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I often see questions on Stack Exchange sites which I presume are written by non-native English speakers who use the word "doubt" in place of the word "question". Is this a case of misunderstanding the correct meaning or are people being taught that this is correct usage?
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This is Indian English. See Vishy's Indian English Dictionary.
A native English speaker does not recognize "doubt" as a synonym for "question". The examples given (like "Doubt about TinyMCE content css"), no matter how prevalent, are awkward. Even if it can be justified by picking a fitting definition entry, it's not something we would ever say. We understand it, but we also understand when a French person says "Let me explain you something".
Saying "question" instead of "doubt" is a better choice.
In most cases when this happens the person is really a non-native English speaker as you said.
In some languages that grew from Latin the word that is used for doubt can also be used for question. Dúvida is the Portuguese for doubt, but it can also be used as question. For example, when kids at school say to the teacher Eu tenho uma dúvida (which word-by-word would translate as "I have a doubt"), they mean that they want to ask a question to the teacher about what has been taught. And if I go to a store in Brazil and say Eu tenho uma dúvida sobre esse produto ("I have a doubt about this product" in word-by-word translation), what I mean is that I want to make a question about the product.
The same happens with duda, which is the Spanish word for doubt. It may also be the case in other languages, but I'm not sure.
Therefore, when you give a presentation and native Portuguese speakers say "I have doubts about what you said", don't think that they don't quite believe in what you said. They may just have questions to ask you.
Looking at some of the questions listed in mmyers's suggested search on Google, I'd suggest that "doubt" is being as a synonym for "uncertainty", which is valid.
For example:
I'm not a language expert, but I've been dealing with a lot of those doubts…
By opening with "I have a doubt", you don't simply state "I have a question; …" followed by question's content, but instead you claim that "I understand all this, but …" before bringing to discussion a particularly unclear aspect of the topic. The construct as such is therefore not good or bad, nor is it in any way rooted in Latin as suggested above (my native language is of Latin origin and we don't/can't abuse the "doubt" either in original or in translations, while the Indians do it without having the Latin heritage). It is all about the correct usage in a given context.
The expectation when using this construct is that what follows the "I have a doubt", either the question itself or the whole conversation about it, should show that indeed you have gone to the process of analysing the problem at hand on your own, and you are stuck in a detail for which you need clarification. However, you will find that many of those asking have no idea about the big picture either and haven't tried to solve the problem on their own, and this is why you tend to answer them "No dude, you don't have a doubt, you simply have no clue about this subject". It is in such context that the use of "doubt" stands out and annoys in the conversation.
Now whether this is a vocabulary issue (unlikely) or it can be explained in the Indian context by a tendency to 'fake' knowledge by using "doubt" to make the question asked appear as a minor clarification request, that I leave to others to sort out.
I often see Japanese people using "doubt" instead of "suspicion", and wouldn't be too surprised if they used it when they meant "question". My suspicion is that the Japanese use the same word for both "doubt" and "suspicion", and therefore don't know when they ought to use "suspicion" in English.
I'm sure I remember reading something about doubt being used this way in parts of northern England in times past. My memory, however, is vague.
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I'm certain that the lucky Europeans have a boat that will get them from there to Iceland. Is there a way for tourists to get from the US or Canada to Iceland?
This one leaves from Boston and makes a couple of stops in Iceland, one of which is at Heimaey where they famously fought a volcano and won. It also stops in Greenland and Scotland. This cruise also visits Iceland.
Both of those cruises only let you off the boat to explore for 8 hours at a time (there are no overnight on-land stays), which I have to say means you will not really see much of Iceland. An alternative is to fly direct to Iceland from Boston, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York JFK, Orlando Sanford, Seattle or Washington D.C with Icelandair
As far as I can tell, there are no commercial passenger services, however you may be able to hitch a ride on a cargo vessel, as this traveller seems to have done.
Get in touch with Adventure Canada. They have trips by boat that leave from Canada, and trips that involve Iceland, and it's possible they have trips that do both.
There is a Princess Cruise in the fall that will take you FROM Iceland and Greenland to New York, North America.
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13 Jan 2011 1:02 PM #1
High Performance Large List component - UxBufferedList
This is the first functionality-complete release of the list component I and others have been working on in this thread:
Ext.ux.BufferedList is designed to be used in place of the standard Ext.List component, and supports essentially all Ext.List functions and configuration parameters, while providing the following enhancements and changes:
- Adequate scrolling performance with large data sets. The attached examples use a data array of about 1400 items, while still providing similar scroll performance to Ext.List. This is accomplished by rendering a "sliding window" of list items based on current scroll position, rather than rendering all list items.
- Independent support for indexBar and group headers. By setting the standard list config parameter "grouped" to true, and the extension config parameter useGroupHeaders to false, you can use an index bar without having group headers, as some native iOS applications do. Obviously, setting useGroupHeaders to true gives you standard group headers.
- The configuration parameter "blockScrollSelect" is provided. If set to true, this prevents item selection while the list is still scrolling, so you can tap the list to stop scroll without invoking a selection - again, similar to native iOS. See the attached examples.
The only non-intuitive configuration is a parameter called "maxItemHeight". This is set at 85 pixels by default. If you have a significant number of items in the list which will be greater than this height, you should increase the value at least to the 90th percentile or so item height, to avoid potential problems with long scrolls to the top of the list. Also, itemTpl should be specified only as a string, not as an XTemplate, although this restriction may be removed soon.
I've licensed this work under either GPL or MIT, which I believe should allow for any forseeable reuse.
Please let me know of any bugs, enhancements, etc.
The attached file contains both the UxBufList.js file, and three examples demonstrating regular, indexBar, and grouped with headers lists. You will need to edit the html files to point to your sencha touch library.
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13 Jan 2011 1:55 PM #2
Hi, thanks for this. In the BufListGrpHdr example, if I set the indexBar: false, it breaks. How do we run the example without the index bar?
13 Jan 2011 2:26 PM #3
BufList.html is set up to work without groups or index bar.
Edit: did you want group headers but not index bar? I honestly didn't think of that, but it could probably be done pretty easily ...
14 Jan 2011 4:51 AM #4
Could this be used to build a " High Performance Large PICKER component" too? If so, where should i start?
14 Jan 2011 1:57 PM #5
I suppose it could be - what does the application look like? I have minimal time to enhance this any further at present, but I might be able to make general suggestions ...
15 Jan 2011 1:56 AM #6
I did have a Picker containing a dataset of 1000 items. It shows 3 items per page. If i tap on the belonging select field, the picker (the scroller inside the picker) takes some seconds to render and if i flip (scroll) through the "pages" it´s very slow. :/
I have a seconds Picker with (only) 60 items, its a lot faster, lets say super fast. That drives me crazy, can´t finish my app. That picker with 1000 items isn´t usable.
20 Jan 2011 1:49 PM #7
coming from other mobile environments I would suggest two things:
1. drop list or pickers don't work well when the list is > 50 items
2. We use a list screen where the entire screen is a list of items to choose from.
Ideally you implement a "progressive" search on the list, so that if I type in "S", the list jumps to the first "S" in the list. Progressive means that if the user types "Su" the list jumps to the first entry with "Su".
This is all hypothetical in this this environment as I' a newbie with JS and these devices. But I've been building tablet and PDA stuff since 1992.
31 Jan 2011 7:22 AM #8
Looks very nice, but I have some suggestions.
1. You cann't use the groups without an indexbar.
2. You cannot have getGroupString functions which return more than one character
3. Disclosure buttons would be nice (yes I know it isn't to difficult to add something like this myself, but it would be nice to have it in the plugin)
I will also try to add these things myself and will post them here if I get it working.
4 Feb 2011 11:04 AM #9
I really appreciate all the effort put on this subject. The BufferedList implementation works great.
May be you could help me with an issue I have with this simple piece of code :
WP.components.PeopleList = new Ext.ux.BufferedList({ //new Ext.List({ fullscreen: true, itemTpl: '{name}
{title}', maxItemHeight: 75, // must specify blockScrollSelect: true, batchSize: 10, store: new Ext.data.Store({ model: 'Contact' }) }); WP.components.PeopleList.bindStore(WP.stores.People);
After calling the read() method on the associated store I can see that some methods are triggered on my BufferedList :
- refresh
- collectData ( records contain actual data )
- renderOnScroll
- replaceItemList
- getNode
- isItemRendered
- buildItemHtml ( the HTML code produced for the records seems to be OK )
So everything seems fine..
If I switch to the Ext.List implementation, then the new items are getting rendered fine.
I also have some problem trying to add a dockedItem to the list / removing the fullscreen:true parameter ( no display )
I am still learning the framework and would appreciate any advice/comment on that.
4 Feb 2011 11:32 AM #10
onItemDisclosure support can be achieve by replacing some code in UxBufList.js :
// line to replace (35): //this.itemTplDelayed = new Ext.XTemplate('

' + this.itemTpl + '

').compile(); // onItemDisclosure support this.itemTplDelayed = '<tpl for=".">

' + this.itemTpl + '
'; if (this.onItemDisclosure) { this.itemTplDelayed += '

'; } this.itemTplDelayed += '
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Is there a way to format the Name element generated as dynamic text from Data Driven Pages. This element serves as my title and it is too long and needs to be wrapped onto another line.
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11.Type the following for the text: Coordinate System:
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I'm new to Sencha Touch and I am working on learning it and building a simple app, however I have hit a snag and as much as I search the web, I cannot find my answer...
I have a simple model...
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Hi Mitchell!
Yes, I know the data is coming back, but I am not sure that it's populating the "store" properly. If I set up a listener on the load function and log the results I am seeing an array with the right number of elements, but they are all "c" objects? (At least it says "c"next to the arrow icon to drop down for more details).
I can browse through this object and see that the data is in there, but I can't see it in the way I had specified in the store... I can only see the normal JSON pieces...but I cannot seem to figure out how to get that data to populate my list...
Thanks, hoping you can keep helping me
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Custom designed controllers and consoles are a great way for fans to fly their flag for the games they love, and when a game's developers work closely with the hardware manufacturers you usually end up with something you would be proud to place in your collection.
The last piece of custom kit I personally found alluring was the Tomb Raider controller because it looked as though a lot of care had gone into its design. What was the last custom hardware you fancied?
Yesterday, Microsoft (along with Respawn Entertainment and EA) announced a custom Titanfall controller, which looks a little something like this:
The question is, is this controller appealing to you and would you proudly put it on display in your living room? Or do you think it would stand out too much and instead relegate it to a collection?
Do you actively seek out and buy custom controllers and consoles for use in a collection, or do you use them every time you play?
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KILLEEN (January 7, 2013)—One of the three men who were shot and critically wounded last week in the parking lot of a Killeen convenience store has died, police confirmed Monday.
Police identified the victim as Austin James Sampson, 25, but provided not further details about his death.
Fort Hood, however, issued a press release Monday identifying Sampson as an Army specialist from Bliss, N.Y.
He died Friday at Scott & White Hospital in Temple, Fort Hood said.
He joined the Army in July 2006 and deployed to Iraq from November 2007 to January 2009 and from August 2010 to August 2011.
He had been assigned to Fort Hood's Headquarters Troop, 3rd Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, since February 2010.
It's not clear why police waited until Monday to confirm the death.
The victims were shot at around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the parking lot of the Star Mart store at 1704 Old FM 440 Rd. in Killeen.
Sampson was flown to Scott & White in Temple and the other two were taken to Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center.
All three were in critical condition, police said.
The gunman, who's black, and has dreadlocks fled south on Old FM 440 in the Lincoln Town Car, police said.
The three victims were in a Maroon SUV at the time of the shooting, police said.
Investigators don't know the motive for the shooting.
It was the second deadly shooting at a Star Mart store in Killeen in less than two months.
Imran Amir Dukka, 28, of Killeen, was shot to death during a robbery just before midnight on Nov. 7 at the Star Mart in the 3600 block of Zephyr Road in Killeen.
A second man, whose name was not released, was injured in the shooting and was taken to Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center.
He was later transferred to Scott & White Hospital in Temple in stable condition.
Dukka had just arrived to pick up the other man, who also worked at the store, when three armed men dressed in dark clothing with their faces covered ran up to his Toyota Camry, robbed the two victims and then opened fire, shooting each man several times, police said.
The three robbers then took the Camry and sped off.
The car was later found abandoned in the area of Highland and Stetson, police said.


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Has anyone encountered an issue where you try to add an item to a list in Sharepoint and then the add page shows up as distorted? I want to post the image but I cannot as I am a newbie.
The page is all grayed out - there is no option to input anything.
I thought this could be caused by a toolbar but it's not. We disabled that but it did not fix the issue. Any thoughts?


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In the NBA, Two Quarters Won't Buy Much
The Minnesota Timberwolves are on their way to missing the playoffs for the ninth consecutive season. But at least they give 50% effort. If NBA games ended at halftime, the Timberwolves, 18-26 entering Monday, would have at least eight more wins—they've been tied at the half once through Sunday—and would be firmly entrenched as the No. 6 seed in the West.
To put Minnesota's second-half futility in perspective, we recalculated the NBA standings if each game played so far this season had ended after 24 minutes instead of 48.
In the East, Toronto has been ahead or tied at halftime in 29 of its 48 games through Sunday. Unfortunately for the Raptors, there is the small matter of the third and especially fourth quarters. They've blown a league-high nine games in which they've held the lead in the last two minutes of the final period or overtime. For all its problems, Minnesota has only let three games slip away in the final two minutes.
The Miami Heat and New York Knicks, who own the top two records in the Eastern Conference, would have entered Monday's play trailing Detroit in the standings of our bizarro, 24-minute world.
Back on Planet Earth, 38-11 San Antonio possesses the NBA's best record. But the veteran-heavy Spurs appear unafraid to pace themselves. They would have won eight fewer times if games finished after two quarters.
The Spurs also have extra reason to keep cool if they're trailing Wednesday night at the half: They're playing the Timberwolves.
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The general form of the Local Lemma can be stated as follows:
Let $\mathcal{A}$ be a finite set of events in a probability space. For $A \in \mathcal{A}$, let $\Gamma(A)$ be a subset of $\mathcal{A}$ such that $A$ is independent of the collection of events in $\mathcal{A} \setminus (\{A\} \cup \Gamma(A))$. If there exists an assignment of reals $x : \mathcal{A} \rightarrow (0,1)$ such that $\forall A \in \mathcal{A}$: $$\text{Pr}(A) \leq x(A) \Pi_{B \in \Gamma(A)} (1-x(B))$$ Then the probability of avoiding all the events in $\mathcal{A}$ is positive.
Recently, Moser and Tardos produced a proof of the Local Lemma which provides a random algorithm which produces the point in the probability space which avoids all the events in $\mathcal{A}$, and under the hypotheses of the lemma has fast expected runtime. In the same paper, they provide a parallel algorithm and the following theorem:
Let $\mathcal{P}$ be a finite set of mutually independent random variables in a probability space. and let $\mathcal{A}$ be a finite set of events determined by $\mathcal{P}$. Let $\varepsilon >0$. If there exists an assignment of reals $x : \mathcal{A} \rightarrow (0,1)$ such that $\forall A \in \mathcal{A}$: $$\text{Pr}(A) \leq(1 - \varepsilon) x(A) \Pi_{B \in \Gamma(A)} (1-x(B))$$ then the parallel algorithm takes an expected $O(\frac{1}{\varepsilon}$ log $\sum_{A \in \mathcal{A}}$ $\frac{x(A)}{1-x(A)})$ steps before it finds an evaluation of the variables in $\mathcal{P}$ which violates no variable in $\mathcal{A}$.
Here is a link to the paper where they prove this result.
I am working through the analysis of the parallel algorithm, and I appear to have hit a snag. At the bottom of page 7 in the linked paper, the authors introduce $Q(k)$, the probability that the algorithm takes at least $k$ steps. Then the bound $$ Q(k) \leq (1-\varepsilon)^k \sum_{A \in \mathcal{A}} \frac{x(A)}{1-x(A)}$$ is established. This is the point where I get a little lost. The claim is that the theorem follows easily from this bound. If someone could help me see how the theorem follows from the bound, that would be quite helpful! I have noted a few points that I believe are key:
-This probability $Q(k)$ seems to not actually be the probability that the parallel algorithm takes at least $k$ steps. Instead, it seems to be the probability that the sequential algorithm takes at least $k$ steps if we view the parallel algorithm as an instance of the sequential algorithm. This is explained in the opening paragraph of section 4.
-If $Q(k)$ is the probability that the sequential algorithm takes at least $k$ steps, then $Q(k) - Q(k+1)$ is the probability that the algorithm takes exactly $k$ steps. Taking expectation, we get that the expected number of steps is $\sum_{k = 1}^\infty kQ(k) - kQ(k+1)$. This sum telescopes leaving us with $\sum_{k = 1}^\infty Q(k)$. Applying the bound on $Q(k)$ we see that the expectation here is upper bounded by $O(\frac{1}{\varepsilon} \sum_{A \in \mathcal{A}} \frac{x(A)}{1-x(A)})$. Somehow, the "parallelization" of this algorithm gets that log in the desired claim.
So the particular question is how does the parallelization introduce the logarithm into the expected number of steps taken by the parallel algorithm?


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I'm having trouble with the lighting (I have windows and the light wont go through). How do I get the light to proceed through the glass?
You need to attach different materials on transparent and opaque objects. Then, if you assign a transparent shader to transparent surfaces, the light will go through. Another approach could be detaching glasses on the modeling program, create and assign some other layer for the glass parts and have the light ignore that layer.


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City takes step in right direction
January 13, 2013
Steubenville officials took a good first step in helping to cut through the conflicting and sometimes outright misleading information that has been swirling around the city for quite some time when......
That's the problem with Steubenville it is beyond "unacceptable" to look the other way when underage drinking is going on and to purchase alcohol for underage minors. That is a criminal offense and the homeowners where the drinking took place should have been prosecuted. I'm sure we can all agree had alcohol not been a factor this would of never happened. Whether the parents were home or not is irrelevant. What is relevant is the fact that it is their home and are ultimately responsible for what goes on there. When my parents left me home alone at that age they had a neighbor come and check every so often. I suggest the victim sue the homeowners at each of those parties in civil court.
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Yes, the parents and coaches where these alcohol drinking parties were held in their homes need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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Davison's webpage is pretty much useless information. It provides NO DAY TO DAY UPDATES of the case. The city touts that it enables full disclosure....it does nothing other than offering verbal pablum for a corrupt town and county that has its back up against the wall for once in its sad existence. You think $7,500. is a high price for the city to pay? Wait till the civil suits start against the city, county, school board, and all involved coaches and adults. Get yer checkbook ready Steubenville and Jefferson County!
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) _ Federal prosecutor's in Kansas have accused a former union employee of stealing about $50,000 from an employee benefit plan.
The Kansas City Star reports that Angela Heninger worked as an executive assistant for the Mobilization, Optimization, Stabilization and Training Trust, or MOST. MOST is an affiliate of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, which is headquartered in Kansas City, Kan.
Heninger was charged last week in U.S. District Court in Kansas with one count of embezzlement, six counts of wire fraud and five counts of bank fraud.
Online court records don't list a lawyer for Heninger, and a phone listing under her name was disconnected.


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El Dorado Middle School will be hosting an all-school black heritage assembly for Black History Month this month.
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Recently I read about an Assassin class, and I'm intrigued. I'm not very familiar with it yet, but I'm wondering what weapon best suits an Assassin? I mean, from a roleplaying point of view I would pick the dagger or katar, but from a damage output perspective what is the best weapon for an Assassin?
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Because the assassin has access to the Ki focus, enchantment is left to the ki meaning your only selection is in the weapon die and properties you'd like it to have.
Things you should be thinking about
By default as an assassin you get access to
There is a pretty extensive list of weapons here, particularly in the heavy and light blades (rapier, falchion, broadsword, glaive, longsword, greatsword). I'd start with grabbing a couple from this list (definitely rapier/long sword and probably a glaive, maybe a greatsword just to have a nice punchy option). Then grab an item or two off the simple one handed melee list, although most of the options are trumped by heavy blade options, however if you've got a story or feat/power issue that would provide a good reason to take something off the simple one handed-melee list, go for it.


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Welcome on board
Since May 2011 the Lufthansa Boeing 747-400 will welcome you with new First Class seats and twice as much room for each passenger. Eight comfortable, generously sized seats and separate beds will make it easy for you to arrive at your destination feeling relaxed and rested.
Lufthansa is gradually equipping the Boeing 747-400s with new First Class seats and separate, fixed beds. In May 2011 the seating capacity in First Class on all the remaining Lufthansa Boeing 747-400s is being reduced from 16 seats to eight. This means that passengers in the existing on-board configuration will each have two seats at their disposal, so they can choose between a window and aisle seat and enjoy greater exclusivity along with twice as much space.
The new First Class seat on board the Lufthansa B747-400 will impress you with its ergonomic shape, the way it adjusts easily to your preferred seating position and a height-adjustable headrest. The high-quality cover that is kind to your skin ensures the seat remains comfortable even on long flights.
On board the Lufthansa B747-400, as well as your comfortable First Class seat, there is a separate bed over two metres long available to you. This comes with a top-quality mattress, a temperature-regulating duvet and a pillow. A fixed screen at the head of the bed provides the privacy you need to sleep.
Thanks to the soundproof curtains which effectively screen First Class from the background noise within the aircraft, you can enjoy a good night's sleep in peace and quiet. Sound insulation under the carpet also reduces the sound of footsteps within the First Class cabin itself.
You can, of course, also put together your very own programme of entertainment from Lufthansa Media World on board the Lufthansa B747-400. Your personal 17 inch screen and noise-cancelling headset ensure an entertainment experience second to none.
Thanks to the large, swivel-mounted table and laptop power connection at each seat, you can also work undisturbed above the clouds or prepare for your next meeting. These Boeing aircraft are also being gradually fitted out with FlyNet®, our on-board Internet service.


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I created an App (inside a Page Tab). Now I check if the App has all permissions, if not I ask for them:
//$app_url = Url to Page Tab
'<script>top.location.href = "'.$facebook->getLoginUrl('next' => $app_url, 'scope' => $scope).'";</script>'
Now I want that it redirect to the Page Tab (App) after asking for permissions, but it always redirects to my domain.
Tried it first with 'redirect_uri', but that throws errors (outdated), and also with 'next'.
Any ideas, except checking in the APP if the User is on Facebook?
ps. couldn't find a up to date solution.
edit: Just saw when I try the app as a admin the following error is displayed: API Error Code: 191 API Error Description: The specified URL is not owned by the application


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How many dam jokes does it take to name a beer?
The answer, it seems, is more than 240, based on the number of entries to name the "Van Gogh" beer recently brewed by Dillon Dam Brewery.
The brewery itself is no stranger to puns, with one of its signature T-shirts featuring one of the artist's self-portraits and proclaiming "I'd Give My Left Ear for a Dam Beer." This caught the eye of the Denver Museum of Art (DAM), which unveiled the Becoming Van Gogh exhibit in October. Previously, the museum had worked with Wynkoop Brewery in Denver to brew an Egyptian-style beer in honor of the King Tut exhibit, and hoped to recreate its success.
"We're the Dam, and they're the DAM, so they contacted us about brewing a special beer for this exhibit," said the brewery's marketing manager, Barbara Richard.
Not to be outdone, Dillon brewmaster Cory Forster threw himself into the project, researching the type of beer that was around during Van Gogh's time. He chose to brew a French farmhouse-style ale known as 'bier de garde.'
"After much studying, I discovered that Vincent himself probably drank many beers very similar to this one while traveling through and painting the French countryside," explained Forster.
The bier de garde is a style not commonly used today, and required Forster to acquire a specific type of Belgian yeast, and re-arrange his usual brewing schedule. Unlike most contemporary beers which are brewed in highly sterilized environments, the farmers brewing bier de garde would expose the barrels to the open air, hoping to catch wild yeast. Forster admits that getting it right took some tinkering.
"For this particular liquid art, we tried to recreate Vincent's favorite brew," Forster said. "We used 11 varieties of mild malts with just a touch of caramel malt sweetness to balance out the funky spice and fruitiness of the farmhouse ale yeast."
Forster added spirals of applewood and French oak in the fermenter to recreate the taste of being brewed in a wooden barrel. A hint of anise is a nod to Van Gogh's purported favorite drink, absinthe.
The bier de garde may be recognizable as a cousin to the better known style of the Belgian saison. The beer is golden to slight copper in color, and has been described as "strawberry blonde" and "red-head."
A little extra carbonation was added in order to draw out the unique individual flavors, and make them more easily distinguishable to the palate. It's easily drinkable, but drinkers be warned, it's also high in alcohol content, clocking in at 7.7 percent ABV.
"Van Gogh looked at the people and settings that surrounded him for inspiration," said Timothy Standring, Becoming Van Gogh curator. "I think he would approve of a fine brew that relates to the working class of Belgium, Holland and France - three countries where the artist worked."
For an additional twist, Facebook fans of the museum and the brewery entered a contest to come up with a name for the beer. The winning name was "Dam Gogh" with 193 votes. The three runners-up were Van Gogh After Glow, Old Gold and Vincent Van Snow.
Three different people entered the "Dam Gogh" name for consideration, and all three were awarded prizes. Brenna Richardson, Paul Laincz and Mike Donlon all received two tickets to the Van Gogh exhibit, gift certificates to the Dillon Dam Brewery and a Dam Brewery Van Gogh T-shirt.
The Dam Gogh will be available on Friday, but it won't be the only new thing at the brewery. During its usual fall closure, the brewery updated its sound system as well as its tap system. The new sound will complement the high-definition movie projector, which is set to start playing snow-sport movies on Nov. 8.
The tap system is also upgrading its technology, as well as adding four new tap lines. Friday will serve 11 different beers, including three other seasonals - the Oktoberfest, the 2020 Beer Goggles Double IPA, and the Breck Whiskey Barrel Aged Coffee Vanilla Stout.
While the stout is only available while limited supplies last, the Dam Gogh plans to be around until January - as long as the Denver exhibit is running.
The beer is also on tap at the Rackhouse Pub, located in the Stranahan's Whiskey Distillery in Denver.
"We were just thrilled that they contacted us to be a part of this," Richard said. "We were more than happy to have taken it on and created something really fun."


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The IT&T Business Centre (tel: (0210) 353 0533) has offices equipped with desktop PCs, Internet access, telephones, photocopy and fax machines, laser and colour printers, scanners and office supplies; the centre also has one conference room. In addition, there are meeting rooms to hire. Wireless Internet access is available at points throughout the terminals. Conference facilities are also available at the Sofitel Athens Airport Hotel (tel: (0210) 354 4000; www.sofitelathens.gr/en/ www.sofitelathens.gr/en/). Eight dedicated business lounges are available in the Departures area.


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To the editor:
The election is over. Some are glad and some are sad, but this is not the time for Monday morning quarterbacking, gloating, calling names or pointing fingers. This is the time for action.
Please write your congressman stating: First, you want no more congressional gridlock. Second, that you want your representative to act like a statesman and not a partisan politician. Third, demand that Congress act to get a balanced budget passed with no deficit spending. Fourth, reduce government spending so that we live within our income. Fifth, make provisions with appropriate cuts in spending as to reduce the federal debt.
Send your letter by e-mail or snail-mail to: U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Marietta, 217 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515; or Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, 713 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510.
Also send a letter to President Barack Obama, White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C.
Time is running out. Do we want to be like Greece or Spain? We are the leaders of the world. Let's act like it.
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19 Jul 2012 7:07 AM #1
Sencha Touch 2 + Sencha Architect 2: Twitter Search Example
Hi guys,
I implemented a simple example of a Twitter Search feature using ST 2 and SA2.
Here is the link: http://loianegroner.com/2012/07/sencha-touch-2-sencha-architect-2-twitter-search-example/
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English blog: http://loianegroner.com
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Hi Loiane - thanks for the great work preparing this example.
I'm having an issue with the type of store/proxy in a touch app that needs jsonp feeds to get around the cross domain issue. Using the php search works for me on local host, but not deployed on a device. Is there something I'm not addressing properly?


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Publications: French, Simon
Keating, J.L., McKenzie, J.E., O'Connor, D.A., French, S., Walker, B.F., Charity, M., Page, M.J. and Green, S.E. (2016) Providing services for acute low-back pain: A survey of Australian physiotherapists. Manual Therapy, 22 . pp. 145-152.
Crothers, A.L., French, S.D., Hebert, J.J. and Walker, B.F. (2016) Spinal manipulative therapy, Graston technique® and placebo for non-specific thoracic spine pain: A randomised controlled trial. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 24 (1).
Hebert, J.J., Stomski, N.J., French, S.D. and Rubinstein, S.M. (2015) Serious adverse events and spinal manipulative therapy of the low back region: A systematic review of cases. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, 38 (9). pp. 677-691.
French, S., Werth, P. and Walker, B. (2014) Approach to low back pain: Chiropractic. Australian Family Physician, 43 (1). pp. 43-44.
Bussières, A., Côté, P., French, S., Godwin, M., Gotlib, A., Graham, I.D., Grondin, D., Hawk, C., Leboeuf-Yde, C., Mior, S. and Stuber, K. (2014) Creating a chiropractic practice-based research network (PBRN): Enhancing the management of musculoskeletal care. Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association, 58 (1). pp. 8-15.
Walker, B.F., Stomski, N.J., Hebert, J.J. and French, S.D. (2014) Evidence-based practice in chiropractic practice: A survey of chiropractors' knowledge, skills, use of research literature and barriers to the use of research evidence. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 22 (2). pp. 286-295.
French, S., Werth, P. and Walker, B. (2014) Letter to the editor. Australian Family Physician, 43 (9). pp. 583-584.
French, S.D., Charity, M.J., Forsdike, K., Gunn, J.M., Polus, B.I., Walker, B.F., Chondros, P. and Britt, H.C. (2013) Chiropractic Observation and Analysis Study (COAST): Providing an understanding of current chiropractic practice. Medical Journal of Australia, 199 (10). pp. 687-691.
Walker, B.F., Hebert, J.J., Stomski, N.J., Clarke, B.R., Bowden, R.S., Losco, B. and French, S.D. (2013) Outcomes of Usual Chiropractic; Harm (OUCH). A randomised controlled trial. Spine, 38 (20). pp. 1723-1729.
Walker, B.F., Hebert, J.J., Stomski, N.J., Losco, B. and French, S.D. (2013) Short-Term usual chiropractic care for spinal pain. Spine, 38 (24). pp. 2071-2078.
Walker, B.F., Stomski, N.J., Hebert, J.J. and French, S.D. (2013) A survey of Australian chiropractors' attitudes and beliefs about evidence-based practice and their use of research literature and clinical practice guidelines. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 21 (1). p. 44.
Walker, B.F. and French, S.D. (2012) Pain in the neck: Many (marginally different) treatment choices. Annals of Internal Medicine, 156 (1). pp. 52-53.
Walker, B.F., French, S.D., Grant, W. and Green, S. (2011) A Cochrane Review of combined chiropractic interventions for low-back pain. Spine, 36 (3). pp. 230-242.
Walker, B.F., French, S.D., Page, M.J., O'Connor, D.A., McKenzie, J.E., Beringer, K., Murphy, K., Keating, J.L., Michie, S., Francis, J.J. and Green, S.E. (2011) Management of people with acute low-back pain: a survey of Australian chiropractors. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 19 (1). p. 29.
Walker, B.F., Losco, B., Clarke, B.R., Hebert, J.J., French, S.D. and Stomski, N.J. (2011) Outcomes of usual chiropractic, harm & efficacy, the ouch study: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials, 12 (1). p. 235.
Walker, B.F., French, S.D., Cameron, M., Perle, S.M., Lebouef-Yde, C. and Rubinstein, S.M (2011) The journal 'chiropractic & osteopathy' changes its title to 'chiropractic & manual therapies'. a new name, a new era. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 19 (1). p. 1.
French, S.D., Walker, B.F. and Perle, S.M. (2010) Chiropractic care for children: too much, too little or not enough? Chiropractic & Osteopathy, 18 (1). p. 17.
Walker, B.F., French, S.D., Grant, W. and Green, S. (2010) Combined chiropractic interventions for low-back pain. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 4 .
McKenzie, J.E., O'Connor, D.A., Page, M.J., Mortimer, D.S., French, S.D., Walker, B.F., Keating, J.L., Grimshaw, J.M., Michie, S., Francis, J.J. and Green, S.E. (2010) Improving the care for people with acute low-back pain by allied health professionals (the ALIGN trial): A cluster randomised trial protocol. Implementation Science, 5 (1). p. 86.
O'Connor, D., McKenzie, J., Murphy, K., Page, M., Beringer, K., Keating, J., French, S., Michie, S., Walker, B.F., Francis, J., Grimshaw, J., Mortimer, D. and Green, S. (2009) Improving acute low-back pain management in chiropractic and physiotherapy practice by enhancing uptake of an evidence-based guideline: The ALIGN cluster randomised controlled trial. In: 8th Biennial COCA Conference 2009: More than Just a Pain in the Neck, 20 - 22 November 2009, Darling Harbour, Sydney
O'Connor, D., Murphy, K., French, S., McKenzie, J., Keating, J., Walker, B., Grimshaw, J., Michie, S., Francis, J., Page, M., Beringer, K. and Green, S. (2009) Use of theory to identify and address barriers and enablers to uptake of evidence-based guidelines for acute low-back pain by Australian physiotherapists and chiropractors: Phase 1 of the ALIGN project. In: 10th International Forum. Primary Care Research On Low Back Pain, 14 - 17 June 2009, Boston, U.S.A.
Crothers, A., Walker, B.F. and French, S. (2008) Spinal manipulative therapy or Graston therapy compared to a placebo for the treatment of non-specific spine pain: A randomised controlled trial: Results at 1 month follow-up. In: COCA Annual Conference 2008: Chiropractic - Beyond Musculoskeletal Medicine, 24 - 26 October 2008, Melbourne, VIC
Crothers, A., Walker, B.F. and French, S.D. (2008) Spinal manipulative therapy versus Graston Technique in the treatment of non-specific thoracic spine pain: design of a randomised controlled trial. Chiropractic and Osteopathy, 16 (12).
Crothers, A., Walker, B.F. and French, S.D. (2007) The effectiveness of Spinal Manipulative Therapy (SMT) versus Graston Therapy (GT) in the treatment of Non-specific thoracic spine pain: A randomised controlled trial: Research protocol. In: 7th Biennial COCA conference 07: The Patient-Centred Approach: What's in it for me?, 7 - 9 September 2007, Melbourne, VIC.
Reggars, J.W., French, S.D. and Walker, B.F. (2006) Screening for vascular accidents associated with spinal manipulative therapy. Chiropractic & Osteopathic College of Australasia
French, S.D., Cameron, M., Walker, B.F., Reggars, J.W. and Esterman, A.J. (2006) Superficial heat or cold for low back pain. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (1).
French, S.D., Cameron, M., Walker, B.F., Reggars, J.W. and Esterman, A.J. (2006) A cochrane review of superficial heat or cold for low back pain. Spine, 31 (9). pp. 998-1006.
Walker, B.F., French, S.D. and Cameron, M. (2005) Chiropractic & Osteopathy. A new journal. Chiropractic & Osteopathy, 13 (1). pp. 1-3.
Walker, B.F., French, S.D., Cameron, M. and Jannese, J. (2005) Chiropractic journals and MEDLINE listing: A new player! In: 5th Biennial COCA National Conference: Management of Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain, 8 - 9 October 2005, Melbourne, VIC.
French, S.D., Walker, B.F., Grant, W.D. and Green, S. (2005) A Cochrane systematic review of chiropractic interventions for low back pain: What have we missed? In: 8th Biennial Congress of the World Federation of Chiropractic, June 2005, Sydney, Australia.
Cameron, M., Walker, B.F., French, S.D. and Jannese, J. (2005) Osteopathic journals and MEDLINE listing: A new player! In: 8th International Congress of the German Osteopathic Association (VOD), 29 September - 2 October 2005, Schlangenbad/Wiesbaden, Germany.
Walker, B.F., Cameron, M., French, S.D., Pollard, H.P., Vitiello, A., Reggars, J.W. and Werth, P.D. (2004) Risk management for chiropractors and osteopaths: informed consent. A common law requirement. Australasian chiropractic & osteopathy, 12 (1). pp. 19-23.
Reggars, J.W., French, S.D., Walker, B.F., Cameron, M., Pollard, H., Vitiello, A. and Werth, P.D. (2003) Risk Management for chiropractors and Osteopaths: Neck manipulation & Vertebrobasilar Stroke. Australasian Chiropractic & Osteopathy, 11 (1). pp. 9-15.
French, S.D., Walker, B.F., Cameron, M., Pollard, H., Vitiello, A., Reggars, J.W., Werth, P.D. and Comrie, D.A. (2003) Risk management for chiropractors and Osteopaths: Imaging guidelines for conditions commonly seen in practice. Australasian Chiropractic & Osteopathy, 11 (2). pp. 41-48.
Reggars, J.W. and French, S.D. (1998) A case of leptomenigeal disease presenting as a lumbar nerve root radiculopathy. Australasian chiropractic & osteopathy, 7 (3). pp. 112-115.
Reggars, J.W. and French, S.D. (1996) Sometimes they may be zebras: herpes zoster of the L2 spinal nerve. A case report. Australasian chiropractic & osteopathy, 5 (20). pp. 45-46.


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Enactus teams from more than 200 colleges and universities across the United States will present their community outreach projects April 1-3 to a judging panel of esteemed business leaders, demonstrating how they are transforming lives and enabling progress in their communities. This year, the Dakota Wesleyan University Enactus team developed projects that impacted thousands of members of the Mitchell and Dakota Wesleyan Community, including creating a sustainable recycling image on campus and expanding the Mitchell Weekend Snack Pack program.
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I like to do things, build stuff and learn and hack stuff.
I'm applying to be an Associate Member at Noisebridge.
I encourage collaboration between Noisebridge, SudoRoom and [Rock Paper Scissors Collective|http://www.rpscollective.com].
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I favor doing things and collaborating. I come to Noisebridge to hack because it is a hackerspace and was made for hacking.
I don't have time to listen to pitches, presentations, promotions or commercials.
If I'm wearing my headphones, I am focusing, since I come to Noisebridge to hack and since it is a hackerspace that is what you do.
I like people who do things.
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I do something that is not exactly skateboarding but something else (nerding). it is completely unrelated to any multimillion dollar corporate action sport, or social scene.
I am stuck right now, because I snowboard and my style is keeping me from progressing. I just can't seem to get my feet off my board. If you have time I can pay you for lessons and coaching. please contact me, I am at noisebridge a lot.
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This may look like a silly question but I don't know what the difference between zooming and focusing is. Zooming in will usually let me have fewer subjects in the scene while zooming out will allow for wider view. Focusing is the process adjusting the wanted subject to be in focus and look sharp. When we zoom, lens elements are moved to zoom in or out, what happens in the lens when we change the focus?
The two generally control two different aspects of the image projected by the lens. Focusing sometimes has the effect of changing "zoom" a little as well, however its purpose is different. To keep it simple:
Focusing in the past used to be achieved by moving the lens itself (i.e. in a large-format view camera) forward or backward (away/towards the imaging medium). This often results in changes to the angle of view as well, since the total focal length of the lens can change via extension...sometimes by a lot. In modern camera lenses, focusing may be achieved similarly...many cheap lenses focus by moving the front or back (or both) lens elements. Higher quality lenses tend to use an internal floating focus group, an internal group of lens elements who's sole purpose is to focus the image. The benefit of internal focusing groups is that the physical length of the lens stays the same, allowing you to minimize the amount of "zoom shift" that might occur when focusing.
Focusing is just changing the plane of focus, so at a very fundamental level, all that is happening is the lens elements are moved as a single group towards or away from the sensor (though in practice there can be minor changes in the separation of the groups to counter unwanted optical effects).
When you zoom, the element groups in a lens will move independently of each other, with the spacing increasing or decreasing between the various groups to change the path the light takes through the lens.
At a basic level, focus adjusts how far from the camera a subject will be sharp (in focus). Zoom adjusts the magnification (angle of view mapped to the same size picture). The two are totally different.
While differnt, on some lenses adjusting one may have a effect on the other. In particular, lenses that focus by sliding in and out actually change their magnification ratios in the process a bit too. This can matter in some cases, particularly for very close subjects. For ordinary non-macro shots from landscapes down to portraits or so, you'd have to look hard to notice this. The zoom adjustment will have a much greater and obvious effect than the small zoom side effect of focusing. Some "internal focus" lenses have less zoom side effect as a result of focus changes.


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Anyone every purchase / use hardware from http://SiliconMechanics.com?
Their prices seem to be unbeatable.
So I'm curious to know how reliable their servers are.
Also, who do you recommend to buy the best bang for your buck on rack servers?
Anyone every purchase / use hardware from http://SiliconMechanics.com?
Their prices seem to be unbeatable.
So I'm curious to know how reliable their servers are.
Also, who do you recommend to buy the best bang for your buck on rack servers?
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For the love of the flying spaghetti monster; don't ever pay retail.
We just did a large purchase from Dell for a bunch of servers, an EMC CX4 SAN, switches, load ballancers, etc. With full Microsoft licensing we paid easily 30-40% off the original quotes. It's all about having a good sales rep, and being able to negotiate when them and get them to work the partners for the best possible deals.
Fyi; SilliconMechanics is just reselling branded SuperMicro machines at a lower cost than direct with added support and sales. Still cheaper to buy from them than elsewhere -- but their equipment does come from a bigname whitebox manufacturer.
I have a Silicon Mechanics rack mount that I bought used. It is a dual socket Opteron system with a 3ware raid controller and I have had no hardware problems with it. A friend bought some used on Ebay and those have worked without hardware issues. My former employer has a dozen Silicon Mechanics boxes that they use for Test and Production. The only problems those boxes every had were software issues with our own code.
If I were looking for new servers, I would put them high on the list of vendors to get quotes from.
We've (company I work for) used Silicon Mechanics for a while. Probably >20 servers from them, many of them with weird requirements, from low-end stuff (single-CPU, single-disk web servers) to multi-core, multi-CPU 16-disk DB servers, to weird stuff like telephony servers. We even got some Windows XP(!) servers from them fairly recently, no problems at all.
Almost all of it has worked perfectly with no problems. We've only ever had problems with three machines (one had a bad HDD backplane, found with intense testing on arrival, one had some RAM fail after the better part of a year, and the other was just Western Digital's lovely quality control), and their support (we just have the standard warranty) has been excellent.
I bought 3 servers from them probably 3 years ago.
2 servers had the (cheap plastic) rabbit ears break off almost immediately. One server was RMA'd.
In terms of operations and not cheap plastic case addons, they've been reliable machines. I've heard their quality has improved from the models I bought.
I've used a variety of vendors over the years and I always come back to Dell. Their build quality is hard to beat. For important servers, I love the fact that I can call them up and say "it won't boot" and 90 minutes later a guy shows up with a box full of parts and begins swapping them out until it works.
Fried motherboard on a production mail server. Total downtime: 2 hours. (Yes, it should've been redundant. It wasn't.)


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5 Lost TV Pilots That Will Make You Question Your Sanity
#2. The Three Stooges Scrapbook (1960)
Regardless of what you think about them, The Three Stooges were gigantic comedy stars for a very long time. But when this pilot was made, things were not going so well for the masters of eye-poking. They had been unceremoniously dropped by Columbia in 1958, after 24 years of making popular theatrical shorts, as audiences had simply lost interest in shorts. So they swallowed their pride, and then maybe their faces turned red and steam shot out of their ears, and then they made a sitcom! Well, it's almost a sitcom! Well, it's definitely a thing!
Curly Joe gets to work while the other two read the scripts and wonder desperately where the jokes are.
The Stooges always consisted of Moe, Larry, and "the third guy," a rotating position not unlike the lead singer of Van Halen, or the various faces transplanted onto Madonna. The third guy succession goes like this: Shemp Howard (briefly), Curly, back to Shemp, Joe Besser, Joe Palma and finally, Curly Joe. Believe it or not, Curly Joe was not related to his predecessors Curly or Joe, just an amazing Hollywood coincidence. He's the one we get for this pilot, which is fitting because everything about it feels slightly off. These men are visibly exhausted. They no longer have the energy to do the kind of slapstick they were known for and the story concept is ... well, let's talk about that story concept.
Shenanigans afoot. Shenanigans afoot!
The low energy, uncomfortable Stooges live together in a crappy apartment where they prepare to go make a television show. That would put the pilot in the realm of meta-showbiz comedies, alongside Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Larry Sanders Show and The Paul Reis- already canceled? Get out, that was like, two episodes. Wow, OK.
Anyway before the Stooges can make their show, they're kicked out of their apartment for cooking, because the landlady doesn't allow that. They go look at another place ... which also doesn't allow cooking. (Apparently this was a major stumbling block for renters of the time.) Finally they wind up at Creepy Manor, owned by Professor Dolottle (does he talk to animals, you ask? No, dumb question.). At first you assume Dolottle, living in a place called Creepy Manor, must be a stock Vincent Price-type "spooky guy" with a haunted house. Wrong! He is more of an arms dealer, having invented his own missile carrier (though the carrier plays no role in the plot and is never brought up again). Oh, and somehow his stance on cooking in the house goes unaddressed. Also, aliens. Wait, didn't these guys need to make a TV show or something?
"This looks like a promising plot development. Now let's never speak of it again."
It may seem unfair, even dumb-assed, to talk about story logic in The Three Stooges. Story was never the focus, but still, this one is supremely nonsensical, and that is amplified to the limit by the fact that they AREN'T EVEN DOING THE THREE STOOGES STUFF. There are some half-hearted stomach jabs and forehead smacks, but mostly they're just three kind of dumb guys wandering from one location to the next. It's pure, unfiltered strange, performed by guys who barely seem interested. We know this makes us terrible role models, but violence really could have saved the day on this one.
"Wwwwhy I oughtta ... retire? Hey guys, maybe we should retire."
#1. Heat Vision and Jack (1999)
The only entry on this list that is intentionally bizarre, Heat Vision and Jack quickly became a legend in cult comedy circles even though (or perhaps because?) it was never aired. A bongwater-soaked parody of 1970s/80s adventure shows like The Six Million Dollar Man, The Incredible Hulk and, obviously, Knight Rider, the pilot is so bent and clever it's hard to believe it was ever intended for network television. Jack Black starred as rogue astronaut Jack Austin, who, it's important to repeat this, was a rogue astronaut played by Jack Black. If you young folks out there only know Jack Black from things like Year One and Gulliver's Travels, you might not know this but, once upon a time, people actually liked Jack Black, back in the days of Mr. Show and Tenacious D. Heat Vision and Jack was born during that time.
These are the eyes of a man who still owns his soul.
According to the Tom-Jones-sung title sequence, Jack Austin's shuttle flew too close to the sun, making his brain rise like cookie dough, and now he has superintelligence whenever the sun is out. His sentient motorbike sidekick, Heat Vision (voiced by Owen Wilson), came to be when an experimental NASA ray merged Jack's deadbeat roommate with his ride. The two of them are on the run from NASA agent Ron Silver -- that is, actor Ron Silver playing the role of himself, actor Ron Silver, a NASA agent. Ron Silver wants to remove Jack's brain. And then it gets weird.
Superhero montage weird.
In the pilot, an alien named Paragon takes over a fry cook played by now-deceased character actor Vincent Schiavelli. One of the pilot's finer moments comes when Paragon calls a truck stop waitress a "worthless monkey whore" then slams her into a jukebox, which kicks right in with the "doot doot doot!" of Third Eye Blind's "Semi-Charmed Life." (Pretty sure nothing like that ever happened on Friends.) The whole thing culminates in a big strip club battle, Paragon is defeated and Jack escapes the clutches of Ron Silver to live another day.
And sadly, we'd never know how this guy would fit into the series.
The show's comedy pedigree was hefty: Ben Stiller, fresh off There's Something About Mary, directed the pilot and brought it to the networks. The script was written by Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab, who went on to found channel101.com and co-create The Sarah Silverman Program. These days they spend a lot of time at NBC, where Dan Harmon runs Community, his creation, and Rob Schrab is a regular director at Parks and Recreation. Ben Stiller in his prime, two soon-to-be-huge comedy writers, Jack Black and Owen Wilson, all working on the same show, and it never made it to the screen. FOX picked it up, but the network changed its tune when it saw the produced episode, and we'll never know why.
"Fat, solar-powered former astronaut fights evil with his talking motorcycle? Sounds suspiciously like originality to us."
We'll also never know what other acid-fueled adventures were in store for this man and his easily-pushed-over machine. A show like this might have flourished as the centerpiece of an Adult Swim lineup, but that stoner showcase wouldn't appear until 2001. This could be a case where the show met its best possible fate -- as a weird, too-clever pilot that never got a chance. A nugget of astronaut Jack Austin's wisdom sums it up nicely: "If fate makes you a motorcycle ... you become a motorcycle."
If fate makes that bike Owen Wilson - eh, roll again.
For more shows that made it past the pilot and then turned nutty, check out 6 TV Shows That Completely Lost Their Shit and Bridalplasty: The New Reality Show That Proves We're Doomed.


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My dirt bike's steering has become increasing harder to steer. Other dirt bikes I've ridden have much smoother, almost effortless, steering. How can I have that same smooth steering? What parts do I need to remove and clean?
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After a while, steering bearings can become filled with grit and grime, causing steering to feel not so smooth. Here are the steps to cleaning and greasing your steering bearings so that steering feels smooth and fluid again.
Disassembly - In order to keep up with bolts, hand tighten bolts back in their respective receptor holes after removing components.
Cleaning - All components can be cleaned using contact-cleaner and/or WD-40. Remove as much grit, grime, dirt, and old grease as possible.
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A 3-plane field $D$ on a 6-manifold $M$ is generic if $[D, D] = TM$. I'd like to do some explicit computations with a general local plane field of this type, and so I want to find a local (quasi-)normal form as possible for these plane fields, given, say, as an explicit triple of 1-forms on $M$, which is as simple as possible in the sense that it depends on as few functions as possible. One expects from an easy heuristic argument that an optimal normal form for such plane fields depends on three functions of six variables.
A well-known example of this kind of normal form is given by a theorem of Goursat, which says that for any 2-plane field $E$ on a 5-manifold $N$ that is generic (which this time just means that $[E, [E, E]] = TN$) and a base point $u \in N$, there are local coordinates $(x, y, p, q, z)$ near $u$ and a function $F(x, y, p, q, z)$ such that the restriction of $E$ to the chart is the common kernel of the triple
$\{ dy - p \, dx , dp - q \, dx, dz - F(x, y, p, q, z) \, dx \}$ $(\ast)$.
(In fact, we can furthermore assume that $u = (0, 0, 0, 0, 0)$ in this chart.) Conversely, given a function $F$, the 2-plane field $(\ast)$ is generic iff $F_{qq}$ is nowhere zero.
(This triple in this example is just the plane field on the jet space $J^{0, 2} (\mathbb{R}, \mathbb{R}^2) = \mathbb{R}^5_{xypqz}$, where $p$ and $q$ are placeholder variables for $y$ and $y'$, respectively, corresponding to the differential equation $z' = F(x, y, y', y'', z)$. I've been told, though, that there might well be no normal form for generic 3-plane fields on 6-manifolds that can be interpreted in this way, i.e., as the plane field determined by a system of differential equations with some unspecified functions on a suitable jet space.)
There are various accessible proofs of Goursat's result in the literature (including in a paper of Bryant & Hsu, and in a recent Ph.D. dissertation of Strazzullo), but the arguments in those references are not obviously adaptable to the 3-plane geometry in which I'm interested.


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I have developed an application page in Facebook which, of course lives in an
iFrame. I want to be able to affect an element in the
iFrame content upon page scroll (the main page/canvas page). Using jQuery the code within the content page would be:
do something
In a normal situation where the
iFrame and parent window are in the same domain this would work, but due to the security restrictions between different domains, this is not allowed. I've search the web extensively and have not found any solutions for this. Is there any cross domain fix, or any way of coding this to simply allow for a capture of the scrolling event of the main page?


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http://www.ocfaustralia.org/ and site 2
http://griffith.ocfaustralia.org/, is there a way for me to tell whether site 2 is a daughter site for site 1?
That is, if I were to remove site 1 would site 2 go down as well?
The reason I'm asking is because I've been asked to do a major redesign for site 1 (the original developer's gone, left no documentations, the codes disorganized and everywhere, etc) and with the way things are, I figured it would be a lot easier and also better in the long run if I just delete everything and start again from scratch. Therefore I need to check for dependencies before pulling the plug.


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I'm going to Colorado to visit a friend and we will be going on a week long trek across a couple of 14'ners. I'm looking for some ways to help prepare my body for trip.
There isn't necessarily a way to prepare your body for the altitude. You should however:
There is a lot of general information at hiking, skiing, and sports conditioning sites (ex. http://www.bodyresults.com/e2altitudecoping.asp)
Finally, know the signs of altitude sickness and make sure your hiking partners do too, so that if anyone starts getting sick, there are people there to make sure that person descends immediately (altitude sick people are sometimes too confused to realize they are in trouble).
Find an area with a large stairway (football field bleachers work great), then power-walk/run up and down them while taking a break every few runs. Keep doing this until the trip, while increasing the number of "laps" when you think you're improving.
When it starts becoming easier, pack up your backpack with your gear or simulate the weight with something heavy, and go at the stairs again (you'll want to power-walk with the backpack). You want to build your endurance, so practice breathing thoroughly while climbing.


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Payments is by debit/credit card payable to the relevant tour operator - Please do not send cash. Credit card transactions may incur a charge – see individual trip details for information.
Individual tour operator booking terms and conditions apply.
Your contract is with the tour operator.
Coach pick-up points are subject to minimum numbers. Coach pick-up points offered are Dudley, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Telford and Shrewsbury. Occasionally, tour operators are able to offer other pick-up points closer to your home - just ask the tour operator for details.
Coach routes are not necessarily the pick-up points listed in the brochures and may include extra pick-up points from other parts of the country.
Coach transfers in the UK are not available for holidays by air and Eurostar plus certain cruising holidays, unless otherwise stated.
Prices are per person and do not include single room supplements, flight supplements, optional excursions and travel insurance.
Single rooms are limited so please book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.Whilst the tour operators try to ensure that every break takes place, on rare occasions, cancellations my occur. Naturally, they are extremely sorry when this happens and try to ensure that passengers are notified promptly and if possible, offered as an alternative.
We strongly recommend you read the trip details in full including the terms and conditions.
Please ensure you have valid up-to-date passports and visas where necessary.
Whilst our tour operators try to ensure that every break takes place, on rare occasions, cancellations may occur. Naturally, we are extremely sorry when this happens and try to ensure that passengers are notified promptly and if possible offered an alternative.