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In Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 1 Episode 6, Xander and 4 other students are possessed and they eat a pig. At the end they are all freed of possession and Xander claims memory loss. However Giles tells him when they are alone that he knows Xander didn't lose his memory and I think Xander mentions this in a later season as well. My question is was the fact that 4 students killed and ate the Principal ever brought up again? I mean if Xander remembered eating the pig and being mean they should be in a bad mental condition when they remember killing and eating a human but I don't believe it's ever mentioned again. I'll take answers from any source of tv, comic, or interviews in the Buffyverse.
Snyder brings it up in The Puppet Show (1x09):
Buffy also asks Wood if he had heard about what happened to Flutie in Beneath You (7x02).
Other than that I don't think it comes up much at all. We certainly never see those students again.


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Theft: Two guns taken from residence in the 1300 block of Wellesley Avenue during the past month.
Arrested: Latasha Birden, 23, 1321 Oregon Ave., warrants charging petit theft and violation of no contact order, Monday.
Cited: Kaitlin Wenger, no age listed, Apartment 3, 404 Lovers Lane, expired registration; Stephanie Diekman, 41, 5279 state Route 43, Richmond, failure to control; and Chelsee Snape, no age or address listed, no seat belt.
Arrested: Patricia Fithen, 46, 301 Ohio St., Brilliant, bench warrant out of municipal court, Monday.
Arrested: Dyane Hickman, 30, 2371 township Road 157, Rayland, bench warrant out of municipal court, Monday.
Arrested: Markus R. Hopkins, 24, Apartment C, 1130 Lincoln Ave., operating a vehicle under the influence and falsification, Monday.
Theft: Five storm drain covers discovered taken Monday from various streets in the south end. Wastewater department called to place cones around the open storm drains.
Jefferson County
Arrested: Devon Bullum, 25, 263 Commercial Ave., Mingo Junction, contempt of court warrant out of Wintersville county court, Monday.
Ohio State Highway Patrol
Arrested: Donald Vaughn, 25, Conneaut Lake, Pa., marked lanes, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of heroin, Monday.
Brooke County sheriff
Cited: Janet L. Hornsby, 43, 289 Northview Road, Wellsburg, driving while suspended-administrative; and Isaac Louthen, 29, of Follansbee, defective equipment and reckless operation.
Theft: A representative of Precision Pipeline, a Eau Claire, Wis., company doing business in Brooke County, reported eight 10-foot pieces of pipe and six 12-foot pieces of pipe were taken from its staging area behind the Dollar General Market Thursday or Friday.

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May 25, 2010 -- Consumer Reports Health has issued a new ranking of the six repellents it says are best to ward off mosquitoes and deer ticks.
The magazine says it tested 10 insect repellents in an outside laboratory, where volunteers let deer ticks crawl on them and also exposed themselves to mosquitoes.
Six of these repellents earned a "recommended" rating from Consumer Reports. These six repellents, along with their active ingredients and cost, are:
- Off Deep Woods Sportsmen II; 30% DEET; cost: $1.25 an ounce.
- Cutter Backwoods Unscented; 23% DEET; cost: $1.33 per ounce.
- Off FamilyCare Smooth & Dry; 15% DEET; cost: $1.63 an ounce.
- 3M Ultrathon Insect Repellant 8; 25% DEET; $1.67 per ounce.
- Repel Plant Based Lemon Eucalyptus; active ingredient oil of lemon eucalyptus; cost: $1.94 an ounce.
- Natrapel 8-Hour with picaridin; 20% picaridin; cost: $2.00 an ounce.
Others tested included:
- Avon Skin-So-Soft Bug Guard plus IR3535 Expedition SPF 30, active ingredient IR3535; cost: $3.50 per ounce.
- Bite Blocker Xtreme (organic); Plant oils are listed as the active ingredient; cost: $1.34 per ounce.
- Cutter Skinsations Clean Fresh Scent; 7% DEET; cost: $1.04 per ounce.
- Burt's Bees All Natural Herbal; active ingredient plant oils; cost: $2.00 per ounce.
Consumer Reports Health says that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has judged DEET to be safe when used as directed, but that it has caused rare toxic reactions when not used as instructed. The EPA also says DEET shouldn't be applied to babies less than 2 months old.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has advised against using repellents with DEET concentrations higher than 30% on any kids. And Consumer Reports Health says no one should use a repellent with more than 30% DEET.
The top six repellents protected against deer ticks and mosquitoes for seven hours or more, Consumer Reports says in a news release.
Tips to Prevent Insect Bites
Though the bugs used in the evaluation were disease-free, mosquitoes in the U.S. can sometimes carry West Nile virus or St. Louis encephalitis, the magazine says.


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2000 Volkswagen Beetle - Ron Patrick's Jet VWWritten by on February 28, 2007 Contributors: hotrodnostalgia.com It's not the world's fastest street machine but from freeway speed up to about a buck-fifty, we wouldn't bet a pink slip against any 3,300-pound package blowing fireballs out its butt.
Ron Patrick is the first to concede that his jet-powered VW is not the world's quickest street machine. In a standing-start drag race, it would get a good fight from its stable mate in Ron's two-car garage: a '65 Hemi Coronet clone. Nevertheless, from freeway speed up to about a buck-fifty, we wouldn't bet a pink slip against any 3,300-pound package blowing fireballs out its butt.
That's not to say this middle-aged, self-made-millionaire engineer with a wife and 2.0 children would indulge in such foolishness on a public highway, even between 2:30 and 3:30 a.m., "when the fewest cops seem to be around." Lacking any witness to such irresponsible exhibitions of speed, we might dismiss such claims as nothing more than the juvenile fantasies of a one-time Modified Production drag racer with an ego to feed and $400,000 to burn.
Then again, Ron's eyes sure get large as he describes the sensation of wind sucking down through the sunroof to the air intake located just over his right shoulder, the deafening roar that ricochets back from the giant "sound wall" that separates a favorite stretch of two-lane from an exclusive roadside subdivision, and the panty-bunching acceleration of an afterburner kicking in 1,300 hp, all at once.
Having heard this, plus witnessing two smoke-'n'-fire shows in a vacant parking lot, even Jet Car Bob Smith was inclined to believe this Stanford Ph.D. and former professor had actually been there and done that. Smith, 68, is the pioneering jet jockey who campaigned, crashed, and miraculously survived Untouchables I, II, and III in 1962-1964 (see the sidebar Different, Daring, Deadly on page 3).
California's Department of Motor Vehicles is less enthusiastic about such rides. Investigators have shown up unannounced at the owner's office, demanding to inspect an '00 Beetle that never seems to be available. Their alleged charges, according to Ron, range from silly (registration fraud, emissions-system tampering, storing kerosene unsafely) to serious (threat to national security!). When informed that any object overhanging the back bumper by 2 feet is illegal, Ron advised that his stainless steel tailpipe protrudes 23 inches, exactly. This being litigious California, there is now an attorney on board, of course. "My lawyer says that it'd be easier to defend me on a murder charge because the DMV keeps changing the rules."
Trailing the Beetle in traffic, Jet Car Bob pointed out that grinning, pointing, thumbs-upping fellow motorists evidently don't object to a jet car with a license plate. Its original, gas-burning, front-mounted four-banger gets Ron around Silicon Valley quietly and cleanly, returning excellent fuel economy. Unless and until the DMV presents smoking-gun evidence to the contrary, the burden is on the bureaucrats to prove that anything more exciting than "transporting an old helicopter engine" occurs under the hatch.
Ironically, the owner's high-tech company, Electronic Engine Control, supplies auto manufacturers with calibration equipment to test emissions and safety systems. After a long day at the computer, Ron unwinds by winding up to 23,000 rpm for a few seconds. He's making the most out of the months remaining until the Beetle's one-year registration comes up for renewal. He insists this homebuilt hybrid is more stable than a Stocker at speed, he never endangers other drivers, and he stays on the throttle only until the stock speedometer is pegged at 140 mph. -Dave Wallace
Daring, Different, Deadly
Not long after the first jet car stirred up a major controversy-and massive publicity-at Bonneville in 1960, three veteran dragster racers completed quarter-mile models. Ironically, Art Arfons, Walt Arfons, and Romeo Palamides all accepted the reality that no NHRA-affiliated promoter would dare let them run. In a weird, wild era that saw NHRA strictly enforce bans against both aircraft power and any fuel except pump gas, AHRA-sanctioned and unsanctioned tracks thrived on giving hungry spectators the outlaw attractions that the NHRA would not.
Alas, too many early jet cars lent credence to the NHRA's contention that military-surplus engines and hot rodders might be a deadly mix. By 1962, the first thrust-initiated fatality had been recorded: Glenn Leasher perished on the Salt in Palamides' land-speed car, Infinity*. Leasher's regular job was driving Palamides' original Untouchable, the highest-paid attraction in drag racing (as well as the heaviest, at 5,000-plus pounds). A young slingshot shoe named Bob Smith was invited to fill the vacancy.
"I thought about it for about five seconds," recalls the only jet jockey enshrined in the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame, who is more surprised than anyone to be alive at 68. "Here we'd been busting our butts to run 180 in Fuelers, and Romeo's car was going 230 without breaking parts. Fuel cars were in the 8-second range; jets were in the 6s. What drag racer wouldn't jump at the chance to pick up 50 miles an hour overnight and beat up on all the big guys?"
Unfortunately for Jet Car Bob, he was mostly booked into places built in the mid-'50s, when common knowledge held that dragsters would never exceed 150. "Going fast was never a challenge," he explains. "Getting stopped could be. All three of my crashes followed parachute failures."
His final jet blast, at Milan (Michigan) Dragway in July 1964, earned Smith eight months of hospitalization, the first two in a coma. At the lowest point, a doctor actually pronounced him dead. Adding insult to injury, Palamides stopped sending checks. When a visiting reporter asked why he was considering driving Untouchable IV upon his release, Jet Car Bob replied, "To pay the hospital bills from Untouchables I, II, and III."
Infinity Over Zero, Cole Coonce's history of thrust-powered racing, was named for this ill-fated LSR car. The book is available from www.hotrodnostalgia.com.
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When Ron went shopping for a suitable vehicle, he brought a cardboard mockup of the jet engine to new-car dealerships. Although his runner-up selection, a Volvo wagon, offered more cargo space, the new Beetle's large rear window rekindled childhood memories of Hurst's midengined Hemi Under Glass Barracudas. He punched the hole with a jigsaw without chipping or peeling the stock paint. Two hatch latches from a Lexus replaced the stock latch, but when the lid is open, VW's "hatch-not-closed" warning light still shines in the dash.Originally installed in a Vietnam-era Sea King or Sea Knight helicopter, the 300-pound GE turboshaft engine was modified internally by Tim Arfons (Art's son), who also installed an afterburner. Its mounting system was designed by Ron using finite element analysis then fabricated by Sullivan Racing (Campbell, California). Because the engine "grows" by 0.150 inch as it warms up, Bob Sullivan used a sliding rear mount and rubber isolation to prevent damage at 26,000 rpm. A 14-gallon Kevlar fuel tank is mounted under the body in the spare-tire well. Behind the rear bumper are two electric fuel pumps; a Barry Grant drag-racing pump feeds the engine-a modified, 24-volt, magnesium military pump feeds both the afterburner and "big fire" nozzle (which dumps raw fuel into the tailpipe, just for fun).We've never seen another jet car without some external air inlet. Rather than ventilate the front of his '00 Beetle, Ron rightly figured he could draw enough air through the door windows and sunroof, although the cockpit gets more wind and noise than he'd anticipated. "I can't seem to keep a rose in the bud vase," he says


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The road to the White House is taking a major detour to your living room.
Political TV ads are nothing new, but this many this early is. So far, the Obama campaign's pumped $31 million into advertising in Florida, more than it's spending anywhere else.
At the rate it's going, Team Obama's on track to spend a record amount on trying to earn your vote. In the process, the campaign's making Florida its number one prize.
As TV air wars go, the Obama campaign's ordering an all-out blitz in Florida, and you're the target, but what about the Romney campaign? They have yet to drop even a penny in America's preeminent battleground state, a move that only a few years ago would have been called political malpractice.
But that was before the rise of the super-pac, independent committees allowed to pour unlimited amounts of money into their own ads. They're already on the air, and they overwhelmingly attack the president.
"He hasn't even come close. We need solutions, not just promises," one such ad says.
With messages like that, political consultant Kevin Cate says Romney doesn't need to go on the air, and with the super-pacs, there's an added advantage.
"He's loving Karl Rove right now 'cause he's spending millions of dollars to try to bring down President Obama's approval rating, so, why bother with a positive message when you've got Karl Rove to do your dirty work?"
Put simply, because Florida will always be too precious to gamble away. That's why Romney's bound to run his own ads eventually.
But for now, it's Obama and the super-pacs locked in a multi-million dollar game for control of Florida's airwaves.
Nationwide, the Romney campaign has spent $5 million on TV ads. Those ads are running in smaller, less expensive swing states like North Carolina, Iowa and New Hampshire.


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Many of the important things I have learned about programming best practices and security, have come from questions like this: Guide to Website Authentication. Can we have a way to aggregate all of these tutorials/guides into an easy-to-find place that the community can edit through wiki? There are a lot of complaints about poor programming practices. This would be a great way to help curb that and stay current with best practices as they evolve.


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When the British recipe calls for plain chocolate do they refer to cocoa powder, chocolate syrup, cooking squares, or Nestle style chips? Is it unsweetened, semi-sweet, or bitter?
The closest US equivalent to British plain chocolate is semi-sweet. If a recipe calls for, say, 5oz of plain chocolate, it will mean chocolate in bar form (unless chips are specified of course).
Obviously if the chocolate is for melting it doesn't matter what form it comes in.
Cocoa powder and chocolate syrup mean the same thing in Britain as they do in the US, incidentally.
British plain chocolate would be broadly equivalent to the US bitter-sweet chocolate.
Bitter or unsweetened dark chocolate has high cocoa solid percentage and little to no sugar added.
Bitter-sweet has about 70/30 cocoa solid/butter to sugar ratio.
Semi-sweet has about 50/50 cocoa solid/butter to sugar ratio.


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I'm in the middle of reading Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, and it occurred to me that I'd finally found a good place to ask a question I'd been wondering about for years. How do authors collaborate on works of fiction? Do they alternate chapters, or...? Is there any common, standard practice for this, or is it just whatever they want to do?
There seem to be two general approaches to this:
In either case, the collaborators will smooth out stylistic differences in a round of revisions.
Several years ago I wrote a short story with a friend. We talked briefly about the premise, then started writing. One of us would write a few hundred words and hand it over to the other. The other person would edit (focusing mostly on the language), then add a few hundred words and hand it over.
This process worked beautifully for us, for that short story. We submitted the story for our writer's group's annual "blind submission" meeting. Everybody thought our story was the best written of the dozen or so submissions. And nobody could identify who wrote it (we'd eliminated each other's "tells").
I doubt that this style of collaboration would work well for a longer story. For that, I'd probably alternate either scenes or chapters. Another possibility is to alternate POV characters. I'd also probably want a clearer shared understanding of the whole story arc.
I'm also working on several non-fiction books with a colleague. For those, we know the general scope of the books, but not the final organization. Currently we're in the "fleshing out the topic" phase. Each of us works similarly: Notice a topic that fits, that we have some passion about, and that we haven't written yet. Then write about that topic (usually as a separate file) and drop it in our shared repository.
Every now and then we get together and talk. One of us starts to ramble on a topic, and the other will take notes. That will spark the other to pick up some thread and run with it. Then together we shape the notes into something nearly coherent and add them to the repository to be fleshed out later (by whoever has the energy at the time).
This colleague and I have also written several articles together. We connect on Skype, open a shared Google doc, and start talking and typing. Sometimes one of us has an idea and writes a fumbling, inarticulate sentence or paragraph. Then the other magically figures out how to phrase it well. Often we'll each have something we want to say at the same time, and we'll simultaneously write in separate parts of the same document.
I much prefer a collaboration style in which we either write simultaneously or we trade off very, very frequently. The writing becomes a kind of improvisation (bounded somewhat by our ideas of what we're trying to create). As I said, I don't expect this style works for others, or for other kinds of works.


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I started on Normal. I always start on Normal. Now that I have played some of the game and have the mechanics down, can I switch difficulties for my current character?
Yes, it is possible. You need to create a LAN game and then you can specify the difficulty there. A couple of important notes: if you tick "reroll world" it will generate a whole new world but I think quest progress is still saved. Also, I've heard tell that even if you don't reroll the world that all the monsters in your LAN game will be respawned. I haven't done this yet so I can't give you my experiences.
Here is a forum thread at the official Torlight 2 forums explaining this.
There is currently no regular option to change single player difficulty for a specific character. However, you have two options for this:


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So I have this red and white X icon in my task bar area by the clock. It says I have some virus and "please click here to download antivirus software" or something like that. Ill repost and say exactly what it says when it comes up again. It also brings up popups saying cheesy things that are easy to come by and not see. It says: Security Warning! Worm.Win32.NetBooster detected. Then it says some other crap about the virus. Then, heres the cheesy part, it says:
Type: Virus
System Affected: Windows 2000, NT, ME, XP, Vista (How could it be all 5? IM ONLY RUNNING ONE SYSTEM!!!)
Security Risk (0-5): 5 (Ohh, so scary! Wouldnt my computer not be working IF IT WERE 5???? ya dumbshits!!)
Reccomendations: Click Yes to remove from your PC emeidiatly (no!!)
Also, it pops up internet pages for online scans, without my permission or doing. Also, it keps loading one when I open IE myself, and keeps chaging the homepage everytime I change it back to google.
And when the computer is on and Im not around to close all the web pages, like today (I had to restart the computer!), dozens and dozens of pop ups and pages apear. I think like 60 did today (after like 5 hours)
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I use auto-mounting of external USB devices, and it works as expected, except that NTFS partitions are mounted with executability flag on. For example:
/dev/sdb1 on /media/Elements type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions)
All normal files are
-rwxrwxrwx on this partition. I am not happy with the
xs. I know I can have it mounted the way I want if I pass the
fmask=0111 option.
Now I use Lucid, and suppose it uses some new auto-mounting mechanism (
gvfs-mount?), but I don't really know how the default mounting options can be changed now. Gconf settings in
/system/storage/default_options/ntfs/mount_options have no effect.
So, how do I make
fmask=0111 the default automounting option for all NTFS partitions? (I'd be grateful also if someone explains how the current automounting mechanism works, how to configure it
, and if the default mounting options are hard-coded, what I have to recompile to change them).
I know that I can put a line in the
/etc/fstab and/or mount manually, but this is not the solution I want, because 1) I don't want to edit
/etc/fstab for each and every external drive I use, 2) fstab records appear in the Places pane of Nautilus, even if the drives are not present. The questions is how to change the defaults.
Update: installing
udisks 1.0.1+git20100614 or later gives more sensible defaults for NTFS, the problem which remains is how the user can specify arbitrary mount options.


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I've heard of GeoCommon as being an easy GIS solution, but I'd like to host the data locally for internal users. I know of a group called Open Geosuite - but the ongoing maintenance is something I'd like to avoid since I can do pretty well with maintenance and content management & web site publishing after the initial set-up.
Does anyone know of an out-of-the-box solution or a group/company that can help with initial set up for these types of map service stacks?
Thanks for any advice you can give for a noob!


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Cited: Kelly Downen, 27, county Road 26, driving with a suspended license; David Riley, 119 E. Main St., Richmond, improper turn, loud exhaust; Jasmine Smith, 23, 505 Pine Valley Drive, driving with a suspended license; and Michael Smith, 19, Follansbee, operating a vehicle on a temporary permit.
Jefferson County sheriff
Arrested: Jimmale Harton, 21, 806 N. Sixth St., assault, Monday.
Arrested: Ashley Aguielera, 22, 115 High St., Richmond, assault, warrant, Monday.
Ohio State Highway Patrol
Arrested: Juliette Harton, 48, 1423 Oak Grove Ave., driving with a suspended license, failure to display, left of center warrant, today.
Cross Creek Township Police
Cited: Todd Parker, 23, 517 Queensboro Heights, Mingo Junction, speeding.


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I thought this was pretty cool. Courtesy of Roland UK:
To not hold anything back, here is an mp3 of my latest new song, "I Need You". You can buy the high res versions either from my web store or at CD Baby.
Thank you in advance.
Like I said, as I get the time to put these together I will share them with you. Today's chord du jour is the F major shape bar chord which has its root note on the second string, the E string as shown in the diagram below. Have fun strumming!
The video for my latest song, I Need You, is now live on YouTube. You can also download it right here from my site if you prefer.
I wish this could be on the cover of a 33 rpm LP, but I don't have the budget for that and on top of that, this song is getting released as a single anyway. But you can always dream. So here's the art for the cover of my new single, "I Need You". Also, here is a link to the I Need You ringtone taken from the song. You can have it now for free, but in the future it will be available via my music store so you can throw some change my way. Do you know […] Continue Reading…
"I Need You" is a love song that I came up while I went for a walk last summer. Boom, done – all of the lyrics and the basic melody in less than an hour! But then it has taken me since then to actually get it recorded. For various reasons it sat in my notebook until February when I came across Graham Cochran's Recording Revolution "One Song One Month Challenge". Of course the One Song One Month Challenge began in January, and by February I was already a month behind. So, I got the song arranged and recorded by March […] Continue Reading…
Okay my 'ukulele 'ohana, here is my next installment of bar chords for the uke. This one is using the open position form of the A major chord shape. The diagram shows that you only bar the first and second strings with your first finger, but in practice I bar strings 1, 2 and 3 because that makes it easier to quickly change from for example Bb major to Bb minor. I will share diagrams for some minor chord forms too once I get them completed.
Have you been using bar chords when you play the uke and how is […] Continue Reading…
This has been helpful to me, having first played the guitar and being used to using bar chords got me thinking it would be helpful to know how to use and play moveable bar chords on the ukulele. So here is an example of how it works when using the form for a C major chord played in the open position as you move it on down the neck. I will post some other bar chord forms in the future as I create the charts.
Was this helpful for you too?
I got this from Zig Ziglar yesterday and thought I'd share it with you in case you need some inspiration:
Something big is on your heart.
Just Start.
I don't know how.
Just Start.
Other people do this sort of thing, not me.
Just Start.
I will be 55 years old next month.
Just Start.
Take the first step.
Something big is on your heart.
If you […] Continue Reading…
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This is lesson DB-13 Beginning to Finger Notes on the Double Bass, and is a continuation of my journal of things I have learned as an adult double bass student.
See the video for a few pointers about fingering of notes.
Be sure to check out my Double Bass Lessons page for a complete list of all of my lessons!
Today is a review next few sections of Simandl. Half position through the octave. (ie. 1st through 12th) Pages 11, 14 and 18 (see pics below)
Key Points:
We've already gone over playing notes on the open strings.


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Traditionally open source Business Intelligence (OSBI) has been adopted by individuals with an "I" in their acronym: IT, SI, and ISVs. This made sense because Open Source software started with deep technical roots in operating systems, appservers, RDBMSs, ESBs, etc., and when Pentaho pioneered OSBI in 2004 it was no different. The OSBI landscape back then was filled with some very nice technical projects, some desire from the "then current" open source proponents to move higher in the stack, and the overwhelming BI market screaming for disruption in the form of better products, better architectures and better pricing.
Over the next few years Pentaho built out a great BI platform with end-to-end BI capabilities and quickly became known as "The" OS BI Suite vendor. In conjunction with building product, we built out vibrant open source communities that helped spur our growth and adoption. We were the only clear alternative to Business Objects, Cognos, Oracle and Microstrategy, and the market was hungry for a better and more appropriately-priced offering. We've experienced incredible growth over the last couple of years as we continue to deliver great, solid, scalable, secure and functionally-rich products to the market – both to our open source communities and to our paying customers and partners.
In 2009 we started delivering more products geared toward the "business user," a.k.a. "end-user," a.k.a. "casual user," a.k.a. "non-techie." We immediately started seeing more people convert into customers and this trend grew significantly all the way through 2010. This was a great move in that direction, but we knew that another gap needed to be plugged in order to really satisfy growing market needs – better web-based reporting and data visualization as well as an easier way to get to data. People want results fast and easy, especially the "non-technical user." Voila, Pentaho BI 4.0 directly addresses these needs and pain points. Check it all out here in our Pentaho BI 4 resource center.
Pentaho BI 4 is our biggest release ever that's geared toward the business user. This product makes it not only possible, but makes it easy for business users to access their own data and do their own reporting, analytics, data discovery and dashboards. We've shielded users from the underlying complexities while also giving them the power that they desire. Our open source roots make it clear that we are all about the people, and this release specifically extends that philosophy to include the "non-technical people."
Pentaho BI 4 will greatly expand our addressable market size and customer profile. Our early feedback from customers, partners and communities indicates that this is a huge inflection point for our product line and company. Our launch webcast on Thursday June 23 – Pentaho BI 4 Live – has already broken our previous webcast registration by 250%!
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I just got my new computer and I'm going to learn an IDE fresh. Everyone suggests Eclipse; therefore, I'll go with that. I downloaded Java EE for I may use it later for java programming also. I don't mind the bloat.
What I want to achieve is that every time I create a new website project that HTML5 Boilerplate also gets created as a template to the project. Anyone know how to achieve this?
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Is it possible to use an LED bulb in a 3-way light fixture? Will all three work?
Unless you have a 3-way LED bulb (and a quick search indicates that they don't exist yet), it will light, but at the brightest light level.
A three-way incandescent light has two filaments: dim and medium. Each filament has a separate contact on the bulb's base. The brightest light level is provided by energizing both simultaneously. When energized, each filament is driven at the mains voltage, so applying that voltage to a standard LED bulb will cause it to produce its rated light output.
You'll probably find that (because the bulb's base is missing a contact), you'll have an "on, off, on, off" pattern as you rotate the switch, instead of "dim, medium, bright, off" like with a 3-way bulb.
3 Way LED bulbs finally do exist now: http://store.earthled.com/products/switch-switch3-way-led-light-bulb
I am terribly sorry to contradict two others replying to this question, but I wish to set the record straight on what may be a misunderstanding of the original question.
A 3 way touch switch works by offering a reduced brightness level, but it uses a standard 1-brightness bulb. It achieves the cut-back in illumination by either reducing the voltage or "chopping" the wave form (this is more typical). One very cheap method of dimming a single brightness bulb is to simply skip every other 1/2 wave, as if a diode were inserted in series. But this can produce noticeable flicker and can also cause compact florescent bulbs to overheat.
But to the point: The original writer asks if one can place an LED bulb into a lamp that has a 3-way touch control. The answer is: "It depends!...You must test it!" Here is the reason...
First, LED lamps are typically marked dimmable or NOT dimmable. As of 2014, most screw in replacements from the major brands (CREE, GE, Philips) are dimmable, if they are "equivalent 100 watts" or less. However, they require a dimmer than chops the leading or trailing edge of the waveform. As an example, they require a more expensive wall switch dimmer than the standard incandescent dimmer ($20 as opposed to $10 for a comparable model). So part 1 of my answer is to use only an LED bulb that is marked "dimmable".
But part 2 is trickier...
If you purchased a lamp that says to use incandescent only, you should test it with your LED lamp. In my Hampton Bay model 494 595 upright accent lamp, one brand of LED bulb shines only at full brightness, yet produces an annoying hum at the dim step. But another LED bulb works just right, at half and full brightness. I would mention the bulb model, but they are store brands, and Home Depot is known for switching suppliers or MFG series without changing the SKU or model number. Therefore, these details would be short-lived.
The bottom line, is that (a) It is likely that the touch-dimming circuit is compatible with many LED bulbs, and (b) You must still test the bulb to see if it dims. If it does (and if it does not make noise), it is very likely that the electronics in the bulb "realize" that a dimming circuit is being used, and so the bulb is cooperating by doing the dimming within its own circuitry. Therefore, you should be fine!
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are you talking about a 3-way switch in a desk lamp? if so, that will be fine. those work by adding a second set of contacts in the base of the socket that if the bulb is a 3-way bulb then it touches those extra contacts. those contacts provide exactly the same voltage as the other contacts.
in short, this will not be a problem.
I have a 3-way fixture that I use a regular dimmable LED bulb in. The 3-way fixture is plugged into a dimmer switch that is plugged into the outlet. It works just fine.
Apparently there is now a three way LED bulb http://www.cnet.com/products/cree-three-way-led-bulb/
In my slightly frightening experiences, No you can't put a regular Or dimmable LED bulb in a 3 way lamp socket. I've tried it with two different bulbs from Osram Sylvania that claim they are dimmable. The first one shot lots of sparks and fire upwards and scared me. I tried it in another 3 way lamp (not too scared, just dumb?) socket and it did it again to a lesser degree. No doubt a lesser degree since after that try I looked at the base and it had a large hole that spread to almost half of the base. This ruined both lamp sockets. I called Osram Sylvania and a man sent me an envelope to send it to him and he sent, eventually, two checks made out to any retailer of their products. One for $20 and one for $10. That bought me another LED bulb, two CFLs and two new sockets. By the way, the man asked me if I'd put it in a 3 way socket and I told him I had. I tried the new LED in a 3 way socket and it shot sparks up again, without trashing the socket this time. I took that bulb back to the big box store and got an on / off socket and a dimmer switch that you plug the lamp into. Now, after reading the comments, I see that I'll probably be taking the dimmer switch back, as it's not one as described above. Fortunately they now have 3 way LED bulbs, though they are costly. One would think there'd be a warning on packaging, since the Osram Sylvania guy knew about the problem. Or maybe it's just a problem with their products. These were 3 way turn knob switch sockets, like I presume the original poster was talking about since he didn't say anything about a touch control.
HEHE I made my own 3 way LED. I had a popped CFL and carefully removed the curleycues to get the base. I then put in two LED drivers (from 120VAC) and two LEDs which were 5 watt and 2 watt. I think luxeon stars. It works, albeit not as good as I would like. The LED drivers are tiny and did fit into the CFL power supply base.
This Q&A from GE, regarding CFL bulbs, should apply for LEDs as well: http://www.gelighting.com/na/home_lighting/ask_us/faq_compact.htm#three_way
Basically, unless the bulb was designed to work in a dimmed context, and says so on the package, you should NOT use it with a dimmer or in a three-way fixture.
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8 Important Lessons Learned from '80s Cartoons
We'd like to point out that we're aware of the fact that some of the cartoons listed below did not originate in the '80s. However, they were on during the '80s, that's when we watched them, so they're '80s cartoons to us. It's like when we refer to bedwetting as "late '90s behavior." Without further ado...
CARTOON: The Smurfs
LESSON: Communism works!
For naysayers who point to the Former Soviet Union as proof that communism is inherently flawed, may we merely direct your attention to Smurf Village, where everyone shares everything, wears similar utilitarian clothing, battles Gargamel and his turn-Smurfs-to-gold get rich quick schemes and obeys the dictates of a bearded, red hat-wearing, benevolent authority figure. Quoth Comrade Papa: "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." Really, he actually said that.
How it affected us as adults: Secret communist agendas ceased being dangerous, or really any adjective of consequence, years ago. The worst thing communism does these days is make Ivy League students waste a couple of years wearing ugly clothes and attending boring meetings. However, the sexual politics of Smurf Village, with its one female for every 30 guys, did go a long way towards preparing us for freshman year of college.
CARTOON: Popeye
LESSON: Spinach is good for you.
Sure, it doesn't taste as good as candy, ice cream or opium, but it' full of essential vitamins and minerals that'll make your muscles explode like battleship cannons. If you want to triumph over the bullying Blutos of the world and win the affections of your own lovely, leggy Olive Oyl, pound a can of spinach at least once a day. Or put it in your corncob pipe and smoke it, like everybody' favorite ornery, mumbling sailorman. Toot toot!
How it affected us as adults: You only need to look at the steroid scandal rocking Major League Baseball to see that Popeye raised a generation that is willing to use performance enhancers. Also, it should be pointed out that Olive Oyl was the first anorexic sex symbol.


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I hope This not same as this one E-mail can be made to appear like it came from a big organization?
I'm not asking how to protect a brands & and large organizations (Google , yahoo, etc ..), but how can a normal user protect himself .
As far as i know there are worms that can get an email's address books , And there are programming libraries that enables users to craft packets .
By using both (stealing the address and crafting an email packet and send it to the right server ) , a malicious hacker should be able to send the victim an email that will look like it came form one of his friends (asking for money for example ) .
So beside the typical way ,that is ; calling the one that the hacker claimed to be is there a technical way to detect such fake messages ?


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Just curious what peoples tips and tricks are for exporting mobile assets for apps with Fireworks quickly, efficiently and crisply? For multiple device sizes. Also, do you recommend keeping an asset library in one file?
I tend to place assets of different sizes on the same page, and I use slices. Sometimes, though, dealing with the slices can be annoying so I'll just put every asset on a different page. This means that the filenames are already ready to go as well. I haven't yet found a way to automate the process very well, but at least it's well-organized when I'm done!
I may not do it the most efficient way but it works for me:
Some questions for elaboration: What kind of devices are you exporting for? What resolutions are you supporting? What version of Fireworks are you using?
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2009 Report
March-April 2009
Midkiff Appointed ECE Head
Professor Scott Midkiff has been appointed ECE Department Head effective August 10. Midkiff joined ECE in 1986 and has been on assignment at the NSF as a program director since 2006.
December 2008-February 2009
Novel IP process speeds CPES technology transfer
The Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES) has developed an intellectual property process that is almost as fast as industry's and may be adaptable for other university research groups, according to CPES director Fred Lee.
ECE alum wins national dissertation award
Tom Rondeau was awarded one of two distinguished dissertation awards by the national Council of Graduate Schools for his 2007 Ph.D. dissertation on "Application of Artificial Intelligence to Wireless Communications." This is the nation's most prestigious honor for doctoral dissertations.
Rahman appointed to committee that reviews NSF investments
ECE's Saifur Rahman, director of the Advanced Research Institute, has been appointed by the NSF to serve a one-year term on its Advisory Committee for GPRA Performance Assessment to determine whether NSF-sponsored programs are meeting the foundation's strategic outcome goals.
ECE prof heads $6 million grant to build space weather radar units
Mike Ruohoniemi is the lead principal investigator on a new $6 million NSF grant to build 8 new radar units to study space weather. The units will be part of the international SuperDARN network. Other participants on the project are Dartmouth College, University of Alaska at Fairbanks, and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. $2 million of the grant will go to Virginia Tech's Space@VT Group
Lab-in-a-box to go online
Kathleen Meehan is lead investigator on an NSF grant to expand ECE's Lab-in--box program online. She is joined by Bob Hendricks (MSE/ECE) and Peter Doolittle of the Department of Learning Sciences and Technology, as well as Richard Clark, head of the engineering program at Virginia Western Community College.
October-November 2008
ECE students are two-time winners in Smart Radio Challenge
A team of ECE students took first prize for one of three problems at this year's Smart Radio Challenge competition at the annual Software Defined Radio conference on October 27 in Washington, D.C. The team was last year's grand prize winner in the competition, which was sponsored by the SDR Forum Public Safety Special Interest Group.
Mili awarded $2 million grant for sustainable power, communications infrastructure research
Lamine Mili has been awarded a $2 million NSF grant to investigate the Development of Complex Systems Theories and Methods for Resilient and Sustainable Electric Power and Communications Infrastructures. The team, which includes ECE's Sandeep Shukla and Yilu Liu, plans to extend the scope and applicability of the highly-optimized tolerance approach to modeling cascading events across interdependent electric power and communications infrastructures while optimally placing resources for managing the risk of blackouts due to equipment failures or extreme natural hazards.
August-September 2008
Ledvina, Cornell team demonstrate how GPS nav systems can be duped
ECE's Brent Ledvina and colleagues from Cornell have built a system demonstrating how GPS signals can be spoofed. The team believes that current U.S. government countermeasures would not guard against their system. By demonstrating the vulnerability, the team hopes to devise methods against such attacks.
ECE team develops world's smallest antenna for UWB
ECE researchers have developed an efficient compact ultra-wideband antenna (CUA) for a range of home, automotive, medical, and military applications. "To our best knowledge, our invented antenna is the world's smallest with more than a 10:1 bandwidth. It has more than 95 percent efficiency for signal transmission, and a fairly constant omni-directional radiation pattern," said inventor and Ph.D. student Taeyoung Yang. Professors Bill Davis and Warren Stutzman are co-inventers.
Space@VT grows quickly
Space sciences research (Space@VT) has attracted five new ECE faculty members, including the SuperDARN Radar Group. The quickly growing center is featured in Engineering Now and a Virginia Tech news release describing the attraction of space sciences.
Pie-a-Prof helps IEEE students win "Society of the Year"
The student branch of the IEEE won "Society of the Year" from the university's Student Engineering Council. The society's many efforts include a Hands-On Practical Electronics (HOPE) program that teaches electronics to students in any major, a new Women in Engineering group, a big-sister-little sister mentoring program, as well as popular get togethers and fund raising, such as last spring's Pie-a-Professor event. IEEE website.
Virginia Tech wireless advances highlighted<
From early work characterizing the propagation environment to advances in cognitive radio, Virginia Tech's Engineering Now news story describes advances in communications technology that were developed in ECE laboratories. See the full article on wireless technologies.
CPE wins undergrad research scholarship
Adedamola Omotosho (CPE '09) was awarded a Virginia Space Grant Consortium Scholarship for his undergraduate research proposal, "MEMS Microengineering Research: Microchips for Cancer Diagnosis." Omotosho is interning with Intel this summer, plus investigating a BioMEMS tool for use in his research this fall at Colorado State University.
Undergrad gains DSP experience
through BAE Systems program
Gary Wheelock, (EE '08) was honored with a $2,000 stipend from BAE Systems for his work in digital signal processing (DSP). Wheelock proposed and completed an independent research project using a DSP board to develop a BPSK (binary phase-shift keying) transmitter and receiver. The equipment and stipend were funded by BAE Systems to encourage undergraduate students to gain hands-on DSP experience.
May-July 2008
Wang featured by Think Arlington campaign
ECE's Yue (Joseph) Wang serves as the face of Virginia Tech's National Capital Region for Arlington Economic Development's "Think Arlington" campaign. Wang is based at the Northern Virginia campus and directs the department's Computational Bioinformatics and Bioimaging Laboratory.
Nazhandali wins NSF CAREER award
Leyla Nazhandali has received an NSF CAREER award for her proposal, "Overcoming Power Challenges in Embedded System Design with Subthreshold-Voltage Technology." Her work will allow her to explore ways subthreshold voltage technology can improve lives, such as reducing energy consumption of handheld landmine detectors. She is the 15th ECE faculty member to earn this prestigious award.
CPES designing sustainable house of the future
The CPES Future Sustainable Home project is focused on researching, developing and demonstrating advanced technologies that would create self-sustained homes. Read the Virginia Business article and the annual report story.
Shukla Receives Humboldt Foundation Award
ECE's Sandeep Shukla has received a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander Humboldt Foundation of Germany. The Bessel Award is available annually to no more than 25 scientists and scholars, internationally renowned in their field, who completed their doctorates less than 12 years ago.
Tront shares ed tools with scholars from India
Joseph Tront was a lead presenter at the 2008 Indo -- US Engineering Faculty Leadership Institute in Mysore, India in June.
Martin honored for career achievements
Harold Martin, a Ph.D. alumnus of ECE, was inducted into the College of Engineering Academy of Excellence in honor of his career accomplishments.
Xu named outstanding
new assistant professor
Yong Xu was named an outstanding new assistant professor by the College of Engineering in April. His research has earned major awards and more than 760 citations.
Hou named College of Engineering Fellow
Tom Hou was named a College of Engineering Faculty Fellow in April. The award carries a $5,000 stipend to be used for supporting the recipient's research.
Bell honored with teaching excellence award
Amy Bell received a 2008 Teaching Excellence Award by the College of Engineering in April.
Tront honored with
innovative teaching award
Joseph Tront was awarded the 2008 College of Engineering Pete White Award for Innovation in Teaching. His work with Tablet PCs has garnered international recognition.
January-April 2008
Phadke, Thorp awarded 2008 Franklin Medal. On April 17, Arun Phadke and Jim Thorp were awarded the 2008 Franklin Medal for Electrical Engineering for their work in protecting the power grid. View the Franklin Institute announcement and 3-minute video.
Jung-Min Park has been awarded an NSF CAREER Award to improve the security of cognitive radio networks. CAREER awards are NSF's most prestigious award for creative junior faculty members considered to be future leaders in their academic fields. Park is the 14th ECE faculty member to earn this prestigious award.
ECE's Masoud Agah has been awarded an NSF CAREER Award to develop a credit-card sized gas chromatography platform. The system is expected to enable in-the-field analysis of complex compounds within seconds. Agah is the 13th ECE faculty member to earn this prestigious award.
Arun Phadke has been honored by Eta Kappa Nu with the 2007 Vladimir Karapetoff Award for career accomplishment. Phadke and his colleague, Stanley H. Horowitz received the award for their technical contributions to the field of power system protection and control.
2007 News Items
ECE graduate students took top honors in the Inaugural Smart Radio Challenge at the 2007 Software Defined Radio Forum conference in November. Tech was the only school with 2 teams among the final 10 competitors.
Ph.d. student Ibrahim Chamas won 1st place in the student paper competition at the 2007 IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems. His paper: "A 5 GHz I/Q Phase-tunable CMOS LC Quadrature VCO (PT-QVCO) for Analog Phase Calibrated Receiver Architectures."
Gustina Collins was the first female African-American graduate student to earn a Ph.D. in ECE at Virginia Tech in December, while Stanley Atcitty was the first Native American male to earn an Ph.D. in ECE at Tech. Collins specialized in electronics and Atcitty in power.
With funding from the National Science Foundaton (NSF), Amy Bell is working with Engineering Education faculty to introduce freshman to the creative and beneficial aspects of ECE.
NASA rocket launches with VT ribbon logo
NASA launched a Pegasus rocket Wed., April 25 displaying the Virginia Tech ribbon logo in memory of the tragedy here last week. The rocket carried the AIM spacecraft, which began a two-year mission to study noctilucent (night-shining) clouds. ECE's Scott Bailey is deputy principal investigator of the mission. The mission's principal investigator is ECE grad James M. Russell III, a professor at Hampton University.
We Remember
ECE mourns the victims of the April 16 tragedy, including computer engineering student Henry Lee. We also wish a full and speedy recovery to all the injured.
Schaumont and Xu win NSF CAREER awards
Patrick Schaumont received a CAREER award for his work on protecting embedded systems from side-channel attacks.
Yong Xu received a CAREER award for his work on nanoprobe technology, including for optical imaging and measuring vacuum field fluctuations. Twelve current ECE faculty members are NSF CAREER Awardees.
Scholarship established in honor of magnetometer expert
Friends and colleagues of Donnie King (EE '69) are establishing a scholarship in his name to honor his drive, expertise, and ability to inspire others.


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Evernote has recently closed its offline notebook support and because of limited availability of wifi access in my workplace, I'm planning to switch to another cloud note taking tool. The main reason I do not use iOS's builtin note taking app, is its lack of support for folders (This problem also exists for Pages). Do you know any alternatives with support of making folders for documents and offline support?
There are many alternatives, though perhaps none with the richness of Evernote.
BTW, I think that offline support is still available. It was available for favourites on the standard login but for everything if you sign up for Premium - has that changed?
One alternative is Microsoft OneNote. You can have free OneNote notebooks by signing up to live.com, the OneNote app for iOS works OK but has pretty harsh restrictions at present. There are, however, a couple of (paid) alternative apps. This would be of most use if you have a version of MS Office that includes OneNote on the desktop.
Alternatively, something like TrunkNotes may be useful. This is like a WIKI and you can sync with Dropbox.
Offline note support is available for iOS and Android if you are a Premium user. http://evernote.com/premium/


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If you connected the positive terminal of a battery to the negative terminal to a battery with a wire with (hypothetically) no resistance, and are asked to give the voltage drop of a segment of wire in the circuit, how would you determine this?
Since you specified the wire, but not the battery, as being ideal, the result will be that there will be no voltage on the wire. Instead, the battery will be shorted out.
If you are asking what happens when a constant-voltage source with infinite current capability is short-circuited by 0 resistance, it's not a well-defined question.
In practice, the source has an intrinsic resistance > 0 and the wire has a resistance > 0 and if that is your question, Ohms law (or a voltmeter) and basic circuit theory will give you answers but I don't know exactly what you are asking currently.
If you have an ideal voltage source with 0 internal resistance and 0 external resistance (0 resistance of the wire) then the voltage drop is indeterminate since it is of the form $\infty \times o$. The question then is not well defined.
However in practice, we represent a practical voltage source by an ideal voltage source in series with a resistance $r$ (the internal resistance of the practical voltage source). This will be in series with an external practical wire of resistance $r\prime$.
Applying Kirchhoff's law, we have,
$I \times (r + r\prime) = V$
or, $$I\times r\prime = V - I\times r$$
$V$ is the voltage of the source, $I$ current through the wire.
Therefore the voltage drop is, $V - I \times r$
or $I \times r\prime$
Let $V$ be the e.m.f of the battery/ voltage source
Let $i$ be the current through the wire of resistance $R$.
Actually $i= \frac{V}{R}$, as per the question, $R$ tends to ZERO, hence $i$ tends to a very very large number.
Let the drop across the wire be $V_1$ then $V_1=$
so: $V_1= iR$
hence: $V_1=\frac{V}{R}R$
Thus, voltage drop across ANY segment of the wire connected will be equal to the drop $V$ {e.m.f of the battery}


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I'm doing some work for a printing company right now. They'd like to setup a more secure FTP situation. It seems like, from what they've described to me, most printing companies have a general FTP account that they give the login info out to all of their clients to upload to. This is how theirs is currently setup. However, the problem is, the way the permissions are setup, you can view everybody else's uploads. They're trying to make their enviornment secure, but at the same time make it easy for clients to upload. I was telling them two quick things we could do is create client specific accounts or create temporary accounts (like 7 days) every time somebody needed to upload/download.
What would you recommend? What would be your ideal solution, and what would be most practical? They're currently using all windows based server.


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Adobe Business Catalyst helps this Guy Fieri-featured restaurant set the standard in online marketing through ecommerce, daily specials, loyalty promotions, social integration and email marketing.


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Let $X$ be a projective variety over $\mathbb{Z}$, and suppose that $X$ has everywhere good reduction. Let $Y$ be the blow-up of $X$ at an integral point.
Then is it the case that $Y$ also has everywhere good reduction?
The example situation that I have in mind is the following (my main motivation is del Pezzo surfaces).
Take $X= \mathbb{P}^2$ over $\mathbb{Z}$. This clearly has good reduction everywhere. Next let $Y$ be the blow-up of $\mathbb{P}^2$ at the integral point $(0:0:1)$. This can be realised as the subvariety of $\mathbb{P}^2 \times \mathbb{P}^1$ (with variables $x_0,x_1,x_2$ and $y_1,y_2$) given by the equation $x_1 y_2 = x_2 y_1$. Then $Y$ has everywhere good reduction (at least if my caluclations are correct).
I am curious to know if this happens after successively blowing up more integral points to obtain other del Pezzo surfaces. Note however that I am not claiming that all del Pezzo surfaces have everywhere good reduction!
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Geez, how do I do this without feeling like I'm repeating myself? Well, hello there. I'm Pixielated (aka Nia), a relatively new eleven day old Destructoid member. I doubled down on intros in the c-blogs, so to recap I'm the gay girl fixated with pixies, fairies, Shin Megami Tensei, Elder Scrolls, Fallout and I'm pretty much always nosing around some kind of RPG. Eastern or Western, I really don't care.
When its not an RPG its probably something Bioshocky or Metroid Primey, but tend to steer clear of FPS titles that are multiplayer focused. I'll make an exception for Halo, though, at least until I start swearing at the TV then I stop playing mutliplayer. I think its a good rule of thumb.
Also do some puzzle and platformer games from time to time.
Right now I have a 360, PS2 and a 3DS. Had a Wii and traded it in because I thought I was going to get a Wii U, but poor financial planning got the better of me over the holidays so my Wii games are sad and lonely on the shelf right now. I also do some PC gaming, but I'm stuck in the 90s and early 2000s with what this laptop can run. Torchlight and Bastion seems to be as current as it gets. I bought Legend of Grimrock and the laptop gave up on that one, so I'll have to upgrade sometime in the next year to play more stuff
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Whenever I go on Stack Overflow I'm always afraid that my questions won't get answered the way I want them to be. I won't get the right answer to one of my questions.
This often demotivates me from even posting a question. I found that I often wasn't able to get across exactly what I wanted to do, and if I did, I often didn't understand the answers that people gave me.
What I'm trying to say is that there's a communication problem between question and answer boards.
What if we had the option for people asking questions to show that they were online and on something like Skype? Then if someone thought they knew the answer, they could try to answer it with Skype? The immediacy of responses would decrease confusion and people could solve problems more effectively, and perhaps even more efficiently. People could even show screen actions in real time with screen recording software instead of a webcam.


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Has anyone ridden this bike at all? How does it do at 70 MPH freeway speeds?
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I did my introductory bike course on a 2011 CBR250 (which I believe is quite different from the '86-97 models, which I'm not familiar with). It's a great little bike, but I'm not sure it can do 70 MPH. ;)
The CBR250 would be ideal in the city. It's small and lightweight, handles beautifully, and I found it quite forgiving as a new rider. It definitely lacked long-haul comfort and highway power, though. Mechanically, it seemed solid but putting it in neutral was a bit of a pain at times because of the way the gear lever caught.
I landed on a Ninja 500R for my first bike (after learning on the CBR250), which was a better choice (in my opinion).
I hope that's helpful!


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Is it worth it for writers to give away free short stories (or entire novels)? I've heard people say that having freebies on your site can boost sales of your books. I'm not talking about giving away free copies of Novel X to improve Novel X's sales, but writing a completely unrelated story and offering it up as a freebie. Is there any "evidence" that this actually does improve your sales?
Tread with caution. A lot of caution.
Free stories to promote the author is a marketing strategy. As such, there are situations where it can be wonderful; situations it can be disastrous; situations it can be utterly harmless and entirely insignificant.
I think these are the central questions you've got to ask yourself when considering writing freebies for the web:
The most likely result of publishing pieces online is that nothing in particular will happen with them. They will likely fall somewhere between "nobody will read them because they'll never hear of them" and "some people will read them, enjoy them to some extent, maybe share with friends, but they won't be enthusiastic enough to go out and hunt for the author's other stuff." At the higher end of the spectrum, you've got "a lot of people who read this might be more favorably inclined to buy something of the author's if they run into it in the future." For most authors, that doesn't get them very far towards where they want to go.
Here are the situations where I think publishing free stories online sounds like a good marketing strategy:
That's where I'd see free stories as being really useful. If you're not in any of those situations, you've got to ask yourself very seriously just how you expect these free stories to make themselves useful - particularly contrasted with the option of receiving both pay and publication.
A really important note: you can look for free online magazines, and try to sell some work to those. That gets around almost all the pitfalls I've touched upon here, while leaving you with a freely available story you can link to, and that adoring fans can share around. That might be a good compromise. Another option is trying to negotiate, when you sell your work, that after a certain amount of time you get to publish your story free on your webpage (or link to it on the publisher's webpage). Not as odd as you might think - since they want the publicity too.
If your work is appealing, it should work.
Have you ever asked for a book to a friend, read it, fell in love with it, and started buying everything by that author? It happened to me with the Wheel of Time series, and with Jules Verne's works.
So, by giving away the books, you're doing what a friend would do: give you the chance to know the author, the chance to fall in love with the work, to appreciate it, and to buy it. On the other hand, it helps your public relations and gives you a "this guy's really cool and down to Earth" image that many a reader likes.
I can offer no evidence, but speaking as a reader, it would make me more likely to purchase a book if I had read and enjoyed the writer's freebies.
I think the important part about any kind of giveaway is to make it part of a marketing plan. I know the words "marketing plan" are rife with tedium and the apprehension associated with the buzz word but that's just because marketing has become something done by people with no connection to the products they're trying to get people to buy.
For the artist or craftsman marketing is just the act of saying to people: "Hey, you know what, I have this stuff here you might like to buy." Chances are if you are the author you have sought people out who, well, would probably be interested in reading what you have written.
You can act exactly the same as a marketdroid in this respect and just spam forums and messageboards with "BUY THIS" messages or you could wonder, as a writer, whose eyeballs you want scanning your work and then you can, you know, go to these communities, integrate, check them out and, when you have something of interest: mention it.
At that point your marketing plan should be a coherent message that you can deliver to interested parties. In my experience consumers of entertainment come in two flavours. Those consumers who aren't buying what you're selling and those who like the elevator pitch but want to know more before they commit. By "know more" I think, particularly readers, like to cultivate some sort of knowledge or ownership of an author before they take the plunge. This requires one of two things. Either the author has to be "available" e.g. has a blog, visits online communities, tries to meet and greet etc. and have some good, relevant materials expanding upon the type of fiction they write. The other option is that the author implicitly "promises" future availability by having a large canon of work available for purchase (I would say 8-10 novels freely available for purchase would be minimum). If a reader can see that, should they buy novel x they can benefit from 7 to 10 more no-brainer book purchases then they are more likely to take the plunge.
In these days of the interwebs there should be some mixture of the two.
Free stories/books could contribute to this but only as a part of that strategy. Sometimes you end up with frustrating edge cases: I, for example, love one author's two free e-books (neither were ever considered for publication by a publisher but one was represented by an agent for a while) but his actual published works are generic detective stories while the free books are out-there speculative techno thrillers. If the dude was paid to write out there speculative techno thrillers I would be in the queue to buy each and every one but I'm not in the market for a cookie cutter crime thriller. I'm sure there are others who are happy with whatever he writes. None of it would be worth much if he didn't also blog, do speaking tours and just, generally, make himself available to fans.
So, as a way to make yourself more available it is a step in the right direction but it's definitely not much use on its own. I offer free downloads of some novels but as they are part of a plan I haven't started to put into motion yet nobody bothers with them and they certainly don't sell.


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8 Classic Movies That Got Away With Gaping Plot Holes
#4. Citizen Kane
Yeah, even Kane. The greatest film of all time, according to those monocle-wearing types who refuse to even consider Robocop for the title.
The Plot:
A bunch of reporters try to figure out the meaning of Charles Foster Kane's last words. "Rosebud."
The Hole:
No one was around to hear them.
Now, no one's suggesting that journalists in the 40s weren't good at getting scoops. With the chief breathing down their neck and dames left and right trying to play them for saps, they pretty much had to be good. But unless their source was telepathic or invisible, there's no way they could know what Kane said.
Kane's nurse, arriving several minutes too late for the movie to make any fucking sense
And if they really are just that good, you think they'd also know the twist ending, that Rosebud was his sled (what kind of weirdo names his sled anyway? Does he miss his childhood desk chair too?).
So the next time some film critic is getting all up in your face, picking holes in your favorite movie, hit them with that, and watch them curl up into a ball and weep like a child. Then maybe kick 'em a couple of times. If you think we're being too hard on the critics, remember that they get paid to watch movies and be dicks about them. We on the other hand ... never mind.
#3. Fantastic Voyage
You may not have seen this one if you're the type who refuses to watch movies from before you were born. This is from a better time, when men were men, movie titles told you exactly what to expect (hint: an adventure that is fantastic), and Raquel Welch in a catsuit was the closest thing to pornography a man could get without having to go to a seedy-looking theater with sticky floors and Travis Bickle types making gun fingers at the screen.
The Plot:
A team of scientists shrink themselves to go inside a patient's body in a tiny little spaceship, in order to fix a blood clot in his brain. They have only an hour, and then they will return to normal size.
The Hole:
We don't ask that you stay within the bounds of physics, but at least follow the rules you freaking made up. At the end of the movie, the crew's tiny sub gets destroyed, but the team manages to get out of the guy's body just before they grow back to size. Only problem, they leave the wreckage of their miniaturized submarine behind. As clangers go, that's about as bad as you get. Anyone paying attention to the plot of the movie is wondering right up until the end when the giant submarine wreckage will be bursting out of the guys chest.
It's not quite true that no one cared about this plot hole. When one of sci-fi's greatest writers, Issac Asimov, was hired to write the novelization of the movie (something to keep in mind if your son is ever contemplating a career as a sci-fi writer) he pointed out the hole to the producers. The producers pointed out that Mr. Asimov could shut the hell up and kept it the way it was.
Asimov went ahead and changed the ending in the book so it made sense. Hollywood, believing revenge is a dish best served cold, waited 40 years and then turned his book I, Robot into a love story between Will Smith and a pair of converse.
Subtext: Suck it, Issac!
#2. The Lion King
The Plot:
Scar murders his brother and usurps the throne, then Simba returns from exile to avenge his father's death. Also, they're lions.
The Hole:
For someone who wanted to be king so much, Scar was really bad at it. There's being incompetent, and then there's being so incompetent that you cause the rain to stop and all the rivers and lakes to dry up. We know he let the hyenas run the show and eat whatever they wanted, but come on. What, did they drink the lake?
We know what you're going to say. "Why don't you just point out the fact that lions can't really talk, you pedantic dicks!" But think about the environmental message kids get at the ending. The place was basically a desert, the lions were on the brink of starvation and a huge fire couldn't have helped matters. Simba repairs an entire ecosystem and gets everything back to normal in a couple of years.
Obviously a slow and difficult reconstruction period during which most of the tribe dies isn't the most uplifting montage to end a kids' movie with, but it's a little late to spare our feelings at that point, isn't it Disney? Where was that concern when you killed Mufasa, you fuckers?
We like to hit rewind at this point, so then it's like Mufasa gets up and everything's okay.
#1. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
We had to make this number one, not because of the size of the plot hole, but because it's friggin' Star Wars. That's right nerds, the indisputably best one of the series has a pretty gaping hole of its own.
The Plot:
You know the plot. Don't play that game.
The Hole:
So there's the famous sequence where Luke gets trained by Yoda on Yoda's shithole of a planet. To break up the sequence, the film cuts to the Millennium Falcon getting chased by the Empire to Lando's cloud city. When they arrive, they get captured, at which point Luke has finished his training.
Well, that doesn't work. Were they chased for months? Or was Luke trained in an afternoon? Either we were spared some extended scenes on board the Millennium Falcon featuring starvation and debates about when they'd have to eat Chewbacca, or becoming a Jedi is easier than getting a cub scout merit badge.
Pictured: The entire Jedi training process
The latter explanation seems more plausible, as it just reveals Luke to be an even whinier bitch than he seemed. Talk about ungrateful, he's getting taught God-like abilities in about six hours, and he complains through literally every single one of them. It also means Yoda's insistence that Jedis start their training as young children isn't because the training's such a long arduous process, but because he's amused by the idea of children knowing how to choke each other with their minds.
Now it's true that when Luke tries to leave, Yoda insists the training isn't over. But when Luke returns to Planet Shithole in Return of the Jedi to finish it, Yoda waves him off and tells him there's nothing else to learn.
Then it turns out the final test Luke has to pass to become a Jedi is to defeat Darth Vader, the most powerful Jedi in the universe which kind of seems like a huge leap in difficulty after his one-day training session. That'd be like if the final stage of your driving test was to win the Indy 500.
So to answer the question, at what point did George Lucas stop paying attention? It looks like it was part way through the second movie.
For more movies that are way more disturbing when you actually think about them, check out The 6 Most Depressing Happy Endings in Movie History. Or for movies that you already know suck, but just don't know why, check out 5 Awesome Movies Ruined By Last-Minute Changes.


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Investigators believe a Muhlenberg County house explosion on Feb. 9th was intentionally set.
Firefighters say the firery explosion leveled the home very quickly.
More than two weeks ago witnesses say fire claimed what used to be the 10,000 square foot house within minutes.
"A house was on fire and flames were showing and there were reports of an explosion in the area," said Lt. Chuck Browning with the Greenville Fire Department on Feb. 10th.
But no one was home...
The Cundiff family, who owns the property, told us they were out of town that weekend.
A witness says he used to work in the mines.
He lives right next to where the house used to stand and says it was worse than anything he ever experienced in the mines.
Greenville firefighters say the boom rattled the town.
"I live close to their actually and it rumbled my house," Lt. Browning says.
After continuous investigation, a Kentucky State Police Arson Investigator and a State Fire Marshal have determined that someone started the fire.
"It has been determined that it was intentional and of course we are looking to the public if anyone knows any information," says KSP Public Affairs Officer, Trooper Stu Recke.
Police haven't released what led them to determining it was intentional.
"As far as our investigation goes. Of course we want to make sure it is a thorough investigation and we're on no time table," Trooper Recke says.
If you have any information, contact the Arson Tipline anonymously at 1-800-27-ARSON.


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To the editor:
I'm writing this letter on behalf of me - I have a disability but is active in everyday things. I get looks at times from different people who may think there is nothing wrong with me, and many people ask me if I work or not. I do have a disability (epilepsy) and have had it for 24 years. Within the 24 years that I have had the sickness, I have never given up in life of doing things I wanted to do or let it stop me from doing things. I have gone through some rough years with this sickness, and I will say it isn't fun having or living with this sickness.
Through my lifetime, I have been put on many different medications and have had some switched to others and still, after all this, up to this point in my life, nothing seems to help. To this day I still average one or two episodes a month.
If some people would look at me today and just take a good look at the outside of me, they would think that I'm well and probably ask themselves how come I'm never working or holding a job. I will say that I do take care of myself. I walk daily for exercise, and I'm not a person who sits around all the time to let it waste away. This walking helps me, and even on days I don't feel like doing it, I push myself to do it.
This might help the body, but it doesn't help the sickness. If you would look on the inside, the sickness is still there and I have to deal with this for the rest of my life.
As a Christian, I believe God can heal, and why I haven't healed yet, I don't know. I will say I won't give up my faith because I'm not getting healed. If I have to live with these for the rest of my life, so be it. I will serve God until he comes back, and when he does, I will be free from them.
John Fullerton


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Goguen has popularized the initial algebra view of semantics via his "no junk, no confusion" slogan. By "no junk", he means that models of a theory presentation should not have unnecessary elements, and "no confusion" that terms should not be mapped to equal values unless they are provably equal. Sometimes, "no junk" is also interpreted as every element in the model is a denotation of a term, while "no confusion" as two different terms denote different elements in the model. [These are classically equivalent statements, but they are not intuinistically equivalent, so I mention both].
My questions are:
What is a 'good' formalization of this slogan? By this I mean an explicit statement of "no junk, no confusion" in the meta-logic (since we're talking about models), where the logical strength of the corresponding statement is well understood.
Are there logics in which these requirements can be internalized?
What would be the corresponding slogan to "no junk, no confusion" for final coalgebras?


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Undefeated Mayweather Returns With Victory
Floyd Mayweather (44-0, 26 KOs) returned to the ring, winning a unanimous, one-sided decision over a game but outclassed Robert Guerrero (31-2-1, 18 KOs).
It had been a year since Mayweather had been under the kleig lights and it took him a couple of stanzas to shake off the ring rust. But once he found his groove, the multi-division champion put on a bravura boxing clinic. By the end of the night, no one could have any doubts that the pugilist from Grand Rapids, Mich. is the best pound-for-pound fighter on the planet.
Fight Analysis
In the first two frames, the southpaw Guerrero enjoyed some success with his straight left hand, but as always Mayweather calmly figured out his foe as though he were solving a crossword puzzle.
Mayweather is the best counter puncher of his era and every time Guerrero missed with a shot, Mayweather would make him pay with a whipping right hand that by mid-fight sliced open Guerrero's left eye.
Mayweather landed 41% of his punches and a remarkable 60% of his power shots. The crowd of almost 16,000 was solidly in Mayweather's corner. Nevertheless, boos rained during the 12th round when Mayweather failed to press the action and go for the knockout that, from the 8th round on, seemed imminent.
Mayweather who was guaranteed $32 million for the night, explained, "I just wanted to go out there and to box smart, and if the knockout came, it would come. But I hurt my right hand midway through the fight. I was really looking for the knockout but after I hurt my hand, I really couldn't do it. My defense was sharp."
Going into the fight, Guerrero had only one loss. After being pummeled and out-boxed, the bloodied challenger conceded, "Floyd is a great fighter. Faster than I thought."
Indeed, Guerrero's ring moniker is "The Ghost" but it was Mayweather, one of the best defensive fighters of his era, who was the wraith. Guerrero landed a mere 81 of his power punches and was never able to hurt Mayweather.
After the decision was announced (all three judges had it 117-111), Mayweather graciously praised his opponent but refrained from speculating about the future, "I got the work that I needed and I felt comfortable tonight in the ring. I'm not even thinking about [who I will fight next.] I'm just going to go home. It was a good, tough battle."
However, Richard Schafer, the chief executive of Golden Boy, co-promoters for this event, was less restrained. "We will," he said, "be back here at the MGM Grand on Sept. 14, hopefully for a fight between Mayweather and super welterweight champion Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez."


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What do you use to get rid of pet hair on couches/clothes?
I've generally gone with lint rollers on clothes and a brush type thing on the couch. It all feels fairly useless (somehow there's always more hair to pull off). I'm going to try out this Scotch FurFighter thing next. Anyone else tried that? Got any other ideas?
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I guess I could search the site:
I always wonder what makes something specifically designed for animal hair, though.
@dave bug: stronger sucking power, stiffer bristles, that sort of thing.
Believe it or not, there is a brush called the Rubba-Scrubba on the Flylady.net website. It has soft "bristles" and you cannot believe all the clean-up jobs it can do. Rub it back and forth over a sofa and watch the cat or dog hair just roll up in a ball so you can pick it up. People email her all the time about new uses for the thing. It works great!
We use the pledge fabric sweeper and it works well. They are supposed to be disposable, but you can mod them to be empty-able and thus reusable. Here's an article about it; http://www.instructables.com/id/Modify_a_Pledge_Fabric_Sweeper_so_you_can_empty_it/
With two dogs the hair in my house is unbelievable. To that end, we had purchased the Dyson Animal upright vacuum cleaner. It does do a great job on removing hair, however it suffers from a few faults.
The canister fills up really quick (forgivable with two dogs) but the hair gets stuck up by the filter, and it's quite awkward to pull it out. Also forgivable as I should probably empty the canister more often
The major problem I have with it though is the dog hair gets stuck around the brush (expected this) but also underneath the rubber belt that turns the brush - which then in turn makes it do this awful grinding noise as the belt slips the notches on the thing that makes it turn. When I called dyson about it - they said it happens because of "static" which makes no sense to me - and just to clean it out. But having to do that 3-6 times during one vacuum through the house gets old fast.
It does pick up the hair wonderfully, but it's a royal pain in the butt.
@wigum: I'm not a big fan of the disposable solutions. I don't think they are impressive enough to have to keep buying refills.
I use a rubber brush similar to what sand4me described. You can probably find a better deal than Petsmart: http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2752110. I also have an old school lint brush that's similar to this: http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2752856. It works well on my couch (a heavy duty canvas twill).
The Love Glove Grooming Mitt by Four Paws. It not only picks up hair from the dogs coat, it removes it from furniture and carpet. Works really great! You can buy them for $5.00 - $6.00 online.
A Zoom Groom works really well too. It was the ONLY thing that picked up the yellow lab hair that was ground into the black fabric back seat of my volvo. They are less than $10 too.


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