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guys, I used a decompiler jd-gui today and found something quite weird to me.
Let's say I have a jar file, lib.jar, I decompiled it. It came out that there were some class files named like A.class, B.class, a.class, etc, under same package. When I tried to paste the decompiled source files into eclipse project, but IDE said it would not accept A.class and a.class under the same folder. How could it be? I guess no one named his/her class files from a to z. But the decompiler told me so.
Also I tried to import lib.jar in my project, found that I cannot touch any public class or interface under that package where a.class and A.class resides in. No tips came out when I typed into that package, e.g., "import firm.tools."
Could anyone tell me the reason? Thanks in advance, and happy new year!


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A wooden abacuse sold by LTD Commodities has been recalled due to a choking hazard - the movable blocks can come detached from the abacus. Parents should take the abacus away from children immediately. Contact LTD Commodities for a product credit either by calling (866) 736-3654, or visiting their website, www.ltdcommodities.com.
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Hiking on the west coast of British Columbia, there are likely to be cougars around the trails. What do you do if you see one?
I actually had a site bookmarked for this very reason that provided some good, sound advice. I've always heard that a cougar (mountain lion) generally doesn't let you see it unless its considering attacking.
100 yards away or more that is unattentive to you
Probability of risk is slight, provided your response is appropriate.
50 yards away with its ears up and attentive to you
Probability of attack is slight for adults given proper response. Probability of attack is serious for unaccompanied children.
Less than 50 yards away, staring intensely at you, or hiding;
Probability of attack is substantial.
Intensely staring, crouching and/or creeping toward you
Probability of risk is serious if within 20 yards.
Poised to attack
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I think these signs in California and elsewhere describe it quite simply:
This video is quite a good instruction. :-)
This article is quite interesting, though not really useful. Read the discussion though.
But beware! This strategy might not be valid for other beasts of prey, such as lions. In this video, the man instructs to be quiet and stay low not to agitate the beast. Also, man in this video is staying low (in fact, he's almost lying) and threatening the lion with toilet paper (!) if necessary.


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5 Clever Movie Schemes You Didn't Realize Were Stupid
People in movies can be pretty dumb, because most movies would be boring if they weren't. How many horror films would end after five minutes if the characters decided not to go camping in the isolated cabin the locals warned them about? How many romantic comedies are based on one stupid misunderstanding that could be explained in 30 seconds by anybody not suffering from minor brain damage? We've got to give them a pass on that kind of stupidity. What's less forgivable, however, is when a movie tries to fool us into thinking its stupid characters are actually being clever. Like in ...
#5. Django Unchained -- Django Assumes Racists Hate Money
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Django Unchained is the story of a slave getting his revenge, and also a convenient excuse for Quentin Tarantino to drop as many N-words as possible. Django is the titular unchained slave who's taken on as an apprentice by adorably German bounty hunter Dr. Schultz. After Boba Fetting it up through the winter, Django finally gets bored of side missions and decides to advance the story -- he goes to use his new blood money to buy his captive wife, Broomhilda's, freedom.
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She was high on his shopping list, right behind some cool new threads.
But Schultz argues that if her owner, Calvin Candie, finds out she's Django's wife, he won't want to sell her out of random, unexplained spite. Instead Schultz suggests that they pretend to be interested in Candie's brutal slave fighting business and arrange to buy one of his best and most expensive fighters. Then they can ask Candie to throw Broomhilda in for free, like how you get a free tank of gas when you buy a new car, but with way more human rights violations.
What They Should Have Done:
Wait, why would Candie refuse to sell, again?
Sure, slavers are jerks, and Candie is sort of violent and crazy, but he's still a rich white guy. And what do rich white guys love? More money. As horrible as it sounds, Candie simply thinks of Broomhilda as property. We're never given any reason to believe otherwise. If Django offered him more than Broomhilda was worth, he would have absolutely no incentive to refuse. Big money for a slave who can't even kill things with her bare hands? Candie would have been doing racist back flips all the way to the bank.
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"Now I can buy enough slaves to fill THREE torture holes!"
But let's suppose Candie likes being petty to strangers more than he likes money. Why would he have to find out that Django is Broomhilda's husband? Just because honesty is the best policy? In fact, why the hell does Django have to be there at all? Schultz goes into Candie's home pretending to be Django's boss anyway. Why couldn't he have just gone in alone and explained that he heard there was a slave who spoke German here (this was their excuse for being interested in Broomhilda in the actual movie, remember) and that he could use help translating some of the finer nuances of his enemy's pleas for mercy?
For what it's worth, Tarantino says that Schultz came up with the obviously flawed, needlessly convoluted plan because he gets off on scheming and deceit. But come on -- we haven't seen such transparent ass-covering since that time we got thrown out of the community pool for our Saran Wrap bathing suit.
#4. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest -- Davy Jones Hides His Treasure Chest Somewhere He Can't Get to It (But Other People Can)
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After getting dumped by his sea goddess girlfriend, supernatural octopus pirate Davy Jones decides to cut out his own heart so he never feels love again, because listening to Sunny Day Real Estate and getting trashed on Pabst hadn't been invented yet. He puts the heart in the Dead Man's Chest, buries it on an island, and hopes that no one ever finds it, because anyone who owns it would have control over him.
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And would use it to make his tentacles do unspeakable things.
Unfortunately for him, Johnny Depp and whoever the other characters in this movie were find the chest without any apparent difficulty. There's nothing unusual or dangerous about the island Jones chose -- as far as we know, any drunken pirate could have wandered over there and stolen the chest at any time.
What He Should Have Done:
Davy has many powers, but he also has a weakness -- he can only walk on land once every decade. So why in the Flying Dutchfuck did he hide his heart in a place where he can only check on it about as often as the Detroit Lions make the playoffs?
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He should have left it in San Francisco. As inconvenient, but more hummable.
Hey, you know what powers Davy did have? Well, for one, he could breathe underwater. He could have dropped that shit in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and never worried about it again. Why, he could have used the inaccessible depths of the ocean like some sort of personal locker.
Yeah, maybe it would have been lost under shifting sands or eaten by a fish or something, but who cares? There's no indication that he has any desire to ever access the chest again. And if he did, well, that's why we have crudely drawn maps with big Xs on them. Instead, he decided to keep it on an island he couldn't access, with no safety measures to deter those who could access it. Which, again, is basically anybody with feet.
#3. Star Trek Into Darkness -- The Enterprise Crew Saves Kirk in the Riskiest Way Possible
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J.J. Abrams' Star Trek Into a Disappointing Remake of the Wrath of Khan featured English dreamboat Benedict Cumberbatch as Khan, a genetically engineered superhuman who looks kind of like a sexy fish. He's forced to work for Admiral Marcus, who keeps him in line by holding Khan's former crew in suspended animation. When Khan goes rogue, Marcus sends Captain Kirk after him with some special torpedoes. The torpedoes secretly contain Khan's crew -- Marcus' plan is that they'll kill Khan and dispose of the evidence of his misdeeds at the same time. Why he hides them in conspicuously top secret weapons that everyone is immediately suspicious of, instead of just firing them into the sun, is never explained -- but that's a plot hole for another article.
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Maybe he'd developed an aversion to bursts of bright light for some reason.
Later, Kirk goes and gets himself killed by radiation exposure while fixing the Enterprise's engines. All hope would seem to be lost, but Doctor McCoy, in a valiant attempt to discover the greatest deus ex machina in movie history, learns that Khan's genetically enhanced blood can cure death. Spock chases after Khan and rage pinches him into submission so he can bring his swarthy friend back from the great green booty palace in the sky.
What They Should Have Done:
Apparently the entire Enterprise crew forgot they had 72 other people with the exact same genetic enhancements as Khan just lounging in stasis on their own freaking ship. If Khan's blood could cure Kirk, so could any of theirs. There was no reason for them to risk waiting for Spock to capture Khan. We mean, yeah, it worked: They did manage to save Kirk with Khan's blood, but that's like waiting for the fire department to come put out your grease fire even though you're holding 72 fire extinguishers.
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Some writer must have really wanted Khan and Kirk to swap fluids.
Man, with Star Fleet promoting a warmongering maniac to admiral and staffing the Enterprise with an entire crew too stupid to see the solution right in front of them, the third movie should realistically be about a bunch of bureaucrats overhauling the recruitment process.


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PORTER-KEEDER, Mary V. "Ms. Mary," age 96, of Hopedale, Ohio, died Thursday, April 25, 2013, at Trinity West in Steubenville, Ohio.
She was born February 24, 1917, in Weston, West Virginia, a daughter of the late Glenn Mayes and Nell Gay Faulkner Hickman.
She was also preceded in death by her first husband, Dr. Beecher J. Porter on July 5, 1995; a brother, James G. Hickman who lost his life during World War II; and a stepsister, Bodean Joyce Baker.
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During her early years of employment, she worked as a receptionist/assistant with Dr. B. J. Porter in the Steubenville and Wintersville offices. Mary was a former member of Faith Evangelical Church, Richmond; Rebekah Lodge, 73 Star of the Valley, Weirton, WV; Christian Supper Club held at Alameda Inn, Hopedale, and the Red Hat Club.
She is survived by her husband, Albert Baker, Jr., of Weirton; sister-in-law, Shirley (Chuck) Bailey of Weirton; nieces, Kelley Jo Stogden, Heidi Palmer; and several other nieces and nephews; and caregiver and entrusted friend, Pam Cline, with whom she resided.
Friends may call at the Dunlope-Shorac Funeral Home, 215 Fernwood Road, Wintersville, on Monday from 1-3 and 6-8 p.m., where funeral services will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m., with Rev. George Henry conducting services in the funeral home chapel. Entombment to follow in Fort Steuben.
Memorial contributions may be directed to Urban Mission, 311 North Sixth St., Steubenville, OH 43952.
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The Georgia Department of Natural Resources, WIldlife Resources Division recently selected Sgt. Tim Kendrick of the Macon Law Enforcement office as the 2011 Supervisor of the Year.
Kendrick currently serves as a Sergeant Supervisor for the DNR Law Enforcement office located in Macon, Georgia. This office oversees operations in 28 middle Georgia counties. Sgt. Kendrick supervises rangers in Monroe, Butts, Jasper and Lamar counties. He is a 24-year veteran of the department, serving nine of those years in his current supervisory position.
"Sgt. Tim Kendrick shows exceptional leadership skills and is a true asset to the Law Enforcement Section and to the Department," says Col. Eddie Henderson, Chief of the Law Enforcement Section of Wildlife Resources Division. "He is a respected leader and trusted supervisor that fosters an atmosphere of teamwork within his work section and often inspires others through his actions."
Sgt. Kendrick is a supervisor that leads by example. As a supervisor, one of his most important responsibilities is training and enhancing the capabilities and skills of other Rangers in his work section and Region. Kendrick often uses his experience, both successes and failures, to help grow and mentor those that work for him. He maintains a positive work ethic, professional presence, compassionate demeanor and a spirit of public service that is contagious to those around him.
Sgt. Kendrick has previously received the James R. Darnell Award and also was awarded an Award of Valor by the Peace Officer Association of Georgia. Fellow law enforcement officers nominated for this award this year include Sgt. Stan Elrod, Sgt. Lee Brown and Sgt. Keith Byers.
For more information on the 2011 Supervisor of the Year Award, call the Wildlife Resources Division Law Enforcement Headquarters office at (706) 557-3311.


text: Halloween is around the corner and if little kids are like the way I used to be, they are already starting to make pictures for Halloween to tape to the doors, windows, and fridges. Because I love Halloween so much, I wanted to make a tutorial on "how to draw a gravestone for kids", step by step. You know this October holiday wouldn't be complete without drawing a graveyard or any of it's headstones right? The easiest way to make a gravestone is to draw a hoop shape right to end of the canvas and then draw the letters 'R.I.P'. I added some grass of course to make it look like the headstone is at an actual grave site, but you can add a hand coming up from the ground, or leave the drawing as you see it here. Either way I think you will have fun drawing a gravestone even if you already know how to make one. Adios mi amigos and enjoy.


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- BSO Case Number: DN01-09-233 (Update 2)
- PIO Number: 01-9-3
- Date: September 3, 2001
- Time: 12:49 am
- Place of Occurrence: Shooting: Chubb's Place, 104 NW 5 Ave., Dania Beach Car Crash: NW 2 St. & 4 Ave., Dania Beach
- Germaine Hall, 26, 9/25/74, male, 3116 NW 19 St., Ft. Laud. (DECEASED)
- Tewanna Savage, 22, 3/6/79, female, W. Palm Beach (DECEASED)
- Joseph Bradley, 37, 3/1/64, male
- Taneka Williams, 22, 5/28/79, female
- Sheila Williams, 21, 8/31/80, female
- Willie Monroe Holmes, 41, 3/13/60, male, 256 NE 47 St., Ft. Laud.
- Adrian Smith, 26, 10/18/74, male, 104 NW 14 Ave., Dania Beach
Description of Incident:
A Dania Beach bar owner was charged today (Monday) with two counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder after he deliberately caused a fatal car crash following an early morning shooting at his tavern.
The shooting occurred at about 12:45 a.m. at Chubb's Place. Taneka Williams and an unidentified woman were arguing over a man when Williams' friend, Germaine Hall, 26, came to her aid. Chubb's Place owner Willie Holmes, 41, told Hall to stay outside. Hall pulled a gun and fired from the doorway, grazing the head of Clarence Holmes, 39, the bar owner's brother.
Hall and his four companions immediately fled in a Chevrolet, driven by Hall. Willie Holmes jumped in his Jeep and pursued the Chevy. At the intersection of NW 2nd Street and 4th Avenue, Holmes deliberately drove his Jeep into the side of the Chevrolet, killing Hall and his front seat passenger, Tewanna Savage, 22. Holmes was not hurt.
Moments after the fatal crash, Adrian Smith, 26, arrived, having followed both vehicles from the bar. Smith pulled a gun and fired a round into the Chevy's back seat, where Joseph Bradley, Taneka Williams and Sheila Williams were lying critically injured. No one was hit and Smith fled the scene. Deputies caught Smith minutes later and he was charged with Shooting into an Occupied Vehicle, Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon, and Tampering with Evidence.
Willie Holmes, charged with murder and attempted murder, is being held without bond in the Broward County Jail.
- THIS REPORT BY: Sgt. R. O'Neil, Dets. R. Carmody & G. Bukata Jim Leljedal / PIO 9/3/01 1700 Suspects' photos
Posted At: 09/03/2001 04:53 PM
- Holmes' photo - Willie M. Holmes
- Smith's photo - Adrian Smith
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Async made simple in Windows 8, with C# and Visual Basic
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Brilliant, clear video. This will be the feature that keeps me using C# and stops me moving to HTML5.
This presentation is missing tags. I had a hard time finding it even though I knew it's there, any anyone searching /build// by tags, cannot find it.
A note for C++ developers. The C++ projections for async wasn't available in the Build Developer Preview. It has been since added. Here is the C++ talk if you are interested: Async made simple with C++ PPL
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7 Inventors You Didn't Know You Wanted to Punch In the Face
#3. John Law, the Guy Who Crashed the World's Economy From the Grave
The Man
John Law was a Scottish economist. When we say "economist," we mean that in the loosest terms possible. Prior to being tasked with running the national bank of France back in the 1700s, you wouldn't have taken him for the kind of guy you would even trust with a child's piggy bank. Possibly because of that unfortunate murder charge that kept him from leaving the country.
But put him in charge they did, and what he did with this newfound power has a whole lot to do with why you're quite possibly living in a trailer park right now.
A Polish cartoon from 1720 that mocks John Law's policies.
(We have no idea what's actually going on in this cartoon, but it's kind of hot.)
The Crime
You've heard of sub-prime lending, right? You know, that's the system where American bankers believed that they could turn a bunch of really bad hobo debts into a class of AAA securities by using nothing more than the power of wishful thinking. Well, turns out, they weren't the first to try the miracles of this practice. Your boy John Law introduced the system in France during the early 18th century with (surprise!) the same disastrous consequences.
As Controller General of Finance, Law convinced the French royals to pay off their government debts by exchanging them for shares in the Mississippi Company, which held exclusive trading rights to France. One small problem: the company wasn't making profits, the shares were worth shit and nobody wanted them. To overcome this setback, Law repackaged a bunch of these sub-prime debts as marketable securities and voila--the shares became hotter than a Parisian hooker in a lace corset.
Law's plan worked for awhile--that is, before it crashed and burned. The French economy, along with a lot of Europe, plummeted into deep recession and economic crisis. Meanwhile, the French peasants, thrown into poverty and destitution, were subjected to the 18th century version of Suze Orman. This understandably set the stage for the French Revolution. It also led to the United States trying the exact same shit hundreds of years later which, in turn, led to the Cracked offices being relocated to an abandoned Carl's Jr. on the outskirts of Butte, Montana. Thanks, France!
#2. Andy Hindelbrand, Inventor of Auto-Tune
The Man
Andy Hindelbrand had worked for years interpreting seismic data for the oil industry. Using a mathematical formula called autocorrelation, Hindelbrand would send sound waves into the ground and record their reflections, providing an accccccccccccca;sdlk... whoa, we fell asleep for a second there! An accurate map of potential drill sites. That's what that boring shit he was doing was all about.
Now if you're thinking that's one dull dead-end job, don't... his technique saved the oil companies millions and allowed him to retire at 40. That's reason enough to blast him in the facepiece, but there's more.
The Crime
After 13 years of playing music for rocks, Hindelbrand figured he needed to party and unwind. During a retirement dinner party, a guest challenged him to a most interesting, um, challenge. She wanted him to invent a box that would allow her to sing in tune. After presumably consulting with Satan himself, Hindelbrand took up the challenge and created Auto-Tune.
Because of Satan.
Though Hindelbrand designed the device to be used primarily for pitch correction, Cher promptly employed it to sound like a drowning R2-D2 on her comeback hit "Believe," giving the public their first encounter with Auto-Tune. Hindelbrand hadn't realized that basic human nature towards a new technological toy would be to blatantly misuse it or turn it into a method of mass torture. This is something we at Cracked could have easily predicted. Afterall, give a kid a GTA console and he'll spend the first 10 minutes killing pedestrians in the most creative ways possible.
Now Auto-Tune has become an indispensable part of the music industry, acting as a sort of Photoshop for the human voice. From Britney Spears to obscure Bollywood soundtracks, every singer now presumes that you'll just run their voice through the box.
It gets worse. Since literally anyone can sing with its help, the maker's of Auto-Tune have now teamed up with T-Pain to release a $99 version of the device along with iPhone applications for home musicians.
#1. Gary Thuerk, Inventor of Spam Emails
The Man
Gary Thuerk has had Internet access since most of the people reading this were just swimmers in their fathers' hairy sack. We'll give you a second to meditate on that, kids. Cool, moving on. Back in 1973, when the Internet was still called Arpanet, Thuerk was working as the marketing manager for the creatively named Digital Equipment Corporation and was looking for a fast and easy way to let people know about his company's products.
Early Carrier-Pigeon Spam wasn't annoying enough.
What he came up with would have repercussions that last to this very day. Repercussions that, if they are to be believed, will increase your penis size by 500 percent and allow you to refinance your home in a way that will actually end up making you money.
The Crime
Thuerk's idea for promoting his product was to send an unsolicited email to some 600 Arpanet users. That's right, Gary Thuerk is the dickface who first thought up the concept of spam email.
If you're thinking 600 is a small number compared to spammers today, keep in mind that this was in 1973, and there were only a total of about several thousand users of Arpanet at the time.
When the email users checked their inboxes, the foreign looking message with a cc list longer than Sarah Jessica Parker's face was a strange and unusual sight. Some, ignorant of the trend of Viagra messages the notification would spark, found it interesting. Others cursed Thuerk when their computer crashed. The Defense Communication Agency was furious and forbid Thuerk from ever sending unsolicited mails again.
But the seeds of a national menace had been formed. Today, a managed email security firm based in New York says spam now makes up more than 80 percent of all email being sent around the world.
These days, Thuerk says people have one of three reactions when they meet him: some are excited to meet someone with such an unusual claim to fame; some avoid him like the plague; and others, us for example, just want to deliver a fist of fury to his piehole. Can you blame us?
Do you have something funny to say about a random topic? You could be on the front page of Cracked.com tomorrow. Go here and find out how to create a Topic Page.
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In terms of job responsibilities and activities, what is the difference between a Database Administrator (DBA) and a Database Architect?
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I would say the term Database Administrator covers the full gamut of database duties: design, development, production support, performance tuning, report writing, OLAP, etc.
A Database Architect is involved in the design and development of large or complicated database solutions. However, the Architect is usually not involved in the day-to-day operations of the system once it is deployed.
I don't really like either term. Database Administrator is too vague, Database Architect sounds pretentious.
I am a computer programmer at heart, but aren't we all?
These two terms have been used interchangeably by many. I look at them distinctly.
The DBA does just what the name suggests...administrator of the database. Based on the specific RDBMS being managed, the role DBA involves implementing the following aspects:
The role of the DA goes into planning the infrastructure of information system in terms of
In some instances, a single individual may have these two roles, maybe even a third (Developer). In large companies, the role of the DBA may be set up as separate departments. Contrawise, The smaller the company, the more blended these roles becomes.
No matter what responsibilities of DBA and/or DA a person has, that one must have people skills. Why? You have to interactive with Developers who code SQL into their applications. Project managers must set ground rules so that the DBA/DA will
Except in the most formal of companies, specific titles are largely meaningless and DBA can mean nearly anything. Some DBAs are operationally focused, some are development focused, some are analytics focused. In reality, except in very large enterprises where titles are strictly controlled and people have siloed jobs, most DBAs will cross several areas of the company. In any given day, I interact with operations, development, and analytical areas of database administration.
Ultimately, the job of a DB Administrator/Architect/Engineer is to be a subject matter expert on the database and to assist the business in best utilizing that resource.


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Becoming a Social Organization
February 8, 2013 | Author: Patrick Attallah
For the last 4 years, we've been monitoring how companies are using social media (being internally or externally) and the results they're obtaining. One of our most striking discoveries is that many social media initiatives fail. They don't attract interest or they never create business value, resulting in no adoption, nor the emergence of any […]
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I would like to develop iPhone apps without using Mac OS X. Is it possible to do this on Windows OS?
Nope, you have to use a Mac. All the tools are on the Mac, as is the simulator program you'll need to test in.
Even if you could somehow finagle the whole thing running in Windows you still need a Mac to submit to Apple to get it on the App Store.
Cheapest scenario you're looking $699 for a Mac Mini and $99 for the iOS Developer Program (which you won't need until you want to run the thing on a real phone). You can go cheaper on the hardware if you buy it used but something to keep in mind is that it must be an Intel-based Mac running Leopard (10.5) or higher.
While you can't develop iOS apps on Windows using full-on Xcode, Objective C, and Cocoa Touch, there are some Windows alternatives that will allow you to develop apps. You lose the flexibility and power of the full programming environment and language, but it's no longer impossible.
Here's an article that lists a number of current options. It's not the route I'd go (nor the route I chose), but it's no longer impossible.
Not supported and borderline with piracy but if you dig on Internet you can find how to create a virtual machine with VMWare that run OSX. I do not post the link here but using Google is quite easy to find a really well made tutorial about how to proceed with detailed instructions.
I did it before purchasing a MacBook Pro to test how a Web Application I have work on a Mac and so I also used it to install XCode, if you have a powerful Windows machine the performance are not so bad, but it's useful just for testing and seeing how the different iPhone developer tools works, if you want to develop something business related your only real option is to purchase a Mac.
No it is not possible for full development and submission unless you want to run OS X in a VM on your PC.
You can develop, to an extent, on other platforms, but as far as I know you need a Mac to submit.
Depending on what you want to do, you can develop web apps that look pretty much the same as an actual application, start from the home screen and even hide the navigation and URL bars. Take a look at Glyphboard, for an example.
Native apps require Mac OS X, as far as I know.
Yes, you can. Check out this website called macincloud.com. Most people are trying to install Mac OS to PC hardware, sometimes it works, the drawback for that is newer mac updates often break the installation. macincloud.com actually allows you to rent a mac and access the Mac remotely. Therefore you always have the latest Mac OS and it is a good way to start developing iphone apps right away since you are actually using a native Mac system. Hope that helps.


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TROY (November 19, 2012)--A man was taken to a local hospital Monday evening after a car clipped him on the northbound Interstate 35 frontage road in Troy, about 7 miles south of a deadly chain reaction crash.
The accident happened around 6:15 Monday evening while traffic was still backed up after the crash involving four 18-wheelers and nine passenger cars.
The man was a passenger in a car that was caught in the traffic backup and authorities said he got out to try to determine the reason for the backup when a southbound vehicle clipped him.
He was taken to Scott & White Hospital in Temple.
Other details weren't available.


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text: DreamWorks has another animation movie coming out sometime during the summer of 2013. It's called Turbo, and it's based on a snail named Theo, but people call him Turbo. Theo is a garden snail that has big dreams of becoming a professional racer. Ryan Reynolds will be providing voice talents for Turbo, as well as Paul Giamatti, Michael Pena, Luis Guzman, and Bill Hader. Even though I'm not into kids flicks that much, I'm actually looking forward to watching this with my little sister in our home and not the theater. Did I mention that you will be drawing Turbo in this lesson? Oh, well you are. I will be back tomorrow folks so even though it's Christmas, try to come back around for a last minute lesson to add to the Christmas Eve fun.


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We're just about to start a new greenfield project - it's a highly functional web application using ASP.NET MVC3, SQL Server etc. We're also going to be using Windows Workflow Foundation for the first time.
Our client only wants to use his existing Windows Server 2003 web servers. My main issue (other than it is 8 years old) is that we don't much experierence of WWF development, but understand that using AppFabric (Server 2008 only) will improve WWF development.
It's a significant cost to the client, as we need fail-over servers and a UAT environment as well.
Am I correct in my understanding, and what methodologies can I use to justify the cost of upgrading?


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WACO (January 18, 2013)—A pickup truck rear-ended an SUV late Friday morning at a Waco intersection, sending one man to a local hospital.
The accident happened at around 11 p.m. Friday at the intersection of Loop 340 and Highway 84.
Police said the truck's driver was looking to the left for oncoming traffic when the pickup hit the Kia Sportage.
The man who was driving the Kia was taken to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center with what police said were minor injuries.
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Hi I'm new to database design but am trying to make sure I get things right first time so as not to pick up bad habits. My question is I have a set of people for which I want to record needs mapped to importance. Needs should be taken from a set to avoid duplicates creeping in. Each person will take a subset of these and grade their importance. i.e. needs =[tea, biscuits, toilet facilities, internet access] People = [Phil, Bryan]
Phil needs tea and biscuits, tea with an importance of 10 biscuits with an importance of 3.
Bryan needs internet access and biscuits with importance of 4 and 7 respectively.
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ADENA - Friday at 1 p.m. service at Buckeye West Elementary School.
ADENA- Monday at 9 a.m. at St. Casimir Church. Memorial Day parade to follow.
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BELLAIRE - Monday at 11 a.m. at village park.
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Published: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 11:35 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 11:35 a.m.
A 12-year-old Gaffney girl ran away from home after an argument with her father, stole a pick-up truck and led police on a bizarre, low-speed chase that ended in Charlotte, police said.
N.C. Highway Patrol Trooper John Burgin said his agency became involved in the chase when the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, which has a no-chase policy, asked for assistance in stopping a 1993 GMC pick-up truck about midnight on Monday.
"At that point, we had no information that there was a juvenile inside, we had information that this could be related to a missing person," Burgin said.
The pick-up truck, later determined to be driven by a 12-year-old Gaffney girl, led police on low-speed chase, with speeds at about 20 miles per hour, on north bound on Interstate 77, through downtown and back onto I-77, Burgin said. The truck pulls off the interstate after a 10- to 15-minute chase, and the girl tells troopers that she and her father argued at his Gaffney home and he tried to spank her and she put her hand behind her back when he struck her finger, Burgin said.
The girl told troopers that she was upset and walked about three blocks where she saw a GMC pick-up truck in the parking lot of the Veterans of Foreign Wars on South Granard Street and she told troopers she got inside to get warm, Burgin said.
"She tried to crank the truck, but there was no key inside, but the truck started," Burgin said, adding troopers confirmed the truck would run without a key.
The girl's father reported his daughter missing at about 11 p.m. after he failed to locate her at the house, and after riding around for about an hour, according to an incident report.
The girl's father said he recently obtained custody of her and she had threatened to run away before.
It is unclear whether the girl will face juvenile charges. She was treated and released from a Charlotte-area hospital and released to her father, Burgin said.
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I want to create a public folder (like Dropbox) in my owncloud installation where I can put files that others can access without having to create an account.
Is this possible with owncloud 4.5.x?
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It is quite simple though, just do the following:


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For instance trichomania is a love of hair, and trichophobia is a fear of hair. But what suffix would denote a loathing of hair?
Edit: Maybe I'm looking at the wrong end of the word, and I should be considering the prefix "miso-".
For instance trichomania is a love of hair, and trichophobia is a fear of hair. But what suffix would denote a loathing of hair?
Edit: Maybe I'm looking at the wrong end of the word, and I should be considering the prefix "miso-".
With apologies in advance, I offer the following neologism: -odiumic, derived from odium, "quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness" (from Latin odium) plus ic, "used to form adjectives from nouns with the meaning 'of or pertaining to'". Note, it may be that -odious, a suffix carefully derived from odious by prefixing a hyphen, would work better; odious means "arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure." The table below presents some relevant combinations for comparison and gnashing of teeth upon.
A concern I have with -odious is it may mean causing dislike, rather than (like -odiumic) being of dislike. For example, while hirsuodiumic may be interpreted as "of disliking hairiness", hirsuodious might mean "causing dislike of hairiness". A second concern, which I will leave to you, is determining which stem to use, with subconcerns of whether to mix Greek and Latin forms and of which stems more connote hair itself vs hairiness.
Initially, words ending in -phobia referred to an irrational fear of something, but it was later generalized so as to include the feeling of aversion. So you could use -phobia to describe an aversion to something, too.
People only started using -phobia to define feelings of hate or dislike toward something in the middle of the 20th century (1950-1960), and is, itself, a neologism. I suspect that the origin of its use in this manner was at least partially political, because it makes the resultant word sound like a psychological disorder.
As has been said above, the opposite of philos is misein, not phobos, and the use of another word is incorrect and misleading. Medically, -phobe can describe an aversion, but that is already a distortion. Taking it further is simply a bad use of language or a tactical feint (still an improper use, but attended by a reason other than ignorance; a worse crime). If you want to say a person hates something we have a word in the English language that covers it: hate.
I have no problems with coining a word, I just think it shouldn't be frivolous.
English really doesn't have much in the way of affective suffixes. One might argue that ‑ette is one such, but that serves several functions, not just one of positive affect. It often serves only to create a feminine version of something, not a smaller or cuter version, like bachelorette, jockette — but ovenette, diskette for smaller versions. For feminines, you might get more traction out of ‑ess as in heiress, or ‑ine as in heroine.
I can't think of any suffixes in English that work for negative affect, to say that we don't like something. Spanish has a pretty rich set of augmentative and pejorative suffixes, like ‑ón/ona, ‑aco/a, ‑azo/a, ‑ote/a ‑ajo/a, but I don't think English works that way. You just have to sneer, I guess.
Upon reading other comments, you seem to be asking not for a suffix but rather for a combining form. Here are examples of prefixes, suffixes, and combining forms.
Simply put, English isn't built like that, with logical rules that always apply. What tends to happen is words are "coined" and enter general usage where they are sufficiently distinct so that a wide group of people adopt them. That way the language is able to distinguish between the dislike and allergic aversion:
Here are examples of words that have been formed in this way to denote "loathing"
Xenophobia - Dislike of foreigners
Homophobia - Dislike of homosexuals/homosexuality
Gynophobia - Dislike of females (although male chauvinism is more commonly used)
Androphobia - Dislike of males
Anglophobia - Dislike of English things
See this link for many more examples
I believe the best option would be -misia, which would be a Greek-derived suffix meaning "hatred of". Some people are setting precedents for this usage around the Internet, e.g. "logomisia". As far as I know, this suffix is related to the root used in "misanthrope" and "misandry" and "misogyny". Also, "trichomisia" sounds much better than "tricho-o-[anything]" to my ears.
Although -phobia is typically associated with fear, it is also used to talk about a dislike. Homophobia is therefore equally applied to a dislike of homosexuals (the more common usage) as the fear of them.
In some cases -pathy can also be used, as in antipathy.
Additionally, mis-, as in misanthropy or misogyny.
Still, phobia is the correct ending.
The use of -phobia as a suffix just feels wrong. It's too firmly associated (in my mind, at least) with an irrational aversion to or fear of something. The modern usage of the suffix (homophobia, islamophobia and so forth) seems too contrived, and it jars each time I hear it. I don't fear homosexuals. I like some people and dislike others but my antipathy is based on factors other than their sexuality.
Unfortunately there are some people whose antipathies towards other people are based on the sexuality of those people, so a suffix denoting that is required. Ditto the other words where -phobia doesn't really cut the mustard.
If a correct suffix isn't readily to hand, neither in English nor Greek nor Serbo-Croatian, I don't see anything wrong with making one up. For example, homovilic, using vilify to form the suffix. The difficulty is that the current abusage is too firmly entrenched for anything else to become established.
"-agnosis" is an appropriate suffix for being ignorant about something, and is far more appropriate in descrbing people who loathe something because they are ignorant (or, "un-knowing") about it. In regards to the general lack of understanding non-gays have about non-heterosexuals, it is a very appropriate suffix ... and the toot of most fear and prejudice is being ignorant, not being hateful. The word "homophobic" doesn't even mean "afraid of homosexuals" -- it means "afraid of men". To describe someone who is uninformed or ignorant about men who prefer men as sexual partners, a far better word is "arsenokoítagnostic" ... quite a mouthful, I admit. But, a word tgat long might keep folks from bandying it about needlessly, stupidly, or as a weapon. In very close translation, it means "unknowing about men who lie in bed with other men".


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The thing of interest need not be an unproven result. For (an off-the-wall) example, does the Collatz Conjecture imply Fermat's Last Theorem?
Of course, by "imply" here, we really mean "entail". If something is known to be true, then ANYTHING implies it in a truth-table sense, but that is not what is meant, of course.


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I have a 5 monitor setup at work and would like to go to Ubuntu, but only if I can get all of my displays to work. How many monitors can Ubuntu support at one time??
Theoretically as many as you have, but practically you could face problems...
I had problems with a PC with one ATI and one NVidia graphics card for 4 screens.
With two NVidia graphics cards I got it to work with Twinview using the proprietary driver. With ATI only configuration this should work as well, however this is not named TwinView. But I did never have two ATI graphics cards - thus untested.
About other graphics card vendors I have no information.
You should add some information especially on your Graphics hardware and Mainboard Chipset.
You mentioned 5 Screens - 2 cards with 2 screens each and one connected to an onboard graphics card? This might as well cause problems depending on which onboard solution it is.


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Kohl's: 20% off and $10 Kohl's Cash for every $50 spent
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The Kohls here in Bloomington, Il has that offer.......yeah you get 20% off ONLY if you sign up for a Kohls charge. BFS !!! When I was there I was tired so I said yes that sounds good...and the clerk said I needed to answer 5 questions starting with my Social Security Number !!!!!! Seriously ? I said under law I do not have to provide my Soc # and the clerk hit a key on the keyboard and cancelled it and and my discount and my cash reward and I ended up paying full price. AVOID !!!! What a load of CRAP !
@garthbock: This is separate. You only need to sign up for a Kohls charge for certain bonuses. This one is open to all.
@garthbock: Note the FFDEC20P code? That usually means this is an online thing...
To print and take to the store
Just be aware...If you use your kohl's cash and want to return items, you don't get the KC back at all, not even in store credit. Also, if you return the original items that you earned the cash on, you also get deducted, essentially getting deducted TWICE for using the Kohl's cash, even if everything is returned. This policy changed in May to protect Kohl's from abusing their KC system, but it's obviously flawed. Just make sure you really want what you're buying! And no, I'm not confused. I tried making a return today, and was told all of this.


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i've downloaded XCP 1.5 beta from http://www.xen.org/download/xcp/index_1.5.0.html. i've managed to install it too. my physical system specifications are
3.01 GHz i7
24 GB Ram
now i would like to create an ISO storage space on the same physical server itself. i notice that Dom0 only has 4 GB of space, of which, 40% is in use. i need to create space elsewhere on my 3 TB HDD as an ISO storage area, how do i do this?
on Dom0, "df -h" gives me the following information.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 4.0G 1.5G 2.3G 40% /
none 380M 0 380M 0% /dev/shm
"pvs" gives me the following output.
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sda3 VG_XenStorage-5a32ce29-c98e-1488-273e-263c65d47479 lvm2 a- 2.72T 2.62T
there's a link here, http://www.riverlite.co.uk/2012/01/xenserver-creating-a-local-iso-library/, that describes this problem, however, i am lost in Part 2 - Creating a larger ISO library, because for some reason, he has some extra file systems (that i don't see on my own system).
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I see adverts for this particular app all over the place. Is it true that people should stay well away from it, as it could potentially do more harm than good to your Apple Computer, and to your wallet!!
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It's certainly true that the app is controversial - search the Apple Discussions site for more on that - and while there were certainly issues with early versions current versions are reported better.
However, there are many with very significant reservations about the sales tactics the company uses - pop-ups, paid-for recommendations on review sites etc - and that its uninstaller didn't work for many versions, so users kept getting further advertisements, allied with the facts that the things the app claims to do are either a: unnecessary or b: can be done with free or cheaper alternatives means that the app undeniably has a bad name with many Mac users.
And again, for citation: search the Apple Discussions site for much, much more about this app.


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Call a tack the one point union of three open intervals. Can you fit an uncountable number of them on the plane? Or is only a countable number?
First of all, the one-point compactification of three open intervals is not a "tack", it's a three-leaf clover. I think that you mean a one-point union of three closed intervals; of course it doesn't matter if the other three endpoints are there or not. This topological type can be called a "Y" or a "T" or a "simple triod". R.L. Moore published a solution to your question in 1928. The answer is no. It was generalized in 1944 by his student Gail Young: You can only have countably many $(n-1)$-dimensional tacks in $\mathbb{R}^n$ for any $n \ge 2$. For her theorem, the name "tack" makes rather more sense, but she calls it a "$T_n$-set".
Actually Moore's theorem applies to a more general kind of triod, in which three tips of the "Y" are connected to the center by "irreducible continua", rather than necessarily intervals.
I don't know whether I might be spoiling a good question, but here in any case is a solution to the original question (see as both Moore and Young did something more general that takes more discussion). Following domotorp's hint, there is a
Suppose that you have uncountably many simple triods in the plane. Given a simple triod, we can choose a circle $C$ with rational radius and rational center with the branch point of the triod on the inside and the three tips on the outside. Since there are only countably many such circles, there are uncountably many triods with the same circle $C$. We can trim the segments of each such triod so that they stop when they first touch $C$, to make a pie with three slices (a Mercedes-Benz symbol). Then, given such a triod, we can pick a rational point in each of three slices of the pie. Since there are only countably many such triples of points, there must be uncountably many triods with the same three points $p$, $q$, and $r$. In particular there are two such triods, and a suitable version of the Jordan curve theorem implies that they intersect.
The argument can be simplified to just pick a rational triangle that functions as the circle, and whose corners function as the three separated points. But I think that there is something to learn from the variations together, namely that the infinite pigeonhole principle gives you a lot of control. For instance, with hardly any creativity, you can assume that the triods are all large.
This is a well-known puzzle/problem, the trick is to make an injective mapping from any set of disjoint tacks to triples of $\mathbb Q^2$.


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I'm playing a Powertech spec'd bounty hunter which is currently at level 13. My problem lies in the fact that whenever elites enemies close, my guy drops immediately (3 or four hits max). And not elites at the same level either, so far even four levels below me are downing me if they get close. I don't have a lot experience with MMOs, never been interested in WOW. SO basically, what do I need to do to make my bounty hunter a survivable class? I get so very tired of waiting on the med bot to respawn.
I played a Powertech in beta and now play a Vanguard (Trooper equivalent). At your level, this is how I'd recommend taking on an Elite enemy:
My final tip is to make sure you're always doing something! Don't waste global cooldowns trying to figure out what to do next; get used to your abilities and see what's available and what isn't.
Without knowing anything about your character, it's hard to tell what exactly is wrong. But, based on my experience, killing single Elite (gold) enemy should be straight-forward.
I haven't played Bounty Hunter, so here's some of my general guesses of why does that happen to you:
I play a bounty hunter as well, but do not recognize the problem you describe.
Some elites have special abilities. If you see a cross being painted on the ground you stand on MOVE OUT. Break off whatever ability you are using, and move away. The elite is throwing a granate (or calling in an air strike), and it will hit the cross very soon, and you don't want to be in that spot anymore when it does.
If you don't, you will die very quickly, as those special abilities hit hard.
From one of OP's comments about Dromund Kaas:
That area is an Heroic-4 area! Each pull will have at least two elite and a strong mob, and are designed to be handled by a full group.
No wonder you die fast.
As a level 20 Bounty Hunter, about to leave the planet, I tried to clear up all my quests by soloing the heroic quests. I gave up on that goal, as even as a level 20 BH, I couldn't solo those groups reliablely.
So: it is not your fault! Those mobs are designed not to be soloable at your level.
As a bounty hunter, your 1st companion is Mako, she's a healer. Use her (not the ship's droid).


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Today I bought a 2 oz (56.7 grams) bottle of Bay Leaves. The "best use by" date is 01/2015. I've read that spices and herbs go "off" after a year or so, depending. Can I believe the 2015 date on these bay leaves?
The use-by dates on all spices are mainly hokum. Most spices last for six months in whole form, herbs can be dried and last about three, after that time the taste is going to weaken and change as essential oils leave the spice. If you keep your spices in an airtight dark container you can eek out a little more time, but I would highly recommend that if you want fresh spices you grind yourself and keep fresh herbs on hand (it's very little work to grow your own).
That said, bay leaves last me quite a while, and even after I know they should be retired I tend to just throw more of them in the pot to achieve the same effect.
Bay leaves lose potency if stored at room temperature. They will last much longer if stored in the freezer. This is based on a Cook's Illustrated magazine article. They did a taste test a few years ago, and were amazed at the flavor difference after 6 months (between frozen and non-frozen bay leaves).


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Orthopedic issues can hinder many people from effectively carrying out a workout program that is sustainable. Complaints about back issues, knee issues and even hip issues are to blame.
What should you do if this is you? First, Spin(R) is a closed chain exercise program. Closed chain means that your feet are in contact with a surface the entire workout which is much gentler on the joints. There is virtually no pounding. So, for those of you who suffer orthopedic issues, closed chain type excercises are a terrific way to build up muscle strength without further impeding on the injury.
However, even though closed chain activities like Spinning(R) are good on the joints, improper form within these activities is not. Every class I teach, I ask the entire room to inform me if they need help with bike set up. Most of the room will not respond if they are veteran Spin(R) students. I still walk around and check out the biomechanics of each student anyway, and tend to advise that students either raise their seat slightly, or adjust their seat to go forward or back. Some students are shocked to find out that the bike even moves fore and aft. And so, I teach people to make the bike fit their body vs. the other way around.
Some key points to think about for when you get on your Spinner(R) next is to:
- Make sure the seat puts your leg at the bottom of the pedal stroke approximately 25 degrees at the knee. This is enough flexion (of a bend) in the knee to avoid hyperextending the knee at the bottom of the pedal stroke. You also want to avoid hyperflexion (too much of a bend) at the bottom of the pedal stroke.
- Make sure your seat is far enough back where your knee tracks over the ankle as it drives down each stroke. You know you are too far back with your seat if you are struggling a little to reach the handlebars. Be sure to be forward enough where you can reach the bars and even bend the elbows and softly place your hands in neutral.
- Make sure you raise the handlebars high enough to help you avoid struggling with your head, neck, and shoulders from having pressure on them. The height of the handles in Spin, in my opinion, should be more up than down to avoid any lower back tweaks that can occur if the handles are too low.
Very simply put, make sure your bike feels like it's yours. Otherwise, you risk pulling your back outand hurting your knees. Injuries are NEVER fun. Also remember, no pushups on the bike. Ride your Spin(R) bike the way you would an outdoor bike. If you have never rode a bike outdoors, than find a video of Lance Armstrong or someone who is riding just to review their form. Yup, a pretty straight forward sport with no circus tricks!
To your health!
Jenn Zerling, MS, CPT


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100,000 words makes a novel. For a perfectionist each line is poetry. How long should it take to write a novel? Not a bestseller. Just enough income to survive in the city.
Question subjective? Maybe. Answerable? Yes.
100,000 words makes a novel. For a perfectionist each line is poetry. How long should it take to write a novel? Not a bestseller. Just enough income to survive in the city.
Question subjective? Maybe. Answerable? Yes.
To produce something no more nor less publishable than some bestsellers bare minimum would be about a year broken down like this:
This should be ample time to produce one book and get underway on a couple more. If you have any talent and dedication what you produce should be up to the quality of what sits on many bestseller lists (midlist sales will not allow you to "survive in the city" you have to glean a large advance or respectable sales for that).
As to whether your offering will fare as well in the world's most Kafka-esque lottery (AKA the publishing industry)... well, that's another matter entirely.
If you want the minimum practical time for publishable fiction, Lester Dent (who wrote most of the Doc Savage books) is likely the best example. He wrote 159 short novels over 16 years. Figure probably about 50K words per novel, and he was typically publishing twelve Doc Savages a year. The Master Fiction Plot page credits him with over 200K words a month, and tells how he did it.
The maximum practical time appears to be limited by lifespan.
Another way of asking the question might be: how much should I aim to write every day?
I think 1000 words a day is a good number. Here's why:
That last one is really important. The way you finish a novel is by keeping at it, day after day. It's easier to do that when you feel like you're meeting your goals & making progress -- not disappointing yourself every time you sit down to write.
How long it takes you to produce 100K words depends greatly on how quickly you write, how much time you have for writing, and what level of polish you want your words to be at.
For first drafts, most writers can produce 100K words in 3-6 months, depending on the amount of time per day allotted. The truly fanatical (like those 2xNaNoWriMo maniacs mentioned in @One Monkey's answer) can finish that amount of writing in one month, while an upper limit might be about a year.
Every writer I've ever talked to recommends taking at least a month off after finishing the first draft in order to get some critical distance.
After that comes editing, which is a highly idiosyncratic process. Some people make multiple passes over the draft, making small tweaks each time. Some people rewrite whole chapters at once. Some people only write one second draft, which changes everything at once. How you decide to edit is up to you, but again I'd suggest that 3-6 months is a reasonable time frame for editing. Note that some people spend a long time in this phase--Patrick Rothfuss famously spent 14 years editing his Kingkiller trilogy before finding a publisher for it.
Overall, the novel process takes about a year if you work consistently, maybe more or less depending on how much time you can devote to it.
I'm not sure how helpful this will be, but it's at least one data point (though not about a novel). I've written a popular science book that will be published later this year. Once I got a response to my query letter, I started writing. These were the milestones:
The proposal submission included three chapters, 18,000 words, written in 3 months. (This was writing from scratch, with a lot of editing.) 17 months later, the draft manuscript was ready, at 75,000 words. (I'll guess that this was about 50/50 writing versus editing.) The final manuscript was 85,000 words, submitted 6 months after that. (90% editing.)
So it took 26 months in all, working in my spare time on evenings, weekends, and during the summer. I'm thinking that a year would be enough to write a reasonable 100K-word book, working on it full time, as others have suggested.
I'm writing a book at the moment which is a Sci-fi fantasy type. I've written around 20,000 words in a month. (I started July once I got my summer holidays.)
Some days I write 7 pages, other days I write half a page. Normally, I like to write a little everyday so I won't fall behind or completely forget my story line and characters.
Have a notebook so you don't have to re-read everything. Plot down little details important to the story and it will save you time I think.
Enjoy the writing process of course. Sticking to a pattern or plan will definitely help you achieve having a whole novel written! You can write it maybe all during the holidays. At work or school time, it will probably be hard work fitting it into your schedule. Having a plan is the main key to success! You'll be finished in no time. I'm thinking around 3-5 months and it can be achievable!
The point is moot. You will get to however many pages you want in the right amount of time for your story. Here's how:
You'll get the beginning, climax, ending, and conflict, and tensioners at different times, but you'll only have multiple conflicts (subplots) or multiple tensioners. When you feel like the story is all there, check the word count. You'll be over or under, but not by much. And editing that first draft will give or take 20% anyway. So ignore the number and JUST KEEP WRITING THE STORY.


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Let $g$ be a positive definite symmetric form on a $2n$-dimensional vector space (a metric), $\mathbb{J}$ the symplectic unit and $c$ a real number. Define the symmetric form
$h = g + c[g,\mathbb{J}],$
where $[\cdot,\cdot]$ is the commutator. Have you ever encountered this or similar objects? If so, what is the geometrical meaning of requiring it to be positive definite,


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Salvation Army holiday dinner Thursday
The Salvation Army of Steubenville will be hosting its annual Thanksgiving dinner from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday at the Salvation Army located at 332 N. Fourth St., Steubenville.
Takeouts and home deliveries to shut-ins will be available. For home delivery call (740) 282-5121 to be put on a list.
Volunteers are needed to help set up, serve and clean up.
Church selling Christmas cookies
Christ Episcopal Church, Wellsburg, will be accepting orders for nut and cream horns through Dec. 1, with the cookies to be picked up at its annual Christmas cookie sale.
The sale, which will include a variety of other cookies, will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 15 and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 16 at the church at 1012 Main St.
To place orders for the nut and cream horns, call (304) 737-1506.
Malone Players at Zion United
The Malone Chancel Players will be performing Dec. 2 at Zion United Church of Christ located at 139 N. Fifth St., Steubenville.
The public is invited to attend.
The group will perform a dramatic presentation of the Gospel message at the 11 a.m. Sunday worship service.
It will be followed by an Advent Carole Luncheon. The cost is $8 for adults and $4 for children with reservations due Nov. 25 by calling the church at (740) 282-1793. Inquiries also can be directed to firstname.lastname@example.com.
"It will be a wonderful way to start the Advent Season as we prepare for the coming of Christ on Christmas," a church spokesperson said.
Prior to the worship service, a coffee hour fellowship will be held at 10:15 a.m.
Empire UMC to host singers
The Empire United Methodist Church, state Route 7, Stratton, will host the New Vision Singers from Malone University on Sunday at 11 a.m. service.
"The New Vision Singers are a ministry team made up of six university students who are excellent vocalists and musicians who love the Lord and have a desire to serve Him with their lives," a church spokesperson said.
"They sing a wide variety of songs including gospel, contemporary Christian, hymn arrangements, patriotic and secular favorites," the spokesperson added.
Lunch will be served to the group and any one in high school who wishes to fellowship with them after the service.
Colliers group has holiday projects
The Women's Missionary Union of the Open Door Baptist Church on Eldersville Road, Colliers, met Nov. 6 with eight members present. Mildred Richter, president, presided with Katherine Wise offering the opening prayer.
Reports were given by Donna Garrison and Pam Holden. Correspondence included a letter from missionary Becky McGregor and appreciation from the Brooke County Clothes Closet for participating in the clothing drive.
The birthday dinner was a success, Richter reported.
For Thanksgiving, the group will provide fruit baskets for shut-ins and purchase six turkeys to prepare six food baskets for the less fortunate.
Rosemary Jennings gave devotions entitled "Is Enough Enough."
A goal of $3,700 was set for the Lottie Moon Christmas offering.
The group prepared a care package for church member Kevin Holden who is serving overseas.
The next meeting will be a covered-dish dinner Dec. 4 at the church.
Circle attends fall cluster meeting
The Christian Service Circle of Grace Lutheran Church, 2105 Sunset Blvd., attended the fall cluster meeting of the Northeastern Ohio Synod.
The meeting was held at the Tuscora Park in New Philadelphia. The circle provided the refreshments for the get-acquainted and sign-in time.
Mary Ann McNary Schwabe, assistant to the bishop of the Northeastern Ohio Synod, was the Bible study leader. The study was "The Proverbs 31 Woman," the second most used scripture in the Bible.
Songs and reports followed the lunch.
Triumph CWC planning party
The Triumph of the Cross Catholic Woman's Club met Nov. 6 with Terri Fernandes, first coordinator, presiding.
Fernandes shared with member samples of the Umbert comic strip which has a pro-life message.
The CWC Christmas party will be held Dec. 4 at Froehlich's Classic Corner. The cost is $20, and guests are permitted. Entertainment will be provided by Lil and Ray Scalise.
The Triumph of the Cross Christmas show will be held Dec. 8 at Catholic Central High School's Lanman Hall. The parish will be sponsoring Shamus Kennedy, an Irish balladeer who also does Dean Martin songs. The cost is $12 for adults and $5 for children.
Lil Meronoff thanked everyone who donated toward "Lil's Sweet Booth" at this year's fall card party.
The Rev. Thomas Nau reported 147 people responded to reading the Catechism of the Catholic Church for the Year of Faith.
There will be a giving tree this year at both church buildings.
Hostesses for the meeting were Angie Needham, Mae DeFallo, Anne Bottegal and Rose Sciarra.
Prize winners were Marge Wilson, 50-50, and Mamie Bucci, Donna Kaine, Sue Stanko and Angie Needham, door prizes.


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WEIRTON - Steubenville Catholic Central, seemingly scoring at will, piled up 40 first-half points and coasted to its fifth victory in a row by 53-8 Friday night over Weir High.
The homestanding Red Riders could muster a meager 32 total yards of offense in the first half against Central's first-team defense. With nine freshmen in the starting lineup, Weir High managed to finish with 187 total yards against Crusader reserves in the second half.
"We wanted to get out to a quick start and we accomplished that," said Crusaders coach Steve Daley, whose team was winning its sixth game in eight starts and fifth in a row.
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CELEBRATION — Steubenville Catholic Central's Kyle Laukert (4) is hugged by teammate Geno Taglione after a first-quarter touchdown catch by Laukert during Friday's 53-8 win over Weir High at Jimmy Carey Stadium.
"And then we got some good, quality playing time out of some of our kids that don't normally get to play in a varsity contest. It was good team win for us."
Daley's quick start resulted in 19 first-quarter points. Playing with the rapid style, no-huddle offense that a lot of college teams are employing today, the Crusaders scored on all six of its first half possessions.
Senior Doug Maslowski rumbled for three of the first-half touchdowns with runs of 17, 15 and 31 yards. Maslowski, who didn't carry the ball in the second half, piled up 140 rushing yards before the intermission.
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Catholic Central 53, Weir 8
Catholic Central 19 21 7 6 - 53
Weir 0 0 8 0 - 8
CC: Maslowski 17 run (kick failed)
CC: Laukert 18 pass from Colabella (pass failed)
CC: Harrington 16 pass from Colabella (Romano kick)
CC: Maslowski 15 run (romano kick)
CC: Maslowski 31 run (Romano kick)
CC: Potenzini 2 run (Romano kick)
W: Baldwin 48 pass from Wypasak (Piatt run)
CC: Jones 92 kickoff return (Maslowski kick)
CC: Parise 23 run (knee)
RUSHING: Catholic Central 33-208-3 (Maslowski 9-140-3, Colabella 3-18, Romano 8-8, Laukert 3-18, Fletcher 2-13, Erickson 2-7, Potenzini 3-8-1, Jones 2-5, Parise 2-23). Weir: 46-131 (Davis 27-72, Wypasek 5-15, Piatt 12-66, Rice 2-(-22).
PASSING: Catholic Central 9-11-143-2-1x (Colabella 9-10-143-2-0, Laukers 0-1-0-1x); Weir 3-5-59-1-1x (all by Wypasek).
RECEIVING: Catholic Central (Herrington 3-72-1, Laukert 3-37-1, Fletcher 1-12, DiCarlantonio 1-12, Jones 1-8); Weir Baldwin 3-59-1.
FIRST DOWNS: Catholic Central 11; Weir 10
PENALTIES: Catholic Central 2-15; Weir 1-5
FUMBLES: Catholic Central 0-0; Weir 4-4.
"Doug has developed into a good running back for us," said Daley. "We feel that's going to keep defenses honest so we can continue to pass effectively. He's a track guy, but he's a physical guy. He's not small either. He's about 200 pounds and he uses all of it."
Star junior quarterback, Brenton Colabella, lived up to his reputation. He was nearly flawless connecting on 9 of 10 passes for 143 yards and two touchdowns. He tossed scoring passes of 19 yards to Kyle Laukert and 16 yards to Zach Herrington, both in the first quarter.
The Crusaders spoiled the Red Rider senior night where five football players and other fall sports athletes as well as cheerleaders and band members were honored before the final home game of the season.
"They're better than us," said Weir High head coach Tony Filberto, whose team lost its eighth game of the season and 35 game in the last three years. "It is men against boys at this point. We started nine freshmen tonight, but that's not an excuse. It is what it is.
"We had the opportunity to make plays and we didn't make them tonight. So this is probably the first time that I've been truly disappointed in our performance. I think we're capable of better play than what we showed tonight, so we'll just regroup and begin to get ready Monday to play Brooke next week."
One of a couple of the areas that Filberto was disappointed in was the tackling by his Red Rider defense and offensive turnovers. Weir High lost four of six fumbles and freshman quarterback, Jake Wypasek, was intercepted twice.
However, Wypasek, who became the starter a week ago after sophomore William Larch's season ended with a knee injury, threw the first touchdown pass of his varsity career to keep the Red Riders from being shut out.
With the Crusaders ahead by 40-0 in the third quarter, Red Rider senior Matt Barnes intercepted a Kyle Laukert pass at his own 25-yard line. Laukert, a senior who starts as a wide out and earlier caught a touchdown pass, replaced Colabella at quarterback when the Crusaders came out of the locker room at halftime.
The Riders put on a drive and got inside Crusader territory for the first time in the game with fourth down and seven at the Central 48. Wypasek rolled to his left and found senior Daren Baldwin open in the middle of the field at the Central 30. The husky tackle turned fullback, pulled in the pass, shook off a Crusader defender and rumbled into the end zone. Another senior, Eric Piatt, blasted over for the two-point conversion to cut Central's lead to 40-8.
It was short lived, however, as Baldwin's kickoff was scooped up at the Crusader 8-yard line by junior Khalil Jones, who somehow eluded the first wave of Weir High defenders. Suddenly, Jones emerged for the scrum and raced 92 yards down the left sideline for a touchdown. Maslowski booted the extra point to make it 47-8.
Maslowski, who kicks off for the Crusaders, got to kick the extra point in place of sophomore Stone Romano, who was successful kicking four of Central's six extra point tries in the first half.
"Our defense played well," Daley added. "Our defense has been playing pretty solid for a few weeks now and they're doing things we're asking them to do. That is play their responsibilities. We preach every player, every play and that's what we got out of them tonight."
The Crusaders scored the lone touchdown of the fourth quarter when freshman Cedro Parise found a hole over right tackle, cut to his right and raced to the end zone from 23 yards out.
The other Red Rider seniors honored before the game were tackle James Owens and guard Austin Wolverton. Wolverton did not play in the game as he is another of the many Red Riders on the injury list.
Weir High travels to Brooke for the annual back yard rivalry game next Friday while the Crusaders return home to Harding Stadium to entertain Weirton's other high school football team, once beaten and state-ranked Madonna on Oct. 20.


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13 Nov 2012 1:44 PM #1
Skipping Scenes/touchStart Issue
I am working with Sencha Animator and am having trouble with the touchstart events when viewing the finished product on the iPad. Specifically, the touchstart action in the 3rd scene (which I'd set to take us back to Scene #1) is skipping from Scene 1 and going directly to Scene 2. The sequence we're aiming for is:
(1)Scene 1- touchStart on button to move to Scene 2.
(2)Scene 2 - touchEnd to move to Scene 3.
(3)Scene 3 - touchStart on button to move to Scene 1.
Why would the touchStart on the button in Scene 3 lead to Scene 1 automatically moving on to Scene 2? Is it because I also have the same button as a clickStart as well?
I appreciate your help-
Thank you.
13 Nov 2012 11:33 PM #2
Hi ccarlson12 and welcome to the forums,
From what you explained, it seems that the problem is in the way how you set up your interaction. I'm guessing that the button in question in Scene 3 and Scene 1 is in the same location?
When you touch the screen, two events are generated, touchstart at the moment when your finger touches the screen and touchend at the moment when your finger is lifted from the screen. What seems to be happening here is:
Scene 3
Finger touches the screen -> touchstart
Scene 1 is initialised
Because everything is rebuilt, the events are reset
touchstart is recognized again, as the finger is still on the screen
Scene 2 is initialised
I would suggest to always use touchend on the buttons, so the interaction requires a tap, not just a touch. Touchstart is better used for defining interactions such as touch-and-hold, where on touchstart you would start a timer (think of holding an icon on iPhone until they start shaking and you can rearrange them). Also, on touchstart you can change the color of the button to indicate that is pressed as long as there's a finger on it, but on touchend you actually trigger the scene switching.
13 Nov 2012 11:37 PM #3
Ah another thing, touchstart and touchend are better suited for defining touch gestures, as on mobile devices, click event will still be generated. So another thing that is potentially happening here, if you have both click and touchstart initialised, and set to 'go to next scene', is simply that on every touch of the button, 'go to next scene' is called 2 times. To fix this, simply disable touchstart event - it will still work on ipad with just click event.


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Often we hear that the Bible contains lots of stories without indicating if the actions were good or bad.
When Jacob returned home in Gen 33, he sent the crowds ahead of him (Gen 32:13-21). By what hermeneutic principle do we determine if he expected them to get slaughtered, appeasing Esau's anger, or if he expected them to be well but was merely forfeiting them to Esau? Had Jacob been reformed and was returning what he stole or was he still his old self just looking out for himself?
Can such things be determined?


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Save 66% on EVE Online: Inferno on Steam (Includes first month) for $6.80 + free shipping
Given the subscription prices are where they really get you, this may not be a great savings, but at least it would lower the costs of trying it out. $6.80 gets the game + a month of play.
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Eve is a great game too! If I still took the time to actually play games, I'd probably jump in on this.
Or, a current player can give you a 3-week FREE trial. If $6.80 is too pricy...
I think you can do both get the 3 week trail from a current player then turn the account into a regular account with the cd key and get the month for $6.80 after words. To bad the CD key only works once.
If you want the 21-day free trial to try it out instead, send me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com and I'll give you a code. If you end up subscribing later on I'll split the bonus with you.


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Victor Jannett
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Baritone Victor Jannett, a native of St Louis, performed often with Opera Theatre of St. Louis, as well as the St. Louis Symphony, singing roles including the bass solos in Bach's Cantata, Ein Feste Burg, and the Mandarin in a concert version of Puccini's Turandot, which was broadcast on National Public Radio (NPR).
In St. Louis, Jannett was a student of the renowned voice teacher, Edward Zambara. He attended the Franz Schubert Institute in Baden bei Vien and worked with many coaches, directors and conductors over the years, including John Wustman, Stephen Lord, Colin Graham, Eli Ameling, Hans Hotter, Leonard Slatkin and James Levine.
In Boston, where he now resides, he has performed with many local opera companies, including Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) and Longwood Opera. He was the Duke of Nottingham in Boston Bel Canto Opera's production of Roberto Devereaux at Jordan Hall. At Harvard with Lowell House Opera, he sang the title role in Rigoletto and Junior in Bernstein's A Quiet Place, in which, according to Richard Dyer's review in the Boston Globe, "Mr. Jannett, who sang with a handsome ring in his voice, is also an uninhibited actor." He was Daniel Webster in The Devil and Daniel Webster with Granite State Opera, a portion of which was also performed on WGBH Radio. Oratorio roles include Elijah, Manoah in Handel's Samson, Messiah, JS Bach's Magnificat as well as CPE Bach's Magnificat, Haydn's Creation and many others. Last year, as a guest artist with Guerilla Opera in their newly commissioned production of Rumpelstiltskin by Marti Epstein, he sang the role of the King.
In the spring of 2011, Jannett performed Liszt's Tre sonetti del Petrarca and other Liszt songs in the Franz Liszt Festival at The Boston Conservatory. He will be on the faculty at the Orfeo Music Festival this July in Vipiteno, Italy, where he will be teaching and performing. He has been on the voice faculty of The Boston Conservatory for 16 years.
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In Japanese, is it acceptable to write kanji letters in the Chinese style? For example, is it acceptable to write 田 with the 3rd and 4th strokes swapped, or 着 with the 6th and 7th strokes combined?
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I feel that at the extremes of stroke order perfection foreigners always seem to be better than native Japanese, maybe because there are just too many who make it a pastime to know all stroke orders for all sorts of obscure 漢字. Unless you are dealing with a 書道 teacher (or school teacher), the general focus is more on whether you are able to remember all strokes correctly, no matter what order. Now 田 is a primary two 漢字 and an exception to one of the first rules "if a horizontal line crosses a vertical line, the vertical line is written first, by which it would be more sensible to write 冂 > 土 and not 冂 > | > 二. But because it is the archetypal exception to stroke order, I would say that all Japanese do remember 田, but a few might get caught up in 荘 or 我, especially if you make them think about it. (The Japanese obviously will have a better kinetic memory than you. You might enjoy this question about 空書.)
Stroke order is one thing, but combining strokes is practical and the foundation for most styles of 書道. Combining strokes is what must happen naturally. (They are still conceptually 12 strokes in a particular order, even if you didn't lift your pen/brush between stroke 6 and 7.)
In any case you are still wondering, regarding the reaction especially to the first blunder, I think @ssb put it quite well in his comment.
Yes, it is not that big a deal to get some ordering wrong. Most of the time, unless someone is watcing you write, they won't even be able to tell how you wrote it!
The reason the stroke order is emphasized in Japanese schools is that as you start writing kanjis faster and faster, strokes start to join together. You can see the most beautiful example of this in 行書, but you see some of this in normal hand-writing people do. When you are writing such text, getting the stroke order right becomes critical, as others won't be able to read it if the order is diffrent. Similarly, to read such letters one needs to know the proper order of strokes.
As a foreigner studying Japanese, you should be sticking to 楷書, with each stroke cleanly separated. So long as you do that, don't worry too much about the stroke order.
Most of the Japanese text that is produced is produced by printing (books, newspapers, magazines, office printing, electronic displays, ...) and in printing there is no stroke order, or no evidence of stroke order in the end-result.
It depends.
In my Japanese language school, there were a few Chinese students, and my teachers would emphasize before exams that Kanji have to be written using the Japanese stroke order.
On the other hand, for the character 備 they insisted that stroke 7 starts where stroke 4 ends and not where stroke 6 starts, even though in my understanding, the former is the ("modern" traditional) Chinese stroke order, whereas the latter is the Japanese stroke order (as well as the "traditional" traditional Chinese stroke order). Compare 備 in the wiktionary and 備 in the Kangxi (p. 113 character 21).


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Ronald K. Chen, Acting Dean of Rutgers School of Law–Newark, has announced some new appointments at the law school.
Formerly Vice Dean, Chen was appointed to serve as Acting Dean while John J. Farmer, Jr. is on a leave of absence to serve as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Rutgers University. Joining Dean Farmer on a temporary basis in the University Counsel's Office in New Brunswick are Senior Associate Dean Fran Bouchoux and his administrative assistant, Jessica Otero.
Following is Dean Chen's announcement of those appointed to the newly-vacant positions:
"Professor Reid Weisbord has assumed the position of Vice Dean, including all the responsibilities traditionally associated with the academic dean. He brings to the position an enthusiasm and ability that will serve the law school well. Although Professor Weisbord has been with Rutgers Law a relatively short period of time, his contributions to the institutional life and cohesion of the law school community have identified him as someone who will help guide the future of the school for many years to come.
"Professor and Dean Emeritus Stuart Deutsch will fill in as acting Senior Associate Dean while Dean Bouchoux is in New Brunswick. He will supervise Admissions, Career Services, Student Affairs, and the Minority Student Program. Dean Deutsch obviously has vast experience in all aspects of the law school operations, and I am extremely grateful that he is willing to resume an administrative position and provide the continuity that is essential in providing those services.
"Mildred Perez, with whom many recent alums have interacted in her role as assistant to Deans Bouchoux and Andrew Rothman, has agreed to step into the role of administrative assistant to the Dean. She also will provide support to the Development Office headed by Ava Majlesi.
"While the reassignments that prompted these changes were unexpected and we are losing, if only temporarily, very valued individuals, I am confident that those appointed to fill their positions and the rest of the administration and staff comprise a robust team ready to help me lead Rutgers Law School into the future."| Read Story


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How can one run a chosen plaintext attack on RSA?
If I can send some plaintexts and get the ciphertexts, how can I find a relation between them which helps me to crack another ciphertext?
How can one run a chosen plaintext attack on RSA?
If I can send some plaintexts and get the ciphertexts, how can I find a relation between them which helps me to crack another ciphertext?
Slight revision based on Paulo's remark in the comments - in a public key system a chosen plaintext attack is pretty much part of the design - arbitrary plaintexts can be encrypted to produce ciphertexts at will - by design, however, these shouldn't give any information that will allow you to deduce the private key.
A chosen ciphertext attack can be used with careful selection of the plaintext, however, to perform an attack - it's actually fairly straightforward on textbook RSA. Firstly, we have a piece of ciphertext we'll denote by:
$$C = t^e \mod n$$ Which is RSA as we know and love. Now, Eve has $C$ - this is perfectly ordinary, since Eve is supposed to be able to see $C$. Now eve has the ability to chose a plaintext - so, she choses $2$ as her plaintext and computes $C_a = 2^e \mod n$. However, to our unsuspecting victim she sends $C_b = C_a * C$, so:
$$C_b = C\cdot 2^e = t^e 2^e\mod n$$
All good so far. Now since this is a chosen plaintext attack we're reliant on having access to the decryption of our substituted value - so now the unsuspecting victim computes:
$$(C_b)^d = [t^e 2^e]^d = t^{ed}2^{ed} = 2t \mod n$$
When we get that value back, we can quite easily compute $t$. We simply need to half it.
This can actually apply for any plaintext we wish to chose - I simply chose $2$ because I like it as a number. This paper covers the general technique and a lot more.
This only applies to textbook RSA. The proper application of RSA in the wild involves the use of padding schemes which defeat this attack by ensuring the ciphertext is not malleable in this way.
A good overview of what current (1999) attacks exist on the RSA cryptosystem can be found in this paper by Boneh. http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/abstracts/RSAattack-survey.html