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JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (WIBW) -- Nearly 60 years after serving in combat, a local veteran is being recognized for his efforts to defend our country during the Korean War.
Donald Hamilton is a proud recipient of a medal that recognizes Korean War veterans.
The Junction City resident was a military policeman who served in Taejon, Korea from April of 1953 to May of 1955. He joined the Army at the age of 17 and served three years, part of which was spent in Korea.
"I was a train guard commander. We guarded the trains and made them secure to make sure that the supplies got there," he said.
He oversaw the transportation of prisoners, supplies, fuel tanks and troops.
Hamilton's military records were later destroyed in a fire and had to be reconstructed but he met the qualifications for the Korea Defense Service Medal, a military award that was first created in 2002 when it was signed into law by President George W. Bush. In 2004, the Institute of Heraldry approved the final design and the medal became authorized for distribution.
"I had all these other medals that I got when I was in Korea and I thought I had all of them but then they came up with this new one and I applied for it but never could get it until now. And I know a lot of other people that applied for it but they couldn't get it because they didn't meet the qualifications but I did," Hamilton explained.
The Korea Defense Service Medal is authorized for those members of the United States Armed Forces who have served duty in South Korea after the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement in support of the defense of the Republic of Korea.
He was presented with the medal during an official ceremony at the American Legion on December 21, 2012.
"I applied for it three times and I couldn't get it because my records had been burned in a fire at Fort Harrison, Indiana... Then, I opened the mail one morning and there was that medal. I'm surprised and not only that, I appreciate it. I really appreciate hearing from the government 59 years later and getting the medal," Hamilton told WIBW.
After the Army, Hamilton policed in Riley and Geary County and later became the president of Fort Riley Credit Union and local farmer in the Junction City area.
Now 79, he says he's done everything that he wanted to do in life and that includes the time he spent defending his nation. Hamilton's Korea Defense Service Medal sits on his mantelpiece at home as a constant reminder that his service did not go unrecognized.

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"Hey man, want a smoke?" that's what kids hear. Too often they say yes. Once they do, they're smokers for life.
If you're considering smoking, just remember they cost $2.00 a pack. They'll cost you your health and maybe even your life. All those kids who smoke and think they're cool won't think that they're cool years from now when they are trying to get off cigarettes. I know a guy named Barry, he started smoking when he was 12. Now that he is a grown man, he and his wife wish they could stop but they can't. They have tried to quit many times, but when they do they get mad at each other and become really cranky. It was terrible. So, unfortunately, they had to go back to smoking, and to this day they're still smoking their lives away.
If you really don't want to smoke, it's easy to say no. All you have to do is say, "That's all right." It's as simple as that. Trust me. I've been in that situation before, and I'm sure I will be there again.
If you choose to smoke, you'll have bad breath, your clothes will smell, you'll have yellow teeth, lung cancer, and a nasty cough that's anything but cool.
I don't know why kids think smoking is cool. Maybe they think it makes them look more like an adult. They don't realize that most adults who smoke wish they could stop. I guess they do it because their friends are doing it, but then again that's not a very good reason to kill yourself. Is it?
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Nichols surrendered to authorities Saturday. Police said he had entered the apartment of a woman he didn't know and she managed to call 911 to report that he was there.
He was found in that apartment in the northern Atlanta suburb of Duluth, and gave up "without a struggle," said Maj. Edward Platt, with the Fulton County Sheriff's Department.
Police initially thought the woman in the apartment with Nichols might be a hostage, Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington said.
Authorities said later, however, that Nichols grabbed her as she was entering her apartment, but did not hold her hostage.
She was allowed to come out of the unit and speak with law enforcement officers shortly before Nichols surrendered.
Nichols was "not doing any talking," Pennington said.
The woman was being interviewed in an effort to determine the sequence of events in her encounter with Nichols, authorities said.
A blue pickup truck belonging to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent found slain Saturday was discovered at the scene, said Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spokesman Joe Green.
The pickup truck was spotted by Gwinnett County authorities apparently conducting a routine patrol, Platt said.
Police were watching the truck when the woman came out of her apartment and told them about Nichols. A SWAT team was summoned, along with FBI and Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents, and Nichols eventually surrendered.
But, he said, he was "somewhat surprised" Nichols surrendered without incident.
Police believe Nichols fatally shot Fulton County Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes, court reporter Julie Ann Brandau and sheriff's deputy Sgt. Hoyt Teasley after he overpowered deputy Cynthia Ann Hall and stole her gun while Hall was taking him from a detention area into Barnes' courtroom.
He was transported to FBI headquarters in Decatur, Georgia, in DeKalb County. If federal firearms charges are filed, he will appear before a magistrate sometime this afternoon in Atlanta, Green said.
The manhunt for Nichols, 33, was described as being the biggest in Georgia history.
Video footage showed Nichols being handcuffed and put into a dark-colored SUV by authorities.


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I am currently a beginner at the piano. I know using the metronome is important, but I I'm feeling reluctant to use it often, as it is difficult for me to get the music coordinated with the clicks.
Is there any tips on how to get used to it?
I am currently a beginner at the piano. I know using the metronome is important, but I I'm feeling reluctant to use it often, as it is difficult for me to get the music coordinated with the clicks.
Is there any tips on how to get used to it?
Make Sure it doesn't become a crutch:
As a tool for improving your rhythm, you can do the following:
When you say you have trouble playing on the beat, this is something that needs to be fixed. You want to be able to play with near-perfect computer-like rhythm and then add flexibility in expression after that.
Then, as a next step, once your rhythm is very solid, you can set the metronome to larger beats (say one beat per measure). Top musicians who have expressive flexibility in their rhythm will still have a very solid larger beat. This technique is also good for finding sections in which you tend to rush or drag. If you finish the measure before the metronome, you are rushing. If you finish after the metronome, you are dragging. Some metronomes can't do this because they don't get slow enough, but with a computer or a Dr. Beat you can set it to only beat the first beat of each measure.
Learn Rhythm Away From Your Instrument:
You might also trying walking around the room with each step being a beat in sync with the metronome, and then clapping the rhythms while doing that. The end goal here is to internalize the pulse and rhythms as much as possible (This training idea comes from Eurhythmics and is generally very effective).
Since, as a piano player, you have to play multiple rhythms at once, you can extend this by walking with the beat, doing one rhythm in one hand by hitting your chest with that hand, and the other rhythm in the other hand by hitting your chest with that hand as well.
Practising to a metronome is a great way to strengthen your natural timing, forcing you to implicitly correct yourself and over time work those timing corrections into your natural playing, but if you're a beginner it may be a little too much right now.
Before you learn to play well, you need to learn how to play in the first place so if you're struggling with learning a new concept, part or song, it might be prudent to leave the metronome off at first. Once you have it under control, flick on the metronome and tighten it up. Remember to play it slow first, then speed back up to the tempo it's normally played at (or if it's just an exercise, a goal tempo).
Once you can play it solidly, have a half hour break, come back and try playing without the metronome. Chances are you will probably notice a difference, if small. I find this to be a motivator for continued practice.
Oh, and remember to take regular breaks while you're practising. The brain likes to let things sink in!
Play at speeds that are slow enough where it's fairly easy to coordinate. If you can't find a meaningful tempo like that, don't use a metronome - your technique is not yet ready.
Don't hesitate to go waaaaaay slow. Virtuosos commonly practiced at snail's pace. Rachmaninoff was famous for slowing his practice down to where the piece he was working became unrecognizable even to a fellow concert pianist.
It also tends to help a lot if you get familiar with the physical sensation of rhythm outside of music. Stand in a drum circle once for the fun of it - it's the best rhythm training money can't buy.
Start slow, as slow as you need to actually play in time. Practice for a while at your limit then increase gradually.
Then don't forget to have fun also. Practicing with metronome is great but frustrating. You must not kill your joy of playing. So play also without now and then :)
Another tip:
Try playing to a recording or a backing track. This helped me out a whole lot, as its both a) more interesting than a click track, and b) easier to follow, because you're "playing along with the music", which - for me, at least - comes much more naturally than listening for the click/beep of a metronome.
There are several ways of using the metronome. You can try this out: practise your scales, licks, transcribed solos, exercises, etc., on the beat per measure. That is, whole, half, 8th, 16th etc. For instance, when you have your metronome set to 70BPM, you can apply any of the above mentioned beats to it. This is a good way of using your metronome to practice; it enables you to play at the speed you have always desired.
Don't use a metronome, unless you wish to end up like rest of today's modern performers who bore with outer clean sterility and perfection, whilst missing every single opportunity for expressive phrasing, and musical communication.
Have a look at these quotes. And read "The Metronomic Performance Practice: A History of Rhythm, Metronomes, and the Mechanization of Musicality" (by Alexander Evan Bonus).
The last part of the title should already send shudders of disgust down your spine: yes indeed - today we have managed to mechanize musicality, preferring sterile outer perfection, to human inner intuition.
If you wish to be a true musician, break out as soon as you can, and start using your intuition instead of conforming to a machine, and ignoring that you have a living soul.
Good luck, and please don't tread down the road that every conservatory professor and other conforming stiff institutionalized loonies and performers have gone down... before you.


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UPDATE: 2012-06-01 Added Non-Ideal Solution #2.5.
The Puzzle I'm Looking to Solve
As an organization and analysis nerd with professional database experience, I frequently encounter situations in my personal life that seem like they would be most efficiently and productively organized in a structured database. Examples would be my boardgame collection, this year's apartment hunt, and my knitting projects/yarn/queue. The problem has been finding a way to get them into a structured database without the process becoming a hobby unto itself.
What's Going In: By "structured data", I mean the kind you find in tables. There are multiple records ("an apartment I've looked at") that each have the same fields ("name, monthly rent, address, utilities"). Bigger systems have multiple tables interacting with each other. No matter how many tables, there's a lot of order imposed on the records so that queries are possible.
What's Coming Out: Speaking of queries, the big advantage of structured data, and structured databases, is the analysis they allow you to do. You can ask not only simple questions like "what's the median rent of all the apartments I've looked at", but also complicated ones like "What's the median rent of all the apartments I've looked at with washer/dryer hook-ups and no pent rent that are in zip code 98105".
Non-Ideal Solution #1: Dedicated Applications
There are a lot of very use-specific structured database applications around (Calibre for ebooks, iTunes for music, etc.), but I'm interested in a general solution. This is both to save the time of finding and learning a new dedicated program every time a new situation comes up, as well as to cover those situations for which there isn't a dedicated program.
Non-Ideal Solution #2: Database Frameworks
Multiple searches on Google, AlternativeTo, and SuperUser for similar-ish applications have turned up lots of database frameworks, including Access, Base, Glom, Kexi, once:radix, and Camelot. These are the "overkill" options, all capable and then some of handling the situations. However, they all also suffer from the same flaw of requiring you to "build applications". In addition to creating tables, assigning foreign keys, etc., you also have to design forms, set up users, validate data, fight with the framework interface, discover the framework is buggy/slow/inadequate, and so forth. It's just way too much tedious overhead for such small scale uses.
Non-Ideal Solution #2.5: Programming From Scratch I had thought that this one would have covered by #2 - since if I felt a database framework was too much overhead, surely rolling my own code would be only worse - but the responses I've gotten show that I need to make it explicit. I am a professional and hobbyist programmer. I have written enterprise-level production websites that use database storage. For my personal programming projects, I use Python and PostgreSQL. So I understand exactly how much effort is involved in creating a database application. And when I sit down to work on a non-programming project, I don't want to go through that effort. I want to work on my project, not this other project that is writing an application.
Also, I loathe user interface work.
Non-Ideal Solution #3: Tagging Systems
Tag-based systems are great for organizing documents and other collections of unstructured data. (In fact, I use a personal wiki, Zim, to organize my unstructured reference materials.) All the ones I've used, however, are literally incapable of the types of analysis I'm looking for. I'm still willing to look at a tag-based system, if you think it's up to the task, but please keep in mind that I'm looking to analyze data, not organize documents.
Tag-based programs that are explicitly excluded (because I've already tried them): Evernote, TiddlyWiki, Zim
Non-Ideal Solution #4: Spreadsheet-as-Database
The spreadsheet-as-database hack is usually where I end up. For the smaller situations it's adequate, if inefficient to run queries on. However, it doesn't scale at all. As soon as you have two tables that need to interact, you're working with obscure and unintuitive functions like hlookup and vlookup. Throw in data validation settings for multiple columns, conditional formatting to provide clues as to where the connections between tables are, and locked cells to avoid accidently overwriting the obscure function call you just figured out. Lots of overhead, very brittle, and you still can't get as good of queries out of it as you could a database.
(My knitting projects Excel file got up to 8 interacting worksheets before I threw my hands up in surrender and installed LibreOffice Base.)
The Ideal Solution
This structured database does not need to be particularly scalable or optimized, but the front-end needs to be entirely - and easily - manageable by a technically literate non-programmer. (That's my awkward way of saying that I'm totally cool with command line and/or text-based applications, but not with hand-coding SQL statements.) The nearly archtypical example of what I'd like is Bento, Filemaker's consumer database product for the Apple OSes. Unfortunately, the only Apple product I own is an iPod Shuffle, which doesn't quite make the cut.
Outside of core functionality and the lack of Apple access, I'm trying to go light on requirements so as to not make the questions too niche or cut off options prematurely. My personal preference is a desktop Linux application for my private use; however, I'm willing to give serious consideration to Windows or web-based applications.
So, a happy-making answer this query could easily fall into either of two categories. The first is where you tell me that I only think I have a handful of nails because I'm used to working with a hammer, that what I really have are hex-headed bolts, and here's the socket wrench I should use. The second, of course, would be a pointer towards a Bento-like product I've missed so far.


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PdVSA has on multiple occasions missed targets for resuming normal operations at Amuay. Reuters reported earlier that the company is waiting for replacements for parts that were damaged in the blast, which, once installed, will restore Amuay to pre-explosion processing levels.
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CARACAS -- State energy monopoly Petroleos de Venezuela, or
PdVSA, expects to bring its Amuay oil refinery back to
production levels seen before the recent explosion by December,
the company confirmed Friday.
Amuay, the country's largest refinery, has been running at around
half of its total capacity of 645,000 bpd of oil since
An Aug. 25 gas-leak explosion at the refinery killed more than 40 people
and put a spotlight on PdVSA's management over the industry,
which has been plagued by frequent accidents and mishaps that
weighed on oil output in recent years.
PdVSA has on multiple occasions missed targets for resuming
normal operations at Amuay. Reuters reported earlier
that the company is waiting for replacements for parts that
were damaged in the blast, which, once installed, will restore
Amuay to pre-explosion processing levels.
Amuay was churning out 450,000 bpd before the accident,
below what PdVSA officials have called "an optimal level" for
the refinery, which should be processing between 460,000 and
480,000 bpd, Jesus Luongo, a PdVSA director, said in early
In addition to Amuay, smaller accidents have recently hit
the adjacent Cardon refinery as well as the El Palito refinery.
Venezuelan authorities insist that domestic fuel demand is
being satisfied internally, but data from the US Energy
Information Administration, ship brokers and oil traders say
that the resources-rich country has had to turn to
US government data show Venezuela imported 34,000 bpd of
finished motor gasoline in August from the US, up from
6,000 bpd in May and the most since Venezuela received
36,000 bpd in February 2003, amid an oil industry
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How an Offense Can Beat a Defense in American Football
Battling a 3-4 front.
When facing a 3-4 front (three down linemen and four linebackers), the offense's best strategy is to run weak side, or away from the tight end (which is always the strong side of any offensive formation).
One possible running play is called the weak-side lead. With this play, the defensive end (DE) usually attempts to control and push the offensive tackle (LT) inside toward the center of the line, leaving the linebacker behind him (OLB) to defend a lot of open area. The offense is in the I formation, and the fullback (FB) runs to the weak side and blocks the linebacker, shoving him inside. The left offensive tackle allows the defensive end to push him a little, letting the defender believe that he's controlling the play. However, the offensive lineman then grabs the defender, containing him, and moves him out of the way to the right. The ball carrier should have a clear running lane after he hits the line of scrimmage. The preceding figure diagrams the play.


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We use a wrench to turn nuts on bolts because they require less force. Consider a hexagonal nut 1 cm in diameter. We can tighten this nut with one of two wrenches, wrench A with lever arm 10 cm and wrench B with lever arm 20 cm. Both wrenches have a very small mass, so you may neglect their masses in this problem. What is the ratio of the total work it would take to tighten the nut one full turn with wrench A to the total work it would take with wrench B?
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Assuming it requires the same torque to tighten the nut then the work done will be the same. Work done in a rotational situation is $$ Wd = \int \tau \rm{d}\alpha. $$
Both wrenches will turn the same $\alpha$ in one rotation and so the work done is the same.


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Ad's are annoying at heck, and I admit I've had them on my site before, however not past a certain point. The point of being over whelmed with ads is a very simple and yet wide observation. Here is a list of things to know if your a web developer or any software owner at all.
When are ad's OK on your website, and when are they not?
- Ad's are never OK with any user, so don't use to many of them. The amount of ads on your website should be an appropriate number such as 3 or 4, no more!
- Ad's should never and I mean NEVER slow down a users computer. A good example of poor use of ad's on a website would be the famous Chris Pirillo's website. It's full of clunky and horrible ad's that not only are annoying but are also placed where you can't even tell if it's part of the content or not. This is a horrible way to trick users into thinking your actually providing them with usable content.
- Pop-ups, this is a widely debated type of ad. When a user loads a webpage or clicks a link to a site, a pop-up launches which is a webpage that sits in the background of your computer or in front of all the users WebPages they may have launched. I suggest you not use pop-ups because that's just another reason for a user to not use your site ever again. I've seen several friends and family that are just like forget this site, it's so slow when the reason for the speed of their computer is because the site is trying to open an unwanted pop-ups.
I need ad's on my website, it's my only want of income. Where should I place ad's on my site and how can I use them correctly?
Well first let me tell you there is no correct way to place ad's on any website but if you must here are some Tips:
- If the ad's slow up the users computer then consider those users to of not even seen any of the content of your website before they shut their browser down. Flash and Silverlight ad's use 3rd party plug-ins to view their content, try avoiding these kind's of ads. If you must have animation in your ad try just making a simple GIF animation. You can make them using unfreeze GIF animator or even in Adobe Flash.
- Don't have to many ad's on the face of your website. This is a no-no! Your user is more likely going to click an ad if there aren't many to click and if your site has good content, mainly because they want your site to stay online for them to use again and again.
- Misplaced ad's are the worst, most people who misplace ad's on WebPages or in applications are the people that use to many ad's on their site in the first place. Please don't be one of these people. If users and your mother can't tell the difference between content on the web and the ad's on your site then you defiantly need to place them in different spots. The sidebar is a nice place to put ad's but put it at the bottom of everything else and don't put more than one simple ad there. Maybe a square, but if a skyscraper ad is wanted then do so, just make sure the content is on top.
- Site headers is a natural place to put ad's. However putting more than one can start to get tricky. Try only having about one ad at the top of your page, and one at the very bottom of your page.
- Blogs like to have ads between every post, and this is good because it keeps the blogger blogging and people like us getting useful and good information, however a good way to put ad's in a blog would be to have one in the header and footer of your pages like I mentioned before but don't put an ad between each post on your home page. Make the user click the blogs title or link to get to the page where they can only see that one single blog post, then have an ad under the post but on top of the comments.
Anyways, that's just my opinion on ad's floating around on the internet so tell me what you like and dislike with ads by leaving a comment below!


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Barnes & Noble: 50% off all 2013 calendars
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First calendar I looked at (Dilbert) was marked a whopping 10% off, not 50%.
@jokahjixah: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/2013-dilbert-day-to-day-calendar-scott-adams/1110928848?ean=9781449415884&itm=17
It's $7.49, which is 50% off from $14.99
In store at least, B&N always has calendars at 50% off in store, right after X-mas. Dunno about online, but I always wait until the last week of the year and head in to get a couple calendars. There is no other levels, they are all 1/2 off.
Certainly not bad, but no Far Side = not interested. I guess I'll never own another calendar....
Maybe they were looking at the wall calendar.
I have run across several wall and engagement calendars that I liked that were listed as only 10% off instead of the advertised 50%
11.69 = 12.99 - 1.30
I wonder how much the 2012 calendars are?
Bet I could get a good deal on one!
Click on "I want one" and you are sent to a page that says "Now through January 28th, 2013, get 50% off all 2013 calendars. Shop now for your favorite calendars, while supplies last. "
Hmm, not ALL calenders, B&N. False advertising makes me buy nothing, as in, forget you B&N.
@voovfeegbean: Edit -- "shop now" is a link to those calendars that are 50% off. Bah!
They had them 50% off before Xmas as well!
@bb81398: The wall calendar is 10% off: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/2013-dilbert-wall-calendar-scott-adams/1110928864?ean=9781449416959


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Big Stars Planning To Be On Hand For 2014 ASCS-Northwest Region Opening Weekend
By Ben Deatherage
(Photo Courtesy of Madman Photography)
Despite the ASCS-National Tour not making their way out west there will still be plenty of stars on hand for the 2014 Season Opener for the American Sprint Car Series-Northwest Region for the Triple Track Challenge. It should be a great weekend for race fans as some of the best drivers in the Western United States will be on hand all weekend long.
Current ASCS-National Tour regular Seth Bergman will be on tap for all four races. On the National Tour for the last couple of seasons but running an outlaw schedule this year is Logan Forler that will also be on hand. You can be sure though that the turf will be defended by the Northwest area's best including Roger Crockett, Henry Van Dam, Cam Smith, J.J. Hickle, Garen Linder, and many more.
The Triple Track Challenge will begin on Thursday May 22nd and then the series will venture north on Friday May 23rd to Lebanon's Willamette Speedway before concluding with a two-day affair at Cottage Grove Speedway on Saturday the 24th and Sunday the 25th. This will mark the fourth time ASCS-Northwest has opened the season up in the state of Oregon and the second time that Southern Oregon Speedway has hosted the first race of the season.
Be sure and don't miss a lap of the action as the ASCS-Northwest Region as the area's best 360 Sprint Car drivers will contest on seven different race tracks in three different states that include Oregon, Washington, and California. For the latest news and information regarding the ASCS-Northwest Region be sure and log on to www.ascsnorthwest.com.
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19 Nov 2012 8:19 AM #11
You need to override here, won't work if just add it to your viewport.
So create a folder "override" in your app folder and in it a folder "viewport".
Then put the above code in an Android.js file and adjust the app namespace:
Ext.define('App.override.viewport.Android', {
Then add 'myApp.override.viewport.Android' in the requires array in your app.js file.
You can add a alert message in the doFix method to make sure it's called on your Android device.
19 Nov 2012 9:23 AM #12
This is still not working,
Are you sure I have to define the overriden viewport with a capital letter in App
as my app folder in not in capital letter.
I do exactly what you tell :
- add an Android.js in app/override/viewport/ with this signature
Ext.define('App.override.viewport.Android', { override: 'Ext.viewport.Android', lastHeight: 0, orientationChanged: false, ...
- Add this to my Ext.application in app.js
Ext.application({ name: 'myApp', isIconPrecomposed: false, requires: [ 'myApp.override.viewport.Android', 'Ext.MessageBox', 'myApp.view.Toolbar', 'Ext.NavigationView' ], views: ['home.Home', ...
The following classes are not declared even if their files have been loaded:
'myApp.override.viewport.Android'. Please check the source code of their corresponding files for possible typos: 'app/override/viewport/Android.js
Do you see something wrong in my code?
19 Nov 2012 9:25 AM #13
You need:
Ext.define('myApp.override.viewport.Android', {
instead of:
Ext.define('App.override.viewport.Android', {
19 Nov 2012 11:59 PM #14
Hi Steffen,
It's still not working. I don't understand how to override this android viewport.
I don't have the error message anymore but I had an alert in doFix and it doesn't show up.
Is there something missing to override the viewport?
8 Mar 2013 10:48 AM #15
Has there been any progress on this bug? It has been here since August of last year, and a canon fix here would be extremely useful.
11 Mar 2013 8:16 AM #16
Double post, but we have a fix:
Thanks to this post, we looked into the source and found the pertinent Sencha code that was released to fix it. Using those changes, we were able to fix the problem for pre-4 Android.
26 Mar 2013 8:50 AM #17
What is your fix ?. I'm having the same issue after taking a picture using Cordova 2.4. Seems Android is not getting the correct feedback dimensions and reports a wrong height. After taking a pic there's a switch between landscape to portrait, then a resume event is fired in order to get the App to the front, then Sencha fix the layout to be rendered in portrait but with an incorrect height.
26 Mar 2013 10:01 AM #18
Check out the most recent beta build, and look inside the Android Viewport code. Sencha added a listener there, just copy over that change to your Viewport.
26 Mar 2013 10:33 AM #19
I'm using:
* Cordova 2.4
* Android SDK 4.1
* Sencha Touch 2.0
8 Aug 2013 12:47 AM #20
Hello i have applied this patch in ST 2.1.1 , and checked with an alert() show message to ensure it is loaded.
but in Android 2.2 when keyboard is loaded, then closed, and the viewport height stills wrong.
this patch don't work in my case.
Manel Juàrez


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More than 1,000 Texas Farm Bureau members will be in attendance, according to the agency.
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Leopard Diaries 1st - 6th March 2011
We have had an unbelievable week of game viewing here at Simbambili, which could easily have compared with some of the best game viewing anywhere in Africa!
The weather has been wonderful with clear blue skies and some great autumn temperatures, making the game drives, even more enjoyable. The autumn colours are also returning to the bush with all of the Bushwillow species starting to turn rich yellows and reds.
As mentioned previously the game viewing has been exceptional with all of the major predators including a pack of twenty African Wild Dogs being seen. We have also been fortunate to view two different hunts one of which was successful with the other being particularly entertaining viewing, but more about that later.
The leopard viewing this week has been at its best with leopard once again being seen on every day this week.
Karula, the leopard female from the eastern half of our traverse area has started to bring her two new female cubs into our area on a more frequent basis this week and we have had three great sightings of this leopard trio. The highlight was a sighting of the three leopards as they relaxed around a small waterhole, the young leopards taking it in turns to receive their morning grooming from their mother before settling down in the shade for the rest of the day.
Salayexe has also been seen on a number of occasions this week and we have got a very good idea of where she now has her new cubs stashed away. The den site has moved and we are waiting for an opportunity to follow her to the den site to get a first introduction to her new cubs. We have found her moving through the eastern half of her territory calling and scent marking.
We have also seen the following other leopards throughout the course of the week Rhulani, Nyeleti, Shadow and her cub and the Jordaan male.
Lion viewing has been very good this week, with the return of the Tsalala lionesses. They were first spotted from the main deck while we enjoyed coffee one morning before game drive, as they lazed around the waterhole in front of the lodge.
The five lionesses are doing very well and spent the following four days of the week on the property, making one impala kill early one evening and making a number of attempts on the zebra and impala herds which congregate around the northern airstrip.
During one afternoon game drive we heard over the radio of a buffalo hunt taking place and made our way into the area to investigate. On our arrival at the sighting we were greeted by the sight of approximately two hundred buffalo moving away from the four Majingilane males. The herd moved steadily eastwards heading for the KNP boundary but were followed the entire way by three of the males who made three further unsuccessful attempts at bringing down a buffalo. We finally left the three lions resting in the cool of the evening as the buffalo drifted away.
Good sightings of both large breeding herds and single elephant bulls have been enjoyed this week. The marula fruiting season is now drawing to a close and this may have an effect on the numbers of elephant in the area. These large pachyderms may start to move further south to the precious water in the Sand River as the bush dries out.
Rhinoceros & Buffalo
A number of good rhinoceros sightings have been had this week, with our resident crashes being found in the vicinity of the major waterholes.
The buffalo viewing has been far better this week with two different herds moving through the property. The first herd was the herd mentioned in the lion update, which numbered well into the two hundreds. The second herd was smaller and numbered approximately fifty animals and is still in the area.
African Wild Dog
The highlight of the week has been the presence of two wild dog packs in our traversing area. The first pack is the one that we see on a regular basis and numbers seven animals. The second however is far larger and moves into our reserve from the north, this pack numbers twenty animals and are truly an amazing sight to see on game drive.
The big pack was found early one morning and we watched in awe as they attempted to hunt a herd of wildebeest that had a number of calves present in the herd. The dogs rushed this way and that as they tried to fool the adult wildebeest into making a mistake. The adult bulls in the wildebeest herd were having nothing of it and managed to keep the dogs at bay.
The two packs of dogs did have an altercation one morning with the bigger pack chasing the smaller pack off and causing a fair bit of chaos in the reserve that day. We had wild dogs from the pack of seven running in every direction trying to re-gather after being separated during the scuffle. The end result was the smaller pack leaving the area and returning to the western half of the reserve. The bigger pack is still here and we will keep you up to date with their movements.
The pair of female cheetah has been seen on a number of game drives again this week, one of which proved to be a moment that will stand out for a long time!
We were following the pair of cheetah as they moved along a road early on a morning drive, when all of a sudden a young kudu calf ran out into the road. The cheetah wasted no time and brought the calf down right in front of us. The death cry had unfortunately alerted a nearby hyena who loped in to investigate.
The young female cheetah was having nothing of this and aggressively charged at the lone hyena, repeatedly trying to chase this unwelcome visitor away. This is very unusual as cheetah rank low down in the predator hierarchy and will often back away from confrontation with a hyena. The hyena was soon joined by two more of it's clan members and the cheetah beat a hasty retreat, losing out on their meal.
This was not the last of the sighting because as we were leaving we spotted a large male leopard resting very near to the where the kill had taken place. It did not take him long before he rushed in grabbed what was left of the carcass from underneath the hyenas noses and scampered up the nearest tree to enjoy the spoils!!
Only in Africa.........and only at Simbambili.
The Simbambili Guiding Team


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What does $d$ mean intuitively? Is the Cournot Nash Equilibrium for this $$q_1=\frac{2ba - ad + dc'(q_2)-c'(q_1)2b} {1 - d^2}$$ $$q_2=\frac{2ba - ad + dc'(q_1)-c'(q_2)2b} {1 - d^2}$$ Thanks a ton.


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GENESEO, N.Y. - The State University of New York at Geneseo Symphony Orchestra will shine the light on the winners of its annual concerto competition during the orchestra's concert April 11 at 3 p.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium. James Walker, distinguished service professor of music in the School of the Arts, will be conducting. The concert is free and open to the public.
A variety of works are on the program to be performed by this year's five student winners: soprano Shannon Alexander - "Glitter and be Gay" from Bernstein's Candide; violist Lindsay Borglum - the Adagio movement from Johann Christian Bach's Concerto for Viola; marimbist Nathaniel Gworek - the "Greetings" and "Farewell" movements from Rosauro's Concerto for Marimba; pianist Louis Lohraseb - the allegro maestoso from Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467; and marimbist Jevan Malaviya - the first movement from Sarmientos' Concertino for Marimba.
Other works on the program include Wagner's Prelude to the Third Act of "Lohengrin" and Smetana's Three Dances from "The Bartered Bride."
The Geneseo Symphony Orchestra is a collaboration among the best wind, percussion and string players in the student body at SUNY Geneseo and members of the music faculty, who coach, teach and perform in the ensemble. The result is an ensemble able to perform some of the finest literature written for large orchestra.
For more information on the concert, call 585-245-5824.
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This question is kind of tricky to title. What I need to know is wether or not it's possible to use some program on Windows that could play flash videos from websites.
I'll explain why. I have a second computer which is very slow (Intel Centrino) running on Windows XP. If I try to watch online videos (i.e. YouTube) on fullscreen, it EATS the CPU, plays extremely slow and eventually even heats up the computer making it shutdown.
I've known of some cellphones (particularly, Motorola ex118) that can play YouTube videos with their own player so it could be possible. Right?


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WEIRTON - Madonna scored on its first seven offensive possessions and got an eighth touchdown on an interception while waltzing to a 55-0 victory over Bridgeport Saturday night at Jimmy Carey Stadium.
The Blue Dons, ranked 15th in the West Virginia Class A ratings, completely dominated the Bulldogs (1-4) en route to its fourth win of the season in five games.
Madonna piled up 324 yards, 224 of them on the ground while holding Bridgeport to 123 yards of total offense, most of which came in the second half with reserves inserted in the Blue Don lineup.
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GETTING YARDS — Weirton Madonna's WIll Bowser gains yards after receiving a pass from Ross Comis during the second quarter of Saturday's 55-0 win over Bridgeport at Jimmy?Carey Stadium.
-- Mike Mathison
"It was a pretty good performance for us on both sides of the ball," said Blue Don head coach Doug Taylor. "Our offense scored, our defense scored and our special teams scored so I'm quite pleased. But that's a young football team we played.
"They've got a good coaching staff and they're going to get better and better in the next couple of years."
Madonna juniors, Nick Ossman and Ross Comis, each accounted for three Blue Don touchdowns. Ossman had scoring runs of 23, 11 and 26 yards on the last three times he touched the football.
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Madonna 55, Bridgeport 0
Bridgeport 0 0 0 0 - 0
Madonna 21 14 13 7 - 55
M-Comis 23 run (Greene kick)
M-Comis 17 run (Greene kick)
M-Biondillo 49 pass from Comis (Greene kick)
M-Ossman 23 run (Greene kick)
M-Ossman 11 run (Greene kick)
M-Ossman 26 run (Greene kick)
M-Hypes 70 punt return (run failed)
M-Connell 52 interception return (Greene kick)
RUSHING: Bridgeport-44-103 (Fields 18-52, Williams 17-51, Ray 4-1, McGrath 5-(-7); Madonna-22-224-5TD (Nero 7-67, Ossman 6-79-3TD, Comis 5-74-2TD, Antinone 4-4.
PASSING: Bridgeport-4-8-28 (McGrath 4-6, Williams 0-2); Madonna-5-6-100-1TD (all by Comis).
RECEIVING: Bridgeport-Fields 2-21, McGrath 1-6, Williams 1-1; Madonna-Guio 1-3, Nero 1-13, Biondillo 1-51-TD, Bowser 1-29, Ossman 1-4.
FIRST DOWNS: Bridgeport 10, Madonna 4
FUMBLES-LOST: Bridgeport 0-0; Madonna 0-0
PENALTIES: Bridgeport 4-33; Madonna 6-50
Comis scored on runs of 23 and 17 yards and connected with another junior, Marcello Biondillo with a 51-yard touchdown pass.
"We couldn't get anything going," said Bridgeport head coach, Rudy Vavrock. "It was a combination of a lot of things, the injury bug and we couldn't tackle tonight. That's a very good team over there. They have a lot of great athletes. They play fast and they just beat us."
Ossman finished with 79 yards on six rushes, Comis ran the ball five times and gained 74 yards and completed five of six passes for 100 yards and a touchdown.
Madonna put the opening kickoff in play at the Bridgeport 49-yard line after Elliott Nero returned the kick 29 yards. It took them just six plays to put the first score on the board as Comis kept the ball going up the middle from 23 yards out. Sophomore Matt Greene split the uprights with the extra point kick.
Greene was a perfect seven for seven as the Blue Dons took a knee after a touchdown late in the game.
Comis scored again about five minutes later when he bounced off a Bridgeport defender, cut to his right and scampered 17 yards to pay dirt.
Then, the Blue Dons made it 21-0 before the first quarter ended with the Comis to Biondillo aerial and Greene kick.
It was more of the same in the second period as the Blue Dons scored on both of their possessions in quick fashion.
Ossman's first touchdown completed an 80-yard, four-play drive as he wove his way through the Bulldog defense with a 23-yard carry. Nero, who gained 67 yards with seven carries, got loose on a 41-yard scamper to highlight the drive.
Ossman came back a little more than five minutes later to score from the Bridgeport 11-yard line. That culminated a three-play 46-yard drive. The touchdown was set up with a 29-yard pass from Comis to Will Bowser.
That made the halftime score 34-0.
Ossman's third score came at the seven minute mark of the third period as he started right from the Bridgeport 26-yard line and reversed his field to the left and found daylight all the way to the end zone.
Garrett Hypes, one of only four seniors on the Madonna squad, got into the scoring act when he fielded a Quar-Jarvious Williams punt at his own 30 and raced down the right sideline 70 yards to the end zone, breaking a couple of tackles along the way.
The Madonna defense got on the board late in the game when sophomore linebacker, Austin Connell, picked off a Bailey McGrath pass at his own 48 and raced 52 yards for the score.
"There was definitely some improvement in our team tonight, but there definitely still is room for more improvement," Taylor concluded. "We travel to Moundsville next week to play Bishop Donahue. They are a well coached, physical team so we're going to have to buckle our chinstraps and get ready for that one."


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My Toddler Is Biting
Q: My one-year-old daughter has an awful biting problem. She goes through spells where she bites everyone she comes in contact with for a full day. I cannot bring myself to bite her back or spank her. I've been advised to give her a "biting rag," but she hasn't taken to it. I tell her that we do not bite people; just food, toys, or her special rag. I'm really frustrated because I know she doesn't understand she's hurting someone. Can you help?
A: Biting is a normal behavior in toddlers; it's rare that a child will move through the first several years of her life without a biting incident. Biting is one of many aggressive behaviors (like hitting or pulling hair) toddlers use as they try out aggression as a problem solving technique. Kids who are biting at these young ages are not emotionally disturbed, so there's little need for serious intervention. They are usually rather social kids, equipped with few verbal skills and little self-control, who use biting as an effective mode of expressing their frustrations. Kids at this stage of development use biting because they can't use sophisticated language to make their points. Kids who are feeling some current degree of tension or frustration because of family changes (new day care provider, new baby in the family), developmental milestones (being potty trained, learning to walk), or physical ailments (ear infection, teething) may easily be moved to bite in response to any small frustration.
Here are some tips to keep in mind:
- Biting a child back or spanking her are ineffective disciplinary responses.
- Continue to tell your daughter in language that she understands that biting others is unacceptable.
- Hold her a bit more than is usual to limit her physical contact with other kids.
- Continue to show her other things that she may bite on in addition to this "bite cloth"--toys, rattles, etc.
- Read her frustration levels. This will allow you to distract her and prevent a biting episode.
- Always praise her when she uses non-biting means to problem-solve.
- Ask yourself if there might be a physical or mental problem that might be contributing to her low levels of tolerance.
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Carleton Kendrick has been in private practice as a family therapist and has worked as a consultant for more than 20 years. He has conducted parenting seminars on topics ranging from how to discipline toddlers to how to stay connected with teenagers. Kendrick has appeared as an expert on national broadcast media such as CBS, Fox Television Network, Cable News Network, CNBC, PBS, and National Public Radio. In addition, he's been quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, USA Today, Reader's Digest, BusinessWeek, Good Housekeeping, Woman's Day, and many other publications.


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Sydney Carter's defense key for Aggies
Originally Published: March 26, 2011By Mechelle Voepel | ESPN.com
You can expect that Georgia's Jasmine James will be very familiar with Texas A&M's Sydney Carter after Sunday's Dallas Region semifinal. And in this case, familiarity is likely to breed some contempt.
If you're a guard leading your team in scoring and you face the Aggies, it's hard not to find Carter annoying. Because she is Texas A&M's relentless defensive stopper on the perimeter. Her goal is to make you wish the game was over, just to get her out of your hair. And much of the time, ...
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There is no question that Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom are hot. They, along with Keira Knightly, make all the Pirates movies so much more entertaining than just the basic story line would. Sure, we love to see some good sword fights and enjoy a fair bit of humor, but when two very hot guys are wielding the swords, it makes it that much better for those of use who enjoy a bit of visual stimulation.
But is that all there really is to the pirates of the day? Are they just nice to look at? Of course not! There is much more to these two gentlemen of the seas�
He has been in a lot of movies that were not huge at the theaters, but gave him a chance to enjoy movie making and perfect his acting skills. When the first Pirates came out, Johnny became popular with everyone, not just the fans that�ve been with him since Edward Sissorhands. Johnny was cute, funny and even a little bit sexy in a �drunken pirate needs to bathe� sort of way.
Girls and their mothers all loved Johnny and they were anxious to see him again in the second installment. But, when he *Warning! Spoiler!* dies at the end of the second movie, many of his fans were saddened and perplexed. How can this be the end of handsome Cap�n Jack? Fortunately, previews have shown us that Johnny will return in his full suave glory to the third movie, and we won�t have to wait much longer to get our fill. (The new movie comes out May 25.)
Orlando is actually from England, so the yummy accent in the movie is actually real (unlike Johnny�s.) He is only twenty-five years old and seems to always play very noble characters. In the Pirates movies (thus far at least) he�s been a true gentleman. He doesn�t pursue his love in the first movie because he knows Keira Knightly�s character is too far above him, but rescues her when she is taken.
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I'm probably stupid, but can I play a tab in that is in standard tuning, the same way with a guitar tuned down to C#? Will everything just sound lower? Or do I need to get a tab in that tuning?
If all the strings are tuned down three half-steps then yes, you can play the tab exactly the same and it will just sound lower — specifically, the song will be transposed 3 half-steps lower. Naturally, any other instruments would need to play lower to accompany you as well.
If you're playing Drop C# (everything down 1 half-step except the low string which is down 3) then you would need to adjust the tab, most likely by playing everything on the lowest string 2 frets higher than the tab indicates. If that doesn't work you would probably need to rewrite the tab to fit some other possible way to play the song.


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Tobar begins on familiar terrain, in his native Los Angeles, with his family's story, along with that of two brothers of Mexican origin with very different interpretations of Americanismo, or American identity as seen through a Latin American lens—one headed for U.S. citizenship and the other for the wrong side of the law and the south side of the border. But this is just a jumping-off point. Soon we are in Dalton, Georgia, the most Spanish-speaking town in the Deep South, and in Rupert, Idaho, where the most popular radio DJ is known as "El Chupacabras." By the end of the book, we have traveled from the geographical extremes into the heartland, exploring the familiar complexities of Cuban Miami and the brand-new ones of a busy Omaha INS station.
Sophisticated, provocative, and deeply human, Translation Nation uncovers the ways that Hispanic Americans are forging new identities, redefining the experience of the American immigrant, and reinventing the American community. It is a book that rises, brilliantly, to meet one of the most profound shifts in American identity.
"Tobar captures… the current state of Latinos in the United States…with equal measures of insight and élan, giving the book an infectious optimism, an undeniable sense that the nature and scope of latinidad are not only expanding but becoming more inclusive as well…Compelling." —The Los Angeles Times
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"Blending his memories of growing up Guatemalan American …with more than a decade spent visiting Latino communities in the United States, this Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times journalist delivers an insightful meditation on the realities of modern-day Latino life." —Latina Magazine
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Chapter One: Americanismo: City of Peasants
Los Angeles, California
Chapter Two: Where Green Chiles Roam: No es imposible
San Ysidro, California; Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
Chapter Three: Brother Citizen, Brother Alien: Sin fronteras
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Part Two: Pioneers and Pilgrimage
Chapter Four: The Wanderers: El destierro
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Chapter Five: In the Land of the New: En la tierra de lo nuevo
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Chapter Six: Our Secret Latin Heartland: Los secretos del machote
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Chapter Seven: Unconquered: La reconquista
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Chapter Ten: Una Nación Unida: Heroes of Another Fatherland
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I've used Google Analytics for a while now, and it's pretty good for a high level view. But when I want to dig into the numbers a bit more, everything gets kind of vague. I also don't like that it takes so long to update. Are there any better options?
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Better is relative to what you are looking for. Google Analytics is pretty feature rich but there are a lot of alternatives. I would break them down into the following buckets with an example of each:
Clicky sets itself apart from Google Analytics in some very intriguing ways.
These are just a few highlights - it is a very nice tool! It's only free for a single site, but very affordable for to add more.
Piwik: Open source real time analytics. I don't use this, but I have a friend who does and he really likes it. It does look pretty nice and with something like this you can do all sorts of other things with the data (such as your own real time stats on the website).
Also, here is a list of alternatives. It has log file analyzers, like Analog or AWStats, remote services, like stat24 and Yahoo Analytics, and self hosted, like Open Web Analytics and FireStats.
Some folks like http://haveamint.com/ too.
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Most of the aftermarket tools available for iOS, for example, support GA or Mint
There are anothers, but everyone has its limitations. i remember xiti from http://www.atinternet.com/ omniture from adobe, and there are some open source solutions that will work if you don't have a very large site like piwik.org
Someones do something better than others, but in my experience google analytics outperforms the other in price/cost, because it's almost free (you have to have a linked adword account with a expenditure of at least 1 euro a day to remove some limits) and you can do almost anything that you wan't to do with an analytics tool. The only thing that bugs me in google analytics it's the 50.000 thousand limit in every dimension, that it's that if you have more than 50.000 diferent pages in your site, just the first 50.000 are going to be tracked with the page name, and all the others are going to be in a "(other)" clause.
I use awstats and munin. They are both on my server and hence avoid issues with privacy problems that outside solutions can bring.
www.mixpanel.com is free for low volume. If you put their badge on your site, you get the $50 plan free
Another good service would be reinvigorate (reinvigorate.net). They used to have a free plan available, but since they were bought by Webtrends a couple of days ago the free plan disappeared. Their tracking is awesome though and it's not as expensive as other paid services.
...to cite Avinash Kaushik.
Whenever it comes to questions like your one taking a look at Occam's Razor, the blog of Analytics legend Avinash Kaushik (currently @Google) is really helpfull.
There is an older but still good article you might benefit (even if you accepted an answer): Web Analytics Tools Comparison: A Recommendation
Avinash lists some questions "10 Questions to ask Vendors" or "Three Questions to ask Yourself" that get you even more ideas.
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Also there will be 2 Performance Plus events, for which tickets are now for sale--an open rehearsal and another class for adult "nondancers".
Tickets for the KC open house events are free, first-come, first-served, available 30 min before each of the 2 performances.
Posted 05 June 2007 - 10:35 AM
Round trip airfare on American Airlines from Los Angeles is $220!
I finally get to see a live SFB performance!
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Anyway, I've just returned from the opening performance and seeing the semi-dress rehearsal (some dancers were in costume, some weren't; sometimes they danced full, sometimes they marked) this afternoon. It's the latest stop in a kind of ballet Odyssey I'm on, having seen the wonderful Vishneva for the first time, in Ashton's The Dream with ABT, Nichols's lovely last (sniff) Mozartiana with NYCB, a bunch of satisfying youngsters at the SAB Workshops, including some amazing 10- to 14-year-olds dancing Sean Lavery's charming little Twinkliana and a vibrant Gounod Symphony (or 3/4 of it) by slightly older teens.
And you know what? At the rehearsal already, Bonnie Pickard and Runqiao Du blew it all away for me with a variably luminous, present, vital performance of Scotch Symphony, that was a lot like the old days in Balanchine's theatre, except maybe Farrell's orchestra was better and the demi (Shannon Parsley) was not quite the equal of Marnie Morris or Roma Sosenko (or maybe it's her brilliant red costume, formerly dark green, that makes it a little hard to apppreciate her fully because of its glare). And then in the evening, the marvelous rehearsal turned out to have been a wonderful harbinger for the steadily, miraculously achieved realization of this beautiful, dramatic, plotless ballet.
And then we had the Concierto de Mozart Adagio you can make out pretty well in the webcast, except of course this one was much more effective partly by being easier to see; Elisabeth Holowchuk and Momchil Mladenov continued pretty much at the same high level. Then after I had seen Bejart's love scene from Romeo and Juliet, which seems fully to flesh out Berlioz's wonderful score, some of the best music ever written for any purpose, I felt even more strongly that the corresponding scene from Martins's new setting of the difficult Prokofiev music, which had turned up on the Workshop program, was like little more than clear water thrown on warm rocks to evaporate into nothing, having nearly no effect to remember. By contrast, Bejart and Berlioz conjure up a great deal in a quarter hour; Ashley Hubbard and Matthew Prescott realized the whole stream of shifting modes and moods in this as a continuous flow, a journey through a microcosm, the world writ small.
The trouble with Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, some of us thought, is that the much-repeated theme threatened to repeat itself in our heads for days, but thinking back over the rest of the program to write about it may have saved me! It's a good time, and plainly ingenious; the show-within-a-show aspect being only one way the master keeps this bubbling along, and the cast's verve and Ron Matson's tempos supply much energy. Momchil Mladenov is perfectly cast as Morrosine, and Lisa Reneau makes the Strip Tease Girl live (even after she "dies"). (This program has five murders in it, including a couple of Capulets and Montagues.) But in my recent experience, the Thug* to beat is still Edward Villella.
Farrell speaks sometimes of Balanchine's ballets as "worlds". In her theatre, as in his, we experience them vividly, as though walking their ground and breathing their air, not as though looking out through a tour-bus window. (I'm thinking of the ABT Symphonie Concertante I saw with The Dream, for example of a world seen distantly.) We feel different from when we began our trip, refreshed, we've had some re-creation, we are restored to ourselves and better for it. Better than a vacation! And no jet lag!
*Gangster is the correct character title; Thug is a different character in this, who gets bumped off early. You'd think a Chicagoan like me would know the difference.
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TutuMaker, will internet access in Foggy Bottom be a problem? There is some public access around 24th Street. At L Street, the West Side Neighborhood Library is open Sunday from 1 to 5 and Monday from 9:30 to 9; and at 2400-D M Street, there's a FedEx-Kinko's, but that's $15/hr. (Okay, technically this is West End, not Foggy Bottom.) What's this about? With a screen name like TutuMaker, you could have an eye more like a dancer's than I do, and write better posts, and I'd like to read them.
That said, I thought Thursday's casting was a little against type, or something. The story keeps coming up: Dancer: "Mr. B, I don't think I'm ready for this role." Balanchine: "That's why you have to do it, dear, that's how you get ready for it." In Scotch, Pickard's partner was Mladenov, and his hand-to-hand supporting often shook; she seemed maybe a little unsettled compared to Wednesday night with Du. Otherwise their dancing together was excellent, smooth ascents and soft landings in lifts, and so on. Among the nuances of her performance, her looking into her partner's face in changing ways, now coolly with head slightly up, now challenging with head lightly lowered, etc., while not made much of, helped make her performance complete, as Patricia McBride's had been, although I didn't see any imitation (and don't particularly want to). I think both ballerinas found what they showed us in the part themselves. Mladenov's dancing was very fine, with some nice mime touches here and there.
Matthew Prescott came into Mozart, and there were some more shaky hand-to-hand grips. Elisabeth Holowchuk looked less happy this time in this unusual pas de deux: The choreographer who famously said, "Put a boy and girl on stage, it's already a story" here shows us more "story" than that. At one point, they even walk along hand in hand, smiling at each other. And I'll record here one of my reservations about the lighting in this ballet, which still has maybe the best of the program: It's simple, open and clear, uniform across the stage, and that's good; but toward the end, two measures into the violin cadenza on which Holowchuk has a long, interesting solo which we want to be able to see better, the lighting designer, Jeff Bruckerhoff, chooses to dim the lighting slightly, making it harder to see her instead. This fussing is all too common today.
Then in Romeo and Juliet, Runqiao Du, a very strong classicist in general and Pickard's superb partner last night, didn't have much of the extra something - characterization? - this needs, compared to Prescott last night.
But Katelyn Prominski, an announced sub for Lisa Reneau as the Strip Tease Girl in Slaughter, gave us a large and lush performance of this role. So if it was not quite up to the high standard of opening night, the program ended strong.
Posted 08 June 2007 - 09:56 AM
I really liked the program as a whole. There were a few wobbly parts, but then Balanchine's choreography and partnering are often quite challenging. It's amazing to see very difficult choreography made to look easy, but I don't mind the occasional reminder that it's hard. There was indeed probably a bit more than the usual amount of wobbliness because of the cast substitutions and varied partnering casts.
I have to disagree with Jack on this one--I thought this change in the light was quite beautiful. I was in the front row--maybe it was easier to see or appreciate from there.
but toward the end, two measures into the violin cadenza on which Holowchuk has a long, interesting solo which we want to be able to see better, the lighting designer, Jeff Bruckerhoff, chooses to dim the lighting slightly, making it harder to see her instead. This fussing is all too common today.
I had never seen the Bejart Romeo and Juliet Scene d'Amour, and I thought it was beautifully done, though, as Jack said, perhaps the character was a bit underdeveloped on Du's side.
I haven't seen Slaughter on 10th Avenue enough times to remember that the danseur who appears at the very beginning never reappears, so I'm always a little disappointed when he doesn't. The piece is really fun and it was played to the hilt all around.
All in all, a great evening, and I'm looking forward to Sunday's program.
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I am flying in on Saturday evening and out very early Monday. I am travelling light and do not want to bring my laptop. Nor do I want to spend time on-line while vistiting in DC.
I am so happy with all of the wonderful reviews and am very anxious to see both programs. I will take notes, so I do not forget the highlights.
I was unaware that the rehearsal today was open. I hope someone will report on this too!
A HUGE thank you to Jack and koshka!
Posted 08 June 2007 - 11:07 AM
Yes, thanks a lot folks!
A HUGE thank you to Jack and koshka!
Koshka, when I took Farrell's class a few years ago many of the participants had clearly had some ballet training. I had had very little, but we all had fun.
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Program B began its run tonight (Friday 8th June) with a fine cast. Inevitably I compared Mozartiana with the one I saw Saturday afternoon in New York. Bonnie Pickard was more expansive than Kyra Nichols had been, although Nichols had other virtues, like greater serenity, and I'm glad to have seen both. (Pickard's later variations, numbers 5 and 7 in the last movement, I think, were a little slow though beautifully spun out.) Jared Redick made his first appearance this season, I think, as Pickard's partner, and suffered some by comparison with Philip Neal's clarity, although the matter of conscientiousness was not out of the picture with Neal as it was with the two ballerinas, who simply made the ballet their own, but both men appeared to be all their partners needed. But Kirk Henning gave a more satisfying performance of the Gigue than NYCB's Tom Gold, approaching a full realization of it in contrast to Gold's conscientiousness and frequent heaviness.
Romeo and Juliet got another superb realization by Ashley Hubbard and Matthew Prescott, and then after the pause the company premiere of Divertimento Brilliante from Glinkiana; I think Mr. B once refered to Glinka as "our [Russian] Mozart" and the relative, Mozartean simple, direct clarity of this little pas de deux, danced exactly this way by Shannon Parsley and Momchil Mladenov, was refreshing after the richness of the Bejart excerpt.
The program ended with Slaughter, in which Kirk Henning turned out to be a much better tapper than Kurt Froman had been, and projected some of the mime details more clearly too; Elisabeth Holowchuk as the Strip Tease Girl was less effective up on the runway than on the floor, but I believe this was her debut, and she may fill in her part later on.
The hour is late, so after reporting that I thought the orchestra was generally even better than in previous programs, with the conspicuous exception of the end of the violin cadenza in the fourth movement of Mozartiana, which went out of tune, I'll let the words of a woman in the row behind me, spoken as she prepared to leave, sum matters up: "I liked them all. Usually there's one I specially like or don't like, but I liked 'em all."
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Prove the statement:
$\forall n \in \mathbb{N}$,$\forall m \in \{2, 3,...,floor(\sqrt{n})\}$, $m$ does not divide $n \implies n$ is prime
English: If you cannot find a natural divisor > 2 for $n \in \mathbb{N}$ less than (or equal to?) $\sqrt{n}$ then $n$ is prime.
The reason I say "or equal to?" in parentheses, is because I am unsure if that is necessary to translate the logical expression above. But it seems like if it is equal to $\sqrt{n}$ then $\sqrt{n}$ is a divisor, therefore $n$ is not prime. So I think it is safe just to say "less than."
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I ask this because I am writing a program to check for primes. I got the idea that I do not need to check all the way to $n$ and someone at this website mentioned I need only check to $\sqrt{n}$ and I asked my discrete math instructor, he told me I only need to check to $floor(\sqrt(n))$ which means round down to the greatest integer less than $\sqrt{n}$
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$\forall n \in \mathbb{N}$, $\forall m \in \{2, 3,...,floor(\sqrt{n})\}$, if $m$ divides $n$ then $n$ is not prime.
The proof is very trivial, and since it still takes me longer than his patience to figure out precisely what the statement says, I later realize this is not what I wanted to prove. I want to prove my statement at the top of the question, that if $\lnot \exists m$ s.t. $m$ divides $n$, then $n$ must be prime.


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Conference rooms and offices
The Atahotel Executive Centre (tel: 06 6501 0100) in T1 has meeting rooms, office space, internet points, fax machines and a copy centre. There are also several airline executive lounges in all terminals. Meeting and conference facilities are also available at the on-site Hilton Rome Airport Hotel, a short distance from the terminals (tel: 06 65258; www.hilton.com).


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One suggestion for February came from Pankhuri who said that February is named after the Roman festival of purification, Februa, and suggested the theme of PURITY.
Thank you Pankhuri for your suggestion, and good luck to all who try this PURITY Challenge!
Complete a work (from start to finish) within one month, that comes from the theme given.
As long as your work was sparked from the theme you can be as loose or tight with it as you wish, just let us know how it ties in to the month's theme.
You can use any medium you like; try something new, or stick with your tried and true.
Post your finished work in this thread, or a link to it if it is posted else where.
This has to be an original, pg13, work.
Now lets get creating!
Edited by Kathleen, 01 February 2012 - 06:05 AM.