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NYU Shanghai, located in the Pudong district of downtown Shanghai, offers a variety of courses taught by NYU faculty and some of the country's most distinguished professionals. Participants select from content courses taught in English, Chinese language courses at all levels from beginner to advanced. The curriculum appeals to a broad range of academic interests, focusing not only on East Asian studies but also on undergraduate majors in art, business, communication, comparative literature, economics, history, journalism, and politics.
At NYU Shanghai both Metropolitan Studies and Environmental Studies majors will find a variety of courses to meet their needs.
A key feature of the academic program at NYU Shanghai is the business curriculum, designed to make the adventure of study abroad possible for students meeting the heavy demands of a business major.
Students at NYU in Shanghai witness the daily developments related to media and communications in a transitioning society while staying on track for their major with courses sponsored by NYU Steinhardt's department of Media Culture, and Communication.
Upcoming Application Deadlines
Priority: February 15
Regular: March 15
Applications received after March 15 will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Admission will be granted only when space is available and time allows for required travel documents to be attained.


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The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Last Modified: May 3, 2002
Diary multimedia 20 x 98 x 1.5 inches 1988-89
My brilliant and beloved husband, Sam, was diagnosed with terminal cancer on December 17, 1987. Malignant tumors had attached themselves to his spinal column. Not only did he quickly lose the ability to walk, but remembering details became an anxiety-provoking exercise as well. So he kept a diary in an effort to control, in some small way, the progress of his disease.
On June 6, 1988, Sam died at 12:30 in the afternoon, surrounded by his loved and loving family.
So, what do you do with your grief? For me, an artist, the answer was
clear. I put it into my work. "Diary" makes use of some of the "stuff"
Sam collected. Overlapped onto the works are the original pages from
the diary he kept during his illness.
Torn Heart I & II Mixed Media 20 x 98 x 29 inches 1988-89
In Sephardic Jewish tradition, people's clothing (a sleeve or pocket) is torn to mark them as mourners. The sound when the sleeve of my dress was ripped - I can still hear it - was as though my heart was being torn. "Torn Heart" uses bits of my clothing and an old tallit of Sam's in an attempt to visually replicate the sound.
After Sam's death, making art aided my healing. I became obsessed with being in the studio. As a survivor of cancer (in a way), making art relieved me of the pain I was experiencing and helped me to step back into my different life with a familiar friend by my side -- my art.

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NAU eLearning: e-Content Day & Updates
e-Content Exposition
e-Content Exposition
When: Thursday March 22, noon-5:00pm
Where: Health & Learning Center - 2nd floor community rooms, behind Disability Resources
What: Publishers, e-Book delivery designers, and a few NAU faculty using these resources will provide demonstrations and consultation.
A variety of resources from full Texts one might use for a course to customized resources including readings, simulations, and individualized guided learning activities are available across the disciplines. These resources are usually offered for access from many devices such as e-book readers such as the Kindle or Nook, smart phones, and ipads, as well as through a browser on a computer. In many cases the simpler resources such as text articles can be printed if that is one's preferred medium for reading.
Increasingly there are customized approachs, directed by faculty, to create the resources even across multiple publishers to provide students texts for a course. While there are tremendous opportunities for a rich variety of resources, the landscape in this arena is still developing with lots to learn and some pitfalls to avoid.
In addition to the publisher there will be training for using NBC Learn which is a resource NAU already licenses.
Come anytime during the afternoon to explore this developing area for providing course materials for students with an eye toward stabilizing if not reducing the cost of textbooks for students.
There will be refreshments provided, especially around lunch-time.
Further details for the agenda will be in a forthcoming email and will be posted on the e-Learning website.
Here are some links to explore to learn more:
Indiana University's eText Program
University of Cincinnati's eText Program
FlatWorld Knowledge - open textbooks
EDUCAUSE's report on Four eText Models
Gutenberg Digitial Book Project
Southwest Institute for Learning with Technology
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I knew this thread was coming.
I just knew it.
With the emergence of Colin Kaepernick would it be a good idea to trade for Alex? Now here me out first, I know we as Bills fans all love Ryan Fitzpatrick but would you consider a former first round draft pick turned stud in Alex Smith? His cap hit won't be much different than what Fitz's is.
Now it appears we are in agreement that Fitz is worth a couple of firsts so what would you be willing to give up? 4 firsts? 2 1st's and a 2nd?
What say you Bills Mafia?
I knew this thread was coming.
I just knew it.
No Expectations
2015 Adopt-a-Bill: Stephon Gilmore #bumpngrind
2017 Dream Draft:
1) Leonard Fournette (RB, LSU)
I say he's a waste of time because he's never going to be anything more than a mediocre starter...
You need a top 10 QB to win in the NFL. He's not one. We don't have one.
Look to the draft...
Kaepernick straight up for Thiggy.
you just can't give up on guys like fitz in this league. with a few more years of work and dedication, he's bound to be a probowler. anyone who thinks otherwise just doesn't know football. period. nuff said.
"Golden teeth and golden tones, welcome to my presence"
Trade the farm for him....Super Bowl.
Evil will always triumph over good because good is dumb.
only if Harbaugh comes with him
Just stop with these ****ing threads.
i think this thread brings up an important topic that we really need to look at. please keep this thread moving forward.
"Golden teeth and golden tones, welcome to my presence"
Alex smith is not the reason the 49ers offense works. They are run first and pass second, that is clear as day. They have some of the most exotic run schemes of recent years. Alex smith is the beneficiary of a loaded box and defenses constantly playing the run. He is not going to come to buffalo and do wonders. And 4 firsts for a 28 year old qb? Is that a joke?
And no one would give up multiple first round picks for Fitz, I think even asking for one is a huge stretch.
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So the niners back up QB comes in and plays well so now they should trade their starting QB to us? I'm sure they're shopping him around right now as we speak!
If you don't bleed red white and blue then get out of the house cause you're not part of the family.


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Using GNOME here, I want to switch between different workspaces more efficiently -- by this I mean, suppose I am on
workspace #1 and I want to switch to
workspace #3 ... how do I that efficiently? The technique I follow is by pressing
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19 Feb 2013 1:29 PM #1
How do I get clientheight of a panel before rendering it? (Alt: max-height w/ scroll)
I have a Grid inside a ContentPanel. I want the ContentPanel to expand in height to a certain point before forcing the Grid to scroll; if I set the height of the ContentPanel, it will render at that height even if the Grid is empty, which looks weird. ContentPanel only has setHeight, not setMaxHeight; and, the max-height CSS attribute doesn't appear to trigger scrolling. So, I have the following hack:
public void onCompleteEdit(CompleteEditEvent<Value> event) { store.commitChanges(); if (panel.getOffsetHeight() > height) { panel.setHeight(height); }
Is there a better way to achieve this than my hack? If not, what event can I trigger on?
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The clientHeight and offsetHeight properties are defined as the sizes after rendering - these values cannot make sense until the html elements have been drawn, and the browser given the chance to complete rendering. Until it is rendered, the individual html elements do not have a size. This is how the browser works - we don't define these properties in GWT or GXT, we read them from the browser.
If you just want to know the size after show, call show(), then check the size. If you want to attach an event handler, consider listening for a show event, or an attach event, and checking size there. It may be necessary to wait a moment (i.e. schedule a 'finally' or 'deferred' command) to wait for the rest of the show behavior to complete before a size will be available.


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Sept. 21, 2011 -- A new project puts the U.S. on the map, but not in the way we'd like to be.
A new interactive map illustrates the growing threat posed by drug-resistant superbugs in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. The map was prepared by Extending the Cure, a research project that focuses on issues related to antibiotic resistance.
"Our project's aim was to frame the problem in a new way," Extending the Cure research analyst Nikolay Braykov says. "In order to develop sensible policies, it's important to both measure and communicate the scope of the problem. ... We wanted to provide carefully verified data and make it as accessible as possible."
The map scores countries according to their reported levels of antibiotic resistance for a variety of infections. The higher the score, the worse the problem.
With an overall score of 33, the U.S. ranks far below Scandinavian countries such as Sweden and Norway, which both scored a 5. However, the U.S. is well ahead of most Eastern European and Southern European countries. Romania had the highest score, at 51.
MRSA Rates High in U.S.
The U.S. has one of the highest rates of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), which causes a type of staph infection that kills an estimated 20,000 people in this country each year. Only Israel and Malta had higher rates of MRSA than the U.S., where more than 50% of staph infections are now thought to be resistant to common antibiotics.
Most MRSAs occur among hospitalized patients. The CDC says the number of such cases is declining. However, a growing number of MRSA infections are being reported among healthy people outside health care settings.
Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) is another type of tough-to-treat infection. According to the CDC, enterococci infection is a common type of infection among hospital patients. The CDC estimated in 2004 that VRE caused one out of three infections in intensive care units. That's particularly troubling because it resists treatment by vancomycin, an antibiotic of last resort.
Infection Trouble Spots
The Extending the Cure map shows that the U.S. and Ireland have the highest rates of deadly VRE infections. Parts of the Midwest, Central South, and some Atlantic states report the highest concentration of cases, according to the map.


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5 Pathetic Groups That People Think Rule the World
#3. The Council on Foreign Relations
"The Bushes and Clintons, The Neo-Cons, Republicans, Democrats, Communist and the Socialist all sit at the same Round Table. The Council of Foreign Relations. Another term for treason!"
Who Are They?
After World War I, a group of about 150 scholars were hired to advise the president about how to navigate a chaotic, post-war world. They never stopped doing that, and for about 90 years they've worked as a private "think tank" that "advises" the government on foreign policy. And steals babies.
Who Thinks They Control the World?
Historian Carroll Quigley's 1,350-page, unfootnoted 1966 brain fart, Tragedy & Hope, mentioned the little-known think tank, saying it would do anything to further its agenda of globalization. Conspiracy nuts took that ball and ran with it, and now there are bestselling books and endless YouTube videos blowing the lid off their horrifying plans for mankind.
And Angelina Jolie will speak unto them, as it was prophesied in Wanted!
Why People Believe It:
There's no question, the CFR is a very influential group. The Council was singlehandedly responsible for Nixon's diplomatic relations with Communist China, as they were the ones who pressed the idea that reaching out to China wouldn't be political suicide.
Toss in secrecy clauses, the slew of members in high-ranking political posts and it's only a matter of time before we get a group photo of the whole council on holiday in Hell itself.
Why It's Retarded:
The Council on Foreign Relations is basically the idiot at work who blurts out every retarded idea that goes through his head, even though 95 percent of his suggestions get shot down for being completely fucking stupid and the other five percent the company was probably going to do anyway.
In the late 1950s, the Council tried to convince Congress to work with the Communist North Vietnamese to prevent the Vietnam war, and Congress told them to suck it. The Council has been advocating everything from nuclear non-proliferation to merging the U.S., Canada and Mexico to ending the war on terror.
Notice how the U.S. Government has done none of those things. That's the thing, they are influential in that Washington pays attention to them, but nothing makes any of the CFR's demands binding. The government can take the advice or leave it and it mostly does the latter.
It turns out it's kind of hard to secretly run the world via a series of wordy suggestions.


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Repealing the Laws of Mathematics
A teacher union in North Carolina repealed the laws of mathematics with a simple majority vote, according to a recent report from Mike Antonucci.
This demonstration of raw power took place earlier this year, when the Representative Assembly of the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) voted to extend full membership status to education support personnel, such as custodians, bus drivers, and teachers' aides. Since that recognition involved a constitutional amendment, the measure required a two_thirds majority of the NCAE Representative Assembly to pass. After a long debate, the measure was pronounced "passed" after the 1,304 delegates voted 869 in favor and 435 against.
Opponents of the measure, perhaps led by math teachers, challenged the result, pointing out that the vote was only 66.6411 percent of the total and not at least 66.6667, or two-thirds. However, the challenge--asserting that 66.6411 was in fact smaller than 66.6667--required a majority vote of delegates, which it did not receive. The definition of "two_thirds" thus succumbed to the will of the majority.


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November 8, 2013
"Beyond the Nation: Pioneering Studies in How Development Spreads," a one-day conference organized by New York University's Development Research Institute and featuring scholars discussing the significance of nations as actors in development, will take place Fri., Nov. 15, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at NYU's Kimmel Center for University Life, Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th Floor (60 Washington Square South [at LaGuardia Place]).
In recent years, many have asked if the current emphasis on nations as actors in development is both excessive and obsolete. At "Beyond the Nation," researchers will present findings showing how development spreads with the distribution of people, goods, technologies, and ideas across national boundaries. Other talks feature evidence showing a much smaller-than-expected role for nations and national leaders in explaining development outcomes.
Jonathan Morduch, a professor at NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and an expert on micro-financing, will deliver the keynote address, "How Microcredit Went Global" (1:30 p.m.).
Other presentations include: "Why Are We So Obsessed with Nations in Economic Development?" (William Easterly, NYU professor of economics); "The Spread of Development through Colonial European Settlement" (Ross Levine, UC Berkeley professor of economics); "How Indigenous Entrepreneurs Brought Cocoa and Transformed Ghana" (Emmanuel Akyeampong, Harvard professor of history and Yaw Nyarko, NYU professor of economics); and "Do National Leaders Matter?" (Steven Pennings, NYU doctoral candidate).
For a complete schedule and biographies of speakers, click here.
The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required here. For more information, call 212.992.7485 or email firstname.lastname@example.com (Subways: 6, Astor Place; N, R, 8th Street). Photo ID required for entry.
Reporters interested in attending the event must RSVP to Laura Freschi at firstname.lastname@example.com or 212.992.7491.
The Development Research Institute (DRI) is devoted to rigorous, scholarly research on the economic development and growth of poor countries. An independent and non-partisan organization, DRI builds upon a foundation of academic research comparing aid agency practices and surveying the thinking behind aid projects. For more, click here.
This Press Release is in the following Topics:
Events, Arts and Science, Research, Speakers @ NYU
Type: Press Release
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Budget PaintJob - The $375 PaintjobWritten by Jeff Smith on June 13, 2011 How We Painted This '65 Chevelle for $375.00
This paintjob project started innocently enough. We ran several races in an attempt to wrangle a spot in the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational right after last November's SEMA show. When we didn't finish strong enough at any of the qualifier races, we really didn't expect to get an invitation. We talked about putting in the effort into the paintjob to make it look nicer, but more pressing magazine projects commandeered our time. Then, barely three weeks before the show, pal Kevin Doyle called me and said, "Hey, I just saw the list for the Optima event and you're on it." Two thoughts immediately did burnouts through my brain: The first was elation at being invited to the Optima; the second, which quickly followed, was major dread that we had precious little time to make the car look presentable. The race decals from the 341 Challenge had ripped large chunks of paint off both doors when removed, so we had no choice but to plunge head first into the great paint abyss.
I put out the Bat-Signal to my friends and Mike Paradis answered the call, along with buddies Kevin Doyle, Kris Shields, and CC staffer John McGann, who offered up free labor for sanding and other drudgeries. Paradis has his own small shop called Quarters, Tops, Doors and Floors, where he does sheetmetal work when he's not teaching at West Valley Occupational Center in Woodland Hills, California. Veteran readers might recall that Paradis helped us colorize our '66 Orange Peel Chevelle ("How to Paint Your Car for $750.00," Apr. '09), so we welcomed his assistance. Since we didn't have the luxury of time to strip the old paint, Paradis suggested we scuff the car, fix the major flaws, and paint the Chevelle a single-stage satin. As Paradis observed, "The satin will hide the flaws." It was the perfect solution.
He also suggested we contact TCP Global, which sells a line of single-stage satin paint called Hot Rod Flatz. The paint was more than affordable and comes in a kit consisting of a gallon of paint, a quart of reducer, a pint of catalyst, strainers, and stirring sticks—all for less than $180.00. We found Speed Blue to be the closest to the Chevelle's original hue, so we ordered it online and it appeared a few days later. That's when the thrash really began...
Paintjob: Satin Options
This quick and easy satin paintjob turned out much better than we ever expected, which led us to speculate about another painting experience that was less successful. Back in the Apr. '09 issue, we did a story called "Paint Your Car for $750.00" in which we stripped and painted our '66 Chevelle. The Orange Peel Chevelle's name is well deserved because we really didn't do a great job on the bodywork. The photos hide the many undulations, dips, and cavities in the car's single-stage gloss paint, but suffice to say it waves to you if you get close. We spent about the same amount of time on the '66 that we did on the '65, yet the results were far superior on the '65, which led us to believe that applying a single-stage clear satin finish might just save the paint (and the pain) on the orange car. Eastwood sells a Rat Rod Clear (PNs included in the following chart) that might just do the job. All we'd have to do is even out the bodywork a little, mask the car, and shoot the satin clear. Eastwood says two light coats will deliver a 10 to 15 percent gloss.
|Parts List
|Hot Rod Flatz urethane
|TCP Global
|Gray urethane primer
|Activator for primer
|Feather-Rite plastic filler, gallon
|400-grit wet/dry sandpaper
|Masking tape, 34, 3 rolls
|Green masking paper, 18
|Top Guns
|VHT cast-aluminum spray paint
|Summit Racing
|Grand Total
|Door weatherstripping
|Trunk weatherstripping
|Quarter window seal
|Hoodpin kit, stainless steel
|Eastwood Rat Rod Clear, qt.
|Eastwood activator, 8 oz.
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John McGann and I attacked the existing paint with 220-grit sandpaper, with special emphasis on featheredging all the areas where the paint had peeled or ripped off the body. The top and decklid suffered from hundreds of tiny paint divots that demanded to be sanded flush.I could have passed for Papa Smurf after sanding the Chevelle for a whole day. My shop had not yet recovered from sanding the white Chevelle when this happened. There is now a fresh blue/white patina covering nearly all the horizontal surfaces in the shop.Mike Paradis layered a thin coat of plastic filler on the left front fender after smoothing a previous dent repair that had sprouted a nasty crack. This was one of only two places where he had to apply filler. Everywhere else we just sanded until it felt smooth. If we were after a really great paint job, this could have easily devoured another couple of weeks of late nights and weekends to make it perfectly straight.With the initial sanding and bodywork complete, we masked the car in anticipation of a coat of urethane primer. Paradis suggested shooting primer only on the reworked areas, leaving the blue portions of the body alone. This would reduce the amount of time we would have to spend wet-sanding the primer. The plastic prevented overspray on areas we didn't want to sand twice.After the primer dried overnight, Paradis fogged a rattle-can flat-black guidecoat on the primer. Then it was just a matter of block-sanding the car until the guidecoat disappeared. This is where we would normally have spent weeks making the body straight, but instead we were relying on the satin finish to dampen the visual hiccups. We used a spray bottle of water and 400-grit wet/dry paper.Next, we loaded the Chevelle up on our trailer and hauled it over to the West Valley Occupational Center, where the school was kind enough to allow us the use of a spray booth during an evening class. Once in the booth, Paradis spent an hour or so cleaning the booth and dusting the car.The Hot Rod Flatz paint appears almost watery in the can, so we didn't use the supplied reducer. The paint also calls for a 1.2 tip in the gun with a regulator setting of 28 psi using an HVLP gun.Paradis laid out the color in two light coats—which covered very well—with roughly a quart of paint left over that we'd use to fill in details like the door jambs or any other small parts.The beauty of any single-stage satin paint is that once the color is on, you're done. We returned home that same evening and allowed the paint to cure overnight indoors. We noticed some streaks on the horizontal surfaces that we later learned were the result of not adding the reducer. At a later date we'll reshoot the top of the car to eliminate the streaks.
With the satin body color, we only had time for a quick spray-can tune-up on all the trim. We painted the grille and all external trim, including the fiberglass front and steel rear bumpers, with VHT cast aluminum, which turned out fantastic.Since the entire car now had a satin finish, we decided to do the same with the stainless window trim, using medium Scotch-Brite pads to produce a brushed finish. We also added new door and trunk weatherstripping, along with a new stainless steel hoodpin kit from our friends at Original Parts Group (OPG).We bolted everything back on just in time to load the car on the trailer Sunday night and drive to Vegas on Monday morning. I was concerned about the paint adhering to our minimal prep work when we slapped the big Optima decals on the doors but they came off nicely after the race was over. Our quickie paint job was a great low-buck success.


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6 Unknown Artists Who Made All of Our Favorite Movie Moments
With the Oscars on the horizon, it's important to remember that behind every great "film author" are like a hundred other artists with slightly worse publicists. These people have worked tirelessly to help create some of your favorite moments in film, only to have their names scroll by in eight-point font while the audience files out, or, at best, patiently waits for that five-second scene where Iron Man eats a burrito.
Here are six more people you don't know but could not live without.
#6. Bob Anderson Was Responsible for Every Sword Fight You've Ever Loved
Think of the coolest sword fight you've ever seen in a movie. Did you go with Dread Pirate Westley versus Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride?
Or how about Captain Jack Sparrow versus William Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean? Or maybe Aragorn delimbing Orcs in The Lord of the Rings?
Blissfully beheading him before he could start the Monty Python Black Knight routine.
Or Connor MacLeod chopping heads off in Highlander?
If you said "Which Highlander?" we're gonna have to ask you to leave.
It doesn't matter which one you chose, because one man was responsible for all of those fights and more. Bob Anderson holds the coolest possible film credit imaginable as sword master for pretty much every movie where a character picks up a sword and proceeds to do something awesome with it. He started out as Errol Flynn's stunt double in the 1950s and kept working until the past decade, when he trained the actors in every Lord of the Rings movie.
"Sean Bean, we'll save time and just teach you how to fall."
In the meantime, he coached everyone from Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan in the James Bond movies to Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins in The Mask of Zorro. When the most detail-oriented director in history, Stanley Fucking Kubrick, needed a sword master who knew his shit for his film Barry Lyndon, he called Anderson. Remember The Three Musketeers with Charlie Sheen and Kiefer Sutherland? Yeah, we didn't either, but he worked there, too.
Oh, and he was Darth Vader.
"Hamill, if you're not going to make the light saber sounds with your mouth, how am I supposed to take this seriously?
That's right. It turns out that in addition to David Prowse providing the body and James Earl Jones providing the voice, Bob Anderson provided the awesome by doubling for all of Vader's light saber fights. He's the guy who chopped off Luke's hand, and he wasn't even credited for it. In 1983, it was Mark Hamill himself who revealed that it was Anderson in the suit and not Prowse for those scenes, a fact Lucas had been hiding all those years.
"He said he'd cut something more important if I didn't say anything."
#5. Kyle Cooper Created Every Title Sequence That Was Better Than the Movie
Sometimes the opening titles for a movie or show are way more satisfying to watch than the thing they're supposed to introduce. Take the opening to The Walking Dead, which conveys the tense horror of a zombie invasion better than the first two seasons of the show.
Plus there's no [whichever character we all hate now]!
Or the titles to FX's American Horror Story, which are creepier than anything series creator Ryan Murphy could ever come up with.
And this is the guy who invented Glee.
Well, whenever you come across an opening sequence so good that whatever comes next inevitably feels like a letdown, there's one guy you can blame -- his name is Kyle Cooper, and we seriously wonder how he keeps getting work. Early in his career, he made a name for himself by creating the insanely elaborate title sequence to the movie Se7en, which, as we've told you about before, involved serial-killer-like efforts.
Cooper also came up with the striking opening minutes for Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films. The one for Spider-Man 2 alone took an entire year to create and required first-hand research into spiders and octopuses (since the villain was Doctor Octopus), plus digitally scanning dozens of vintage comics for a five-second montage. The one for Spider-Man 3 was so good that they should have just stopped the film there.
"No, really, this is more concise and less infuriating."
See, when your resume includes films like Flubber and Wild Wild West, you can't let a little thing like the movie sucking stop you from putting all your effort into the opening titles. For The Mummy, Cooper researched and created a historically accurate font, meaning that the credits to this film were most likely 10 times more researched than the film itself. He used actual blood for the opening titles to the Dawn of the Dead remake. Even director Zack Snyder had to admit they were better than the movie.
"We paid him extra not to tell us where he got the blood."
#4. Debbie Evans Is Every Crazy Woman You've Seen Behind a Wheel
A good chase sequence can justify the existence of a bad movie. Such is the case with the highway scene in The Matrix Reloaded where Carrie-Anne Moss drives her bike against the traffic to avoid the agents.
Or the vertigo-inducing car chase in Mission: Impossible II where Thandie Newton tries to push Tom Cruise's car off the road and ends up teetering on the edge of a cliff herself.
"Hold on, I'm gonna call Michael Caine, he'll know what to do!"
The Fast and the Furious series is made out of chase scenes and five minutes of plot in each movie to explain them, but one highlight is the scene in the original movie where Michelle Rodriguez drives a Honda Civic under a truck before crashing the shit out of it.
Obviously symbolic of Japanese-American economic co-dependence.
Only it wasn't Michelle Rodriguez, or Thandie Newton, or Carrie-Anne Moss in those scenes -- that was all Debbie Evans.
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Moss did all her own ass-scenes, though.
Since the 1970s, any time a lady in a movie gets into a car or on a bike and starts doing stupid shit, Evans is most likely the one behind the wheel. She's doubled for everyone from Pamela Anderson to Whoopi Goldberg. Remember Linda Hamilton firing a rifle out of the back of a riot van in Terminator 2?
You do now.
That was Evans. Angelina Jolie driving like a maniac in Wanted? Evans. Parker Posey in the runaway car in Superman Returns? You get the idea. She even played Steve Martin's insane daredevil girlfriend in The Jerk.
One of the more conspicuous Oscar snubs that year.
How could she have lasted in the business so long? Well, she's been riding bikes since she was 6 years old and winning awards for it since age 9. Which actually makes us think that if movies didn't exist, she'd be doing all this crazy shit on her own dime anyway.


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class User(db.Model):
nickname = db.StringProperty()
and we have 500k entities in User, each with a unique nickname.
and I now want to add one more entity, and it must be a unique nickname. So I run this:
to_check = User.gql("WHERE nickname = :1",new_nickname).get()
if to_check is None:
# proceed to create entity
is this method going to work for over 500k users? Am I going to experience slow processing times?
what are the optimization methods for this?
PS: is indexing the nickname property a good way to proceed?
I can only think of this at the moment:
class User(db.Model):
nickname = db.StringProperty(indexed=True) # index this property
EDITED: btw, I have two unique properties I want to maintain: userid and nickname. The userid will be automatically assigned as the keyname ( I'm making a facebook app which takes the user's facebook id and creates a user entity)
So to me, userid is more important so I'll use it as the keyname.
The nickname will be manually entered by the facebook user, so I need a mechanism to check whether it is unique or not.
so the problem now is, what do I do with the nickname? I can't have two keynames :(


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What research has been done on this subject? I.e Is it better to work 95% of the time and break for 5% or 70% - 30%? What should you do during your break?
In my experience, taking a break from work helps in more than a few ways.
Once upon a time, there were two man chipping wood. The one wanted to do a lot and so he just was chipping. The other man was chipping only 50 min. and then after a 10 min. break again. At the end, the first one saw, that although he did not make any breaks he had less then the other man who did breaks. So he asked him how this can be? "In my breaks I was sharpening my axe".
This means, if you are doing a lot of thinking and reasoning, then take a break and switch to your emotional channel and spend some time there.
If you want to take a break from mental work, do something physical. Yoga, Tai Chi and dance moves are perfect. Reading information will on the other hand interfere with your mental work.
If you do physical work and want to take a break, do somethign mental. Read a book.


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Warren Woodruff, 82, of Norfolk died Friday, Jan. 25, 2013 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha.
Warren (Woody) was born June 25, 1930 at Amarillo, Texas, to Lester and Iola (Hollman) Woodruff. He moved with his family to Oxford, Nebraska and graduated in 1947.
Warren married Dolores Williams on June 8, 1952 at the Christian Church in Beavers City.
In 1971 the family moved to Nebraska City where he worked as a parts manager for the local Chevrolet dealer until retiring in 1991. They moved to Madison then Norfolk.
Warren is survived by wife Dolores Woodruff of Norfolk; children Tim and Madian Woodruff of Papillion, Trent and Wendy Woodruff of Lincoln and Teresa Bohler of Norfolk; eight grandchildren and one great granddaughter.
He was preceded by daughter Tonja, brother Maurice, and sister Dolores.
Memorial services will be at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 30, at Community Bible Church, Norfolk. Burial will be at a later date in Oxford Cemetery, Oxford.
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Commenter Hongo has had it up to here with people denying devices the label 'portable' simply because they can't fit in their pants pocket. He'd prepared a portable primer for today's Speak Up on Kotaku.
port•a•ble /ˈpôrtəbəl/
Adjective: Able to be easily carried or moved.
Noun: A version of something that can be easily carried.
By those definitions, that can apply to anything: From an iPad to a laptop to various power tools to a book, you name it.
Portable ≠ Pocket Friendly
So why is it that when a handheld system can't be carried in your pants pocket, many people seem to toss portability out the window? The DS, 3DS, PSP and PS Vita are all handhelds I would not consider pants pocket friendly. Heck, even the original bulky Game Boy wasn't what I would call a pocket friendly device period. Almost everyone I knew had a carrying case for it and that's how it was transported from place to place.
I have often seen different comments in stories on why this device isn't a handheld or that device isn't a portable: All because it can't fit in your pants. All because of your pants, you say? Yes, your pants. I'm shocked that any guy above the age of 14 can even find room for a DS/PSP when my own pants pockets are already full with a phone, wallet, keys, pocket change, etc. I couldn't even cram my PSP or DS in a pocket if I wanted to unless I was wearing cargo pants or something. Maybe my back pocket, but I hate having things in my back pockets.
The PSP, DS, 3DS and PS Vita are all handheld devices, but I wouldn't ever say that portable and pocket friendly are mutually exclusive, but for some reason many people do so maybe it's just me. If you can carry it inside a coat pocket, jacket pocket or a bag and hold it on your hands, I still say it's portable: Pants pockets be damned.
What's YOUR take on the whole handheld/portable/pocket friendly device debate? Do you think that if it can't fit in a pants pocket it loses the definition of portable and doesn't deserve to be called one? Or do you think that if you can easily pick it up for transport that it's still a portable device?


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I tried what was mentioned here to no avail. When I update the values in gconf (any of the values, not just custom and custom_format) nothing changes. Is this a netbook edition problem? Is there another clock that I should be looking for, where the changes actually are happening? I only see one clock in the panel. Thanks.
In 10.10 the tools have been changed to dconf. First install dconf-tools
, then run
Then navigate to apps -> indicators -> datetime and then check the "show-date" checkbox.
there is even a more simple answer to it. Right click on the clock, and click preferences. Just check


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(Note: I will let the question stand as is, it has generated a good answer, but the question is too "wishy washy" and needs to be tighter.)
We know that the uncertainty principle tells us that the product of the standard deviation of energy and the standard deviation in time must always be greater than h-bar. Since there is a unit element of action, is there a unit element of power as well? In other words, if action is always present, then must power always be positive?
Clarification: This is not intended to be a question related to people who think that there is "vacuum energy/zero point energy/free energy" that can be harvested. This is more along the lines of whether the universe can self-perpetuate.
Clarification 2: Self perpetuate I would define as the ability for the universe, through mechanisms of quantum fluctuations related to the uncertainty principle to produce another epoch similar to our own that would appear to be later in time, from our perspective, and after an apparent thermodynamic death of our current universe.
Question restatement: Is quantizing action analagous to there being a source of power at the quantum level?


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Paul Walker death investigation continuesUPDATED 7:17 PM PST Dec 02, 2013
Investigators have been unable to find evidence of a second car in the accident that killed the popular "Fast & Furious" actor.Video Transcript
OFFICIALS CONTINUE THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE FIERY WRECK SATURDAY THAT KILLED ACTOR PAUL WALKER AND HIS FRIEND, ROGER RODAS. POLICE SAY THE AREA WHERE WALKER DIED IS KNOWN TO ATTRACT STREET RACERS. SPEED HAS BEEN CITED AS A FACTOR IN THE CRASH, BUT THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT IS CHECKING FOR OTHER FACTORS AS WELL. ACTION NEWS REPORTER MARK BARGER HAS DETAILS.### nats PAUL WALKER'S "FAST AND FURIOUS" CO- STAR TYRESE GIBSON WAS AMONG THOSE GRIEVING SUNDAY AT A MAKESHIFT MEMORIAL TO THE ACTOR. IT WAS IN THE SAME LOCATION WHERE, A DAY EARLIER, A FIERY CRASH HAD KILLED WALKER AND HIS FRIEND ROGER RODAS. "They tried everything they could to get him out of the car, and they couldn't. It was nothing they could do." WALKER'S SEEN HERE ALONGSIDE THE SPORTSCAR MINUTES BEFORE THE CRASH.... JUST BEFORE LEAVING A FUNDRAISER HE HELPED ORGANIZE TO ASSIST VICTIMS OF THE RECENT PHILLIPINES TYPHOON. "He died doing something he loved doing. And he was giving something back." WALKER AND HIS "FAST AND FURIOUS" CO- STARS HAD MADE A VIDEO FOR THAT FUNDRAISING EFFORT.... DURING A RECENT BREAK IN PRODUCTION ON THE SEVENTH "FAST AND FURIOUS" MOVIE. FILMING HAD BEEN SLATED TO CONTINUE THIS WEEK....WITH THE MOVIE IN THEATERS NEXT SUMMER. BUT NOW, FILMMAKERS FACE UNEXPECTED CHALLENGES AS THEY MOVE FORWARD. "To address Walker's death, sensitively, and to finish a film that's extremely important to the studio, and frankly to Paul Walker's fans." STILL SET FOR RELEASE LATER THIS MONTH IS WALKER'S FILM.."HOURS" ...A DRAMA SET IN THE AFTERMATH OF HURRICANE KATRINA. "This was a genuinely nice guy. This was someone who treated everyone on set in the way that they would want to be treated. And that's a testament to him." IT'S A LOSS FELT DEEPLY...EVEN AS WALKER'S MEMORY IS HONORED. AND THAT LOSS IS BEING FELT RIGHT HERE ON THE CENTRAL COAST, TOO. THE MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM POSTED AN ARTICLE IN HONOR OF WALKER ON THEIR WEBSITE TODAY. WALKER... A SURFER.. AN OCEAN ADVOCATE AND ASPIRING MARINE BIOLOGIST.. WAS A KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT THE AQURIUM FOR THE OPENING OF THE OCEAN'S EDGE GALLERIES IN 2005. FOR A LINK TO THE AQUARIUM'S ARTICLE YOU CAN VISIT OUR WEBSITE K-S-B-W DOT COM.###
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Deep underground, a web of evil magic holds a prince in captivity.
Narnia ... where owls speak, where evil weaves a spell ... where sorcery enslaves the land.
Narnia is in peril, and only Eustace and Jill can help. Along with Puddleglum, a gloomy but valiant Marsh-wiggle, they are sent by the mighty lion Aslan to find Prince Rilian, heir to the throne. Their quest leads them past hungry people-eating Giants, and deep into the dark underground. But the true test for this noble band of friends comes when they face an evil witch and her deadly enchantments.
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Police say a man appeared to have eaten marijuana to hide the drug from the cops after he was pulled over.
It happened on Friday night on Westmeade Drive when police pulled over 30-year-old Reshar Mckissic for not having his headlights on.
According to the police report the officer smelled a strong odor of marijuana.
Police noticed he was talking as if he had something in his month.
When the officer asked him to open his mouth there was a green substance on his tongue.
Officers later found a small baggie of marijuana from his right pant leg.
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A pleasant night's sleep can be had within this comfortable twin bedroom where an extra bed can be added. A large wardrobe, a desk and flat-screen TV also feature within this sunlit bedroom. Finish the day relaxing in a hot bubble bath in the bathroom.
Reach the War Memorial of Korea in 10 minutes' on foot, the National Museum of Korea in 15 minutes' and Namsan Tower in 20 minutes'. Use public transport or take a taxi to reach Dongdaemun Market, Seoul Central Station and Myeong-dong in 10 minutes'.
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Maji is a very nice woman. Breakfast is different each day and allow to know the Korean kitchen. the property is easily accessible by metro or bus to the city center or airport.
Maji est une femme très gentille. Les petits déjeuners sont différents chaque jour et permettent de connaitre la cuisine coréenne. le logement est accessible facilement par métro ou bus vers le centre ville ou l'aéroport.
My girlfriends and myself had a wonderful stay in Maji-ssi house. Warm welcomed n Great hospitality. Every morning, we were served with a simple yet yummy breakfast.. :)
Not to mention, the location, Itaewon, is super near with the shopping areas and coffee clubs..
Highly recommended as Maji-ssi, herself is full of smiley and helpful lady..
ThanK You Maji-ssi for everything (especially when u showed us the location of the tour pick up). Greatly appreciated.
Definitely will visit u again if Im going to Korea.
Take Care..!! (",)
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Hello Maji, we enjoyed staying with You very much. Korean breakfast is different, but tastet very good. Please take care, that further visitors get two rooms with three beds, we had only one room and that's a little bit to small.
Next time again in South Korea or Germany.
Achim, Birgit and Roman.
it is a very wonderful memory to stay in maji house.the house is very clean and beautiful!you like as you stay in hotel!maji prepare yummy and healthy breakfast for us every morning!she take care us like her family!she even help us to clean the clothes!her house is very near the subway that you can go to everywhere very easily!i will stay in her house again when i go to seoul next time!highly recommend!thankyou !
Our stay with magi was an awesome experience . A place just like home with loads of love, affection and warmth. Magi is a wonderful host with an everlasting smile. Her house is centrally located with lot of beautiful cafes, clubs & market around and a 5min walk to the subway. Her house is very artistic and her paintings inspired me a lot. She taught me the art selflessly and even gifted a drawing as a token of remembrance.
Ms. Maji Ahn is very kind and helpful -- you can always ask her for help with directions and she will do her best. Also, the breakfast is good. I think this is a good experience for those that wish to experience the real Seoul life, because you will be staying in a typical Korean home rather than a hotel. It is not luxurious but I would recommend it. It was comfortable overall.
Also, my first night of my arrival, I got lost and called Ms. Ahn for help, and she came out to find me. I appreciate her kindness, as I was travelling alone.
Plus, she is a good cook! :)
You are longer staying in Seoul and don't want to stay again in a Hotel which looks always the same (and continental breakfast). And you can choose to stay here which is located in the international district with good connection to airport (bus, takes up to 2 hours) and metro. It was nice and I enjoyed especially the Korean breakfast.
I had a very pleasant stay. the house was very clean and located in a nice district. Maji was a great host and I enjoyed the delicious breakfast she prepared for me. I definitely recommend the place. thanks and greetings from germany
I had an enjoyable stay. Thanks for everything! Highly recommend!
I stayed with my daughter at the B&B of Maji. It was great. We enjoyed our stay very much. Especially the nice district of Itaewon with many nice restaurants and shops. The room and bathroom were very clean and our Host Maji is very kind and helpfull. Thank You again for this great experience. Greatings from Jeannet and Sophie from Holland.
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Earlier today, I was listening to my digital radio, and was intrigued as to how they are able to encode the information displayed on the LCD screen (which was basically a short string of text giving a brief description of the currently playing record/discussion topic), alongside the audio transmission.
My question is:
How is extra information (such as "currently playing song"), transmitted alongside the audio in digital radio encoding?
I am somewhat familiar with the workings of a radio, along with some basic understanding of RF-transmission, but nothing particularly advanced. And I was intrigued as to how they can transmit information within the same bandwidth of the audio transmission without causing interference. My first thought was that they could polarize both text and audio transmissions so their planes of oscillation are orthogonal to each other, and thus no interference would occur, but I didn't know how plausible that would be.
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I recently started setting my DSLR to save RAW files, and using Adobe Lightroom to process them. I still, however, use my little point and shoot camera a lot which does not have an option to save RAW files. I've also noticed that in light-room the white balanced options are different with RAW files vs JPEG files. With RAW files you have the option of choosing from a number of white balanced settings (florescent, halogen, auto etc..), whereas with JPEG you do not. Why is this?
The quick and short answer:
All images start as RAW files that must have colour balance applied to them.
For jpeg images this transformation is done in the camera using the camera white balance settings. As mentioned above, Lightroom does not have enough information to undo this transformation.
Saved RAW files have no transformations applied by the camera, allowing you, the photographer, to decide later which white balance transformation you wish to apply.
Let's consider the image captured by the sensor (RAW) as calibrated and neutral.
The equation is the following to generate a color balanced JPEG is:
where T is the
Normally to apply a different color balance to a JPEG, you would need to apply the inverse of as-shot transformation to the JPEG (to restore the neutral image)
then apply the new color transformation
Unfortunatly, the JPEG image (at least those generated by my Nikon D50) does not include the temperature setting of the image as-shot. So it means the T of the equation is unknown by Lightroom when you only have the JPEG image. So it can't apply the inverse transformation to restore a neutral image.
Instead it uses different generic transformations to transform the color balance.
Great technical answers so far. Here's a simple analogy that may not be exactly right but anyway:
A RAW file is like an film negative. You can work with it in a darkroom (Lightroom) and print it (JPG). A JPG is like a print. Once printed, there isn't much you can do.
Decastlejau's answer provides some great technical insight for those like myself who love all things technical. For the timid of hart when it comes to mathematics, here is a less complicated answer. With RAW, you have original sensor data, which is generally stored as original red, green, or blue SENSOR readings for each pixel of a digital sensor, as well as other metadata such as exposure details, camera state (i.e. white balance), camera settings, and possibly a variety of additional data.
A raw image is essentially a direct dump of data from a digital sensor, which are usually red, green, and blue light-sensitive pixels (photosites) arranged in a bayer color filter array. As RAW is original sensor data, you have the maximum amount of information available to you, which usually includes considerably greater bit depth (and dynamic range) than an image saved into another format. This is the "neutral" image that decastlejau mentioned...no adjustments or tone curves have been applied, it is truly original data.
The pixels of a RAW image do not directly map to the pixels on a screen, and as such, they can not be viewed directly. To view a RAW image, this raw sensor pixel data must be passed through a rendering algorithm that takes the raw sensor data, and applies various adjustments and attenuations, such as a tone curve, white balance adjustments, exposure adjustments, etc. to generate screen pixels that each contain red, green, and blue elements. This algorithm must be applied any time any adjustment is made to a RAW image in order to view the final image on a screen. By working with RAW in this way, you maintain the original sensor data in a pristine state, allowing you to radically alter any of the adjustments in this "processing pipeline" at any time, and see ideal results in the image rendered to the screen. Most algorithmic processing of RAW data results in a LOSS of information in the final image to one degree or another. Applying a tone curve, for example, usually results in improved contrast, but a loss in dynamic range.
A JPEG image, in contrast to a RAW image, is one that has already been processed by an algorithm that applies a tone curve, white balance settings, etc. to create a final image. Since a JPEG is already processed, the original sensor data is lost. The same would apply if your camera saved out a TIFF file instead of a JPEG...processing original sensor data "freezes" it into a final state. Processed images are not completely devoid of headroom, and adjustments can still be made. The higher the bit depth and wider the gamut you save to, the more headroom you will have, however you will never have quite the same amount of flexibility as you would if you were using RAW.
One example of the limited headroom is in the area of white balance adjustments. Each pixel in a JPEG now contains red, green, and blue color information. This limits the amount of white balance correction you can achieve without encountering odd color casts or color splitting, especially with larger adjustments. It is possible to take such adjustments farther with RAW since you can re-blend each pixel in the final image from original red, green, and blue sensor data, allowing you to eliminate color casts.
Actually you can adjust white balance from a jpg image. Only the results will be far inferior of the ones you can get from a RAW file. As discussed much better on other answers, jpg files contains much less data than RAW ones, so there is no such margin to change color balance. The same is true for exposition and contrast settings.
Said that, is it possible anyway to slightly change the white balance of jpg images using other programs, but in Lightroom they decided that the poor results you can manage from jpg files won't be good enough for tipical Lightroom user.
Note also that this is nothing to do with jpg compression techniques, only that jpg file format store less information.
decasteljau's answer is excellent on the technical workings. Let me add some fluff, though:
A RAW file has linear data from the sensor — more photons strike each photosite equals a directly higher reading. And that's split evenly into red, green, and blue. (Well, technically, twice as many green receptors in most sensors. But that's an implementation detail.)
This isn't how the human vision system -- the eye and the brain -- perceives things at all, though.
First, we perceive brightness in a non-linear fashion, which is why we are able to deal with bright sun and dark shadows all in the same scene without it looking weird. This is why curves are applied to a RAW image in order to make an appealing final output image. You could skip this and generate a linear JPEG, but it would look flat (no pun intended) and strange.
Second, we perceive color based on an inherent sense of what things should be colored, which is why they look normal to us under both cool and warm lights, and even, after a bit of adjustment, under very oddly tinged light. If the light is "really" strongly blue, we tend to not see it — but if you take a photograph, more blue photos will be recorded. An image file knows nothing of how things "ought" to look, and needs to have a white balance correction applied to make the image match our mental expectations.
When converting from a RAW file, the converter is working from a known starting point. It either has a detailed profile for your camera model (or even one you've generated yourself), or at least a basic color matrix matching that camera's general output. So, it can go from that state to apply various adjustments — this is the "RAW * T" in decasteljau's answer, and if you change your mind, since usually the original RAW file is left unmodified, it can start again from that baseline and apply a different transform.
Once you have a JPEG file, that baseline is lost, and there's no known from to start adjustments with.
Perhaps this analogy will help clarify the reason why RAW white balancing is superior to JPEG white balancing.
Imagine that you have a black and white picture. It's pretty clear that there is no automated way to put color back in that picture. Since there are many different shades of color that map to a given shade of gray, there's no way to tell what the original colors were. You can guess (as was done with colorizing old movies), but you can never be sure.
Now imagine a picture whose white balance was so screwed up that everything is a shade of blue. This situation is similar to that of the black and white picture. You've lost information about the reds and the greens that were originally in the picture. A computer program that removes the blue tint so that there is no overall tint will not give you the original picture back, but rather a black and white shot.
Of course, most white balances are not as messed up as in the examples above, and JPEG white balancing works okay. But, you will always get a more accurate conversion when you have the original information from the shot, as in RAW.


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When I tell people I speak Cantonese I'm often asked, "What's the difference between that and Mandarin?". This inevitably leads to a very poor explanation that includes references to the differences between Portugese and Spanish (which I feel is a poor analogy) and an explanation that Cantonese is a spoken dialect only, and "written Chinese is the same but Cantonese speakers pronounce the characters differently, but they don't even use the same words when speaking", and really I find it a difficult thing to explain. How would you explain the differences between the two?
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For the most part both dialects use the same words and phrases (primarily with differences in slang terms). While some phrases are used more frequently in one dialect than another to express the same idea, the meanings are preserved across dialects (they don't mean different things, just people who use one dialect may prefer one saying to another).
In terms of vocabulary, the written words are identical (although a lot of written Cantonese-Chinese continues to use the traditional Chinese characters). The primary difference is in pronunciation, where Cantonese is usually referred to as having 6 tones and Mandarin 4. Also, some of the words are just said differently between the dialects, similarly to how American English may differ from British English.
The analogy to Portuguese and Spanish is a good one. Just don't forget that the writing system is a bit like Latin. In the middle ages nobody spoke Latin but many people could read and write it. Written Chinese was the equivalent to written Latin. Now, people write in Modern Standard Mandarin, which is the same as the spoken language taught in the schools. It's like when they started teaching the Spanish children to write in Spanish instead of Latin.
Both dialects have similarities but they pronounce most words totally differently. In some cases, Cantonese uses different words for the same meanings. For example, (I'm told that) "we" is not "我们" but rather something like "我地". Cantonese speakers understand "我们" and if reading it aloud could chose to pronounce it as "我们", but "我地" is how normal speakers would say "we". This type of difference is fairly common.
Here is an example of an ad that only makes sense in Cantonese:
Which would probably be written in Mandarin thus:
Essentially, if you are trying to explain the differences to someone who is not really interested in it but is just asking to be polite, you could sum it up as "two different languages that use the same writing system". Different pronunciations, different vocabulary choices, different grammar, and even some different characters.
The pronunciation of the two are totally different. Hong Kong people humorously call it "the chicken talking to the duck" as they cannot understand each other.
The two are both tonal languages (different tones has different meanings for the same sound) and they also have different vowels and consonants, too.
Cantonese preserves some older grammatical constructions that Mandarin no longer uses. Both languages use the same writing system, much like how the French and Portuguese both use the Latin alphabet.
Cantonese can be more difficult because there are 6 (up to 9) tones (
I think the difference between Cantonese and Mandarin is more like the difference between English and Swedish. They are obviously very closely related and share a lot of vocabulary, but intelligibility is pretty much zero. The poster who compared the difference to American and British English is TOTALLY wrong. Many Mandarin speakers will claim that they can understand Cantonese speakers "if they speak slowly." But, this is a falsehood built on a misunderstanding: they assume this from hearing Cantopop songs that are just Mandarin lyrics sung with Cantonese pronunciation. They have never actually tried having a conversation with someone speaking Cantonese but parrot out these misleading statements because they are taught that Chinese dialects are just Mandarin with uncivilized, uneducated pronunciation.
The basic core vocabulary of Cantonese is completely different from Mandarin. Out of the 10,000 most frequently used words in Cantonese and Mandarin, I would take a rough guess that at least 3000 of them have nothing in common -- like 边度 vs. 哪里 for "where", 嘥 vs. 浪费 for "to waste". On the other hand, the formal newspaper vocabulary is all the same and just pronounced differently. That is a big boon to learners because once you know how the pronunciations correspond, you can watch the news in either language and any new vocab words you learn in one, you can convert to the other in your head.
I speak both and find most of the commentary here to be overly generalized or incorrect.
First, analogies in Indo-European languages: There are none. As to how far apart the oral languages are, think of French and Italian, which share more syntax than most Romance language pairs, but with very different phonetic structure.
Second, which is easier. A hypothetical visitor from another planet would find any form of Chinese to be among the easiest of all human languages due to the distict meaning of every sillable and the logical construction of compounds. Even the written language, although lacking an alphabet and requiring more time to learn, has many advantages, supporting the logic of the language and lending itself more readily to speed reading.
Mandarin may be a bit easier for some and Cantonese easier for others. I personally find Cantonese easier because there is a greater variation and contrast among the phonemes, while in Mandarin those differences are often more subtle.
Third, grammar. Here the languages are closely linked, but the number of grammatical difference seems to be understated. There are MANY expressions and structures in Cantonese that simply do not exist in Mandarin, but the converse is not as frequent for the simple reason that Cantonese adopts many Mandarin expressions as part of its formal and written language.
I think the best analogy is between Spanish and French - mutually unintelligible, but the characters are largely the same, and a reader of Spanish could quickly acclimate to understanding written French, though would need to study before speaking with any fluency.
Cantonese is often referred to as a dialect of Chinese, though, in my opinion, that's mostly for political reasons.
As a good friend often says: The only difference between a dialect and a language is an army and a navy.
Hm, this is all very interesting. I have no knowledge of Cantonese, but the general impression I gleaned from Wikipedia is that Cantonese speaking regions operate under a form of diglossia wherein they use Cantonese and related dialects in speech but standard Chinese in writing. Traditional characters vs. simplified make no difference - that's a matter of orthography, not language. Written Cantonese does apparently have a variety of special characters associated with it (a lot of them, as far as I can see, have the 口 radical), but they are rarely employed outside of informal writing, such as on the web, for commercial purposes, light publications, etc. Significant differences in pronunciation, word choice, and grammar constructions no longer present in Mandarin render it, for all intents and purposes, a completely different language, albeit a structurally related one.
If pressed to make a comparison with Indo-European languages (or better, Romance), would it be at all accurate to imagine a scenario where French is not a written language and is used almost exclusively in speech, and where Spanish is used instead for most formal writing? They would have been exposed to Spanish in a textual form since they were young, and if asked to read aloud can readily produce the French equivalent for each individual word, although the resulting speech would sound unnatural and stilted insofar as it does not reflect the rhythms/sentence constructions/ word choice of spoken French. Let me know if I'm anywhere near the mark, because I've always been curious about this subject.
A good European analogy is
Consider the following characteristics of Cantonese and Swiss German:
My parents were Cantonese but I've studied Mandarin.
I consider Mandarin softer, and smoother, Cantonese a bit rougher and harsher.
For instance, the word for "not" in Mandarin is "bu," but it is "but" in Cantonese. Mandarin syllables often end in vowels; their Cantonese equivalents often have consonants.
Oddly enough, one language that appears to be more like Cantonese than Mandarin is Korean.
Written character/written chinese is the only identical thing between these two languages. Nothing is the same other than that. You name it, grammar,speaking,wording patterns,pronounciation.. None of these facts is the same between the two languages. Most of time,even the meaning of written character are different. Do not try to answer the countless differences in any aspect of the two languages. You can't explain all differences through-out your long whole-life time because the differences are too numerous. So, I would rather inverse the question with explaining that the only identicality is the written character in text. Done.
Sounds to me more like how Sicilian differs from Roman--different versions of the Italian language; or how people speak English in (for instance) McIntyre, Georgia vs the East End of London.
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5 Birds With Abilities That Put Superheroes to Shame
Quick, name a good bird-themed superhero. Hell, we'll even take a villain.
They all suck. Whether your choice was Robin, the Penguin or one of the lesser known C-list characters, chances are their powers are either flight or looking and sounding really stupid.
However, this is just lack of imagination from their writers' part. After all, when you look at the vast array of avian abilities in nature, it's easy to spot some serious superhero talent. For instance ...
#5. The Owl Is Daredevil and Wolverine Combined
Quick: What's special about owls? They can turn their heads all the way around? They can swallow mice whole?
This is a great example right here, because apparently owls can't do shit, if comic books are our guide. While there are several owl-themed superheroes and villains in existence, they tend to be thinly veiled Batman knockoffs with no powers to speak of. Even the superpowered ones usually possess some rather sad and useless power, such as Owlman's ability to "cause confusion."
We get the feeling Owlman was kind of confused himself.
Well, all we can say to that is comic book writers need to open a damned encyclopedia every now and then. We mean, look at the creature we're dealing with here. Besides having the best night vision of all birds, owls also have a satellite dish built into their face. The circular pattern of feathers on there? Yeah, that acts as a dish, focusing the sound and giving them what may be the best directional hearing in the world. And even weirder, those feather patterns can also, no kidding, be individually adjusted to increase reception.
"Jimmy, I know you hear me! You get back in the yard this instant!"
How well does this work? Let's put it this way: An owl can hear a mouse stepping on a twig from 75 feet away. Owls also have an incredible sense of sound elevation, meaning they can detect the height from which sound is emanating, because one ear hole is placed higher than the other. All of this is to pinpoint the exact location of the owl's prey, which in fact works so well that the bird can make in-flight course corrections to strike at its victim.
And keep in mind, we're talking about a nocturnal hunter -- they're using this finely tuned sense of hearing to take down prey that the owl can't even see. So, basically we're looking at a flying Daredevil but with a slew of built-in razor blades on its hands a la Wolverine.
To demonstrate how these powers would be handy fighting crime, we'd like to show you the following video. imagine that the lemming is crime:
To make matters even worse for the criminal element, owls also happen to have special serrated feathers that allow them to fly silently like a stealth fighter. Furthermore, they have the lowest wing-loading ratio of any bird, meaning they can fly extremely slow if they need to, or carry large loads. The owl superhero wouldn't need to zoom in like Superman or swing around like Spider-Man -- he'd just slowly, silently glide over the area, hearing everything and casting an ominous shadow in the night sky. Hell, he'd be his own Bat Signal, if the Bat Signal could swoop in at evildoers and carry them away.
Oh, and if you're now inspired to become an owl-themed superhero based on all this, there is one genus of owl that has already come up with a kick-ass name for you: Strix.
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And it can see into your soul.
#4. The Harpy Eagle Can and Will Crush You
The harpy eagle is pretty much as powerful as you can get while still being able to fly. It has a crushing grip of 530 pounds per square inch. If that's a meaningless number to you, let's put it like this: The average man has a grip of about 60 pounds. The typical dog bite clocks a mere 320. Freaking wolves can only chew you at a 400 pounds per square inch. This bird beats them all.
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And he knows it.
But surely, even a bird with a grip that can shame the jaws of a feral canine is still just a bird? What could it do to a full-grown man? Tear off a finger with its little claws?
Quite a bit more than that, actually, considering that its talons are the same size as those of a fucking grizzly bear.
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"Just letting you know, buddy, it would be in your best interest to never, ever let go."
The harpy eagle applies its horror grip via 5-inch talons that it can sink into pretty much anything it wants. And let's not forget that it also has a razor-sharp beak that would make a Japanese swordsman hang his tools in shame and retire to a quiet life running a small sake bar.
To drive the point home, the harpy eagle likes to show off its power by crushing the skulls of monkeys, then eating them. That is, if they just won't flat out carry the poor prey away, like they do to this sloth:
Wait, did we say superhero? Because we're just going to go out on a limb and assume that a superpowered entity based on it wouldn't necessarily be fighting the good fight.
#3. The Lyrebird Is the World's Greatest Mimic
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The lyrebird is the greatest audio mimic in the world. Besides copying the songs of other birds, it can copy the sounds of car alarms, construction equipment, gunshots, dogs barking, musical instruments and even people. And we're not talking about that "Polly wanna cracker" parrot bullshit. This thing can reproduce the exact sound of your voice, like a living tape recorder. It can imitate you better than another human can imitate you.
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It already has a superhero costume.
That's because the lyrebird has the most advanced set of vocal cords in the world, made all the more impressive by the fact that it has no lips to help it shape the sound, what with being a bird and everything. The lyrebird does it all with its throat.
Also, their memory for recording and storing these sounds is impeccable. For example, in 1969 a lyrebird song was recorded and sent to a scholar named Norman Robinson. After filtering it, he figured out to his surprise that this bird was singing two popular tunes from the 1930s ... at the same time. Watch:
Holy shit. That there was a lyrebird imitating every other bird in the forest ... and then, finally, mimicking a group of men cutting down said forest. Yes, the chainsaw engine at 2:30 was actually the lyrebird.
How is there not already a comic book character based on this thing? Its practical applications in general superheroics and/or villainous antics are still enormous. How much business do we do over the phone? How good would a detective be if he could imitate the voice of a criminal and call up his accomplice to discuss recent nefarious activities? Trouble in the way? Give this guy a megaphone and he's a police siren, a pack of angry dogs, gun shots, a velociraptor, anything.
If one of them imitated Michael Winslow, it would open a portal to another universe.
Also, c'mon, the name is right there, people! He's a hero? The Lyre! A villain? The Liar.


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Healthy Eating: Mighty Minerals
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Minerals that are needed in smaller amounts than the major minerals are referred to as trace minerals or trace elements. Even though our bodies require only a small amount of these minerals, they are still very important to proper health. Most trace minerals are needed in amounts of less than 20 mg per day.
Other trace minerals include arsenic, silicon, vanadium, nickel, and boron. Little is known about these trace elements and their role in human health. In fact, there are no RDAs, DRIs, or safe and adequate ranges set for these minerals, because not enough is known about what the body requires for proper health and functioning. A healthy, varied, and balanced diet is the best way to ensure you consume safe and adequate amounts of these other trace minerals.
Almost every cell in the body contains zinc, and it is also part of over 70 different types of enzymes. Zinc is known as the second most abundant trace mineral in the body. It is essential for normal growth and development and is vital to a healthy immune system. Zinc assists the body in using the macronutrients (carbohydrates, proteins, and fats). In addition, zinc functions in the production of proteins, proper functioning of the hormone insulin, the maintenance of your genetic code, and normal taste.
Is it helpful to take over-the-counter zinc lozenges when you feel the symptoms of a cold coming on? Scientists have found that in test tubes, zinc can prevent cold viruses from reproducing themselves. But as for its ability to fight the disease in the human body, the jury is still out. Some studies have shown that if zinc lozenges are taken within twenty-four hours of coming down with cold symptoms, they may help shorten the length of the cold.
Adequate levels of zinc are vital to good health because zinc is involved in so many enzyme and body functions. A deficiency of zinc in childhood can cause retarded growth; deficiency during pregnancy can cause birth defects. Other deficiency symptoms include loss of appetite, skin changes, and reduced resistance to infection. Too much zinc, especially from supplements, can trigger harmful side effects that include impaired copper absorption. The UL for zinc is 40 mg per day for adults over eighteen years of age.
Good food sources of zinc include animal foods such as meat, seafood, and liver. Milk and eggs supply a little less zinc. Foods such as whole-grain products, wheat germ, legumes, nuts, and seeds have a good concentration of zinc; however, the zinc that plant foods provide is less available to the body.
Iodine is a component of the thyroid hormone called thyroxin. Thyroxin regulates the rate at which the body burns calories or uses energy from food. With a deficiency of iodine, the body cannot make sufficient amounts of thyroxin. As a result, the rate at which the body burns calories slows down. A deficiency can be especially harmful in pregnant women, the developing fetus, and the newborn. Poor iodine intake is associated with hypothyroidism and/or the development of an enlarged thyroid gland, commonly called a goiter. Too much iodine can also cause the development of a goiter, but this is not common at the levels that are consumed on average in the United States. Iodine has a UL set at 1,100 mcg per day for adults over eighteen.
Iodine is found naturally in saltwater fish and seafood such as seaweeds. Most of the iodine in the United States is ingested through the form of iodized salt.
Selenium works with vitamin E as an antioxidant. Together they help protect cells from damaging free radicals that may lead to health problems such as cancer and heart disease. Selenium is also important in cell growth.
A severe deficiency, although extremely rare, is associated with a severe heart disorder. The body requires only a small amount of selenium. Too much selenium over prolonged periods of time can produce signs of toxicity that can be harmful. Selenium has a UL set at 400 mcg per day for adults over eighteen. A normal healthy diet with a variety of foods generally provides the selenium required for normal body function. Food sources of selenium include seafood, liver, and kidney, as well as other meats. Many plant foods contain selenium, such as grain products and seeds, but the amount is directly related to the level of selenium in the soil that produces the food. Most fruits and vegetables don't contain much selenium.
Copper is found in all the tissues in the body, but is concentrated in the brain, heart, kidney, and liver. Copper is the third most abundant essential trace mineral, after iron and zinc. Copper helps the body make hemoglobin (needed to carry oxygen to red blood cells) and red blood cells by aiding in the absorption of iron in the body. Copper is part of many enzymes in the body and helps produce energy in cells. In addition, copper helps make hormones that regulate a variety of body functions, including heartbeat, blood pressure, and wound healing.
Fact: A copper deficiency can cause iron deficiency, since copper is required for proper iron absorption and utilization.
Copper deficiency rarely comes from the diet. Most deficiencies are due to a genetic problem or from too much zinc. Copper toxicity is rare. High daily intakes can cause nausea and vomiting. Copper has a UL set at 10,000 mcg per day for adults over eighteen.
Copper is found mostly in organ meats, especially liver, and in seafood, nuts, and seeds. It can also be found in poultry, legumes, and dark green leafy vegetables. Cooking in copper pots increases the copper content of foods.
Manganese serves as part of many types of enzymes, including enzymes involved in blood sugar control, energy metabolism, and thyroid hormone function. Manganese is widely distributed in food, so deficiencies are very rare. Deficiencies could be associated with impaired fertility, growth retardation, birth defects, and general weakness. Consuming harmful levels of manganese is also rare. Too much, though, could inhibit the absorption of iron, copper, and zinc. Manganese has a UL set at 11 mg per day for adults over eighteen. Manganese is found mostly in whole-grain foods, along with some fruits and vegetables.
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How do I quickly remove a lot of wall tiles without damaging the wall?
I tried the screwdriver and chisel technique with some tiles in a flat in Brighton... and quickly gave up once I found there were three layers of tiles there! So I invested in a cheapish power chisel - like a hammer drill, only it doesn't go around - and finished the job in a weekend.
If you go this route, it's definitely worth buying ear defenders and a good strong set of goggles as tile chips are sharp. I used my chainsaw helmet and got a couple of dings in it.
Typically I hit the first one (kind of gently) with a hammer until it cracks/shatters. Grind out the grout then pry out the pieces with a chisel or just a beefy flathead screwdriver.
Once you have one out, you should be able to use a chisel or a flat head screwdriver to get under the other ones. Put the screwdriver under/against the edge of the tile and tap it with a hammer and the tiles will (usually) just pop off. Some will be more stubborn than others, but if you're reasonably careful you shouldn't damage the wall much.


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Is there a good quick introduction to knot theory? I am relatively mathematically savvy so any level is appreciated.
As Michael comments, Colin Adams has a well regarded text called "The Knot Book". Adams has also written a comic book about knot theory called "Why Knot?". It's very humorous but is a genuine introduction to the mathematics involved. This comic book comes with a plastic "rope" that can be knotted, unknotted, and twisted into different shapes.
I think "Why Knot?" qualifies well as a "good, quick" introduction to the topic. Well worth tracking down.
Rolfsen's textbook "Knots and links" is quite nice. It assumes a 1st course in algebraic topology, and is pleasant self-learner text. Plenty of nice exercises.
On the higher-end of the knots textbook world, Burde and Zieschang's "Knots" covers quite a lot of ground in much detail. Kawauchi's "A survey of knot theory" covers much more ground but in less detail. Hillman's "Algebraic invariants of links" is more specialized and tends to focus on ideas such as Alexander modules, but it goes into them in more detail than I've seen anywhere outside of Jerry Levine's papers.
Chuck Livingston has a very nice looking book just called "Knot theory". It appears to have a fair bit in common with Rolfsen's book, in that the central theme appears to be the Alexander polynomial. I haven't read it yet (should arrive in a couple days) but it looks promising.
I love the book "On Knots" by Louis Kauffman. It's got a playful style, yet he develops a lot of deep mathematics. I read this in high school, and I got quite a lot out of it, and as my mathematical knowledge progressed, I got more and more out of it.
My intro to knot theory graduate course used "An Introduction to Knot Theory" by Lickorish. The early chapters on Seifert surfaces and polynomials are quite nice.
Two books I would recommend are:
Knots and Surfaces, David Farmer and Theodore Standford (American Mathematical Society; 1996)
Knots and Links, Peter Cromwell (Cambridge U. Press; 2004).
This answer is a little less popular of a suggestion, but it was how I first learned about knots, and I really enjoyed it. This book is primarily focused on Vassiliev Diagrams, and is currently unpublished, but available through the authors webpages. Yay! free stuff!
Here is a link to the CDbook by Chmutov, Duzhin, and Mostovoy. It is the first link on the page.
I personally found the focus on invariants very useful.
My second favorite would be Rolfsen, as Ryan suggested.
Good luck!
I'd certainly recommend all of the titles presented above; I personally worked from the Colin Adams book.
Here is a YouTube channel which I've found is helpful for those studying elementary knot theory.
V.O. Manturov, Knot theory, freely available online. The first chapter gives an elementaty introduction. To continue, you have to know basic topological concepts, e.g. fundamental group.
Although, in my opinion, it is strongly influenced by Rolfsen's Knots and Links, Prasolov and Sossinsky's Knots, Links, Braids and 3-Manifolds: An Introduction to the New Invariants in Low-Dimensional Topology is nice because there are references to recent articles in the appendices of each section. Moreover, it is the one of the very few books which gives an introduction to Vassiliev Invariant.


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How British Parliament Actually Works
Primary functions of Parliament
Government is formed by the political party that received the majority of votes in the last General Election.
Parliament serves three major functions in government. It provides scrutiny and oversight of the government, examining and challenging the work of the government. It debates and passes legislation. Finally, parliament enables the government to raise or lower taxes.