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I've gone through the example scons builds here and have found them wanting in providing a solution that fits my project.
The structure is as follows:
Every module follows the same structure, an include folder for all the .h's and a src file for the cpps. Each module builds into a shared object. There is no executable.
Modules have cross dependencies. For instance Module_A is the logging mechanism and it is used in modules B, C, D, etc. Likewise, Module_B is the Configuration loader, which is used in several other modules. And Module_C would be the IPC module, used in almost each module listed. Lastly, Module_D is the command center and links against EVERY other module (literally).
I am interested in replacing the current setup we have of using recursive make to build the project. I am trying to build the sconstruct and SConscripts necessary to do so, but I am very new to even make, let alone scons.
I am interested in turning each Module's .cpp and .h into a .so and to have its dependencies resolved automagically as is done with make now.
In the SConscript, I currently use glob to get the *.cpps and then include the module's './include' in the CPPPATH. I have used
env.SharedLibrary(CPPATH='./include', source= (list of the cpps))
But since this depends on other Modules, it will not work, stating the other module's functions that are used are "not declared".
How do I go about getting this kind of complex structure to build using a hierarchical scons setup?


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It's a Record: $142 Million in Giving!
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Thank you, America! The Salvation Army raised $142 million in Christmas Red Kettles during the 2010 season, setting a record for the sixth straight year!
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Wow. It was a busy Red Kettle season, to say the least. We used many of our traditional efforts, from the volunteer bell ringers you probably saw on every corner, to our annual Thanksgiving Day Kickoff at Cowboys Stadium. Plus, we had a few new ideas up our sleeves, like our Rock the Red Kettle Concert and a new iPhone app.
When it all comes down to it, though, we couldn't have done any of this without you. Thank you for your generosity. And thanks to our many corporate partners for your continued support. We're very grateful for all of your help with assisting those in need!
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I have a website and I would like to put a DIV above this website with field to enter e-mail and button "Subscribe". It should work like this advertisements that we all like. So this div should be always on the center of the screen, and it should be "above" the website and scroll while user is browsing though the page. When user clicks X it should close.
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This question may sound silly but I'm really not pretty sure whether the stars are rotating or stationary.If they are not rotating what makes them to be stable?
Stars rotate due to the angular momentum of the gas they formed from. This angular momentum must be conserved, and remains as the rotation of the star and it's satellites. If a star collapsed from a completely static gas cloud it would not rotate, but would still be stable. The stability is provided by the hydrostatic equilibrium between radiation and thermal pressure with gravitation collapsing the star - not the stars rotation.
I don't know any statistics but I expect all stars rotate to some degree; It is usually the turbulence of gas clouds that leads to overdensities that then collapse in to stars.
Stars are rotating, but that's not the cause for their stability.
The stability is caused by the hydrostatic equilibrium between gas/plasma pressure and gravity. The pressure is mainly caused by the heat of several millions degrees.
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Like Chris said above, stars rotate to conserve their angular momentum. They have an initial angular momentum from their formation. In a stellar system both energy and momentum, must be conserved for the system to be stable. Throughout the evolution, the system may radiate some angular momentum away in the form of gravity waves (ie. double degenerate binaries). During this process the separation of two stars will be reduced and the rotation rate of the star will spike to conserve angular momentum.
More on this here: http://www.selmademink.com/science/on-the-origin-of-stellar-rotation-rates-and-the-role-binary-interaction/


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I am delighted to see that Nodal Ninja is promoting the iSTAR.
I think that this is a major step in the world of panoramic photography and it is good to see that Nodal Ninja is adding another quality product to its range, especially as there is no conflict between this and the existing products.
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Horse Power
Racing syndicates aren't for the fainthearted, but there's no thrill like winning
THE AIR IS SWEET at six in the morning on Newmarket's training grounds. On a good day, the sun is starting to burn the mist off the heath. As many as 2,500 horses train on the gallops daily. Even here, away from the racetrack, the excitement is palpable. And it doesn't take racing in the genes to get caught up by it all.
Horse racing may be the sport of kings but it is also the sport of the doctor and dentist, the actor and athlete, the PR man and the publican. Whether at Chantilly (France) or Flemington (Australia) or Goodwood (England), those raising their hats or burying their heads in their hands will be from all walks of life. "It draws terrific emotion up and down….It's never a flat line. Never boring," says Harry Herbert, managing director of Britain's Highclere Thoroughbred Racing (HTR).
Classless? Not quite, but it's close. Egalitarian? Usually only as far as the rail around the winners' enclosure.
For the many who yearn to step inside that rail and try for a slice of the £90-million-plus in prize money distributed in British racing yearly, there's the hard way and the easy way. The hard way? Head for a sale, buy a horse (the entry price is about £50,000), pick a trainer (£25,000-£30,000 a year for a decent name) and wait for the vet bills. "You might have a Dobbin or you might have a Pegasus, but Pegasus has injury issues," says Mr. Herbert. "All the things that can potentially go wrong, and you've only got one bullet to fire."
The easier way? Take shares in a syndicate, which is where Mr. Herbert comes in. But "anyone who tells you 'This is a great investment' needs to be shot," he says.
''It draws terrific emotion up and down....It's never a flat line'
This year, Highclere is celebrating 20 years as a leading multiple-ownership company. It concentrates on flat racing, though it has made some forays into the jump world. Since its earliest days, Mr. Herbert's operation—set on his family's Highclere Estate, better known as "Downton Abbey"—has been synonymous with success. Its European champions include Lake Coniston, Petrushka and Tamarisk. In the recent past, its most notable runner has been Harbinger, bought for 180,000 guineas (horse auctions are still conducted in guineas—one guinea equals £1.05) and first raced as a three-year-old in 2009. The colt was owned by HTR's Admiral Rous syndicate and sold, after a nine-race/six-win career, to Japan for an undisclosed figure, having reached the top of World Thoroughbred Rankings in 2010.
The stable of fame also includes Motivator (bought for 75,000 guineas and sold for £6 million), which HTR managed for the Royal Ascot Racing Club. HTR's focus from its inception has been, according to Mr. Herbert, "to give people the most cost-effective entry into the sport that would give them the best chance of competing at a high level." And Motivator and Harbinger were definitely running at the highest level.
This year's hopes lie with Telescope (bought for 225,000 guineas), which produced its first win last week. The horse is trained by the renowned Michael Stoute and is owned by the Wavertree syndicate, of which Alex Ferguson, of Manchester United fame, is a shareholder.
The statistics are key. "Last year, I think we were 23% winners to runners," says Mr. Herbert. "And we were about 68% winners and placed horses to runners. So, if you are with us, and you know that when your horse runs there's an almost 70% chance of it finishing in the frame or having a proper shout, that's a very important statistic."
Out of "Downton" has come one of HTR's latest owners, the actor Hugh Bonneville (Lord Grantham), who has shares in its Petrushka syndicate. The gold-medal-winning heptathlete Denise Lewis is an owner in at least two syndicates.
HTR launched nine new syndicates, with two horses in each, in June, with shares priced from £15,950 to £37,950. A yearling parade, where owners see their horses for the first time, takes place in October. Between now and then, Mr. Herbert and John Warren, a director of the company and bloodstock adviser, will look at 3,000-4,000 horses. "The biggest sale is Newmarket, Tattersalls, by about a mile," says Mr. Herbert. From the point of purchase, the horses are managed by HTR. Decisions about training, when the horses run, and when, eventually, they are sold are taken by the team. "The financial side is clearly stated. People know exactly how much they are going to be putting in," says Mr. Herbert.
The syndicates' horses run all over the world. HTR now has a joint syndicate operating in Australia and the U.K.—called the Ashes, and with Elizabeth Hurley as one of its members. "Surprise, surprise," says Mr. Herbert. It is the purse for the Melbourne Cup that is a driving factor: It sits at more than 6 million Australian dollars (£3.6 million). Distinction, a horse managed by HTR throughout the noughties, ran in the cup in 2004 and came a creditable sixth. Many of his syndicate owners had flown there to share in the occasion.
Involvement with horses always comes with caveats, however. "It's not for the fainthearted," points out Mr. Herbert. "You have to be prepared for these big highs and for these big lows. There isn't a lot that bumble through the middle….It brings out an emotion in people that they never felt before. If you could bottle it....It's phenomenal watching the effect it has on people."
Eight Steps to Owning a Racehorse—the HTR Way
1 Take a share in a syndicate. Shares range from £22,900 to £48,700 (excluding VAT) for a two-year commitment—e.g. £15,950 in the first year, with second-year costs at £6,950.
2 The horses are all bought by John Warren and Harry Herbert. (Mr. Warren is bloodstock adviser to the queen.)
3 The cost includes a share (max. 20 per syndicate) in two horses, and covers training and vet fees.
4 Owners have access to their horses while in training through group stable visits and individual visits by arrangement. These often coincide with events at the Jockey Club Rooms in Newmarket.
5 Syndicate members are informed of all running plans for the horses. "We ring everyone before a race, and ring everyone after a race as well," says Mr. Herbert.
6 On race day, two badges are allocated to each member for select areas at the course, plus other race privileges.
7 Horses are sold most often at the end of their three-year career. "We know the value, we know where our horses stand," says Mr. Herbert. "We've never regretted selling a horse for good money. That's very important. That's our decision, not the share owners' decision....That's our job: To know when to take the money on the table."
8 HTR takes a management fee on each share; on any horse selling for more than twice its purchase price, the company takes 10%.
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In Raymundi Martini's Pugio Fidei, there is a section entitled, De Consistorio. While it seems he is using it in reference to Judaism, it also appears there is an equivalent in Catholicism. So, what is a Constitorio (Consistory) in Catholicism?
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I looked this up on Google Books - Pugio fidei, page 14.
This section comes from the introduction written by Joseph de Voisin, the editor. It is one of a series of notes that touch on the major points of Jewish law, with the overall aim of equipping the reader (presumed to be a Catholic preacher wanting to convert Jewish people) with an understanding of Jewish tradition and of how the Catholic faith could be best described in relation to it.
The section De consistorio is about the Sanhedrin - principally the "Great Sanhedrin" of 71 judges, deriving from the council instituted by Moses (Numbers 11). It simply describes the nature and procedure of the original Sanhedrin, with reference to Jewish texts such as the Mishneh Torah. The authority of the Sanhedrin to expound and interpret the written and oral Law, and its succession from the days of Moses, is traced forward to the Catholic Church and the Pope in a later section (titled Traditiones legis Christi conformes sunt Antiquae, et legitimae Synagogae traditionibus, p144). The idea is that if you accept the role and succession of the Sanhedrin, then you cannot reject out of hand the similar magisterial authority and apostolic succession of the Church and her Pope. They interpret tradition and execute judgements in the same way, and the Old Testament priesthood prefigures that of the New.
The word "consistory" is used in Catholicism to mean "the ecclesiastical senate in which the Pope, presiding over the whole body of Cardinals, deliberates upon the affairs of the church" (OED), or "the assemblage of the Cardinals in council around the Pope" (letter of Innocent III quoted in the Catholic Encyclopedia), or a specific meeting of this body. The Church regularly holds consistories. The most familiar kind is for creating new cardinals - see for example the official information about one in November 2012. Other meetings may be held for private consultation. The earliest known document to relate this body to the assembly of Moses is a constitution of Pope John VIII (872-882), De jure cardinalium 1.
Meanwhile, in the main text by Raymond, he argues (part 2, chapter 4) that the coming of the Messiah is related to the meeting-place of the Sanhedrin, the "Chamber of Hewn Stone" (camera dolata). This is attributed to Jewish tradition regarding Genesis 49:10, "The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes". According to this idea, the exile of the Sanhedrin from that chamber (forty years prior to the destruction of the Second Temple) was linked to their inability to inflict capital punishment, and was a signifier of the coming Messiah. This matches the New Testament account, where Jesus had to be handed over to the Romans for crucifixion, about forty years before the Temple was destroyed.
Reference: Daggers of Faith: Thirteenth-Century Christian Missionizing and Jewish Reponse. Robert Chazan. University of California Press, 1989. Chapter 7 discusses the Pugio fidei and its Sanhedrin-Messiah connection.
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I've read on a few websites (BodyBuilding and t-nation) that Box Squats are good exercises to help with dead lifts. You don't get the full range of motion and through doing them I seem to feel more tension on the back rather the glutes or legs...so, are they somehow more like dead lifts? Is it the drive from the box that provides the benefit to dead lifting?
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Mark Rippetoe is adamant that the deadlift is not a squat with the bar in your hands. That said, I've used box squats for checking my squat pattern. I find a bench, stool, or box such that when my butt hits it, I've just broken below parallel. I just tap the box and come up. There are versions where you pause for a second before rising. The idea is to be able to keep your eyes looking at the right spot on wall and not try to look down to check your depth. The main point, of course, is to not fool yourself that you can do real squats. Now I check how low I can go (with no weight) before my back starts to round and try to find a box that will help me stay safe. Squats and deadlifts will improve your ROM but it's important to only use the ROM you have. Don't almost squat so you can show off, don't squat deep if your pattern breaks (butt tucks in and back rounds). The same applies to the dl - use only the ROM you have - you'll get more as you get stronger.
I've never done them, but I hear that sitting on the box allows (produces? demands?) a greater hip drive than a boxless squat. My current understanding is that hip-drive-powered squats have more overlap with the deadlift (specifically in the posterior chain) than, say, a front squat or a high-bar back squat.
But again, I've never box squatted, and have never used squats to help my deadlift. Squats are for squats in my programming. So, your mileage may vary.


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How can I sync my MP3 collection on my Windows 7 PC with my iPhone 4S without having to use iTunes?
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Both applications allow you to copy MP3s from your PC to your iPhone without using iTunes. They are both commercial. Copytrans (19.99$) is available for Windows, while iExplorer (34.99$) has also a Mac download. And both apps have free test downloads.
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You could use the Google and Amazon double play to have access your music and sync and store locally certain tracks.
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How to Play Hearts: Rules and More
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The player to the left of the dealer leads first. (Or the person holding the 2 of clubs card can start first.) Each player after the lead must follow suit if he can. If he can't, he may play any card he wants.
A player wins a trick when he plays the highest card of the suit that is led. The winner of the trick leads the next.
A player can't lead with a heart until a heart has been "broken," or played in the game. Hearts are broken when a player lacks a card in the suit that has been led, so he throws down a heart instead. Many people play that hearts can't be broken on the first trick.
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After all the cards have been played, players count up their tricks. Each player receives a penalty point for each heart card they have. The player who ends up with the queen of spades gets 13 points. Here's a bonus: the player who ends up with the jack of diamonds gets to subtract 10 points from his score.
The player with least number of points when any player reaches 50 points (or another preset score or time limit) wins.
If a player doesn't follow the suit even though he is able, he isn't penalized if he corrects his mistake before the trick is completed. If a revoke isn't corrected in time, and is discovered before the deal has been scored, the "offender" is charged for all the hearts in that deal and no other player receives any penalty points.
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All Rise...
Editor's Note
Our review of Big Trouble In Little China (Blu-Ray), published August 30th, 2010, is also available.
The Charge
Just remember what ol' Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big old storm right in the eye and says, "Give me your best shot. I can take it."
Opening Statement
Fox does the honors and removes another "where is it on DVD?" title from their vaults and puts in our hands this Special Edition of John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China. Boasting strong video, a DTS soundtrack and a boatload of extras, this release is well worth the cash for devotees of this cult classic.
Facts of the Case
Truck driver Jack Burton (Kurt Russell—The Thing, Escape From New York) is a hard living, hard drinking, hard talking son-of-a-bitch who thinks he is not only God's gift to the female sex, but also a pretty tough hombre. As the man behind the wheel of the "Pork Chop Express," Burton has seen most of what this great country of ours has to offer, and he now finds himself in San Francisco dropping off his payload. Finding the time for an all-night game of dominoes on the wharfs of the City by the Bay, Burton ends up winning big. Unfortunately, the man who owes Jack his money can't pay right at that moment. Not being the kind of man who lets friendship stand in the way of money, Burton escorts Wang Chi (Dennis Dun—Year of the Dragon, The Last Emperor) to the airport where he is to meet his beautiful, green eyed bride-to-be from China, and from there the plan is to go back to the city where Burton will be paid. Things are looking good for Jack when he also meets a tough talking girl named Gracie Law (Kim Cattrall—Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country, Porky's). Gracie is also at the airport to pick up a girl from China, but this hardly stops Burton from turning on his special "charm." Needless to say, things do not go as planned. Chi's fiancée is kidnapped by a band of local hoodlums after they make a failed attempt to kidnap the girl Gracie had come to meet. Leaping into action, Burton and Chi make a mad rush into the streets of Chinatown where the doo-doo starts to hit the fan pretty quickly and in unbelievable ways. In a back alley, Burton witnesses the power of the walking ghost, Lo Pan (Blade Runner, Tank Girl), and his elemental minions. To say much more would ruin the surprises of the movie and I won't do that. All I will say is that one never knows where a hero will come from with the odds stacked against you and in the end, you never can tell what will happen when you stumble into Big Trouble in Little China.
The Evidence
Creatively speaking, the 1980s was a great decade for John Howard Carpenter. Things started out pretty well with one of his most underrated films, The Fog (just a quick note, it was announced recently that MGM is working on a special edition of this movie due sometime in 2002). Next up was the director's second collaboration with actor Kurt Russell. This film was, of course, the classic Escape From New York (another quick note, MGM has pulled the current movie-only version of the disc and is preparing a special edition, also due in 2002). From the mean streets of Manhattan to frozen Antarctica, Carpenter and Russell next gave the world their ode to nihilism in the bleak and disturbing The Thing. Following The Thing, Carpenter directed his sunniest movie to date, Starman, which, as he admits, was an apology to the world for the darkness of The Thing. Riding high on this Oscar nominated film, Carpenter once more turned to his friend Kurt Russell and the two joined forces on Big Trouble in Little China. This giddy tribute to Hong Kong movies, slap stick romances, John Wayne shoot-em ups and the conventions of the modern day American action film was a cinematic stew that served as an attack on the senses and the sensibilities of filmgoers everywhere.
For a movie that was so different, it should surprise no one that the movie tanked at the box office and was generally reviled by the critical press. Bear in mind that this movie was released in 1986, quite a while before most of America learned who Jackie Chan was or what in the world The Matrix meant. This was a film where the rules were thrown out the window and a whole style of filmmaking rarely seen by Western audiences was on full display. Still, to be honest, looking at Big Trouble in Little China, it is clear that it does not possess the technical sophistication of a film like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , but what it lacks in computer aided grace it more than makes up in heart. Indeed, this movie works because of its roughness and its willingness to do away with the rules. There is an innocent charm not often found in films of John Carpenter at work here, and this charm combined with a sense of mystery and wonder that helps keep the film fresh some 15 years later.
Carpenter obviously had an understanding and a passion for the genre he was exploring, and this energy is evident in every bright and kinetic frame. Aided in no small part by the contributions of cinematographer Dean Cundey (Apollo 13, Jurassic Park) and production designer John J. Lloyd, it's clear Big Trouble in Little China is a cinematic love letter of sorts and who better to send it than an artist at the height of his powers?
The number one thing the film had going for it was a quirky sense of humor that takes the conventions of the typical Hollywood action epic and twists them on their ear. The screenplay of Gary Goldman and David Z. Weinstein was originally conceived and written as a western, but it was in the adaptation of the script by writer/director W.D. Richter (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension) that the movie really took flight. Richter added a subversive perspective that Carpenter plugged into and ran with. Instead of the Old West, the setting was transposed to the mysterious Chinatown of San Francisco. Gone was the cowboy and in his place is the modern day loner, truck driver Jack Burton. Instead of being the self-assured man of action who always makes the right move, Burton is a hero without a clue. Loud, obnoxious, bull headed and petty, in Russell's hands Burton is anything but your stereotypical leading man. To watch Russell play so far against type is to watch an actor who trusts his director enought to work without a net. As the movie moves forward and as things get stranger, it becomes clear that Russell's Burton is not the star, but rather it is the supposed sidekick, Wang Chi, ably portrayed by Dennis Dun, who is the real man of action. Knowing exactly what to do and when to call for help, Chi leaves Burton on the sidelines, left to smirk and bark out definitive statements like he is the one in charge. It is the movie's ability to allow Jack Burton to always think he is the one doing the rescuing that is its greatest joke…and probably one of the biggest reasons for the film's failure with audiences at the time.
For a movie that melds together so many different genres, it makes sense that there are different styles being played by the actors. If Russell is the film's stone-jawed John Wayne type, then Dennis Dun has the earnest nature he needs down pat. To spice things up, Carpenter throws into the mix Kim Cattrall as Gracie Law. Cattrall gives a performance that appears as if it stepped off the soundstage of some 1940s screwball comedy. More Rosalind Russell then screaming damsel in distress, Cattrall delivers the goods. Her work adds zip and sexuality to the proceedings that the movie is not afraid to take advantage of. In fact, another one of the great jokes of the film is allowing Law to become attracted to Burton even though she sees what a moron he truly is. It's a typical film convention that Richter and Carpenter throw on its ear once more when, at the end of the film, Burton refuses to kiss Law as he is leaving town, choosing instead the comfort of his truck.
Veteran character actor James Hong turns up as David Lo Pan, the walking ghost who needs the bride with the green eyes to become human once more. On the commentary track, Russell and Carpenter note that more than anyone other than the director himself, Hong understood the material and its Asian filmmaking roots. It is this understanding that comes through in a performance that combines pure malevolence with an impish sort of arrogance. Like most great screen villains, Lo Pan has very clear goals that probably don't appear evil to his character. He simply wants to become human and rule the planet. The fact that someone has to die for this to occur is but a small detail that should hardly deter him from the endgame. In a film full of colorful sequences and characters, Hong's work is one of the movies highlights.
All in all it's a great ensemble that is rounded out by other wonderful performances by Victor Wong (Tremors) as the wise mystic Egg Shen; Kate Burton (The Ice Storm) as Margo, the intrepid reporter way over her head; and Donald Li (One Crazy Summer) as the sidekick's sidekick, Eddie Lee.
On to the technical side of things. Fox treats us to a beautiful transfer that maintains Carpenter's favored shooting aspect ratio of 2.35:1. It is of course given an anamorphic transfer, which blows away all previous home video incarnations. The first thing I was struck by was how very vibrant the colors appeared. Saturation is dead on the money with everything popping off of the screen. Black levels are also outstanding, and they possess a great deal of depth as well as detail. The only problems I could detect were the occasional nick or scratch, but it appears that the print was cleaned up for this release and those imperfections are few and far between. The presentation also shows the finest amount of film grain, but this is something that is basically inherent to the source material and is hardly cause for alarm. Overall I can't imagine Big Trouble in Little China looking any better, and hats off to Fox for their fine work.
There are several sound options available, which basically sound the same. Even though on the packaging the Dolby Surround is listed as 5.1, it's really 4.1. The other choice worth thinking about is a DTS 5.1 audio track. Realistically both are 4.1 but in the case of the DTS the same surround channel has been encoded as right and left, thus making it 5.1. Given my choice and if you have the capability with your receiver I would go for the DTS. As is usually the case, DTS sounds both tighter and richer to my ear. That said, the overall presentation is solid on both tracks and neither disappoint. Dialogue is well mixed, music is never overpowering, and special effects are heard to good effect. No one is going to confuse this sound design with something like The Haunting, but it is certainly representative of the film and the period. It's not a reference mix but it is certainly quite good, and once more the film has never been treated better. [Editor's Note: Harold says all the tracks sound the same, but he didn't say anything about the matrixed 2.0 surround. It is far inferior to the digital tracks. It sounds very hollow and flat next to the rich remix.]
I find it difficult in this age of Super Duper Special Editions to look at any release as definitive, but in the case of Big Trouble in Little China, I can't imagine a future version being any more complete. As produced by David Prior, who was also the brain behind Fox's Fight Club and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, things start off with some really clever and appropriate menus that are pretty easy to navigate and fun to look at. The first goodie worth talking about is the audio commentary with John Carpenter and Kurt Russell. This is the third time the two have sat down and recorded one of these things together, and the affection between the two for each other is clear. It is a free wheeling discussion that goes in depth about the film and about their lives. Both participants are interesting and this track is mandatory listening to fans of their work and of the film.
Moving on to disc two, the first thing that bears watching is the selection of deleted scenes, which also includes an extended ending for the film. At 100 minutes, Big Trouble in Little China moves like a bat out of hell and it's pretty obvious why these trims were made. Quality of the cut footage is average to poor, but the scenes are well worth watching and give an even fuller scope to the finished project.
There is a production featurette called "The Making of Big Trouble in Little China" that dates back to the movie's original release. While it's nice to have, it is pretty disappointing and it serves as the package's only weak spot. Much more informative is a video interview with special effects master Richard Edlund. His interview is broken into two segments, and they also include deleted footage. They are both multi-angle presentations that let Edlund talk about the sequences while a little box onscreen shows the footage being discussed. This feature also allows the viewer to switch from the interview to a full screen presentation of the footage. This is a great addition and one that I hope we see utilized more in the future.
Prior has also included two articles from the magazines Cinefex and American Cinematographer. These are both easy to navigate and are interactive with photos and video as well. Another great feature. An extensive still gallery, which features production and publicity photos, is still another great supplement. The disc includes two theatrical trailers, television spots and, the scariest thing on the entire set, the music video. The band is called the Coupe De Villes and the band members are John Carpenter, Nick Castle and Tommy Lee Wallace. Watching it, I was reminded of how glad I am that the '80s are over. A truly frightening experience, but a fitting close to this excellent two-disc set.
The Rebuttal Witnesses
If you like your action movies by the numbers or starring Steven Seagal, then chances are Big Trouble in Little China will prove to be a wee bit esoteric for your liking. Also if you enter this world of John Carpenter expecting something along the lines of The Thing or Vampires, then Jack Burton and company will probably let you down as well. That said, if you are looking for a bright, funny, exciting and inventive movie stew, Big Trouble in Little China is just what the doctor ordered.
Closing Statement
Fans of this movie have been waiting a long time for this baby to roll around, and I'm happy to report that Fox has not dropped the ball. This is as good a package as you are likely to find for any movie out on the market.
Around here at the DVD Verdict we try to answer the question: is this particular disc a rental or a keeper? Well, I'm pretty sure no one is surprised when I say this is a must buy all the way. I went into reviewing this disc thinking that Warner's edition of Superman was the best DVD so far of 2001, but after living with Big Trouble in Little China for a little over a week now, I am convinced that Big Blue is now in second place. This is the disc to put at the top of the pile when you want to show friends why you love DVD so much. Everything you ever wanted to know about this movie is here and it's all a lot of fun.
The Verdict
Can we all say acquitted? All charges are dismissed and this movie, its crew and producers are thanked for a great time on the couch. Here is also hoping that John Carpenter's upcoming Ghosts of Mars is a return to greatness for this very talented director. Fox is commended by the court for their outstanding work on one of best cult movies ever made.
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The 48 Hour Film Project
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The Judges Have Spoken!
Our panel of judges has made its decision. Congratulations to all of the filmmakers and teams who participated. We are proud to announce our Virginia Beach winners!
Best Use of Character
"I Quit" by Engine 13 Productions
Best Use of Prop
"Death Ring" by Homeless Risk Productions
Best Use of Line of Dialogue
"Troubadour: A Six Minute Soap Opera" by CRF Films
Best Costumes
"Death Ring" by Homeless Risk Productions
Best Choreography
"The Vigilante" by The Movie Group
Best Special Effects
"Supergirls' Night Out" by Amish Trucking Productions
Best Graphics
"Troubadour: A Six Minute Soap Opera" by Eugene Gonzales
Best Original Music
"The Trouble with Summer" by Amoeba Films
Best Sound Design
Anibal De Jesus for "Sweet Angevine"
Best Cinematography
Cyril Augustin for "Sweet Angevine"
Best Editing
Greg Ziller for "How the Western was Lost"
Best Writing
Jay Gates for "The Distance"
Best Acting
Jay Gates for "The Distance"
Best Directing
Hunter Thomas for "The April Fool"
Producer's Award
"Death Ring" by Homeless Risk Productions
Channel 757 Award
"Cell Out" by VB Rubs Productions
Critic's Award
"I Quit" by Izzy the Dog
HRFO Award
"The Trouble with Summer" by Amoeba Films
2nd Runner Up for Best Film
"Sweet Angevine" byScott Hansen Productions
1st Runner Up for Best Film
"The April Fool" by BrainCo Productions
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Eugene Gonzales for "Troubadour: A Six Minute Soap Opera" by CRF Films
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Surprise(s)! ObamaCare's third birthday
posted at 10:01 am on March 25, 2013 by Ed Morrissey
I spent most of this weekend traveling back from Rome and Vatican City, which included an 11-hour stay in Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. Unfortunately, that meant I was unable to attend the third birthday party of ObamaCare, but at least American Action Network celebrated it … in a manner of speaking. Late Saturday, they released this look back on the backwards birthdays of the so-called Affordable Care Act, which gives surprises to the party's attendees — unpleasant surprises (via the Weekly Standard):
Erika did a fine job in covering the "sharp increases" in premiums that ObamaCare will produce, making the "Affordable" part of the ACA's title an exercise in irony. I hadn't heard about the Five Guys story until now. And here I was, hoping to get a good burger at a good price after dining in Rome for the last sixteen days:
"Any added costs are going to have to be passed on," said Mike Ruffer, a Five Guys franchise holder with eight of the popular restaurants in the Raleigh-Durham, N.C. area. He will need all the profits from at least one of his eight outlets just to cover his estimated added $60,000-a year in new Obamacare costs.
What's more, he's iced plans to build another three restaurants until after the administration explains the exact rules and penalties employers will face. The law's plan to have those available March 1 has been pushed back to October.
"I'm kind of in a holding pattern," said Ruffer, a former Marriott executive who added that many franchise owners are in a similar situation.
Ruffer was the star witness at a Monday Heritage Foundation seminar on the impact Obamacare will have on small businesses. He is typical of many: Because he has enough full time employees to activate the law, he faces either coughing up the money to provide health insurance or paying a fine of up to $3,000 per worker.
Under ObamaCare, it's likely to be Three Guys Working Part Time Burgers.
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#3. Laser Vision
Imagine you wake up one morning and discover that you have the ability to spew lasers out of your eyeballs like Cyclops (or the original Cyclops, the Comet). But maybe you're not all about the snazzy eye wear -- in that case, let's say your laser eyes are more controllable, like Superman's heat vision. Anything you can see, you can obliterate with a glance.
Superman's laser eyes beat Cyclops' laser eyes, just so we're all clear.
So What's the Problem?
Your eyes are tricky little devils. Even when you think your gaze is rock-solid steady, it's jumping around like a sugar-blasted kindergartner during Saturday morning cartoons. Thanks to science, you can see for yourself:
Keeping the screen a foot or so from your face, stare at the center of the left target for about 30 seconds. Then switch and look at the center of the blank square on the right. You should see an afterimage like an eyeball staring back at you against the white background. You've probably seen this parlor trick before, but the afterimage itself isn't our point -- try to keep that afterimage from moving.
You can't do it. You can maybe get it to stay mostly in the same spot, but it never stops wavering slightly. And the farther your face gets from the screen, the worse the effect becomes.
"Were you aiming at a passenger jet, Scott? Because that's what you hit."
The image moves because your eyes are constantly making tiny motions called microsaccades. These motions are completely involuntary, and can change your line of sight by up to a full degree. That may seem like an insignificant number, but it adds up over distance -- and it royally screws over your laser-eye power.
Let's say you want to prank your friend with your newfound superpower. He's standing halfway across a football field, rearing back to pass you the ball. You activate your laser vision, expecting to vaporize the ball right out of his hand and scare the piss out of him. Over that distance, microsaccades can divert your laser beam several feet away from your intended target without warning. You're aiming for the ball, but one moderate microsaccade and you've just jokingly incinerated your friend's entire right arm instead. Ooh! Burn!
"Sorry about that, Jimmy, I ... well, actually, I'm not sorry at all. Go to hell, kid."
But that's not even the worst of it. An off-the-shelf laser pointer has a range of around 2.2 miles. And that puny thing's like a Nerf gun compared to the double-barreled 12 gauge in your skull. That means every time you fire your badass eye beams, your natural eye movements cause you to gouge 2-mile flaming swaths out of the landscape. Unless you hate absolutely anything and everything around you, you'd better do like Mom always told you and keep your beams in your head.
#2. Omniscience
So maybe the lowly superpowers we've discussed so far aren't really your bag. All this physical stuff is beneath you ... it's just not quite ultimate enough, you know?
"God's alright, but the world could use way more dinosaurs."
OK then, you're omniscient. You know every detail of life that it's possible to know: the ending to every movie, song, and book; the intricate details of supermodels' bowel movements; your mom's sexual preferences (she likes it from behind) ... everything. Every fact you could ever need, trivial or not, is tucked away somewhere inside your head. In fiction, any character with access to such an overwhelming amount of information usually turns out to be somewhat of a crazy asshole (see: Doctor Manhattan), but hey -- maybe you, random Cracked reader, are built to handle it. Maybe you are true god material.
In which case, we suggest investing in some maps of the Martian surface.
So What's the Problem?
It may all be in there, sure -- but how could you get it out? All that information can't be at the forefront of your thoughts simultaneously. You're going to need some way to filter through your own mind. Your brain has become the Internet on crack -- terabytes upon terabytes of information, all stored away in remote places, inaccessible unless you know exactly where to look.
You'd need to have the mother of all search engines programmed into your subconscious just to think straight. Every single piece of information would be buried by about a kajillion others just like it. You'd have to sort through billions of other people's pass codes just to remember how to unlock your phone. It'd be like reading through every page of every Google search -- and most people's minds go numb after approximately Page 3. You might have all of the information right at your fingertips, but you'd better hope your omniscience also came with a side effect of immortality, because you're going to need an immense amount of time to locate and analyze all that data -- destroying any usefulness the knowledge might have had (not to mention your oh-so-delicate sanity) in the process.
"I'll know how to fix the car as soon as I've sorted through all of Chinese history and several billion years of plate tectonics."
Still think you're mentally up to the task? Here, we'll answer that for you: no. No, you're not. So let's lower our sights once again and hop back over to the realm of physical superpowers, shall we? How about something like ...
#1. Healing Factor
Earlier we covered the considerable shortcomings of force fields at protecting you, but if escaping physical harm isn't feasible, there's still another option: super healing.
"You call that impalement?"
Say you're Wolverine without the claws, but with the facial hair (because sexy). Or maybe that cheerleader from Heroes, if you prefer your super healing abilities sans dong. You can get hurt just like you normally would, but that can't keep you down, because your body can heal from even the most catastrophic injuries at incredible speeds. It wouldn't matter if you broke every bone in your body at once, like Evel Knievel's entire life condensed into one calamitous clusterfuck of an accident -- you'd simply knit that shit right back together and come back for more.
So What's the Problem?
Two words: mental trauma.
This isn't the kind of thing you just "bounce back" from.
Regeneration doesn't eliminate pain. Walking through a wall of fire wouldn't be nearly as cinematic if you were wailing the entire time. And imagine lying broken on the ground after a failed attempt to ramp 14 school buses on a motorcycle and having to watch your liquefied organs regrow themselves in your shattered chest cavity like one of those stop-motion videos of rotting fruit played in reverse. Does that seem like the kind of experience a person could walk away from unaffected?
The extreme pain and horror you'd experience after a critical injury would leave serious mental scars, and trauma of that level comes with a bonus side effect -- post-traumatic stress disorder.
"It's hard to drink the pain away when your body is effectively immune to alcohol."
Let's go back to Wolverine for a second. What's he like? Sullen, moody, constantly on alert for anything happening around him (can you say paranoia?), prone to fits of berserker rage ... these aren't character traits, they're symptoms. The man's been torn apart so many times that he's now a walking mass of psychological scars. His berserker rage episodes? PTSD flashbacks, clearly. And no one notices what's wrong, because the man's invincible, isn't he? Well, regeneration may have healed his body, but it didn't save his mind.
With the extraordinarily long life this power grants you (because your cells can't be damaged by age, after all), you'll almost certainly be subjected to accidents that would prove fatal to any normal human. But lucky you, you'll be forced to live through them instead -- and each one will push you that much closer to complete mental instability. So ask your newly invincible self this: Is it even possible to enjoy an immortal body when the mind inside is shattered?
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Possible Duplicate:
What's the difference between 2-row and 6-row malt?
And why should I care?
And why should I care?
marked as duplicate by Nathan Koop, Matt Utley, Jeff L, theraccoonbrew, Ben Nov 17 '10 at 6:45
This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question.
I had to dig quickly in case this votes to close (why?), but here's your answer:
Why is 2-Row more plump, generally, than 6-Row? The two types of malting barley get their name from the way the kernels grow on the stalk. Two rows of kernels grow on a 2-Row stalk and six rows of kernels grow on a 6-Row stalk. The 2-row kernels simply have more room. The picture at the top shows the size of the two types in relation to each other.
Source: http://www.brewingwithbriess.com/Malting101/The_Row_Less_Traveled.htm


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Think about how you or the people you work with approach the creation of a blended learning lesson plan. The first steps of coming up with and flushing out your initial idea. Then, scouring the web to find safe, factually accurate sites that are not blocked by your school filters and checking the fine print …
This method of teaching does require a certain amount of bravery. There is a very real chance that when a student asks you a question (How do I add media? How do I change the font? How do I import pictures? etc. etc.) you will have to say the dreaded "I don't know". But the neat thing is, your students are ok with this. You're all learning as you go. More often than not another child in the class will be using the same site or will have at least used it before. If a classmate knows the answer, they can step into the role of teacher – from which much confidence is gained and leadership skills are learned.
Even the most reserved kid really enjoys teaching their teacher a trick or two. If no one knows the answer, they can collaborate to find the solution; an activity that provides important life skills with many real-world applications. All while leaving the initiative, process development and ownership of the learning itself right where it belongs, in the hands of the learners.
Gust MEES: I started with it in 2002 already and was a pioneer in my country, BUT I got BEST results! Make sure to work TOGETHER as a TEAM with the students, learners, create ALSO some groups where the BEST work together with the weakest. YOU will love it later and YOU will miss it as it gives YOU a direct feedback of WHAT THEY learned and YOU adjust on demand and necessity... WHEN the BEST feel boring, give THEM a special task to motivate THEM ;) ===> Adjust <===.
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- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/01/04/practice-better-ways-to-say-i-dont-know-in-the-classroom/
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I am not sure what is being suggested is putting students in charge. It is more about a complicated conversation between teachers and students about the subject matter. There is an in-between space where teachers and students meet.
Gust MEES's comment, May 28, 2014 7:18 PM
@Ivon Prefontaine I will take it is a priority to create THAT blog, stay tuned, please ;)
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I am not sure what is being suggested is putting students in charge. It is more about a complicated conversation between teachers and students about the subject matter. There is an in-between space where teachers and students meet.
For the past twenty years, I have been carrying out experiments to find out how power is distributed in groups. I have infiltrated college dorms and children's summer camps to document who rises in power. I have brought entire sororities and fraternities into the lab, capturing the substance and spread of individuals' reputations within their social networks. I have surreptitiously identified which members of groups are gossiped about, and who receive gossip. To chart the experience of power, I have studied what it feels like to be placed in positions of authority.
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Leading is about listening and stepping aside when it is necessary. When we experience leadership as an assigned role, that is when problems arise and abuse of power occurs. What do we see in schools?
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Givers always gain, and it seems from exhaustive research that power may be one of the things they gain from giving!
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Humble leadership fits with mindful and servant leadership. Humble leading is knowing when to step aside.
Ante Lauc's curator insight, May 29, 2:58 AM
I did meet Ed Schein 40 years ago at Harvard Univ.. We have changed in the meantime, but still we are humble....
How you can explain it?
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In times of Great Churning asking humble questions allows collective intelligence to be activated.
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There's no doubt in my mind that there's an artisan in us all and that we can making a living and a difference by being that artisan.
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A research finding may have implications for attaching stakes to standardized tests. It also brings up questions about motivation — for tomorrow's test and for the rest of the students' education.
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This might be true if the only motives are extrinsic. But, what if learning were the motive? What if students enjoyed coming to school and learning? What if teachers were able to share their passion with others in meaningful and uplifting ways?
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"If the aim of education is to gain money and power, where can we turn for help in knowing what to do with that money and power? Plato knew this firsthand. He had watched as ambition, tied to technological superiority, had led his fellow Athenians to engage in a number of poorly conceived military campaigns, the last of which had allowed the Spartans to lay siege to Athens. In the face of such a ruthless foe, Athens did what any wealthy democracy would do: It built a wall around itself. Some of the walls of the Peloponnesian War are still visible, hastily built out of whatever the Athenians could lay hands on — the remnants of roofs and doorposts — suggesting that some buildings were torn down to make them. That is instructive, if not cautionary. It is often the case that in our attempts to guard ourselves we destroy the very things that we long to protect. Identifying and negotiating these paradoxes is the stuff of a liberal-arts education."
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"Most new jobs now do not require degree-level qualifications. Encouraging more young people to graduate will create only debt and disappointment"
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"The "knowledge economy" is a myth, writes Guardian contributor "The idea of the knowledge economy is appealing," writes Andre Spicer for The Guardian, but "the only problem is it is largely a myth." The author argues that while many western countries are working to produce more university graduates, the truth is that "developed western economies … are not brimming with jobs that require degree-level qualifications. For every job as a skilled computer programmer, there are three jobs flipping burgers." Spicer adds that no matter which country one looks at, the areas of highest employment growth are ones that do not require a large-scale bolstering of university education. In fact, Spicer argues, there has been a marked decline in demand for knowledge-intensive jobs since 2000, and it is these jobs that are under threat of being automated, not low-skilled ones."
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BELTON (October 10, 2012)-The Belton Fire Department will partner with Domino's Pizza to check home smoke detectors as part of this year's Fire Prevention Week activities.
On Thursday, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., they will be working together to check smoke detectors in Belton residences.
Various pizza delivery home addresses will be selected for inspection, but first they will ask the occupant if they would like their smoke detector inspected.
The entire order will be free to the homeowner if their smoke detector is working properly and if it isn't, the fire department will work to assist them in get one that functions properly.
They hope to promote fire safety awareness and remind citizens of the importance of working smoke detectors in homes.


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8 Mar 2013 2:19 AM #1
Forum - IE10 compatibility
Hi There, I'm sorry to write everything on 1 line, but it seems the reply section of this forum doesn't support IE10. In the field I'm currently typing in now, the enter-key doesn't make a new line. Also, the search function in a forum doesn't seems to work. For example, open the Open Discussion forum, type 'IE10' in the 'Sencha Search' bar, and press enter. In chrome I get the search results, but in IE10 I get a Sencha Help dialog. Are these known problems? I am using Win8/IE10: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; Trident/6.0). Greetings, vosManz
8 Mar 2013 4:55 AM #2
I don't have IE 10 to hand but you might want to try turning off the wysiwyg editor (A/A button, top left). That should give you an HTML textarea, which I'd expect to be more stable than the wysiwyg monstrosity.
If I were in charge I'd remove the button and force everyone to use the non-wysiwyg editor. That may go some way to explaining why I'm not in charge.
Seriously though, removing some of those buttons might not be a bad idea - I suspect many people never find the useful ones (like the all-important #). Why do we need a font-size box? Superscript? They're available via BBCode, that's surely sufficient for about half of them?ConsultJS: http://consultjs.com/
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8 Mar 2013 5:14 AM #3
Ah indeed, I didn't see that function.
When I click it, I can make new lines
BBcode is good enough for me. WYSIWYG is nice too, if it works
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I have firefox in start menu, but there is no "properties" like in windows. how to find out were firefox is installed and how to check path of link in menu?
(I suppose you still don't use Unity but Gnome 2.)
That's a bit annoying in Gnome. What I do is, I click right and choose Add launcher to desktop. Then you have the launcher on your desktop and there is a context menu entry Properties (so again click right on the new file on your desktop and then Properties). This dialog will present most of the available information from the launcher.
An alternative would be to right click the application menu and choose edit. There you see all entries and you can also select Properties.
If you really want to find out the whole path for firefox, this shell command might be useful:
This returns the full path to the file, which is executed when only
Note that a launcher file is just a text file with the ending .desktop. You can drag and drop it to any text editor if the property dialog doesn't provide enough information.
If you want to find all the places where your firefox is installed, including executables, libs, user settings, use


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I find it easy to remember the meaning of most technical terms if I'm prompted to explain each one of them. However, recalling all of them by their topics is a bit more difficult when they weren't mentioned at all, which is critical in objective tests.
In summary, for each topic there is a list of features - technical terms - and I need to remember all of them. What is an approach to memorize them by the topic?


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KitchenAid Artisan Design Stand Mixer (Factory Refurbished) for $179.99 + free shipping
I didn't say a word when you named this thing "Sir Mix-A-Lot." But your rendition of "Baby Got Hot Cross Buns" is too much, even for me.
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Is this any good? The wife wants a stand mixer - I don't even know what you use one for.
I've had the 300W for 15 years. Great machines. Never bought one refurbished -- you might want to look closely into the warranty.
anyone tried one of the refurbs?
Look into Square Deal - I know they do warranties for ebay'ed electronic items, so they may cover this too.
Brand new you get a 1 year warranty. Refurbs get a 6 month warranty. I believe these are total replacement warranties too.
Even though its on Ebay it from KitchenAid direct and it looks like there is an additional $30 rebate on the half way down the page on the right.
I bought a refurbished Artisan directly from Kitchen Aid. Love it! No scratches, no problems, looked new. The only difference is that it does not have a lid to cover the bowl. No biggie - bought one on Amazon. I use it for mixing, but also bought parts for pasta, slicing dicing, grinder, juicer. Love them all!
@tp546: yes, see my comment
This is a fantastic price for these workhorse machines. As long as the warranty is comprehensive this is a great deal, especially for many of the odd colors which are usually $300-$350 minimum when new.
@webvamp: It appears that the rebate is not good for this offer. Within the text of the PDF it states:
NOTE: Not valid at Bed Bath Beyond, Lowe's, and Macy's stores, Whirlpool Corporations, VIPLink Program or Employee Purchase Program or online auction sites.
Even though it's sold directly through KitchenAid, it's still sold through eBay, so I would assume it's included in the note.
My sister purchased a refurb directly from their site. She's had it a couple of years now and it runs perfectly. I may need to pick this one up for my early Christmas present! :)
@addixon: It's arguable. The intent of the rebate disclaimer is to exclude non-retail second-sale items, like a mixer that a consumer bought six months which they're reselling on eBay. But this is a fixed-price listing posted by Whirlpool using eBay as a sales channel. eBay also considers themselves an 'online marketplace' not an 'online auction site'. Maybe they'll honor the rebate, maybe not.
My mom has wanted one of these for over a decade. It's time she gets one.
This is a good deal ... getting the same refurbished off of the site that's selling on Ebay (shopkitchenaid.com) is $229. Refurbished 5 qt on Amazon is also $229. If you want this same mixer brand new, Overstock has it still under Black Friday for $302.28.
@tp546: I have had a refurbished 4.5 quart mixer for nine years and have had no problems.
Well crap. I had planned on buying one of these all day. Came in, figuring I still had 20 minutes or so before midnight, and "the listing has ended".
Would be nice if Woot's sponsored deals could end at midnight CST or later.
And to add insult to injury, the kitchenaid store has the same thing, new listing, for $90 higher.
Right, like I'm going to give them my business now.
I managed to pick one of these up on Ebay. I got an email yesterday that they had sold out of the color I picked so they are sending me a brand new one. GREAT DEAL!!!


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10 Apr 2012 6:30 PM #1
copy all parameters of current keyframe
Is there a way to copy all the parameters of the current keyframe and paste them into another one such as into its adjoining keyframe? I needed to do this a number of times when creating a simple interactive animation earlier and I see no mention of such as feature in the keyframe docs or in this forum.
If not, please move this post into the feature request forum please admins!
11 Apr 2012 7:00 AM #2
Currently, you can duplicate a keyframe by creating a keyframe after it (which will be a copy). We're working on copy/paste for keyframes.


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Edit: Maybe I should make it clear that by a solution I mean a pair of matrices $(A,B)$ such that the identity below holds for any complex numbers $x,y$.
One of my friend asked me the following question (with some variation): Let $A$,$B$ be two $n\times n$ complex matrices, let $x$ and $y$ be two complex variables. Suppose that $$ (xA+yB)^n=(x^n+y^n)I_n $$ For all $x$ and $y$, Where $xA$ is the scalar multiplication of $A$ by $x$. $I_n$ is the identity matrix.
Question: Can we get explicit solutions when $n$ is small? Can we at least say that the solutions forms a manifold of certain dimension for arbitrary $n$?
You can expand both sides, and move the right side to the left, getting a polynomial whose coefficients are matrices which is identical to $0$. This means the coefficients are all $0$, thus we get a system of homogeneous equations on $A$ and $B$. We can observe that the solution set is stable under taking conjugation by the same invertible matrix. Since $A^n=I_n$, we know that it's diagonalizable, whose eigenvalues are $n$-th roots of unity. Hence we can assume that $A$ is a diagonal matrix. By this simplification, using elementary methods, I was able to find the explicit solution for n=2 and 3. But as $n$ getting large, even for $n=5$, the redundant method requires one to solve a system of polynomial equations of 25 variables. I actually tried it using mathematica, but my poor computer became unresponsive very soon. Any suggestion is appreciated.


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The Carmi Chamber of Commerce will once again host the Winter Wonderland decorated storefront window contest for area businesses. All merchants and businesses in White County are invited to decorate their window fronts in a "Winter Wonderland" theme.
The Chamber encourages businesses to participate for many reasons. Decorations get area residents and visitors of the city in the spirit of the season and also encourage people to shop locally for their gifts. It also beautifies the storefronts in the area and brings a sense of community pride to the area.
"It's a White County Christmas" will have opening ceremonies at Veteran's Memorial Park in downtown Carmi Friday, Nov. 22. The event will include the tree lighting, the White County Home and Education (HCE) Chocolate tasting and a holiday stroll. Activities get under way at 6 p.m. and the museums will also be open for tours, courtesy of the White County Historical Society.
Many activities continue through the end of November to help support the community wide celebration.
Entry forms into the Winter Wonderland decorated storefront window contest are now available. Entries into the contest should be submitted to Ray Mitchell, executive director of the Chamber, by Monday, Nov. 18. The winners of the contest will be announced just before the beginning of the "It's A White County Christmas" Parade set for 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013.
For more information, contact Mitchell at the Chamber at 382-7606.
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22 Feb 2008 8:06 AM #11
Thanks for the debuging tips. I have installed firebug amd ext-all-debug.js
And for the sake of just getting the data to the store I now only use the store. I will, I think, have to the the reader because that is what associates the records to the grid.
Here is the code I am using now. I get no errors and I cay see no day is loaded, but I can see the data in firebug. Thanks again
It does not seem I am getting a loadException now.
var dgStore = new Ext.data.JsonStore({ url: '/TOA/GetDisasterDataListAction.do', totalProperty: 'numrows', root:'rows', fields: [ 'inc_epd', 'dstr_id', 'prj_o', 'inc_spd', 'tsk_m', 'dstr_dcs', 'isc', 'dec_dt', 'prj_h', 'dstr_n', 'spc_con', 'aff_reg', 'cotr', 'cont_o', 'st', 'dstr_fy' ], listeners: { loadexception: function(proxy, store, response, e) { alert("Response Text?"+response.responseText); alert("dgStore Message \n"+proxy+"\n"+store+"\n"+response+"\n"+e.message); } } }); dgStore.load();
22 Feb 2008 10:47 AM #12
Firebug is really neat. It turns out the I am getting data. I found this out as I was stepping through the js. The data load was not finished before everything else was loaded. The stepping slowed that down.
Now it seems I need to somehow wait for the data to come back before continuing, though this does not seem right.
Thank you so much for you help, I
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22 Feb 2008 11:28 AM #14
Thanks fay,
I have added a callback function but don't know exactly how to use it. My data is to be loaded to a grid so I think I would do something like grid.syncSize() or grid.hide() and grid.show()
but for now I'm getting a cm (columnCount) has no properties.
22 Feb 2008 2:54 PM #15
What I've found enlightening is to add listeners to the store, proxy, and ajax requests. In the various events, report some message with
console.log('some message here')
A grid monitors the associated store's LOAD event. The grid doesn't fill itself with data until after that event fires. You'll see the grid get rendered (presuming you call grid render before store.load() ) and then after the store loads, the data gets put into the html of the grid.
22 Feb 2008 4:21 PM #16
The grid automatically registers itself as a onLoad listener to the store. You don't need to do anything special. Whenever the store finishes loading the grid will update itself.
Something else is going on. You might want to take one of the examples and work from there just until you get a working grid.
25 Feb 2008 6:34 AM #17
Hi All, I am moving on to my next problem. The grid does not seem to have a columnModel, but that will be a different post.
After I get my code cleaned up I am going to post the json code as an example for other like me who want to use Ext but are not great at javascript, Json, or Ext.
Thanks for your help and see you next time. I hope.
4 Mar 2008 5:18 AM #18
[Solved] Problem Loading JSON Store
Thanks all who helped.
5 Mar 2008 4:02 AM #19
Here is my code. I changed the names of some fields but it should work
I choose to separate the components as it makes it easier for me
This is the grid and record definition
//This is the column model for the grid var dColumnModel = new Ext.grid.ColumnModel( [ new Ext.grid.RowNumberer() ,{id:'dr_feild_id', header: "Feild id", width: 20, sortable: true, dataIndex: 'dr_feild_id' ,hidden: true} ,{header: 'Feild Name' ,width: 40, sortable: true, dataIndex: 'dr_feild_name' } ,{header: 'Feild Type' ,width: 40, sortable: true, dataIndex: 'dr_feild_type_name' ,hidden: true} ,{header: 'Project Head' ,width: 20, sortable: true, dataIndex: 'dr_project_head' } ,{header: 'Project Officer' ,width: 20, sortable: true, dataIndex: 'dr_project_officer' } ]); // this is the record layout of the JSON data and maps to the columnModel var listRec = new Ext.data.Record.create([ {name: 'dr_feild_id', mapping: 'fld_id', type: 'int'} ,{name: 'dr_feild_name', mapping: 'fld_n', type: 'string'} ,{name: 'dr_feild_type_name', mapping: 'fld_t_n', type: 'string'} ,{name: 'dr_project_head', mapping: 'prj_h', type: 'string'} ,{name: 'dr_project_officer', mapping: 'prj_o', type: 'string'} ]);
// Json reader (array) that parses the incoming data var dReader = new Ext.data.JsonReader( { totalProperty: 'numrows', root:'rows', id: 'dr_disaster_id' }, listRec ); // Store to get the data from the server var dStore = new Ext.data.Store({ url: '/TOA/GetDisasterDataListAction.do', reader: dReader, listeners: { loadexception: function(proxy, store, response, e) { alert("The data did not load. \n"+proxy+"\n"+store+"\n"+response+"\n"+e.message); } } }); // Load dStore Start ------------------------------------------------------ //I used this to reload data after the initial load. dStore.load({ waitTitle: 'Please Wait', waitMsg: 'Loading...', callback: function (records, options, success) { logger.trace("STORE:LOAD:callback"); if (success) { } else { logger.trace("XLoad failed"); Ext.MessageBox.show ({ msg: 'No Disaster records are available', icon: Ext.MessageBox.WARNING, buttons: Ext.MessageBox.OK }); } //Core.MessageHandler.display (reader); } }); // Load dStore End ---------------------------------------------------------
// Grid -------------------------------------------------------- Here is the rowSelectModel for the grid. var dSelectionModel = new Ext.grid.RowSelectionModel({ singleSelect:true, listeners: { 'rowselect': function(sm, row, rec) { } } }); // And finally the GridPanel itself. this.dGrid = new Ext.grid.GridPanel ({ id: 'dgrid', collapsible: false, collapsed: false, store: dStore, cm: dColumnModel, selModel: dSelectionModel, viewConfig: { forceFit: true, autoFit:true }, monitorResize: true, doLayout: function() { //IF YOU WANT THE GRID TO LOOK CORRECT IN IE, DO THIS. this.setSize(Ext.get(this.getEl().dom.parentNode).getSize(true)); Ext.grid.GridPanel.prototype.doLayout.call(this); }, tbar: dButtons, listeners: { activate: function(g) { if (editType = 'saved') { g.getStore().load(); }; }, render: function(g) { g.getSelectionModel().selectRow(2); } }
Also, the Json data looks like: (json: is my identifyer)
json:{"numrows":1,"rows":[{"fld_id":2,"fld_n":"DR41579-KS","fld_t_n":"DISASTER","prj_o":"","prj_h":"BACK, BILL"}, {"fld_id":3,"fld_n":"DR41579-VA","fld_t_n":"DISASTER","prj_o":"KIM","prj_h":"BACK, BILL"}]}


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A 25-year-old man was critically injured Saturday afternoon in an ATV accident north of El Dorado.
The accident occurred at about 4 p.m. near NW 50th Street and Highway 77. The driver lost control of the ATV and it rolled over. He was taken by Lifeteam to Wesley Medical Center in critical condition. A 3-year-old also was riding on the ATV and was taken to Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital and treated and released.
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Recently I encountered a new phenomenon when I tried to submit a paper to arXiv. The paper was an erratum to another, already published, paper and will be published separately. I got a message from arXiv saying that I need to join the erratum with the original file. I was a little surprised receiving a reply from, obviously, a human being. Although I thought the request was a bit silly, I did what was requested, submitted the joint paper (the original union the errata), and forgot about it. But today I got a call from another mathematician. She tried to submit a paper with a title "... II". The paper "... I" was already in the arXiv and submitted to a (very good) journal. Both papers solve similar but different problems. One of these problems is at least 40 years old. Her submission was denied: she got a request from the arXiv to submit a union of that new paper and the old paper instead. This is quite silly. Is there now a special person in the arXiv who is making these decisions? It looks like there has been a change in how arXiv is managed. I understand that this is not a research question, and I make it a community Wiki. I post it here because several frequent MO users are affiliated with arXiv.
This is likely unrelated to the changes that Mark and Will noticed, but the other day a novel
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arXiv admin note (under Comments) caught my eye:
I'm still the chair of the math arXiv advisory committee, which admittedly hasn't done a whole lot lately, and one of the global math moderators. No, there has not been any dramatic change in the management of the arXiv at Cornell. If anything, I wish that by now more might have changed. The arXiv has always had the bare minimum funding, sometimes less than the bare minimum. They have never had polished public relations to properly explain small changes in policy. (Actually even wealthy Internet companies sometimes stir up confusion when they make changes.)
At some informal level, they/we have always worried about duplicate submissions, and near duplicates, and errata posted as new papers. And yes there is a new text overlap tool to detect both plagiarism and self-plagiarism. There is no good, rigorous way to draw the line for any of these issues. (Just as there isn't at MathOverflow --- what exactly is an "exact duplicate" of a previous question?) Regardless, if your submission is rejected, you do have the right to "file" an appeal with the Cornell staff. If it is a plausibly sane appeal, then they should show it to the math moderators and/or the math advisory committee, more likely the former these days.
One perfectly valid consideration is to have the arXiv correspond to what is published in journals. Although there are cases where strict adherence to that rule is untenable. For instance, my mother and I have a joint paper in the Annals of Mathematics that appeared twice just because the first time, the paper had TeX symbol encoding errors.
Also, I personally think that this posting is reasonable for MathOverflow. However, it would have been better with a less suspecting tone. The arXiv doesn't always make the best impression, but long-time users know that actually it has gotten better over the years. For a long time it had a reputation as a "user belligerent" web site. Even then, it was still a force for good, obviously.
I talked to the arXiv staff about Olga Kharlampovich's submissions and I now have some answers. The letter that Olga posted here is a form letter that doesn't fit the facts. The text overlap tool reported that the new submission substantially overlapped with the old submission. After that, as far as I know, no moderator and no advisory committee was ever contacted. Instead, an arXiv employee sent this stock response just to keep things moving. After that, I was told, her case was added to the to-do list. I was assured that as of last week, before this question was posted to MathOverflow, her submission was already slated to be reverted in her favor on Monday.
Obviously this is not satisfactory. I am one of the moderators (and not the only one) who should have seen the appeal. The e-mail said that someone like me had seen it and rejected her appeal, but apparently no such thing happened. It seems that the submitted version (which I think is now version 3) had something like 75% text overlap with the previous version (version 2) of arXiv:1111.0577. It's not so unreasonable to flag such a submission. After that it wasn't handled properly. I do not want to name names and lead people to pour opprobrium on the overworked arXiv staff. (There are only two of them who handle daily submissions.) But I want to make this story sound accountable, so I can say that some of my information came directly from Paul Ginsparg.
To go back to the title question, no there has not been any great change in arXiv management. You could certainly argue that there is insufficient management, but that's not the same thing.
People are also asking about the policy by which papers are labelled as having text overlap with other papers. A clearer statement of that policy would be useful, but that is a separate question from Olga's case.
According to e-mail that I just saw, this morning Olga was given the option of reverting the previous arXiv paper to Part I and submitting Part II separately. Her answer, according to what I saw, was that she elected to keep it as a replacement after all. I am mentioning this so that readers who see arXiv postings this week won't think that injustice continues.
I stand by my explanation that the stock e-mail that she was sent didn't fit the facts, and that her appeal should not have been stonewalled. (In fact her appeal was soon seriously considered internally, but that was not explained.) However, in the original posting, Olga's name was withheld supposedly to protect her interests. Although I understand that anonymity is sometimes vital even in a public accusation, in this case I don't see how it helped matters.
Hello, I have paper 1 in the arxiv (that is submitted to the journal) and submitted paper 2 with completely new results (with similar formulations and refereeng to paper 1. I didn't want to change paper 1 because it is submitted, people refer to it, and it makes bad impression when new and new revisions are made, also the submission date is changed), the second paper was returned by the arxiv, I appealed, and this is their response:
Dear Olga Kharlampovich,
Our moderators have considered your appeal and maintain that your article is not appropriate as a new submission to arXiv. The new ideas should be incorporated into a replacement of your existing article.
In general the maintainers of arXiv choose to exercise very limited control over submissions; however, we do want arXiv to be as useful as possible for all of the various communities publishing here.
A moderator noticed that you have submitted several articles in a short period with similar ideas and content. After a discussion of your submissions among the other moderators and members of the advisory committee, we have decided to ask you to consolidate articles with similar content, or which are variations on the same theme into single articles.
This will be more efficient for the whole arXiv community, and may be beneficial to you as well. In consolidating your work you may find that you can more clearly elucidate the connections and expose the underlying principles so that your ideas will be more useful to others.
-- arXiv moderation
Let me add, that "several articles in a short period " were these Article 1 and 2". The first one was submitted in the Fall, and the second in May. I incorporated them into the same article now, but I think this is silly. What is going to happen if we get new results on a similar topic?
Let me add, that "several articles in a short period " were these Article 1 and 2". The first one was submitted in the Fall, and the second in May. I incorporated them into the same article now, but I think this is silly. What is going to happen if we get new results on a similar topic?


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When I send an e-mail using an e-mail client this mail does not appear in the "Sent" category in Gmail (the online application). But this mail must be stored someway in an accesible place because if this mail I sent gets an answer both my original message and the reply appear. My question is if there is any way I can view those sent messages without having to wait for a reply.
It will be in your
If it is a new email it will be there on it's own, if it is a reply or forward it will be threaded with the original email that you replied to or forwarded.
If you use IMAP instead of POP3 (at least in Thunderbird, not sure about Outlook) you can set it to place the sent items in your GMail sent item on the server.
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She also has made choices, whether or not they should hurt her or not are debatable, but linking herself to a coach who consistently and openly delights in antagonizes the management and seems to be using her as a pawn in this can really not endear her to management. That may not be fair but I don't see that it is surprising.
She has 'linked' herself to Tsiskaridze because he has a reputation as an outstanding teacher, inspirational in fact. Having sat in on one of his classes I can attest to the fact that he stretches the dancers and enthuses them at the same time. Persecuting this fine teacher and his pupils will do the company more harm than good in the long run.