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Take the 2-minute tour × I created an employee review application that has top-level stateful tabs just like the ones on this site. There is a tab called "My Employees" and a tab called "Employee Management" (used by HR only). The issue that I have is that when you are on the "My Employees" tab or the "Employee Management" tab, the associated information that is displayed both give the user access to the "View Employee" page. So right now, since you can access the "View Employee" page from both of these tabs, I am deactivating all tabs when the user is viewing that page. I'm doing this because I don't know which tab to have active. Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there a better UI navigation technique that I should be using if I have these types of scenarios, or does this indicate a flaw in the UI design in general? Is it ok for "View Employee" to be accessable from 2 tabs? Should I just use stateless tabs (buttons) or is that poor design as well? Thanks and I appreciate any help you can provide. share

previous sub-section Interrelations of Marine Organisms next sub-section The Nitrogen Cycle The main features of the nitrogen cycle must be considered because of the outstanding importance of nitrogen to all forms of life and because of the great general interest it holds in illustrating the successive ecological implications with respect to bacteria. It has been pointed out (chapter VI) that nitrogen exists in the sea in combination with other elements, for example, in ammonia (NH3), and as oxides of nitrogen in nitrite ion (NO2), and nitrate ion (NO3). Nitrogen enters into the composition of all living things. It is one of the building blocks (nutrients) used by plants in forming the complex protein molecules of their bodies from which animals must derive their nitrogen. However, not all forms of nitrogen can be used by plants, hence the complex nitrogenous compounds found in both plants and animals must, upon death of the organisms, be decomposed, along with their products of excretion, to chemically si

Skip to main content Indiana University People  |   Cultural Studies Program Courses :: CULS C701 Topic: The Promise and Failure of Revolutionary Movements This course's primary aim is to aid students to research and write scholarly articles and/or potential dissertation chapters. The course will also have a common theme: the promise and failure of Latin American revolutionary movements during the 1960s and 1970s.  The class will begin with some methodological readings that will orient the student about different approaches to historical research. The subsequent readings will address several questions: a). What were the key debates and what was the relationship between scholarship and politics in the 1960s and 1970s? Are the unresolved debates from that era still relevant? B). What were the causes, consequences and historical significance of the Latin American 1968? c) Since 1989, intellectuals and scholars have attributed violence in Latin America and elsewhere to revolutionary utopian thought. How do we e

Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:03:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Harry Rod Subject: My Exhibitionist Roommate - Chapter 26 I watched Mike's naked form as he walked down to the lake, lit by the yellow light of the back porch and the moonlight streaming down, and fought the tide of emotions that threatened to overwhelm me. Not for the first time did I wonder about how my life had changed since I had met this incredible guy! I stirred up the embers, added some wood, and watched as Mike splashed water over himself and dipped his head to rinse his hair. He walked up and out, with the water streaming off of him and gleaming in the mixed lights. He looked like some kind of water god emerging from the lake! I fought back the tears that threatened to well up. My emotions were all mixed up and I needed to get them squared away, and discuss them with Mike, before they got even more messed up. Mike shook the water from his hair, grabbed a towel and dried off. He spread the towel on the beach and sat down next to me and the fire. "What'

Your Audi A8, like any other mechanical object, creates heat during use and necessitates cooling to stop heat buildup and engine damage. The radiator is the part that's responsible for ejecting most of the generated heat and keeps the motor's temperature at tolerable levels. Your Audi A8 radiator is really crucial to keep your automobile in operation and must be kept in great shape to prevent any big problems. Leaking joints, rust, and blocked tubes are just a few of the widespread problems that your vehicle's radiator could come across. If you detect problems, have your Audi A8 radiator checked to know the severity of damage and potential fixes. If you brush off radiator issues and continue to runs the car, you could get into more high-priced repairs and problematic situations. When you're searching a fully-new radiator, then there are a lot of substitute Audi A8 radiators found in the market today. Your valuable Audi A8 demands only the finest OE-spec parts, and that also includes the radiator. Make sure

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UK Firm Telling Companies to Stop Using the Term 'Netbook' Paul Lilly According to jkOnTheRun, a UK law firm representing Psion Teklogix has begun sending out cease & desist letters to various websites demanding that the sites stop using the term 'netbook.' The trademark attorney whose John Hancock appears on the letters claims that Psion retains full rights to the term based on a pair of laptops the company used to sell called the netBook and netBook Pro. In the letter, Langley says companies "inadvertently mis-using" the term have until the end of March 2009 to comply. "Psion places significant value on its trademark registrations and your use of the term 'netbook' could damage those registrations," Peter Langley, a trademark attorney writes. "We are therefore asking you to cease use of the term 'netbook.'" Psion may have a tough time enforcing its cease & desist order, as the company no longer sells either the netBook or netBook Pro, and the term 'netbook' has been widely adopted all across the web to

A DOT worker’s open letter to Cuomo Honorable Andrew Cuomo New York State Attorney General The Capitol Albany, NY 12224-0341 Dear Governor-Elect Cuomo: [Name withheld] 1. jakester says: Same response as other posts, I’m sick of the BS in politics. Dave can have somewhere between 125-175 appointees ready for unethical legislators to approve but we MUST layoff the middleclass worker. Boy are we stupid or what… The democrats have added 9 bil to the budget without caring where the money will actually come from. They will tax and spend NYS into bankruptcy… 2. Reality Needs A Chance says: Free Market Economics, I suggest you take even one basic economics class before you continue to trash public servents. No one can make a legitmate case for laying off the career employees and make any economic sense of it. Yes we are fortunate to have jobs, we are fortunate to share in paying our 25% of medical insurance costs and our deductables as well. This is just as it is with so many other pri

Vice Creator Shane Smith Lives for Absurdity | Adweek Vice Creator Shane Smith Lives for Absurdity | Adweek Vice CEO Punches Back at Critics of North Korea Trip Shane Smith discusses new HBO show Photo: Elizabeth Lippman Who Shane Smith Age 43 New gig Host of new HBO newsmagazine, Vice Continuing gig Co-founder, CEO, Vice Media How did the idea come about? What’s the new Vice show going to cover, generally, and how? The tagline is “The absurdity of the modern condition.” In more of a documentary format rather than a news format. Telling stories that are interesting and sometimes tragic and sometimes crazy and hopefully entertaining. Child suicide bombers of the Taliban. The Philippines, where kids are making guns by hand and using them to assassinate politicians. North Korea’s defectors. You’re a youth brand and you’re making money online. Why bother with TV at all? We make premium video content. HBO is the gold standard of TV today. If we can be a success on HBO, that’s just another step in our evol

Tell me more × I play guitar, and am attempting to teach myself the piano. Which notes from a scale form the chord on the keyboard? Is there a common rule for this? Thank you for your time. share|improve this question What kind of chord? There are many varieties, and they all exist on the guitar as well. –  Matthew Read Apr 26 '11 at 19:16 which notes from a scale form a chord isn't anything specific to a guitar or keyboard so I'm not sure I understand the question as asked. Are you asking how to voice a particular chord? e.g. which C, E and G to play if playing a C major chord? –  James Tauber May 5 '11 at 14:12 add comment 6 Answers up vote 10 down vote accepted Any keys you like. A chord in just two notes played at the same time, although typically three or more is used. Now, most combinations will sound bad of course (at least for a certain value of bad, it's all subjective) so the question rather needs to be specified into which chord you mean. The rules to form nice sounding chords are complicate

Reply to a comment Reply to this comment NoMoDoh writes: "We're actually coming in cheaper and more efficiently and getting the same (energy) savings," said Bob Nuss, managing director for Energizing Indiana. Maybe they budgeted too much for the pitiful job they call "energy efficiency efforts" and continue to lie and overcharge us for supplying gas and electric. Remember, they make a big chunk of their money on FEES, not on the products they supply. They have four ways to increase our bills and rotate them over four years to eat up the economy in our area. They claimed they needed $1.08 per month from each of us for their dense pack technology, then CEO Chapman claimed they never said they would add that onto our bills. I found an old advertising insert from Vectren that actually claimed they would need $1.80 per month for that project. They lie, lie and lie again. Don't you just love this cool weather, folks? My a/c has been turned off most of the summer.

or Connect New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav: post #1 of 6 Thread Starter  Is anyone else getting some serious PP headaches? I remember this last time with DD. I'm wondering if I need to drink more water or maybe eat some more with all this BFing? post #2 of 6 Is it PP or was it the massive amounts of chocolate I had last night. *wink* When did you get headaches? How long did they last? post #3 of 6 Thread Starter  They usually start in the afternoon and get pretty bad by bedtime. I'm wondering if my vision is "readjusting". Somewhere I read/heard that pregnancy can mess with your vision. Right now I have one and it's in about the top 1/3 of my head. post #4 of 6 I'm getting headaches too. I know that I don't eat and drink the way I should be...maybe that's why we're getting them. Right now sleep is way more important to me than food and fluids lol. Which is so weird bc I LOVE LOVE LOVE food. post #5 of 6 I always get migraines pp but this is the worst yet. I am having 1 or 2 a day: If i don't have 1 on a d

Does Striking Out Actually Matter? Thearon W. Henderson We often hear in scouting reports that a batter is "striking out too much". Are high strikeout rates necessarily bad for a hitter? Nobody wants to strike out. I would know: on my high school baseball team, I struck out in every single at-bat I had (but not every plate appearance! I got hit by a pitch once!). At its most basic level, hitting is about the bat making contact with the ball, so in that sense a strikeout is the highest level of failure imaginable. In a more strategic sense, a strikeout is an "unproductive out"- it doesn't advance runners. Since as long as the game's been around, strikeouts have been synonymous with futility. Can you imagine if the song went "For it's 1, 2, pop- up to the shortstop at the old ball game!"? Last season, the Oakland A's set the American League record for strikeouts. Headlines reading "A's set record they shouldn't be proud of" popped up all over the baseball world, but we laughed it off. The A's were in playof

How Two State Tax Systems Have (and Haven't) Shaped Metro Portland • April 18, 2012 • By Josh Goodman Portland, Oregon VANCOUVER, Washington - To understand how tough Tom Craig's job is, you only have to take a look at the sign in the window of the store he manages: "NO SALES TAX-We Pay It For You." Craig is the president of Sparks Home Furnishings in downtown Vancouver, a city that's often overshadowed by its counterpart in Canada with the same name and by Portland, Oregon, which is directly across the Columbia River.  In Vancouver, the combined state and local sales tax rate is 8.4 percent. Oregon has no sales tax at all. To compete with Oregon stores, Sparks doesn't charge its customers sales tax either. Craig says the store doesn't raise prices to compensate for the cost, so the money comes straight out of the store's bottom line.  "Eventually, I think all higher-end retailers will be gone from Vancouver and Clark County," he says. "I think it's inevitable. We'll go to Portland to set up our store.

Planet: Angosia III Civilized humanoids of Angosia III, typically thoughtful and intelligent. Due to their pacifism in matters of fighting, they used mind control and biochemicals to create the ultimate fighting soldiers to win their Tarsian War, which has subsequently past. Peace, however, found the Angosians unable (or unwilling to take the time) to reverse the effects of these alterations. After several incidents involving these violent soldiers, the fearful Angosians voted to banish the soldiers to a penal colony on Lunar V. Shortly before stardate 43489.2, however, escapees broke free to take over the capital city, demanding they receive help to be able to return to their homes. The veterans don't attack unless provoked, but they are programmed to survive.

isympy -I: A saner interactive environment As promised, here is another post describing a new feature in the upcoming SymPy 0.7.2. Automatic Symbol Definition While not as ground breaking as the feature I described in my last post, this feature is still quite useful. As you may know, SymPy is inherently a Python library, meaning that it lives by the rules of Python. If you want to use any name, whether it be a Symbol or a function (like cos), you need to define it (in the case of Symbols), or import it (in the case of functions that come with SymPy). We provide the script isympy with SymPy to assist with this. This script automatically runs IPython (if it’s installed), imports all names from sympy (from sympy import *), and defines common symbol names (like x, y, and z). But if you want to use a Symbol that is not one of the ones predefined by isympy, you will get something like In [1]: r*x NameError Traceback (most recent call last) in () ----> 1 r*x NameError: name 'r'

How Fast a Son Grows Up Holidays Printable Cards How Fast a Son Grows Up Cover Verse: To a Wonderful Son, On His Where Has the Time Gone? Parents seldom realize, until their son is grown, The many ways he's touched their hearts or how the time has flown... Inside Verse: He learns so much- too fast, it seems- you're breathless from the pace! Then suddenly the boy is gone and who's this in his place? A young man filled with more than dreams, but hope and promise, too, Facing life on his own terms, with visions to pursue... And though you always trusted he'd be second-best to none, You never knew how proud you'd be to say, "There goes my son." With Love Always

KBTX - News - Misc Bryan Man Arrested After Police Find Two Handguns During Search By: KBTX Staff Email Bryan Police officers make surprise find when stopping a suspicious person Monday afternoon. Just before 2 p.m., BPD officers were on patrol near South College, when they asked a man waiting for the bus if he had seen anything suspicious. Officers say they are trying to address the burglary problem in the area. The man said he saw a black male in a red shirt with bushy hair leave a home up the street. The man thought it was suspicious because he knows a Hispanic family lives there. Officers patrolled and found a man matching that description off Truman, standing in front of a house. According to the report, officers approached the man, 21-year-old Ronnie Lott, and explained why they were stopping him. During the conversation, Lott had to be repeatedly told to keep his hands out of his pockets. Lott told police his cousins lived at the house. When officers asked where he lived, he gave them his girlfr

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Aft (PSF).jpg For the acronym, see AFT (disambiguation). Aft, in naval terminology, is an adjective or adverb meaning, towards the stern (rear) of the ship, when the frame of reference is within the ship. Example: "Able Seaman Smith; lay aft!". Or; "What's happening aft?" • The corresponding adjective, in distinguishing one feature of the vessel from another is after. See the caption to the right. Its antonym is forward. • The corresponding preposition is abaft. For example, the mizzenmast is abaft the mainmast. Its antonym is before or, in a more clumsy form, forward of. Aft also describes the direction of movement within an aircraft; that is, towards the tail. Example: "Let's go aft." Meaning to pull back on the yoke. It may also describe the back/tail location or region within an aircraft cabin. Example: "Aft lavatory." The difference of aft and stern is that aft is the inside (onboard) rearmost part of the vessel, while stern refers

March 23, 2010 Bride Dumped on Wedding Night Because She Isn't a Virgin The post racked up 102 pages of replies. I only translated a small portion. Translation: 新婚之夜新郎出走了，原因太雷人了，新娘现在还在崩溃中 My best girlfriend was supposed to marry today. More accurately, yesterday. She got the marriage certificate but the wedding ceremony hasn't been held yet, so the couple just invited a few people to celebrate. The bride and the groom dated for about two years. Of course they knew each other long before that because the two families live in the same neighborhood. The groom came from a good background--he works as an accountant on one of the Big Four firms. The bride is a civil servant (Note: In China government jobs are some of the better positions because they are always more stable and less taxing. Some people also say there are more opportunities for "gray" earnings). The two met at a reunion party after the groom returned from studies abroad, and the two quickly fell in love. Then they bought an apartment last year, d

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General Question Seelix's avatar Can anyone identify this bug? Asked by Seelix (14738 points ) July 22nd, 2012 A friend of mine who lives in central Ontario posted this picture of a bug that landed on him this morning while he was sitting in the yard. He says it was about two inches long. I know the picture isn’t the best and I’m sorry, but it was the only one he was able to take before the bug took off. I’ve Googled to no avail; I can’t figure out what this guy is. Anyone able to shed any light on it? Thanks in advance. Observing members: 0 Composing members: 0 15 Answers Mariah's avatar It looks like a kind of cicada to me. PhiNotPi's avatar It definitely looks like a cicada. Michael_Huntington's avatar Fluther entomologists HOOOOOOOOOOOO @Mariah is right, it could be a Swamp Cicada., given the season and the area Seelix's avatar I think you’re right, @Mariah! I’ve heard cicadas calling in summer all my life, but I’ve never seen one. They must keep themselves pretty hidden most of the time, s

What is meta? × I recently came across a webcomic which was titled "Fridaynosaur goes traveling" and the last place he visited(apparently) was Iceland. I believe I recall a programmer-ish comic or two for that webcomic but I can't remember for sure. What do you think? Are the Meta-Memes already becoming mainstream? share|improve this question 1 Answer 1 Given that this comic is hardly mainstream, I'd have to say no, our memes are not going mainstream. share|improve this answer You must log in to answer this question. Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .

Lot # 625 (of 1641)   < Previous Lot | Next Lot > 1955 Felin's Franks #10 John Meyer Starting Bid - $300, Sold For - $1,659 Graded VG 40 by SGC. Rare sample card of 1955 Felin's Franks, one of the 1950s most mysterious regional card sets. The 4 x 3-5/8 inch round-cornered panels are designed with a player photo on the left, stats on the right, and a bright red border on front and back. The reverse gives details of a contest, and lists contest rules and various prizes available. All Felin's Franks feature Philadelphia Phillies players. This sample card is #10 John Meyer. Virtually every example of Felin's Franks in the collecting world originates from a single small find of approximately sixty cards, which surfaced in the Philadelphia area during the mid-1980s. Over the years, there has been some speculation that this hot dog-set was never released. Robert Edward Auctions is very comfortable going on record that we are absolutely certain this set was never released, and that is why all of the few known ex

The Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens aren't going to relive last season at training camp this summer. The first full- squad practice Thursday will mark the beginning of a renewed quest for greatness, making the Ravens vastly similar to each of the other 31 NFL teams. "To me, it feels like we're working to get a Super Bowl, because there are a lot of new people, a lot of new faces," offensive tackle Bryant McKinnie said. "The chemistry has to grow with all the new people and everything. Different people have to play different roles this year, as far as stepping up and becoming leaders." This team has undergone a vast makeover in the months since Baltimore defeated San Francisco 34-31 in the Super Bowl. The retirement of linebacker Ray Lewis, the trade of wide receiver Anquan Boldin and the loss of free agents Ed Reed, Paul Kruger, Cary Williams, Bernard Pollard and Vonta Leach means Ravens will defending their title with an altered cast of characters. Five things to know as the Ravens open camp: 1. M

Is Spanish cinema a victim of Almodovar's success? Spain's best-known director says British distributors are to blame for the paucity of Iberian cinema over here. What do you think? Pedro Almodovar Pedro Almodovar promotes his most recent film, Volver at Cannes 2006. Photograph: Francois Guillot/Getty Your seats, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, for this week's trial- by-blog (fingers crossed there'll be another one next Tuesday). The dispute centres on a recent Guardian article headlined "The curse of Almodovar", which highlighted the problems faced by those Spanish exports that are not "un film de Almodovar". "The Spanish film industry churns out up to 100 features a year," explained the writer, Paul Julian Smith. "Of these we in the UK get to see perhaps four or five .... Ironically, it seems that one super-sized name can capsize a national film industry by monopolising international interest." This morning the article prompted an angry response from the super-sized name himself. Pedro Almodovar wrote

Take the 2-minute tour × I am creating a small company, and would like to send out emails to my clients once they have signed up for my service to activate their accounts. I am currently using PHP's mail() function, however I am worried that my emails are being filtered out by spam filters. Is there a better way to go about this? $email = 'XZY Client Email address @ somedomain.com'; $emailSubject = "Welcome to XYZ Service!"; $to = $email; $subject .= "".$emailSubject.""; $headers .= "From: [email protected]\r\n" . "X-Mailer: php"; $message = "<html><body>"; $message .= "Welcome to XYZ Service! \n Activate your account by clicking the following link: link..."; Is there a way to authenticate these emails so that my clients know that they are from my actual service? Thank you in advance! share|improve this question There are lots of reasons messages get caught as spam. HTML-only instead of multipart/mime including both plain & html is one of them. A no-reply from header is another. Some filters are

How do you squirt? Average Rating: Your Rating:  enlightenment(Age:25 to 29) Category: Sexuality My boyfriend loves squirters and I want to figure out how I can do it for him to turn him on. Any pointers? 3000 characters left  Anonymous Question Id     From Guys   From Girls   What Guys Said • HAMMER77777 i just let my wife p*ss on me...close enough • Answerer • Question Asker nope...not at all • HAMMER77777 • Question Asker again...you don't understand how it works obviously • HAMMER77777 if he bangs you hard enough you will • Question Asker yeah...you don't get it • dsuarez41 WOW! I just responded this on another question.. All right... I like this.. There's no better thing than finding someone who wants to learn something new. 1st: You must had done pee before you do this. Since your squirt will come from you urethra which is the passage that your pee comes from. So, you must drink lots of water during the day to clean your system up. Y

Wiki User Tools: Help View Page Source Marvel Universe  Sin- Eater (Stanley Carter) Marvel Universe Real Name Stanley Carter Publicly known Place of Birth Ft. Meade, Maryland First Appearance Spectacular Spider-Man #107 (1985) Spectacular Spider-Man #110, Spectacular Spider-Man #134 The death of police officer Captain Jean Dewolff came as a shock to everyone who knew her including the superhero known as Spider-Man. Wanting to help in the investigation, Spider-Man met Sergeant Stan Carter, the lead detective on the case, in order to trade information. The police were stumped as to who committed the crime, but were determined to find her killer. Later that day, Daredevil, in his civilian identity as lawyer Matt Murdock, was threatened at gun-point by a man calling himself the Sin-Eater. Playing like he was a helpless blind man, Matt tried to speak with the intruder until he could get the drop on him. Unfortunately, Judge Horace Rosenthal, a friend of Murdock’s, walked in on them, and even though he

Virat Kohli, Gautam Gambhir warned for ugly spat Virat Kohli, Gautam Gambhir warned for ugly spatBangalore: Skippers Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir, who were involved in an ugly spat during Royal Challengers` match against the Knight Riders, were warned and reprimanded for breaching the IPL code of conduct. Kohli and Gambhir were involved in an on-field altercation after the former was dismissed in the 10th over of the innings. As Gambhir and other players walked towards cover region to celebrate the dismissal, Kohli instead of trudging back to the pavilion walked towards short extra cover and apparently made a remark. Suddenly, Gambhir was seen walking angrily towards his junior India teammate. However it was another Delhi lad Rajat Bhatia, who got in between them and tried to calm Gambhir down. Both skippers admitted to the Level One offence (Article 2.1.4) of using language or a gesture that is obscene, offensive or insulting during the match.

HOME > Chowhound > Food Media & News > Nov 1, 2009 06:10 PM Next Iron Chef America - Indian Challenge (Spoilers) OK. So who else was happy that Nate Appleman was eliminated? Chef Trevino cooked beef in an Indian cuisine challenge? What was he thinking? Chef Mehta did not walk away with either the quick challenge with his one bite! 1. Click to Upload a photo (10 MB limit) 1. i do not mind at all that Chef Appleman is gone, and I was very happy Chef Mehta did not take either challenge. :) 1. Clearly, these chefs should have participated in COTM this month so they knew what they were cooking..... 1. Very happy to see both Appleman eliminated and Mehta not declared the winner. Apparently snapper prepared like southern American fried catfish with a side of sneering cockiness isn't enough to be the next Iron Chef. This was an excellent episode because it showed that you can't be an Iron Chef just cooking your own cuisine and if you cook your own cuisine it better be amazing.

Other Love Before I left on a trip to New York many years ago, I called an old college buddy who'd grown up there and asked him for restaurant recommendations. He gave me about ten names, including an eatery on the edge of Chinatown that he said served some of the best Chinese food he'd ever eaten. Since my friend was from Taiwan originally, I visited the restaurant with high expectations. So imagine my disappointment when I was handed a menu filled with the usual tired sesame-chicken and orange-beef offerings; I then proceeded to eat one of the more humdrum meals of my Big Apple experience. After I returned home, I called my friend and asked what was up--at which point he sheepishly admitted that he'd forgotten to give me a crucial bit of information: To eat the real Chinese food at this place, you had to go around to the alley and enter through the back door of the restaurant. Lucky for me, I returned to New York that year and went to the same Chinese restaurant, this time nervously sneaking around to the

View Full Version : Pseudo 60 FPS tech comes too late to make it into TFU 2 Char Ell 08-28-2010, 08:41 AM Saw a tweet about this article and found it of interest. Eurogamer.net - LucasArts' 60FPS Force Unleashed II tech demo (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-force- unleashed-60fps-tech-article) The article has links to download sites for the actual video. Too bad that this innovation didn't make it into TFU 2 but the article states this was due to the fundamental change this would have made to the existing game design. Perhaps TFU 3 will overcome the rumors of its early demise and use this tech or maybe it will find its way into another LucasArts game. 09-01-2010, 12:31 AM Developers often use pixel shaders to "cover-up" any oddities. That's why all Unreal Engine 3 games use film grain, motion blur, depth of field, and a hundred other effects to compensate for UE3's lack of anti-aliasing. Mirror's Edge on the PC looks abysmally jagged and rough without motion blur and depth of field, but

When Musicians Mix How to create the right conditions for success and train your musicians to mix sound. The time is right to train your community’s musicians and artists to mix sound. Over the past 50 years technical systems within most churches have increased in complexity to meet the ever changing demands of modern ministry. This lead to the introduction of a new role within the Church: the audio technician, the working professional with the appropriate technical background to make it all work together in harmony. However times are changing. With the advent of digital audio workstations, music producers have taken on more and more of the engineering responsibility as the tools they use have evolved to better support their creative workflow. Now that many churches have transitioned their mixing systems to digital, technical directors have a unique opportunity to create the conditions your musical community needs to participate in mixing sound. What follows is a 10 point plan designed to create the cond

Take the tour × I often send mobi files to my Kindle using the email and I also use Instapaper to send myself links weekly. Till now I only used this feature with my Kindle connected to the Wi-Fi. I guess that if it's not connected I'd receive my stuff as soon as I connect my Kindle to my Wi-fi network. But a few questions arise: 1. How much stuff can be stored in the amazon.com storage before they just drop the data? (I guess they can't have endless storage) 2. For how long will Amazon.com keep my stuff on the server if my Wi-Fi connection won't turn on? On my account I have the following settings: • Whispersync turned on. • Personal Document Archiving NOT enabled. share|improve this question Have you asked Amazon or checked their site for this information? –  ChrisF Jan 3 '12 at 10:43 I checked their site but I couldn't find any information about this. I didn't ask directly to them, though –  Emiliano Jan 3 '12 at 11:35 add comment 1 Answer I'm pretty sure that once it's synced to your devic

Notes: This is a manga-based fic set after the end of the series. It was inspired by Duel 8 - The Poison Man. By: SilvorMoon The classroom was abuzz with the usual chatter. Yugi watched his fellow students mill around, feeling faintly amazed that the world could be so quiet and normal in the wake of all that had happened to it. Some days it still felt like only yesterday that he and his partner had been busy saving the world together - Yugi still felt like he would wake up and find the Millennium Puzzle and its inhabitant there waiting for him. The ache of loss had faded a bit by now, but he doubted he would ever look at the world quite the same way ever again. "Hey, Yugi, wake up!" Yugi jumped and looked around to find Honda leaning over him. "Sorry, just thinking!" said Yugi. Honda laughed. "Nah, it's okay. I just wanted to ask your opinion on something. Look here!" He spread a catalogue out across Yugi's desk. The pages were filled with glossy pictures of various electronic items, several of which

The best sentences we read today - "'I got white hair,' he says. 'It sticks out of my baseball cap. If you're old, why would you be pretending to be someone else who's old? Using their picture?'" - "Minimizing cheating is a terrible top priority. The top priority should be teaching students better." - "If you’re conceding—and it sounds like you are—that your fears are built atop academic prototypes and long-term tech projections, then it follows that your case is as thin as any other futurist’s." Also on Wonkblog

In NYC.... Sunday, February 19, 2012 This Means War....Between Me & All Those Snobs Who Dissed It! My wife and I were looking for some light comic relief today, and decided to go see This Means War (the new action/romcom hybrid starring Reese Witherspoon, the young Captain Kirk, and an English actor largely unknown in the US, Tom Hardy), despite our both having seen some REALLY strongly negative reviews. Something about the concept of the film drew us, and we went in without overly high expectations. I am so glad we did, because it turned out to be exactly what Reese Witherspoon said it was in an interview I heard-----a witty, fast-paced, cleverly constructed hybrid that winks at the audience at every single step, inviting discerning filmgoers to let their hair down and enjoy a well constructed and (most important) unpretentious romp. Which is why I am diverging from my usual Austenian fare to vent my spleen at the herd of top critics who have all apparently scared each other into conformity,

La elected officials take sides on Voting Rights arguments Advocate Washington bureau WASHINGTON -- Louisiana could soon come out of the oversight of the federal government on voting procedures, depending on how the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a case heard Wednesday. The Supreme Court case involves Shelby County, Ala., challenging the requirement of nine mostly Southern states, including Louisiana, to acquire federal approval for any changes to voting procedures. The issue pertains to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that was created in the aftermath of racial discrimination and voter suppression efforts that occurred in Louisiana and other states. Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler, who is a Republican, said he hopes the provision is repealed or at least "strongly relaxed." But those who disagreed with Shelby County argued that the Section 5 provision is ensuring voting moves forward properly in a world with reduced, but still existing, discrimination. Discrimination is "strongly on

WELCOME 2 THE THUGZ SITE!, submitted by Nordo. I'm not ashamed to admit that this ALoD is hands-down the absolute most hilarious waste of bandwidth that I've read in months, excluding the times I've had to refresh Something Awful to make sure the server hadn't been hit by an errant air molecule and consequently gone down for the last six hours. The "THUGZ" are the most hardcore Worms clan you'll ever meet, assuming you'll ever find another group of people who admit to forming a clan based around the game Worms. There are so many wads of pure gold on this page that I don't know where to begin. Oh well, let me start with the opening page, where viewers are treated to the following cryptic flying greeting: Yes. "Welco Me 2." That sounds like one of the bleak space mining colonies in those shitty futuristic sci-fi movies starring Rutger Hauer as "The Old Ugly Guy Who Shoots First and Is Too Dumb To Ask Questions Later." Like most hardcore websites, the author chose to make the background 100% black and the text

Thursday, May 03, 2012 Violating the office and position I want to point out that the very vocal anti American clowns at OWS who don military and police uniforms at political events are violating US laws. There are numerous laws agaainst this behavior and people like Ray Lewis and Shamar Thomas should be prosecuted. A mentally deranged Thomas was viewed on tape screaming and foaming at NYPD officers who were remarkably restrained durring his temper tantrums. The media portrayal of the event could not be further from the truth. This was the case of a publicity seeking imbecile abusing his former status as a member of the military to aid and abet Communists and Anarchists seeking to provoke the NYPD and ordinary NYC resdents into violent counter reactions to their provokations. The script is familiar and really fools nobody who is familiar with the thugs, losers and morons of OWS.  A police officer is provoked by lawless behavior and the cameras film screeching protesters screaming about police brutality. D

Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:18:17 -0500 "Wycliffe only did for England what Matthew and Mark did for the Roman world. Christianity from its beginning spoke the tongue of the peasant" (Glassman, Eugene. The Translation Debate: What Makes a Bible Translation Good? Downer Grove: IVP, 1981. The two basic approaches, formal correspondance or dynamic equivalence leads to four types of translations: 1. highly literal 2. modified literal (KJV, NKJV, NASB etc) 3. idiomatic (NEB, NIV, TEV, NLT etc. 4. unduly free (LB and other paraphrases). Acceptable types are 2 and 3 for me. If I'm reading historical narrative, I like the idiomatic type. If I'm studying logical discourse, I like modified literal type. The important thing is to read the Bible. Whichever type translation works for you, use it. Fred Haltom

Subject: An idea on font management To: None <> From: Masao Uebayashi <> List: tech-pkg Date: 03/01/2002 01:34:35 I have an idea that how we can manage fonts. This idea is not yet complete, but not so bad to be shared with you, I think. own domains as symbolic links. There need some casts. They can look like fonts-common - the main font manager fonts-x - X font manager intlfonts - intlfonts The main font package, `fonts-common', owns the main font directory and provides the Pkgsrc font user interface (pkgfontscfg???), with which users can view what fonts are available on the system. `fonts-x' is kind of a driver of configuration scripts. Or simply a wrapper of mkfontdir and/or mkttfdir in the case of X. `intlfonts' has real fonts, and `intlfonts-x' is a set of symlinks from the real fonts to X font directories. When `intlfonts-x' is installed, it doesn't do configuration, but kicks the `fonts-x' Font file naming for real fonts doesn't matter because fonts looked at by programs are sy

Take the tour × I want to test for example int orderId = myRepository.SubmitOrder(orderA); orderB = myRepository.GetOrder(orderId); Assert.AreEqual(orderA, orderB); // fail Obviously I need a value comparison here, but I don't want to have to provide an overridden Equals implementation for all of my classes purely for the sake of testing (it wouldn't be of any use in the rest of the app). Is there a provided generic method that just checks every field using reflection? Or if not, it is possible to write my own? EDIT: As it seems people are kind of missing the point. I don't want to have to write my own comparison logic. That would require hundreds of lines of extra code. I'm looking for something like a generic bool ContainSameValues<T>(T t1, T t2) method which recursively uses reflection to pull out all the values in T. FURTHER EDIT: Since it doesn't appear there is any built in support for doing something like this, you can see my (failed) attempt at writing my own here share|improve this questio

Here’s what’s next Swedish furniture giant IKEA says it pulled nearly 18,000 prepackaged elk meat lasagnas from its European stores because they were contaminated with pork meat. Belgian officials discovered in late March that elk meat produced by Swedish food manufacturer Familjen Dafgard contained just over 1 percent pork, The Local.se reported Saturday. Familjen Dafgard supplies IKEA with elk meat for its lasagnas. At that time, IKEA held more than 11,000 tons of lasagna at its central warehouse. The company pulled 17,600 packages of lasagna from its stores throughout Europe without telling customers why, the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported… Familjen Dafgard said the contamination was due to its facilities not being properly cleaned between the handling of different kinds of meats, the BBC said. I guess that’s supposed to be a “good” reason. “Together with our supplier, we have implemented improvements to ensure that our products should not contain any other ingredients than those declar

PokeBase Battle Subway Meta-PokeBase Q&A Professionals getting more votes! 12 votes Sometimes I see that some of the Experts and Moderators get more votes than anyone else. Please tell me if it is just me. But I know this Q will be hidden Sigh. Here`s an example. asked Dec 18, 2012 by Infiniti edited Mar 17 by Infiniti Why are you bringing this back up? Honestly the only reason you would post it in the first place is because your point hungry because it honestly doesn't matter when the higher users get points. This was finished months ago and the example you gave was from 2010? Everybody had the ability to vote lol. Look at DarthDestiny on some of his answers he would be getting 11 votes for like a one word answer. the higher users get more votes because people like you give them votes... This is done already But I don`t care about points. It`s just that they get more votes than other people. And that`s just not fair. Other people might be annoyed,case closed. If you don't care about points then why the

Attn: All Ontario, Canada Dog Owners James Bond, NPC ADOPTED!!! I'm a Lover, Not- A Fighter! Barked: Mon Sep 24, '07 8:35am PST  September 20, 2007 A Message For All Ontario Dog Owners By Lori Gray Please remember to VOTE on Oct 10th. Thank Dalton McGuinty for stripping rights from Ontario dog owners! Thanks for targeting the responsible owners in your lame attempt to protect the public from dangerous dogs! What this (previous) story illustrates is that the message from above is that it's OK to persecute people based on a subjective belief and that if they are perceived as easy targets, all the better. I hope Dalton McGuinty realizes dog owners in Ontario have a strong message for him and his Liberal caucus on Oct 10th. We are sending a message they cannot ignore. Say NO to the Liberals on Oct 10th! If you are an Ontario dog owner and your pet could be even remotely construed to be a 'pit bull' as described in the Ontario Liberals' pet piece of discriminatory legislation. Until the Ontario law is over

Gem Version Build Status Coverage Status Dependency Status Code Climate The Geokit gem provides: • Distance calculations between two points on the earth. Calculate the distance in miles, kilometers, meters, or nautical miles, with all the trigonometry abstracted away by Geokit. • Geocoding from multiple providers. It supports Google, Yahoo,, and geocoders, and others. It provides a uniform response structure from all of them. It also provides a fail-over mechanism, in case your input fails to geocode in one service. • Rectangular bounds calculations: is a point within a given rectangular bounds? • Heading and midpoint calculations Combine this gem with the geokit-rails to get location-based finders for your Rails app. • If you need help, use Stack Overflow. (Tag 'geokit' and we'll be alerted) • If you found a bug, use GitHub issues. • If you have an idea, use GitHub issues. • If you'd like to ask a general question, use GitHub issues. • If you want to contribute, submit a pull request.

From: Erik Naggum <> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 01:53:11 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <> * Erann Gat | whether using symbols instead of keywords is a good idea or not, but you | refuse to do that too. SO JUST DO IT! What is hell _wrong_ with you, man? You cannot even do what you "would much prefer" if somebody else manages to derail you, and more than that: you seem to seek _excuses_ to get derailed to begin with. But the _reason_ you do not do this is that you are lying about what you would much prefer. You say that only to blame me for your own problems. I do not wish to engage you in debate, Erann Gat, because you are clearly clinically insane. I only want you to stop obsessing about me, which includes, but is not limited to, your talking about me, attacking me, harrassing me, and making me and my person more important than anything you could possibly have done in a public forum by virtue of switching to discuss me at every goddamn opportunity.. That you cease and

December 11, 2013 Change Without Judgment — Beware: Reasons Always Win (Part 4) This is Part 4 of a series called “Change Without Judgment.” If you have not read Part 1, Part 2, or Part 3, go back and read them now. We’ll wait, and you’ll be glad you did. Suppose we get past all those judgments and accusations and start moving toward the change we want. Does that mean we’ve put the negativity behind us for good? Unfortunately, no. In fact, be warned: the longer we keep moving forward, the more we’ll hear those judgments again and again. At first, they’re bombastic and in your face. Over time, they get sneakier, camouflaging themselves as just plain reasonable and prudent common sense. Maybe you’ve heard some of those already: “Hasn’t this gone on long enough?” “Isn’t it about time you gave up this nonsense and got a real job?” “Haven’t you made your spouse/ family/ friends suffer enough?” Talk about a guilt trip. I do an exercise in my workshops where I ask people to list all the reasons why they can’t h

Lego Carrier Carrier 700x411 Lego Carrier Please like MCS on Facebook Leave a comment ? 7 Responses to Lego Carrier 1. Or… you could have got laid 2. Faggot, that’s why GI JOE made the U.S.S. Flagg. 3. …and then the big wave came and all the nifty LEGO planes and personnel were washed off deck. >_< 4. I’ll pay good money for a video of this thing floating in the middle of a lake while being buzzed w/ RC helicopters & planes, or shot at with fireworks ’til it sinks. 5. i would fucking loveeeeeeeeeee to blow that thing up.

Quick links:  Latest Team Rankings  Free Text Alerts  Member Services ShopMobileRadio RSSRivals.com Yahoo! Sports September 26, 2012 Wake Forest (3-1, 1-1 ACC) enters Saturday's bout against Duke with more than a conference contest on the line, but a 12-game winning streak versus the in-state rival. The Demon Deacons got a much-needed win under their belts Saturday, Sept. 22 with a 49-37 decision against Army (0-3). Jim Grobe and select players discussed this week's challenges the Blue Devils bring and more. Wake Forest head coach Jim Grobe You're defense will have a totally different look this week won't it? "Yeah, Coach [David] Cutcliffe and his offense are always tough to handle. They score lots of points and lots of yards, but just spending the whole week trying to stop the running game and then turn right around and go back to a really solid passing-attack." "And I thought their running game was impressive against Memphis Saturday. They got that going a little better, so they'll be a challenge."

Software Engineering: Function Point Analysis: Effort Estimation Intro Counting Data FPs Transactional FPs Estimation After you have a function point count, Rapid Development has the necessary formulas to compute the total effort in man-months, the optimal schedule time in months, and the number of lines of code (LOC). The following abbreviations are used here: Choose type of project and team capabilities. Jones's first-order estimation gives an estimate for optimal schedule months from the function point count. First you must choose the appropriate exponent, j, to use by identifying the type of system and the general capability of the development team. Exponents for Jones's first-order estimate Kind of softwareBest in classAverageWorst in class Systems 0.430.450.48 Business 0.410.430.46 Calculate schedule months from function points Jones's first order estimate formula uses the exponent, j, from the above table to compute schedule months, s, from function points, f. Schedule months do not include the

Star Trek Online Star Trek Online ( -   Tribble - General Discussion and Feedback ( -   -   Why This Testing Isn't Working ( thlaylierah 11-02-2012 10:23 PM Why This Testing Isn't Working There are NO people in any of the Space STF ques. Thus no way of making Omega Marks. Thus my disappointment. Make marks available for non qued missions. tom61sto 11-02-2012 10:51 PM There's no display of numbers of the people in the queues, but there are people here and there in the queues. Infected Space usually has a decent turn out during prime time, try joining it. The new Into the Hive Space one also has people going for it usually (being the new STF today). thlaylierah 11-02-2012 10:53 PM I qued for all 3 "old" STF Space missions and finally got into a pretty good group for Infected and we got the optional! That said, I hope the wait isn't always that long. Now I don't understand the Upgrade job asking me for 5 of the Borg Neural things in exchange for rep? tom61sto 11-02-2012 11:22 PM For this time of da

Announcements‎ > ‎ Weekend DEJs posted Oct 21, 2014, 5:33 AM by Marc Williams   [ updated Oct 21, 2014, 5:37 AM ] “Get a Knife, Get a Dog, But Get Rid of Guns” p. 198 (24 points) 1. Describe the three most intriguing arguments made. How does Ivins support those arguments? (6 points) 2. Identify the use of appeals in the argument? How do they increase the effectiveness of the argument? What other techniques could the author employ to increase the effectiveness of her argument? 3. Examine the analogy between guns and cars. How does it hold up? Where does it break down? 4. Identify Ivins’s thesis. Choose to defend or challenge this argument. What support would you use in your argument? “The Case for Torture” p. 400 5. What is Levin’s thesis? How does he support this notion? 6. Discuss the idea of torture as punishment as it pertains to Levin’s argument.  7. Discuss torture to save lives as it pertains to Levin’s argument.  8. Choose to defend or challenge Levin’s argument. Use three current events to suppor

Executive chef Alex Stanislaw simmers lehua honey with guava concentrate for a few minutes and then cools it and pours it into a squirt bottle. He wraps scallops in half a slice of par- baked bacon and puts two of them on skewers. He squirts them with the honey glaze and bakes them on a sheet pan.He drizzles plates with teriyaki sauce and makes designs with the guava- honey mixture. He also drizzles the plate with chive oil and sprinkles it with chile powder. He puts three skewers on each ... Register to view this article Why Register? Already registered? here.

Feb 2, 2006 Disneyland "Art of Animation" poster Here's a copy of the Disneyland poster for the brief "Art of Animation" display that was stationed in--of all places--Tomorrowland from 1960-1966. One of the lesser designs for these gigantic sheets, but interesting for its subject. Adjacent to the exhibit were bins of cels that customers could paw through at will (yes, that's how it was described to me by someone who was there, and bought plenty of them)--everything from "Alice In Wonderland" to "Peter Pan", "Sleeping Beauty", numerous TV programs and shorts, etc....all for just a few dollars each. I wonder what the thinking was, doing this attraction in Tomorrowland? Perhaps it was just a space issue. It'd be nice to see something like this return, wouldn't it? In more recent times my friends and I always looked forward to the corner area in Main Street with small displays of upcoming animation projects(defunct last time I was there--crowded out by the ubiquitous t shirt displays that so overran the entir

Supply Chain Management …..the Netflix way July 13, 2012 by As a loyal customer of Netflix since 2008, or whenever it became available to stream on Xbox, I have been completely satisfied with my subscription…..until…..the whole Qwikster fiasco. As was probably the case with almost every subscriber at the time of the price and company changes, I was extremely upset.  I was very happen with the product I was getting and I was extremely happy with the price I was paying for it.  One factor i never noticed until taking Operations Management was how it directly influenced Netflix’s business decisions. Please check out this article by CNET,;morePosts …I know it is kind of lengthy, but it really gives the inside look into why Netflix’s CEO did what he did.(regardless of if he was wrong or right) Netflix success was founded on there efficient structure of Supply Chain Management.  They became the best at delivering movies straight to the customer.  Netflix, with the help from the internet, can claim that they k

Student murder - fresh appeal View all 7 updates › "Don't let the cowards who took my son's life kill again." Samuel Guidera was stabbed to death in 2011. Credit: Met Police handout Samuel's parents, Sarah and Chris Guidera, said that his death had given them a life sentence. They said: "We still feel a sense of anger and all we can do is continue to cope with each day as it comes, with the help of medication, family, friends, whatever it takes. As parents we have seen the devastation and heartbreak it has caused Sam's brother and sister, other family members and friends. "It could be somebody reading this who gets the call about the savage death of a loved one next..... "Time is not a healer, we will never get back to normal; the people we were before no longer exist. So please look at your son, brother, uncle, think how you would miss them and if you know anything come forward; don't let the cowards who took my son's life kill again." More top news

Hacktivist group AntiSec has released what it claims are 1,000,001 Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) that were allegedly obtained from an FBI breach. The anti-security group, which is loosely associated with Anonymous, claims that this leak is just a small piece of the original file, which it says contains 12,367,232 UDIDs, in some cases with associated personal data. AntiSec released the set of 1,000,001 UDIDs on Pastebin, a website where Anonymous and AntiSec routinely store the text announcements of their various conquests. The group says it has “trimmed out” other personal data, including full names, cellphone numbers, addresses, and ZIP codes. The purported purpose of the leak is so that users can look up their own UDIDs, which are unique identifiers assigned to each and every iOS device that Apple makes. According to the group, the list of 12,367,232 UDIDs was obtained from the Dell Vostro notebook computer of Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl of the FBI Regional Cyber Action Team and New Yo

Dyscalculia: the social math of multiplicity Throughout history and across many cultures, there have been various phenomena that fall under the umbrella of multiplicity: the experience of more than one self in one body. Modern psychiatry has pathologized this as Multiple Personality Disorder (now Dissociative Identity Disorder) but many multiples are now coming forward as healthy, functional groups of people who don't seek a psychiatrist to "integrate" them. This is a collection of short essays, poems, and doodles by our group, trying to explain our experiences and how other people have treated us when they discover our multiplicity. Topics include depersonalization, human rights, gender and sexuality issues, psychiatry, alienation, and struggling to learn how to co-operate as a collective when joined at the hip. dyscalculia.pdf1.17 MB Incorrect please try again Enter the words above: Enter the numbers you hear:

Saudi, US officials pledge response to tight oil markets Nick Snow Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, DC, May 18 -- Saudi Arabian and US government officials expressed their determination May 17 to respond to tight oil markets that have pushed prices above $50/bbl. But they emphasized that their countries wouldn't be able to solve the problem by themselves. "Let me assure you that Saudi Arabia is responding to the challenges we face in today's oil market," said Ali I. al-Naimi, Saudi minister of petroleum and mineral resources. Efforts include offering additional crude oil as needed, expanding production capacity to meet future demand and maintain spare capacity, building refineries while expanding existing plants domestically and abroad, upgrading the Saudi tanker fleet, and investing in new technology, he said. Achieving stable oil prices and balanced markets requires a global effort, Naimi told a Washington conference sponsored by Saudi Aramco, Chevron Corp., and the Center for Strategic and Interna

Digital Spy Search Digital Spy Reality TV News 'Jersey Shore' recap: 'Where is my boyfriend?' Jersey Shore's latest episode opens with Snooki about to face the consequences of bashing into a police car. She's just been ushered into the back of another police car while the boys whizz through the Italian traffic with her driving licence. Unfortunately, they don't reach her in time so it's off to the station for Snooki and passenger Deena where the boys have to wait two hours to pick them up. The outcome? A revoked licence but, as Snooki tells us, that is fine by her because she has no intention of ever tackling Italian roads again. Jersey Shore S04E07 Snooki can now concentrate on the impending arrival of boyfriend Jionni, although there is bad news for JWoww - her boyfriend Roger can't come anymore because of work commitments. She's understandably devastated so the girls - minus Snooki - take her out for drinks while the boys head off on their own BNO. This means Snooki - who wanted a chill night - i

DNA Lights In the last ten years, countless personal genomics companies have popped up. From 23andMe to Family Tree DNA to Ancestry.com, these services mostly focus on health markers and genealogy. Undoubtedly, those are excellent uses for genetic testing but that isn’t the complete story of the human genome. Inside the cells of every human being lies the key to understanding our shared history as a species. As it turns out, we can use our genes to help track every major migration that humanity has ever experienced. Dr. Spencer Wells and his team at the Genographic Project are taking it upon themselves to test hundreds of thousands of people from all over the globe to help garner a better understanding of human populations and migrations. Traditional and indigenous populations from all over the globe have been DNA tested, and currently anyone interested can buy a personal test for $200. Dr. Wells was kind enough to sit down for a phone interview this week. I spoke to the world- renown geneticist and the fac

Chapter 10: Old Stone Caedmon acknowledges Marin's discontent as she enters the room, but at the discovery of what appears to be a secret door his focus clearly shifts back to the search. "Indeed Marin, and here we are. Though I do not see how it is opened. Perhaps we should check amongst the supplies on the other walls." Turning to the wall of carefully arrayed barrels he begins inspecting each one carefully probing with his knife when necessary. "We should have brought another light, we can't search each on our own with only one torch" grumbles Marin looking in what is left of the firewood pile for a branch still stable enough or enough splinters to make a small bonfire. "What do you think is on the other side of that door, Caedmon? If this is the state of what should have been remembered, I can't imagine how would be what has been forgotten" Up on top of the wall, Alelip continues his silent vigil, waiting for Marin and Cademon to return, while keeping an Dice Roll: d20 Results: 1 (Total = 4) eye on

Film: Short Films Production: 'Deadline' (See all 5 roles) Holly Warner (Supporting) This listing has expired. Search for similar casting calls Production Details Female, ages 30-45, Caucasian Role Description Holly Warner: (Supporting) the wife of Ted Warner, host of "The Final Word" (think "The O'Reilly Factor), it is a May-December romance, mother to their son Brandon, while Ted likes to preach family values and brags about being home with the family, the fact is he is rarely around and it's Holly who does everything, not unlike the long- suffering wife of a politician who must always be supportive and provide a shoulder to cry on, but who must remain behind the scenes for the most part, has dealt with her fair share of problems in the marriage (infidelity for sure), but her traditional and strict Catholic upbringing has played a major role in her willingness to stay and try to work things out. Holly Sides Ugh, we had quite the adventure today. The lugs on the back tire nearly fell off as we

Mechanic Infantry Overview Our Rating User Rating ( 0 Ratings ) Game Information Mechanic Infantry Review Aug 31, 2011 Some people say that watching TV is bad for you. That's all well and good, but why does no one ever consider what's bad for the TV? Won't someone please think of the television set? In the world of Mechanic Infantry, TV is being wiped out, and you're tasked with pelting around, dodging nasty robots and saving your telly friends. Read more » Get Gamezebo daily updates in your inbox

In SE ks the hedge hog saw his shadow, so more bad weather, but this year s much like last winter. Rather mild. Only one 2 inch snow and little other moisture. So the six weeks of similar weather won't be bad. But it is the first of Feb still and there is lots of winter left. There are 10 kinds of people. Those that understand binary and those that don't.

Accelerometer Toy Accelerometer Toy Along with the Readings page you have the Bounce page. As with the Readings page, the Bounce page is a simple demonstration on the accelerometer where a green ball moves about the screen as you tilt and move your Windows Phone. As with the Readings page, if you want to stop the ball from bouncing about you can hit the stop button. There's not much to this page but many will find themselves bouncing the ball about for minutes on end. Accelerometer Toy isn't going to appeal to everyone but it's a simple, clean looking app that demonstrates your Windows Phone accelerometer nicely. It would be nice to change the color of the ball or maybe add multiple balls to bounce about though. Accelerometer Toy is a free app for your Windows Phone 8 device and you can snatch it up here at the Windows Phone Store. QR: Accelerometer Toy

Phrase Structure Grammar A grammar describes the structure of the sentences of a language in terms of components, or phrases. The mathematical description of phrase structure grammars is due to Chomsky.[See, for example, Aho, A. V. and Ullman, J. D., The Theory of Parsing, Translation, and Compiling, Prentice-Hall, 1972; Hopcroft, J. E. and Ullman, J. D., Formal Languages and their Relation to Automata, Addison-Wesley, 1969.] Formally, a Grammar is a four-tuple G = (T, N, S, P) where: Contents    Page-10    Prev    Next    Page+10    Index

Take the tour × I know there is no single correct answer to my question, so I would be grateful if mods could turn my question into community wiki. I’m looking for a book about information architecture in everyday life outside Internet. The books I’ve read so far focus on architecturing information on the Internet. However, I can see lots of things that are informing us in a misleading way on the streets, public transport, etc. Just two cases I recall: • When I go by bus to the city centre, an information board shows the current date, and names celebrated this day. There is no information about the next stop that I look for but every three minutes all stops names are displayed in a small font sliding quickly. Fortunately, there are also trams in my city that provide information about next stop (and stops after it) in a clear way. So it is matter of usable design • When I was looking for a doctor in a backyard of one’s house, there was a set of arrows and labels on house informing both about doctor’s of

Take the 2-minute tour × I was wondering if there is a way to convert a number like 100u 10km 300nm and so on so that they are interpreted as: 100*10^-6 10*10^3 300*10^-6 I need to compare this numbers (100u 10km etc). For example if I want to compare 100u to 10u that's ok I just do the following, which is not correct but does the job: $distance =~ s/(.*)u/$1/; if ($distance >= $desired_distance) { printf $distance; where (.*) u is the number eg 100u. So i just remove the "u" and then compare it with a number. But what about if I have the number and I want to compare it with The above thing wouldn't help. share|improve this question add comment 3 Answers up vote 7 down vote accepted If there’s no CPAN module for that you can always roll your own: my %units = ( m => 1, km => 1000, mm => 0.001, for my $num (qw(10 10km 10mm)) { $num =~ /(\d+)(\w+)?/; my $value = $1; my $unit = $2 || 'm'; print "$num = ", $value*$units{$unit}, " m\n";

Powered by British interior designer Kelly Hoppen takes on TV The famous interior designer who has overhauled the Beckhams' home hits the small screen British interior designer Kelly Hoppen takes on TV Kelly Hoppen's soft and textural rooms sparkle against a neutral colour palette. Photograph by: Mel Yates , National Post She is designing the Kensington Palace apartment for William and Kate. She has designed homes for many celebrities including the Beckhams, and spearheaded the seminal "east meets west" design style. Here, she reveals the next step in her journey. Everyone has their personal bucket list, a mental file of things they'd like to do before it's too late. For me, it was television. I'd been asked many times to do a TV show, but I wanted to do it when I could have real input and make it properly. I'm pleased to say Superior Interiors will be shown in the United Kingdom next year (and may follow soon after in Canada). It's a little nerve-racking, to be honest. There are already quality TV s

One of the most stressful jobs in the NFL is the salary cap manager. He or she doesn’t get an untethered vacation, they are consistently clawed at by players and agents for more of the salary pie, and have to please a GM, a head coach and of course, their owner(s). In doing so, they are constantly negotiating year round to keep, acquire and cut salaries of players. When you do business long enough in the NFL, you get a good idea of how these cap managers operate. Including their strengths, their weaknesses and their tactics. Conversely, they also get a feel for the style and strategy of the multiple agents that they must deal with. The used car salesman can't always get the deal done. The Car Salesman: This cap manager has little authority to do a deal. He/she has to run back to the GM, or the HC or the owner on every move he/she makes. Just like a car salesman when he says they have to talk to the manager to authorize a deal. Ultimately, they are a mouthpiece in which a higher authority hides behind. The

Authoress: Michelle C. Date: October 5, 2002 Series: Yu-Yu Hakusho Disclaimers: Love the bishonen-red-head Kurama, but… sadly, I don't own him *sobs* I don't own any of the characters here (at least, I haven't developed one for the story yet.) The Ordeal Chapter 1             "Kuraaaamaaa…Kurrraaaamaaa…" said soft sing-song voice. " Kurama. Follow me, Kurama. Don't be frightened. Come," the voice said…             "Kurama? Kurama! Please wake up!" cried a very shaken Botan. "Kurama! What's wrong with you?" she asked while shaking the still body of Kurama. "Yuusuke! Kuwabara! Help me!"             Yuusuke and Kuwabara rushed to Botan's side. "Botan, hey, what's wrong?" asked Yuusuke.             "I-I don't know!" said the panic- stricken Botan. "One minute, Kurama and I were talking and the next minute, he collapsed." She turned her worried, tear- streaked face back to the unconscious red-head. Oh Kurama… Please be ok… she thought.             Kuwabara, who was silent throughout everything so far, gen

Defense secretary wants spending cuts... Really - Tina Dupuy You know what we value most as a nation by what we are not allowed to take on without widespread hysteria. The illuminating metaphor is known as the "third rail" of politics. Lose your footing and step on something, we as Americans, hold dear and - ZAP! Our most lethal third rails are cutting Medicare, cutting Social Security, cutting defense spending, and raising taxes. So, we can't cut anything and we can't ask citizens to pay for it. Our third rails have us painted into a mixed-metaphor corner. This all could be a quaint ideological tug-o-war between Left and Right: Left wants to spend and tax. Right wants to cut and cut. If that were actually true, it would be as simple as choosing your side and making your case. Do you want to be taxed more or do you want the government to spend less? What's clouded this question is what the dreaded government actually is. For example: the slogan often used by right- wingers, "We are a nation of laws," is si

• December 9, 2013 College Presidents Are Too Complacent Michael Morgenstern for The Chronicle Enlarge Image close 5737-yankelovich Michael Morgenstern for The Chronicle This issue of The Chronicle features two important surveys of higher education: one with college presidents and one with the public. These new data give us a chance to take a second look at some of the trends I discussed in an article for The Chronicle in November 2005. At that time, those trends appeared to be pushing higher education into a new era of turmoil, crisis, and challenge. In sharp contrast to my 2005 article, the tone of the two new Chronicle surveys suggests to me the opposite of turmoil and crisis. Though some Americans grumble about not getting great value for their money, the vast majority are pretty well satisfied with the performance of higher education. Most Americans who have been exposed to higher education feel that their investment has been a sound one. A majority of college presidents believe that higher educat

1 Corinthians 6 (The Message) View In My Bible 1 And how dare you take each other to court! When you think you have been wronged, does it make any sense to go before a court that knows nothing of God's ways instead of a family of Christians? 2 The day is coming when the world is going to stand before a jury made up of Christians. If someday you are going to rule on the world's fate, wouldn't it be a good idea to practice on some of these smaller cases? 3 Why, we're even going to judge angels! So why not these everyday affairs? 4 As these disagreements and wrongs surface, why would you ever entrust them to the judgment of people you don't trust in any other way? 5 I say this as bluntly as I can to wake you up to the stupidity of what you're doing. Is it possible that there isn't one levelheaded person among you who can make fair decisions when disagreements and disputes come up? I don't believe it. 6 And here you are taking each other to court before people who don't even believe in God! How can they render j

Code Location: Ohloh Project Analysis Widelands is an open source (GPLed), realtime-strategy game, using SDL and other free librarys, which is still under development. Widelands is inspired by Settlers II™ (© Bluebyte) and is partly similiar to it, so if you know it, you perhaps will have a thought, what Widelands is all about. File Name LOCs Language --- ---

Book Talk: Turow's 'Identical' gives modern twist to Greek myth NEW YORK Thu Dec 12, 2013 4:07am EST Related Topics NEW YORK (Reuters) - Best-selling author Scott Turow turned to Greek mythology for his latest legal thriller, "Identical," which centers on a contemporary Greek-American family and community headed by a patriarch named Zeus. The story is loosely based on the myth of Castor, who is mortal, and his immortal brother Pollux, the twin sons of the Greek god Zeus. It includes key elements of Greek tragedy such as love, anger, devotion, deceit and incest. According to the myth, when Castor was killed his surviving brother Pollux wanted to share his immortality with him so they would not be separated. Zeus granted the wish and the twins were transformed into the constellation Gemini. In "Identical" one twin, Cass Giannis, is serving a prison sentence for a murder his brother Paul is sure he didn't commit. When Paul runs for mayor, the brother of the murder victim embarks on a television ad campaign

10 Best Black Filmmakers Friday, January 21 by Twynna Elpmertz Any real movie junkie will recognize the names of these 10 best Black filmmakers of all time, and those less familiar with the folks behind the screen will at least recognize the names of the films they made. If there is anyone or any movie on this last that you have not heard of, it is time for a trip to the video store. These ten people have created some of Hollywood’s most loved and most respected movies. 1. Spike Lee. In the past 20 years, Spike Lee has made more films than any other director, black or white, except Woody Allen. Founder of his own production company called 40 Acres and A Mule, Lee is perhaps most known for his Oscar-nominated 1989 film, "Do the Right Thing". 2. Oscar Micheaux. You have probably never heard of him, but this Black film-making pioneer from Illinois was the first Black man to make his own films. He made black and white silent films, including "The Homesteader" and "Body and Soul", and even started his own p

Speedlite 420EX Speedlite Flash Lineup Item Code: 4590A009 The new Speedlite 420EX is sure to appeal to EOS users everywhere with its combination of power, features and affordability. It's fully E-TTL compatible, and reverts to standard TTL operation when used on older EOS bodies or the T90. The fully swiveling bounce head zooms automatically over a range of 24mm-105mm. Most impressively, its Wireless E-TTL compatibility permits it to function as a "slave" unit, triggered by a 550EX; ST-E2, or MR-14EX. Any number of 420EX and 550EX Speedlites can be combined as "slave" units.

Maryland Department of Natural Resources Seismic Network Components The seismic network consists of a remote sensing station, equipment to transmit and receive data, a computer to log and display the data and an Internet connection to distribute the data. Signals from the seismometer are sent via a transmitter at Soldiers Delight to a receiver on the roof of the MGS building. From the rooftop receiver, the data signal is sent to a dedicated computer for processing, display and storage. The data is then made available on the Internet from our World Wide Web site. Seismic network data path Data Collection and Processing The Maryland Seismic Network uses a variety of software to collect, analyze and display data. Some of this software was developed by MGS, and some came from other sources.  Earth movements are detected by the seismometer and converted to a digital signal by the instrument's internal digitizer. The digitizer also compresses the data before it is transmitted to the Survey laboratories. The

A Guide to the Patriot Act, Part 2 The law, lawyers, and the court. Sept. 9 2003 6:30 PM A Guide to the Patriot Act, Part 2 Should you be scared of the Patriot Act? This is the second of a 4-part series about what's really in the USA Patriot Act. (Read Part 1 here.) Section 218 aka "FISA: It's everywhere you don't want to be" Section 218 amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a "bargain" struck in 1978 wherein the usual requirements for a police search—probable cause to believe a criminal act had occurred and a warrant—would be unnecessary in a teeny, tiny number of cases. That teeny, tiny number of cases just expanded dramatically. What it does: Secret searches can now be authorized by a secret court without public knowledge or Department of Justice accountability, so long as the government can allege there is any foreign intelligence basis for the search. The law before and how it changed: In 1978 the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act  created an exception to the Fourth Amendment's "

Ryan’s Hope: Don’t Cut Military Spending So Deeply • Share • Read Later Shannon Stapleton / REUTERS Sort: Newest | Oldest Kevin Brent Kevin Brent The author needs to just say no to crack. This is not Nazi Germany and the Founding Fathers had a reason for not making it a requirement to have been in the military to be President or Vice President. Get your fascism in check Thompson. Jim O'Neill Jim O'Neill Under Clinton, the federal government had a surplus and had begun to pay down the national debt.  It accomplished that with most of the social programs we have today.  The Bush jr tax cuts did away with the surplus and then two wars, one optional, created huge deficits.  Then the Great Recession dug us deeper into debt because during recessions, government spending goes up and revenues go down. So we are up to our eye balls in debt. I agree with Republcans that spending needs to be cut but I also think that revenue needs to be increased.  When you need more revenue, you have to go where t

Thursday 19 December 2013 Oxford University lecturer held over death of a science professor Oxford University Professor Steve Rawlings has been found dead at the home of a fellow academic Dr Devinder Sivia, who claimed that the victim had attacked him after they spent an evening out together. Prof Steve Rawlings (left) was found in the Oxfordshire home of Dr Devinder Sivia (right)  The body of Prof Steve Rawlings, 50, a married astrophysicist, was found at the Oxfordshire home of Dr Devinder Sivia, 49, a mathematics lecturer, late on Wednesday night. Police believe that the pair, said by neighbours to be "the best of friends", had an argument after returning to Dr Sivia's house following a meal at local pub. Prof Rawlings and Dr Sivia, who lectures at Tony Blair's alma mater St John's College, had been friends for many years. They co-wrote a book called Foundations of Science Mathematics, which was published in 1999. Dr Sivia was arrested at his bungalow in Southmoor and on Thursday night was being q

15:08, UK, Tuesday 22 September 2009 Tv expert says let the panda die out Giant pandas cost too much to protect and should be allowed to become extinct, television presenter Chris Packham has declared. The wildlife expert thinks the millions of pounds spent on trying to save the species could be better spent on other environmental projects. In an interview with Radio Times, he argues the money should be invested in the conservation of environments with a diverse range of flora and fauna, such as rainforests. "It's time to give up on the cute and cuddly because we just can't afford it and we need to think of a much bigger picture," he says on his website. It is estimated that there are only around 1,600 of the black and white bears left in China, with nearly 200 more being bred in captivity. The animals have become critically endangered as a result of their natural habitat being destroyed and also their reluctance to breed in the wild. Mr Packham says ongoing breeding programmes are pointless if there

Andrea Mitchell Sings A Song About How Her Husband Broke the CountryS DC's annual "Gridiron Club Dinner" is pretty much just like the White House Correspondents Assocation Dinner, except it's White Tie. Barack Obama skipped it, god bless him. It is maybe the best move he's made as president. Obama is now the first president since Grover Cleveland to skip a Gridiron dinner in his first year in office (and he's the first black president ever to skip it!), because he wanted to spend the weekend with his family, not at a too-cozy tone-deaf mutual jackoff session hosted by the press featuring "entertainment" by elected officials and the US Marine Band. So, yeah, Joe Biden did his thing, with the stupid jokes, and some other people told some more stupid jokes, etc. And hey, who'll step up to the plate to accept the annual "Bob Novak award for exemplifying everything broken and gross about Washington and the press"? How about NBC's own Mrs. Greenspan? Here's NBC's Andrea Mitchell in a bear costume introducing a

Should the fact that individuals have HIV/AIDS be made public? Research this topic: United States • I believe the fact that someone has HIV/AIDS should be made public because that would help prevent the spread of the disease. I believe the fact that an individual has HIV/AIDS should be made public because it is a communicable disease that is fairly easily spread. If others knew that someone had this disease then they would have a lesser chance of getting it and spreading it, due to the fact they knew about it. The only problem I foresee is who and how people access this information. It could be a slippery slope to other diseases, and the information could be used in the wrong way. Posted by: MycCra2ii • Protect the innocent. I believe anyone who is HIV positive should have a tattoo visible only to potential sex partners. It should be a standard and put in the same place on the body on all infected people. This way a potential sexual partner can check that spot for the tattoo. I would be wo

Take the tour × What is each mathematical step (in detail) that one would take to get from: $E^2 - p^2c^2 = m^2c^4$ $E = \gamma mc^2$, where $\gamma$ is the relativistic dilation factor. This is for an object in motion. NOTE: in the answer, I would like full explanation. E.g. when explaining how to derive $x$ from $\frac{x+2}{2}=4$, rather than giving an answer of "$\frac{x+2}{2}=4$, $x+2 = 8$, $x = 6$" give one where you describe each step, like "times 2 both sides, -2 both sides" but of course still with the numbers on display. (You'd be surprised at how people would assume not to describe in this detail). share|improve this question I've changed $m$ to $m_0$ to make it clear it's the rest mass. If you didn't mean this please revert my edit. –  John Rennie May 18 '12 at 15:46 I forgot about that, thanks –  Olly Price May 18 '12 at 15:48 Oh wait, I think this is for when it's moving, because this equation $E=\gamma mc^2$ goes to show how if an object reached the speed of light it would have used infi

Technology, Tips, tricks and how-tos. From Thursday, 8 September 2011 Antivirus Software - Should I have it and if so which one should I have? You need some sort of antivirus software if your computer is connected to the internet (or even if it’s not, although problems are less likely). This is a big topic but I’ll try to be as brief as possible. Firstly we need to understand the difference between the terms malware, virus, worm, adware, Trojan (horse), and spyware. ·     Malware - Short for malicious software - This is the general term covering virus, spyware, worm and all of the others. ·    Virus - A small program designed to change the way a computer operates without the permission of the owner/user. Viruses run by themselves and can cause a variety of things to happen and are designed to replicate and spread from one computer system to another. Some viruses are designed to cause as much damage as possible, e.g.  deleting the entire contents of the hard drive or changing the contents of your files. O

Experience Project iOS Android Apps | Download EP for your Mobile Device Disjointed Events I was going out somewhere and it was night time and I had on a weird arrangement or sequence of garments I went back into the house to change and something shocked me  there were bats flying all around inside everything seemed dark and out of order I think I had to go to the doctor in the middle of the night and left with a few people we ended up at some function on an island where a hut was then I seen some people they were hanging around royalty or officials  and people were getting up close the officials  were sitting on these out door chairs in a square shape and near a water bank and I remember seeing the sun peaking through then very bright it was some public thing and something happened like a death or disaster somehow I felt like I was turning into someone else and suddenly zipped in time to another place completely different I looked away... and put my heads over my face in horror  to a old photo o

View Full Version : Blank logs 09-29-2011, 10:13 PM Just got a log, kind of, from a cacher that registered today. It was blank. I usually don't care much about logs, but I did not think blank was possible. With the extremely limited info provided in their profile and the strange arrangement of the finds today, I'm suspicious. 09-30-2011, 05:05 AM Looks like a case of someone new who just doesn't know.:confused: Everything doesn't have to be an ulterior motive you know.:p They did the same on another cache and the third log was just a short statement that a trackable was missing. 09-30-2011, 06:11 AM My guess these are from people logging via phone - the default log used to say something like "Logged from my android phone", but I am guessing they found a way or the app has been re-written to strip that out now. That's progress! I know if I had to write my logs with my phone, they'd be shorter or empty too. Used to be when logging through a web page, there had to be something for text in there, not sure i

HOME > Chowhound > General Topics > Favorite Asian Sauce Disappearance & Strange Grocery Mystery My favorite asian sauce/condiment has disappeared from my local asian market (Tan Tin Hung Supermarket 121 Bowery, NYC). They stopped stocking it, and when ever I ask about it they look at me like I'm crazy and have no clue what I'm talking about, maybe because I don't know the name/company info of the sauce. Anyway, it was always stocked next to the Huy Fong products because the packaging was identical (see photo) except the color of the sauce was a dark dark brown with a drawing of a horse or maybe a unicorn instead of a chicken. Anybody know the name of the sauce? I would like to order it online or buy here in NYC. 1. Click to Upload a photo (10 MB limit) 1. Sriracha! My dh puts that on everything. That's odd they stopped stocking it. Our Asian section at Kroger carries it. Good luck! 1 Reply 1. re: UTgal The picture the OP supplied is just for reference. The OP states "except the colo

Take the 2-minute tour × I occasionally have Endermen teleport into my mines, creating the possibility that they may move a block of dirt or gravel and inadvertently open up holes for monsters to spill through, ruining the relative safety of my dig sites. As such, I have taken to sealing my mine walls by removing dirt and gravel and replacing it with spare cobblestone. Unfortunately, I happened to notice an Enderman in what I thought was a dirt-and-gravel-free mine branch wandering around with a block of dirt. Either I failed to replace some dirt (which he subsequently moved) or he picked it up somewhere else and teleported in with it. Is the second explanation possible? Can Endermen teleport while carrying a block? share|improve this question add comment 3 Answers up vote 22 down vote accepted 1. Spawn Endermen enter image description here 2. Wait for one to pick up a block enter image description here 3. Hit Enderman 4. Observe teleportation enter image description here sh

Windows 8 Consumer Preview available now Microsoft's president of Windows Steve Sinofsky took to the stage over in Barcelona at MWC (well, a bus ride from MWC to be more accurate) to officially launch the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Describing the forthcoming OS as "a bold re-imagining of Windows", Sinofsky said that "the goal with Windows 8 is to deliver PCs without compromise". He said he wanted "a unified operating experience". "There's too many hard stops between phones, tablets and PCs - we want it to be much more harmonious and seamless," he explained. The Consumer Preview is said by Microsoft to boast  "significant product changes since Windows Developer Preview". It has more than 100,000 code changes from that version as well. "It's beautiful, it's modern, it's fast, it's fluid," said the Windows boss, describing Windows 8 as a "generational change". Microsoft's Julie Larson-Green gave the assembled tech hacks an overview of the work-in-progess OS and showed off the Xbox Live app, which offers t

Automate your color correction with a Perl script Card Trick © articular, Fotolia Last month, I wrote about using reference cards to correct the white balance in digital photos by taking a test snapshot (see Figure 1) [2]. The black, white, and gray plastic cards, which are available from any good photography equipment dealer, should not generate any color values in a digital image. This provides three calibration points for low, medium, and high light intensity, which the GIMP photo editing tool can then reference to correct your snapshots. Perl Magic How can a simple Perl script find out which pixel values the three cards create, even though their position in the image is not known, without using artificial intelligence? If the photographer manages to spread the cards in the center of the image as shown in Figure 1, the script can follow an imaginary horizontal line and identify the cards on the basis of pixel values along the x axis. The light intensity measured along this line remains constant for

Reply to a comment Reply to this comment san_angelo_ex_pat writes: in response to Barkeep103: ex_pat: Gunnison must have way more money, probably from the out-of-state vacationers, than Sangelo does. 11 to 1 and someone thinks a retrial will get a "guilty"? They will recruit a jury pool from where, Mars? The money spent already would take care of Sangelo's street budget for a year. $5,000/hr experts contending over water flow no one measured? Yes, Shea, the voters there will remember the names. Maybe when the snowplows run out of gas they will remember why and vote accordingly. I don't know who did what 5 years ago, I wasn't there. I do know this is sillier than the Federal sequester, and that's saying a lot. The editor of the newspaper in Gunnison would seem to think as we do. I have sent his editorial to you. Sign up for email updates

Take the 2-minute tour × I was surprised to find that I needed to install software in order to watch my Flip Video files (first generation device). My initial thought was "what happens if this company goes out of business? Will I be unable to view my files 20 years from now?" Should I just leave the files as-is, or should I convert them to something more open? share|improve this question add comment 3 Answers up vote 4 down vote accepted You don't need to install the software to access the videos on a Flip camera. If you look in the /DCIM folder (in the Mac Finder or Windows Explorer), you can see each of the videos stored as .MP4 files. You can copy the files as you wish and play them in any program that plays .MP4 movies. Be careful if you manually copy the files. The flip software uses the file's date stamp to determine the date of the movie. If you copy the movie to another location, the date stamp is updated to the present time, and there is no permanent record of the time when the video was origi

Text size this story is by It is indeed true that Israel does not have, and quite possibly could not have, an "umbrella definition of a Hebrew nation that, from a political and legal standpoint, is supposed to embrace us in all our factions and variations, including religious and ethnic ones, while separating religion and state," as Doron Rosenblum wrote (Haaretz, February 3 ). Such lamentations over the lack of "Israeliness," and therefore, of "normalcy," date back many years, and represent the feelings of a nontrivial segment of Israeli society. The longing for a normal life is shared by most of the public. But in general, the argument made by those who term themselves "Israelis" is that we have failed to achieve "normalcy" because we cling to outdated ideologies and beliefs. In contrast, those the "Israelis" term "the Jews" feel that "normal" normalcy, at least at the present time, is impossible, and is also not the top national priority. We are here in order to live in a Jewish and Zionist state, in whi