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The following terms, wherever they occur within this Law, shall have the meanings given below:
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Assistance of qualified and licensed private national laboratories may be sought, by a decision of the Minister concerned, for purposes of testing local and imported goods.
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Preliminary licensing may be granted to laboratories subject to fulfillment of the following conditions:
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The Implementing Regulations shall determine the classes of laboratories and the conditions for each class as recommended by the Organization.
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• The Ministry concerned shall issue the private laboratory license, upon satisfying the following:
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The laboratory shall comply with the following:
(a) Limiting the tests to goods licensed for testing.
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I'm using the following to make ajax calls:
wp_enqueue_script( 'my-ajax-request', TAF_PLUGIN_URL . 'js/ajaxcf.js', array( 'jquery' ) );
wp_localize_script( 'my-ajax-request', 'MyAjax', array( 'ajaxurl' => admin_url( 'admin-ajax.php' ), 'postid' => get_the_ID(), ) );\
And in my javascript file i have a fairly simple code snippet:
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
var str = $("#ajaxForms").serialize();
var data = {
action: 'myajax-submit',
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jQuery.post(MyAjax.ajaxurl, data, function(response) {
return false;
And for my html i have:
<form id="ajaxForms">
<label for="fname">First Name:</label>
<input id="postID" name="postID" value="First Name" type="text" />
<input id="submit_button" class="submit" value="Send" type="button" />
Everything seems to be working smoothly however i would like to process multiple forms on the same page, say for example the homepage has five posts, each of these posts will have my form (html code above).
I'm getting conflicts when more than one form is displayed, this is due to the jquery, for example the click function has a class of .submit or the .serialize() has the same ID as the rest.
How would i use the jQuery with unique identifiers for each form so conflicts won't happen?
I hope i made this clear.
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I've got the following problem,
I've got a fixed size square and within there are a fixed number of rectangles to be contained within it. I want the rectangles to cover the maximum amount of space within the square. The size of the rectangles is determined by a weighting. The higher the value of an individual weight of a rectangle, the bigger its surface area.
Assuming I have a predetermined weighting for all 9 rectangles, how do I derive at the coordinates (for their position in the square) and their dimensions (width and length).
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Knit and Purl in the English Style
7 of 11 in Series: The Essentials of Knitting a Gauge Swatch
Knitting and purling in the English style is the most common method in the United States. To purl in the English-style, you just work a knit stitch backwards: Instead of going into the stitch from front to back, you purl by entering it from back to front.
Hold the needle with the cast-on or existing stitches in your left hand, with the tip pointing to the right, then insert the tip of the RH needle into the first loop on the LH needle from right to left and back to front.
The RH needle is in front of the LH needle, forming a T, and the working yarn is in front of your needles. This is the reverse of what you do when you form a knit stitch.
With your right hand, wrap the yarn around the back of the RH needle.
Wrap the yarn from right to left and down.
Bring the tip of the RH needle with its wrap of yarn down and through the loop on the LH needle to the back side of the LH needle.
Keep a slight tension on the yarn throughout this step.
Slide the old loop off the tip of the LH needle.
A new stitch is made on the RH needle. Repeat these steps until you're comfortable with the movements.
A purled swatch looks just like a knitted swatch. Why? Because purling is simply the reverse of knitting. Whether you knit all the rows or purl all the rows, you're working a garter stitch.
When you purl, the yarn strand comes out of the new stitches on the side of the knitting facing you. When you knit, the yarn comes out of the new stitches on the side facing away from you.


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I'm bulding a website but some webtools and browser plugins allows anyone to get information on which technologies the website has been built. Is there any Alternative to not reveal that we are working on server that process php ?
Don't provide any information to anyone unless its absolutely necessary.
You should set
This is along the same lines as "banner information disclosure", which is revealing version information via service banners. You should be able to configure your HTTPD to suppress this information. In an Apache production environment set
You could also lie >:). You can use mod_header to set any header, including a fake
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GTA IV Graphics/Engine Analysis
GTA IV Graphics Engine Analysis
I've made this post for, quite possibly, the more nerdy and technical among the GTA fans here. The point of it, is to examine sets of screen shots from trailers, and scans for errors, technicalities, improvements, and things they're doing very VERY right. Yes, I'm aware that footage we've seen is beta. Yes, I'm aware that most problems could/can be fixed. But, it's still neat looking for the things they've done very right so far, and I will congratulate them for that, as they are doing very excellent, graphics/engine wise. The game looks very good so far, good job R*!
Now what can you expect from this? Well, I'll be analyzing small details in the screen shots, and try and explain what's going on as much as possible. I'm not a 3D programmer, nor an expert on this. I play a lot of games, and pay attention to small graphical details, stuff that the average gamer doesn't even notice as their driving along in game. Feel free to correct me on any errors, or discuss anything. Keep arguing out of this thread please, or things like "We already knew that.", as I'm sure there IS stuff here that you've already noticed. Think of it as a summary as well. Onto the juicy analysis!
This image from the trailer has raised a lot of speculation, as proof to R* using the DMM engine. Of course, as some people may have noticed, it's clearly not. Why?
In the circled area, you can see the texture for the glass penetration overlapping with the frame of the car. It's typical graphics stuff, you can see similar things in many games. They haven't done anything wrong here, you'll barely notice it in game. But, this is confirmation that they are NOT using the engine, DMM, at least not on the glass. Two other things to notice in there, is the cops don't have shadows underneath them. I can understand this being taken out, as having tons of pedestrians roaming the street, all with dynamic shadows, would have a heavy impact on the frame rate in-game. Another is, the wood on the mid-left of the image, are kind of strewed all over the place. They seem to be placed at random, or moved there only using their own physics. Perhaps a cop car crashed through there, but this seems to be an example of a small portion of destructible environment, and dynamic physics on props within the map.
Now, in this image, there isn't a lot to take note of. But, on the gas pump, on the chrome part, the reflections are really weird. I'm praying R* doesn't go back to their old reflection method, of just having a static image for a sunset move along a reflective surface depending on the angle. Yes, they did that in SA, I'll look for a thread on it later. The reflection on the gas pumps however, appears to be of some trees. I'm not sure what kind of gas station is placed right next to a bunch of trees, nor a gas station that only has ONE pump, but those trees are close. Let's hope it's just an error in the reflections.
On the subject of reflections though,
in that image, the reflections on the car are perfect. Everything is correctly in it's place. Perhaps R* is just not bothering with proper reflections on things such as the gas pump, as it would be a thing you rarely take note of.
No real complaints in this picture, just admiring a few things. First, the bullet holes look really good. Compare them to some bullet decals in some of your favorite shooters, up close. You'll see what I mean. Second, the treads on the tires.. simply gorgeous. They look like honest-to-god, real tires. The lighting, the texture, spot-on. The towers in the background, beautiful as well. The textures and bump-maps give them life, as well as the reflectiveness of them. Only thing bothering me, is the texture is the same on all of them. Not all dirt and rust goes on the same on everything. :p Really good shot, overall.
I'm positive that the fact that the wheels of the cop car are clipping with the ground, has been mentioned, so I won't bother. They messed up a bit there, as the car didn't even shift it's weight as it went onto the sidewalk. I'm sure it'll be fixed, the car models aren't complete yet. - UPDATE: In this image, the cops tires actually aren't clipping with the ground. It's a mixture of a weird angle, and the fact that, where the cop is turned onto the sidewalk, it's actually an entrance. The sidewalk is lowered down, as if an entrance to a parking lot. So, one less error on Rockstar's part.
But, what's good about this shot? Again, the tires. Absolutely perfect. You can see what I mean a bit better in this shot. They're just 100% ace, even better than most racing games (which is embarrassing for them). The road looks great, and even small details like, the tire of the car is compressed at bit on the road, as it has weight. Another important thing here is, the car is NOT floating above the road in any way. In most modern-day engines, the characters, models, props, vehicles, all float above the ground, even sometimes ever-so-slightly. Most of you have seen this before, and know what I mean by it. In GTA? They're touching, interacting with the ground. They have weight, and this is going to affect how realistic the entire city feels.
Few more things going on here. Of course, there's the glitch of the man floating above the anchor. I'm sure that's been spotted before. Take note of the garbage and debris on the ground here. It's not a flat texture that floats around randomly, like in past GTA games. This makes the streets look authentically littered upon, and adds depth to the world. I'm not sure if they'll have proper physics as you drive/run by the garbage, we'll have to wait and see. The pedestrians walking in the background, again you can see his weight. You can see he's touching the world, as he is part of it. This is a pretty big achievement for R*. The view is fantastic, and the texture quality in the background is pretty high for such an immerse scene. Not sure how they pulled it off, though even in the trailer you can see a drop in frame rate at this scene.
In this scan, you can see Niko crouching behind a car, with two dead gangsters in the background. Again, you can see his weight, and interaction with the environment, as he is apart of it. Now, the bodies. This is a real achievement in physics engines. First off, they aren't posing in a typical ragdoll "Foot-behind-the-head, ballerina" pose. They look like dead, limp bodies. Natural fall poses. Also, another important note, they aren't clipping with the ground. Most modern-day ragdolls, their arms will fall into the ground, or their legs. They look pretty legit overall. The lighting in this scene is perfect, and Niko demonstrates self-shadowing, which is still pretty new to the game industry. His head is casting a shadow onto his back/shoulders, which makes him fit into the scene a lot more nicely.
That's all for now. I'll be examining more screen shots as they are released, and expect a better, more full-scale analysis from me when a new trailer is released. Until then, discuss, comment, and suggest fixes for this article.
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cool comaprisons!. i b=never ven noticed half those. but what do you mean by never seeign a gas station with one pump? do you mean one nozzle? cuz their all over the place. you select what grade of fuel you want and it all comes out one nozzle. if your talking about only having one pump then maybe theres more off screen.
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I know, but look at the reflection on the pump, if there was more, wouldn't you be seeing them in the reflection? But you don't...
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Not to rain on your post (very detailed by the way) Rockstar confirmed that the game will be using the RAGE Engine with the Euphoria Engine. RAGE is Rockstars own Game Engine and is what they will be using for most new titles and have used before.
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I know, I never said it didn't, but they're still actively modifying the engine to fit the game.
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Nice thread man, very insightful indeed.
About the garbage/cans, the recent Games Aktuel magazine had little confirmation about it.
"If Niko kicks or drives against a trashcan, it rolls around with proper physics."
Not really sure how much proper, but the reporters seemed to be pleased with it.
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very insightful and interesting i enjoyed the read, i know what you mean by dmm and i compleatly forgot about it as well, i do hope they are putting it in but as ur post states it doesnt look that way.
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However, I am quite doubtful about DMM being injected into GTA IV. It's an exclusive item for the Lucas Arts till September 2008.
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ha just got through reading this on gtaforum.com
was a good read and well analised!
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Pointing something out:
They do have shadows underneath them, the problem is that the only visible one is the crouching cop's shadow, since the left two are standing on a the bridge shadow and we can't see the right one's
Seems like pedestrians will have shadows
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afterfl0w, bravo!
It was a very nice read and finding things out that i hadn't noticed before was even better. I hope to see some more analysis like this from you soon.
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UPDATE: My friend actually pointed this out to me, so props to Jakemop.
In this image, the cops tires actually aren't clipping with the ground. It's a mixture of a weird angle, and the fact that, where the cop is turned onto the sidewalk, it's actually an entrance. The sidewalk is lowered down, as if an entrance to a parking lot. So, one less error on Rockstar's part.
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When installing something from source (say, Ruby 1.9.2), what command can I run to get a complete list of all the dependencies needed to install that application? Is this possible?
Short answer: not possible. The difficulty of getting the exact dependencies from a source distribution is the reason why package management is so popular on Linux (okay, one of several reasons). In fact, if you just need to get it done and don't care so much how, the most reliable way to get the dependencies will probably be to grab a distro package (gentoo ebuilds are easy to work with) and pull the list of dependencies from that.
Otherwise, if you're lucky, the maintainers will have created a listing of the dependencies in the README file or similar - that'd be the first place to check. Failing that, if it's a C project and you don't mind getting your hands dirty, you can look inside the configure script (or better yet the configure.ac or whatever it's generated from) and figure out the dependencies from that based on what it checks.
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There isn't any programmatic way that I'm aware of, I generally look through the release notes and/or software README files to get a general idea. This works out to be an iterative process where I might find a library or two that I don't have or missed and need to go get them.
Building using a package manager
If on the other hand you're using a package manager such as
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There are two constructions that look quite similar to me: the derived category of an abelian category, and the homotopy category of a model category. Is there any explicit relationship between these two constructions? (This question is related to, and indeed the inspiration for, one of my previous questions.)
Yes. The former is a special case of the latter. There is a model category structure on the category of (say bounded) chain complexes of objects in your given abelian category. The weak equivalences are the quasi-isomorphisms, and the homotopy category is the derived category.
In the case of R-modules, for a ring R, this is explained in detail in this paper by Dwyer-Spalinski.
Unfortunately, it isn't quite right to say that derived categories of abelian categories are a special case of model categories. Morally this might be true, but for a general abelian category there is no known model category structure on its (unbounded) category of chain complexes whose weak equivalences are the quasi-isomorphisms. There is such a model structure when the abelian category is a Grothendieck category; this is shown in
Quillen originally gave the example of a model structure on the category of non-negatively bounded complexes of R-modules, but the case of unbounded complexes of R-modules seems not to have appeared in print until the publication of Hovey's book
As far as I'm aware, none of the standard references on model categories talk about unbounded derived categories of abelian categories---probably because in general they don't arise as the homotopy category of any known model structure on the category of chain complexes!
Some information may be found at nLab: homotopy category. Following the links there you also find information on all the other keywords mentioned above.
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Both give rise to derivators, and indeed thinking about homotopy theories as non-abelian derived categories is what led Grothendieck to introduce then (note that Heller and Franke independently came up with derivators, but I'm not sure they had the same motivation)
I think you don't want any bounded condition. I don't see how the category of chain complexes with bounded cohomology could be a model category. It doesn't have all small colimits; just take longer and longer chain complexes with trivial differentials, and you get something with unbounded cohomology.


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C. C. Pinckney and the Presidential Election of 1800
As the 2012 presidential election nears - and the outcome appears too close to call among the pollsters and pundits - it is good to remember that this is not a unique situation. The controversies surrounding the Elections of 1800, 1876, and 2000 loom large in historic memory. A Beaufort plantation owner, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746 - 1825), played a key role in how the 1800 election turned out. C.C. Pinckney refused to change his electoral college vote from John Adams. It is claimed that Pinckney would have become the 3rd Vice-President of the United States instead of Thomas Jefferson if he had gone back on his word to support John Adams. Read about the ins-and-outs of C.C. Pinckney's role in the Election of 1800 in these resources: BDC Research Room "He Gave His Word: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and the Presidential Election of 1800," by Steve C. Griffith, Jr. Carologue Magazine (Fall 2012) vol. 28, no. 2: pp. 10 - 16. (BDC) REF 975.73 SOU "Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 1746 - 1825" in the South Carolina Encyclopedia, University of South Carolina Press, 2006, pp. 727 - 728. (ALL) 975.791 ROG Charleston in the Age of the Pinckneys by George C. Rogers, University of South Carolina Press, 1980. (BDC, BEA, BLU, HHI) SC B PINCKNEY Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Founding Father by Marvin R. Zahniser, Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, 1967. (BDC, HHI) SC 920 WIL/ 929.9 WIL (Bluffton Branch) A Founding Family: The Pinckneys of South Carolina by Frances Leigh Williams, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. (BDC, BLU) 975.799 CHR Biography of an Island: General C.C. Pinckney's Sea Island Plantation by Merrill G. Christophersen, Westburg Associates Publishers, 1976. (BDC, BLU, HHI) SC 975.5 SOU 1962 "Eleanor Park Lewis to Mrs. C.C. Pinckney," South Carolina Historical Magazine, vol. 63, no. 1: pp. 12 - 17. (BDC, HHI) Note: The Beaufort County Library system will be closed on Monday, Nov. 12th to observe Veteran's Day.


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I�m not much of a church man.
Ten years of Catholic school coupled with endless news reports of religion-fueled violence and topped with ignorant opinions from the far right and even farther left has cured me of any Sunday habits.
But I do like churches, and I often admire their architecture, stained glass and historic beauty.
I also respect and will defend the right to worship whomever you want, no matter who you are. I don�t want to worship God, Buddha, Jah or Flying Spaghetti Monster, but if that�s your thing go for it.
But please, leave me out of it.
However, one church I can get behind is Jazz Church. It�s a gathering of music lovers and music lovers only, people with little interest in changing how you worship, but a great interest in broadening your musical palette. Jazz Church is a weekly gathering of music made by local musicians each Sunday at Moe�s.
It�s the brainchild of local musician Travis Dalenberg. He was looking at places to host an informal jazz jam, and after some venue difficulty, it landed on the patio of Moe�s. Although it�s an open event in name, where you can find musicians like Dalenberg on guitar, Chris Ross on trumpet, Ryan McCurry on keyboards or Neil Hemphill on drums, it�s not necessarily for the beginner. That�s good for us listeners, because there�s much to be found aurally within the jazz spectrum.
�All those guys there are not novices, but while we are open for just about anybody to play, we do recommend some experience,� Dalenberg said. �You can come down, listen, and say �OK, I�m going to learn how to play �So What� and next week be practiced, and come up and play that one tune. We can make it nice and easy for you, and then sometimes the experienced guys are up there so we get a little crazy. It�s been open to Latin, funk, fusion, straight ahead, bebop � we even had a guy come up and freestyle, so we�ve been doing a lot of stuff.�
Jazz Church has recently adopted another trick from its liturgical namesakes � the passing of the collection plate. Dalenberg, who also teaches guitar at Katzin Music, is interested in growing Katzin�s scholarship program. For years, Katzin Music has collected money to help students take lessons. Money collected at Jazz Church will go toward the scholarship fund, and Moe�s donates a dollar from every drink purchased during the �service.�
�The nice thing about Travis doing this with Jazz Church is, it will help diversify the type of student that we get,� said Jim Gillaspy, owner of Katzin Music. �We might get some drummers that get a scholarship, or more guitar players, trumpet players. It�ll broaden the spectrum a little bit.�
It�s also an effort to help the teachers keep teaching. As many music teachers at Katzin also are musicians at Jazz Church, it�s a way to give back to the performers to sustain their day jobs.
�We really need to give back to the teachers,� Gillaspy said. �We have 25 to 30 teachers at one time, and 350 to 400 students a week. It�s a big responsibility to keep teachers employed and keep students playing.�
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STEUBENVILLE - The Franciscan University of Steubenville basketball teams dropped a doubleheader to Penn State-Behrend Saturday in Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference action Saturday inside the Finnegan Fieldhouse.
"We played aggressively on the defensive end but weren't able to translate that consistency to our offensive game," women's head coach Suzy Delaney said after the 58-31 defeat. "We weren't able to finish even though we did get some good shots and take some good shots."
The Lady Barons shot 24 percent from the field.
"It's hard to gain momentum when you're having a rough shooting night," Delaney said. "So I think as hard as we were working on defense we still weren't able to nail our shots."
FUS sophomore Helen Raines and freshman Monica Dawyot finished with four and three steals, respectively. Dawyot led the Barons with 10 points.
"Helen played some pretty solid defense that showed up in those four steals. She and Monica are pretty consistent for the team," Delaney said. "Some of their steals helped to make some key stops on defense for us."
The teams combined to commit 49 turnovers.
"We get to play again tomorrow and we look forward to another conference game," Delaney said. "We will continue to improve and move forward in the conference season and get better each time we take the court."
The men dropped a 65-26 outcome.
"Tonight it was just about a joint-team defensive effort and while it was unfortunate that we weren't able to put the ball in the hole, it wasn't by a lack of trying. It just wasn't our night for the ball to fall," head coach John Lamanna said. "I would have liked to have had a better offensive game, but this is part of our growth as a team."
The Barons were plagued throughout the game by turnovers, which resulted in fast-break offensive plays and the majority of Behrend's point.
Lamanna was pleased, however, with the defense's response to Behrend.
"We've proven prior to this game that we're capable of scoring more than 26 points, so we already know the offense can click, but this is the first time we've put a full forty minute game together defensively," Lamanna said. "We have specific defensive goals and we really achieved a few of those that we have not been able to achieve all season."
One such highlight was 6'7", freshman forward Joseph Rine's three blocks. Rine is ranked second in NCAA Division III basketball in blocks, helping put the team 13th in the nation in blocks out of 408 teams.
"It's very exciting to see that finally the defense has started to click a bit," Lamanna said. "Now, it's a matter of bringing this together and that's part of the process. It's not going to come at once. It's going to come in pieces and that gap will slowly get bridged. This was the first game we're experienced that gap slowly closing, regardless of the point spread."
The Lady Barons (3-9, 2-3) host the University of Pitt-Bradford at 1 p.m. today, while the men tip-off at 3 p.m.


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Kentucky's first republican governor in 30 years wasted no time in succinctly addressing the state's fiscal crisis during his first State of the Commonwealth address at the Capitol on Tuesday night.
"Let's not mince words, the government has problems at its very core," Fletcher said.
Fletcher and his administration have already formulated a plan to make up the more than $300 million budget shortfall for this year. The plan includes what Fletcher calls "painful cuts," such as an additional 2.5 percent in the budgets of public universities.
The governor said the state must completely overhaul and modernize its tax code, and do so all at once. Constitutionally, tax overhaul must begin in the Kentucky House, and House Speaker Jody Richards (D)-Bowling Green said the legislature would welcome and examine any tax modernization proposals. "But he (Fletcher) must propose it, promote it, and push it."


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If I decided to take the plunge and upgrade from LR3 to LR4, does LR4 manage the migration of my catalogs for me automatically, when opening it for first time? Are there any things that break or that you wish you'd been aware of before upgrading? Obviously the safest thing to do is to take a backup of my catalogs before upgrading, but it'd be good to know if there are any "gotchas".
There is a bug in Lightroom 4 that can cause you to lose your point tone curve settings in existing images, as detailed here. This is a serious bug, if you use point curves. There are other relatively minor issues detailed at that link as well.
The behavior of Pick/Reject flags changes in Lightroom 4. Now when you flag an image, the flag is global, instead of per-collection. This can be surprising if you depend on per-collection flags.
Otherwise, I don't think there are serious issues. As you say, make backups. Your images that you've already processed will still be PV2010 (the Lightroom 3 process version) in Lightroom 4. You have to specifically upgrade them to PV2012 if you want to try the new process, because there's usually some degree of fine-tuning required. If you don't upgrade the process, they should remain identical to they way they were in Lightroom 3.
I upgraded from Lightroom 4 beta to Lightroom 4 final last night and had to upgrade all of my existing Lightroom 3 catalogs from LR3 format to LR4. The whole process was entirely painless. I have checked some of my old images and they all look the same and everything appears to have worked fine.
I don't often use the tone curve settings directly in Lightroom, I tend to use the sliders so I haven't noticed any issues as described in coneslayer's post. I do use flags but only when I'm trying to decide which images to keep/delete and that appears to be working as it did previously.
So far so good.
I have switched from LR3.6 to LR4 Beta and there is nothing wrong with the upgrade as far as I have seen it till now. LR4 does have some really awesome features and I'm sure the upgrade would be worth it!


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Nestled on the beach, this Hotel Zone resort is 0.1 mi (0.2 km) from Las Perlas Beach and 2.7 mi (4.4 km) from La Sagrada Familia Parish. Linda Beach and Museum of Popular Mexican Art are also within 1 mi (2 km).
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Simply step outside to unwind on the resort's beach. Lie back and work on your tan with relaxing beach amenities like cabanas (surcharge) and umbrellas. After a day at the beach, enjoy amenities at Holiday Inn Cancun Arenas like a marina, a complimentary children's club, and an outdoor pool.
Dining is available at one of the resort's 3 restaurants. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the resort's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. This beach resort also offers a 24-hour fitness center, a garden, and a terrace. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
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- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
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- Children's club (free)
- Free newspapers in lobby
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- Fireplace in lobby
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- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Number of floors - 5
- Number of restaurants - 3
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Diletto - This restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine and serves dinner only.
Ocean Grill Tequila - This restaurant specializes in Mexican cuisine and serves dinner only.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
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- Christmas Day (25 December) Gala Dinner per adult: MXN 9000.00
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Inspired by the Knitting in Film and Television Awards hosted by I Knit, our office had a lengthy chat today about our favorite knitted moments in the media. We're all mad for movies and television, mostly on DVD or Hulu…long marathons, the better to knit by, my dear!! We've also become fans of the blog Reel Knitting which is a perfect hybrid of our hobbies.
Most of us agree that mindless knits in yummy yarns are the best for knitting along in front of a flickering screen. A few of our free patterns come to mind: Rectangela knit in Peruvia (lots of stockinette and it eventually doubles as a lap blanket), Radius in sparkly Metallic Sox (knit in the round) and Alpine, knit in chunky Cuzco, which you could probably finish during a double feature!
I flipped the first time I saw this hilarious Yoplait ad with a wooly punchline. I also love that a knitter in the Humira ad is working with bamboo circulars. Points for realism! I absolutely adore Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep, in part for its' homemade charm (no computer generated special effects here) and in part because of scenes like this that seem to glorify crafting:
Norah has a fondness for Morticia Adams' multi-sleeved sweaters. She also enjoys knitting animals, Gromit the knitting dog from Wallace and Gromit and Maysie the knitting hen from Chicken Run.
Donna and I traded stories about excellent knitwear in children's fantasy films. We love everything in the Harry Potter films, as well as the Bucket Family is working on or wearing in Tim Burton's remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Donna spotted lots of yarny goodness in City of Ember while I happen to love the sweaters in City of Lost Children.
This was a good distraction from the craziness of this week…we're totally surrounded by yarn! We're practically re-enacting a certain iconic scene…
What are your favorite movie/TV knits?
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The music video Walkie Talie Man, directed by Michel Gondry (knitting and some crochet from begining to end!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y50Yao2jHJMMarch 20, 2009
"Lars and the Real Girl" made me cry like a baby. It's a great movie, and the blanket Lars' Mom made him is an important symbol. (It's in the very first scene.) It's a beautiful blanket. They never actually say it's knit, but it's obvious that it was.March 20, 2009
'The Jane Austin Book Club' – I watched the movie last week and I loved it….It is a group of ladies and one man that plan a meeting every month to discuss about Jane Austin's book and while they enjoy a drink and chat the lady with short blond hair (I do not remember the name) knits a violet scarf.March 20, 2009
Marti J #
I noticed on "Bones" on Thursday night that Brennan was wearing a great knitted cap in the opening scenes. Since she seldom wears anything knitted, this was really unusual … And it looked like a great pattern!March 20, 2009
My favorite TV to knit by is baseball. My husband is a fanatic, and it's a way for me to keep him company while not being bored to tears by really having to watch it. I knit the Make It Mitered Afghan at a leisurely pace over two seasons. All that was required was that I look up occassionally and say things like "Do you think he'll go for a sacrifice hit?" I have no idea what that means, but it makes it sound like I was actually listening when my husband explained the rules to me.
I love Gromit! And does Morticia's sweater have three sleeves??March 20, 2009
Jennifer #
The TV show Charmed often had some cute handknit tops. I recently finished Netflixing the entire series and wish I had taken screen captures of all the cute handknits I saw!March 21, 2009
I love knits with a vintage look and particularly seek out films that I expect will have great vintage wardrobes. Some of my favorite shows to watch include BBC productions such as those in the Masterpiece Theater and Mystery! series. The Brits can usually be depended upon for good sweaters! Who can resist Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, even if you never get to see her FO's?March 24, 2009
I love knitting and watching TV, but I have to disagree that Alpine is good TV knitting. The back and sleeves are, yes, but the front has that fiddly pattern, and the decrease directions are so confusing that it can't be done in front of the TV. I tried. I ripped, I ripped again.
great sweater in a movie: The Harper Lee character in Capote has amazing vintage sweaters. I wish I knew the story behind them. And of course Tess in the recent BBC Tess of the d'Ubervilles has some amazing shawls.March 25, 2009
Susan #
There is a commercial about a lady who gives up her career job to take care of her aging mother; she wears a violet cardigan with rich and fascinating cables along the front edges. Every time I see the ad, I try to "look fast" so I can see more details.Has anyone noticed this sweater? I would love to hear what Norah has to say about it.
KnitswithrainMarch 27, 2009
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The "Chicken Run" knitting hen is Babs, not MaysieMarch 28, 2009
Therese #
The opening scenes in the 2003 Universal Studios film "Hilary and Jackie" show the most incredible hats and sweaters on two young actresses. The film is about the tragic life of cello prodigy Jacqueline de Pre.May 1, 2009
Barbie #
"Lars and the Real Girl" was so sweet and so was the handmade blanket.May 15, 2009
I just found this blog post and can't help leaving a comment (even though I'm months late!) because I was just telling my daughter last night about my habit of watching a movie over & over just to see the clothes, interiors, landscapes, etc. — all the J. Austen movies being a few favorites for this of course. However, some of my favorites, particularly for the knitwear worn in them are "I Capture the Castle" (love Rose's blue beret and cardi in the beach scene), "The Ballet Shoes" (all the Fossil girls' have sweet little sweaters & hats), & "The Secret of Roan Inish" (especially Grandmother's homey little cape & little girl's cardis).
Happy movie watching & knitting!
GeorgannaJune 21, 2009
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I know I'm ridiculously late with this comment, but I thought I'd chime in anyway. I'd recommend checking out the Japanese movie "Wool 100%". It involves lots of knitting and some amazing visuals/sets.October 20, 2009


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What are the things that took you only a little time to learn, but had a big payoff? And how long did it take to learn enough before the they began to pay off?
For instance, I'm not a master of regular expressions, but it probably took a couple of hours to understand the basics enough for to start using them and they come in handy on a regular basis.


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I am typically very good at following the portion of GTD that says if a task takes two minutes or less, just do it then. If not, defer it until later. But, sometimes I have something captured that I think will take 2 minutes, but then I soon realize that it will take a good bit longer.
Should I just press on get it done, or defer it until later. I hate to clog up the processing of my inbox, but I equally don't like starting something discrete and not completing it.


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I am relatively new to Illustrator. I use version CS6 and I just discovered that when I apply an outer glow effect it is not visible in the PDF after saving apart from when you make the effect really strong. I am currently writing my thesis using latex and when I include the PDF in my latex document no outer glow effect is visible at all. Has anyone discovered a similar behaviour?
It was really just the PDF viewer I used. In my case, it was Preview from Apple.
I had the same problem, turns out it just doesn't show in Preview. Try opening the pdf back up in Illustrator to check it's really there.


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I know that burning enemies take extra damage from after burn, but how much damage does after burn deal?
From looking at the Creation kit, the fire spells have 3 attributes that determine after burn damage.
Interestingly, all spells except Wall of Fire have the same taper weight, .3. Wall of Flame has a taper weight of .5.
There is some curve that we can use to describe the after damage of each spell. For most of them, it's going to be 30% of the damage done, decreasing over time by some unknown (but constant across all spells) amount.
The burn duration of each spell is listed below:
Through my experience and no other sources I would approximate the extra damage done is 40% of the spell as a damage over time that starts after you stop using the spell. Many people have reported using Flames on and off will do more damage.
It seems that you do 12 damage per second and release, afterburn takes effect and does 5, and then immediately after you stop Flames you start again, so that you are doing the regular flame damage while your afterburn is in effect, then release and start another afterburn effect. Other people and I have experienced the enemies health bar go down significantly faster than just holding down Flames continuously.


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At the tennis court to see if there were any hotties in need of some lessons we ran into a smokin hot blonde. Mallory was all done up in her little tennis skirt with a puffy camel toe showing right through her skirt. Barry noticed right away and made her an offer for this weeks camel toe. She said she would think about it and get back to us. An hour later she texted us and was ready to show off her pretty pink puffy pussy!
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While at he store Billy was getting some extra large condoms. The girl beside him saw what he was buying and I guess she was wanting to see if he really needed the extra large ones. He gave us a call and told us to meet her once he saw the camel toe she was sporting. Billy told her she could see if he really fit into the plus size condoms as long as she was willing to show off her puffy pink camel toe!
Previous Weeks Update
Going to get a massage we saw a hot blonde hanging outside. Grabbing the camera we wanted to see if we could get a new contestant for our contest. Ami had a thick Eastern European accent and was super sexy. It was her day off and she was willing to participate in our contest. We took a peek through her shorts and could tell we had a winner. At the studio she gave a great massage and took home a prize for a great camel toe!
Previous Weeks Update
A friend of ours is moving away and wanted to go out with a bang. Jackie was supposed to come to the studio but couldn't find out which building we were in. When we went outside to look for her she was bent over looking in her bag for her phone. Up the skirt we could see her camel toe poppin right out of her panties. Telling her that she has a sweet camel toe showing she wanted to get right into the studio and show it off some more!
Previous Weeks Update
Going to grab some lunch we saw a hottie strutting with her hands full with her dry cleaning. Looking for her keys she dropped her stuff and we went to help her out. While picking her stuff up we were eye level and saw her camel toe poppin out through her tight pants. Asking Bridgette if she knew of the camel toe, she was well aware and liked it when guys noticed it. We sure did notice and asked her if she wanted to come back with us and have some fun!


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We know that $P(A\mid B) = \frac{P(A \cap B)}{P(B)}$. So $P(B) = P(A\mid B)P(A \cap B)$. Thus are all probabilities conditional probabilities? Can one make a probability more accurate by introducing a conditional component? For example, the probability of rolling a six on a fair die is $1/6$. But can we make this more accurate by assuming prior events?
More generally,
is it possible to develop probability theory based on conditional probability?
We know that $P(A\mid B) = \frac{P(A \cap B)}{P(B)}$. So $P(B) = P(A\mid B)P(A \cap B)$. Thus are all probabilities conditional probabilities? Can one make a probability more accurate by introducing a conditional component? For example, the probability of rolling a six on a fair die is $1/6$. But can we make this more accurate by assuming prior events?
More generally,
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There's an obvious algebra error in Tony's question.
In one trivial sense all probabilities are conditional: just condition on the whole "sample space". In (another?) sense, probabilities are necessarily conditional on what is known.
In a sense this is precisely the Bayesian persective on what probabilities mean. Rather than being the limit fraction of a number of times an event occurs, it is a strength of belief conditioned on a prior. Bayesian approaches to statistical reasoning always start with a prior belief and condition based on that.
It is possible to develop probability theory taking conditional probability as one of the basic definitions; see section 3.2 in this book and the references mention there. Renyi was one of the first mathematicians to favor this approach, which is described in his book Probability Theory. Part of the motivation for this approach is to directly build in the ability to condition on measure-zero events without having to make a limiting argument. Another key word related to this idea is disintegration.
So, as Kjetil mentions, it all depends on what one takes as axioms. But certainly it is possible to develop theories that take conditional probability as the centerpiece.
I think that's the main difference between the Bayesian approach vs. the frequentist approach, having prior knowledge is supposed to make your predictions more accurate. See [LessWrong][1]
[1]: http://lesswrong.com/lw/774/a_history_of_bayes_theorem/cover future costs.
I think this is a tricky question! and the answer depends on the exact meaning of the question. In the usual standard probability theory, based on Kolmogoro'vs axioms, in the axioms itself there are no conditional probabilities, and only later conditional probability are separately axiomatized. This seems to me a most strange procedure, and I am not sure why it is done that way. But in the lighjt of this theory, there are in fact nn-conditional probabilities. From an applied point of view, that of course do not make sense.
Others can maybe comment on alternative axiomatizations.
In the hope of soliciting an expert opinion rather than offering one (I am neither a probabilist nor a logician), let me bring up here the topic of logical probability. Jan Lukasiewicz came up with infinitely valued propositional logic (with values in the interval $[0,1]$), which he also viewed as a way of formalizing probability, addressing the problem of interpreting conditional probabilities as well. According to Wikipedia, Richard Threlkeld Cox later showed that any extension of Aristotelian logic to incorporate truth values between 0 and 1, in order to be consistent, must be equivalent to Bayesian probability (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%27s_theorem). Cox's axioms deal with the notion of plausibility of a proposition A given a proposition B.
Added: this is the relevant paper by Lukasiewicz: Die logischen Grundlagen der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung, Kraków, Polska Akademia Umiejętności, 1913 English translation in Selected Works, ed. by L. Borkowski, Amsterdam-London, North- Holland Publishing Company/Warsaw, PWN, 1970, pp. 16-63


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Inane Study Posits Alien Invasion as Reason to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions — Fox News Response Is Even More Inane
Fox Viewers Overwhelmingly Think We Should Prepare For Alien Invasion Before Fighting Climate Change
It's hard to know which is more head exploding: This study — "Would Contact with Extraterrestrials Benefit or Harm Humanity? A Scenario Analysis" — or the response of Fox News and its viewers.
Let's start with the study — which, for the record, was not supported by NASA. It is the nuttiest paper I have ever seen from people who seem to understand (and not dispute) basic climate science.
The study came out a while ago but nobody noticed until the Guardian ran a story with these headlines:
Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilisations, say scientists
Rising greenhouse emissions could tip off aliens that we are a rapidly expanding threat, warns a report
Okay, I know you're thinking this is one of those sensationalistic newspaper headlines that totally misrepresents what some academic study actually says. If only. In fact, the lead author states on his website that, other than the erroneous claim the article was "a report for NASA," that "the rest of the Guardian article is very well written, capturing much of the nuance of the original journal paper"!
Here is the key quote from the conclusion of this paper, which must win the all-time prize for the most absurd use of the word "may" ever to appear in an academic paper:
[Please activate your cranial containment field before reading this.]
Our analysis suggests some immediate practical recommendations for humanity….
Another recommendation is that humanity should avoid giving off the appearance of being a rapidly expansive civilization. If an ETI [ extraterrestrial intelligence] perceives humanity as such, then it may be inclined to attempt a preemptive strike against us so as to prevent us from growing into a threat to the ETI or others in the galaxy. Similarly, ecosystem-valuing universalist ETI may observe humanity's ecological destructive tendencies and wipe humanity out in order to preserve the Earth system as a whole. These scenarios give us reason to limit our growth and reduce our impact on global ecosystems. It would be particularly important for us to limit our emissions of greenhouse gases, since atmospheric composition can be observed from other planets. We acknowledge that the pursuit of emissions reductions and other ecological projects may [!] have much stronger justifications than those that derive from ETI encounter, but that does not render ETI encounter scenarios insignificant or irrelevant.
[Pause to pick up gray matter from the floor, since you don't have a cranial containment field, and your chances of ever developing one are substantially greater than the chances of some extraterrestrials destroying humanity in the near future because of our eco-cide — even if that's the theme of a lame Keanu Reeves remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (and many other sci-fi stories)].
This paper is symmetrically illogical. It is illogical from every conceivable perspective, external and internal.
On our current path of unrestricted greenhouse gas emissions we face, simultaneously, widespread Dust-Bowlification, 7 to 10°F warming (or more), sea level rise of several feet (ultimately rising to 100 feet or more), ever-worsening extreme weather events, ocean acidification and the accompanying mass extinction of marine life. The authors posit this may be a much stronger justification for emissions reductions than the possibility that some alien race — whose existence lacks one shred of evidence, using technology for which there is as yet no underlying physics — will swoop in and kill 7 billion people because they love Nature so damn much.
Seriously. This is something I would expect to see in the Onion-esque Journal of Irreproducible Results.
You know, it's possible that apes made super-intelligent by some Alzheimer's drug might rise up against us because we aren't nice people. So while there may be stronger justifications for being nice, that doesn't render the ape scenario insignificant or irrelevant. And of course computers are getting so damn smart they might just try to terminate us, so to speak, and so maybe we need to reconsider this whole Internet thing. Note to deniers: That was sarcasm.
If it weren't obvious — and apparently it isn't to the authors — the reason we aren't taking action to limit emissions of greenhouse gases now is because one political party has been taken over by people who don't believe in science. And since they don't believe actual science is motivation enough to avert catastrophic global warming, why on Earth would they believe some nonsensical science fiction scenario would be motivation?
The deniers had a field day pouncing on this study, as you can imagine, since "it bolstered their anti-science narrative, painted their opponents as clownish radicals, and highlighted wasteful government spending on a supposedly liberal cause." Yes, the stuff coming out from the deniers almost every day is more clownish, but scientists don't have their own network to trumpet that. Of course, there was no government spending involved, and the deniers went too far, as they always do (see below).
I suppose the only good thing about this study is that it shows what real alarmists — people who oversell virtually non-existent threats — are like, as opposed to the sober climate hawks here at Climate Progress, who explain the very real dangers of unrestricted greenhouse gas emissions.
Here's a simple question. Why wouldn't these life-loving high-tech aliens just go public and warn us about the dangers of GHGs. After all, they've blown way past the prime directive if they are contemplating homo-cide. If they love life so much, why wouldn't they help us replace fossil fuel combustion with their advanced technology? Oh wait, I know, we already have the technology to replace fossil fuels. Hmm. Why aren't we using it? Oh, I know. Why didn't the authors posit the possibility that aliens who want us to destroy ourselves are in on the conspiracy, building fossil fuel plants to "raise the Earth's temperature to not only kill off humans but make the planet hospitable for themselves." Yes, that's a science-fiction movie too and it stars … wait for it … Charlie Sheen.
One of my relatives is an expert on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, so I've heard and discussed various theories even beyond the steady diet of science fiction that a typical physicist chews on over the years. The obvious flaw in the entire analysis, if one delves into it internally, which I don't recommend, is that there is no possibility of assigning any probabilities to any of their fictional scenarios. It is possible that the reason we haven't seen any ETI is that they are exceedingly rare in the galaxy. It is even more possible that even if there are ETI, space travel is simply too difficult to contemplate on the scale needed for the murderous mission they posit.
Right now, Einstein's theory of relativity, which has been very well verified, makes clear that getting a spaceship anywhere near the speed of light requires a staggering amount of energy. That, coupled with the long distances involved in interstellar travel, make the entire
enterprise Enterprise highly implausible. The Wikipedia entry on "interstellar travel" discusses the problem at length and points out this 2008 article:
It is highly improbable that humans will ever explore beyond the Solar System. This downbeat opinion comes from the Joint Propulsion Conference in Hartford, Connecticut, where future space propulsion challenges were discussed and debated.
Of course, as a physicist by training, I'd be the last person to say that some civilization that has been around for millions of years longer than ours couldn't possible come up with some viable approach based on physics we know nothing about. But, practically speaking, the vast, vast majority of humans are going to be Earthbound for this century and beyond. That means we better fix our problems here.
Also, to the point of the inane study, humans are nowhere near "giving off the appearance of being a rapidly expansive civilization." [The authors annoyingly conflate 'expansive' in an interstellar sense (which might threaten the aliens eventually) with 'expansive' in a GHG sense, which threatens humans and the entire echo system]. The key point is we don't even have a permanent base on the moon or any planet and any ETI paying attention to us will see that the richest country in the world just shut down its primary means of delivering people to space. Indeed, any ETI who understands climate science would know that within two or three decades at most, the whole human enterprise will redirect itself from such "luxuries" as space travel to focus on a desperate effort to avoid 10F warming and the multiple catastrophes that would entail.
But again, it's not merely that the chances are unknowable — but probably microscropic — that there is a 1) nearby ETI that 2) has cracked interstellar travel, and 3) has some bizarre philosophy that allows killing 7 billion people to preserve a planetary ecosystem. It's that it's
unimaginable imaginable but inane that this scenario could ever be contemplated to drive policy on Earth.
The other reason I went through this exercise is that the deniers, especially Fox News, went Charlie Sheen on this, as TP reported:
A new (supposedly) NASA-funded study postulating that aliens may attack humans over climate change had all the ingredients for a perfect Fox faux controversy — it bolstered their anti-science narrative, painted their opponents as clownish radicals, and highlighted wasteful government spending on a supposedly liberal cause. Fox reported the "news from NASA" several times several times today, presenting it as official "taxpayer funded research." A chyron on Fox and Friends read: "NASA: Global warming may provoke an [alien] attack." But as Business Insider pointed out, they're "wrong" — "That report was not funded by NASA. It was written by an independent group of scientists and bloggers. One of those happens to work at NASA." NASA distanced itself from the report as well, calling reports linking the agency to it "not true." Host Megyn Kelly finally corrected the record this afternoon, saying, "I was making that up."
But before she did, she was so bemused by the study that she directed her viewers to complete a poll on her website which asked how we should respond to the study: "Immediately increase efforts to curb greenhouse gases," "Develop weapons to kill the Aliens FIRST," or "Gently suggest scientists research how to create job."
Not surprisingly, most suggested they research something else. But more than six times as many respondents (19 percent to 3 percent) said we should focus on building weapons to kill aliens before curbing greenhouse gases. Watch a compilation:
The poll is of course not scientific, but you can hardly blame the viewers who did respond, considering Fox's constant misinformation about climate change. For instance, as she presented the poll, Kelly said of curbing climate change, "just in case, right?" — as in, "just in case" the science is right. She did not make a similar qualifier for alien invasion. Numerous studies consistently show that Fox viewers are among the most misinformed of news viewers, while at least one study has shown that — perversely — watching Fox actually makes people less informed than they were to begin with.
"Trust me folks, this story is hard to understand," Fox and Friends host Gretchen Carlson said of the "NASA study." Indeed.
It seems appropriate to give the final word to Charlie Sheen, who, thankfully, thwarted the alien conspiracy to accelerate global warming — click here (it's not embeddable).
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This reminds me of an offhand remark in a short story by the great science fiction writer Stanslaw Lem that the level of civilization of a planet can be judged by the amount of junk in orbit around it.
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Yes, but evey civilization has to start somewhere and this would show we are still not a grown up…
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Mike Roddy · Top Commenter · Yucca Valley, California
A normal person who watches Fox at length will conclude that we've cracked up. How and why may be the real mystery we need to uncover.
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Paul Magnus · Top Commenter
oh boy….
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NASA picks 3 pioneering tech missions for deep space Led by L'Garde Inc., of Tustin, Calif., this Solar Sail demonstration will enable propellantless in-space navigation for missions such as advanced geostorm warning, economic orbital debris removal, and deep space exploration. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44233774/ns/technology_and_science-space/
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i volunteer
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ETI encounter scenarios ARE irrelevant! A complete waste of time! And, based on this study (from Cornell), the anti-science crowd would have every right to "[paint] their opponents as clownish radicals." As for me, it is further evidence that these ET "researchers" are nothing more than science fiction writers who want their "research" to appear in science journals.
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Richard Tracey · Director of Curriculum & Assessment at Evans Newton Incorporated
I, for one, am starting to prepare for the alien invasion *immediately* because FOX has probably been tapping their cell phones for news tips.
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Joshua Probert · Top Commenter · Research Scientist at University of Washington
A: This was the plot of the recent "The Day the Earth Stood Still." B: Apparently nobody (in the four or five places that have quoted this) has seen the new "The Day the Earth Stood Still."
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Hmm i can't remeber that it was about greenhouse gases, boring very predictable generic hollywood movie btw.
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Joshua Probert · Top Commenter · Research Scientist at University of Washington
They never come out and say it, but they have Klaatu first move to destroy humanity (but save samples of our plant and animal life) so "the earth can heal itself" and then finally they destroy all technology and the movie ends with people stepping out of now non-functioning cars. I think that's fairly clear (though a bit cowardly to refuse to say what the point was).
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The world still waits for the 1st climate change movie based on real world scenarios… instant oscar – ask me :)
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Peter S. Mizla · Top Commenter · Vernon, Connecticut
In Jim Hansen's book he talks about an Alien race coming to earth thinking it was green in verdant. It is the year 2500. When they arrive its in the grips of the 'Venus Syndrome'.
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Jeffrey Davis · Top Commenter
The authors remind me of the character My Uncle Toby from Tristram Shandy. People do tend to get a little caught up in their hobbyhorses, don't they?
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Robert Fanney · Top Commenter · Flagler College
Ah the misinformation is thick these days. There are just far too many unreliable sources.
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text: Not much to say here because this character from Littlest Pet Shop is like a thief in the night. Here is "how to draw Sunil Nevla", step by step. Sunil is I guess what you would call a mongoose. His specialty is making things disappear and maybe sometimes reappear. He has a quality about him that can't be refused so when you draw Sunil you might find something missing afterwards. Enjoy this lesson folks and if there is other characters from Littlest Pet Shop that you would like to see, let me know.


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Microsoft has acquired the rights to the Gears of War franchiseWritten by: / / 11 Comments
Microsoft has acquired the rights to the Gears of War franchise from series creator, Epic Games, the company announce today.
In the announcement post on Xbox Wire, it was revealed that the newly formed Black Tusk Studios based in Vancouver will take on development duties for the franchise, with former Epic Games director Rod Fergusson joining the studio to oversee development.
According to head of Microsoft Studios, Phil Spencer, the decision to acquire the rights to Gears of War was borne from the team's "commitment to the Xbox fans," and the series in particular has enjoyed a "very strong, passionate and valued fan base on Xbox" with over twenty-two million units sold around the world, grossing over $1 billion in overall revenue.
Interestingly, future Gears of War games will incorporate Unreal Engine technology from Epic Games which means that the previous rights holder will continue to play a part in the series.
Spencer says that Black Tusk Studios has been formed from "a world-class team with deep experience and passion for the shooter space," so the team was a natural fit for the franchise. More news on the future of Gears of War is expected later in 2014.
Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney commented on the acquisition of the Gears of War franchise by Microsoft thus:
"Epic Games has reached an agreement to sell the 'Gears of War' intellectual property rights to Microsoft. We're very proud of the franchise we built in close partnership with Microsoft over the past decade and are happy that this agreement enables Microsoft to forge ahead with the 'Gears' universe on their industry-leading platforms as Epic concentrates its efforts on new projects.
"Epic remains totally dedicated to supporting Xbox One and is licensing the Unreal Engine 4 technology to Microsoft in support of their future projects."
What do you think of the news? What do you hope to see in the next entry to the Gears of War franchise?
You can find out more by listening to the latest Major Nelson podcast and a chat with Rod Fergusson (thanks to RAAM22 and Antonov_26 for that tip).
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