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Two-Bean Chili
Categories: Low-fat, Vegetarian
Type: Main Dishes
Type: Main Dishes
This chili recipe requires just 5 minutes of effort and 25 minutes of cooking time.
Serves: 8 servings
- 1 cup texturized vegetable protein (TVP)
- 7/8 cup vegetable or beef broth
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 large green bell pepper, chopped
- 1 can (14 1/2 ounces) tomatoes, crushed
- 1 can (1 pound) unsalted tomato sauce
- 1 can (1 pound) red kidney beans, drained
- 1 can (1 pound) pinto beans, drained
- 2-3 tablespoons chili powder
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 cup shredded nonfat or reduced-fat Cheddar cheese (optional)
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- Place the TVP and broth in a 3-quart pot, and bring to a boil over high heat. Remove the pot from the heat, and let sit for 5 minutes, or until the liquid has been absorbed.
- Add all of the remaining ingredients except for the cheese to the TVP mixture, and stir to mix well. Place over high heat, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer for 25 to 30 minutes, or until the vegetables are tender.
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HSBC AND THE DOJ: WILL THERE BE AN ACT IIPosted in Anti-Money Laundering, cheating the public, corporate integrity, Crisis Litigation, Crisis Management, Crisis Mitigation, DOJ, DPA and statement of facts, Ethics and Crisis Management, HSBC, HSBC Compliance failures, HSBC fine. Was justice done?, Setting ethical standards on January 4th, 2013 by mnayor
The New York Times editorialized that "It is a dark day for the rule of law" when it was announced in mid-December that British bank HSBC would pay $1.9 billion in forfeitures and penalties, but would avoid criminal prosecution for laundering Mexican drug cartel money and engaging in prohibited transactions with Libya, Iran, Burma, Sudan and Cuba,. Instead HSBC Holdings, plc, HSBC North America Holdings, Inc. and HSBC Bank USA (together referred to as "HSBC" or "the bank") entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) that requires the bank to clean up its act. The prosecution is deferred for five years and requires a neutral monitor. If the bank conducts itself responsibly, there is no prosecution. None of its executives were cited.
In 2003 the Federal Reserve ordered HSBC to police itself better for suspicious money flows. HSBC efforts not only failed, but since 2005 the bank violated the Bank Secrecy Act and otherU.S.laws on a large scale. It ignored massive transactions, including bulk cash and banknote activities, failed to establish or follow review procedures, and created seriously flawed risk assessment policies and procedures. HSBC executives and employees in its money laundering and compliance division were found to be incompetent. Worse, HSBC failed to generate or did not review its own anti-money laundering alerts or create and report suspicious activity reports (SARs) toU.S.authorities. The Federal Reserve, the Office of Foreign Assets Control, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations all investigated HSBC for similar activities.
Undoubtedly there was criminal activity. Lanny Breuer, assistant Attorney General, explained that HSBC was being held responsible "for a stunning failure of oversight and worse". Worse for sure given DOJ's own investigation. The Statement of Facts which is incorporated into the DPA is damning. HSBC stipulates that the information contained in the Statement is true and accurate. The Statement runs thirty pages and is rife with allegations against and admissions by HSBC. For example, DOJ alleges and HSBC BankUSAadmits that it violated the Bank Security Act that makes it a crime to willfully fail to establish due diligence for foreign correspondent accounts.
DOJ deemed that the criminal Information it filed, without the accompanying Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) would have been too disruptive, that in effect, HSBC and its subsidiaries were too big to fail. If that is the case, how effective is the DPA? While Breuer claims that it is a "sword of Damocles right over HSBC", if the Bank is too big to be prosecuted now, it will be just that much bigger five years from now and DOJ will be even less willing to take decisive action if HSBC violates the DPA.
U.S.attorney Loretta Lynch stated that HSBC cooperated "immediately and extensively" and this was taken into account in deferring criminal prosecution. But that is not the case. HSBC has a paper trail, a track record that leads back to 2003. Nothing so far has seemed to work to get HSBC into line, and there are no concrete indications from insiders that this time it will be different.
There is some published speculation that Treasury and/or the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency put some pressure on DOJ to stop short of criminal prosecution in order to avoid significant disruption in the financial markets and perhaps to the world economy. Some say that HSBC would have been damaged, even "destroyed", but there have been no specifics. This may merely be a bogeyman to convince the public that DOJ avoided a financial disaster. At the very least, DOJ could have wrung out criminal admissions from HSBC Mexico. This may have satisfied some. In the DOJ case against UBS for Libor manipulation the UBS Japanese subsidiary pleaded guilty to one criminal count of fraud. Looking at the bigger picture, the HSBC affair was an opportunity to fight the concept of "too big to fail". Perhaps HSBC would have had to sell off some of itsU.S.banking operations, or even all of it. 25% of its total assets are located in theAmericasso we can assume thatU.S.assets account for less. It would not have been the end of HSBC. It is already selling assets in countries where it cannot compete and is in the process of eliminating a significant number of jobs.
HSBC is a behemoth As of mid-2012 HSBC was the world's third largest bank, and had the second largest market capitalization on the London Stock Exchange. It was founded only in 1991 by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation which then enabled it to acquireUKbased Midland Bank. It remains the largest bank in Hong Kong and is now the largest international bank inChina. A guilty plea by HSBC in this case might have had serious consequences, but it would have survived in one form or another. For theU.S.government to essentially conspire with HSBC for the bank to remain "too big" is not in the best interests of theU.S.legal system, theU.S.banking system or the world banking system. Such failure to fully enforce the statutes of theU.S.rightfully brings on criticism of our justice system. This was an opportunity to start whittling away at bigness, to begin to stop the tail wagging the dog. It was an opportunity lost.
Finally, in the UBS case, two traders were also charged with taking part in the scheme to manipulate Libor rates. It seems incredible that, at the very least, given the seriousness of the crimes committed at HSBC, that not one executive has been indicted. The Statement of Facts is riddled with the admitted words "knowingly" and "willfully". What prosecutor, left to his/her own devices, wouldn't love to have this case. These crimes were committed by individuals. DOJ investigations have been ongoing for several years. Surely a name or two has popped up. When asked whether there may be criminal cases brought against individual HSBC bankers, assistant AG Breuer said "There may be , but there may not be". Let's hope he's merely playing coy because if no individual indictments are forthcoming it will be a travesty of justice. And Breuer has the weapons. The DPA provides that HSBC is obligated to use its good faith efforts to make available to DOJ at the bank's expense all current and former executives, employees, directors and consultants, and further to provide any information, materials, documents, databases, etc, requested by the Department. There is no protection against prosecution for conduct that HSBC did not disclose prior to the DPA, and there is no protection against prosecution of any current or former officer, director, employee, agent or consultant for any violations committed by them, including conduct described in the Statement of Facts. These provisions in the DPA give the DOJ wide latitude to continue its investigation and take whatever action it deems necessary in its pursuit of justice. Obviously it is not necessary, as the assistant AG has stated, that any individual still be employed at HSBC. And it is not necessary that any individual be complicit with its customers in drug or terrorist activities. It is enough that acts were willfully perpetrated that are statutorily deemed criminal offenses. The Bank Secrecy Act, for example, provides for heavy penalties for individuals and institutions that fail to file SARs, currency transaction reports and money instrument logs. Penalties include heavy fines and prison sentences.
In order for DOJ to redeem itself it is clear that additional action needs to be taken. This may have to wait until the cast of characters inWashingtonchanges. The viewpoint of Treasury may certainly change when there is a new Secretary of the Treasury. Additionally, if the U.K does not remain silent about former executives who were active at HSBC during the times in question, our government may gain more courage. Take for example Stephen Green, now Lord Green. Lord Green became chief executive of HSBC in June 2003 and was appointed chairman in 2006. According to the Huffington Post, in 2005 he was made aware of the bank's alleged ties with "rogue" regimes in theMiddle East. The US Senate investigation released internal emails showing how in the same year Lord Green was warned by an internal whistleblower in the bank'sMexicosubsidiary that compliance staff had "fabricated records". He was also told in 2008, two years after being appointed executive chairman, that the Mexican authorities had uncovered evidence of money laundering that "may imply criminal responsibility of HSBC".
There is little question that the HSBC affair has left DOJ with a black mark against it. The DPA provides adequate remedies to monitor closely the activities of HSBC over the next five years and to take direct and effective action in case the DPA is violated. The DOJ also has the power to continue its investigation of individuals and to receive the cooperation of HSBC. If and when criminal activities are uncovered DOJ has the power and authority, and hopefully the will, to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law. It should take advantage of this opportunity in order to void the current impression that justice in this country is applied selectively.


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My sister bought me a cast iron ebelskiver pan, and I've not had much luck with each of the batches I've tried. They always burn or stick.
I'm hopeful someone might have a tried-and-true technique for making them, and possibly a family recipe :)
There are a number of things that you may or may not be doing that is causing the problem, so any of the following "solutions" may fix it for you. I am basing this on "burn" and "stick".
4 is probably the most important, since burning will mess up the oily patina you are trying to build up on your pan. The others will all help. As I noted in 1, your pan will improve over a period of time as the surface seasoning improves.
Just to add on to the above answer (which is spot on):
Add an oil coating after your pan has heated to cooking temperature completely, just before you add batter. The heat tends to allow the oil to coat more evenly and you'll need less oil overall to create a completely non-stick surface.
Other than that, the more you use that pan, the better it will be as a cooking surface. Don't begrudge it a screw up every now and then, even the things it burns makes it better.
Good luck!
I love ebelskivers, these are great little treats! The way to prevent them from sticking to the pan is brushing melted butter over it before you put the batter in. And make sure to season the cast iron. IF you are looking for easy step by step directions for making them feel free to check out my blog http://cookingforthosewholive.blogspot.com/. I just wrote a post about ebelskivers, hopefully all works out!!
Regarding recipies, try throwing this one through Google Translate and pick any of the recipies you like: http://www.dk-kogebogen.dk/opskrifter/retter-3.php?id=482
These are Danish recipies, and I believe ebelskivers (æbleskiver) to be a Danish thing.
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Consider $$f(z)=\frac{1}{z(z-1)(z-2)}.$$
I want to determine the Laurent series in the point $z_0=0$ on $0<|z|<1$.
Partial decomposition yields:
$$f(z)=\frac{1}{z(z-1)(z-2)}=(1/2)\cdot (1/z) - (1/(z-1)) + (1/2)(1/(z-2)).$$
Is the general strategy now, to try to use the geometric series?
$(1/(z-1))=-(1/(1-z))=-\sum_{k=0}^\infty z^k$
$\displaystyle 1/(z-2)=-(1/2)\frac{1}{1-\frac{z}{2}}=-(1/2)\cdot\sum_{k=0}^\infty (z/2)^k$
So $f(z)=(1/2)\cdot (1/z)+(1/2)\cdot\sum_{k=0}^\infty z^k-(1/4)\cdot\sum_{k=0}^\infty (z/2)^k$ (*)
Some questions:
1) What is the difference between a Laurent and a Taylor series? I don't get it. It seems you calculate them the same.
2) Why didn't we write (1/z) as a series expansion too?
3) What makes the end result (*) to be a Laurent series?


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Hello dears
i added the following code
be fore calling this one:
Ext.fly(frame).on('load', Ext.Function.bind(this.onUploadComplete, this, [frame, options]), null, {single: true});
Am I right?
thanks alot.
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Great you mitchel,
I'm really sorry for my hurring.
First of all Excuse me for bad English writing.
I was trying to upload a form with a file input. so i recieved an exception for first time that the cache (I think it is an static property). but for other times it works.
however it diddn't fire onload event of added iframe tag.
by this code i resolved the problem of first time exception. but i couldn't resolve the onload event problem.
if it's possible for you, plz test it on Ext.Connection.upload(form,url,param,options).
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i am realy interest to learn more things of you and help others.
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I get the same problem.
Here's a simple way to reproduce the bug:
var frame = document.createElement('iframe'); Ext.fly(frame).on('load', function() {alert('loaded');});
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The same friend I already mentioned in this question, has an additional travel question. Recently, he read a lot about the Mile High Club (MHC). Wikipedia defines the mile high club as people who had sex on an air travel vehicle during a flight. Ideally it should be above 1 nautical mile (1852 meters). Could I get into trouble if I do this on a regular plane? For example, can I get arrested? Or banned from flying with this airline? Or flying at all?
Singapore Airlines (and I think others) first class offers "compartments" similar to those found on sleeper trains, meaning there is a door you can close (and probably lock as well). The compartment contains at least 2 seats, both of which recline completely into beds.
I just found an interesting article in the local newspaper.
Unfortunately the article is in German, but the headline says more or less:
So there seems really to be a company that offers such services. And obviously I don't think I will get into trouble if using such a dedicated service.
Their story seems to be true. A quick Google search revealed that other newspapers in English are also reporting about this company. And even on the website of Flamingo Air, this service is mentioned. Funnily, there it is called Romantic Flight.
My answer is: "it's depends on whether you bother anyone".
I know some friends who tried it during a night flight on a second class plane from Europe to an Indian Ocean island. But they were silent, they made some gymnastics to achieve it under the carpet, and they had no immediate neighbour.
But I am sure that there are countries where it's not secure to do it unless you want to visit jail.
The wikipedia page on the subject doesn't offer a lot of detail, but does provide some clues to the answer to your question.
In short, engaging in sexual activities in front of other passengers is going to be illegal in most jurisdictions, and against airline policies in practically all cases.
Engaging in sexual activity aboard a plane in private, such as in the lavatory, is more of a legal grey-area. In the UK, for example, sexual activity in a public lavatory may still be punishable as "public sex" although this has apparently never been tested in court.
In an episode of 1000 Ways to Die in which a couple were killed together in the lavatory when the plane hit turbulence while they were fooling around, a flight attendant for an un-named (English-speaking, probably North-American) airline was interviewed, who said that customers are allowed to enter the lavatories in pairs, as long as they don't disturb other passengers. She seemed to imply it was a common practice, seen almost as "cute" by flight attendants. But I have no idea how authoritative this is, or even if she was a real flight attendant, or reading a script.
My advice: If you're going to do it, only do it in the lavatory, and be very discrete and quiet, so as not to draw attention or offend others.


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MCGREGOR (November 27, 2012)--A McGregor teenager was held Tuesday in the McLennan County Jail after he was arrested on a warrant charging sexual assault.
Michael D'Angelo, 17, was ordered held in lieu of $20,000 bond charged with sexual assault.
An affidavit obtained Tuesday by News 10 says on Aug. 19, a female victim younger than 17 reported a man had sexual intercourse with her against her will.
Police took the victim to Providence Health Center, in Waco, where a sexual assault nurse examiner performed a test on the victim and obtained DNA evidence that subsequently was sent to the Department of Public Safety for analysis, according to the affidavit.
The affidavit says D'Angelo was interviewed by police and denied having sex with the girl.
The document further says D'Angelo consented to having his DNA tested and after a sample was obtained it was compared to the sample taken from the victim.
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6 Terrifying Diseases That Science Can't Explain
#3. Germany's Mystery Calf Disease
Imagine, if you will, a cute baby cow at the beginning of its long, happy life on the farm.
Now imagine that it gets sick with something that makes it sweat blood, and that even the lightest touch causes a horrible wound as if your fingers were made of sharks. Despite giving the calves vitamins and blood clotting drugs, they all bleed out in a matter of days, leaving behind piles of goo and some seriously confused ranchers.
"Things just haven't been the same since my calves exploded."
The condition apparently turns the calves' marrow into gelatin and prevents the production of platelets and white blood cells, making them unable to form clots of any kind and leaving them wide open to infection.
The Mystery:
There is no evidence that this is a disease in the traditional sense of the word.
Infected calves have been vaccinated against all kinds of bovine viruses and bacteria, even rare ones, with no luck. It has spread from Germany to Belgium, acting very much like a transmittable disease, but seems to lack anything tangible like a virus to blame.
"Maybe it's a mummy curse?" -Science
The main theory right now suggests that the baby cows are somehow developing an immunity to their own bone marrow. That's the kind of thing that just shouldn't happen in a body, like if your skull decides it wants to be "immune" from your brain.
#2. Ebola and Lujo
It is hard to imagine that on a continent like Africa where AIDS, yellow fever and malaria rage out of control that there could be an illness that qualifies as "worse."
Enter Lujo and Ebola. They are both what are called "hemorrhagic fevers," which is a fancy way of saying they cause you to bleed to death inside your own skin. A related disease, Marburg, is also from Africa, making it the one continent with diseases that will liquefy your insides and make you cry blood.
And not in the figurative sense, either.
The Mystery:
We have no idea how the virus is carried. It could be bats, monkeys, rats, flowers, mosquitoes or goddamn aliens. The problem seems to be that every time one of these diseases has an outbreak, they kill so fast and so thoroughly that scientists can't figure out where it came from.
"Not even I know, and I'm goddamned Morgan Freeman."
The first Ebola outbreak was in 1976 and struck with a 90 percent fatality rate, which is only slightly less than an elderly person driving their Honda through a farmer's market. Lujo is only known from a single incident that started in Zambia and moved to South Africa in 2008, killing the shit out of 80 percent of the people infected with it.
Leonardio DiCaprio was
unfortunately not harmed.
To bring things closer to home, there was an outbreak of a monkey-only version of Ebola in Reston, Virginia in November 1989. But the fact that it only killed monkeys doesn't necessarily mean we are in the clear--avian and swine flu didn't come from people either. And while we're on the subject, neither did ...
#1. Prions
There are actually several diseases that are caused by prions, some of which you may never have heard of, like Kuru and Creutzfeldt (Jakob disease) and one most people have heard of, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease.
All prion diseases have something in common: They affect the central nervous system by essentially turning it into Swiss cheese. See, the prions make millions of tiny holes in your brain that grow larger and larger over time, eventually reducing your mind to a perforated slab of quivering lunacy.
All of these diseases can be transmitted, and if you remember back when England had its mad cow outbreak, they can leap from cow to human with no issue. The best part is that you can have it for up to four years before ever showing symptoms, and once you've got it, it is completely incurable. Also, in the case of meat infected with mad cow disease, prions are not "killed" by cooking, so you could burn an infected steak to charcoal and still wind up insane and dead.
The Mystery:
As if being an incurable brain-shredding disease wasn't bad enough, no one knows where prions come from. They aren't a bacteria or even a virus. They are basically protein that has "gone bad" somehow, and it is entirely possible that our own bodies manufacture them by accident from time to time.
Like a piece of Orange Chicken that got way too crispy, only way worse.
So while contracting a disease from someone else who is infected sucks pretty bad already, prions are the one case where if you don't catch it from someone else, you might just develop it all on your own. Or not. Who knows?
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I got very little helpful information with my new Nodal Ninja R1 for installation on a Panasonic 8mm fisheye. Firstly, the instructions are misleading and need to stress that the lens ring cannot be installed from the front. Tried that and scratched the plastic lens hood that is part on the lens. You have to have the lens off of a camera and install the lens ring from the back of the lens. Maybe that is obvious to somebody, but it certainly was not obvious to me and I wasted a lot of time screwing around until I appreciated that fact.
Following the instructions in http://www.johnhpanos.com/epcalib.htm , the no parallax point with this combination of a Panasonic 8mm fisheye lens and the Nodal Ninja R1 appears to be at 1.2 on the scale of the R1.


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6 People Who Single Handedly Screwed Entire Economies
In the vast, infinitely complex world of the international economy, what difference can one man really make? Even billionaires don't have enough cash to really make a difference -- if Bill Gates went nuts and tried to crash the stock market somehow, other billionaires, banks and world governments would be there to stop him.
Yet throughout history there have been times when everything came together just right for one single person to ruin everyone's shit.
#6. Steve Perkins' Half-Billion-Dollar Drinking Binge
The Man: A random oil trader who got really, really drunk.
The Impact: Single-handedly raised the price you pay for gasoline in a drunken bout of trading.
There's a fridge full of booze behind every great financial disaster.
What's the most damage you've ever done while drunk? Maybe ruined a party? Or woke up in a ditch three states away? Or got arrested? Or sent shock waves through the worldwide petroleum market that raised the price of fuel for millions if not billions of people?
If you did that last one, your name is probably Steve Perkins.
Above: Perkins, his features and preferred brand obscured to protect the exceedingly guilty.
The 34-year-old Perkins was an oil trader who got to spend a weekend on a fully funded golfing retreat, paid for by his employer, PVM Oil Futures. So there he was, drinking and schmoozing to his heart's content. But then the weekend ended.
Perkins, however, chose to extend his bender with additional alcohol, starting his binge midday Monday and continuing into the wee hours of Tuesday morning. Oh, he didn't call in sick to work -- he went right back to trading, drunk off his ass.
"You're a cute-lookin' little oil future. Let's do it."
Although oil brokers are only supposed to make trades on behalf of clients, Perkins wanted to try it out for himself. He bought 7.13 million barrels of Brent oil, with a value of $520 million, over a 19-hour period between Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning in a drunken blackout. If those sound like big numbers, try this: Perkins' drunken trading was responsible for up to 69 percent of the volume of Brent oil being traded globally. After reaching that percentile, he presumably belched for a few minutes and slowed down his trading, satisfied that his mission had been accomplished.
At the peak of his trading/drinking binge, oil prices fluctuated upward by more than $1.50 per barrel in less than 30 minutes, something that typically never happens barring some sort of global catastrophe.
Or a truly exceptional martini.
In the end justice was not even close to being served, and Perkins was fined 72,000 pounds in damages and banned from participating in any regulated market activity for five years. People have lost their license for longer for getting drunk and crashing their car. Perkins did the same with the global economy, though we guess he probably indirectly prevented people from driving drunk, or at all.
#5. David Li Crashes the Economy With Math
The Man: A mathematician who came up with a cheat code for making infinite money.
The Impact: The worldwide recession you're living through right now.
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If you're eating dog food right now, it might be this man's fault.
Most of you probably don't gamble, or at least don't gamble a lot, for fear of losing your rent money on a single bad hand or blown point spread.
But imagine somebody came up with a simple formula that took the guesswork out of it. You could punch the information into a calculator and it would tell you your risks with any given hand or sports team. It guarantees that over the long run, you'll come out ahead. Think about how it would streamline gambling -- hell, you could create a computer program to play blackjack for you. Think about how many more people would gamble if this existed -- it'd make gambling a reliable, safe way to make some extra cash. All the risk would be gone. Everybody would do it.
"Keep dealing 'til I have yacht money."
So now imagine that this goes on for five years, everybody winning, all the time. Then the formula told everyone that the Detroit Lions were going to win the Super Bowl, and everybody bet all of their money on them -- to the tune of trillions of dollars. And then the Lions started losing. And losing. And losing.
It may be hard to imagine.
This happened.
In the real world, the formula was called the Gaussian copula function and it was created by David Li, one of many mathematicians hired by the markets to do just that -- come up with formulas to take the guesswork out of investing. It worked so amazingly well that the entire securities market leaped on Li's formula like it was a solid gold pork chop dusted with cocaine. Everyone started using it -- investors, banks, regulators. Li was considered a favorite for a Nobel Prize.
"You're like the Martin Luther King Jr. of money."
Investors had once been limited by the sheer complexity involved in calculating risk. But Li's formula allowed them to bundle dozens of bonds together into giant, pulsing money piles called collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), with his magical formula convincing them their money was safe. Just like in our gambling analogy, everybody wanted in -- Li's breakthrough made it possible for investors to bet more money faster and with less "thought" required than ever before.
The dollar amounts are impossible to comprehend. Prior to Li's formula, the market had $275 billion sunk into CDOs. By 2006, speculation had increased to $4.7 trillion. Credit default swaps, essentially "bets" that a company would be able to pay back its loan, grew from $920 billion to $62 trillion. Can you picture 62 trillion dollars? Don't bother. You can't.
But then along came the proverbial Detroit Lions, the one bet that would break the formula: the housing market, and hundred of billions of dollars worth of houses that their owners could not afford. All of those "sure thing" loans went into default, all of those losing bets came due at once, and the rest is history.
Way to be a dick, math.
#4. George Soros, aka "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England"
The man: An American currency speculator and billionaire.
The Impact: Caused British money to lose a quarter of its value, in one shot.
We're also pretty sure he tried to kill James Bond.
To understand the scheme that made George Soros a billion dollars in one day and nearly caused the value of British money to collapse, you have to understand a practice called short selling. So for the few of your in our readership who don't have vast and extensive investment portfolios, allow us to explain.
Short selling is a way to bet against stocks (or currencies or whatever) that you think are about to go down in value. You're allowed to basically buy shares with an agreement to pay for them in the future, at whatever the prices are in the future. Then you can go ahead and sell them now, at whatever the prices are now. So if the price of the thing goes down like you think, when it comes time to actually pay you'll have to pay less than what you sold them for, and you'll have made a profit. If the price goes up, you'll have to pay more than what you sold them for, and you'll lose your ass. That's the risk you take.
"Short selling" can also refer to a very specific sort of pimping.
George Soros had a feeling the British pound was about to drop in value.
At the time, the British government was trying to keep the pound's value up in comparison to the currencies of other European countries, despite the fact that their economy wasn't doing as well as, for instance, Germany's. It was doing this by buying up billions of units of its own currency.
And storing them in very large hats.
Soros, meanwhile, made one of the biggest gambles in the history of money: he short sold fucking $10 billion worth of currency on September 16, 1992, a day that would become known as Black Wednesday. This flooded the currency boat faster than the British government could bail it out. The value of the pound started dropping, to the point that the U.K. was forced to withdraw from the European Monetary System. Over the next three months, the value of the pound would drop by 24 percent.
Soros pocketed a cool $1.1 billion, and from then on became known as "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England."
George Soros, seen here not giving a fuck.


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I unlocked a room on the level select screen that is apparently a Museum of various Kirby abilities.
When I went in, I picked the Sword ability (by accident, it was closest to the door) and then I found I couldn't move past the area where the Sword ability was.
I don't know if there were other abilities available to me, but it got me wondering.
Do I have to do anything special to unlock other abilities in the museum?


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Suppose we have a non-negative random variable $X$ with density $p(x)$,and its characteristic function, evaluated at a complex number $z$, being $\phi(z)=E[e^{z X}]=\int_{0}^{\infty}e^{zx}p(x)dx$.
It seems that if $z$ has strictly negative real part, then $|\phi(z)|<1$. My question is, given any such $z$ with a strictly negative real parts, can we estimate how small the value $|\phi(z)|<1$ is as compared with one? Also how does the magnitude $|\phi(z)|<1$ affected by the properties of the density $p(x)$?
I am no expert in Fourier or Complex analysis, and would be very grateful if someone can point to the relevant part of the theory. Many many thanks.


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At any time, a game will likely have many objects rendering textures.
So what is a texture? an image for example?
At any time, a game will likely have many objects rendering textures.
Yes, a texture for most purposes is an image.
Once a texture is loaded from a file, it can be applied as a sort of "decal" to any polygon you wish.
When you see textures in an image file they typically appear a bit warped,
That's because when the texture is "wrapped" around the model, it will all even out and wrap around the model properly. You use a technique called UV mapping to be able to create a nice texture that will wrap around the model properly.
Yes, it typically is an image (often of a pattern) applied to the surface of a 2D or 3D model.
Textures are basically images that are used in 3D games on 3D objects, 2D planes in 3D space, or GUI elements.
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Despite the common need for efficient transport, trucks for the United States and trucks for the rest of the world traditionally are very different. When Volvo planned the American trucks for the 21st century, the ambition was to preserve the qualities of the American trucks, and at the same time incorporate the comfort, ergonomic and safety qualities of the European Volvo FH truck.
Due to the generous lengths in the US
The transport legislation in the United States is very different from the transport legislation in the European Union. The most obvious difference is the more generous lengths permitted in North America, contrary to Central Europe where the truck combinations must not be more than just over 18 metres.
This is the reason why American trucks almost always have a long bonnet in front of the cab. Since truck transports also take place over very long distances 'coast-to-coast' many trucks are equipped with extremely spacious sleeping compartments.
American look, European components
The American conventional VN truck was introduced in 1996, as a successor to the Volvo Aero series. Despite its traditional American look, with a long bonnet and very large sleeper compartments in the long-distance versions, it shares the technology and most of the components with the 'European' FH family. The VN (especially in its most exclusive version, the '780') combines the best aspects of American trucks with the ergonomics and the safety of the best European Volvo trucks.
The VN was designed, like the FH12 and the FH16 (and the FM and the NH series), out of the technology and the components shared by 'the Global Family of Volvo trucks'. It has the widest specification of any Volvo truck. It can be supplied with any of six different cabs, ranging from a short day cab to several sleeper cab options, where the most spacious virtually consists of a 'rolling home'.
The engine, cab and front axle setback
The VN is normally offered with Volvo engines (similar but not identical to the 11- or 13-litre engines used for e g the FH and the FM) but can also be supplied with a powerful 15-litre Cummins engine. The VN is available with two different FAS positions (FAS=Front Axle Setback) to ensure perfect axle weight distribution in every transport application.
The VN range was completely revised in 2002, with roomier cabs with improved comfort and with a more aerodynamic design of the front incorporated in the VN trucks intended for long-distance operations. Since 2005, the VN can be supplied with Volvo's powerful 16-litre engine.


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First of all, I never meant this story to be a blog post. I've been trying for a few years–to no avail–to write a serious literary essay about this. The trouble is that the odd mixture of hilarity, sadness, and just plain weird has made this difficult. Now the time has come to admit that I've failed. I've never particularly liked people who write about their cats or talk too much about their cats or–God help us all–carry around pictures of their cats. It's always struck me as somehow sad, as though this person has so little human interaction in their life that every time their cat licks its ass, it becomes a noteworthy occasion. That said, I have trekked deep into the terrain of hypocrisy. This is a cat story.
I wasn't aware until one o'clock in the morning, on a summer night after the Animal Emergency Room veterinarian diagnosed Chang with terminal feline leukemia that there was such a thing as "kitty coffin." It's not as cute as you would think. Imagine a heavy, corrugated cardboard box, sporting the caption KITTY COFFIN, but also having a noticeable lack of pictures on it. It was even shaped like a coffin, sort of. For this, you pay an extra seventy bucks, plus the cost of euthanizing your pet, and, of course, the mandatory forty dollar fee per office visit. I know this because while my stepfather stood in the parking lot of the clinic, smoking a cigarette and comforting my mother, I paid the veterinarian an amount of money that probably could've fed the cat for a year.
I did not want the kitty coffin. Though I don't consider myself to be especially miserly, there seemed something wasteful about it–not to mention tacky and unnecessarily morbid. To me, the proper way to commit Chang's body to the earth was wrapped in a burlap sack and buried in a section of the backyard where I planned to plant some nice perennials the following year. My mother, however, was heartbroken over the lost of this cat, and so I relented. I even held the thing in my lap on the car ride back home.
Chang was a Siamese-Himalayan mix of which my mother was particularly fond; she'd had him since he was a kitten, and it was not uncommon for her to refer to this cat as her fifth child–possibly her favorite child. After all, she never had to worry about the cat bringing home bad grades from school or getting caught smoking pot behind the neighbor's garage. If the cat killed a bird, it wasn't that he was a bad cat–it was his nature. Chang passed away the better part of a decade ago, but I still think about him from time to time, not because of the life he led, but because of the events that transpired after his death.
To some degree, I will always hold my aunt responsible for the idea of taking Chang's paw prints before burying him. It was her suggestion that by pressing the Chang's paws into wet clay and letting the clay harden, my mother would have a momento by which to remember him always. As my mother was both artsy and sentimental, I suppose it appealed to her imagination to have a pressing of the cat's paws hanging on the wall in the living room, somewhere between my baby pictures and the wedding photos. You have to understand that in my family, it is still common–even in the 21st Century–for family members to take photographs of dead relatives in their funeral caskets. These photographs are kept in the family photo albums and have, on more than one occasion, traumatized a child, who, sitting on a parent's knee, found themselves unexpectedly face-to-face with a deceased grandmother. "Her makeup turned out really nice, didn't it?" the parent might say, and the child would feel a lingering ache in their chest as, inside, they died a little. The practice, which I find both morbid and distasteful, has led to my admonition that I intend to be buried naked from the waist down.
The problem with taking Chang's paw print was that, in doing so, there was an unspoken finality in the act. My mother would be admitting that her beloved pet was truly gone. After purchasing the clay from a craft supply store, this was something that my mother was unable to accept. Wrapped in a blanket, Chang's body laid on a workbench in our basement, waiting to be printed like a common criminal, and my mother hesitated. She procrastinated for a day, trying to gain her nerve. And then another day. And another. Three weeks later, Chang's body still resided on the workbench, a deformed and bloated state of his former self. Fluids had begun to seep from the body. My family begged my mother to make her peace and to allow us to finally put Chang's body to rest.
On the day that we finally buried him, my mother went into the basement with block of clay. She was the only one of us who did not gag from the smell, as though her love for the cat shielded her from such things. She took his paw, which was curled to his chest, and gently pulled, but to no avail. In the three weeks that he laid in our basement, Chang had stiffened into a furry mannequin. The body had cooled to touch, and it was impossible to tell that he'd ever be alive. My mother pulled harder at his paw, desperate for a single print. There was an audible snap as the leg broke, and my mother recoiled. Sickened, she dropped the clay and asked us to please hurry up and bury the damn thing.
My stepfather and I buried Chang on a hill in the backyard, in a spot right outside the kitchen window–unfortunately nowhere near where I had had any intention of planting a garden. I tried to hold the Kitty Coffin in a seemingly dignified manner as my stepfather dug the hole. With a bad back and a cigarette habit, he was ill-equipped for the occupation of grave digging, and was soon struggling and out of breath. I offered to dig for a while, but he persisted stubbornly. Finally, he snatched the Kitty Coffin from my hands and stuffed it into the hole, but the grave was too small to accomodate the casket. Unfazed, my stepfather, a heavy man, stepped on the coffin, pushing it into the ground with his foot. The box collapsed and we could hear the crunch of the cat within. I nearly laughed and vomited at the same time and, from the kitchen window, my mother called out, asking if all was well. My stepfather didn't respond.
In addition to the clay with which to take Chang's paw prints, my mother had purchased a sheet metal cut-out of a cat to use as a grave marker. For the rest of the time that I lived in that house, when looking out through kitchen window at night, the silhouette of the grave marker in the moonlight created the illusion of the cat digging its way out of its grave, intent on seeking some horrible revenge. My stepfather stabbed the marker into the ground and began feverishly shoveling dirt into the grave. Again, my mother called from the window, asking if everything was alright. For reasons that I never understood, I began to sing. I had a pleasant tenor then, and in that moment I sang out the words to Swing Low, Sweet Chariot for all I was worth.
"You've always had such a pretty voice, Douglas," my mother called from the open window, and she listened and hummed along to that gospel tune, secure in knowing that all things work out in their appointed time.


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We've started feeding our baby rice cereal. I try to make small amounts and make more if he needs it, but sometimes I make too much. I understand that once you've prepared rice cereal (mixed it with breast milk), you can't really put it in the fridge and save it. But is it ok to save it for an hour or two? (I just tried to feed him and he wasn't hungry. He'll probably be hungry in about an hour or so. Can I save it till then?)
I would treat it like breastmilk, myself.
Follow the usual guidelines for how long you can keep breastmilk out at room temperature. Most sources say it's okay for up to 6 hours, if your house isn't too warm.
It would depend on if you are using breastmilk or formula to mix the cereal. Check the recommendations. Remember that if it has come into contact with your baby's saliva then it should be used or disgarded more quickly than if you mix it in different container than you use for feeding.


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An unboxing and demo video of Three UK's mobile broadband wi-fi hub (ZTE MF10 wireless router). It allows you to plug in a 3G mobile broadband dongle and to share your 3G connection amongst your wi-fi enabled devices wherever you are (e.g. your smartphone, tablet, Kindle, iPod Touch, games console)
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The development of sports acquired momentum with the introduction of the First Development Plan (1970-74). At the time, a decision was made to establish a nationwide network of sports facilities that could be enjoyed and used by all. The plan called for the construction of sports and athletic facilities, the establishment of recreational programs and the creation of clubs for the Kingdom's youth.
A further step in encouraging public participation in sporting activities was taken in 1974 with the establishment of the General Presidency of Youth Welfare (GPYW). Its mandate is to make sporting, recreational and cultural facilities and events accessible to young Saudis throughout the country and to get as many people interested and involved in these activities as possible.
The presidency's activities complement those of the Ministry of Education, which is responsible for maintaining physical education programs within the school system, and the Ministry of Higher Education, which oversees sports programs at Saudi Arabia's universities and colleges. Today, schools, colleges and universities emphasize sports as an integral part of their curriculum.
Outside the country's educational system, the GPYW is the primary provider of sports facilities and programs. With almost unlimited moral and material support from Saudi leaders, the GPYW has put into place a formidable sports structure and program that covers the entire country. Based on studies on population density and needs in various parts of the Kingdom, the GPYW initiated a three-tier program.
The first provides for the establishment of huge sports complexes -- called Sports Cities -- in major population centers. These gigantic facilities are scattered throughout Saudi Arabia, and more are being built. Each has a multipurpose stadium with a seating capacity of between 10,000 and 60,000, a 5,000-seat indoor stadium, Olympic-size swimming pools, indoor and outdoor courts and playgrounds, cafeterias, halls for conferences and clinics for sports medicine.
The second tier of the GPYW's sports program concentrates on establishing smaller neighborhood sports facilities and playgrounds in large urban centers where young Saudis can play basketball, volleyball and other sports near their homes. In addition to parks and open spaces, these centers also have buildings where indoor recreational activities can be arranged.
The third tier focuses on making sports facilities available in smaller population centers by establishing Sports Clubs in all cities and towns. Although not as large as the Sports Cities, these clubs meet the needs of residents of towns and villages. Differing in size according to the number of residents of the town, the clubs offer a range of facilities for different sports, including soccer fields, indoor and outdoor courts, swimming pools, playgrounds, recreational areas and accommodations for youth camps.
Sports training programs in a diverse range of fields from archery to soccer are available to Saudis of every age at the country's sports facilities, large and small. Though open to all, they are intended to introduce young Saudis to various sporting activities and offer training at different levels. In addition to building sports facilities, the GPYW has also introduced programs to encourage their use by the general public. To achieve that objective, it has introduced a program of annual events on the local and national levels at all its facilities. These include competition in local leagues, 'Sports for All' gatherings and 'Folk Games Days'.
GPYW sports clubs organize neighborhood and local sporting events throughout the year. The more accomplished athletes are sent by these clubs to participate in the 200 or so annual district and national sports events organized by the GPYW. Athletes who excel at these events are enrolled in special training camps for serious local and national competition. Twenty youth sports camps throughout the country host thousands of young Saudis every year. Equipped with modern sleeping, dining, sports and recreational facilities, they offer sports training in an atmosphere that emphasizes Saudi Arabia's heritage.
The best young athletes emerging from these programs are then selected for intensive training to represent Saudi Arabia in international events. The Kingdom's 18 sports federations, which are supervised by the GPYW, organize leagues and tournaments for these athletes to sharpen their skills. Additionally, athletes and teams attend more than 40 sporting events outside the country each year and participate in major international sporting events inside the Kingdom.


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I teach a course on group theory for physics at the level of senior undergraduates. I follow basically the book by Georgi "Lie algebra in particle physics". So I teach them, the groups SU(2), SU(3) and other related subjects. However there are too little exercises in this book, and I couldn't find enough exercises on the net. Do you know where can I find exercises on group theory FOR physicists?
I can recommend H.F. Jones, ``Groups, representations and physics'', Institute of Physics Publishing, 1990: it has a good selection of exercises at the end of each chapter.
Wu-Ki Tung's Group Theory in Physics has problems at the end of each chapter. Michael Aizazis published the complete solutions to these problems.
I think that the H.F. Jones book "Group Theory in physics" can be another good reference.


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Step 1. Come for the free drinks.
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Graham Niemi, the offensive coordinator since 2010, has been running the Yale offense for the last eight seasons. He completed his 13th campaign in New Haven in 2016, a year which saw the Bulldogs (13-3) and their top 10 ranked offense win the Ivy League Tournament and appear in the NCAA Tournament for the fourth time in five seasons.
In 2013, Niemi helped the Bulldogs go 12-5, win a second straight Ivy League Tournament Championship and get a win at Penn State in the NCAA Tournament.
His 2012 offense ranked 15th in country and third in the Ivy League with 11 goals per game. That helped the Bulldogs (11-5) win nine straight games, take the Ivy Tournament and earn the school's first NCAA berth in 20 years. Niemi, who also handles the face-off men, has had a Yalie among the top 15 in the nation for 10 straight seasons. Four of them have been among the top five, including Dylan Levings (2012) and Cole Yeager (2011), and all but three were in the top 10.
Eleven of Niemi's Elis earned All-Ivy honors over the last four seasons, while five were All-America picks.
The 2011 squad, which won 10 games for a second straight season, finished 13th in Division I scoring with 10.93 goals per game. His offensive units have helped the Blue reach all four Ivy League Tournaments.
Niemi, a four-year letterwinner for the Maryland Lacrosse team and a 1997 graduate, played on Terrapin squads that reached the NCAA playoffs every season. His 1995 team fell to Syracuse in the title contest.
Niemi, the 1996 William P. Cole Award winner as Maryland's best midfielder, was a two-year starter who became an undergraduate assistant coach for the 1997 Terrapin team that made it to the NCAA final.
He went on to coach the defense for a National Junior College championship team at Anne Arundel Community College and then serve as graduate assistant at Washington College (24-7, 2 NCAA tournaments). His 1998 team was recently inducted into the Anne Arundel CC Athletics Hall of Fame.
In 2001 he was an assistant for a Loyola (Md.) College squad that reached the NCAA quarterfinals before returning to his alma mater in 2002 as an assistant. Niemi, who has played or coached in nine different NCAA tournaments, was the defensive coordinator for Washington College and coached in the 2002 NCAA tournament.
Niemi's coaching experience has extended beyond the U.S. He served as head coach of the Finnish National Team for the 2008 European Championships.
He and his wife, the former Courtney Dickinson, reside in Milford.


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I am going to be busy over the weekend attending a conference here in Philly. I will be out to dinner with grad school colleagues and all that, so I shan't be posting for a few days. Tonight was the plenary session followed by a reception. The food was really heavy on the meat and cheese (surprise, surprise) so I spent my time drinking beer and eating garnishes. To be fair, they did have some very mediocre grilled tofu cubes and some fruit skewers. It's always hilarious to get a group of historians together--picture a bunch of ill-dressed, socially awkward, introverted nerds trying to socialize.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Brief Hiatus
8 comments:
- Jamie said...
I've definitely got you beat on the awkwardness -- I'm a nuclear engineer! I hope you enjoy your conference. I look forward to hearing about it next week.
- July 18, 2008 at 12:18 AM
- Cyn said...
"ill-dressed, socially awkward, introverted nerds"
Hmmm, this sounds just like the computer science conferences I go to . . . Maybe it's just an academic thing. :)
- July 18, 2008 at 1:01 AM
- Claire said...
Musicologists are up there on the awkward scale. both of my weirdest teachers were musicologists- one on norwegian folk music and one on renaissance music who also had a short man complex. They go from awkward to invading personal space and back again.
However, our next door neighbor is a neurology fellow at Penn and his lab colleagues might beat everyone.
Have a good time and try not to starve!
- July 18, 2008 at 12:05 PM
- Chantal from Ottawa said...
"picture a bunch of ill-dressed, socially awkward, introverted nerds trying to socialize"
Sounds exactly like terminologist conferences I am dragged out of my cubicle by my boss to go to...
Love your blog by the way.
- July 18, 2008 at 3:57 PM
- jennie said...
Hey now, we're not all ill-dressed...or maybe i'm labouring under a misconception as to the "hipness" of my personal style...lol.
- July 18, 2008 at 5:45 PM
- Eesh said...
HAHA! Thanks for giving me my good laugh for the day! I'm an engineer and I think the social gatherings pretty much fall under the same socially awkward category. Cheers to us introverted nerds!
- July 18, 2008 at 10:46 PM
- Anonymous said...
If you get a chance, you have to check out Govinda's Gourmet to Go on the corner of South Street and Broad (not too far from Rittenhouse) for a vegan chicken cheesesteak (on a sesame roll, and order it with vegan cheese). They also have the famous Vegan Treats cakes, cookies and brownies.
- July 18, 2008 at 11:30 PM
- Lisa Goldstein said...
I hang out with the physicist/mathematician crowd here in Salt Lake City.
The joke goes, "When can you tell if a mathematician is an extrovert?"
Answer, "He looks at your shoes when he talks to you" (as opposed to his own shoes..). It's a better joke in person, believe me. It gets them laughing!
Love your blog. Very inspirational. I lived in Philly back in the 80's. Say hi to Ben for me!
- July 19, 2008 at 10:28 AM


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I need to access the Twitter API user timeline service using the following REST request so I can pull some tweets from a feed to display on a site: "https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=frosario"
It works mostly, but I'm getting sporadic 401 and 500 errors when performing this request; which seem to be because I'm hitting the rate limit for unauthenticated API calls.
I'd like to authenticate with my client Id and secret so I can take advantage of the increased rate limit. I'd like to do this with a server side OAuth flow just using my client id and secret; but could also provide user credentials if needed. However, this needs to be all server side; I can't go through the OAuth redirect flow to authenticate with Twitter's API everytime we load up the site; just to download these tweets. What are my options? I looked over Twitter's OAuth documentation and didn't see anything that would seem to work for my situation; but perhaps I missed something.
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Come out and see the Winter Wonderland themed Christmas Parade with marching bands, floats and Santa Claus. Find more information at www.kiwanis-ok.org
The parade will start out of the ConocoPhillips parking lot downtown, head east on Frank Phillips Boulevard and then turn south on Osage Avenue. The parade will then turn west on Sixth Street and then head south onto Armstrong Avenue. The parade then continues west on Adams Boulevard for a block and then turns back into the ConocoPhillips parking lot.


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2 May 2012 1:11 AM #1
Unanswered: Canvas drawing slow while backface visibility is hidden
Hi all,
I am in big dilemma regarding this.
For last many days, i have been struggling canvas drawing operation(different shapes) in sencha touch application.
The drawing of lines where a bit slow while the finger moved ahead of the line while drawing it in the IPAD in canvas.
I was not able to figure out that what made this application little slow. Then suddenly, when i added backface-visiblity: visible, propery in css of the body, the drawing become faster as it should be.
But what is the importance of this css in relation to canvas drawing, as there is no animation going on while drawing something on canvas?
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Thanks for your time.
But i hope someone exactly knows what is the problem behind this, as to trace this was a big problem, and i solved it accidentally, that's not possible for all who might face this problem in future.


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6 Real People With Secret Identities Nobody Saw Coming
The most unrealistic part of a show like Dexter or even a comic character like Batman is the whole secret identity thing. It really is laughable that you'd be able to live two completely separate lives, often on opposite sides of the law, without someone figuring it out after a few months. Every character with a secret identity seems to be surrounded by nothing but oblivious morons.
Yet real life has given us examples of people who carried on this kind of brazen charade for years. People like ...
#6. Sergio Gutierrez Benitez
The public persona:
Father Sergio Benitez is a secular priest operating a small orphanage in Mexico. He had gotten in trouble with drugs as a kid, so when he was in his early 20s, he went into the priesthood to try to turn his life around.
It totally worked; he became a mild-mannered man helping impoverished and parentless kids, living the quiet life and trying to steer them away from the troubled youth he barely escaped. He taught philosophy. He became the kind of guy you imagine spends a lot of time in quiet rooms reading theological texts for long hours by candlelight.
Prepare to be surprised.
The secret identity:
For 23 years, this mild-mannered man of God would come home at night, take off his collar and put on the flamboyant mask and cape of a lucha libre wrestler.
In the ring, he went by the name of Fray Tormenta (Friar Storm).
Also, he is in amazing shape.
Yes. It's Nacho Libre. That movie was based on a thing that actually happened.
Father Benitez did not break his and other wrestlers' bones for all these years because he craved fame or couldn't find gainful employment with a philosophy degree. The priest did it for the money, which he then blew on kids. And to make that last statement a tad less creepy, we meant that he took up wrestling to finance the orphanage after not receiving any help from the church superiors. This awesome act of kindness was unfortunately punished decades later when he was played by Jack Black.
"Why is a partially shaved monkey playing me ...?"
He kept this a secret for more than two decades. The padre never made a fortune, but he continued grappling sweaty men even after another wrestler finally discovered his true identity. In the end, Fray Tormenta saved the orphanage, which so far has produced dozens of teachers, lawyers and computer technicians. Today, Father Benitez is retired from wrestling but the legend of Fray Tormenta lives on through movies, video game characters and comic books inspired by his wrestling guise. There's also Fray Tormenta Jr., one of Benitez's orphans who wrestles under the priest's old mantle when he's not working as a criminal law specialist for the Mexican state of Hidalgo.
Wait -- does this mean all Jack Black movies are real?
#5. Sean Laurence Waygood
The public persona:
Sean Waygood worked as an occupational health and safety adviser for a Sydney freight company, and by all accounts, his life was even more boring than his job description.
"My entire existence is one long, slow death."
Waygood's co-workers used to jokingly call the tedious and fussy Waygood "Major Pain" due to the man's four-year stretch in the army and the stick made from reinforced diamonds shoved up his ass when it came to workplace safety. While not working or spending time with his girlfriend and two kids, Waygood also helped out at the nonprofit organization Wesley Mission. The man was Ned Flanders.
Like most missions involving Wesley, it didn't end well.
The secret identity:
If based on the Nacho Libre entry you thought these were all going to be heartwarming stories, we want you to brace yourself. See, when Waygood wasn't busy softly hugging orphans to sleep or admonishing his co-workers for smoking in the break room, he performed the duties of a professional hitman for one of the biggest criminal networks in Australia.
According to an eight-year police investigation, he might be responsible for up to nine brutal murders on behalf of known mob boss Tony Perish.
"Remember folks! Safety first, or I'll come to your house at night and stab you!"
Waygood and Perish met in 2000 when Waygood was a bouncer $100,000 in debt to the career criminal. To avoid taking a personal tour of the nearest harbor in cement sneakers, he started doing hits for Perish, which came pretty easy to him, considering Waygood's past experience as a freaking highly trained army commando.
His known contracts include gunning down a man in front of a pub and trying to kill Felix Lyle, a member of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club, which later inspired Sons of Anarchy. But the murder that finally got Waygood arrested was that of fellow criminal and Perish's rival Terry Falconer, who in November 2001 was visited at his house by Waygood, Perish and a third person, all dressed as police officers. Falconer's dismembered body was found in seven plastic bags in the Hastings River.
Yeah, basically.
After the arrest, the cops searched Waygood's house and discovered -- hidden right under his family's noses the entire time -- a collection worthy of a small battalion of sociopathic killers, including:
Rubber face masks and wigs,
3,000 rounds of ammunition;
A bolt-action rifle,
A rifle with a silencer,
A Ruger Mini-14 rifle,
A machine pistol,
A .22-caliber pistol,
A Luger pistol,
A .38-caliber pistol,
Bulletproof vests ...
... one piranha gun ...
And creepiest of all, loads of police uniforms and fake badges that enabled Waygood to pose as a member of any police force in Australia (state or federal). We don't even want to know where he got those.
#4. Shigeo Tokuda
The public persona:
Shigeo Tokuda is an average 76-year-old retired travel agent, currently living with his wife and daughter in Tokyo. Like many retirees, he continues working part-time to keep himself busy. In America, he'd probably wind up working as a door greeter at Walmart. Or maybe work the register at a quiet bed and breakfast out in the country. Something to pass the time in your golden years.
The secret identity:
Tokuda had a better idea. His part-time job is being one of the biggest porn actors in Japan. Described as a "superstar of the elder porn genre," Tokuda has appeared in over 350 smut films, putting his penis into hundreds of women between the ages of 20 and 70. Oh, and he says his family has absolutely no idea about any of this.
"Where're you going?"
"I told you, I have to work at the hardware store tonight. Is this my only clean kimono?"
It all started when Tokuda wanted to watch a porn movie but could not bring himself to meet the criticizing gaze of the apathetic teen employees at the video store. He then decided to buy it directly from the production company and somehow became friends with a director there. One day he was offered a chance to star in some of the studio's senior-themed movies. Surprisingly, the ex-businessman who was too shy to buy porn the regular way eventually agreed to show his erection on camera. Then he did it again. And again. More than 350 times.
"Shigeo Tokuda" is not his real name (we're assuming the Japanese translates to something like "Dick Cockrod"), and the septuagenarian smut cowboy has been hiding under that pseudonym for 14 years.
Although his face is clearly visible in his movies (when not buried between a pair of 20-year-old boobs), there's no serious risk of Tokuda's loved-ones finding out his secret because, to our surprise, watching weird porn is not a government-enforced pastime in Japan (we're going to take a wild guess and say that they don't read Cracked either). Hence Tokuda plans to keep getting paid to nail women a quarter his age until he's 80 and beyond. We're thinking that makes even Bill Gates' retirement plan look like a big pile of shit.
Someday his family will be surprised by how many people at his funeral have boob jobs.


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12 Jun 2012 4:15 AM #1
IE8 test case
Hello all,
We 've built a proto based on GXT3. We 're facing to a problem. Our proto is running perfectly on Chrome or on firefox but not on IE8. It is critical for us.
We searched solution on the web:/forum, but unfortunately without succes.
We added in attachment Java files used for our test case.
tanks for help
23 Aug 2012 1:57 PM #2
i'm having the same problem. I've isolated the problem to the fact that IE8 by default, is loading all sites in Compatibility View. I've seen threads that you can set a <meta> element, to force IE to use standards view (IE8), but does not seem to work for me ... though if I force IE into always using Standards mode, everything looks good.
Have not seen any replies from Sencha on this...
23 Aug 2012 3:17 PM #3
fyi, if the IE8 compatibility view settings are set to "display all sites in compatibility view", e.g. that option is checked, or if a site is configured to always use compatibility view, then your gwt/gxt components may not display correctly.
Gmail support makes note of this exact issue:


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The June 22 issue of The New York Times Magazine features a personal essay by music faculty member Allen Shawn. An award-winning composer, Shawn is also author of Arnold Schoenberg's Journey—which won the 2003 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award—and the critically acclaimed memoir Wish I Could Be There: Notes From a Phobic Life. His essays have also appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The Musical Times, and The Times Literary Supplement.
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Tucson International Airport
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Telefon: (520) 573 8100.
Website: http://www.tucsonairport.org
Tucson International Airport is situated 16km (10 miles) south of central Tucson.
How to get there
From the city centre and University of Arizona, take Campbell Avenue, which turns into Kino Parkway south of Broadway. Follow signs to Tucson Boulevard and the airport entrance. From East Side, take Kolb Road south to Valencia Road or from Midtown take Alvernon Way (which merges into Palo Verde) south to Valencia Road, then travel west to Tucson Boulevard, and turn south towards the airport. From the south, take the I-19 north to Valencia, then turn eastbound onto Valencia Road and continue to Tucson Boulevard From the northwest, take I-10 west to South Kino Parkway exit and follow signs to Tucson Boulevard and the airport entrance.
Information about parking possibilities at the Tucson International Airport
Access by public transport
Suntran (tel: 520) 623 4301; www.suntran.com) operates public buses from the airport to downtown Tucson. The journey time is around 25 minutes, and buses depart from outside the terminal. Arizona Stagecoach (tel: (520) 889 1000; www.azstagecoach.com) offers shared ride minibuses to many destinations in the area, and has a desk within the terminal at baggage claim.
Taxis are readily available on the lower level outside the terminal.
Information desk
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Question says mostly all. To be more concrete, I am talking about the popularity of Krishna and Buddhism on the religious side, and stuff like yoga on the more practical side. Some other things might be the popularity of "gurus" etc.
Perhaps one of the most influential things that raised awareness and popularity with these cultures was the involvement of the Beatles in exploring their own "spiritual awareness". At the height of their popularity, they drew a lot of attention to these alternatives to spirituality. The drug culture of the late 1960's included a very large movement of American youth who were looking for alternatives to the staid lifestyles their parents had tried to impose upon them. There were other popular musicians of that period who had similar impacts, as well as a growing number of "gurus" who capitalized on it, but the timing of the Beatle's interest and the rise of the popular drug culture combined to encourage a lot of youth to start exploring other options.
A History of Modern Yoga: Patanjali and Western Esotericism
Perspectives on the New Age By James R. Lewis
This relates to the "discovery" of Asian, and other non-European cultures by Americans.
As of the middle of the 20th century, American society was pretty homogeneous, and "Eurocentric." An expression used is that American culture of about 1950 came in three flavors "chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry," like ice-cream.
We all know what happened to ice-cream tastes; they went from the above three flavors to the 31 of Baskin Robbins. A similar thing happened in the rest of American culture, and Indian and Bhuddist were included in the "31 flavors."
I would say the seed of interest in Indian/Hindu culture was sown when Swami Vivekananda visited America and spoke at the Conference of World Religions. Later a few gurus such as Srila Prabhupada, Paramahamsa Yogananda spread word in America. The rise of interest in the 20th century , of course, is largely due to the Indian immigrant population in America as well as the rise of interest and opportunities to travel the world.
In Hinduism and Buddhism there is message of peace and an encouragement to not be materialistic. Also, spiritualism is a path that leads your spirit to "moksha", or freedom, and there is also the popularity of "yogasanas"and "pranayama" who tend to have strong influences on their followers.


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Service Day
Service Day is in the past.
Lipscomb Service Day
Wednesday, April 10
Each year, Lipscomb University's entire student body is excused from afternoon classes and divided up into small groups to head out throughout Nashville and volunteer for worthy causes. Last year a record 875 students and faculty volunteered at 57 sites around Nashville including the American Red Cross, Daystar Ministries, Habitat for Humanity, Radnor Lake, YES, Healing Hands, Rocketown and many local churches.