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I note that on the loudest volume, the sound from my iPhone to 3.5mm stereo jack is distorted. Above what volume is sound distorted/compressed?
This question might be hard to answer without some rigorous definition of distortion and qualification of what amount of harmonic distortion is permissible - let alone some clue as to what signal is being played.
In general, the headphone jack is desired to distort sound. Whether its muted or amplified, the output isn't what the recorded sound actually is.
Have a look at these threads fr background:
So - you could get an adapter that generates a line-out level signal and control things from another amplifier or you could experiment with signals you choose and find a setting that doesn't sound distorted to your ears. My guess is most people would set the volume a 60% for most commercial pop music and perhaps a little higher for softer music that isn't compressed so aggressively as pop music.
If you're connecting to a device which is expecting a standard line-in audio signal then keep your output volume to 75%-80% maximum as anything over this is going over the 1volt peak to peak signal which consumer audio works on. Your headphones are different as they are not limited in this way and you should be able to send a 100% signal to them without distortion.


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Laser Pointer w/ Casing for $5.05
List Price: $149.99
Price: $5.05
You Save: $144.94 (97%)
30-50x brighter than a red laser
Beam can be seen in midair
Brass body with black matte finish
Output power: <5mW, wavelength: 532nm
High-quality lens emits a focused round spot
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Is a $5 laser pointer any good? The reviews look like you'll either be very pleased or it will be a POS. Anyone buy from these Chinese manufacturers?
@90mcg112: I depends upon how you are going to use it. The focal points on this type of pointer is pretty poor. It is more of a blob then a dot (at least on the ones that I received).
We bought 10 of these last year to give as gifts - 2 were great (and still are), 6 would stay bright for a minute or 2 then would get dim (they would get bright again if you turned them off then back on) and 2 didn't work (seller refunded $ without sending them back because they didn't have any in stock).
List Price: $149.99 lolololololololol
@qwerty283: For the ones that start bright then go dim, try replacement batteries.
Green lasers (IR DPSS lasers) use a lot of power, so alkalines really can't keep up.
Then again, the 2 could be faulty (laser/crystal not bonded to the pen so it overheats)...
If you want a great pointer, these work well (visible on projectors, TV screens, you name it) -- your eye sees green much better than red. On high-humidity days, you can even see the beam (light scattering isn't bright enough with red lasers) -- that makes it easier to point out constellations to people (but don't point at a plane!).
Also - a lot of the Chinese manufacturers don't put an IR-Cut filter in (cost cutting) -- that means that you have 1-3W (!) of IR laser also being emitted -- very unsafe for eyes, so keep well away from eyes (yours or pets); reflections closer than 1 foot away (even scattering from non-reflective surfaces) can cause eye damage.
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These things are available from many vendors on eBay and Amazon and when you buy them you probably can't tell which Chinese factory they were made in which may account for the wide range in ratings. Here is basically the same pointer for a little less and more reviews (but again no way of telling what factory goes with what review): http://www.amazon.com/532nm-Astronomy-Powerful-Green-Pointer/dp/B0019D12WW
If you truly get the laser pointer pictured I'd say it's well worth the price. It's powerful enough to be visible against the night sky for stargazing and it has impressive range for pointing at objects in the distance. I've never measured the visible distance but I can see it against a hillside several hundred yards away. It feels well built and still works perfectly more than a year after purchase. The batteries that came with it lasted about 8 months with fairly regular casual use (I keep it on my coffee table and guests love to tinker with it while visiting).
I bought some of these on Amazon once and they were miserable. Whatever you do, buy from a brand name reputable seller. I returned them and got my money back, but if you want a good laser pointer pay a little more!
I've bought one of these for $20 off ebay, and it's worked great for a few years. The pointer's visible in daylight, and the beam's usually visible at night, range is over a mile in the dark. If it works, this is a great deal, but judging by the reviews on amazon, these are less reliable, althoug they look the same.
Sigh, so hard to find a 200-300 watt laser these days (cheap anyways)
Well, I guess at 5mw, plus the cheap price, I can wire 20 of these in each head light of my bmw for a safe,...federally safe, bright green super high beams.
They'll have to update the driving laws soon after to turn off your super high beams when a car is approaching at a shorter distance than the curvature of the earth.
(Ignoring atmospheric refraction of coarse)
My goodness, so much misinformation in one post...
Google it.
@bobbyatkinson: Funny, I had no idea BMW was doing that.
And, they say it's 1000 times brighter than conventional headlights?
I was thinking that it would be great to bundle up a bunch of powerful green or blue lasers and make a fat beam.... Not exactly legal. And therefore dangerous.
Lasers of such powerful caliber should only be pointed at the sky, single or bundled up, attached to the roof.


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This is a heuristic question that I think was once asked by Serge Lang. The gaussian: $e^{-x^2}$ appears as the fixed point to the Fourier transform, in the punchline to the central limit theorem, as the solution to the heat equation, in a very nice proof of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem etc. Is this an artifact of the techniques (such as the Fourier Transform) that people like use to deal with certain problems or is this the tip of some deeper platonic iceberg?
Quadratic (or bilinear) forms appear naturally throughout mathematics, for instance via inner product structures, or via dualisation of a linear transformation, or via Taylor expansion around the linearisation of a nonlinear operator. The Laplace-Beltrami operator and similar second-order operators can be viewed as differential quadratic forms, for instance.
A Gaussian is basically the multiplicative or exponentiated version of a quadratic form, so it is quite natural that it comes up in multiplicative contexts, especially on spaces (such as Euclidean space) in which a natural bilinear or quadratic structure is already present.
Perhaps the one minor miracle, though, is that the Fourier transform of a Gaussian is again a Gaussian, although once one realises that the Fourier kernel is also an exponentiated bilinear form, this is not so surprising. But it does amplify the previous paragraph: thanks to Fourier duality, Gaussians not only come up in the context of spatial multiplication, but also frequency multiplication (e.g. convolutions, and hence CLT, or heat kernels).
One can also take an adelic viewpoint. When studying non-archimedean fields such as the p-adics $Q_p$, compact subgroups such as $Z_p$ play a pivotal role. On the reals, it seems the natural analogue of these compact subgroups are the Gaussians (cf. Tate's thesis). One can sort of justify the existence and central role of Gaussians on the grounds that the real number system "needs" something like the compact subgroups that its non-archimedean siblings enjoy, though this doesn't fully explain why Gaussians would then be exponentiated quadratic in nature.
I recently came across a strange and beautiful connection between the Gaussian $e^{-x^2}$ and the method of least squares. It turns out that the square in $e^{-x^2}$ and the square in ``least squares'' is the same square.
Let $(x_i,y_i)$ (with $1\leq i \leq n$) be the data set, and assume that for each $x$, the $y$'s are normally distributed with mean $\mu(x)=\alpha x+\beta$ and variance $\sigma^2$. Then, the likelihood of generating our data (assuming that the data points are independent) is $$\prod_{i=1}^n \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi \sigma^2}} \exp\left(-\frac{(y_i-\mu(x_i))^2}{2\sigma^2}\right) =\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi \sigma^2}}\right)^n \exp\left( \frac{-1}{2\sigma^2} \sum_{i=1}^n (y_i - \alpha x+\beta)^2 \right)$$ We would obviously want to choose the parameters $\alpha,\beta$ so that the likelihood is maximized, and this is accomplished by minimizing $$\sum_{i=1}^n (y_i - \alpha x+\beta)^2.$$ In other words, the least squares approximation is the one that makes the data set most likely to happen.
The sum of two independent normal random variables is again normal, i.e., the shape of the distribution is unchanged under addition except for stretching and scaling. Moreover, the normal distribution is unique among distributions with finite variance in having this property. Many phenomena in nature come from adding together various independent or almost independent terms. Therefore, we would expect the normal distribution to show up a lot in nature-inspired mathematics.
I'm not an expert, but I believe Stein's method gives a more satisfying connection between the CLT and the heat equation, in particular one that does not involve the Fourier transform. Stein's characterization of the normal distribution and convergence to normality involves an operator closely related to the generator of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. On the other hand, the fact that latter has the Gaussian as its invariant measure can be obtained by a trivial transformation of the fundamental solution of the heat equation.
This is just a minor amplification of one of Terry Tao's points. For any prime $p$, the ring $\mathbb{Z}_p$ of $p$-adic integers forms an open compact additive subgroup of $\mathbb{Q}_p$, the completion of $\mathbb{Q}$ under the p-adic metric, and its characteristic function should be viewed as a p-adic analogue of the Gaussian. It displays many analogues of the nice properties we see from the Gaussian:
The situation with the real line is more complicated because it is connected but not compact, and therefore has no open compact subgroups. There is a maximal compact multiplicative monoid (occasionally called the "ring of integers of $\mathbb{R}$" informally), given by the closed interval $[-1,1]$. You can think of the Gaussian as a smoothing of the uniform distribution on $[-1,1]$, but it is not clear to me that this particular analogy is very fruitful.
One of the reasons for the ubiquity of the Gaussian is displayed in what is probably the most electrifying half page of scientific prose ever written---Maxwell's argument that the distribution of the velocities of molecules in the ideal gas is Gaussian (now known as the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution). The only physical assumptions used are that the density function depends only on the absolute value of the velocity (and not the direction) and that the components in the directions of the coordinate axes are statistically independent. Mathematically, ths means that the only functions in $3$-space which depend only on the distance $r$ from the origin and which split as the product of three functions of one variable are those of the form $ae^{br^2}$. Maxwell does this by inspection but it is easy to give a rigorous proof (under very weak smoothness conditions) and the result holds, of course, in any dimension greater then or equal to $2$. Maxwell's reasoning can be found in his collected papers, or, more accesssibly, in Hawking's anthology "On the Shoulders of Giants".


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I started using Windows 7 again to play some of my games I had been missing and I have to say I've been relieved to be reintroduced to the standard installation area
Program Files.
From what I've noticed on almost every Linux distribution there is like 5 different areas where games/programs or other odds and ends end up. When you install something, I feel as though you pretty much have to guess where it installed at, which honestly don't make any sense to me.
So my question is, why does it appear as though there is no standard on Linux/Ubuntu? I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I just want to understand the reasons behind it.


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The 6 Most Insane True Tales of Survival
#3. Juana Maria, the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island
Like the mighty unicorn missing its place on the Ark, so too did Juana Maria miss the boat intended to save the last of her people from genocide in the mid 1800s. She was an islander on San Nicolas (off California) when the population was nearly wiped out by a group of roving Aleutian hunters from the north. The Aleutians killed nearly every man, woman and child on the island, and by 1835 there were less than 30 islanders left, total.
It turns out you can commit war crimes in a kayak.
A boat full of missionaries came to rescue the remaining islanders from getting murdered, and they managed to get everyone on board safely. Everyone except for Juana Maria. The woman ended up completely alone on the hostile island of San Nicolas ... for the next 18 fucking years.
After several failed attempts to rescue her, Juana was eventually picked up in 1853 wearing what one newspaper described as "skins and feathers of wild ducks, which she sewed together with sinews of the seal." The paper went on to add that "she cannot speak any known language, is good-looking and about middle age." She had not only survived alone on the island, but thrived there, actually outliving everyone else she knew (but more on that in a moment).
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She designed her own pinhole cameras on the island, using only dolphin spleens and seagull beaks.
Ironically, despite her amazing individual resilience for almost 20 years, Juana Maria did not last two months once she reached the mainland. Her story was the inspiration for Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins, thus serving as a romantic ideal for future generations of girls of what life might be like if everyone would just leave them the fuck alone.
It was like this, only with a lot more piles of dead sea otters.
Oh, and what we said earlier about how she outlived everyone she knew? It turns out that her getting left off the rescue boat was the mother of all blessings in disguise. The rest of her people who fled to the mainland ended up dying almost immediately from the new diseases they contracted from their rescuers.
#2. The Aboriginal Adventures of Narcisse "Amglo" Pelletier
At an age when most kids are worried about hiding boners behind textbooks, 14-year-old cabin boy Narcisse Pelletier was dealing with human trafficking, murder and complete abandonment. The ship on which Narcisse worked was carrying hundreds of Chinese laborers to Australia when it ran aground off of New Guinea in 1857, and several of his shipmates were promptly killed by natives. Narcisse was one of only about 12 men to escape by longboat, and together they paddled around the Coral Sea aimlessly for 12 days, subsisting on sea water and piss.
"I don't care what you say. This is not part of a balanced breakfast."
They finally made land in Far North Queensland, Australia, and stopped for water before continuing on ... one man short. No one is sure exactly why they left Narcisse in Far North Queensland, home to the most poisonous everything on the planet. Then again, if you have ever spent a long time cooped up with a 14-year-old, you might understand the decision.
Regardless, this was where Narcisse's story started looking a lot less like Cast Away and a lot more like Dances With Wolves. Narcisse bumped into three Aboriginal women, who brought him back to their tribe. Narcisse was immediately adopted by the tribe, and for the next 17 years, he learned their ways and language, eventually growing into manhood and raising at least two kids of his own. Then in 1875, Narcisse was picked up by a passing ship. But by then he had become so in the zone with the Aborigines that he upheld their vow of secrecy regarding everything he had learned during the decades he spent with them.
Which resulted in one of the shortest biographies of all time.
He was celebrated throughout France for his heroic story of survival among the savages of Australia, but in reality he never wanted to leave, even insisting that he was kidnapped by the boat that "rescued" him and forced away from his true people. And his options for occupations back in France were less than spectacular -- a traveling show wanted to hire him as an Anglo-Australian freak. He opted to run a lighthouse instead, and died while still bitter about being taken from his tribe.
#1. Lucio, Salvador and Jesus Master the Pacific
With countless sharks, giant squids and 75 percent of the world's volcanoes around its rim, the Pacific Ocean is like Mother Nature's weapons stockpile. So when someone accidentally wanders into the middle of that arsenal, it's usually a safe bet that they won't drift back out as anything but a partially eaten corpse. But in October of 2005, three Mexican fishermen floated across the entire Pacific by accident, and came out just fine.
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Yup. That would have been our reaction as well.
The trio departed from the Pacific port of San Blas, Mexico, on October 28, 2005 to go shark hunting with two friends in a rickety 28-foot fiberglass boat. After running out of fuel, they got sucked into the North Equatorial Current, and without a radio they realized that the only way to get back was to go forward. Five thousand miles forward, to be exact, without food, water, gas or any playing cards.
With their lives now literally left up to how creatively they could navigate their way across certain death, they MacGyvered some fishing hooks and string using parts from their engine and stitched a sail out of blankets. They lived off of raw fish, seagulls and sea turtles, and because of a stroke of luck, they were rained on nearly every day of the ordeal. Or maybe it wasn't so lucky -- the storms were so bad that they constantly had to bail water from the boat and thought on several occasions that they were just going to sink.
"You know what, Salvador? I'd rather drown than hear you sing 'Don't Stop Believin'' one more goddamn time."
Nevertheless, the trio were able to survive in the heart of the Pacific ... for nine freaking months. That's 270 days at sea. Imagine you take a trip for Christmas and get lost. You think, "Well, we just have to hold on until somebody finds us." Now imagine you stay gone so long that by the time you are rescued, they are putting out decorations for next Christmas. All that time, in a boat with two other guys, getting pelted with rain.
The trio were eventually picked up off the Marshall Islands by a Taiwanese fishing boat. It was a confusing moment for everyone when they tried to explain what had happened, and the crew of the rescuing boat tried to explain exactly how far they had drifted. After the men were flown back home, they immediately went back to their careers as shark fishermen on a tiny boat because, after surviving that, what else is the Pacific going to pull?
"You ain't got shit, Jaws."
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The Boston Conservatory Presents Piano Masters: Janice Weber
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(BOSTON) The Boston Conservatory presents faculty member Janice Weber as part of its popular Piano Masters series, a unique offering of internationally renowned pianists in solo engagements, performed under the artistic direction of Michael Lewin. The performance takes place Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 8 p.m. at The Boston Conservatory's Seully Hall at 8 The Fenway. General admission tickets are $15, $10 for seniors and FREE for students with valid ID. Tickets are available by phone at 617-912-9222 or at http://bostonconservatory.ticketforce.com/.
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CAGE: The Seasons (1947)
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About Janice Weber
Janice Weber has created a unique and fascinating artistic profile with her virtuoso explorations of unusual romantic repertoire and Golden Age piano transcriptions and her remarkably wide-ranging 20th-century interests. Her concerts have taken her from China to the White House, from Sarajevo to Symphony Hall. A popular chamber musician, she has a highly praised and eclectic discography. She also enjoys a dual career as a writer, with six successful novels to her credit.
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I usually use kubuntu, but I had to install a custom kernel on my laptop and it's a lot easier with arch. The problem is that kde looks terrible in arch, especially the GTK applications. I know there are all sorts of tutorials of installing gnome icons, and various peicewise fixes, but is there a way to find out exactly how kubuntu sets up KDE so I can just duplicate that?
Kubuntu makes many modifications to various applications (e.g., Firefox, OpenOffice), so it is unlikely that there is an easy way to recreate the Kubuntu look on ArchLinux.
That being said, I moved from Kubuntu to ArchLinux and I now prefer the vanilla applications (e.g., OpenOffice looks much better).
One thing that helped a lot in synchronizing the look of gtk applications with KDE was to install qtcurve, a theme that works for both qt (KDE) and gtk (Gnome) apps.
On Arch you should consider installing KDEmod ( from The Chakra Project ) instead of KDE.
According to the kdemod wiki, you will need to install this package :
to get a more uniform look for QT and GTK apps.
Also checkout this article.
Sadly KDEMod Repositories is no longer active.
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Is there any software which can convert a photograph to a black-and-white outline containing tiny numbers stating which color to give each area?
If you have a scripting buddy, you could use Illustrator's live trace to break the image down into color regions, then have the script run through and assign a number to each swatch. It would actually be an interesting javascript challenge if I had the time to experiment. Unfortunately, I don't.
You could try plainclothes' suggestion, but personally I wouldn't count on Illustrator's live trace producing very usable results. Live trace has its limitations. Even the best live trace algorithms can't make a normal photo into a genuine illustration. When you compare the results from live trace to a hand-drawn illustration, it's quite obvious that today's software just isn't able to create sufficiently subject-aware outlines and color boundaries to produce passable results.
Unless you feed the live trace algorithm an illustration to start with, it's just going to look like a photo that's been put through a live trace filter. And that's not going to make a good paint-by-number outline.
At the end of the day, artists and illustrators still serve a purpose. And to get the desired end product, you'll need to hire a professional illustrator to create a suitable painting/illustration that can be reproduced in paint-by-number style.
If you don't want to spend the money to do that, then your best bet is probably to live trace some stained glass artwork. This is really more color-by-number, but it doesn't require an actual artist to manually create the outlines.
Stoik - Color By Numbers or Paint a Pic
I believe one of these would be the answer to such a question.
Stoik's Color By Number is a $20 program (or a 15 day free trial) you can find at stoik.com that uses very easy steps:
The Browse Tab - Pick the image you want to convert.
The Image Tab - Contrast, Brightness, Size, Posterize, ect.
The Pattern Tab - Palette choice; Whatever color scheme you would like and how many colors you want to use.
The Export Tab - Export; print, save, ect.
The end result is a paint by numbers version of the image (just lines and numbers corresponding to colors) and a color map of what it should look like after you've finished painting.
I don't know too much about Paint a Pic. It seems like it is relatively new.
Paint a Pic is a web-based application/service that'll cost you $50 an image that, after being processed, is sent directly to you in physical form.
The end result is very similar to Color By Number, except lines are more defined, where as in Color By Number the lines are faint and blue so as to fade away easily as paint is applied.


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It seems that the normalizer of $H=\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbf Z)$ in $G=\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbf Q)$ is "almost" equal to itself, that is, $$ N_G(\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbf Z))=Z(G) \cdot \mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbf Z) $$ where $Z(G)$ is the centre of $G$ (one may guess so by applying the description of automorphisms of groups $\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbf Z)$ by Hua and Reiner). Is there, however, a simpler and direct proof/disproof of this fact? More generally, for which integral domains $R$ it is known that $\mathrm{GL}(n,R)$ "almost" coincides with its normalizer in the group $\mathrm{GL}(n,Q(R))$ where $Q(R)$ is the quotient field of $R?$ (The question has been earlier posted at mathunderflow).
Let $g \in GL(n,\mathbb Q)$ normalize $GL(n,\mathbb Z)$. Consider the lattice $g(\mathbb Z^n) \subset \mathbb Q^n$; it is preserved by $GL(n,\mathbb Z)$. Replacing $g$ by $gz$ for some appropriate scalar matrix $z$, we may assume that $g(\mathbb Z^n) \subset {\mathbb Z}^n$, but that $g(\mathbb Z^n)\not\subset p \mathbb Z^n$ for any prime $p$.
Suppose now that $p$ divides the index $[\mathbb Z^n:g(\mathbb Z^n)]$. Then the image of $g(\mathbb Z^n)$ is a proper subspace of $\mathbb F_p^n$ (by the assumption that the $p$ divides the index) which is non-zero (by the assumption that $g(\mathbb Z^n)$ is not contained in $p\mathbb Z^n$). It is preserved by $GL(n,\mathbb F_p)$. [Added: As tomasz points out in a comment below, $GL(n,\mathbb Z)$ does not surject onto $GL(n,\mathbb F_p)$. However, its image does contain $SL(n,\mathbb F_p)$, so the argument below goes through, if we replace $GL(n,\mathbb F_p)$ by $SL(n,\mathbb F_p)$.]
But this is a contradiction, since $\mathbb F_p^n$ is an irreducible $GL(n,\mathbb F_p)$-representation. Consequently, no such $p$ exists, and so $g(\mathbb Z^n) = \mathbb Z^n$. Thus $g \in GL(n,\mathbb Z)$, and so we have shown that the normalizer of $GL(n,\mathbb Z)$ is equal to $Z(G) \cdot GL(n,\mathbb Z),$ as required.
This argument (assuming that it's correct!) extends at least to the case when $R$ is a PID.
It is also true for local rings. Let $A$ be a matrix with coefficients in $K = \mathrm{Frac}(R)$, such that $A \mathrm{GL}_n(R) A^{-1} \subset \mathrm{GL}_n(R)$. Then in particular, $A (I_n + E_{i,j})A^{-1} \in M_n(R)$ and $A (I_n+E_{i,i}+E_{i,j}+E_{j,i})A^{-1} \in M_n(R)$ for all $i \neq j$, so that $a_{i,j} b_{k,l} \in R$ for all $i,j,k,l$, where $a$, $b$ denote the coefficients of $A$, $B:=A^{-1}$.
Since $\sum_j a_{1,j}b_{j,1}=1$, there is a $j_0$ such that $a_{1,j_0} b_{j_0,1} \in R^{\times}$. Let $A'=a_{1,j_0}^{-1} A$. Then the coefficients of $A'^{-1} = a_{1,j_0} B$ are in $R$, and those of $A'$ also because $\frac{a_{i,j}}{a_{1,j_0} }= \frac{a_{i,j}b_{j_0,1}}{a_{1,j_0}b_{j_0,1}} \in R$.
For a general $R$, this just shows that $A \in K^{\times} \mathrm{GL}_n (R_m) $ for any maximal ideal $m$ of $R$.
Edit: This implies that the normalizer is indeed $K^{\times} \mathrm{GL}_n(R)$ in the case $R$ is a UFD. Indeed we have that $I^n=(\det (A))$ where $I=\sum_{i,j} a_{i,j} R$ by localization ($i/\det(A) \in \cap_m R_m = R$ for any $i$ product of $n$ coefficients of $A$). Looking at decompositions, we see that $\mathrm{gcd}(a_{i,j})^n = \det(A)$, and so $A/\\mathrm{gcd}(a_{i,j}) \in \mathrm{GL}_n(R)$.
Let me simplify a bit (if I may) a nice argument by Matthew Emerton, by omitting the part with $p$-reductions. We start as above: let $g \in\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbf Q)$ normalize $\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbf Z).$ Then the subgroup $$ zg(\mathbf Z^n) $$ is in $\mathbf Z^n$ for a certain $z \in \mathbf Q$ and is invariant under all elements of $\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbf Z).$ By the description of the subgroups of free abelian groups, there is a basis $f_1,\ldots,f_n$ of $\mathbf Z^n$ and integers $m_1,\ldots,m_n$ with $m_k | m_{k+1}$ $(k=1,\ldots,n-1)$ such that $$ zg(\mathbf Z^n) =\langle m_1 f_1,m_2 f_2,\ldots,m_n f_n \rangle. $$ Hence $$ (z/m_1)g(\mathbf Z^n) =\langle f_1,(m_2/m_1) f_2,\ldots,(m_n/m_1) f_n \rangle \leqslant \mathbf Z^n. $$ Thus the subgroup $(z/m_1)g(\mathbf Z^n)$ contains a unimodular/basis element (namely, $f_1$) and then since $(z/m_1)g(\mathbf Z^n)$ is invariant under $\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbf Z)$ we have that $$ (z/m_1)g(\mathbf Z^n) =\mathbf Z^n. $$ Thus $(z/m_1) g \in \mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbf Z).$


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Mudfest puts SUVs to a true Northwest test
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The 2013 Acura RDX on an off-road course at the DirtFish Rally School site.
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The 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport on the skidpad at the DirtFish Rally School site.
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The 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee on an off-road course at the DirtFish Rally School site.
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The 2013 Jeep Wrangler on an off-road course at the DirtFish Rally School site.
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The 2014 Subaru Forester on a paved road near Snoqualmie.
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The DirtFish Rally School site in Snoqualmie.
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$1,165,160 worth of outdoor activity vehicles in the staging area at Mudfest 2013. This is the first and last time most of these vehicles will get dirty.
"Mudfest" is the name of the Northwest Automotive Press Association's (NWAPA) annual Sport Utility Vehicle of the Year competition, in which automakers are invited to enter their newest SUVs to compete in a two-day event that tests the vehicles on a skidpad, on paved roads, and off-road. Participating NWAPA members do the driving and scoring, then turn in their individual ballots for tallying at the end of day two. A winner is selected in each of five different categories, and one vehicle is declared the overall winner.
To reflect consumer and industry trends away from true SUVs in favor of crossover vehicles, this year the competition's explanatory title was changed to the Outdoor Activity Vehicle of the Year competition.
Mudfest 2013 took place April 17-18 at the 310-acre DirtFish Rally School site in Snoqualmie. This was the third consecutive year at DirtFish and the 19th year for Mudfest, which has been held at various locations in Washington and Oregon throughout its history.
Twenty-three vehicles were entered this year, and 31 NWAPA members participated. The five vehicle categories were Compact Class, Luxury Compact Class, Family Class, Luxury Class, and Off-road Class. Vehicles were evaluated for their on-road ride and handling, powertrain, braking, exterior design, interior comfort and function, application of technology, off-pavement handling and capability, fuel efficiency, and value.
A moderate off-road course with bumps, ruts, gravel and tight turns was created for vehicles in the first four categories. Vehicles entered in the Off-road Class competed on a much more difficult course designed specifically for evaluating axle articulation, approach angles, 4x4 technology, and general ability to soldier on regardless.
Both off-road courses also included lots of mud. I've participated in 17 Mudfests, and have loved them all. But too much rain, or no rain and therefore no mud, cuts into the fun. For Mudfest 2013, conditions were ideal: some rain before the event and some rain overnight during the event – ensuring plenty of mud – but mainly dry skies and even full sunshine while we drove and tested.
As it is every year, competition was fierce, with near ties in a couple of categories. But the scoring system prevents ties by having all drivers list their first, second and third choice in every category.
And now for a wince-worthy cliche: The envelope, please.
The category winners are:
- Compact Class: 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport AWD 2.0T
- Luxury Compact Class: 2013 Acura RDX AWD Tech
- Family Class: 2014 Subaru Forester 2.0XT Premium CVT
- Luxury Class: 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland
- Off-road Class: 2013 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon 10th Anniversary 4x4
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I have set up wifi, I installed HTTP proxy and configured it, but where I put the proxy authentication credentials?
According to this, you need an external app and you need to root the phone.
Some other solutions shared in a Google Code issue thread.
Using Gesture Search, I entered "proxy" and got to the Proxy settings on my Droid. Don't know how to get there otherwise, and don't know if it actually works, but there you go. (Someone else mentioned it in that Google thread.)
My Samsung Galaxy S II has proxy settings enabled under
Settings > Wireless & Network > Wifi settings > Advanced
I can set a proxy address and a port number.
The proxy I'm sitting behind requires authentication tho and I'm having trouble finding these settings.
To modify the proxy settings in Android 4 and Samsung Galaxy you should do this:
Go to Settings / Wifi. Long-click on your network and select Modify network. Scroll down to Show advanced options which should show you the proxy options.
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When it comes to missing livestock in Dodge City, most animals are stray, not stolen. According to Ford County Sheriff Dean Bush, an average of one report of stray livestock comes in each day. This greatly outnumbers reports that wind up indicating acts of theft. "We actually have had very little livestock reported as stolen," Bush said. "We deal more with stray livestock than we deal with stolen." One important precaution farmers can use to prevent lost or stray animals is branding. Identification is helpful to the Sheriff's Office, though ear tags tend to be less reliable than branding. "Just having some kind of identification on the animal is very helpful to us," Bush said. It is also essential for those who live in the country to remain vigilant, checking their livestock frequently. While some count there livestock every few weeks or months, counting animals frequently improves the likelihood of finding a stray. A daily animal count is recommended, so that if one goes missing the Sheriff's Office has the opportunity to act quickly. In 2012, the Sheriff's Office handled 365 cattle calls, most having to do with stray cattle. Bush reports, however, that horses have proven more of a problem than cattle. "It's the horses we struggle with more than the cows," Bush said. Overall, Dodge City residents can take precautions to prevent stray animals through identification methods and remaining vigilant in keeping watch over their livestock.
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You cannot just consider or talk about a path with heart. You must pursue it against all odds. If something rings true for you, then nothing and no one will be able to keep you from it. I am not afraid to live my truth.
Do not subscribe to the notion that your life work is something that must be contrary to your heart. Living a path with heart colors your world with joy. You become one with your path instead of at odds with it. You become light instead of heavy. The joy motivates you and cuts through fear. It invigorates you and adds incalculable happiness and flavor to your life. The Spirit wants us to enjoy prosperity and fulfillment but we fight with it constantly. We choose to live in lack.
Fear can stop you cold from engaging the energy necessary to stand up and take care of your life, and not be a victim of unseen powers. Being a victim is a choice, not a position that is assigned to you by some mysterious force. Defy your fear! One day you will be on your deathbed and you will have to face the fact that the only one who has determined the outcome of your life was you. Do you want to be responsible for a wasted lifetime? Do you want to be face-to-face with the realization that you allowed your fears to keep you from everything fulfilling in your life? Do you want to realize that you have been nothing more than a coward who wasted his energy creating excuses for why he never did the things that could've fortified his heart and therefore been a source of encouragement and inspiration for everyone else that he came in contact with?
You believe and expect that everything should become prefect when you make one paltry attempt at correcting your flaws. That's childish. Don't be so black and white in your expectations and perception. Your self-image is killing you. Look at how you want to give up if you can't do something perfectly the first time! That is your false-self wanting to always look good in front of others. People might ridicule you. You might look stupid. You might become embarrassed and stop trying. Then, to save face, you will blame forces outside of your control But nothing is outside of your control. You just can't be afraid to learn. Screw everybody else! Look like an idiot, and don't give a damn about what they think of you. Learn everything that you possibly can in order to find fulfillment. Take the time to start completely over, if necessary. Push yourself and persist, and eventually you will prevail. Your life and freedom are an investment. Every penney of energy that you put into this investment will eventually add up. Do it for yourself. So what if it takes a lifetime? Do you have something better to do?
You give up when you should hustle! You can't wait for the prefect moment because there will never be one. The path with heart will always be fraught with excuses, the 'should haves' and 'could haves'. Stop using your brain to find your path and simply trust the Unknown-the feeling that resonates within your heart and bowels. Don't question how it will happen! Instead, focus all of your energy on the intention, and then the Spirit will see that your intention is solid and real and will show you the way. Just do it, and you will suddenly find yourself in the midst of it-the means will suddenly materialize.
You're always looking for a safety net or some backup plan in case you fail. Don't you see? You fail before you even get started. That's what trying is. Trying is not doing.
If you believe fully in yourself you won't even think about having a backup plan If you really know in your heart that you are doing the right thing, there will be no doubt. If there is doubt, then either it is the wrong path or you are not ready. Your fear is what makes you doubt yourself, and it is this fear that you must overcome first. This fear makes you look for security. The need of a safety net says that you don't believe that you can make it. That creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. If there's no question in your mind then you will proceed as though you've already made it.
Power only acknowledges power. The Spirit only recognizes action. If you don't invest energy you won't receive energy. When you make a complete energetic commitment to yourself and your path, you have invested energy. But the decision must be final. Making a decision is one of the most difficult things you will ever do. You cannot look back if it is truly a final decision because you will have altered your life forever. If you don't commit one hundred percent then you are not committed, and your energy will not be there to back you up.
Once you have made the decision, then you can take the fist step-and it must be just as strong. The boldness of that step will release hidden reservoirs of strength and create forward momentum. Your dreaming body will be activated. Only a fool would approach power filled with fear. In the world of predators, one who is full of fear will run away until he believes in himself. Otherwise, the more powerful predator will steal his power-his life. When you have vanquished your doubts and fears through smaller challenges and have established a solid connection to your path and allowed your power to rise up within you, then you will enter the arena of power to claim that which is rightfully yours. Then you will dominate, or at least be accepted as an equal.
The means do not justify the end. You can't get to a path with heart by pursuing a contrary path! Your thinking says that you should keep all options open and not close any doors. But you can't do that. You can't live a path with heart by doing something that you hate in order to get there, because the path that you tread is your path. You have to close doors - you have to turn your back on the things that don't bring you fulfillment. Otherwise your intention will not be clear and your energy will not be focused on your goal. You will spend years chasing your own tail. You either are what you're meant to be, or you're a fake. You either focus on the Spirit or you don't. There's no in-between. There is no process to get from where you are to where you want to be. If you want to be something else, then change. If you say that you will gradually become what you want to be then you are fooling yourself. The process of becoming is an illusion. Progress is an illusion.
"Isn't taking a step, or a series of steps, the process of becoming?"
The process of becoming what? The process of becoming a concept, an idea in your little brain? That is the illusion. If you are aware of something, you feel it in your body, not in your mind. You can act on that feeling. It is your awareness that dictates what you are capable of at any given moment. You can't act on something that you don't feel. Do you see? You are aware and you feel it. You hook yourself to that feeling and act. Suddenly, you are a different person. There was no process. Awareness is power; thoughts are not. A path with heart requires no thought.
Why is freedom so frightening?
Because there is nothing and no one restraining you. There is no energetic tension. We are so unbelievably secure when we feel restricted. This entire world that we live in is structured that way. But in some ways it's necessary, otherwise we would blast off into infinity the moment we were born. We need these challenges in order to grow. We learn to recognize what is false, and by doing that we find the Truth. You are energy. You alone have decided what that energy is capable of based on your thoughts and fears. If those thoughts and fears are limiting you, then change them. You have everything that you need already.
Being happy wherever you are has nothing to do with some phony ideal of being centered inside. It's that line of reasoning that leads so many astray. You are not happy inside if you're not following your heart. That is a fact. Living what is in your heart is what makes you happy wherever you are.
Do not be trapped by belief in mistakes. There aren't any. Nothing is a waste. There are no wrong choices. Everything that you have learned from your random adventures in this world will be useful to you here and in your dreaming. Clinging to your mistakes comes from fear of failure, fear of looking stupid around your peers - there's that damn self-image again. If you let other people's opinions about you hold you back then you are dead before you are in the ground. Let the past go free. Then your mistakes become lessons on a never-ending journey to freedom.
This world is the training and proving ground for other worlds that you will encounter in lucid dreaming. An infant is not given a ship and sent off to sail around the world. It has to learn how to walk and talk and fight and feed itself and take a crap over the side without falling into the ocean. You have to learn how to function and survive in this world first. Then you can sail off on other adventures in dreaming. This world is like a safety valve to protect you from your own ignorance and stupidity. If you can't survive in this world, you won't survive in any other. If you can't behave in this world, you wont' be allowed to endanger another. So many people choose to live a miserable life here, and then want to go to sleep and have wonderful adventures in heaven. They are completely missing the frigging point! You have to intend this life to perfection before you can find happiness anywhere else. If you can't accomplish anything in this dream, what makes you think that you can accomplish anything in any other dream? You must pursue your dreams here and now-you must accept your birthright-you must make this world work first. You can make as many mistakes as you want provided you don't get old and die in the meantime. If you keep your eyes open you will learn, and you will gather weapons and knowledge from every adventure that you undertake. Nothing will be wasted.
Always make sure, however, that you take care of your physical body. It is your vehicle in this manifestation. How would you like to go to the moon in a dysfunctional ship? Tune up and perfect this vehicle, this body, first. Experience the earth, go barefoot outside, dig a hole, plant a garden, lie on your back and watch the clouds float by, fly a kite, and stop your internal dialogue-your thoughts. Relax and enjoy your adventure. The time to live is now.
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A live performance by Mountain Man, the harmonizing folk trio of Amelia Meath '10, Molly Sarle '12, and Alex Sauser-Monnig '09, was aired this month on NPR's World Cafe, a nationally broadcast program that showcases indie rock, singer-songwriters, folk, alternative country, blues, and world music.
The band, which has played such high-profile events as SXSW, the Glastonbury Festival, Wilco's Solid Sound Festival, and Moogfest, has been making fans and wowing critics with their recently released debut album Made the Harbor.
"It's rare to find music that focuses on the delicate arrangements of voice alone anymore, but the trio from Bennington, VT., has made a cappella cool again," World Cafe host David Dye wrote. "After the three girls met at Bennington College, they quickly realized how powerful their music was shaping up to be."
World Cafe is the third NPR program to feature Mountain Man in the last year; in July, they were the subject of an interview on Weekend Edition (listen here), and their song "Sewee Sewee" later aired on All Songs Considered. (listen here).


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Dental X-rays Linked to Brain Tumors
April 10, 2012 -- Getting frequent dental X-rays appears to increase the risk for a commonly diagnosed brain tumor, a new study finds.
Exposure to ionizing radiation -- the kind found in X-rays -- is the biggest known environmental risk factor for largely non-malignant meningioma brain tumors. Routine dental X-rays are among the most common sources of radiation for most healthy people in the U.S.
The new study suggests that performing frequent X-rays may expose patients to unnecessary risk.
"These findings should not prevent anyone from going to the dentist," says lead researcher and neurosurgeon Elizabeth B. Claus, MD, PhD, of Yale University School of Medicine and Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. "But it appears that a large percentage of patients receive annual X-rays instead of every two to three years, which is the recommendation for healthy adults."
Dental X-ray, Benign Brain Tumors
While the vast majority of meningiomas are non-malignant, they often grow to be very large and can cause a wide range of potentially serious symptoms, including vision and hearing loss, frequent headaches, memory loss, and even seizures.
They are the most frequently diagnosed brain tumors among adults in the United States, accounting for about a third of all primary brain and central nervous system tumors.
Several small studies have suggested a link between cumulative dental X-ray exposures and meningiomas, but the findings were inconclusive.
In the newly published study -- the largest ever to examine the question -- people who reported having "bitewing" X-rays at least yearly were found to have a 40% to 90% greater risk of meningioma.
The study shows an association but does not prove a cause-effect relationship.
The study included about 1,400 meningioma patients between the ages of 20 and 79 when they were diagnosed between the spring of 2006 and the spring of 2011.
When the patients' self-reported dental histories were compared to adults with similar characteristics who did not have the brain tumors, lifetime exposure to either bitewing or panoramic dental X-rays -- which include the upper and lower jaw -- was significantly associated with meningioma risk. This risk was higher in people who received panoramic X-rays when they were younger than 10.
The meningioma patients were more than twice as likely as the adults without brain tumors to have had dental X-rays at some point during their lives, Claus tells WebMD.
The study appears in the April 10 issue of the American Cancer Association journal Cancer.


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When working out, what do you like to drink? There are so many different types of beverages available on the market these days and all of them seem to be telling us that they can enhance performance.
Energy drinks have become the big buzz, but are they really good for you? Energy drinks are usually carbonated and contain caffeine and sugar, plus other ingredients like vitamin B, taurine (an amino acid) and some herbal stimulants like guarana.
We all know that caffeine definitely gives you a boost, but a single can of energy drink can contain the same amount of caffeine as six cups of coffee - a little excessive don't you think? A significant difference is that coffee is sipped, while it's common for people to down an energy drink in one go. For those who are caffeine sensitive, this could cause anxiety, irritability, difficulty sleeping and even indigestion. The caffeine in energy drinks also works as a diuretic, encouraging water loss, which in turn could promote dehydration.
Energy drinks should not be confused with sports drinks. Sports drinks are designed to help you stay hydrated during exercise and are enhanced with electrolytes that are lost through perspiration. Electrolytes are responsible for the normal function of the heart, muscles and nerves, while maintaining fluid balance within the body. a deficit can severely decrease performance.
Look for sports drinks that have a good carbohydrate delivery system and don't rely on artificial sweeteners and colours to attract you to them. Also check the labels for hydrogenated soybean or coconut oil. Hydrogenated or trans fats provide a long shelf life, but are seriously bad for our health, so stay away from them.


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I have this problem on all machines that I every installed (different configurations, different geographical locations, even different OpenSuSe versions) and it's extremely irritating.
When I turn on network manager, all machines simply hang during boot. It seems that they hang on mounting network file systems. This happens even if the machines are connected to wired network (I would understand if it would happen only on WiFi).
Now, this problem disappears if I turn of auto mounting of NFS partitions (each machine mount at least one), by setting the noauto in /etc/fstab.
A solution would be keeping the noauto and leaving the automount to some daemon, that is started later, or fixing the problem with network manager. Any ideas?


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Google, Publishers Reach Deal On Book Scanning
Google and a group of book publishers have settled a seven-year-old dispute that would allow the search giant to continue in its quest to digitize all the world's books.
This is only a step in that direction because Google still has an outstanding lawsuit with authors.
"The deal allows publishers to choose whether to allow Google to digitize their out-of-print books that are still under copyright protection. If Google does so, Google will also provide them with a digital copy for their own use.
"For books that it has digitized, Google allows people to read 20 percent of them online and purchase the entire books from the Google Play store. The two parties did not disclose the financial terms of the agreement.
"But the bigger case, between Google and the Authors Guild, remains tied up in court. An agreement between those two parties would determine whether Google could move forward with its broader, more ambitious digitizing plan."
Ars Technica reports that the group of publishers, which includes McGraw-Hill, Penguin and Simon & Schuster, said the settlement "shows that digital services can provide innovative means to discover content while still respecting the rights of copyright-holders."
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I am using Google many years, but I still don't know what does "I'm feeling lucky" button,
and why it's placed there. Explain me .
I am using Google many years, but I still don't know what does "I'm feeling lucky" button,
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Earlier (when the changing button and Google Instant was not there), this button directly opened up the first search result from Google.
Later, if there is no search query in the Search Bar, this button opens up the Doodles page.
Now, Google has added another Easter egg. When you hover over the "I'am Feeling Lucky" button, it changes to some other. Upon clicking it, it takes you to another page with some relation to the text. Like "I'am feeling Doodley" takes you to Doodles page.
It opens the first search result page.
Usually, Google search gives n number of results which you can click and open the URL of your wish.
I'm feeling lucky with Google Instant Disabled
Google's homepage includes a button labeled "I'm Feeling Lucky". When a user types in a search and clicks on the button the user will be taken directly to the first search result, bypassing the search engine results page. The thought is that if a user is "feeling lucky", the search engine will return the perfect match the first time without having to page through the search results.
I'm feeling lucky with Google Instant Enabled
When the user types the text and mouse over on it, it shows "I'm Feeling Lucky". By clicking on it, user will be landed directly on first search result.
Now if you simply hover over the "I'm Feeling Lucky" it shows a variety of other labels like "I'm Feeling Trendy" ,"I'm Feeling Playfull"..etc and simply clicking on it takes you to a random page related to the label you clicked, which is powered by Google
It supposed to do something related to your search, like if you put in gravity and hit I'm Feeling Lucky, everything falls to the bottom of the screen. It's not working for me.


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This 1890s photograph came from a glass plate found in a local flea market. It was made while the Battaglia family was living in Eureka, leasing the hotel to Louis Franchetti.
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Copyright The Press Democrat December 14, 1986
Lena's history is Santa Rosa's 'Westside Story'
"Mama Lena," circa 1950
It was just one of a half dozen Italian hotel-boarding houses in the area we now call Railroad Square. Then it was the Westside, or Tar Flat because so many of the houses had inexpensive tar-paper roofs. Some of the snootier folks uptown, forgetting their fathers were German or Irish Immigrants, called it "Italian town" with just the hint of a sneer at the accents and foreign customs of the newly American residents. But when they wanted good wholesome food, a little "sturdy" red wine that didn't travel much past the railroad tracks, or a touch of Toscano ebullience, Santa Rosans looked to the west. IT WASN'T called Lena's at first. It was the Battaglia Hotel, one of four such establishments in the same block of Adams Street, just across the tracks. The Torino Hotel, run by the Casassa family, was on the corner, the Hotel D'Italia Unita, owned by the Bettinis before they built the fancier La Rose Hotel, across the street. At the other end of the block was the Toscano Hotel, owned by the Guidottis. The Battiglia was in between, a wood frame building put up in the 1890's by Olinto Battiglia who had come from Tuscany in 1886, purchasing a West Sixth Street home for his family from the Hewitt estate. Battiglia, a handsome man with sweeping baffi (mustaches), was interested in all the possibilities to do well in America. With his boarding house established for railroad workers, immigrants in transit and blockmakers who worked the quarries east of town, he leased it to another immigrant, Louis Franchetti, and went north to Eureka to get into the fish business and open a restaurant called Fior d'Italia. Soon after the turn of the century, he came back to Santa Rosa, and the Battiglia prospered as more and more immigrants arrived. His grandson, Dan Bonfigli, remembers his grandfather and the busy days of the early 20's when his mother Lena and his father, Alviso Bonfigli, first took over the hotel. "Immigrant families would get off the train. There'd be six or eight kids upstairs in one room, sleeping on the floor, until they could find a place of their own. There was a family room in back, where the immigrants ate." THE BLOCK became the social center for the neighborhood. There was a bocce alley between the Battiglia and the Torino and a double bocce alley across the street, alongside the tracks. The men gathered there to play the old-country game that is something like bowling but not really. If they weren't playing bocce, they were at the billiard table in the old Battiglia barroom. "I remember that table," says Dan Bonfigli. "By the time I was tall enough to look over the edge, I was a real pool shark." "We lived in an Italian ghetto," says Dan. He makes it sound like a wonderful memory. "We weren't exposed to the rest of Santa Rosa at all. Do you remember when you first went uptown?" he asked his foster brother, Pete Marcucci. Pete agreed that they were probably 8 or 10 years old before they saw the plaza or the courthouse. It was like travelling to another city. Their world was between St. Rose Church and the old Lincoln School on Davis Street and Santa Rosa Creek, where they swam in the summer months. "Oh boy, the stuff we swam in," remembers Kewpie Bonfigli. "Below the cannery, we'd dive in and come up with garbage on our heads and brush it off and keep swimming. 'You go down that creek and get drowned,' Ma used to say, 'when you get home I'll give it to you good!'" Kewpie, the youngest of Lena's three sons, has been the keeper of the flame this past decade. He has run the family bar and restaurant since his brother Dutch died in the '60s and his mother, Lena, in 1973. He's already talking about a spring reopening for the landmark structure, severely damaged by a Thanksgiving eve fire. "We're going to make only the changes that are needed," he said. A time estimate? "That'll be up to Dick Colombini," he said, naming the Santa Rosa contractor who is an expert on Italian restaurants, having redone several. (One restaurateur repaid Colombini for his skills with a menu specialty called Fettucine Colombini, but that's another story.)
Santa Rosa's Westside residents loved a party. This is the wedding supper for Lena Battiglia and Alviso Bonfigli at the West Sixth Street home of the Battiglia family, circa 1911.
TALKING ABOUT Prohibition days on the Westside makes Kewpie a little nervous. "Hey," he says, "you trying to get me arrested?" But his brothers Pete and Dan know history when they live it, and ther's little boubt that history was made on Santa Rosa's Westside in the days when the sale of wine and liquor was illegal—and booming. "We always kept a spare room," recalls Pete. "When they'd knock over a place, they'd seal the room for 90 days, so we always had another to keep going." Like everywhere else in the U. S. during that Great Experiment, the Westside spots seemed to take turns being closed by the federal agents. But the sale of liquor never stopped. The main supplier of bootleg liquor for his family business, as Dan recalls, was the Garayalde still on the Laguna. It had a reputation for quality. "It was the only one Mama Lena would buy from," says Pete. Dan worked at the still one summer. "They 'fast-aged' the booze by pouring fresh cow manure on the barrels," he remembers. "It would steam. It was good stuff." Wine, of course, was an Italian cottage industry. "You know why?" asks Dan, answering his own question. "It was because anyone of Mediterranean derivation was allowed to make 150 gallons per family member." "That's why we had such big families," laughs Pete. Their grandfather Battiglia had a winery at the house on West Sixth where he made his own family quota and then leased the equipment to neighbors, who did likewise. Many of the Westside homes had smaller facilities. Beer? It was readily available also. Dan remembers making "beer runs" with his father to Sonoma, hauling back a load of steam beer "from some ranch over there where they were brewing." AFTER PROHIBITION, the Battiglia became, officially, Lena's. Alviso Bonfigli had died in 1929, at age 38, of a perforated ulcer, and Lena, a widow with three sons, bought the Torino property, expanded into the bocce alley, put stucco on the wood frame building, added a dance floor, hired a trio, and opened for the "carriage trade" in April of 1935. Through World War II and after, Lena's was the town's main night spot. "When the Navy was in town," recalls Kewpie, "there would be sailors sleeping five deep in rooms upstairs." The Navy dive-bombers who trained on the Sebastopol Road base wrote "Lena's Special" on their target bombs. Her "boys" wrote Mama Lena letters from overseas. After the war, the business continued. A reputation for a good meal at a good price kept the customers coming. In 1946, Lena, who had married bar owner Jack Blake in 1938, expanded again, adding a banquet room and the familiar corner entrance. Gretchen or Muriel on the piano and the trio—Johnny Tisserand, accordion, Red Plummer, Sax, and Helen Collins, the steady-she-goes drummer the clientele called "Old Automatic" ("$21 a week," says Kewpie. "Six nights a week.")—played for literally thousands of dancers. KSRO broadcast from Lena's every Saturday night during the war and just after. County politicians formed an informal Friday luncheon club. Supervisors Jim Lyttle and Nin Guidotti, county officials Andy Johansen, Ernie Comalli and Bob Connor, the late Bodega Bay wheeler-dealer Ray Shaw, Santa Rosans Walt Goode and Bud Leete met at the west end of the long bar for drinks and lunch and a chance to swap "war stories." The waitresses stayed for years—PeeWee, Della, Mary Bianchi, and more. They knew the customers by name, knew whether they wanted ravioli or spaghetti, chicken or duck. "We had no help problems," said Kewpie. "Just do it the way Mama Lena did it and you keep the job as long as you want it." "I can remember," said Dan, "that wherever my mother was in the restaurant, we'd find her when people were leaving. We'd say so-and-so's going home, and she'd drop what she was doing and head for the front door. Nobody left until Lena said goodnight. With attention like that, how could you miss?"
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Kids learn origami at Mills River Library
Published: Saturday, September 21, 2013 at 3:20 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, September 21, 2013 at 3:20 p.m.
Colored paper covered the table in the middle of a room at the Mills River Library. Despite the presence of seven kids, the room was silent. The only sound was that of little fingers folding colorful paper.
Yoko Hendricks moved around the room and with a soft voice, instructed the kids on the correct ways to fold the colorful paper they were holding.
The kids were making a crane. More specifically, they were making origami cranes.
Hendricks, a native of Japan, was teaching kids at the library Japanese origami. It was her first time teaching the traditional art in public. She'd done some lessons for family members at gatherings, but never in public forums.
Hendricks moved to Hendersonville five years ago with her husband, Doug. The two met while he was stationed in Japan with the United States Marine Corps.
On Saturday, she was teaching kids fold-by-fold techniques to make tiny cranes, baskets, hats, gift boxes and cards.
"I try to teach more traditional things," she said.
The kids listened intensely as she told them where and how to fold. The class was scheduled for an hour, but lasted almost two. The kids kept asking her to show them how to make different things, and Hendricks obliged.
What did the kids love about it?
"Everything," Amy Justice said.
"It was very fun," Sara Sherman said.
For her first time teaching, Hendricks was thrilled with how it turned out. She was able to share a traditional Japanese art with kids who were eager to learn.
"I was surprised," she said. " I'm glad they liked to learn. (It was) amazing."
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A Tonganoxie man who served time in prison for second-degree murder has pleaded no contest to failing to properly register as an offender, according to a prosecution official.
Scott Meinert, 48, pleaded Wednesday to failing to register as required by the Kansas Offender Registration Act.
He was convicted in January 2000 in Leavenworth County of second-degree murder and aggravated assault of a law enforcement officer. The crimes occurred Aug. 7, 1998.
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I have a sql server db and have a question regarding foreign key indices.
Here's a snippet from the db:
In programme_affiliates, I have a computed field, this is always set to '2' in this instance.
The reason for it is that it maintains integrity between programmes and programmes_affiliates.
I also have a link to programme_types to ensure that '2' is always valid as a programme type.
I believe that you should always provide an index for a foreign key, but as it is a calculated fixed field, is this necessary in this case?


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Patients with bleeding inside of the brain must be monitored very closely. Early treatment includes stabilizing blood pressure and breathing. A breathing assist machine (ventilator) can be required to ensure that enough oxygen is supplied to the brain and other organs. Intravenous access is needed so that fluids and medications can be given to the patient, especially if the person is unconscious. Sometimes specialized monitoring of heart rhythms, blood oxygen levels, or pressure inside of the skull is needed.
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I often use rice when blind baking... and then I throw it out which is obviously a waste. Am I able to keep the rice and either use it again for blind baking or even to cook and eat later?
I have cooked rice that was used for weighting a pie crust with fine results. I should have cooked some that wasn't baked to see what the difference was, but in any case it turned out fine. Of course it may matter what temp the rice was baked at and for how long, and this could also affect the duration needed to cook the rice itself.
I have also boiled beans that were previously baked, and they turned out fine, too.
Whether using rice or beans (I've used both) you first want to line the pastry dough with parchment paper or foil and then place the beans or rice on top.
You can re-use either over and over. I have dried beans that I've been using for more than a decade. Just let them cool completely before placing into a coffee can or other such storage container. If you put them in the can while warm they will produce condensation and then get musty and stinky. Make sure they're labeled so that no one tries cooking them. I know Kevin said he's cooked beans that had been previously baked but the more you bake them the drier and harder they're going to become.
I prefer beans over rice due to the small size of rice. If it should fall onto the dough on the bottom of the crust while removing the paper/foil, it is hard to removed and can easily get pushed into the dough in the process (depending on how much it had been blind baked...usually you remove the weights and continue to cook the bottom for browning/crisping.
You can use it for blind baking again, but I don't know how well it would work out for eating -- you can always try it once, and let us know how it goes.
(I use beans for pie weights, myself, and save them for re-use)
I actually sprung for a few sets of ceramic pie weights, because I got tired of beans occasionally sticking to the crust, and then having to worry about storing slightly-used beans separately from their unused kin.
I'd say there would be no problem re-using it in the short term. I'd watch out in the long term though: rice is really hygroscopic, and once it gets a little water in it, it won't be good for long.
I've never used rice for blind baking, I always use dried beans, which can be used multiple times.
Even if you choose not to re-use your rice or beans for blind baking or cooking to eat, both make great bases in vases for artificial flower arrangements or in hurricanes and candle holders as a base for your favorite pillars and votives.


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Fifteen-year-old Bridget Liu just wants to be left alone: by her overprotective mom, by Matt Quinn, the cute son of a local police sergeant, and by the eerie voices she can suddenly and inexplicably hear. Unfortunately for Bridget, the voices are demons and Bridget possesses the rare ability to banish them back to whatever hell they came from. Literally.
Terrified to tell her friends or family about this new power, Bridget confides in San Francisco's senior exorcist, Monsignor Renault, who enlists her help in increasingly dangerous cases of demonic possession. But just as she is starting to come to terms with her freakish new role, Bridget receives a startling message from one of the demons. And when one of her oldest friends is killed, Bridget realizes she's in deeper than she ever thought possible. Now she must unlock the secret to the demons' plan before someone else close to her winds up dead or worse, the human vessel for a demon king.
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Should I avoid siege and attack first if I have the opportunity? Should I wait to be sieged and then attack? Should I keep a small unit outside and use it as an reinforcement? Should I use the outsider unit to break the siege somehow?
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Hunter education changes coming
Published: Saturday, July 27, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
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TUSCALOOSA | With the state's early Canada goose season kicking off hunting season Sept. 1 and the northern zone dove season following a week later, hunting season will be in full swing in a little more than a month. Those who haven't taken a hunter education course still have time.
Everyone who was born after Aug. 1, 1977 must take an approved hunter education course in order to buy an Alabama hunting license. Kids who have turned 16 since the end of hunting season must buy a hunting license in the coming year for the first time. Any who haven't taken the course and want a license have just over a month to take the course.
A two-day hunter education course will be taught in Tuscaloosa County at the Alabama Forestry Commission Office on U.S. Highway 82 on Aug. 26 and 27. Online registration for the class begins today.
The course will be taught in the traditional manner with an instructor and some hands-on instruction.
That's one of two ways to complete hunter education requirements. For the last few years, an online course was also available.
Students taking the online course must take a test at the end of the course and present the results of the test to Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries officials at a hunter education field day. Then they must complete a hands-on test at the 4-hour field day.
For those who don't complete a hunter education course, Alabama offers a "mentoring license." It allows someone to hunt as long as they are under the supervision of and within 30 feet of a licensed hunter who is at least 21 years old.
That process is about to change, said Marisa Futral, Alabama's Hunter Education Coordinator.
"There are big changes coming in hunter ed this year," Futral said. "We're going to an all-online option. We're basically doing away with field days. Students will now do it all online or they will do it all in person in a traditional course.
"We're not the first state to go with an online only option. There are four or five states that have been doing it with no negative results."
Alabama helped pioneer online hunter education courses in the Southeast along with several other states because the number of traditional classes offered wasn't meeting the demand, Futral said. The courses were matched up with a hunter education field day to ensure that students got some hands-on experience with the reading.
The problem was that people frequently had trouble getting into a field day on short notice, Futral said. There was little way for someone to meet the requirements unless they planned well in advance. That wasn't always possible.
"We're trying to make it so that it can be done all in one day," Futral said. "We're trying to make it a little more convenient."
While hands-on experience is always best, Futral said, technology has come a long way. Software vendors have come up with interactive options that make an online course more instructive.
"Two or three other vendors have come along and made major improvements in graphics and interactive videos," Futral said. "It shows the rifling in a gun. It shows you how to put up a tree stand or how to put on a harness. There are interactive graphics that allow you to simulate loading a gun online.
"Because they've made such great strides and the courses are so much better, this offers them a way to get the course that's more convenient."
Beginning Sept. 1, people will have a choice of three courses. One difference is that the course was formerly free but now people taking a course must pay a fee. The money goes directly to the vendor and the cost varies between $10 and $25. The higher priced courses have more interactive features.
Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries will continue to offer traditional courses because officials believe that hands-on instruction is the best option.
"We try to do hands-on in our traditional class," Futral said. "People that want a hands-on class are encouraged to come to a traditional class where instructors are encouraged to do at least half of the course hands-on."
Alabama began requiring hunter education in 1994 in an attempt to reduce hunting accidents. The state began keeping records on hunting accidents beginning in 1973.
"We had a record of something like 46 hunting accidents in 1973," Futral said. "In the early years, numbers in the 30s, 40s and even 50s were pretty common. We've cut that number in half."
It might not be possible to make hunting accident-free, but Futral said she believes education has made the sport safer.
"You want them be able to find a class," Futral said. "You want to give them the tools to help them to hunt safely. You can't force them to be safe, but you want to give them the tools."
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"I'm at the fair for my country ham project."
This is the second time 14-year-old Jordan Gray, of Metcalfe County, has competed in the 4-H country ham competition. He says he's not a bit nervous.
"I went to Scottsville to cure my own country ham. It took about a couple of months to do. We went and picked out our ham. It was fun. Real fun!"
Jordan is competing against some of his fellow classmates from Metcalfe County. He's also up against sisters Carla and Kayla Ritter and Adam Fife, of Barren County.
"We have to give a three to five minute speech to tell them what our ham is like. I'm excited!"
Jordan says it isn't hard to do.
"You put a bunch of salt on it. You put it in a smoke room for a couple of days, and it's ready."
His hard work paid off. The judges in the 4-H Country Ham competition awarded Jordan with a blue ribbon.


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Mexico City (CNN) -- Eight bodies and the remains of others were found in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua over the weekend, sources and state news said.
The eight bodies showed signs of torture, according to sources from the state prosecutor's office. The victims were likely killed where they were found -- along a road in the municipality of Satevo. Their identities were not known.
Also in Chihuahua, authorities discovered the remains of an indeterminate number of victims in secret graves in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's state-run Notimex news agency said. The remains reportedly date from 2010.
Chihuahua, which borders the United States, has been hard-hit by drug-related violence.
May: Dismembered bodies found More than 47,500 people have died across Mexico in such violence since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon took office and announced plans to deploy federal troops to help the government's fight against organized crime.
According to Mexico's National Human Rights Commission, more than 5,300 people have disappeared throughout the country in that same time period, and the bodies of 9,000 dead have not been identified.
Calderon is set to wrap up his term as president this week. He will be replaced by Enrique Pena Nieto, who was elected in July and will be sworn in Saturday.
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The words "schmeichelhaft" and "schmeichlerisch" seem to have the same meaning. Is there any difference in connotation between these words, e.g., contexts when you would use one and not the other?
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I wouldn't consider them the same. A compliment is "schmeichelhaft" while "schmeichlerisch" is rather used adverbially, a little like "smooth-tongued" maybe. I don't think you can exchange the two words in the following sentences:
As for connotation, I would say that I feel there is a slightly negative one when "schmeichlerisch" is used, while "schmeichelhaft" is positive.
I'd like to add another aspect to Anke's answer:
It seems to me that there is a similar difference if you consider two instances of "flattering" (adj. vs. verb) in English:
EDIT: User unknown has alerted me to the fact that there apparently are people who do NOT associate positive/negative nuances with these two words - nevertheless, please be aware that most of us do and will automatically infer a certain degree of censure if you describe someone's behaviour as "schmeichlerisch".
schmeichelhaft attributes what it's being said, while schmeichlerisch attributes how something is being said/how a person is saying it.
So one attributes the message itself, while the other really attributes the messenger.
For example a compliment can be schmeichelhaft, while the person making the compliment would be schmeichlerisch in making the schmeichelhaft compliment.


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First attempt at a complete 360 (less the nadir, because I haven't sorted that out yet, still using John's excellent tutorials for guidance) http://www.photosbykev.com/wordpress...ysilio-church/
This church is a tiny little place about 30' x 15' and has no lighting in the building at all so the exposures for each frame were 1, 4 and 15 seconds to cover the dynamic range in the shadows and the stained glass windows. Taken with a 40D and 10-22mm lens (@10mm) on a NN3 shot in portrait mode. One row of 10 at 0 and then +45 and -45 plus zenith and nadir. There are a few funnies happening at the zenith and the NN3 is distorted so I need to correct those.


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My understanding is that Google is not using MapReduce for Google Instant, but I can't find anywhere that states what they're using as the datastore for Google Instant. What is the datastore used by Google for Google Instant?
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This is probably the closest you will get to an answer. Without talking to someone who actually worked on the project. Or more information is released to the public.
The link above contains this answer. It would have been hard to get point across without images. I would appreciate if you give the original poster up votes as well if you found this answer useful.
UPDATE: Google have just published a blog article called Google Instant, behind the scenes. It's an interesting read, and obviously related to this question. You can read how they tackled the extra load (5-7X according to the article) on the server-side, for example. The answer below examines what happens on the client-side:
Examining with Firebug, Google is doing an Ajax GET request on every keypress:
I guess it's working the same way as the auto completion. However this time, it also returns the search results of the partially complete search phrase in JSON format.
Examining one of the JSON responses while typing "Stack Overflow":
We can see that the JSON response contains the content to construct the search results as we type.
The formatted JSON responses look something like this:
MapReduce is an execution environment, BigTable and GoogleFS is used for storage. My understanding is that the changes required for Instant were more evolutionary than revolutionry. That is, the same basic processing is happening, but some tweaks were made to handle the increased volume.
If you think about it, there might be 5-7x more queries, but each time you type more characters in the search box you're really just refining your search, rather than doing a whole new one. So I imagine there may be some things you could do based on that knowledge so that you don't have to start the whole query from scratch each time.
Of course, I don't know for sure, and I doubt Google is going to release more information than what's already public...
Nothing very mysterious about it. The earlier version of google indexing, had to wait for the whole web to be crawled before it could process stuff. This is because the nature of MapReduce (the computation framework) is batch-oriented (It can only do stuff in large batches efficiently). The new version is based on BigTable somehow, though what specific variations they did to BigTable to make this possible are not known.
Map-reduce is never used for actual search, it's can be used however for generating an index. Including index such as for Google Instant. For predictive text such index could be an trie (prefix tree).