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It should come as no surprise that Myron Mixon has an upcoming book deal. He is a walking talking BBQ business machine and he is all about gettin' paid!
It is being reported by GalleyCat that the book deal with Ballantine Trade Paperbacks will have Myron sharing tales from his travels, smoking good recipes and anecdotes and will be titled Smokin' with Myron Mixon THe book will be on the shelves May 2011.
About Myron Mixon:
I am Myron Mixon, Chief cook of Jack's Old South Competition Bar-B-Que Team. I started Jacks Old South in 1996 as a way to promote our family Bar-B-Que sauce, which was made by my mother and father, Gaye and Jack Mixon.
We competed in our first competition in Augusta, Ga. where we took 1st place in Whole Hog, 1st place in Pork Ribs and 3rd in Pork Shoulder. Since the beginning, we have won over 180 grand championships resulting in over 1700 total trophies, 30 state championships including wins in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, Arkansas, Mississippi, Kentucky, Illinois, South Carolina, and Tennessee, Team of the Year 8 times, and 11 national championships.
We have also taken three first place whole hogs at the Jack Daniels World Championship Invitational Barbeque Competition. Additionally, we have been the Grand Champion at the World Championship in Memphis three times, in 2001, 2004 and 2007. We have also taken first place in the Whole Hog category at the World Championship in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2007.
Jack's Old South has been the Memphis in May Team of the Year with the highest number of points for 8 years, from 1999 through 2004, and also 2007 and 2009. We are also the only team to win Grand Championships in Memphis in May, Kansas City BBQ Society and Florida BBQ Association in the same year.
As a result of all of our success on the various BBQ circuits, we have been featured on several television networks, including the Food Network, Discovery Channel, the History Channel,the Travel Channel and the BBQ All Stars on the Versus Network.
Mastering the art of Bar-B-Que'ing has lead to the development of our own line of Jack's Old South Grills and Smokers, as well as being the instructor for the Bar-B-Que Cooking School.
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As the bounty of summer and autumn slowly dwindles, finding food becomes increasingly challenging for wild birds. The availability of food and the changing environmental conditions determine what birds are able to eat and also what they need to eat. Wild birds adopt various strategies to cope with these changes, and suet plays an important role in their success. Suet helps wild birds prepare for the coming winter as well as the duration of the winter.
Winter Preparation and Stress
Many wild bird species migrate to warmer locations where food and other natural resources are abundant. Just as human athletes prepare for a marathon by consuming high-energy foods, our avian counterparts do the same in preparation for their annual migration. High-energy foods such as suet better prepare migratory birds for their journey.
Suet is beneficial for migratory birds and non-migratory birds alike. During their journey, migratory birds can stop for food and to refuel. However, non-migratory birds are limited to the foods available in their home range. Calorie and protein-rich foods are scarce or simply not available during winter.
As a result, non-migratory birds need to travel longer and farther in search of food. On frigid nights, they need to expend more energy generating sufficient body heat, further depleting their precious energy reserves. Needless to say, winter is a stressful period for non-migratory birds. Harsh environmental conditions, combined with inadequate diet, weaken bird immune systems, making them more susceptible to disease. Suet supplements the diet of wintering birds and encourages overall health while providing crucial energy needed to survive the winter.
What's Special About Suet?
Bird suet is made from fat. Along with protein and carbohydrates, fat plays an important role as one of the three dietary sources of calories. Fats are concentrated forms of energy and, per unit weight, provide more than twice the caloric energy as protein or carbohydrates of equivalent weight.
Fats are a source of productive energy as well as essential fatty acids and serve many crucial functions regarding growth and overall health. Fats also carry fat-soluble vitamins such as Vitamins A, D, E, and K – many having antioxidant properties.
Not Just for Winter
Many factors make suet feeding more attractive year-round. Improved,
no-melt formulas take the mess out of using it during the warm summer months. You can also find fortified varieties that contain seeds, fruits, and insects to attract a greater variety of wild birds, and to maximize the dietary benefits of suet – no matter what the season.
While birdfeeders bursting with seed constitute an extremely popular, tried-and-true way to feed backyard birds, you can draw many more birds to your yard by offering additional menu items. One of the most enticing offerings is suet.
Suet is high-protein, high-calorie, pure animal fat that provides a perfect food source for always active wild birds. It offers much needed energy for generating body heat, migration, breeding, and overall survival in often harsh conditions. Suet also frequently contains additional bird-favorite ingredients such as seed, fruits, vegetables, and insects. While suet is traditionally thought of as a winter substitute for insects, it can be presented year-round.
Thanks to a wide variety of styles and designs, you'll find a suet feeder to attract your favorite birds and satisfy your aesthetic preferences.
Traditional basket feeders enclose suet in a wide mesh that's easy for birds to cling to. Some basket feeders, such as the Deluxe Suet Buffet, have multiple compartments that let you offer more than one variety of tempting suet.
Upside-down suet feeders offer
suet through the bottom of the feeder. While smaller birds like woodpeckers, nuthatches, and chickadees easily hang from the feeder, larger birds typically do not enjoy feeding upside-down and will stay away.
Suet plug feeders and suet ball feeders make feeding especially easy, and generally allow large numbers of birds to eat simultaneously. Simply fill with suet plugs or balls, and refill as necessary. Convenient, economical refills make stocking up easy.
Suet Placement
Locate suet feeders at least five feet from the ground and close to a tree trunk. Most birds that enjoy suet cling to tree trunks in search of insects. The close proximity to the tree not only encourages feeding but will also protect the suet from the sun's heat. Since suet is prized food, once the birds discover it, they will quickly eat it up. Be sure to refill suet feeders throughout the winter. Wash your suet feeder monthly with a mild detergent. Sanitize it with a 1-part bleach/10-parts water mixture and rinse well. Let feeder dry completely before refilling.
Which Species are Attracted to Suet?
Chickadees, bluebirds, woodpeckers, mockingbirds, warblers, titmice, kinglets, nuthatches, jays, wrens, starlings, and other birds will eagerly visit your suet feeders.
Add Suet to Your Backyard Menu
By offering suet year-round, you give backyard birds a more varied diet, more essential energy, and better overall health. Plus, you'll enjoy hosting a wider variety of beautiful, interesting songbirds in your yard.
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Thyroid Cancer Treatment After RAI
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What happens after my cancer stops responding to radioactive iodine?
Marcia Brose, MD, Director of Thyroid Cancer Therapeutics Program at Penn Medicine responds,
There are many new agents in clinical trials and some that might be available outside of clinical trials. In the last 5 years, many patients have had successful treatments. The first thing you should do is have a consultation with an oncologist who has experience treating advanced thyroid cancer. Ideally, if they are an active site in research they will have access to many promising new agents that you may be able to be treated with. Experience of the oncologist is very important so I would find out how many patients like you they treat in a year, and feel free to get more than one opinion. Think of it is doing research into your options and learning more about the disease, which will help you make the best decision for you.
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This autumn will mark the unveiling of the fourth and final installment in Gucci's "Forever Now" icons of heritage advertising campaign series conceived by Creative Director Frida Giannini in collaboration with Charlotte Casiraghi. Synonymous
for style and innovation, the House's beloved Bamboo icon comes to life
in the candid, natural photographs of Ms. Casiraghi, shot by Bruce Weber.
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The debut of the legendary Bamboo bag came in 1947 when Gucci's Florentine artisans invented a creative solution to war-time rationing of materials. In an innovative move, craftsmen employed bamboo cane, which could still be imported from Japan, as a handbag handle by heating the material and bending it into a semi-circle. Taking its cue from the curves of a horse's saddle, the structured, ladylike shape gained recognition as a triumph of Florentine workmanship and quickly transcended time with its undeniably polished glamour. While the original was a pebbled pigskin bag, during the Fifties and Sixties countless variations went into production and graced the hands of royalty and silver screen sirens – marking the bag's destiny as an iconic Gucci design.
Designed by Frida Giannini, the New Bamboo bag remains faithful to the workmanship of its predecessor – comprising130 separate pieces and requiring a Gucci artisan up to two days to craft. Today Bamboo is an instantly recognizable symbol distinguishing a handbag as a Gucci piece. True to the House's codes of luxury, the material's glossy golden hue is a signature of the artisan's work using a flame and applying lacquer to achieve a unique color on each piece. Under Giannini's creative direction, the fire-turned cane has evolved to characterize new designs including this season's Bamboo Shopper and Lady Lock handbags. Giannini has also integrated Bamboo into signature eyewear and timepieces.
The images from the new "Forever Now" campaign will appear worldwide from October, in newspapers and fashion and lifestyle magazines complementing the House's seasonal fashion campaigns. Unveiled in March 2012, the campaign series sees Charlotte Casiraghi portrayed by the world's most respected fashion and portrait photographers in a series of sittings celebrating the House's icons. The previous three installments saw Ms. Casiraghi portrayed by Peter Lindbergh, Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, and Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, respectively.
The first "Forever Now" advertising campaign series was launched in Autumn 2010, in the run up to Gucci's 90th anniversary, and featured original black and white photography of Gucci's Florentine Artisans from its Archive.
The first "Forever Now" advertising campaign series was launched in Autumn 2010, in the run up to Gucci's 90th anniversary, and featured original black and white photography of Gucci's Florentine Artisans from its Archive.


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- Typhoon Nepartak: Taiwan on high alert as storm approaches (Jul 7) - BBC News
- In race to be Asia's fintech hub, Singapore leads Hong Kong (Jul 3) - Reuters
- BMW said to team with Intel, Mobileye on self-driving cars (Jun 30) - Bloomberg
- Oracle ordered to pay US$3bn to HP after losing lawsuit (Jul 1) - Finacial Times
- Digitimes Research: 4 million 9.7-inch iPad Pros to ship in 1H16
- Digitimes Research: Global all-in-one PC shipments to drop 3.9% on year in 2015
- Mentor Graphics Veloce VirtuaLAB adds protocols for networking designs
- Mouser Electronics undergoing expansion
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- Pegatron sees weak 2Q16; expected to have strong 3Q16, says paper
- Digitimes Research: MWC Shanghai focuses on smart services
- Vendors to launch smartphones supporting biometrics recognition
- China market: Oppo raises 2016 smartphone shipment target to 100 million units, says paper
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- Epistar hikes prices for large-size LED chips due to higher DLC standards
- Latin America on track to install 2.7GW of solar-PV capacity in 2016, IHS says
- ASML expects to post record sales for 2016
- Corning unveils Gorilla Glass 5
- Rebound in notebooks in Western Europe boosted PC shipments in EMEA in 2Q16, says IDC
- Adlink-invested measurement product firm JYTek to push into China, says paper
- Silicon Motion raises 2016 revenue outlook
- Taiwan June manufacturing production index down on month, up on year, says MOEA
- Ardentec to buy 75% stake in Giga
- Gudeng lands wafer carrier orders from SMIC, says paper
- Epistar AlGaInP LED chip order visibility through October, says paper
- MSI becomes the largest gaming notebook vendor worldwide, says paper
- Wistron slightly reduces 2015 dividend
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Florida Sheriffs Task Force Announces Latest Operation
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For Immediate Release
October 26, 2012 (Fort Lauderdale, FL) – The Broward Sheriff's Office in partnership with The Florida Sheriffs Task Force recently launched an initiative to remove felons from Florida's streets. Operation: Felon Sweep focused on removing violent felons, felons with outstanding warrants, and sexual offenders and predators from our communities.
BSO was proud to take an active role in this initiative and to lead the charge in Broward County. During the three-week operation, BSO conducted multiple operations dealing with elderly exploitation, contractor fraud, domestic violence, sexual predators and robbery. BSO also organized a large-scale, multi-agency operation.
"The Broward Sheriff's Office is proud to do its part to take felons off the streets," Sheriff Al Lamberti said. "When law enforcement works together, criminals don't stand a chance."
The Florida Sheriffs Taskforce is proud to have coordinated this effort to make Florida's streets safer for its citizens. This operation combined efforts from 44 Sheriff's Offices and focused on removing violent felons and felons with outstanding warrants off the streets. In Broward County, the operation resulted in 1,093 arrests, seizures of 69 firearms, 213,575 grams of marijuana, 753 grams of cocaine, 9.475 grams of heroin, 1,576 prescription pills, 44 vehicles and $98, 857.
"Felonies are taken very seriously and we at the Florida Sheriffs Association are proud to lead this initiative to get criminals off the streets," said FSA President, Sheriff Susan Benton. "The Florida Sheriffs Task Force will continue to work tirelessly to make Florida one of the safest states in the country."
The Florida Sheriffs Task Force pools resources from the 67 Sheriffs' Offices to address specific areas of concern. Past task forces have dealt with issues such as cyber sexual predators, prescription drug abuse and "deadbeat dads." The Florida Sheriffs Task Force also is the point of contact for statewide initiatives, including helping to staff the State Emergency Operations Center and coordinating Sheriffs' offices responding to storm-ravaged communities during hurricanes and other catastrophic disasters.
The Florida Sheriffs Association is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 corporation made up of the Sheriffs of Florida, approximately 3,500 business leaders and 70,000 citizens throughout the state. Founded in 1893, FSA has quietly served the citizens of Florida by supporting the needs of the state's law enforcement community. Through the Florida Sheriffs Association, Sheriffs are given a forum to address lawmakers to push for positive changes in Florida's public safety arena. FSA also provides Sheriffs' Offices much-needed programs such as affordable training, special task forces and legislative and legal services. Dedicated to the prevention of juvenile delinquency and the development of lawful, productive citizens, FSA has established and funded the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches with facilities throughout the state to help restore hope, fulfill dreams, and prepare boys and girls for the future. It has grown to be one of the largest and most successful state law enforcement associations in the nation. For more information on the Florida Sheriffs Association, visit www.flsheriffs.org.
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I am trying to fit a non-standard PDF to data and
FindDistributionParameters works great, and gives me the parameters of the distribution back using maximum likelihood, but I cannot find a way to get Mathematica to spit out the standard errors (or confidence intervals) for those estimated parameters. Anyone knows how to do it, or should I just go to a different program, i.e. MATLAB?
I am trying to fit a non-standard PDF to data and
Under some conditions which are outlined on wikipedia's maximum likelihood page,
Here is some code that will compute these asymptotic standard errors (provided the log-likelihood is symbolically differentiable).
A possibility is to use a parametric bootstrap. It works as follows:
Using Darren's example:
Pretty close, eh?
The advantage of this method is that the conditions for this to be valid are weaker than Darren's. It is conceptually easier, and requires just two lines of code. The disadvantage is that it is slow (about 20 s in this example, which can be reduced to 10 seconds as Mr.Alpha rightly remarks using
Generating 95% confidence intervals is pretty easy too:
The following code is a minor contribution to the idea given by Mr. Sjoerd C. de Vries. After reading HOW TO|Perform a Bootstrap Analysis in the Mathematica Help Browser, I just found a code to deal with the same thing in a slightly different way:
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A Louisville middle school principal has been fired for unprofessional conduct, making malicious comments about students and staff and failing to treat people with dignity and respect.
The Courier-Journal obtained documents through an open records request that showed Bill Anderson, the principal of Western Middle School in Jefferson County Public Schools, was terminated on Nov. 27.
An investigation into his behavior began in August after several staff and community members complained. JCPS Superintendent Donna Hargens wrote in his termination letter that he used profanity, made inappropriate comments and intimidated staff at the school.
Anderson did not return calls for comment from the newspaper, but his attorney said Anderson was not going to appeal the termination. He was hired in 2010.


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Seattle Parks and Recreation acquired the Walt Hundley Playfield at High Point, from the Seattle Housing Authority in 1977. The 11-acre playfield was developed in 1980, and consists of two baseball fields and a lighted turf soccer field used primarily by recreational sports groups.
The playfield name honors Walter R. Hundley, who was the first African-American superintendent for Seattle Parks and Recreation � a position he held from 1977 to 1988. Mr. Hundley was instrumental in acquiring the High Point site for the community center and playfield. The park was named during his tenure to reflect the proximity to the High Point Public Housing Development.
Mr. Hundley was dedicated to parks, recreational facilities, green belts and open spaces. A graduate of Yale University, he came to Seattle as a minister, but later decided on a career in public service. He was a highly visible member of the Civil Rights movement in Seattle, and was the former administrator of the Central Area Motivation Project. He was director of the Model Cities Program and Director of the City of Seattle�s Office of Management and Budget.
Mr. Hundley died in 2002 after a long battle with kidney disease.
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#12. Greatest Note Ever Left on a Dented Car
Dear Car Owner,
You may have noticed the dent on the left side of your car. If not, allow me to draw your attention to it now. As you can see, it is there, and so is this note, and now two and two are getting put together in your head. Allow me to confirm your suspicions: The dent and note are connected. I have dented your car and wish to apologize for it ...
#11. 7 Movies That Put Insane Detail into Stuff You Never Noticed
We've mentioned before how film directors occasionally go a little bit crazy when it comes to certain minor details, including ones that 99 percent of the audience are never even going to see. A horrifying amount of time and work go into things that will be forever unnoticed by everyone except a few members of the crew. So let's again take a moment to appreciate the awesomely obsessive ...
#10. 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America
When it comes to the birth of America, most of us are working from a stew of elementary school history lessons, Westerns, and vague Thanksgiving mythology. And while it's not surprising that those sources might biff a couple details, what's shocking is how much less interesting the version we learned was. It turns out our teachers, Hollywood, and whoever we got our Thanksgiving mythology from (Big Turkey?) all made America's origin story far more boring than it actually was for some very disturbing reasons. For instance ...
#9. 6 Real People With Mind-Blowing Mutant Superpowers
We've all dreamed of having superpowers at some point (today), but the majority of us have to accept the sobering reality that preternatural abilities simply aren't possible. That is, except for some rare cases of real, actual people with bona fide powers that defy explanation (and in some cases practical application).
For instance ...
#8. 6 Famous Symbols That Don't Mean What You Think
The entire point of using a symbol is that it conveys meaning and saves space -- you see one picture of a stick figure in a dress and you no longer need the phrase "This is the place where female humans can discharge waste." But what is fascinating is that sometimes the meaning of a symbol will get lost to history, but we just keep right on using it anyway.
But would we do that if we knew ...
#7. The 5 Stupidest Habits You Develop Growing Up Poor
As some of you know, until the last couple of years, I was poor as shit. The first 18 years, I was a kid and couldn't do anything about it. The next 17, I was still a kid and wouldn't do anything about it. I take full responsibility for that, and I don't point a finger at anyone for the way I lived. I dug my own hole.
But along the way, a few miracles happened (including landing a job that doesn't suck), and I've finally found myself living the way I always pictured a normal person would: bills paid, groceries in the fridge, and two gold-plated nude statues of myself standing proudly in my front yard.
But as anybody who's been through the poverty gauntlet can tell you, it changes a person. And it doesn't go away just because you're no longer fighting hobos for their moonshine. For instance ...
#6. 6 Mind-Blowing Special Effects You Won't Believe Aren't CGI
Computer generated images are like the foam sets of the present era: 20 years from now, people are going to laugh their asses off at the fact that this stuff looked even remotely real to us.
That's why, as we've mentioned before, there are still filmmakers doing special effects the old-fashioned way -- even if the results are so impressive that you'd never know it's not CGI ...
#5. 5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women
If you're not the type to keep up with ugly, soul-killing political controversies, let me catch you up: A while back, hugely popular political commentator Rush Limbaugh lost a bunch of advertisers because he publicly called a college girl a slut and a prostitute after she suggested that health insurance plans should cover birth control. But he's paid to say outrageous things. If you really want to feel all dead inside, you need to listen to what the regular folk were saying.
This current of white-hot rage has to come as a surprise to some of you, because we tend to think "sexism" is being dismissive toward women, or paying them lower salaries -- we don't think of it as frenzied "Burn the witch!" hatred. Yet occasionally something like this Limbaugh thing will come along to prick that balloon, and out it pours. Like it's always waiting there, a millimeter below the surface.
Why? Well, you see ...
#4. 6 Things Rich People Need to Stop Saying
All of a sudden, it's like you can't make huge amounts of money without people getting all pissed off about it. And it's only going to get worse -- with the election coming up and the weather getting warmer, this whole "Occupy" movement is probably going to come back strong. The 1 percent will feel even more besieged than before.
"What the hell?" you're probably thinking, if you're somehow both rich and reading an article with this title, "I didn't crash the economy!" You might even be tempted to take to a microphone to defend yourself and your wealthy friends. But before you do, I want you to stop and ask yourself, "Will this make me sound like an out-of-touch douchebag?"
#3. 5 True Stories Cut from Movies for Being Too Unrealistic
As we've repeatedly pointed out, in Hollywood the words "Based on a True Story" are usually just a code for "Vaguely Resembling a True Story, but Mostly Bullshit." Sometimes, the filmmakers feel like they have to lie and make up stuff to make the story more interesting -- but it turns out that other times, they actually have to cut stuff that really happened because it's all so awesome that no one would believe it.
Here are some mind-blowing moments from real life that Hollywood decided were too fantastic, even for their movies.
#2. 14 Photographs That Shatter Your Image of Famous People
When you step out the door, you're playing a role. Whether you're a hippie, stock broker, police officer, or biker, you dress the way the world expects you to dress, you act the way the world expects you to act. So you can imagine how much more intense this is for celebrities, whose very careers depend on managing a public image down to the molecule.
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2013, motherfuckers. Yeah! LET'S DO THIS.
"Do what?" you ask. I DON'T KNOW. LET'S FIGURE THAT OUT TOGETHER, MOTHERFUCKERS.
Feel free to stop reading this if your career is going great, you're thrilled with your life, and you're happy with your relationships. Enjoy the rest of your day, friend, this article is not for you. You're doing a great job, we're all proud of you.
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Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday that his social media site had hit the milestone.
"This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month," he said. "Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life."
Topping the 1 billion mark means that Facebook now reaches one out of every 7 people on the planet.
The ubiquitous social media giant that was famously created in a Harvard dorm room hasn't had much trouble attracting new members.
While its growth in North America and Europe has leveled off, Facebook continues sucking in new users throughout Asia and the developing world. It has a presence in more than 200 sovereign territories, according to stats tracked by All Facebook, which draws on data Facebook provides to advertisers, and an empire that stretches from a mere 20 users in Vatican City to more than 166 million in the United States.
It took Facebook six years to hit the 500 million user mark and barely two to double it. Facebook's total membership grew nearly 30% over the past year, but in hot regions like Brazil, its membership doubled. (Sorry, Orkut.)
From a money-making standpoint, not all of those users are created equal.
Less than 20% of Facebook's users live in the U.S. and Canada, but those users account for 48% of the $992 million in advertising revenue that Facebook took in last quarter. Facebook makes an average of $3.20 each quarter in revenue off its North American users, versus just 55 cents from those in Asia.
Increasing those figures is one of Facebook's top corporate priorities. Investors remain leery of Facebook, whose shares have fallen more than 40% since the company's rocky public debut in May. Facebook (FB) shares rose more than 1% at the start of Thursday trading.
The company is also scrambling to increase its foothold in the mobile world, the next big battleground for social networks. By the end of this year, there will be more mobile devices on Earth than people, according to forecasts from Cisco (CSCO, Fortune 500).
Half of Facebook's users access the site at least once a month through mobile devices, and a whopping 102 million users -- more than 10% of the site's membership -- only use Facebook's mobile site.
Building a better mobile experience is one of Facebook's top priorities, Zuckerberg said in a recent interview: "That's the future."
Research firm eMarketer recently predicted that Facebook's annual mobile ad revenue will hit $629 million by 2014, putting it second only to Google (GOOG, Fortune 500). But for 2012, eMarketer estimates Facebook's mobile sales at a scant $73 million -- a pittance among the $5 billion in revenue that analysts expect Facebook to rack up this year.


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WACO (December 5, 2012)--Three boys and a girl were in hot water Wednesday with administrators at Waco's Cesar Chavez Middle School after two of them were caught Tuesday just before they got into a fight and two others were found with what the district described as inoperable handguns.
Waco Independent School District spokesman Dale Caffey said one boy was found with a cap gun and a girl was found with what Caffey described as a non-working BB gun.
Caffey said the principal told him the BB gun wasn't fired, but a mother told News 10 her son was struck in the leg by a BB.
The cap gun, Caffey said, was just a toy.
Two other boys who were on the verge of throwing punches were separated and taken to the principal's office before they actually began to fight.
Caffey said between 8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. there was a large group of students waiting for class to begin in the school's gymnasium and that's where the incidents happened.
He also said he was not aware that any citations were issued by WISD police.
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Unholy Matrimony
Ask not for whom the wedding bell tolls, it tolls for Judith McMonigle Flynn's son Mike--and the Hillside Manor b&b is packed to the rafters with relatives. However, Mama Judith's unrestrained joy is somewhat dampened when, during the rehearsal dinner downtown, she spies a tuxedo-clad gent tossing a bridal-gowned beauty off the roof of a nearby hotel. Always one to eagerly exclaim "I do " when offered the opportunity to investigate nefarious deeds, Judith's determination to unveil a killer could put undo stress on her own marital bliss with policeman-hubby Joe. But she remains wedded to her mission--and she's not about to take a honeymoon from amateur sleuthing until she's gotten to the bottom of the homicidal hanky-panky surrounding a match made in hell.
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Mary Richardson Daheim is a Seattle native with a communications degree from the University of Washington. Realizing at an early age that getting published in books with real covers might elude her for years, she worked on daily newspapers and in public relations to help avoid her creditors. She lives in her hometown in a century-old house not unlike Hillside Manor, except for the body count. Daheim is also the author of the Alpine mystery series and the mother of three daughters.


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5 Badass Movie Characters You Didn't Know Were Real People
We could go on and on about all the ways Hollywood fucks up movies supposedly based on true stories. There's nothing Hollywood does worse than realism.
But it works the other way, also. It turns out some of the most grossly unrealistic characters--from over-the-top crime bosses to gimmicky serial killers to flamboyant, wise-cracking cops--were based on real people. Characters like...
#5. "Dirty" Harry Callahan From Dirty Harry
In the Badass Olympics, there is one badass who takes the competition, shoves a .44 Magnum into their face, growls something Batman-esque and proceeds to paint the sidewalk with their cranial matter. That man is Harry Callahan, and even if you've got a prostate the size of Antarctica, you can be damn sure you'll be pissing your pants when he comes to town.
In the first Dirty Harry film, Clint Eastwood's Callahan was an inspector for the San Francisco Police Department. When he wasn't busy killing hippies and trying to preserve what little masculinity was left in that city, he was on the trail of Scorpio, a depraved serial killer who loved to taunt the police. Since no one taunts Harry Callahan and gets away with it, he'd pretty much signed his own death warrant at that point.
Yeah, kind of a mismatch.
The Real Guy: Dave Toschi
As it turns out, Dirty Harry, one of the baddest motherfuckers ever to grace the screen, was inspired by this dude on the left:
Well, that bow tie is pretty awesome.
Dave Toschi was, like Dirty Harry, an inspector in the San Francisco Police Department and, strangely, Dirty Harry wasn't the first--or last--time somebody would work him into a movie. The flamboyant-even-for-San-Francisco cop would serve as the inspiration for 1968's Bullitt, in which the main character (Steve McQueen's Frank Bullitt) was based on Toschi, complete with an upside-down quick-draw shoulder holster.
It was actually in the couple of years after Bullitt when Toschi would gain nationwide fame as one of the investigators tracking down the real-life Zodiac killer. For the second time, Toschi made such an impression that a Hollywood writer ran home and tried to work him into a screenplay.
Thus, in 1971, Toschi would see another fictionalized version of himself on the silver screen, in the form of Dirty Harry, where Harry hunts down the "Scorpio" killer. The difference being that while the Zodiac case never got solved, Dirty Harry finds Scorpio and kills his fucking ass.
So were filmmakers suggesting that Toschi secretly capped the Zodiac killer in his off hours and left his body floating face-down in a quarry? Not exactly. Dirty Harry writer John Milius said the whole "shoot the fucker and save on the trial" aspect of Dirty Harry was inspired by another cop, a friend of his in Long Beach who remained unnamed, probably to avoid the wrath of Internal Affairs.
Here's where it gets bizarre: In 2007, Toschi would then see himself on screen a third time, this time under his real name, played by Mark Ruffalo in David Fincher's Zodiac.
That film actually portrays the character Toschi attending a showing of Dirty Harry. The real Toschi worked as an advisor on Zodiac, which means at some point the real Toschi attended a screening of a film portraying him, played by an actor, attending a screening of a different film portraying him, played by a different actor.
We're thinking all we need is for somebody to make a Dave Toschi biopic, where they can include a scene portraying him attending the screening of Zodiac, and then the real Toschi could attend that screening, where he would then be watching a screening of himself watching a screening of himself watching a screening of a movie about himself. Mind blown? Now imagine the Toschi biopic stars Clint Eastwood.
#4. Frank Costello From The Departed
As the chief Irish mob boss in Boston, Jack Nicholson's Frank Costello had his work cut out for him. His responsibilities included overseeing a vague criminal empire, committing frequent Scorsese-style murders and making Matt "Jason Motherfucking Bourne" Damon his little bitch.
One has to wonder how he can pull all this mayhem off while still managing to evade capture from such law enforcement agencies as the Boston Police Department, the State Police and the FBI, considering the way he openly taunts law enforcement and basically lived the "larger than life" crime lord archetype.
Pretty much played him as the Joker minus makeup.
Of course it certainly helps that he's got a mole infiltrating the State Police. When one of the primary threats to your way of life is the interference of the cops, it's beneficial to your well-being to have one of their most trusted officers tell you exactly what they are up to.
"Hmm, Damon says 'Marky Mark's gunna fuk u up.' "
On top of that, Costello is (spoiler!) a secret FBI informant, creating a web of deceit and counter-deceit that seems a little ridiculous when you try to map it all out. Nobody could really keep that kind of scam going.
The Real Guy: James "Whitey" Bulger
Meet "Whitey" Bulger, a real Irish mob boss from Boston who had an agent on the inside acting as a mole, while he himself was an informant for the FBI.
Although The Departed is essentially a remake of the Hong Kong movie Infernal Affairs, the role of the mob boss was expanded for the Hollywood version and the setting moved to Boston, Bulger's old stomping grounds. Some old members of Bulger's crew even served as advisors for the film.
Through decades of illegal activity and gangland slayings (accompanied, presumably, by an awesome Rolling Stones soundtrack), Bulger became the most powerful underworld force in the city. Like Nicholson's character, he became notorious to the point that everyone knew who he was and what he did. Yet he still managed to stay out of jail for quite some time.
But like Costello, he informed to the FBI on those below him, all part of his "let me see how big a piece of shit I can become" campaign. In return, John Connolly, a damn FBI agent, served as a mole, providing Bulger with protection.
It was his activities as a drug trafficker which eventually led to his downfall at the hands of the DEA. But don't worry kids, he went on the run and is still out there!
And apparently looks like the pedophile from Family Guy.
#3. Zorro
As we have previously pointed out, before there was Batman, there was Zorro.
Zorro was first introduced to the world in 1919, by Johnston McCulley. Cracked first deemed Zorro culturally significant in 1998, when Catherine Zeta-Jones appeared in The Mask of Zorro.
By day, Zorro is Diego de la Vega, a wealthy but boring, self-centered loser with no ambition or interests. However, by night, Master Bru- excuse us, Diego, dons his signature costume, emerges from his underground hideout and enforces justice throughout California, punishing the criminals and evading the authorities. Zorro is athletic and sly, sly like a fox ('cause that's what his name means).
The Real Guy: Joaquin Murrieta
In the 19th century, Joaquin Murrieta was the leader of an outlaw group known as "The Five Joaquins," consisting of--and we're serious here--himself and four other dudes name Joaquin.
The gang allegedly committed numerous thefts throughout Sierra Nevada; legend has it that the group used the money to provide the impoverished people of California with assistance. Sadly, this didn't go over too well with the governor, and he created a posse to catch Murrieta and his companions.
The posse claimed to confront Murrieta, killing him, and, in the old-school style of law and order, severing his head to prove that they did the deed. Strangely, this scene was never included in the Disney television series of Zorro, though Hollywood did give a shout-out to Murrieta by including a character by that name in The Mask of Zorro (who does in fact get killed and beheaded).
Murrieta quickly became a legend and folk hero, developing a reputation as an outlaw vigilante who fought for justice. Some stories claim that his quest started when his wife was attacked, but that the white-bread establishment of the time wouldn't let him testify against her attackers.
The writers of Zorro had their inspiration, and we don't blame them. That sounds like a superhero origin story to us, too.


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So so.
Why would you even bump this shit?
Why would you do that?
Panza's sick in the head.
But it was Glowie what done bumped the thread.
Also I hope this is current gen because I'm a stick in the mud.
What is this "fun" that they speak of...?
That's what troubles me, deep in my heart. It keeps me up at night. Sure I blame it on the looters and marauding packs of hooligans, but it's this game and the consequences of it making a pact with the next generation of consoles that truly keeps me restless.
I stand by my original diagnosis of Panza's head.
I never should have agreed to visit your psychiatric office
Blankety Blank.
Damn you for putting that theme tune in my head.
If the game looks even a tenth as cool as the concept art it will already be a hundred times more interesting than Halo ever was.
F2P MMO FPS? It looks like Planetside 2 but bigger and badder.


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5 of the Funniest Mr. Show Sketches
In today's interview, Tim and Eric, creators of Adult Swim's first live-action sketch show, acknowledge that their new comic creation is inspired by the HBO comedy series Mr. Show. With a number of great sketch shows hitting the air that seem to owe something to Bob Odenkirk and David Cross's inspired weirdness (Aziz Ansari's Human Giant and Sarah Silverman's new "sitcom" both come to mind), we thought it was time to take a look back at five of our favorite Mr. Show sketches.
Highlight:Probably when Odenkirk tells a female GloboChem employee who objects to the swearing that he, "doesn't come down to where you work and slap the dick out of your mouth."
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What would you do if you see a notion which you used to work with has two names and the same name you use for this notion is used for another notion too. For example, after the work of J.B. Bost, A. Connes, (Hecke algebras, type III factors and phase transition with spontaneous symmetry breaking in number theory. Selecta Math. (New Series) Vol.1, no.3, 411-456, (1995)), in operator algebras community people call a subgroup $H$ of a group $G$ almost normal if every double coset of $H$, like $HgH$ is the union of finitely left cosets. It is equivalent to say that $H$ is almost normal if it is commensurable with its conjugates. Therefore in group theory people call such a subgroup conjugate commensurable. In stead, in group theory people call a subgroup $H$ of a group $G$ almost normal if its normalizer is of finite index in $G$. Now if I use the word conjugate commensurable for the above notion it is confusing in operator algebras community and if I use almost normal it can be confused with group theorists' notion of almost normal subgroups. What is the best way to deal with these sort of problems.
To start with the obvious, in a given work you should conform to the usage that the majority of your readers expect. A second principle is that you should work out some reasonable system for your own work and follow that consistently. In cases where you expect readers from both camps, you will need to frequently draw your readers' attention to the meaning of your notation.
This is not a problem you can solve, you just have to find a solution you can live with. And whatever you find, your referees will disagree with you (and possibly with each other).
About your example, "almost something" is often a bad choice of terminology, and as ambiguous as possible. When a terminology is ambiguous and some other better terminology is available (in your example, "commensurated subgroup" is used, see for instance this paper by Conner and Mihalik and the references therein).
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Today is the last day of Kentucky's regular session, and the controversial industrial hemp bill is still on the table.
As legislators meet to decide the fate of industrial hemp in Kentucky several questions are left unanswered in the agriculture community.
If the bill passes through the house, the University of Kentucky will start the research phase of industrial hemp.
"Even though it hasn't passed yet we are still doing some preliminary market research to find out where the market will be or what will be the strongest market for our Kentucky producers, nut the other thing would be actually implementing some research plots on some of our research farms," says Joanna Coles, University of Kentucky Warren County Extension Office for Agriculture Agent.
Coles says its most important to look at the profitability how farmers should go about raising hemp, and the equipment it might take.
"What the market research shows is that we import a lot of hemp, so if we can raise it right here and be profitable for our Kentucky farmers then that would be a win-win situation," Coles says.
Coles says much of the imported hemp comes from Canada.
Industrial hemp has been grown in Canada since 1998.
Farmers there earn about $250 per acre for hemp, while Kentucky farmers earn upwards of $700 per acre on cash crops like corn.
Simpson County extension agent Jason Phillips says that will probably be a different situation in Kentucky.
"I think there situation is different than ours their climate is different, their soil types are different so I just think there are certain things that can glean from their situations such as marketability of the product, but not so much agronomic practices," says Jason Phillips, University of Kentucky Simpson County Extension Office for Agriculture Agent.
Hemp has not been a legal crop in Kentucky since 1860, and Kentucky farmers could soon find out if they will be able to grow industrial hemp in the future.
Coles says industrial hemp has the potential to be used for food, fibers, and energy in Kentucky.


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The relationship between DISC1 and neuropsychiatric...
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The relationship between DISC1 and neuropsychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder, has now been observed in several studies. Moreover, a number of studies have demonstrated that DISC1 appears to impact neurocognitive function. Nevertheless, the molecular mechanisms by which DISC1 could contribute to impaired CNS function are unclear, and these two papers shed light on this critical issue.
Millar et al. (2005) have followed the same strategy that they so successfully utilized in their initial DISC1 studies, identifying a translocation that associated with a psychotic illness. In contrast to DISC1, in which a pedigree was identified with a number of translocation carriers, this manuscript is based upon the identification of a single translocation carrier, who appears to manifest classic signs of schizophrenia, without evidence of mood dysregulation. Two genes are disrupted by this translocation: cadherin 8 and phosphodiesterase 4B (PDE4B). The researchers' elegant set of experiments provides compelling biological evidence that PDE4B interacts with DISC1 and suggests a mechanism mediated by cAMP for DISC1/PDE4B effects on basic molecular processes underlying learning, memory, and perhaps psychosis. It remains possible that PDE4B (and DISC1) are proteins fundamentally involved in cognitive processes, and that the observed relationship to psychotic illnesses represents a final common pathway of neurocognitive impairment. This would be consistent with data from our group (Lencz et al., in press) demonstrating that verbal memory impairment specifically predicts onset of psychosis in at-risk subjects. Similarly, Burdick et al. (2005) found that our DISC1 risk genotypes (Hodgkinson et al., 2004) were associated with impaired verbal working memory. Finally, Callicott et al. (2005) found that a DISC1 risk SNP, Ser704Cys, predicted hippocampal dysfunction, an SNP which we (DeRosse et al., unpublished data) have also found to link with the primary psychotic symptoms (persecutory delusions) manifested by the patient in the Millar et al. study. This body of evidence supports the notion that these proteins play fundamental roles in the key clinical manifestations of schizophrenia.
Kamiya et al. (2005) provide another potential mechanism for these effects, suggesting that a DISC1 mutation may disrupt cerebral cortical development, hinting that studies examining the role of DISC1 genotypes on brain structure and function in the at-risk schizophrenia pediatric patients may be fruitful.
Taken together, these papers add considerable new data suggesting that DISC1 plays a key role in the etiology of schizophrenia, and places DISC1 at the forefront of the rapidly growing body of schizophrenia candidate genes.
References:Burdick KE, Hodgkinson CA, Szeszko PR, Lencz T, Ekholm JM, Kane JM, Goldman D, Malhotra AK. DISC1 and neurocognitive function in schizophrenia. Neuroreport 2005; 16(12):1399-1402. Abstract
Callicott JH, Straub RE, Pezawas L, Egan MF, Mattay VS, Hariri AR, Verchinski BA, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Balkissoon R, Kolachana B, Goldberg TE, Weinberger DR. Variation in DISC1 affects hippocampal structure and function and increases risk for schizophrenia. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2005; 102(24): 8627-8632. Abstract
Hodgkinson CA, Goldman D, Jaeger J, Persaud S, Kane JM, Lipsky RH, Malhotra AK. Disrupted in Schizophrenia (DISC1): Association with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder. Am J Hum Genet 2004; 75:862-872. Abstract
Lencz T, Smith CW, McLaughlin D, Auther A, Nakayama E, Hovey L, Cornblatt BA. Generalized and specific neurocognitive deficits in prodromal schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry (in press).
This study describes an interesting genetic link between...
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This study describes an interesting genetic link between PDE4B (phosphodiesterase 4B) and schizophrenia that may be related to a physical interaction with DISC1 (disrupted in schizophrenia 1), another gene associated with the psychiatric disorder. The study is highly suggestive of a role for the PDE4B/DISC1 complex in schizophrenia. However, the mechanistic model suggested by the authors whereby DISC1 sequesters PDE4B in an inactive state seems overly speculative, given the results presented in this paper and in prior studies that have examined the regulation of PDE4B by phosphorylation in the absence of DISC1.
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Eva Stachniak was born in Wrocław, Poland. She moved to Canada in 1981 and has worked for Radio Canada International and Sheridan College, where she taught English and humanities. Her debut novel, Necessary Lies, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 2000. Her first novel of Catherine the Great, The Winter Palace, was included in The Washington Post's 2011 list of most notable fiction. Stachniak lives in Toronto, where she is at work on her next novel.


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will amazon match this?
also, how will i decide whether to get it on xbox or ps3?
@cerberez: Since this is a one day deal, Amazon will probably not price match this. If they did, I'd jump on it in a second.
Not too sure how much I really need this game though... Seems like it's gonna a little too much plain FPS for my taste. Anyway, I'm too much on the fence to be able to jump on a one day deal for this.
@cerberez: Why do you care if Amazon matches it? It's got free shipping. Does Newegg charge tax? I didn't think they did.
Aw, already over.
@blaze192: It still works. You need to log in to apply the code.
still working for me xbox vers! Just had to put code in @ checkout1
@wnyx585am: Amazon generally gives launch day shipping to preorders. Newegg's free shipping is 3 day. Not a big deal for me, since you're saving $17 and don't have to dink around with gift cards.
@wnyx585am: Depends on your State. In New Jersey we pay sales tax on Newegg but not Amazon.
Awesome deal. I also used a $10 gift card they issued me so this only cost me $32.99! awesome price for a new game even without the gift card. Newegg has really steeped up their game on preordered video games. Batman, Battlefield 3, Modern warfare 3, and many others under $50 bucks!
Newegg generally charges tax on orders to destinations in New Jersey, California, and Tennessee, where they have a physical presence.
This works out well for me, because there's no tax on orders to New York, and if the item ships UPS from their New Jersey warehouse, I get it the next business day.
@brambleheart: Amazon usually does launch day delivery, you get the game the day it's released, usually by UPS.
newegg ships monday of release week same as amazon, but since their free shipping is 3 day and not 2 you get it Wednesday instead of tuesday. still easily worth the 17$ off in this case. Especially when amazon has no exclusive preorder bonus.


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/projects/mymath$ ls
__init__.py __init__.pyc mymath.py mymath.pyc tests
and under the directory
tests I have
/projects/mymath/tests/features$ ls
steps.py steps.pyc zero.feature
I tried to import my factorial function
#import mymath
from mymath.MyMath import factorial
But it said No module named MyMath.
Here is my dummy
MyMath class.
class MyMath(object):
def factorial(self, number):
if n <= 1:
return 1
return n * factorial(n-1)
So what's wrong? Thanks. Is this even a good practice (editing the sys path?)
This will work
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2 Jul 2011 3:03 AM #1
BoxSelect for Ext 4, another implementation
when I discovered this thread by kveeiv, I was already almost through porting BoxSelect to Ext 4 (I decided to base my code on BoxSelect rather than SuperBoxSelect, because I found the code cleaner and more concise).
After downloading and trying kveeiv's implementation, I decided to carry on with my own implementation, as to me it seems that kveeiv's version is essentially a multiselect combobox that displays the selected values differently (i.e. as little boxes instead of a comma-separated list) which is not what I needed. I needed the behaviour of the original BoxSelect. Also, I was having problems using queryMode=remote with kveeiv's implementation.
So in case anyone else is interested in it, here is my shot at it. In the end it's become more of a rewrite than a port of the original boxselect and it extends the original features: in addition to supporting LEFT and RIGHT for keyboard navigation, it supports SHIFT for selecting multiple values (by keyboard or mouse) and CTRL+A to select all values.
Also, it fully works with queryMode=remote, even better than the original combobox which I think is still having problems when the value you try to set is currently not in the local store, because the local store always only contains a subset of the remote store (if you are interested, see this).
So if BoxSelect cannot find the value you are trying to set, in queryMode remote it assumes that the value is simply not loaded and sends a query to the store with a parameter named by valueField and all selected values as a comma-separated list as its value.
There is hardly any documentation in my code for the moment, but I will add it, if anyone is interested (no need to add it for myself).
- Configuration is basically like a ComboBox.
- setValue accepts an array of valueField values, an array of Model instances or an array of data objects.
- setRawValue accepts a comma-separated string of valueField values
- getValue and getRawValue return a comma-separated string of valueField values
If this is of any use to you, have a go at it and support me by reporting back problems and questions so that I can fix them. Or if anyone wants to set up a live demo...
- emptyText now working, both if placeholders are supported and if not
- text cursor over whole field
- displayTpl is used to render the value
- the selection/highlighting of item boxes is kept when the field loses focus and getSelectedItems() gives you access to them
4 Jul 2011 7:11 AM #2
Thanks, I'll give it a try once I find time to port our app to ExtJS 4 which requires some UX to be ported first.
12 Jul 2011 4:20 AM #3
Just downloaded your code,after reading your post I feel confident about it, I hope it works for me.
Some documentation would have been really nice.I Meet Challenge with Excitement & My Only Gossip is Love
12 Jul 2011 4:28 AM #4
Great Work Kudos, I don't think will be having any issue, but will surely let you know if I have.
Once again great Job and Thank you very much for sharing your work.
Notes: In case you wanted to know about the issues:
- emtyText not fully visible, also after selecting a value it still remains thr.
- The mouse pointer does not changes, which makes you feel for a moment that the field is disabled.
- Test your code in ie(I am using ie7), the box height is reduced to 80%,which makes the whole boxselect look ugly.I Meet Challenge with Excitement & My Only Gossip is Love
13 Jul 2011 12:49 AM #5
Is it possible to make this component to work as email suggest?
There will be values from store but lets say you can also write a custom value and after ENTER or ',' it will automaticly be a box?
13 Jul 2011 2:43 AM #6
@vishalnnsingh: thanks for the feedback. I will fix the emptyText issue in the next few days, I am quite busy right now. I will test with IE, too. I am not sure I understand what you mean if you say the mouse pointer didn't change, could you explain? I guess you mean, it doesn't change from arrow to cursor, at least not over the whole field?
@navvn: That'd be a nice feature and it could be tied to the forceSelection-option that combobox already offers. I am sure this can be done, too. I don't need it for my project, though, and I don't have the spare time to implement it right now. You could give it a go yourself, if you like.
13 Jul 2011 8:12 AM #7
@kleins I am not sure I understand what you mean if you say the mouse pointer didn't change, could you explain? I guess you mean, it doesn't change from arrow to cursor, at least not over the whole field? CorrectI Meet Challenge with Excitement & My Only Gossip is Love
1 Aug 2011 1:09 AM #8
Thanks a ton kleins for a wonderful implementation of Boxselect...
In my project I required Boxselect to contains atleast 50k values from store and it should also give suggestion on user's key press(as it happens in facebook),so I modified kleins's boxselect code as per my requirement.
I am posting my version of boxselect in case anyone has the same requirement as I have...I will also post a new version of boxselect which will be faster than this one in next few days.....
P.S: I am a fresher and working on ExtJs only from last 15 days , I will definitely welcome any suggestion to improve my code...
29 Sep 2011 2:22 AM #9
@kleins, @under_dog: Your BoxSelect control looks awesome. But before I can use it in a project, I need to check on the license - have you decided on one?
29 Sep 2011 3:36 AM #10
As far as I'm concerned: would be nice if you'd mention me somewhere, other than that do with it whatever you like. So let's say MIT license.


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We received the prototypes from Nick (some last minutes touches were needed). Myself along with the 4 visiting resellers all agree these products will certainly pave the way to fulfilling the growing demands of the panoramic photographer.
I can't show you images or tell you more just yet as we will do the official unveiling later today at the conference. We hope to have the first images up by tonight or tomorrow. Once we post the images the thread will be open to questions anyone might have.
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The notation ${\mathcal L}^\alpha_{\beta,\gamma}$ refers to the set of sentences of predicate calculus with less than $\alpha$ variables, conjunctions of size less than $\beta$, and quantification over families of less than $\gamma$ variables. Formally, the following are formulas of ${\mathcal L}^\alpha_{\beta,\gamma}$ in addition to the atomic formulas:
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Let $\lceil\gamma\rceil$ be the least limit ordinal greater than or equal to $\gamma$. Observe that ${\mathcal L}^\alpha_{\beta,\gamma}={\mathcal L}^\alpha_{\beta,\lceil\gamma\rceil}$.
So, my question is: why $\gamma$? More specifically, when is
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I think they are the same, but if that is the case I can't see why the notation hasn't been reduced to simply ${\mathcal L}^\alpha_\beta$.
Note that there are various notions of what a "proof in ${\mathcal L}^\alpha_{\beta,\gamma}$" might mean, but I'm only interested in knowing if the notational distinction matters for contexts in which $\vdash$ means "true in all models".


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I would appreciate someone clarifying the percentages. For example, my Mastery rating says I block 49% (Okay), which is straightforward. However, under the "Defense" information it shows my Dodge, Parry and Block percentages. The Block % here is 54.48%, which is 5% higher than what the Mastery section entails. Therefore, my question: is the 54.48%, my Mastery 49% + the 5% chance to miss me? Or do I need to add the 5% to 54.48% + dodge + parry = 102.4%???
54.48% is just your chance to block. It does not include the 5% miss chance.
Every paladin and warrior has a base chance to block of 5%. Remember that you don't learn mastery until a certain level, so all those low level tanks would otherwise have no way of blocking!
So the 54.48% block listed is the sum of your natural block (5%) and your mastery (49.48%).
In summary, your Combat Table Coverage (aka "unhittable") calculation is
I would suggest reading this thread over at battle.net it explains how to break down avoidance and diminishing returns, probably better than anyone here at gaming.se.
From what I know, yes, the base 5% hit from bosses is covered in total avoidance (from the defense tab). That is why you aim for 102.4% cap


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