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Actually what is a bug ? any predefined rules?
A bug is:
Here is another good definition of what constitutes a bug. Either:
Ubuntu community has a excellent definition for bug in this wiki, especially highlighting the difference between bug and missing features:
While it is hard to draw a line separating the two definitions and answer the question is it bugs or missing features?, it is possible to give some guidelines:
The difference between the two assertions is: the first is more widespread (support modern windows FS) and thus can be view as Missing Feature, while the other emphasizes a unique problem (can't write into ReiserFS) - a specific bug.
If you are interested, I recommends you to take a look at the BugSquad team wiki. Fighting bugs is one of the most interesting activities involved in software development cycle, besides being a great learning opportunity :-)
I'll take a swing. Primarily, behaviour not intended by the designer / programmer (discounting bad design). In terms of what bugs you should report to people, anything which makes the program hrder to use and fits the above description. This includes, from worst to least severe, system crashes, X crashes, program crashes and any internal program bugs.
Bugs which cause crashes or window closures will usually cause some kind of output to stderror if you've run the application from a terminal, this can be useful. Also see system logs for error reports.
A bug is an error in a computer program or system, so the program doesn't work properly or doens't work at all. So bugs can be a result of wrong programming code, or programming code that isn't robust enough and can't handle certain exceptions (for example: division by 0)
For all practical purposes the term "bug" should be avoided as a too fuzzy term.
The best answer to your question fills a whole book: "Why Programs Fail" by Andreas Zeller. A book that should be on every programmers' bookshelf. The author also makes a good effort in not calling them "bugs" (read on). Because as crncosta's answer already suggests a "bug" isn't just a programming error. This is why some people prefer the term "issue" instead (which leads to "issue tracker" instead of "bug tracker").
Because what's perceived as a bug by an end-user needn't be a bug at all. It can be - even though this is often used as a lame excuse - simply by design. Some failures however, once observed, are classified "bugs", even though they are due to lack of a feature.
The author of aforementioned book spends several pages on the definition of terms such as failure and defect and describing why "bug" is not an appropriate term (too fuzzy).
Summary of his terminology:
As you can see the author distinguishes between cause and effect, which in the case of "bug" is almost always mixed. Most of the time the term "bug" is being applied to the defect, the infection and the failure.


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Have your daughter answer these questions before, during, and after she joins you on "Take Our Daughters to Work Day." She should record what she hopes to gain from the experience.
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How to call a
void *function(...) from Fortran?
I am currently trying to call a few C functions from Fortran. I have done so before, but I have called only my own functions. For example, to call:
void add(int *csum, int *ca, int *cb) { *csum = *ca + *cb; }
from Fortran, I have used:
INTEGER :: fsum, fa, fb
CALL add(fsum, fa, fb)
This works fine. Now I have a couple of functions roughly like:
void *create_obj(void);
void use_obj(void *obj);
void free_obj(void *obj);
or even:
struct private_struct; /* defined somewhere else */
struct private_struct *create_p(void);
void use_p(struct private_struct *p);
void free_f(struct private_struct *p);
where the struct is private, i.e., I have no knowledge of its members.
Question: How can I get the return values into Fortran? I do not really need to access them, but I must store them somehow during their
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How many competing Android markets (other than the Play Store itself) are there and are they any good? Which ones do you use and why?
I use AppBrain because it provides a nice site, and it makes it really easy to install apps onto my phone. Additionally, I'm finding that many bloggers that are reviewing apps are putting links to the AppBrain page for the app in their posts. This makes it really easy to mark something for install while I'm at my computer reading the blog posts, and then install it when I get a chance.
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AppBrain offers an alternative (and much cleaner) interface to the Google Play Store, which offers several advantages:
For installation, you will be redirected to Google Play. In the past, AppBrain had a separate app for this called the "Fast Web Installer", but unfortunately this app was banned by Google. So even for batch updates, the Playstore app will now be opened for each app separately (not AppBrains fault).
Still, I count their Website as a much better alternative to the Google Play website – and the same is to be said for their app, though for installations it has to redirect you as described above.
There are actually several alternatives to the 'official' Google Android market (aka Play Store).
I personally like to search for new apps from my PC browser, and a bit less from my phone. Most (all?) of the markets nowadays offer both, via a dedicated phone-app that you'll have to install, except from the official one which is already there.
Until, well, yesterday, the 'official' market would not have been available from your PC (meaning: on a PC web browser). Now it is, with a neat push-to-your-phone one click installation that is taking away one of the advantages of the competition (see AppBrain). The alternative markets, though, have still their peculiarities. I'll make a short summary but don't expect it to highlight all of the differences. Some markets (e.g. AndSpot) do not offer very specific features to users, but try to gather developers by offering advanced features such as easy stats.
I'll add that there's a market for Adult Apps too now; and a lot of review/forum sites will link to one or more of these markets, e.g., AndroidTapp or AndroidPit AndroLib.
I suggest you click on some of these links and see for yourself if the look/applications suit your style!
Thanks to various sources, in particular this thenextweb.com article, and a lot of other stackexchange editing!
For neverending memory, the following are no longer available:
I've been using F-Droid, which is a smallish repository focused on free and open source tools. Not all encompassing by any means but one of the few that is explicit about showing you the license before you download an app.
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F-Droid is a small, but superb alternative to Google Play. Though it offers only about 1.200 apps1 in its main repository, they are mostly high quality. In comparision, these are some advantages it has over the Playstore:
F-Droid also offers its own Android client, the F-Droid Application Manager:
More details on F-Droid can also be found at Wikipedia. Interesting fact: F-Droid is a fork of Aptoide3.
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The Amazon Appstore (download link).
SlideME, this is very handy when you want to buy stuff in countries without paid Market. (actually you mention it in your question. I posted this answer just for the sake of completeness)
Don't forget about GetJAR. :-) This market got its first big break when Rovio announced Angry Birds would be exclusive to them when it first launched.
AppsZoom is browsable from your desktop, and gives you downloads, ratings, and reviews. Download via QR barcode, links emailed to you mobile, or instructions to find in the Android Market. Has daily/weekly leaderboards of highest downloaded/rated apps.
Aptoide serves a bunch of repositories in APT style (which some of you might know from Debian and its derivates). They also have their own Android client used to access (search and install apps from) them. For checking available apps, any web browser can be used as well – simply point it to m.aptoide.com. According to Wikipedia, they serve more than 120,000 different apps in over 350,000 stores (as of 7/2013).
Often associated with black markets and other "unsafe sources", that's not what it is by default (like peer-to-peer exchanges are not, and like Youtube isn't – though you easily can find "pirated content" there). Paulo Trezentos, co-founder of Aptoide, kindly pointed out several details behind Aptoide in his answer on How safe is it to use Aptoide? And even more in a mail he sent to me. Some core-points:
There are some more advantages worth mentioning:
Try that with Google Play :)
1 Example of untrusted app detection:
A couple of things to see here:
The Samsung app store is installed on every Samsung mobile device (which is lot). They are ultra helpful unlike every other app store I have submitted to.
It can take over a week to get a new app past their quality control but it's worth the wait. They are so good at reviewing apps that I now submit to Samsung before Google Play.
It can be a little confusing at first to understand what they call their seller office is all about but hey, we are developers so are used to learning curves.
Among other things they review content to ensure that there are no copyright issues (something that can get you banned from Google Play) and they review every option VERY thoroughly on ALL the devices you have selected.
If anything goes wrong and Quality control fails you get a complete breakdown of exactly what went wrong (including log cat) and even a video replicating the issue and they provide details on what is expected from you to fix it and re submit.
What really impresses me is that they are so constructive with their criticisms.
Once an app has been approved by Samsung I am more than happy that I have a very solid app that functions the way I want it to.
I just get a comfortable feeling when Samsung approves one of my apps. They don't tell you off or slap you on the wrists or, in any other way treat you like a naughty school kid if you get something wrong. They just help you to understand what to put right. Google Play will just pull your app and suspend you with no help whatsoever to put things right.
I recently discovered 1mobile.com, which appears to focus on free apps only. Their unique feature are app recommendations organized by topic as "app lists". Also, while they do offer an app for accessing their market, they also have direct APK download links on their website. I find them most useful when Google Play comes to the (wrong) conclusion that for unspecified reasons my device is not deemed compatible with some app.
Caveat: I have no idea where they get their content from; I haven't found much in terms of developer support or an upload interface. They seem to carry pretty much every free app that's available on Google Play. Are they simply scraping Google's website? Are they legit?
Soc.io Mall describes itself as more than just an App Store. It is a mall where you can have apps, games and e-books. Soon it will be enriched with audio books and music!
Antiroid is an excellent website that will provide you with the corresponding free alternative to the paid app (that you may well could have purchased had you been unaware of this website).
The Opera (as in web browser) mobile store has many Android Applications that are arranged by category.
Providing another alternative for Android Users.
Just came across Yandex.Store
Missing in previous answers is AndroidPIT which is running a separate market. Sure, almost all apps found there are also in the Playstore (but not necessarily vice-versa: so for missing apps there are links to the playstore provided). Developers need to actively maintain their apps on this platform (i.e. upload new versions), and for paid apps AndroidPIT provides its own license API.
So what is the plus of this platform? It has an active community (in the forums and the news blogs), and one can use alternative payment methods (e.g. Paypal) in addition to credit cards. Moreover, reviews for apps can be found there as well. So with the playstore comments, local comments, and the reviews, one can get a better idea of what an app is like -- before downloading it. Furthermore, the German branch even has an App Reviews section in their forum, including overviews for apps on a kind of "per-category" base -- which makes it easier to find a suiting app, as similar apps are grouped together.
So if you like that idea, but do not want another "source of apps" (it's a good idea to stick to one market platform, especially for paid apps -- so you don't lose track which app you installed from what source, and get into trouble on a re-install for a new (or factory-reset) device), you can still go there for information.
UPDATE: AndroidPIT will close its independent app market on 2014-12-31.
Now Google is focusing on the educational side, offering a special version of its app store called Google Play for Education. (Initially applicable to USA only I believe).
It makes it easier for educators to find apps, books, videos, and other content appropriate for K-12 students, enables bulk purchasing and the ability to distribute apps to a group of students' tablets wirelessly.
At launch, Google is offering Play for Education bundled with Google Nexus 7 tablets. In early 2014 the company plans to offer Asus Transformer Pad and HP Slate 8 Pro tablets as well.
Teachers can find apps by grade level, subject, or other criteria, and content can be paid for using a purchase order.
Though it's rather a "link only answer", in this case there's no way around as the given source is (hopefully) maintained and the content subject to change: Here's a list of available markets in the DMOZ Mozilla directory, also giving users the possibility to report issues with them (if any). In addition to those already mentioned in answers here, it also names e.g. Aptoide, AOpenSource – altogether at the moment of this writing 25 Android markets.
I received very good amount of installs from mobiletoones.com and apps.opera.com. Also, my revenue was ramped up too within 2 days. If you are looking for targeted users for your app then you should distribute your app to many sources not just stuck to one website!
AppsLib claims to be the application marketplace specifically for Android Tablets.
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My question is about the appearance of a non-analytic function in the formula for the resistive force in air or other medium. Considering the 1-dimensional case as covered by Walter Lewin in his 8.01 lecture, the magnitude of the resistive force is proportional to the square of the speed of the object, which we take to be a sphere. In other words
$$|F|=cv^2$$ with the force being in the opposite direction of the object's motion.
The constant $c$ depends on the sphere's radius, drag coefficient of air and so forth, but for convenience choose values that make $c=1$.
I understand this is an approximation, and in reality there is a $v$ term as well as the $v^2$ term, and maybe other terms as well, but I don't think that invalidates my question.
With that said, here's is a graph of the resistive force $F$ as a function of $v$:
Because the sign of the force is opposite that of velocity, the equation can be conveniently written $$F=-v|v|$$
Although this function looks smooth and has a derivative, $2|x|$, it doesn't have a second derivative. Isn't it unusual for a simple equation of a physical phenomenon in classical mechanics to lack a second derivative? It's unintuitive to me that the force doesn't have a second derivative. Physically, it doesn't feel like anything non-smooth is going on.
My question: Is it normal to encounter functions in classical mechanics with no second derivative, and if not, what's the explanation for finding one here?
Added: For anyone interested in this topic, a related question popped up over at MathOverflow and there are several good answers.


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When I was travelling through the US last week I came across two items not normally seen in my everyday shopping and 0f course I had to buy them. Why? because they were bacon inspired. Anything with Bacon is pretty much good in my books so these could not be passed up.
First up bacon Gumballs. Because who doesn't like a mouthful of bacon. ?? 32 pieces of bacon flavored gum. !!!
Second bacon Gummy strips. <<<<MMM I love gummy candies. These are not good gummy candy. I'll stick with the gummy worms. Sadly no bacon flavor just the visual effect of eating a slice of bacon. Not a good strawberry taste either. What cracked me up about this was the very stern instructions on the back: Do Not attempt to fry or microwave. WTflip.


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Ext Touch Core anyone?
Are there any plans for a MIT-licensed Ext Touch Core (similar to Ext Core, but for mobile devices only) in the pipeline?
I'm in the midst of developing an iPad app using just Ext Core now, and while it works well for most purposes, it would be really neat to have all the non-mobile fluff from Ext Core removed, and have all the niceties (like the Ext.TouchEventManager) from Ext Touch included.
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That's probably a good idea for us to do at some stage, but we haven't even discussed it yet. We are just trying to get touch in shape to launch public beta.
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6 Movies Based on a True Story (That Are Also Full of Shit)
As we pointed out in the previous installment, it seems the least we can ask of a movie that's based on a true story is that it, you know, be based on a true story.
We don't expect them to stick with every boring fact, but time and time again we find out that the entire point of the story has been totally fabricated. So what's the point of basing it on a true story at all?
We're talking about movies like ...
#6. A Beautiful Mind
The Hollywood Version:
John Forbes Nash was really smart. He was also really, really crazy. When he wasn't working on the concept of governing dynamics, he was having hallucinations of Paul Bettany, seeing hidden messages in newspapers and getting recruited by Ed Harris to break codes for the government, all while running from Russian spies. Which is even weirder when you find out all of that shit happened in his head.
"On your mark. Get set. Crazy!"
The hallucinations became more frequent and, as hallucinations are prone to do, they drove him batshit insane. Fortunately, his loving wife stood by him, Nash committed to a medication regiment and, over time, learned to ignore his hallucinations just in time to win the Nobel Prize in Economics and Crazy in 1994.
In Reality...
There's no denying Nash was both brilliant and afflicted with a bad case of the crazies. But filmmaker Ron Howard was widely criticized for glossing over the life of Nash as well as making up the whole "seeing people who weren't really there" thing. Nash did hear voices, but that's it--his hallucinations were entirely auditory.
"Mr. Howard, 'auditory' doesn't mean he put shoes on his hands, it- OK, you don't care."
The movie completely ignores the fact that John and his wife divorced in 1963, just six years after being married, and never got remarried until 2001 (in addition to the whole insanity thing, the fact that the real Nash dabbled in boning dudes probably didn't help their marriage either). The film also manages to not mention his anti-Semitism, which the real Nash says must have been a side effect of his illness.
At the end of the film, Nash mentions to a friend that he is taking new medication, and he makes a heartfelt speech dedicated to his wife when he accepts his Nobel Prize.
The truth, however, is that both of those things were complete fabrications. Nash stopped taking any medication in 1970, and his continued instability--probably in large part due to that refusal to take medication--led to his not being allowed to make an acceptance speech for fear that he might whip out his dick and start screaming racial slurs at imaginary Jews.
So while the real Nash probably wouldn't have made the best protagonist of a Ron Howard film, we're definitely adding him to our list of "Celebrities Who Need to Get on Twitter."
#5. Remember the Titans
The Hollywood Version:
The opening voiceover in Remember the Titans tells us (in a line they totally stole from James Van der Beek) that in Virginia, football is life. And in Alexandria in 1971, football and real life issues came crashing together when two high schools merged to form TC Williams, the first integrated school in the city.
At first there was racial tension between the white players and the black players, particularly when a black coach who liked to stomp around and scowl a lot (naturally, because he's played by Denzel Washington) was given the head coaching job while the white coach was demoted to a subservient role.
Sometimes racial tension looks like two dudes ready to kiss each other.
But thanks to competitive spirit, a rockin' 70s soundtrack and the good-natured obesity of Ethan Suplee, the team found racial harmony just in time to overcome every Southern stereotype in the book on its way to a dramatic run to the Virginia State Championship.
In Reality...
While TC Williams was in fact the product of several schools in Alexandria merging together to form one big behemoth of a high school, it didn't exactly play out the way it's portrayed in the movie. The key difference being the tiny little fact that TC Williams was formed and integrated six years before the movie takes place.
And though there was racial tension originally, by the time the championship season rolled around it had mostly subsided. No one protested on the first day of school, and while there were heated exchanges in practice, according to the actual players and coaches it was based purely on position battles, and not race.
The whole dramatic run in the middle of the night leading to Denzel's even more dramatic speech about Gettysburg? Yep, totally fabricated.
"Wait, what?"
Despite what Denzel tried to tell us in a big pregame speech in the movie, TC Williams wasn't the only school that had been dealing with some of the racial issues of the day. The Titans weren't, as he declares, the only integrated team in their league. In real life, every single team in TC Williams' league was integrated by the 1971 season.
And what about the big climactic game, where the Titans have to overcome the better team and pull out a ridiculous 80 yard reverse for a touchdown to win? That really happened, right? Actually, they won in a rout, trouncing their opponent 27-0.
In fact, no one put up much of a fight all year for the Titans, who cruised to the championship and finished the year ranked number two nationally. Apparently, watching a team hand out an ass stomping just isn't "cinematic" enough for Disney. Obviously they hadn't seen the sports genre's Citizen Kane, a little film called Rocky III.
#4. Mississippi Burning
The Hollywood Version:
In the midst of the American civil rights movement of the 1960s, a trio of freedom riders made their way along the back roads of Mississippi where, as you might expect on the back roads of Mississippi, they encounter members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Needless to say, the Klan members--which included a police officer--are less than cordial to the boys, promptly forcing them off the road and murdering them without provocation.
"Y'know, those poor bastards probably never saw it coming..."
Enter Willem Dafoe, a by the book FBI Agent (you can tell he's by the book because wears glasses); and Gene Hackman, a guy who thinks that the only way to get the job done is to grab and punch as many nuts as possible. Soon enough, Dafoe learns that Hackman justice is the only justice that works and the boys secure victory over the racist Klan, putting the murderers behind bars one nut shot at a time.
"That's all the balls, there are no more balls, you punched all of the balls!"
In Reality...
The tragic story of the three murdered freedom riders is, sadly, very real.
In the film, upon learning of this tragic event, Dafoe asks for more manpower and the FBI quickly obliges, sending hundreds of agents to help bring the killers to justice. The real life J. Edgar Hoover, while under pressure from LBJ to bring the murderers to justice thanks to a surprising amount of national attention, still wasn't so much inclined to offer up so much help.
You see, in addition to thinking that frilly things made him look pretty, Hoover also thought that the Civil Rights movement was a load of Communist bullshit and wasn't worth the full power of the federal government. Initially, he sent just 11 agents to the town, and not the hundreds depicted in the film.
In the film, the FBI agents swarm into the city hell bent on finding the killers and preventing any further violence; but in reality most of them simply couldn't give less of a shit. Allegedly, the members of the FBI and Justice Department only intervened when absolutely necessary, and in some cases they supposedly stood by while beatings took place right in front of them. Your tax dollars at work, folks!
"I gotta be honest I thought there was gonna be a lot more nut-punching when I signed up for this."
So what really happened? How did the killers finally get brought to justice? Was it all about Hackman-style bully tactics?
We're sad to report that no KKK testicles were actually harmed on the road to justice. Instead, the FBI made their case the same way it's always been done: good old fashioned bribery. The Bureau paid Klan informant James Jordan for information on what happened to the activists, and he obliged. Not as cinematic as the nut-punching thing, we suppose.


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The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
"The most exciting thriller I've seen in a while – as powerful as anything Hollywood can throw at us." –V.A. Musetto, New York Post
in 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, concludes that the war is based on decades of lies and leaks 7,000 pages of top secret documents to The New York Times, making headlines around the world. Hailed as a hero, vilified as a traitor, and ostracized by even his closest colleagues, Ellsberg risks life in prison to stop a war he helped plan.
This is the riveting story of one man's profound crisis of conscience that shook a nation, its courts, its free press and its presidency to the core. It is also an acutely timely and piercing look at the world of government secrecy in wartime as revealed by the ultimate insider. Marked by a landmark Supreme Court battle between America's greatest newspapers and its president, this political thriller unravels a saga that leads directly to Watergate, Nixon's resignation and the end of the Vietnam War. With Daniel Ellsberg, Patricia Ellsberg, Tony Russo, Howard Zinn, Hedrick Smith, John Dean, and, from the secret White House tapes, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, who called Ellsberg "the most dangerous man in America." (92 mins., 35mm)
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Edamame was made by Nichole Post, a CU-Boulder graduate and staff member who this year created an International Education Week film series for campus.
This year's International Education Week (IEW) celebration at CU-Boulder will include film viewings sponsored by the Office of International Education (OIE).
This was made possible by the work of Nichole Post, an IEW committee member and employee of OIE. Nichole is a CU-Boulder alumna, class of 2004.
Nichole has spent the last eight years living in various locations abroad. She attended the International Academy of Film and Television in Cebu, Philippines and earned a certificate in film making.
She wrote, produced, edited and directed a number of short films while abroad, one of which has been screened at the Bug Theatre in Denver and the Lancaster Film Festival in Pennsylvania (http://vimeo.com/77340083). Her collaboration with classmates from all over the world fosters her rich background in multicultural insights.
As Nichole says, "I lived abroad for a number of years and developed a love for all things international: food, film, language, people. Being able to speak and relate to people from another culture in their native language is thrilling; it gives me a feeling of cracking a code. I get excited when I overhear a language I'm familiar with, especially being back in Boulder, where I feel removed from my international life."
While teaching English in South Korea, Nichole worked on a video project for an English print magazine, Busan Haps, in which she won third place for a Video Tourism Contest by Kookje News in Busan.
Since being back in the United States, Nichole has worked as an Administrative Assistant in OIE. She's had the opportunity to use her videography skills creating videos for incoming international student orientation. The first of these videos is complete and has been very well received: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl_oI9zPPlA.
When the IEW committee met this Fall, Nichole was quick to suggest OIE feature film viewings for the CU community. While finding dozens of film possibilities for next week's events, we were able to narrow it down to three films for this year's celebration.
We also discovered other films being screened during the same week sponsored by other offices on campus. In upcoming years, we hope to have several other film screenings during future IEW celebrations.
Nichole said, "I hope that by watching each film, viewers will be exposed to a new culture, a new concept, a new idea. Something they might think about a few days later."
Monday, November 11, 2:30 pm
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Film: Beijing Bicycle (Sponsored by OIE)
Beijing Bicycle revolves around a seventeen-year-old boy Guei (Cui) from the countryside who came to Beijing to seek work. He finds a job with a courier company, which assigns him a brand-new bicycle. After it is stolen one day, the stubborn Guei goes on a search for his missing bicycle. At the other end of the city, Jian (Li) is a schoolboy who buys Guei's stolen bicycle from a second-hand market. When Guei's search brings the two boys together, more than the ownership of the bicycle is brought into question. The film explores the theme of youth as well as several social issues, including class, youth delinquency, theft, and rural-urban socio-economic divisions and change.
Monday, November 11, 5 pm
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Film: Queer China (Sponsored by the GLBTQ Resource Center)
This film is a documentary about the struggle for visibility and acceptance for people of diverse gender and sexual identities.
Jack "Lingshuang-Takahashi" Mao, from Asian Languages and Civilization, will facilitate a discussion after the film.
Wednesday, November 13, 3:00 pm
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Film: The Dialogue (Sponsored by OIE)
The Dialogue is a 70-minute documentary that follows four American and four Chinese university students as they travel together through Hong Kong and Southwest China. Intrigued by the complex context of Sino-US relations, together the characters explore elements of meaningful dialogue and cultural identity. Their shared travel adventures, emotion of cult...ure shock, honest confrontations and discoveries about each other become doorways to deepen their understanding of the "other" and themselves. Although the film is set in Hong Kong and China, the "lessons learned" about intercultural understanding and the communication skills needed for conflict mediation and collaborative problem solving are applicable globally.
Wednesday, November 13, 6:00 pm
Old Main Theatre
Film: Sincerely Ethiopia (Sponsored by the Cultural Events Board)
Sincerely Ethiopia is an exciting new documentary that showcases the lives of ordinary people in Ethiopia who are making a difference in the lives of others. This showing includes special guest panel speakers.
Wednesday, November 13, 6:00 pm
Film: Umrao Jaan (Sponsored by Hindi/Urdu instructors)
Based on the Urdu novel by Mirza Hadi Ruswa and starring Rekha. Set in mid-19th century India, Umrao Jaan is the story of a kidnapped young girl who is trained to be a courtesan in Lucknow (1981).
Wednesday, November 13, 7:00 pm
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Film: The Syrian Bride (Sponsored by Arabic Instructors in the Dept of Asian Languages and Civilizations)
A family deals with the typical anxieties of a wedding day while also confronting the political turmoil of the Middle East in this drama, collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers. Hammed (Makram J. Khoury) is a leading political figure in Majdal Shams, a Druze community that has been under Israeli occupation since the late '60s. Hammed arranged for his daughter Mona (Clara Khoury) to marry Tallel (Derar Sliman), who has since become a successful actor in Syria. Hammed has gathered the family together to see Mona off, but the occasion is a bittersweet one -- given the combative relationship between Israel and Syria, once Mona crosses the border with her husband, it's unlikely she will ever be able to return. Hammed's oldest son, Hattem (Eyad Sheety), comes back from Russia, where he now lives with his wife, but his father still refuses to forgive him for leaving the land of his birth. FREE and open to the public.
Thursday, November 14, 2:00 pm
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Film: Girl Rising (Sponsored by OIE and CIEE)
10X10 is a global campaign to educate and empower girls. At the center of the
campaign is a feature film, Girl Rising. It's by an Academy Award nominated director (Richard Robbins) and features performances from Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Selena Gomez, Salma Hayek, Alicia Keys, and others.
This important film tells the stories of nine remarkable girls from around the world who are striving beyond circumstance, pushing past limits and demonstrating the extraordinary strength of the human spirit to overcome the odds. Yet it also carriesa powerful message: if we educate girls, we can change the future of some 66 million girls around the world who today only dream of going to school. Together, we can create powerful change. I hope you'll join this movement with me.
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CLARINGTON - Frank McCaslin and Pete Gray are among hundreds of laid off Ormet Corp. workers concerned about losing their health care coverage - and worried about what they are going to do if the aluminum plant never reopens.
Three weeks after Ormet President and CEO Mike Tanchuk announced the company would cease operations because of American Electric Power bills he said were too high, displaced workers are now losing their company-paid health care benefits. This angers McCaslin and Gray, who have served Ormet for 37 and 36 years, respectively.
"Where is (Gov. John) Kasich? There are a lot families hurting down here," Gray said Thursday at the United Steelworkers' hall in Clarington. "There is plenty of blame to go around, but why aren't we getting more help? He talks about how he is a 'jobs governor.' We aren't seeing it."
Rob Nichols, press secretary for Kasich, said, "We are aware of it, and are exploring all possible options to help," regarding the displaced employees losing their health care.
Emphasizing the company faced high electric bills coupled with low aluminum prices, Ormet filed for bankruptcy in February. The company later announced a planned $221 million sale to Minnesota-based Wayzata, but officials said this transaction required convincing the PUCO to allow Ormet to have lower AEP bills.
On Oct. 2, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio's decided to lower Ormet's AEP costs from $60 to $50 per megawatt-hour, rather than down to $45.89 per megawatt-hour as Ormet requested. Two days later, Tanchuk announced the company would cease all operations, leaving McCaslin, Gray and several hundred others wondering what the future holds.
Saying he did not believe he was cut out to be a "Wal-Mart greeter," Gray said working in the heart of Ormet's industrial site is the only job he really knows.
"Where are we supposed to go? What are we supposed to do?" he wondered.
"Really, my only option now is to retire. And even then, we are not sure what is going to happen with our insurance," McCaslin added.
Kasich understands workers are angry about losing their jobs, Nichols said, and the administration is working to help displaced employees get back on their feet.


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We have a couple of planning meetings a week that last about 4-5 hours, and would like to add a break every hour. Like option to add reminders, is there a way to add breaks in a meeting?
We are using Google Calendar.
What you could do is this. For a 5 hour meeting make 5 blocks of 1 hour each. Then have a reminder set 5 mins before the next block starts. So when you get this reminder, you have a break. So if you have set google calendar to remind you 5 mins before the next block starts, you stop the meeting as soon as you get the reminder and then have a 5 mins break. You then carry on in this fashion.
You won't have the breaks "labelled" on your calendar but if it's small breaks it will only take up space, so I think it's better this way.
Hope it helps
Why do you need to schedule a break in Google Calendar?
Why not just say, each hour, "Hey, let's take a break and reconvene at X:YY"?


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I'm at a summer program where about 30 students are taking collaborative notes during presentations. EtherPad works great for this but it has a limit of 8 users.
Do you know any alternatives?
Google Docs is not very robust for this kind of use (if you have used it before with more than 1 person you probably know).


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8 Mar 2012 3:03 AM #1
Need upgrade help
It sadly happend. My application does not work after upgrade
When opening i see:
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Many of my Views are empty in the designer (as on the image).
When running the application i get this error:
sencha-touch-all-debug.js:41554 TypeError: 'undefined' is not a function (evaluating 'groupFn.call(this, item1)')
Sad Panda....
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Sad Panda indeed
Could you please send us a zip of the project? designer.feedback at sencha.com works best for us.Aaron Conran
9 Mar 2012 1:22 AM #3
We have lift off!
After a couple of hours I now have a working solution in the desginer 309.
There where many issues while upgrading:
- I had a view with a custom property called "fullscreen:true" it resultet in the view not being visible in designer. This must be a bug? I need it to be fullscreen.
- There where a list that was grouped it also made the whole view invisible in designer (was a child)
- A store that was setup for grouped/indexbar gave me a "undefined error" message on startup. I had to delete it and create it again.
- The last was kind of funny. There where a lot of models that was not visible from within the designer but there where files in the folders. They where created after renaming some models? Running the application made it complain about referring to files that no longer exists.
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Lucia Gonzalez is an award winning author, storyteller and children's librarian, born in Calmito del Guayabal, Cuba. Regarded as having dynamic bilingual storytelling technique, Lucia's presentations are filled with string stories, puppetry and anecdotes about growing up in Cuba and coming to America. Lucia is author of three award winning bilingual books including: The Bossy Gallito and Senor Cat's Romance: And Other Favorite Stories from Latin America.
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I got some requests about LRS settings for M1-L.
The settings I placed before for different Nikon camera bodies are taken with the Nadir Adapter. They would be different without it. Why? Because the Upper Rotator has to be mounted in a different way using it with/without Nadir Adapter plus the Vertical Rail has to be mounted in a different way to the Nadir Adapter or to the the lower rail without it. The LRS will change for D3 from 185mm with to 156mm without Nadir Adapter. The Vertical Rail/Nadir Adapter has always to be mounted opposite side to the bubble on the rail!
Workflow for changes from Pre-Installed version for use of vertical rail/Upper Rotator setup without /with Nadir Adapter will follow.
Think this makes things a little bit more understandable.
So long,
BTW: Keb Mo explained it very simple concerning the flat side of the vertical rail: Inside Outside. Music is one of my hobbies besides Panos.
Blues with background and sort of humor: check the albums, House in California, France on "keep it simple", one friend etc.


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My xna game is running at about 70-90fps and it looks laggy at this fps. I'm using fraps to record the fps and I have a 120hz monitor, over 120hz looks fine but I can't understand why it feels like it's lagging so much at high fps :/.
I think you have some very inconsistent frame times. You can test this by printing out the frame times to a log (or similar) and measuring their jitter.
Edit: If you find that a small number of frames consume substantially more time than most, this is indicative of a performance problem. If this is the case, you need to use a profiler to help you understand where this problem is and fix it.
In general, the faster you try to draw your frames, the more your framerate can be affected by outside factors (such as the OS scheduling CPU time for other tasks, or a function in your game running unusually slow).
At 120 fps, you have 8.33 millis to have your frame drawn. As you are not hitting your 120 fps, it can be assumed that your game can't be run on that hardware at 120 fps, and that it will draw as fast as it can. This means that any extra load on the CPU will necessarily drag your framerate down. In other words, you have no built-in tolerance to fluctuations in CPU load.
I would suggest capping the framerate. If you really want to optimize around the minority of people who have the equipment to draw frames so frequently, allow them to change the max fps in your games's settings, or you can run some analysis on the framerate in your game itself to find an appropriate max.
Capping the framerate at a rate below which it can be drawn provides some "down time" for your game. This can absorb any of the fluctuations mentioned above without affecting your framerate. If you cap it at 60 fps, you have 16.66 millis to draw your frame. If you can draw the frame in 12, you have almost 5 millis for other things to happen without anyone noticing.
If it were me, I'd set it at 60 and be done with it.


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| Stephany Romanow, Hydrocarbon Processing,
Technology group leaders from BP, General Electric, Baker Hughes and Shell shared their visions on innovative technologies and how the energy industry will create value from advanced developments.
By Stephany Romanow
HOUSTON -- On the final day of the 2013 Offshore Technology
Conference, an elite panel discussed value creation through
technology for the energy industry. Technology group leaders from BP,
General Electric, Baker Hughes and Shell shared their
companys visions on innovative technologies and how the
energy industry will create value from advanced
By definition, innovation is the creating and applying of
new technologies and methods that add to business productivity
through metrics such as safety performance and increased reliability of equipment and facilities. All impact the
bottom-line of individual facilities and the company as a
The new challenges for the oil & gas (O&G) industry
include deepwater, Arctic waters and shale/unconventional gas
plays. Each situation has unique conditions and environments; so, no single approach
can be applied.
Yet, energy companies continue to struggle to balance the
risk vs. the agenda for research & development (R&D)
programs. Likewise, the investment for innovative technologies
is rising. In any R&D program, it is most difficult to
predict when a breakthrough will unfold. The conservative
energy industry strives to mitigate, if not avoid, risk.
If you could define R&D innovation as an equation, it
would be:
Investment for R&D = (FC/GI) x (GI/AL) x
FC = Financial contribution, GI = Good ideas, AI = Universe of
ideas and TC = Total investment
Dr. Gerald Schotman, executive vice president of innovation
and R&D chief technology officer at Shell,
said the pace and scale of innovation continues to change at
ever increasing rates. Better high-performance computing is
needed to analyze massive data sets and to model systems for
the energy industry.
David Eyton, group head of research and technology for BP,
emphasized that efforts should be directed to increase the
efficiency of operations. O&G is under pressure from
alternative energy sources such as solar, wind, and renewables.
To improve operations, better sensors, automation, and
data-handling systems will be necessary to improve efficiency
an, likewise, reduce operating costs.
Reliability efforts can be
heightened by applying new materials that can withstand the
harsh environment of the energy industry.
High pressures and high temperatures test the service life of
metals. BP is pursuing resilient materials to hydrogen
BPs Project 20K is a multi-prong program
focused on developing tools and materials for pressures
exceeding 15,000 psi and temperatures of 350oF. A 20K program
underway is the development of hydrogen-resistant steel, which
would resist hydrogen embrittlement using nanotechnology.
Mark Little, chief technology officer of General
Electric, reinforced the need for technology transfer
from other industries to O&G applications. In particular,
new component construction processes are needed to
construct equipment while retaining the specialty properties of
the construction materials. Little
commented that using advanced software and Internet will unlock
more opportunities to manage mammoth data sets.
Such efforts can be applied to monitoring the operation of
critical equipment and diagnosis problems before failure
occurs. Likewise, information technology can be used to leverage
plant assets and take advantage of business conditions.
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St. Petersburg … Where Sunshine Lane Meets Beach Drive
I found a new "crossroads" earlier this month … the corner of Sunshine Lane and Beach Drive in St. Petersburg, Fla.
You've heard of the legendary "crossroads" where bluesman Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul to the devil, where Routes 61 and 49 intersect in Clarksdale, Miss.
Well, at my bayfront crossroads, it is art, culture and fine dining that all converge.
Coincidentally, it was the blues that brought me to this new crossroads, as I was visiting St. Petersburg to attend the Tampa Bay Blues Festival.
Oysters, Oysters and More Oysters
Close to the crossroads of Sunshine Lane and Beach Drive is one of the best restaurants I've ever experienced – the Ceviche Tapas Bar and Restaurant. That place alone, with its gorgeous and delicious tapas, is enough to lure me to this waterfront town.
I couldn't seem to get enough oysters on this trip, diving into a couple of platters of my favorite shellfish. But the oysters served at Ceviche went above and beyond. Ceviche a la Rusa was as beautiful as it was delicious, with seasonal oysters in lemon, lime, cilantro and onion, dotted with big, red caviar, and served with a very, very, very chilled shot of Russian vodka. Spanish sardines with tomato and sweet onion on crostini was another taste treat, as was the dish of artichokes, onions, peppers and giant caper berries.
My mouth is watering again as I think about that luscious lunch.
I sampled more oysters at 400 Beach Seafood & Tap House – this time, a dozen raw, as well as a half dozen cooked with garlic leek butter and parmesan. They were accompanied by Surf and Turf Sushi, which was a roll of tempura lobster, onion, asparagus and tataki tenderloin topped with a dot of spicy horseradish aoli.
The oysters at Cassis American Brasserie, located at 170 Beach Drive NE, were delicious again, but my entree overshadowed them: large, luscious scallops were sitting atop smashed English peas, sauteed mushrooms and a rich pool of truffle jus.
Although the choice at Cassis was easy, there were other entrees on the menu that caught my attention: fried chicken with lobster mac and cheese, and rosemary gravy; braised beef short ribs with a creamed potato and leek fondue, and red wine sauce; and the 10-ounce veal T-bone, served with wild mushroom risotto and balsamic-roasted cippolini onions.
And if the entrees weren't enough, the desserts were delectable. I went for the healthy choice: one scoop of cassis-flavored sorbet.
But, I had the pleasure of tasting the chocolate and nut bread pudding with brown sugar ice cream, as well as the apple galette with caramel sauce and cardamom ice cream.
A true sign to me of a great restaurant is that I need to go back. All of these fit into that catagory, for sure.
So Surreal, With a Bit of Glass
Sandwiched in between these great meals was world-class art.
St. Petersburg is certainly a cultural mecca, with the Museum of Fine Arts, the recently opened Dali Museum, the Chihuly Collection, the Morean Arts Center, the St. Petersburg Museum of History, the Florida Holocaust Museum and a number of small galleries.
On our "museum day," we chose to visit the Dali Museum and the Chihuly Collection.
The Chihuly Collection includes 16 of glass artist Dale Chihuly's large-scale installations as well as several series works, such as Macchia, Ikeban, Niijima Floats, Persions and Tumbleweeds, displayed in a 10,000-square-foot setting.
Once you've been introduced to Chihuly, you find you want to search out more and more of his colorful, unusual, original pieces. Giant balls of glass, tall blade-like pieces, chandeliers of colorful curlycues – Chihuly's work is unmistakable Chihuly.
Chihuly's works also can be seen at the hotel where we stayed, the historic Vinoy Resort and Golf Club. A white chandelier is the focal point in the hotel's ballroom, and another of his works is encased in glass in the hotel lobby.
We would have liked to have had time to hit the Glass Studio and Hot Shop at the Morean Arts Center. There, working glass artists demonstrate their craft and explain the process.
For the Dali, allow at least two hours – and another 30 minutes for the extensive gift shop! Any fan of Salvador Dali's work will be in heaven here.
Not only can you see his wall-size imaginative works as well as the small ones, up close and personal, but you can even take home a deck of cards graced with 52 of his images.
In 1942, Reynolds and Eleanor R. Morse began collecting Salvador Dali's work, exhibiting the work in their home. When they started looking for a larger home for their collection, it was a St. Petersburg attorney who gathered community leaders to help. St. Petersburg offered to build a museum, and the first Dali Museum opened in 1982.
The Morse's collection includes work from every period of the artist's career. The new building houses about 2,100 works: 96 oil paintings, as well as sculptures, drawings and an archival library.
The new Dali Museum, which opened on Jan. 11, is itself a work of art.
"The design of the new building combines the rational with the fantastical: a simple rectangle with 18-inch thick hurricane-proof walls out of which erupts a large free-form geodesic glass bubble known as the 'enigma.' The 'enigma,' which is made up of more than 900 triangular pieces of glass, stands 75 feet at its tallest point, a 21st-century homage to the dome that adorns Dali's museum in Spain. Inside, the Dali houses another unique architectural feature – a helical staircase – recalling Dali's obsession with spirals and the double helical shapes of the DNA molecule," according to information provided by the museum.
A docent tour is the best way to experience the museum. Visitors also can borrow audio guides that highlight the collection and Dali's life and career.
Our docent pointed out a number of details in his paintings (most need to be deciphered!), while giving us a glimpse of Dali's life as well.
Walk It
A walk around the expansive downtown area of St. Petersburg will bring you to a variety of ethnic restaurants, shops, residential high rises, hotels and parks. Art is everywhere. The St. Petersburg Judicial Center, for example, sports a display of 13 red metal chairs, a sculpture by artist Douglas Kornfeld called "Face the Jury."
The streets are wide, and the area is clean. It's also very green – more than palm trees grow throughout the area. Egrets, pelicans, seagulls and ducks fly, swim and swoop among the sailboats on the bay.
Board the St. Petersburg Trolley and, for just a quarter, you can get to any of the major attractions.
St. Petersburg is home to the Tampa Bay Rays, Progress Energy Center for the Arts, the Florida Orchestra, the Mahaffey Theater and the Pier Aquarium.
Golf courses, marinas, hiking, beaches, cruises, ghost tours, parks, sporting events can all keep tourists busy for days.
There are arts festivals, food festivals, music festivals, markets, concerts, Broadway shows and theater at a number of venues.
Culture, good food and sunshine. I don't need much more to be happy. Oh, and shopping. Well, and maybe a job.
St. Pete, save a spot for me. I'm coming back … to the corner of Sunshine Lane and Beach Drive. Oh, yeah. That's my kind of crossroads.


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* An all Twyla Tharp retrospective.
* The long-anticipated revival of Kent Stowell's full-length Cinderella.
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Basic stats:
Panorama size: 24632 megapixels (355,936 x 69,204 pixels) or 24.63GB
Input images: 1560 (120 columns by 13 rows)
FOV: 360 x 70 degrees
Nikon D800E
80-400mm zoom lens shot at 280mm (3 degree increments)
This is "my" largest gigapixel image to date and I believe may be the largest ever shot with a manual panoramic tripod head. Ranked about 37th in size out of 50,000+ images hosted on Gigapan.org. As with most of my work it's far from perfect so not seeking criticism.
Nick sent me the new M2 w/RD8-II to start playing with and I was more than eager to get started.
On a recent trip to San Diego I wanted to shot something other than a cityscape so I decided to try and shoot the flight deck of the USS Midway. A must see Naval Museum if ever in San Diego.
The biggest challenge was with all the hundreds of people moving about the flight deck. While I was able to pause and wait for people to move out of the shot this was taking up valuable time so ended up with lots of chopped up people. And because the image exceeded 300,000 pixels I couldn't do any edits in Photoshop.
The entire 1560 images sequence took only 1.5 hours - much quicker than a robotic head. With positive control over the camera and shutter release I could shoot faster than the memory card could write. Without the pauses and with smaller image size I'm sure the image could have been shot in under 30 minutes. I also have the Gigapan Epic robotic head and using it here would have taken easy 3+ hours. With the adjustable detent tension on lower rotator, and end tab on upper rotator makes for more comfortable and reliable shooting. If you have a little patience and can count shots then shooting with manual head is IMO preferable over robotics for the shear speed and positive control not to mention lighter and no power source needed.
All in all the Ultimate M2 is another excellent product I can boast about - well done Nick!


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Seth Webster's heart never healed after he lost his adored wife. Now, with Christmas approaching, wild twin boys to raise alone, a home in chaos, and the latest in a long line of exasperated housekeepers quitting in disgust, Seth needs more than help to keep his family togethe...he needs a miracle.
And then a miracle arrives on his doorstep. Her name is Mrs. Merkle, but the kids call her "Mrs. Miracle" and from the moment the warm, knowing, and very patient nanny appears, everything is different. Her sassy spirit is infectious, and it gives Seth the courage to approach Reba, a beautiful travel agent who's been hurt and betrayed, and is afraid to ever love again. Through the magic of faith and with a little help from a children's Christmas pageant and a lot of encouragement from Mrs. Miracle Seth and Reba might just be able to find a Christmas miracle of their very own: true love.
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Debbie Macomber has more than 100 million copies of her books in print, and her stories about home and family have a worldwide audience and have been translated into twenty-three languages. In addition to being a #1 New York Times bestseller in fiction many times over, she also has an enormous following among knitters as the author of dozens of pattern and craft books. In 2008, she launched a branded line of knitting products through Leisure Arts, the company that publishes her knitting guides. Debbie and her husband, Wayne, have four children and nine grandchildren, and split their time between Washington State and Florida. This is Debbie s second picture book co-authored with Mary Lou Carney; their first, The Truly Terribly Horrible Sweaer . . . That Grandma Knit, was published in 2009.


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We are hoping to take a self guided trip in Wisconsin. We would like to rent bikes there, but can't find a rental car with a bike rack available. Any ideas?
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If you could rent a van or SUV you may be able to load the bikes inside the vehicle.
Information on this forum is old, but one guy says that Enterprise has bike racks. I recommend giving them a call. From their website it says they have ski racks, but doesn't mention bike racks. Might be worth giving them a try.
Most newer rentals have rear seat passthru. Take the front wheel off and you should still have one rear seat available for a passenger.
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With any rental car agency, you should call and verify that they have the equipment you would like before you depart on your trip.
Some places rent folding bikes, which would remove the need for an external rack.
I would have thought with a few rachet packing straps you could place the bikes upside down on the roof, secure the handle bars to the frame (so they won't turn) then secure the bikes through the rear door or window (front window as a last resort).
As a disclaimer I have never seen this done but secured right it should work just like a roof rack and not damage the paint (but hey I reckon the rental company wouldn't check the roof). If the car has basic roof racks you could rig something pretty good up.
From personal experience with Enterprise, I brought a rack with me when I went to Colorado to ride. I just made sure to cover the contact points so it didn't leave and scratches or marks and put it on after getting to my hotel and before leaving. I think it's kind of a don't-ask-don't-tell policy.
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From DoA, I know that using Energy Surge on the same enemy too many times can result in damage loss because there's no more energy in their pool to burn. Aside from that, however, I haven't noticed much, if any, ability usage decrease in my general PvE as a result of lengthy fighting attrition.
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Unlikely gun-control foe Since the Dec. 14 Newtown school shootings, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration has insisted opponents of stricter gun control are simply playing politics. However, as a state representative in 1993, Lt. Gov. Nancy S. Wyman voted "No" on Connecticut's first assault-weapons ban. The lieutenant governor recently said, "I can't immediately recall the specifics of what led to that particular vote." It's hard to believe Lt. Gov. Wyman would forget what drove her stance on one of the biggest issues of '93, but a Feb. 25 CT News Junkie report pointed out then-Rep. Wyman was re-elected in 1992 by a mere 35 votes. As such, she may have worried that further angering gun owners in her rural district would endanger her career. If she wasn't merely playing electoral politics, she must have had a principled reason for opposing the assault-weapons ban. One would think lawmakers on both sides of the gun debate would like to know what drove a liberal Northeastern Democrat to vote like a Southern Republican on an important public-policy issue.
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More excess – this time in the form of knit-in tucks.
Don't you love that Eleanor can knit too? We chose a different photo for the book – one that focuses more on the vest, but I am still enamored of this shot. Adina Klein helped us out with the styling for this story – that's the Pure Merino "Capecho" she was knitting for her step mom, lent to Eleanor for the moment.
I can tell you more about the cool new yarn it's knit in when I can link it all to the Berroco site.
Though I can't quite figure out the vest — yet! — I love this photograph. Very soft and evocative, beautiful colors and textures.
And yes, you can always tell when a model can actually knit rather than just having had the needles thrust clumsily into her hands.
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I love vests and this one looks wonderful! My question is with the added textural interest do you think it would work for a 'boobier' frame????January 12, 2009
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Two weekend traffic stops led Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) troopers to seize 58.5 lbs of marijuana.
Around 5:15 pm., on Saturday, Dec. 1, a trooper stopped a 2012 Chevy Impala for speeding on eastbound Interstate 80 near the Lincoln Airport Exit in Lancaster County. An NSP canine indicated the odor of drugs coming from the rear of the vehicle. A search of the vehicle led to the seizure of 33 lbs. of marijuana. The marijuana was contained in two duffel bags in the trunk of the car.
The driver and lone occupant of the vehicle, Hui Yuan Chen (FM), 23, Oakland, Calif., was lodged in the Lancaster County Corrections on a charge of possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.
Just before 11:30 p.m., Friday, November 30, a trooper conducted a traffic stop for speeding on eastbound Interstate 80 near the mm 180 in Lincoln County. Upon making contact with the driver of a 2012 Mazda, the trooper smelled an odor of marijuana coming from the car. A probable cause search led to the seizure of 25.5 lbs of marijuana. The marijuana contained in 15 packages was located wrapped in Christmas paper in the trunk of the vehicle.
The driver of the vehicle, Robert L. McLeod, 25, Sunrise, Fla., and a passenger, Benjamin T. Whitted, 28, Lauderhill, Fla., were both lodged in the Lincoln County Jail, each on a charge of possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.
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5 Terrible Lessons We Learned from Superman Movies
#2. Superman Returns: It's OK to Trick Someone into Raising Your Baby
In Superman Returns, Superman returns from space after a five-year absence to find that the world doesn't need him anymore (except it totally does, because he can lift planes and stuff). While he was away, however, Lois Lane had a child and became engaged to Richard White, aka the guy who plays Cyclops in X-Men.
"Finally, a chance to be a different kind of stock character. Without glasses!"
However, in a surprise plot twist, it turns out that this roughly 5-year-old child who can throw pianos and bend steel with his hands is actually Superman's son -- presumably the product of a one-night stand unrelated to the Fortress supersex described above, because Lois actually remembers having it (and still doesn't seem to give a shit about Clark). The problem is that she has been telling everyone that the kid's father is Richard, including Richard, who has spent half a decade raising another guy's son as his own.
"Haha, such strong arms!" *passes out*
There's no indication whatsoever that Lois told her fiance that she was already pregnant when they started dating -- he clearly thinks the kid is his. So how does Superman react? Sure, he's understandably shocked at first, but by the end of the movie, Superman is apparently fine with this arrangement as long as he gets to visit his still unrecognized son at night and quote Marlon Brando monologues to him while he sleeps.
"Tattaglia is a pimp. He never would have outfought Santino. But I didn't know until this ..."
We shouldn't be surprised that Superman condones this type of behavior, because after all, lying is a central part of his character. While most parents teach their children that honesty is the best policy, Superman's taught him to deceive the world around him and actively encouraged him to lead a double life for his own good. Lois was simply following his example, consciously or subconsciously -- when some deadbeat demigod ran off to "find himself" in outer space and left her with a bun in the oven, she clung to the son of her editor and fooled him into raising her space baby. Everyone wins! Except Cyclops, who can't catch a break in any franchise.
At the end of the film, Lois and Richard are still engaged, proving to the impressionable girls in the audience that there are no negative consequences for this course of action whatsoever. So don't say Superman films cater to boys only.
#1. The Entire Franchise: All Relationships Are Evil
If there's one theme running throughout all the Superman movies, it's not something like "justice will prevail" or "protect the innocent" -- it's "relationships suck, and you should never even bother with them." Seriously, in these movies, if Superman so much as goes half-mast looking at a lady, you know something terrible is gonna happen.
Take Lana Lang, Clark Kent's high school sweetheart and romantic interest in Superman III. Superman's attraction to her gets him to come to a parade in Smallville, where he's exposed to the kryptonite that makes him evil. Later, he almost lets a man fall off a bridge because he's too busy hitting on Lana like a creep.
"Have you ever snorted coke off invulnerable buttocks?"
There's also the time Clark dated his boss: not Perry White, but Mariel Hemingway's character from Superman IV. Clark's feelings for her translate into his dimwitted radioactive clone having a psycho crush on the same lady, which gets her kidnapped. She probably got some type of skin disease for being alone with the guy for five minutes.
And then, of course, there's Lois Lane. When she and Superman first hook up in Superman II, a talking hologram of Supermom (or Superdad, depending on which version of the movie you're watching) flat out tells Superman that he can't be with a woman and protect humanity, because "the concepts are mutually exclusive." Apparently, you can't have a girlfriend and be good at saving people at the same time.
"Superman, we can't control this fire!"
"Hm. Probably because you're all married, losers."
And this isn't like in the first movie, where Jor-El says "Don't interfere with human history" and Superman disobeys him because it's the right thing to do -- this time, his parents' terrible advice is actually proven right. As we mentioned before, Superman gives up his powers to be with Lois, because that's not a lot of pressure to put on a girl after a first date or anything. Meanwhile, because Superman has been busy gettin' busy, three superpowered criminals have conquered the Earth ... and the only thing that can stop them is, of course, Superman, who no longer exists, thanks to Lois Lane.
She then beats him up and steals his shirt.
In other words, Superman, who can punch planets out of their orbits when he's single, is completely emasculated by bringing a woman into his life. Because he dared to love, he grew soft and weak -- his boner conspired with Lois Lane in order to destroy not only him, but the rest of the world as well. Fortunately, in the end Superman gets his powers back, super-roofies Lois, and beats up that trucker dude, and the movie ends with the lesson that being in a relationship is the worst. Shit, we may have finally discovered why so many comic book fans are single.
Related Reading: Curious about why it's so difficult to make a decent Superman movie? Soren Bowie explains why the Man of Steel just isn't very interesting. Were you struck by how filled with douchebags the new Superman movie is? So were we! But we bet you'd be surprised to learn that Superman is actually one hell of a realistic character, right down to his tights: Science shows that wearing them makes him faster AND tougher.


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If you plan to travel on Interstate 65 Tuesday night, you should expect lane closures.
Kentucky Transportation crews will be closing lanes in both directions between mile markers 48 and 54.
Lane closures will begin at 7:00 PM Tuesday and last until 1:00 AM Wednesday.
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How to create an environment for enumerating that allows one to identify the enumeration with the theorem environment?
Definition 1.1 Let X be a set. An algebra over X is a collection C of subsets of X satisfying
D 1.1.1 If A is an element of C, then X\A is an element of C;
D 1.1.2 If A and B are both elements of C, then the union A U B is an element of C.
Proposition 1.1 Let C be an algebra over a set X; then the following senteces are true
P 1.1.1 The empty set is an element of C;
P 1.1.2 The set X is an element of C;
P 1.1.3 Every finite union of elements of C is an element of C;
P 1.1.4 Every finite intersection of elements of C is an element of C.
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We are all getting used to checking a box and putting our name in a text field to create a contract with an airline, a hosting company, or a software download. However, for some reason I am still asking clients to sign our contracts for website development on paper, and send me a scan. Few complain about this procedure, but I am personally thinking: what am I doing, doing this the old fashion way?! Signing contracts digitally would be faster, more convenient for clients and for me, and easier to store.
So to me it appears to be time to start creating some contract agreement online that clients can read, then print their name, and mark a box "I AGREE WITH THIS CONTRACT AND BY PRINTING MY NAME I AGREE TO SIGNING THIS", or something like that. I would record their IP, browser data, and time of signing. If I really want to ensure their identity, I could link this to OpenID and require them to log in with their e-mail so that I can ensure that they are logged in on an existing e-mail account. Sounds OK to me.
My question is: is this practice becoming a standard practice in professional IT services? Are you (as a professional) doing this? If you are, how do clients react? Any drawbacks doing this?
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Upgrading Existing Clusters
Updated: March 28, 2003
Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2
If your organization has applications and services that currently run on the Windows NT 4.0 or Microsoft® Windows® 2000 operating systems, you can upgrade your existing WLBS or Network Load Balancing clusters to take advantage of the improved security and performance of Windows Server 2003 and Network Load Balancing. Figure 9.8 shows the process for upgrading an existing cluster.
Figure 9.8 Upgrading an Existing Cluster
The Network Load Balancing upgrade process assumes the following conditions:
Your applications are running on an existing IIS 4.0 (on Windows NT 4.0) or IIS 5.0 (on Windows 2000).
You are upgrading the operating system and services running on your existing application servers.
The system resources of the computers in your existing application farm are sufficient, or can be upgraded, to support Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0.
You can upgrade a cluster by taking the entire cluster offline and upgrading all the hosts, or you can leave the cluster on line and perform a rolling upgrade. A rolling upgrade entails taking individual cluster hosts offline one at a time, upgrading each host, and returning the host to the cluster. You continue upgrading individual cluster hosts until the entire cluster is upgraded. A rolling upgrade allows the cluster to continue running during the upgrade.
The decision to use rolling upgrades is based on the applications and services running on your existing cluster. If the applications and services support rolling upgrades, then perform a rolling upgrade on the existing cluster. Otherwise, perform the upgrade process recommended for the applications and services running on the cluster. For more information on the upgrade process for the applications and services running on your cluster, see "Additional Resources for Deploying Network Load Balancing" later in this chapter.
Upgrade the cluster by using the information documented in the "NLB Cluster Host Worksheet" that your design team completed for each cluster host during the design process.


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Chicago Picasso
Located in the Daley Plaza, the sculpture was a gift from Pablo Picasso to Chicago. The untitled work by Picasso was dedicated in 1967; it is 58 feet tall and weighs 162 tons. Because the piece is untitled, many have speculated about what the sculpture actually depicts. In the book Picasso: The Real Family Story, Olivier Widmaier Picasso (Picasso's grandson) guesses that the sculpture was most likely inspired by Lydia Corbett, a woman whom Picasso admired for her long neck and stylish ponytail.
Fun Fact: Pablo Picasso never visited Chicago.
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A Review of Rob Napier, Mugunth Kumar's iOS 6 book; and advanced debugging with Python + LLDB
I have had the benefit of a sneak preview into Rob and Mugunth's upcoming book release -Â iOS 6 Programming Pushing the Limits: Advanced Application Development for Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPad Touch– which is an updated release to their successful iOS 5 pushing the limits series.
As any veteran programmers would know, one of the most important skills (among a multitude of skill requirements) to master is the art of debugging an application. Â Chapter 19 provides an excellent coverage of this topic in the context of iOS apps. Â Beginning with a conceptual introduction to LLDB (Apple's Lower Level Debugger) and the difference from the older version of the debugger – GDB – the chapter introduces the intermediate programmer to the actual mechanics of debugging with LLDB and the use of breakpoints (which is no different from the use of breakpoints from many other advanced editors or debugging tools).
Having mucked around with almost 5 conceptually simple iOS apps, I am no strange to using breakpoints to zero in on problems. Â What is interesting, however, is the detailed explanation of different types of breakpoints – exception breakpoints, symbolic breakpoints. Â Of particular interest and of learning value to me personally, is the use of Ctrl-Click + "share" on the breakpoint to write a breakpoint state into a `xcshareddata` directory, which can be saved into git and so shared with a fellow developer.
Watchpoints are also interesting to me, being useful for specifically tracking data mutation events – particularly for global variables that have changed, in the context of Singleton implementations, Core Data persistent store coordinators or API engines.
Advanced Use of Debugger through Python Scripting
For our normal, simple use cases, introspecting objects at breakpoints is a simple matter of typing
po myObject po myDictionary po myArray
For scalar variables (e.g. integers or structs), we will of course use
p (int) self.myAge p (CGPoint) self.view.center
What if we need to search through a very large array containing a large number of objects? Â This is where we might have problems manually reading the 10,000 objects that are printed out. Â In such a case, we can actually use Python to run a search. Â Jumpt into the python shell prompt from the lldb prompt by typing "script". Then, via the great example from the book:-
>>> import mypython_script >>> array  = lldb.frame.FindVariable("myArray") >>> yes_or_no = mypython_script.search_object(array, "<search element>")   # search_object is a method we write in our custom mypython_script .py file. >>> print yes_or_no
This nice little trick from the book goes straight into my personal bookmark.
Finishing Up
The chapter ties up neatly with an explanation of how NSZombieEnabled flag/environment variable is used to track objects in memory, a summary of various types of Application crashes one commonly encounters and how crash stacks can be collected – "natively" via iTunes as well as on 3rd party services like TestFlight and HockeyApp.
All-in-all, this is a must-have book for any professional iOS developer and certainly a level-up for me. Â I have merely covered specifically this one chapter of a very detailed and extensive pro manual and I am certainly looking forward to grabbing a copy (or receiving a copy free ;-)) from Mugunth. Â Grab it at Amazon.com if you think this is something that would help you build even more awesome iOS apps -Â iOS 6 Programming Pushing the Limits: Advanced Application Development for Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPad Touch.


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