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I'm trying to submitting built-in like action.
First time, I used a button on my site labeled with 'like' and without any logo and linked it to the action, but I've got the following feedback:
Your Like or Recommend button branding conflicts with Section 5.6 of the Facebook Terms and Section I.8 of the Platform Policy (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/policy/examples_and_explanations/branding/). Please resubmit with a different graphic that reflects your own branding and the ux of your site.
Then I change the button text to 'Useful?', but I've go the following feedback:
Your action conflicts with section IV.3 of the Platform Policies (https://developers.facebook.com/policy/). You must make it clear to the user that you will be publishing a story to facebook and get their permission before actually publishing the story. Additionally, your action must not be confusing or misleading and should accurately represent the action the user took within your app.
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No. 64 Chicago School Reform: First Annual Evaluation
On July 1, 1988 - the final day of that year's legislative session- the Illinois General Assembly passed school reform legislation touted by many as "far-reaching" and "nothing less than a blueprint for revolution." On paper, at least, Public Act 85-1418 appeared to give Chicago "the first fully school-based management system in the country."
Few issues have generated more heated debate and disagreement in Illinois than school reform. The orginal Act was ruled unconstitutional and required legislative amendment to adress the flaw. When serveral local school councils exercised their reformgiven power to fir principals, charges of racism filled the air; according to one report, " near- riots broke out over school councils' selection of principals, sit-ins were staged, lawsuits were filed and veteran principals were shifted to others assignments or forced to retire." <2> The eyes of the country were on Chicago; at times, what they saw was as ugly as it had been before school reform took place. The New York Times reported,
What began as a revolution born of hope and desperation has become a sometimes bitter tug-of-war for many of the local school councils as they stuggle against a resistant central office, intransigent principals, factional fighting on the councils themselves and major setbacks that have put into question their very place in the school system. <3>
Please note The Heartland Institute's phone number and address have changed since this document was created. The correct contact information is The Heartland Institute, 19 South LaSalle Street #903, Chicago, IL 60603; phone 312/377-4000; fax 312/377-5000; email firstname.lastname@example.com.

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Sometimes I camp with people who pass out drinking beer and don't bother to clean up their trash before they go to bed. Since we are in black bear country, I was wondering if empty beer bottles can attract black bears.
This answer may depend on the type of bear, but somehow I doubt it.
Don't think about the beer bottles being "food". Think about bears being curious. Anything with a scent can attract a curious bear. Maybe your bear has never smelt an IPA before, and will need to investigate the rich scent of hops.
Take a quick look at the Yosemite National Park page on bear safety.
The short version is: put your empty beer bottles into a bear can or bear locker.


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Gandolfini & Tony
Alan Sepinwall writes in The Revolution Was Televised that the role of Tony Soprano was originally conceived for Anthony LaPaglia and at various stages in the show's initial development could have also gone to Michael Rispoli or Steven van Zandt (consider that a disaster averted). That it went to James Gandolfini came down to creator David Chase's decision to take The Sopranos in a very distinct direction: "The show I envisioned is the show that's got Jimmy in it. It's a much darker show with Jimmy in it," a characterization that, in Sepinwall's recounting, Chase modified to "more real" to improve the salability of The Sopranos in an era when darkness was still anathema to industry executives. Thus, as Sepinwall and many others have noted, was the future of television born.
Sepinwall was among the earliest practitioners of (and probably the best at) the form now known as the recap, and his writing on The Sopranos for New Jersey's Star-Ledger was reliably veined with insights shaped by a local's perspective. Yet his appreciation of Gandolfini, who died Wednesday at fifty-one, is like many others in that it seems to arrive at a kind of conventional-wisdom conclusion: Gandolfini didn't play just a mob boss, but someone with whom many in the pay-TV audience could identify—the upper-management, upper-middle-class family man with working-class roots, who was also charming, vulnerable, and cruel, which layered the role with a complexity that kept it from becoming a caricature. At least he didn't say "mobster on Prozac," which is about as reductive and silly as you can get. (Cathleen Kaveny wrote on The Sopranos for Commonweal in 2007, looking at the show's treatment of such concepts as fate, moral failing, redemption, and salvation; it's definitely worth [re]reading now.)
That no one can imagine anyone but Gandolfini playing Tony says how much he inhabited the role—another consensus opinion, maybe, but also true. Once when the show was filming in my neighborhood I watched him prepare for a scene by pacing the sidewalk, working himself up into a state of gasping agitation; the temperature was close to a hundred degrees and it looked as if he might drop right there (as it turned out, the scene did call for him to collapse after a severe panic attack). A couple of years later, after The Sopranos had ended, I saw him come out of a building trailed by a small group of attendants, one of whom complained about the cold. Gandolfini, sounding exactly like Tony, said, "I toldja you shoulda worn a [expletive] coat." Maybe he did it for the benefit of the two or three of us there to witness the moment.
What Gandolfini definitely did was make Tony recognizable to viewers who might have had someone like him in their own families or neighborhoods. The voice, the carriage, the sentimentality ("it's about family"), the sudden, explosive rages—even if their father or uncle or brother wasn't a murderer, many people nonetheless saw something pretty familiar there. As a New Jersey native of Italian heritage, I suppose I saw something recognizable in Tony too, in the way he chewed up the words "Hacklebarney State Park" (site of numerous grade-school picnics) or fed himself cold-cuts in the light of the open refrigerator; friends from the midwest called after one episode desperate to know the meaning of "gabagool," and I was able to inform them that it was capicola. It was good to be in the know.
But Tony was a murderer, and relatively few in the audience were likely to be in the know about that. Maybe it explains the portion of the viewership wagering on who'd be whacked in the next episode, or who complained when the body count wasn't high enough (Sepinwall also addresses this in his book). Gandolfini brought Tony close, but not so close as to disturb the artifice. Even those who weren't specifically tuning in for violence could enjoy the weekly transgression of watching someone almost like them get away with something they never could.
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The therapy sessions were something. The content didn't seem as important as the idea that a mobster would choose to be in therapy. (DeNiro did it in "Analyse this."Yet it make sense that someone so messed up would want to know why he was. Even if he directed the therapy to the place he wanted it to go. Like other killers, mobsters agree that the person deserved to be killed. Italians loved the Sopranos, as did others, yet few would invite such characters for dinner. It is fairly common as a Italian American to run into mobsters. Some of them separate their job from their other life. So much so that people who are law abiding are surprised to find out what this person really did as their is usually a legitimate job "fronting' the loan sharking or other operation. The stereotyping is a concern. Though Italians have now reached practically every pinnacle in America. The fascnation with the mob is its familiarity and its place in the fabric of many Italians. A bit of nostalgia, yearning for the good old days and downright fascination with the fast life.
Yet these are people who lost their way and deserve zero admiration. Father lou Gigante, the brother of two mafiosa, (one was a boss of bosses) contends that the mafia is just like corporate America who will "kill" people by mercilessly firing them or depriving people from making a living. The corporate comparison is a good one and one that we should not forget. Especially those of us who idolize an unbridled free market.
I found the therapy angle most compelling. In the series, Melfi was also of Italian descent and I actually heard that for mobsters (or psychopaths), therapy actually increases their psycopathy as they learn how to mimic empathy, etc. This was touched on in one of the episodes. While Melfi was pretty good with boundaries, part of her was fascinated with the animalistic impulse of Tony while at the same time being revulsed. Watching their tête-à-têtes was the best part of the show.
As for Gandolfini, he infused that role with a perfect blend of cruelty, sensitivity, frustration, - just an all around fascinating character. A gfted actor who provided a compelling, albeit, completely amoral character and he managed to make it real!
"What Gandolfini did was make Tomey recognizable to viewers who might have had someone like him in their own families or neighborhoods."
In my all girls high school there were many Italian descent girls. One was a good friend. Her father took us to dinner and introduced us to his friend, named the Weasel, nice man, very personable. Years later I saw Jimmy the Weasel Fratianno, mobster, on "60 Minutes" - same guy but what a past. I never forgot his face.
Not all Italian-Americans are at ease with mobsters. One of my best friends, of Scicilian descent, became engaged to a man from Newark. Her mothr had a fit, even though the man was of Polish descent. She was terrified that he might have Mafia connections and wanted no part of him in the family.
Not long ago I saw a conversation on TV of several mobsters daughters. They all said their fathers were great dads. It seems to me that that just shows how humans can deceive themselves. Their fathers weren't great fathers to their sons. Remember The Godfather and the wife who aborted her child because she didn't want a son to be born the son and grandson of a serial murderer. She had a (distorted) point.
Sometimes I think that those of us who watch such "art" are more than a little guilty if we let oursellves see such monsters as "good fathers". Yes, The Godfather was different from The Sopranos (or what I read about the Sopranos -- I didn't watch it.). Corleone is presented as a tragic figure in the old sense -- a man with many virtues but essentially and terribly flawed. And the deaths he caused were presented as horrible and terribly wrong. I'm not so sure that was the message on The Soopranos.
Very nice, Dominic, thank you. I'm not ready to mourn Gandolfini just yet, as the husband and I are just now making our way through The Sopranos for the first time. (It's sustaining us in these early weeks of life with a newborn -- if we can stay awake long enough to finish a whole episode, it's a night to remember.) So for me, for now, he's still very much alive in his work, but when it's over I'll be bereft. One thing about his performance that I keep marveling at is how funny he can be. His sure touch with the humorous moments is a big part of what makes Tony so likable and relatable for the audience, just as Tony's sense of humor is one of the things that makes Dr. Melfi fond of him in spite of herself.
I had a similar reaction to Alessandra Stanley's piece in the NYT. With so much really good TV writing in other venues, her stuff now seems superfluous as well as superficial. (Even her NYT colleague Dave Itzkoff managed to work more insight into the obituary he had to rush out after the news broke.) The angle she took, about how he could never escape the character, seemed particularly odd to me. (It's also a subject that was treated better by yet another NYT writer, Manohla Dargis.) Gandolfini might well have moved beyond Tony if he'd lived another twenty years. As it is, we remember him chiefly, or only, as Tony because he died too soon.
Of the tributes I read, Emily Nussbaum's blog post on How Tony Soprano Changed Television was my favorite. Most critics and commentators responded to the death by writing a remembrance of the character and the show, which was understandable, but she seemed particularly aware that that was what she was doing, and so she managed to really say something about Gandolfini in the process of talking about Tony.
Why is Gandolfini being buried in NYC at St. John the Divine instead of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Surely he knew that the Catholic Church is the TRUE CHURCH.


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My question is very similar to "How can I fit a door in a frame that is too small?" except my house is made of concrete block. I bought a used patio French door to replace my sliding door. The sliding door measured 71 1/2 x 80. The French doors measured the same. After taking out the frame for the sliders, I need at least 1/2 inch on the top and sides. Help!
It depends on the construction of the door, but if it's a wood door, you should be able to take off 1/4" from the top and bottom without any problem.


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By Kinsey Janke / SARampage.com
Hockey players have always been a bit rougher around the edges. Black eyes, missing teeth, accents from around the world, and the unique slang of a locker room have always defined the stereotype.
But sitting in a room on the fifth floor of Children's Hospital of San Antonio, the stereotype couldn't be further from the truth.
The full San Antonio Rampage roster, clad in their road blacks, sat in mismatched groups, their size making them look slightly out of place in a room that was clearly designed for children. Some of the 26 players in attendance talked amongst themselves, others waited quietly with smiles on their faces.
In its fifth year, the Face-Off Against Kids Cancer initiative pairs each member of the Rampage with a child being treated in the Centers for Oncology and Blood Disorders for a series of social events throughout the Rampage season.
The first event, held Wednesday, Oct. 23, was a board game and Halloween cookie decorating party, in which the players met their buddies and their families for the first time.
"I just like getting to know the kids. It's nice to come out and play games with them and put smiles on their faces," said Rampage defenseman Colby Robak. "They're appreciative of it, and it's something that makes you feel good. It's been a lot of fun."
Robak is in his third year participating in the program and it's easy to see how much he enjoys it.
Greeting his buddy and his two siblings, Robak offers up a hand to high-five – his grin splitting his face as he receives a warm welcome from all three of the children. As he shows them to a table in the back his buddy's sister stares hard at his black eye.
The bruising is from a high stick Robak took during the October 18 game against Texas, and though it has faded considerably, it still sticks out against his cheek.
"Is that a real black eye?" she asks, looking skeptical.
Robak grins and laughs, shaking his head and gesturing to the decorations around him.
"Just part of my Halloween costume. Pretty good, huh?"
Similar exchanges crop up all over the room. In one corner, Zach Miskovic and Jack Combs can be heard playing Yahtzee with their buddy, unable to win even a game against him.
Up front, Mike Mottau and Bobby Butler are locked into a tense game of Ice Breaker with their buddy, while at the next table, Logan Shaw and Vince Trocheck are taking their game of Hungry-Hungry Hippos as serious as they would a Rampage game.
"It's awesome," said Butler. "It's a great experience to come out here and hang out and get to know people and the little guys that are struggling. It's a great cause, and it's been a fun night."
Butler explains that the mother of his buddy was beyond pleased at the interaction, telling them that the permanent grin on her son's face was not like him, and that it was great seeing him smile like that.
Though the event is centered on the children and bringing some light to their world, it's evident that the players are having just as much fun, both at the hospital and with the other events that occur throughout the season.
"We've gone to the Rodeo and to SeaWorld in the past," said Rampage captain Greg Rallo. "Just a lot of really fun times where not only the kids have a good time, but I think our players have a really good time, too."
Such is evident with the lengths the players go to support their buddies. The team hosts an event every month throughout the season, but several players go above-and-beyond. Surprise hospital visits have become the norm and last year two Rampage players even purchased four tickets for their buddy to see Justin Bieber at AT&T Center.
Crystal De Hoyas is another parent who already can see the positive difference that the event has had on her child. Just 14-years-old, her daughter, Savannah, is in remission after nine months of hard chemotherapy. Diagnosed with T-cell lymphoblastic leukemia, Savannah just completed her first month of low chemotherapy, a less intense procedure that will last for the next two years, ensuring that the return of the cancer will not occur.
"I think just the experience of getting to know the hockey players and knowing that there are people who care about her and what to know what she's going through and how they could help her is great," said De Hoyas.
The experience is often compared to the bond between a brother and sister, and the similarities, even in just two hours, are striking. At the end of the night, the Rampage players gathered around their buddies, smiling wide for a group picture.
"I tell everyone that these look like big, gruff, hockey players that get on the ice and push each other around, but when they're with the kids, they are the nicest, sweetest, and kindest people," said Brandy Ralston-Lint, the public relations program manager for the Children's Hospital.
Ralston-Lint's son Connor was a participant in the inaugural Face-Off event, paired up with former Rampage goalie, Josh Tordjman. To this day, Connor still speaks about Josh, and proudly displays one of Tordjman's old sticks in his bedroom.
"It's a chance for the kids to not think about cancer for one night," said Ralston-Lint.
"For one night, they can just come and be a kid. They don't have to worry about chemo. They don't have to worry about shots, or needles, or pokes, or pricks, and blood counts and everything else. They're coming here to have fun. They can worry about Candy Land."


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NEW CUMBERLAND - Delegate Randy Swartzmiller believes West Virginia lawmakers will pass education reform legislation in 2013.
Swartzmiller, D-Hancock, has been named by Speaker Rick Thompson, D-Wayne, to the House Education Audit Work Group - a bipartisan, nine-member panel charged with examining the Governor's Education Efficiency Audit released last year and suggesting possible legislation to address issues raised by the audit. Swartzmiller was the only local delegate named to the panel.
"Delegate Swartzmiller has shown an intense interest in his local school system, participating in many school activities - including advocating for a local bond levy - as his two children have moved through the public school system," Thompson said. "In addition, his district is in a border area where school systems struggle to keep teachers from taking jobs in Pennsylvania and Ohio, so he is well versed in the issues our state faces."
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Swartzmiller said the Legislature will focus on education when it convenes for its regular 60-day session Feb. 13.
"We're definitely going to see a bill - something passed," he said. "What the face of it will look like, there's no way to tell you yet."
Swartzmiller said the audit addresses important issues and makes suggestions for improvement. It recommends "de-centralizing"decisions about education in the state and allowing local school districts to determine what works best in their classrooms.
"It's a great starting point," Swartzmiller said of the audit. "But as we move forward, the focus has to be on keeping kids first. At the end of the day, we have to have a good product - legislation that moves education forward."
He added West Virginia has done a good job in funding its schools but acknowledged the money isn't always spent in the best way.
"I don't think we're getting the biggest bang for our buck," Swartzmiller said. "We can always do better and find better ways to improve."
He predicts the state budget will be tight this year, and that it is likely teachers won't see a pay raise in 2013.
"Until we see the true numbers, it's too early," Swartzmiller said. "But I think it will be a tough budget year."


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We all know why wine has suddenly become a hot commodity at restaurants and bars – more people than ever are drinking it and demanding new and interesting wines to choose from.
But there's another reason. More farmers are growing grapes. Once the province of California, Oregon and New York state, farmers in the Southwest have gotten in on the party. Now grapes are cropping up in Utah, Arizona, Texas and of course, Colorado, said Nor List of Sutcliffe Vineyards in Cortez.
"Wine is a cash cow," she said. "At $1,500 a ton for grapes, that looks pretty good. If you're a farmer, you can grow grapes. It's just fruit."
About 98 percent of the grapes used in Sutcliffe's wines are grown in Colorado and about 75 percent of them are grown on their estate outside of Cortez.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Volunteers say they still have plenty of incentive even though their preseason hopes of contending for a Southeastern Conference title are long gone.
The Vols (3-5) can assure themselves of their first winning season since 2009 by beating each of their final four regular-season opponents. After losing four straight games in October, the Vols are counting on Saturday's meeting with Troy (4-4) to start a season-ending surge that will allow them to earn the bowl bid that eluded them a year ago.
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At the close of the competition a draw will take place to determine the winner. One lucky Facebooker will win a holiday for two in Cape Town. The prize includes flights on Virgin Atlantic, accommodation at the beautiful 12 Apostles Hotel and a choice of fantastic activities, be it soaking up the hot African sun on pristine beaches, or visiting some of the amazing world-class attractions like Table Mountain and discovering gems in the unexpected Cape Town. The winner will also receive R5 000 in spending money.
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If your goal is increasing strength, must you always train to the point where you feel the burn later?
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Probably not. Training for powerlifting (completely strength-oriented) involves avoiding failure, keeping the number of reps low, and resting a lot between sets, none of which are really conducive to "burn" during a workout or soreness afterwards.
Pavel Tsatsouline gave this answer to a similar question during an interview:
And on the likelihood of soreness from powerlifting-style training:
To increase strength, you must effectively break down your muscle tissue so that, when it heals, it comes back stronger than before. This means that, to some extent, you must "feel the burn".
Additionally, after the workout, you must give yourself proper nutrition in the form of protein, carbohydrates, and fat, as well as give yourself plenty of rest.
Over time, you'll feel less sore after the workouts as your body adapts and becomes stronger. With that said, you should never exercise to the point where you are in physical pain. Soreness and pain are different animals, minimal soreness can be good both mentally and physically. If you are feeling pain, that means that you're doing something wrong, and you should make adjustments to prevent the pain from recurring.
I used to believe you had to "feel the burn" for a long time, until I heard an expert (sorry but I forgot who it was), explaining that the "burn" is actually the body's signal for us to stop. It's like the safe limit, the point where lactic acid begins to build up a bit too much, and the time where you need to take a break before going again.
Natural pains after "working out", are pretty fine, though.


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Utica College's business and economics faculty are nationally and internationally recognized for their scholarly accomplishments as well as for their real-world business experience. Collectively they represent a wide range of expertise and research interests, including health care financing, public school aid formulas, banking, and managing change.
At the same time, at Utica College, teaching is the faculty's first priority. Small classes provide opportunities for close interaction between and among faculty and students, and the relationships students form with their professors often last a lifetime.
The overwhelming majority of faculty are doctorally trained; several additionally hold an M.B.A. Faculty regularly share their expertise by serving as members of professional organizations, presenting at scholarly conferences, and consulting with local businesses and government agencies. These connections help faculty develop internship opportunities for students, and also serve as networking resources for UC graduates seeking employment.
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I'm not very knowledgeable about networking topics, but I have to store IP addresses for my project, and I want to be prepared to handle both IPv4 and IPv6. The best solution I've read appears to be two BIGINT unsigned fields where one is null in the case of IPv4:
How to store IPv6-compatible address in a relational database Does anybody have the complete solution?
I need code to go from a string address (like $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'] produces) to numeric values and vice versa.
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Your baby isn't big enough to give you an obvious pregnancy belly, but you'll definitely notice your waistline become thicker. At this stage of pregnancy, many women feel re-energized and have a strong sense of well-being. Healthy eating is very important, so be clued in about the best food choices. In particular, your body needs plenty of protein; and your baby needs it, too, to sustain her rapid growth.
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Town United by Grief Searches for Answers
SANDY HOOK, Conn.—President Barack Obama spoke of every parent's grief and singled out the bravery of teachers who tried to save children from a gunman's attack on a Newtown, Conn., elementary school.
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"I am very mindful that mere words cannot match the depths of your sorrow, nor can they heal your wounded hearts. I can only hope that it helps for you to know, that you're not alone in your grief. That our world, too, has been torn apart," Mr. Obama said at an emotional interfaith prayer service Sunday evening. "Newtown, you are not alone."
Before the speech, the president met with victims' families and first responders in six classrooms set aside in Newtown High School.
The president said the nation was failing to protect its children and that he would commit to an effort to prevent such shootings. He concluded the 19-minute address by reading the first names of each child who was killed.
Earlier on Sunday, authorities said the gunman who killed his mother at home and then fatally shot 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School had hundreds of rounds of unspent ammunition when he apparently heard the approach of police sirens and shot himself.
Authorities investigating how 20-year-old Adam Lanza allegedly carried out the killings Friday morning said it could take weeks to draw a clear picture of what motivated the reclusive man to target two first-grade classrooms in one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history.
As parents and local townspeople mourned the loss Sunday of the gunman's 27 victims, Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy suggested in an interview on ABC the toll could have been even greater. "We surmise that it was during the second classroom episode that he heard responders coming and apparently at that, decided to take his own life," he said.
Some residents seeking comfort in church services Sunday at St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church were evacuated around 12:30 p.m. after "a menacing call that threatened to disrupt the Mass in a violent way," said Brian Wallace, a spokesman for the Diocese of Bridgeport. The church campus was closed for the rest of the day without incident.
Police investigators, meanwhile, worked to reconstruct the movements of the suspected attacker, beginning with interviews of two adults who were shot and wounded at the elementary school, said a spokesman for the Connecticut State Police. Detectives next move to the task of interviewing the rest of the many witnesses from the school, which enrolled about 600 students and employed approximately 40 teachers.
"Our goal is to answer every single question," state police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance said. "It's a huge case, we're using every single resource and our goal is to paint a complete picture so that we all know…exactly what happened here."
Mr. Lanza emptied multiple high-capacity magazines from an assault rifle that was registered to his mother, 52-year-old Nancy Lanza, Lt. Vance said. Each magazine was capable of carrying 30 rounds, he said.
A law-enforcement official said the rifle used in the campus attack was a Bushmaster XM-15 model, an assault rifle popular for its light weight and reliability. A similar model was used in the July mass shooting at a Colorado theater that killed 12 people.
Police also found two handguns, a Glock 10mm and a Sig Sauer 9mm, and additional magazines for each weapon containing hundreds more bullets at the school, Lt. Vance said. Ms. Lanza was shot several times in the head at her home before the school attack, authorities said. A shotgun was recovered in a car the gunman used to drive to the school, he said.
Authorities said it would be weeks before they issue a final report, involving about 250 investigators. But interviews with eyewitnesses, police reports and a 40-minute, chaos-filled recording of one of the emergency response calls outlined how the attack unfolded.
At approximately 9:30 a.m. Newtown Police received a 911 phone call.
"Call indicates she thinks someone is shooting in the building," a public safety official said at the start of the recording. Another voice chimed in: "Units responding to the Sandy Hook school. The front glass has been broken, and they're unsure why."
Mr. Lanza had shot his way into the school through a plate-glass partition next to a locked front door, Mr. Malloy said. Soon, the halls were filled with the sound of children screaming. Then the voices fell quiet, "and all you could hear was the shooting," said school therapist Diane Day.
Principal Dawn Hochsprung and psychologist Mary Sherlach, who were in a meeting with Ms. Day and others, left to investigate. Both were shot dead.
Someone turned on a campus loudspeaker system, which broadcast cries and screams that warned others, one teacher said.
First-grade teacher Kaitlin Roig, whose classroom was located near the school's entrance, said in a TV interview that she put a bookshelf in front of her classroom door and hustled her students into the bathroom.
Mr. Lanza moved past her room to two nearby first-grade classrooms, killing 20 children, two teachers, an aide and a therapist with the assault rifle. He used one of the handguns to kill himself with a single bullet to the head, according to a spokeswoman for the state medical examiner.
Asked about Mr. Lanza's mental state, Mr. Malloy said to NBC that "this is not a person who maintained normal relationships."
Mr. Lanza's mother was the first victim in the shooting spree in the sprawling home she shared with the suspected shooter in Newtown, which includes the village of Sandy Hook. Authorities discovered her death after the school killings.
Authorities, meanwhile, said Sunday they have begun returning the bodies of victims to their families.
Daniel Honan, whose Honan Funeral Home is on Main Street in Newtown, said he was handling the arrangements for 11 of the children killed. The company's online memory book shows 12 services were conducted in 2012.
"Basically we're going to be doing two a day," Mr. Honan said. "We're doing what we do, helping families to bury their dead and follow their wishes. This is great tragedy."
—Devlin Barrett, Andrew Strickler, Anjali Athavaley and Jennifer Levitz contributed to this article.
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Currently it is possible and not so expensive for a person to have his genome. This is useful in general for understanding how life works. But, in practice, how is this useful for the specific person at this point in time?
A human genome sequence can uncover large deletions and insertions in the genome and would give the genotypes of both common and private (rare to very rare) small polymorphisms (e.g. SNPs) and SSRs (simple sequence repeats). From this information, one can learn about some curiosity traits (say, sensing asparagus metabolites in the urine, slow or fast twitch muscles, curly vs not curly hair) and, more importantly, about disease risk. Ancestry and family relationships can also be learned as in, for example, a half-sibling relationship.
As many diseases are polygenic with numerous loci each making small contributions to the variance, it becomes very difficult to fully describe the level of increased or decreased risk. In other words, we don't yet know all the players and so assessing their contribution to risk of disease can't be done with complete confidence. To further compound this problem are both epistasis and gene-environment interactions. Epistasis is a gene-gene (gene-gene-gene, etc) interaction, such that genes A and B separately make no contribution to the phenotype (disease risk), but do so in combination - say in ab/ab individuals. A gene-environment interaction can be described as when an allele associates with increased risk only when an environmental factor (e.g., exercise, fat in the diet, sun exposure, oxygen tension (altitude), etc), passes a certain threshold.
Still, the most powerful predictor of disease risk, onset and progression is family history. A genome sequence approaches that history (half your genome is from your mother and half from your father, of course), but remains fairly uninterpretable in terms of complex traits. You may carry a couple variants posing increased risk for heart disease, but what about the other hundred or so loci that also make small contributions to this affliction? Sure, if we knew exactly what those other hundred were and how much they each contribute and if they interact with each other or the environment. An incomplete picture emerges.
With rare diseases and altered genomes (say in cancer compared to normal) great strides are being made to either identify the small number of defective genes (rare diseases) or the commandeered pathways exploited for uncontrolled growth (cancer). In this regard, much can be learned and will have quicker, but still measurable in years, applications to the clinic.
How is the genome sequence useful right now? There are several tests out there that rely on identifying single mutations that will lead to diseases, or that are associated with bad response to medication. Having the entire genome sequenced allows identifying all of them at once, and is cheaper than doing these diagnostic tests one by one. Thus, sequencing the genome gives you information about whether to expect certain diseases, and a list of medication that you shouldn't take, sort of as an insurance.
Sequencing also allows you to learn about your ancestry, which may be of interest especially to people from countries with a long history of immigration, such as the US.
How is the genome sequence useful in the mid-term? Many diseases (including many cancers) are not caused by single mutations, but rather buy a combination of genetic and environmental risk factors that exceed some threshold. Thus, the genome sequence only allows to tell whether a person has increased risk for certain diseases, but not whether they'll get it. By itself, this information is not very useful. However, it has recently been suggested that blanket screening for cancer may not be the best idea due to bad side-effects and cost associated with treatment of false positives (which you'll get if you screen a sufficient number of people). Here, the genome sequence may help to identify who should get screened.
How is the genome sequence useful in the long term? The more genomes are sequenced, and the more phenotypes and diseases get associated with them, the better the predictions become, and the easier it will be for basic science to understand how mutations cause/influence disease. Thus, getting the genome sequenced now may be extremely useful and informative for the people who get their genome sequenced five years from now.
I assume some people would have their genome sequenced not so much for "My family has a history of heart disease - what risk factors have I inherited?" but for "I have my genome on this DVD - isn't that neat?".
The reason I suspect that is that I've heard that there are services that allow Europeans to find out which of the "Seven daughters of Eve" they're from, which seems to be more about curiosity than medical information.


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24 Apr 2013 8:03 AM #1
Kitchen Sink Example as a Project for Architect?
Is there a set of files of the Kitchen Sink example, set up as a project for Architect?
I'm wanting to use many of the non-data features in the Kitchen Sink example to present linked, but static information to people - essentially a quick reference to our operating procedures and job aids.
So the nested lists, pop-ups, and just pages of static data, some linking to pdfs, audio & video files is all I'm trying to do...
And I'm struggling to make sense quickly of how to do this - I followed the 'make your first mobile app' tutorial but that didn't explain as it went along why I should be doing each step in that sequence, or in that way - learning for me was limited, and in the end the example didn't fully work anyway, despite my best efforts...
Any pointers/tips greatly appreciated!! (Even just a good reference manual or book on how to do this...)
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Thanks Jason for getting back to me on this - I'll be able to take a look at this later today...
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I recently acquired a Raspberry Pi, and have installed Debian Squeeze on it, and after doing a small bit of research (I'm not too proficient with Linux) I found and ordered a USB wireless dongle ("LevelOne WUA-0605 N_Max Wireless USB Adapter") that appears to have support for Linux.
This is the page I found that looks like it says the dongle has a Linux driver. I installed (what I think) was the driver package,
firmware-ralink. Now I'm not sure what i need to do to make it work.
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The Steubenville Shrine Club will hold a fundraiser pancake and sausage breakfast on Saturday from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Applebee's in Steubenville.
Cost is a $5 donation for the breakfast that includes pancakes and sausage, juice and drink. Tickets are available at the door or by calling Jerry Williams at (740) 264-4921 or any club member.
The wives of Shriners are selling tickets for a drawing for a signed painting by Richmond artist Dave Barnhouse entitled "Andy of Mayberry." Tickets are $2 for one or $5 for three.
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Involved in helping with the breakfast are, from left, Charlie Morris, Thomas McNeil, Anthony Violi, Bob and Bonna Kay Moffat, Richard and Dolores Hazelip, Ellen and David Hunt, Jerry and JoAnn Williams, Dan Moffat and Mark Smith, Applebee's manager.
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The winning ticket will be drawn after the breakfast.
The Steubenville Shrine Club is dedicated to helping area children who have been burned or are in need of medical care at no cost to the families, according to a club spokesperson. The club provides transportation for the children and their families to and from the Shriner hospitals. The state organization, Aladdin Shrine Club, incurs the cost of the medical treatment, meals and gasoline.
"Many adults in our area have experienced help from the Shrine service when they were young and got burned or had other physical disabilities," the spokesperson said.
"The Shrine Club, like many other nonprofit organizations, has been trying to maintain a presence in our community during this challenging economic downturn. Being a nonprofit organization means we rely on income from our membership dues and fundraiser to pay monthly insurance, maintenance, utilities and taxes. Like everyone, the expenses are higher each month," the spokesperson added.
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For example I am given an article and asked to write a summary for money; where do I begin?
Do I just read the article, and kind of pull material out of it, re-arrange some of it, change some words around and try to convey a similar meaning with different words?
Or perhaps I put together a little overview of what the viewer will read without actually mentioning particular aspects of the original writing.
I really could use some help here, because I was considering taking up micro-jobs for writing, such as summary writing for some money.


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Easy, if you've got a big ego, a 1957 T-Bird, and prefer cruising the highways for girls. Still, Bobby can't get Gracie, an angel, out of his mind. Why not head to Heaven, raise a little hell, and let Gracie look out for the consequences?
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"Susan Elizabeth Phillips triumphs once again." (Romantic Times)
"Susan Elizabeth Phillips makes you laugh, cry...makes you feel good." (Jayne Ann Krentz)
"If you haven't met Bobby Tom . . ."
Susan Elizabeth Phillips is wise and wonderful and this is the best of her darn near perfect books.
Bobby Tom Denton is the best ever. If you haven't met him, you owe it to yourself. Don't waste another minute.
"Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, Gracie, Gracie, Gracie"
Again a great S.E.P. book. Love, humor, football and great, great characters. You just have to love Gracie; she is so off the wall. Bobby Tom is so flummoxed by Gracie that it is cute. He thinks that he is always is in control, but little does he know... If you like S.E.P. definitely get this one.
"Didn't want it to end!"
I immediately listened to it again!!! It is a story of love prevailing against the odds. SEP is insightful in her development of the characters. It is a wonderful story of arrogant but loveable superstar jock, Bobby Tom Denton and Gracie Snow, smart, anything but attractive and geeky. BT only dates bombshells; but his life is turned upside down when he meets Gracie the absolute opposite of the women that he surrounds himself.She is smart,but geeky and sporatically insecure. She irritates and amuses him, but Gracie's makeover transforms her into a cutie and BT doesn't like the competition. SEP also gives great descriptions of the intimate scenarios...WHEW!!! Very heartwarming to hear this story and the wonderful "story in a story" of BTs Mother overcoming the loss of her husband and BTs Dad. It is definitely worth listening to MORE THAN ONCE. Almost didn't buy because of the summary; but, it has become my favorite.
"Fun listening"
No other word for it - fun! Great narration, the best of Anna Fields. She must have had such a good time doing all those SEP novels. The two main characters, Gracie and Bobby Joe, were right up there with the best of her couples.
"Consider before buying"
Loved but this title is very much like her book Natural Born Charmer. So consider which one you want before buying both, since they are very much alike. She uses a road trip and a non-beauty as a surprise love interest in both and in very, very, very much the same way. I enjoyed Charmer a bit more, but consider one and not both before buying and buy another one of her books instead, I suggest.
Sassy dialogue, humor, and a great reader are important to me.
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"Fun Sequel in a Fun Series"
At first glance, you wouldn't think this is a delightful story. After all, the male lead is incredibly arrogant, inconsiderate, and sometimes too smart for his own good. But somehow, when those personality traits are combined with southern charm and what turns out to be a heart of gold, Bobby Tom Denton turns into a very lovable character. He meets his match in Gracie Snow--a virginal homebody who's lived her whole life under the impression that she was homely. When she is dispatched to ensure his return to Heaven, Texas a turn of events results in her getting a full makeover which helps put them on a more equal footing. Gracie isn't what you would initially think of as a strong female lead. She doesn't have clear career ambitions, suffers from many insecurities, and often clams up in conversation. But her sweet heart, thoughtful actions, and desperate need to reinvent herself make her one of the few women who manages to stand up to Bobby Tom Denton. As usual, Anna Fields does a great job as narrator, aptly acting out all the witty & funny conversations.
"Totally predictable but that is OK"
Yes this is just another formula romance story. But this is one of the really good formula romance stories. I had a great time listning to it and I look forward to another Susan Elizabeth Phillips novel.
"Loved Bobby Tom"
I find it interesting that every single person in SEP???s books have their own distinct character and personality. I find this amazing as I read through the Chicago Stars series. Each person is distinctive. The reason I mention this is because for some unexplained reason I have a fondness for Bobby Tom Denton. Can???t explain it. Only know this character, over the other male characters in the series, stood out for me. I loved this book, as I have all of the Chicago Stars series, and would recommend it to anyone wanting an adorable love story full of fun, laughter and downright good entertainment.
"Funny "forget about my problems" book"
The heroine and hero in this book were very engaging! I loved the banter between the both of them and how she put him in his place. It was a take me away kind of book!
The book had a lot of memorable moments but the stripper incident was hysterical!
No I have not the only issue I had was she sounds like Ellen Degeneres.
Bobby Tom but I'd like to be his happily ever after, haha!
Great light read if you want to forget about life for a few hours!
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The new presentation features in PP are very cool !!! They make presentations so much more interesting and help you communicate your thoughts a lot better!
Nice, PowerPoint grew up!
The video says it was created in PP. Does it mean PP has an option to export presentation into some video frmat?
By the way, what is wrong with MSDN lately, it does not push CSS correctly, it is on and off under any browser (especially IE).
I think the video ment that all the effects were done by PP but yes PP also has the abilaty to export to WMV (Look backstage "File" then "share")
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Trading For Dummies
Trading in the stock market can be challenging and lucrative. To be a successful trader, you need to know how to identify and invest in bear and bull markets, and you need to know how to use market analysis tools to help develop your own trading system. And, with the embarrassment of riches available on the Internet, you need to know the Web sites that offer the most help.
How to Identify the Beginning of a Bull Market
If you're into trading stocks, bonds, and other funds, being able to identify the signs of a bull market can help you plan your trading strategy for maximum benefit. Signs that the market is entering a phase of investor confidence are in the following list:
Bull markets begin before the economy starts to recover.
Interest rates are low.
Industrial production statistics are inching higher.
Technology and cyclical stocks are starting to rise.
Weekly chart of S&P 500 shows higher highs and higher lows; the MACD (Moving Average Convergence / Divergence) line is above the trigger line and rising.
Bullish percent index indicator shows bull alert or bull confirmation pattern.
How to Identify the Beginning of a Bear Market
As you trade stock on the market, you need to know when the market is taking a downward turn — becoming a bear market. The signs in the following list indicate a bear market is approaching, so adjust your trading strategy accordingly:
Bear markets typically begin before the economy starts to decline.
Interest rates are rising.
Industrial production is starting to fall.
Basic material stocks, energy stocks, and consumer staples are performing well.
Weekly chart of S&P 500 shows lower highs and lower lows; the MACD (Moving Average Convergence / Divergence) line is below the trigger line and falling.
Bullish percent index indicator shows bear alert or bear confirmation pattern.
How to Trade in a Bear Market
When the market is reflecting investor fear and uncertainty — is a bear market in other words — your trading strategy should focus on looking to sell or short fundamentally weak companies with the following characteristics:
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In a declining economy.
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In a bull market, when investor confidence is high, the sound approach to trading is to look to buy fundamentally strong companies with the following characteristics:
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In a strong sector.
In a growing economy.
While the stock is approaching a technical buy signal on its bar chart and performing better than the average stock with high relative strength.
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To be a successful trader, you have to have good judgment and a solid trading system. Follow the steps in the following list to develop a system that works for you and that reflects your priorities and tolerances.
Select system development tools.
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Account for slippage.
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Determine economic cycle position.
Determine position within sector rotation.
Decide which sectors are ascending.
Determine leading stocks in the ascending sector.
Evaluate the Fed position.
Confirm economic cycle with index charts.
Determine whether leading sectors are range bound or trending.
Determine whether leading stocks are range bound or trending.
Enter the trade only if the stop-loss point is nearby.
Trade within your preferred time frame.
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The Schur polynomials satisfy many, many identities and there is a whole book about them. I think the easiest way is with the Vandermonde Determinant. $$s_{3,1,1}(a,b,c) = \frac{\left|\begin{array}{ccc} a^5 & b^5 & c^5 \\\\ a^2 & b^2 & c^2 \\\\ a & b & c\end{array} \right|}{(a - b)(b - c)(c - a)} = \left|\begin{array}{ccc} e_3 & e_2 & e_1 \\\\ e_2 & e_1 & e_0 \\\\ e_3 & e_2 & e_1\end{array} \right| = \left|\begin{array}{ccc} h_3 & h_2 & h_1 \\\\ h_2 & h_1 & h_0 \\\\ h_3 & h_2 & h_1\end{array} \right|$$ Where the $e_k$ are elementary symmetric polynomials and the $h_k$ are the homogeneous symmetric polynomials (the first is linear in each variable, the other isn't.) (3,1,1) is its own transpose.
Are there similar, easy to compute ways to find skew-Schur polynomials? For example, how to find $s_{(3,2,1)\backslash(1)}(x_1, x_2, x_3)$ -
which is three squares along a diagonal the W penomino?
I know it is also possible to get (skew-)Schur polynomials as the matrix elements of a certain propagator acting on free fermions and using the Wick formula. For example, here.


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I just installed a new version of Ubuntu and I want to roll it back to the previous version.
How can I do that? Is that even possible?
I just installed a new version of Ubuntu and I want to roll it back to the previous version.
How can I do that? Is that even possible?
Downgrading releases is possible to some extent. With enough fighting, it can be done (see some of the other answers here for the the technical details).
However the result you end up with is not the same as what you had before the upgrade. During an upgrade certain one-way changes are made to make new packages happy and downgrading them won't reverse those edits. It's impossible to guarantee a downgrade will work at all, let alone if it'll be stable.
In short, your easiest option is always going to be a reinstall. Don't think of it as a chore, look at it as a nice opportunity to trim down on packages and configure things better.
If you want to test things in the future and you fear you might have issues, always make sure you do the following:
There's a saying in my language which can be roughly translated as "You can't turn mince back into meat by rotating the mincer's handle in the opposite direction" :)
The upgrade procedure is one-way - while installing new versions of software, your configuration files and settings are modified by packages' post-install scripts to use new format which is required by new software. Basically, there's no opposite procedure - to make a newer configuration file compatible with old software.
It's possible at the level of the packaging tools (apt). But the resulting system may not be equivalent to doing a reinstall, and you may get errors along the way. This is because many packages contain specific support for upgrades (e.g. handling changes in configuration files) but not for downgrades.
Normally, apt prefers to install the most recent version of a package. But you can change this through pinning: you can declare that packages from the old release have higher priority than the installed packages, so that they will be downgrades when you do
Change your
Then run
They say, "never say never", and "nothing is impossible" - both of which are true, but not in your case. I suggest you either back up your data and reinstall, or stick it out. The system should become more and more stable as the weeks go by.
You can also reinstall on top of the existing installation (it will keep your files).
As a rule of thumb though, try to avoid upgrading to development versions on production systems (especially if you are not a tester/developer).
You can do it manually.
First generate a list of what you have installed on your system. You can do this by typing the following in the terminal.
copy your /home and /etc folder to a backup media.
Re install ubuntu 10.04. Restore your backup (remember to set the correct premissions). Then run the following to reinstall all the program you had before.
Note that you might have to do some cleaning of the /etc and /home folder for incompatible settings.
Simple method is booting up from a CD/DVD or USB stick of previous version and reinstall Ubuntu by overwriting existing installation.
Don't forget backup first: your
To put it simply: no there's not. Sorry... (These are the dangers of upgrading to testing releases!)
This is why you are not supposed to upgrade your main install to the development release. If you want to test the development release, you should do so on a separate partition so you can boot back into the stable release when things go wrong.
At this point if you want to go back to 11.04, you need to reinstall it, and choose manual partitioning. Do NOT check the format box when configuring your partitions and your user files should remain intact.
Roll-backs may work fine for certain packages in isolation, but I wouldn't ever expect a large-scale roll-back of an entire distribution to leave you with anything other than a horribly broken system (or one which, on the surface looks to be fine, but strange things keep surfacing as you discover it is more and more broken).
APT is just designed to avoid roll-backs as much as possible, and the packages that make up the Ubuntu (and Debian, for that matter) distribution aren't designed with smooth roll-backs as a design goal.
Unless you have whole-system backups that are reliable, what you really need to do is ensure your entire home directory is backed up (and possibly also on a separate partition), re-install from the CD image of your chosen version, and start restoring your data from your home folder(s). You may even need to selectively restore the dotfiles in your home directory in case any which have become accustomed to the new version don't quite work well with the older version.
Before you do, you may want to peruse your installed packages and write down which ones you rely on, so you can re-install them. There are tools to backup and restore your list of installed packages, but I wouldn't normally recommend doing this if you are going between versions as the packages needed/included may have changed.
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Windows open and playing Loscil's Steam.
While listening to some night bugs singing their songs.
A nice night for a fire pit.
Friday, September 13, 2013
Crisp Night
Windows open and playing Loscil's Steam.
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5 comments:
- Jay's Shadow said...
Currently 66 degrees here, and TOTALLY loving it.
- September 13, 2013 at 8:19 PM
- girl6 said...
get your throws out boys & sit beneath the moon!.
no howling.. : D
- September 13, 2013 at 8:44 PM
- Autumnleaf said...
Ha!! It's only a half moon but worth howling about the cooler temps....even here, the land of too-hot-almost-always.
I like the sleeping out under idea though. Should put a foam mattress in my pumpkin patch!
- September 13, 2013 at 10:47 PM
- John Mangino said...
We did the fire pit tonight as well...AND hoodies!
- September 13, 2013 at 11:05 PM
- girl6 said...
yes Autumnleaf!, sleep beneath the
stars & wait for the Great pumpkin to
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I'm just learning HTML, but some say XHTML is better. The W3C recommends XHTML, and I know W3C is more credible, right?
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XHTML was a reformulation of HTML using XML semantics (i.e., allow an "HTML" document to be treated as XML). This had the potential for many things, such as incorporating MathML (a math-oriented markup language) in an web page. Like many trendy things, it became popular, but never really that useful (for example, many servers still served XHTML documents as HTML for Internet Explorer, which didn't understand XHTML, thereby negating the benefits of XHTML). A few years ago, the W3C began work on new versions of both HTML and XHTML. The XHTML working group was eventually scrapped, which tells you something about the future of XHTML (although XHTML5 is still undergoing work I believe).
In short, it's probably best to focus on HTML.
That said, it doesn't really matter; major browsers will understand XHTML (especially if you just serve it as text/html), and XHTML isn't that dramatically different from HTML (unless you're doing "advanced" things, like incorporating MathML markup).
I'm not sure where you got that the "W3C Recommends XHTML" over HTML—while that may have been true at one point, it definitely hasn't been the case since they closed down the XHTML2 Working Group last December.
XHTML 1.1 and 2 are both dead-ends and not worth your attention.
XHTML 1.0 was just a reformulation of HTML4 in XML, in the same way that XHTML5 is just a reformulation of HTML5 in XML.
Whether you choose HTML5 or XHTML5 is pretty much a matter of personal preference at this point—neither is more up to date or advanced than the other.
Of course XHTML provides some advance features. But you should start with HTML and XML as they are easy to learn and understand as compared with XHTML. After being comfortable with HTML and XML you can easily go for XHTML.
HTML is standard, XHTML is old XML based anachronism...
Since you are begginer good start at learning HTML would be to analyse existing Web pages around the web, by either using web dev tools inside browsers or some web-app that let's you analyse layout of a web-page and all HTML tags on it like webdeconstructor.com for instance ....
be persistent and results will come


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My web application contains a list of elements, which can be sorted by drag'n'drop. How should this feature be visually represented to users?
I've used a little "grippable" texture on stuff to show that it's draggable. Here's Gmail's texture:
I saw a presentation by Sean Kane from Netflix a few years ago, in which he described how the DVD queue works. You should study it if you can (if you have an account or know someone who does).
A couple of points to note:
There is a standard icon of three horizontal lines one on top of the other that implies items can be dragged and dropped.
It implies "friction" or "handle" and is a bit similar to the diagonal lines in the bottom right corner of windows or text boxes that allows resizing them.
The move cursor is commonly used with dragable items in web apps.
I suggest you use the little gripping hand (open when hovering, closed while dragging). Have some sort of gripping icon (a handle) that looks like something that can be grabbed (in Gmail it's a pair of dot columns (4 dots per column).
I would also suggest that you add a little animation showing the behavior to new users (or existing users if it's a new feature), just don't constantly show the animation every time a user is in your app.
Dragging is a drag. After having recently finished revamping a couple of drag-and-drop UIs, I've actually come to the conclusion that next time I'll change them to a sort of "click and drop". Have a widget on each item that you click to select it for moving. Then you click where you want it to go. This seems to be going well in testing so far.
When moving the cursor over draggable objects, it should be changed into a open hand. When an object is grabbed, it should be changed into a grabbing hand. While grabbing an object, the allowed drop zones could be emphasized from the other background (i.e. through shading, or coloring).
I'm coming to this problem myself with a desktop application. The best solution I can come up with at the moment is to have an arrow on hover, which simply points to where the object can be dragged to, with some text saying drag and drop, or similar.


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I would like to use this script with the intention of replacing all instances of the letter Q within a file with the contents of the file "question.txt". Instead what happens is that all the instances of Q in the file disappear and the contents of "question.txt" are printed at the bottom of the new file.
Any ideas?
sed -i.bkp '/Q/{
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Suppose that we have a 2d-regular graph whose edges are colored such that the edges of each color form a cycle of length 2d. (So if the graph has 2n vertices, then there are n colors.) Is it true that there always is a perfect matching containing one edge of each color?
Remarks. For d=2 there is a simple proof by Zoltan Kiraly who also invented the above formulation of the problem. I even do not know the answer for d=3.


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Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Error when using OpenMPI with SGE multiple hosts
From: Terry Dontje (terry.dontje_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-11-16 09:26:34
On 11/16/2010 09:08 AM, Reuti wrote:
> Hi,
> Am 16.11.2010 um 14:07 schrieb Ralph Castain:
>> Perhaps I'm missing it, but it seems to me that the real problem lies in the interaction between SGE and OMPI during OMPI's two-phase launch. The verbose output shows that SGE dutifully allocated the requested number of cores on each node. However, OMPI launches only one process on each node (the ORTE daemon), which SGE "binds" to a single core since that is what it was told to do.
>> Since SGE never sees the local MPI procs spawned by ORTE, it can't assign bindings to them. The ORTE daemon senses its local binding (i.e., to a single core in the allocation), and subsequently binds all its local procs to that core.
>> I believe all you need to do is tell SGE to:
>> 1. allocate a specified number of cores on each node to your job
> this is currently the bug in the "slot<=> core" relation in SGE, which has to be removed, updated or clarified. For now slot and core count are out of sync AFAICS.
Technically this isn't a bug but a gap in the allocation rule. I think
the solution is a new allocation rule.
>> 2. have SGE bind procs it launches to -all- of those cores. I believe SGE does this automatically to constrain the procs to running on only those cores.
> This is another "bug/feature" in SGE: it's a matter of discussion, whether the shepherd should get exactly one core (in case you use more than one `qrsh`per node) for each call, or *all* cores assigned (which we need right now, as the processes in Open MPI will be forks of orte daemon). About such a situtation I filled an issue a long time ago and "limit_to_one_qrsh_per_host yes/no" in the PE definition would do (this setting should then also change the core allocation of the master process):
> http://gridengine.sunsource.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1254
Isn't it almost required to have the shepherd bind to all the cores so
that the orted inherits that binding?
>> 3. tell OMPI to --bind-to-core.
>> In other words, tell SGE to allocate a certain number of cores on each node, but to bind each proc to all of them (i.e., don't bind a proc to a specific core). I'm pretty sure that is a standard SGE option today (at least, I know it used to be). I don't believe any patch or devel work is required (to either SGE or OMPI).
> When you use a fixed allocation_rule and a matching -binding request it will work today. But any other case won't be distributed in the correct way.
Ok, so what is the "correct" way and we sure it isn't distributed correctly?
In the original case of 7 nodes and processes if we do -binding pe
linear:2, and add the -bind-to-core to mpirun I'd actually expect 6 of
the nodes processes bind to one core and the 7th node with 2 processes
to have each of those processes bound to different cores on the same
Can we get a full output of such a run with -report-bindings turned on.
I think we should find out that things actually are happening correctly
except for the fact that the 6 of the nodes have 2 cores allocated but
only one is being bound to by a process.
> -- Reuti
>> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Reuti<reuti_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Am 16.11.2010 um 10:26 schrieb Chris Jewell:
>>> Hi all,
>>>> On 11/15/2010 02:11 PM, Reuti wrote:
>>>>> Just to give my understanding of the problem:
>>>>>>>> Sorry, I am still trying to grok all your email as what the problem you
>>>>>>>> are trying to solve. So is the issue is trying to have two jobs having
>>>>>>>> processes on the same node be able to bind there processes on different
>>>>>>>> resources. Like core 1 for the first job and core 2 and 3 for the 2nd job?
>>>>>>>> --td
>>>> You can't get 2 slots on a machine, as it's limited by the core count to one here, so such a slot allocation shouldn't occur at all.
>>> So to clarify, the current -binding<binding_strategy>:<binding_amount> allocates binding_amount cores to each sge_shepherd process associated with a job_id. There appears to be only one sge_shepherd process per job_id per execution node, so all child processes run on these allocated cores. This is irrespective of the number of slots allocated to the node.
>>> I agree with Reuti that the binding_amount parameter should be a maximum number of bound cores per node, with the actual number determined by the number of slots allocated per node. FWIW, an alternative approach might be to have another binding_type ('slot', say) that automatically allocated one core per slot.
>>> Of course, a complex situation might arise if a user submits a combined MPI/multithreaded job, but then I guess we're into the realm of setting allocation_rule.
>> IIRC there was a discussion on the [GE users] list about it, to get an uniform distribution on all slave nodes for such jobs, as also e.g. $OMP_NUM_THREADS will be set to the same value for all slave nodes for hybrid jobs. Otherwise it would be necessary to adjust SGE to set this value in the "-builtin-" startup method automatically on all nodes to the local granted slots value. For now a fixed allocation rule of 1,2,4 or whatever must be used and you have to submit by reqeusting a wildcard PE to get any of these defined PEs for an even distribution and you don't care whether it's two times two slots, one time four slots, or four times one slot.
>> In my understanding, any type of parallel job should always request and get the total number of slots equal to the cores it needs to execute. Independent whether these are threads, forks or any hybrid type of jobs. Otherwise any resource planing and reservation will most likely fail. Nevertheless, there might exist rare cases where you submit an exclusive serial job but create threads/forks in the end. But such a setup should be an exception, not the default.
>>> Is it going to be worth looking at creating a patch for this?
>> Absolute.
>>> I don't know much of the internals of SGE -- would it be hard work to do? I've not that much time to dedicate towards it, but I could put some effort in if necessary...
>> I don't know about the exact coding for it, but when it's for now a plain "copy" of the binding list, then it should become a loop to create a list of cores from the original specification until all granted slots got a core allocated.
>> -- Reuti
>>> Chris
>>> --
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>>> University of Warwick
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