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FERRARI, Victor E., Jr., 87, of Smithfield, OH, passed away Sunday, December 2, 2012, in the East Ohio Regional Hospital in Martins Ferry, OH.
Vic was born December 28, 1924, in Piney Fork, OH, son of the late Victor and Mary (Huml) Ferrari, Sr.
Vic was a member of the Smithfield Presbyterian Church; he was retired from Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel working in the Steubenville Plant in the Foundry. Vic also was a US Navy Veteran having served his country in World War II.
In addition to his parents, Vic was preceded in death by his sisters, Eileen Ford, Mary Agnes Captor and Dorothy Wilton.
Vic leaves behind his wife of 65 years, Ruth Turner Ferrari of home whom he married on October 30, 1947; his daughter, Susan (Rex) Panepucci of Dillonvale, OH; his three sons, Chris and Victor L. Ferrari both of Smithfield, OH and Jon Ferrari of PA; his two sisters, Natalie Straus of Smithfield, OH and Eleanor Cooper of Washington, PA; his brother, Robert (Gilda) Ferrari of Columbus, OH. Victor is also survived by six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Family and friends will be received on Wednesday, December 5th from 2-8 p.m. at the J.E. Foster Funeral Home in Smithfield, OH, where his funeral service will be held on Thursday at 11 a.m. Wally Jancura will celebrate his service and burial will follow in Holly Memorial Gardens in Colerain, OH; where there will be Military Honors presented by the American Legion.
Please visit our website and leave a condolence for Vic's family www.jefosterfh.com

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Maker Faire 2013/Afterparty
2013 MakerFaire Afterparty
DATE: Saturday, 18-May-2013
TIME: 6pm to 11pm
WHERE: Noisebridge, 2169 Mission St, 3rd floor (1.5 blocks from 16th St. Mission BART) -- Map & How to Get here
WHO: strange-o's, plan9 users, dorks, families, nerds, hipsters, punks, hippies, weirdos -- Anyone and Everyone -- all genders -- all ages!
WHAT: Food! Art! Bad Dance Contest! Drink! Workshops! Boardgames!
HOW: Gently Suggested $10 - 20 Donation!
Tables, Presentations, and Adding Your Activity to the Afterparty
The mission is to throw a simple party for the Makers, and everyone else, who will be in town for the weekend. The desire is for a family friendly, good-times-encouraged affair with games, food, and fun for weirdos.
Please add your own activities below, and invite your friends! Be ready to go by 6pm.
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|sundquistjames AT gmail.com
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Help with Morning (12pm) Cleaning, Setup and/or Teardown on Saturday, May 18th. Please add yourself to this list if you can commit to helping, and indicate when you are available.
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Event Wishlist
- Bad Dance-Off needs a DJ and horrible song submissions
- Boardgames
- Liars Dice, Cards Against Humanity - James
- 15min Introduction to Dungeons and Dragons (D&D)or World of Darkness (WOD)
- Can someone help track down the people who host games in the space on Sundays?
- Finger Painting Competition
- Henna Artist (help fine one)
- Actual Tattoo Artist (help find one)
- Hambone Competition (we'll need to form a blue grass-style band
- Hacker Shuffleboard (we'll need sidewalk chalk and someone to set this up along the wall by the kitchen.
- Vinyl Sticker Cutting by Donation (who can handle this?)
- People repping 3D Printers (also a hit at previous events)
- T-shirt silkscreening (someone please help take point on this)
- Flyer Creation (James is happy to do this once more event details are known
- Music and Performance. Let me know if you're available! Recommend Bands, etc.
- Another fundraising crew for Noisebridge, set up by the door to welcome everyone.
- The Maker Maker - a photo frame with Idea lightbulb over head. could be as simple as a cardboard box
- Send Noisebridge Agents to the MakerFaire with "invite cards" to get the word out (would they hand them out to anybody? Or would we want them to target makers/hackers/people with booths?)
- 3D printing demos
- wall of LED strips from Heroic Robotics, see Youtube here: http://www.heroicrobotics.com/
Also note, Noisebridge will have a booth/table at the MakerFaire, see page Maker_Faire_2013, Maker Faire


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Let's say that I want to design a website to sell photographs of landscape, wildlife, or general interest subjects. What tips, elements, etc. should be incorporated into the design to make it successful? Assume that traffic somehow makes it to the front page of the site, but everything else it up to the site to sell the product. Thanks!
In addition to what DA01 says I would think carefully about your objectives for the site. If the main goal is to sell images then provide clear and obvious buttons or links for people to buy. Don't clutter the site with distractions or additional information that is not important.
Also it is crucial that you do not overwhelm visitors with options. People think they want choices when actually they don't - it confuses them. So keep your product options to an absolute minimum.
The primary ingredient of any successful site is quality content. Pick out the best photos. Perhaps edit it down to the best of the best. Make them big. Add very little else to distract from the content/product.
Other than that, avoid flash and auto-playing sounds (something way too many photographers seem to get enamored with when they build their web sites).


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If you're new to LoaTS, you're probably pretty perplexed by the chat. Why does everyone spam so much? Why do people thank them? Why didn't that mod even DO anything?
Actually, those raids are an integral part of the game. To improve your character's attributes and level up often, the best strategy is to do a moderate amount of damage in as many raids as you possibly can. There is no mechanism within the game for sharing links, so users really have to share them in chat.
The good news is that sharing the raids and working on them together is actually pretty fun, and a great way to get to know your fellow players (and hopefully earn their respect as a stand-up individual who knows their stuff).
A note specifically for visiting mods: Please don't silence people for sharing raids. It's not at all unusual for someone to share 75-100 raids in fairly quick succession, and it's not actually spam because each raid is different and also useful. In the unlikely event that one person is sharing the same link over and over, you can warn and silence or just encourage other players to mute the person. See the thread in the mod forum if you have more questions.


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Roku 2 XS 1080p HD Streaming Video Player - Refurbished for $49.99
$4,99 shipping. Refurbished unit.
Wirelessly streams HD video and music onto your television
1080p HD video capable
WiFi 802.11 wireless b/g/n
Works with almost any TV
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Streams Netflix, Hulu Plus, Pandora, Amazon Instant Video and more onto your TV (subscription required)
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I purchased this from 1saleaday about a month ago, it works great. The complaints I read about 1saleaday always revolve around delivery times so be prepared to wait if you order this. if you are not willing to wait a month or so for delivery then I suggest you look elsewhere for this item.
I purchased this a few weeks ago and it is scheduled for delivery tomorrow. If I love it the way I think I will, I will be buying another one before this deal ends tomorrow night.
I also got this a month ago and I got it fairly quickly -- within 2 weeks or so. I'll note that this is the third or fourth time this particular deal has come up in the past couple of months and they've also had the Roku 2 XD for $10 cheaper recently. The XD is the same except without ethernet (wireless only) and without USB. For what it's worth, video-wise, the Roku will only play mp4 and mkv files from USB.
Got mine and hooked it up yesterday (from the last sale) LOVE it! Works unbelievably well
I avoid buying stuff from dailysteal ever since they sent me a nonworking used logitech mouse unit and never even got back to me for replacement when I contacted them. Shipping takes forever and packing is careless. Do yourself a favor and let this company go bankrupt.
@ottugi: are dailysteals and 1saleaday the same company?
We love our Roku! However, for this price I'd get the LT at playontv with a lifetime subscription for $70.
Just got mine from the last deal I saw here - it was about a couple weeks in transit, like the other person said. Works fine.
@conanthelibrarian: 1saleaday is the same company as Ben's Outlet and is not connected to Dailysteals. Bought from 1saleaday many times,slow and sometimes very slow shipping but I'm satisfied with them as a site. Dailysteals I avoid,way too many problems will not buy from them again,slow shipping,no customer service and poor products. Can't see a reason not to buy from 1saleaday though.
@ottugi: Dailysteals is not the same company as 1saleaday maybe you should remove your comment or reword it so you won't confuse Wooters.
I got one of these from 1saleaday during the deal they had in late November, for the same price. Took awhile to get but I got it before Christmas and gave it as a gift. So far I hear it's working great. Now it's my turn to get a second one for my house. The XS is awesome and this is a great deal.
1saleaday is horrible to deal with. Out of the several items I ordered from them for Christmas, this (the roku player) was the only item that arrived as promised. Still trying to deal with their customer service to get them to take back the incorrect items they sent me.
great deal on an xs, these are the top end roku models, and the remote alone is usually 30 dollars.
xs has an SD card slot, ability to play games (a decent and rising selection especially for 5 bucks or less each)
The biggest difference from the XD is the remote and the games ability, xd you can't play and get the cheaper remote.
it's got the ethernet port for those of us who prefer to hardwire everything, which the cheaper models do not.
and it's even got the usb slot which supposedly can be used for movies and music and such, but i've honestly never used since you can stream locally using Plex. (which also allows you to play pretty much any format, without reencoding for the roku)
tl/dr give them your money, then cut the cable bill out of your life.
I buy from these guys ALL of the time. I've had a problem or two in the past...but they've always resolved it quickly and even paid for return shipping. I'm in for one. This is my 3rd Roku...but my first Roku 2. Roku announced this week that they have a deal with Flingo and are going to be adding like 14 different channels...MORE CONTENT! Some of the new channels only work with the newer Roku's...I can't beat it at this price!
Ordered one from Ben's Outlet (same company) about 3 weeks ago, got it last week. Pretty fast shipping considering who we're talking about.
Works great so far. It should be noted that Roku warranties their refurb boxes well, so there should be little worry if something does indeed happen.
@derk: That's good to know about the file limitations via USB. I'd also point out (for those new to Roku) that the Plex app can be installed and run as a media manager/server from your PC and is able to support a number of additional video file types. I don't have a list, but I've been using it for a few months now and have yet to come across an unsupported file type for streaming to the Roku wirelessly. I also believe I read somewhere that the Plex app performs file conversion to a supported format if the source isn't supported in its current state.
Just some additional info for those interested. I've only had my Roku for a short time, and it's terrific, but combined with the Plex app it's absolutely integral to our home theater configuration.
I bought a Roku Streaming player from 1saleday.com on 12/16/12 and I really hoped to get it before Christmas, but I knew that would be a miracle. I contacted their site on 12/26 and asked "when" would the Roku order status change from "processing" to "shipped" and they came back to say their policy is to ship within 7-10 BUSINESS days from the date of order. So with those details I felt a little better knowing that the Roku was shipping on time per their policy. I received the Roku promptly after it was shipped and have enjoyed it thoroughly. I purchased the Roku with Angry Birds and I LOVE it.
For what it's worth, I've bought a handful of things from 1saleaday.com since May of last year, and haven't had any problems. Yes, the shipping is slow, but Woot can be pretty slow, too. They've always provided tracking numbers, too. I haven't had reason to contact their customer service, so I can't speak to that.
I ordered the Roku 2 XD from them the other day, and figure eventually it will get here. :) I could have paid twice as much to get it sooner from another site, but that would be silly. I'm in no hurry.
I ordered a Roku XS from onesaleaday in November. It was a typical (for me) experience in that the Roku works fine (replaced my Boxee), but it took a long time to arrive.
My latest experience was similar. I ordered at PC on Dec. 9 - the same day my credit card was charged. I received the PC Jan. 3. Although refurbished, it arrived in new condition and was a great value at the price.
The bottom line with onesaleaday is if you are willing to wait for your order, you can get some of the best deals available online with them. So far, I have been pleased with the condition/usability of the items I have received too.
Got one of these recently and really like it. It's super easy to use for those folks who are intimidated by using a pc or ps3 to watch netflix or other web content. Roku is painless.
@racenzanesmom: This is an awesome tip. I'm thinking about doing it! Question though: Is there a way to see what content is actually offered on the channels? A food network channel seems awesome, but 30 second clips of the guy fieri is less so.
Is the ethernet port gigabit or no?
Almost bit for that LT Play on TV deal, but already have cable and my roommate is a f**king TV slug and would never let us get rid of paying for TV. He'd just whine about it like a big baby. I know because I've tried getting rid of it once before.
I did get one of these for my parents for Christmas, and the channel selection is pretty sweet. So it's a great deal for the price. ;)


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I'm having a little difficulty getting the T-adapter working with my NN3mk1. The camera mounting knob has too long of a screw for the adapter. Before the screw had to fit through the rail, the square rubber washer, and the camera. Now it needs only fit through the rail and the adapter. I have excess screw because now there is no rubber washer, and the T-adapter is not sufficiently deep to account for its absence. I presume I am supposed to be using a knob with shorter screw. Is one available for sale?
My new rail stops are just the right size not to work for me. They don't fit between the rotator and the vertical rail without the screw impacting the rotator in one orientation or the knob in the other. On the opposite side of the vertical rail neither orientation is sufficient for the screw to clear the vertical rail knob. I would have guessed that they were intended to work on either side of the vertical rail. Did the vertical rail knob change so that it has a narrower diameter or else slopes sufficiently to clear the rail stop screw?
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Skin Cancer
James Metz, MD
Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Last Modified: November 1, 2001
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Medical Director: C. Everett Koop, MD
Format: VHS, 30 minutes
Price: $19.95 US
Time Life Medical, with C. Everett Koop, MD as Medical Director, has developed an extensive series of medical video productions. A booklet is included with each video which includes a summary of key points, glossary of terms, a resource guide, and a personal journal.
The purpose of this video is to provide a general overview of skin cancer and introduce the viewer to the most common treatment and management strategies. The video is separated into four sections dealing with specific issues. The first section explains the risk factors for skin cancer, cellular changes with cancer, and basic epidemiology. The second section explains the role of UV light in the development of cancer. It also addresses cancer screening according to the American Cancer Society ABCD method. Current concepts on SPF protection are also explained.
The third section discusses treatment and management. Most of the time is spent reviewing the various surgical options including the Moh's micrographicprocedure. Adjuvant treatments such as chemotherapy and immunotherapy are briefly touched upon. The video does not discuss radiation therapy as a treatment option, but it is mentioned in the booklet. The final section reviews frequently asked questions on skin cancer. It also gives recommendations on pertinent questions to ask your physician.
This video is a good introduction to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of skin cancer. Concepts are explained without confusing medical jargon. It is easy to understand and is produced to educate those without an extensive medical background.
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Odalisque: Book One of The Percheron Saga (Mass Market Paperback)
Once a captive of merciless desert slave traders, Lazar fought his way to freedom—and to an exalted role as Spur of Percheron, guardian of his adopted city, and confidant and protector of the Zar, Joreb. But now the Zar is dead and his fifteen-year-old heir, Boaz, must assume the mantle of leadership—guided by trusted advisor Lazar, the "mad" dwarf jester Pez . . . and Boaz's cruel, ambitious mother, who truly holds the reins of power.
In the midst of roiling court intrigue, a young girl arrives to fill a space in Boaz's harem—and inflames unexpectedly strong feelings in both Boaz and Lazar. But the odalisque, Ana, will not be satisfied by the closeted, stifling world of the harem. And, unbeknownst to all, the gods themselves are rising up in cyclical battle—as the struggle begins within and beyond the palace walls for the imperiled soul of Percheron.
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5 Billionaires Who Are Making Awesome Sci-Fi Come True
We love the character of Tony Stark because we wish all billionaires would spend their fortunes bringing sci-fi gadgets to life, instead of building gigantic yachts and buying private islands to hold gold-plated orgies. But there are actually a few Tony Starks out there, people who have big, ridiculous dreams and the cash to at least try to make them real.
We're not saying all (or any) of these projects will come to fruition within the next few years, but we're absolutely willing to applaud these crazy, rich bastards for trying.
#5. Dmitry Itskov Wants to Make You Immortal
With a net worth of over a billion dollars and at the tender age of 31, Russian media mogul Dmitry Itskov decided he was going right for the big one: immortality. Well, shit, it kind of makes dudes who blow their money buying professional sports franchises look like a bunch of douchebags.
He's assembled a team of 30 scientists (presumably mad) to pioneer a multistage project that would slowly turn you into a biological robot. The last phase is set for completion in 2045, at which point your brain will have been downloaded into an undying avatar, and we mean "avatar" as in the movie Avatar.
"Of course my avatar has boobs. I'm a billionaire."
The first stage, supposedly to be completed by 2020, offers you a robot version of yourself, controlled by a brain-computer interface -- what experts often call the "RoboCop" phase. The second stage is set to go into effect within five years of the first; this is the money shot of immortality, as it looks to actually transfer your human consciousness into an artificially created representation of your former biological glory.
The third stage would give our new cyborg overlords the ability to emote, possibly gambling on the fact that they'll allow us to live once they know mercy. The final stage is the marriage of each individual facet, resulting in a holographic representation of our former selves, complete with emotions, memories, and (hopefully) empathy.
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Making it awesome to robot-play video games in the future.
So, yes, this guy is using his millions to bring Avatar to life, where a race of 'roided-out Smurfs are remote-controlled via someone else's brain, and our lives are almost exactly like a bad grad student cultural studies research paper and/or the plot to Disney's Pocahantas. The movie Avatar ends with genocide, but let's hope we can control ourselves a little better in real life.
Itskov's 2045 initiative produced a nifty inspirational video, claiming the project will lead us into a new way of life, devoid of violence and prejudice (he somehow thinks war will become a thing of the past, rather than simply being far more awesome). Once we make the switch to non-physical forms of existence, we'll be able to pool our collective mind-power to achieve hippie-inspired ends, such as spiritual self-improvement. Hey, laugh all you want; the point is that the guy is spending his cash on this instead of, say, a giant hot tub in the shape of his own penis.
Which is understandable since the accident.
And yes, the goal is to make this technology available to everyone, granting even the working man equal opportunity at immortality -- Itskov believes the price will come down as mass production is achieved. So you too will be able to live as a cyborg for the price of an automobile.
Today, Itskov is making presentations to billionaires and is attempting to raise funding for the first practical application of the avatar project: an artificial body controlled by the mind that he says can be ready in just three to five years with proper funding, which would immediately be great for, say, rescuers and firefighters. Yes, he's talking about technology we saw in Iron Man 3. Jesus, nobody show this guy a copy of Beyond Thunderdome.
#4. Peter Thiel Is Building His Own City in the Ocean
Billionaire Peter Thiel likes to dream big: He tried to create a global currency, which hasn't worked out so well (yet). Then he created PayPal, which worked out famously, because people need to transfer money around online and also sometimes buy illicit things from strangers. He went on to become one of Facebook's first investors, with a half-million-dollar cash injection. Today Thiel is worth about $1.6 billion, and now he wants to build his own city on the open ocean.
No potential dangers we can think of here ...
And he's not going to stop at just one; he wants many micro-nations that will usher in a new way of living. He plans to launch the first of these floaters just off the coast of San Francisco as soon as possible to test the concept. Ultimately, Thiel hopes to see millions upon millions of people living out at sea by mid-century.
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It'll be a boon for pirates, if nothing else.
These communities would be situated on giant, several-thousand-ton rig structures that would be diesel-powered and therefore free to move around if pesky clouds are "blocking out Peter's sun." And just to be clear about the real benefits, these floating communities would be an exercise in unconventional forms of small-scale government. Since the communities would exist outside the borders of any and all recognized nations, the micro-nations would be libertarian utopias: no welfare, no minimum wage, light regulations, and, we assume, re-heeeeeallly lax drug laws. Furthermore, with more than hundreds of miles of uninterrupted sea between you and civilization, you'd be privy to the most depraved sex acts ever concocted inside a human brain.
Making it nearly 5 percent dirtier than the regular Internet.
Today the project has officially been named Blueseed, and they are actively doing environmental impact studies, conducting sustainability research, designing the ships/countries, and raising funds. And raising funds. And raising funds. Apparently building a floating country is expensive. But work is moving forward, and they recently just received a major investment in the form of Bitcoins.
#3. Clive Palmer Is Building a Robot Jurassic Park
Having made his fortune in the mining industry, Chris Palmer's net worth today hovers around $900 million, and he seems intent on spending it in various ridiculous ways (see: his five private jets and collection of dinosaur fossils). For instance, he's rebuilding the Titanic. His version is equipped to house 2,435 passengers, as well as 900 crew members, and he totally intends to put that shit in the ocean. Palmer actually funded Blue Star Line, his own shipping company, just so he could build himself the second coming of the world's most famous symbol of the hubris of wealth.
The golden toilet being a close Number 2.
The Titanic II will be nearly identical to its predecessor, only far more pimped out. Oh, and when asked if his new boat would be unsinkable, Palmer chuckled and said, "Anything will sink if you put a hole in it." Although it's recently run into some potential funding issues, the Titanic II is planned to set sail in 2016, with construction slated to start at the end of 2013. So that's the kind of person we're dealing with when we say that he also wants to build a real-life Jurassic Park.
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Don't be fooled; it's just an elaborate scheme to hang out with Jeff Goldblum.
Palmer has denied the claims that he's cloning actual dinosaurs (although he is building a Titanic and has lots of fossils, so we can hope), instead going for a park full of life-size animatronic dinosaurs, which probably is safer (right up until the moment their AI becomes self-aware, at which point two separate childhood dreams will come true at the same time). In March, Palmer ordered 100 robotic dinosaur replicas to stomp around and possibly chase fleeing Jeeps. This most recent shipment of dinos from China (where else?) will put the total around 160.
Dubbed the Palmer Coolum Resort Dinosaur Park, upon completion it will be the biggest dinosaur-themed park in the world. The dinos will do everything from swinging their tails to mimicking the breathing and blinking motions, which admittedly is not as cool as you might have been imagining. Still, if we were all honest with ourselves, if we had this much money, this would be at the top of our lists as well.
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Presumably a line of functional Ghostbusters gear would be next on the list.
Work on installing the dinos is "well underway," as you can see from the picture. We're hoping for Palmer to carry things through to their logical conclusion and put dinosaurs on the Titanic II. You know it's just a matter of time.


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I am attempting to write a workflow, that extracts some fields from my list, (the filenames) and write those to a text file, so that I can then merge the pdf documents that are taken from the list. I do not have much C# experience, and have written the workflow in SPD, although it is limiting me to only be able to email those results. Can somebody help me write a custom workflow, so that I can get to the next step and merge the documents?
It is not possible to write to a file using the Out-Of-The-Box SharePoint Designer activities. You will either need to create your own Custom Workflow Activity in Visual Studio or use a 3rd party product such as the Workflow Power Pack that allows VB or C# code to be added directly to SharePoint Designer workflows.
Providing the service account's privileges allow this, you will be able to write to the file system of the server or UNC path this way.
Note that I work for the company that has developed the Workflow Power Pack so consider me biased :-)
Although there isn't an existing custom Workflow Activity already built, here are some on CodePlex.com that might help out.
Can you explain a little more about what you are trying to do from a business perspective? You have multiple PDFs and you want to be able to merge them into...(?) It's possible that the SharePoint Web Services can help with this.
@Marc: Im trying to merge the 10 or so documents into a single document. And want a Merge Button on each page that contains those 10 documents. The Merge button should be dynamic, and be able to grab the fields that contain the 10 PDF's and then display or save the single pdf.
@Muhimbi: your site is down
You can try Aspose.Words for SharePoint solution if you just need to combine several office files into single PDF. Running under MOSS 2010 you'll be able to select desired files right in the library and create combined file just in couple clicks.


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Are there any office chairs you can recommend?
I had surgery on one of my hips a few years back and lately arthritis has been setting in pretty bad. I currently work from home and I have a pretty low budget. Probably around $100-$150. The current chair I have in my office is causing all kinds of joint pain so I'm looking to move on.
My friend recommended the Osgood chair from Staples which is currently $100 and felt pretty comfortable but before making a decision I figured I would ask for any other recommendations.
I know this makes me seem really old but I'm really 27.
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If you can, go to a Staples or something and try out a few chairs in your price range. I've tried a few, and what's worked for my dad or some friends has been incredibly uncomfortable for me.
For your range, you should be able to find a pretty good chair. The one I current use is quite comfortable and I paid like $40 for it. But I tried a few, sat in the position I typically sit or relax in, and found a good one.
That being said, I'm reluctant to find the chair I bought and suggest it to you, because it doesn't mean that it'll be good for you just because it worked for me.
you could also search craigslist for ergonomic chairs and see if anything comes up in your price range.
honestly though, it might be really hard to find one in your range. you can get one that feels comfortable at an office supply store, but you won't really know until you've sat in it for a few hours. we had to get my wife an ergonomic chair a few years back and I think it cost around $700-800. you can tell right away that it's different from the chairs at staples/officemax/etc just by the weight. this thing is heavy and solidly built. they also do some measurements so it's a custom fit. finally, once the chair comes in, they adjust it for you at the store before you ever leave.
good luck in your search and i hope you find one soon!
Let me share a little tip I've learned. The painful way, and I mean that literally. I understand having a budget. I really do. However, that said, the bottom (ahem) line is if you buy a $100 chair, your rear will be spending 8+ hours daily in a $100 chair. This will not end (sorry for that one) well.
I know what I'm about to recommend is above your stated budget, but please hear me out:
If you are like me, you spend close to 8 hours a day in a chair. I spend the vast majority of my day at my computer. For me, this is more time than I spend in my bed and some days more than I spend in my shoes. Since high school, I've used < $150 chairs as my desk chair. At my last job I was given a very expensive, but generally terrible to sit in chair. All of this resulted in a lot of back problems for me and I'm still young.
In the last two years I've switched to using an Aeron at home and I use another Herman Miller here in the office. So far its the best improvement I could make and its been incredible.
Think long and hard about the chair you are going to sit in. You want to invest where you spend your time. Your body will thank you. You should be able to find an Aeron for under $600 if you look hard enough.
i recommend stealing @csunwold's chair.
@no1: Yeah next time I'm in the office I need to go check out this chair.
I just bought this chair.
Was $90 got it for $40 with free shipping. (offer ends 10/13/2012).
It's one of those you get what you pay for type of things. I needed a new chair and didn't want to spend a lot of money. Mission Accomplished! It's not the best chair I have ever sat in but is better than some that cost much more.
After reading the above answers, I would buy the chair that you tried and found to be comfortable. It looks awesome! I believe that everyone has a return policy, so if it didn't suit you after a few days return it. That would be the time to start looking for an upgrade.
Make sure you compare online prices with in store prices. I went to Staples and found a chair I liked for $150. When I looked online to check reviews the same chair was $99 on their website, which they honored.
I highly recommend taking one from a defunct company that your current company took over. That's how I got my last 2. It's free and you have very little choice.
this could be helpful: http://bestofficechairz.com/
@csunwold: So evidently when I stole the chair from the guy who left I got myself an Aeron. Sweet. It is pretty comfy and practically everything is adjustable.


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How can I know if the users are the same?
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If two time series follow a GARCH process, and a third is a linear combination of them, is the third also GARCH process?
I think there are a lot of different ways to specify this problem. For simplicity, consider independent Garch processes $$ r_{1,t} \sim N\left(0,\sigma_{1,t}^{2}\right) $$ $$ \sigma_{1,t}^{2} = \beta_{1,1}+\beta_{1,2}\varepsilon_{1,t-1}^{2}+\beta_{1,3}\sigma_{1,t-1}^{2} $$ and $$ r_{2,t} \sim N\left(0,\sigma_{2,t}^{2}\right) $$ $$ \sigma_{2,t}^{2} = \beta_{2,1}+\beta_{2,2}\varepsilon_{2,t-1}^{2}+\beta_{2,3}\sigma_{2,t-1}^{2} $$ where $\left[\begin{array}{cc} \varepsilon_{1,t} & \varepsilon_{2,t}\end{array}\right]\sim N\left(0,\left[\begin{array}{cc} 1 & 0\\ 0 & 1 \end{array}\right]\right)$.
In this case, the linear combination equals $$ r_{3,t} = \alpha_{1}r_{1,t}+\alpha_{2}r_{2,t} \sim N\left(0,\alpha_{1}^{2}\sigma_{1,t}^{2}+\alpha_{2}^{2}\sigma_{2,t}^{2}\right) $$
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When I read about frontends, it always mentiones webpages. Can it be used in different contexts, e.g. desktop applications?
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The term is generic and it tends to be used in n-tiered applications and refers to the UI.
It is not limited to n-tiered applications - in a single tiered application, if you have good separation of layers (say UI, business logic and infrastructure), you would still refer to the UI as the front-end.
So, you can use it whenever you are specifically talking about the UI - the interface that the end user uses.
The term is used both in design and development, including development of desktop software. The term targets a part of a system which is intended to be accessed by a customer or a user.
1. In web development:
It is not unusual to make the difference between:
Note: moderators would be qualified as people outside the company, so controls used by moderators are part of front end.
2. In SOA/SASS:
When services are involved, front end would be everything directly accessible by the users/customers. A desktop application installed by the user and which connects to a bunch of web services would be qualified as front end.
Services themselves, in this context, would be excluded from the front end.
Note: if a web service is the actual product, it may be qualified as a front end. For example, Twilio web service is the front end.
Wikipedia has an article that answers this question directly, front and back ends.
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Over the course of the more-than-two-hour performance, the Hot Tubs performed their entire 2008 album, "Stop, Drop and Roll," including the somewhat well-known "Dark Side of Night." Not ignoring their alter-egos entirely, they did deliver "covers" of Green Day's "Blood, Sex and Booze" and "Saint Jimmy." One of my favorite moments was an unexpected, whimsical rendition of The Penguins' 1954 doo-wop hit "Earth Angel." (See video.)
The raucous, beer-drenched concert included its share of theatrics, with repeated waves of crowd surfing by both band members and audience.
Green Day Moonlight as Foxboro Hot Tubs at Beer-Soaked Secret Show
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Classical theorem of Cohn-Vossen: A closed convex surface in Euclidean 3-space cannot be deformed isometrically.
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But what about an arbitrary not-necessarily-convex smooth closed surface? Is it necessarily rigid? Or maybe it might be possible to make a smooth version of Connelly's example? It's easy to make smooth "hinges". The real challenge is finding a smooth model of the vertices, which is where two or more hinges meet.


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Cuban-Style Smoked Pork Shoulder with Cilantro Vinaigrette
Categories: Entertaining, On the Grill, Spicy
Type: Main Dishes
Type: Main Dishes
Cuban-inspired flavors are the perfect complement to super-tender, fall-apart smoky meat.
Serves: Serves 8 to 10
- 1/4 cup minced fresh garlic
- 1/4 cup freshly cracked coriander seeds (or substitute 2 tablespoons ground coriander)
- 1/4 cup paprika
- 3 tablespoons kosher salt
- 3 tablespoons freshly cracked black pepper
- 1 boneless pork shoulder roast, about 6lb (2.7kg)
- 1/4 cup olive oil
The vinaigrette
- 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1/3 cup red wine vinegar
- 1/4 cup roughly chopped fresh cilantro
- 2 tablespoons hot sauce of your choice
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh garlic
- Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper to taste
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- Light a fire well over to one side of your grill, using enough coals to fill a shoebox.
- Combine the garlic, coriander, paprika, salt, and pepper in a small bowl and mix well. Rub the pork with the oil and coat it generously with the spice mixture, pressing gently to be sure it adheres.
- When the fire has died down and the coals are covered with white ash, place the pork on the side of the grill away from the coals, being careful that none of the meat is directly over the coals. Put the lid on the grill with the vents open one-quarter of the way and cook, adding a handful of fresh charcoal every 30 minutes or so, for 5-8 hours. To test for doneness, stick a big fork in the roast and try to lift it up-if it falls off the fork, it's done.
- Meanwhile, make the vinaigrette: Combine the olive oil, vinegar, cilantro, hot sauce, garlic, salt, and pepper in a small bowl and whisk to combine thoroughly.
- Chop or shred the pork, drizzle it with the vinaigrette, and serve, either by itself or with hamburger buns or tortillas.
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Robert Fox would like to set the record straight about record high milk prices.
Fox is a dairy farmer himself. He says, "A lot of folks think that the dairy farmer is getting all these increases that they see in the cost of milk in the grocery store. But in reality they're not."
Dairy prices are averaging $3.33 a gallon for two percent milk, but last month local farmers only made about $1.40.
Carl Chaney is a dairy farmer. He says, "What we, I guess maybe, have a hard time understanding is why the prices are already up in the store, but we're not seeing it."
The problem now is the cost of production on these dairy farms is increasing and now they need more money for the milk.
Fox says, "The cost of production has risen dramatically within the last 6 months. Feed prices, diesel prices and fertilizers."
Chaney says, "My feed price a little over a year ago I was paying $150 a ton. Now its over $200 a ton."
Farmers are seeing a small increase in their milk checks.
Chaney says, "To see a 10 or 12 percent increase that we're seeing, the dairy farmer is seeing is very welcomed."
Yet there are already questions of how long the prices will stay strong.
Chaney says, "Nobody really knows. But I'm already hearing that by the end of the year that the dairy farmer's prices will be going back down. So it'll be interesting to see what the prices do in the store.
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And for the men, something really original: how about ... ... a shirtless variation from Corsaire pas de deux? To please the neophytes, this should contain choreographic revision by Evgeny Plushenko, eliminating all transitions and retaining only the jumps and turns.
I find the commentary disturbing, but I'm also overall disturbed by NBC's coverage, so that's another story. I did, however, prefer Takahashi, Lambiel, and Lysacek to Plushenko. They were much more musical, impassioned, etc. And how, how, how I wish that Lambiel's footwork and spins could be rewarded more. (Okay, I realize the spins border 'tricks', but his are amazing... and I'm in awe of anyone who has that natural sense...).
Like I said, I didn't follow the changes in scoring, but what happened with the pairs? I found some of the required turns/poses/spiral sequences a bit yawn-worthy... there seemed to be somewhat of a lack of excitement....
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I recently delved into MongoDB for the first time, and albeit I was skeptical at first, I now believe it is my preference to use a NOSQL database over a traditional RDBMS. I rarely just fall in love with a new technology but the flexibility, ease of use, scalability and versatility of Mongo are good reasons to give it a chance. Here are some of the advantages of MongoDB.
- NOSQL – A more object oriented way to access your data and no complex SQL command to learn or remember
- File Storage – Mongo is a master of storing flat files. Relational databases have never been good at this.
- No DBA – The requirement of database administration in greatly minimized with NOSQL solutions
- No schema, complex structures or normalization. This can be a good thing and also bad. Inevitably everyone has worked on a project that has been over normalized and hated it.
- No complex join logic
Spring Data for Mongo
My first stop when coding against Mongo was to figure out how Spring supported it and without fail, I was not disappointed. Spring Data provides a MongoTemplate and a GridFSTemplate for dealing with Mongo. GridFs is the Mongo file storage mechanism that allows you to store whole files into Mongo. The Mongo NOSQL database utilizes a JSON-like object storage technique and GridFS uses BSON (Binary JSON) to store file data.
As the name implies, a NOSQL database doesn't use any SQL statements for data manipulation, but it does have a robust mechanism to accomplish the same ends. Before we start interacting with Mongo, let's look at some of the components I used to accomplish the examples I am going to show you.
- Spring 3.1.0.RELEASE
- Spring Data for MongoDB 1.1.0.M2
- Mongo Java Driver 2.8.0
- AspectJ (Optional) 1.7.0
- Maven (Optional) LATEST
The very first thing we need to configure is our context.xml file. I always start a project with one of these but I use Spring annotations as much as possible to keep the file clean.
<?xml version="1.0"?> <beans xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:mongo="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/mongo" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/mongo http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/mongo/spring-mongo.xsd"> <!-- Connection to MongoDB server --> <mongo:db-factory host="localhost" port="27017" dbname="MongoSpring" /> <mongo:mapping-converter id="converter" db-factory-ref="mongoDbFactory" /> <!-- MongoDB GridFS Template --> <bean id="gridTemplate" class="org.springframework.data.mongodb.gridfs.GridFsTemplate"> <constructor-arg ref="mongoDbFactory" /> <constructor-arg ref="converter" /> </bean> <mongo:mongo host="localhost" port="27017" /> <bean id="mongoTemplate" class="org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.MongoTemplate"> <constructor-arg ref="mongoDbFactory" /> </bean> <context:annotation-config /> <context:component-scan base-package="com.doozer" /> <context:spring-configured /> </beans>
In short, the context file is setting up a few things.
- The database factory that the templates will use to get a connection
- The MongoTemplate and GridFSTemplate
- Annotation support
- Annotation @Configuration support if needed (Optional)
Let's take a look at my App class that is the main entry point for this Java application.
... @Configurable public class App { @Autowired public MongoOperations mongoOperation; @Autowired public StorageService storageService; ApplicationContext ctx; public App() { ctx = new GenericXmlApplicationContext("mongo-config.xml"); ...
I am using AspectJ to weave my dependencies at inject them at compile or load time. If you are not using AspectJ, you need to lookup the MongoOperation and StorageService from the Context itself. The Storage Service is a simple @Service bean that provides an abstraction on top of the GridFsTemplate.
... @Service("storageService") public class StorageServiceImpl implements StorageService { @Autowired private GridFsOperations gridOperation; @Override public String save(InputStream inputStream, String contentType, String filename) { DBObject metaData = new BasicDBObject(); metaData.put("meta1", filename); metaData.put("meta2", contentType); GridFSFile file = gridOperation.store(inputStream, filename, metaData); return file.getId().toString(); } @Override public GridFSDBFile get(String id) { System.out.println("Finding by ID: " + id); return gridOperation.findOne(new Query(Criteria.where("_id").is(new ObjectId(id)))); } @Override public List listFiles() { return gridOperation.find(null); } @Override public GridFSDBFile getByFilename(String filename) { return gridOperation.findOne(new Query(Criteria.where("filename").is(filename))); } } ...
Our StorageServiceImpl is merely making calls to the GridOperations object and simplifying calls. This class is not strictly necessary since you can inject the GridOperations object into any class, but if you are planning on keeping a good separation to be able to extract Mongo/GridFS later to go with something else, this makes sense.
Mongo Template
Now, we are ready to interact with Mongo. First lets deal with creating and saving some textual data. The operations below show a few examples of interacting with data from the Mongo database by using the MongoTemplate.
User user = new User("1", "Joe", "Coffee", 30); //save mongoOperation.save(user); //find User savedUser = mongoOperation.findOne(new Query(Criteria.where("id").is("1")), User.class); System.out.println("savedUser : " + savedUser); //update mongoOperation.updateFirst(new Query(Criteria.where("firstname").is("Joe")), Update.update("lastname", "Java"), User.class); //find User updatedUser = mongoOperation.findOne(new Query(Criteria.where("id").is("1")), User.class); System.out.println("updatedUser : " + updatedUser); //delete // mongoOperation.remove( // new Query(Criteria.where("id").is("1")), // User.class); //List List<User> listUser = mongoOperation.findAll(User.class); System.out.println("Number of user = " + listUser.size());
As you can see, it is fairly easy to interact with Mongo using Spring and a simple User object. The user object is just a POJO as well with no special annotations. Now, let's interact with the files using our StorageService abstraction over GridFs.
//StorageService storageService = (StorageService)ctx.getBean("storageService"); //if not using AspectJ Weaving String id = storageService.save(App.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("test.doc"), "doc", "test.doc"); GridFSDBFile file1 = storageService.get(id); System.out.println(file1.getMetaData()); GridFSDBFile file = storageService.getByFilename("test.doc"); System.out.println(file.getMetaData()); List files = storageService.listFiles(); for (GridFSDBFile file2: files) { System.out.println(file2); }
The great thing about Mongo is that you can store metadata about the file itself. Let's look at the output of our file as printed by the code above.
{ "_id" : { "$oid" : "502a61f6c2e662074ea64e52"} , "chunkSize" : 262144 , "length" : 1627645 , "md5" : "da5cb016718d5366d29925fa6a2bd350" , "filename" : "test.doc" , "contentType" : null , "uploadDate" : { "$date" : "2012-08-14T14:34:30.071Z"} , "aliases" : null , "metadata" : { "meta1" : "test.doc" , "meta2" : "doc"}}
Using Mongo, you can associate any metadata with your file you wish and retrieve the file by that data at a later time. Spring support for GridFS is in its infancy, but I fully expect it to only grow as all Spring projects do.
Query Metadata
The power of Mongo also lies in the metadata concepts that I mentioned earlier and relational databases just don't have this concept. Mongo stored implicit metadata about the files and it also allowed me to attach any data I wish onto a metadata layer. You can query this data in the same fashion you would query Mongo directly by using the . notation.
gridOperation.findOne(new Query(Criteria.where("metadata.meta1").is("test.doc")));
Map Reduce
Mongo offers MapReduce, a powerful searching algorithm for batch processing and aggregations that is somewhat similar to SQL's group by. The MapReduce algorithm breaks a big task into two smaller steps. The map function is designed to take a large input and divide it into smaller pieces, then hand that data off to a reduce function, which distills the individual answers from the map function into one final output. This can be quite a challenge to get your head around when you first look at it as it requires embedding scripting. I highly recommend reading the Spring Data for Mongo documentation regarding Map Reduce before attempting writing any map reduce code.
Full-Text Search
MongoDB has no inherent mechanisms to be able to search the text stored in the GridFS files, however, this isn't a unique limitation as most relational databases also have problems with this or require very expensive addons to get this functionality. There are a few mechanisms that could be used as a start to writing this type of mechanism if you are using the Java language. The first would be to just simply take the text and attach it as metadata on the file object. That is a really messy solution and screams of inefficiency, but for smaller files is a possibility. A more ideal solution would be to use Lucene and create an searchable index of the file content and store that index along with the files.
Scaling with Sharding
While very difficult to say in mixed company, Sharding describes MongoDB's ability to scale horizontally automatically. Some of the benefits of this process as described by the Mongo web site are:
- Automatic balancing for changes in load and data distribution
- Easy addition of new machines without down time
- Scaling to one thousand nodes
- No single points of failure
- Automatic failover
- One to 1000 shards. Shards are partitions of data. Each shard consists of one or more mongod processes which store the data for that shard. When multiple mongod's are in a single shard, they are each storing the same data – that is, they are replicating to each other.
- Either one or three config server processes. For production systems use three.
- One or more mongos routing processes.
For testing purposes, it's possible to start all the required processes on a single server, whereas in a production situation, a number of server configurations are possible.
Once the shards (mongod's), config servers, and mongos processes are running, configuration is simply a matter of issuing a series of commands to establish the various shards as being part of the cluster. Once the cluster has been established, you can begin sharding individual collections.
Import, Export and Backup
Getting data in and out of Mongo is very simple and straight forward. Mongo has the following commands that allow you to accomplish these tasks:
- mongoimport
- mongoexport
- mongodump
- mongorestore
You can even delve into the data at hand to export pieces and parts of collections by specifying them in the commands and mixing in . notation or you can choose to dump data by using a query.
$ ./mongodump --db blog --collection posts --out - > blogposts.bson $ ./mongodump --db blog --collection posts -q '{"created_at" : { "$gte" : {"$date" : 1293868800000}, "$lt" : {"$date" : 1296460800000} } }'
Mongodump even takes an argument –oplog to get point in time backups. Mongo's backup and restoration utilities are as robust as any relational database.
Limitations of MongoDB
Mongo has a few limitations. In some ways, a few of these limitations can be seen as benefits as well.
- No Joining across collections
- No transactional support
- No referential integrity support
- No full text search for GridFS files built in
- Traditional SQL-driven reporting tools like Crystal Reports and business intelligence tools are useless with Mongo
The advantages of MongoDB as a database far outweigh the disadvantages. I would recommend a Mongo NOSQL database for any project regardless of what the programming language you are using. Mongo has drivers for everything. I do however think that if you are in a certain scenarios where you are dealing with rapid, realtime OLTP transactions, MongoDB may fall short of competing with a high performance RDBMS such as Oracle, for example. For the average IT project, I believe Mongo is well-suited. If you still aren't sold on Mongo by now, (I would be pretty shocked if you weren't), then feast your eyes on the high-profile sites that are using MongoDB as their backend database today.
- FourSquare
- Bit.ly
- github
- Eventbrite
- Grooveshark
- Craigslist
- Intuit
The list goes on and on… There are also several other NOSQL solutions out there that enjoy popularity.
- CouchDB
- RavenDB
- CouchBase
Optional Components
I used several optional components for my exercises. I wanted to address these for the folks who may not be familiar with them.
AspectJ and @Configurable
Many folks would ask why I chose to use Aspect Weaving instead of just looking up the objects from the context in the App object. @Configurable allows you to use the @Autowired annotation on a class that is not managed by the Spring context. This process requires load-time or compile-time weaving to work. For the purposes of Eclipse, I use the ADJT plugin and for Maven, I use the AspectJ plugin to achieve this. The weaving process just looks for certain aspects and then weaves the dependencies into the byte code. It does solve a lot of chicken and egg problems when dealing with Spring.
If you are using Maven and you want all of the dependencies I used for the examples, here is the pom.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.doozer</groupId> <artifactId>MongoSpring</artifactId> <packaging>jar</packaging> <version>1.0</version> <name>MongoSpring</name> <url>http://maven.apache.org</url> <properties> <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding> <spring.version>3.1.0.RELEASE</spring.version> </properties> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>junit</groupId> <artifactId>junit</artifactId> <version>4.8.2</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId> <version>1.6.6</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId> <version>1.6.6</version> <exclusions> <exclusion> <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> </exclusion> </exclusions> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId> <version>1.6.6</version> <exclusions> <exclusion> <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> </exclusion> </exclusions> </dependency> <!-- Spring framework --> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId> <version>${spring.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId> <version>${spring.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId> <version>${spring.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-aspects</artifactId> <version>${spring.version}</version> </dependency> <!-- mongodb java driver --> <dependency> <groupId>org.mongodb</groupId> <artifactId>mongo-java-driver</artifactId> <version>2.8.0</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId> <artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId> <version>1.7.0</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId> <artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId> <version>1.7.0</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId> <artifactId>spring-data-mongodb</artifactId> <version>1.1.0.M2</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>cglib</groupId> <artifactId>cglib</artifactId> <version>2.2</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>javax.persistence</groupId> <artifactId>persistence-api</artifactId> <version>1.0</version> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> <build> <plugins> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <source>1.6</source> <target>1.6</target> </configuration> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId> <executions> <execution> <id>copy-dependencies</id> <phase>prepare-package</phase> <goals> <goal>copy-dependencies</goal> </goals> <configuration> <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory> <overWriteReleases>false</overWriteReleases> <overWriteSnapshots>false</overWriteSnapshots> <overWriteIfNewer>true</overWriteIfNewer> </configuration> </execution> </executions> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <archive> <manifest> <addClasspath>true</addClasspath> <classpathPrefix>lib/</classpathPrefix> <mainClass>com.doozer.mongospring.core.App</mainClass> </manifest> </archive> </configuration> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId> <artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <complianceLevel>1.6</complianceLevel> <aspectLibraries> <aspectLibrary> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-aspects</artifactId> </aspectLibrary> </aspectLibraries> </configuration> <executions> <execution> <goals> <goal>compile</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> </plugins> </build> </project>


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05/18/2011 3:53 pm
watching a situation in our community unravel in a very unpleasant way, I am wondering what standard practice is in the US. We had a PE teacher try to catch the attention of a bus driver here as he was backing toward 4 children at a tournament. Things being what they are herein Cambodia, the teacher put his hand through the window and severed two arteries in his arm. It was horrific, but he was saved by some quick action. The ensuing hard feelings came about because his employer didn't want to assume responsibility in any way, shape or form. If an instructor is hurt in the course of his duties does the gym just expect that person to have personal insurance or does the facility help? For example, I once saw a person gear up to stand up on a climbing segment of a class and the right pedal fell off. Pedal still stuck to the shoe, they slammed their right foot into the ground, while the speed of the wheel kept the other foot in motion. Shockingly sudden and unexpected. Fortunately that person wasn't hurt, but it was clearly a faulty (or unchecked) bike. My question: if the instructor gets hurt while doing their job, what is the recourse?Share


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Just took delivery of my very own M1L pano head with the RD16 rotator, Nadir adapter, camera plate and quick release clamp.
What a magnificent piece of photo equipment! It came pre assembled, but knocked down and stored in the protective case. I did not have any of the assembly problems I have read about here. It was basically slide the parts together, calibrate and start shooting.
The precision, the construction, the craftsmenship! WOW!
My last pano head purchase from Fanotech was the Nodal Ninja 3 (without the upper rotator click stops).
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I was just looking at a post on SO (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12183062/how-to-ensure-contiguity-of-a-tally-table) where Aaron Bertrand proposes using a CTE instead of a numbers table, which is an elegant way of performing the task at hand. My question is, why does the first line of the CTE begin with a semi-colon?
;WITH n AS (SELECT TOP (10000) n FROM
(SELECT n = ROW_NUMBER() OVER
(ORDER BY s1.[object_id])
FROM sys.all_objects AS s1
CROSS JOIN sys.all_objects AS s2
) AS x ORDER BY n
SELECT n FROM n ORDER BY n; -- look ma, no gaps!
Is this to ensure the WITH statement does not get parsed into a previous
SELECT or something? I see nothing in SQL Server 2005 BOL about using a semi-colon prior to the WITH.


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Wednesday, April 6, 2011
A Rug Design
This is a photo of a rug based on the design I created for the end sheets for my book Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? (written by my friend, Bill Martin Jr). It is in my home and I enjoy its colorful design on a daily basis. I am very pleased with how this small image was blown up to a large scale faithfully. The rug is a wool and silk hand-hooked rug and was made by Tibetan artisans. Perhaps one day I will become a rug designer!
29 comments:
- Chantal said...
- April 6, 2011 at 11:38 AM
- Kara Small said...
wow, wonderful!
- April 6, 2011 at 11:43 AM
- cheryl.andrey said...
Wow, this is fantastic! I'd love to have one of your designs on a rug. It would add so much character to a room.
- April 6, 2011 at 11:54 AM
- calibosmom said...
Why wait? Design away!!!
- April 6, 2011 at 12:04 PM
- Paige said...
So beautiful!! Please do design rugs or have your already finished end paper designs made into rugs. I would surely love and enjoy one in my house. So much color, texture and movement!!! How exciting - new adventures!
- April 6, 2011 at 2:47 PM
- Joy said...
Absolutely gorgeous!
- April 6, 2011 at 3:04 PM
- Paintedpaper said...
Lovely! My students and I have been so inspired by you and have been painting paper for years but we have just started felting with various wools. The texture of the fibers is great and I can see how designing rugs would be a exciting new material. Please keep on designing I would love to see more beautiful rugs! :)
- April 6, 2011 at 7:22 PM
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- April 7, 2011 at 11:57 AM
- Harry said...
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- April 8, 2011 at 8:23 AM
- We Three 3 said...
create a line of rugs! They would be a hit!
- April 9, 2011 at 11:47 PM
- wordplayhouse.com said...
Ahh. It seems you already have become a rug designer...and this was your first one. Our 3 little ones have always enjoyed your "What Do You See" books...well, all your books! Glad I found your blog.
- April 13, 2011 at 11:13 AM
- Jenn said...
I think you have become THE rug designer.
You work inspires SO many in SO many different ways.
Thank you for inspiring me & my children.
- April 13, 2011 at 3:31 PM
- Cindy Paul said...
Really quite exciting. The colors are indeed vibrant and cheerful. I like this concept.
- April 13, 2011 at 3:35 PM
- Heather - Dollarstorecrafts.com said...
I would love to see rugs of your design! :) Very beautiful!
- April 17, 2011 at 2:14 PM
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- April 21, 2011 at 6:17 PM
- Gaye said...
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- April 25, 2011 at 1:38 AM
- Gaye said...
So inspiring. I never tire of your beautiful artwork, and my Primary School art students don't either!
- April 25, 2011 at 1:40 AM
- Jo Empson said...
Just came across your wonderful blog which unfortunately has become yet another distraction and excuse for me not to put pen to paper whilst supposedly writing my dissertation on 'Colour and Texture'. Needless to say your work is a huge influence and thank you for all these years of
illustrative inspiration! Once a designer...always a designer!
- April 25, 2011 at 11:28 AM
- a new me in 2008 said...
love it!:-)
- April 26, 2011 at 7:39 PM
- Butterfly Kisses said...
It looks truly inspiring and artistic! Thanks for sharing!--dianne
- May 3, 2011 at 10:05 PM
- Wendys Hat said...
Looks like you already are a rug designer Mr. Carle! It's beautiful!
- May 12, 2011 at 11:59 AM
- Foyer Home MAINE said...
What a wonderful play of chaos and harmony!!! Very lyrical.
- September 24, 2011 at 2:48 PM
- malar said...
Wonderful blog & good post.Its really helpful for me, awaiting for more new post. Keep Blogging!
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- December 22, 2011 at 1:45 AM
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- December 24, 2011 at 3:20 AM
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- January 27, 2012 at 2:40 AM
- Unknown said...
Great thoughts you got there, believe I may possibly try just some of it throughout my daily life.
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- January 28, 2012 at 5:59 AM
- madhuri said...
That looks attractive and simple.
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- February 3, 2012 at 4:34 AM
- iconrugs said...
I'm changing the old rugs. So I'm looking new attractive wool rugs. I think it could be perfect for my home.
- February 8, 2012 at 6:52 AM
- Joffery Stark said...
Rugs are very versatile thing for decoration, ,It give very good look on floor as well it also give same look on wall. Thank you for sharing. I really like your blog.
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28 Aug 2012 3:31 AM #1
Problem with two different Grid-Appearances at same 'page'
i defined 2 different grid appearances for two grids, that are displayed at the same time. But the last always overwrites the first created. Can someone see the mistake?
It works fine with ButtonCellAppearance and others, but the Grid seems to be different?
public class MyFirstGridAppearance extends GridBaseAppearance { public interface MyFirstGridStyle extends GridStyle { } public interface MyFirstGridResources extends GridResources { @Source({"com/sencha/gxt/theme/base/client/grid/Grid.css", "MyFirstGrid.css"}) @Override MyFirstGridStyle css(); } public MyFirstGridAppearance() { this(GWT.<MyFirstGridResources>create(MyFirstGridResources.class)); } public MyFirstGridAppearance(MyFirstGridResources resources) { super(resources); } } public class MySecondGridAppearance extends GridBaseAppearance { public interface MySecondGridStyle extends GridStyle { } public interface MySecondGridResources extends GridResources { @Source({"com/sencha/gxt/theme/base/client/grid/Grid.css", "MySecondGrid.css"}) @Override MySecondGridStyle css(); } public MySecondGridAppearance() { this(GWT.<MySecondGridResources>create(MySecondGridResources.class)); } public MySecondGridAppearance(MySecondGridResources resources) { super(resources); } }
28 Aug 2012 5:55 AM #2
ok, i found a solution for my Problem, the GridAppearance in the constructor of TreeGrid seems not to be used by the TreeGrid/TreeGridView, instead the default one is taken! (new TreeGridView always calls default constructor of GridView)


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The description of the Create Wiki Posts privilege says:
There are also several ways a question or answer can automatically enter community wiki mode. In these cases, we believe that the post is de-facto wiki:
- the body of the post has been edited by at least 5 different users
- the post has been edited 10 times by the original owner
- you answer a question marked community wiki
- a question generates more than 30 answers
I notice that this very much leaves out the case where a post is transformed by fewer than 5 users, and I'm wondering whether it should.
For myself at least, it hasn't been all that uncommon to:
- Make an incremental change to a post
- Learn more information
- Update the post
- Come back to refer to the post and decide that it needs better formatting
- Update the post
- See that information has become outdated
- Update the post
- Etc.
(Here is an example. 12 versions by 3 users, some small changes, some large.)
When I'm doing this alongside other users, everything works as expected. When I'm the only one doing it (through particular interest, in the course of moderation, or pure chance) it seems strange to me that the behavior is different. I think posts where this happens should be made CW because:
- Posts that need this kind of maintenance and are wiki-style repositories are exactly the reason Community Wiki exists.
- I do this kind of updating as a member of the community, because I'm a member of the community. I don't think the edits would take on any special properties if they were done by >= 5 users.
- If I'm doing this it probably means that the post should have been CW in the first place. Perhaps I wouldn't be doing it all solo if, as CW, the post were more obviously encouraging of additions from everyone.
In an answer I will propose specific criteria for when a "< 5 editor post" should be made CW, and I'm also interested in others' suggestions for them.
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I plan to install Fedora Linux on a machine with an SSD and an HDD.
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29 Mar 2012 12:14 PM #1
Ext.urlDecode does not decode "+" (plus sign) as space
Sencha Touch version tested:
- 1.1.1
Platform tested against:
- iOS 5
- Chrome 17 on XP
- Ext.urlDecode does not decode the + (plus sign) as a space.
Let me back up and say I was a little torn on whether to file this as a bug or a feature request. If the purpose of urlDecode is to simply decode URLs (or more specifically, URIs), then there really is no "bug" because the URI standards don't say much on topic.
However, if the purpose of urlDecode is to decode query parameters that are originally passed in via a URL, I'd consider this very lacking behavior. While it is also completely harmless to encode a space as %20, both the html4 and html5 specs for application/x-www-form-urlencoded data say that the "right" way to do it is to encode space as "+".
Since that's the only defined way of building query params, that's the way a whole lot of applications are going to pass those params. Hence when interacting with other applications, you might get your parameters with +s instead of %20s.
Now, if you're only EVER using Ext.urlDecode() to decode something that Ext.urlEncode() encoding (meaning you're not interacting with anything), you're completely safe.
There's a pretty good discussion of all the issues here:
He basically came to the same conclusions I did in the sections "2. Query String Standards (or the Lack Thereof)" and "3.1. The Built-In Functions Are Not Meant for Query Strings". He also suggested the same workaround I have. Basically, you just replace the +s with spaces before calling the underlying decodeURIComponent() function.
Test Case:
- Run the above code on the console
The result that was expected:
- one two three
The result that occurs instead:
- one+two+three
Possible fix:
urlDecode : function(string, overwrite) { if (Ext.isEmpty(string)) { return {}; } var obj = {}, pairs = string.replace(/\+/g, ' ').split('&'), d = decodeURIComponent, name, value; Ext.each(pairs, function(pair) { pair = pair.split('='); name = d(pair[0]); value = d(pair[1]); obj[name] = overwrite || !obj[name] ? value : [].concat(obj[name]).concat(value); }); return obj; }
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At the American Urological Association Annual Meeting earlier this week, new guidelines from the AUA now recommend that men aged 55 to 69 who are considering prostate cancer screening discuss the benefits and potential harms of screening with their doctors, then to proceed based upon personal values and preferences. This recommendation is based upon high-quality evidence that suggests the screening benefit over 2- to 4-year intervals would allow 1 man per 1,000 to avert death from prostate cancer over a decade, yet the benefit extrapolated over a man's lifetime may actually be greater.
The AUA guidelines state that screening for prostate cancer in men less than 40 years of age is not recommended, nor is routine screening in men 40 to 54 years of age at average risk. To reduce harms of screening, a screening interval of 2 years may be preferable over annual screening in low-risk men who have engaged in shared-decision making with their physician. Lastly, routine prostate cancer screening in men over 70, or in men with a less than 10- to 15-year life expectancy is not recommended.
Reference: American Urological Association Annual Meeting, May 4-8, 2013, San Diego, California, USA


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Bacon Scented Soap - One Bar -Novelty for $5.99
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Who doesn't love the smell of bacon in the morning. Meant as a gag gift.
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Hey, we both did soap! I will tattle on mine.
Four people are vegetarian or have no sense of humor. I'm personally not much of a bacon eater, but hey, it's national bacon day or something like that.
@xdavex: No, it's actually the other way around. The down voters probably DO have a sense of humor. They're the ones that realize this whole bacon fad stopped being funny about 5 seconds after is started.
I can buy myself a pound of slab bacon for the same price, rub it on my hands with regular soap, and have plenty leftover to eat.
"GIR, why is there bacon in the soap!?"
"I made it myself!"


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