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The 8 Creepiest Cases of Identity Theft of All Time
#4. Carolyn Owlett Has an Affair
British pop star, model and producer Carolyn Owlett got a surprise when she was contacted by a strange man who professed his undying love for her, and insisted with equal candor that she loved him as well. Regis Remacle, a 28-year-old from Belgium, had first sent her a bizarre message over Facebook, then chased her through a London subway station before finally showing up at her office (which are all charming and practical ways to show a girl that you really care). Clearly, Remacle was a delusional stalker, and Owlett threatened to call the police, because apparently harassing her over the Internet and shadowing her through a subterranean witness vacuum hadn't already crossed that line.
"Yeah, you unlock that door, baby. Unlock it slow, and call it 'uncle' lock."
What stopped her was Remacle's genuine confusion, and as the two began to talk, she discovered that he had carried on a 17-month romance over the Internet with a woman he believed was Owlett. He showed her thousands of pictures that she had supposedly sent him (all of which were real, actual photos of Owlett from her private Facebook page and those of her friends and family), along with emails and chats that they had supposedly had. Owlett was baffled, as she had never spoken to Remacle before in any fashion and couldn't explain how anyone could have given him the photographs he had, outside of a masturbation genie.
To be fair, "masturbation genie" and "Internet" are functional synonyms.
As it turns out, the real culprit was a 21-year-old Belgian woman named Kristella Erbicella, who had created a Facebook page in Owlett's name. She'd hacked photos from Owlett's account and doctored others she found online, and had even managed to dupe some of Owlett's former bandmates into accepting her as a friend to make the whole thing seem legit. Erbicella had even found photos of Owlett's young son and posted them on her page, claiming to be his mother.
When Owlett and Remacle confronted Erbicella, she admitted her elaborate ruse and offered both a hasty, pathetic apology before deleting every email and social network account attached to her name and disappearing back into the troll mist of the Internet.
"Do you think we'll ever see Master Troll again, Father?" "Son, if we do, it'll be too late for us both."
#3. Rosa Vargas Gets Married
In terms of the stress involved in wedding preparation, obtaining a marriage license usually ranks in between choosing the font for the invitations and figuring out whether or not you can use Masters of the Universe figures as your cake toppers. You go to court, sign some forms, pay a small fee, and that's it. Everything's nice and legal.
At least that's all Rosa Vargas of Queens, New York, was expecting when she filed her application for a marriage license in 2004. So imagine her surprise when she found out -- three weeks before her wedding, no less -- that the application had been rejected by the City Clerk's Office because they found that she was already married to two other men, one in Mexico and one in Ecuador.
"OK, that looks great. Now, let's bring in the other husbands and get a group shot."
Undaunted, Vargas and her fiance simply went to a different jurisdiction to get their license and got married anyway, because the whole "I've already got two husbands" thing had to just be some kind of clerical error. At least that's what they thought until about five years later, when Vargas was served divorce papers from an Ecuadorian man she had never met.
She refused to sign the papers, but the man persisted. He showed up at her mother-in-law's doorstep and would not be persuaded until she showed him a picture of Vargas' wedding day, in which the man could clearly see that he was in no way represented.
Via NY Post
That's her with her actual husband ... who we're pretty sure the stranger decided he could not best in mortal combat.
You see, Vargas had lost her birth certificate about 16 years earlier, and over time her name and information had been used by two different women in two different marriages, most likely as a type of immigration scam (Vargas is a U.S. citizen, and if the docudrama Green Card is to be believed, you can marry a U.S. citizen to become one yourself).
Vargas was eventually able to get the phony marriages nullified by a judge, but has since found herself married to a third stranger somewhere on Long Island. Her name has subsequently been banned from the Bed Bath & Beyond gift registry.
And that's how she got the name Steven Seagal.
#2. Simon Bunce Buys Pornography
Simon Bunce was a former RAF pilot and successful business executive living in England. But in March 2004, he was arrested as part of Operation Ore, a massive British police crackdown on child pornography that also nabbed high-profile names like Pete Townshend of the Who and Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack (we cannot fathom how they missed naming it Operation the Who Massive Attack Little Children). While it might be kind of awesome to share a jail cell with Keith Richards and Iggy Pop for getting into a knife fight with a heroin dealer, we imagine the gritty coolness of rock star debauchery is somewhat diminished if you're sitting on a metal bench with a deaf guy and a glorified house music DJ for downloading pictures of a 3-year-old in a crotchless sailor suit.
"Are there any children in the audience? I'll have to ask you to move back 500 feet, please."
After police showed up at his home with a search warrant, Bunce was taken into custody while his computer equipment and other personal possessions were confiscated. To make matters even worse, Bunce was immediately fired from his high-paying job and was essentially disowned by his entire family except for his wife, which says something either very good or extraordinarily bad about her character.
Since the local police weren't in a terrible rush to clear Bunce's name, he did a little investigating of his own. He discovered that in 1999, his credit card information was stolen from an online shopping site, then used by someone in Indonesia to purchase child porn from an American website. Ironically, he found all this out using the United States' Freedom of Information Act, information that American authorities (along with everyone else) has access to at any time, meaning the sale of the child porn was tracked and nobody did anything about it. Cross-checking the information he collected with his own records, Bunce was able to prove that at the same time he was supposedly buying the child porn, he was at a restaurant in London.
"Our specials today are chicken Parmesan, blackened sea bass and child pornography."
After enduring six months of child-diddling suspicion, Bunce was told by police that they would not be bringing formal charges, as they did not find any incriminating images on any of the items they'd confiscated from him. Bunce has since reconciled with some of his family and found a new, albeit much lower-paying job. He has also sworn off credit cards and pays with cash as much as possible, because as we all know, the best way to alleviate suspicion is to erase your credit identity and deal exclusively with untraceable currency.
"If a man with a trench coat in a dark alley doesn't sell it, I don't need it."
#1. An Undercover Agent Moves In
In Wichita, Kansas, a man walked into a police station and told the cops that he was an undercover agent who had recently assumed the identity of a local homeowner, and he gave them the address of the house he was currently occupying. Therefore, should anyone call to report him as an impostor or allege that he had broken into the house in question, the police would have no need to investigate, as he had already come by to explain his situation (sharp readers will notice this as Chapter 4 of Bulletproof Plans That Will Totally Work). The cops selected one of the innumerable things about this statement that didn't make sense and sent a unit to the address he had given them to see what the hell was going on.
"Oh, and if someone reports a murder, just ignore it. It's all a part of my stakeout."
They found the same man (the "undercover agent" from before) living there under the original homeowner's identity, just like he told them he was doing. He had gotten new credit cards, set up phone service and purchased a few flat screen TVs and computers, all in the homeowner's name. He'd even invited several neighbors over for gatherings, using the original homeowner's name as his own, and none of them thought anything of it. The few neighbors who hadn't actually met him just assumed that he and his wife had purchased the home from the original owner and had just moved in as new additions to the neighborhood. The secret agent and his wife had even used the homeowner's name to take out a second mortgage.
"I could have sworn you two were black. Hm. You must have that thing Michael Jackson had."
As it turns out, the homeowner had been gone for several months, caring for his mother who had fallen seriously ill in another town. While he was gone, the "undercover agent" and his wife had literally stolen his house and his name, and then changed the locks and set up a new mailbox before inexplicably going to the police and exposing their crime.
Chris Holmes roams the Internet as the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. You can catch him on his website or on Twitter. Amanda blogs at A Spoonful of Bacon and, according to her mother, tweets too often as @amandahahn.
For more bizarre crimes we wouldn't wish on anybody, check out The 5 Creepiest Unsolved Crimes Nobody Can Explain and The 5 Most Horrifying Crimes Committed by Senior Citizens.


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Take steps to boost your fuel efficiency
|Maximizing the fuel efficiency of your vehicle is an easy way to "Do Your Part" no matter what you drive. (MCT)
Maximizing the fuel efficiency of your vehicle is an easy way to do your part no matter what you drive. Burning less fuel means fewer emissions and it's better for your bottom line and the planet.
Here are my top five ways for getting the most out of every gallon you buy.
1. Nix the Aggressive Driving
Speeding up and then quickly slamming on the brakes puts unnecessary wear and tear on your vehicle, and kills your fuel economy. In fact, aggressive driving can reduce fuel mileage by as much as 33 percent!
2. Keep Tires Properly Inflated
Check your tire pressure monthly to be sure you're at optimal levels. Proper tire pressure levels can be found in the owner's manual. Be sure to get an accurate reading by measuring the pressure when the tires have been idle for hours. Keeping your tires properly inflated can save you up to 8 cents on every gallon.
3. Lose the Extra Weight
We all know how easy it is to let stuff accumulate in the back of your vehicle but all that extra weight can really eat into the fuel efficiency. For every 100 pounds of extra weight that you tote around in your ride, you're adding about two percent to your fuel costs.
4. Use Cruise Control on Flat Terrain
Cruise control can make long trips bearable, but it can also help you conserve fuel. Use cruise control when you're on flat terrain to maximize fuel efficiency but switch to foot control when you're driving through hilly areas.
5. Keep Up With Routine Maintenance
Keeping your car well maintained will extend the life of your vehicle. It can also save you money at the pump. Make sure that your car gets regular oil changes and that you're choosing the proper type of oil for what you drive. Make sure you change your filters regularly and get timely tune-ups.
Incorporating some of these gas saving tips will ensure you get the most of every drop of gas. Do Your Part to use less fuel, conserve resources, and create less air pollution, all while keeping more money in your pocket.
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Cited. R.W. Wilson, no age listed, 113 Kent Way, Weirton, speeding.
Theft: Xbox and games taken from residence in the 500 block of Linden Avenue during the past several days.
Theft: House in the 200 block of North Ninth Street entered and about 125 DVDs taken, Monday.
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Break-in: House broken into in the 700 block of Efts Lane, Wintersville, and ransacked, Monday. An inventory is pending to determine what may have been taken.


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I would like to start an open source project, and would like to do a collaborative effort in starting it.
I have a clear idea of what I want, but not yet a formal specification (I would like to do also the design as a collaborative effort, as well as the choice of the language and platform).
What should I do before the start?
Then where should I host the project and especially where can I advertise it to find collaborators?
Is there a (free) tool to help the collaborative design? Can I simply rely on a wiki + forum?
I wrote the question as generic as possible in order for being useful for all the audiences.
I know that usually open source projects just starts with the initial work of one or few developers, but I'm really trying to avoid that development model (I want to start from scratch in a collaborative way).
Please don't answer "you shouldn't" (which would be an off topic answer). I want to go that way anyway, starting by building a "product team" just like any company would do for any non-trivial project.


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I've added tcpdump binary file to my android device using this command
./adb push ~/tcpdump-4.2.1/tcpdump /data/local
The binary is added to the android device successfully. But, when I try to execute the tcpdump file from the adb shell, using following commands
./adb shell
cd data/local
It gives me this error
/system/bin/sh: ./tcpdump: not executable: magic 7F45
I've also tried changing permissions using
chmod 777 tcpdump but in vain.
How do I overcome this issue? Thanks.


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Derived from the word, 'konnichiwa.' Neech is a slang, derogatory term for a person from asian and/or oriental descent. These people are often recognized for being short in stature and tend to be driving Kia Rio's or other foreign vehicles. A neech can be a person with poor driving skills, selling items on the black market, and are generally carrying around gadgets that are confusing just looking at. Additionally, a neech will only speak english when directly spoken to, otherwise they speak their own dilect which is rude, considering they are in america, though it can be humorous.
"Look at the neech in the Honda"
"Listen to that neech's funny accent."
"Listen to that neech's funny accent."
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Neech is used as a term on message boards to show that some one posted that topic already. It's based on an avid poster who always hit news items first.
"dude you got neeched"
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to fuck in arabic
damn, bob just got neeched by his sister jackie
by neech_soldier January 15, 2004
To give someone you love a present and not receive anything in return.
That man got neeched when he gave her a box of chocolates and she did nothing.
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Patch of skin above a (chode) where pubic hair grows.
Bucky found out he was in the wrong neech garden when he went diggin and found a cucumber
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A vector space $V$ of dimension $n$ has an associated determinant line $Det(V)$.
An element of $Det(V)$ is represented as a (formal limear combination) of expresstions of the form $v_1 \wedge v_2 \wedge \ldots \wedge v_n$, subject to the usual multilinearity and antisymmetry relations.
I'm wondering what is analog of the above fact/construction in the world of super vector spaces.
Let $V$ be a supervector space of dimension $n|m$. Then there is a line $Ber(V)$ called the Berezinian of $V$, that behaves like a super-determinant.
Here's a naive description of the Berezinian: for $V=V_0\oplus V_1$, it is given by $$Ber(V)=Det(V_0)\otimes Det(V_1)^*.$$ That's clearly not a good description of $Ber(V)$, as it relies on the decomposition of $V$ into even and odd parts, which is not a $GL(V)$-invariant thing to do.
I want to make sure that I don't get non-invariant answers. To ensure that, I'll do things in families (and thus make the question more complicated $-$ sorry for that):
Let $\Lambda=\Lambda(\theta_1,\ldots,\theta_n)$ be a Grassmann algebra (=exterior algebra) on $n$ variables, and let $V$ be a $Spec(\Lambda)$-parametrized family of super vector spaces, i.e., a super vector bundle $V\to Spec(\Lambda)$. How can I describe concretely a section of the associated line bundle $Ber(V)\to Spec(\Lambda)$?
For those who don't like the above language, I can translate into algebra. Let $\Lambda=\Lambda(\theta_1,\ldots,\theta_n)$, and let $V$ be a free $\Lambda$-module on $n$ even generators and $m$ odd generators. How can I describe concretely an even element of the rank one $\Lambda$-module $Ber(V)$?


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KILLEEN (November 28, 2012)--Killeen police have arrested a second suspect in connection with a robbery at a local apartment complex.
Xavier Devoyrez Gray, 20, was ordered held in the Bell County Jail in lieu of a $100,000 bond, charged with aggravated robbery.
Gray was arrested in connection with a reported aggravated robbery for which Bryce Cameron Bates, 24, also was arrested and was ordered held in lieu of $100,000 bond.
Killeen police say officers were sent at around 10 p.m. last Wednesday to an apartment complex in the 200 block of East Hallmark Avenue after a caller reported a man armed with a shotgun had robbed him.
The victim told police he was leaving his apartment when the robber approached him and ordered him to empty his pockets.
An arrest affidavit says another man who may be an accomplice to the robbery reported he was there when the armed man demanded money from the victim.


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In the late 1990's, Volvo had decided that the existing 16-litre engine (introduced in 1987) was not up to the demands of the 21st century. A decision was consequently taken that a completely new generation of the FH16 should be developed, to be introduced in 2003.
The demands on the new FH16 generation were tough: it should offer the very best performance in the truck industry for challenging tasks like Australian Roadtrain operation, Nordic timber combinations and very fast long-distance transport. Demanding goals upon fuel economy were put up. The new engine should fulfill the most arduous environmental demands. Demands on quality, service life and reliability were given top priority.
The general layout of the new FH16 was easy to define: it should be very similar to the FH12, which was recognized as industry leader. In this way, spare availability and efficient design were also optimized.
New engine was needed
From the very start of the design process, it was obvious for the engineers that a new Volvo engine was needed. None of the available engines from the third-party engine producers would fulfill the stringent Volvo demands for this premium truck. The engine designers decided that the basic design ideas from the high-technology D12- and D9-engines could be used, but adapted to the increased demands on performance.


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CD Roms and the Internet for Family History
Family history is the second most popular subject on the Internet. There are many CD-ROMs and Internet sites useful to genealogists.
Access to the Internet in the Central Library
Printouts from websites and CD-Roms cost 10p per page black-and-white and 50p for colour. You can now save to USB flash drives on some computers. You can book one one-hour session per day or just drop in. For further information, please see Free access to the Internet is available on PCs throughout the Central library or call (0121) 303 4549.
The Internet as a source of information
The quality and reliability of information on the Internet vary hugely. Some sites cover a wide geographical area - e.g. Family Search. Some act as a gateway, leading you into many other sites, - e.g. Cyndi's List, Genuki. Some tell you where you can find specific information. Some are idiosyncratic - a page entitled 'Vatican Genealogy' began with the words Unfortunately our first entry is for Mother Theresa of Calcutta!
Some are highly specialised, concentrating on a particular location, or topic - for example the surnames of Worcestershire. Some sites charge for access. Many pages on the Internet have been set up by individuals. Some are excellent; some may be inaccurate, or contain out-of-date information. Birmingham Libraries cannot take responsibility for any of the information accessible on the Internet, searchers have to use their own discretion.
Searching the Internet
The easiest way to find sites is by typing in the address (or URL) of a page, which will take you directly to it. When you type the URL into your browser, you need to copy the punctuation and spelling exactly.
Here is a list of websites for family history you can print out.
The following are good starting-points, giving access to large databases, or to many other sites:
- Ancestry Library Edition available on library computers
UK and Ireland Genealogical Information Service (GENUKI)
www.genuki.org.ukGood source for family history societies and their holdings. Some world genealogy.
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Access to the IGI worldwide.
- National Archives
This gives information about records, but does not give access to them on the Internet.
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers from the Commonwealth who died in both World Wars.
- Find my past
Sites offering good links to many sites:
Keyword searches
If you don't know a website address, you can use one of the many search engines on the Internet. Two well-known engines are Google and Yahoo!. Once you have reached the opening screen of the search-engine, type your keyword or words into the text-box and select "Search". A multi-search engine, for example Metacrawler will survey several databases for you.
If you find sites you would like to recommend please tell us.
These are some of the CD-Roms available on Floor 6 of Birmingham Central Library:
- 1881 British Census and National Index (the CD-Rom version includes Scotland)
- 1851 Census - Devon, Norfolk, Warwickshire (This includes a name index. Warwickshire covers Birmingham.)
- Vital Records Index British Isles
- Vital Records Index Western Europe (Some information from the IGI)
- Family Archives, Index to Griffiths Valuation of Ireland 1848 - 1864
- National Burial Index (England and Wales)
- Genealogical Research Directory 1990 - 1999 600,000 research queries
- Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914 - 1919 (Searchable by name, it is not essential to know the regiment)
- A dictionary of occupational terms
Tel: 0121 303 4217, 0121 303 4549 or 0121 303 4220
Fax: 0121 233 4458
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Family History
Parish Registers - Church of England
Black Family History - African & African-Caribbean
Electoral Registers
International Genealogical Index (IGI)
Trade Directories
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The 6 Most Hilarious Ways People Breached Airport Security
#3. Sleeping Man Is Abandoned With Plane
An airline might lose your bags now and then, but you can be damn sure that at any given moment they know where you are. The airport is a series of sealed areas that you can't enter without ID, and they make sure that you keep your ass planted in your designated seat for the duration of the flight, barring bathroom emergencies. Which is why it has to be so disheartening when passengers fall asleep during a flight only to have the flight crew just abandon them.
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But if he'd been a cellphone in use during takeoff, you can be sure they'd have caught him.
For instance, in 2010, passenger Kris Lines fell asleep on a flight from Calgary to Vancouver and didn't wake up when the plane landed. Anyone who has flown on an airplane knows that it is virtually impossible to sleep through the deplaning process. There are ding-dings beeping from the ceiling, the captain's voice hyuk-ing over the PA at ear-bleeding volumes, and the general cacophony of a winged metal cylinder defying the natural order. Still, he managed to do it, and the crew just ... left him there. He didn't wake up until an hour and a half later, suddenly on a dark, empty plane, being roused by the ground crew.
But Lines got off easy. In 2010, Ginger McGuire fell asleep on a one-hour trip from Dulles, Virginia, to Philadelphia, only to wake up three hours after the plane had landed to find herself locked inside it.
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In this dramatic re-creation, McGuire shows us what it looks like when she sleeps.
McGuire had her cellphone with her, but she only used it to check the time -- 4:00 a.m. -- and didn't think to use it to call for help (a cleaning crew eventually rescued her).
We don't know what's weirder: the fact that McGuire didn't immediately call up emergency services, or that the crew somehow lost her inside a tiny 50-seat regional jet. What'd she do, build a "slumber fort" under a pile of SkyMall catalogs?
#2. Thieves Steal $50 Million in Diamonds Using a Hole in a Fence
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Knowing that even bringing a toy gun onto the grounds of an airport will probably summon a SWAT team, there probably isn't a worse place in the world to stage a heist. If you wanted to steal something being transported on a plane, for the love of God, wait for them to get it onto a truck and just go hijack that. Can you imagine the panic that would ensue if a group of armed men stormed a plane in today's climate?
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"As long as their shoes were clean, I've done my job."
Yet, in February 2013, a team of eight gunmen made off with a cache of $50 million in diamonds from the tarmac of Brussels Airport, all without shooting anyone or even having anyone really take notice of what they were doing.
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The fence was actually drunk on duty that night.
How is that even possible? Well, the men were equipped with police officer disguises, machine guns, and a knowledge of the precious few minutes that the diamonds would be unguarded. OK, but how did they even make it that far in the first place? Sure, we had a drunken guy earlier who climbed over a fence at JFK, but this is a group of eight gunmen in a van.
Yep, it's still not that hard, it turns out -- the thieves cut a gap in the security fence large enough to drive their van through, drove up to the jet, collected the diamonds from the hold of a plane, and then peeled off through the same hole. That's it. If this were the plot of Ocean's 14, the movie would be over by the time Carl Reiner's name popped up in the opening credits. So yeah, these crooks (who are still at large, by the way) relied on the exact same tactic you used to sneak into concerts as a kid. But their prize was a $50 million payday, instead of a gripping double bill of Lifehouse and the Baha Men.
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We didn't think a plan could be too stupid to fail, yet here it is.
#1. Slovakian Officials Test Airport Security ... With Actual Explosives
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No system is guaranteed to work unless you check it from time to time. So it makes sense that the TSA regularly attempts to smuggle fake weapons and explosives through their own checkpoints to ensure that airline security is up to snuff (and on some occasions, they fail miserably). But Slovakian airport officials take security so gosh-darn seriously that they once tested their own security standards using real explosives.
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"Balls to the wall, Mr. Reporter. That's what I was thinking."
In 2010, Slovakian border police head Tibor Mako instructed his staff to attach two caches of plastic explosives to a single piece of luggage traveling from Poprad, Slovakia, to Dublin, Ireland. Not their own luggage, either -- the luggage's owner was oblivious to the fact that he'd been drafted into this security test. A sniffer dog discovered one of these caches, but the police officer inspecting the bag somehow failed to notice the second.
That's bad, but it gets worse. When officials realized their mistake, they informed the pilot that the explosives were in the plane's cargo ... at which point he took off anyway.
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"If those explosives were dangerous, someone would have warned me."
The pilot assumed that, because the 85 grams of plastic explosives lacked detonators, everything would be hunky-dory, right? Nope, the entire situation was still the most royal of fuckups. You see, it took Slovakian officials three days to inform Ireland about the lost explosives. When Irish officials learned of this pop quiz gone awry, they briefly detained the passenger -- a 49-year-old electrician, who still had no clue what the hell was going on -- and evacuated a city intersection and several apartment buildings to remove the passenger's new souvenir.
Unsurprisingly, Mako resigned after this escapade. And if there's a silver lining to this story, it's that nobody totally lost the plastic explosives. This is the opposite of what happened in 2004, when Parisian airport security ran the exact same drill and inadvertently gave an unknown passenger somewhere in the world a free pack of detonatorless explosives, courtesy of Charles de Gaulle Airport.
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"And I didn't get them anything."
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7 Man-Made Substances that Laugh in the Face of Physics
#4. Elastic Conductors
Odds are pretty good that some of you are reading this on an LCD screen while the rest of us are trying to make it out on the 13-inch monochrome monitor that came with our garage sale Commodore 64. But even with the LCD, some laptops still weigh over 10-pounds. And while that doesn't seem like much, the level of muscle atrophy experienced by the average Warcraft addict makes that weight a thousand times heavier. However, elastic conductors could fix that and make smuggling your porn collection into church even easier.
Also, oooohhh.
Elastic conductors are made of "ionic liquid" mixed with carbon nanotubes. We shrugged when we read that too, but scientists are very excited about it because you can run a current through it and it will stretch to double its original length, and snap back into place as if nothing happened. The point being you can wind up with the roll out, paper thin computer pictured above.
What the Hell is it Used For?
In addition to making screens that can be rolled up and stuck in our back pocket, a lot of scientists and doctors want to use elastic conductors to make flexible-lensed cameras... to be fitted to the back of the eyeball.
Girlfriends the world over will actually start recording their boyfriend's every word and guys at urinals will become infinitely more paranoid if they catch another guy's eye. On the plus side, the market for hidden camera porn will probably experience an unprecedented explosion in content.
#3. Non-Newtonian Fluids
A non-Newtonian liquid, in practical terms, is a liquid that turns solid when sufficient stress is applied. Like, say, the impact of feet:
They have the power to make dorks walk on water like Jesus (which is exceptionally cool for about the first 30 seconds of the video, and then sad for the remainder).
What the Hell is it Used For?
Our friends in the military want to use them for body armor. The idea is that the fluids will allow fabrics to be soft and supple, but harden on the impact of a bullet. It would be like wearing a Jell-O sweater that doubles as a bulletproof vest.
#2. Transparent Alumina
You may remember from Star Trek IV that Scotty orders some transparent aluminum so that they can steal whales for the future (it made a lot more sense at the time). Anyway, in the movie the material baffled the present-day engineers he described it to, since it's a miracle substance from centuries in the future.
In reality, transparent alumina has been around for a while. Originally, it was just boring old sapphires and rubies (both are transparent aluminum crystals), but as we have seen, mankind is not happy to let nature have the last laugh and we are now able to make transparent alumina, which is a clear metal that is as strong as steel. Our dreams of building Wonder Woman's invisible jet have taken another glorious step toward reality.
What the Hell is it Used For?
The military (again) wants it for see-through armor, probably so that every time a soldier standing behind a clear wall gets shot at and flinches in life-flashing-before-the-eyes terror, his buddies are justified for punching him and calling "two for flinching."
Also, something with lasers.
Transparent alumina could usher in a new world where windows deflect bullets, or airplane windows don't shatter when they hit a goose at Mach 4. The downside being that if they make car windows out of it, people who don't wear their seat belts will no longer live the dream of being "thrown clear" of the accident, and more likely wind up as "that guy whose nose shot out his ass."
#1. Carbon Nanotubes
These things are a miracle material that will someday power our homes, launch us into space, and make love to us whenever and wherever we want. That last one isn't planned yet, but it better be. Carbon nanotubes were the accidental leftovers of an arc-welder experiment, and they have nerds and scientists foaming at the mouth with their possible uses.
They are the strongest material ever found by mankind. Ever. Even stronger than Lou Ferrigno and he was the fucking Hulk, man. A hair-thick strand can bear the weight of an entire car, assuming it wouldn't cut straight through the chassis. Although that would possibly be even cooler than lifting a car with artificial hair.
There is the small, some might say major, issue that carbon nanotubes are only microns long, and pasting them together end to end has so far proven impossible. But physics can't hold back mankind, and recently a New Hampshire based company made a man-sized blanket out of nanotubes, showing that science will always say "Fuck you" to Mother Nature when she sets boundaries.
What the Hell is it Used For?
So far, they have managed to make super-small computer processors and low-resistance circuitry. In the future, all bets are off. Everything from tiny supercomputers to even tinier, super-efficient batteries, to more efficient solar panels to paper-thin materials that can stop a bullet, to freaking space elevators.
Sunglasses hinges that never break, toasters that get the toast right every time, TV remotes where the numbers don't wear off the buttons, ceiling fans that don't vibrate. Bags of chips that never get stuck in the vending machine. Carbon nanotubes will fucking solve it all.
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Then, the Cabinet discussed the latest developments in the regional and international arenas. King Abdullah briefed the ministers on his meeting with United Nations-Arab League Joint Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Al-Ibrahimi, during which they discussed ways of ending the violence, bloodshed, and human rights abuses being perpetrated against innocent Syrians. The Cabinet lauded the decisions issued by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Ministers of Municipal and Rural Affairs, the GCC Ministers of Petroleum, the GCC Ministers of Culture and Information, and the GCC Ministers Water and Electricity, all of whom held meetings in Riyadh last week.
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I recently tried Elder Dragon Highlander/Commander, and found it to be a ton of fun. I've started customizing one of the pre-cons I got, but I'm a little confused by some of the deck-building requirements.
According to the deck-building rules:
(3) - A card's color identity is its color plus the color of any mana symbols in the card's rules text. A card's color identity is established before the game begins, and cannot be changed by game effects.
- Cards in a deck may not have any colors in their identity which are not shared with the commander of the deck. (The identity of each card in the deck must be a subset of the General's)
(4) - A deck may not generate mana outside its colors. If an effect would generate mana of an illegal color, it generates colorless mana instead.
If I'm using Animar, Soul of the Elements as my general, my deck's identity is Red, Blue and Green. I couldn't use Crumbling Necropolis in my deck, because it has a black mana symbol in the rules text.
My question is: can I add a card to my deck that has the phrase "Add one mana of any color to your mana pool" (such as Mox Opal or Ancient Ziggurat)? Even though those cards could conceivably add black mana to my mana pool, they don't have a black or white (or any for that matter) mana symbol in their rules text, so they would be valid for inclusion in any deck? And if I had Animar as my general, I couldn't actually add {B} or {W} to my mana pool (because of rule #4), but instead I could add colorless mana?


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An Express Article from the California Land Title Association
Bulletin 13/14-14 - August 7, 2013
As President of the CLTA, I am excited to announce that the CLTA Board of Governors has agreed to have the California Land Title Association endorse the ALTA's "Title Action Network" (TAN) within California to improve the title industry's grassroots efforts in Washington D.C. and the California Legislature. California's endorsement of and addition to the TAN program is a winner for both CLTA and ALTA.
What is the TAN program and why is this important?
The TAN program is an automated system that allows California title company employees to voluntarily join the TAN program and receive email updates on Congressional, Legislative, and Regulatory agency activities that affect the title industry. In addition, every employee who joins TAN is able to write emails, letters, or generate phone calls to speak on important title issues when notified of pending issues by CLTA or ALTA.
The CLTA has had great success over the years with an informal grassroots effort on legislation. However, we've often had to generate those grass roots efforts from scratch. The use of the TAN program means that we will have this grassroots system already in place when we need to "marshal our forces" to support or oppose legislation or regulatory actions. In addition, since California has the largest Congressional delegation in the nation, ALTA would love to have our help in affecting policymaking at the federal level.
Lastly, the TAN system allows for a constant sharing of information about title industry efforts at both a state and federal level so that title company employees participating in TAN are constantly being updated as to what important issues face the industry in California and Washington D.C.
Will CLTA be working closely with ALTA regarding how the TAN program works in this state?
Yes. The EVP of CLTA, Craig Page, and our CLTA Board leadership will be monitoring the ALTA information and requests for California industry involvement on Congressional and Regulatory issues. This is to ensure that the ALTA position and request for California title company employee involvement makes sense for the industry in California and is in step with the CLTA leadership and board positions on issues. In addition, the CLTA leadership and staff are working closely with ALTA on an ongoing basis to ensure that California's interests are being protected.
Finally, the CLTA will be using the TAN program to get out information specific to the California Legislature as well.
How do I sign up and is it free?
Yes, participation in the program is completely free. We've included a link to a form HERE that allows a title company employee to individually sign up to participate in the TAN program. It takes a few minutes to fill out the form and then you are good to go.
How can I help CLTA and ALTA's efforts with politicians or regulators I know personally?
Many of you know elected officials serving in Congress, the State Legislature, and at the local level in your city council or with the Board of Supervisors. Others of you may know people who work as regulators with the Department of Insurance in California or with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau at the federal level. Finally, others of you may know people who work on the staff at any one of these levels.
You may have made contacts through your church or synagogue, children's soccer teams, local charities, or volunteer work for a local group or through mutual friends and family connections. These contacts --personal contacts-- are invaluable to CLTA and ALTA because it gives you the ability to potentially reach the regulator or politician directly and share your point of view regarding an issue important to all of us. Never underestimate your value to our efforts! Politicians are pigeon-holed and contacted by many people on many different issues and they welcome hearing from someone they know and trust. Your help, if you are willing to provide it, could be invaluable to our efforts.
CLTA and ALTA will be following up shortly with surveys and questionnaires asking you for the personal contacts you may have that you are willing to share.
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Is there a simple way to calculate/estimate the volume of Minkowski sum of an n-dimensional unit ball and an n-dimensional ellipsoid? Even a simple ellipsoid like $\frac{x_1^2}{a^2} + x_2^2 + \ldots + x_n^2 = 1$ will do.
I guess you know that the result can be written as a polynomial. $$w_0+w_1{\cdot}r+\dots+w_n{\cdot}r^n.$$ So your question is how to estmate the coefficients $w_i$; this is so called "cross-sectional measures" and they can be defined for any convex body $K$.
If you want to write $w_i$ as an integral, check for example Burago--Zalgaller, Geometric inequalities. For example $$w_i=\mathrm{MayBeAConst}\cdot\int\limits_{\partial K} \sigma_{i-1}(k_1,k_2,\dots,k_{n-1})\\, d\mathrm{area}.$$ where $\sigma_i$ is the $i$-th elementary symmetric polynomial and $k_i$ are principle curvatures. In your case it is easy to find $k_i$...
Because your ellipsoid has all axes but one of equal length we don't need the "full theory":
Let $x_1=:x$ and $(x_2, \ldots, x_n)=:y\in{\mathbb R}^{n-1}$. The Minkowski sum $M$ of the unit ball and the given ellipsoid is rotationally symmetric with respect to the $x$-axis and consists of all points $z=(x'+x'', y'+y'') \in {\mathbb R}^n$ with $${x'^2\over a^2}+|y'|^2\leq 1\ ,\qquad x''^2 +|y''|^2\leq 1\ .$$ A hyperplane $x={\rm const.}$ intersects $M$ in an $(n-1)$-dimensional ball whose radius can be found by maximizing $$|y'+y''|\leq |y'|+|y''|\leq \sqrt{1-x'^2/a^2} + \sqrt{1-x''^2}$$ under the constraint $x'+x''=x$.
For more on this, check out "Surface area and other measures of ellipsoids", by one I. Rivin:
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WEIRTON - A year after asking city officials to subdivide their property, the community still is waiting to hear what ArcelorMittal has in mind for the 800 acres it's trying to sell.
Keith Nagel of Tecumseh Redevelopment, ArcelorMittal's real estate arm, had told city officials in March 2012 that subdividing "sets us up to transact the properties we no longer need for our business."
Though he declined to say who was lurking in the wings, he did tease that it "will be exciting news" for a community hungry for jobs and revenue.
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POTENTIAL BUYER? — The rail yard at the south end of Weirton is the crown jewel of ArcelorMittal's excess properties. The property is among the 800 acres the company put on the sale block six years ago. -- Linda Harris
But that was 2012.
Now, a full year later, the potential buyer is still behind the curtain: Those privy to the behind-the-scenes deal-making aren't talking, at least not publicly. Nagel did not return calls to his office this week.
Out in the community, however, speculation runs rampant: One of the most talked about scenarios involves a Maryland-based company said to already have at least some of the property under contract for a manufacturing venture, with financing involving an international investment group spotted in the city a few months back. How accurate the community conversation is remains to be seen.
"I don't know what deals they're looking for, but they need to find someone with money," suggests a still-optimistic Gus Monezis, owner of Gus's Goodies and champion of the downtown business community.
Monezis says the land on Arcelor's excess property list is, arguably, among the most valuable in the area, with high value attributes like river, rail and interstate access guaranteeing that, sooner or later, someone with a solid business plan and a fat wallet will close the deal.
"The most important thing is to get a deal, that's the key," Monezis said. "They're working on it, it's not like it's being neglected. There's still hope."
Mark Glyptis, president of United Steelworkers union Local 2911 in Weirton, said he's confident that, sooner or later, the sale will go through. Glyptis serves on the committee organized five years ago to facilitate the property's resale, so he knows more than he can - or will - say about Arcelor's redevelopment efforts. He did say, however, the negotiations are at a "critical" point.
"I believe the land, ultimately, is going to provide family-sustaining jobs, development that's going to occur over a period of time," he said. "Of course, I've been saying that for quite a while. But it takes time, it takes decades, for land such as what you can find here to be redeveloped."
He said it took more than 30 years for a mall to develop in Homestead, Pa., after U.S. Steel closed its mill there, "and (retail) isn't what we're doing here, we're looking at significant development here. I believe because of the land, it will happen."
But not everybody's that patient.
U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., makes it clear he wants to see a deal. In a statement e-mailed to the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times, Rockefeller said for the last six years he's been working with "community stakeholders, business leaders and economic development officials on ways to bring new jobs to this community."
"Smart use of vacant ArcelorMittal property, which I believe is ripe for opportunity, is a key piece of that effort," wrote Rockefeller, who will leave office in 2014 after five terms in the Senate and a 50-year career in public service. "It's imperative, in fact, because it represents an urgent community need. The people of Weirton have waited a long time and deserve to see progress. I pressed ArcelorMittal just last month on its site redevelopment plans, and I remain totally focused on Weirton's future - for people whose jobs and futures depend on it."
Pat Ford, executive director of the Business Development Corp. of the Northern Panhandle, admits he's frustrated that he can't deal the property to prospects even though the land sale is still in flux.
When prospects tour Weirton, Ford said they invariably point to prime properties like the rail yard, the old R&D building on Three Springs Drive and the Finished Products Warehouse in Half Moon Industrial Park, "and our answer is, it's under contract."
"We've been saying 'it's under contract' for years, and it does get frustrating at times," Ford said, adding the Upper Ohio Valley "has everything an industry could need, and we're making wonderful things happen with the inventory we have available."
"But I can't imagine the success stories we'd have if even half of those properties had been accessible to the prospects," Ford added. "We understand real estate deals take time - some of the deals we're working on now have been germinating over one and a half years and, other than Beech Bottom, we don't have anything near the 800 acres they're negotiating. We do understand the confidential nature of negotiations and the due diligence that has to be done."
Much as he'd like to see a deal already struck, Mayor George Kondik said changes of the magnitude Weirton is banking on don't happen overnight.
"My understanding is the process is taking longer than normal," said Kondik. "It's been a year. Can we afford to wait another 30 or 60 days if we have to? Sure, because the benefits will be tremendous."
Monezis said what the community needs is "somebody to come in with money, not somebody coming in looking for money."
"I know something needs to be done, it has to be done," adds downtown business owner John Newbrough. "The property is too valuable to be sitting there. With all the oil and gas around us, someone has to want it. We need (them) to be more aggressive in getting it sold."
Glyptis, though, pointed out economic development is a painstaking process.
"There has to be a tear-down before there's a rebuilding," he said, adding that while he understands the frustration, "I truly believe this is going to be a growth area, one of the biggest growth areas in America."
"I think once people see the plan, the whole plan, I think they'll feel good, they'll feel like this can truly be a growth area," he added. "Many of us were part of the heyday of steel industry, we were here when the steel mills were running at full capacity, and we've seen the decline of industry. It would be great to see the rebirth of this valley and this region."
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Loggerhead sea turtles nesting in Georgia have hit a new high for the fourth straight year.
Sea Turtle Program Coordinator Mark Dodd of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources said today that more than 2,241 nests – last year's record total – have been documented on barrier island beaches.
The count had reached 2,242 by this morning, according to www.seaturtle.org. While nesting season is nearly over, the total will not be final until fall, as scientists use genetics to identify 11 "unknown" nests.
This summer marks only the second time since comprehensive surveys began in 1989 that the federally threatened reptiles have laid more than 2,000 nests in Georgia. Nest totals have also climbed steadily since 2009, the longest such span in 25 years and an encouraging change from the usual up and down fluctuations in loggerhead nesting.
DNR analysis last year showed that the increasing trend is statistically significant.
"We feel like we're seeing the continued recovery of loggerheads," said Dodd, a senior Nongame Conservation Section biologist with the DNR's Wildlife Resources Division.
The health of this iconic species effects coastal environments and economies, an impact heightened in a state where more than 30 percent of residents 16 and older take part in wildlife-watching activities.
Dodd credits the recovery to a wide range of conservation measures, from Georgia Sea Turtle Cooperative members using wire screen to shield nests from predators to commercial fishery regulations reducing sea turtle deaths off Georgia's coast and far into the Atlantic Ocean. The Sea Turtle Cooperative is a network of volunteers, researchers and agency employees who patrol barrier island beaches daily during the sea turtle nesting season, protecting and managing nests.
Dodd cautioned that the current nesting run still falls shy of federal recovery benchmarks: a 2 percent annual increase for 50 years resulting in a statewide total of 2,800 nests a year.
But he's excited about the apparent rebound, particularly after a slow start to the nesting season had some turtle watchers thinking 2013 might be a down year for loggerheads.
And while nesting comes to a close, hatching is in full swing. About 23 percent of sea turtle hatchlings on Georgia beaches have dug out of their sand nests and headed toward the surf.
The hatching success rate – hovering at about 60 percent – has been boosted by the lack of tropical storms swamping Georgia so far this summer.
Dodd said two major factors affect sea turtle hatching success rates: predation, mainly by feral hogs and raccoons, and tropical storms, including the storm-spawned tidal surges that inundate nests.
Georgians can help conserve loggerhead sea turtles and other nongame wildlife, native plants and natural habitats through buying a wildlife license plate featuring the new bald eagle design or renewing their older eagle or ruby-throated hummingbird plates. They can also contribute to the Georgia Wildlife Conservation Fund directly or through the state income tax checkoff.
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License plates are available for an extra $35 specialty tag fee at county tag offices, by checking the wildlife license plate box on mail-in registrations and through online renewals (http://mvd.dor.ga.gov/tags [1]). Specialty plates include an annual renewal fee.
For the Give Wildlife a Chance checkoff, fill in any amount more than $1 on line 26 of the state's long tax form (Form 500) or line 10 of the short form (Form 500-EZ). Contributions can be deducted from refunds or added to payments.
For more on how to help wildlife, go to www.georgiawildlife.com/conservation/support. Or, call Nongame Conservation Section offices in Social Circle (770-761-3035), Forsyth (478-994-1438) or Brunswick (912-264-7218). State income tax forms are available online at http://dor.georgia.gov/taxes. [2]
Annual nest totals since comprehensive surveys began in 1989.
1989 – 675
1990 – 1,031
1991 – 1,101
1992 – 1,048
1993 – 470
1994 – 1,360
1995 – 1,022
1996 – 1,096
1997 – 789
1998 – 1,055
1999 – 1,406
2000 – 1,060
2001 – 852
2002 – 1,028
2003 – 1,504
2004 – 358
2005 – 1,187
2006 – 1,389
2007 – 689
2008 – 1,649
2009 – 997
2010 – 1,761
2011 – 1,992
2012 – 2,241
2013 – 2,242 (as of 9 a.m. Aug. 13)
[1] http://mvd.dor.ga.gov/tags
[2] http://dor.georgia.gov/taxes.


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Is the isomorphism class of a fixed cardinality a set(not a proper class)? Or a fixed ordinality for that matter? By "isomorphism" I mean just bijection for cardinals and order preserving bijection for ordinals, in the category of sets.
The isomorphism classes of the set {} and the ordinal 0 are sets, each with a single element.
let $\kappa$ be an non-zero ordinal and $\alpha$ # $\beta$ be the natural sum of the ordinals $\alpha$ and $\beta$. Since the natural sum is the restriction of the addition of surreal numbers to ordinals, and the surreal numbers are an ordered field, the natural sum is cancellative and strictly increasing. Therefore, for any ordinal $\gamma$, the set {$\gamma$#0, $\gamma$#1, ... $\gamma$#$\kappa$} of ordinals that are the natural sum of $\gamma$ and an ordinal less than $\kappa$ is order-isomorphic to $\kappa$. These sets are different for different values $\gamma$, so this provides a bijection between the ordinals and a subclass of the isomorphism class of $\kappa$. If the isomorphism class of $\kappa$ was a set, this subclass would be a set and therefore the ordinals would also form a set. The ordinals cannot form a set, therefore the isomorphism class of $\kappa$ does not form a set.
Assuming the axiom of choice, every set is well-orderable. Given a well-ordering of a set there is a bijection between the order-isomorphism class of that set and a subclass of it's isomorphism(bijection) class. if the set is non-empty, then since it's order-isomorphism class is not a set it's isomorphism class is not a set either.
This can also be proved without the axiom of choice. Suppose that a set x is bijectible with {y}$\sqcup$ z, where $\sqcup$ means disjoint union, for two sets y and z. Then for any set w, x is bijectible with {w}$\sqcup$z , and since these sets are different for different values of w, this gives a bijection of the class of all sets with a subclass of the isomorphism class of x. Since the class all sets cannot be a set, the isomorphism class of x cannot be a set. It remains to be shown that any non-empty set x is bijectible with {y}$\sqcup$z for two sets y and z. to see this, simply choose one element v from x (this does not require the axiom of choice, because we are only making one choice of one element from one set) and write x as the union of {v} and the set of other elements of x. these two sets are disjoint, so the obvious surjection from their disjoint union to their union is a bijection. The union is x, so v and the set of other elements of x are the y and z we were looking for, respectively.
If I understand your question correctly, the first part can be rephrased as: Is the system of all sets of a given cardinality a set or a proper class. It is a proper class already for singletons: Just notice that $x\mapsto\{x\}$ is a bijection between all sets and all singletons. Or, for a given cardinal $\varkappa$, you can use the bijection $x\mapsto \{x\}\times\varkappa$ between the class of all sets and a class consisting only of sets of cardinality $\varkappa$ (although not all of them). If singletons (sets of cardinality $\varkappa$) formed a set, then (by axiom schema of replacement) the class of all sets would be a set too, a contradiction.
(By the way, this is pretty much along the same lines as what Robin Chapman and Stefan Geschke wrote in their comments.)


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7 Feb 2012 1:28 PM #1
Is it possible to use UX in Sencha Designer 2.0?
I want to use UX in Designer 2.0. Is it possible to include Ext.ux.grid.FiltersFeature somehow?
7 Feb 2012 1:32 PM #2
You can certainly include them in your final source code and/or use them explicitly by writing code but you cannot configure them in the UI design view at the moment.
We are finalizing the spec to expose the proper APIs and working with component authors to ensure that we can support the various different situations that people have implemented UX's out there.
This will be a feature of Designer 2.x.Aaron Conran
7 Feb 2012 2:10 PM #3
That's good news, i would love to see this featured since there are tons of usefull UX
I already modified my deployed code and successfully included the filtering option on my grid. In the meantime, is there some nifty way to push in the code in after deploying from Designer, or use an override like in this post?
7 Feb 2012 2:16 PM #4
I'd suggest doing it in the implementation file of your view.
You could also try an override like that as well.Aaron Conran
7 Feb 2012 2:22 PM #5
Thanks, i'll try that.
btw, what a great product! I played with Sencha Touch in Designer 2.0 beta, just awesome. Sencha rocks!
8 Feb 2012 2:13 AM #6
Almost there.
Is there a function that i can call set the features property for my grid, or add a feature to it?
I now have to hand-edit it and it gets overwritten each time i deploy my Designer project.
What i did so far:
I created a index.html from where i include a custom js before including designer.js:
my filters.js file:
Ext.Loader.setConfig({ enabled: true }); Ext.Loader.setPath('Ext.ux', '../ux'); Ext.require(['Ext.ux.grid.FiltersFeature']);
I set the value to { type: 'boolean' }
so far, so very good.
The only thing left is setting a new feature to my grid. Since i'm using the groupingsummary feature, i see the features property is already in place in the UI class:
Ext.define('MyApp.view.ui.gridHyperFocus', { extend: 'Ext.grid.Panel', id: 'gridHyperFocus', width: 684, autoScroll: true, title: 'Overzicht', forceFit: true, store: 'hyperfocusStore', initComponent: function() { var me = this; Ext.applyIf(me, { viewConfig: { }, features: [ { ftype: 'groupingsummary', groupHeaderTpl: 'group: {name} - {tonnen}' } ], plugins: .....
When i hand-edit the filter property in the ui class to this, the filter works:
features: [ { ftype: 'filters', encode: false, local: false }, { ftype: 'groupingsummary', groupHeaderTpl: 'group: {name} - {tonnen}' } ],
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Has there been any progress in implementing this in Designer or has anybody gotten the grid filters working?
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Is there a ways to rebuild a c# .net CF application and deploy it in windows mobile emulator from the command-line?
This is required to create a bat file for automation.
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WEIRTON - Starvaggi Memorial Park is a little closer to being ready for the summer, thanks to some help from Comcast and local volunteers.
Several dozen area residents and Comcast employees gathered at the Weirton park Saturday to lend a hand as part of the 12th-annual Comcast Cares Day.
Comcast Cares Day is a day of service organized by Comcast and NBC Universal. According to Comcast officials, it is the nation's largest single-day corporate volunteer effort.
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Several dozen area residents joined with employees of Comcast Saturday to volunteer with various clean-up projects at Starvaggi Memorial Park. The clean-up was part of the 12th-annual Comcast Cares Day, which took place in communities across the nation. -- Craig Howell
Parks Executive Director Terry Weigel, also Weirton's Ward 7 councilman, explained he had been contacted by Comcast about the effort, and they discussed the possibility of working at both the Millsop Community Center and the Marland Heights Park before deciding to have the focus at Starvaggi.
"This being the largest outdoor park in the city and needing the most preparation, we decided to come here," he said. "This is a big help having this volunteer effort."
Several of the volunteers, many local high school students, spent a portion of their morning painting the park's boundary fence.
"That hadn't been done in years," Weigel said.
Others raked leaves, performed landscaping, prepared the playground and other tasks in an effort to beautify the park.
One group was charged with painting the park's upper restroom. That project will be a big help, Weigel said, as park staff prepares to remodel the restroom facility later this year.
"We're putting new sinks, toilets, partitions and everything in there," Weigel said.
Area businesses donated much of the material to assist with Saturday's work, Weigel said.
"We're honored to partner with the City of Weirton and the Weirton Recreation Center to work together to improve Starvaggi Memorial Park during our 12th Comcast Cares Day," stated Jim Samaha, senior vice president for Comcast's Keystone Region. "The hard work of the volunteers who will be donating their time to help make such a big difference in the lives of others is inspiring, and I am thankful to all of our participants who are helping to make the day a success."
Comcast estimated more than 70,000 volunteers would participate in more than 600 projects across the country. The effort was first held in 2001.
Weigel explained the park also recently received some assistance from a Weirton church, members of which spent approximately four hours on some projects.
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Marcia Bedway hosted the Play of the Day on May 29 for the Cadiz Country Club Women's Golf Association.
Low net and least putts of the field was the game. Low net winners were Peg Buchanan, first place, and Theresa Stotler, second place. Stotler had least putts, followed by Nep Rowland.
Stotler also scored two birdies and a chip-in.
Following play, Chairlady Marlene Holloway discussed the upcoming two-women scramble scheduled for June 19. It is open to all women golfers.
Anyone interested should call Joann Watson at (740) 264-2959. Reservations should be in by June 12. Wednesday's hostess will be Carol Henderson, and tee time will return to 9 a.m.
Winners of the low gross game in flights at the Dyer Ladies League play on May 28 were:
A flight: Kathy Sapp
B flight: Ruth Lamantia
C flight: Mary Arehart
50-50 drawing: Vickie Grant
Proximity and Chip-In: Kathy Sapp
Play Chairmen: Teri Barkley and Vickie Grant
May 23
Game: Throw out three blind holes
Winners from each flight:
First flight, Patty Filak
Second flight, Dottie Virtue
Third flight, Linda Wade
Chip-ins: Dottie Virtue on holes No. 5, No.11 and No. 16 and Linda Wade on hole No. 5
Birdies: Dottie Virtue on hole No. 5
50/50: Kathi Moore
Longest Drive: Cathy Ralston on hole No. 13
With the front nine closed for aerification, the Women's Golf Association of Steubenville Country Club played the back nine twice in a gross and net tournament in flights with Renee Morelli and YangJa Koh as chairmen.
First flight winners were: Koh, low gross; Dianna Adams, low net; Marilyn Kenny, putts.
In the second flight Morelli won low gross and putts, with Charlene Freshwater taking low net. The money cup for chip-ins was shared by Adams, who had a chip-in on No. 11, and Koh who recorded chip-ins on Nos. 13 and 15.
Winners for the nine-hole golfers were Shannon Irvin, low gross, and Dotty Tegano, low net and putts.
Koh announced that the second round of the President's Cup tournament will be played this week with the winner being the golfer with the best three of four net scores.
Tee-off time this week for the 18- hole golfers will be 9 a.m., with a show-up time of 8:30 a.m. Nine-hole golfers will report at 9 a.m. for a 9:30 a.m. start. The game will be low gross and low net with mixed flights.
Town and Country Women Golf League had a medal play at Spring Hills Golf Club on May 23.
Winners were: Low Gross A flight Lucy Karaan, Laura Froelick, Janice Haisley, B Jeanne Dowden, C Rose Kazmarek, Irene Vaja. Low Net Lillian Kestner, B Pat Zorne. C Margie Serafini. Closest to Pin No. 8 A Karaan, C Vaja. Longest Drive No. 3 Karaan, B Patty Saccocia, C Vaja. Longest Drive No. 5 A Janice, B Dowden, C Serafini. Low Putts Froelick.


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Carla Swensen's story starts out much like that of most teenage girls who have grown up playing soccer since they were little kids.
They're probably hoping that someday they'll get a chance to play high school soccer, and perhaps play at the collegiate level, too. Maybe they even dream big, hoping they might have an opportunity to play on the national team with a chance to go up against international competition someday.
Well, that's where Swensen's story takes a unique, interesting turn, one that most teenage girls would never experience.
And the way the Bingham High School senior sees it, it's the opportunity of a lifetime and a dream come true.
Her mother, Josefina, is a native of Colombia, so 18-year-old Carla has dual citizenship, which makes her eligible to represent that South American country in international soccer competition. That rarity has presented her with a unique and tremendous opportunity — she is one of 36 players who has been invited to participate in the U-20 Colombia National Camp in October at Cali, Colombia.
From that camp, 22 players will be selected to the team's final roster which will play in the U-20 South American Championships early next year at Uruguay. The top two teams from the South American tournament will qualify for the U-20 World Cup scheduled next summer in Canada.
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me," Swensen said. "I've dreamed of this ever since I was a little girl, and it's somewhat surreal to have this opportunity presented to me now.
"Ever since I started playing competitive soccer, I'd go to practice every day and work hard and run and sweat and hope that someday I'd get a chance to play on the international level. So when that opportunity does present itself, you've got to go for it."
She admits though, that it was difficult for her not to be able to play on her Bingham High School team this season. And, since the Colombian trip will require her to be gone for several weeks, she essentially took a leave of absence from her normal class schedule and enrolled in several online courses to keep up on her schoolwork.
After all, soccer isn't the only thing in this young lady's life.
Carla carries a GPA of 4.00 at Bingham High, where she is a two-time 5A state debate champion. And she has verbally committed to play collegiate soccer at BYU in 2014, so she needs to make sure her academic standing doesn't suffer and she stays on track toward graduation in order to keep her NCAA compliant after high school.
"I would like to have played high school soccer this year because I absolutely love it," said Swensen, who starred for the Miners in the past and played in the preseason for them this fall. "It made me sad that I couldn't play this year, so I had to make that sacrifice.
"The thing with playing high school soccer is you know all the girls so well, and that makes it special. You've grown up with them and you go to school with them and you live in their neighorhood. You go to lunch with them and you sit in math class with them every day. That's what makes high school sports different is that you're playing with people you grew up with, your next-door neighbors, the kids you spent your childhood with.
"And it's neat to represent your high school and your community," she said. "There's a certain relationship you develop with the community, the fans and the girls on your high school team. There's something memorable and magical about being able to represent your school. You have your friends who would never go to a soccer game, but they come to the games and support you. And you get to wear your jersey to school on game days and get to know all the girls and the coaches so well. I definitely miss that.
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Depends on the Rom developers. Unfortunately no one but someone with an Eris or someone that develops for Rom Manager could answer this question. Just download it and see what you get.
The way Rom Manager works is the developers have to contact the Rom Manager team with the appropriate information that can then be added to the app. So Rom Manager team can only do so much to get Roms in it. Plus there are a lot of side conversations about how well clockwork recovery actually works when wiping, but I have never had a problem with this. And the issue of some Roms do not play well with Clockwork recovery either.
On the Evo Cyanogen is very good about keeping the ROM up to date in Rom Manager. Which is nice since it is updated nightly. I say try it again.
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There are several ways for students to pay for martial arts lessons... per month, per lesson, and contracts. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each of these for both the student and school? Specifically, what effect do each of these have on student attrition? Do per month/lesson make it too easy to leave or take a break without any consequence, that its all too easy to not come back?
In my experience as both a student and an instructor, I've found that there are advantages and disadvantages to both parties from all forms:
There are exceptions to the rule in every scenario, and many that offer monthly rates also offer per-class rates which combines the two advantages and disadvantages somewhere in the middle.
While easier to leave does usually mean easier to not come back, contractual billing can lead to extremely bad press for a dojo and is usually not a good sign. Many of the contract billing services for martial arts schools have horrible reputations and lead to more threats from lawyers than happy students.
Remember, every choice has a consequence; choosing a specific type of payment plan can have both good and bad repercussions. If at all possible, schools should offer all three at staggered rates – this way, you can maximize your benefit, put the consequence of the choice upon the shoulders of the client, and you'll have an easier time managing threats and have a better chance of winning any small claims you choose to pursue. A great example of this is:
Assume a monthly rate in line with your environment (other teachers in your art locally). If the market is at $100 a month, make this or slightly higher your monthly rate. Now, figure a two month termination fee ($200, equivalent to charging for first and last month). Divide this by 12 to get $16.66. Subtract this from $100 and round back up to the nearest $5, which gives you $85. This is your contract rate. This way, you're offering a non-trivial (15% discount), but making clear up front that there is a termination fee, and if they plan to leave, it might be better to pay month-to-month. For your per-lesson rate, figure out how many lessons your students will be attending each week for an average (4 week) month. My students, for instance, attend 2 classes a week, so about $12.50 a lesson (in this case). Of course, we have a convenience factor to this, so we raise this rate a non-trivial amount (I would round up to the nearest $10, so each lesson would be $20). By doing this, you're creating a fair and scaled pricing schedule, and offering them an advantage to committing longer.