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Which one is created first? For example if a team worked on a graphical asset of a car, what would be a model and what would be a mesh of the car?
A mesh is part of a model. The mesh defines the vertices of a object. Typically storing them in such an order as to imply their connectivity, like every 3 form a triangle.
Like a mesh of vertices to define the shape of an object.
The model can have other elements like an armature, animation and texture information. It can additionally include more than one mesh. Though, I imagine they're similar enough to be used interchangeably in many cases.
Short answer:
The mesh (as in one single mesh) is just data about the structure of a model. The model contains textures which are used to define how to render it's surfaces. It also contains several variations of the same mesh for animation, normally controlled by bones. Each animation frame could be considered a mesh on it's own.
Long answer:
A very important difference to note is that some models are not built from a mesh in the classic sense of the word. Models structured out of Non-uniform rational basis spline (NURBS) also exit. Technically you could build a model in many ways that do not involve a mesh in the classic sense of the word, such as atoms and Voxels. When people speak of a mesh they normally refer to a polygon mesh.
The mesh is a graph. A collection of vertices, edges and faces. A face is an ordered collection of vertices connected by edges that complete a loop. It is used to describe a flat surface on the mesh.
A model is a general term to describe data. In the specific case of 3d models, we mean the mesh, it's uv-mapping, texture and animations.
A model may not have any texture or animation(if it is not complete or if it's an inanimate object or does not require textures), as long as there is a mesh it will still be referred to as a model. The mesh itself is only the 'wireframe' part of the model. Meaning the collection of edges and their connecting vertices that represent the structure of a model. Unlike a texture which represent how the model is colored, how it reflects light and such things as bump mapping details or it's animation which represent the models motion.
So every mesh is a model on it's own. Not every model is only a mesh.
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You may also hear of the term "Solid Model": This means that the underlying mesh model has had such additional information applied, e.g. construction material (and thence can be calculated the model's weight, Centre of Gravity, Centre of Inertia, etc), to the extent that the model is so 'physically' well defined, in a real world sense, that it can be referred to as 'solid'.
In simple terms, a mesh can be regarded as the outline of some shape/object. And the model gives the complete information of that object - texture, reflectivity, color, etc.


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I am looking to remove the custom_image_header from the wp_head. I would like to use this in a more manual way throughout my theme. I understand the general approach for this is to include CSS in the head but I would like to keep all of the CSS for the theme outside of the head.
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Can I get away with building and testing basic web parts just by installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a VPC with Visual Studio Express Editions?
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This has been answered on Stack Overflow previously. To summarise:
It is possible but you would need to be a glutton for punishment to want to do this.
Caveat: I've upvoted the answers from Alex & user2974 as they're more helpful in actually accomplishing what you've asked, where my answer is not and follows the annoying form that tries to guide you in another direction.
If you're doing this for work, you will quickly spend more money in the additional effort required to avoid buying software, than you would in buying the correct software licenses required to accomplish your goal. Granted your salary is sunk cost, but its going to be a pretty painful experience for you. This sort of business case shouldn't be too difficult to prove out. Still there are always reasons why this sort of thing is difficult (i.e. you're a contractor sitting outside of IT and the IT department don't want you coding).
If you want to learn SharePoint coding on your own, then user 2974's answer is what I would do, better yet, download the SP2010 Information Worker VM from Microsoft.
Not really, although there are "workarounds" of sorts (not recommended):
My advice would be to download a trial version of VS 2008 and then set up VSE WSS 3.0:
And yes, you can work with WSS on your VM.
Yes, but you dont need to install the SharePoint server unless you need a platform to test your custom web parts.
The debugging "discussion" depends on what you're going to do, if you are to work with the internal SharePoint classes and methods (SPList etc) you might have a hard time with the above setup, to do that you really benefit from using the latest SharePoint (2010 as of today) and VS 2010 Pro. Nevertheless it IS possible anyway, you just need to be able to think abstract.
If you're going to use web parts to display let's say external data or whatever small tools you might want to develop I'd recommend attaching a Console Application Project to your Web Part Project for debugging. This method is effective whenever developing SharePoint Web Parts, especially if your are coming from another development culture than the SharePoint one.


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Let $V$ be a real vector space.
Is there always a norm on $V$ such that $V$ is complete with respect to this norm?
If not, is there an easy counterexample?
Let $V$ be a real vector space.
Is there always a norm on $V$ such that $V$ is complete with respect to this norm?
If not, is there an easy counterexample?
No. Suppose $V$ is a normed space of (Hamel) dimension $\aleph_0$, with basis $\{v_1, v_2, v_3, \ldots \}$ say. Then $V$ is the union of a countable family of finite-dimensional subspaces, namely $\langle v_1 \rangle, \langle v_1, v_2 \rangle, \langle v_1, v_2, v_3 \rangle, \ldots$. Proper closed subspaces of a normed space are nowhere dense, so $V$ is a countable union of nowhere dense sets, and so is incomplete by the Baire category theorem.
$\mathbb{R}^\mathbb{N}$ in the product topology is an example. It's a completely metrisable topological vector space, but there can be no compatible norm because all neighbourhoods of 0 are unbounded.
Let $\kappa$ be an infinite cardinal.
As was pointed out above, every infinite dimensional Banach space has (Hamel) dimension at least $2^{\aleph_0}$. If a Banach space has size $>2^{\aleph_0}$, then its size is actually equal to the dimension. It follows that an infinite cardinal can only be the dimension of a Banach space if it is of the form $\kappa^{\aleph_0}$. But there are many cardinals that are not of that form and for every cardinal $\kappa$ there is a vector space of dimension $\kappa$.
The first infinite cardinal not of the form $\kappa^{\aleph_0}$ is $\aleph_0$, as was pointed out above. The next cardinal is $\aleph_1$, which is of the form $\kappa^{\aleph_0}$ iff the continuum hypothesis holds. The only cardinals for which we can say for sure that they are not of the form $\kappa^{\aleph_0}$ are suprema of increasing chains of cardinals of countable length, like $\aleph_\omega$, the sup of the $\aleph_n$.
On the other hand, any two vector spaces are isomorphic iff they have the same dimension. Also, there are vectorspaces of all dimensions. So, the question whether a vector space has a norm that turns it into a Banach space really only asks which cardinals are dimensions of Banach spaces.
For every cardinal $\kappa$, $\ell^2(\kappa)$ is a Banach space (even Hilbert!) of density $\kappa$ and dimension $\kappa^{\aleph_0}$. It follows that an infinite dimensional vector space is isomorphic to a Banach space if and only if its dimension is of the form $\kappa^{\aleph_0}$ for some $\kappa$. (Actually, $(\kappa^{\aleph_0})^{\aleph_0}=\kappa^{\aleph_0}$, so $\lambda$ is of the form $\kappa^{\aleph_0}$ iff $\lambda^{\aleph_0}=\lambda$.)


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On Thursday, October 14, 2010, the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) hosted a reception on their campus in Lotman Lobby, Evans Hall. Thomas J. Gravina, Executive Chairman Co-Founder of GPX Enterprises L.P. and PCOM Trustee, received the Presidents Leadership Award for his support of the PCOM Healthcare Centers and his work as a Trustee. Mr. Gravina has raised over three quarters of a million dollars for the PCOM Healthcare Centers over the past four years. The PCOM Healthcare Centers provide care for over 30,000 Pennsylvania residents annually. In addition, the reception recognized PCOM donors who have given $1,000 or more and also donors who have given consecutively for five years.
On October 13, 2010, Woodmere Art Museum welcomed William Valerio as the Patricia Van Burgh Allison Director and CEO of Woodmere Art Museum. In the midst of placing the finishing touches on their Witch Boot Maze, Woodmere Art Museum hosted a welcoming reception for the new director as he implements his first initiative in the new position. The Witch Boot Maze debuted to the public on October 15 and will be open until early November. Photography by C. Nancy Evans.
On Sunday, October 10, the public filled the streets to celebrate OutFest 2010Philadelphias annual National Coming Out Day Block Party. Each year, OutFest attracts over 20,000 attendees, making it Philadelphia's second biggest LGBT annual event, and the largest National Coming Out Day event in the world. This years festival featured a wide variety of exciting activities from over 120 local businesses and organizations. Courtesy of Philadelphia magazines G Philly, festival-goers were also invited to Strike a Pose for a cause and received souvenir photographs in support of Philly Pride Presents. Photography by Cherry Hill Photo
The Minding Your Mind Foundations inaugural gala was held on October 10, 2010 World Mental Health Day at the Haverford School. All proceeds benefited the Minding Your Mind Foundation for enlightening attitudes towards Mental Health. Dr. Dan Gottlieb, author of several books and host of the radio show, Voices in the Family, on WHYY was presented with a special Changing Minds Award for all of his work in the mental health field. Tara Conner, Public Advocacy Consultant for Caron Treatment Centers and former Miss USA, shared her personal story in hopes of raising awareness in treatment available for substance abuse. The host of the evening was Gerard P. Cuddy, President and CEO of Beneficial Bank. Photography by Catherine Hennesy.
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Sharp 50-inch LED LCD TV - LC-50LE440U Aquos 1080p 60Hz Edge-Lit Back-Lit HDTV - Black with $300… for $699.99 + free shipping
Hey after the big 73" debacle yesterday I figured this might be a consolation prize. Not too shabby I reckon.
$699 for the TV PLUS a $300 Dell gift card. It ain't no 73-incher for $100 but was there ever??? lol
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Sounds like an old black friday leftover. 60 hz=blurry motion
well if you can't afford a samsung or LG and you're in the market for the likes of Seiki and RCA, this is a much better choice
I didn't go look at the actual deal, just this post and I'm wondering about "edge lit"?
If it somehow means the frame around the tv itself, who would want that?
And if it means the edge of the screen, mine already is lit with the picture that covers the entire screen--edge to edge.
Or maybe it means there is no frame around the screen? That doesn't sound like a very good idea either.
I have a 55" Samsung that I bought about 5 yrs ago --on sale--for $1899. Now you can buy basically the same tv for 1/2 that--or less : (
The Refresh Rate marketing tactic is just a scam. This started when Plasma TV's were rated at 600Hz and the LCD models were only 60Hz. Sales vultures at BestTry would sell you on the fact that Plasma was the better buy because it had a refresh rate of 600Hz etc. Fact is you could see motion blur on the plasma TV's with a "supposed" 10x refresh rate over the LCD models. I'm not going to say that a 60Hz is as good as a 120Hz, but I will say that a 120Hz isn't better either. There is a slight improvement from a 60Hz to 120Hz. Read this article and you'll see how manufactures are abusing the refresh rate numbers and inflating them to confuse the customers. Samsung is the worst at inflating the numbers, but in my opinion the make one of the best TV's.
Putting Sharp in the same sentence as RCA and Seiki. Wow, I'd guess you were the first person in line to buy a 4k TV. Just want it because it's new. Sharp is one of the top 3 TV manufacturers along with LG and Samsung. Not opinion...


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I have a single column layout where the column is a centered div with a fixed width. I want to place a wider div within the column which overflows it's parents, but center it within the parent. Conceptually something like the following:

The centering works as long as the child div is thinner than its parent, but once it gets larger, it always aligns left with the parent for some reason.


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== Contact Information ==
== Contact Information ==
Revision as of 16:42, 24 April 2012
Contact Information
- Center for Design Research
Stanford University
424 Panama Mall, Bldg. 560
Stanford, CA 94305-2206
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Shannon K. Gilmartin, Ph.D., is Director of SKG Analysis, a research consulting firm, and Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford University's School of Engineering. Her expertise and interests focus on education and workforce development in science and engineering fields. Previous and current clients include the American Chemical Society, the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, California Institute of Technology, the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at California State University Fullerton, the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education at Stanford University, the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, and the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
Shannon received her B.A. at Stanford University and her M.A. and Ph.D. at UCLA, and held two postdoctoral research appointments at the California Institute of Technology and Stanford University before starting her own consulting practice. She has taught undergraduate courses at UCLA in gender, psychology, and education. Her publications appear in Academe, Journal of American College of Surgeons, Journal of Research on Adolescence, Journal of Research on Science Teaching, Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, Men and Masculinities, Research in Higher Education, The Journal of Higher Education, and The Journal of the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.
- Ph.D., Education, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003
- M.A, Education, University of California, Los Angeles, 2000
- B.A., American Studies, Stanford University, 1994
- Girod, S., S.K. Gilmartin, H. Valantine, and L. Schiebinger. 2011. Academic couples: Implications for medical school faculty recruitment and retention. Journal of American College of Surgeons 212: 310-319.
- Schiebinger, L., and S.K. Gilmartin. 2010. Housework is an academic issue. Academe 96: 39-44.
- Sheppard, S.D., S.K. Gilmartin, H.L. Chen, K. Donaldson, G. Lichtenstein, Ö. Eriş, M. Lande, and G. Toye. 2010. Exploring the Engineering Student Experience: Findings from the Academic Pathways of People Learning Engineering Survey (APPLES). Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education. Available at: http://www.engr.washington.edu/caee/APPLES_report.html.
- Simard, C., A.D. Henderson, S.K. Gilmartin, L. Schiebinger, and T. Whitney. 2008. Climbing the Technical Ladder: Obstacles and Solutions for Mid-Level Women in Technology. Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, and the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. Available at: http://www.stanford.edu/group/gender/ResearchPrograms/TopTech/Climbing_the_Technical_Ladder.pdf
- Gilmartin, S.K., N. Denson, E. Li., A. Bryant, and P. Aschbacher. 2007. Gender ratios in high school science departments: The effect of percent female faculty on multiple dimensions of students' science identities. Journal of Research on Science Teaching 44: 980-1009.
- Sax, L.J., S.K. Gilmartin, and A.N. Bryant. 2003. Assessing response rates and nonresponse bias in web and paper surveys. Research in Higher Education 44: 409-432.


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This google doc contains my current work.
I am working on a set of quantifiers that can reliably compare complexity between two different characters.
At present, I've operationalized 5 factors:
- Positioning (battlefield movement, where you have to be, and how much you can and do rearrange the battlefield)
- Attack Sequence (how complex your turn is, if you need a flowchart, or if you need to recompute strategy every turn)
- Out of Turn Actions (how much attention you have to pay to the battlefield when it isn't your turn)
- Status Effects (inflicting and removing status effects, buffs, and debuffs on others)
- Buffs (How many external factors or conditionally active factors require effective changes to your character sheet. Rages, THP, Polymorphs, Auras, etc... This measures how fiddily it is to achive "normal" tactics)
Is there a better set of factors that can more accurately capture the complexity of a 4e character?
Complexity defined (thanks to @Acedrummer_CLB) as: "a measure of the amount of things a player needs to do and be aware of to run a character adequately in a combat situation."


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I just want to input more shell commands after typing
adb shell su, but the terminal just return an "#".
It appears to be unresponsive to further commands.
How can I solve this problem? Recompile the
su binary? Any other suggestions?
Other information: I use
ddmlib to communication with Android phone,
if I use
device.executeShellCommand("su", receiver), an exception occurs(com.taobao.wireless.testlab.ddmlib.ShellCommandUnresponsiveException).


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Buffalo MiniStation Plus 1TB Portable USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (Black) | ® for $69.99 + free shipping
$50 off regular price.
This is actually a two day sale. See sale items below:
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Bah.. I don't want a USB 3.0. I missed, or didn't see if I can use a 2.0 with it.
usb 3.0 and usb 2.0 can be used either way - if your controller is 2.0, a 3.0 device will clock back to 2.0. If your controller is 3.0 and you plug a 2.0 device into it, it will run at 2.0 - the only way to get 3.0 speed is to have a 3.0 usb port and a 3.0 device
Can anyone comment on the reliability of Buffalo hard drives? I could sure use this but dont want to risk my data.
Even if they are reliable, not sure if I should wait and get the 2TB Seagate that will be on sale during black friday for $79.99.
I've had their 500gb usb 3.0 drive for about a year now with no problems at all. I don't know if it's reliable for everyone, but it's been all good for me.
I bought this same drive back in May for a bit more money. I'm very happy with it and it's well worth it to get the USB 3.0 architecture if you have USB 3.0 on your machine. Like most, if not all USB 3.0 drives, it's USB 2.0 compatible. I use mine between MY Mac and my Windows machine. It's worked flawlessly the whole time I've had it.
@jgarcia408: Black Friday? I think the 2TB is on sale already.
This Buffalo 1Tb is a portable hard drive, meaning it is about the size of a pack of cigarettes, and should run off a USB port, no power adapter required. The 2Tb drive is indeed on sale now also, and has twice the capacity, but it is a desktop drive -- larger, requiring a power adapter, far heavier.
@photoagent101: Good point. I forgot about portability. Looks like Im going to go ahead and order one of these.
It got really good ratings on Amazon
Buffalo products are pretty reputable - their routers and networking gear are top class. Seems like a good excuse for me to spend all those Staples reward certificates that have been piling up.


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Stop Ventura Thieves
The disconnect between pawn stores, law enforcement and stolen goods pushes one local man to action
By Shane Cohn 06/20/2013
It was a dream guitar.
Mowing lawn after lawn, washing car after car when he was 14 years old, Harvey Penwall finally saved up enough to buy a Paul Reed Smith (PRS) CE-24 guitar.
It was all he ever wanted, and for more than a decade, Penwall, 30, cherished his six-string dream, a guitar that has been discontinued and is highly sought by collectors.
But this past November, Penwall, like countless thousands of others in Ventura, became a victim of the city's most rapidly increasing crime: property theft.
Around $5,000 worth of music equipment, along with the PRS, was stolen from Penwall's bandmate's car one November night in the gated parking lot of the Beachfronter Apartments next to Surfers Point.
The crime was caught on surveillance cameras, and reported to Ventura Police investigators. Penwall provided a local pawn shop with the descriptions and serial numbers of the stolen gear, and it was entered into its log books of reported stolen items.
But it didn't matter.
Surveillance cameras show the thieves in action
Five months later, Penwall learned that nearly all of his stolen equipment was pawned and sold at Old Towne Jewelry and Loan in Ventura for $200. Fortunately, his friend noticed Penwall's amp in the shop, and Penwall, as the law states, had to buy it back before it was sold to another party.
"People can do what they want, basically," says Penwall. "They can rob your stuff and pawn it with no consequences. You'd think $5,000 worth of gear being sold for $200 would be a red flag."
Now, many months into his search to retrieve his gear, Penwall is discovering why property crimes are so widespread throughout the city: There is simply no active teamwork in place with pawnbrokers, secondhand dealers and the Ventura Police Department. Unless perpetrators are caught in the act, the crime — though the most popular in the city — seems to become an afterthought, as recovering stolen items is low on the priority list for law enforcement.
"Our main objective here is to run a business, do loans and make sales," says Diana Russell, manager of Olde Towne Jewelry and Loan. "There is nothing that mandates us to keep track of people who come in here and say their stuff has been stolen."
Russell says that she and her employees, whenever they have free time, do their best to check their logbook of items reported stolen. A seller is fingerprinted, name and address recorded, and a document is signed verifying that the merchandise is not stolen; and the merchandise is then held for 30 days before being resold.
Current law also requires dealers to fill out a Department of Justice (DOJ) form for every pawn or secondhand dealer transaction, and then mail copies of the form to the DOJ and local law enforcement, as well as to keep their own copies of every transaction.
These forms sent to the VPD, according to Sgt. David Dickey, are now handled by volunteers, due to staffing issues.
"There is such a high volume of pawned items, it is hard to stay ahead of the curve and do checks," says Dickey. "This is a resource issue, and it's hard to pull from the huge caseloads we have and go for one."
Dickey heads the street crimes unit, which has seen an 18 percent increase in property crimes this year after rising 24 percent from 2011 to 2012, and there are regular city-issued alerts in several neighborhoods for residents to keep their doors locked.
In 2012, there were 2,825 larceny/thefts reported, including thefts from locked and unlocked vehicles, 500 residential burglaries and 284 non-residential. Dickey has six detectives who work commercial and residential burglary, grand theft, identity theft and narcotic-related offenses. During the past few months, Dickey says, his unit was down to three detectives for several weeks because his detectives were assigned to other details.
"Our focus is to go after people we know are committing crimes and work specific cases on them," says Dickey. "I empathize with him (Penwall). It would be nice to go to pawn shops and make cases. But it's not as easy as it seems. Selling to pawn shops doesn't establish probable cause."
In Penwall's case, surveillance cameras show a VPD squad car drive through the Paseo de Playa Street, which borders the private Beachfronter parking lot, shining a search light. Just minutes later, two perpetrators begin casing the parking lot around 2:30 a.m., until finally using a Slim Jim to break into the car that held Penwall's equipment. The whole operation, Penwall says, took the thieves about 45 minutes. The crime itself was quick, but the video, Penwall says, shows the perpetrators waiting curbside on Paseo de Playa Street with the stolen equipment for nearly 30 minutes before an accomplice picked them up in a car.
Penwall filed a report, provided police with the surveillance footage, notified pawn shops and set auto-alerts for matching items on Craigslist and eBay.
"I was assured by the police that if it went through a pawn shop, I would be notified and they'd find it because the pawn shop has to submit serial numbers to the police department and hold everything for 30 days," says Penwall.
But Russell admitted that whoever was working the day Penwall's equipment was pawned didn't look in the stolen items logbook, and because of staffing issues at the police department, the serial numbers from Penwall's merchandise were never matched with the original police report.
With the given resources, Dickey says, Penwall's case wasn't possible. The surveillance footage was too blurry to make out suspects, and close to five months had passed by the time the stolen merchandise appeared in the pawn shop. The customer who had sold Penwall's gear to the shop was not on probation or parole, and did not have a permanent address, and there was no probable cause to bring the seller in for questioning.
"But you're not going to even try and contact the person?" asked Penwall. "At least let him know he is connected to a crime. Maybe he is innocent and had no idea the stuff he pawned off was stolen. Wouldn't he want to know? I would.
"I'm sympathetic to the police department and their lack of resources," continued Penwall. "But something else needs to happen. If it's a lack of resources, then as a community we need to get more resources together to go in that direction."
Russell says that since this particular incident, especially after hearing the story about Penwall's childhood dream literally being stolen, she has been trying to come up with a more efficient way to manage situations like Penwall's.
"With this particular situation, I was disappointed," says Russell. "He had been in two weeks before with descriptions, serial numbers; and if a better system was in place, it could've been caught."
A system is in the works, however. Last year, Assembly Bill 391 was passed. Authored by Assemblyman Dr. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, the law calls for a statewide online database for pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers to report their transactions the same day they occur. This database would allow pawnbrokers, secondhand dealers and police departments to work together in tracking and recovering stolen goods used as collateral, instead of relying on the antiquated snail-mail methods now in place. The database will be funded by pawnbroker and secondhand dealer licensing fees.
The database is still in the process of being built, and according to Pan's office, the state attorney general estimates it will be up and running by the end of 2013, possibly early 2014.
"This has been a wish list for us for a while," says Dickey. "We could read stuff really quickly about stolen items pawned."
"When this gets into place, it will be an amazing thing," Russell agrees. "Right now, if you steal from Los Angeles and bring to Ventura, it will never get tracked because local police departments only get paperwork for their local area."
But in the meantime, victims and citizens like Penwall are still highly concerned about thefts in the area, calling it a "robber/pawner's paradise." Penwall recently bought a house in the city and had his first child and doesn't want to see Ventura become known as a hotbed for robbery.
"This is a serious epidemic that brings down the class and value of this beautiful city," Penwall says. "The city/police need to reevaluate their stance and priority on robbery. . . . I understand the police feel they have a lack of resources, but times are tough for all businesses, and we all need to be more efficient with the limited resources we do have."
Penwall doesn't expect to see his guitar again, or the other pieces of gear that were stolen, but says he's found peace with the situation by sharing his story and finding there are many others in the community that share a similar experience. He has started a Stop Ventura Thieves Facebook page (www.facebook.com/stopvtathieves) to collaborate and strategize with community members about theft prevention.
Harvey Penwall is a fictitious name as the sorce had asked to remain anonymous.
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First, we believe in educating "the whole person" -- mind, body, heart and spirit. The more whole you are, the more you can contribute to the world.
Second, Jesuit schools are known for their rigor. We don't so much embrace ideas as challenge them, always looking for larger, stronger answers. As a consequence, not only will you learn to defend your ideas, you will learn to improve upon them, developing the intellectual wherewithal to think clearly, argue pointedly and express yourself beautifully.
And, finally, you will evolve as a leader, acquiring the ethical and moral underpinning necessary to make sound judgments. Through class, service learning and learning to appreciate cultural difference, you will come to see the world -- and your place in it -- as a wondrous opportunity for growth and good works.
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Designer Series Tip Light Illuminated Toggle Switch M/On-Off-M/On 5-Blade SeaDog Line
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SeaDog Light Tip Illuminated Toggle Switches
Turn your onboard electrical accessories on and off with just the push of the lever in the Seadog Light Tip Illuminated Switch. This toggle switch …
Lighted Tip Toggle Switch (Sea-Dog Line)
Made of stamped, brass/molded bakelite. Rated 15 Amps at 12 volts.
- High quality, rugged construction.
- Light is in tip of toggle bat.
- Black locking ring with lever seal and protruding cap nut.
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I am trying flowblade now.
I have the feeling your supposed to keep the dv file direct from the tape around for future mods and export a 'finished' video file for say youtube. I was kinda hoping not to need to do that, but I can see it losing quality on x264 playback compared to the original dv file. Plus I am very new at this encoding and so many choices to make! SO I guess will have to keep originals and an encoded copy. Some of the tapes are +20 years old but still seem ok.
I was planning on taking a lot of digital8 tapes around 50 tapes and putting them on the computer hardrive. Then copy and give to my parents. He will not want large dv 13gb files so the idea was to edit then turn into x264 video files.
I did a few using windows movie maker on XP. This took the tape and realtime encoded in 720x480 vbr WMV file of about 1 to 1.5gb size. They actually look fairly decent. Using Windows Movie Maker, I saw no option to create any raw DV output file. WMM has a download for windows7. This new version of WMM can output straight to h264.


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I'm having a lot of trouble understanding the core concept of finding $f\,'(a)$ or any number in place of $a$. I do not understand what finding $f\,'$ means to begin with, or how to solve them. If somebody could give any information i would be appreciative.
It's just the derivative. f'(a) is the derivative of f(x) at x=a. So for example if f(x)=$x^2$ then f'(x)=$2x$ and f'(a)=$2a$
$f'(x)$ is the derivative of $f$ at $x$.
Other similar meanings are
rate of change
grade (of an incline)
pitch, etc.
You know that slope of a line is the ratio of rise over run.
Well the graph of a function may not be a straight line but we can still find something that plays the same role as slope of a line.
Here is how, at a point with $x=a$ on the graph draw its tangent line. The slope of this line is the derivative of $f$ at $a$.
The easiest way to find the derivative using the definition is by using this limit$$f'(a)=\lim_{x\rightarrow a}\frac{f(x)-f(a)}{x-a}$$, For example if $f(x)=x^2-1$ find the derivative at x=1, using the definition we have $$f'(1)=\lim_{x\rightarrow 1}\frac{f(x)-f(1)}{x-1}=\lim_{x\rightarrow 1}\frac{x^2-1-0}{x-1}$$$$=\lim_{x\rightarrow 1}\frac{(x-1)(x+1)}{x-1}$$$$=\lim_{x\rightarrow 1}x+1=2.$$This is the hardest part. After you learn more about derivatives you will learn some rules which are relatively easier to use than the definition, and things should get easier from there.


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Nezoia, I'd actually suggest to take a look at his gear I think you are going to find out why he doesnt go OOM.
Nezoia, I'd actually suggest to take a look at his gear I think you are going to find out why he doesnt go OOM.
No, you can't continously nuke without going OOM. Try it on a dummy, you can't continue forever, it's not possible, nor would it ever be. You're ignoring w/e buffs you gain that restores your mana, if you say you don't use fiend at all.
You're obviously using SW on every cooldown since you even dare claim not ever going OOM. But surpose you also claim that Evocation and Lifetap never been usefull in PvE.
I surpose you also totally ignore twilight torment
(And I got better gear than you, and I sure as hell can burn my mana.)
Yes I got OOM on dummy! But who cares of OOM on dummy...?
I was talking 25-man raid = never OOM
No i NEVER use SW in my rotation.
twilight torment ?
Because on a dummy the only regen you got is replenishment. So alas. you're quite wrong about not getting other regen buffs. (No really, Kings/Wisdom/SoW don't regen THAT much)
Guild boost?twilight torment ?
When I crit with MB I get 282 mp5 while casting. Then u can add: Blessing of Wisdom, Blessing of Kings, Mana Spring, Gift Of The Wild, Intellect Buff. That adds alot to MP5.
He doesnt actually have ANY haste. Almost 800 crit instead.Originally Posted by Nezoia
Yeah and add moonkin 5% + ele shammy 3% and all buffs I'm surely over 32% crit in 25-man raid.
EDIT: Oh w8, totem doesn't stack or? so 23,3 + 5 = 28,3% + raid buffs.
And you'll still go OOM in progress raids. You just be happy your guild got alot of good players to kill the boss fast.
You can't actually create a competitive crit-only gear set with currently available gear. You actually HAVE TO stack at least 400 haste to achieve maximum spellpower (which is your main stat), currently it's around 2130-2150 unbuffed.Originally Posted by Lehto
It's actually melee/spell 3% debuff (shaman, rogue, paladin) + 5% buff (shaman, druid) + spell 10% debuff from mages.EDIT: Oh w8, totem doesn't stack or? so 23,3 + 5 = 28,3% + raid buffs.
Yeah, I'm at 2100+ unbuffed. 2306 with Inner Fire.
Yeah I know my gear isn't optimized. And I didn't really ment to be stacking that much crit.
It has just come with the gear that dropped.
I'm only 1807 SP unbuffed.
But the argue here has been Nezoia who knows for sure that I go oom, which I don't and I guess I know that better then him.
I'v already asked in another thread here on what to upgrade and had some good answeres from Nezoia.
And I'm owrking on it, but u know u have to be lucky with loots.
I'm currently aiming for:
-111crit ~2.4%
+ 168haste ~5%
+ 99 spellpower
when swapping shoulders -> T7 / Wrist -> sarth 25 +2drakes / waist -> malygos 25 / weap -> hauting call naxx 25 trash.
And except for those, I still need Malygos 25-man head, 25-man version of T7 gloves, Lost Jewel, K'T 25-man Back + Legs.
But I think we can stop talking about this now. I will notice when I'm oom and havn't been yet in any 25 /10-man instance.
2900+ DPS with current gear, low?
Depends on how much lag you have.Originally Posted by Lehto
Check this out: http://www.chardev.org/?template=124334
Nezoia, maybe try helping the guy instead of going "lolol I have 2100 spellpower and clearly therefore more pro than u" ?
But, Lehto; You have a Spellpower/Mp5 gem in your belt. I guess you are trying to get your meta gem bonus by using the 2 blue gems, but... Spellpower/Spirit gem is the way to go - And you have a Crit Strike Rating/Spirit gem in your helm..? I don't understand that choice in all honesty. It seems you'd improve a lot if you visited this thread and read up on gear/enchant/gem choices: http://www.shadowpriest.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=16992
To answer the "You cant go oom in raids" thing: Well, generally speaking, you can't. The fights aren't long enough, and even if you come close, you just use a shadowfiend and you're sorted. Obviously on a target dummy you will go oom eventually, that's pretty obvious. But in a raid environment, it is pretty much impossible to go oom as the fights simply aren't long enough for that to happen.
Lehto, eurgh, I would question why you're in a Sarth+3 guild if you don't know how to gem your gear properly, or even that you don't know why Dispersion is good for PvE. There is no reason for a Spriest to not spec into it, and spec into DS instead: There are numerous occasions when Dispersion is a great tool, and you really should know that, or have found that out, by now.
Sorry to derail the thread further (I thought this thread was about Target Dummy DPS..?), but I thought I ought to add my thoughts since there is obviously no progress going on in this thread.
Help it with posting your recent numbers and thoughts? Personally I try to run a pair of sessions every evening after the raid if im not too tired after and maybe even more if im getting a decent upgrade.Originally Posted by Andil
Well im putting out 2.5 over 2:30mins. And heres my armory link if yall wana look at it.
Seems like armory is down atm. Ill post it in a while when its back up.


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I used fullframe because the lens is generally regarded as a fullframe lens - i.e. no part of the edge of the image circle of the lens is visible in the frame. However, you can specify the lens as acircular lens and set a circular crop to pass through the corners of the image to use all of the image frame. If the image quality falls off in the corners of the lens, you can set the crop circle smaller so that the corners are excluded.Also, you used fullframe for lens type. I used circular.
For the best possible results, it's important to have control points accurately positioned on matching features and nicely spread along the full length of the overlap area. A large number of points is not necessary. The automatic generator will generate as many points as you like (set via Tools->Options), but not all the points may be positioned very accurately and freqently they are not spread evenly either.However, after optimizer I got max distance 15.xxx
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Poorly positioned points will usually be characterised by large distance values in the control points table after optimization. These points should be either deleted or manually repositioned accurately. You can use the Delete Worst Control Points option on the Control Points menu to delete all the really bad points in one fell swoop, but PTGui will not remove a point if by doing so less than 7 points would remain for pair of images.
Removing bad points automatically may remove points that have every appearance of being accurately positioned. This can happen when features are affected by parallax or when the lens parameters are not yet right. To get the lens parameters right, you need a nice spread of control points. In simple terms, if you want the images to align well all along the length of the seams, you need control points placed all along the seams. So it pays to check the spread of points between pairs of images visually and add a few points manually where they are lacking. It is all too easy to get a "very good" optimizer report when points are clustered in the middle of the image overlaps, but the images may still not align well in the corners where there are no control points owing to the lens distortion not being adequately corrected. Adding points towards the corners will help the optimizer to correct the distortion there and get good alignment.


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Okay, so I just read through huge sections of http://gordonwatts.wordpress.com, which I found quite interesting. There are some questions that really came to my mind.
Do a lot of particle physicists use windows computers? (relative to other physicists?) And why? In most other academic departments, the professors seem to gravitate towards Linux/MACs. But Watts writes a lot of his programs for Windows only, which shows that there's definitely a lot of people who use it there.
Does particle physics research always stall until we get the sexiest new supercollider? (like, is it pretty much stalled until CERN starts putting out substantial output?) We haven't heard of anything from particle physics for quite some time (of course, we will soon, from CERN). But from the likes of particle physics blogs, I'm just getting the impression that everyone is talking about what's possible, rather than what results came out. It seems that condensed matter physics, biophysics, and astrophysics are the fields that are getting the most press.
If you're an experimental particle physicist, does that mean that you just use computational techniques to reduce/analyze the data now? In other words, could you be an experimental physicist without even knowing how to use laboratory apparatus? (just like how you can be an astrophysicist without knowing how to use a telescope these days).


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In exercise 49 of Spivak's Calculus, a function $h$ is termed to be increasing at any point $a$ if there exists a $\delta > 0$ such that
$$ a - \delta < x < a \implies h(x) < h(a) $$ $$ a < x < a - \delta \implies h(a) < h(x) $$
and the reader is asked to prove that a function which is increasing at all points in some interval is increasing on that interval.
I was able to show this using Heine-Borel...
(Proof: Let $x, y \in I$, $x<y$, where all members of $I$ are increasing w.r.t. $h$. The collection of open intervals $(t - \delta_t, t + \delta_t), t \in [x,y]$, covers $[x, y]$, and therefore has a finite open subcover $\mathcal{C}$; for any two successive $c_i, c_{i+1}$ (the center-points of open intervals in $\mathcal{C}$) we have some $\gamma$ in the overlap of their covers, which says that $h(c_i) < h(c_{i+1})$. Chaining them together, we have
$$ h(x) \leq h(c_1) <h(c_2) < \cdots < h(c_n) \leq h(y) $$
so that $h(x) < h(y)$.)
...but Spivak never introduced Heine-Borel. He suggests
Prove [the result] by considering for each $b$ in $[0, 1]$ the set $S_b$ = $\{x: h(y) \geq h(b)$ $\forall y \in [b, x]\}$ (Hint: Prove that $S_b = \{x: b \leq x \leq 1\}$ by considering $\sup(S_b)$).
I admit that I don't see what he's getting at. Does somebody else know what he means?


text: I know it's not even Christmas yet, but I received an odd request to make a tutorial on a figure that we see all the time during the spring month of March. Today, I will take a chance and provide a tutorial on "how to draw a leprechaun for kids", step by step. The design concept is going to be pretty easy to replicate which means anyone from all types of skill levels will be able to tackle this lesson. I drew this leprechaun sitting down on a spread of grass with a background of the rainbow. You too can draw this very same background if you like how it looks in the image. You can even add a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow so your leprechaun for kids stays cute, instead of turning into a crazed maniac that goes on a rampage in search for his gold. Well, that is really all I have to say. I better let you try and tackle the task of drawing a leprechaun for kids so you have the skill down packed for when St. Patrick's Day arrives. Adios people and enjoy all the great fun!


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Charlotte track and field team participated in three events on the final day of the NCAA East Preliminary Championship, Saturday afternoon on the campus of N.C. A&T State University,
The men's 4x100m relay team of John Osborne, LeRoy Rouse, Anthony Bynum, and Khyran Shank finished 13th with a school record time of 40.00.
Trey McRae finished 25th in the high jump with a leap of 6'10.75.
Freshman Anthony Campbell participated in the triple jump but was unable to place due to fouls.
Senior Jake Deaton was Charlotte's only athlete who qualified for the NCAA Division I Track and Field Championship in Eugene, Ore. held June 5-8. Deaton finished 11th in the discus throw with a toss of 179'10 to advance.


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Musser is in its new home at the Elkhart, Indiana campus and doing well! In the past two months, production has ramped up and fulfilling customers' expectations are at the forefront of daily efforts. Orders have been satisfied for bells, chimes, vibraphones, kelon xylophone and marimbas. Here's what a couple customers reported:
School dealer Tarpley Music in San Angelo, Texas recently purchased three instruments from the new Musser location. Wes Sutton shared these words about them, "I received the shipment in a timely manner, and it was for the San Antonio Symphony percussionist." He continued saying, "It's simple. Musser helps me take care of my customer and I do business with people who take care of me."
Towson High School Music Department in Towson, Maryland bought a Kelon Xylophone. When asked about the playing experience of the instrument John Olin said, "Works Well! Great product so far."
As Musser moves forward into the years to come, success will always be measured by our customers' experience. The Elkhart team is off to a great start!
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Is your partner nudging you in the night because you're keeping him awake? It's common for pregnant women to snore. This is largely due to increased swelling of the nasal passages, but it can also be caused by increased weight and the fact that you may roll over onto your back during the night.
Your stuffy nose is due to the increased volume of blood in your body while you're pregnant. This can cause congestion and make your ears feel blocked, too. Nosebleeds are also very common in pregnancy; some women find that every time they blow their nose they have a small amount of bleeding. This is because the blood vessels in the nose are very fragile, and with the increased volume of blood flowing through them, they tend to bleed more easily. However, the bleeding should be very light.
To treat a nosebleed, tip your head forward and pinch the middle of your nose (in the soft part) hard. It should stop quickly. If it doesn't, try an icepack on the nose to help the blood vessels constrict. In the rare situation of heavy bleeding, go to the hospital. Seek medical advice if you are getting heavy bleeding regularly.
During the first trimester, you probably anxiously awaited developments in the pregnancy and supported your partner when the going got tough. Now that her early pregnancy symptoms, such as nausea and sickness and fatigue, are likely to have passed, and the risk of miscarriage is reduced, you may begin to feel differently about the pregnancy and your future.
As your partner starts to show increasing strength and vigor, and as you begin to notice her changing body shape and small belly, you may find that the reality of the pregnancy hits you and your sense of trepidation is replaced by optimism as you both look forward.
Some experts feel that if a child is at a particular risk of developing a peanut allergy, the problem may have started to develop before birth. Due to the mother's diet, a sensitivity to peanuts may have begun when the baby was exposed to them in the uterus.
However, recent studies have suggested that avoiding peanuts during pregnancy may be increasing the incidence of allergies, pinpointing countries where peanuts are a staple food and allergies relatively rare. Although studies have been inconclusive, your baby may be at risk of developing a peanut allergy if you, or your partner, or your baby's siblings suffer from asthma, eczema, hay fever, or other allergies. If any of these apply to you, ask your doctor whether you should eat peanuts during your pregnancy or while you are breast-feeding.
There is no need for you to avoid eating peanuts if your baby is not at risk of peanut allergy.
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(0) Comments | Posted June 20, 2014 | 5:06 PM
Sometimes you take a look at things and wonder if our historical amnesia is such that it has robbed us of all the lessons of the past so we simply can't seem to move forward no matter the cost of standing pat. It reminds me of a line from the...
(0) Comments | Posted March 18, 2014 | 12:00 PM
During a month when we celebrate the historical achievements of women, only a few days after International Women's Day, after a year in which we've watched an unprecedented attack by state legislatures on women's rights and as Sheryl Sandberg and celebrity friends virally request that we #BanBossy, I've...
(18) Comments | Posted January 29, 2014 | 1:17 PM
For the 1.3 million Americans unemployed and facing a life bereft of new benefits, Exxon feels your pain. Big Oil's biggest and baddest had a rough year in 2011.
They only made $41 billion (that is with a "b"). Now I know what you're thinking:...
(0) Comments | Posted May 13, 2013 | 5:42 AM
On April 25 -- Thursday evening -- American icon and humble hero George W. Bush took one small step for man, one slip-and-fall for humanity as he reentered a spotlight, until recently blissful to have been abandoned by him, for the dedication of his presidential library. Put aside for...
(9) Comments | Posted March 17, 2013 | 7:17 PM
Praise be to Judge Antonin Scalia, for he sees what the rest of us do not. The man for whom nasty, brutish and short is not simply a political formulation, but a mirror image, can look at hundreds of years of slavery, 100 more of legalised segregation and another 50 of daily discrimination and see "racial entitlement" in the basic right to vote in America. I guess it's kind of like the right-wing clown entitlement enjoyed by our current Supreme Court.
Scalia, of course, was a modern Republican (in a robe) before it was even cool. I mean that in the sense that it's clear to anyone taking so much as a gander at what animates the GOP of 2013 -- as well as Scalia's immunity to legal reasoning -- that it's not any set of policy ideas, but simple emotion: all-consuming, blood-curdling, vein-bulging-out-of-the-forehead, Mel Gibson-watching-Fiddler-On-The-Roof ANGER.
Policy-wise, the GOP is an entity that literally lacks any new ideas, has no interest in governing and has rejected all of its own policy positions from as recently as early 2008 as "oh-my-God-we're-all-doomed!" creeping socialism (see: cap and trade, earned-income tax credit, individual healthcare mandate). Rejecting anything right wingers sneeringly see as created by them-there libruls is the secret handshake of modern conservatism.
You believe in global warming? Then they don't, dang it! You accept that human beings didn't ride saddleback on a brachiosaurus into the Battle of Little Bighorn? They have an App for that, the Creation Museum, where you can ride Noah's Ark with your friendly Triassic-period imperial walker. You offer them way-too-friendly a deal on the budget? Then as Cartman from South Park says, "screw you guys... I'm going home".
The most potent example is the rise and fall of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as conservative heartthrob. He was a Republican Superhero just a year ago, when he headlined what Republican consultant Steve Schmidt called "The Star Wars Bar" of conservative gatherings, the CPAC Conference. Yet, he was quite publicly not invited to this year's CPAC.
So what changed? Christie still opposes women's reproductive justice, doesn't like gay marriage and believes in cutting the social-safety net for the most vulnerable. But a year ago he was publicly screaming at teachers at town hall meetings, which is just about the sexiest thing to a conservative short of executing someone. Since then -- OMG! -- he said nice things about the President of the United States, who, as you know, is a Kenyan, communist interloper. That, my friends, is a non-birther bridge too far.
This is your explanation of why to your average Limbaugh the liberal tent seemingly includes the likes of Dick Lugar, Chuck Hagel and many other once-proud conservatives. They talked to Democrats, you see, and tried to solve stuff. The jerks.
Meanwhile, Antonin Scalia seems to size up any crowd he's in and think to himself, what would a Morlock do? And then does it. That the guy's an activist judge of the first order and his legal opinions on guns, campaign finance reform and the Commerce Clause imply he should be banned from operating heavy machinery, that's only a sweetener to the Right.
This is why that maverick-y maverick John McCain has been able to remain in relatively decent stead on the Right. The key to McCain, as I argued in my 2008 book The Real McCain (to the horror, the horror! of mainstream media back then... who these days have pretty much come to agree with this analysis) is that he legislates via anger. Grudges and perceived slights are what keep him going, like a much-less-talented and equally over-exposed Michael Jordan of politics, with the additional daydreams of carpet bombing large groups of people.
Whether calling his wife some really bad names, bum rushing fellow members of Congress or condescendingly and heartlessly lecturing a mother whose son was killed in the Aurora movie theatre massacre that he has "straight talk" for her, one thing you can count on is that McCain will bring the bitter with a healthy-helping of McNasty (his high school nickname). This is what allows him to survive his occasional maverick-ness on issues like immigration. Well, that and the fact he switches his positions every six years just in time for re-election.
Pre-pubescent angst fuelling vitriolic rage. Sure, it's not a legislative or legal strategy. But it sure feels good.
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(0) Comments | Posted March 6, 2013 | 9:47 AM
Who knew that seeming double-centenerian Pete Domenici was such a player? None of us, it turns out, until this week, when the former longtime Senator of New Mexico admitted to an extra-marital affair with a colleague's (Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada) daughter, which produced a now-thirty-something son.
Domenici is certainly...
(56) Comments | Posted March 1, 2013 | 4:30 PM
If the National Rifle Association (NRA) were not so dangerous to the physical health and general welfare of the people of the United States, they'd probably qualify as some of the most unintentionally hilarious people on the planet. Seriously, you can't make this stuff up.
Take executive vice-president of the NRA, (the suspiciously French sounding) Wayne LaPierre. If you started from scratch and constructed an (at least theoretical in his case) human being, you couldn't find a better movie villain. A man who foams at the mouth when fetishising about guns on national TV, attacks sitting Presidents in terms usually reserved for dictators and inaugural-lip syncers and has the look of a howling mad member of Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice's gang from Dick Tracy - replete with the beady eyes, vestigial rage and bad posture.
That Lapierre's little gaggle of government-fearing, 1970s-Death-Wish-obsessing miscreants actually claim they're trying to increase people's safety can almost make your sides hurt from the hysterics, as it carries with it the legitimacy of Manti T'eo giving lectures on Nigerian bank swindles.
These are the guys who released an iPhone app for kids as young as four to shoot at coffin-shaped targets on the one-month anniversary of the Newtown Massacre. That little high-capacity-magazine of brilliance has probably jetted them right past Applebee's on the sliding scale of public-relations brilliance, up next to Alex Rodriguez.
While the loony-tunes Lapierre and self-appointed She-Ra, Gayle Trotter (we'll get to her in a bit) were busy testifying before Congress last week, NRA President David Keene was also in attendance. Keene, like LaPierre, doesn't believe in closing the gun show loophole, which makes total sense as Keene's son - who's had a history of mental illness - was so responsible with his trusty six-shooter, except for the whole pulling it out and shooting at another driver on the highway thing and for which he went to prison. But, you know, we should still trust David Keene's judgment on these matters.
Apparently, daddy still thinks his son should get to buy a .50 calibre rifle that can take down an airplane without the fuss and muss of a few-minute background check. Because, Freedom!
Mind you, after the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School, the LaPierre/NRA solution included - wait for it, wait for it - closing the private-sale loophole! And more gun-free school zones! Which in current NRA lore exist only to provide irresistible Poison-Ivy-like pheromones to lunatics with assault weapons.
Because the guy who's going to mow down a room full of toddlers uses regression analysis to decide where to start shooting. They may only come to this conclusion 33 percent of the time or less in mass shootings - if we use those crazy statistic things - but you know, it probably was due to some seriously screwed GPS the other 77 percent of the time. I know that happens to me all the time, when I attempt to drive to a (gun-free) movie theatre and the GPS in my car takes me to Ted Nugent's farm.
Luckily, it didn't accidentally take me to Gun Appreciation Day (yeah, that was actually a thing), when careful, NRA-adoring, firearms experts got together across the country to shoot themselves and their friends in a series of totally unpredictable accidents. If only there had been a "good guy with a gun" there to protect them! Am I right, Wayne?
Somewhere Darwin's ghost is clearing his schedule for such future endeavours.
Perhaps, the most hilarious of all these cartoon characters, firearms-expert-based-upon-her-feelings-and-made-up-stuff, is Gail Trotter. She testified in front of Congress about how without AR-15s, mothers across the country would be just helpless to stop a siege by The Baseball Furies, Dead Rabbits and those dancing Gangnam Style. Because even if crime rates are falling rapidly, your chances of being violently burgled are non-existent (.23 percent) and women are seven times more likely to be killed by an intimate partner with a gun in the home than prevent an attack, there are obviously many scenarios these numbers don't take into account.
For example, what if the snake from Anaconda, those nasty little guys from Mars Attacks! and Joe Pesci all break your door down and demand you feed them your babies for fuel in a machines-from-The-Matrix type move? Won't you feel stupid then when you don't have your 100-round-drum magazine?
Of course, what do I know? I'm a hater, just like the Methodists, Catholics, police officers, dead entertainers, shoe companies and baseball teams on the recently taken down (Oops!) NRA Enemies list.
This column first appeared at Al Jazeera English
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(4) Comments | Posted February 15, 2012 | 4:19 PM
Mitt Romney, tribune of the people, still doesn't seem to get a simple concept: Social Security is popular. With everybody. And particularly with older tea-party-supporting white voters who can often be counted on to be conservative on numerous other issues, and turn out in elections in key swing states....
(1) Comments | Posted January 11, 2012 | 4:21 PM
It is important that this week, one year after the tragedy at Tucson, we remember those who were senselessly slaughtered there, including a 9-year old girl. It is important that we honor them by doing all we can to make sure this kind of thing never happens again, by making it at least a bit harder for criminals, terrorists and the mentally ill to get their hands on weapons that can kill in a heartbeat.
We must always respect our Bill of Rights, but we must also remember it was Christina Taylor Green's right to have her "general welfare protected," to enjoy the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." It was her right to see her 10th...
(2) Comments | Posted December 14, 2011 | 7:44 PM
Lock the doors. Pull down the shades. Bring in the exorcist, stat.
As I write this, my humble abode is being transformed into a puppet-occupied den of anti-democratic sin. Yes, my kids are watching the Muppets, with some newly-discovered zeal since the theatrical release of the film by the same...
(3) Comments | Posted December 8, 2011 | 11:25 AM
Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney -- the perfect dynamic duo for our times, if not end times. A Batman and Robin for the 1%. Defenders of truth, justice, and a Gulag Archipelago filled with child janitors and the fandango of the foreclosed.
If you're rooting for President Obama,...
(1) Comments | Posted November 15, 2011 | 3:28 AM
So what do you do when financial analysts are warning that housing prices are headed for a "triple dip," the second largest Swiss Bank (Credit Suisse) announces it's piling 1,500 additional job cuts -- many from the US -- on top of its previously announced 2,000 (after a 12...
(0) Comments | Posted November 9, 2011 | 1:19 PM
Although when it comes to the specific date of our mass death, Harold Camping might as well be talking Chinese nuclear development with Herman Cain, it seems a little bit harder to doubt his general prognostication of doom in the weeks after 56 exotic animals were released into the...
(3) Comments | Posted November 1, 2011 | 4:19 PM
By Lowell Feld & Cliff Schecter
Remember how much coverage the national progressive blogosphere gave the Anthony Weiner special election in NY-09 a few weeks ago? A great deal! How about the New York 23rd Congressional District special election? Again, this one got enormous coverage...
(0) Comments | Posted October 31, 2011 | 5:54 AM
Whether it's the bronze bull encountered by those occupying Wall Street, the fixation with a Chris Christie presidency not to be, or the ex post facto transformation of Ronald Reagan into Kratos by middle-aged Republican congresspersons who practically start to giggle and spontaneously pulsate just upon hearing his name, there...
(1) Comments | Posted October 21, 2011 | 6:25 PM
Once again this past few weeks, the ongoing education debate in the United States occupied the headlines, bylines and cable news scrolls. NBC launched its second annual "Education Nation Summit," billed as a way "to engage the country in a solutions -- focused conversation about the state of education in...
(2) Comments | Posted October 3, 2011 | 4:13 PM
To fully comprehend the sad spectacle that has become American politics since the 1980s, you need not peruse the politics section of major periodicals. Or the opinion, news or business pages of illustrious publications.
No, lately you'd be best served by heading on over to the obituary section....
(13) Comments | Posted September 27, 2011 | 3:09 PM
Vampire movies and television programmes may be all the rage right now, but not one of them has anything on a good old-fashioned audience of Republican debate watchers.
In a rather shocking -- yet sadly, not surprising -- display of the bloodlust and viciousness usually reserved for members of law...
(39) Comments | Posted September 13, 2011 | 9:52 AM
NRA lobbyist Chris Cox recently authored an op-ed for The Daily Caller in which he argued in favor of the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act (H.R. 822). Sadly, as is often all-too true with the arguments made by the NRA regarding our nation's gun laws, his reasoning was misleading at...
(0) Comments | Posted September 11, 2011 | 8:04 AM
On September 11th, 2001, on what was a perfect morning-right up until the very moment a Boeing 767-223-ER slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, I stood on the corner of Delancey and Ridge Streets in downtown Manhattan.
I was working on an election campaign -- it...


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What are the *.FileListAbsolute.txt files for that Visual Studio generates? They keep cluttering up my searches. Such as when I search for *.csproj for adding projects to a .sln.
Does Visual Studio use them? Is there any way to make it not generate them?
I STFW'd but it's filled with results of people listing directories that happen to have these files in them.