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I wouldn't miss Parra, but you wonder if he was misused. He faced 149 RH batters this year, and they abused him for an .827 OPS. The 125 LH hitters he faced were only .635. I guess a true LOOGy should be even better than that vs LH bats, but sure seems like that's a lot of RHers he faced -- too many.
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I wouldn't use ERA as a measuring stick in determining that Veras was "better" than the other two, given all the fractional innings these guys throw. Loe had a 1.434 WHIP, Veras 1.507, Parra 1.653. But bottom line, none of them were very good.
I wouldn't miss Parra, but you wonder if he was misused. He faced 149 RH batters this year, and they abused him for an .827 OPS. The 125 LH hitters he faced were only .635. I guess a true LOOGy should be even better than that vs LH bats, but sure seems like that's a lot of RHers he faced -- too many.Hide replies
The one thing Parra has going for him as a LOOGY is that if his at bats against RH batters are limited to situations where he would face a LH, RH, LF; he would just need to pitch around the RH like a normal LOOGY. RR would just use him too much against RH hitters, about 45% of his batters faced had the platoon advantage, as you noted.
Loe is the same story. While not quite as good this year, he shows pretty good platoon splits. RR just allows him to face too many LH batters.
Veras on the other hand, I think is the most talented of the three, he just can't place the plus stuff he has, which negates the fact that he has two plus pitches.
Tracker - I guess that a lefty only reliever is too much of a luxury, given the number of innings the pen is asked to eat...and that will go up next year, I bet.
Probably, eddie. It troubles me, though, that Roenicke is so reluctant to think outside the box of "Inning-Guy" management. The result, in this case, is that he fails to put his players in the best possible position for them and the team to succeed.
I predicted Jonathan Broxton and Sean Burnett in the mlbtraderumors contest.
Probably an in-house guy for the remaining spot. I like Hellweg.
Lots of guys with minor league options, could be a revolving door base on usage, effectiveness, etc.
Doug's top priority should be to make an offer to Greinke. You never know if he'll forego a bit of cash to be comfortable with the Brewers. He tipped his hand in mentioning ZG by saying a current piece could be moved. I read into it this way - if we can get him, someone already making large jack like Weeks must be moved to keep salary down. You can plug in a lot of guys for a year at second until Scooter Gennett is ready, if not move Jean Segura there full-time.
Bullpen guys, you should be able to find 2-3 set-up guys for short-term deals without too much financial pain. They need to go all in on Greinke, because nothing else pitching-wise will help them, barring a trade.
No more Manny Parra? No more Kameron Loe? I might have to buy a ticket next season.Hide replies
The obvious is happening. Things are starting to look up already. I can't wait to see who they sign.
Estrada should stay in the rotation. He's proven himself too much.
Hellweg had issues and wasn't effective as a reliever in the Angels system. He needs to stay in a starting rotation in the minors. Perhaps Pena from the Greinke trade impresses in the Spring to get a shot in the pen.
Get in on the bidding for Affeldt. Lights out lefty.
No thanks on Dempster. Trade for Haren and hope he bridges the gap for his option year until the young guys are ready to step up in 2014. Peralta, Rogers, Hellweg, Jungmann and Thornburg are all potential candidates for 2014 rotation.
Rogers HAS to make the club this year or be traded, he is out of options.
Peralta in 2014?! Unless he has a huge meltdown in Spring Training, put him in stone as a starter for 2013 .... Melvin has all but said this already.
Affeldt = absolutely yes.
Dempster = yes
Haren = possibly, depending on the money, he might very well want/get more than Dempster since he's younger.Hide replies
Rogers should be in the rotation.
My post meant either Haren or Dempster, certainly not both. One new experienced started, 2 new bullpen people, that's it. My preference for the BP is 2 lefties but we'll see, they will certainly go get at least one.
BP = Axford, Henderson, Kintler, Rogers, Feiers or Estrada, two lefties.
Rotation = Gallardo, Dempster, Peralta, Estrada or Feiers, Narveson.Hide replies
I think Narveson is gonna end up as one of your two lefties after Melvin pretty much said its time to let Rogers and Peralta have a shot in the rotation.
Based on Melvin's comments, the rotation will be Gallardo, free-agent, Fiers or Estrada, Rogers, Peralta. I think if Estrada gets the nod in the rotation, they'd send Fiers back to AAA. If Fiers gets the nod, Estrada goes to the bullpen. Not sure what they'll do with Narveson. I believe both Melvin and RR have made comments in the past suggesting that they don't think Narveson would/can pitch well out of the bullpen.
Melvin suggested that whoever loses out on a rotation spot between Fiers and Estrada would be sent to LR in the pen.
I can see why they wouldn't want Narveson in the pen. His first innings have been brutal -- he's given up an .835 ops vs. first inning batters. He's also given up a .783 ops in limited relief work, and his career splits aren't big (.774 vs. .665)
So, barring injury, we are looking at a pitching staff of:
Starters: Gallardo, free-agent, Fiers or Estrada, Rogers, Peralta.
Bullpen: Axford, Henderson, Thornburg, Kintzler, Estrada/Fiers, free-agent, free-agent.
The young guys better step up.
My #1 choice for a setup guy would be Koji Uehara. When I look at the available FA's Kyle Farnsworth sticks out as a Melvin kind of guy since he reminds me a lot of Hawkins.
As far as the lefties go I kind of like Oliver Perez. With how RRR misuses his pen its smart to get guys who can get both lefties and righties out and thats just what Perez did a year ago. He was actually even better against RHB (.575 OPS) than LHB (.679)
WHIP is overrated as an evaluation tool in my opinion.
No way should the Brewers be in on Affeldt. He's coming off a 3 year $14 M deal, and will be looking to get more than that on his next one.
No way should the Brewers be in on Broxton. Broxton got $4 M last season coming off injury and ineffectiveness. He'll get a larger deal than that coming off a strong season. As for Burnett, I don't think he turned down his mutual option. If he did, he's looking to get more than the $3.5 M he would have made or a longer deal. No thanks to either of those.
If Madsen comes for that cheap, I'd be fine with it. He'd have to be willing to not be the closer, but everything I've read said he's looking for a closers job.Hide replies
Any thoughts on Uehara and Perez as potential options
He will be the first back-up, and that might be good enough. I'd be surprised if anyone is willing to just hand the closers job to a guy coming off of TJ surgery, but I've been surprised before. Even healthy closers went unsigned last year. I'm guessing he'll cost more, but 2 yrs guaranteed might sway him. I'm just dreamin'.
WHIP is overrated as an evaluation tool in my opinion."
Unless you explain why WHIP is overrated, your opinion means nothing.
WHIP does not take into account good or bad defense.
Let's go after Grilli. If nothing else, it will provide us great entertainment value negotiating with Sheffield and getting to read more crazy quotes from him.Hide replies
I wonder if Sheffield will actually come to Milwaukee to watch him pitch. Should be interesting.
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It's hard to adapt a movie to the world of video games. Diehard fans want an experience that accurately represents the source material, but the first level of Super Mario Bros. has a bigger body count than all of Die Hard. Usually game developers get around this problem with a weird boss fight here or an unusual story deviation there, but apparently they sometimes leave their early draft of the script in the wash, and can only loosely guess at the ending based on the shapes of the inkblots.
#5. Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures -- The Wrong Grail Makes You a Supervillain
JVC, LucasArts
Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures is a Super Nintendo platformer that takes players through iconic scenes in all three movies (it was a simpler, less Crystal Skull-filled time). But then you reach the end of The Last Crusade, the one about the search for the Holy Grail, which will keep anyone who drinks from it alive. Unfortunately, it's hidden in a secret room full of fake grails that will keep you dead forever, and also Nazis are after it. In the movie, Nazi henchman Donovan chooses incorrectly and withers away into dust. But in the game ...
How the Game Missed the Point
JVC, LucasArts
Wait, what? He gets so scared that he spontaneously loses all his flesh? And instead of having the good grace to die of old age, Donovan goes on living as a sentient skeleton. He deserves major credit for how quickly he adjusts to what one would assume to be an awkward and painful transition, as he immediately begins leaping about with the range of an Olympic gymnast and uses his own skull as a lethal bowling ball against Indy.
JVC, LucasArts
Thus outing himself as Janeane Garofolo's father once and for all.
When you defeat him, he continues to defy logic by bursting into flames, despite being made entirely of bones and the fact that you've only been whipping him, not dousing him with gasoline.
JVC, LucasArts
This is why you always employ a safety word during S&M sessions.
From the Nazis' standpoint, they'd probably prefer to get their hands on more fake grails instead of the real one. Sure, immortality is great for the Fuhrer and his dog, but turning all of your foot soldiers into an army of intimidating skeleton monsters is going to be more useful in wartime. One bitchin' grail kegger later, and boom: The Allies are trying to beach in Normandy under a blitzkrieg of magical skull attacks.
JVC, LucasArts
"The only thing we have to fear is ... this, actually. Shit."
#4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles -- Splinter Randomly Gets Better
Asking someone which Ninja Turtle is their favorite is like asking which deity is their favorite. But let's not forget Splinter, the wise teacher who instructed the turtles with all the dignity and grace that a stock character resembling a diseased Muppet can muster. Splinter's origin story varies, but the most well-known version is that he was a Japanese martial arts expert forced into exile by Shredder. He lived as a sewer hermit in New York City until he and his pet turtles were exposed to barrels of an oozing green mutagen, because hey, that's what you get for living in a New York sewer.
How the Game Missed the Point
The first TMNT game for the NES didn't have much of a story -- Shredder kidnapped April O' Neil, because that's what bad guys do, and you had to save her, which is what good guys do. Just choose a turtle and painstakingly fight your way through some of the most maliciously designed, death trap-filled, all-around bullshit levels you've ever seen in a video game. Good luck!
The little-known Tenth Circle of Hell.
The game was balls-to-the-wall impossible and hated children more than most clowns, so what did you get if you managed the Herculean feat of beating it? This:
"Hey, I bought you a beer."
"I also saved the universe from unspeakable evil."
Uh ... why exactly are you allowed to become human again? Did the Shredder in this version curse you like a miffed gypsy? Nope: Splinter still had his DNA mutated by ooze. But apparently you can undo genetic damage just by being super relieved. Also, why aren't the turtles affected? They're mutants for the exact same reason that he is. April, meanwhile, seems rather unfazed by the whole "miraculous recovery" thing, which is rather odd, considering that she's a frigging journalist.
"Pizza Hut's low, low prices are the real miracle worth investigating!"
To be fair, three panels of text with images is more of an ending than most NES games got -- many barely managed a "thank you." That actually makes this more impressive: They managed to screw up the entire mythos in only three measly panels. It took Lucas three whole movies to manage that.
#3. The Matrix: Path of Neo -- The Theme of Sacrifice Gets Replaced With an Insane Boss
Explaining the end of the Matrix trilogy would require an entire article, a doctorate in philosophy, and access to an alternate universe where we can understand why the Wachowskis thought that anything they put in the sequels was a good idea. What we do know is that they ended an action trilogy with an elaborately choreographed mud wrestling match, only to have Neo give up and let himself be killed. This magically defeats Agent Smith, because something Jesus metaphor.
Warner Bros.
Needs less subtlety.
How the Game Missed the Point
In The Matrix: Path of Neo, you win the fight against Agent Smith without having to play the savior card. After punching Smith in the face for a while, the game cuts to the Wachowskis themselves, where they explain what you're about to experience and, in doing so, suddenly turn their game into a Charlie Kaufman-esque bizarro meta-comedy.
Good to see the sprites from E.T. still working after all these years.
First they poke fun at the self-seriousness of their franchise, then they go on to explain that they didn't want to let gamers down with some boring and meaningful resolution to the core concept on which the whole trilogy is based, because gamers would rather "kick the crap out of some big badass boss." So instead of resolving the paradox of free will versus fate with Neo's choice, they set up "a little Hulk versus Galactus action." Then you fight whatever the hell this is:
For those of you who either can't watch the video or have no idea what you just experienced, hundreds of Smith clones Katamari Damacy random pieces of rubble and themselves into a giant figure resembling the agent, while Neo watches with all the concern of a man who's more interested in trying to remember if he made plans for Saturday night.
"Was I going to bang some supermodel, or count all my money while cackling with glee? Fuck it, I'll do both. Again."
Then, when the monster takes a moment to reach over and grab a conveniently located pair of gigantic sunglasses, you can't help but wonder if the Wachowskis are trying to insult the intelligence and integrity of all gamers ...
"Deal with it."
... or if they're just trying to atone for their past sins against storytelling. Seriously, this is way better than the tired Christ metaphor shtick. After winning, the game rewards you with a cutscene showing all that's left of humanity celebrating while, we shit you not, "We Are the Champions" plays. No way would we have angrily demanded our money back from an apathetic teenage ticket taker if that's how Revolutions had gone down.

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Essentially what it says in the title. Mathematica can export its code to C. How much overhead does that inflict on the code, as compared to writing it from scratch in C?
A lot depends on how you write your code in Mathematica. In my experience, the rule of thumb is that the generated code will be efficient if the code inside
So, if you write your code in this style and hand it to
As noted by @acl, one thing worth doing is to set the
in which case you will get warnings for calling external functions etc.
A good tool to get a "high-level" but precise view on the generated code is the
One not very widely known technique of writing even large
In summary - if you want your code to be as fast as possible, think about "critical" places and write those in "low-level" style (loops, assignments, etc) - the more it will resemble C the more chances you have for a speed-up (for an example of a function written in such a style and being consequently very fast, see the
In addition to the answers given, you may tweak specific commands to give better performance. For example
Another thing you might want to try (never needed this myself) is to give platform specific compile optimization options that your CPU supports:
I think default optimization is -O2.
Furthermore, for example basic arithmetic operations are quite optimized and linking to the runtime lib should be quite fast.
One important point I forgot, the internal optimizer will find a good way to formulate your expressions
Also, with the symbolic power you can simplify expression you could never do by hand or pen an paper....
To see what can be compiled have a look at:
Find get warning about external symbols not included you can alternatively use:
I don't have an answer but this is a bit hard to format in a comment. If runtime speed is your goal, I'd suggest using Compile with settings
I'm not certain about the inlining, and there may be other options worth tweaking to get the best speed. Also I would imagine to some extent the speed will depend on the optimization capabilities of the C compiler.
But then, I tend to imagine lots of things.
If you use the setting
Then you can actually export the C code and look at, or use ExportString to print it directly in Mathematica:
That call to ExportString ends with a function looking something like this:
So you can see that with


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A few years ago I went to a museum, where there was a board with 2 bar magnets, on a pole each so they could rotate. If you rotated them so the lined up with the same poles (N) facing each other, they'd repel spinning until the south poles lined up, then they'd repel and spin so the north poles lined up and so. This was without any extra help, once you lined them up they would just keep spinning by their selves. How exactly is this possible that the 2 magnets kept producing kinetic energy?
They are not producing energy; their movement is a result of the work you've put during setting same poles to face each other. They will eventually stop, since this energy is dissipated by friction on their fixings and at some point their momentum will decrease to the point it will be not enough to push the system through energy pick when the same poles are nearby. After this, they will relax to their energy optimum, so probably into configuration when different poles are facing each other.
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List of helpful C tools that will help you peek inside a process or an a.out file. Some are specific to Sun OS. I have compiled it into an easy-to-read summary of what each one does, and where to find them. Going through the man pages for each, and try running each on a couple of different a.outs - the "hello world" program and a "big program".
Tool --> Where To Find It --> What it Does
Tool --> Where To Find It --> What it Does
Tool --> Where To Find It --> What it Does
Tool --> Where To Find It --> What it Does
What It identifies --> Typical Output --> How to Invoke It
Tools To Examine Source
Tool --> Where To Find It --> What it Does
- cb --> Comes with the Compiler --> C program beautifier. Run your source through this filter to put it in a standard layout and indentation.
- Indent --> comes with AT&T --> Does same as cb.
- cdecl --> _______ --> Unscrambles C declarations.
- cflow- --> Comes with the Compiler --> An interactive ASCII based C program browser. We can use it in the OS group to check the impact of changes to header files. It provides quick answers to questions like: "How many commands use libthread?" or "Who are all the kmem readers".
- ctags --> /usr/bin --> Creates a tag file for use in vi editor. Tags file speeds up examining program source by maintaining a table of where most objects are located.
- lint --> Comes with the Compiler --> A C program checker.
- sccs --> /usr/ccs/bin --> A source code version control system.
- vgrind --> /usr/bin --> A formatter for printing nice C listings.
Tools To Examine Executable
Tool --> Where To Find It --> What it Does
- dis --> /ur/ccs/bin --> Object code disassemble.
- dump Lv --> /usr/ccs/bin - --> Prints dynamic linking of information.
- ldd --> /usr/bin --> Prints the dynamic libraries the file needs.
- nm --> /usr/ccs/bin --> Prints the symbol table information of an object file.
- strings --> /usr/bin --> Looks at the strings embedded in a library. Useful for looking at error messages a binary can generate, built-in file names, and sometimes symbol names or version and copyright information.
- sum --> /usr/bin --> Prints checksum and block count for a file. Answer the questions like: "Are two executables the same version?" "Did transmission go OK?"
Tools To Help With Debugging
Tool --> Where To Find It --> What it Does
- truss --> /usr/bin --> The SVr4 version of trace. This tool prints out the system calls that an executable makes. Use it to see what a binary is doing, and why its stuck or failing. This is a great help!.
- ps --> /usr/bin --> Displays process characteristics.
- ctrace --> Comes with the Compiler --> Interactive debugger.
- debugger --> Comes with the Compiler --> Modifies your source to print lines as they are executed. A great tool for small programs.
- file --> /usr/bin --> Tells you what a file contains (Ex:executable, data, ASCII, shell script, archive, etc...).
Tools To Perform Performance Tuning
Tool --> Where To Find It --> What it Does
- collector --> Comes with debugger --> (Sun OS only)Collects runtime performance data under the control of debugger.
- analyzer --> Comes with debugger --> (Sun OS only) Analyses collected performance data.
- gprof --> /usr/ccs/bin --> Displays the Call-graph profile data (identifies the compute intensive functions).
- prof --> /usr/ccs/bin --> Displays the percentage of time spent in each routine.
- tcov --> Comes with compiler --> Displays a count of how often each statement is executed(identifies the compute-intensive loops within a function).
- time --> /usr/bin/time --> Displays the total real and CPU time used by a program.
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I happened to ask myself a question about arrays in c++. Well, we all know that arrays are fixed collections of something, I say fixed because it is necessary to declare array length when defining arrays. Well, let's consider an example:
char myarray[10] = {'\0'};
int sz = sizeof(myarray); // It is supposed to be 10
Well, it is correct, 10 is the number returned by sizeof. This can be done by the compiler because he knows how much space it placed for that variable.
Now consider what happens in this situation:
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int elements = sizeof(arr)/sizeof(mystruct);
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Nice... but I suppose it can be overflow prone. If I pass to this function an array I created in a "normal" way, everything should be fine:
mystruct array[20];
No problem. But if I do this:
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WHAT HAPPENS??????????????????? I would like to understand how sizeof behaves, this function is evaluated at compile time right??? ok, what happens when I use not an array, but something very cumbersome like a block of data like that one? furthermore, I could realloc it woth another call to malloc and ask to dosome to process that datablock again. Will it work? I could try it physically, but I would get some exact answer about the behavioir of sizeof.
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The board overseeing California's teacher pension system on Thursday lowered the fund's investment forecast for the second time in 14 months in a move that acknowledges the financial strain of lower market returns in the years ahead.
The California State Teachers' Retirement System board of directors voted 9-1 to lower its assumed annual investment return from 7.75 percent to 7.5 percent. The move will increase the system's projected unfunded liability by $5.9 billion.It also is important because as the fund makes less money through investments, it needs more from rank-and-file teachers, school districts or the state's general fund.
CalSTRS, as it is known in California, is the nation's second largest public pension fund, behind a separate California fund representing state and local government workers.Public pension systems have come under scrutiny for what some view as generous benefits and unsustainable liabilities for state and local governments.
Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, has presented a pension-reform plan that is now before the Democratic-controlled Legislature and has urged lawmakers to address the problems this year.
He sent a letter Thursday to lawmakers pushing them again to act.In acting Thursday, pension board members said they would err on the side of caution amid stock market volatility.
"I would prefer the risk associated with adjusting the rate of return a little bit lower and hopefully we'll be surprised at the upside, rather than taking the higher rate of return with a less than 50 percent probability in that we'll be disappointed on the downside," said attorney Michael Lawson, who was appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown in October.
The board last lowered the assumed rate of return in December 2010, when it was reduced from 8 percent. That was the first time in 15 years it had taken such action.


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Perfect weekend. The apartment is located in a great location, 50 meters from the Paseo de Las Canteras. And 'big, clean and with two bathrooms, making it very convenient. Kitchen well stocked. In addition to our arrival we rented a spot for 3 days and being the apartment with parking we never had problems in finding a parking place on the way back from our excursions. Stra recommended.
Week-end perfetto. L'appartamento è sito in una posizione ottima, a 50 metri dal paseo de Las Canteras. E' grande, pulito e con due bagni, il che lo rende comodissimo. Cucina molto fornita. In aggiunta al nostro arrivo abbiamo affittato una macchia per 3 giorni ed essendo l'appartamento dotato di parcheggio non abbiamo mai avuto problemi nel ricercare un posteggio al ritorno dalle nostre escursioni. Stra consigliato.
Apartamento bastante bueno,muy bien situado,amplio,propietarios muy amables y agradables,limpio,bastante tranquilo.lastima que no tenga wi-fi y una mampana de aspiración en la cocina, pero son detalles.Muy contento de haber pasado allí unos días .
Very nice, pieceful and relaxing house.
We really enjoyed the large rooms and terasses outdoor. It is great to have realy furniture inside and outside.
The house is big and especially with a great view but:
- There're no curtains or shutters on the windows
- The sheets are minimal (and not optional)
- The house was quite dirty despite the payment for the cleaning
- The manager of the property accused me to stole one (1) pillowcase the day after we left. The pillowcase has been obviously found after a while, it was left behind during the collecting.
I've enjoyed my stay in Stintino for the sea, the nature, the landscape, but, for a short stay of 4 days, too many thing that didn't work out with the house.
Nice place and great pool. BUT too expensive! Bad kitchenequipments. Expensive sheets and towels. Not value with the money!
My boyfriend and I stayed here for 6 nights and it was absolutely wonderful! Exactly what you see in pictures, except there isn't actually a balcony. Just a glass door with railings right behind it. The area was by far our favourite in Barcelona. Truly unique and enjoyable to just walk around at any time of the day. The stairs are a frightening first impression, 57 in a small spiral staircase, but still definitely worth the mission. But yes, pack light!
Thank you Maria for your kind hospitality, suggestions and being readily available for anything we needed.
I definitely recommend :)
Very disappointed at the standard of the apartment and the arrival and departure procedure! This apartment was let through Wimdu by Interhome. I will never book anything let by Interhome again. Having made the booking and paid for it we were totally unaware until one week before departure that bed linen and towels were not included and an extra charge was levied (Euro 28 for sheets and 12 for towels). When I challenged Interhome on non disclosure of information they told me it was in the small print: having trawled though every last word I found it in tiny print under Cancellation Policy! Again I challenged Interhome about deliberately placing this important piece of information where nobody will think to look. It should be clearly displayed on the webpage under Amenities where a note can be posted in the relevant area for all to see.
Arrival procedure - what a nonsense. Having paid for the sheets you have to collect them in person from the office. We made it by the skin of our teeth before the office closed for the weekend. Because our flight was delayed we arrived in Chamonix later than expected and had the office been closed we would have had no sheets at all! They are bulky to carry and I have photos of my husband looking like Santa Clause with a big white sack over his shoulder. It's the height of nonsense to expect arrivals to lug luggage and carry this bulky bad around Chamonix. On departure we had to return the sheets to the office again in said bag!
End cleaning - the previous tenant had presumably paid therefore we expected a clean apartment. The hard surfaces were clean but the living room carpet was disgusting with stains and grime and dirty black marks (photographed). It needs either professionally deep cleaned or dumped. Personally I would replace it. My bed sheet had a dirty brown mark on it (photographed) and the "white" patio furniture was grey with grime. I don't think it had been cleaned in years. Before I would set as much as a mug on it I scrubbed it with the dish scrubber (which I then couldn't use on the dishes!). Again we have photographic evidence. The best feature of the apartment is the wonderful view of Mont Blanc from the balcony. I don't know who is employed to clean this apartment but they could do with a lesson or two. I will never use Interhome again and I recommend that you steer clear of it too. I've used Wimdu many times and always been satisfied but not on this occasion.
Nice clean well equipped apartment. Very friendly hoists. Would recommend to all my friends.
The Oasis is a wonderful and great accomodation. The house is surrounded by Lemon trees and offers a great view to the sea. It is well equipped, clean and very comfortable for Groups/families up to ten. Highly recommanded.
The place shown on the pictures has an open swimming pool. However if you 're in to reading all the small letters in the massive paper work of Inter Home you Will Read That the pool is open from the 15th of June. What à dissapointment for my daughter. Furthermore we had to pay for the bedlinen on top of the cleaning which was counted pro person. And of course because it was cold we had to pay for the heating although in the living room was no heating system, only in the bath and bedroom. The owners were. Ice although when people arrive in the middle of the night due to their flight it would be nice if there would be something to drink. The garden is large and nice decorated so I think in summer when the pool is open it will be a paradise. For myself I think it is deceive that Wimdu puts this booking through a link connecting to another website. In this way you pay a lot more and you don,'t get what is shown on the pictures. I will never book in this manner again because in the end you pay a lot more.
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i dont want the quick release for single speed, i want to ditch the skewer for a solid axle to torque it down good for single speed... my LBS mechanic said they couldnt do it but with sealed bearings in the hub that seems absurd, any thoughts?
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i have an se dirt jumper with 4 sealed bearings in the rear hub, can i convert it from QR to solid axle?
If your LBS mechanic looked at it, and said it wouldn't work, why would any of us second guess a professional on a project which can't even look at? There are many reasons I can think of why doing so is a bad idea, even if it works technically.
The biggest reason I can think of for it not working technically is that an axle for a sealed bearing hub has large, machined areas designed to interface with the inside race of the bearing. A solid axle, unless specifically made for that hub, isn't going to be machined to fit the bearing race.
In addition, most axles for sealed bearing wheels are aluminum, which is fine when using a compression closure like the quick release, but which is a poor, and very likely unsafe, material for a threaded closure system like a single speed axle nut.
If you can't fit a solid axle, you could try a ratcheted quick release such as the DT Swiss RWS system and here's the main page with a variety of sizes. You ratchet it tight and they claim 50% more clamping force than common quick release.
They're not cheap, but I have one on the front as I'm running disk brakes which generate a lot of downward force on the axle, so your clamp should be good. The rear I have a solid Alfine axle. I find they are worth the money though, they are a quality item, but maybe go for the metal handled ones if you want the most durability.


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I have ArcView 10 and I'm trying to clip a DEM (TIFF) to a wilderness boundary (polygon). I know ArcView won't let me do this without Spatial Analyst, but I don't have $2500.
I tried exporting my raster and vector in QGIS, but for the life of me, I can't get the the two to line up (different coord systems).
I've tried to "DEFINE COORD SYSTEM" in Arc Toolbox, but something just isn't right...
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What's the most common way of writing the all-ones vector, that is, the vector, when projected onto each standard basis vector of a given vector space, having length one? The zero vector is frequently written $\vec{0}$, so I'm partial to writing the all-ones vector as $\vec{1}$, but I don't know how popular this is, and I don't know if a reader might confuse it with the identity matrix.
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Some examples of such activity:
- browsing this site without a particular goal
- browsing your friends' profiles on social networks
- reading news
- hugging with you spouse (endlessly)
- watching TV
You can begin with a reasonable goal (post a question, write a message, check the result of a particular football match etc.) but then your attention is getting caught by some related content or something, you lose the sense of time and simply can't stop. You wake up after an hour or more and become very disappointed about the time you've lost. And you fall into this trap again and again. Another problem is that even after you (partially) wake up and realize that you're doing unimportant things, you continue doing that for some time, unable to make yourself stop.
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The Constitution of the United States was written to protect individuals' inalienable rights and clearly dilineate the role of the federal government in protecting those rights. Additionally, three branches were appropriated in order to guarantee a separation of powers in order to protect the union from tyranny and opression. Executive order should never be allowed in any situation where it's being applied to modify any aspect of the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, or any of the other 27 Amendments. The Constitution already has an established process to amend its content, including a process to protect the people from unilateral action.Created: Jan 09, 2013
we petition the obama administration to:Eliminate armed guards for the President, Vice-President, and their families, and establish Gun Free Zones around themGun Free Zones are supposed to protect our children, and some politicians wish to strip us of our right to keep and bear arms. Those same politicians and their families are currently under the protection of armed Secret Service agents. If Gun Free Zones are sufficient protection for our children, then Gun Free Zones should be good enough for politicians.
In addition if you have not yet joined the NRA and GOA, I suggest doing so.
The interesting thing is, Ruger was more or less on Clinton's side in 1994.Of course, that was when Bill Ruger was still alive.They, along with S&W, seem to have learned from that episode.
What I find more than a little humorous is, Smith and Wesson is a British company.
Between 1987 and 2001, Smith & Wesson was owned by the British engineering company Tomkins plc.In March 2000 Smith & Wesson was the only major gun manufacturer to sign an agreement with the Clinton Administration.[6] The company agreed to numerous safety and design standards as well as limits on the sale and distribution of its products. Gun clubs and gun rights groups responded to this agreement by initiating large-scale boycotts of Smith & Wesson by refusing to buy their new products and flooding the firearms market with used S&W guns.[6][7][8] After a 40% sales slide,[9] the sales impact from the boycotts led Smith & Wesson to suspend manufacturing at two plants.[10] The success of the boycott led to a Federal Trade Commission antitrust investigation's being initiated under the Clinton administration,[8] targeting gun dealers and gun rights groups, which was subsequently dropped in 2003.[11] This agreement signed by Tomkins PLC ended with the sale of Smith & Wesson to the Saf-T-Hammer Corporation. The new company (Smith and Wesson Holding Corporation), which publicly renounced the agreement, was received positively by the firearms community.[12]
I think their revolvers still have that dang internal lock thing, though.Not a revolver guy personally, though, so I don't keep close tabs on it. Although a 6" S&W 610 floats around somewhere on my wish list.Or an M1917.
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Kommetjie and Kommetjie Lighthouse
Kommetjie ("small basin" in Afrikaans) gets its name from early beginnings, when settlers apparently used the natural basin as a convenient fish trap.
Today the suburb's main attraction is its wide, long, beautiful beach, which extends for more than 8km (5mi) to Noordhoek. Its length and flatness makes Kommetjie a popular dog-walking and horse-riding venue. About 3km down the beach you'll come across the wreck of the SS Kakapa, which ran aground in 1900.
Another attraction is the tallest cast-iron lighthouse on the South African coast, the white Slangkop ("snake head" in Afrikaans) Lighthouse, which stands approximately 30m (98ft) high and is made entirely from steel. Slangkop Lighthouse has been operational since March 4, 1919 and has a rotating electric light that gives four flashes every 30 seconds. The central point of the light is 41m (135ft) above water, making it visible even in thick misty conditions. The lighthouse is powered by the Cape Municipality, but it also has a standby diesel alternator, which takes over in the event of an interruption in the main supply.
Kommetjie is also a premier site for observing seabirds. It forms part of the fynbos biome, and possesses some rare and highly sought-after plants that are threatened by alien species, especially those of Australian origin. Nearby Noordhoek Valley and the wetland opposite offer varied habitat to more than 150 different bird species.
Under the welcome shade of ancient oaks you'll find the Noordhoek Farm Village, where eclectic shopping opportunities mix with art, wine, fine dining and overnight accommodation. However, for the more adventurous, a number of hiking trails – from one to four hours' duration – wind through the mountains surrounding the Noordhoek Valley.
This rural and well-preserved area near Cape Town always has a peaceful atmosphere, even in peak holiday season.
The residential areas of Ocean View and Masiphumelele fall within the Kommetjie environs and are an example of settlements established during the apartheid era. Both have distinctive cultures and local tour operators and guides love sharing their stories, history and unique cuisine. Ask Cape Town Tourism for more information on the bicycle tours available in Masiphumelele.
Kommetjie is also world-famous for surfing events, crayfishing, and long summer nights.
Imhoff Farm, +27 (0)21 783 4545; www.naturefarm.co.za, in Kommetjie is worth a visit. It's a fun place for adults and children alike, with camel rides, a snake park, a farm stall and a bistro.
For more information on the small town of Kommetjie, visit the community website on www.kommetjie.co.za or contact Cape Town Tourism to ask about activities, attractions, places to stay, restaurants or just a tour to the "small basin".
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29km from Oudtshoorn, at the head of the picturesque Cango Valley, lies the spectacular underground wonder of the Klein Karoo - the Cango Caves. Situated in a limestone ridge parallel to the well-known Swartberg Mountains, you will find the finest dripstone caverns, with their vast halls and towering formations.
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Only 18km from the Cape Town city centre, an arc of fine white sand gives away the secluded location of one of Cape Town's most beautiful beaches, Llandudno.
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Venezuelans go to the polls Sunday in an election that will decide if President Hugo Chavez remains in power. Polls indicate it's his most serious electoral challenge since taking office nearly 14 years ago, and it's mobilizing large numbers of voters in Venezuela — and in the U.S.
Nearly 20,000 Venezuelans living in Florida are registered to vote, and most arrived in the past decade, since Chavez took power. He upended the old power structure, installing a socialist government that seized property and nationalized industries.
One of the expatriates is Lophanie Bertrand, 94, who says she's determined to cast her ballot Sunday to oust Chavez. She says he has caused a lot of pain, and poor people in Venezuela don't have enough to eat.
Bertrand arrived in Miami several years ago, accompanying her daughter, a political activist and Chavez opponent who received political asylum.
But like all Venezuelans in Miami, to vote, Bertrand will have to travel nearly 900 miles to New Orleans. That's because earlier this year, Chavez closed the Venezuelan consulate in Miami. He took that action after the U.S. State Department expelled the Venezuelan consul, charging that she was involved in a cyberterrorism plot.
Venezuelans here believe the consulate was closed in a deliberate effort to disenfranchise them — to discourage them from voting.
Bertrand now lives in Miami with another daughter, Giselle Beauvoir. But Beauvoir says when she began investigating the cost of traveling by air with her mother to New Orleans to vote, she realized it would be too expensive.
"I was so sad, thinking about what the best to do," Beauvoir says. "Because I couldn't tell my mother, 'Listen, in this election, you aren't going to be able to vote.' It's the most important election I think in her life."
Fortunately for Beauvoir and her mother, they'll be flying to New Orleans free because of a group of volunteers.
In a conference room in downtown Miami, seven young Venezuelans are working the phones and their laptops. They're part of Aerovotar, a group that raised enough money to book six charter flights to New Orleans to help Venezuelans vote.
The seats are being mostly filled by elderly and disabled Venezuelans who may not be up to the 16-hour bus ride to New Orleans. It's a nonpartisan group, but volunteer Alyssa Perez concedes the vast majority of those involved, in fact the vast majority of Venezuelans in the U.S., oppose Chavez.
"We're out of our country for a reason, you know. And it's basically, well, because of the current government. Most of us want to be able to go back to our country, maybe not live there, but be able to go back and forth and have our children go there. And we still have families we have to fight for there. So, I think that is what got us all together," Perez says.
Some 1,100 Venezuelans will be flying from Miami on Sunday. Many more will travel in buses. In all, up to 8,000 Venezuelans from Florida are expected to make the trip.
Volunteer organizer Beatriz Olavarria says most will vote for Chavez challenger Henrique Capriles. Unlike in Venezuela, Olavarria says, voters in this country don't fear harassment when they cast their ballots.
"The government will make sure, they will threaten you, they will scare you, they will, you know, do last-minute things that you're going to think about it. Outside of Venezuela, we don't have that. We're not going to be jobless because we go vote and so on and so forth. So, it's a genuine vote that only wants the best for the country," Olavarria says.
Olavarria's only concern now is whether the Venezuelan consulate in New Orleans will be able to handle several thousand determined Venezuelan voters.
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I remember reading a webpage about the issue of calling someone father. One of the points made against the practice was an Old Testament passage of someone asking another person to be his father spiritually.
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I don't know exactly what you are referring to, but lets look at some of the usage of
The word use used several hundred times so this won't cover them all, just a few to show this pattern.
To start with, there is an interesting reference where the Lord is speaking to David and promises to give him a son, but also that that son will be His son and that He will look after him as a Father:
This usage is very parallel to the language you find in many of the prophets (Jeremiah, Isaiah, etc.) where God is comforting his people by claiming them as his own. Two examples of many:
The Psalmist also shows helps draw this parallel:
And also by Solomon:
This identification is also not just one way, Isaiah shows that he indeed understands God to play this role:
The prophet Malachi also laments the fact that although God is the Father of his people, he is not properly regarded as such.
As Wikis noted, Matthew 23 is the passage to which the person was probably referring:
The idea is that men should not be exalted over us in such roles. The religious rabbis and teachers of the law were the most corrupt and dishonorable to God. Jesus commands us to not seek such titles for ourselves, nor give them to others, but to exalt God as Father and Teacher and Master.


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9 Oct 2012 7:12 AM #1
Unanswered: List CSS Changed :: 2.0.1 -> 2.1.0
All my custom CSSfor my lists which worked in the 2.0.1 DO NOT WORK any more in the new version 2.1.0 !!!
All the structure of List has been changed deeply !
In the 2.0.1 for a NestedList

And i can not find the "itemCls" in the page !!
list = Ext.create('Ext.dataview.NestedList', { id : 'tagit_list', title : 'Tag-it!', baseCls : 'tag-list', // NEVER USED !!!! itemCls : 'tag-list-item'// CAN NOT FIND IT IN MY HTML CODE (using chrome console) displayField : 'name', getItemTextTpl : TagItemTemplate.getTemplate, masked : false, toolbar : { docked : 'top', xtype : 'titlebar', ui : 'black', inline : true } });
For the first item :
x-container x-list-item x-stretched x-list-item-first x-list-header-wrap
x-container x-list-item x-stretched
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11 Oct 2012 10:37 PM #3
Hi mitchellsimoens,
Finaly i've resolved (spend 1day and half) to display my List (Nested and Normal) like they were (a little bit differently).
Even if there is no "itemCls" in NestedList, the DOM of the Lists have deeply changed !
(you used to "noyer le poisson"... lol)
Please, consider adding some samples with personnal customization of "list" and so in your samples ;-)
12 Oct 2012 3:49 PM #4
^ What he said. I'm all over the place trying pin things down.
12 Oct 2012 9:24 PM #5
Yes - version upgrades can be a pain - however you get the new infinite list feature out of it and much better performance as a result.


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I'm developing a game engine. It is supposed to be an entity/components based one.
For developing my game itself (using my engine of course) i though to use some scripting language to actually create the entities. To be clearer, if i want to add a kind of monster aggressing the player, it will be an entity with several components etc... those components will change over the monster type, if i have like one hundred different types of monster in my game, i will not create a new method for each of them straight to my game code.
So what do you think? Using a scripting language to describe this entity in term of components? Or something else?
More generally how i should use scripting in my game? To achieve what? I'm comfortable with Python at the moment but is there a better language alternative for games?
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Definition of fusionist in English:
1A person who strives for coalition between political parties or factions.
Example sentences
- In the 60's we had traditionalists, fusionists, libertarians, etc.
- What the libertarian has to offer, the fusionists maintain, is a good understanding of the meaning of freedom, of the dangers facing it, and especially of the connection between economic and other forms of freedom.
- Shouldn't the fusionists have hailed and come to the support of these educational opposition movements?
2A player or fan of music that is mixture of two modern styles.
Example sentences
- Unfortunately, there are occasions when the group skirt dangerously close to the same easy-listening tar pits that have ensnared so many post-rock fusionists.
- Jacko may have ruled the pop music scene for a good portion of the late '70s and early '80s, but jazz fusionists Metalwood recall a jazz scene from a similar time that was ruled by another Jaco - Pastorius, to be precise.
- No one had told him that you couldn't put rockers like the Pink Fairies' Paul Rudolph or Roxy's Paul Thompson in the same studio as out-and-out fusionists such as Percy Jones or avant-gardists like Holger Czukay.
fusionism noun
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- Yes, fusionism began to rapidly fall apart once the Soviet Union fell and the individualist conservatives saw they had little in common with the neocon statists/militarists.
- The impending breakup of fusionism shows that this is only true insofar as dramatic changes are made to the character of the American Right itself - changes many who have labored under its banner want no part of.
- For neoconservatives, such a fusionism would provide the wiggle room in the budget to increase the size of the military to a size they believe is more appropriate.
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Polly Lauder Tunney, 100, Fighter's Widow, Dies
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April 15, 2008, Tuesday
"Tunney's favorite diversion was watching, reading about, or talking about boxing bouts."
December 3, 2006, Sunday
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Any ideas for making an OpenBSD usable (how to turn off logs, "put os into memory"?) on a SDHC or an microSDHC card? Since full-disk encryption is not really a solution under OpenBSD so I though I would be more keen on physical protection, so I will install/use my "desktop os" on an SDHC or a microSDHC card.
The generally accepted practice for installing onto a flash device is the same as installing onto any other disk. The entire OpenBSD base system will readily fit in 1GB of space. It will likely be harder to find a flash device that small than to get OpenBSD installed on it.
As far as turning off logging, don't worry about it, just let them be written to your flash card, it is not likely to kill the card. Alternatively, send your logs to a remote host, or mount /var onto a different filesystem.
Also, when you boot, the OS is loaded into memory for you... no extra tweaking required.
There are official FAQ's on this.
Also, on the topic of boot disk encryption, a recent article on undeadly points out that it is possible; though, I would imagine, at the moment that procedure is not officially supported by OpenBSD.
You are running OpenBSD as you're Desktop OS and you seem to have to deal with the fact that your IO isn't safe from prying eyes ? Well there Neo ;) ... I would suggest...
A simple cardreader, it's a scsi device in the end.
Get a Sandisk HD Video SDHC 32GB Class 6 card to make the 20Mb/s & don't forget the softdeps in the fstat


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Police on Sunday night were waiting to question a Staten Island man they believe fatally choked and beat his wife with a baseball bat before trying to commit suicide, a law-enforcement official said.
Gregory Surinaga, 45 years old, made "spontaneous utterances" at the scene that allegedly implicated him in the death of his wife, Jodi Surinaga, the official said. The cause of death was being investigated by the city Medical Examiner.
Responding medics found Mr. Surinaga in the process of trying to hang himself, the official said. They were able to stop and subdue him until police arrived.
Mr. Surinaga was rushed to Staten Island University North Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition and in the custody of police, the official said.
Mr. Surinaga had not been charged as of Sunday night. He was not available for comment; it was unclear if he had a lawyer.
Police were called to the Surinagas' home in the Castleton Corners neighborhood just before 2:30 a.m. by the couple's 18-year-old daughter, the official said. Officers arrived to find Ms. Surinaga lying on a bedroom floor unconscious and unresponsive with head trauma. Responding medics pronounced her dead at the scene.
Investigators recovered a baseball bat from the bed that they believe was used in the attack, the official said.
The Surinaga's also have a 16-year-old son, the official said. It was unclear Sunday if the children witnessed the incident. Both were unharmed; they were taken a hospital for precaution and released into the care of their grandmother.
The Surinaga's have at least one domestic incident in their past, the official said. Details of the incident were not available.
Neighbors on the quiet block where the couple lived for several years said they found family to be a generally happy bunch.
Crissy Colvin, 34, said the family was together Saturday morning putting up Christmas lights in their front yard. She said the couple had just celebrated their 20-year anniversary.
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I've read that a professional photographer should have at least two camera bodies, with one serving as a backup. How important is it to have a backup camera body? Consider both amateur and professional use cases.
Short answer: Are you mad ? !!!!!!! [ :-) ]
Longer answer: For a professional lack of a backup body is ~= "death-deferred".
Many professionals who carry a second camera will use it in parallel with their "main camera", allowing changing camera rater than changing lenses. Or more options when changing.
A backup body CAN be whatever you "can get away with". But when you consider the cost of lenses, flashes, memory cards, computer equipment, software, general accessories and your costs of staying alive, then the cost of an acceptably good backup body becomesa small fraction of the total.
If you are serious, it's nice, and the cost of an "acceptable enough" second body can be quite modest. When you buy an entry level used camera as your first DSLR and it stretches your budget, then buying two is obviously not an option. But if you carry a D800, then adding a used D7000, or not selling it when you upgrade, may make a lot of difference to your life. It also depends on what sort of photography you do, where you go to take photos and how much you care.
I consider myself "semi professional" in that my "day job" is as an electronic designer, but photography is an obsession (just ask my wife) and I much more than pay for my camera equipment with paying work, (assuming you ignore the hourly rate for my time after capital costs :-) ). I have had a camera die due to being dropped (a very rare occurrence) at midnight on returning home from a paid stage show when I had an unpaying wedding that coming morning. The backup was inferior but did the job.
Conclusion in both cases:
You'll never regret having a second camera available at a moment's notice after you forget what you paid for it.
Extremely important for professionals. Most magazines publish photographs, not excuses. So if your camera gets attacked by a bear, falls into a lake, gets stolen, you still have to be able to bring back photos. Many events are once in a lifetime or occur extremely infrequently, which gives you only one chance to capture them.
For amateurs there is absolutely an advantage too. Yet, I wouldn't call it so absolutely essential. You may only go to Borneo (substitute your own far-off dream destination here) or see a total solar eclipse once in your life but even if you so not bring back any photos, you will have your memories for a while at least.
Note that everyone speaks of a backup camera but you also need backups for everything else. Many professionals have experienced failed lenses (including myself) which is crippling. With digital cameras there are multiple single-points-of-failure too. Consider what happens if your charger breaks after your set of batteries goes empty. That is why it is easier to go with identical or very similar backups. For me a K-5 + K-7 works but the K-7 + K20D was a nightmare. Another backup solution which I use is to have an ultra-zoom, this saves weight and works well for non-action and non-low-light photography.
Should you travel without a backup, you can limit your losses by downloading frequently and sending images away. Everytime I get 4GB of photos, I burn them to DVD twice. One copy is kept with me and the other is mailed to myself. This limits the loss of photos already taken but not potential future photos. DVD or other optical media are not only virtually indestructible, they also have no value to potential thieves, unlike portable hard-drives which are popular.
For event photography, you will often see second non-backup bodies to shoot with more than one lens quickly. Those photographers usually also have a backup too. In the some cases, like weddings even, professionals can use backup photographers too!
The professional case is fairly obvious, I would think. Photo shoots can be expensive and time consuming to set up. It could be limited location options, assistants, model availability, and more that is a factor here, but it boils down to the fact that a faulting camera with no back up means a lost shoot and that can be a lot of money.
The other professional case could be around things like wedding work. In the one and only wedding I've shot, I used dual cameras with differing focal length ranges with high grade zooms (all f/2.8 constant) to give me complete shot options without a lens swap. Kind of handy when you have a moment or two to make the shot.
For amateur, the case isn't very strong unless you can afford it. When you can, it's nice for travel and nature work. I often, again, sling the dual camera where one is set up with a wide angle or a macro prime and the other is set up with a telephoto option. Makes it easy, as with the wedding shoot, to get the quick shot away with high quality and no lens swap. Of course, you can go super zoom, but you trade quality of glass, and thus image quality, for that convenience.
At any rate, I don't mind carrying two K-5s, they're nice and compact. :)
Professional get paid when they go to a shoot, and if the camera fails, that $1000 job would become a $0 job + one very pissed off client. So it is a MUST.
For people not getting paid doing photography however, having a camera failure really doesn't have that big an impact.
It really boils down to how important is the shoot. For example it is your sister's wedding day, you would hope that you have a backup camera for such a once-in-a-lifetime event.
For things like taking photographs of your pet in a park, it simply doesn't matter, you can go another day and take some more photos when your camera is working again.
However, for most of the time, when not doing professional jobs, a simple point and shoot would be a good enough backup. If you absolute demand DSLR quality getting a second hand DSLR for cheap would do a perfect job, too.
Say you saved up good money and went on a holiday with your loved ones, and you both enjoy taking a lot of photos. Then a backup camera would make a lot of sense. For my travels I take my 60D and a large aperture point-and-shoot. My girlfriend would happily use the point and shoot (she enjoys photography too and she knows how to operate a DSLR well). In case we drop any one of them in water, we will still have one camera left for capturing our lovely vacation.
Personally, I would have a backup, however that would be a good quality point and shoot, not a DSLR. For lighter weight and versatility. Almost all do macro, and some have amazing zoom range, they are also cheap :D
Hope this helps.
One thing I'll throw out there: for an amateur, at least, there are backup options besides another body. For week-long vacations I always bring along a small point-n-shoot as a backup camera. Similarly, I always have my iPhone on me and consider that an acceptable backup, too.


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I suggest SO to show warning messages for VB.NET questions being answered with C# solution or vice versa.
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
- Your voice helps shape the way Stack Exchange operates
I believe the community is well enough capable of policing this kind of issue on its own.
Since we're in the land of .NET, many times a C# answer will in fact be sufficient to get the VB asker past a particular problem. And the C# answerer is already often enough saying "sorry, this is C# code, I'm not entirely sure of the VB syntax" or some other such disclaimer.
Expanding outwards to cover the non-.NET universe, if the answer is indeed in the wrong language and it does not assist in answering the question, that's where we have downvotes. But if the answer helps move the needle, then the language itself is not a problem. It could even be pseudocode, for all we care.
Then next we'll have warnings for C and C++, fizz and buzz .. boom and bang .. where is it going to stop .. lisp and fainbruck?
I think this kind of automatic rejection / warning is just a bad idea, globally. It's way more expensive than it's worth.
Considering they are using the same framework, and answers usually aren't that complex, it should be well within the abilities of any programmer to translate an answer from one .NET framework answer to another.
Even for VB.NET developers.


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5 Upcoming Remakes of 80s Movies (That Must be Stopped)
A chainsaw-wielding maniac with everything to prove murders a bunch of negligent camp counselors who just want to have sex with each other.
Why It Made Sense Then:
Friday the 13th got in on the slasher craze early and bothered to bring something new to the table. The movie leads you to believe that Jason's rotting corpse is stalking the camp killing everyone, only to pull the rug out from under you at the end by revealing that it was his angry mother all along. It told you a ghost story, and then made you feel retarded for believing in ghosts. This was all mind blowing before M. Night Shyamalan started jamming twist endings down your throat every chance he got.
It wasn't just a more innocent time at the movie theater. As a country, we just didn't really give a shit about anything in the 80s. Smoking laws were more relaxed, seat belts weren't mandatory, and a little up-and-comer named crack cocaine was poking its twitchy little head around the corner. It was a simpler time, when a woman could say "My son drowned because your counselors were off having sex " and the owners of the camp could respond "Yeah, I hear ya lady. But seriously, eat shit. Camp stays open."
Why It Doesn't Now:
First of all, negligent counselors let a kid drown and they didn't close the camp? Can you imagine that camp staying open today? Today's moms bitch so much that elementary schools across the nation are instituting separate tables and in some cases separate cafeterias to accommodate kids with peanut allergies. Jason's mom may as well be avenging a stage coach robbery.
Then there's the twist ending, the best part of the first movie. The one that asks us to believe that it was a thin middle aged woman who killed all those teenagers and tossed their bodies through a window. We suppose that made as little sense in the 80s as it does now (though modern audiences are just the sorts of assholes to point something like that out). But how about the fact that they're remaking a movie with a twist ending at all? How do you do that?
These people don't know either.
Is the twist ending this time going to be that it wasn't his mom? That there is no twist? Of course, it won't be the first time someone tried to remake a horror movie with a twist ending.
We didn't see Pyscho with Vince Vaughn, but we imagine it sucked.
Okay, But Why ELSE Shouldn't We Remake It?
We don't even know how many Friday the 13th movies have been made, but we know enough to know that they've broken every rule, tested the limits of every premise and retconned every death enough times that the series shouldn't technically exist anymore. Hasn't this franchise reached its boiling point as far as absurd plot holes by now? Seriously, take a brief look at some of the previous Fridays and see how things almost immediately start falling to shit.
Friday the 13th (original)
"Jason is revealed to be...Ma Voorhees, killing camp counselors as revenge for a couple of fornicating counselors that left her son to drown all those years ago."
Friday the 13th Part II
"OK, nevermind about the death of Jason. He's alive and wants to go on a murderous rampage to avenge the death of his mother who was killed avenging his death that never actually happened. "(???)
Friday the 13th Part III
"Let's do Part II again, but in a barn!"
Friday the 13th: Final Chapter
"Same, as the others, but with Corey Feldman now. Feldman hacks him to death with a machete."
Friday the 13th VI: Jason Lives
"Okay, nevermind about the machete hacking, it was the kind that you can bounce back from with just a little old fashioned know-how. Also, there is murder."
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
"Let's do Part II again, but on a boat! Yeah we couldn't afford a set that looks like Manhattan."
Jason X
"Have we done space yet? Let's do space. Take the original script, replace 'teens' with 'astronauts,' 'machete' with 'liquid nitrogen' and 'plot' with 'space.' I'm taking lunch, I want this movie made by 5pm tomorrow."
You may notice the entire series consists of finding new places and ways for Jason to kill teenagers. You'll also notice they never brought back Ma Vorhees, probably because someone told them that a middle aged woman tossing teenagers around like beanbags didn't make any sense. If it's not about Ma Vorhees, that raises some even more mind boggling questions, such as: Won't it just be a remake of the shitty sequels that took place at Crystal Lake? Why not just call it a sequel then? Is there any possible scenario in which this film makes sense? Sadly only one of those questions has an answer.[subtitle]#1. Top Gun[/subtitle]
Sick of being picked on, a scrawny America with everything to prove trains a squad of cocky, excitable navy flyboys who get shirtless with alarming regularity.
Why It Made Sense Then:
This is another Russia-related problem. Really, the overall calming-down of Russia has seriously negatively impacted our ability to remake 80s movies. The whole point of Top Gun was to train pilots to dogfight with Russians in an air-battlefield dubbed "the Danger Zone," which they reached by way of a complex air-highway.
At the end, they did engage in a dogfight with the Russians. And it was fucking awesome. Though for all we know it was that incident that spurned the Russians to retaliate in Red Dawn.
Why It Doesn't Now:
Lot of jet action in today's war going on? Big demand for skilled dogfighters for all those scary air skirmishes? No? Hm. I guess that leads us to the question: What the hell would we be training these pilots for? The Iraqis didn't even put their jets into the air, not wanting to waste the gas they would have burned in the fifteen seconds it would have taken all of them to get shot down. It's true they're trying to buy fighter jets now. From us.
"These dogfights would be a lot easier if they didn't also have planes.
So, are there a bunch of highly trained Al Qaeda fighter pilots that the news media bizarrely refuses to acknowledge? Are we training to fight the Chinese? That would be awkward, considering everything from their uniforms to the electronics in the planes are probably made there.
But beyond that, Top Gun was a chest beating, ultra patriotic movie with zero doubt in America's righteousness. Problems with Russia? No big deal, just pour some America on that sumbitch and watch the freedom come soaring in.
The political climate has changed slightly in the last couple of decades, to say the least. You may have noticed the war movies of today not only cast a critical eye on American foreign policy, but actually give names and faces to our enemies. We never saw the enemies that Maverick and Iceman so giddily shot down over the Indian Ocean (they politely covered their faces), but we couldn't get away with that today. Kenny Loggins just doesn't have a song for morally ambiguous wars with no easy solutions.
Okay, But Why ELSE Shouldn't We Remake It?
Every movie on this list is an awkward and misguided attempt to cash in on nostalgia, but Top Gun is probably the worst offender because it makes the least sense, like the producers printed out the Wikipedia page on popular 80s movies, threw a dart and greenlit a remake for wherever the dart landed.
To make matters worse, like a tiny, excitable moth to a flame, Tom Cruise is hoping to jump on this project to restore his current image by reminding people how not crazy he used to be. Cruise would be taking over the Tom Skeritt mentor role who teaches a rebellious, cocky young pilot how to straighten up and fly right.
That cocky young pilot? Katie Holmes. Perfect. No way that's going to be awkward and creepy.
We miss you, Hot Katie Holmes.
Replace Val Kilmer with a video of ALF getting sexually assaulted by a Ghostbuster and you'll have officially ruined everything that made growing up in the 80s wonderful.
For more movies you're not going to want to see, check out 5 Upcoming Comic Book Movies That Must Be Stopped. Or for a list we're hoping all five of these movies end up on, check out The 6 Worst Movies Hollywood Almost Made.


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I am doing a project in Struts2 where I need of setting a parameter in URL like user parameter in below link.
I want this parameter to be passed when I click a form submit button and not any links separately. I know how to do this with
<s:url> but that way I need to create a link instead of form submit.
Can someone please help me with a code sample how to do this?
I know there's a way to do it with HTML or Struts1 but how to do it with Struts2? If there is a way to do this in
struts.xml, please explain with an example.
<form action="/example/xyz.action?user=george" method="POST">