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Venture into dynamic Vietnam on a customized guided tour. In Hanoi, the 'Paris of the Orient,' set out with your private guide to explore the maze of markets, restaurants and cafés in the narrow alleyways of the Old Quarter. From beautiful Hoi An, try fishing with a traditional net and have your catch turned into a succulent dinner by a local chef. ...Sail out onto the picturesque Perfume River as age-old landscapes unfold before you—women wearing traditional conical hats and children running along the banks. As for kids, our award-winning 'Kidtastic' tours are perfect for families of all ages. Led by expert guides, your tailor-made adventures could include a fabulous water puppet show, overnight train journey to Sapa to trek the lush forests of Hoang Lien National Park, a cruise past the hauntingly beautiful limestone peaks of Halong Bay or dinner with the descendants of Vietnam's royal family. Whatever you desire! From Hanoi to Ho Chi Mihn, let our experts create your guided Vietnam tour, rich with unforgettable moments of culture, cuisine and bountiful natural beauty.Show More
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Because of its geography, the climate in Vietnam varies greatly from north to south with three distinct climatic zones. Tropical monsoons occur from October to April in the central regions and from May to September in the north and south. It is almost totally dry throughout the rest of the year. The weather can be extremely hot all year round, but the north has a cooler time between October and April. Temperatures around the country can reach up to 40C in the height of the hot and rainy season (May to September), but the northern highlands and Hanoi can often seem chilly and damp in the winter.
For up-to-date forecasts, check www.weather.com.
Loose, natural fabrics all year are recommended, but warmer clothing is required in the highlands and in the winter in North Vietnam. Rainwear is essential during the wet season. As a rule shoulders and knees should be covered when entering religious sites.
Electricity: In Northern Vietnam the European two round plug sockets are used, but in the south they tend to be the flat two pronged variety. Most hotels can supply adapters for this.
Most laptops and cell phones work on 110V and 220V, so no converter will be needed. Be sure to double check this however before departure.
Do not use 110V outlets marked 'FOR SHAVERS ONLY' for anything else as they will not work and may even get damaged.
Phone: Roaming charges vary between carriers, but tend to be quite costly. Consult your phone provider prior to departure to discuss overseas rates and international package options.
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The national currency is the dong (VND), which is difficult to find or exchange outside Vietnam; change money on arrival and try to get rid of any leftovers before leaving the country. For current exchange rates please visit www.xe.com
Capital: Hanoi
Language: Vietnamese
Currency: Dong (VND)
Religion: Buddhism
Time Zone: GMT/UTC +7
Electricity: 220V AC
Telephone: Country code for calling is 84
Calling North America: Dial 001 plus area code and your 7-digit number
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Cavaliers: Jaspar Tansy Libby Mindy Connie
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I installed Ubuntu server 10.04 LTS. It worked great for many months, until today I decided to run
fsck on the system partition and although it warned me, I kept pressing yes and now it will only boot into grub prompt.
I read some article that recommended trying grub reinstall. But before performing grub reinstall, i decided to run
fsck again from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS for desktop live CD. The
fsck painfully passes, now my drive is recognized as ext4 system and I am able to mount it again. However, all i can see is just boot directory and lost&found. I tried to perform grub reinstalling by doing
grub-install stuff, now my grub is still not loading right, my files are missing, and the weird thing is that the amount I found used by boot and lost n found is only 5gb and the amount used in he hdd is 8 gb.
So my files must be somewhere in the hdd.
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BONHAM — A spitfire on four wheels. That's the ideal way to describe Ruth Moore Waterman. At 107, Waterman, affectionately called "Granny," has definitely earned the right to be a little "fiesty" as several of those most familiar with her cited.
Dressed on a flower-print dress with a matching green flower in her hair, Waterman was the center of attention at her birthday party Thursday at the Clyde W. Cosper Texas State Veterans Home in Bonham. Devoted staff members took turns hugging the birthday girl and telling her how pretty she was on her special day.
"I look pretty every day," Waterman decidedly commented, adding a sassy, little flip of her head.
Waterman was born in Minco, Indian Territory (Oklahoma) on June 16, 1904. She is one of the nation's estimated 70,490 centenarians — persons who have reached age 100 and older. Statistics from 2010 show that one in 4,400 people in the United States reach the triple digit mark. Unlike many people, Waterman isn't dependent on a barrage of prescription pills and is in relatively good health. She is wheelchair bound, but uses her feet, legs and arms to maneuver wherever she chooses to go.
"Granny takes very few medicines," says Julie Kinard, one of Waterman's nurses. "Up until several years ago, she only took vitamins and Tylenol."
Waterman resided alone in her own home in Bonham until 2006 when she checked herself in to the Clyde Cosper home. Her late husband, Frank C. Waterman of Durant, Okla., had served in the Signals Operation Battalion in the U.S. Army during World War II. He died in the late 1970s and Ruth Waterman cared for her mother, Sallie Moore, in her Bonham home until her death at 105. The Watermans never had children.
Many of Waterman's memories are now blurred and her thought processes are fragmented at times. However, she keeps staff and visitors in stitches with her frequent comments, some straight to the point and others filled with humor.
"Granny can say anything she wants to say," said one grinning staffer after one of Waterman's comments. "At 107, I think you should be able to say or do whatever you want to!"
Waterman listened only a few short moments to the local bluegrass gospel group, Grandpa's Neighbors, before making an about face in her wheelchair and leaving the room.
"I need a little calm in here," the determined lady announced to no one in particular."
She later greeted guests who came to wish her well. By her side was her younger brother, George Moore, who is in his mid 90s.
"You look older than you did the last time you were here," she stated matter-of-factly to a family member who bent to speak to her.
When asked what 107 years was like, Waterman was quick to answer, "It's too many years."
In between visiting with well-wishers and viewing birthday gifts of a quilt, shawl and other items, Waterman spoke quietly to her brother. She watched with interest as a huge birthday cake was brought in, and preparations were made for a hamburger cookout in her honor. She calmly handled interviews with reporters and the flashes of a dozen cameras pointed in her direction.
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A bridge is 50m long, has a mass of 20,000kg, and rests on two pivots, A and B. The distance between A and the left side of the bridge is 10m. The distance between B and the right side of the bridge is 10m.
A lorry drives across the bridge.
i) What is the maximum possible mass of the lorry?
I worked this answer out to be 30,000kg. (10 × M = 20,000 × 15)
But I'm struggling with the second part of the question:
ii) Derive an expression for the force acting upon A and the force acting upon B as a function of x (x = the distance of the lorry from one side of the bridge).
An explanation of how you reached the answer, or some big (:P) hints on how to reach it would be much appreciated.


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CAMERON (February 18, 2013)--A single-story wood-frame house in the 1000 block of CR 139 couldn't be saved Sunday as flames raced through the rooms.
Cameron Volunteer Fire Department received the call just after 1 p.m. that there was a fire in one of the rooms of the house.
When firefighters arrived, the house was engulfed in flames.
A woman and her daughter were home at the time of the fire but were able to get out safely.
A father and son were not home.
Buckholts, Burlington and Rosebud volunteer fire departments were sent to the scene shortly after Cameron firefighters arrived.
Strong winds made fighting the fire difficult, Cameron Volunteer Fire Department Fire Chief Henry Horelica said Monday.
The fire took about two hours to put out and is still under investigation.
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In the recent Christopher Nolan's related DC Films the lesser know title is selected as movie name. Such as Dark Knight to Batman and Man of Steel to Superman.
Is there any specific reason for it or its just to keep it separate from the previous films of Superman and Batman?


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Dia Center for the Arts presents tropos, a new installation by artist Ann Hamilton, opening to the public on October 7, 1993 at 548 West 22nd Street. The project will continue to be on view through June 19, 1994. Hours are Thursday
through Sunday, l2 noon to 6 pm.
Like Hamilton's other major works from the past eight years, tropos is site-related, temporary and, in part, constituted from organic materials. By subtly altering the windows in this formerly industrial building, Hamilton transforms the space into a self-contained arena, one in which relationships between the interior and exterior are low established aurally instead of visually. In like manner she has also altered the floor so that the irregularities of its surface reveal themselves to the touch - by walking over it - rather than to sight. Two further elements have been incorporated into this carefully nuanced but otherwise deceptively spare site: a human agent and a "field" of horsehair. They extend and expand on her abiding preoccupation with the ways in which we apprehend the world not only (and not necessarily primarily) through language but through the body - that is, via the senses and, metaphorically, via our connectedness to other forms of organic being.
Hamilton has participated in many recent international exhibitions, including the Spoleto Festival, Charleston (1991); the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (1991); Doubletalce, London and Vierura (1992/3); Sonsbeek 93, Amhem (1993). She has also had numerous one person exhibitions: at Capp Street Project, San Francisco (1989); the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla (1990); the Hirshhorn Museurn, Washington D.C. (1991); MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge (1992); and the Power Plant, Toronto (1993). In 1991 she represenred the United States at the 21st International Saõ Paolõ Bienal in Brazil, and in 1993 was the recipient of a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship.
tropos was realized with assistance from the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. Funding for this project has been provided by the Dia Art Council, the major annual support group of Dia Center for the Arts, and the Dia Art Circle. Support for the 1993-94 exhibitions program has also been provided through a generous grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, lnc.
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Sports Events
Birmingham plays host to a number of world class sporting and cultural events throughout the year, including the UEC BMX European League, the British Athletics Championships and the Great Birmingham Run.
Kick Start Spring, 1st – 30th April
Birmingham City Council managed leisure centres
This April we are giving you the opportunity to try our classes for free! Our leisure centres will be hosting taster class events, why not come along and try something different. With over 500 classes a week, there is always something new to try. Why not get your heart rate going in Body Combat or slow it down with some Pilates. From high intensity to a more relaxed class, we have a great choice on offer. It doesn't stop there, join in April and get a free month!
To find a taster event near you, visit www.birmingham.gov.uk/leisurecentres
Aegon Classic Tennis, 9-15 June 2014
Edgbaston Priory Club
The Aegon Classic is back in Birmingham, bigger and better than ever. Now a WTA Premier level tournament, the Aegon Classic is one of the top 21 WTA events worldwide attracting many of the world's top female tennis players. With past champions such as Billie Jean King and Maria Sharapova, the event will see some of the world's best grace the superb grass courts in the intimate setting of the Edgbaston Priory Club.
Tickets go on sale on Monday 24th March with a special early booking discount. To join the action and find out more please visit: www.AegonClassic.co.uk
UEC BMX European League, 21st & 22nd June 2014
Birmingham BMX Track, Perry Park
Birmingham BMX track is hosting the exciting UEC BMX European League for the second time at the world class track on the 21st and 22nd June 2014. Tickets start from only £4, to buy tickets visit www.europeanbmx.co.uk
British Athletics Championships, 27th – 29th June 2014 / Birmingham Grand Prix & IPC Grand Prix Final, 24th & 25th August 2014
Birmingham Alexander Stadium
The world's best athletes will return to the West Midlands as Birmingham's Alexander Stadium prepares to stage a series of athletics events throughout the summer.
Kicking off on 27-29 June, the Sainsbury's British Championships will see the best in the country go head-to-head in a bid to be crowned British Champion and cement their places on the GB & NI team for the European Championships in Zurich.
Closing the outdoor season in style will see the prestigious IAAF Diamond League return to Birmingham for the Sainsbury's Birmingham Grand Prix on Sunday 24 August. Double Olympic and world champion Mo Farah and world champion Christine Ohuruogu were just two of the highlights from last year and the box office attractions look set to return once again this summer.
A day later will see the world's best Paralympic athletes return for the Sainsbury's IPC Grand Prix Final. After its successful initiation last year, some of the stars that lit up the London 2012 Paralympic Games will return to the create more memories in an action packed Bank Holiday weekend of world-class athletics.
For further information visit www.britishathletics.org.uk.
The City of Birmingham Triathlon, 20th July 2014
Sutton Park
Need a new challenge? Want to try something different? Can you swim, bike and run?
• Distances for all abilities
• Individual or relay team entries
• Spectator friendly course
• 2014 finishers medal
Or alternatively why not give the 10k and 5k run a go?
The City of Birmingham 10k and 5k Fun Run, 7 September 2014
Sutton Park
A new event aimed to satisfy every need, from family fun and fundraising through to physical challenge and personal best.
• Closed to traffic run course
• On-site parking
• Spectator friendly course
• 2014 finishers medal
Info and entries for both events at www.UKTriathlon.co.uk
Great Birmingham Run, 19th October 2014
The Bupa Great Birmingham Run is the biggest half marathon in the Midlands, and the second biggest half marathon in the UK.
The 2014 event is expected to expect to attract 20,000 competitors from across the UK and around the world. The course takes in some of the city's most iconic sights and thousands of supporters turn out to cheer finishers across the line on Broad Street in the city centre.
Whether you choose to run to raise money, complete a personal challenge or as part of the journey towards a healthier lifestyle, succeed with the Bupa Great Birmingham Run! Enter today www.greatrun.org/Birmingham


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July 03, 2014
After committing to Clemson in May, TE Garrett Williams of Orlando confirmed that he has shut down his recruitment and in 100 percent committed to the Tigers. Though he continues to hear from several schools, Williams said that he will not take any other visits.
"Most of the coaches that contact me are respecting my commitment to Clemson," Williams said. "I still hear from Stanford and Florida State-and the other schools that were in my top four-but they know I'm solid in my decision."
Williams visited Clemson earlier this summer with his little brother, who attended a youth camp in the Upstate. He plans to return for the All-In Cookout next week.
"I still talk to the coaches a lot and they're really excited that I'm coming there," he said.
Williams has spent the summer rehabbing an ankle injury that prevented him from attending a Rivals Five-Star camp. He has no intentions of taking any other visits.
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text: Dr. Elizabeth Schmidt was a co-winner of Loyola's inaugural "Faculty Award for Excellence in Service Learning and Engaged Scholarship." The award was announced at the annual Dean's Symposium on March 19. In presenting Dr. Schmidt's award, Dr. Robin Crews noted: "Betsy initiated and developed her own service-learning partnership with Baltimore organizations that serve African refugees. Over time, her relationship with Baltimore City Community College's Refugee Youth Project (RYP) has deepened and expanded to also benefit other faculty members and their service-learning courses as well. Through RYP's programs, 145 of Betsy's students have served refugee youth and adults. Her students write weekly reflections throughout their semester connecting their experiences to the course's academic content. They make formal presentations to their peers at the end of each semester, sharing their discovered knowledge with one another. Betsy's work with her community partner, BCCC's Refugee Youth Project, has been exemplary and she has been honored with awards from the International Refugee Committee and BCCC's refugee programs."


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This is a follow-up question to a previous thread I had posted. We're in the process of migrating to a new character set. Now, I am a programmer and we have DBA's who will be performing the work but I'd like to get a little bit more information about the process. Our current character set is WE8ISO8859P1 and uses BYTE character semantics. However, we are migrating to AL32UTF8. A new database was created containing the AL32UTF8 character set using BYTE semantics. The DBA ran a script on some tables that checked to see if there would be any issues (I believe it was CSALTER). After running the script, it said that some of the rows in our table would be truncated. That table contains a VARCHAR2(BYTE) column that's set to 4000 BYTES. The rows that resulted with potential issues all contain special characters. My question is, how can we export/import the tables in our database without having information truncated? Why is it saying that it would be truncated? My first thought was that since we changed the character set, it may be storing some of the characters from the old database table different than when it's stored into the new database with the character set using up more storage.
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The reason for the truncation is quite simple. Some characters (accented ones, for example) in the WE8ISO8859P1 character set are stored as a single byte, but in AL32UTF8 they end up being stored as multiple bytes. As a result of conversion, a 4000 character string may end up actually requiring more than 4000 bytes.
By way of example, this query shows you that the Euro symbol (0x80 in WE8ISO8859P1) becomes 2 bytes in AL32UTF8:
To list all characters that will be affected by the change, you can use the following query:
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You could first create empty tables by importing only metadata (data pump can do that). Then you can run a script than changes BYTE columns to CHAR before importing data. This way data will not be truncated since effective maximum length will be the same as in old database.


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UI Tech Entrepreneurs Part of Startup Fair in DSM
A first-time fair in Des Moines on Wednesday highlighted a half-dozen businesses, many technology-based, run by current or former University of Iowa students.
The University of Iowa Student Startup Fair, which brought about a dozen student entrepreneurs, included companies that offer an online tutor marketplace, an online place for student feedback, and a cloud-based document storage community aimed at small- and medium-sized enterprises.
Micah Kulish, operations director with Iowa City-based social media agency Sculpt, said having space at UI's Bedell Entrepreneurship Learning Laboratory, a 10,000-square-foot converted fraternity house, gives the startup some credibility.
"It's highly valuable," he said. "You struggle for legitimacy with no office space or client meeting rooms."
The event, held downtown at John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center, duplicates a similar fair held in Iowa City during the spring. Every week, mentors from the area offer advice to the budding entrepreneurs, many of which are running their first business.
But, while they may be new to running a business, they face the same challenges most seasoned entrepreneurs do. And, accordingly, the benefits they reap from an incubator like Bedell echo those of more established companies that populate a number of incubators across the state.
"You can bounce ideas off one another," said Jake Langenfeld, co-founder and co-president of Needle Analytics.
The company provides data visualization services for a number of industries, including media companies and other businesses.
Riley Gardam, also of Needle, said Bedell's atmosphere lends itself to budding businesses and, more specifically, budding entrepreneurs.
"Creativity doesn't happen in a vacuum," said Riley Gardam, also of Needle. "Bedell, it's the opposite of a vacuum."
For Tutor Universe, an online marketplace for tutors that went live at the beginning of November, staying at Bedell gives them an opportunity to grow and build. The company has been around 18 months as it has prepared to launch, said Thomas Hornbeck.
"That's what has kept us alive all these months," he said. "We pretty much live there."


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Waterbury Fireball Run was great experience for all involved
On behalf of my partner Joe Wall and me, I wish to thank Waterbury Mayor M. O'Leary; the Waterbury Regional Chamber; its president and CEO, Lynn Ward; the Republican-American; the contestants and production crew of Fireball Run; and most certainly the people of Waterbury, for the warmth and support they showed to all of the Fireball Run Adventurally Contestants when we arrived Sept. 27.
Each contestant was impressed not only with the Palace Theater, the food and the people, but also complimented us on how much support this city and the surrounding towns put forth. That support began for us in February when FRA Executive Producer J. Sanchez challenged me to complete my car project before April 1. When we met that deadline, he upped the ante and said, "Now raise the entry fee and get in the rally." With help from our families and friends in the Nutmeg Miata Club, First Congregational Church of Waterbury, Knights of Columbus Lodge 3492 of Watertown, Harmony Lodge 42 of Waterbury, Chubba's Restaurant, Joe's Tire Shop, Waterbury PAL, and so many more people I do not have room to mention here, we were able to make this journey.
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Top 10 Valentine's Day Movies for the Lovelorn
Are you you feeling a little bitter this Valentine's Day? Gather some friends and celebrate the day in your own special way, with a movie about the heartache of love gone wrong.
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The English Patient
If you like your movies big and tragic, then this one's for you. The story is all sophistication, combining romance with political intrigue and gorgeous cinematography. It stars Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliet Binoche, and Willem Dafoe, among others. This is a grown-up's movie: In it, love doesn't last forever, only as long as the lover is alive.
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Alabama-Notre Dame: Oh My!
Here's how I feel about Alabama playing Notre Dame for the national college football championship:
You're dining at a restaurant—a pretty good restaurant—and you've had the bread and the fancy olives and the beet salad (again!), and the lamb chops were tasty and substantial, and there were also a few handfuls of sweet-potato fries off of somebody else's plate, and you know you should call it a night, when the waiter appears at the table and asks, calmly but firmly, if anyone would care for dessert. And before you have time to say no, the waiter is ticking off the establishment's desserts, the last of which is an astonishing confection called The Sinful Devil's Deep-Fried Doughnut Straight-to-Rehab Sugar Bender. And The Sinful Devil's Deep-Fried Doughnut Straight-to-Rehab Sugar Bender is something in which handmade doughnuts are deep-fried by sugar elves in a sugar barrel, then wrapped in a chocolate mattress and baked into the floorboards of a gingerbread house, where they rest for a thousand years until they are excavated and bathed anew in honey and butter and sugar. Somewhere along the way, a chocolate truffle, a peanut-butter cup and a wheelbarrow of whipped cream join the party. And this dessert sounds at once like the best thing you've ever heard of and also totally insane, but before you can resist and offer a meek, No, that's OK, we'll take the check, someone else at the table interrupts and announces, "Sounds amazing. We'll take five."
That's how I feel about the Crimson Tide facing the Fighting Irish for the national championship. It's delicious and too much. Power versus power, legends atop legends, history upon history, with big ladles of obnoxiousness and hysteria. I fear it and can't wait at the same time. Alabama vs. Notre Dame is the The Sinful Devil's Deep-Fried Doughnut Straight-to-Rehab Sugar Bender. À la mode.
Notre Dame was already in this game. Alabama got in Saturday by beating Georgia in the Southeastern Conference championship game in Atlanta. Georgia almost won, but in the closing minutes of the contest, the Bulldogs fell under the impression they were playing a leisurely game of Ultimate Frisbee, and time ran out before they had a chance to score and ruin everything. I know everybody feels bad for Georgia, and Georgia played great, but those Bulldogs were messing around with the desired narrative. The Crimson Tide versus the Fighting Irish was the dreamy matchup (non-Georgia football-loving) people wanted to see. Sorry. That fact is both annoying and true.
And so now here it comes, on Jan. 7, in a concrete pit in Miami Gardens, Fla., where the NFL Dolphins play something that swings wildly between football and running around the backyard with plastic mop buckets on their heads. I am going to spare you the rant in which I howl that this Notre Dame-Alabama game, like every big college-football bowl, should really be happening on New Year's Day, and not a week later, on a Monday, like a PTA meeting. College football long ago sold the remaining threads of its soul to television and they have quite nearly ruined the whole thing under a tacky pile of sponsorship and a BCS system which makes sense to about 2.7 humans. The coming playoff system will only drive everyone battier. Just wait.
This year, however, there's not a ton of confusion. Notre Dame is ranked No. 1. Alabama is No. 2. I know Ohio State fans are cranky because the on-probation Buckeyes finished undefeated but postseason ineligible, and I will agree to be as sad as I can possibly be for an institution under the aegis of Urban Meyer. Ohio State advocates are now sentenced to a long life of cocktail parties in which they will overhear people talking about the hallowed national-championship game between Alabama and Notre Dame, and feel obligated to jump in to remind everyone of the underappreciated 12-0 Buckeyes, who could have beaten either, except for some lame-o NCAA sanction involving a tattoo parlor. And then the Notre Dame-Alabama fans will say, "Yeah but Ohio State gave up 49 points to an Indiana team that finished 4-8" and then the Buckeye fan will claim Notre Dame got lucky versus Pittsburgh and note that Bama lost to Texas A&M and the whole thing will go around and around and sound as tedious 40 years from now as it does today.
Alabama and Notre Dame is what we get, and it's not a bad get. Two schools with 25 claimed national championships between them. The Irish and Tide have met only six times in their histories, with Notre Dame winning five. And the legends! There are enough football ghosts between these institutions to produce an epic paranormal event, and be assured that in the coming weeks you will be rendered numb by all of the misty, water-colored memories getting pumped out of South Bend and Tuscaloosa.
I give Alabama a slight edge on the Insufferable Index, not because of its excellent team, but because it plays in the SEC. Half of the pleasure of watching SEC football, it seems, is reminding everyone else how good SEC football is, and, by extension, how bad everyone who doesn't play in the SEC is. There's real truth to the strength of the conference (the SEC has produced college football's last six national champions) but after a while, all that talk about SEC superiority and "big-man football" becomes repetitive and a little unbearable, like the guy who stops by your desk every Monday morning, does unsolicited calf stretches in his khakis and talks about the awesome half-marathon he ran over the weekend. I get it. You guys rule. Please stop.
It's inevitable that this title game will be presented as a referendum on How Good Notre Dame Actually Is. Alabama has won two of the last three national championships, and Notre Dame is the recovery act with something to prove, and you could fuel a rocket to Mars with all of the underestimation of the Fighting Irish. That's fine. That's OK. We will find out soon enough. Alabama and Notre Dame are playing for everything. The Sinful Devil's Deep-Fried Doughnut Straight-to-Rehab Sugar Bender is in the oven. It's ridiculous but irresistible. You probably should take a couple of brisk laps around the block.
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For many years, he was an adjunct professor of religion and society in the Graduate School of Columbia University and taught occasionally at Jewish Theological Seminary of America and at the New York University Stern School of Business Administration. Following his retirement from Union, he served as visiting professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, Drew University School of Theology, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, and Pacific School of Religion.
Dr. Shinn was the author of 15 books, including Forced Options: Social Decisions for the 21st Century (3rd edition, 1991) and writer and narrator for the television series, "Tangled World." He was past president of the American Theological Society and the Society of Christian Ethics. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he was the first president of the United Church Board of Homeland Ministries. He was the principal author of the Statement of Faith adopted by the UCC General Synod in 1959, and was active in the church and society program of the World Council of Churches.
A decorated war hero (awarded the Silver Star Medal for gallantry in action), who served as company commander in the Armored Infantry in Europe in World War II, he later worked to defend conscientious objectors in courts martial and civil during the Vietnam War. He was inducted into the Infantry School Hall of Fame at Fort Benning, Ga., and lectured on ethics at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point), the Air Force Academy, the Army War College, the Air War College, the Command and General Staff School, and the Army Chaplains School.
His survivors include his wife, Katharine, of Southbury; a sister, Ruth Shinn of Washington, D.C.; daughters Carol Wheeler of N. Brookfield, Mass., and Marybeth Shinn of Nashville, Tenn.; four grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
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The helicopter went down into Tampa Bay Friday afternoon just after 3 p.m. in water about 300 to 400 yards off shore, just southwest of Beer Can Island.
The pilot, identified by authorities as 60-year-old John Lawrence Ward of Tampa, was killed.
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The nine chapters and five appendixes in Manual 72 address the practical significance and use of flash point, the terminologies used in flash point determination, sample handling and specimen preparation, test apparatus and the various test methods of determining flash point. Editor Rey Montemayor, Ph.D., an ASTM International fellow and long-time member of Committee D02 on Petroleum Products and Lubricants, says that Manual 72 details flash point testing from the time a sample arrives in a laboratory to reporting the test result values. He adds that Manual 72 offers more than other books on the topic: "The information on how sample viscosity affects the flash point, as well as flash point masking, are topics which have been discussed sparingly in other works in this area."
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Not my best work by any means and filled with errors but was a very challenging project nonetheless.
It's a 360 degree panorama taken from Coit Tower in San Francisco.
Not my best work by any means and filled with errors but was a very challenging project nonetheless.
It's a 360 degree panorama taken from Coit Tower in San Francisco.
Bill, That's a very good effort, though the nadir doesn't stand up to close scrutiny. I know just how challenging such panoramas are to produce. Mine taken from London's Monument presented very similar difficulties: http://www.johnhpanos.com/monument.htm. The nadir area is very difficult to get right because of the severe parallax problems. I used morphing options in PTGui to force things to align, but I had to spend quite a lot of time with layers and masks.
Hey John,
Thanks for the input. Nothing in the pano really stands up to a quality effort (borderline even showing it) and didn't want to spend a lot of time working it. It was shot with a little point and shoot 3MP camera from "inside" Coit Tower - no pano head. There are 24 windows at the top of tower and I took one shot from each window. The tower is about 50 feet across so the camera was about 25 feet from the center. I then added the nadir from a Google Maps image to give the "floating in the sky" effect.
Next time at the tower or any similar locale I'll know better what to do to get better results.
Your pano is very sharp and well done for sure. You should try adding Google Maps image for nadir fill - what do think?
Bill, The images from Google Maps or Microsoft Virtual Earth etc. don't give a good match to mine in terms of perspectives, lighting direction, and general image quality. I wouldn't attempt to patch any of them into my panorama.
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I need to calculate a closed-form expression for $\sum_{j=0}^{k-1}(2j+2)\sum_{i=1}^j \frac 1 {i^2}$. This isn't particularly difficult, and I do it by hand pretty much routinely.
However I found out Mathematica's symbolic computation gives me an answer which is slightly different from the one I'd derived myself: I believe the problem arises when switching the indices of the sums, and I'm sure I'm doing it right, but of course I can't believe Mathematica would give a wrong answer (for such a trivial problem in any case).
I'm purposefully omitting giving either answers so as to not bias responses (which, hopefully, there will be, as this is driving me crazy).
Any comment or help appreciated, thanks!
EDIT: Thanks to all who answered. What I find, by hand, is that my sum (let's call it $S$) is such that $S=k^2H_{k-1}^{(2)}-k$, where $H_{j}^{(2)}=\sum_{i=1}^j 1/j^2$.
What Mathematica/Maple finds (when you've done the appropriate simplifications as suggested by Andrew) is $S=k^2H_{k}^{(2)}-k$. For instance, with Maple, I type:
assume(k,posint): additionally(k>0):
I believe I get this discrepancy when I'm switching the sum on $j$ and the sum on $i$, but I don't understand what I'm doing wrong.


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While I've read a few of the Green Arrow comics, I honestly don't remember much of it including anything about Oliver Queen's origins. Does he even have an origin story? How true is the plot of the TV series, Arrow, to the comic? Are there any similarities at all?
The TV show actually uses a similar origin story to the very first Green Arrow comics from the DC 'Golden Age'.
The only major difference is that in the comic, Oliver Queen was actually the boy's father, Green Arrow himself being Roy Harper.
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Having come from a windows enviroment, I was curious if defragmenters are useful in *nix. More specifically, OS X.
It's a bit of a yes, no answer. Useful in certain circumstances but it's less of an issue than it was with FAT or regular HFS. All filesystems will fragment but newer ones are more resistant to fragmenting so badly.
Speaking for Mac OS X specifically HFS+ does a decent enough job of trying to keep things from being fragmented compared to older systems but it still happens just not on the same scale. The OS itself also defrags "small" (20MB or smaller) files on the fly since 10.3 (Panther).
Fragmenting still happens and you can see performance drop because of it, especially in video editing systems or a workflow that requires the ability to read or write large files quickly to the disk. For your standard user - a near non-issue.
The most popular options for defragmenting a hard drive for OS X I've used and run across are:
Yes, they are. People will give you lies like "UNIX filesystems never fragment." They are liars, and you should listen to me instead. Files like sqlite databases, as used by firefox, will quickly fragment as they deliver small writes regularly as you use the browser. At one point my profile had a sqlite database with over three thousand fragments.
These sqlite databases contain the browser history, and are used in places to suggest text strings to you, like URL completion or form autofill. If they are fragmented, you will suffer. Some of this may be masked by OSX's decision to implement POSIX fsync() as a no-op (allowed by the standard, but not very nice). So it's not like you need to edit video to trigger bad conditions, just a large history database that properly calls fsync() on OSX.
On Ubuntu you can check how fragmented a file is with the utility
As far as I know, unix file systems like EXT or HFS don't suffer from fragmentation like FAT or NTSF, at least not in the same order of magnitude.
Read more about it here and also check this apple support page about disk maintenance
It depends on what filesystem are you using and most importantly on how are you using it. Most modern filesystem are less prone to fragmentation, but defragmentation is always useful.
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Mac OS X already defragments files less than 20 Mbytes in size. See this article:
ext2/ext3 can have tremendous fragmentation of free space. It can be checked with e2freefrag utility.
This is a religious issue. IMO, fragmentation is only an issue for specific workloads, and it hasn't been terribly relevant since NT4.
Exceptions that I've encountered are situations where you have lots of small writes mixed with large writes. One example that comes to mind is a busy windows file server with users doing stupid things like running active PST files on the server. Another would be a linux pop3 server with mailboxes in Maildir format.
HFS+ does fragment, all filesystems do. However, it doesn't appear to suffer from it, at least not to the extent that NTFS / FAT32 do.
A caveat-- I stopped noticing performance drops from file fragmentation about 5 years ago, at least as far as local files were concerned. SATA bandwidth and a 7200RPM HDD make the issue pretty much un-noticeable, IMO.
It is a chapter from Mac OS X internals book. There are described "Built-in Measures in Mac OS X Against Fragmentation" and also fragmentation checker tool is presented.
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ANDERSON, S.C. – Senior Abby Child's one-out, two-run walk-off home run in the bottom of the seventh inning propelled second-seeded Anderson past eighth-seeded Catawba, 3-2, as the Trojans advanced to Sunday's championship contest of the 2014 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Softball Tournament, Saturday afternoon at Lincoln Memorial's Dorothy Neely Field.
Anderson improved to 41-10 on the season, while defeating Catawba (26-20) by a single run for the third time this season. The Trojans have won five straight and 16 of their last 17 contests, while setting a new school record for wins in a season. The eighth-seeded Indians had won two straight decisions in the tourney after finishing the regular season with five consecutive losses.
The Trojans remain the only undefeated team in the double elimination tourney and moves on to meet Wingate, who advanced from the elimination bracket with an 8-0 win past Catawba following the AU victory. First-pitch from Neely Field is set for 1 p.m.
Anderson and Wingate will be squaring off for the fourth time this season and second time in four days, with the Trojans holding a 2-1 edge in the season series as the two squads meet with the conference championship on the line.
Child's dramatic home run, her third round-tripper in two days gave AU its first lead of the day, with the shortstop finishing the afternoon with an additional single and a walk. Sophomore Molly Child went 3-for-4 on the day, with a run-scoring double and a pair of singles, with junior Bri Cason adding a single and a walk.
Junior pitcher Katelynn Howser started the contest in the circle for the Trojans, but did not earn a decision after tossing 4 1/3 innings and allowing two earned runs on five hits, while walking three and striking out one. Freshman Augie Pena (8-1) garnered the win, while limiting the Indians to a pair of hits in 2 2/3 innings of work. The right-hander struck out three and issued two free passes.
Catawba took an early lead with a run in the top of the first inning, while the Trojans answered with a solo run in the bottom of the frame. Junior Jessica Neidigh was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning and followed by stealing her 26th consecutive base of the season. Neidigh crossed the plate when Molly Child ripped her 11th double of the season to right field.
Sophomore Holli Chandler led off the fifth inning with a solo homer to right field to give the Indians a 2-1 edge, while AU recorded a pair of singles and a walk in the fifth and sixth innings, but was unable to push across the tying run until the Childs' final-inning heroics.
Molly Child went the opposite way for a one-out single and Abby Child followed with her league-leading 14th home run of the campaign beyond the center-field fence. The home run marked Child's 46th of her four-year career, tying Lenoir-Rhyne's Sarah Atkins for the most career homers in the South Atlantic Conference.


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Is Catholicism considered orthodox Christianity? Things like praying to saints, the pope, praying to Mary, etc could be considered heretical... no?
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Seeing as Catholics adhere to the first seven ecumenical councils, I think it would be very difficult to make a case that they aren't. Even their Orthodox brethren never doubted they were Christians- they just got annoyed at how uppity the Pope would get.
On the other side, it is true that Cromwell and many of the English theologians really thought the Pope was the AntiChrist. Again, however, it tended to be more for their behavior then for their theology. This is not to say that there were no differences in theology- but in the essentials (the Creeds would summarize this well), there was never any doubt that Catholics were closer to the truth than, say, the "Hindoos" or the "Mohammedans".
Additional note: My definition of orthodoxy has a pretty long pedigree. According to the entry in Liddell & Scott, orthodoxos first occurs in the Codex Justinian I.5.21; Code of Justinian: "We direct that all Catholic churches, throughout the entire world, shall be placed under the control of the orthodox bishops who have embraced the Nicene Creed." The State Church of the Roman Empire (meaning that Christianity which was first recognized by Constantine the Great after Milvan Bridge in 312AD, then codified and formalized by these Councils tends to be the most commonly accepted definition of 'orthodoxy' amongst secular scholars.) I've historically used Chalcedon instead of Nicea (I wish I had stuck with Nicea, incidentally) mostly because I was trying to be more generous in my definition of "mainstream" Christianity.
Yes, Catholicism is the only form of Christianity, or any religion for that matter, that contains the fullness of truth, but others certainly have a share in it.
But no, Catholics don't pray to the Pope, they do often pray for him. They don't pray just to Mary, but beg that she prays for us and the same goes for the saints.
Not sure why this answer generated any hubbub since "fullness of truth" is a very common Catholic explanation for the differences between us and everyone else. But, for the sake of orthodoxy, I will quote the heck out of Chesterton's eponymous epic and redeem myself.
On things you don't believe, yet the Catholic church teaches that are in fact true:
On the hidden meaning and reason for orthodoxy (right teaching):
And, a defense of the symbolism, mystery and tradition taught through Catholicism:
It's an intersting philosophical problem to try to classify Catholiics as "heretical". By far the majority of Christians in the world are Catholic. To classify them as 'unorthodox' means you first have to establish a standard of orthodoxy. If you are starting from an evangelical protestant perspective then you might manage to do that — but first you have to establish that evangelical protestantism is the correct form of Christianity.
Frankly even then the vewpoint that Catholics are heretics is a minority one.
Secondly you have to decide how much someone disagrees with you before the become "a heretic". Are they a heretic if they disagree about the timing of the rapture? Infant baptism? The right colour robe to wear during Easter? Christians disagree about many things, and 'heretic' is a strong word to use without a really good cause.
Most non-Catholics would consider those things as heresies but even then they are established, widely accepted heresies within Christian history, so they are a form of orthodoxy. Orthodoxy does not mean true, just standard norms of historical acceptance.The basic idea of 'orthodox' is adhering to traditional and established faith. Well that simply means being part of a historical majority. Therefore, Catholic faith (I say this from someone very much opposed to its doctrines as I am a Protestant) -- is very orthodox.
I will quote one of our own members as providing a very clear definition of who is mainstream Christian (i.e. 'orthodox' or 'widely recognized historical types' of Christianity as the world understands it):
This member also adds other 'Christian' groups that are not orthodox from the standpoint of history as they are more or less recent sects, so can't by definition be orthodox but non-orthodox with non traditional views found in the orthodox historical bodies:
As I have it from Catholic encyclopaedia this practice of asking fellow Christians, Saints etc to pray for us, dates to earliest days of Christianity and is shared by Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, other Eastern Christians and some Anglicans. It does originate from Bible.
John in Rev 5:8, depicts the saints in heaven offering prayers to God under the form of golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of saints. Meaning that saints offer our prayers to God, meaning they hear our petitions and present them to God by interceding for us.
The intercessory requests to Virgin Mary and Saints are akin to everyday life instances. When we need to pray to God for any of our intensions, we would ask our friends and well wishers also to pray for us. So those in heaven have even greater confidence and devotion to God than anyone on earth. Also God hear the prayers of righteous.
It is similar to saying of a son humbly at his mother's grave, "Mom, please pray to Jesus for me. I am having a real problem right now." We in our daily prayers, pray for our children as they being young, would not exactly know how to pray and that does not mean we are taking Christ place for our children while directing our prayers to God for them.
Something similar is said by Paul in four verses immediately preceding 1Timothy 2:5.
Elsewhere Paul directly asks others to pray for him: Rom. 15:30-32; Eph. 6:18-20; Col. 4:3; 1Thess. 5:25 and 2 Thess. 1:11
And finally Jesus himself required us to pray for others, and not only for those who asked us to do so:
Also Jesus regularly supplied for one person, based on another person's faith.
See also Matt. 15:28; Matt. 17:15-18; Mark 9:17-29; Luke 8:49-55
Having said that and as I know of it, this practice of asking saints for intercessory prayers was extensive with Catholics earlier. It now exists, but Catholic Church, over the last several decades has weaned its flock away from it and more towards Jesus and that I find is a right step. Even when it was so, Christ was always a unique mediator for Catholic Church incomparable with human mediator ship as He is both God and Man and is the only bridge between God and us. However, to say this practice is heretic is an extreme view.
Let's not waver in our cause, the cause to give Jesus to the whole world. The fact that we have different traditions indicates that we are having some differences of opinions among us. But these are nothing compared to that which unites us together. The blood of Christ unites us, because we acknowledge that we have been saved by same Jesus dying on the cross and who has risen from dead to give us life everlasting. We (all traditions) are not to forget about our strong, unwavering and steadfast belief in Jesus as the Christ and that He is God incarnate. Let's not be judgemental in who is heretic and who is not because then each tradition will come up with their own issues they have with each other.
What better verse to quote here than what Paul said in 1Corinth. 1:12.


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I have an iPhone app (http://getnowapp.com) that lets you "Like an experience". I would like to integrate it on the Facebook timeline with Open Graph.
I set up the "Like" action on Opengraph but got rejected with the following reason: "Your Action failed the criteria: You are trying to submit a custom action which is not permitted. Please delete this action and submit a built-in version of this action instead."
So it seems Like is not an acceptable action as it already exists in Facebook.
However, you can "Like a Pin on Pinterest" without any issues.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Head coach Gokhan Yilmaz has announced the hiring of Margeaux Sinibaldi as an assistant coach to join the Charlotte 49ers volleyball program. Sinibaldi, who played collegiately at division two power Tampa winning a national title in 2006, is a two-time AVCA All-American as well as an ESPN Academic All-American.
"We are glad Margeaux decided to join our program," commented Head Coach Gokhan Yilmaz. "I thought we signed our first impact recruit when (assistant coach) Nicole Miller decided to join us back in February. Margeaux established herself as the best candidate due to her stellar playing career with her All-American selections, National Championship at the University of Tampa, her willingness to learn and attention to detail. She will work with our passers and defenders and take an extensive role in day to day operations and recruiting."
A 2008 graduate of the University of Tampa helped lead the Spartans to a 2006 National Championship being named to the championship's all-tournament team. Sinibaldi also racked up awards as a four-time AVCA all-south region performer gaining recognition in the Sunshine State Conference as a three-time first team all-conference player. Sinibaldi graduated Magna Cum Laude from Tampa in '08 with a Bachelor of Arts in English.
Sinibaldi comes to Charlotte after a brief stint as a volunteer assistant coach at Boston College. Previously, Sinibaldi was the head coach at Bloomingdale High School in Valrico, Florida running her program leading the Bulls to the Elite Eight of the FHSAA state playoffs in 2006. In addition to Bloomingdale, Sinibaldi led a pair of club teams to top state tournament finishes with the Tampa United Volleyball Academy."She has run her own program at Bloomingdale and turned that program around," continued Yilmaz. "She has also coached for Tampa United which is one of the premier clubs in the Southeast. It is also speaks very highly of Margeaux that she left her full time position to become the Volunteer Assistant at Boston College so she can start her college coaching career. Everyone we talked to had great things to say about Margeaux. I believe that having Margeaux along with Nicole Miller makes a diverse and complete coaching staff. We are looking forward to grow as a staff and move Charlotte Volleyball Program forward.


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5 Feb 2013 2:09 PM #51
I am new to ST2 and I am trying to build a multilanguage app. I am currently using the Ux.locale.Manager plugin - which I find very useful!
But I also have a problem while using it... I have a tabPanel which uses a store to load some HTML data from a remote server. The store's url is pulled from the locales files using:
The change language code:
onLangChange: function(field, value) { var lang = field.originalValue; Ux.locale.Manager.updateLocale(lang); this.getOvLang().hide(); this.getTbPanel().fireEvent('show'); },
If I tap on another tab and then tap again on that one, the correct language is loaded.
Can you figure out what am I doing wrong?
Thank you!
Best regards,
22 Feb 2013 1:20 AM #52
Guide for this?
Hello i am really interested in using this locale extension, but i need a guick guide to use with architect 2.1, if anyone can provide a text based one i will be most pleased!
22 Feb 2013 1:41 AM #53
For using with Arcitect you just add a custom parameter on everything like a button:
locales: {
text: "Register"
You won't see your text within Architect, apparently they're sorting this out in a future version to be able to "process" your parameters so could add ability to see your default text or something in the future
24 Feb 2013 1:27 PM #54
24 Feb 2013 5:26 PM #55
Ok got it runnig with SA2
Really nice extension, nice work!
24 Feb 2013 6:05 PM #56
Got issue with Window Title...
It doesn´t change it... Tryed to make an override for window, but nothing worked... any1 has a solution?
12 Jun 2013 1:46 AM #57
Can we use .properties instead of json files?
Can we use .properties files instead of language specific json files? How to achieve this?
12 Jun 2013 1:49 AM #58
Can we use .properties files instead of .json?
3 Sep 2013 8:46 AM #59
Hi babar,
Were you able to build successfully with this plugin?
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localising item that is nested within another item
I am using the Ux.locale.Manager extension and am having trouble localising an item that is nested within another item. I have a toolbar which has an item called Fruits. This in turn has a (menu) item called Apples. When I call the updateLocale method, the Fruits item text changes to its German counterpart (Fruchte) but the Apples text is not translated. What am I doing wrong? Here is my code:
{ xtype: 'toolbar', region: 'south', items: [ '->', { locales : { text: 'fruits'}, menu: { items: [ { locales: { text: 'apples'}, width: 'auto', handler: function () { window.location = '/fruits/apples.castle'; } } ] } } ] }
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I have some questions about system identification. I made some measurement of current step (input) and voltage response(output) and I want to fine the parameters of my impedance. The sample rate is 1000 samples/s so that I have a very large list of current and voltage samples include noise (40000 Samples). My voltage is U(kT) and current is I(kT) where k=1,2,3,.....40000.
- to filter the noise I used
ExponentialMovingaverage; is there any other possibility to filter the noise from the list?
- in Mathematica there is a function with the name
NonlinearModelfitto find system parameters. Is there any other possibility to find the system parameters like nonlinear Least Square?


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SMITHFIELD - Thirty years of providing a place in the village to get a needed grocery item, deli items for unexpected company, a movie for the evening, postage stamps or an ice cream treat have led the folks of Smithfield to think of Vend-It, a Main Street establishment, as a miniature general store.
John Domenick, owner with his wife, Martha, said the price was right when they first moved back to Smithfield to buy the former First National Bank building and the adjoining building that housed such things as the M&K Grocery Store, Smithfield post office, a fruit market and church.
His first business venture was with his brother-in-law, Frank Rotella, and his nephew, Frank Rotella Jr. They changed the appearance of the bank building and started a "Your Father's Moustache" hair salon in 1976. It is still going strong and operating as "Just Hair" now.
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30TH YEAR — Vend-It, an example of a general store from times past, is celebrating its 30-year anniversary this year. John Domenick, owner with his wife, Martha, said merchandise has expanded from the vending machines filled with coffee and sandwiches for those coming in to purchase wholesale snacks to a variety of services and foods. The vending machines are how the business got its name and became well known, so it has stuck. -- Esther McCoy
In 1982, the trio started a business in the adjoining, smaller structure that once was a grocery store, post office and church. They sold wholesale snacks to baseball, football and other concessions but it seemed when customers came in they asked for coffee and a sandwich or slice of pizza, too. This prompted the installation of vending machines for that purpose, and from that came the name, Vend-It.
"Our hours were 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. five days a week, but customers started coming in anytime from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., so we changed the hours to 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week.
Food and merchandise are now prepared and checked out by a friendly employee, or the Domenicks, but the Vend-It name is here to stay.
"We are a little niche in Smithfield that basically remains the same. You won't get rich in a small town, but we take pride in our work and the people here. You can't change the world, but you can try to change your own little corner of it," Domenick said.
"We are seeing the third generation of kids coming into the store for ice cream now," Domenick said. "Our candy that sold for a penny was a big attraction to the children, but in 2007, it had to be raised to 2 cents each. I think we are the only business in America where you can still get a 25-cent bag of chips and a 25-cent can of pop," he related.
The store carries a small amount of canned goods and condiments, all types of luncheon meats and cheeses, various drinks, some baked goods, movie rentals, an array of ice cream flavors and milkshakes, slushies, postage stamps and money orders, lottery tickets, any kind of candy bar and gum. Sandwiches can be prepared on demand, and customers can always buy a card for birthday or holiday gifts.
John always has fundraising tickets on the counter that a hometown organization is selling and is a big supporter of any organization around the confines of Smithfield.
"We have met many great people in our business and are hopeful that we have a service here that people need. We are like a little general store," Domenick concluded.


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If running X11 as root is not a very good idea, then can anyone mention a method/solution, how to still use a GUI, and not having X11 as root?
(I speak here more generically than in the specific case of OpenBSD.)
X11 needs some direct access to the underlying hardware, something which requires some extra privileges which are not given to just any process (such privileges can be used to mess with memory transfers, e.g. between system memory and hard disks). So there must be some root-or-equivalent involved at some point. However, once the said privileges have been granted, nothing says that the process which runs the X server must keep on being root. Of course, if a non-root-but-with-hardware-access X server gets subverted, it still may gain, theoretically, strong access to the machine through DMA manipulations, but this does not look easy at all.
(Also, there can be totally unprivileged X11 servers which use a framebuffer interface, although this tends not to be very compatible with support for accelerated graphics.)
Running X.org as non-root is now possible as of Feb. 22, 2014 (my emphasis):


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Usually in physics books this equation used $a=\frac {dv}{dt}$ to calculate the relativistic acceleration. It is true that speed $v=\beta c$ don't have relativistic (Lorentz) factor, But time have a relativistic factor $t=\tau \gamma$, what about acceleration!?
Assuming I've understood your comment to twistor59's answer correctly: in SR (this changes in GR) acceleration by itself doesn't cause any relativistic effects. If you compare two frames that are instaneously at rest relative to each other there will be no relativistic effects no matter how fast one of the frames is accelerating.
Accelerating objects do experience relativistic effects, but only because over any finite timespan their velocity is different to your reference frame.
Chapter 6 of Gravitation by Misner, Thorne and Wheeler explains how to calculate the effects of acceleration, or John Baez's article on the Relativistic Rocket gives the headlines.
Just restricting to motion in one dimension:
If the $x'$ frame is moving wrt to the $x$ frame with a speed $v$ in the positive x direction then a speed $u'$ measured in the $x'$ frame transforms as $$u=\frac{u'+v}{1+\frac{vu'}{c^2}}$$, so $$du = \frac{(1-\frac{v^2}{c^2})du'}{(1+\frac{vu'}{c^2})^2}$$ $$=\frac{du'}{\gamma^2(1+\frac{vu'}{c^2})^2}$$ Similarly $$t=\gamma(1+\frac{vx'}{c^2})t'$$ so $$dt=\gamma(1+\frac{vu'}{c^2})dt'$$ So the acceleration transformation is $$a=\frac{du}{dt}=\frac{1}{\gamma^3(1+\frac{vu'}{c^2})^3}\frac{du}{dt}=\frac{1}{\gamma^3(1+\frac{vu'}{c^2})^3}a'$$


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I'm currently trying to modify an echoed string of alphanumeric characters by piping it to sed. The area I'm interested in modifying is a block of numbers, which I would like to make 8 characters long by inserting an appropriate number of zeros to the front of it. For example:
Desired output:
Is it possible to do this with sed? The blocks of numbers I'm dealing with are less than 8 characters, if that helps. I'm not sure if this post helps. Thanks in advance!
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6 Things That Shouldn't Explode (But Did Anyway)
Michael Bay is right: Somewhere, right now, something is exploding.
And we're not talking bombs and tankers either. As it turns out, there are objects all over the place that will suddenly explode the shit out of themselves for absolutely no reason at all, and often when you least expect it.
Things like...
#6. Office Chairs
Imagine this scene: You sleep through your alarm and have to skip a shower to make the bus on time, only the elevator to your apartment jams and you miss the bus anyway and have to take a cab. The cabbie helpfully ignores your directions and instead takes the long route to run the meter up. Then you step into a puddle off of the curb and soak both socks through before finally making the mad dash upstairs to your cubicle only to find that you just missed the regional manager's visit because you were late.
Basically you are Peter Parker. Without spider-powers. That is sad.
Utterly defeated, you sink into your ergonomically designed desk chair, which then blows the fuck up like Danny Glover's toilet in Lethal Weapon 2.
Sound like John Woo's Office Space? Wrong. It's science. Evidently, the pneumatic cylinder in an office chair can become too pressurized and, in extreme cases, leave the person sitting above feeling like they were just anally raped by Superman at the speed of sound.
"I heard a sonic boom and suddenly my asshole was pregnant."
How worried should you be? Well, there was a famous report that a boy in China was killed in such an incident when shrapnel from the chair's base tore into his rectum and caused him to bleed to death, but most have written that off as a hoax (or maybe viral marketing for a horror movie we never, ever want to see).
We suppose that should make us feel better, but all we can think of is if it happens tomorrow, we'll have the added bonus of going down as the first person in history to die from anal chair rape.
#5. Frogs
Recently, people in Hamburg, Germany were astonished to discover a pond filled to the brim with thousands of exploded frog corpses, which, according to the encyclopedia, is not typically how frogs enjoy their habitats.
So what had happened at this pond of death? Was it a genetic defect? Some kind of virus? A fat guy with frog-stomping boots? As it turns out, none of these are correct. The real culprit was a crow.
"Get my frog-stomping boots."
You see, this species of frog has an overzealous defense mechanism. When threatened, they puff up with air to several times their natural size in order to scare away enemies.
This seems like it would just make them look fatter and thus more appetizing to larger animals, but who are we to question evolution?
Anyway, crows are smart motherfuckers, and they've learned (possibly from the same encyclopedia) that the frog's liver is the best-tasting part of the animal. And not to waste any effort, they don't actually kill the frogs. They just swoop in and tear the livers out of their still-living victims with their beaks.
The frogs, aghast at the frog equivalent of waking up in a bathtub full of ice with one of their internal organs missing, go ahead and puff themselves up in a hilariously delayed defensive response, neglecting to consider the gaping holes where their livers used to be.
The result is a sort of offal cannon (or meat shotgun, if you will), spraying out entrails in every direction like the silly string of the damned.
#4. Fruit
Tropical paradises are never what they seem. Coconuts rocket down from the sky like cannonballs, sharks infest the shark-infested waters and the island beaches are entangled in vague pop-philosophy references and psychobabble.
"It's the Jungian, ah, parallel to our own sub-need... fuck it, I've been holding in diarrhea for like three hours."
On top of all this is the most unexpected menace of them all: fucking exploding fruit.
Native to the tropics is the Sandbox Tree, a 100-foot tall exclamation point to the phrase "Do not touch." Every inch of this towering monster is poisonous, and its trunk is laced with so many spikes it looks like a gladiator weapon. If this tree could walk, it would enslave humanity.
Climb me. I fucking dare you.
If somehow you manage to get beyond its toxic bark and leaves (and the spikes, never forget the spikes), you still run the very high risk of getting pelted in the face with the natural equivalent of a fragmentation grenade.
You see, the Sandbox Tree's seed pods are fist-sized fruit that, when ripe, explode with such force that they routinely wound nearby people and livestock, which is unsurprising when you look at the shrapnel they put out:
Evidently the Sandbox Tree watched the fruit picking scene from The Wizard of Oz and decided that if Dorothy ever tried that shit with it, she'd be walking away without a face. Either that or it just felt like lobbing bombs all across the beaches of Costa Rica like the Green Goblin. This is what is known as a "correct" or "real" defensive mechanism, frogs. Take a note.


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Heart Disease Health Center
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Assessment of Heart Palpitations
Your doctor will conduct a physical examination, take your medical history, and ask about your current medications, diet, and lifestyle. The doctor also will ask when, how often, and under what circumstances palpitations occur.
Sometimes, a blood test can reveal the presence of anemia, electrolyte problems, or thyroid abnormalities and help identify the cause of palpitations. Other useful tests include:
- Electrocardiogram (ECG). An ECG can be done either while you are at rest or while you are exercising. The latter is called a stress ECG. An ECG records your heart's electrical signals and can detect abnormalities in the heart's rhythm.
- Holter monitoring. A Holter monitor is worn on the chest. It continuously records your heart's electrical signals for 24 to 48 hours. It can detect rhythm abnormalities that weren't identified during a regular ECG test.
- Event recording. An event recorder is worn on the chest. You use a handheld device to record the heart's electrical signals when symptoms occur.
- Chest X-ray.
- Echocardiogram. This is an ultrasound examination of the heart. It provides detailed information about the heart's structure and function.
If necessary, your doctor may refer you to a cardiologist for additional tests or treatment.
Treatment of Heart Palpitations
Treatment of heart palpitations depends on their cause. In most cases, palpitations are found to be harmless and often go away on their own. In those cases, no treatment is needed.
If palpitations are not due to an underlying condition, your doctor may advise you to avoid the things that trigger them. Strategies may include:
- Reducing anxiety and stress. Common stress-reducing therapies include relaxation exercises, yoga, tai chi, biofeedback, guided imagery, and aromatherapy.
- Avoiding certain foods, beverages, and substances. This may include alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, and illegal drugs.
- Avoiding medications that act as stimulants. These include cough and cold medicines, and certain herbal and nutritional supplements.
If lifestyle changes fail to reduce or eliminate palpitations, your doctor may prescribe certain medications. In some cases, beta-blockers or calcium-channel blockers are used.
If your doctor finds that your palpitations are related to an underlying condition, such as anemia, the focus will be on treating that condition. If the palpitations are caused by a medication, your doctor will try to find another medication you can use. If the palpitations represent an arrhythmia, medications or procedures may be required. You may also be referred to a heart rhythm specialist known as an electrophysiologist.
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