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Are there any techniques you can use while brainstorming to find humor to include in an article?
1) Pick any one item and take it to an extreme.
"Organizing is good."
2) Slip in some judicious puns. For example, if you're comparing shredders, you might write that you don't want to get snippy, but Brand X is really a cut above, and anyone who doesn't think so simply isn't all that sharp. (Caveat scriptor: your mileage may vary.)
3) Take a metaphor and run it off a cliff of absurdity.
"Okay, so imagine that your desk is an elephant, and you're going to eat it one bite at a time. So first you start with a foot, represented by a desk drawer. The file folders are the toes, and the tabs are the toenails. Any punched-out holes, lost post-its, orphaned notes, or faded fax cover sheets would be elephant toejam. That's probably kind of nasty-smelling, but don't worry; just crumple the whole thing up and make a toejam football out of it, and throw it into the nearest wastebasket."
When I write jokes I'll often begin with stream-of-consciousness "brain vomit," putting every possible thought to paper. I'll mark places I think people would laugh with an asterisk. This is more organic than just trying to think of funny things.
After this you can cross out everything that lacks an asterisk, and rework your sentences so that the asterisk comes at the end. After this you can present your laugh lines to others and learn how well you judged the asterisks. Then practice practice practice.
I know it's a unique technique (as far as I know I'm the only one who does it) but it works well for me.
Once you've got a presentable "joke framework," I've found that asking other people for ideas is a great way to improve/replace the jokes.
Here I roughly translate and sum up some advices from Daniele Luttazzi, an italian satirist (original text here) who learned from the best, like Lenny Bruce and Josh Carlin. (Sorry for any mistake, please edit).
The punchline must be a suprise with respect to the preamble. If the surprise is weak the humor will be weak. If the surprise is awkward the humor will be weak too. The difficult part is balancing these two parts (preamble and punchline).
Wordplay is diffult, more than you think (but anglosaxon humor might be quite different in this aspect).
There is a fashion in jokes, too. What made our grandparents laugh might not be that good anymore.
Keep the punchline as dry as possible. Less words is better, except when this hurts the rhythm.
A good joke is based on an idea, not on a commonplace. If you crack a joke on something you are not well enough informed on you won't make people laugh. On the other hand if the joke refers to very specific subjects no one except a bunch of specialists will get it.
What elicits a laugh is the technique of the joke, not its content. When you retell a joke in other words it usually doesn't work.
I think the most important thing is to figure out what kind of humor are YOU good at.
Lauren Ipsum's and Cody Hess's suggestions are how THEY get people to laugh. Gmoore's suggestion is a good one, figure out what makes you laugh, what you think is funny, and then try to duplicate that with your own ideas.
Look at the way you create humor when interacting with other people, and try to deliver that into your writing. If your audience is known (friends, family, colleagues) you might find humor in inside jokes or shared experiences. If you are going for a broader (ie anonymous) audience you should figure out how your humor plays to strangers (people who don't know your brand of humor).
Read things that you find funny. Eventually, humor will organically bubble up in your own writing. This is the best way, as forced humor usually comes off bad.
Comedy, as a genre, is hard to get right. Drama is easy.
Anyway, the book that had the biggest impact on humor in my writing is this: The Signet Book of American Humor
Buy it used, stick it in your pocket and read it when you're stuck somewhere (the dentist's office, a meeting, etc...) Don't miss the George Carlin bits.
Seek out humor in other writing and learn from there.
Terry Pratchett is the writer who springs to my mind (a product of the type of book I read I guess), and it always seems like his humor comes from:
And mostly, his dialogue. Wit and Stupidity together.
Douglas Adams was a master at it: surprising the reader (and the characters); taking clichés and pushing them to the extreme; using anthropomorphism (objects that seems to act on their own); using nonsense, absurdity, craziness. I have read the only trilogy in five volumes (H2G2) a long time ago and just re-read it in French (my native tongue) and I was delighted. Beside the humor, the guy was good at making a global, consistent plot, which isn't to disdain...
mm, I think it's hard to absorb funny material in a brainstorm without later including or at least paraphrasing it - which may or may not be the effect you are after. I have in my Reader lots of funny steams that I dip into when I need a break: lolcatz and dogs, Dilbert, Coding Horror, Worse than Failure.
Often times I do search images for "subject + lol".
What makes people laugh? Then use that.
Since you are working on How-To manuals, I think the best way to make good comedy in your books is to explain the topic to people you know, but add in jokes as you're doing it. Chances are what your audience finds funny, others will find funny as well.


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I recently wrote a song where the vocals are supposed to sound rough, but not quite growling/screaming. What's the best way to get that sort of sound from my voice without any long-term or short-term adverse effects?
[Insert obligatory 'ruining your voice for eternity' lecture here]
Now that's over with... Here is what I've found from my experiences with trying to make my voice sound rough.
Quick Background: I've been experimenting with this style for 3 or 4 years, just on a casual level while practising, not a professional or even performance basis. Also, most of the time I Don't sing this way, but I'll usually work on it a couple hours over the course of a week. Over the course of this time I haven't caused damage to my voice, and have actually improved my vocal range, control, and skill level (with this style and overall).
I'm not a vocal scientist, so I'm not even going to venture into the realm of 'What is actually going on in this throat-thing'. But here are some things I've observed that hopefully may help you:
Tips on Getting the 'Rough' Sound:
Tips for Keeping your Voice Safe while using these techniques:
I suppose the most obvious way to protect your voice is to sing normally and distort the signal. Run the signal through tube-style distortion and/or flange. Record it through taught shreds of wax paper ("kazoo"-it) or use a harmonica-mic. 8-bit mastering would mess-up some vocals nicely. Find some assembly code and play it back on the PC-speaker (not Audio Speakers, but the part that BEEPs!) and record that underwater. The possibilities are endless.
You can get acoustic "distortion" effects with suitably-tuned snare-drums, bottles, jugs, tile-bathroom-stalls.
Answering machines, really-old audio tape. Lo-fi lowers the nyquist limit, cutting-off upper frequencies, same as distortion cuts higher amplitudes.
One trick is to summon up some phlegm/saliva in the back of your throat.
Then to approach a growl, tighten your throat enough that the airflow is affected by the phlegm, but not so tight as to cause pain.
Even with that technique, I wouldn't like to keep going for an hour-long performance. I don't know how the rock professionals do it.
I wonder why nobody brought it up yet, but The Zen of Screaming by Melissa Cross is probably THE resource on alternate vocal techniques (fry, death, heat and fire anyone?). With proper training it's not just on/off screams or singing - you can get exactly the rough tone that you want; even transitioning between clean and distorted sounds is not that hard if you know how to do it properly. I'm not a natural and it took a while to get to the point where I can adjust the grain in the singing voice consciously - but the DVDs are full of insight, not just for screaming but singing in general. I highly recommend them - they helped me a lot, I have a couple of other books on the topic but they just didn't click with me :-).
Hope that helps, happy screaming!
P.S.: as for the side effects, the way the techniques are tought take the whole topic of avoiding hurting your voice into full consideration; Melissa is very aware of the things that can happen to your voice if you're using it wrong

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Saudi Arabia donated $10 million toward the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine's (UNRWA) educational and health services in Gaza and the West Bank today. The agreement was signed in Riyadh between Yousef Al-Bassam, vice-chairman and managing director of the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) and Filippo Grandi, commissioner-general of UNRWA.
Welcoming the agreement, Grandi said: "Once again, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has stepped forward, proving itself to be an exemplary supporter of UNRWA and the Palestine refugees whom we serve. This latest contribution will allow UNRWA to deliver much-needed equipment, supplies and other essentials to thousands of refugees who rely on us for basic services in education and health. These services are not optional, but a necessity for the Palestine refugees, and we urge other donors to follow Saudi Arabia's lead in coming forward to help us meet these needs."
Saudi Arabia is one of UNRWA's major donors.


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I would like to use Empathy as a Google Talk client. When I choose to go online, I'm asked to give email@example.com (Ubuntu) access to manage my online Photo's, Google Drive, Emails and Videos.
I don't understand why Ubuntu has to have all these permissions on my Google account, does this mean Ubuntu will start syncing my Google account to Ubuntu One?
Can I connect to Google Talk without granting access to my Videos, Emails and Photos to Ubuntu? What do you guys want with all my online things?


text: Has anyone heard of two characters named Rilakkuma and Tarepanda? Well if you have you already know that they are some pretty popular characters in Japan. So popular in fact The New York Times once said that they are a pop culture hit in Japan. This lesson is going to be on one of the two figures. SO let's grab out pencils and learn "how to draw Rilakkuma", step by step. Rilakkuma is a cute brown colored stuffed bear that shows up one day in the home of Kaoru's out of nowhere. This character made his debut in a picture book named 'Rilakkuma Seikatsu'. I guess ever since then he has made a name for himself as being one of the cutest stuffed bears in Japanese history. I had a lot of fun drawing Rilakkuma because he was so easy to recreate. I feel confident that you too will enjoy this lesson, so go ahead and let the games begin. Adios mi amigos, good luck.


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Word (nick name) used in the song entitled "Bokkie" by the pre-famous band; Elefant.
look up Elefant on myspace. The song "bokkie" will be on it. they're a rad band. Other good songs by them would be Lolita and Misfit.
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this term is Afrikaans for "little buck" and it is used as a term of endearment for those you love. it is used almost exclusively by South Africans and South African Expats.
*son falls off of bicycle and concerned father yells*
Dad: Hey my bokkie, are you alright?
Son: Yeah dad, its fine. Just a little scratch.
Dad: Hey my bokkie, are you alright?
Son: Yeah dad, its fine. Just a little scratch.
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1. A South African. Can be applied to both White and Black South Africans.
Those Bokkie bastards are going to lose to the All Blacks on Satuday.
by m3athelmet February 20, 2009
Derogatory word that defines the so called better half of boykie. A bokkie is very wild and cannot be tamed. Known to have multiple boykie's, often relatives, without any shame or remorse. A bokkie also depends heavily on Klippies, Coke and Cortina to ensure survival. Found in or around Springs.
Marlene and Juanita, to name a small few
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The title pretty much says it all. I am looking for references (lecture notes, books, readable articles, suggestions), preferably example laden, that explain how to compute the rational cohomology of a smooth toric variety. I am particularly interested in methods for doing this when the variety is not compact. Implicit here is the assumption that this can be done in a practical way (please correct me if I am wrong, I do not know much about the subject).
Some background: I have a bunch of varieties whose cohomology I would really like to compute. I have reasonably explicit descriptions of these varieties as subsets of $\mathbb{C}^n$. These descriptions are along the lines of (but more involved) the variety in this question:
A cohomology computation request.
I realized earlier today that my varieties are toric, and I am hoping this observation will be the answer to my prayers.
If it helps, I can compute the equivariant cohomology of of my varieties (mainly because the Hodge structure on it is pure), but I am presuming this doesn't really completely determine the ordinary cohomology (apart from Hodge-Euler polynomials etc.).


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The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says traffic on Interstate 65 continues to be very slow and stopped in spots from near the construction zone at the Barren/Hart County line.
The backup is believed to be a result of motorists attempting to observe construction activities near Cave City.
US 31W is also extremely congested through the towns of Bonnieville, Munfordville, Horse Cave, and Cave City with very long wait times at intersections.
Schools letting out for the day in Bonnieville, Munfordville, and Horse Cave along US 31W will add to congestion.
Motorists are urged to drive with additional caution, as roads are wet, which reduces stopping distances.
Being a heavy travel weekend, congestion is expected to last through the afternoon drive and ease into the evening.


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For serious;Serious; Seriously.
Ususaly as a question.
Ususaly as a question.
"Oh my gosh! Are you fer' serious?"
"Yeah guys. I'm fer' serious!"
"Yeah guys. I'm fer' serious!"
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A combination of the phrases "for real" and "seriously". The two are combined to form "for-serious", adapted later to "ferserious" meaning "really serious." Most commonly used in question form.
"When I first heard that Anna and Billy were going steady, I didn't think it was ferserious, so I asked outloud 'Are you ferserious?!?'"
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a word to ask if someone is telling the truth.
are you ferserious about going to that movie? it looks so lame.
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To answer back to something that you can't believe
Boy-did you see that Britney Spears shaved her head?
Girl-Fer serious?
Girl-Fer serious?
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an exclamation meaning "are you serious"
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Tulip Chair
Fixed or Swivel Base
designed by Eero Saarinen
from Knoll
At A Glance:
The Tulip Chair by Eero Saarinen is a perfect example of his style. He was an essentialist, breaking a chair or a piece of furniture down to its most basic form and function, and marrying that to an equally pure design aesthetic.
The Tulip Chair is an essential art object, a lovely chair, and a piece of furniture design history. Designed in 1956, the Tulip Chair was minimalist and holistic. As Saarinen said, "In any design problem, one should seek the solution in terms of the next largest thing. If the problem is a chair, then its solution must be found in the way it relates to the room."
The Tulip Chair was the perfect expression of that idea. Winner of the 1969 Museum of Modern Art Award, the side chair is available with arms or without, and with complementary stools and tables.
What's To Like:
- One-piece look - with a base that accomplishes Saarinen's goal of clearing up "the slum of legs" in the modern home.
- Plush, colorful upholstered seat.
- Comfortably molded chair back gives you a good reason to linger at the dinner table.
What's Not to Like:
- Price could be a sticking point; it's not cheap.
- If you like chairs with four legs, perhaps the Tulip Chair isn't your best bet.
- We can't find anything else to pick on - this dining chair is a classic.
The Bottom Line:
When put together with the Saarinen tables, the Tulip Chair makes a beautiful, iconic modern dining set. Alone, it's a great-looking side chair that fits in most any living space.
Customer's own material may be used on the Tulip Chair after being approved. In addition, many of Knoll's other fabric lines are available upon request. Please call a Smart Furniture salesperson at 888-467-6278 to get started!
- Overall dimensions: 32" h x 20" w x 21.25" d
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Overall: 32" h x 20" w x 21.25" d
Seat height: 18.5"
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Knoll was well known for utilizing European talent, and many items in their furniture collection were designed by Scandinavians. Eero Saarinen, originally from Finland, would become one of the most renowned designers of the mid-twentieth century. After studying architecture at Yale, Saarinen collaborated with contemporary Charles Eames and designed numerous furniture classics and buildings that would help define American style and aesthetics.
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I just had the case on SO that I answered a question very quickly and after my answer the OP made an update to the question so that it became more concrete.
I then received a downvote because my answer didn't fit the question anymore.
Wouldn't it make sense to lock downvoting after the question has changed? At least for some time, maybe with a notification, so that I have at least the chance to react on the update/edit?
As @ChrisF mentioned, another way could be to warn the potential downvoter that the question was updated since the answer was given.


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Don Quixote at Wolf Trap
Posted 08 August 2005 - 07:16 AM
The production is rather old-fashioned in a 1970's kind of way--not much mime, some truly hideous costumes for the corps, and rather worn-looking sets. However, the dancing was very good, not sloppy at all, although not obsessive-Kirov perfect (had it been perfect, I would have been disappointed) and done with a great deal of flair and energy throughout.
My only real complaints were the relatively bare stage during the dream sequence (no tiny cupids running about, as in the Kirov's version, and the sets seemed to have been inspired by a Monet painting under a magnifying glass) and the spindly Basilio (none of the ushers seemed to have programs, so I don't know his name). He was quite a good dancer, but looked like a very tall and lanky sixteen-year-old.
Special mention goes to the Toreador (he really knows how to use a cape!) and Street Dancer, who in Act II appeared in an enormous red dress and put her head on her behind so many times I thought she'd slip a disc!
I didn't find the gypsy dancer passionate enough. At UBA, my teacher told us that when doing a gypsy dance, we should dance as if we don't care who might be watching or what it looks like--it's pure emotion. The fast sections were good, but I felt that the slow parts lacked intensity.
Slight problems with one-handed lifts in Act I, but they were fine by Act III, and Kitri did some blazing fouettés--very fast, traveling slightly at the beginning, but the rest on a dime. I could have asked for some more "fire" between Kitri and Basilio, as things got a bit bland after Act I, but all in all it was very well done and beautifully danced.
Posted 08 August 2005 - 10:03 AM
Posted 08 August 2005 - 10:15 AM
Forgot to add a note about the unsurprising but still amazing rudeness of the audience. The very moment the fringe of the curtain brushed the stage at the end of Act II, half the Loge had vanished within a fraction of a second. I was at the end of a row and it was extremely irritating to have people pushing by as I was standing to applaud the dancers who had just performed beautifully for three hours--much of the audience it seemed couldn't be bothered to give them five minutes of appreciation.
Posted 08 August 2005 - 10:31 AM
Oh--I'd love to see the Dance of the Tiny Cupids. I'll bet it's adorable. To clarify, I didn't seriously expect them to bring along the Bolshoi Academy students, but the corps did seem rather small (only 16 or 24 dancers).
They could have used some local students, though, as the Mariinsky sometimes does on tour.
Posted 08 August 2005 - 11:05 AM
They could have used some local students, though, as the Mariinsky sometimes does on tour.
I suppose it wouldn't have been quite as feasible for this tour, though, since they were only at Wolf Trap for two days, after performing in Philadelphia earlier that week. Also Wolf Trap is in the middle of a national park, instead of being in the city like the Met or another "fully enclosed" theatre.
Too bad, though, it would have been fun to see the children!
Posted 08 August 2005 - 11:31 AM
The Dance of the Little Cupids has never been performed on tour, as far as I know. It's danced to a march that is found on the CD of the complete version that is currently available in the US (not the Bonynge/Lanchberry...the other one).
I totally agree on the Gypsy Dance at Wolf Trap. It was 'weak tea' compared to the rendition by the Bolshoi's premiere character dancer, Yuliana Malkhasiants, who danced in last autumn's US tour (and also in DC, when this production came to the Kennedy Center).
Did anyone else notice that, on Saturday night, Natalia Osipova did NOT dance the first bridesmaid's variation in Act III? I was sooooo disappointed! Osipova danced that variation in NYC but apparently did not make the trip to Wolf Trap. Osipova is an absolute angel (face & everything else) & has the most incredibly floating jetes. Whoever danced the solo this past Saturday -- I did not recognize her -- is 'third rate' compared with Osipova.
On the other hand, Nelli Kobakhidze indeed danced the 2nd bridesmaid variation at Wolf Trap...gloriously so! That young lady never fails to amaze me. Elegant. Proper. Queenly.
Like you, Hans, I LOVED the Matador, Lavrenchuk. What a cape twirler! His Street Dancer, the lovely Anastasia Yatsenko, was also first rate.
And what about Ekaterina Schipulina's Kitri? WOW! She's a lovely contrast to Alexandrova, who is more 'moderne' in her approach. Schipulina is the traditional 'ultra beauty' who dances with a more old-fashioned classical -- almost old-style Kirovian -- manner. Both wonderful Kitris but oh-so-different. Two nights - two very different approaches.
Neporozhni's Basil, on the other hand, seemed a bit tired & not quite with-it on Saturday. He's a 'looker,' though. (wink)
Edited by Natalia, 08 August 2005 - 11:49 AM.
Posted 08 August 2005 - 11:53 AM
Posted 08 August 2005 - 03:35 PM
I didn't find the gypsy dancer passionate enough. At UBA, my teacher told us that when doing a gypsy dance, we should dance as if we don't care who might be watching or what it looks like--it's pure emotion. The fast sections were good, but I felt that the slow parts lacked intensity.
I totally agree on the Gypsy Dance at Wolf Trap. It was 'weak tea' compared to the rendition by the Bolshoi's premiere character dancer, Yuliana Malkhasiants, who danced in last autumn's US tour (and also in DC, when this production came to the Kennedy Center).
Hans, Natalia - you are so right. My husband and I saw Malkhasiants in the gypsy dance when the Bolshoi did Don Q in Boston, and just saw Anna Antropova here in NY. We both agreed that Antropova was more "dancey" - she probably deliniated the steps better - she may have been the better dancer in a technical sense, but with Malkhasiants the dance was just a torrent of shifting emotions. It was much more powerful in Boston, and I was bitterly dissapointed not to see Malkhasiants cast on this tour. Still, it is a beautiful character dance, the type we don't really get to see much of here (certainly something that we don't get to see done very well here) and the bulk of the audience who never saw Malkhasiants loved Antropova's performance. I thought she was pretty good, too - but when you've seen a great performance "good" just isn't good enough.
Posted 09 August 2005 - 02:21 AM
There is an interview with Yuliana where she talks at length about the training of character dancers: "The models remained and the programs have been expanded. However, success depends on personality."
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Which half of the complete Pull up works the Lats more ?
For eg : If I do the lower half of the pull up will it involve my Lats more OR if I do the upper half of the pull up ?
My problem : I can't do more than 5-6 full pull ups in my first set and the number quickly falls down to 3-4 in the 2nd set. I finish my routine at 30 reps. I am considering doing half pull ups to a count of 50. I hope this might cause improvement in the max pull ups in the first set.
Please help.


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I will try to provide something better next Sunday.
I will try to provide something better next Sunday.
Not possible.
Originally posted by ForeverLoading:Wouldn't it suck if it rained halfway through? :P
Wouldn't it suck if it rained halfway through? :P
Actually, you wouldn't believe how worried I was about that. I had gotten the lines and the teeth/red down, when the clouds moved in. It got kind of dark. I was like, you have got to be kidding me. D:
Luckily, it moved on. The drawing stayed there for a good 3 days before a downpour struck the mighty Rex down.
Originally posted by NoteyMan:Hmm 10 packs of Chalk later = WIN :)
haha that is amazing deriaz! I can't even say it better than that…
Hmm 10 packs of Chalk later = WIN :)
haha that is amazing deriaz! I can't even say it better than that…
Surprisingly, it actually only took one tiny little bucket. Half the chalk is still there. :D I have so much left over that if I want to play something in the future, I've got the resources.
And thank you. :) Glad you like it. I do wish I could have had some more depth to it, but given the colors I had and the quality of the chalk, I don't think I could do it very well, with the time (and fear of the weather) that I had. Some day, though, I would love to do one of those 3D drawings. . .
Originally posted by UnitedRebellion:
I will try to provide something better next Sunday.
Not possible.
Oh, nonono. If I can get what's in my head down on paper correctly? I think it will be my favorite thing so far.
But I haven't had much luck with that lately. We'll have to see what happens.
EDIT: Room-mate has agreed to help me with my idea, should I encounter a problem. Huzzah.
mhmm I think you should try and draw a hole in cement somewhere (perferably a place with protection from rain/other weather/small children
Warforged on a chocobo, amirite? ;D
Originally posted by NoteyMan:mhmm I think you should try and draw a hole in cement somewhere (perferably a place with protection from rain/other weather/small children
Oh, believe me, were this place not always so rainy in the summer as my roommates and the weather itself have told me, I would do so. Perhaps when winter comes around I can do that. Then it's just a matter of shoveling away the snow off the sidewalk so it can still be seen.
I'll think of something, though! All in due time. . .
Originally posted by Pivotman99:Warforged on a chocobo, amirite? ;D
Shh! D:
I mean, no. Silly Pivot. I have no idea what you're talking about.
You're insane.
Continues humming the Chocobo Theme quietly to himself.
You need to pay me in Procrastination Peanuts. Or I will talk!!!
Originally posted by Pivotman99:Or I will talk!!!
Or I will talk!!!
But you already did! >:O
Did I? Or did you?
EDIT: Linework is done. Sort of. I plan to go back into it and make the lines a bit more interesting at some point. (Also, moved a spike. Not enough to warrant a re-upload, but you'll see it when I update this to something more interesting in the future.)
Finals caught up to me, so I had a plan, y'know? To make up for not having anything done from the last week, I was going to post two works in progress.
Well, my scanner is refusing to work. I suppose it's for the best, because I'm not terribly happy with the version I have drawn in my sketchbook. I'll probably scrap it, and begin again. . .
So that leaves me with just the one work in progress. I sit here, contemplating. "Do I show it? It's not done. But I haven't shown anything in two weeks. And it is something digital, which I don't do very often. Maybe they'll like it. Maybe not, since it isn't done. . . Do I show it? It's not do—" and so on. You get the idea.
I'm deciding to show it. It's a tedious process; I've got 5 hours in on this piece so far, through the reading of tutorials, references, draws, redraws, and the cleaning I've done.
But it's fun. Pixel work, that is. A self-portrait, of sorts. Decided to jump in and give it a shot, after seeing you all doing it.
Original, drawn by my roommate, Jaggie.
I don't know if and when I'll finish it — it may be something I work on in my spare time. But, yeah. That's what some of my time has been spent on. Obviously, the cleaning is not yet done, as you can tell. The face/mask is done, however; I experimented a bit with line thickness on the forehead, if that raises any confusion. Still need to clean up the rest of my plating.
I will try to have something more complete for you next week, unless I end up really enjoying this. Heh.
Another busy week of sorting out student loans and stuff has left me without time to work again. I'm also still trying to handle some personal matters, so there won't be anything this Sunday. I don't mean to be slacking on my goal in this thread this much already; I wasn't aware end of semester and new-semester preparations would be so heavy. My bad, and I apologize for it.
student loans
student loans
Oh god. Not those.
In regards to the pixel picture, 'twill look SICK, as if it doesn't already. Did you make a layer over the actual drawing though, or was it just from using the original as reference?
Life can really suck sometimes.
When life gives you lemons, make apple juice. :)
Originally posted by UnitedRebellion:Oh god. Not those.
In regards to the pixel picture, 'twill look SICK, as if it doesn't already. Did you make a layer over the actual drawing though, or was it just from using the original as reference?
I know, right? :S I'm out-of-country, too, so these are really going to start racking up. Going to be painful at the end of the four years. . .
As for the picture, I used the original as reference. I used a tablet to make a really rough sketch in GraphicsGale (Like, rough as in, oh god why are your lines 10 pixels wide and filled with little holes) and then went in with a mouse and made everything a bit skinnier. I'll eventually go back into it and add some more appealing lines, like I did with one crease on the mask, but I haven't had the time. :( Sad face.
Originally posted by Laxaria:Life can really suck sometimes.
When life gives you lemons, make apple juice. :)
Doing my best. D: It's just annoying when some of the stuff is out of my hands.
LOLOL. I always do that, then make that layer half-visible, then use it as a guide, rather than thinning out the pixels.
That seems like it will save a lot of time in the future. I will definitely tuck that info away for a future project, if any.
Also, side note for why I definitely won't have anything tomorrow — omgwtf beagle puppy so adorable must play with teh puppeh it looks so sad D:
Still having scanner problems. The thing is plugged in, and the computer recognizes it, but it refuses to actually do a scan. Will print things fine, but not scan.
I'm going to keep trying. If I can't get it to work until tomorrow, I'll resort to a digital camera if I really need to. The piece is done; I would just like to have it scanned so the quality is much higher, and I can tweak out a few smudges or lines that I couldn't get at, either due to the hardness of the pencil or whatever.
Will delete this post if there are no replies to it and update tomorrow/when I get this working — otherwise, expect another post.
Tried to see if the software is working? :)
Nah, it wasn't the software, I think. . . Besides, I dunno that my roommates know where the software is, if we needed to re-install. Haha. Anyways, it's working. It was scanning black and gray squares, and sometimes stopping halfway through, but I finally got a decent scan. I'm not happy entirely with it, but after 4 hours or whatever with the scanner, I'm fine with it.
Decided to do some more League of Legends fanart. This guy is Kassadin, the "Void Walker". He looked into the Void, which is this really weird place full of monsters and stuff, and it changed him. So he's got this Void Blade that is attached to his bracer (his right arm), and he's able to silence and slow people, and teleport by opening rifts and stuff. He's a blast to play.
Wish I could have done a better pose with him, like have him leaning a bit more like he's leaping out of his rift opening, but it proved to be a bit too hard. As for mistakes, I know the left shoulder armor looks bad. That perspective messed with me a lot. That's the best of the attempts at it. And the head might be a bit too far to the right — didn't notice it 'til Jaggie pointed it out as I was getting ready to finish it up. :S
Anyways, here it is. Enjoy.
You do know that I wouldn't have really noticed any of those perspective issues until you mentioned them, and now I can't stop seeing them.
Nice piece though, and the linework is more intricate than other submissions, admittedly. It would be very interesting to see this coloured, actually. :P
Originally posted by Laxaria:You do know that I wouldn't have really noticed any of those perspective issues until you mentioned them, and now I can't stop seeing them.
If I must suffer knowing I am not as skilled as I'd like to be, than so must everyone else. All part of my master plan! Mwhahaha. . . Well, I admit, I'm actually winging this whole master plan thing.
But mwhahaha all the same.
I actually had plans to shade it, but coloring might be an option as well. If I can squeeze it in with an idea I have for a birthday piece thing for myself, maybe I will. ;P
He looks like he's related to Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles :D
I don't really see anything bad with it lol, looks amazing to me :) And sorry if these types of comments bug you >.< I know you probably get tired of hearing that your work is good >.< Wish I could actually find something for you to improve on to actually be of use >.< But ur way better then me lol :)
I can see the Shredder resemblance a bit. I think that might have been my doing, though — his concept art and character portraits from Riot (Either American or the Chinese localization) don't have that hint. Heh.
As for the comments, I don't mind as much so long as you guys don't mind. I would say give it your best shot on pointing out something I might have missed, something you think could have worked better, or maybe what you might want to see done with it. But if nothing else, I don't mind the repeat comments. Even hearing "That's great!" is better than silence, because I know I did something right, even if the commenter might not be specific in what. ;P
K :) Good to know :D hahah, there is one thing about the character though that strike me as off, is his belt supposed to stick out that far from his stomach? And should it curve a bit more to look like he's wearing it? It might actually look like that for his character, but I might as well point it out lol.
Ohh, I didn't see that. It probably should, actually. It does look like it's hovering a bit in front of him, instead of being worn. Whoops. D:
If I can shift it slightly in Photoshop, I will. But I'm not entirely sure if I can fix it. It's duly noted for sure, though. Thanks.
Someone graciously reminded me about the brightness/contrast. It can't believe that completely slipped my mind. It should look a lot better now — let me know what you guys think.
No problem lol… Hope you can fix it, if not, it still looks good.
And It looked good before, the brightness/contrast change isn't really noticeable, kind of a neutral change, if you get what I mean.
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The recent movie "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn" is a performance capture animated movie. What is a "performance capture" movie and what is the need for this technology when the same effects could be visualized using normal animation (think movies like Ice Age)?
Performance capture generally refers to the practice of capturing very subtle movements from real actors and using those in animation. Movies like Ice Age are fine without performance capture because the characters aren't realistic.
The problem you run into when trying to make realistic human animations is that the human brain is wired to detect very subtle cues in facial patterns and if an animator makes even minor errors, we tend to be uncomfortable with the animation, associating the problem with a physical defect, illness or death. That phenomenon is usually called the uncanny valley.
Steve Perlman explains how one version of the technology was improved to bridge the uncanny valley in this excellent video.
One thing you can theoretically do with this performance capture technology is record a broad array of facial expressions with a famous actor, and continue featuring that performance in new movies long after their ultimate demise. That seems even a little creepier to me than bad animation, but to each his own I guess.
Ultimately though, the reason for the technology is to capture an actor's well honed "art" as opposed to something an animator can realistically replicate.
I think performance capture is used to make animation that is more naturalistic through capturing movement from actors. This has been used with great effect where animation has to interact with live action - such as Gollum in the LoTR movies or King Kong (both using Andy Serkis as the actor), where a 'simply' animated character can be unconvincing. In this case it is an attempt to get around the 'uncanny valley' problem.
In a fully animated movie - I guess it is just an attempt to create a different look and feel, alongside tradional hand-drawn animation or CGI, it is neither better or preferred - just different.


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I've recently found the Terminator terminal emulator for Gnome. I really like this
There is a Terminator written in Java.
For windows it is lightyears ahead of the installed rxvt.
However, I have found that it suffers the same limitations as iConsole, namely with keybindings.
Has anyone suggestions for Terminal emulators on the Mac?


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I'm trying to post to a facebook page, as the page and I'm having problems.
When I run this I get:
Facebook.FacebookOAuthException: (OAuthException - #200) (#200) User does not have sufficient administrative permission for this action on this page
I believe I need a User Access Token and not an Application Access Token. Examples online are showing exchanging a "code" for a token. I currently have no way of retrieving this "code".
This process seems incredibly complicated for a such a simple task. Am I missing something here?
Do I need a User Access Token? How can I get this token assuming this code is in a Windows Service and cannot prompt the User.
const string applicationId = "114810611889734";
const string applicationSecret = "*** SECRET ***";
const string pageId = "102661313114041";
var client = new FacebookClient();
dynamic token = client.Get("oauth/access_token", new
client_id = applicationId,
client_secret = applicationSecret,
grant_type = "client_credentials"
client.AccessToken = token.access_token;
dynamic parameters = new ExpandoObject();
parameters.title = "test title";
parameters.message = "test message";
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American Society of Hematology 2003 Coverage
Please use for reference only.
Julia Draznin Maltzman, MD
Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Last Modified: December 15, 2003
The American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting took place December 7-10, 2003 in San Diego, California. The most important and noteworthy findings were presented at the plenary session held on Sun December 8, 2003. The abstracts related to cancer are listed and explained in this weeks news flash.
Identification, Validation, and Cloning of a Novel Gene (OPAL1) and Associated Genes Highly Predictive of Outcome in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Using Gene Expression Profiling
Presenter: Monica Mosquera-Caro
Affiliation: University of New Mexico
Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) has a long-term remission rate of 75%. Unfortunately, 25% of these kids will relapse and develop resistant disease. Furthermore, about 25% of all patients have the potential to be cured with less intensive chemotherapy. Knowing which patients are likely to respond to treatment before initiating therapy would be a major advantage for physicians and patients alike. Due to the relative heterogeneity of the disease and the intensity of treatment, it would be a tremendous advantage if physicians could tailor therapy to each individual patient. To this end, a group of investigators has set out to identify genes that may help in predicting outcome in this patient population.
Using gene expression profiling technology, a novel gene was identified and cloned. The gene was called Outcome Predictor in Acute Leukemia 1 (OPAL1). Of all the genes evaluated, OPAL1 conferred the strongest predictive power to treatment outcome. High OPAL1 expression was associated with a good chance of long-term remission (87%), as opposed to low OPAL1 expression, which showed only a 32% chance of long-term remission. Low OPAL1 was in fact, found to be associated with induction failure. OPAL1 was predictive of a good outcome also in T cell ALL and infant ALL.
Investigators of this study concluded that the use of gene expression profiling could be used to find novel genes that may in turn, be used to classify risk and predict outcome in ALL patients.
Novel Chemically-Stabilized Helices of the BCL-2 Family Induce Apoptosis of Leukemia Cells
Presenter: Loren D. Walensky Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Apoptosis is a very stoically regulated pathway by pro and anti apoptosis proteins. It is the delicate balance of these proteins within the cell that maintain homeostasis. When the balance is disturbed; regulation is lost. BCL2, a well know survival, anti-apoptosis protein is thought to be overexpressed in a number of cancers including follicular lymphoma. When BCL2 is overproduced, it immortalizes a cell that should have been destroyed under normal, physiologic conditions.
These investigators describe in detail how they successfully generated specific and stable pro-apoptosis proteins and inserted them into a cell overexpressing BCL2. Using this new technique, the group was indeed able to activate apoptosis in cultured T and B leukemic cells.
These exciting data indicate that this mechanism may be used as a tool to better understand and manipulate the apoptotic pathways in both normal and malignant cells.
Efficacy and Safety of the Oral Direct Thrombin Inhibitor Ximelagatran Compared with Current Standard Therapy for Acute, Symptomatic Deep Vein Thrombosis, with or without Pulmonary Embolism: The THRIVE Treatment Study
Presenter: Charles W. Francis
Affiliation: University of Rochester
This study evaluated the efficacy and safely of Ximelagtran (Exanta, AstraZeneca), a new oral thrombin inhibitor. Current treatment for acute venous clots consists of unfractionated heparin or low molecular weight heparin followed by a vitamin antagonist such as warfarin. Warfarin requires monitoring by frequent blood draws and dose adjustments. It also has multiple food and drug interactions of which patients must be weary. Ximelagtran, requires no blood work for monitoring purposes. It has very predictable pharmacokinetics without drug or food interactions.
These investigators presented results from an international, randomized, double blind, double dummy trial that included 2,489 patients with deep vein thrombi. (37% of these patients had known pulmonary emboli). They were randomized to receive either oral Ximlagtran or sub-cutaneous Enoxaparin followed by Warfarin.
For six months of treatment, Ximlagtran was found to be as good as Enoxaparin followed by Warfarin without the need for coagulation monitoring. This trial may well change the current treatment of deep vein thrombi.
Phase III Trial of Rituximab-CHOP (R-CHOP) vs. CHOP with a Second Randomization to Maintenance Rituximab (MR) or Observation in Patients 60 years of Age and Older with Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL)
Presenter: Thomas M. Habermann
Affiliation: Mayo Clinic
632 patients over the age of 60 with DLBCL were randomized to receive wither R-CHOP or CHOP alone. A second randomization occurred following induction therapy to either MR or observation alone. The overall response rate for both regimens was comparable: R-CHOP was 77% and 76% for CHOP alone. Progressive disease occurred in 6.5% of patients who received R-CHOP and 10.5% of those who got CHOP. In a almost three year follow up, the time to treatment failure favored the R-CHOP group but overall survival was equivalent in both groups.
In the R-CHOP group there was no difference seen between MR and observation alone in regards to time to treatment failure and overall survival. CHOP patients, however, had a statistically significant longer time to treatment failure if they received MR. Despite this, however, there was no difference in overall survival in the two groups.
Investigators caution that when interpreting these results, we should keep in mind that this study was not designed to directly compare R-CHOP to CHOP alone.
The investigators concluded that the addition of Rituximab to CHOP did not change overall response rate but did produce a longer time to treatment failure. MR also did improve time to treatment failure but only in those patients who were treated with CHOP alone as induction therapy. No overall survival differences have been seen to this point. The significance of this trial is that Rituxan when given for DLBCL offers an advantage in regards to time to treatment failure. It is still unclear what is the best way to give Rituxan – concurrently with CHOP or as maintenance.


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Once Melbourne has created an AST, it invokes the generator stage, passing the AST as the input.
The generator stage creates a new instance of
Rubinius::Generator, and
asks the root of the AST to generate its bytecode onto the
Generator provides a pure-Ruby DSL for generating Rubinius bytecode.
At its core, the
Generator provides methods that map directly to
Rubinius Instructions. For instance,
to create an instruction to push a nil onto the stack, you could call
the method
push_nil on a
Generator instance.
Generator class also provides a number of convenience methods that
allow you to generate common patterns of bytecodes without going into
the very low-level details of some areas of the Rubinius instruction
For instance, to send a method directly using Rubinius bytecode, you
would need to create a literal representing the name of the method, and
then call
send_stack to send the method. In addition, if you wan#ted to
call a private method, you would first need to create a bytecode
specifically allowing private method invocation. If you wanted to invoke
the method
puts with no arguments, allowing private method
invocations, you would:
# here, g is a Generator instance
name = find_literal(:puts)
g.send_stack name, 0
Using the
send helper, you could do this more simply:
g.send :puts, 0, true
When generating the bytecode for an AST, Rubinius invokes the method
bytecode on each AST node, passing in the current
instance. Here's the bytecode method for the
if node:
def bytecode(g)
done = g.new_label
else_label = g.new_label
g.gif else_label
g.goto done
First, the method calls the method
pos, a method on the base
class, which calls
g.set_line @line. This is used by the VM to provide
debugging information for running code.
Next, the code uses the label helpers in the
Generator. Raw Rubinius
bytecode does not have any control structures except for a few goto
instructions (plain
goto_if_true and
goto_if_false). You can
use the shortened form
git for
goto_if_true and
gif for
goto_if_false. In this case, we create two new labels, one for the end
of the
if condition, and one marking the start of the
else block.
After creating the two labels, the
if node invokes the
method on its
@condition child node, passing along the current
Generator object. This will emit the bytecode for the condition into
the current stream.
That process should leave the value of the condition expression on the
stack, so the
if node emits a
goto_if_false instruction that will
jump immediately to
else_label. It then uses the same pattern we saw
before to ask the
@body to emit its bytecode into the current stream,
and then emits an unconditional
goto instruction to the end of the
Next, we need to mark the location of the
else_label. By decoupling the
creation of the label from its use, we can pass it to the
instruction before marking its location, which is crucial for many
control structures.
We then ask the
@else node to emit its bytecode and mark the location
of the
done label.
This process occurs recursively from the root node all the way through
the AST, which results in populating the
Generator object with a
bytecode representation of the AST that started from the root.
You will probably find it useful to look at the classes in the
lib/compiler/ast directory, which define all of the AST nodes and
their associated bytecode methods. This is also a good way to see
practical examples of using the
Generator API.
Once the
Generator has acquired the bytecode representation of the
AST, it invokes the next stage of the compiler, the Encoder stage.
Generator object.
This class mixes in the raw generator methods, and defines a number of
higher level APIs for generating common bytecode patterns.
The easiest way to customize the Generator stage of the compiler process
is by creating higher-level methods in addition to the common ones
provided by the default
Generator implementation.
You can also customize which generator class is passed in. To learn more about customizing individual compiler stages or the compiler pipeline, please read Customizing the Compiler Pipeline.
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This is a follow up to my question about D-modules supported on the nilpotent cone. I got some good answers there but now I have a more basic question.
Consider an affine algebraic variety X, a closed subvariety i:Y-->X, and the intermediate extension of the structure sheaf on Y to all of X (do I denote this i!*OY ? For that matter, explaining either the * or ! extension instead would be a helpful start if its easier).
My question is this: Since X is affine, D(X) is just an associative algebra, generated by O(X) and Vect(X) by the usual construction. My question is how can I understand i!*OY as a module the associative algebra D(X), supposing I understand D(X)?
In other words, what is the vector space underlying i!*OY, how do functions in O(X) and vector fields act?
I probably need to invest some serious time with a textbook to answer this question myself, but any help getting started would be most appreciated!


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I get the error
/usr/bin/env: zsh -: No such file or directory
...when I run an executable
zsh script that starts with the following shebang line:
#!/usr/bin/env zsh -
Also, FWIW, replacing
- with
-- causes
/usr/bin/env to print a similar complaint about
zsh --.
I have only seen this error under ubuntu, and only in the context of the shebang hack. Under darwin the same script runs fine. And under ubuntu, running
% /usr/bin/env zsh -
from the command line succeeds. (Actually, "under ubuntu" should be understood as short-hand for "under ubuntu 12.04 LTS and
env (GNU coreutils) 8.13".)
My question is: how can I modify the shebang above to avoid this error?
Of course, I know that removing the trailing
- will eliminate the error, but this is not an acceptable solution. The rest of this post explains why.
The shebang line that is causing the error comes about as an attempt to comply with two entirely independent guidelines:
To make scripts portable, use
#!/usr/bin/env <cmd ...>rather than
#!/path/to/cmd <...>.
-as the sole argument to
zshin the shebang line of zsh scripts thwarts certain types of attacks.
So, I can restate my question more precisely as follows: Is it possible to satisfy both of these guidelines without triggering the error shown above under ubuntu?


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Woodland's Fancher thrives as leader
SOUTHINGTON — It's a good thing Woodland's football jerseys aren't green. Levi Fancher might actually be confused with the Incredible Hulk.
Fancher, the senior linebacker and captain, is emotional leader of the Hawks' defense that will have its hands full in Friday's Class S state championship against Ansonia.
If there's a tackle to be made or a turnover to be forced, he's usually there. And if he is, he makes sure everyone knows about it with his muscle-tensing celebrations.
"Intensity is always good," Fancher said at Wednesday's CIAC media luncheon at the Aqua Turf. "I bring a lot of intensity to the team on the field and in the weight room, and I think that's a good quality of a leader."
Fancher is a leader in every sense of the word. He's atop the school's all-time defensive stat charts, including tackles (257) and sacks (21), but he said he prides himself more on his captaincy than anything.
"I never thought about breaking the sack record or the tackle record," Fancher said. "Our main goal was to be state champions; that's been my dream ever since I can remember. I was never really for the personal records. Anybody who knows me would say I'm a team player."
He got to learn the ropes early, starting as a sophomore on the 2011 team that went 6-4. Fancher played alongside his older brother, Joe, for all of that season and half of the 2012 campaign until Joe went down to a season-ending ACL injury.
"It was fun, but at the same time he would push me a little harder," Levi said. "It was a great experience. I loved playing with him by my side. He taught me a lot as a captain, too. He really led the team. He was the heart and soul of the defense and everybody looked up to him as a leader. He never made any excuses. When he went down to his ACL injury, I knew I had to step up."
Fancher's play last season led him to All-Naugatuck Valley League honors, and he's one-upped himself this fall to make himself an All-State candidate. Woodland head coach Tim Shea is effusive in his praise of the 5-foot-11, 219-pounder.
"He's very good athletically and very strong, but he's got some intangibles," Shea said. "He's got a great sense for the ball, his motor never quits and he's just mean on the field. On defense, you have to want to get to the ball. He wants to get to the ball."
And when he gets there, the momentum resounds through the entire roster.
"When I see Lee make a big stick, it fires us up," Hawks quarterback and fellow captain Tanner Kingsley said. "I know that they did their job to get me on the field, so it makes me want to do my job and lead our team down the field."
Shea, who was Woodland's defensive coordinator from 2002-07, knows a good defense and knows what Fancher brings to the table gives his unit a boost.
"If you look at the better defenses out there, there's a lot of emotion with great motors all over the field," said Shea, who puts Fancher up with 2005 graduate Matt Dorosh in the group of Woodland's best linebackers. "We've had teams like that in the past that have done very well."
The only thing separating Fancher from the Hawks' other greats is a state championship ring, which he will have a chance to win if he can lead Woodland to an upset of Ansonia. Win or lose, though, he will leave a gaping hole in the middle of the Hawks' defense.
"I hope they say I was a great leader and a team player," Fancher said. "I cared about my teammates and my friends. If my records hold for a few years, that's good, too."
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As a foreigner in Japan, one has to get used to the fact that some Japanese will compliment you on things that are too mundane to really deserve mention. Like the fact that you can use chopsticks, eat sushi, say 「今日は」, and all that sort of thing.
Most of the time, it's harmless, and a mere stepping stone to genuine conversation.
But sometimes you'll meet that person who will just go on about it for a bit too long. They'll ask follow up questions, and keep the topic alive, blocking the potential to interact as more than just a gaijin novelty.
To those people, I want to say, "yeah, look, can we get past that?" Well... that would be the politer version (though obviously not devoid of a little frustration). Sometimes I just want to say "Get over it, will ya?"
I think the more or less literal translation for "get over it" would be:
First question is: Is that a suitable translation, or is it too literal in the sense of physically crossing something?
Next question: How would I, and could I, differentiate between "Get over it" (slightly stronger and a little more confrontational) and "can we get past this?" (a little softer but still conveying some annoyance).
Additional note 1: I'm okay with being a little confrontational on this, so please don't hold back on potentially stern suggestions for translation.
Additional note 2: I'm not looking to answer this question just to handle the situation when I'm dealing with someone who is wide-eyed about meeting a foreigner. That's just an example to convey the kind of situation, but hopefully a good translation can apply to any similar scenario.


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It's Responsible Tourism Week: How You Can Help to Make Difference
So, you live in the 2009 Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Award winner, Cape Town but what are you doing to help make a difference this Responsible Tourism Week (February 10 to 16, 2014)?.
Now in its sixth year, Responsible Tourism Week, a week-long online "unconference" hosted by Planeta.com, is dedicated to creating better places for people to live in and better places for travellers to visit.
In the Mother City, that means making positive contributions to natural and cultural heritage, embracing our cultural diversity, involving our residents in decisions that affect them, and embracing environmentally positive ideals and infrastructure.
This year it is all about falling in love with RT Week. Check out this Slideshare presentation by Planeta for ideas on how you can get involved.
As a much-welcomed visitor to our inspirational city, we invite you to share in our responsible tourism initiatives by doing the following:
Be a green traveller
Minimise your carbon footprint by using one of our eco-friendly transport systems in and around the Peninsula. Hop on board the certified City Sightseeing Bus; take a scenic train ride from Cape Town to Simon's Town aboard the Southern Line Tourism Route, participate in an informative, cultural tour with Coffeebeans Route Tours, or travel in style with The Green Cab.
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Get your retail therapy fix by swiping your credit card at locally-owned businesses or purchasing hand-crafted goods from Cape Town's innovative entrepreneurs. Our favourites include the Montebello Craft and Design Centre in Newlands, furniture and handbag suppliers Mielie, and eco-aware fashion store Hemporium in Long Street.
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For a two-wrench router, you need to order offset wrenches and also trim back the velcro on the right side to get enough clearance to actually tighten a bit.
Also, you need the long hose set unless you have your fence all the way back on your table. And the hoses don't really stay in the fittings without Duck tape (yes, that's the correct name).
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Works well in my router tables in my shop and save me lots of cleaning up time.
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Flexible hose makes it easy to install around obstacles. Works as advertised. The longest hose is about 22" long, and in my case was about a foot less than I needed. Hose is available for $2.50 a foot, plus shipping. [...]
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Just picked this unit up , actually bought two of them. I am using them on Rockler table tops with Porter Cable 890 series. Hoses couplings are great. The big problem is the silicon rubber piece that fits under the top and around the shaft of the router. you can not move the router up to change the cutter as it jams because of the thickness. It also interferes with the shaft lock and the switch lock. I finally had to modify the silicon piece by cutting a piece out of it so it fit around the shaft lock and the piece that holds the shaft lock down while your changing the bits. It still gets a little tight when cranking the motor up to change the bit but it makes it usable now. To bad the silicon piece interferes so much. It could have used a little more thought in the design process.
It does capture most of the dust & chips
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I have Triton 3 1/2 hp router and it fit between the router and mounting plate in my router table which was easy to stall.
Best yet
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This set up collects more dust, coming from my table mounted router ,than any other method than I've tried. On a normal, fence mounted only, dust collection system almost all the dust from a dado cut would fall below the table. This easily sucked away 99% of dust and chips on this operation. I set this system up on a Porter Cable 7518 3 HP router mounted on a Jessem router lift. The down side is this was difficult to install. I had to pretty much disassemble my Jessem Master lift unit completely to install correctly. From start to finish I'd say it took at least three hours. Which included having to cut a 2 1/2" hole in the rear of my enclosed router table to accommodate. This set up also makes it more difficult to change router bits from above the table. In fact you have to remove the cup that's velcroed to the bottom of the plate as you are not able to raise it high enough to get a wrench on the bottom nut. And even with the cup removed, which requires cranking almost all the way down,your still not able to get a direct fit on the bottom nut of the collect, although it was doable. I don't think I want to change bits this way as I'm afraid that the velcro may become ineffective over time and it just adds another step to the process. So I think I'm going to just change bits from below the table. I guess this is going to be the trade off for much better dust collection. I was hoping I could by pass this step by using of of those Extreme router extensions that eliminate having to use wrenches,but those won't work with this set up because the hole on the flexible cup isn't wide enough for those kinds of chucks to pass through.
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Hooked this up to my Kreg router lift and it would not let the lift move the router all the way to the top so the bits could be changed from the table top. Might work well for a router setup that doesn't have a lift but is definately not for lift setups.
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What makes GARCH(1,1) so prevalent in modeling especially in academia? What does this model has that is significantly better than the others?
First, Garch models stochastic volatility. Thus its use should be limited to estimating the volatility component. The difference in some of the volatility models is the assumption made of the random variance process components.
I believe it has been popular because it is an extension of the ARCH family of models and it is relatively easy to setup and calibrate because it relies on past observations. Think of it this way: If you are to pinpoint your PhD dissertation topic would you take the risk to delve into deriving a new model, taking the risk you utterly fail and get nowhere over your x years of research or are you more likely to work on extensions or improvements of what currently exists? The same applies here GARCH is an extension of ARCH and there are numerous extensions of GARCH as well, such as GARCH-M, IGARCH, NGARCH...
I disagree with cdcaveman that it is the best model out there because it suffers from major deficiencies. Every model makes assumptions but there are better models out there for sure which is why I do not know of too many volatility traders that rely primarily on GARCH models in their quest to forecast volatility.
Volatility models that are originating from trading desks and that are rarely to be found in academic paper or the public domain often
In summary, its a neat model to output something to show off within minutes. Whether the results are usable is an entirely different question and again I do not know of too many pure index vol traders who embrace GARCH.
A look at the SABR model (or dynamic SABR) might be beneficial when searching for better models, though the "backbone" dynamics of the SABR model are more applicable for some derivatives than others.
Volatility tends to cluster and mean revert... garch incorporated the behavior the best..... Ema doesn't do that.. its a step beyond exponential smoothing and weighting to replicate vol behavior


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Now it's topic vegetable enzymes in grains enzyme ,
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And the high concentration even Kale fiber is perfectly OK!
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Content amount of that ベジデール.
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Nvidia GTX250( Ubuntu 12.10 64) after install drivers - 304.51.really.304.43-0ubuntu1(there was x3 point of 96, 173, current- video change to 1600x1200(without left panel, without borders(file,help,go)). I opened (by right mouse lick) and changed to 1024x768 = lines and nothing else(but ubuntu works! So how repair it back to normal? Thank's for all how will tell me how to! (Sorry about my English).
Nvidia GTX250( Ubuntu 12.10 64) after install drivers video change to 1600x1200(without left panel, without borders(file,help,go))
I have the same problem on my Lenovo t410 (Ubuntu 12.10, nVidia gt218 NVS 3100M). I returned to a normal view as follows:
There is also a "user friendly" way to do the change stated by Evandro Silva.
When you get to the screen without a "desktop", click the right button on your mouse and open "Change Desktop Background". When you are there, click on "All Settings". Go to the "System" sub-menu and click on "Software Sources". Then go to "Additional Drivers" and revert back (select it) from the menu, as stated by Silva.
Although easy, not everyone is familiar with the "Terminal", so this is a good way to explain customers how to do this without the need to know how to use terminal.
Can You launch your terminaL ?


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I am planning a trip around Europe for around two months in the summer between June and August.
I have a prelminery route planned:
- Starting Scotland --> June
- France
- Monte Carlo
- North Italy
- Slovenia
- Croatia
- Slovakia
- Austria
- Switzerland
- South Germany
- Czech Republic
- Poland
- North Germany
- Denmark
- Finland
- Sweden
- Norway
- -->Home Scotland - > Start of August approx.
I have a budget of £4000 UK sterling / 4,799.88 EUR,
What are your opinions on this amount of money.
I won't be doing my trip hobo style and I won't be doing it like a prince.
So lets say 61 days, thats about 80 euros a day.
This of course is not factoring in the Eurocrisis and exchange rate?
In France and Switzerland I will be staying with friends and family and will spend more of my time out of the whole journey in those places, e.g. 2 weeks France, 1 week Switzerland.
So that should reduce my accomodation outgoings.
In terms of travel costs I will be planning to use Interrail or Eurorail.
I plan to just go walking about and take photographs!
Also how good is the Interrail card, I know it's not recognized by the French TGV. Are there any other train lines that don't recognize it?
Here is my basic route for now:
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