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Races start at 7:30PM with the Front Gate opening at 5:45PM. Hot Laps will start about 7:00PM.
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So you are looking for a new position or just have graduated – You have a great folio, great work experience, you're energetic and you're motivated – though getting employed is proving a little tricky. Here are some helpful tips to getting your foot in the door with your resume.
1. Get a decent email address.
Sure we all have fun email addresses with our mates, but email@example.com might not really be the best first-impression.
Something like firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com is better.
2. Use any other than Times New Roman!
90% of the resume's we receive use these formats – drives everyone crazy.
3. Layout and Format
This one is really important. The best thing you can do for a resume or cover letter is design it in the format of the job you are applying. If you after a graphic designer position, create your resume and cover letter through an industry appropriate application like indesign and supply it as a PDF. If you applying for a web designer position, have an online folio to showcase yourself. Most importantly print it out and see whether it is legible and looks good.
4. Be personal and specific in your cover letter.
Research a little and mention something you find unique about the company you are applying for… and perhaps involve a little flattery.
For example:
"The work you did on project x was great! I would love to work on projects of that nature and would really appreciate the opportunity to show you the great things that I can do."
As opposed to:
"Dear Company, I greatly enjoyed your website; I thought it was forthcoming and informative. I would like a job. "
5. Spellcheck
Ensure your resume is grammatically correct and all words are spelled correctly. Designers are particular on this. A firm grasp on language is a necessity as correcting spelling mistakes on brochures / billboards can be a very costly exercise.
6. Talk about what you things you do outside of of work.
Interesting people do interesting things. Bosses really like to see active people in the community, so if are part of design association, have won awards, like to ride your bike, collect stamps – tell them about it.
7. Check your social media / blog.
It's amazing what is out there. Reality is that most employers search for you online. Get rid of / hide awkward photo's, bad comments by your mates, any video of you on youtube singing karaoke drunk / falling over – basically anything that you wouldn't want your grandmother seeing. That way if an employee searches and finds you, they find only positive things.
8. Please don't make things up!
Claim only the work that you made yourself / were a part of. It's the nice thing to do and ultimately our industry is such where one finds out very quickly whether you can do the things you say you can.
9. Have fun and be creative.
WOW them with creativity. Be quirky. Be different. Be Fun. Be Clever. Make them laugh. Make them cry.
Get them to talk to their friends about this 'amazing' resume they just received.
Below is a link to an excellent article by Smashing Magazine on this topic!
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I am well aware that PHP might not have been the best choice in this case for a socket server. Please refrain from suggesting different languages/platforms - believe me - I've heard it from all directions.
Working in a Unix environment and using PHP 5.2.17, my situation is as follows - I have constructed a socket server in PHP that communicates with flash clients. My first hurtle was that each incoming connection blocked the sequential connections until it had finished being processed. I solved this by utilizing PHP's
pcntl_fork(). I was successfully able to spawn numerous child processes (saving their PID in the parent) that took care of broadcasting messages to the other clients and therefore "releasing" the parent process and allowing it to continue to process the next connection[s].
My main issue right now is dealing/handling with the collection of these dead/zombie child processes and terminating them. I have read (over and over) the relevant PHP manual pages for pcntl_fork() and realize that the parent process is in charge of cleaning up its children. The parent process receives a SIGNAL from its child when the child executes an
exit(0). I am able to "catch" that signal using the
pcntl_signal() function to setup a signal handler.
My signal_handler looks like this :
declare(ticks = 1);
function sig_handler($signo){
global $forks; // this is an array that holds all the child PID's
foreach($forks AS $key=>$childPid){
echo "has my child {$childPid} gone away?".PHP_EOL;
if (posix_kill($childPid, 9)){
echo "Child {$childPid} has tragically died!".PHP_EOL;
I am indeed seeing both echo's including the relevant and correct child PID that needs to be removed but it seems that
posix_kill($childPid, 9)
Which I understand to be synonymous with
kill -9 $childPid is returning TRUE although it is in fact NOT removing the process...
Taken from the man pages of
posix_kill :
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
I am monitoring the child processes with the
ps command. They appear like this on the system :
web5 5296 5234 0 14:51 ? 00:00:00 [php] <defunct>
web5 5321 5234 0 14:51 ? 00:00:00 [php] <defunct>
web5 5466 5234 0 14:52 ? 00:00:00 [php] <defunct>
As you can see all these processes are child processes of the parent which has the PID of
Am I missing something in my understanding? I seem to have managed to get everything to work (and it does) but I am left with countless zombie processes on the system!
My plans for a zombie apocalypse are rock solid -
but what on earth can I do when even
sudo kill -9 does not kill the zombie child processes?
Update 10 Days later
I've answered this question myself after some additional research, if you are still able to stand my ramblings proceed at will.


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Virginia Postrel
Recent and archived news articles by Virginia Postrel of The New York Times.
Sheena Iyengar's research indicates that we can handle more than a few choices, but an overabundance can paralyze us.
April 18, 2010, Sunday
What You Pay For
In the digital economy, Chris Anderson says, businesses can profit by giving things away.
July 12, 2009, Sunday
Rational Exuberance
A financial writer argues that economic bubbles have unexpected benefits.
July 22, 2007, Sunday
Grim Harvest
A sociologist joins the debate on financial incentives for organ procurement.
January 28, 2007, Sunday
The Container That Changed the World
Just as the computer revolutionized the flow of information, the shipping container revolutionized the flow of goods.
March 23, 2006, Thursday
The Poverty Puzzle
The West has spent trillions to help poor countries, with little success. William Easterly thinks he knows why.
March 19, 2006, Sunday
The Work You Do When You're Not at Work
Americans are not, in fact, working as much as they used to. They are just getting paid for more of the work they do.
February 23, 2006, Thursday
Would You Take the Bird in the Hand, or a 75% Chance at the Two in the Bush?
People have different tastes for risk, just as they have different tastes for ice cream or paint colors.
January 26, 2006, Thursday
A Nobel Winner Can Help You Keep Your Resolutions
New Year's resolutions help people cope with some of the most difficult conflicts human beings face.
December 29, 2005, Thursday
In Silicon Valley, Job Hopping Contributes to Innovation
FOR four decades, through booms, busts and bubbles, Silicon Valley has maintained an amazingly innovative business environment.
December 1, 2005, Thursday
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19 Feb 2009 9:08 PM #1
Ext JS and either PHP or RoR
Hello all,
I am building an enterprise web application, front end in Ext JS. I was originally going to use PHP for all the data handling and whatnot, however now I will also be integrating Asterisk* into the web app via Adhearsion which uses RoR to make things on a webpage control the asterisk app running on linux.
I suppose the questions is... Do I continue down the path I am on with php for data handling for everything save for the asterisk control bits and use RoR for that, or do I do it all in RoR.
If anyone has experience with integrating RoR and Ext, I would appreciate your feedback with ease of use and any problems I would be likely to face by using RoR.
Any asterisk/adhearsion integration tips are welcomed as well!
Thanks so much
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There are some threads re ROR here. You might want search for those and either bump those threads or contact the author.Tim Ryan
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Hi Tim,
Thanks for your reply!
I had done a fairly extensive search for RoR integration, et al. And I have also reviewed the aids published in the Learning Center.
However, the spirt of my post was to connect, and assimilate as much knowledge from other ExtJS programmers who have experience with any combination of ExtJS, RoR, Adhearsion, and/or Asterisk*.


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I've got a fairly simple job that I'd like to run every hour. I could do it using
cron, but I thought I'd use this to learn about
launchd, since I hear good things about it. I've got the
man launchd.plist page as a reference, but I'm looking for something based more around building an example job.
I've got a fairly simple job that I'd like to run every hour. I could do it using
So the first step is determining if you're making an agent or a daemon.
The second step will to make your .plist file. You can use GUI based programs such as Lingon to help with this or just use your favourite text editor:
A sample plist for running a script every hour (StartInterval or StartIntervalCalendar is the key we want - StartInterval for an item to happen every x seconds, StartIntervalCalendar for a specific time and/or date. See 126907 on SuperUser for an example I made with StartCalendarInterval):
Modify the plist as necessary to point to your script and any arguments as necessary (arguments are on separate lines) and save the file with the same name as the Label value but with .plist at the end. (eg. local.my-mac.flickrstats would be saved as local.my-mac.flickrstats.plist). If you didn't already move that plist file to
To start the job you want to run
For reference also check out the following questions on Super User: Launchd command as root, Load a system wide daemon, and How can I get a script to run every day
I know it's not a good tutorial, but you could have a look at the Daemons and Services Programming Guide from Apple, which has a section on Scheduling Timed Jobs.
I know it's not a full tutorial, but, with it, you can understand the basics of
It also provides an example of a
This has helped me a lot: http://launchd.info
It covers configuration, administration and troubleshooting using Terminal or the launchd GUI LaunchControl. Examples are provided as well.
I know you were looking for a tutorial, but on the off-chance someone comes here as part of looking for a tool to help them make/edit launchd entries, I've used this before: Lingon (sourceforge)
It's no longer being actively developed but what's there does work (and obviously includes source etc). I've used it on Snow Leopard to schedule backups to the Amazon cloud, etc.


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I have implemented functions that can draw any polygonal shape, however I have been unable to generate a smooth shape that mimics the rounded edges of a lake. I tried generating two circles and joining the edges but there is not enough variation or smoothness to it. Does anyone have any pointers or ideas that could generate a shape like this?
alwynd mentioned Perlin noise. Here's how I generated the island shapes for the polygon map generator:
Islands are a little more ragged than lakes though, so I'm not sure if these shapes will be to your liking. I've put up a demo of the above algorithm, with buttons at the bottom to control the two magic numbers. There might be different values of the magic numbers 0.3 and 0.4 that produce shapes you like.
You could use a Perlin Noise algorithm to generate the lakes for you, if you are using a top down view (polygon shape, sounds like you are), this guy from Stanford did just that.
One way would be to start with a basic polygon, maybe your 2 circles approach.
Firstly offset all points randomly, so doesn't look too much like a circle, then for every edge, split it in 2 and offset the middle point by some small random amount. Keep doing this until you have the required detail.


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WACO (December 7, 2012)--A group of students at Cesar Chavez Middle School are taking part in a training program that through their leadership could reduce school bullying and misbehavior.
The Safe School Ambassador program identifies and utilizes socially influential student leaders and teaches them non-violent intervention and communication skills to use among their peers.
One teacher at the school says he hopes the program will not only combat bullying but improve school climate, attendance and academic performance.


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I would like to develop a REST API that will be accessed from an android application, but I need to authorize the users of the client-side application. A simple solution to this would be to ask the user to register to my service and then use that username/password to make successful calls to the REST API. However, I would prefer to stick with the state-of-the-art technologies, which seem to combine convenience in registration and better security. So, I decided to integrate with Google OpenID or OAuth 2.0 for the user authentication and authorization. I know the difference of these two terms and corresponding rechnologies, but I also found out that the authentication using OAuth 2.0 includes authorization steps.
I have done a lot of research before posting here, which directed me to a non standard solution that I will present you here. Some background about my case: The Rest API will be providing some application specific data, which will be available to the mobile app user, but the user of the app will need to be uniquely identified and be limited to certain number of calls.
Using the Google Account linked to the android app user appeared as the greatest option for easy integration with the authentication mechanism. However, the client won't be accessing Google APIs but our own REST API, while the REST API doesn't need to make any calls to the Google APIs. But using the AccountManager of the Android SDK, I noticed that I could use the oauth access_token of the linked google account and send it to the REST API, and finally use a TokenInfo validation API to check the validity of the token. This way I could reuse the authentication of Google account for authorizing and authenticating access to my REST API.
If this sounds non standard, or you think that it somehow goes against the rules/purpose of the OAuth 2.0 protocol, could you direct me to proper use that protocol to cover my requirements for authenticating users on my REST API using Google Authentication?


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So I live in the mountains of NC and wanted my son to join me on some great rides. At this point, I am done. He has:
127mm custom cut Truvativ triple crankset from BikeSmith. In hindsight, I think 135 or so might have been better to give him room togrow. If anyone wants to buy these from me PM me.
X9 hubs with Velocity Aeroheat rims. Expensive upgrade ( I did find a bargain on the parts) but the way I look at it, when he outgrows this, I will relace the hubs with 24" rims and ebay the 20" rims.
Air shock from Xfusion _ I just called the company and spoke with someone who sold the air shock to me. Worth the money
34-tooth cassette in back - there is little flat here
New platform pedals - no grip on the plastic ones
So - in all I spent a fair amount of money, but less than what I will spend on a new wheelset for me. I figure for 2+ years of use, plus the possibility of extending the use of hubs even longer, it is worth it to me.
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Volume 3, Issue 2
OncoLink would like to recognize the contribution of the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance (NCCRA) whose initiative with Pharmacia Oncology and Pfizer has made this publication possible.
Molly McMaster was diagnosed with stage II colon cancer in 1999 on her 23rd birthday. Her initial shock quickly turned to determination; Molly completed her chemotherapy in the fall of 1999 with a vow to live for the moment and live life to the fullest. She has used her experience as a chance to educate many others about colon cancer, and knowing and trusting your own body. You see, Molly's physicians dismissed her symptoms early on, but she continued to pursue a diagnosis. Although this misdiagnosis has caused her some anger, it has inspired her to teach others about the signs and symptoms of colon cancer.
Molly's efforts include Rolling to Recovery, a 71-day inline skate from Glen Falls, New York to Greely, Colorado. The trip raised over $60,000, which has been donated to The American Cancer Society, The Cancer Center at the Glen Falls Hospital in New York, and the Sunflower Fund (a fund for cancer patients at the Glen Falls Hospital). Aside from the money donated, the trip gained quite a bit of media attention, and surely raised awareness of this deadly disease! Molly's latest endeavor is the colossal colon, a forty-foot long, four-foot tall model of a human colon - complete with polyps, cancer, Crohn's disease, hemorrhoids, and diverticuli, among other colonic diseases. Actual colonoscopy footage was used to ensure that the colon is as realistic as possible. Visitors can crawl through the colon, or peer into strategically placed windows to view the abnormalities. Molly's goal was to create a colon so outrageous, you can't help but talk about it- and she has done just that.
This year the colossal colon is taking a road trip around the United States - see it in a location near you! Visit Molly's website to learn more about the crazy things she has been doing to raise colon cancer awareness.
Our body's immune systems are set up to ward off disease. Unfortunately, these immune cells are often ineffective at recognizing and killing cancer cells. Researchers believe that if we can stimulate the immune system, we may be able to make it more effective in preventing the growth and spread of cancer cells. Using this idea, Aventis Pasteur, a company based in Toronto, Canada, has developed cancer "vaccines" for colorectal, breast, and skin cancer, which are currently being studied in clinical trials.
The colorectal cancer vaccine, called ALVAC-CEA/B7.1, works by targeting the CEA antigen (carcinoembryonic antigen), which is expressed on about 95% of colorectal cancer cells and is not expressed by normal cells. The body's immune system does not normally recognize CEA as something to attack and destroy. The vaccine is designed to stimulate the immune system to recognize CEA as foreign, and subsequently destroy the cancer cells. The vaccine causes a short-lived infection, which activates the immune system, causing it to attack the CEA-expressing cancer cells. The B7.1 component of the vaccine is designed to strengthen the immune response caused by ALVAC-CEA.
The current clinical trials are looking at giving the vaccine in conjunction with traditional chemotherapy. We know that, despite receiving chemotherapy after surgery, some patients will still have a recurrence of their cancer. The purpose of the vaccine is to track down and destroy any wayward cancer cells that are not destroyed by the chemotherapy. Earlier trials have found that the vaccine is safe when given alone, with side effects including mild, local reactions at the injection site, but they did not overlap with the side effects of chemotherapy. The goals of the current trials include evaluating the safety of giving the vaccine in conjunction with traditional chemotherapy and if differing administration times can improve the effect. Early studies found improved survival in patients who mounted an immune response to the vaccine.
Two studies are currently enrolling at multiple locations in the United States and Canada. A Phase II trial for patients with metastatic colon cancer, which has not yet been treated with chemotherapy, is being conducted at 13 locations in the U.S. and Canada. Participants in this trial will be randomized to one of three regimens (or arms). They will receive standard chemotherapy with fluorouracil (5-FU), Leucovorin, and irinotecan, with the vaccine given either before each treatment or following the completion of treatments, depending on which arm they are assigned to. One arm will also receive tetanus toxoid with each dose of the vaccine to determine if it can further enhance the immune response.
The second study is being conducted at several sites in Canada only. This is a phase I trial for patients with stage III colon cancer that has not yet been treated with chemotherapy. Patients will receive standard chemotherapy (fluorouracil (5-FU) and Leucovorin) in conjunction with the ALVAC-CEA/B7.1 vaccine given either before each treatment or starting after the completion of chemotherapy treatments.
To learn more about Aventis Pastuer cancer vaccine trials, visit www.cancervaccines.com or call toll-free 1-866-455-0349.
Five to ten percent of familial colorectal cancers are linked to the genetic syndromes Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colon Cancer and Familial Adenomatous Polyposis. Another thirty percent are considered familial and are assumed to have a yet unknown genetic cause. Dr. Sanford Markowitz and his team at The Ireland Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University have preliminarily identified an area on human genes that appears to account for a great number of families that have developed multiple cases of colon cancer. In order to further clarify this finding, Dr. Markowitz's team is looking for help from families in which someone has had colon cancer or colon polyps at age 65 or younger. The team would particularly like to hear from families in which two or more brothers or sisters have had colon cancer or polyps before age 65. You can learn more about Dr. Markowitz's Colon Cancer Sibling Study by calling The Ireland Cancer Center at 216-368-0497 or by registering with the NCCRA resource center database. Once you are registered in the database, the team will contact you if you qualify.
You can help the NCCRA researchers with other trials by participating in the NCCRA resource center database. Currently, it can take months to fill clinical research trials, however, by reaching large numbers of people, the NCCRA hopes to reduce those waits down to several weeks or a month. Such an effort would serve to allow trials to reach their conclusions more quickly, and literally move science forward.
The resource center serves as a database where interested persons can register, then accredited researchers, after receiving approval from the NCCRA's Medical Advisory Board, would be allowed to search the database to find patients who match their study criteria.


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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- Kansas State University student Erik Kynard had plenty of support from the Wildcat nation Tuesday as he competed in the Olympics and came away with a silver medal in the high jump.
One watch party on campus was hosted by K-State's Athletic Department at Bramlage Coliseum so that staff members could cheer him on as well as the two other Team USA members who participated in the final.
Kynard cleared a height of 2.33 meters (7 feet, 7.73 inches) to finish in the Silver Medal position. Ivan Ukhov, a Russian jumper and world ranked #1, cleared 2.38 meters to win.
Kynard, 21, from Toledo, Ohio, is going to be a senior in the fall. He and the two other Team USA members who competed in the high jump are coached by Cliff Rovelto, Director of the Track and Field and Cross Country programs at K-State.
"We're really just happy for them because you do know how hard they work and what kind of goals they have to try to get there and to see someone actually meet what they're trying to do, it's kind of a relief that they've been able to do it. It's really fulfilling," said Kyle Hierholzer, assistant coach for the Track & Field team.
"Coach Rovelto is a really well known coach in the track and field community. All three of the Americans competing right now in the high jump are coached by him and train here in Manhattan so along with Erik, we're proud of all our competitors that are representing the United States," he added.
Officials say this is the first time in 16 years that an active student athlete at K-State has competed in the Olympics.
Jeffrey Julmis, who graduated from Kansas State University this past May, finished 38th out of 53 Tuesday in the 110 meter hurdle competition for the Haitian team at the London Games.


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Anyone seeking insight into Robert Plant as a man and musician will find it here. (Q Magazine)
Particularly enlightening on Plant's formative pre-Zep years in the Midlands, A Life puts the singer's eclectic career into clear context. (Dave Lewis, Tight But Loose magazine)
From the Back Cover
Robert Plant is a living legend. The front man of Led Zeppelin, one of the biggest and most influential rock bands of all time, Plant defined the very notion of what it means to be a rock god.
The sheer scale of Led Zeppelin's success is extraordinary. In the United States alone they have sold seventy million records—a figure surpassed only by the Beatles—while "Stairway to Heaven," the band's most famous song, has been played more times on American radio than any other track and is frequently referred to as one of the greatest rock 'n' roll songs ever.
But Robert Plant's legacy stretches far beyond Led Zeppelin. Robert Plant: A Life is the story of the forces that shaped Plant: from his boyhood in England's Black Country to the ravaging highs and lows of the Zeppelin years; from his relationship with Jimmy Page and John Bonham to the solo career that today, at the age of sixty-two, has him producing some of the most acclaimed work of his career. Author Paul Rees, former editor of Q and Kerrang!, who has in the past interviewed Plant at length, paints a rich, complicated portrait of a man who was only nineteen when he changed the face of rock 'n' roll.
Told with tenacity, emotion, and the spark of brilliance that befits such an enigmatic front man, Robert Plant: A Life is the definitive story of a musical icon.


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Previously I used my NN5 with a D200 and Sigma 10-20mm.
Now I shoot with a D3s and have recently purchased a Nikon 16mm 2.8 Fisheye lens for shooting VR. With the arm set to -15 I can shoot 6 images and one Z to fill the hole. I was looking around for peoples settings but in the end used a method on another site to try and fine tune.
I am currently using:-
Bottom Arm - 89mm
Top Arm - 66mm
I have the normal NN5 camera mount.
Anyone else using the same set-up with the same of different settings?


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I'm about to start teaching myself to use Cubase, but before I do I need to understand a fundamental thing. I know the software has phenomenal power to alter and arrange sound, but where do the sounds originally come from? Do you have to record instruments/vocals/noises and then load them in, or can the software create the sound itself virtually?
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Yes to both. You can basically work either with a sampler (which contrain prerecorded samples of different instruments, in different pitches, spread out over the keyboard) or with synthesizers which more or less creates the sound you want on the spot. Both of these technologies are implemented as plug-ins, for example as a VST.
Both approaches will work. In fact you can easily create music inside Cubase without importing or recording any sound. I.e. you can open a midi editor in Cubase and manually insert notes, modify their length/volume/pitch, and then route this midi track into an "instrument", that generates sound from midi. For example, Steinberg Synth HALion, which comes with Cubase(at least it did with my Cubase 6 LE)
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Urinary Tract Infections in Infants
Q: What might be the cause of a urinary tract infection in a four-month-old girl? She was very sick with a fever of 105. They first thought it might be spinal meningitis and did a spinal tap. That came out OK. Ultrasound picked up the urinary infection.
A: In very young babies, the bacteria germs generally reach the urinary tract by the bloodstream. Older infants and children tend to get infections from bacteria reaching the bladder through the opening where urine comes out (urethra). Once the bacteria reach the bladder, they can cause varying degrees of inflammation and severity of disease. Although an infection begins in the bladder, the germs can then reach the kidneys by moving up (refluxing) toward them. Factors, such as the shape, form, and function of the urinary tract, also play a role in who is more likely to get an infection.
Making the diagnosis of a urinary tract infection (UTI) in young infants is not always easy. Infants do not express themselves in the same ways older children and adults do. They usually have non-specific symptoms, including unexplained fever (just like your four-month-old did), vomiting, irritability, and lethargy.
Collecting specimens of urine to study in the lab (urine culture) is at best difficult, since bag-collected specimens in girls do not give very reliable results. It is often necessary to use some invasive method like putting a small tube into the bladder through the urethra or directing a needle into the bladder from the outside and aspirating urine in this way.
Infections of the bladder and sometimes the kidneys are common in children. The prevalence of UTI in infants between two months and two years is as high as five percent and more common in girls. Having a high index of suspicion for a UTI in infants is important since this young age group is at highest risk for kidney damage from such an infection. Once the diagnosis is accurately made, the correct antibiotic can be used to treat the germ causing the infection and your infant can be properly evaluated and followed closely for recurrences.
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#3. Barry the Saint Bernard
Barry lived during the 19th century in a monastery near the Switzerland-Italy border, serving as an extremely busy rescue dog along what was basically the Route 66 of the Alps.
Barry managed to save more than 40 people's lives in the snow, with no equipment, thumbs or even brandy (the barrel of alcohol carried by St. Bernards is a myth).
This, but with fuckloads of snow.
And in case by "saving lives" you think we mean "he smelled trapped people and barked at them," check this out:
Probably his most spectacular rescue was a small child that got stuck on an icy ledge under layers of snow. Barry, unencumbered by the weight of his massive balls, managed to climb the ledge and started licking the boys face to keep him warm until the monks from the monastery could get to him. Once more, the humans in the story failed. The monks couldn't reach the boy, making death all but a certainty.
But Barry wouldn't give up. He kept desperately trying to revive the boy until miraculously, he woke up and clung to Barry's neck. The dog then carried him to safety. Most of us would have given up on our own child at that point and just gone home to make another one.
#2. Chips the German Shepherd-Collie-Husky Mix
Chips was a ridiculous mix of a bunch of dog breeds that look nothing alike, leading us to believe that alcohol was a factor in his conception. He was shipped off to fight the Axis in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France and Germany as a sentry dog, which is basically a guard dog that kills Nazis (i.e., the best kind of guard dog).
During the invasion of Sicily, Chips and Pvt. John Rowell, his handler, were pinned down on a beach by machine gun fire. Chips managed to free himself from Rowell, jumped into the bunker the Italians were firing from and attacked them.
The dog won. The Italians were forced to surrender to the Americans rather than have their throats torn out.
We know what you're thinking: Those were the shittiest soldiers ever, and either were already planning to surrender and the dog probably just got in the way, or at best they had some kind of dog phobia.
Well, guess what. Later that day, Chips captured 10 more Italian soldiers, maybe because they all forgot they were carrying guns but more likely because Chips was, pound for pound, the most badass soldier in the war.
For his heroic actions, Chips was awarded a Silver Star and Purple Heart, though he was later stripped of his medals because he was a dog. After the war, he returned home to his family and a shitty Disney movie.
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#1. Endal the Labrador Retriever
Endal was a British Labrador Retriever that worked as a service dog helping a Gulf War veteran named Allen Parton, who had very serious head injuries that made him unable to create new memories, like Guy Pierce in Memento.
Endal was name "Dog of the Millennium." If you are wondering why, well, it was because he was goddamn genius even by human standards. Since the severely brain damaged and wheelchair-bound Parton could do virtually nothing for himself, Endal had to learn a lot of things that, quite frankly, dogs have no business doing.
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STEUBENVILLE - University of Kentucky head basketball coach John Calipari will be the keynote speaker at Franciscan University of Steubenville's 2013 Baron Club Dinner (formerly the Century Club Dinner).
It begins at 7 p.m. on April 20, and is the major fundraising event of the year for Baron athletic programs.
A native of Moon Township, Pa., and a 1978 graduate of Moon Area High School, Calipari garnered his first NCAA National Championship a year ago, when he led the University of Kentucky to its eighth title.
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Calipari is one of only two coaches to lead three schools to a Final Four finish. En route to the 2012 national championship, Calipari guided the Wildcats to an NCAA record-tying 38 wins and a 16-0 mark in the Southeastern Conference. He has also been the head coach of the New Jersey Nets and assistant coach with the Philadelphia 76ers.
Calipari impresses upon his players the importance of academics and the development of life skills. Fifteen of the last 18 seniors who came through his Memphis program earned their bachelor's degrees. The Kentucky team posted a 3.12 grade- point average in the 2012 spring semester with 10 players earning a 3.0 GPA or better.
Calipari is the author of two books, "Refuse to Lose" and "Bounce Back: Overcoming Setbacks to Succeed in Business and in Life."
"People who remember last year's dinner (with speaker Lou Holtz) can look forward to an equally enjoyable evening," said Mike Florak, director of community development at the university.
ESPN's John Buccigross will return to his hometown to be the master of ceremonies, as he did for the 2011 dinner. Buccigross is a 1984 graduate of Steubenville Catholic Central. His ESPN duties include hosting "SportsCenter," "Baseball Tonight," "NHL 2Night." Buccigross' admitted favorite sport is hockey, which prompted him to write the book, "Jonesy: Put Your Head Down and Skate," about former NHL player Keith Jones.
At the dinner, the 2013 Baron Club President's Award will be presented to Rich Wilinski, principal of Steubenville Catholic Central High School, for his 54 years in education and his contributions to Ohio Valley youth. It will also be presented posthumously to longtime community and business leaders Arthur J. D'Anniballe Jr., CPA, and Robert J. D'Anniballe Sr.
Wilinski has served as principal of Catholic Central since 2008, and was a former teacher and head football coach at the school in the 1970s and 1980s. He served as principal of Buckeye North High School from 1985-1989, and as principal of Edison High School from 1989-2008. He also taught and was head football coach at Toronto High School from 1970-1977.
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Brothers Arthur and Robert D'Anniballe were fixtures in the Steubenville community.
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I'm trying to prove the following:
If $S\colon V\to V$ and $T\colon V\to V$ are unitary linear transformations on unitary space $V$ ($\dim V=n$, $n$ is finite), such that $ST=TS$, then they have a joint eigenvector basis (aka there is a basis of $V$ composed of eigenvectors of both $S$ and $T$ - not necessarily of the same eigenvalue per each).
Can anyone help me out? I've tried rephrasing the 'matrix equivalent' of the theorem, but I didn't get much further.


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The question I have is pretty straightforward, and its answer could very well be contained in some more complicated question(s) asked previously. Here it is:
Why are deformations typically considered as structures over the ring of dual numbers?
My motivation is rather general: I just want to know more about deformation theory. And this question seems like a place to start. The problem for me is that all resources I have read just jump into the fray with "Consider the ring of dual numbers..." and define first-order deformations straight away.
I am sure that I am just missing something obvious; any nudge in the right direction will be greatly appreciated.


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Let say I have the following image,
How to calculate the new length of line?
Update: It seems there is confusion on question. See this image,
I just need to map the 100 * 100 Rectangle with 250 * 150 Rectangle. Everything inside 100 * 100 Rectangle must be shown to 250 * 150 Rectangle.
Finally, I got the correct answer. Thanks to anon and user27978. This will work even if the slope of new line changed.


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I installed RVM from scratch following the installation guide on the official website. I installed Rails, created a dummy app and everything worked fine.
I shut off my machine.
The next morning, I turned on the machine again (cold boot) and the tried running "
rails -v" from the console, but I get the following error message:
sergio@Sergio-work ~ $ rails -v
The program 'rails' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install rails
I can run
ruby -v just fine, and get the following message:
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ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-linux]
I can also run
gem list just fine, output:
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actionmailer (3.2.3)
actionpack (3.2.3)
activemodel (3.2.3)
activerecord (3.2.3)
activeresource (3.2.3)
activesupport (3.2.3)
arel (3.0.2)
builder (3.0.0)
bundler (1.1.4)
coffee-rails (3.2.2)
coffee-script (2.2.0)
coffee-script-source (1.3.3)
erubis (2.7.0)
execjs (1.4.0)
faraday (0.8.0)
google_drive (0.3.0)
hike (1.2.1)
httpauth (0.1)
i18n (0.6.0)
journey (1.0.3)
jquery-rails (2.0.2)
json (1.7.3)
libv8 (126.96.36.199 x86_64-linux)
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mysql2 (0.3.11)
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rack (1.4.1)
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I hope this question is reasonable enough to have a well known answer. i.e either there is a simple invariant (like the homotopy groups) that characterizes the homeomorphism type of such set among other such sets or there is an explanation of why such classification is difficult. partial results, like the well known fact that every two open connected and simply connected subsets of the plane are homeomorphic, would be interesting too. thanks.
If you have a presentation $P$ of a group $G$ with finitely many generators and relations then you can construct a $2$-dimensional simplicial complex $K(P)$ with $\pi_1(K(P))=G$. You can then embed $K(P)$ in a Euclidean space (I think $\mathbb{R}^5$ is good enough) and take a regular neighbourhood $U$. Then $U$ is an open subset of $\mathbb{R}^5$ that is homotopy equivalent to $K(P)$ with $\pi_1(U)=G$. The theory of finite group presentations is undecidable, so this means that there is no effective classification of such subsets. This is without any kind of local wildness. You can construct much worse examples by taking the complements of wild knots, fractals, the Alexander horned sphere and so on.
For subsets of the line, it's easy: each open subset is a countable disjoint union of intervals. For subsets of the plane, It's non-trivial, but something sensible can be said. For subsets of $\mathbb R^n$ for $n\ge 3$, I have no idea and I suspect that it's already hopeless in the case of $\mathbb R^3$.
So let $U\subset \mathbb R^2$ be an open subset, and let's assume without loss of generality that it's connected. Then $U$ is completely classified by its space of ends (see comment of Agol below for a reference). That's a compact, separable, zero-dimensional topological space. Those can probably be completely classified, even though I didn't quite manage to do it.
Added later: Actually, there are good reasons why the classification is not feasable (see comments of Clinton Conley below).
The basic operation on such a set $X$ is that of taking its derived subset $$ X':=X\setminus \{\mathrm{isolated\\ points\\ of\\ } X\} $$
This operation can be iterated transfinitely, and so we get $X^{(\alpha)}$ for any ordinal $\alpha$ (where $X^{(\alpha)}$ is defined as the intersection of all $X^{(\beta)}$ for $\beta<\alpha$ when $\alpha$ is a limit ordinal). Since $X^{(\alpha)}$ is a descending sequence of subset of $X$, there is a minimal $\gamma$ such that $X^{(\gamma)}=X^{(\gamma+1)}$. This is a countable ordinal and is the first interesting invariant of $X$. There are two options for $X^{(\gamma)}$: either it's empty, or it's a Cantor set: that's the second invariant of $X$. Finally, if $\gamma$ is a successor ordinal, then you can look at the discrete set $X^{(\gamma-1)}\setminus X^{(\gamma)}$. If $X^{(\gamma)}=\emptyset$, then that's a finite non-empty set whose cardinality is an invariant. And if $X^{(\gamma)}$ is a Cantor set, then $X^{(\gamma-1)}\setminus X^{(\gamma)}$ is either finite or infinitely countable.
I recapitulate. The invariants of $X:=\mathrm{Ends}(U)$ are:
I thought for a while that those might be a complete set of invariants of $U$, but I was wrong. For example: if $X^{(\gamma)}$ is a Cantor set, then we can also look at the set of accumulation points of $X^{(\gamma-1)}\setminus X^{(\gamma)}$ inside $X^{(\gamma)}$: that's again a compact, separable, zero-dimensional topological space, and so it has its own set of invariants...
For $R^2$, connected open subspaces are precisely the non-compact orientable surfaces with genus zero (see this question for more info.)
For $R^3$, there is no homotopy criterion. The Whitehead manifold embeds in $R^3$ with complement the Whitehead continuum. The Whitehead manifold may be constructed as a union of solid tori, each one homotopically trivial in the next. One may modify the usual construction slightly by embedding each solid torus in the next with a little knot tied in it. Then one can show that this union does not embed in $R^3$. However, such manifolds are contractible, and therefore all homotopy invariants vanish.
To see that it doesn't embed in $R^3$ (or $S^3$), suppose you had an embedding in $S^3$. Then the complement of each solid torus is a knot complement, and each knot is a satellite of the next one. If each such knot were non-trivial, then you would have a knot whose complement contained infinitely many incompressible tori, contradicting Haken finiteness. So infinitely many of these solid tori must have trivial complement (this is exactly what you see in the embedding of the Whitehead manifold). But one may see that the little knot we tie in each embedding of a solid torus in the next must make the resulting knot complement have the little knot as a connect summand, giving a contradiction to embedding in $S^3$.
Here's a descriptive set-theoretic view of the problem of classifying open subsets of $\mathbb{R}^2$ up to homeomorphism. The eventual answer will be a formal version of "it's pretty darn hard, but maybe not inconceivably hard." Note that I haven't actually done any work here besides placing the work of others in the correct order.
First, a couple of words on classification problems in general (read: propaganda). When somebody has classified some objects $\mathcal{A}$ in terms of some objects $\mathcal{B}$, two natural questions to ask are
(1) How hard is it to compute the particular $B \in \mathcal{B}$ corresponding to a given $A \in \mathcal{A}$?, and
(2) How hard is it to distinguish elements of $\mathcal{B}$ from each other?
If either of these tasks is particularly hard, one could argue that the classification isn't all that useful. For example, in the current problem one could say "invoke the axiom of choice to wellorder the quotient space of open sets modulo homeomorphism and classify an open set by the location of its equivalence class in the order," which makes (1) rather challenging. Alternatively, one could simply beg the question by saying each open set is in a unique homeomorphism-class, so the homeomorphism-classes themselves provide a classification, which makes (1) easy (in a sense) but there's no reason to think (2) can be done simply.
One way to formalize these concepts is through Borel reducibility of equivalence relations. If $E$ and $F$ are equivalence relations on standard Borel spaces $X$ and $Y$ (resp.), we say $E$ is Borel reducible to $F$, written $E \mathrel{\leq_B} F$, iff there is a Borel function $\phi: X \to Y$ such that $x_0 \mathrel{E} x_1 \iff \phi(x_0) \mathrel{F} \phi(x_1)$. Loosely, the relation $E \mathrel{\leq_B} F$ means "any definable classification of $Y/F$ is also a definable classification of $X/E$" (or, put more succinctly, "$F$ is at least as complicated as $E$"). This gives us a meaningful way to compare various classification problems.(*)
The $\leq_B$ relation is well studied (but there's still a lot we don't know!) in the case that $E$ and $F$ are in themselves in some sense definable. Of particular note is when they are orbit equivalence relations induced by a continuous action of a Polish group on a Polish space. Of even more particular note is when this Polish group is $S_\infty$, the group of permutations of the natural numbers (including those of infinite support). This group is especially important from a logical point of view. Given some countable (let's say relational) language $\mathcal{L}$, you can look at the $\mathcal{L}$-structures with universe $\mathbb{N}$. Then the group of automorphisms of $\mathbb{N}$ respecting $\mathcal{L}$ is a closed subgroup of $S_\infty$. In particular, isomorphism of $\mathcal{L}$-structures with universe $\mathbb{N}$ is Borel reducible to to an equivalence relation induced by a nice action of $S_\infty$.
Moreover, there's an $S_\infty$-universal equivalence relation $E_{S_\infty}$ in the sense that every equivalence relation induced by a nice $S_\infty$ action Borel reduces to $E_{S_\infty}$. In a precise sense, $E_{S_\infty}$ is at least as complicated as the isomorphism relation for any sort of countable structure in a countable language (for example, isomorphism of countable graphs, isomorphism of countable groups, etc.).
Now, the punchline of all this is: there's a Borel reduction of $E_{S_\infty}$ to the homeomorphism relation on open subsets of $\mathbb{R}^2$ (equipped with the natural interpretation of the Effros Borel structure). This follows from
Camerlo and Gao, "The completeness of the isomorphism relation for countable Boolean algebras," Trans AMS 353 (2001), no. 2, 491-518
and the the pitch-perfect response by André Henriques to a rather nebulous question of mine in the comments after his answer. The idea is that there is a Borel reduction of $E_{S_\infty}$ to homeomorphism of closed subsets of Cantor space (again with the corresponding Effros Borel structure), constructed in Camerlo-Gao. Fixing some copy of Cantor space in the plane, this reduction can then be composed with the Borel map $\phi$ that assigns to each closed subset $K$ of Cantor space its complement in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Since it is known from results of Richards (thanks, Agol!) that $\phi(K_0)$ and $\phi(K_1)$ are homeomorphic iff $K_0$ and $K_1$ are, this composition is indeed a Borel reduction. In fact, if you restrict your attention to nowhere dense subsets of Cantor space you get a Borel reduction to a part of the homeomorphism relation induced by a Polish group action (I'm not sure whether the entire homeomorphism relation is so induced).
So, in other words, any classification of open subsets of $\mathbb{R}^2$ up to homeomorphism is also a classification of any countable structure in any countable language up to isomorphism! So, that's what I meant when I said it's "pretty darn hard."
So then what did "maybe not inconceivably hard" mean? Some equivalence relations are so complicated that they are not classifiable by countable structures. That is, they can not be Borel reduced to any isomorphism relation of $\mathcal{L}$-structures as described above. For example, homeomorphism of closed subsets of Cantor space is classifiable by countable structures (Stone duality), while isomorphism of type $II_1$ von Neumann factors is not classifiable by countable structures (Sasyk-Törnquist 2009). I have no idea where this problem sits with respect to this notion (to show that this homeomorphism relation is classifiable by countable structures it would be enough to show that there's a Borel way of associating with each open subset $U$ of the plane a closed subset of Cantor space homeomorphic to $U$'s space of ends). For more examples see:
(*)Fine print disclaimer: not everybody thinks this is the "right" hierarchy to use. One alternative is to "effectivize" everything (working lightface rather than boldface: think "recursive" instead of "Borel"), although this is quite challenging and restrictive. But, aside from these, I'm not familiar with any notions with such a rich structure theory. Note that I'm not including the "I'll know a classification when I see it" standpoint (which is fine for SCOTUS, but isn't particularly amenable to formal analysis).
This is an attempt to rephrase the question so that it makes more sense. As mentioned in other answers, there is absolutely no hope for a homeomorphism classification of open subsets of $\mathbb R^n$ if $n>2$.
I think, a better question would be "what can be said about manifolds that are homeomorphic to open subsets of $R^n$, or equivalently, manifolds that can be covered by a single coordinate chart?".
Any such manifold is parallelizable i.e. its tangent bundle is trivial, but I do not know other obstructions. One could consider a parallelizable manifold (e.g. a Lie group) that is not homeomorphic to $R^n$, take any of its open subsets $U$ and then how does one decide whether $U$ can be covered by a single coordinate chart?
So a test question: remove finitely many points from your favorite compact Lie group, and try to see if it embeds in the Euclideas space of the same dimension. Surely, this kind of questions must be answered if one hopes for a classification. I do not know the answer.
Amusingly, any infinite dimensional separable Hilbert manifold is homeomorphic to an open subset of a separable Hilbert space, i.e. $l_2$.
Open subsets of R^n cannot be classified by their homotopy type only. For instance, take the following two embeddings f,g: S^1 v S^1 v S^2 -> R^3. Let f embed both circles S^1 of the wedge to distinct components of R^3-S^2, and let g embed them to the same component. Then the open regular neighborhoods of f and g are both homotopy equivalent to S^1 v S^1 v S^2 but they are not homeomorphic to each other because their boundaries are distinct (2 tori - for f, a sphere and a genus 2 surface - for g).
(Nonsense written before removed - thanks to Sergey Melikhov's comment.)


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No plugin or PHP code is needed to do this. If you look at your HTML body class, you will see that WP helpfully adds the class of "logged-in" for any users who are registered and logged into the site.
With this info along with the class name you give for the particular menu link you want to hide/show, you can draft a CSS rule that will hide that.
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GDC 2014: Sony unveils PS4 VR headset prototypeWritten by: / / 10 Comments
Virtual reality gaming has made a major comeback in recent years thanks to initiatives such as Oculus Rift so it was only a matter of time before a platform holder like Sony introduced their own VR device.
Yesterday at the ongoing Game Developers Conference in San Francisco Sony Computer Entertainment held a special press event where it unveiled a PS4 VR headset prototype codenamed Project Morpheus. This VR prototype requires the PlayStation Camera to track head orientation and movement, and can be used in conjunction with the DualShock 4 or PlayStation Move controller.
The device consists of a 1080p panel that delivers 960×1080 pixels to each eye for stereoscopic 3D and features a 90 degree field of view. Project Morpheus also utilises Sony's new 3D audio technology that recreates stereoscopic sounds in all directions and updates in real-time depending on the player's head orientation.
Sony has been working on Project Morpheus for over three years and the latest prototype will serve as the first development kit for PS4 developers interested in creating VR content for the console.
Stay tuned to El33tonline for more Project Morpheus updates as Sony gets closer to finalising the retail model of this promising VR device.
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Why do many DSLRs have the option to save in RAW or JPEG but not in TIFF? It would be useful to save it as a TIFF file using lossless compression. It would be a midway between RAW and JPEG. Is it because the size of TIFF files is huge?
Noting other answers, and having had a bridge camera that did TIFFs, I'd suggest that for DSLRs TIFF is pointless except as an add on if it can be managed.
TIFF is a lossless way of saving an image, once an image is generated, BUT the image that it saves is an interpretation of what the sensor records.
RAW gives you the maximum possible flexibility in dealing with the available data. Software to convert to TIFF or JPG is provided by the camera maker plus the various commercial RAW converters are a small fraction of a good DSLR price.
JPG gives you user usable images at a compression level that suits the user.
RAW + JPG gives you all the advantages of RAW plus some of the advantages of JPG (as it usually does not allow selection of JPG compression level and the JPG provided may be not be the highest quality JPG the camera provides in pure JPG mode.
TIFF loses data relative to RAW and is far larger than any sensible JPG and has no great quality improvement over the best JPG. Once it is "not RAW" then it is subject to manufacturers decisions.
Useful where available is Compressed-RAW and Compressed RAW + JPG.
They do actually but not all of them. Even some bridge cameras can save as TIFF.
Unfortunately, TIFF was given a bad name because its files were huge. Early on, compression was not used for TIFF files by digital cameras and so that gave rise to the files being huge which also slowed down the camera considerably. One of my first cameras used to take 24s to save a single TIFF file.
You are right that it would be highly desirable to have a complete image out of the camera (rather than RAW data) but without compression loss and--equally important in my opinion--higher color-depth and dynamic-range than JPEG can store.
In reality any high-bit-depth file-format could do but camera makers do not see it as important yet. This will probably come as displays start showing more than 8-bits per channel and operating system support becomes more common (this exists already but in very limited numbers at this time).
I own an Olympus Camera that has the three options you mention. Tiff files generated by the camera where somehow more than twice as big as the raw files.
My speculation here is that the RAW file, as it holds almost exclusively the information from the sensor has by nature less information to compress. That is, if the sensor where, say 10 bits per photosite, the RAW file would contain only this, arranged in a way that the conversion software will later decode knowing to which color channel each photosite corresponds.
To compose the TIFF file, the camera needs to calculate a pixel from several photosites, taking to account that some algorithms use a photosite several times to compute adjacent pixels. A pixel must be completed with its three channel values, if a 16 bit color depth image need to be encoded, you need tree values held by 16 bits each, thus you need 48 bits per pixel in the final image. Compare that to the 10 bits per photosite in the hypothetical sensor mentioned before.
Jpg will also take more time due to the processing, but will have a significant file size reduction, hence jpg was used.
RAW files are better than TIFFs in almost every respect:
The only disadvantage is the need to demosaic and process the images before they can be viewed. Which is where JPEG comes in. JPEGs are better than TIFFs in a number of respects:
So this is why camera manufacturers mostly offer RAW + JPEG. It used to be the case that older bridge and compact cameras offered TIFF files, but this was before RAW conversion software was popular and most people lacked the ability to do the conversion, hence TIFF was offered if you really needed to avoid image compression artefacts.
Boy, I can not believe the amount of disinformation there is about .tiffs! Basically, a .tiff file is an uncompressed jpeg. Similar to a jpeg, it lets the camera set the contrast, white balance, etc. for your picture (which you have pre-set in the camera for the situation you are photographing). If you're using camera-specific software when processing raw files, the quality is probably no different after processing than if you made the same settings in-camera and saved as a .tiff.
There are camera models such as the Nikon D300s, that allow you to shoot native .tiff in the camera. If you can set the camera to make an excellent photo, much like a photographer in the past shooting a transparency, then by all means shoot it as .tiff! Camera RAW, does have all the information saved, and then you can go in and modify that, so you can set contrast, density, color, etc., then save as a .tiff for the highest quality file to send to ad agencies or printers.
BUT if you can set that in the camera, and would have been happy with a jpeg version, all the .tiff file is, is an uncompressed version of that.
In addition, .tiff is a lossless file format. If you shoot .tiff and need to get in and change the color a little, or density, or contrast, no problem, you can resave it with no loss. If you need to get in and change it a lot, RAW is better, but maybe you shouldn't be a photographer if you're that far off!


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Language: English
Published in: 1860
Word count: 244,492 words (≈ about 16 hours)
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Copyright: Public Domain
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