it views the fiscal impasse in Washington as less of a threat to the U.S. rating than the 2011 debt fight because the budget deficit is smaller than two years ago. S&P says the political deadlock is outweighed by strengths that range from the diversified U.S. economy to the Federal Reserve's flexible monetary policy.
The three rating firms don't expect the U.S. to miss a debt payment and go into default.
Meanwhile, many investors say they are happy to hold U.S. debt as long as Congress reaches an agreement to avoid a default. Whether the government is rated triple-A or double-A-plus is of secondary importance, they say. Although investors have sold short-term debt, which are the investments most at risk in the event of a default, prices of long-term Treasury bonds have held steady.
"I don't really look at what the ratings agencies do because they haven't been good predictors of market moves," said Bob Gelfond, chief executive of New York-based hedge fund MQS Management, which oversees $1 billion, according to the company's most recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing. "Nothing they say will cause us to change our analysis."
Only a minority of funds are still limited to buying solely triple-A-rated securities, investors say. As the downgrades of recent years shrank the pool of highly rated sovereign debt, funds increasingly loosened their investment guidelines to give themselves more buying flexibility.
If the debt-ceiling deadline passes without a deal, the U.S. would risk missing interest payments within days. Even a one-notch downgrade by Fitch would send ripples through debt markets, potentially altering ratings for high-quality corporate bonds or municipal debt issued by states that supplement their budgets with federal funds.
But those risks haven't sent investors fleeing the $11.6 trillion Treasury market. U.S. debt has maintained its appeal as a haven and portfolio staple despite years of slow economic growth, rising debt levels and escalating spending fights. Investors say even with its reputation—and credit rating—diminished, U.S. debt remains the most liquid and, by many measures, safest to hold. And since the financial crisis, other large borrowers, such as the U.K. and Japan, share many of the same problems.
"How investors view the country and its credit quality is much more of an evolving framework now than it was in the past," said Robert Tipp, chief investment strategist at Prudential Fixed Income, which manages $400 billion. He added: "Whether another ratings agency downgrades the U.S. is not going to have that much impact in terms of trading levels. What matters is the way we get through this debt ceiling debate."
Rating firms have come under increasing political pressure for their ratings since the financial crisis. After the S&P downgrade in 2011, lawmakers and U.S. regulators called for restricting the influence of rating companies in financial markets. Separately, the Justice Department is suing S&P, a unit of McGraw Hill Financial Inc., for $5 billion for allegedly misrepresenting its ratings process before the financial crisis. S&P has called the lawsuit "retaliation" for the U.S. downgrade, a claim that the Justice Department says is "preposterous."
"There's understandably caution in light of the significant lawsuit against S&P," said Jeffrey Manns, an associate professor at George Washington University Law School. "The ratings agencies saw the political fallout from S&P's downgrade in 2011, so they may choose their words more carefully this time."
Moody's, the credit-rating business of Moody's Corp., has a triple-A rating on the U.S. with a stable outlook, meaning a downgrade is unlikely "over the medium term." Moody's declined to comment beyond its reports.
Fitch, jointly owned by Hearst Corp. and Paris-based Fimalac SA, said in a report last week that even after the U.S. exits default, it would be unlikely to return to a triple-A rating "in the short to medium term."
S&P says there is a less than 1-in-3 chance of another downgrade in the next two years. It has the U.S. one notch below its counterparts at double-A-plus with a stable outlook.
"The political brinkmanship is the primary reason our rating is no longer triple-A, so that's already incorporated into the rating," said Marie Cavanaugh, a managing director at S&P.
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I hold regular Advice Bureaux for constituents within the Perry Barr Ward.
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All about me
Recently working with the police, volunteers and council staff we have made great progress in developing two of our community parks.
As I have taken on wider roles and responsibilities I have sought to apply the same principles of listening and involving others. From 2004 to 2005 I chaired a special scrutiny committee looking at local regeneration projects.
After becoming chair of the children and education committee in 2005, I led a city-wide consultation with parents of children with special needs. It was a privilege to sit round tables in halls I believe that the people of Birmingham can have a greater say and influence than they realise in how this city is run and shaped.
I live in the heart of the Perry Barr ward as I did when I was elected in 2003 – even though I have moved house from one part of the ward to another. Local residents have always been frequent and welcome visitors to my door-step.
With my colleagues we have sought to involve local people in the shaping of our ward. The annual allocation of community chest is a great way to deliver local people's priorities, be it for community safety, youth activities or road safety. Over the years we have regularly asked local people what they want done – and have done our best to deliver this.
I was privileged to collect an award for community engagement in scrutiny. This came about because the UK Youth Parliament has supplied young people's representatives to sit on our committee – and they asked for an investigation into sex education.
It's a subject many adults are squeamish to talk about – but we set up a joint group with the young people and produced a surprising and radical report, calling for focus on relationships and supporting young people.
I have also been vice-chair of a new scrutiny committee that we set up, the vulnerable children's committee. I'm glad we set this up as there are major challenges in children's social care and this has enabled councillors to investigate the problems and ensure solutions are implemented.
Another role I was on, was the Centro Members Joint Committee, and I have been lead member for buses and highways for several years. That's a big and tough task in itself. We have been examining bus networks around the city and, again, the transport authority and the bus operators have been learning to do better consultation. Each "network review" has been more inclusive, with more public engagement.
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Sandy slowed US consumer spending and pay in October
|FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 file photo, a sign advertising a sale is seen posted on a storefront in Philadelphia. Americans cut back on spending in October and saw no growth in their income, reflecting disruptions from Superstorm Sandy. On Friday, Nov. 30, 2012, the Commerce Department said consumer spending dropped 0.2 percent in October. That's down from an increase of 0.8 percent in September and the weakest showing since May. Income was flat in the month following a 0.4 percent rise in September. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
WASHINGTON — Americans cut back on spending last month while their income remained flat. The weakness in part reflected disruptions from Superstorm Sandy that could slow economic growth for the rest of the year.
The Commerce Department said Friday that consumer spending dropped 0.2 percent in October. It was the weakest figure since May, and it compared with a 0.8 percent spending increase in September.
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The Italian Group for Antiemetic Research
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Source: The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 342, 1554-1559, (May) 2000
Nausea and vomiting are among the most distressing side effects of chemotherapy for cancer, but the best way to prevent these symptoms is unclear. Some studies have found that ondansetron and dexamethasone were equally effective in controlling acute nausea and vomiting but that dexamethasone was better in the control of delayed nausea. This double-blind, randomized, multicenter study investigated early treatment of nausea and vomiting as well as the efficacy of several regimens for the prevention of delayed emesis
A total of 705 were enrolled into this study. All the patients received prophylactic ondansetron combined with dexamethasone prior to chemotherapy. The low-risk patients (the group of patients who were protected against moderate-to-severe nausea and vomiting on the first day) were randomly assigned to oral placebo, dexamethasone, or ondansetron in combination with dexamethasone. The high-risk patients (those who were not protected against symptoms on day one) were randomized to either dexamethasone alone or in combination with ondansetron.
This study demonstrated that controlling emesis on the first day with combination of ondansetron and dexamethasone alone appeared to be an effective way to prevent delayed emesis in patients receiving chemotherapy. For low-risk patients (those who were protected on day one), dexamethasone was effective against delayed emesis.


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30 Nov 2011 11:55 AM #11
@dawesi: Bear in mind that this is the initial version, and to get something rolled out you usually have to prioritize and leave some things out. A lot of what you mentioned (though not all) is already on our road map internally, but please do keep the feedback coming -- very helpful.
@skirtle: Agreed, a distinction there would be good.
@nohuhu: What additional level of integration did you have in mind?
@mankz: +100 -- I've already suggested it myself, haven't yet won the argument
30 Nov 2011 12:16 PM #12
@brian: Show Devs profile, recommendations and endorsements in Market; show Market addons with ratings in Devs etc. That would be the best option to draw peoples' attention to both Market and Devs.
Speaking of Devs, it would be nice if it supported single-person profiles. Having stated 2-10 'employees' makes me feel slightly schizophrenic.
Also regarding Market licensing options, at least add 'GPL+Commercial' to available choices, although if you throw in BSD and MIT it would cover 90% of peoples' needs IMHO.
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perhaps even setup a uservoice.com account (or build something internal) so community members can vote up or down the features they prefer.
Oh also with the voting, I think it's wise to be able to see 'who' voted also (maybe on a poup list window), so that you can properly eval a plugin as people have a habit of voting up their own, or friends stuff sometimes ;-) Maybe limit the amount of votes that you can use per week or something... and then perhaps have a core group of trusted reviewers that can provide a 'professional' evaluation.
Awesome stuff... I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it! This is what I envisioned the app store was meant to deliver!!! yay! Too cool.
Well done once again...Lead Trainer / Sencha Specialist
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28 May 2012 3:13 AM #15
Very happy about this
I am very happy because of you this notice. It means we will have a new step!
6 Feb 2013 12:42 PM #16
My extension doesn't show up in Sencha Market
I have added a Highcharts extension into Sencha Market but it is not shown up in the chart category. I put the license as 'Artistic' as there is no 'Creative Common' option. Is it because of that?
Many thanks


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Darryl Starbird's 49th Annual Exotic Car Show - Tulsa, OKWritten by on March 19, 2013
$10,000.00 "GO FOR THE GOLD" TULSA, OK - WINNER John Saltsman of Rialto, CA with his 1949 Studebaker just received $10,000.00 cash at Darryl Starbird's National Rod & Custom Car Show in Tulsa, OK on February 15,16,17, 2013. The $10,000.00 cash award "Go for the Gold" is a complex award; it is the combination of creativity, workmanship, execution, and individual design with imagination. The winner was chosen from a field of nine unbelievable vehicles from throughout the USA (Chris Carlson of Mulvane, KS with a 1934 Ford Coupe, Keith Dean of Hemet, CA with his 1940 Mercury, Shawn Mundy of Independence, KS with a 1935 Ford PU, Doug Weigel of Albuquerque, NM with his hand built 1919 Paddy Wagon, Vivian Pearce of Bentonville, AR with a 1930 Ford Roadster, Mike Kinney of No Las Vegas, NV with a 1947 Dodge, Troy Pate of Wichita, KS with his 1933 Ford Rdster and Joan Lough of Wichita, KS with a 1950 Mercury. These vehicles were all awarded a "Fine Nine Trophy" for being a part of this prestigious competition. Mike Willey of Claremore, Ok with his 1932 Ford Coupe was the winner of Darryl's Personal Choice award, and the Hall of Fame choice went to the unbelievable 1947 Dodge owned by Mike Kinney of No Las Vegas, NV also a Fine Nine winner. Starbird's Tulsa show is in its 49th annual presentation and was proud to debut Darryl's latest creation "Galaxy X2000". The "Go for the Gold" $10,00.00 cash is in its 10th Annual presentation. Tulsa is the largest indoor car show in the country having over 1000 vehicles in competition.


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MPs warn over nuclear space bombs and solar flares The government must take more seriously the threat of a nuclear weapon being exploded in space by a rogue state, MPs have warned.The Defence Select Committee said the resulting radiation pulse could disrupt power and water supplies, UK defence and satellite navigation systems.Its chairman, Tory MP James Arbuthnot, said an attack was "quite likely".The committee is urging ministers to invest in more "hardened" technology to cope with such an event.It looked at the threat to the UK's technological infrastructure from "electromagnetic pulse" (EMP) events in space, which could also include the eruption of solar flares....On the possibility of a nuclear missile being fired into space and exploded, he said: "I personally believe that it's quite likely to happen. It's a comparatively easy way of using a small number of nuclear weapons to cause devastating damage."The consequences if it did happen would be so devastating that we really ought to start protecting against it now, and our vulnerabilities are huge."Mr Arbuthnot added: "it would actually have a far more devastating effect to use a nuclear weapon in this way than to explode a bomb in or on a city. The reason for that is it would, over a much wider area, take out things like the National Grid, on which we all rely for almost everything, take out the water system, the sewage system."And rapidly it would become very difficult to live in cities. I mean within a matter of a couple of days.
Why are they able to see the threat while our leaders are not?
If an EMP strike is followed by three or four hundred nuclear weapons, EMP is going to be the least of our worries.
It matters not whether they see the threat, only if they act on what they see. I don't think anyone in Parliament will vote to lower their pensions, or their pork, to protect their grid. But O! how they will hear the shrieks and howls from the masses if this attack takes place. "You should have done something!" the people will scream.
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