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Today Congress put politics aside and voted to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. Eighteen years ago, I envisioned a world where women could live free from violence and abuse. Since VAWA first passed in 1994, we have seen a 64% reduction in domestic violence. I am pleased that this progress will continue, with new tools for cops and prosecutors to hold abusers and rapists accountable, and more support for all victims of these crimes.
The urgent need for this bill cannot be more obvious. Consider just one fact—that 40% of all mass shootings started with the murderer targeting their girlfriend, or their wife, or their ex-wife. Among many other important provisions, the new VAWA will increase the use of proven models of reducing domestic violence homicides.
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The vote comes after House Republican leaders, cognizant of the need to improve their faltering image among women voters, accepted a Senate bill passed two weeks ago on a strong bipartisan vote.
The House vote to reauthorize the 1994 law that has set the standard for anti-violence programs came after lawmakers rejected a more limited approach from Republicans.
The law lapsed in 2011 and has been caught up in the partisan battles that now divide Congress. Last year, the House refused to go along with a Senate-passed bill that would have made clear that lesbians, gays, immigrants and Native American women should have equal access to anti-violence programs.


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Is it true that in a (non-local) Gorenstein ring, every maximal ideal has the same height? It seems a little strange, but I don't see any reason why it shoudn't.
No, it is not true.
Consider a discrete valuation ring $R$ with uniformizing parameter $\pi$ and residue field $k$.
I think the answer is no. Take the product of two local Gorenstein rings of different dimensions; or take any Gorenstein ring $A$ and two prime ideals $P, Q$ of different heights, and no inclusion relation between them and localize at $A\setminus (P\cap Q)$ (you get a semi-local ring whose maximal ideals are given by $P$ and $Q$).


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I've read various opinions about whether Bcrypt or PDBKF2 is a better key derivation hashing method. The answer seems to depend on a lot of complicated factors that are not easy to analyze. Would using both of them (presumably in a serial way one before the other) accrue the benefits of both and thus achieve an optimally secure solution?
Mixing the two functions would not really help. Bcrypt and PBKDF2 both have a configurable cost: you are supposed to set the number of iterations at the maximum value which is still tolerable in your situation, given the available hardware and the environmental constraints (e.g. average user patience). If you want to use both function together, then they must share the same CPU budget; in other words, you would have to decrease the number of iterations compared to what you would use in either function alone.
So you do not get something stronger that way; instead, you get a security level which is an average of what you would have got with Bcrypt alone, or with PBKDF2 alone.
Combining two hash functions or similar functions together is good to avoid a catastrophic failure, if one turns out to be broken; but, assuming that both Bcrypt and PBKDF2 are strong, and the question is mostly about performance (both bcrypt and PBKDF2 are about making exhaustive search slower, so this is all about performance). For optimal slowness, combining bcrypt and PBKDF2 is not a good idea.
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A common problem I observe is that the players start flooding the GM with questions regarding rules during an encounter (within and outside their respective turns). From the perspective of a GM, how can I reduce the damage/clutter/blockage this can cause but still give the players the knowledge they need to decide what actions they will take during their upcoming (or current) turn? What about outside of combat?
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Give them an immediate judgement call, then look up the actual rule after the session and use that from then on.
When the player asks a rules question, quickly decide for yourself what you think the answer ought to be. Make it clear to the player that this is not a final ruling, it's just what you're going to use for that session in the interest of keeping things going. If they can find the relevant rule in the book to show that you're wrong in 30 seconds or less then go with the official rule. If they can't find the rule, or it's a matter of interpretation (read: arguing), then use your on-the-spot ruling for that session, then after the session look up the rules, discuss it with the player, and come to a final decision that will apply if the situation ever comes up again.
Note that this can be problematic in cases where the rules are unclear (or nobody can recall them) and the impact of a judgement call is extreme (whether a PC lives or dies, for example). In those cases it's probably better to look up the actual rules & come to an agreement during play, but for any other discussion the temporary ruling should speed things along. Alternately, as SevenSidedDie pointed out, you can just rule in a manner that preserves the status quo or that has a less permanent result.
Again, you should explain what you're doing and why to your players; while most players will be perfectly happy with sacrificing rules arguments to speed up the game (except for the hardcore rules lawyers), if you don't explain your policy to them it can just seem like you've decided to resolve everything with arbitrary DM fiat.
Edit: This system should handle questions from normal players (who don't tend to ask tons of questions, and should be happy with a system designed to speed up play) and from rules lawyers (who will realize they're not getting definitive rulings and quit asking questions during play; be prepared for them to pester you for clarifications/rulings between sessions) as long as you make it clear that you are absolutely not willing to argue about the rules during play. There is 1 type of player who will likely continue to ask a great many questions under this system: new players that haven't read the rules (whose questions will generally be "can I do X" or "what happens if I do Y", since they genuinely don't know).
This can be remedied by requiring them to read and understand the rules some time. Make them allocate a block of time before the next session to really thoroughly read all the general rules and any specific rules regarding their character (this could cover multiple rulebooks if they use content from several different resources); you need to be available while they're doing this, either in person or via some sort of chat program, to answer any questions they have while they're doing all this reading. Note that the drawback to this approach is that it occasionally produces a rules lawyer rather than a normal educated player.
Edit2: When using a new system, consider using the opposite of the "make the new players read the rulebooks" approach on players you know are rules lawyers: tell them they're not allowed to read all the rules until the group has completed a couple sessions of play. This ensures that they learn & get used to the rules as you have interpreted them along with any house rules, rather than being exposed to the book's rules first. This can slow down the first couple sessions with questions from the lawyers (since they obviously don't know the rules) but in the long run it can really reduce the number of rules arguments along the lines of "That's not what the book says," "I don't care what the book says, I'm the GM and this is what we're doing". (Thanks to wax eagle for this suggestion.)
Another approach is to declare at the beginning of a session that all encounters will proceed very deliberately, with the pertinent rules called out and discussed by everyone along the way. This provides a few advantages:
Of course only you can know what will work for your group, but sometimes deliberately slowing things down once or twice is a good way of ensuring the pace will speed up thereafter.
As the GM you are in the driver's seat, so take control.
You can create a Quick Reference Sheet (or photocopy relevant pages of the rulebook) for situations that routinely come up in your game (Combat, skill checks, etc). Typically this is a series of tables or definitions condensed into a single sheet or 2.
Also, if your game is going to require the players to do something that you know they are unfamiliar with, then you could help them by having a cheat-sheet of the related rules. Of course I wouldn't give them this until they needed it to maintain the mystery of the adventure.


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I asked this question because I supposedly did last year, Stanfor Klein which belongs to the Solar Energy Laboratory of the University of Wisconsin says that "the color of a car does not affect its internal temperature".
I wonder why Metals with different colors perhaps do not absorb different doses of temperatures? and as a consequence, when different metals of different colors are exposed to strong radiation it is not so differently warmed?


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How can I back up all emails stored in my Gmail account? Can some or all labels be preserved?
The most simple way to do this is activating pop3 or IMAP in your "Mail Settings" and retrieving the email using your own client (Thunderbird, Outlook, etc.).
One way is to log in using a mail client that supports IMAP. You can then export the emails to a backup location, but this is a bit laborious.
If you want a continuous backup, you could try something like imapsync. This would require you to run your own backup IMAP server and schedule a regular task to perform the synchronisation.
Edit: Preserving labels should work fine, but not quite in the way that Gmail handles them. I've not seen any IMAP or POP3 servers which handle the Gmail label system properly. Gmail presents each tag as a separate folder through IMAP, so as far as the user is concerned, the message exists in several places. (In fact, the inbox is just another label). If you synchronise your account to another IMAP server, you will essentially have multiple copies of the same message.
You can use a nice webapp (sic!) called Backupify to backup all your Gmail data (along with Twitter, Facebook and a bunch of other stuff).
Check out LifeHacker's answer to the same question.
In a nutshell, they said :
Gmail backups have become a somewhat timely topic, as thousands of Gmail users had their account reseted by accident recently.
Here's one more backup solution from the comments to that Engadget post:
Hopefully with this bump, we'll get even more good, up-to-date answers to the question. (At least gmail-backup.com, mentioned in the accepted answer, now seems defunct.)
I'm kind of find of IMAPSize. It's not the most fully-featured tool you'll ever find, but it backs things up in the most open way possible: each message in it's own file, which could easily be imported into any other e-mail client. It also includes an option for restoring from a backup (though I've never tested that).
Be careful when using IMAP mail clients for backups: I lost some mail at one point because I had thought Thunderbird was keeping local copies of things that it had decided it didn't need to keep. This was a config error on my part, but it's a warning to be careful.
Theoretically speaking, you can open up another gmail account and use it to pop your mail from the first account. You can chain this to have many different gmail accounts backing your mail up.
If you automatically label your messages, then you can redefine the filters in each account so that labels continue to apply.
I developed Gmail Keeper for this. Why I've done that when there are other tools out there? Because I need to backup multiple Gmail accounts on a regular basis, and I don't want to input the login info each time when I need to make a backup.
Both emails and labels will be backed up to local disk in standard file formats (eml and zip). It can also backup the Gmail chat logs if you enable the 'Chats' folder access in the advance IMAP settings in Gmail. However, It's for Windows only.
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Welcome to Equestria, the world of the My Little Ponies. Equestria is ruled jointly by the sisters Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, and is populated by intelligent, talking animals, but ponies play the dominant role. The weather is controlled by the winged pegasus ponies, the unicorn ponies do magic and the earth ponies do various other jobs about the country. The capital of the country is Canterlot, but this story starts in a town on the other side of Equestria from the capital; a town named Trottingham. Here, just like in other pony towns, there is a thriving population of ponies. There are shops, a farm, a school and various entertainment industries. The ponies are content. There is an occasional visit from the ruling ponies, when everypony turns out to welcome them and celebrate, but apart from that there are various festivals and celebrations to attend. Trottingham School is attended by every filly and colt, and is where the ponies learn about various things, such as the history of Equestria as well as more practical things like reading and arithmatic. Each foal is different; some are eager to learn while others get bored with having to stay in school instead of being outside in the sun and enjoying themselves.
This was true for a small group of ponies one day in Trottingham. The pegasus ponies were working on clearing the sky of clouds, and it was a bright and beautiful blue. The sun shone down on the green grass, and it proved too tempting a prospect for this group. Faced with double maths, the group played truant from Trottingham School and stole off together away from the town, where their parents might catch them and know that they were supposed to be in school. The group eventually settled down just outside the Everfree Forest. The Everfree Forest is a mysterious place outside Ponyville. Unlike most of Equestria, the forest does not need the ponies' attention to function naturally, plants grow and the weather changes without their involvement, and animals care for themselves. It is home to many strange creatures, including ursas and parasprites and other hazards, such as the plant poison joke. The forest is also the location of the ancient castle where the Elements of Harmony are located. Princess Luna and Princess Celestia once resided there, but the castle is now deserted. Nopony ventures far into the mysterious forest; there are many frightening things that lurk in the shadows of the trees, and nopony has ever explored the whole of the forest.
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Roneo, a yellow earth pony with a blue mane and tail, was unhappy. He had been out in the fields of Sunny Town the previous day and had happened upon a beautiful jewel which glowed like the setting sun. He had immediately thought to give it to his sweetheart, a pony named Starlet, but he had lost it. Miserable, he wandered about the town searching for the jewel. Ruby, a bright and inquisitive young filly, noticed something glinting in the undergrowth as she danced along the path. Curious, she nosed about in the long grass, and the jewel rolled out. She happily trotted back to Sunny Town, and gave the jewel to Roneo, who was delighted. However, something happened; a small magnifying glass appeared on Ruby's flank. The other ponies were horrified; to them, this strange mark appearing on the young filly's flank signified to them witchcraft! The fear spread among all the ponies and they rushed the young filly. Ruby screamed for help, but before her mother Mitta could save her, Ruby had been carried off by the townsponies. They declared the terrified filly to be a witch and burned her alive, leaving her body in the fireplace. Then, darkness fell, altho it was only the middle of the day. The ponies of Sunny Town had been cursed as a result of their actions, and their town, now renamed Blanktown, was doomed to be a place of darkness from which nopony could ever escape, and where any pony who entered would find hard to leave...
1. When you join, please have at least one pony character who lacks a cutie mark. This will make it easier for you to RP in both locations. If you are having trouble coming up with a suitable pony name, feel free to adapt one of the ponies listed here. Please don't choose any of the main characters in MLP: FiM as this RP is set in a different town.
2. For appearance, make yourself a pony using the maker here. Cutie marks are not included, so if you require a cutie mark for your character, you'll have to put it on yourself. If you need any help with this, PM me. Link to your pony in the section of the character form marked "Appearance".
3. No Mary Sues or Gary Stus. I don't really need to say why, do I?
4. No human characters; this is an RP about ponies, right?
5. This RP is also based on the flash game "Story Of The Blanks" as well as having elements of Silent Hill.
Character Form.
When posting your character form, make sure to fill in all areas. Delete the bracketed bits as these are only included as a guide.
Name: {Your pony's name, obviously.}
Type: {Earth pony, Pegasus or Unicorn.}
Age: {Filly/Colt; these are young ponies without cutie marks. Mare/Stallion; these are adult ponies.}
Appearance: {This is where you link to the pony you made in the pony maker.}
Personality: {Please include any faults or weaknesses here, as well as strengths}
Bio: {Tell us a bit about your pony.}
Name: Melody
Type: Pegasus
Age: Mare
Appearance: http://i56.tinypic.com/15d9kx2.png
Personality: Melody tends to be fairly bossy, and a bit of a know it all. She always thinks that she knows best, and is very impulsive. Despite all this, Melody is a loyal friend and very generous. She loves music and singing.
Bio: Melody works as a singer in Trottingham. She generally puts on a show at parties, festivals, celebrations... whenever it's possible for her to air her voice. As a pegasus, Melody also has to spare time to help the other pegasus ponies with the weather, which she considers a frightful bore and a distraction from her singing. Melody has visited parts of Equestria to give concerts, but always returns to her home town and her friends. She is somewhat vain, and likes to match her accessories to her cutie mark, which is three music notes.
Name: Clover
Type: Unicorn
Age: Filly
Appearance: http://i52.tinypic.com/2s6qyba.png
Personality: Clover is very down to earth, and can be blunt. She lacks tact; if something needs to be said, even an unpleasant truth, she will go ahead and say it regardless of whether feelings might be hurt. She is lazy at times, and thinks that school is a waste of time unless she's having classes that she's interested in. She has a hot temper, and will defend her friends if they're in trouble or being picked on.
Bio: Clover is very impatient and can't wait to get her cutie mark, and hates having to wait. She also dislikes being told that she has to be patient to find out what her cutie mark is, especially by older ponies. She has a quick mind, but never really applies it in school to lessons such as maths or science, as she finds these lessons dull. If she can get away with it, Clover will cut classes and persuade her friends to come with her, as she hates to be alone. She wants to go and live in Canterlot when she's grown up, but doesn't really know what she'll do there.
It was a fine day in Trottingham, and preparations for a festival to celebrate the coming of summer were well under way. Melody, a pegasus pony, was walking thru the town looking for her friends. She was excited and looking forward to the festival; Melody was to sing there, and she was going to be debuting a song that she'd written only a few days before. It was going to be a fantastic party. In Trottingham, magic as well as hoof and wing were used to make the seasons pass, so it happened in a relatively timely fashion. Melody sighed a little; before the party could occur, there would be much work involved. As a pegasus, she would be expected to help out the other winged ponies in making sure that every single cloud in the sky was cleared away, so that the sun could shine brighter and give off more heat. Melody considered this to be boring, and much prefered to spend her time trilling her voice, or perhaps browsing thru the fashion shop in Trottingham High Street to find the perfect accessories to wear for the party. Still, it would only take up a few hours of two days, and then the party could begin. Melody could hardly wait.
Clover stared out of the window of the classroom where she sat at the back of the room. It was evident that summer would soon be here, and with it, the holidays. "Such a waste of time," Clover thought to herself, "Making us sit inside when there's only two days to go til summer." She wriggled in her seat impatiently. The lesson was history, in which the young ponies learned all about Equestria and its history. Clover generally liked this lesson, but the day outside tempted her. The thought of the next lesson, which was two long hours of arithmatic, decided the young unicorn. She wasn't about to waste a nice day like today writing out sums; she would use her unicorn magic to create a diversion so that she and her friends could escape the classroom and explore outside. Clover sighed; she thought again, as she had thought many times before, of the fact that she still didn't have a cutie mark. When would it appear? Some of the ponies in the class already had theirs. It was a source of great annoyance to Clover that hers had still not appeared on her flank, and she wanted it to hurry up and come. And what better way to hurry up a cutie mark than to explore outside?
Name: Sandy Shores
Type: Unicorn
Age: Mare
Appearance: http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ndy-shores.png
Personality: Sandy appears to be a restful soul, and a highly fashionable mare with a girlish, princess-like fashion sense. In reality she is quite the gossip and cannot hold back secrets to save her life; she does not necessarily mean to spill all, she just doesn't know when to shut up. And, as she owns her own spa/beauty salon, she gets lots of material for gossip and a lot of ponies to spread it around. She is a ditz and a bit forgetful at times, but has her heart in the right place.
Bio: Sandy had a very sheltered and privileged life. She earned her cutie mark when she painted hooves and styled her friends' manes and tails at a slumber party for fun, and knew it was her destiny to continue doing so and to love it. As mentioned before, she now owns her own spa-salon combo, and has a lot of acquaintances and a few close friends... though said friends guard their secrets closely around her, of course.
Name: Herbal Tea
Type: Earth Pony
Age: Stallion
Appearance: http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2.../Sunpeeler.png
Personality: Tea is fairly quiet and usually polite. He is down-to-earth and friendly... until you anger him. He has a temper, and while it takes a while to get him truly mad, once he's there he more or less explodes on you. He also holds grudges, but not necessarily for little things like pranks or minor offenses.
Bio: Tea was raised in a large family, the one that owns Windy Acres farm, to be precise. His older brother, WindRunner, inherited the farm when his Cutie Mark showed up as a wind-blown orange tree.
Tea went on to be a medical practitioner when his own Mark revealed itself while he helped wrap his third-youngest brother's sprained ankle. He realized that he loved helping people in this way, and especially endorses natural remedies in his field. He still keeps in touch with his family, though he no longer lives at the farm.
Name: Stargazer
Type: Pegasus
Age: Filly
Appearance: http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ooterBlank.png
Personality: There are two words to describe Star, though they don't seem to go together: 'hyper' and 'nerd'. Stargazer loves to read, and often reads ahead in their textbooks, as her need to learn is insatiable and she feels that the teachers don't go fast enough.
Despite this, she is very ADHD, and has a hard time sitting still or paying attention during a conversation; even while reading, she is constantly shifting positions or pausing, getting up and pacing and muttering to herself, then sitting down again with the book. You could be in the middle of a very important or serious conversation and have her scream and squeal, "SQUIRREL!" as soon as she sees one.
As a result, ponies find her very annoying to be around. Worse yet, she doesn't seem to realize why it is she's so annoying.
Bio: Star's parents are fairly nurturing, though her dad firmly believes that a little tough love at times will go a long way. Her parents both encourage her reading, feeling that, despite her habit of bouncing off the walls (yes, she literally does that), that she'll go far someday.
Ugh! Magic was such a strain! Sandy Shores tossed her artfully-messy, multi-colored mane out of her pastel yellow eyes and scowled. Weren't there enough other unicorns to magically welcome in summer? Like, magic gave her headaches, and how could she have fun and paint her hooves when she had a freakin' migraine?
Not cool at all! But, fortunately, she was done for the day; now was time to relax, get a nice pedi, maybe buy a new necklace... though, she had to say, the pearl one with the little periwinkle bow was her fave semi-casual necklace in her collection. She never went outside with at least one accessory on; imagine the horror of being completely bare and plain!
From a little ways away, Sandy spotted Melody, one of her closer friends. "Hey! Melody!" She trotted over to the purple-coated mare and offered her a winning smile. "You wanna come and get a pedi with me? Your mane looks fantastic, by the way."
Dr. Herbal Tea cr.racked his neck, glad that it was time for his lunch break; he'd barely had a minute to himself all day. It was almost as if everyone decided to sprain something or worse in time for the summer holiday, and all rushed his office.
Ah, well, such was life, and it meant a good pay, at least. Tea grabbed his bag and slung it over his back as he left he wing of the Trottingham Hospital labeled 'Family Practice', which was where the doctors' offices were located, and mulled over where he wanted to go for lunch. There were several good restaurants downtown, but they usually got crowded around this time.
Fidget. Twitch. Wiggle. Squirm. OMG, SQUIRREL! Stargazer stared out the window of the classroom as she watched a rodent climb a tree, wishing she could go and hug it; they look soooo soft. Oh, yeah, lessons. Star forcefully swung her head back around toward the teacher.
She didn't mean to stop paying attention, it just sort of happened, and today it was especially bad. Besides, she already knew about how baby dragons had been introduced as messengers... she'd read it, like, five times, as it was one of her favorite lessons. She bounced about in her seat, making her somewhat short mane of purple-black hair bounce as well, which amused her and distracted her again. Lessons!! She bit her lip and tried to contain herself, but, as usual, it didn't las long; she was soon bouncing, unaware that a few students around her were rolling their eyes in response to her.
Oh, man, how was she going to survive arithmatic? Long dividing was, well, long, and she obviously didn't have it in her today; she'd have to tell her parents that she needed new meds, this stuff just wasn't working. Besides, it meant she got to see Dr. Tea, who was nice and had a really pretty shade of orange for his mane and tail. Desperately, Star looked over at Clover, who usually faired better than she did, hoping the other filly would notice her.
Name: Shimmer
Type: Earth Pony
Age: Mare
Appearance: http://i52.tinypic.com/24uypt2.gif
Personality: Shimmer is patient by nature, she loves to teach and to learn and most of the time she's quite sunny and optimistic. However she can also be confusing, and is prone to getting carried away or babbling incessantly when she's particularly excited by something. However she's a good friend and a good teacher, despite her famous speeches. She finds it hard to understand how other ponies can't enjoy books, history and drama and theatre as she does. She can be a little overdramatic at times, but most of the time she's quite good fun.
Bio: Shimmer absolutely adored history as a child, she adored writing and she adored making friends. Becoming a teacher was a natural choice when it came to careers, it involved learning, teaching and all sorts of other goodies. At one point she did consider becoming an actress, due to her love for theatre, but this dream was short-lived and she returned to her long-term dream instead, though she still loves watching plays and theatrical performances.
Name: Pluto
Type: Pegasus
Age: Filly
Appearance: http://i52.tinypic.com/iwqk2v.gif
Personality: Pluto is a little dreamy, well, a lot dreamy. Ever since she was little she either had her head in a book or in the clouds. She's often dreaming of traveling, wanting to experience different things, and would plan out her dream life, changing aspects from day to day. She's a good friend, and she enjoys learning, however sometimes she'll fly off into a little day-dream and it'll be impossible to get ahold of her. She's also terrible when it comes to organization, and planning ahead. She's nearly always late and nearly never on time.
Bio: Pluto simply cannot wait to get her cutie mark, in fact, she's already dreamed up about one hundred different designs that she thinks would look quite cool. Unfortunately her tendency to flying off into a different world often means she finds herself in trouble during class, because although she does love to learn, she find imagining a lot more interesting. More than anything she would love to be an explorer, and an artist, and a teacher, and an actress...the list continues.
Name: Neptune
Type: Pegasus
Age: Colt
Appearance: http://i55.tinypic.com/2hghb4o.gif
Personality: Unlike his twin sister, Neptune is no big day-dreamer. Hes a very people person, he loves to talk, joke, and hes generally easy to get along with. However he can be stubborn, and he loves to play pranks on people. In fact hes something of a serial prankster. One of the traits he does share with Pluto is his lack of organizational skills, and like her, this means hes pretty much always late. Hes also extremely curious and loves adventure, which can land him in trouble.
Bio: Neptune has a very clear picture in his head of himself as a world famous explorer, magician, or owner of a joke shop. Ever since he was little he fell in love with pranks and magic tricks. An even more thrilling experience then preparing the joke, was seeing the look on his victims face. Although the jokes were never cruel, they caught other ponies by surprise, and often this was what led to him finding himself in trouble with teachers, family and friends. He is absolutely sure that his cutie mark will be spectacular.
- - -
Shimmer was feeling particularly teacher-y today. She glanced around the class and mistook several of the students poses for those of excitement at the prospect of learning about their history. Stargazer for one was bouncing up and down in her seat, which wasn't unusual per se, but it was still good to see. The mare took this a sign that her lesson was so far going well and dived head first into another very animated speech about baby dragons and how they'd been used as messengers, a particularly interesting subject to look at. From the back of the class she would have looked either rather ridiculous, with limbs flailing as she explained the main points the class would need to take down, or completely mad.
Within moments she had furiously scribbled down several points on the board, one or two of which were underlined heavily and had little arrows spurting off them leading to words such as important or dont forget followed by little smiley sunflowers. Shimmer turned to face her class again, giving them a few minutes to copy everything down. She couldn't help but wonder what she was going to do for lunch, this was her last class today, no one needed a fill-in and her paperwork was all in order...she turned her attention back to the class and hoped she wasn't salivating. Avoiding thoughts of food, she switched her usual smile back on and observed her class with pride.
- - -
Pluto was asleep, not literally, she was actually having a dream, but not an asleep dream, and awake dream. The pony frowned as she tried to work out why people called daydreams daydreams. Because if a daydream meant you were awake, then what did you call an asleep dream you had during the day? Daydreams ought to be called awake dreams, and normal dreams ought to be called asleep dreams. That would make everything less confusing. Pluto resisted the urge to yawn, and her head slipped a little further down towards the desk. She simply hadn't been able to sleep last night, she'd been to busy drawing up a few more cutie marks that had suddenly popped into her head at some outrageous hour in the early morning.
Her eyelids began to droop, and the classroom, in turn, began to blur slightly. Their teacher went rather tipsy turvy and her classmates looked as though they were upside down. This was precisely why Pluto loved eyelids, because when you had them open at exactly the right angle, everything looked nonsensical. Eventually her head reached the desk, landing on a page full of scribbled drawings of baby dragons. She could not wait for the class to end, it was an unusual feeling and Pluto decided that it was quite obvious cutie marks were to blame.
- - -
Neptune was actually paying attention to the teacher for once, a rare occurrence. Usually he was too busy bugging other ponies, or at least, distracting them. However it was hard not to pay attention to Shimmer as she bounced around at the front of the classroom, waving her hoofs around like a mad horse as if it were going to help her explain. A slight snore distracted him from their teachers strange dance and he realized that Pluto had fallen asleep on the desk several seats away from him.
This presented a slight problem. There was no way he was going to be able to pull off a joke with her that far away from him, and yet it was his brotherly duty to do so. It was only fair really; hed told her shed fall asleep in class if she stayed up drawing all those silly cutie marks. He smirked as he turned his head back towards the front of the room. It would just have to wait until class finished, which gave him all the more time to plan his prank.
Melody spotted her best friend Sandy Shores and smiled winningly. "I'd love to," she replied. "I'm exhausted; I spent what, two hours earlier clearing clouds and I'm totally drained. I need to relax after that, after all, I'm going to be singing at the summer festival."
Clover caught the eye of her friend Stargazer and saw mirrored within the same kind of boredom that she herself felt. She quickly scribbled a short note and used her unicorn magic to put it unseen on her friend's desk. The note read:
Ugh, arithmatic! Not interested. Gonna use magic to get out of class; you interested in coming too?
Having delivered the note, Clover looked around the class. Her eyes fell on the twins Pluto and Neptune. They were both fun, in different ways, and to Clover's mind, the more ponies she could get to come with her, the better.
"Fantastic!" sang Sandy. "So, like, let's go now; I'm done with magic, you're done with clouds, now we need our hooves polished, our manes treated, and one of those fancy massage seats," she said. "So, I was thinking that, instead of plain bright green on your hooves, this time we could have a minty green with various notes on it; eight notes, sixteenth, maybe a Treble Cleff for good measure..."
Stargazer nodded, her glasses wiggling on her face and almost falling off. She balled up the note and kicked it along the floor so that it rolled to Clover's left hoof.
How about the twins? Naptune hates class, and Pluto's so funny with her random thoughts.
"Perfect!" Melody said with a smile. "That would totally match my cutie mark, and make me look fantastic for the concert at the festival! I love singing, and I've got a new song that I wrote just for the summer festival. I totally need the relaxation; getting rid of those clouds just tires me out. At least it's almost done now; just a few more to go and then it's done for the festival."
Clover read the note and grinned; this was why Stargazer was her friend, they tended to think alike on a lot of things. She carefully wrote on the note, then sent it back.
They're nearest you; give them the note and ask them to come with us. I'll use magic to hide us so nopony will see us sneaking out.
Sandy giggled. "You like everything to match your Mark! What are you going to wear for your performance?" she asked as she began to head to the salon with Melody.
Stargazer nodded and kicked the note to Neptune; Pluto would never notice such a thing, but Neptune definitely would.
Neptune looked down at the note in surprise and read it over quickly. He whipped out a pen to and thought before replying. Awesome. I'm there, can you ask Clover to wake up Pluto? She's closest.
It sounded like fun, more fun than class at any rate...
"I haven't decided yet," Melody replied, while she walked next to Sandy. "Maybe I'll buy a whole new outfit. After all, I need to look my best when I sing."
When Clover saw the new note, she nudged Pluto hard to wake her up, then showed her the note.
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Smart Debugger of PHP Scripts
Today nobody really questions benefits of using source level debuggers for any language including PHP - debugger is simply a tool, necessity in everyday programmers work. However, it is interesting to note that code validating tools are much less known and it is those tools that are very valuable addition to debuggers in code development.
Traditionally, in compiled languages, certain part of code validation (type checking, checking for non-initialized variables) are usually taken by compiler, but besides compiler there are also external tools used to conduct this task (for example checkstyle for Java). This article deals with use of those tools during development of PHP applications (we will be using Codenizer).
Basic question that programmer asks herself/himself when introducing one new tool into development process is "What benefit can I expect from using this?". Answer to this question is very simple - it is dramatic time saver during development, and we all know what that means in today's world of merciless business competition - more time you save in development of one application faster you can switch to next application, which means more money for you.
Code verification/checking tools are complementary to debuggers - usual way of using debugger is after encountering program malfunction to better analyze reasons that led to unexpected behavior and in the end to eliminate those reasons (i.e. bugs). On the other hand, code verification tools are used during program development to pinpoint possible problematic locations which could eventually lead to bugs in program - so debuggers are used to eliminate bugs once they are in program, code validation tools are used to prevent bugs from appearing in the program in the first place.
Simple example
To better illustrate basic operation of validating tools let's consider this simple PHP script (schedule.php, given with line numbers to be easier to follow):
PHP Code:
01 <?php
03 class Schedule {
04 private $SID;
05 private $SDate;
06 private $flights;
08 // Set methods
09 function set_SID($SID) {
10 $this->SID = $SID;
11 }
12 function set_SDate($SDate) {
13 $this->SDate = $SDate;
14 }
15 function set_flights($flights) {
16 $this->flights = $flights;
17 }
19 // Get methods
20 function get_SID() {
21 return $this->SID;
22 }
23 function get_SDate() {
24 return $this->SDate;
25 }
26 function get_flights() {
27 return $this->fligths;
28 }
29 function __construct($sid, $sdate, $flights) {
30 $this->SID = $sid;
31 $this->SDate = $sdate;
32 $flights = split(';', $flights);
33 $this->flights = array();
34 for ($i = 0; $i < count($flight); $i++)
35 $this->flights[] = $i . '. ' . $flight[$i];
36 }
37 }
38 ?>
As we can see in the report are mentioned 3 potentially problematic spots which should be closer inspected by programmer:
- 'Performance - function called in condition part of loop' on line 34 - calling function in condition checking part of loop usually impose certain performance penalty (since PHP interpreter usually doesn't optimize it), but it can be avoided by using auxiliary variable - for example $cnt = count($flight);
for ($i = 0; $i < $cnt; $i++)...
- 'Undeclared property 'fligths' in class 'Schedule'' on line 27 - this is obviously typo, should be $this->flights;
- 'Uninitialized variable 'flight'' on line 34 - another typo, should be count($flights).
Where to Start
First of all you need tool itself (like Codenizer), then some IDE that supports PHP development (Eclipse or NetBeans would be smart choice), and plugin for integrating tool with IDE which can be found in the same location as tool.
It would be wrong to think of code validation as of some magic that would forever relieve you of using debugger and make you make bug-free code. Code validation can't do that for you, but what it can do is to reduce your time spent debugging program by almost 80% and it can help you spot the problems that could otherwise go unseen for very long time.


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Professor Schwartz joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 from the University of Chicago Law School where she was a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law. Prior to her time at the University of Chicago, Professor Schwartz practiced as a litigation associate as part of the Business Trial and Litigation practice of the Century City, California office of O'Melveny & Myers LLP. Professor Schwartz's practice focused on complex and appellate litigation, contract law, entertainment law, and intellectual property. While at O'Melveny, Professor Schwartz taught at the UCLA Ninth Circuit Appellate Clinic and co-authored an article about areas of uncertainty in trademark law.
Before becoming an attorney, Professor Schwartz graduated in 2004 from Stanford University where she received a BA in Political Science with honors and distinction, a BA in Slavic Languages and Literatures with distinction, and a BS in Mathematics with distinction, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and the Dobro Slovo National Slavic Honors Society. She then graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2007, where she was the senior editor of the Harvard International Law Journal. Following graduation, Professor Schwartz clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for the Honorable Jay S. Bybee.
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Campaigns Plan Around Sandy
Hurricane Sandy's approach has forced a series of adjustments by candidates in the U.S. presidential race.
The storm has campaign staff and strategists for President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney scrambling to counter its potential impact on campaign rallies, TV advertising schedules and early-voting turnout in Eastern coastal states.
Mr. Romney's campaign canceled three events scheduled for Sunday in Virginia, after consulting with Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his staff.
"It's a cautionary move to make sure their emergency resources personnel would not be diverted," said Rick Gorka, an aide to the Romney campaign. Mr. Romney, who has Secret Service protection, also draws from local police forces for security at his campaign events and for his motorcade.
Mr. Romney will instead spend Sunday campaigning with his running mate across Ohio.
Early voting began Saturday in Florida, the nation's largest battleground state. Mr. Obama has moved up a planned flight to Orlando from Monday to Sunday, to beat the storm's expected impact on air travel. The president is scheduled to appear with former U.S. President Bill Clinton on a swing through Florida, Ohio, and Virginia on Monday.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, an important Obama surrogate, canceled a Sunday trip to Florida, where he was to stump for the president.
The storm has forced Mr. Obama to juggle campaigning with his duties as president; while stumping in New Hampshire Saturday, he was updated on the storm during a conference call with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, National Hurricane Center Director Dr. Rick Knabb, and the White House's counterterrorism and homeland security adviser John Brennan.
Today is the last day for in-person and mail-in voter registration in deadlocked New Hampshire, where the weather threatens to scuttle campaign stops planned by both camps next week. First lady Michelle Obama has canceled a Tuesday trip to the University of New Hampshire campus, which will be closed Monday and Tuesday in preparation for Sandy.
Mr. Obama's campaign team is relying on banking votes during the early voting period in many states. Campaign aides are privately nervous about a potential disruption in early voting in Florida, North Carolina and Virginia. "The campaign is closely monitoring the storm and will take all necessary precautions to make sure our staff and volunteers are safe," said Obama campaign aide Adam Fetcher, adding that, for now, grass roots operations in coastal states are "running at full speed."
Mr. Obama made a plug for early voting when asked by Wisconsin reporter Friday whether Hurricane Sandy could impact turnout at the polls.
"I think this is just one more reason why if you take advantage of early voting then you don't have to worry about what happens on Election Day," he said, noting that he didn't believe the storm would affect the Midwest.
The storm likely will reach the U.S. mainland on Monday or Tuesday, with heavy rains beginning Sunday along the East Coast. Coastal states from North Carolina to New Hampshire have gone on emergency footing, closing state and municipal facilities and staging voluntary evacuations in preparation for widespread flooding and expected power outages. The storm is currently a Category 1 hurricane.
Vice President Joe Biden, his wife, Jill, and a son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, canceled a Saturday trip to Virginia Beach, Va., "out of an abundance of caution to ensure that all local law enforcement and emergency management resources can stay focused on ensuring the safety of people who might be impacted by the storm."
Mr. McDonnell, the Virginia governor, has declared a state of emergency in the commonwealth, which is poised for a direct hit by the storm.
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which HNN-extensions are free products? this question is related with another still unsolved about Nielsen-Thruston-reducibility and connected-sum-irreducibility of 3d-torus- bundles...
This might help.
Lemma If $A$ does not split freely and $C$ is a non-trivial subgroup of $A$ then the HNN extension $G=A*_C$ does not split freely.
The proof uses Bass--Serre theory---see Serre's book Trees from 1980.
Proof. Let $T$ be the Bass--Serre tree of a free splitting of $G$. Because $A$ does not split freely, $A$ stabilizes some unique vertex $v$. But $C$ is non-trivial, so $C$ also stabilizes a unique vertex, which must be $v$. Therefore, $G$ stabilizes $v$, which means the free splitting was trivial. QED
A similar argument shows the following.
Lemma If $ A*_C $ splits non-trivially as an amalgamated free product $ A' *_{C'} B'$ then either $A$ splits over $C'$ or $C$ is conjugate into $C'$.
Let me add an explicit partial solution to the question above: for a torus bundle $E$ over the circle, the fundamental group of $E$ can't be a free product of groups, because if it were, the fundamental subgroup of the fiber would be a free product (by the Kurosch's theorem) which is impossible for the torus, then $E$ isn't a connected sum, hence irreducible.
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29 Jul 2008 12:08 AM #1
How to detect which button was pressed in MessageBox.confirm
I want to use MessageBox.confirm to confirm a user action. In the explorer demo there is an example, but it is using the text of the button to determine which one was pressed. I cant do that because my buttons are going to have differrent texts at runtime.
How can I determine if the Okay button or the cancel button was pressed?
Also i would like to change the text of the buttons (i18n)
final Listener<WindowEvent> l = new Listener<WindowEvent>() { public void handleEvent(WindowEvent ce) { Dialog dialog = (Dialog) ce.component; Button btn = dialog.getButtonPressed(); Info.display("MessageBox", "The '{0}' button was pressed", btn. getText()); } }; MessageBox.confirm("Confirm", "Are you sure you want to do that?", l);
30 Jul 2008 10:19 PM #2
try Dialog.OK.equals(btn.getItemId())
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12 Nov 2008 9:54 AM #4
Thanks for the help. I struggled with this because I was using MessageBoxEvent
instead of WindowEvent. MessageBoxEvent is said to include a Dialog, but
that was null so I was unable to track down the button.
A nice enhancement might be to include "String buttonId" in MessageBoxEvent,
so I could easily obtain the button that was pressed along with the value of text
in my prompt field. Just a suggestion.
16 Nov 2011 9:19 AM #5
Also works with MessageBoxEventCode:
MessageBox.confirm("Confirm", "Are you sure?", new Listener<MessageBoxEvent>() { @Override public void handleEvent(MessageBoxEvent be) { Button btn =be.getButtonClicked(); if(Dialog.YES.equalsIgnoreCase(btn.getItemId())) { // ur stuff } } });


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The T-tetromino is a T-shaped figure made of four unit squares. An $m\times n$ rectangle can be tiled by T-tetrominoes if and only if both $m$ and $n$ are multiples of 4. This was proved in a 1965 paper by D.W.Walkup, and the proof was "hands on".
Some "algebraic" tricks like colouring or tiling groups can prove that $mn$ must be a multiple of 8, but they do not seem to rule out the cases like $99\times 200$ and $100\times 102$.
I wonder whether a better proof of D.W.Walkup's theorem is known today. By "better" I mean applicable to non-rectangular regions as well. For example, is there a way to determine what 6-gons (8-gons, ...) admit tiling by T-tetrominoes?


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18 Mar 2009 1:36 PM #1
action.result is undefined
This problem sounds similar at the start to the following post:
However, I'm having a slightly different problem.
I have an upload form which I submit via a BasicForm from within a PanelForm. I submit this to a php server script that renames the file, copies it to a storage location, then responds to the client with JSON indicating success and including a few other variables like a result message, the old name and the new name of the file.
When I load the form from one server, and submit the form to the same server (with an Apache alias), everything works just fine. The JSON response gets parsed out automatically into the action.result object. This works regardless of whether I'm using localhost or a remote server.
However, when I load the form from one server and submit the form to a different VirtualHost (even on the same domain but on a different port), the submit works fine, the response from the server works fine, the JSON comes across as expected, but it doesn't appear to be parsed and loaded into the action.result object. When I try to access it, I get an "action.result is undefined" error in FireBug.
The response IS being parsed enough for the correct success / failure event handler to be called when the submit is complete, just not loaded into the action.result object.
Because I'm submitting this to a different VirtualHost, I suppose that's the same as a different domain. Am I dealing with some security issue with my browser (FF)? That doesn't seem to explain the actions on the response side however with most of the activity happening just as it should, just not the loading of that final variable.
Any ideas?
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Are you setting the Content-Type of the response to "text/html"?Search the forum: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=01...%3Az7of1ufqccu
Read the docs too: http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/docs/
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19 Mar 2009 10:38 AM #3
I wasn't doing anything to actively control that, but yes, it is text/html in both cases.
did not parse properly (POSTed to localhost:8000):
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:31:37 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.41 (Darwin) PHP/5.2.2 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.2 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:35:27 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.41 (Darwin) PHP/5.2.2 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.2 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=96 Connection: Keep-Alive Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html
19 Mar 2009 11:00 AM #4
My server side code that receives the upload responds with the following string:
PHP Code:
if ($success === false) {
// Report the rsync failure.
echo "{failure: true, message: 'File was not rsynced properly', ";
echo "error: '{$error}'}";
} else {
// Report success.
echo "{success: true, message: 'File Uploaded', name: '{$origname}'," .
" destination: '{$destname}'}";
var upload_config = { success: function uploadSuccess(form,action) { // update the status in the upload window Ext.get('panel-status-' + form.idNumber).update( 'File sent' ); // update the full file name and path to be passed to // create the ticket Ext.get('ds-name-' + form.idNumber).set( {value:action.result.destination} // <----- error occurs here ); // update the status in the main window, text and color status[form.idNumber].update( 'File sent: ' + action.result.name ); status[form.idNumber].setStyle( 'color', 'green' ); pt_box[form.idNumber].set({checked:true}); setTimeout(function(){form.window.hide();},1500); }, failure: function(form,action) { var message = action.result.message; var error = action.result.error; Ext.get('panel-status-' + form.idNumber).update( 'Failed sending datasheet, please retry (' + message + ':' + error + ')' ) Ext.get('main-status-' + form.idNumber).update( 'Failed sending datasheet, please retry' ); }, scope: this }
function DatasheetWindow(idNumber, uploadUrl, filename, width, height, config) { ... config = config || upload_config; this.formPanel = new Ext.form.FormPanel({ url: uploadUrl, ... buttons: [{ text: 'Upload', handler: function() { // process upload form var form = this.getForm(); if (form.isValid()) { form.waitMsgTarget = true; Ext.get('panel-status-' + this.idNumber).update('Sending'); form.idNumber = this.idNumber; form.window = this.window; config.scope = this; form.submit(config); } }, scope: this }] }); this.window.insert(0, this.formPanel); }
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You'll have to do some digging.
Use ext-all-debug.js
Look for the function
doFormUpload : function(o, ps, url){
function cb(){ var r = { // bogus response object responseText : '', responseXML : null }; r.argument = o ? o.argument : null; try { // var doc; if(Ext.isIE){ ...
It attempts to create a fake XMLHttpRequest by grabbing innerHTML from the document body. That should yield your JSON.
See what's happening.Search the forum: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=01...%3Az7of1ufqccu
Read the docs too: http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/docs/
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19 Mar 2009 1:08 PM #6
By the way, thanks for the great suggestions Animal!
I added the breakpoint as suggested and found that doc.body contains a bunch of stuff including innerHTML. I can see this using FireBug. But as I step through the cb function, it gets to the line "if(doc && doc.body){" then drops to the catch block.
In the catch(e) block, I added "alert(e);" and got the following popup:
Error: Permission denied to get property HTMLDocument.body
So, this answers the direct question of "why" its not getting the response, but it begs a bigger question, "why" can't I do that?
19 Mar 2009 1:24 PM #7
Maybe the answer to the bigger question is blocking of XSS. This is the first time I've tried this, so I suppose that makes sense.
If anyone else has any comments on that, I'd love to hear them, but it seems like this is the resolution to my problem.
Thanks again for the help!
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If the data in the frame comes from another domain, you're not going to be able to access it.Search the forum: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=01...%3Az7of1ufqccu
Read the docs too: http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/docs/
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1 Jun 2010 7:50 PM #9
Not the case
Just in case you're still having issues with this (I was too and couldn't find an answer anywhere), this is what worked for me:
If you have any fields in your form with --> allowBlank: false
{ xtype: textfield name : "full_name", fieldLabel : "Full Name", allowBlank: false }
buttons: [{ text: 'Reset', handler: function(){simple.getForm().reset()} },{ text: 'Submit', handler: function() { if (simple.getForm().isValid()) simple.getForm().submit ({ success: function(form, action) { Ext.Msg.alert('Success', action.result.msg); }, failure: function(form, action) { Ext.Msg.alert('Failure', action.result.error); } }); } }]
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I get similar issue, linuxguy2001's solution works, Thanks


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Tuscan Tomato Soup
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Tomatoes, chicken broth, and fresh garlic flavor this home-style soup.
Serves: 6 servings
- 1 1/2 teaspoons crushed fresh garlic
- 3 cups unsalted chicken or vegetable broth
- 2 cans (14 1/2 ounces each) tomatoes, crushed
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1 teaspoon instant chicken or vegetable bouillon granules
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I am not a physiologist, but whatever little I know about human eyes always makes me wonder by its details of optical subtleties. A question always comes to mind. Are human eyes the best possible optical instrument evolved by natural selection? Is there any possible room for further major improvement as per the laws of physics in principle? Can there be any camera prepared by human beings which can be superior to human eyes?
This question is sort of difficult to answer in an objective way, because it depends very strongly on your definition of "best." Natural selection favors traits which provide a reproductive advantage; no more, no less.
Could our eyes be better by the standards of modern optical design, in terms of precision and features? Sure. I could easily design a camera with a larger aperture, better resolution, less abberation, a broader wavelength sensitivity, etc. There are even some precedents for this in nature. Some animals can see ultraviolet or infrared; some can even detect polarization (mostly birds I think?). I believe there are some fish that can swivel their eyes around through nearly a full circle in any direction. Cats and dogs have higher sensitivity in low light due to the reflective layer behind their retina, and squid have eyes with truly huge apertures.
It is worth pointing out though that the human eye, despite what I've said above, is still a pretty good camera. It can re-focus pretty quickly, it's got a fantastic image processing computer attached to it that can do incredible amounts of pattern recognition, noise reduction, and image stabilization. While its wavefront aberration is not perfect, it is pretty good for a biological system. They have very low chromatic aberration, and are quite compact. Additionally, our eyes have a curved focal plane (our retina) which is a lens designers dream -- it eliminates the problem of field curvature, which is an inherent aberration in any optical system that is nearly impossible to eliminate.
[Updated to correct a couple of mistakes pointed out in comments. Thanks!]
At my age, it's clear that there's room for at least one major improvement: more accommodation. Accommodation, in this context, means the ability of the eye to focus at different distances. This is accomplished by changing the shape, and hence the focal length, of the lens. The lens material gets stiffer over time, so that most people lose the ability to focus on nearby objects as they age. In addition, of course, many people, including me, lack the ability to focus on faraway objects.
If I were in charge of natural selection, I'd make those muscles strong enough to let me focus on nearby objects. Presumably, back in the savannah, the decreasing ability of middle-aged people (or, as they were known back then, very old people!) to focus at objects less than a meter away had little effect on the number of descendants those people produced.
Another natural figure of merit to use to assess any optical system is how close it is to the diffraction limit -- that is, how close it comes to attaining the best possible resolution for a system of its size. I'm not an expert, it looks like the eye is within a factor of a few of the diffraction limit (example), so there's a bit of room for improvement there, but not much.
Another thing to look at is the quantum efficiency, effectively the fraction of all incident photons that an optical system uses. Again, things depend a lot on conditions, but in general the eye's very good on this score, reaching levels of about 10%. (That may not sound so great, but I think it's hard to imagine ways of improving it dramatically.)
Another way to improve the eye would be to boost the range of frequencies it could see. Going into the ultraviolet probably wouldn't do much good, but if you added some infrared receptors on your retina, your night vision would be much better.
This question can't be answered exactly properly. The eyes we humans have evolved to be "about" the best available to us hominids. There are other species of life with eyes better adapted for their econiches. Eagles and hawks have eyes capable of far better resolution at great distances. They can soar 500 meters above the ground and spot a small animal for prey, where upon they dive from that height to snatch it. Our eyes are nowhere near that sharp. On the other hand their eyes may not be as adapted for fine resolution of very close vision.
Human eyes have some funny aspects to them which illustrate how evolution selects for adaptive feature built from previously existing structures. For instance, the optical neuron innervates the eye from the front, which is quite the opposite of what one might expect. It would be as if one built a CCD with the pixel connections connected in the optical path.
The best answer which can be given is no, but the eye is evolved to work within the limits of what is biologically adaptable.
The human eye is an indifferent camera. Compared to a hawk's, it is laughable. A hawk can sit on top of the Empire State Building and make out a dime on the sidewalk.
What makes the human eye any good at all is the software behind it: what our brains provide. You do realize that what really focuses on our retinas is an upside-down, tunnel-vision image that our brains sort into the images that we think we see, right? And that in experiments, people who were made to wear glasses that made everything look upside-down adapted in a few days so that upside-down looked right-side up?
We recognize patterns, colors, shapes where cameras only record differences in color and tone. It is not the eye that is remarkable. It is the brain.
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The 7 Most Terrifying Corporate Mascots of All-Time
#3. Sunkist Oranges: The Sunkist Monster
OK guys, kids are eating way too much candy. How can we convince them to give up the sugar and start eating more fruit? We got it!
What could be more enticing to an impressionable young kid than knowing that while fumbling around looking for the Sunkist label they risk being devoured by a giant reptile should they accidentally drop their orange?
Imagine if you will, that you're a kid who has just recently seen this commercial and you're young enough to actually believe it. You walk in the house one hot summer afternoon and request a snack. Next thing you know, without warning your dad says "Sure, champ!" The he tosses you an orange from across the kitchen. Suddenly, the seconds become hours as that little orange sphere of potential death comes hurling in your direction. Visions of your entire childhood flash before your eyes as you ponder why dear old dad would place you in such a precarious situation, your entire life depending on your ability to catch an orange.
Just as the orange reaches your trembling little hands, it caroms off your left middle finger and falls helplessly to the floor, at which point you turn and run screaming from the kitchen and out into the cold, cruel gaze of the other neighborhood kids who notice that you've just pissed your pants. Those kids then mock you relentlessly about the incident well into your high school years. Good luck coming out of that ordeal without a crippling drinking problem. And good luck coming up with a worse idea for a corporate mascot.
#2. Fig Newtons: Big Newton
Fig Newtons have always suffered from a bit of an image problem. While not altogether unpleasant tasting, they look like and (presumably) have the consistency of a heaping pile of bird shit wrapped in a corrugated cardboard sleeve. To help improve upon this unsavory image, the marketing forces at Fig Newtons came up with this:
Yep, that probably helped.
We're not sure if that's what a fig looks like or if the damn things have garlic in them. Anyway, hate it all you want, but this just offers further evidence that the music industry is justified in valuing looks over talent. Sure, this guy may have nailed the oh-so-difficult choreography and hit every note with pinpoint accuracy, but if the second-best auditioner looked even kind of normal, they should have gotten the job.
In this dude's disgusting hands, this looks less like a campy dance designed to get kids fired up about figs and more like a field sobriety test that's gotten completely out of hand.
#1. McDonald's: Ronald McDonald
This early version of Ronald McDonald isn't the most terrifying corporate mascot we've ever seen. It's the most terrifying anything we've ever seen.
Oh how the devil fools with the best-laid plans. We get where McDonald's was coming from here. Kids really shouldn't talk to strangers, nobody wants a repeat of the tragic events of the M&M's Candies Man fiasco described earlier. But maybe "don't talk to strangers unless they're dressed like Ronald McDonald" is pushing it a bit. If your mascot happens to be Robocop or some shit, that idea could work. Steel plated enforcer of justice is a hard look to imitate. But given that every Tom, Dick and John Wayne Gacy can get their hands on a clown costume for next to nothing, this might as well have been a training video on how to lure a kid into your car in under 60 seconds.
The point is, this commercial would have been disturbing even if it starred a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader. But adding a clown that looks like the result of Jeff Goldblum in The Fly having passed through the teleporter with a bag full of McDonalds? That amps up the fright factor exponentially.
The Nick Nolte-mugshot hair, the makeup that looks like it was applied using a series of violent blows to the face, the yellowing teeth, that horrific belt/cummerbund/duct tape contraption around his waist. There is nothing about early Ronald McDonald that doesn't scream, "Drop the cheeseburger and step away from the playground!"
Want some more Ronald? No? Well, here it is anyway:
On a trivial side note, if you've never seen this commercial but for some reason you're finding it uncomfortably familiar, relax, it's not because it's jarring loose repressed memories of some childhood trauma (we hope). It just means you're old enough to remember the voice of the man underneath the beast, former NBC Today Show weather man and Ronald McDonald creator, Willard Scott.
Thanks for the nightmares, Willard.
Adam Brown has a whole website full of his stuff at ScenicAnemia.com.If you liked this, perhaps you'll enjoy our look at 5 Retro Commercials Companies Would Like You to Forget, featuring ads where the murder isn't just implied. Then head over to 8 Upcoming Movie Adaptations That Must be Stopped where three of our finest writers are arguing over which upcoming cinematic interpretation Hollywood should be most ashamed of.


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10 Jul 2012 11:39 AM #21
10 Jul 2012 11:56 AM #22
Not for me either. still broken both on PC and MAC. The same 500 response from Sencha server
10 Jul 2012 12:03 PM #23
deepak w
I am also facing the same issue. If anybody solved this problem, please post here.
10 Jul 2012 12:05 PM #24
Cannot activate software!
My Trail Version expired, so I purchased a license, but I continually get "A communication error has occurred." every time I attempt to activate the new version of Architect 2... I've been trying all day long...
What is going on???
10 Jul 2012 12:07 PM #25
This has been going on for a while on a range of products as far as google results show when i was looking for an answer.
No one's behind a firewall, I have tested this on meny different networks today. Domestic and commercial on both PC and MAC and the 500 from Sencha servers is persistent. Wish I could say something better was persistent but can even see the welcome to trial screen
Who came up with the genius idea of having to authenticate for a demo?
10 Jul 2012 12:10 PM #26
Heck, I'm past the demo... I'm trying to activate the actual licensed copy now and get the same communication error everyone else is receiving.
10 Jul 2012 12:37 PM #27
not working here either on windows 7. Oh well, seemed like it was going to be a good tool.
10 Jul 2012 1:07 PM #28
Seems to be a Salesforce.com issue that is being addressed by them. ApologiesPhil Strong
11 Jul 2012 1:45 AM #29
worked worked worked
hey! i left it open all night, this morning i just klicked and it worked, i am on the next level now :-)
question: with the commercial version will i have to go through that login screen all the time? and trust your environment to be up and running?
cheers and thanks
11 Jul 2012 5:29 AM #30
Mine works now as well. Once you are registered with the commercial version, you can launch without having internet access.
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