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"Tommy is a loving, caring, individual, and a great father."
There are still many unanswered questions as to why Tommy Brown allegedly shot Brandon Bradshaw on Tuesday in Bowling Green.
Close friends of Brown say the man they know would never intentionally hurt someone.
"Shocked, I was shocked because this is not the man I know,"says Walter York, as he described the moment he found out Brown allegedly shot Bradshaw.
On York's desk sits a picture of him and Brown during their days as co-workers at BGMU, as friends of 20 years York describes the man he calls extended family.
"Tommy is a very caring individual he always wanted to be a public servant, he was a coach in little league, has three children and a beautiful wife of thirty years. He just projects service,"says York.
Co-workers say Brown was never aggressive.
"He worked in customer service which is a very tough position, through the years I never saw him step out of bounds,"says Terry Carter, who also worked with Brown at BGMU.
It was in this parking lot of Michelle's Consignment on 31W Bypass that the lives of Brown and Bradshaw would collide and there are still many unanswered questions surrounding the events that took place, but Brown's Attorney says it was self-defense.
"I'm aware of the facts and this is a case of self defense,"says Alan Simpson, Brown's Attorney.
"They're saying my friend Mr. Brown did this horrific things but there was some reason he did it,"says York.
"People have talked about seeing Tommy beside the truck after shots were fired but the critical thing is what happened ten minutes before,"says Carter.
York says they are praying for both families.
"This is a horrific thing that happened between two good men, it was just bad timing,"says York.
A prayer vigil will be held for Brandon Bradshaw tomorrow at Circus Square Park at 7p.m.
Friends of Bradshaw say he is still in critical condition at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville.


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8 Gratuitously Violent Horror Movie Scenes (from the Bible)
#4. The Double Impaling (Numbers 25:6-8)
The "stabbing two people with one long weapon" technique is actually one of Jason's favorites in the Friday the 13th series. And why not? He knows that if you can kill more than one person in a single stab, you're doubling your productivity.
The Bible Quote:
"Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting. When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear into both of them, right through the Israelite man and into the woman's stomach."
Barbara Griffiths
The Righteous are such cock-blocks.
Wait, What?
Long before Jason Voorhees patrolled Camp Crystal Lake, an uncompromising Jew named Phinehas knew exactly what to do about randy youngsters having premarital sex in his campgrounds.
He would go on to inspire the lamest-named terrorist organization on earth.
Of course, they kind of had it coming -- they hooked up right in front of Moses, the guy who just parted the Red Sea to break them out of Egypt and whose only request was that they cut out the public displays of affection. It's like nobody told them they were living in the Old Testament, when it didn't exactly take a felony to get you brutally slain in the name of God's Law.
In this case, God had already cursed the Israelites as a warning, because the women had been taking the term "missionary position" literally, and tempting the men to worship false gods with the help of their vaginas. Phinehas just snapped one day and decided to try double penetration of a different kind.
"I'd like to thank my years of study at Buzzkill University."
#3. The Spike Through the Head (Judges 4:21-22)
Considering how many slasher movies involve young people getting slaughtered out in the woods, often in some kind of "camp" setting, it's unsurprising that there have been some tent spikes hammered into heads. Like this scene from Sleepaway Camp 3:
That scene is pretty much lifted directly from the Bible, frame for frame ...
The Bible Quote:
"But Jael, Heber's wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died. Just then Barak came by in pursuit of Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him. 'Come,' she said, 'I will show you the man you're looking for.' So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera with the tent peg through his temple -- dead."
"Getting nailed" in the Biblical sense isn't nearly as fun.
Wait, What?
Sisera, the guy who took a spike through the skull, was a military commander who had fled the scene of a military defeat and sought shelter in a hut owned by a guy named Heber and his wife, Jael. After a lovely meal and some good conversation, Sisera went off to sleep, only to awaken to the unpleasant sensation of having Jael drive a spike into his head so hard that she actually pinned his head to the floorboards. She sympathized with the opposing army, it appears.
We bring it up because it's one of the most bizarrely specific descriptions of an unconventional murder in a book otherwise filled with stories about men killing each other with donkey jawbones. Sure, she killed a guy with whatever she could find lying around. But the verse actually takes care to mention that the spike came out the other end and went into the ground. It's like it was scripted for an archaic Halloween sequel.
"And lo, Michael Myers plunged the corkscrew into the teen's stomach, and twisted at the wrist like so. And stuck fast upon the corkscrew was the teen's pancreas, which Michael disconnected from the teen with little effort. Michael then beat the teen with his own pancreas, and he died." Amen.
Never sleep with a girl who insists on bringing her hammer to bed.
#2. The Guy Getting Eaten Alive by Worms (Acts 12:21-23)
This is the kind of thing that even slasher movies think is "weird territory." The closest we can think of is this Halloween III scene where a little kid's head bursts into insects, worms and snakes:
The Bible Quote:
"On the appointed day Herod, wearing his royal robes, sat on his throne and delivered a public address to the people. They shouted, 'This is the voice of a god, not of a man.' Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died."
That'll learn him.
Wait, What?
Just to be clear, he didn't die and then get eaten by worms. He died of being eaten by worms. Whether this took place over the course of days or weeks, or if it happened immediately while he sat there, is unknown.
We're going to go with "immediately devoured by worm hordes."
We know the name "Herod" has come up a lot here -- there were actually five Herods in the New Testament; this one was the fourth one we see, and while he wasn't crazy enough to have all the babies in a town executed because of some pesky prophesy (that was his grandfather), this one followed the family tradition of generally being a dick. That said, we're not sure whether God may have overreacted here, since the only thing Herod is really accused of is someone else telling him he sounded like God, like maybe he had a really deep voice or something.
Whatever you think of God, you have to agree he's really creative with his punishments. "Eaten by worms" sounds like it came out of a game of Mad Libs. He could just as easily have been gored by ponies or crushed by seals. Either way would be pretty terrifying, you know, if you were there. The passage clarifies that he was eaten by worms and died, which is kind of a small mercy.
"You're next, Morgan Freeman."
#1. Crushed Victims and the Lake of Blood (Revelation 14:20)
When you ask yourself, "What's the most blood you've ever seen in a horror movie?" you'd have to skip right past the standard slasher films and think of the times when a whole swimming-pool-sized volume of blood has appeared, like the one the girl fell into in The Descent:
Or, there's the whole "hallway filling with blood" scene from The Shining:
Both pale in comparison to the Bible.
The Bible Quote:
"They were trampled in the wine press outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses' bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia."
Pictured: Horse with bridle. Not pictured: Oodles of blood.
Wait, What?
If you're wondering how far 1,600 stadia is, it's about 180 miles. So it's a lake of blood about 5 feet high, extending 180 miles (in every direction, we assume). Somebody in the comments can do the math on how many gallons of blood that is, and how many people would have to be crushed in a huge wine press in order to create it.
Our guess is two Super Bowls' worth.
This is from the symbolism-heavy book of Revelation, and the lead-up to this quote depicts an angel with a sickle who has been commanded to harvest all of the "grapes" from the earth. He's told to throw them into the huge wine press of God's wrath. And you think, well, that's kind of weird that God would be mad at grapes, but whatever. Then when the press crushes down, the Bible makes it clear that it's blood that flows forth, and you realize, oh shit, those weren't grapes.
And, if you're having trouble picturing what this process would look like, here's a wine press in action:
Now imagine instead of grapes, it's people.
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Suppose $G$ is a semisimple $\mathbb{R}$-algebraic group with finite center, and suppose $G$ acts irreducibly on a vector space $V$. Suppose $U \subset V$ and $W \subset V$ are subspaces.
$\mathbf{Question 1}.$ Is it always possible to find $g \in G$ such that $g U$ and $W$ are in general position, i.e. $$\dim(g U \cap W) = \max(0, \dim U + \dim W - \dim V)?$$
I believe the answer to this question is no. I remember thinking about this when I was a graduate student, and there was some simple example, but I no longer remember what the example was. So the real question is: construct a simple counterexample to this assertion.
$\mathbf{Question 2}.$ It is possible to show using the Weyl unitary trick and orthogonality of characters that there is always $g \in G$ such that $$\dim(gU \cap W) \leq \frac{(\dim U)(\dim W)}{\dim V}.$$ (Actually John Stalker showed this to me when we were graduate students). The question is: can one get a better bound?
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Every day, a lecture may be cancelled due to inclement weather with probability 0.05. Class cancellations on different days are independent. Compute the probability that the tenth class this semester is the 3rd class cancelled?
This is a practice exam so the exact answer isn't near as important as the proper solution. My assumption is P(3rd cancelled is 10th class) = P(2 cancellations in 9 classes)*P(cancelled)


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18 Feb 2011 6:47 PM #1
Does Sencha distribute their javadoc generator?
I've been looking at the http://www.sencha.com/gxtdocs/ docs and really like the layout of it. does Sencha make the utility that generates that page available for others to use (be it free or paid)?
20 Feb 2011 12:59 PM #2
1 Aug 2011 3:02 AM #3
The absence of an answer could be interpreted as no.
And there's still no tool for download.
But I want to ask once more before starting to write an JavaDoc NG on my own: will the Sencha JavaDoc tool be released soon?
Please save me the pains.
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1 Aug 2011 10:10 AM #4
2 Aug 2011 12:42 AM #5
I know about JsDuck. But this is a Javascript Documentation generation tool. I'm looking for a JavaDoc tool (for Java - not Javascript) that generates a Documentation like Ext GWT Docs.
2 Aug 2011 5:40 AM #6
Ah sorry - misread your post... in that case, I guess I can't help.
9 Dec 2011 7:30 AM #7
Any news on this?I'd like to create SenchaDocs from my Java source code using ANT as well.
2 Apr 2012 10:56 AM #8
JSDuck is available under GPL from Sencha Labs.
3 Apr 2012 2:40 AM #9
This thread is about JavaDoc, not about JavaScript docs...
11 Jun 2012 8:49 PM #10
Hear Hear
Too bad. I read the original blog post on Sencha Docs as a way to do just that, make nice JavaDocs in the sencha doc viewer. As part of GXT it sounded like if you had GXT libs, you could kickout your own nice doc viewer.
Sure there are some other "fancier" javadoc browsers out there that are a little better than the 1995 look of Java6 javadocs, but not much better.
So Sencha, you got anything for us? Echo?
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While trying to install Amahi and Fedora 14 from 5 discs, I get this error:
It says:
A fatal error occurred when installing the module-init-tools package. This could indicate errors when reading installation media. Installation cannot continue.
When prompted, I opted to install the Fedora repository, the Fedora Updates repo, and added an Amahi repo. I didn't select the Fedora Test Updates repo.
The checksums of the downloaded files are correct, and the media test approved all 5 of my CDs. What else could be the problem?


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Category: Books, The Vampire Diaries TV
With people hearing about the Vampire Diaries for the first time, one of the things that they're curious about is what the vampires in the series are like. For those interested, we're going to list the main characteristics and traits of the vampires in the world of L.J. Smith's Vampire Diaries book series. Quite how many of these things will make it into the TV series and how many of them will be changed we have no clue, but we know a few already have.
If you want to find out all about the vampires in the TV series, head on over to Vampire Lore 101: The TV series edition.
So, what do these vampires look like? Do they have fangs?
Despite some differences from humans, these vampires blend in and pass as humans without any problems. Like in most vampire stories, they're paler than humans, with a cooler body temperature. While they do have heartbeats, they are much slower than a normal human heartbeat.
These vampires also have fangs. They're on the canine/eye teeth (which we can see from the trailers is something that has carried over into the TV series), and they lengthen and sharpen with the need to feed and the scent of blood. They appear to be quite sensitive and can be stimulated with a bit of tongue action.
The books don't detail specific physical changes in Stefan and Damon beyond taking on feral facial expressions. While this works well for the page, it'd get a little boring on the screen, and so the TV series has some rather spiffing eye effects – making the flesh around them appear more bruised, the eyes themselves becoming darker (perhaps with blood?), and tiny veins in the skin becoming more obvious. Click on the image to the left for a better look.
How about feeding?
Vampires must drink blood to survive. They can get by on animal blood, but it is human blood that is the most potent, and what helps them develop their powers.
Drinking blood in the books has been described as both messy and clean in different situations. It depends on how hungry a vampire is, how much they care about the victim, and whether they care if that victim lives or dies.
Desperation to feed will lead to less care being taken and trauma to flesh being greater, even if the vampire is usually compassionate and cares about humans. If a vampire wants to be vicious and inflict pain while feeding, then it can be a messy and painful affair (especially if the victim in question is also a vampire). Conversely, if a vampire takes care while feeding, and cares about the victim, then it can be a very clean affair, leaving behind only small puncture wounds.
From a human perspective, if the victim struggles or is too tense, then the experience can be agonisingly painful and traumatic. If the donor is willing and relaxes, the experience can be extremely pleasurable for both the vampire and the human.
Vampires can eat human food without any problems, but it has no nutritional value for them.
Can these vampires go out in sunlight?
They can walk in sunlight unharmed if they wear the semi-precious gemstone lapis lazuli on their person. Lapis is known as the 'night stone' (due to it being dark blue with gold, star-like flecks), and is a protective talisman for vampires. The most common way to wear it is in the form of a ring. Katherine also wears it in pendant form around her neck.
The lapis lazuli ring has made it into the TV series (as you can see from the picture above of Stefan's ring), and from a reference to the fact that Stefan must wear his ring to go out in sunlight unharmed we assume that the lapis performs the same function as it does in the books. There is also a shot of Damon fiddling with what looks to be a large chunk of lapis in unrefined form.
What about strength, speed, agility and other senses?
These vampires have great strength and speed, able to move faster than the human – and, in some cases, vampire – eye can track. They're able to jump and fall from high places, landing with cat-like grace, even if they're rescuing a falling human in the process, and they're pretty handy at scaling up the sides of buildings with ease. They certainly have no problems snapping logs bare-handed and uprooting innocent trees, and heavy objects are no obstacle. The more human blood a vampire drinks, the stronger and faster they become.
Vampires also have very enhanced senses, with sharper vision, the ability to see in the dark (though they do rely on some source of light to be able to see, so are as blind as humans in pitch dark environments), outstanding hearing, and a far superior sense of smell.
Do they have any mental powers?
Even the weaker vampires have the ability to influence humans and bend them to their will, from making them do things, to seeing things that aren't there, and even forgetting about events entirely. Stronger vampires are also able to do these things to weaker vampires. If the vampire is powerful enough, then they can maintain a connection with their victim over a distance, essentially turning them into a puppet for their own whims.
Another mental power is the ability to communicate with each other telepathically. They are also able to 'speak' with humans in this way, though it's something that happens far less frequently than vampire to vampire telepathic communication.
Vampires are also able to pick up on human thoughts and emotions. There seems to be an element of the human broadcasting their thoughts rather than the vampire actively digging around in people's heads, though it's not made clear if the more powerful vampires are able to do just that. Stefan certainly can't, and even Damon doesn't seem to have the power to do that.
Any other interesting powers?
The first one that springs to mind is the ability to shift into animal form. They're limited to only a few such forms, and it's an ability that depends on how strong a vampire's powers are, and how much human blood they've been drinking. Stefan can manage only one form, while Damon – who is far stronger than his brother – has two. Bird forms (Damon's crow form is a well-known and loved symbol within the fandom) seem to be a standard first choice, given it provides an excellent form of travel and is relatively inconspicuous, allowing them to go unnoticed while spying on humans from trees and such.
Not only can they assume animal form, they also have the ability to control animals, turning otherwise peaceful creatures into mindless, dangerous beasts who will turn on their human owners and attack with the intent to kill.
Stronger vampires also have the ability to control the weather, from whipping up wind to making it snow, to even manipulating lightning.
Do they have any weaknesses?
Without lapis lazuli, sunlight is lethal to them. Even a few seconds in sunlight can cause exposed flesh to burn and blister.
In order to enter a house a vampire has to be invited in. It doesn't have to be by the owner of the house, but it does have to be an invitation from a living human.
The more powerful a vampire is, the more they're restricted by certain limitations. One of these is the ability to cross running water. Younger and weaker vampires have no problems crossing water, whereas more powerful vampires are bound by darkness and physically incapable of it.
There are a few weakness, however, that are pure myth. These vampires do have reflections in mirrored surfaces, aren't affected by the sign of the cross (though having true faith can help protect you from mental attacks), and have no problems with holy water or garlic.
Can they be killed?
Yes. Sunlight, obviously. A stake through the heart or cutting off the head will also do it, though a very old vampire can survive a stake through the heart with no ill-effects. You'd also have to be able to get close enough to the vampire to overpower them enough to do kill them with these methods.
It also appears that vampires can actually die from extreme trauma and blood loss. There are a few instances where this is suggested in the books, and we can conclude that if a vampire is able to drink blood after severe damage is inflicted, then they will heal and regain their strength. However, if the trauma is great enough and they are unable to get any blood, then they'll die. This kind of damage is only likely to be sustained in a fight with one of their own kind.
How do humans become vampires?
A human has to drink a certain amount of vampire blood in order to become one. There is an implication in the books that a human has to die with enough vampire blood in them to cause the change and bring them back as vampires. It is suggested that the changes vampire blood brings on in humans while they're still alive (which include increased strength and speed, enhanced senses, and a desire to feed on human blood) will eventually wear off as the vampire blood flushes out of their system.
Do vampires sleep? Do they need sleep?
Vampires in this world certainly can sleep. Aside from time spent by vampire characters knocked out and unconscious, there are several instances of them needing sleep, and Stefan has even experienced bad dreams while doing so. L.J. Smith never makes it clear how much sleep these vampires may need, but it's clearly a lot less than what a normal human needs.
Do they sparkle?
Not as a species, anyway. What these vampires choose to get up to in their own time with a tube of body glitter is their own private business.
So, there you have it, the basic facts of the vampires in L.J. Smith's Vampire Diaries. If we haven't covered something you're dying to know, then please feel free to ask in the comments and we'll answer your questions there.
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Judaism does not believe in the free will of angels. What is the scriptural evidence for that and since when has such belief been held within the Jewish community?
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I believe the idea that angels do not have free will comes from a medieval understanding of what the gemora means that an angel can only have 1 task. (Mesechet Baba Metziah 86b)
There are numerous statements in midrash and gemora that an angel can only do one thing. They have one single mission. When angels appear to have more than one mission, Chazal discuss and find ways to explain it. (Mesechet Baba Metziah 86b)
The question arises then, if an angel can only have a single task, does that mean it has free will or not? This is a question addressed by the Rishonim, and is really more of a philosophy question regarding the nature of free will, than it is a theological question regarding the nature of angels.
When Moshe Rabeinu went up to receive the Torah, the angels wanted it for themselves, so Moshe replied to them "do you have a Yetzer Hora?". Thus we see that this has been known since the beginning Yidishkeit.
The source of Avodah Zorah actually comes from this misconception that Angels have free will, this led the generations before Noach to 'serve' them (so that they can get favors from them)
I can bring you a proof that some angels do have at least limited free will. At the time of the Churban when the Yidden were besieged, the Midrash (Yalkut Shimoni II:1023) tells us that the Yidden were not scared. they said to one another
This implies that had God not changed thier names they would have had free will to save them.
Another Medrash (Devarim Rabbah 1:17) says that when Titus was about to enter the Beis HaMikdash 600,000 demons were waiting to attack him. When they saw the Holy One did not interfere, they said we too will not then interfere. This too implies that they could have interfered had they wanted.
Lastly the Gemoro brings the story of 2 Malachim who saw Bnos Elokim who were extremely attractive earthly women and requested to be tested against them (to which they failed [the test]). This however, only shows that they could want thier own things, but not that they could carry them out. However, my first 2 proofs stand!
Perhaps there are different levels of angels with different levels of free will.
IIRC Rabbi Bension Shafier (Shmuz.com) says that angels do have free will.


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Working with Groups in Blackboard Learn
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Log in to Blackboard Learn
To log in to Blackboard Learn (if you are not already logged in), follow these steps:
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- Click the Log in to Bb Learn button.
- On the Central Authentication Service (CAS) page, in the UserID field type your NAU login ID, and in the Password field, type your password.
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- Collaboration: Users within the Group can create and attend Chat sessions and Virtual Classroom sessions.
- Discussion Board: Users within the Group can create and manage their own Forums.
- E-mail: Users within the Group can email individual members or the entire Group.
- File Exchange: Group members and the Instructor can share files in this area. All members, as well as the Instructor, can add files. They can also delete files, regardless of who added them.
- Journals: When used in the Group area, all members of a Group can view each others's Entries, but the Group Journal can only be viewed by the Group and the Instructor. Instructors can select the grade option for Group Journals.
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- Wikis: Users within the Group can edit their Group Wiki. All Students within the Course can view a Group Wiki. The instructor can view and edit a Group Wiki and can select the grade option for Group Wikis.
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1 Mar 2013 5:48 PM #1
Unanswered: Ext.chart.series.Line not running properly the renderer function
I tried to create a Line Chart in Sencha Touch 2.1.1 with a specialised renderer. According to documentation I should create a renderer function which receives following parameters: (sprite, record, attributes, index, store)
When in the console I type "attributes" to check the content of it, it is always empty. The same happens for sprite and index.
Here is the code that I run:
Ext.define('GabChart.view.Main', { extend: 'Ext.Panel', xtype: 'main', requires: [ 'Ext.chart.CartesianChart', 'Ext.chart.axis.Numeric', 'Ext.chart.axis.Category', 'Ext.chart.series.Line' ], config: { layout: 'vbox', items: [ { xtype: 'titlebar', docked: 'top' }, { xtype: 'container', layout: 'fit', flex: 1, items: [ { xtype: 'chart', store: { id: 'chartStore', fields: ['Name', 'Year2'], data: [ { "Name": "Week 1", "Year2": 22.35}, { "Name": "Item-1", "Year2": 0.41}, { "Name": "Item-2", "Year2": 14.80}, { "Name": "Item-3", "Year2": 12.98}, { "Name": "Item-4", "Year2": 4.44}, { "Name": "Item-5", "Year2": 8.26}, { "Name": "Item-6", "Year2": undefined}, { "Name": "Item-7", "Year2": undefined}, { "Name": "Item-8", "Year2": undefined}, { "Name": "Item-9", "Year2": undefined}, { "Name": "Item-10", "Year2": undefined}, { "Name": "Item-11", "Year2": undefined}, { "Name": "Item-12", "Year2": undefined}, { "Name": "Item-13", "Year2": undefined}, { "Name": "Item-14", "Year2": undefined} ] }, //define x and y-axis. legend: { position: 'bottom' }, //define x and y-axis. axes: [ { type: 'numeric', position: 'left' }, { type: 'category', visibleRange: [0, 1], position: 'bottom' } ], //define the actual series series: [{ type: 'line', xField: 'Name', yField: 'Year2', title: 'Step line', style: { stroke: "#a61120", renderer: function(sprite, record, attributes, index, store){ debugger }, }, marker: { type: 'circle', stroke: '#0d1f96', fill: '#115fa6', lineWidth: 1, radius: 4, shadowColor: 'rgba(0,0,0,0.7)', shadowBlur: 10, shadowOffsetX: 3, shadowOffsetY: 3 } }] } ] } ] } });
How can I make the Chart to run my renderer function with the correct filled parameters?
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There isn't going to be anything you can do to magically get this to work via a config or anything. This could be a bug or it could be at that time it has no attributes.Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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5 Mar 2013 4:36 PM #3
Hi mitchellsimoens,
I looked more through the source code and it seems that there is a mismatch between the documentation and the actual code. Please let me know if I my conclusion is wrong.
Documentation states that the renderer receives following arguments: (sprite, record, attributes, index, store)
In the Ext.chart.series.sprite.Line the renderer is called with fewer arguments in the method "renderAggregates":
if (attr.renderer) { attr.renderer.call(this, markerCfg, this, i, this.getDataItems().items[i]); }
What I am trying to do is to implement a renderer that will create gaps in the Line series when the Y data is "undefined".
Do you think that it is possible to implement that through a renderer? Or should I start (which I do not prefer) to modify the "drawStroke" method of "Ext.chart.series.sprite.Line"?
Or maybe better, when will you support gaps in Line series in Sencha Touch 2?
4 Apr 2014 12:08 PM #4
I was able to create gaps as follows in the renderer method...
if(rendererData.store.getAt(index-1) && rendererData.store.getAt(index-1).get('rating_txt') === 'WR' && config.type === 'line'){ return { strokeStyle: 'transparent', fillStyle : 'transparent' }; }


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Vegan Hacker is a really fun vegan (no meat, milk, dairy, eggs, etc) food hacking event that happens on the last Tuesday of every month. The goal is to get together and "veganize" a traditionally non-vegan food. Previous Vegan Hacker events have made twinkies, corn dogs, fondue, burgers, and more! Everyone is welcome to participate. Contact us if you have questions, comments, or an idea for a hack!
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I read up about ASI loaders and stuff, I've had Scripthook, xlive and dsound all in the main game folder (several different versions of each).
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I've been having issues with mods on my 126.96.36.199 Sometimes they work sometimes they dont. So i reverted back to 18.104.22.168 but now icenhancer looks like shit
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16 Aug 2012 2:34 AM #1
Unanswered: Store id entries duplicated
I have a problem with the stores. Whenever I update an entry it the id are duplicated.
Here is my model.
Ext.define('MoodleMobApp.model.Course', { extend: 'Ext.data.Model', config: { fields: [ {name: 'id', type: 'auto'}, {name: 'name', type: 'string'}, {name: 'timemodified', type: 'int'}, {name: 'token', type: 'string'}, {name: 'modules', type: 'int', defaultValue: 0}, {name: 'isnew', type: 'boolean'}, {name: 'newmodules', type: 'int', defaultValue: 0}, {name: 'modulestatus', type: 'string', defaultValue: 'counting modules...'}, ] } });
Ext.define('MoodleMobApp.store.Courses', { extend: 'Ext.data.Store', requires: [ 'MoodleMobApp.model.Course', 'Ext.data.proxy.LocalStorage' ], config: { storeId: 'courses', model: 'MoodleMobApp.model.Course', autoLoad: true, proxy : { id: 'course', type: 'localstorage', } } });
// update local courses store this.each( function(entry) { if(courses_store.find('id', entry.getData().id) == -1) { entry.getData().isnew = true; courses_store.add( entry ); } else { entry.getData().isnew = false; // update the entry courses_store.remove( entry ); courses_store.add( entry ); } } ); // prepare to write courses_store.each( function() { this.setDirty(); } ); // store data courses_store.sync();
So when I have three records courses_store.getCount() === 3 but if I check in the localstorage the course key contains this: 3,5,8,3,5,8.
If I execute this code one more time I get: 3,5,8,3,5,8,3,5,8.
Everything works but the course value keeps growing.
How can I fix this issue?
Thank you very much for any suggestions.
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When you update, why are you removing the record and then adding it? Why not use the set method on the record?Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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20 Aug 2012 6:42 AM #3
I found out what was the problem. I invoked setDirty() on all of my records. Invoking the sync() then duplicated the entries. Now I invoke setDirty() only on the records I pass to add() or set() and there are no duplicates anymore.
Why is it so setDirty() + sync() on the existing entries generates duplicates?
The same does not happens when I use set() or add().
Example: The "module" key contains 3,7,8 in the localstorage
This duplicates the entry 3:
modules_store.getById(3).setDirty(); modules_store.sync();
This does not duplicate the entry:
// here the updated_entry is a record with the id 3 and new values updated_entry.setDirty(); modules_store.set(updated_entry); modules_store.sync();
24 Aug 2012 5:50 AM #4
Well. I was wrong. Every setDirty() and set() function after the sync duplicates values of the 'course' key and I don't know how to solve this problem.
What is the proper way to update the localestorage without having duplicates?
Every time I use sync() my storage ends up with duplicated values. My id keys are defined as integers and the values returned by getData() are integer but if I check in the web inspector the raw.id is a string. Is this normal?
11 Sep 2012 4:53 AM #5
Anyone has suggestions on how to solve this problem? =(
3 Jan 2013 2:46 PM #6
I am having an identical issue (chrome, touch 2.1). I have a 'filter' field in my model that I am updating (so the user can flag items as 'saved'). When I sync (to local storage), the id fields in the chrome inspector are duplicated, but at no point does the getCount() call return other than the correct number.
A possibly important point - If I reload the page, without making any adjustments, and then use as directed I do not get the duplicating behavior. Possibly I have some sort of object persistence as I am loading in data from the server, duplicating the records to a local store, then unregistering the remote store. As I sync on unload, if I have not made any changes to the records, then there is no issue. But if I make changes, perhaps there is some lingering reference and that is what is getting stored. I tried to do a sync() and then a load() on the local store to replicate the reload behavior, to no avail. Merge/reload code below.
Note - I tried removing the setDirty() call, and the sync() saved nothing. So I am loading in the data from local storage the second time, but no way of knowing what is going on in memory.
- added removeAll() in an attempt to clean the data further. It does not fix anything, but it does prove that I am pulling from local storage only (updating the display without the 2nd load shows nothing and getCount() == 0).
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if(record.get("publishDate") != undefined)
{ this.getStore().insert(0,record);
}, this);
this.getStore().on("load", this.handleStoreReloaded, this);
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18 Feb 2013 2:08 PM #7
Does anyone have a fix for this? I see pretty much the same behaviour. I check what's on the server and see there are ten records. I download those to a store and copy the records to an offline store, which is a sqllite table. I then take a look at the contents of the table using Google Chrome's developer tools and see multiple duplicates of each record. When I check how many are in the offline store using getCount(), it returns ten, the number I downloaded, despite the fact that there are clearly many more than ten. When I come to upload the records back to the server, despite the fact that getCount() assures me there are only ten records, it transpires that in fact all records in the table are uploaded to the server. Like Alile, I've tried removeAll() before copying records to the offline store, but it makes no difference. I've even tried dropping the table or the entire database just after restarting the app and before copying records to the offline store, but I still get duplicates.
As a result I find that my original strategy of finding a record by matching id and updating that record after the user had made changes had to be replaced by updating the data on a whole bunch of matching records.
Eventually I have such a slew of records that it takes forever to upload them to the server.
18 Feb 2013 11:53 PM #8
Do you have to use setDirty directly? I think the store + model handle this behind the scene. Problem might be on sync with LocalStorage.
Also pay attention on the primary key, if you have one, maybe specify it so the proxy knows what it should use as unique key. By default an internal key is generated and used, with a different ~ not integer auto increment type but rather a guid hash to assure unicity.Latest thoughts on the subject: http://joy2share.com/senchatouch/
19 Feb 2013 12:50 AM #9
Thanks for your suggestion, bluehipy. I have specified the idProperty on all other models in my app, which seems to work quite well, as Sencha appears to do the equivalent of INSERT IGNORE, i.e. it just silently disregards any attempt to duplicate a unique key. I do download data for other stores and copy them to local stores and don't have a problem with duplicate entries, so I think that could well be the solution. However, on the particular table which is causing me problems, uniqueness or a row would be provided by two fields and I can't figure out how to specify a composite key. The docs for idProperty refer to one field only. Any thoughts on how to provide a key composed of two fields?
Or, here's another thought. My users initially create data within the app, which are saved locally to the table 'answers'. When they eventually submit those data to the server, each row is given a unique autoincrement id by MySQL on the server. Since it's the server's job to provide the unique id, the app doesn't have an id field in the 'answers' model. When users want to modify their answers, the app downloads their data - and that's where I get all the duplicates. Would it be possible to have no id when the users are initially creating the data and use the server's id when data are downloaded for modification? Would I need to use two different models for that - one with an id field and one without? I think a composite key would be the best solution if only I knew how to specify one. If I do come up with a solution to this, I'll let you all know.
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19 Feb 2013 6:58 AM #10
Still struggling with this. As I seemed not to be getting duplicates with the stores for the models where I had specified an idProperty, I also decided to specify one for my offline store of the 'answers' table, filling that column with the values drawn from the online table if a user was editing answers previously uploaded to the server. Unfortunately, I still get at least ten duplicates of each record, with the result that the upload takes quite a while. The combination of MySQL and PHP I have on the server ensures that only the required dozen or so rows are inserted into the table, rather than the 120-odd which are uploaded, so there are no problems with data integrity; it's just a pain that it all takes so long to upload and process.


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I'm way too cranky to make something like that work, cd. No reasonable person would put up with me for a minute.Still, 3000 remote acres does sound good, doesn't it?
Skepticism is more than justified for evaluating ANY proposal for the establishment of a community from scratch. That said, there is a long history of communities built around a charismatic figure. Consider Arcosanti or (on the dark side) Jonestown.
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At the DeKalb conference on Hilbert's problems, John Tate gave a masterly survey of Problem 9, the General Reciprocity Law. He ends with a discussion of the Langlands Programme, especially the case of odd Artin representations $R$ of degree $2$. Let me quote from the final paragraph of the written version of his talk :
Another reason for the relationship's eluding Artin and Hecke may be the fact that explicit non-dihedral numerical examples are hard to find. Indeed at the time of the DeKalb conference, none was known ! I concluded the oral presentation of the paper there by explaining that, in the hope of finding one, I had looked for non-dihedral $R$'s of low conductor, $N$, and had found an $R$ with $N=133=7\cdot19$ which I hoped might be amenable to computation. After the talk, Atkin suggested that the labor involved might be considerably reduced by systematic use of $w_7$ and $w_{19}$. Armed with his theory of the $w$'s, four Harvard students, D. Flath, R. Kottwitz, J. Tunnell, J. Weisinger and I succeeded in the next month in proving (by relatively easy hand computation) the existence of the corresponding new form $f_R$ of weight $1$ and level $133$ predicted by Langlands.
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When a Quarterback throws an interception that is returned for a touchdown (taken to the house).
Grossman threw two picks, one of them got housed!
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To have eaten or drunk something really fast.
She bought ice cream and housed it in like 3 seconds
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To get royally shitfaced or shitHOUSED.
If we get Becky housed, she'll flail her tits about the room at a ferocious pace.
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To be beat or overpowered (physically, in a game, in a challenge of words).
Derived from Schooled or Schoolhouse. Schoolhoused - school = housed.
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Derived from Schooled or Schoolhouse. Schoolhoused - school = housed.
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You got housed.
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Hurry up man, I'm trying to get housed before the night is done.
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- Contains Argan Oil ( Moroccan Oil)
- Controls frizz
- Restores shine and softness
- Instantly absorbs
- Provides heat protection
- Protects hair from environmental pollutants
- Contains ingredients known to protect against UV rays
- Contains Avocado Oil which regenerates and moisturizes
- Hydrates and detangles hair
- Softens thick, unruly hair
- Strengthens dry, brittle hair
- Nourishes hair damaged from chemical procedures
- Nourishes and balances the scalp
- Strengthens hairs elasticity
- Powerful antioxidant, rich in vitamins
- Not tested on animals
- For all hair types
- About the brand
Sedu Anti-Frizz Polishing Treatment with pure Moroccan Argan Oil protects from heat damage and leaves hair incredibly smooth and shiny. Argan Oil which is sometimes referred to as Moroccan Oil is produced from the kernels of the argan tree, found in Morocco. Cherished for its nutritive, cosmetic and medicinal properties, Moroccan Argan Oil is extraordinarily rich in things like natural tocopherols and vitamin E.
Sedu Anti-Frizz Polishing Treatment instantly absorbs into hair, improves hair health and creates polished styles with brilliant shine. So unlike other products with argan oil (including Moroccanoil,) only Sedu polishing treatment provides heat protection from styling appliances and controls frizz. It also has UV protection and other ingredients like avocado oil to help keep hair healthier. Sedu Anti-Frizz Polishing Treatment comes in an elegant shatter proof bottle with a convenient pump to control dosage for easier use.
Sedu Anti-Frizz Polishing Treatment is already receiving rave reviews. Jackie C. claims it is "Like Moroccan Oil But Better Like" Whitney M states "I absolutely love the Sedu Anti Frizz Polishing Serum! It made my hair more manageable and a lot easier to work with. It helped by giving my hair a healthy looking shine. I love it!"
Start with a dime-sized amount of the serum and apply throughout damp or dry hair, using more or less depending on hair length. Style as usual.
Sedu is a world-renowned beauty brand with a reputation for unsurpassed quality and reliability. Its hair styling tools have always been developed with a focus on long-term maintenance of healthy hair. Each Sedu product is designed with the professional stylist in mind and features only the essentials, striking the perfect balance between high performance and effortless results.
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Argan Oil is no ordinary oil. We started with the legendary argan oil, then added vitamins and liquid shea butter for greater performance. Argan Therapy Oil enhances hair of all types and does wonders for hair that's particularly dry or stressed. Absorbs fast, shines deep. Recaptures shine and moisture without weighing your hair down. Tames frizz and refreshes tired ends. Protects from UV color fade. dpHUE Argan Therapy Oil brings strength to overworked, dull or damaged hair. Speeds drying time. Made in the UK.New Price:
Great For Dry, Processed Hair!Folica.com sent me a sample of this product and asked me to review it honestly - good or bad. I've linked below my full review from my You Tube channel.
Overall? I really like it. It did wonders for my dried out ends (the result of desperately trying to grow out my hair). Want more details? Check out the video below!Oct 20, 2010Rachel C.HAIR TYPEBlonde / Oily Hair / Color Treated Hair / Fine or Thin Hair
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Great Product Awesome ShineI love this product, but I will warm people not to put other products in the hair after washing it if your going to use this product because it will weigh your hair down. All you need is a dime amount through the whole head for a great shine after blow drying. The large size is a great valve because a little goes a long way.Oct 19, 2010PamHAIR TYPEDry Hair / Fine or Thin Hair / Relaxed Hair
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It's OkI bought the large size becuase it was on sale and the reviews were fantastic. I have thick medium length hair that is curly in some areas, flat in others, so it needs to be blown out and is always frizzy when it rains. I liked the product and love the way it feels--light, not sticky or oily. But it's as good as some products I've bought in the drugstore, such as L'Oreal, which is less expensive and smells a little better. Since I bought the big bottle, I'll be using it for a while and will update this post if I feel differently. I've had it for two weeks now and haven't fallen in love yet.Oct 13, 2010Denise G. / PersonalHAIR TYPEDark Brown / Color Treated Hair / Thick or Coarse Hair
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Makes My Hair Very Soft And Isn't GreasyThis isn't a curl defining product so you will still need to use another product with it. It works ok for me. I put it on towel dried hair, then use mousse and either air dry or dry with a diffuser. It doesn't eliminate all of the frizz. I usually need to apply more after my hair has dried to tame the frizz that has developed. What I really like is how soft it makes my hair and even when I add more product to dry hair it doesn't make it oily. I like the fact that it is a heat protectant too. Just wish it did a better job of controlling frizz. I will continue using but not sure if I will purchase again.Oct 12, 2010Donna / MAHAIR TYPEDark Brown / Dry Hair / Curly Hair / Thick or Coarse Hair
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Love It!I LOVE this product. It smells great and makes my hair so shiny. I have very dry hair and have never found a product that gave my hair so much shine without that greasy feeling/look. I put a dime size amount on towel dried hair (after applying sedu's color heat protecting spray) before blow drying it and then add another dime size amount after I have flat ironed it. Results are beautiful soft shiny hair. Never thought my hair could look so good!
Con: It is a bit pricey but definitely worth results. I also think the small bottle will last me a long time because a little goes a long way.Oct 12, 2010D D. / New YorkHAIR TYPELight Brown / Dry Hair / Curly Hair / Color Treated Hair
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Way Too Oily!!!!!The results were NOT what I expected! The Sedu ant-frizz Polishing treatment is way too oily. It leaves hair very greasey. I am a hairdresser and was very impressed by the ad on folica for this product, but vert disatisfied with the results> Big wast of money, its like using olive oil. Sorry!Oct 11, 2010Debbie E. / Cleveland , Ohio
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Worth Every PennyI really love this product. Just a small amount after I washed my hair and it had body and brillant shine. It smells great too. Well worth every dime!Oct 3, 2010NetteHAIR TYPEBlack / Relaxed Hair
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A Believer!As a new member of the Folica Merchandising Team I've recently immersed myself into the world of hair care products and appliances! One of the perks of my newly obtained position is the opportunity to try the very latest product innovations to hit the market! Sedu's Anti-Frizz Polishing Serum was one of those new products. Hesitant at first as I am not typically one who likes hair serum's. Largely due to the fact that my hair is naturally thin and past experience tells me that serum's just weigh my hair down. This was NOT the case with Sedu's Anti-Frizz Polishing Serum!
I was thrilled to find that it was light and didn't weigh my hair down at all! The serum absorbed quickly into my hair and didn't leave a greasy residue all over my hands. A pet peeve of mine!! After blow drying I noticed that the serum left my hair looking shiny and healthy. The ends no longer looked dry and damaged. Sedu's Anti-Frizz Polishing Serum has made its way into my daily hair styling routine.Sep 21, 2010Lauren U. / New YorkHAIR TYPEMedium Brown / Fine or Thin Hair
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Great ResultsIt felt super smooth! Not greasy at all to the hair. and no frizz whatsoever.Sep 20, 2010Lynette C. / NYC
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Up To Par?The serum I usually use for my hair is Biosilk Silk Therapy, because I couldn't find something that is up to par with this product. Sedu Anti-Frizz Serum has really good texture but it dries the ends of my hair very quickly, the smell is kind of like melted carmax. Other than that the smell last all day & blocks out other orders (I work at a japanese restaurant & my hair didn't smell like fried rice when I got home!) It tames all my fly-aways, I think the reason why it doesn't work well with my hair is cause it's very thick & semi-coarse! But overall I think it's an alright product, I'm still going to stay loyal to my biosilk ;]Sep 20, 2010Lily L. / Louisville.HAIR TYPEDark Brown / Dry Hair / Thick or Coarse Hair
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Shenmue is the greatest game ever!
Here comes Shenmue! No fantasy!
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An epic game that was released on the Dreamcast in November 2000. Shenmue 2 was released in America in October 2002 for the Xbox. BEST GAME EVER!
"Hey, watcha doin?" Playing Shenmue "Damn that game is awesome!"
by OriginalGamer May 13, 2004
SEGA dreamcast and Xbox adventure. The most jaw-dropping astounding game i have ever had the luxury to play. There is nothing quite like it. All the usual RPG's that people go for are deep in the past in swords and saucery, whereas this RPG is set in recent times in the 80's as a young man aims to avenge his fathers death at the hands of a man we only know as Lan Di. The adventure takes you on a journey through japan and china spanning two games. Although the series is not yet finished and hopefully a 3rd story game will be released. A MMORPG called shenmue online is currently in development and will hopefully be a great addition to the series. Shenmue also features the qte
Ryo's vocabulary : "I see" and "Do you know anything about the THREE BLADES?"
Subject of a hilarious fan film known as shenmue : the gang edition. which can be found at www.planetxbox.com/shenmuedojo/
Subject of a hilarious fan film known as shenmue : the gang edition. which can be found at www.planetxbox.com/shenmuedojo/
by Davidoff January 06, 2005
The best game series ever made....
"The american voice actors for Shenmue I and II are shitty", says Jimmy.
"Yes Jimmy, they are shitty indeed", says everyone.
"Yes Jimmy, they are shitty indeed", says everyone.
by Ryu Hazuki October 25, 2004
The best game to ever be created on Sega Dreamcast and continued on Xbox. Sadly there is very little hope for the third installment of the game.
Damn you Sega! Why couldn't you finish Shenmue?!! The best game to ever be created!
by P.Frilly August 19, 2008
May be used as a synonym for damn/damnit.
See also: damn.
See also: damn.
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I have a little question that are confusing me at bit. I have to argue, from the Pauli Exclusion Principle, that $M_{s} = 2$ is the maximum $M_{s}$ quantum number for the $nd^{6}$ configuration.
Now, from what I can find, $M_{s}$ is given by:
$M_{s} = \sum\nolimits_{i} m_{s_{i}}$
And with 6 valence electrons, that can have $m_{s} = \pm \frac{1}{2}$, I can't seem to see how I end up with a maximum of 2 ?
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In school I use ubuntu in my programmers class and we use BlueJ. This IDE is set to german language but I want to have an english IDE because I´m also programming in english. But to achieve this I have to modify a specific textfile. This file only can be accessed when you have root permissions. Is there any "inofficial" way to change this file without root permissions?
I haven't used BlueJ but most applications have their default, system-wide config files, which should not be modified by users (and if that's what your sysadmin refuses to modify, he might be right in doing so) but also a user-specific config files in $HOME/. Looking at its documentation p.30, BlueJ can be invoked like this:
and it also has a user-specific configuration file in:
You could try installing a version of BlueJ onto your home directory (see this question or try the jar) and using this instead of the one supplied by your college. Or use an alternative IDE like eclipse - again installed on your home dir.
However, to actually answer the question if the file you need to edit
Has specific permissions that your user account does not have access to then there isn't much you can do. Can you


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10 Christmas Decorations That Will Haunt Your Dreams
Christmas is a holiday for celebrating community, families, and Lexus dealers, but what about the people who don't fit nicely into society? What about all the people who stay socked away in cellars, who dread human contact, who are so emotionally broken that they spend the holiday alone, like some kind of ... well, like Santa Claus, actually? Do they even celebrate Christmas?
The answer is a resounding yes, and the following Christmas decorations are a testament to that fact. Even the psychopaths and the serial killers apparently make time between pulling the legs off insects and fashioning skin suits to celebrate the holidays. Here's the proof ...
#10. Naked Deformed Santa Claus
"Oh good, children, you're here! Come, help me build this snowman. Hold on a tick, you know the rules. You'll need to strip naked first. Like me! Quickly now, the sun is going down. When we're finished, we can all go inside for some warm milk from one of my five nipples. You're all doing very w- Oh, what's this? Mistletoe? Uh-oh, what's it doing here, right here over my head? C'mon, children, you know the rules. YOU KNOW THE GODDAMN RULES. Ho ho ho! You're not going to tell your parents about me, are you?"
#9. Bulb-Eye Santa
Here's a little tip we'd like to pass on to the good people who make Christmas decorations: You're free to interpret Santa Claus any way you like, but the minute you give his eyes their own voltage, you're going to lose a lot of people. And if you decide to make those eyes protrude like an insect's from his face while illuminated, you're no longer building a festive trinket -- now you're building a nightmare. Oh, he sees you when you're sleeping, all right.
It's also unnerving that so much detail went into the face, yet the body is a dislocated, lumpy mess at best, like the thin disguise of an alien pretending at human merriment and barely holding it together. "This is what our species enjoys, correct? We are filled with giving, and nine pints of blood, and festive cheer."
And don't think that removing the bulbs can solve the problem, either ...
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#8. Gold-Suited Drunken Santa
Hey, remember when your grandfather sort of dressed up as Santa Claus and then collapsed on the kitchen floor and wept all night on Christmas Eve before he went to rehab? Well, now you can immortalize that version of Santa for generations to come with this bobble-head doll! The costume is complete with a sagging gold tracksuit, just like your grandfather's, and the stain in the crotch from where he soiled himself.
The attention to detail is unrelenting, right down to his hands clenched in self-hatred as he slouches over and tries to remember all the bad decisions that led to this point. Now you can spend every Christmas Eve watching his head sway over his heap of a broken body, just like it did that night you sang Christmas carols to him in the desperate hope that it would make him fall asleep.
"Who's got a big red cherry nose?"
"Santa's gole a berdo rancher ose."
"Who laughs this way HO HO HO?"
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#7. Grinning Clown Head
Apparently they do Christmas differently in Germany. They seem to be just fine with lazy-eyed clown heads supplying a healthy dose of creepy, but they absolutely won't stand for noses. No, noses would be an insult to Christmas. We've stared at this ornament for over an hour, and there's absolutely no way that's anything other than a clown with its nose cut off and a thin stream of blood leaking down into its mouth.
Most unnerving of all, he really seems to be enjoying it. That clown is absolutely psyched that he no longer has to deal with nose-related problems. These ornaments are apparently only for people who want to turn their tree into a celebration of torture, and if you don't believe us, here's another one from the same manufacturer, which features a skinless face.
Christmas Rarities
If you say its name in Aramaic, it opens the Hellmouth.
If you ever see these on a Christmas tree at someone's house, get up very slowly and leave, because that person has put strychnine in the eggnog.
#6. Hellspawn Santa Claus Candy Dish
It may surprise you to learn that this is not, in fact, supposed to be the eyeless head of a hobo. No, what you're looking at is a candy dish in the likeness of Santa Claus created by someone who absolutely witnessed a murder as a child and never found a way to process it. To this container's credit, we can't think of a better way to make children hate candy than this rotten-toothed monstrosity. Every single thing about this decoration, from the absent eyes to the rusted-out wire (for convenient hanging from the meat hooks in your living room), feels like it's competing to be the most terrifying aspect, and somehow they're all winning.


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I am looking for an exhaustive and light set of items to pack when travelling to places characterized by cold weather for the purpose of keeping warm when outside. By light I mean light packing, one bag if possible.
On the Clothes & Laundry page of OneBag.com, there is a section named Taming temperature. The two main points are:
I would add gloves. I use layering as well by wearing a thin pair of gloves made of silk inside the main pair of gloves.
Well, I can kinda answer but since you were a bit vague, we don't know how cold it is suppose to be where you are intending to go.
If it's average winter temperature in the mainland (I'd say it's from -15°C to +10°C), then this is what I'd recommend (no brands mentioned on purpose):
Stuff to keep you warm which isn't fabric:
Chemical warmers are great since they're quite small but if you need it for a longer period, you'd have to pack a bunch of these. On the other hand, you can use electrical stuff but it requires charging and you have to make sure you don't get it wet.
For arctic colds (<-20°C) use down suit and down jacket with all the stuff mentioned above. If you're doing any physical activity, dress in layers so that you can take stuff off once you start perspiring so that you don't get your clothes wet as that would make you cold once you stop.
Also note that wind has a major influence on body temperature as it makes you lose heat much faster. Same thing with liquids (water) so you should take care not to get your gear wet since it loses its purpose.
Since sodium acetate hand warmer was mentioned, I'd like to add that it's pretty cool pretty fast (pun intended). It says on the box that it keeps warm for an hour but I never got it to last more than 10-15 minutes. And then you have to bring it back to supersaturated state by putting it in boiling water and then letting it cool to room temperature which makes it quite useless. But it's an awesome stuff to play with for the first ten times and then it gets old. Rather get sodium acetate in bulk and play with it like they do in this video.
The universal choice are polar fleece things. They are very warm and light. Additionally they can be easily compressed, either by pressing them into the bag or by using compression bags.
Additionally, thermal underwear is a very good choice. Thermal underwear for cold weather usually includes wool and is not so light as fleece, but it is really warm and you won't need more than 2 of them.
You can get pocket hand warmers like this. They provide about an hour of warmth but need to be boiled in water to be used again.


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The 7 Most Insane Ways People Legally Avoided Paying Taxes
#3. An Exotic Dancer Deducts Her Breast Implants
People who say it's what's on the inside that counts probably don't work as strippers. Just look at the case of Cynthia Hess, better known by her stage name, "Tonda Marie." While she made money as an exotic dancer, she made less than other dancers due to her "hereditary deficiency," which was her way of saying she had average-sized boobs. In the competitive environment of taking your shirt off in front of horny guys, average doesn't cut it. So Tonda decided to get breast implants to make a better living. What does she go for? A good handful of C cups? Double D's? Try 56 FF.
How does she use seat belts?
Yes, she decided to bypass the pleasantly large boobs stage to the "Sweet holy crap, what monster cut you open and implanted you with basketballs!?" stage. Or maybe bowling balls are a better comparison -- each new boob weighed 10 pounds. After the life-changing event, she adopted a new identity and changed her stage name to the subtle "Chesty Love."
Naturally, she decided to deduct the implants as a business expense. The IRS, having said no to much more normal deductions, obviously said no to this one. They backed up their response by saying that business deductions only work for outlays that are "ordinary and necessary" in the business field and that the IRS code does not allow deductions that improve your appearance. Chesty pressed the point, saying that when she went back to work, her fees and tips doubled. Obviously, her boobs were improving her career.
None of the tips were voluntary -- the boobs just created their own money gravitational field.
So, Chesty sued the IRS for the deduction and did a hell of a job proving that her boobs were necessary in her profession. She argued that the implants should be in the category of a business uniform -- they were useless outside of the context of her job, and she intended to remove them immediately after she retired from exotic dancing. She also explained that the surgery did not improve her appearance, as she was constantly ridiculed on the streets and was ostracized by her family.
"When we hugged I just didn't feel very close to them."
Apparently convinced by Chesty's testimony, or at least mesmerized by the boobs in front of them, the tax court agreed to deduct her breast implants. They stated, on a federal court record, that her boobs were so horrendously large that they could've only been used for business purposes, so that made them deductible. We suppose there is a moral here, though we're not exactly sure what it is.
For some reason we were too busy typing "travel pillow" into Amazon.
#2. An NBA Player Deducts His Fines
Depending on what type of person you are, you know Lamar Odom either as a forward for the Dallas Mavericks or as Mr. Khloe Kardashian. Fewer people know Lamar Odom as something he recently became: an amateur tax lawyer.
In 2010, the IRS sent him an $87,000-plus interest bill concerning his 2007 taxes, as well as a letter saying he was not allowed to deduct $172,000 in "fitness fees" and, even stupider, $12,000 in NBA fines from his 2007 tax return. In 2007, he was a modest man living on a modest salary of $9.3 million, so Odom challenged the IRS' ruling and sued them. Odom was a college dropout and made his living using every muscle other than his brain, but this didn't stop him from filing the suit and representing himself.
"$5,000? No thanks, I'll fix my own torn knee ligament."
When asked about his $172,000 deduction for fitness fees, he stated that, as a pro athlete, he is obligated to stay fit and healthy, and therefore all his regimens could be deducted as business expenses. That is a logical response, but considering he has a workout that could be easily performed at any gym or any prison, the large fees account for either a holodecklike virtual reality facility he has in his backyard or a robotic personal trainer. Or maybe he just hates taxes as much as the next guy who doesn't have a multimillion dollar salary.
Regarding the $12,000 deduction for his NBA fines, otherwise known as the cost of doing things he shouldn't have been doing, he creatively stated that they "are commonly assessed on professional athletes and are work related. Therefore the fines incurred are ordinary and necessary employee business expense."
"Basketball is my hobby. Fouls and verbal abuse are full time jobs."
Apparently Odom made sense, as the tax attorney he later hired stated that the IRS completely threw in the towel for his fines and fitness claims, and they settled for about 10 cents on the dollar. In the settlement, the IRS agreed to take only $7,827 plus $1,000 in interest. It wasn't a perfect victory for Odom, but against the IRS, it's the equivalent of winning six championship rings (suck it, Jordan). In the end, Odom received a large deduction that we're sure he used wisely.
Such as bribing E! executives to make a second season.
#1. A Drug Dealer Deducts His Drugs
Criminals follow the law pretty leniently, but even they need to stay on top of their taxes; just ask Al Capone. Back in 1975, Jeffrey Edmondson was a drug dealer who was busted and charged with drug trafficking. The IRS, in the mood to add crippling financial debt to a prison sentence, audited Jeffrey for $17,000 in back taxes he needed to pay for failing to declare his income made from drug dealing.
"Sign here, here and here under confessi -- I mean conCESSions."
While awaiting trial, instead of trying to prove the innocence he didn't have, Edmondson filed a tax return that listed his taxable net income and a good list of business deductions, and left his occupation blank. That is because if any of the cops who arrested him found out he was a drug dealer, he would get into so much trouble. The act of putting only one's net income and amount of taxes due on a return is apparently a common practice for drug dealers. It's called the "Fifth Amendment" tax return and also goes by a lesser-known title, the "I'm a drug dealer, and I'll pay your stupid money if you agree not to tell anyone what I do" tax return.
Yay freedom!
Predictably, the IRS looked at his business deductions, then probably correctly assumed he was high on LSD and ignored them. Edmondson was serious, though, and his tax deduction would go on to the Tax Court. Despite having no receipts to back up his claims, which would've instantly cost him his chance for a deduction today, Edmondson apparently made a lot of sense. He claimed that he established a business in his home, which would've qualified him for a home office deduction, and he named several purchases -- including his drugs -- as necessary business expenses.
There's also the little known "bitches getting up in my grill" assessment.
Judge William Goffe was apparently very impressed with Edmondson's "honesty" concerning his illegal dealings, as well as his logic, so he agreed to deduct his expenses. Some of the things that were successfully deducted were a $50 scale, the cost of 29,000 miles on his car that were used to drive to pick up drugs, 100 pounds of weed and 1 million amphetamine tablets. If you think that was an absurd amount of drugs, you obviously didn't live in the '70s.
And if you don't ... can we please have your autograph, Mr. Richards?
After reading about this, it was easy for drug dealers to get excited at a new chance to save a lot of money that they could spend on hired muscle and flamboyant outfits. Also after reading this, it was easy for U.S. senators to get really pissed off at the ruling. Sen. William Armstrong, R-Colo., was displeased and made it a goal to prevent future drug dealers from having a nice tax loophole. He succeeded. In 1982, the senator managed to get a new tax rule added that disallowed any deduction earned in a business that dealt with the trafficking of illegal substances. So you'll need to go with the huge fake boobs instead.
For more people who walked around perpetually flipping the bird, check out 6 Comic Book Easter Eggs That Stuck It to The Man. Or discover the 9 Insane Cases that Prove the U.S. Legal System Is Screwed.


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Einstein was able to make some predictions before GR was fully formulated. e.g. gravitational time dilation.
Such predictions before the full theory are referred to as "semi-heuristic derivations" here: http://motls.blogspot.cz/2012/09/albert-einstein-1911-12-1922-23.html
and have also been called "generic features" by Smolin I think about loop quantum gravity although I can't find the right reference right now.
What such phenomena are predicted today about theories that we don't yet have in full form ?


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Is there an easy way to change my Bash prompt to modify the colors and what text is displayed? I've heard that this is done in
.bashrc, but I haven't found any nice, easy ways of modifying it. How are colors expressed in Bash?
I once used to have those defined in my
You can then use them for example with:
These may help you.
The reason I made them into functions rather than variables is laziness. I just wanted to cut out on typing. Of course if you look for efficiency variables would be better.
At the end of the day though these only fit certain terminals. So for any help consult your terminal documentation, not that of bash or any other shell for that matter.
Bash uses the Ansi color scheme - Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors
For example, here is my prompt: (I like my prompt on a separate line, but not everyone does. Also, my terms have dark background - adjust colors if your terms are light.)
The special prompt values are described in the Bash manpage under "Prompting":


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This seems to be a struggle I have (on multiple levels). I am working to control my WIP so focus loss is reduced, but it still is inevitable. So my question is, when working on something more difficult and you are "in the zone" or "in flow state" working on a task and you have to stop (either immediately or planned) how can I better log a stop point so my start up time on that task (when I come back to it) is not as lengthy.
Immediate stop due to interuption would probably require a different approach altogether than planned stop.


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