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Absolute Beta Counting Using Thick Sources
Date: 1950
Creator: Anderson, Miles E., 1926-
Description: The problem with which we shall concern ourselves in this paper is the self-scattering and self-absorption of beta particles by the source.
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Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Studies of Highly Charged Molecular Ions
Date: December 1994
Creator: Kim, Yong-Dal
Description: The existence of singly, doubly, and triply charged diatomic molecular ions was observed by using an Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) technique. The mean lifetimes of 3 MeV boron diatomic molecular ions were measured. No isotopic effects on the mean lifetimes of boron diatomic molecules were observed for charge state 3+. Also, the mean lifetime of SiF^3+ was measured.
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Analysis of Biological Materials Using a Nuclear Microprobe
Date: December 2014
Creator: Mulware, Stephen Juma
Description: The use of nuclear microprobe techniques including: Particle induced x-ray emission (PIXE) and Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS) for elemental analysis and quantitative elemental imaging of biological samples is especially useful in biological and biomedical research because of its high sensitivity for physiologically important trace elements or toxic heavy metals. The nuclear microprobe of the Ion Beam Modification and Analysis Laboratory (IBMAL) has been used to study the enhancement in metal uptake of two different plants. The roots of corn (Zea mays) have been analyzed to study the enhancement of iron uptake by adding Fe (II) or Fe (III) of different concentrations to the germinating medium of the seeds. The Fe uptake enhancement effect produced by lacing the germinating medium with carbon nanotubes has also been investigated. The aim of this investigation is to ensure not only high crop yield but also Fe-rich food products especially from calcareous soil which covers 30% of world's agricultural land. The result will help reduce iron deficiency anemia, which has been identified as the leading nutritional disorder especially in developing countries by the World Health Organization. For the second plant, Mexican marigold (Tagetes erecta), the effect of an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomus intraradices) for the ...
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Analyzing Magnet System for the Electrostatic Accelerator
Date: August 1954
Creator: Young, Thomas E.
Description: This thesis describes the design and construction of a linear accelerator, specifically, a positive-ion source, a high voltage supply, an accelerating column, and the necessary associated vacuum system.
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Anderson Localization in Two-Channel Wires with Correlated Disorder: DNA as an Application
Date: December 2007
Creator: Bagci, V. M. Kemal
Description: This research studied the Anderson localization of electrons in two-channel wires with correlated disorder and in DNA molecules. It involved an analytical calculation part where the formula for the inverse localization length for electron states in a two-channel wire is derived. It also involved a computational part where the localization length is calculated for some DNA molecules. Electron localization in two-channel wires with correlated disorder was studied using a single-electron tight-binding model. Calculations were within second-order Born-approximation to second-order in disorder parameters. An analytical expression for localization length as a functional of correlations in potentials was found. Anderson localization in DNA molecules were studied in single-channel wire and two-channel models for electron transport in DNA. In both of the models, some DNA sequences exhibited delocalized electron states in their energy spectrum. Studies with two-channel wire model for DNA yielded important link between electron localization properties and genetic information.
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Angular Dependence of the Stopping Processes and the Yields of Ion-induced Electron Emission from Channeled MEV Protons in <100> Silicon Foils
Date: December 1993
Creator: Zhao, Zhiyong
Description: The present work reports the experimental evidence of anomalous energy loss, energy straggling, and the corresponding ion-induced electron emission yields of channeled protons in silicon.
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The Angular Distribution and Total Flux of Neutrons Obtained from the Deuterium-Tritium Reaction
Date: 1956
Creator: Duggan, Jerome L.
Description: Mono-energetic neutrons have been produced with the low-voltage Cockroft-Walton accelerator at North Texas State College using two different reactions. It is the purpose of this paper to report the angular distribution and total flux of the neutrons obtained from the T(D,n) reaction.
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The Angular Distribution of the Deuterium-Deuterium Neutrons with 100 Kev Deuterons
Date: 1956
Creator: Hackfield, Bobby J.
Description: It is the purpose of this paper to present the experimental techniques used in obtaining. 3.25 MeV neutrons from the H2(d,n)He3 reaction, as well as an analysis of the experimental data.
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Anisotropic Relaxation Time for Solids with Ellipsoidal Fermi Surfaces
Date: May 1971
Creator: Fuchser, Troy Denrich
Description: Many solids have Fermi surfaces which are approximated as ellipsoids. A comprehensive solution for the magnetoconductivity of an ellipsoid is obtained which proves the existence of a relaxation time tensor which can be anisotropic and which is a function of energy only.
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Anomalous Behavior in the Rotational Spectra of the v₈=2 and the v₈=3 Vibrations for the ¹³C and ¹⁵N Tagged Isotopes of the CH₃CN Molecule in the Frequency Range 17-95 GHz
Date: December 1990
Creator: Al-Share, Mohammad A. (Mohammad Abdel)
Description: The rotational microwave spectra of the three isotopes (^13CH_3^12C^15N, ^12CH_3^13C^15N, and ^13CH_3^13C^15N) of the methyl cyanide molecule in the v_8=3, v_8=2, v_7=1 and v_4=1 vibrational energy levels for the rotational components 1£J£5 (for a range of frequency 17-95 GHz.) were experimentally and theoretically examined. Rotational components in each vibration were measured to determine the mutual interactions in each vibration between any of the vibrational levels investigated. The method of isotopic substitution was employed for internal tuning of each vibrational level by single and double substitution of ^13C in the two sites of the molecule. It was found that relative frequencies within each vibration with respect to another vibration were shifted in a systematic way. The results given in this work were interpreted on the basis of these energy shifts. Large departure between experimentally measured and theoretically predicted frequency for the quantum sets (J, K=±l, ϑ=±1), Kϑ-l in the v_8=3 vibrational states for the ^13c and ^15N tagged isotopes of CH_3CN showed anomalous behavior which was explained as being due to Fermi resonance. Accidently strong resonances (ASR) were introduced to account for some departures which were not explained by Fermi resonance.
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I've had a few people read pieces of narrative writing I've done, and they seem to take issue with the fact that I sometimes put a piece of speech inline with the rest of a non-dialogue paragraph, like so:
Jill found a box of mints she liked, and took them off the shelf. She walked up to the cashier. "How much are these mints?" she asked, holding up the box.
"Two fifty," replied the cashier. Jill handed him the money, took the mints, and left the store.
Sometimes it's part of, or sandwiched in the middle of, a longer paragraph, like this:
As Jill walked home, the mints jiggled happily in the box in her pocket, as if they were waiting to be eaten. Suddenly, the box snapped opened and one mint fell out. "Dammit," said Jill, bending down to pick it up. As she picked it up, eying it, she noticed that the mint didn't have any dirt on it at all, despite falling onto the dirty, wet sidewalk. "I guess you're spoiled anyway, so I can't bring you to Fran," muttered Jill, so she popped it in her mouth. Suddenly, she felt changes occurring in her.
Is there actually a style rule against this? Does it actually make it more confusing for the reader?

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I'm probably being too paranoid here, but what's the best way to make sure the priming sugar (I tend to use corn sugar boiled in a few cups of water for 5 minutes and then cooled) is thoroughly mixed into the beer without oxidizing it? I'm afraid if I agitate it too much I'm going to oxidize it and add off-flavors, but I've had some batches where the bottles are unevenly primed. My current process is to pour the 70-80F sugar solution into a carboy, then rack the beer from the secondary on top of it. I then stop up the new carboy and rock it for 30 seconds or so.
I always boil and cool my priming sugar solution and add half of it to the bottling bucket. I rack about half of the beer into the bucket and then add the rest of the priming solution as the remainder of the beer is flowing.
Afterwards, I use a [sanitized] brew spoon to very gently stir the beer in the bottling bucket. As long as you avoid churning it and don't introduce bubbles, you'll be fine. Yes, there's always a slight risk of infection, but as long as the spoon is properly sanitized you're not risking a whole lot, and I'd much rather make sure the priming sugar is evenly distributed than risk bottle bombs later on.
The two methods I've used have been:


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So, say, I have a directory with a bunch of files like g.txt, where g.txt was last modified on, say, June 20, 2012.
How would I batch-rename all of the files (like g.txt) with the last modified date of June 20, 2012 appended on the end?
Quick-and-dirty Bash one-liner to rename all (globbed) files in the current directory from
An enterprising Bash nerd will find some edge case to break it, I'm sure. :)
Obviously, this doesn't do desirable things like checking whether a file already has something that looks like a date at the end.
here's a version of goldschrafe's one-liner that:
Obligatory zsh one-liner (not counting the one-time loading of optional components):
We use the
As I understood we don't know beforehand what is the modification date. So we need to get it from each file, format the output and rename each file in a way so that it includes the modification date in the filenames.
You can save this script as something like "modif_date.sh" and make it executable. We invoke it with the target directory as the argument:
Where "txt_collection" is the name of the directory where we have all the files that we want to rename.


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The 'add new item' link which is always located at the end of the list. Is there a way that we can add a similar link at the top of the list?
Not possible by just configuring web part. Of course you could modify the Title Url of the web part to point to the Add new item URL, but I don't count that as a valid suggestion ;)
I would use javascript (jQuery) to search for the bottom Add new item link and inject similar to the correct position below the web part title.
Some web parts also allow you to edit the XSL of the web part. I haven't tried this myself, but you might be able to achieve the same in certain web parts using this method.
jQuery example (not on my dev machine now, so will share the idea at least):
You can edit the page to add a Content Editor Web Part up top and adjust the chrome type so that title / borders / etc don't display. Then edit the content of the web part to be a hyperlink to the same place as the other one.
You can keep the existing Add new item link at the bottom of the page and add an additional link above your list.
Add Content Editor web part above your list.
Copy the HTML markup from the existing Add new item link. You can see it with help of the F12 developer tools of internet explorer or inspect element of Firefox/Chrome.
Paste the HTML markup into the Content Editor web part.
You may need to wrap the above code in a div and additional styling to it as needed.
Actually, the simplest approach and probably best solution is to simply link to the form on your site ending with NewForm.aspx. It looks even better if you add the + image in fron too. Example: New Issue Tracking Form
Assuming you have jQuery available in your environment. Here is a quick way to knock it out.
This code must work with JQuery.


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CUPERTINO, Calif. - Oct. 2, 2002 - Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) will hold a conference call on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2002 at 4:30 p.m. EDT/1:30 p.m. PDT to discuss the results of its fiscal second quarter 2003, ended Sept. 27, 2002.
All interested parties are invited to listen to Symantec's chairman and chief executive officer, John W. Thompson, and chief financial officer, Greg Myers, present the quarterly earnings results, highlights and guidance. The dial-in number for domestic listeners is 1-800-967-7184, while international listeners can dial 1-719-457-2633.
Investors will also have the opportunity to listen to the conference call and the replay over the Internet through Symantec's Investor Relations web site at http://www.symantec.com/invest/index.html. To listen to the live call, please go to the web site at least 15 minutes early to register, download, and install any necessary audio software. For those who cannot listen to the live broadcast, a replay will be available on this site shortly after the call through Nov. 15, 2002.
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I'm very new to Unix, but after having become comfortable with bash over the past year and after having played with Ubuntu recently, I've decided to make my next computer run Ubuntu, and I think my wife is on board for her next computer as well.
Is it easy to set up a central family server so that each computer acts as a client for the information that is stored only in a single place? What are the options? Are there any online how-to documents for this?


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Who proved the modern form of the fundamental theorem of Galois theory?. Was it in the original Galois' manuscript?
Galois's Proposition I (as translated by Edwards) is:
Let the equation be given whose $m$ roots are $a,b,c,\ldots$. There will always be a group of permuations of the letters $a,b,c,\ldots$ which will have the following property: 1) that each function invariant under the substitutions of this group will be known rationally; 2) conversely, that every function of these roots which can be determined rationally will be invariant under these substitutions.
As Edwards observes, it takes a lot of work to decipher the exact meanings of "substitution" and "invariant" here, but once you've done that, this can be translated into modern language as:
If an element of the splitting field of $K(a,b,c,\ldots)$ is left fixed by all the automorphisms of the Galois group then it is in $K$.
The fundamental theorem of Galois theory (i.e. the Galois correspondence) follows easily, though Edwards doesn't say who first stated it.
Surely the book
Edwards, Harold M. Galois theory. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 101. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1984. xiii+152 pp. ISBN: 0-387-90980-X MR0743418 (87i:12002) (link to amazon)
would be useful. This book about Galois theory is made from the historical point of view. In particular, it contains an English translation of Galois' memoir.
The modern form can be found in Galois Theory, by Emil Artin and Arthur N. Milgram page 46, published in 1944. I'm not expert in math history, but once, I heard Artin was the first person to wrote the modern account of Galois theory.
I am not particularly interested in mathematical history, but Peter Newmann is: http://www.ems-ph.org/books/book.php?proj_nr=137.


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Minecraft: PS3 Edition hits 1 million units, Xbox 360 Edition soarsWritten by: / / 2 Comments
The ultra successful block-based world building game, Minecraft, continues to find audiences on new platforms as developer Mojang recently announced the game had surpassed one million units sold on PlayStation 3.
The downloadable Minecraft: PS3 Edition hit the milestone earlier this month – just weeks after launch on December 17th.
The Xbox 360 version of Minecraft, meanwhile, hit the same milestone days after launch on Xbox LIVE, and has gone on to sell a whopping 10 million units, while combined sales on both PC and Mac have reached almost 14 million (probably even more by now). In addition, the mobile version of Minecraft has sold over 10 million units, too. PlayStation 4 and Xbox one versions of the game are also planned.
That's a lot of digital blocks.
Have you been caught up in the Minecraft craze? Which platform/s do you play on and how long have you been invested in Mojang's amazing world?
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Later this month Sony will begin limiting the number of PS3s and PSPs that can share a game purchased through the Playstation Network, the UK and U.S. Playstation blogs said this morning.
This appears to impact all regions.
Starting with game content purchased after Nov. 18 a new policy will apply that limits the number of devices that the content can be "activated" on. Users will be able to play the game on no more than two activated PS3 systems. PSP owners will be able to play the game on no more than two activated portables.
This update will not affect game content purchased before Nov. 18, but it will impact everything purchased after even for old PSPs and the PSPgo, they said.
Activation settings can be changed through each device. Sony Computer Entertainment also plans to provide a new Playstation Network account management website where users will be able to deactivate devices through their computers.
The guide to activating and deactivating your PS3 is available on the Playstation sites.
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Mr. President,
I have pleasure in congratulating you on your election as President of the sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations. I am confident that your personal talents, as well as the international standing enjoyed by your country Libya, will be highly conducive to the success of this session.
On this occasion I wish to express my gratitude and appreciation to your predecessor, H.E. Mr. Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann of Nicaragua, for his wise direction of our previous session. I would also like to take this opportunity to emphasize our support and appreciation for the endeavours that H.E. the Secretary-General of the United Nations is making to strengthen the role of the International Organization in today's world where there is a dire need to uphold the principles of international legitimacy and promote the values of international cooperation and full commitment to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations.
Mr. President,
Although it is customary for us to meet here every year in the General Assembly of the United Nations to deliver statements detailing the issues of concern to our countries, as well as the endeavours that our Governments have made and their positions on new developments, I hope that you will allow me to depart somewhat from this firmly established tradition.
The multitude of issues, the plethora of dangers and the successive crises that are facing every member of the United Nations should not obscure the fact that we are all in the same boat and the extent of our interrelationship, interdependence and mutual influence is greater than ever before. The time has come, therefore, for us to pause, ponder and reflect. The time has come for us to recall and renew our commitment to the basic purposes underlying the establishment of the United Nations and its Charter. You may recall that the basic purpose of that Charter was to spare humanity the destructive and tragic consequences of wars, and to provide prosperity to all through cooperation within the frame of legitimacy and the supremacy of international law.
The crises, perils, conflicts and issues with which mankind everywhere is currently faced can be solved effectively only on the basis of international legitimacy, international law and multilateral cooperation in meeting the requirements of universal justice. Any other provisional arrangements and partial solutions, which some refer to as « contrived » or « compromise" or "creative" solutions, will lead only to further perils and crises, aggravation of conflicts and failure to resolve issues and meet challenges in a collective and effective manner.
In any issue with which we are confronted, in any conflict that threatens us, and in any crisis that could have fearful consequences and implications for international peace and security, or for global sustainable growth and prosperity, regardless of the complexity of its details and the intricacy of conflicting interests and differing positions, proposed solutions and initiatives must be evaluated, positively or negatively, in the light of a single standard criterion, namely international legitimacy, international law and universal justice. Any deviation from this comprehensive and imperative criterion, regardless of the pretexts put forward to justify it, and regardless of the deceptive promotional halo of publicity with which it is surrounded, would be likely to exacerbate rather than solve the problem, and would seriously undermine our collective ability to effectively address the other problems and crises with which we are all confronted.
Mr. President,
Adherence to this criterion offers the easiest, best and most effective way to settle the Arab-Israeli conflict, which is rightly deemed to pose the most serious threat to peace and security in the Middle East, a strategic region the conflicts and problems of which have an impact on the world as a whole. The fact that this conflict has lasted for more than seven decades and is continuing to have disastrous effects on the entire region is attributable solely to a blatant deviation from the principles of international legitimacy, the rules of international law and the requirements of universal justice.
The Arab World, including the state of Palestine, has done its utmost to achieve a real and lasting peace. The Arab Peace Initiative, which is still on the table, constitutes a collective comprehensive proposal to end the conflict with Israel and conclude a peace agreement that would ensure security, recognition and normalization of relations for all the States of the region. The components of the Arab Peace Initiative are fully consistent with the above mentioned criterion on which they are based and centred, thereby embodying the Arab commitment to peace as a strategic option, and in accordance with the Charter.
Everyone is aware not only of the general outline of the desired solution but also of the reasons why peace has not yet been achieved. Peace cannot, and will not, be achieved as long as Israel continues its massacres and random bombardments of the Palestinian people. Peace will never be achieved through the holding of sham, protracted and fruitless bilateral or multilateral negotiations that discuss everything except the core issues of the conflict. The peace that is being sought will never be achieved by imposing sanctions and preconditions on a people suffering under occupation while, at the same time, exempting Israel from any consequences of its violation of the most fundamental rules and principles of international law. The desired peace will never be achieved by attempting to impose normalization of relations on the Arabs before the completion of withdrawal and the establishment of peace, as though we are expected to reward the aggressor for his aggression in a reverse logic that totally lacks any form of serious credibility.
All the initiatives, proposed solutions and international endeavours in this regard have invariably run up against a wall of rejection, obstruction, bad faith and procrastination on the part of Israel, which is continuing to take unilateral measures that are incompatible with international law and Security Council resolutions. Instead of an honest endeavour to achieve peace, we find that Israel is persisting in its daily humiliation of the Palestinian people and in its construction of settlements, walls and bypass roads, all of which violate international legitimacy, with a view to creating new facts on the ground. These settlements are changing the geographic and demographic nature of the Palestinian territories, especially in and around the city of Jerusalem, in flagrant violation of international law and of all the relevant Security Council resolutions, the commitments provided for in the Road Map and the undertakings made at Annapolis. The settlements that encircle most of the main Palestinian towns in the West Bank also usurp more than half of their water resources.
I had hoped that, at the beginning of this session of the General Assembly, we would be able to express satisfaction, hope and optimism at the achievement of tangible results. Unfortunately, no real results or notable signs of progress have been achieved in spite of the commendable endeavours of the United States of America, the evident personal desire of President Barack Obama and his team to further the peace process, and the ongoing efforts of the International Quartet. If all this international concern, all this international consensus and all these international endeavours have so far failed to induce Israel to honour the commitments to which it previously bound itself under the Road Map, how can we be optimistic?
Mr. President,
Departure from the principles of international legitimacy, the rules of international law and the requirements of universal justice remains the root cause of the risks of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction that are overshadowing the Middle East, including the Gulf region. This is attributable to the fact that, for decades, a blind eye was turned to the Israeli nuclear programme which, far from even being ostensibly designed to generate electric power, produces nothing but weapons of mass destruction. This original sin has motivated some states to push ahead with the development of nuclear capabilities, using the pretext of double standards to justify non-compliance with international resolutions in this regard.
Once again, we find that the easiest, most expeditious and most effective solution lies in declaring the entire Middle East, including the Gulf region, a zone free from all nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction.
Mr. President,
Protection of human rights, the rule of law, dissemination of a culture of peace and initiatives to promote dialogue among cultures and peoples should constitute basic components of any effective strategy to combat terrorism and extremism. Needless to say, respect for United Nations resolutions and the rules of international law is the only way to resolve chronic international conflicts and defuse focal points of tension, thus preventing terrorists from exploiting feelings of despair and frustration brought about by subjection to injustice, aggression and occupation.
With a view to contributing to the furtherance of international cooperation in the field of counter-terrorism, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia convened an International Counter-Terrorism Conference in February 2005 which was attended by experts and specialists from more than 60 States and international and regional organizations. The "Riyadh Declaration", which was issued by the Conference, affirmed the unanimous international resolve to oppose terrorism and extremism and made practical recommendations to combat terrorism, cut off its sources of funding, and achieve closer multilateral cooperation in this field.
The tremendous developments that have taken place in the transport, communications and information technology sectors have helped to facilitate and expand contact and interaction among all the peoples of the world with their various religions, beliefs, cultures and languages. As a result, there is no part of the human family, in all its rich diversity and fertile pluralism, which is now living in isolation without affecting or being affected by others. Although these developments have generally improved human life, extremist minorities within every religious and cultural community are seeking to exploit these tremendous technological developments to propagate notions of intolerance, exclusion, racism and hatred. Therefore, we all need to work together in an earnest manner under the auspices of the United Nations in order to create an environment conducive to promotion of the values of dialogue, tolerance and moderation and the furtherance of relations of cooperation and peace among cultures, peoples and States.
For these noble purposes, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques launched his sincere universal appeal for the pursuit of dialogue among all the followers of the religions and cultures constituting the heritage of mankind. This initiative adopted a political, as well as socio-cultural, twin-track approach. On the political track, the Extraordinary Islamic Summit convened in Makkah by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques reaffirmed the consensus of all the Islamic in rejecting violence, extremism and terrorism, and promoting the values of dialogue, tolerance and mutual respect. The General Assembly of the United Nations subsequently held a high-level meeting during its last session in 2008 with a view to securing the broadest possible political support at the highest level for all initiatives seeking to promote dialogue, mutual understanding and a culture of peace.
On the socio-cultural track, Muslim religious scholars representing all Islamic denominations and schools of thought also met at Makkah where they affirmed the true nature of the Islamic religion and its message based on tolerance, dialogue and peace. This was followed, on 16-18 July 2008, by the World Conference on Dialogue at Madrid which was attended by representatives of all the major religions. Diligent endeavours are currently being made to establish a global centre for dialogue, comprising representatives of all the main religions, which will operate in an independent manner totally free from any political interference.
Mr. President,
It has become evident that the environmental, economic, social and financial issues affect us all and no State can face them alone or single-handedly avoid the dangers and challenges that they pose. No region anywhere in the world has been unaffected by the implications of the US credit crisis, which has had an impact on the international financial system, thereby undermining the world economy and confronting it with serious challenges that have entailed a slowdown in global real growth rates.
As we have seen, concerted international efforts and the adoption of a serious and credible approach to multilateral action have begun to produce fruitful results in which we can discern the first signs of improvement and a return to stability and growth in the world economy. My country has approved the largest governmental budget in its history in which US$ 400 billion have been allocated for investment in development projects over a five-year period with a view to the adoption of an expansionist financial policy aimed at closing the deflationary gap and stimulating demand to counter the repercussions of the global financial crisis.
The best lesson to be learnt from this experience is the overriding importance of making every possible effort to remedy the flaws in the international financial system and reach international agreement on ways to remedy the flaws in the world economy in such a way as to secure a financial system that offers equal opportunities to all the parties while, at the same time, providing appropriate liquidity for the developing countries and safeguarding their monetary reserves from the collapse of any of the major international currencies.
I do not think that it would be an exaggeration for me to say that my country, which is a developing country and, at the same time, a member of the G20 whose leaders recently held an important meeting, is not uttering empty words in this regard since the record clearly shows that its course of action is fully consistent with what it has advocated, and is continuing to advocate, in all international forums.
Notwithstanding the fact that it is a developing country experiencing rapid demographic growth that implies a need for steadily increasing financial resources to cover the costs of human development, infrastructure and indigenous capacity building, the Kingdom has made considerable endeavours to assist other more needy countries to an extent that far exceeds the target set for international development assistance. The report issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs confirms that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia headed the list of donor countries funding humanitarian relief operations in 2008.
The Kingdom donated US$ 1 billion to the Fund to Combat Poverty in the Islamic World, in addition to its contributions to the capital of 18 international financial bodies and institutions. The non-recoverable aid and soft loans provided by the Kingdom during the last three decades amounts to US$ 100 billion, from which 95 developing countries benefited. This amount represents 4 % of the Kingdom's GNP, which is far higher than the target set by the United Nations.
In keeping with the concern that the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques is showing for the large-scale promotion of education in the developing countries, the Kingdom announced its allocation of US$ 500 million for education projects in those countries.
With regard to debt relief, the Kingdom has waived more than US$ 6 billion in debts due to it from developing countries and has contributed its full quota to the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative of the International Monetary Fund. The Kingdom is renewing its appeal to the industrialized developed countries to honour their commitments in regard to direct aid quotas, debt relief in favour of the most needy countries and market access, without unjustifiable restrictions, for the exports of developing countries.
Mr. President,
The urgent issues with which the world is faced, such as climate change, food security and rising prices of basic commodities, necessitate cooperation by all components of the international community in order to devise equitable solutions that take into account the interests of all in conformity with the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities between the developed and the developing countries, as provided for in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It would be unfair to burden some beyond their capacities while showing indulgence to others who have been more instrumental in exacerbating the problem and are more capable of bearing the burdens entailed by solutions thereto.
Shouldering its international responsibilities, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced, during the last OPEC Summit in Riyadh, its donation of an amount of US$ 300 million for the establishment of a special fund for research on energy, the environment and climate change. My country has also contributed US$ 500 million to the World Food Programme to meet the rising costs of food, thereby assisting 62 developing countries in all parts of the world. The Kingdom will also be covering the costs of holding the Food and Agriculture Organization's World Food Summit, which is due to be held on 16 November 2009.
In view of the importance of international cooperation in the energy sector, the Kingdom has diligently sought to build bridges of dialogue between producers and consumers by hosting the secretariat of the International Energy Forum in Riyadh. At the Jeddah Conference of Petroleum Producing and Consuming Countries, held under his patronage, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques launched his initiative known as "Energy for the Poor" for the purpose of helping the developing countries to meet the costs of obtaining energy.
In this context, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia also announced its allocation of US$ 500 million to be made available, in the form of soft loans from the Saudi Fund for Development, for the funding of energy projects in developing countries.
Mr. President,
The far-reaching international changes and the magnitude of the challenges currently facing the international community necessitate a review not only of the working methods of the United Nations but also of the structure and functions of its existing organs, as well as enhancement of its ability to prevent and resolve conflicts and maintain international peace and security. The Kingdom supports the call for reforms to secure broader membership of the Security Council in such a way as to improve geographical representation and promote transparency in its work in a manner consistent with the need to maintain due credibility, avoid double standards and ensure respect for, and compliance with, its resolutions.
The important reforms in this field should include restriction of the use of the right of veto by requiring the Permanent Members to undertake not to avail themselves of this right in order to veto measures designed to ensure the implementation of resolutions previously adopted by the Security Council. There is also a need to achieve an optimal balance between the General Assembly and the Security Council, strengthen the role of the Economic and Social Council, and ensure closer coordination among United Nations funds, programmes and activities. We reaffirm our commitment to the United Nations and the multilateral international order, since our international community direly needs to take a unified and mutually supportive stand in order to devise equitable solutions to worsening global problems through diligent respect for the values, traditions and principles enshrined in the conscience of mankind which are conducive to the promotion of constructive cooperation and the achievement of security, peace and prosperity for all nations.


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I have been watching many videos of concert band performances which has a soloist standing just beside the conductor. Let's now assume that we are talking about a trombone concerto with a solo trombone player, should he/she be looking at the conductor while playing or listening to the music of the band and watching the audience?
The conductor should always follow the soloist, not the other way around. The conductor is there to keep the large ensemble of musicians playing together smoothly. The soloist is there to take liberties and add some personal interpretation to his or her part. If it's a concerto, for instance, the conductor's job is to follow the soloist and wave his arms to keep the ensemble in sync with the soloist. If there's a section where the soloist is not playing, then the conductor is in charge and can add his or her own interpretive touches.
So the conductor and the soloist must be aware of each other at all times, but in certain sections the conductor leads, and in certain sections the conductor simply follows the soloist and uses conducting gestures to communicate what the soloist is doing to the rest of the ensemble -- who may not be able to see or hear the soloist in concert, for that matter.
The soloist should do all of those things. You don't necessarily have to look straight at the conductor though. Peripheral vision can be enough to see the movement of the hands and baton. If you just listen instead of watching too, there's a good chance you'll miss something and not be together with the ensemble.
However, the conductor also needs to watch the soloist for phrasing and tempos. Some soloists are more demanding of this than others, and some conductors are loath to relinquish control to the soloist. There's a famous incident between Leonard Bernstein and Glenn Gould which I'll let you read about here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Philharmonic_concert_of_April_6,_1962
The answer to this question depends on the standard of the accompanying group.
If the soloist is playing with an amateur/community group they will need to watch the conductor because the conductor can't rely on an amateur group always following the beat.
If it is a professional group the conductor will follow the soloist and the soloist does not need to watch the conductor. In a professional group the conductor can rely on the group following the beat.


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6 Music Industry Tricks That Must Die
#3. Multiple Producers on One Album
Worst Offenders:
Velvet Revolver, Every rapper ever
How it Caught On:
Hip hop is rarely a one-man show. Generally, someone makes the beats, and someone else delivers the vocals. In old school hip hop, the bringer of beats was designated as the DJ, such as: DJ Jazzy Jeff, DJ for the Fresh Prince; Terminator X, DJ for Public Enemy; or SW1, DJ for In Living Color. These days, we call this person the Producer, because beat creation is no longer limited to turntables and samplers.
Not all producers are created equal though, and as a result of supply and demand, the best producers come with the highest price tags. Not to mention that Dr. Dre and Timbaland just don't have the time to make beats for every up-and-coming MC. In an attempt to spread the wealth, and launch as many careers as possible, record labels spread the talent around.
Why it Must be Stopped:
Ever bought a CD and wondered why the only good songs are the ones you already hear on the radio all the time? Check the credits. Chances are, the two that you like were produced by the same person, and the 13 you hate were produced by the performer's cousin. You can't help but feel betrayed, wondering if you've been the victim of some sort of prank a la whopperfreakout.com.
Too many fans have been swindled by this bait-and-switch tactic, and we've definitely caught on to the grift. Album sales continue to plummet while digital track sales are climbing. Consumers are sending the message that if you can only crank out one or two good songs, we're only going to buy one or two songs from you. When rappers start looking for someone to blame when they're popping Korbel instead of Cristal, they'll have to look no further than the reflection in the chrome wheels on their Chevy Cavaliers.
#2. Featuring ...
Worst Offenders:
T-Pain, Akon, Li'l Jon
How it Caught On:
So how is a new act supposed to get noticed in a music scene that's more crowded than Tokyo? Why, by piggy-backing on an established artist by being "featured" on one of his tracks.
Or, what if you're stuck being a producer, forever in the shadows? You can get yourself "featured" in a track by popping in with an occasional "uh huh" or "yayuh!" If not for this, the world may never have learned the names of producers like Li'l Jon, Timbaland, or Sean John (we're told that's what we're supposed to call him this week).
Why it Must be Stopped:
It has come to a point where songs feature so many artists that the consumer can't figure out whose album to buy. Faced with a stack of CDs that could possibly contain the song in question, often the consumer will opt instead to just steal the song on the internet. This could result in heavy fines, jail time, and the feds looking through all that embarrassing shit on your hard drive, all thanks to the Recording Industry Association of America. So whether you steal 'em or buy 'em, you end up broke. See? Evil.
Established, respected artists have found that lending their name to someone else's song can indeed damage their reputations. Redman's appearance in Christina Aguilera's "Dirty" stripped him of the credibility that even those deodorant commercials couldn't tarnish.
#1. Farewell Tours
Worst Offenders:
KISS, The Rolling Stones, Cher, The Who
How it Caught On:
These days, concert ticket sales are only slightly less abysmal than album sales. It's hardly surprising when you consider that many artists need computers to sound good, other artists to give them credibility, and a team of producers to write their music. If an act is good enough to garner interest from their fans after all of that, there's still the risk that your tickets will become worthless when the lead singer checks into rehab. What's the point of going through all that hassle when you only know two or three of their songs?
There are still some surviving acts that have a universal appeal, but those artists have reached such a level of success that their concert tickets cost an arm, a leg, and whichever reproductive organs you posses (for nosebleed seats). The only way for an artist to guarantee themselves a packed house this time around is to assure their fans that this will be the last time around.
Why it Must be Stopped:
As soon as a band sees the paycheck from their first farewell tour, they apparently rethink that whole retiring business. The Who did a farewell tour in 1983. KISS did theirs in 2000, and it lasted two years. The Rolling Stones' farewell tour started in 2005, lasted two years, and raked in $437,000,000. All three bands are planning tour dates for 2008, and many fans have already refinanced their homes to pay for the tickets (plus service charges).
Nothing rocks less than a farewell tour. When bands break up for real, it's because their pilot was still drunk from the night before and flew their plane into the side of a mountain. Or maybe the band members hate each other so much that they go their separate ways after an attempted murder/suicide and record unlistenable solo albums. Or how about just a near-fatal drug overdose where a band member finds Jesus and starts an Armageddon cult?
Literally anything rocks more than a farewell tour, where they might as well open things up with a little honesty:
"Are you ready to rock? Actually, we got burnt playing the markets in the last recession, so instead of rocking, why don't you give us all of your money for our 401k plans and kindly go home. And please leave quietly, all your shouting is scaring the bassist."Miles Hlivko attempts to fool you with Auto-Tune in his song "Bedtime Pants (featuring Dick Knuckle)". You can hear it here.
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I'm developing a web application with a strong focus on security. What measures can be taken to prevent those who work on the application (programmers, DBAs, quality assurance staff) from capturing user entered values that should be well-protected, such as passwords, social security numbers, and so forth?
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This is quite simple. Banks do it all the time.
You have three groups of people involved. These are security groups. With distinct authorizations.
Developers cannot assign security authorizations and cannot see production data.
Operators cannot assign security authorizations and cannot create software.
Security folks who set the authorizations and can neither create software nor operate the software.
The developers create software. The operators install it and operate it. The security folks assure that the two groups are kept separated.
The programmers don't have access to the production servers. But someone has to have access. There's no way around it. And there's always a chance that someone may go insane and abuse their access.
Data that is hashed/salted is theoretically secure even from the people who have full access to view it. But most data is not appropriate for hashing.


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so I've been searching google for how to do this, but all anyone seems to care about is collision detection =p, and no results come close to teaching me how to calculate 2d elastic collision between two concave polygons.
I know how to solve elastic collisions between two 2d circles, but I can't find anything more complicated than that.
I'm also a very visual person, so it would be great if someone could show me how to do this or point me to a website! Thanks =)


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Say I wanted to be the first to celebrate the New Year: what place or places are the first to cross the into the New Year and how do I get there? I think I remember this may be some South Pacific island or in Australia but not sure.
You can see this in the Wikipedia list or on any map with the International Date Line. The first place to see a new day is the Line Islands, more precisely the part that belongs to Kiribati (formerly known as the Gilbert Islands). The Line Islands are in the UTC+14 timezone, and the rest of the country is in UTC+13. This has been the case since 1995; before that, the country straddled the date line. The Line Islands saw some first-to-new-millennium tourism in 2000.
Since today, 31 December 2011, there is another territory in the UTC+14 timezone: Tokelau, a dependency of New Zealand. Together with the independent country of Samoa (UTC+13), Tokelau skipped 2011-12-30 to move from the western hemisphere to the eastern hemisphere, in order to match weekdays with the other countries in Oceania.
There is one more country at UTC+13: Tonga. Most other Pacific nations are in UTC+10 to UTC+12.
And if you want to be the last to cross the line, there are formally a few places at UTC-12, but they are uninhabited US Minor Outlying Islands. In UTC-11 are more US Minor Outlying Islands, American Samoa and the New Zealand dependency of Niue (as long as it doesn't follow Tokelau's example).
Of the bigger countries, New Zealand is the first to celebrate New Year. But there are a few island territories that are one hour ahead, namely Samoa and Tokelau
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I spent friday to monday up in Pittsburg, NH (The Great North Woods) camping and kayaking.
I took 5 panos while there, enjoy
I spent friday to monday up in Pittsburg, NH (The Great North Woods) camping and kayaking.
I took 5 panos while there, enjoy
nice panos. But I must say the sharpness (full screen, 1068x1050 LCD) is not best of what I have seen on the net. In the "First Connecticut Lake" pano, I see the close objects are very sharp while the distant ones are not. what camera and lens are you using? Maybe the focus distance is not optimized.
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I'm using a Canon 40D with a Sigma 8mm fisheye (f3.5) set at infinity
I think it's my settings in Pano2VR, I've had a hard time getting the right balance between quality and speed (if I push everything up on high, it's looks great but is very slow to load and rotate)
any suggestions for those settings?
I save my panos out of PT Gui or AutoPano Pro at 6000x3000 pixel jpg's, then drop into Pano2VR and output to flash.
Hey spyboy,
first: I can't view the pano's at Safari (macbook intel+ 10.5)
Firefox can.
second: set at infinity is not the right setting.
Mostly a setting at 1m will do for best output.
I have the same lens and focussing the Sig 8mm/3.5 (and others) are discussed a lot at panoguide.com
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I'm not sure why Safari has trouble, I think it might be the javascript that an older version of Pano2VR created.
usually I save as flash 8 files, so more people can view.


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Over a period of many years, I have developed a highly detailed system built on top of 2nd edition rules. Among my friends, we simply refer to this as "The System," and it establishes rules for dealing with every aspect of life for PC's.
An advantage of this system is that it eliminates the chronic problem of "player impatience," whereby players want to fast-forward through the "boring" parts of an adventure, as if they are watching a testosterone-laden action film. This increases the satisfaction of completing an adventure, as the inclusion of the mundane allows the entire experience to be internalized as if it had happened "for real."
Due to the scope of my system, I have been reluctant to try to adapt it to be compatible with later editions, but I feel that it may finally be time for me to take the plunge. Because of the sheer number of changes up to and including D&D Next, I'm thinking that I should probably just re-implement The System rather than try to convert everything.
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When working on a product that needs to be done soon and work well, when is it OK to sacrifice maintainability and "neatness" of design in order to get the thing done and out the door quickly? And to what degree is it OK, especially when the techniques used to make it "neat" are new to me?
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Remember that you are employed in order to support a business. In some way, your software is affecting the bottom line of the business. You need to strike a balance between a technically perfect solution, and the time to market of your product and how much benefit the business will derive from it.
In my experience developers often get hung up on worrying about technical perfection. But there are very valid reasons to sacrifice quality attributes such as maintainability or performance in order to get a product out the door quicker. It depends on the business and the product. But "always strive for a perfect design" is too simplistic an approach.
At the end of the day, the only thing that matters is value to the business. Figure out how to maximize it in the short and long term and aim for that target.
The term "technical debt" is very handy to help inform business decisions like this. Any work you don't do now will cause some amount of work later. Just like with finances, taking on debt is risky but may be worth leveraging if you are going to be able to pay the debt back later.
Having said that, technical debt isn't a 1:1 ratio at payback time. Bugs are more expensive to fix after release, and the impact on future productivity when developing from a messy legacy system can be outrageous. You could be looking at spending double the time fixing your errors, or maybe 1,000 times as many man-hours and resources.
Your job in this decision is to understand the ramifications of the particular pieces of corner-cutting you are considering, and then communicate those ramifications to the people making the business decision. This particular estimation skill might take a lot of research and work on your part to develop well right now, but it will be invaluable during your career.
When it is accepted and the consequences are understood by the owner/client/user.
A plumber has to take out a garbage disposal for repair. I want to use the sink in the mean time, but he would have to bill me for the time and materials to put in temporary pipes using tape that could break. This is also going to delay taking the disposal back to the repair shop. If I accept the additional billing with the understanding that I risk a clog. It will take a day longer to get the disposal repaired and an even longer delay before he can put it back, that's acceptable.
You can be on time and budget now, but sacrifice/risk an even higher charge in the long-run. This can be difficult to get non-technical people to understand, but that's what sales staff are for.
A lot of people give up way to quickly when learning something new and just do it the way they always have done it. If this is a pattern not only will your code suffer but your own skills as a programmer will remain limited.
Still, at the end of the day the only successful software is the one that ships.
After the soft deadline passes. And even then it is a very low degree of "OK". After the hard deadline passes it is, of course, moot. Because that is the nature of hard deadlines.
Furthermore, this incurs technical debt. For every hour/day you spend cutting corners in the git-er-done mentality, it will cost you roughly twice as much time when next you have to touch this project. If you must then it's best to rush, ship, and then immediately start fixing all your duck tape. Coming back to a hack-eyed project years later is a nightmare. If you will never touch it ever again, so be it, no one will care. But the only time I've left a project lie forever is when I switched jobs.
Remember though, timing these things is the job of the project manager. If you are rushed to meet a deadline, it is the fault of the PM. Do it right, do it once, and do it calmly and correctly. Life is too short for anything else.
All the other answers posted here are good. I would like to add though that as a developer on the project, you are the steward (protector) of the design.
If you don't stand up for the proper technical solution then nobody else will I promise you. You should always argue for doing things the right way to your boss and the PM should always argue in favor of the deadline.
Hopefully if you are in a reasonable organization a compromise will be reached that helps meet deadlines and also not stray too far from the design at the same time.
With that being said, don't assume that if the PM's deadline isn't reached that the world will end and the project will fail. It is usually not that black and white and most of the time the PM's deadline is soft and has room for adjustment.
Almost every deadline I was ever under on a PM schedule was mostly artificial. They will defend it tooth and nail and pretend otherwise however because if the PM pushes the deadline then the PM LOOKS BAD!
Just because the PM looks bad doesn't mean the project has failed. If you understand this you will be surprised how much you can get a PM to bend.
Quote the client for the neat design. If that quote is unnacceptable to them, then go into the breakdown of what each component will cost (usually cost==development time). Let them take items off "a la carte" if they choose. Many will jump at shaving off time for "useless" things like testing and design. Explain the risks of this approach, but if they accept the risk, then proceed as directed. If I only have enough money for a clunker car, then I am going to buy a clunker car, even if I know it will probably break down in 8 months. Your client has the responsibility to weigh these risks out and accept the consequences.
The one thing that you do not want to do is tell let the client think they have a beautifully designed piece of software, when they only paid for (and received) an untested piece of junk. If something goes wrong (which it likely will), in the first scenario they will look bad, but in the second scenario you will look bad.
It's never okay, but sometimes you have to compromise for the sake of finishing a project. The sad reality is that most businesspeople are completely ignorant and are more than willing to sacrifice maintainability later for something right now. The trick is knowing how to strike a balance; maybe the project won't be as neat as it could be, but as long as it's not a pigpen it's a worthy compromise.
That entirely depends on the question "Will you or anyone else conceivably want to modify it later?" If yes, you should try to have a "neat" design, otherwise you risk having to throw everything out and start again 6 months later.
Of course, you can take neatness too far, but generally a bit of neatness will save you work later.


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GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — Biologists in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park have confirmed that two bats found in a park cave have white-nose syndrome.
The malady has caused a massive die-off of bats in Eastern states and the fungus that causes it had been found earlier in the Smokies.
Park spokesman Bob Miller on Tuesday issued a statement in which officials said a tricolored bat and a little brown bat had been found to have the disease.
It is called white-nose because of a white fungus that forms on the faces of many infected bats. The actual cause of death from the syndrome isn't known and there is no known cure.
"While the confirmation of WNS in the park is not a surprise, it is still a sad day for the resource," said Dale Ditmanson, park superintendent. "By continuing to .monitor bat populations in our caves and forests we hope to minimize WNS affecting other bat habitats outside of our boundaries."
Entrances to 16 known caves and two mines in the park were barred in 2009 to keep people from going into them and, perhaps, contaminating bat populations with the fungus.
Eleven species of bats are known to live in the 500,000-acre park on the Tennessee-North Carolina line, including the largest hibernating population of the endangered Indiana bat in Tennessee.
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Cannot access support.sencha.com
Having bought the Sencha Complete, I am told in a email to activate it on support.sencha.com , but I cannot even access the site.
ping support.sencha.com, gives no answer. I can add the IP adress it resolves too, on request.
I already sent a email as suggested in the FAQ, but I am getting impatient. As I cannot find anyone else having same problem. Except a premium topic https://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?t=245914 :Support Site is down Ext: Feature Requests
I have been unable to connect to support.sencha.com for the past few days, is there another way for us to access the subscriber only downloads?
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I still cannot access it, from multiple devices, but I tried from my mobile phone which is in a complete different network, and it worked. This is very annoying, as it seems right now, I can only use support.sencha.com from my mobile phone network - sure I can connect that to my pc, but its very slow.
Could it be that my IP is banned by sencha??
Edit: it is solved, Apparently my Cablecom modem has a firewall which blocked the support site. Awkward cause it is the first time I have any problem with the firewall. Now having it changed to off from the setting 'low' , I can access support.sencha.com from my network.
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June 1, 2012 Doug Duncan
A very unique and rare astronomical event is going to take place June 5. It's called the Transit of Venus. On that day Venus passes between the Sun and Earth giving people a chance to see the planet against the backdrop of the solar disc, something that won't happen again for 121 years.
The history behind a rare astronomical event: The transit of Venus
A very unique and rare astronomical event is going to take place June 5. It's called the Transit of Venus. On that day Venus passes between the Sun and Earth giving people a chance to see the planet against the backdrop of the solar disc, something that won't happen again for 121 years.
CUT 1 "It's incredibly rare and it's incredibly fun. You're seeing something that very few people will ever get to see. Kind of like when I saw Halley's comet. Halley's comet is not the brightest comet that there is but it's really cool because you can only see it once in a lifetime." (:17)
That is Doug Duncan, director of CU's Fiske Planetarium and a senior instructor of astrophysics and planetary sciences at CU-Boulder. He says the event is not only rare but it has a very important historical significance as well.
CUT 2 "The reason the transit was important in the past is that if you look at Venus going in front of the sun from two different places on the Earth, you can use geometry and you can figure out how far away Venus is and that was the first time we knew the size of the solar system. (:19)
Duncan says it was Edmund Halley, of Halley's comet fame, that figured this out in the in the late1600s. But it took until the transit in 1761 for astronomers to prove his theory was right.
CUT 3 "Edmund Halley figured out that if you could look at Venus moving in front of the sun it would look different from two different vantage points. (:07) It's like when you are driving on any highway the trees and fences that are close to you seem to move fast and the mountains that are further away seem to move slower. (:16) So if you measure how fast something shifts, or how much it shifts from two different places on the Earth, you can, if you're clever with geometry, figure out how far away they are. The first time we knew the size of our solar system was 1761 and 1769." (:32)
To observe the transit, Duncan says you need to get special dark, sun watching glasses. He says do not under any circumstances look at the sun directly unless you have these glasses.
CUT 4 "You have to be very careful if you look at the sun. The sun is so bright that you can't look at it without protecting your eyes with very, very dark glasses. Not sun glasses but dark glasses. (:11) Sun watching glasses are a thousand times darker than ordinary sunglasses. The company that makes them calls them the Eclipse Shades. We call them eclipse-watching glasses." (:26)
If you can't get the dark glasses Duncan says you can still watch the transit by going to the Fiske Planetarium web site at http://fiske.colorado.edu. He says they will post a live image of the transit using a solar telescope at CU's Bausch-Somers Observatory. For most people in North America the transit will begin late afternoon.
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GUNTOWN, Mississippi (CNN) -- Federal authorities added the suspect in the kidnapping of four members of a Tennessee family to the FBI's 10 most wanted list Wednesday and added $100,000 to the rewards offered for a break in the case.
Adam Mayes is accused of killing two of the victims, but investigators hope to find the remaining two -- both young girls -- alive, said Aaron Ford, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Memphis office. Ford spoke made the announcement in Guntown, Mississippi, where authorities were searching for Mayes.
"We are moving forward with our investigation to hunt down Adam Mayes and rescue those two little girls," he said. He urged Mayes to leave the girls in a "safe location," such as a police station, church or hospital, "and then peacefully and safely turn yourself in."
The two young sisters, 12-year-old Alexandria and 8-year-old Kyliyah Bain, were the targets of a kidnapping plot that involved the killing of their mother and older sister, a Tennessee court document states. The bodies of the girls' mother, Jo Ann Bain, and elder sister Adrienne were found over the weekend.
The federal reward brings the total amount of money offered for information leading to Mayes' arrest to $175,000, Ford said. Mayes' wife, Teresa Mayes, and his mother, Mary Frances Mayes, are in custody, but Mayes himself continues to evade a small army of 17 law enforcement agencies and hundreds of searchers.
Adam and Teresa Mayes each have been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of especially aggravated kidnapping. Adam Mayes faces an additional count of making a false report, according to arrest affidavits filed in Tennessee. In an interview with police, Teresa Mayes said her husband intended to take Alexandria and Kyliyah from their home in Hardeman County, near Memphis.
Police said she told them she was in the Bains' garage where Adam Mayes killed Jo Ann and Adrienne Bain.
"Both murders were directly a part of the kidnapping" of the two younger girls, the document alleges. Details about time or cause of death haven't been released.
Adam and Teresa Mayes then transported the bodies to Union County in northern Mississippi, where they were discovered Saturday in a shallow grave behind Adam Mayes' mother's house in Guntown.
Teresa Mayes and Adam Mayes' mother, Mary Frances Mayes, were arrested Tuesday in connection with the kidnappings. The mother has been charged with four counts of conspiracy to commit especially aggravated kidnapping.
Teresa Mayes' lawyer, Shana Johnson, said her client is cooperating with police but would not say whether she knows the whereabouts of Adam Mayes or the girls. The Mayes family and the Bain family are connected through Adam Mayes' sister Pamela, who used to be married to Jo Ann's husband, Gary Bain, the lawyer said.
Adam and Teresa Mayes have been married for 11 years and lived in Guntown, she said. Johnson said she has asked for a mental health evaluation of her client.
Bobbi Booth, Teresa Mayes' sister, spoke to CNN's Anderson Cooper on Tuesday about Adam Mayes and his relationship with her sister, who she said has mental health problems.
"I've known Adam for at least 25 years, and he's always been weird and unusual ... but I never dreamed he would do something like this," she said.
She described him as aggressive and not trustworthy. He beat and threatened to kill her sister, said Booth, who pleaded with him to "do the right thing."
"Just let the children go. This has gone on way too far, and we need to figure out what's going on, and it's not fair to the children," she said.
Authorities tried to interview Mayes soon after Gary Bain reported his wife and the girls missing April 27 in Whiteville, a western Tennessee town of 4,600 people. However, Mayes fled, officials said.
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Does anyone know of any distortion pedals that have tone similar to the Boss DS-1? I love the smoothness, boost, and grind that this pedal offers, but I'm curious if there's a similar pedal that might give me a little more control than "tone" and gain. I know that Boss has a few other distortion pedals, but I haven't messed with them enough to compare. Does anyone own a DS-2 or something similar that might be able to give me a recommendation?
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Picking a distortion is much like picking a girlfriend. There are so many factors that can influence what you want or don't want that it becomes nearly impossible to give anyone a decent recommendation as a one liner. So, I'm going to try and enumerate some general attributes of distortions as I know them. Note that people have spent years experimenting with overdrives (points finger at self), and a new one comes out every year. I've yet to find an overdrive that's "perfect" by my standards, but I have a couple that come pretty darn close. To decrease the complexity of the issue I won't include boosts in my recommendation--those an entirely different animal.
High Gain
Zendrive 2: A tube bassed high gain version of the zendrive. I liked it, but ended up selling it. It didn't play nice with my amplifier.
Jetter Stage Gold: A great overdrive with some sick vintage high gain tones. Simple, and reviewed on PGS.
Lovepedal provalve: Two gains in one, reviewed on PGS. This would be my favorite high gain distortion.
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Zendrive: A very nice, tweakable and infamous overdrive. It's decently transparent and will give you a nice versatile set of tones. Sounds very much like a tubescreamer.
Jetter Stage Purple: A nice plexi emulator for blackfaces. Easy to use.
Lovepedal Kanji: Sean has some good stuff, and the Kanji is a more tweakable version of the Eternity overdrive. Reviewed at PGS.
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Tim/Timmy: You will be hard pressed to find a better overdrive than the Tim/Timmy by Paul Chochrane. It's the most transparent overdrive on the market, and the controls are very intuitive. Note that the breed of "transparent" overdrives are designed to accent a tube amplifier's dirt, so they may not work well with solid state rigs.
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Rock Box Boiling Point: Will do anything from a plexi to functioning as a transparent boost. This guy is a monster, but it'll cost you. Reviewed at PGS. Hands down the most versitile overdrive I own.
I would say the Digitech - Hot Head, it is a replica of DS1 with extra "low" knob.
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Salon's Alex Pareene doesn't know me, but for the second year running he has given me a terrific Christmas present: the Hack List, his roundup of the worst political analysts and commentators in the business. Last year it was called the Hack Thirty, and I posted about it here. This year there are just twenty hacks named, with a focus on their doings in 2011. Some names (like David Brooks) appear again; others from last year who didn't make the cut are included in an appendix: "Hack List Alums: Where Are They Now?" Pareene builds a strong case against each honoree. He's merciless, and hilarious. My favorite of this year's takedowns was number 5, Katie Roiphe, who, he noted, has gained attention once again "for being a reliable source of controversial-sounding contrarian anti-feminist bullshit" who "also writes very badly about the Internet and people on the Internet who are mean to Katie Roiphe." Also very deserving is number 3, who inspires this cheering observation: "One upside to Americas frothing populist hatred of intellectuals is that we dont produce many Bernard-Henri Levys."
(I love the present, but not the wrapping - Salon always manages to make it difficult for me to find the things I want to read, and impossible to find them again. Right now I can't find an easy way to link to more than the first five "hacks." I imagine they'll fix that eventually, but for now I recommend going to the list of Pareene's posts, finding the "earlier articles" link at the bottom, and moving backward that way.)
As a bonus, Pareene offers a reminder that the late Christopher Hitchens "was disastrously wrong" about the Iraq War, and his death shouldn't prevent us from acknowledging that. His take on Hitchens is not a eulogy, but seems entirely on-target to me.
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I'm all for making fun of as many people as much as possible, but some of the writers on this list seem more like "has beens" than "hacks"--e.g., Cohen, Broder, (who, to be fair, was only a hack through March, when he died), and Will. To qualify as a hack, I think you should have to show a lifelong inability to write anything imaginative or fresh. Isn't it kind of early to call Tucker Carlson a hack? He's only just getting over being William F. Buckley's toy poodle.Plus, a has-been might have been good once, but has simply fallen into hackdom because, like somebody's grampa, likes retelling his favorite stories and opinions. As someone pushing 60, I understand this urge better than I wish I did.And, let's not underestimate the value of a "good hack writer," as a co-worker used to call the editor of our paper, sotto voce. He wasn't imaginative, but he could fill an op-ed page on deadline, and he always got the facts straight and could marshall a logical argument.
Pareene illustrates hacky writing: ". . . hosting salons and drunken parties at his Washington, D.C., apartment that some of the most powerful and prominent people in the world of politics and media attended. But his most monumental public crusade had devastating consequences that he never fully grappled with."---------1) How does Pareene know who went to Hitchens' "salons and drunken parties"? Is he among or envious of "the most powerful and prominent people in the world of . . . media"?2) What "devastating consequences" did Hitchens' "monumental public crusade" have? Did anyone become an atheist or a Christian because of Hitchens?3) Why is Hitchens' death causing such an eruption of spite (and adjectives)? Does it demonstrate Hitchens' point about Christians?
2) What devastating consequences did Hitchens monumental public crusade have? Did anyone become an atheist or a Christian because of Hitchens?He's talking about Hitchens's support for the Iraq War ...
Thanks, John. If only Christopher Hitchens had opposed the Iraq war, things would have been different.
The Bernard-Henri Levy and Katie Katie Roiphe bits are spot on.
Imho, some of those people are easy targets. Roiphe, for one, and Jonah Goldberg, for another. Does mocking fish in a barrel inoculate the mocker from him/herself being called a hack? Hitchens' death should not "prevent us from acknowledging" that he was wrong about some things/people and right about some things/people. I think some Catholics (like Bill Donohue) dislike him for writing about Mother Teresa.Wiki article about his book on Mother Teresa:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Missionary_Position_(book)The Amazon page for the book and the interesting customer reviews of it:http://www.amazon.com/Missionary-Position-Mother-Teresa-Practice/dp/1859...
Y'all taking this seriously.
Abe: Aren't they though? I forgot to also call attention to number 11, Bill Keller. The line about "obtuse old man yells at cloud computing" left me marveling.
That link isn't working for me, for some reason, but that's what I was marveling at -- to sum up Keller's out-of-touch commentary on the Web with a Simpsons-reference-turned-Internet-meme that Keller almost certainly wouldn't get is just beautiful.


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I have some text that I've taken in from a pdf that isn't exactly synced up with the right lines as much as I'd like:
I want to duplicate the column A and D values down into any empty spaces/rows.
So in the end, all the spaces in those columns would become like this:
Is there any way to automatically do that to those columns in general?
(An automatic way to delete the rows with blanks at the end would be really useful as well)


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I have a computer system that is producing rounding errors if it rounds by only 2 decimal places. However, if i choose to round by 3 then the result is accurate.
I cannot however figure out why i need to do this.


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