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The ways may be set before thee—the choices must be taken of thine own
consciousness. Be aware of what ye would that the Lord would do with thee, what Thou
would do with the opportunities, the privileges He hath bestowed upon thee as one of His
children. Edgar Cayce Reading 1470-2
There is an old saying that often elegantly describes how many families communicate. It goes something
like this: I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what
you heard is not what I meant.
Confused? Join the club! Families are so busy these days with the mountain of things that just have to
be done that they may forget to actually listen to the details of conversations, and then things begin to
go awry.
What you frequently find is that people are not emotionally present. Their head is nodding but they are
not hearing you. It happens to everyone. Something else is dominating his or her mind and when you
think you have his or her attention, in truth, you don't. Even when you ask the person if they heard you
and you get a nod response, that does not mean that they heard you.
Parents get so concerned about their jobs, the family dynamics, keeping up with the neighbors, and
managing the politics of life that they miss the little clues that their spouse or kids are giving them that
would have tipped them off to a potential problem. Potential problems are not convenient, so it is just
easier to nod, or ignore the problem, or just say no, regardless of what it is. The problem is that when
you think you can ignore something, it comes back to haunt you later. Sometimes you have to deal with
something 'little' when it starts and you may discover that taking those few extra minutes
prevents/precludes something 'big' from ever happening. Let us look at this classic example:
A busy mom is getting her four-year old ready for pre-school. She is stressed. She has a big meeting
that morning and she needs her son to hurry. But her son says he doesn't want to go to school. He hates
school. Every other morning he just loves school, but not today. Today he hates it.
Here are her options:
In the first two options, mom's actions tell the child that she is not hearing him or cannot focus on his
needs. She has lost touch with that psychic sense that moms need to have to avert problems. Once she
gets to work, she tosses the situation off as an irritation. But it doesn't go away. Day after day, her son
becomes increasingly more adamant that he does not want to go back to that school. Finally he 'gets sick'
so he won't have to go to school. Now he is a behavior and a health problem for her—or that is her
perception. He is now costing her a lot of time way from work. At no time has she actually listened to
what he is trying desperately to tell her in his clumsy four-year old way. The child begins to lose faith in her
and their relationship just gets more difficult. This situation was a growth opportunity for both of them
and the mom in this case missed it—completely.
In the third option, the mom gets herself out of the way so that she can listen to her son all the way. In
that moment, she is completely present so that she can hear this child, on the physical and psychic level.
When she does this, she realizes that by analyzing his past behavior, she can see that he is genuinely
afraid. He is not making this up. What about her meeting? Hopefully, she has a backup plan and can call
a sitter and leave her son home for the day. Organized moms need to have a backup plan with little kids.
She goes to work and at lunchtime, she calls the school to let them know that her son won't be there and
to find out how things are. What she discovers chills her: three teachers quit, and now one teacher is
responsible for 35 small children. This mom also calls the teachers who quit and discovers to her horror,
that the school has changed policy and now leaves these little kids outside in the Charleston, South
Carolina summer heat for three hours at a time with no water. They are also yelling at the children. She
spends the rest of her lunch locating another pre-school. She has to take some time off to get him
installed in a new school but now every morning, he is happy to go to school.
She spent perhaps an extra five minutes of listening to her son initially. Five minutes of time. She was a
total of 30 minutes late that day. She was able to have her meeting and she felt good about it. What she
discovered about the school validated her faith in her son and her own psychic sense that truly,
something was very wrong. Her son was seldom if ever sick in his early years because he did not need
sickness to get his mom's attention. He was also seldom a behavior problem because he was able to
communicate his needs and be heard. In fact he was never a behavior problem even through his teenage
years. That critically important communication link was kept strong by direct and psychic communication
between parent and child.
*I am the mom in option three. This is a true story about my son, James now age 30. I was a Lieutenant in
the US Navy at the time and my husband was at sea. This situation taught me the value of believing in
my children from the time they were little.
TINA D. ERWIN, CDR, USN, Ret. has studied metaphysics all her life to enable her to understand her own psychic abilities. These intense studies were further enhanced by the experiences of a dynamic 20-year career in the Navy, working for the U.S. Submarine Force, retiring at the Commander level. Erwin is the author of the A.R.E. Press book, The Lightworker's Guide to Healing Grief.
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My problem says: "In the matrix $A \in M_{3\times3}$ the columns $c_1, c_2$ are linearly independent and $c_3=c_1+c_2$. Determine a basis in the $\operatorname{Null}(A)$."
Does this have an unique approach? I would solve this by choosing two independent vectors in $R^3$ and then computing the $c_3$. Is it the right approach?


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I've had a few undergraduate students ask me for references for the classical fact (due to Rado) that closed topological surfaces can be triangulated. I know two sources for this, namely Ahlfors's book on Riemann surfaces and Moise's book "Geometric topology in dimensions 2 and 3". Both of these strike me as being a bit much for a bright undergraduate. Question : in the 30+ years since Moise's book, has anyone written a more accessible account?
[Three years later …]
All the published proofs of triangulability of surfaces that I am aware of use the Schoenflies theorem, which is not exactly an easy thing to prove. There is however another line of proof which avoids the Schoenflies theorem and instead uses the Kirby torus trick that underlies Kirby-Siebenmann theory in higher dimensions. There is a 1974 paper by A.J.S.Hamilton that gives much simpler proofs of Moise's theorems on triangulability of 3-manifolds using the torus trick, and the same ideas can be applied even more simply for surfaces. Instead of the Schoenflies theorem one needs a few results about surfaces strictly in the PL (or smooth if one prefers) category. Namely, one needs to know that PL structures are unique up to PL homeomorphism in the following four cases: $S^1\times S^1$, $S^1\times{\mathbb R}$, $[0,1]\times{\mathbb R}$, and $D^2$. These can be regarded as special cases of the usual classification theorem for compact PL surfaces, extended to include a few noncompact cases.
I haven't seen this proof in the literature, so I've written it up and posted it on the arXiv here, working in the smooth category rather than the PL category.
It's not clear how suitable this proof would be for an undergraduate course. Besides the ingredients mentioned above, a little basic covering space theory is also needed. If one were in the fortunate position of already having covered these things, then this proof might be accessible to undergraduates. On the other hand, it could be of some interest to go through a proof of the often-quoted-but-seldom-proved Schoenflies theorem. (In this connection I might mention a paper by Larry Siebenmann on the Schoenflies theorem in the Russian Math Surveys in 2005, giving history as well as a proof.)
Try this book by Jean Gallier and Diana Xu. It is aimed at undergraduates and has a nice account of Thomassen's elementary proof of the triangulation theorem in the last appendix. Or you can refer the students to Thomassen's original paper which is also quite readable.
If you're okay going the extra step and assuming a smooth structure, the standard argument of Whitehead goes like this: take a smooth embedding of your manifold (of any dimension) into euclidean space. Triangulate Euclidean space, perturb the embedding to make it transverse to the skeleta of the triangulation. Refine the triangulation (barycentric subdivision) to the point where the embedding "looks linear" in each top-dimensional simplex. The triangulations of the simplices pulls-back to a polyhedral decomposition of the manifold, which you can subdivide to be a triangulation.
If you insist on going the extra step to topological manifolds you could smooth the topological structure. I believe much of that argument appears in Thurston's 3-dimensional geometry and topology book but I don't have it at home at the moment, and I don't remember.
There is a forthcoming undergraduate differential geometry book by Christian Baer (at the University of Potsdam, Germany) which is very nice; it gives a careful account of this theorem and a very accessible proof. If the book is not publically available, it should be soon.
What about the 1968 three-pages paper by Doyle and Moran?
The notes (in French) for Gramain's 1969-70 course, available at
seem to include a proof using Morse theory, based on a quick glance I made.


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I'm James; my wiki edits speak for me.
Projects and Unfinished Projects
- Co-Taught Linux System Administration as a class rather than a group discussion for two years with Jim.
- Helped create and run an early iteration of 'Linux 101 for Beginners' with Eric.
- Noisebridge 5-year Party and Benefit
- Noisebridge Summer Party 2013
- Wrote a song for Noisebridge at 5mof
Endorsements and Sponsorship
When I endorse someone as an associate member, I will add a link to their user page.


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WKU's International Student and Scholar Services are doing what they can to make sure the school's international students get a taste of the experience at their annual Traditional Thanksgiving Dinner. Naturally with any first meal experience there can be a little apprehension towards the food.
"I'm a vegetarian and I thought everything would be non-vegetarian and I was glad to see a lot of variety for me. I enjoyed the food. It was good." said Sneha Murthy, who is originally from India.
More than two hundred students attend the event every year and it's become a tradition for the students who come to WKU from around the globe to meet one another at the event.


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Setting up a Fusion Applications Development Environment
By John 'Jb' Brock-Oracle on May 21, 2012
With the release of Oracle Fusion Applications, there has also been the release of the Fusion Application extensions for JDeveloper. Installing and configuring these extensions is referred to as the FA Dev Environment.
One very important thing to note, is that creating extensions for Oracle Fusion Applications, is NOT the same as writing extensions for JDeveloper. You are writing and extending the Application functionality, using JDeveloper as the dev environment.
With that said, I wanted to still cover this topic in this blog, because it involves the installation and configuration of JDeveloper Extensions that help with the customization of those Fusion Applications.
Hope that makes sense. :-)
Downloading the proper version of JDeveloper and the FA Extensions
The version of JDeveloper and the FA Extensions is directly related to what version of Oracle Fusion Applications you have installed on the servers. You get the different releases, from the eDelivery website, under product pack Oracle Fusion Applications .
DO NOT download a version of JDeveloper off of the OTN website and use it to setup the Fusion Applications Dev environment.
No matter which version you download, you will need two different downloads.
- JDeveloper installer (Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Oracle Application Development Framework 11g)
- Fusion Application Extensions Bundle (Oracle Fusion Applications Companion 11g)
Part#: V28727-01 :: Oracle Fusion Applications Companion 11g (126.96.36.199.3)
Part#: V28726-01 :: Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Oracle Application Development Framework 11g (18.104.22.168.3) (Part 1 of 3)
Part#: V28726-01 :: Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Oracle Application Development Framework 11g (188.8.131.52.3) (Part 2 of 3)
Part#: V28726-01 :: Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Oracle Application Development Framework 11g (220.127.116.11.3) (Part 3 of 3)
Part #'s for FA V1 RUP2 on http://edelivery.oracle.com
Part#: V31524-01 :: Oracle Fusion Applications Companion 11g (188.8.131.52.1)
Part#: V31523-01 :: Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Oracle Application Development Framework 11g (220.127.116.11.1) (Part 1 of 3)
Part#: V31523-01 :: Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Oracle Application Development Framework 11g (18.104.22.168.1) (Part 2 of 3)
Part#: V31523-01 :: Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Oracle Application Development Framework 11g (184.108.40.206.1) (Part 3 of 3)
Part#: V31981-01 :: Oracle Fusion Applications Companion 11g (220.127.116.11.2)
Part#: V31980-01 :: Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Oracle Application Development Framework 11g (22.214.171.124.2) (Part 1 of 3)
Part#: V31980-02 :: Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Oracle Application Development Framework 11g (18.104.22.168.2) (Part 2 of 3)
Part#: V31980-03 :: Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Oracle Application Development Framework 11g (18.104.22.168.2) (Part 3 of 3)
(Other releases that come out after this posting will be found in the same http://edelivery.oracle.com location, with newer part numbers. The naming should remain the same)
TIP: If you are installing on Windows only, you can just download the companion archive and Part 3 of 3 for the JDeveloper IDE. Part 1 is the .jar installer and Part 2 is the .bin installer for other operating systems.
Once you have the appropriate bits downloaded, and extracted, you can start the steps for getting everything installed and configured.
Installing JDeveloper and FA Dev Extensions
This is a pretty normal step. Just install JDeveloper as you would on any other machine. With one exception:
- Do not install JDeveloper into a path that contains spaces (the default is C:\Oracle\Middleware)
The entire process for setting the proper environment variables and setting up the Update Center for installing the FA Dev Extensions, is described in detail in the online documentation under the Setting Up Your Development Environment section.
A couple of things to watch for when setting up the environment listed in the docs.
- Do Not include the quotes " " around the values for USER_MEM_ARGS variable on Windows. This is a typo in the docs.
- It is best to use the JDK that ships with JDeveloper on Windows. You do not need to use a 64bit JDK. For other operating systems make sure you use something equal to or above jdk160_24
- When the docs tell you to change directories to $MW_HOME/jdeveloper/jdev/bin and run JDeveloper, this is mainly for non-Windows OS's. However if you do run on Windows from a command window it could allow you to see some of the error messages if there are any. You can still run JDev from the Start Menu if you like.
Configuring the Fusion Domain
Once you've installed the FA Dev Extensions, and restarted JDeveloper, you select either the "Oracle Fusion Applications Developer" or "Oracle Fusion Applications Administrator Customization" role at startup.
As you will see in step of 7 of the online documentation, you will now be prompted to configure the Weblogic Server. This involves filling out the Fusion Domain Configuration wizard and letting it do it's thing.
A couple of things to watch for before and during the running of the domain config wizard
- Make sure you have Python 2.7.2 or higher installed in a path that does not contain spaces.
- DO NOT use Python 3.x
- Take a look at your system PATH environment variable and remove any entries that have spaces in them
- The easiest way to do this on Windows is to open a command window and set the PATH variable to just contain "." and the path to your Python installation. (e.g. set PATH=.;c:\python272 )
- Then start JDeveloper from this command window
- When you run the Fusion Domain Configuration wizard, you will be given an option to test the connection to the application server on one of the pages. If it fails during the tests, but you know FOR SURE that you have the login credentials correct, try entering the IP address of the host instead of the hostname in the connection URL. We have seen some DNS issues cause errors during the test page.
Follow all of the tips above and you should get the domain configured and extended properly.
There are always exceptions to the rule. If you run into issues, try looking at these tips.
Error logs
There are two different types of log files that can help find an answer to whatever issue you are running into. Server logs, and config logs
- D:\jdevuserhome\system22.214.171.124.38.61.26\DefaultDomain\servers\DefaultServer\logs
- D:\jdevuserhome\system22.214.171.124.38.61.26\o.apps.fadev.11.1.1
Some common error messages
"...\Java\jre6\lib\ext\QTJava.zip was unexpected at this time."
This error is usually caused by the QT entry in the CLASSPATH containing spaces. You can get around this by removing the Quicktime/QT entry from the end of the CLASSPATH
"... wlst create default authenticator failed"
"java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The provider OIDAuthenticator already exists"
"OracleScriptingException: The MBean oracle.wsm:*,name=WSMDocumentManager,type=Repository was not found."
All of the above errors, or errors similar that mention *wsm* are usually caused by the owsm_mds schema not existing. If you look at the Dev Guide, in section 22.214.171.124, it explains that this schema is usually not available in production or test databases. The Fusion install doesn't create it in the starter database; it's expected to be in the IDM database. Go back and read this section of the Dev Guide to install and configure the owsm_mds schema.
The configuration script seems to just hang while running "FADevConfigure.py"
If you followed the tips and hints above, you shouldn't hit this issue. However if you do, make sure you go back and check to see if you have quotes around any of your Windows environment variables, and if your PATH setting has spaces in it.
When testing your application server connection you see something like:
Testing JSR-160 Runtime ... failed
Cannot establish connection.
Testing JSR-160 DomainRuntime ... skipped
Testing JSR-88 ... skipped
Testing JSR-88-LOCAL ... skipped
Testing JNDI ... skipped
Testing JSR-160 Edit ... skipped
Testing HTTP ... success
Testing Server MBeans Model ... skipped
Testing App Controller ... success
This is usually solved by setting the IP address of the application server in the connection URL instead of the hostname.
With the tips and hints listed above, along with the common error messages in the troubleshooting section, you should be able to get up and running pretty quickly. If you run into other issues setting up the development environment, please don't hesitate to drop a comment below. Please DO NOT ask me questions about how to do the customization of the FA applications themselves. If you're trying to edit files, I'm not going to be the person to help you out with that.
Special Thanks to Oliver Steinmeier for a lot of the answers and troubleshooting of customer issues internally, so that we can compile these types of lists.


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I would like an explicit description of $\mathbb{R} SO(n) I_n$, i.e., the image of the identity under the action of the group algebra of $SO(n)$ by left multiplication. Equivalently, what is an explicit description of the vector space $\{\sum_i c_i A_i: A_i \in SO(n)\}$? Presumably this is well-known and in the context of all compact simple Lie groups? I need this to understand some continuous state space Markov chain of particle systems.
Edit: to those who vote to close, please state reason. If you have a one-liner answer, why not give it a shot? I will close it myself when I see a satisfactory response.


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When dealing with several numbers and long equations, it's common to make careless arithmetic mistakes that give the wrong answer. I was wondering if anyone had tips to catch these mistakes, or even better avoid them more often. (aside from the obvious checking your work- that's a must)
There are certain quick methods called sanity checks which will catch most (but not all) arithmetic errors. One common one is to replace each number with the sum of its digits, which is the "casting out nines" method mentioned in Robert Israel's answer. To check a computation, say $567\times 894=506,898$, we replace $567$ with $5+6+7=18$ and $894$ with $8+9+4=21$, and then replace each of these with the sum of their digits to get $9$ and $3$ (in general we keep doing this until we get down to $1$ digit), while on the other side we get $5+0+6+8+9+8=36$ and then $3+6=9$. We then check that $9\times 3=9$ after casting out nines on both sides, and so our answer is probably right (though not necessarily). This method is called "casting out nines" because it ensures that whatever answer you are checking differs from the actual answer by a multiple of nine (hopefully $0\times 9$).
However, this method has a serious drawback: if the answer you are checking is correct except for having the digits switched around (a relatively common error) the method will not catch the error. A remedy for this is to use "casting out elevens" where you take the alternating sums of the digits instead of the sums, such that the last digit is always added rather than subtracted. In our previous example, this becomes $5-6+7=6$, $8-9+4=3$ and $5+0-6+8-9+8=-4$. Here we have to be a little careful: we want to take the equation $6\times 3-(-4)=0$, cast out elevens (take the alternating sum) and verify that the the resulting equation holds, which in this case it does. We move everything to one side so that we don't have to work with numbers of different signs ($6\times 3=-4$ is true $\bmod 11$, which is what matters, but it is not obvious how to cast out elevens to show this). This ensures that whatever answer you are checking differs from the actual answer by a multiple of eleven (hopefully $0\times 11$), hence the name.
Edit: These methods can both be made rigrous with modular arithmetic. The first simple checks that an equation holds $\bmod 9$, and adding the digits comes from the fact that $$\begin{eqnarray} d_n\cdots d_1d_0 &=& \sum\limits_{i=1}^n 10^id_i\\ &\equiv& \sum\limits_{i=1}^n 1^id_i (\bmod 9)\\ &=&\sum\limits_{i=1}^n d_i \end{eqnarray}$$ while the second checks that an equation holds $\bmod 11$, and the alternating sum of the digits comes from the fact that $$\begin{eqnarray} d_n\cdots d_1d_0 &=& \sum\limits_{i=1}^n 10^id_i\\ &\equiv& \sum\limits_{i=1}^n (-1)^id_i (\bmod 11) \end{eqnarray}$$
Credit where credit is due: I believe I read about this years ago in a question to Dr. Math from an elementary school teacher who had been teaching the method and wanted to know how it worked.
In my experience, the best way to avoid computational errors is to avoid computation. Develop general algorithms for whatever quantity that you are looking for and then proceed to "plug and chug" as the last step. Mathematics requires precision, however, and you often cannot avoid having to comb over your work tediously.
I have found the best way to avoid these types of computational mistakes is:
I believe that if you write things down in a clear way, then you will think in a clear way; and if you write in a sloppy way, you will think in a sloppy way.
In my opinion, for research, use a computer. Your brain is just never going to be perfect.
For exams, though, go through the common computations lots of times before an exam, for instance if you have a linear algebra exam, it is wise to compute matrix inverses a few times (say like 20-40 times depending on your brain's capacity to compute) to be at ease with the algorithmic details and be able to focus on the numbers more easily during computation.
But then again, even if you've practiced for a week, a month later, I've already lost the habit of computing the thing in question and start abusing my brain like nuts to compute...
Hope that helps!
One simple tool that catches many arithmetic mistakes is "casting out nines". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casting_out_nines
One way to check arithmetic calculations in a ring is to map the computation homomorphically into rings where calculation is easier. For example, many rings have parity, i.e. have $\mathbb Z/2$ as an image, and mapping the arithmetic mod $2$ yields a simple parity check that often catches errors. Casting nines is another example of a modular arithmetic check (which also works for fractions whose denominator is coprime to $9$). More generally one can verify equalities using a sufficient number of modular checks, by employing CRT (Chinese Remainder). For polynomial rings one can similarly apply evaluation maps as checks. Again, with enough evaluations, one can verify equalities (which here is CRT = Lagrange interpolation).
Like CRT, such factorizations or decompositions of an algebraic structure into simpler structures is a powerful problem-solving technique, applicable not only to checking arithmetic, but also quite generally. It is the algebraists way to divide-and-conquer. When combined with a little logic this yields even greater power. One nontrivial example is the model-theoretic proof of Jacobson's theorem, that rings satisfying the identity $\rm\:x^m = x \:$ are commutative. This proceeds by a certain type of ring factorization, which reduces the problem to the (subdirectly) irreducible rings satisfying the identity. These turn out to be certain finite fields, which are commutative, as desired. In a sense, the proof works by exploiting the fact that the statement need only be checked on a certain set of simpler cases (finite fields), where the verification is much easier. Thus this can be seen as a grand generalization of the ideas employed in the more elementary cases above.
You should also check out Vedic maths
You can always use all kinds of computer applications, but those only help you if you have them around.
I suppose that you're talking about making calculations on paper or in head, and I would have one suggestion here, which proved to be more than excellent for me.
It's quite simple: concentration, concentration, concentration.
You have to think about what you're computing, and nothing else. It may sound stupid, but you will be suprised about your own mental power if you stay in absolute focus.
Good luck!
As mentioned in other answers computers are very good at arithmetic. If such devices are not available try to calculate the answer in several different ways or at least do the steps in a different order. If you always get the same answer it is likely to be correct. If the answers are different investigate the source of the difference. Casting out nines will not catch transposition errors but it will catch carrying errors.
After writing the above I recalled this graphical method of multiplication: Multiplication by counting points .
I use checksums for memory operations.
A simple example is whenever my wife gives me a long verbal list of groceries to buy, I count the total. If a big number say > 20 items, then split into 3 categories. If I pretend a simple sum is easy to remember for short term memory, then I can accumulate or count down until the process ( in this case; simple remember, search and fetch) as long as I remember the total number of items, I rarely forget one. For fun I may remember the word I can spell with the 1st letter of each item. This gives more redundancy and checksum info in an easy way to remember.
The challenge is to count brackets, variables & transforms and visualize the process as your checksums.
I often apply a simple intuitive check at the end of my calculations to make sure that at the coarsest level the answer makes sense.
For example:
While these checks are not as sensitive as some of the other examples, they can catch a lot of careless mistakes and have the advantage of forcing one to think about and understand what the calculations are doing and what type of answer should make sense.
One technique that's under-hyped is to simply redo the calculation on a separate sheet of paper without looking at your prior calculations. You are still vulnerable to committing the same error but it'll catch frivolous one's quite well.
When doing algebraic computations, for example when finding the partial fraction decomposition of a certain expression, something I find helpful is to substitute a certain number and see if the two expressions match.
For example to "verify" $\frac{1}{(1+x)(5+x)}=\frac{1}{4(x+1)}-\frac{1}{4(x+5)}$, you may want to substitute in some value of x, say $x=9$, and see that both sides become $1/140$.


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Former News Corp. Executives to be Charged in Bribery Probe
LONDON—British prosecutors charged two former top executives of News Corp.'s U.K. newspaper unit and others with crimes as part of a bribery probe, expanding their criminal prosecution to include journalists at the company's tabloid the Sun.
Prosecutors charged Rebekah Brooks, former editor of the Sun who later rose to lead News Corp.'s U.K. newspaper unit, with "conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office" from 2004 to 2012. The charge relates to £100,000 ($159,000) in bribes allegedly paid by the Sun to a Defense Ministry official for information that "formed the basis of a series of news stories" in the newspaper, the Crown Prosecution Service said Tuesday.
The Defense Ministry official, Bettina Jordan-Barber, and John Kay, who prosecutors described as the chief reporter at the Sun from 1990 to 2011, were charged with the same crime, prosecutors said.
Andy Coulson, who was editor of the News of the World tabloid from 2003 to 2007, was charged with two counts of "conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office" in relation to payments to public officials in exchange for information, including a private phone directory that included contact details for the royal family, prosecutors said. After leaving News Corp., Mr. Coulson later served as U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron's top communications adviser until he resigned that post in 2011.
Former News of the World royals correspondent Clive Goodman was charged with two counts of the same crime in relation to the same payments, prosecutors said. His lawyer didn't respond to a request to comment. Prosecutors didn't name or charge the public officials Messrs. Coulson and Goodman allegedly paid.
The charges are the latest fallout from the broad scandal that engulfed News Corp. last year over alleged illegal reporting tactics at its U.K. tabloids. Allegations of illegally intercepting mobile-phone voice-mail messages caused the company to shut its News of the World tabloid in July 2011. Ms. Brooks and Mr. Coulson already face previous charges as part of the phone-hacking portion of the investigations.
The new charges mark the first criminal proceedings involving activity at the Sun, which remains open and is an important title for News Corp. as Britain's best-selling paper. The charges also extend the shelf life of the scandal, which is already due to run into next fall, when the trials involving phone-hacking charges are scheduled to take place.
Among those charged on Tuesday, only Mr. Coulson responded publicly. In a statement issued by his lawyers, Mr. Coulson said: "I am extremely disappointed by this latest CPS decision. I deny the allegations made against me and will fight the charges in court."
A representative for Ms. Brooks didn't comment. A U.K. Defense Ministry spokeswoman declined to comment on the charges or on whether Ms. Jordan-Barber was still employed by the ministry. Mr. Kay didn't respond to an emailed request to comment.
A spokeswoman for News Corp.'s U.K. newspaper unit declined to comment, but said Mr. Kay is still employed by the company.
A LinkedIn profile lists Ms. Jordan-Barber's position at the Defense Ministry as deputy team leader and strategy officer. It also lists another position: Afghanistan visits strategy officer. She didn't immediately respond to a request to comment sent via the social-networking site.
News Corp. owns Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
Police opened a probe into possible bribery at News Corp. titles including the Sun in the summer of 2011. In addition to their phone-hacking and bribery investigations, police are also probing the possible illegal interception of email messages and possible attempts to obstruct justice.
Overall, police and prosecutors have arrested 52 people and charged six people with crimes in the bribery probe. They have arrested 25 people and charged eight former News of the World journalists with crimes in the phone-hacking probe. They have arrested 17 people in a probe of alleged email and other hacking, and they have arrested eight and charged seven with crimes in the obstruction of justice investigation.
In July, Ms. Brooks was charged with three counts of conspiracy to intercept communications, dating primarily to her tenure as News of the World editor, from 2000 to 2002. Prosecutors have accused her of conspiring with Mr. Coulson, a private investigator and members of the News of the World staff to intercept the voice-mail messages of Milly DowlerBritish schoolgirl who went missing in 2002 and later turned out to have been murdered. Prosecutors have also accused Ms. Brooks of conspiring with a private investigator and News of the World editor to intercept the voice-mail messages of former trade union leader Andrew Gilchrist
"I am not guilty of these charges," Ms. Brooks said in a statement in July. "I did not authorize, nor was I aware of, phone hacking under my editorship."
At the same time, Mr. Coulson was charged with five counts of conspiracy to intercept communications. Prosecutors have accused him of involvement in a conspiracy to hack Milly Dowler's voice mail, and have accused him of conspiring to intercept the voice-mail messages of a reality TV star and British politicians David Blunkettand Charles Clarke
"I will fight these allegations when they eventually get to court," Mr. Coulson said in July. Separately, he has been charged with perjury by authorities in Scotland—an allegation his lawyer says he plans to contest.
In May, Ms. Brooks was charged with three counts of conspiracy to obstruct justice in relation to the phone-hacking investigation. Prosecutors accused her, her husband Charlie Brooks, her former personal assistant, her driver, and security personnel who worked for News Corp.'s U.K. newspaper unit of conspiring to impede the criminal probe last year.
Prosecutors also accused Ms. Brooks of conspiring to conceal material from police, including documents, computers and other electronic equipment.
Mr. and Ms. Brooks and Mr. Coulson have in the past denied wrongdoing and said they would fight the charges.
"I feel today is an attempt to use me and others as scapegoats, the effect of which will be to ratchet up the pressure on my wife, who I also believe is the subject of a witch-hunt," Mr. Brooks said in May.
Many of the other defendants have issued written public statements denying wrongdoing.
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Sat, 01/26/2013 - 21:01
As far as I know, no such tuorial exists (yet).
Sun, 01/27/2013 - 01:00
Not sure how colour correction is anything to do with alpha channel.
But ...
I wrote up what I taught myself about alpha channels gorey details with respect to the alpha shapes effect at
That experience taught me a lot about alpha channel effects. Might be worth a read.
I also curated together 4 tutorials on blue screen at
Mon, 01/28/2013 - 09:30
Selective color adjustments don't need an alpha channel it can just be via a matrix. In terms of using an alpha channel for color correction I think searching mattes and masks will provide some ideas. Your T shirt example, if selective color adjustment is not an option then roto'ing the area or pulling a chromakey matte as a mask and overlay then affect color through the matte.
What would be useful is an adjustment layer like AE and Photoshop and ability to use a mask without another overlay.
Perhaps this is possible already in kdenlive, rarely use color correction in kdenlive as its 8bit. Hopefully MLT GLSL will land soon and speed it up and improve precision and jbm's tracking feature will enable track mattes to be used.
Mon, 01/28/2013 - 11:02
"How about Alphain Alphaout Alphaover alphaxor alphaatop ???"
Dunno anything about them.
Maybe you can write them up when you figure them out. :-)
Some data on these transitions at http://www.mltframework.org/bin/view/MLT/PluginsTransitions
Mon, 01/28/2013 - 14:12
For an explanation of alpha compositing modes see here:
but I think Composite is the mode to use for color correction.
RGB adjustment has an "alpha controlled" option, enabling some secondary correction to be done without compositing.
Mon, 01/28/2013 - 21:26
The guy in the video got it a bit wrong: the "selection on checkers" mode is only intended as a kind of setup and debugging tool, to see where your alpha is transparent and check what the alpha operations are doing, etc.
To see the composite, it should be off - the selected display mode in the alpha operations plugin should be "image".
Also, in Kdenlive the alpha transparency is not automatic, you must add a "composite" transition.
Mon, 01/28/2013 - 21:41
I think there is a bug with the Composite transition : cf. http://kdenlive.org/forum/composite-behaviour-3-tracks
Mon, 01/28/2013 - 22:12
You will not see any thing for alpha effects until you have
1. an alpha channel defined on a clip,
2. Overlapping clips
3. Some sort of transition between them
So you would only expect to see stuff at 60% in you YouTube clip where you have the green,red and alpha in transition.
From my reading of the frieOr doco alphain, alphaover etc transitions are providing the different alpha composting modes - the ones documented in Mario's wiki link. Many of these operations are provided in the composite transition. And are also available from the alpha shapes effect which I think you are using.
If you have a look at the user base article on alpha shapes I mention how the alpha operations modes are only really relevant when you combine multiple alpha channels. The operations define how alpha info from two different tracks are to be combined.
And I am guessing that this also the case with the alphain' alpha or etc transitions.
So you might start to see some effect of the alpha in if you have three tracks - two with alpha shapes on them.
I suspect not too many people use the alphain' alpha or etc because composite does the same things.
But the other thing to note is that preview of alpha effect is for me sometimes dodgy due to what looks like a bug. See the user base article on alpha effects. You might find the result of the alpha compositing different to the preview when you render it.


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I was wondering if there were any African American LEGO minifigures besides the ones from the sports basketball series... I got a brown head from a LEGO Stormtrooper set instead of a black one. I then painted it. Do any other sets have them?
Are there any African American LEGO minifigures besides the ones from the "Sports" basketball series?
There are a few on Bricklink, if you search by part colour:
And the standard smiley is also available.
If you search for the older Brown colour (instead of the current Reddish Brown) you find that there are basically only the very rare Lando head, as well as the old NBA heads.
Minifigs from licensed sets are made to look like their license counterparts, so there are some there, most notably Star Wars Mace Windu and Lando Calrissian which have both been made in 4 different versions.
There's also one in Prince of Persia: Seso, and maybe you can count the gunner zombie from Pirates of the Carribean.
As for non-licensed sets, I don't see any other than the NBA ones.


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6 Insane (But Convincing) Theories on Children's Pop Culture
We here at Cracked certainly aren't strangers to overanalyzing pop culture. In fact, we once suggested that the Harry Potter books imply that one of the characters was sexually assault by centaurs. But we always assumed that such humorous wastes of time were below actual smart people with, like, Ph.D.s and bow ties.
Unfortunately, it turns out that many well-adjusted, serious academics really are spending their free time running around and ruining the stuff we loved as kids with their brains. Unfortunatelier, when you actually hear their arguments, you almost want to agree with them that ...
#6. Donald Duck Promotes Soulless Capitalism
Aside from being an uncredited creator of Inception, Donald Duck is one of the most beloved cartoon characters in the world. But Ariel Dorfman (an Argentine-Chilean novelist/activist) and Armand Mattelart (a Belgian sociologist) have this crazy theory that the comic book adventures of a violent, pantsless sailor might actually be inappropriate for children.
Like a hysterical news story, we present this out-of-context screenshot as evidence.
According to the authors, Donald Duck cartoons might as well be the talking-duck version of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. In their book How to Read Donald Duck (Para leer al Pato Donald), the Dynamic Deconstruction Duo claim that Donald and friends teach kids that a person's value is dependent entirely on how much money he or she has, and that in the pursuit of money, there is no room for things like family or love, only for blind self-interest.
"He knew no weapons but to pay for what he wanted. While pantsless."
Why It's Not That Crazy:
Have you ever noticed that there aren't any parents in Donald Duck cartoons and comics? Scrooge, for example, is Donald's uncle, who in turn is an uncle to Huey, Dewey and Louie, a first cousin to Gladstone Gander and a boyfriend (but never husband) to Daisy, who herself has three nieces, April, May and June (because fuck it, picking out baby names is hard). That means that the world these characters live in is essentially devoid of any real families and populated solely by orphans. Without parents and nepotism, each duck is left alone to constantly compete against the others for wealth and status. That's basically an ideal stage for, yes, really sad nightmares, but also capitalism: If you start with what you believe to be a completely level playing field (in this case, a world without parents where everyone starts out with the same chances in an orphanage), those who are strongest and smartest, and work the hardest, have the best chance of succeeding (where "succeeding" here means "making all of the money in the world").
"And while you're at it, see if you can't bump up the Mouse's copyright a few years."
The anti-capitalist characters in Atlas Shrugged are portrayed as spineless, worthless moochers. Likewise, Donald is depicted as an eternal loser because he can't hold a steady job and is always in debt to his uncle. Scrooge, on the other hand, is the richest duck in the world, happily spending all of his free time becoming even richer. In DuckTales, every single episode is basically about Scrooge and the nephews hunting for treasure or protecting Scrooge's money or diving into giant swimming pools of coins (something that almost certainly would have happened in Shrugged had it not been cut to make room for 25,000 words about the tensile strength of railroad tracks).
The comics aren't any better: In Dorfman and Mattelart's analysis, the entire plot of 75 percent of the comics centered around the ducks looking for money and gold. The other 25 percent were about "competing for fortune," which is apparently considered different.
"Maybe start by handing over that crown."
In Atlas Shrugged, extraordinary people demonstrate their extraordinariness by making all of the money in the world and sharing it with no one. The conclusion reached by the end of the novel is that anyone who isn't a superman should either worship the supermen or stay out of their way, and if the unfortunately average people die in the process, oh well.
This must be where Scrooge differs from Shrugged, right? It's not like Scrooge would ever be that heartless, right? What's that? Scrooge acquired his wealth by conducting genocide in Africa? Oh.
"Of course my culture is worth squat! How did you know?"
#5. Everyone in Winnie the Pooh Is a Textbook Example of a Common Psychiatric Disorder
In the December 2000 edition of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, the joint teams of Dalhousie University's Pediatrics Department published a study that diagnosed the characters in Winnie the Pooh with crippling mental problems. No, we also have no idea why would they do such a horrible thing.
This group of trained doctors diagnosed Pooh with ADHD; Eeyore, obviously, with depression; Christopher Robin with schizophrenia ...
The doctors themselves were diagnosed with too much free time.
... and Tigger with hyperactivity-impulsivity, among others.
Why It's Not That Crazy:
It's not like they had to stretch to find the appropriate diagnoses. These are the primary colors of the crazy spectrum, and each character embodies his specific disorder with pretty much every single line.
Let's start with the obvious and look at some Eeyore quotes:
1) "I'm telling you. People come and go in this forest, and they say. 'It's only Eeyore, so it doesn't count.'"
2) "Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning," he said. "Which I doubt," said he.
"Why, what's the matter?"
"Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it."
"Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose.
"Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush."
"Well, that's nice. We're off to find out where wind comes from. Suck it!"
Holy shit.
Let's take a look at Piglet, who, as the study claims, "Clearly suffers from generalized anxiety disorder." According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, some of the criteria for GAD include excessive worry, inability to control said worry and an impairment of occupational/social areas of functioning. Now, here's a quick recap of some of the Piglet-centered episodes from Pooh's animated TV series:
"Pooh Oughta Be in Pictures" -- Piglet becomes frightened that monsters from a movie he saw are real.
"Gone With the Wind" -- Piglet becomes afraid of going outside.
"A Very, Very Large Animal" -- Piglet worries that he is too small so he leaves the forest.
"Goodbye Cruel World" -- Piglet commits suicide.
You can't be depressed when there's free bacon laying around, Eeyore.
OK, we might have made up that last one, but it's not that far off, seeing as studies show that generalized anxiety disorder is often a side symptom of major depression and substance abuse.
It's for this reason that Piglet should at all times be kept away from Tigger, who the researchers diagnosed with ADHD of the hyperactive-impulsive subtype, based on his history of risk-taking behavior. For example, when Tigger first arrived in the Hundred Acre Wood, he had no idea what Tiggers normally eat, so he tasted fuck everything he could find, including thistles.
And fat, useless bears.
The diagnosis is also based on the fact that he regularly barges into people's houses, commits crimes so he can later play detective ("Tigger, Private Ear") and once even endangered the entire forest by keeping a vicious termite as a pet ("Tigger's House Guest").
To be clear, the researchers aren't just arbitrarily psychoanalyzing these fictional stuffed animals. The point is that each character clearly represents the different extremes in mental illness. It's almost like they're trying to provide children with a way to articulate their own budding illnesses. It's much more likely that a 6-year-old will say "Mommy, I feel like Eeyore today," instead of "Mommy, I fear I suffer from clinical depression."
"Don't worry, I totally got this."
#4. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Is a Political Satire
A book as bizarre as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, with its winged monkeys and self-mutilating cyborgs, had to attract some crackpot interpretations over the years, the most popular of which is that L. Frank Baum's 1900 classic is secretly about the Populist movement.
The late-19th century Populists fought for the rights of the poverty-stricken Midwestern farmers and industrial workers, who are supposedly represented in the book by the Scarecrow and the Tin Man. Dorothy, the only normal character in Oz, was the everyman, and the twister that carried her from Kansas was meant to represent the "storm of Populism" sweeping across the states in the 1890s.
Some people dismiss it as one big straw man argument.
This interpretation has actually been repeated by educators, an assistant professor of history and even a professor of economics from Rutgers University.
Why It's Not That Crazy:
A big part of 19th century Populism was adding silver to the nation's gold standard in order to help the economy, and, well, did you know that in the book, Dorothy's magic slippers were actually silver instead of ruby? And what does the main character do with this silver object of great power? She "walks over" the Yellow Brick (i.e. gold) Road. Right over it.
The economy back then was selfishly guarded by Technicolor dwarfs.
Then there are the little touches, like how "Oz" is actually an abbreviation for an ounce of, for example, gold. And Dorothy walks all over a road of yellow bricks down to a path that is ultimately unfulfilling. The road of gold leads to an empty promise (and also there are monkey attacks).
Then there's this guy:
Sir Thaddeus Snoot von Deadeyes.
That's William Jennings Bryan, a leader of the Populist movement who was occasionally portrayed in the press as a lion.
The only guy with a mane and a comb-over.
Because Bryan was also often accused of being "cowardly" for opposing the war with Spain and annexing the Philippines to the U.S., some think that the character of the Cowardly Lion is actually based on him. Conversely, the Wicked Witch of the West is allegedly representing the backers of the gold standard because she controls the winged monkeys with a magical golden cap.
We are the 99 percent! Occupy Oz!


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(BOSTON) The Boston Conservatory Opera Program presents Maurice Ravel's L'Heure espagnole and L'Enfant et les sortilèges on Feb. 2—4, at 8 p.m. and Feb. 5 at 2 p.m. at The Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway St., in Boston's Fenway neighborhood. Press night is Feb. 2. Conducted by The Boston Conservatory's new Director of Opera Studies, Andrew Altenbach. Nathan Troup directs. Sung in French with English surtitles. Tickets, which go on sale Jan. 18, are $25 general admission, $15 for seniors and $10 for all students with valid ID, and are available by phone at 617-912-9222 or at http://bostonconservatory.ticketforce.com/.
Maurice Ravel wrote only two operas, but each is a gem of orchestral color, inventive storytelling and his unique compositional voice. Lust, time management and an obliging work ethic drive the racy libretto of the delightfully frisky one-act L'Heure espagnole (The Spanish Hour). The fast-moving comedy involves a woman juggling suitors as her clockmaker husband is off tending to the clocks around town.
A story by Colette that is part fairy tale and part nightmare comes to life in L'Enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Spells). Inanimate objects come to life when a child, fed up with doing his homework, throws a temper tantrum. All the things he has damaged start to voice their objections: a broken cup and teapot, a shepherd and shepherdess from the wallpaper he ripped, a battered armchair and the princess from the torn pages of a story book.
Andrew Altenbach is one of the rising conductors and musical leaders of his generation. Recent guest conducting engagements have included the Memphis and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras, as well as a continued cover conductor relationship with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO). After two very successful seasons with the St.Cloud Symphony Orchestra, Altenbach assumed his new appointment as Music Director of Opera Studies at The Boston Conservatory in the fall of 2011. Last summer, Altenbach was the associate conductor of the world-renowned Grand Teton Music Festival under Maestro Donald Runnicles. He has conducted the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minneapolis Musical Offering Series and Brevard Music Center Orchestra. Altenbach has held previous posts as music director for the North Shore Chamber Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, assistant conductor to the Evanston Symphony and conducting fellow of the prestigious Chautauqua Institution.
Equally comfortable in the opera pit, Altenbach recently guest conducted at Opera Birmingham, Indiana University Opera Theatre and the Temple University Opera Theatre. After making his international debut conducting La bohème at Opera Africa in Johannesburg, he returned there in the summer of 2011 to conduct Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro. He has been the associate conductor of Central City Opera for the past two seasons, conducting numerous performances and serving as the company's chorus master. For two seasons, he was associate conductor of the Minnesota Opera, giving numerous performances and serving as the company chorus master. He also music directed Die Entführung aus dem Serail with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Opera to rave reviews. Recently, Altenbach served on the conducting/coaching staffs of the Santa Fe Opera, Music Academy of the West, Cincinnati Opera and San Francisco Opera Merola Program, in addition to guest conducting for the Milwaukee Opera Theatre and Opera on the James. At Indiana University, Altenbach became the first student in the school's history to music direct for the opera department, and his conducting of Cosi fan tutte earned him recognition in Opera Now magazine under "Who's Hot."
Nathan Troup joined the opera faculty of The Boston Conservatory in fall 2011, and currently serves on the faculty of the Boston University Opera Institute. A proponent of new works, he recently served as program assistant for New York City's American Lyric Theatre and served as dramatic coach for the series of premiere pieces Opera in Eden performed at Symphony Space in June 2011. Troup's work achieved national attention with his original staging of Curtis K. Hughes' Say It Ain't So, Joe (a new work based on the Sarah Palin/Joe Biden 2008 Vice Presidential debates) commissioned by Guerilla Opera. He recently staged Carmen for Boston Opera Collaborative. Troup's staging of Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King for Collage New Music received "Best of Boston 2009" recognition from the Boston Phoenix. Troup has directed Dido and Aeneas and Gianni Schicchi and has assisted main stage productions of Così fan tutte, The Magic Flute, La Bohème, Il Barbieri di Siviglia, Lucia di Lammermoor and Susannah at Boston University's Opera Institute. He has also assistant directed for Opera Boston and served on the opera faculty of the New England Conservatory and as guest director at Webster University in St. Louis. Troup is dedicated to fostering arts and artists within the local and global communities and serves as an outreach educator in youth juvenile detention facilities.
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How should I politely ask for someone's time to interrupt them, like in English:
Do you have a minute?
May I bother you for a moment even though you're quite busy?
How should I politely ask for someone's time to interrupt them, like in English:
When I want to interrupt someone in front of me I would say:
The leading word (not important which one you choose) gets attention to the question itself. To make the question polite, it's important to give it a polite pronunciation. I would not tell the guy that he's busy, he knows it himself.
From my own experience as a busy person I do not recommend lengthy apologies as these even if they may be polite tend to raise my pulse by at least 10 beats.
Depending on how busy the person is you are interrupting you should keep the interruption as short as possible. Therefore it is perfectly alright and accepted as polite enough if you just say:
In a less formal setting (usually when you address people with "Du" but also possible with people you don't know) you may just ask
Unabhängig, wie du jemanden unterbrichst, bedenke, dass du es schon in dem Moment getan hast, wenn du sowas wie Do you have a minute? sagst/fragst. Nicht selten bekommst du eine Antwort in der Form: "Eigentlich nicht, aber jetzt hast du mich ja schon unterbrochen."
In Ergänzung zu den bereits erwähnten Möglichkeiten (In addition to the mentioned possibilities):
vorangehende Frage / precedent question:
ohne vorangehende Frage / without precedent question:
You're fine with simply saying
(The latter is formed by simply omitting the first syllable and is slightly colloquial.)
This would not be considered rude (by anybody I know). Although you could certainly manage to intonate it such that it sounds a bit demanding, but you can do this with basically everything. As long as you put it clearly as a question it should be okay.
PS: Übertriebene Höflichkeitsformeln werden im Deutschen eher als unnötige Floskeln betrachtet.
Use these Phrases - I am Sampath - English Teacher May I speak with you for a moment? Can I have a word with you? Can I talk to you for a minute? Can I talk to you? May I have a moment with you? Do you have a minute?
May I have a moment? Can I have a minute? May I be excused? Excuse me for a moment.
On sales calls, I use in English, "May I stop you from working for two minutes?", which I will translate quite badly into German as "Mög ich Ihnen abstellen vun arbeiten auf zwei minuten?" There are the occasional jackasses who will answer rudely, but it shouldn't bother you. I just turn and walk away.


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Honey and almonds flavor this simple (and gluten-free) cake. It's lovely for afternoon tea or a spri…View slide
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Pineapple-Coconut Layer Cake
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For the first time, AUTrojans.com is counting down Anderson University athletics' 25 most memorable games, matches and meets from the 2013-14 academic year. This season's countdown began on Monday, June 16 and will continue throughout the summer.
Be sure to check AUTrojans.com during the offseason to relive all the highlights of another successful year at Anderson.
Willoughby's 3-Pointer Gives Trojans Sixth Straight Victory
November 23, 2013
HICKORY, N.C. – Facing a two point deficit with three seconds remaining, redshirt junior Emily Willoughby connected a long-range 3-pointer to propel Anderson University women's basketball to a 71-70 victory over Lenoir-Rhyne Saturday afternoon at Shuford Memorial Gymnasium.
After L-R's Jazmine Charles sunk two foul shots with eight seconds remaining, the second free throw was called off by line violation on Charles. After AU inbounded the ball, the Bears knocked the ball away from AU junior Jasmine Franklin in front of the Anderson bench with three seconds left. Junior Sierra Simpson fed the ball to Willoughby who turned around to the basket and made a three with 0.7 left.
The Bears tried a long pass after the made basket, but it was mishandled and AU would claim its sixth straight victory.
The win moves Anderson to 6-1 on the season with its only blemish coming by a two-point road loss to then-nationally-ranked USC Aiken. AU is now winners of two-straight against Lenoir-Rhyne, winning a 48-46 game in Hickory a season ago. L-R suffers its first loss, dropping to 4-1 overall and 1-1 in SAC play.
Anderson was able to record five players in double figures, led by Franklin's 14 points. Junior Lesley Woods went four-for-six from 3-point range, matching freshman Alexis Dillard's total of 12. Following the trio was sophomore Jennifer Monroe. Despite going 0-for-7 from the field, Monroe went 10-for-10 from the free throw line while pulling down eight rebounds. Simpson would close the game with 10 points, marking her fifth game scoring double digits.
The Trojans were unable to get off to a quick start, recording five turnovers in the opening 12 minutes as they fell behind 17-14 at the 8:31 mark when sophomore Jordan Hiatt knocked down a jumper. After the L-R basket, Anderson controlled the remainder of the half, as the Trojans took the lead with 7:22 left when Simpson knocked in a jumper.
From that point, Anderson would never relinquish the lead, taking a 31-29 lead into halftime. The 31 points marked the lowest first half output since AU's 28 points against Winston-Salem State (11/14).
L-R chopped into the Anderson lead and eventually took a one-point advantage when senior Danielle Bongiorno dropped in a shot, putting Lenoir-Rhyne up 37-36.
From the Bongionro jumper, the Bears went on a quick 8-1 run to give them their biggest lead of the game at 45-37 with 12:49 remaining.
Facing the large deficit, Anderson flipped the momentum and went on a 10-2 run to even the score at 47-47 with 10:31 left. Monroe highlighted the run with four straight free throws, while Franklin added four from the field.
It was L-R who held the advantage for the remainder of the game, as AU was only able to draw the score even twice for the next seven minutes. After AU mounted a small comeback and Franklin knocked her second of two free throws with 2:17 left to a 65-64 lead, the Bears were able to take the lead back when junior Jenni Gust put in a layup.
Anderson was unable to grab the lead back until the Willoughby game winner for her sixth point of the game, finishing 2-of-3 from behind the arc. Willoughby is now shooting 33 percent (10-for-30) from 3-point range.
"Lenoir-Rhyne is a well-coached team and its players are extremely talented and tough," head coach Jimmy Garrity said. "We knew that this would be very difficult place to play and I am so proud of the way our team responded to the challenge. We had several players step up when their number was called with nobody bigger than Emily Willoughby when the game was on the line. As a coaching staff, we decided to go for the win with a three instead of going for the tie. I'm happy it worked out."
Leading the way for the Bears was Charles, who was voted to the 2013 SAC Preseason First Team before the start of the year. Charles poured in 24 points and grabbed seven rebounds, while Gust recorded 16 and Hiatt notched 11. Underneath, freshman Alexis Katt, who started her first collegiate game, pulled down 12 rebounds.


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Integrating Oracle Tuxedo Applications into a SOA Environment
By R A Sanyal on Mar 06, 2013
Oracle Tuxedo Oracle Tuxedo is the C/C++/COBOL application server of choice, running mission-critical applications in conventional and cloud deployments. It is deeply integrated with WebLogic Server enabling bi-directional transactional communication between Java applications and C/C++/COBOL applications.
Easy Integration into SOA environments
As one of the original SOA platforms, everything in Oracle Tuxedo is a service. Oracle Tuxedo services are location and implementation independent. They adhere to a contract, and are interoperable with other Oracle Tuxedo services and service oriented platforms. This makes integrating Oracle Tuxedo applications into a SOA environment natural and straightforward, regardless if the business logic is written in C, C++, Java, COBOL, Python, Ruby, or PHP.
Client Only and Server to Server Options
There are a number of integration techniques that can be used to integrate Oracle Tuxedo applications into a SOA world. The first decision to make when choosing an integration options is whether a Client Only option or a Server to Server option best fits your business needs.
Client Only Options
For environments where requests flow only from the client environment to Oracle Tuxedo, there are Client Only Options. The client's transaction context is never extended to the Oracle Tuxedo system. Oracle Tuxedo transactions started by the client are delegated to Oracle Tuxedo and are separate from any transaction context in which the client may be participating.
Server to Server Options
For environments where Oracle Tuxedo is able to make calls to the non-Oracle Tuxedo system as well as receive calls, there are Server to Server integration options. Some of these options support distributed transactions and security context propagation.
Java Integration
Oracle Tuxedo provides the following Java integration options.
- Oracle WebLogic Tuxedo Connector (WTC), a standard component of Oracle WebLogic Server, provides bi-directional service invocations to and from Oracle Tuxedo and Oracle WebLogic Server within context of global, XA transactions. Using WTC, based on Tuxedo domains, Tuxedo applications can invoke JEE applications running on WebLogic and vice-versa. With its integrated JMS bridge, JMS Messages can flow to/from Oracle Tuxedo /Q queues and vice-versa.
- Oracle Tuxedo JCA Adapter provides similar capabilities as WTC, but for all JEE application servers. It allows bi-directional, transactional interactions between JEE applications and Oracle Tuxedo applications.
- Native Java Support available in the Oracle Tuxedo 12c release means services can be implemented in Java as plain old Java objects or POJOs. Developers can use JATMI to develop Oracle Tuxedo services in Java and leverage Oracle's scalable, highly available infrastructure to create or extend their enterprise to class SOA applications.
- Jolt provides access to Oracle Tuxedo services from essentially any Java environment
ranging from stand alone Java applications, applets running inside a browser, to clients running inside a JEE application server. It provides a simple set of Java classes that support Oracle Tuxedo client facilities such as invoking services, enqueuing and dequeuing messages to Oracle Tuxedo /Q queues, and subscribing to Oracle Tuxedo Event Broker for publish and subscribe interactions.
Web Services Integration
The Oracle Services Architecture Leveraging Tuxedo (SALT) provides bi-directional SOAP/HTTP support for Oracle Tuxedo applications. This product is completely configuration driven, meaning that no coding is necessary to access remote web services or to allow remote applications to access Oracle Tuxedo services as web services.
SALT provides a high performance point to point integration mechanism using open standards. It is an ideal solution for customers standardizing on SOAP/HTTP as their protocol of choice for integrating applications. SALT supports most of the common web services standards including SOAP 1.1 and 1.2, SOAP with attachments, MTOM, WSDL 1.1, WS-Policy, WS-Addressing, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Security 1.0 and 1.1, WS-Coordination, and WS-AtomicTransaction 1.0. This allows integration with most other web services platforms including Oracle WebLogic Server, Axis for Java 2.0, Microsoft .NET framework 3.0, Oracle Service Bus, and Oracle BPEL, as well as most other popular SOAP/HTTP offerings.
.NET Integration
Oracle Tuxedo includes support of a .NET client library that can be used to access Oracle Tuxedo services from a .NET application. Like Jolt, the .NET client is a client only offering so .NET application can invoke Oracle Tuxedo services, but Oracle Tuxedo cannot invoke .NET applications.
WebSphere MQ Integration
Oracle Tuxedo ships with a bi-directional MQ adaptor that allows messages placed on MQ queues to be delivered to an Oracle Tuxedo service and the reply from the Oracle Tuxedo service to be placed on the output MQ Queue. Applications needing staged transactional delivery of requests can use standard Oracle Tuxedo distributed transaction management to ensure exactly once processing of messages.
Mainframe Services Integration
The Oracle Tuxedo Mainframe Adapter (TMA) provides an excellent foundation for integrating legacy mainframe systems, such as IBM CICS and IMS/TM, into a modern SOA environment. With TMA, mainframe applications see Tuxedo services as though they were local and Tuxedo services see mainframe applications services as local services. allow the sharing of services between Oracle Tuxedo and the mainframe systems.
Like other integration options built on Oracle Tuxedo's domains technology, TMA supports identity propagation and support distributed transactions.
Service Bus Integration
Oracle Service Bus (OSB) is an enterprise service bus that supports the integration, mediation, and monitoring of a variety of types of services. For each type of service supported by OSB a transport is used to handle the connection and interfacing to the specifics of the service. OSB also has a built-in transport for Oracle Tuxedo. The Oracle Tuxedo transport supports Oracle Tuxedo based business services that can be accessed from any OSB proxy as well as Oracle Tuxedo proxy services which allow Oracle Tuxedo applications to call services mediated by OSB.
Oracle Tuxedo provides many ways to connect with other SOA platforms and environments. For more detailed information about each of the integration choices, download the white paper, Oracle Tuxedo in a SOA World.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Police have arrested one person in connection with the Thursday night shooting at 1812 SE Pennsylvania.
26 year old Jajuan Marquis Welch, of 2045 SW MacVicar, was arrested Friday and booked into the Shawnee County Department of Corrections. He is charged with aggravated battery, aggravated burglary and aggravated assault.
Police continue to investigate the incident that occurred shortly after 9:00 p.m. Most of the Detective Bureau and many other resources at the TPD have been working on this case to uncover the event leading up to the death of one of the intruders.
More than one male entered the occupied home on SE Pennsylvania. Gun shots were fired inside the residence which led to the death of Cyril K. Smith, 31 years old. Several residents were home at the time and their names are withheld at this point in time. The motive for the intrusion is still being determined, however, there is no indication that this was a random act or that the public is in any danger.
The crime scene on Pennsylvania has been released to the residents. A search warrant was executed at 2045 SW Mac Vicar in relation to this case. Several witnesses, persons of interest and suspects have and continue to be interviewed.
The TPD will issue more information as investigative developments allow.
Anyone with information about this crime is asked to contact SGT Volle at 368-9413, DET Arensdorf at 368-9420, or information can be given anonymously at 234-0007. No further information at this time.


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Why be a member of Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society?
Members of Valparaiso's Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society receive recognition of their dedication to the discipline. In addition to the annual celebratory banquet, members have opportunities to participate in various political events both on and off campus.
To become a member of the Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society, students must have an overall GPA of 3.25 or higher. They must also have completed at least 10 hours of course work in Political Science, one of those courses being at the 300 level. Students must have a GPA of 3.40 or better in Political Science courses.
If you are interested in joining or would like more information on Pi Sigma Alpha, please contact the faculty advisor Professor Jennifer Hora.
** Visit the National Pi Sigma Alpha Home Page **
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13 Nov 2012 11:38 AM #1
Unanswered: Ext.ComponentQuery.query
I'm trying to use Ext.ComponentQuery.query to query for a window title, apparently it does not like the comma in the title.
Ext.ComponentQuery.query('window[title="Google, Inc"]');
Ext.Error: Invalid ComponentQuery selector: "[title="Google"
Does anyone know a solution around that?
Thank You,
13 Nov 2012 11:42 AM #2
Comma is used a delimeter between different selectors. Use a selector that doesn't use a comma. itemId perhaps?
IMO, it is an Ext bug in this instance.
13 Nov 2012 11:47 AM #3
I'm using a grid that lists companies and when you click on a company's name is Ext.create a window for it. The reason I'm using Ext.Com.Query and look for the title is because if it exists then I don't have to load it but instead bring it to the front of other windows. Windows do not open in modal true. You can open 4 different windows at the same time.
13 Nov 2012 1:08 PM #4
You could strip the special characters from the title and store it in a different property (itemId?) of your Window instance and use this property for ComponentQuery.
Since you are only interested in Windows, why bother ComponentQuery with filtering by xtype. I would rather use this code:Code:
var window=Ext.WindowManager.getBy(function(win){return win.title==='My, Title, containing, Comma';})[0]


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Additional 25% Off Most Regular, Sale & Clearance Items at the Macys.com Friends & Family Sale
coupon code: FRIEND
25% off most regular, sale, & clearance items. 10% off all electrics/electronics, furniture, mattresses, & rugs/floor coverings.
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Macy's? Hmm, pretty big company to be a sponsored deal.
ETA: Or is Woot just being a super affiliate promoting their link and a readily available code?
any idea when this code expires?
@thefenst: Tried the code, it comes up as 10% off rather than 25%.
From my shopping cart after putting in the code:
"Friends & Family - Enjoy 10% off! -$8.00"
Any idea if this is valid in-store?
Checked it out and only got %10.
It's 25% off of non-sale items, and 10% off of sale items.
Seems to be 10% on all items, at least the items I checked.
@bingo969, @stvfld, @dstratto, @webbr: Checking into this. EDIT: I just heard back from the merchant. 25% off most regular, sale, & clearance items. 10% off all electrics/electronics, furniture, mattresses, & rugs/floor coverings.
@mattab: The code expires on 4/30.
The friends and family sale Is going on in store, but you'll need a savings pass. A lot of the macy's i've been to have passes scattered at registers throughout the store and in most cases the cashier will give you the discount even if you don't have a pass.
@thefenst: Thanks for the quick response!
Shame too. I got all excited as I was thinking of splurging for some KitchenAid stuff :)


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sty packages itself. In Linux it doesn't: how is this
sty loading managed in Linux?
Assuming you are using texlive, the common latex distribution these days, search path management is performed by
For simple modification of the search path you can set the environment-variable
That depends on how the Linux distribution handles LaTeX and its packages. Older Fedora used a huge texlive package, containing everything. It has recently been split up into lots of individual packages handled by the distribution's package machinery. Others might go for the native TeXlive way via
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5 Ways Your Brain Is Tricking You into Being Miserable
#2. You'd Rather Be Unhappy Than Uncertain
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To all the teenagers reading this: You are lovely people. Thank you for reading Cracked. But holy frijoles, you do some completely idiotic things. Don't worry -- it's completely normal. Thanks to evolution, the teenage brain is all about taking risks, like attacking a woolly mammoth with flimsy spears and having lots of sex with multiple partners, all for the continuation of the species.
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God help the poor dyslexic caveteens whose brains got those directions mixed up.
For that decade of life, young people don't have a "NO" switch in their brains, and while it meant that a lot of them fell off cliffs while chasing the woolly mammoths, overall it has been beneficial to the species. In fact, you could argue that the people who are successful later in life are the ones who never gave up their lust for taking stupid risks.
But for the most part, as you get older, your brain wants you to stop taking those risks. You already did all your kid-having, now you need to settle down and stay alive so you can raise those children. Forget mammoth hunting; you're picking berries. You are less likely to quit your job and start a garage band at 50 than you were at 17, and that's a good thing.
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"Screw house payments. We're going to build a city on rock and roll."
The problem is that most people grow so scared of risk that they are more likely to stay in situations that make them miserable than take a chance at happiness. Sure, you only drew a three of hearts out of the deck of life, but if you ask for a new card, you might wind up with a deuce. You stick with the misery you know.
And even worse, it actually gets to the point where a change that works out for the better can be scary because it's better. In other words, even if you take the risk and the risk pays off, if you're not used to happiness, then it just feels weird, or phony. Studies have found that taking depressed, self-critical people and trying to make them think positively about themselves just confuses the shit out of them. Make them stand in front of a mirror and shout compliments at themselves and they just think it's weird and pointless. "What is this? Are you making fun of me? This is stupid." It actually takes a whole different type of therapy for those people, because they see warmth and happiness and can only think, "What the hell is this shit?"
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"The real reason they threw a party is because they're one year closer to being able to legally abandon me."
Some of you think that's absolutely bizarre, and some of you know that as your everyday life. Ask yourself: When you're sitting in a bar or coffee shop and there's a group of friends next to you just laughing and having the time of their lives, how do you react? Do you find yourself annoyed by that? Do you hate them just a little? There you go.
#1. Being Happy Takes Effort
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Imagine a happy person in your mind. Maybe you're picturing a kid diving into a swimming pool, or an athlete hoisting a trophy, or Richard Branson parasailing with a naked supermodel on his back.
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"But deep down are you truly happy?"
Now imagine a depressed person. You picture him sitting on the sofa in the dark, maybe drinking alone, staring at infomercials at three in the morning. Maybe he just never got out of bed.
The primary difference there is that the former person is actually doing something. It's ridiculous to imagine the roles reversed -- there aren't any sad ballads about people snowboarding.
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"Going downhill together is just the start
The snow cold and heavy just like my heart."
So despite how much cocaine Sigmund Freud did, it appears he was right when he said that unhappiness was the default position of our brains -- meaning that happiness takes effort. As one study put it, having the right genes and being surrounded by the right people are a part of the equation, but the rest is doing things that make you feel good.
And if reading this made you roll your eyes and say, "Well, duh," then you have to stop and realize how many people never do this. How many people do you know who say their ideal vacation would be to just kick back and do nothing at all? All of the "doing" in their lives comes at the job or at school -- all the stuff that they're forced to do by other people. So they think that relaxing means doing nothing at all, rather than doing the stuff they like.
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"Man, it's so great not to be at work and have to sit at that computer all day."
They fall into the trap of thinking that happiness is simply the absence of doing unpleasant tasks instead of actively doing pleasant ones ... and the human brain just doesn't work that way. And this isn't going to get any better as time goes on; among seniors, their satisfaction with life didn't correlate with the state of their health or anything else -- it was based on whether or not they had friends and hobbies.
Of course, it's never harder to go out and make friends or start a new hobby than when you're in the throes of depression, and at that point, all of the above cycles that keep you in that valley start coming into play. Hey, when we said your brain was a dick, we weren't kidding.
Kathy wrote a very funny book called Funerals to Die For that is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. She is also on Facebook and Twitter. Dieter Melsens is a Belgian psychology student.
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Lewis Hamilton got one over Sebastian Vettel as he beat the German's time by a full second in Top Gear's 'Star in a Reasonably Priced Car'
Hamilton made his first appearance on the Top Gear show six years ago when he clocked a 1:44.7 on the wet track at the Dunsfold Airfield.
This time, though, the conditions were perfect for the Mercedes driver.
Driving a Suzuki Liana, Hamilton posted a 1:42.9 to beat Vettel's 1:44.0.
"I'm really surprised. I was going to be disappointed in myself if I didn't do a competitive time," Hamilton said.
As to be expected, the 28-year-old was also questioned about his decision to swap McLaren for Mercedes.
"It is a big change but I am really excited about it," he said.
"Everyone has criticised it but I have been at McLaren since I was 13. I wanted a change and I'm a risk taker."