Chrome to Check Passwords Against Hacked Databases
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Chrome may soon warn users if their passwords have been compromised. It works by checking inputted passwords against those exposed in public data breaches.
The feature is already available for Chrome from an official Google extension known as Password Checkup, but users need to actively install this extension to use it. Web browser Mozilla Firefox already has a similar feature built-in.
Now a similar feature named "password leak detection" has been spotted in the code of Chrome Canary. That's a version of Chrome that includes test features planned for release in the main Chrome edition in a future update. The Canary name comes from miners taking a bird underground, the idea being that they would pass out or die from any gas leak and act as a warning before the humans suffered the same effects.
Feature Currently At 'Experiment' Stage
The new feature is very much at the testing stage as even within the Canary edition, it isn't enabled by default. Instead, users must manually switch it on in a section marked "Experiments." (Source:
The feature kicks in whenever a user enters a password on a website, whether by manually typing it or using a stored password. Chrome then checks the password against a database of publicly leaked passwords that have been exposed by hackers.
If there's a match, the user sees a pop-up message reading "Chrome found this password on a public list of unsaved passwords that were part of a data breach." It suggests the user review their password and also offers a randomly generated password to use in its place. (Source:
Reused Passwords Could Be Caught
In some cases they'll be left to do this manually. In other cases, Chrome will redirect the user to the relevant page on the website in question for changing password details.
The feature only looks for the password on leaked lists rather than trying to match it to a specific site. The idea isn't solely to prevent a compromised account of the site the user is visiting right now, but rather to also look for cases where people reuse the same passwords.
That's because of the risk that when a site's password database is exposed, hackers will take a user's login details from that site and try it on other popular websites to see if they've reused it.
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cannot locate this extension in Chrome on my desktop?
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_USER_ 9594: You can add the Chrome Password Checkup extension from here:
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Thanks, wonder why it was so hidden, all that would come up when I typed in Password Checkup was Dashlane Password Manager.
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doesn't his make the hackers job a little easier to test whether a password is used more than once? if I am a hacker and I find juliusceasar as a password for a site, can't I just then input juliusceasar and Chrome will tell me if it is used on more than one site? or is there a method to verify the input is by the actual user who has used it? for example, I need a sign-in and password to get a transmission quote. when I create that account with juliusceasar as the password, which I found via a hack, will Chrome give me a notice that that password is unique or that it has been used on various bank account ids?
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The warning will come from Chrome if it detects a password that is on a leaked password list. In other words, the password list is public knowledge and the hackers already have the list. Chrome is simply making the user aware if that particular password has been previously used in a leaked list. The idea is that it will prevent users from using passwords that have already proven to be compromised (regardless of user name).


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Perambulator or Pram in short, was invented by an English garden architect named William Kent in 1733. Kent was commissioned by the Duke of Devonshire to create a transportation device for his children. The first incarnation was a shell shaped basket on wheels meant to be pulled by a small pony or goat. Real prams appeared in the 1800′s and around 1870 bassinets were added.
Even though the Victorian prams were elegant and beautiful but in reality they were unstable and not very safe. They were often made of wood and held together by expensive brass joints. Not until 1965, the first stroller with aluminum frames was designed by an aeronautical engineer named Owen Maclaren which spurred an industry and evolved into today's modern strollers.

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The UB-tree as proposed by Rudolf Bayer and Volker Markl is a balanced tree for storing and efficiently retrieving multidimensional data. It is basically a B+ tree (information only in the leaves) with records stored according to Z-order, also called Morton order. Z-order is simply calculated by bitwise interlacing the keys.
Insertion, deletion, and point query are done as with ordinary B+ trees. To perform range searches in multidimensional point data, however, an algorithm must be provided for calculating, from a point encountered in the data base, the next Z-value which is in the multidimensional search range.
The original algorithm to solve this key problem was exponential with the dimensionality and thus not feasible ("GetNextZ-address"). A solution to this "crucial part of the UB-tree range query" linear with the z-address bit length has been described later. This method has already been described in an older paper where using Z-order with search trees has first been proposed.
- Markl, V. (1999). "MISTRAL: Processing Relational Queries using a Multidimensional Access Technique".
- Ramsak, Frank; Markl, Volker; Fenk, Robert; Zirkel, Martin; Elhardt, Klaus; Bayer, Rudolf (September 10–14, 2000). Integrating the UB-tree into a Database System Kernel. 26th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases. pp. 263–272.
- Tropf, H.; Herzog, H. "Multidimensional Range Search in Dynamically Balanced Trees" (PDF). Angewandte Informatik (Applied Informatics) (2/1981): 71–77. ISSN 0013-5704.
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World Pasta Day at the Italian House
By ChIMG_1528iara Di Maio
Is there a better way to celebrate World Pasta Day on October 25th than making pasta from scratch just like our grandparents used to? We invited Chef Eric Christenson, owner of LOKAL, a nearby restaurant, to the Italian house to teach us how to make different types of pIMG_1548asta. Eric is an experienced chef and learned some of his cooking techniques in Italy. As if this weren't enough, he also learned to speak Italian. "Italian food is all about quality", he said while his hands mixed flour and eggs to create the perfect dough. He chose his ingredients carefully as he strove to make his dishes as healthy as possible.
In this cooking masterclass, Chef Eric taught students how to make both several pasta shapes and gnocchi. He showed us how the dough is made and used a pasta machine to make it thinner and more translucent. For the tagliatelle, he folded the dough and started cutting it in long strips about half an inch wide.
While some students started working on that, Chef Eric moved on to explaining the ravioli and penne. However, the gnocchi required a different process because it has different ingredients and, therefore, a completely different consistency. IMG_1544
Christenson showed the students how to shape the gnocchi in several different ways.
Chef Eric emphasized the fact that making pasta is fairly easy. However, after having tried it first hand, we know it takes a lot of practice. Students learned many tips and tricks to make pasta and we cannot wait for Eric to come back to the Italian house with other tasty recipes. In the meantime, we can all go have lunch and chat with him at LOKAL.
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Scripps Scientists Discover 'Lubricant' for Earth's Tectonic Plates
Hidden magma layer could play a role in earthquakes and other aspects shaping the geological face of the planet
Scripps Institution of Oceanography / University of California, San DiegoScientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have found a layer of liquefied molten rock in Earth's mantle that may be acting as a lubricant for the sliding motions of the planet's massive tectonic plates. The discovery may carry far-reaching implications, from solving basic geological functions of the planet to a better understanding of volcanism and earthquakes.
The scientists discovered the magma layer at the Middle America trench offshore Nicaragua. Using advanced seafloor electromagnetic imaging technology pioneered at Scripps, the scientists imaged a 25-kilometer- (15.5-mile-) thick layer of partially melted mantle rock below the edge of the Cocos plate where it moves underneath Central America.
The discovery is reported in the March 21 issue of the journal Nature by Samer Naif, Kerry Key, and Steven Constable of Scripps, and Rob Evans of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
The new images of magma were captured during a 2010 expedition aboard the U.S. Navy-owned and Scripps-operated research vessel Melville. After deploying a vast array of seafloor instruments that recorded natural electromagnetic signals to map features of the crust and mantle, the scientists realized they found magma in a surprising place.
"This was completely unexpected," said Key, an associate research geophysicist in the Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Scripps. "We went out looking to get an idea of how fluids are interacting with plate subduction, but we discovered a melt layer we weren't expecting to find at all-it was pretty surprising."
Map of the 2010 survey region.
For decades scientists have debated the forces and circumstances that allow the planet's tectonic plates to slide across the earth's mantle. Studies have shown that dissolved water in mantle minerals results in a more ductile mantle that would facilitate tectonic plate motions, but for many years clear images and data required to confirm or deny this idea were lacking.
"Our data tell us that water can't accommodate the features we are seeing," said Naif, a Scripps graduate student and lead author of the paper. "The information from the new images confirms the idea that there needs to be some amount of melt in the upper mantle and that's really what's creating this ductile behavior for plates to slide."
"This new image greatly enhances our understanding of the role that fluids, both seawater and deep subsurface melts, play in controlling tectonic and volcanic processes," said Bil Haq, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences.
The marine electromagnetic technology employed in the study was originated by Charles "Chip" Cox, an emeritus professor of oceanography at Scripps, and in recent years further advanced by Constable and Key. Since 2000 they have been working with the energy industry to apply this technology to map offshore oil and gas reservoirs.
The orange colored area enclosed by a dashed line denotes a magma layer that scientists believe is facilitating the motion of the Cocos plate off Nicaragua. The blue areas represent the Cocos plate sliding across the mantle and eventually diving beneath the Central American continent, while the black dots signify earthquake locations. The discovery was made by analyzing data collected by an array of seafloor electromagnetic instruments, shown as inverted triangles.
The researchers say their results will help geologists better understand the structure of the tectonic plate boundary and how that impacts earthquakes and volcanism.
"One of the longer-term implications of our results is that we are going to understand more about the plate boundary, which could lead to a better understanding of earthquakes," said Key.
The researchers are now seeking to find the source that supplies the magma in the newly discovered layer.
The National Science Foundation and the Seafloor Electromagnetic Methods Consortium at Scripps supported the research.
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Kinetic energy = 0.5*M*V^2
0.5*3*(2^2)= 6J
0.5*2*(2^2)= 4J
the second ball has more kinetic energy.
at the max height, all the kinetic energy is converted to potential energy,
gravitational potential energy is = M*g*h
that theory would apply if you wanted to work out the maximum height achieved if the balls were thrown upward by rearranging. But, we are simply working out which ball will have more potential energy so:
First ball:
2kg*9.81(g)*10m = 196.2J
Second ball
4kg*9.81*10m= 392.4J
The second ball has more potential energy


College Vs. Pros: Should Athletes Leave School Early?
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College Vs. Pros: Should Athletes Leave School Early?
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We see it every year. Athletes that are still in college must choose between the risk of going professional in their sport, or risking injury for another year of ball.
Athletes like O.J. Mayo and Michael Crabtree have been a few of the players that have put their education on hold to test their values in their respective sports. Other athletes like Troy Smith and A.Q. Shipley have put education first, while still reaching the professional level in their sports.
Athletes have been successful through both of these decisions; however, some athletes have been left behind that chose the wrong path to professionalism. You can take professionalism any way you want it, but in this case I refer to professionalism as the act of making a living in any field, whether that means being an athlete or working in a cubicle in your metropolitan broker's office.
There are many points to both sides of the arguments and each has levied beneficial stories and opinions. Ultimately the decision is yours to what you think in this situation, but I can promise you that what you get from these next statements could persuade you to either side.
Leaving School for a Professional sport
1) Allows great athletes to earn a living faster and provide for their families
Like it or not, the money that athletes get goes a long way towards the development of their families and themselves.
Good people find ways to do good things for society. These players could put the money back into their communities and give youths in their hometown the ability to play sports when it could have been previously impossible.
Giving money to people isn't always a bad thing.
2) Prevents the risk of injury in college
One of the main factors in college athletes choosing to leave early is the risk of injury. Many athletes feel that if they stay in college they could get injured and put their professional career at risk.
If these athletes choose to leave early, they will get paid great money and there are benefits for players who get injured. Although these benefits might not be as bountiful as a healthy athlete's contract, it is a great way for a player to receive closure if anything were to happen that could question their future in the sport.
3) Allows for studies after their career
Many of you can remember the expenses of college. Athletes that do not get scholarships are put in a hole financially with loans gaining interest while they are trying to decide what to do with their lives.
Though many athletes do receive some amount of money from their college or university for sports, some do not receive this reward. Going professional would link the athlete to financial security and they could probably study just about anything they would want after their professional career.
Staying in College and receiving a Degree
1) Secures the future of the athlete
Not everyone becomes a professional athlete. There are many people that make an honest living every day in careers that do not involve playing a sport.
For those fortunate enough to be the elite in their sport, receiving a degree before going pro is a way to tie the loose ends to their future.
Risk to injury is high in professional sports and if an athlete's career would be in jeopardy, they would have something to fall back on. You can do many things in the work force with a college degree and this option is probably the safest decision to ensure a career in any field.
2) Teaches maturity
Apart from the outlandish amounts of money professional athletes receive; some of this money is given to athletes barely in their 20's. College kids are used to being broke. Its college. Everybody is broke.
Go from rags to riches too quickly and these athletes may not know what to do with their money. Before you know it they could own a ten bedroom house on Miami Beach with a BMW and Ferrari in the garage. You may say "what's the big deal?" but both you and I know this is not how money should be spent.
Suppose an athlete spends one year in college and goes to the NBA. All of those first year or two classes aren't completely useless. The athlete could take a financial accounting class in his second year that could teach him the proper way to invest his money.
Instead of that athlete spending half of his $3.5 million contract on a house and car they could invest away money to ensure a bright future for them and their family. At 19-or 20-years-old these athletes don't need millions of dollars and if they do get it they should at least know what to do with it.
3) Enhances knowledge
Most individuals go to college to gain the knowledge they need to make their way in the work force. This kind of knowledge will help anyone trying to find their calling in the work place.
Athletes have a gift physically and most have gifts intellectually as well. To make the most of their college experience would be to finish, graduate, and earn a degree.
Take Myron Rolle for example. Rolle was a gifted safety that played at Florida State from 2006 to 2009. Rolle postponed his entry in the NFL Draft in 2009 to study over-seas at Oxford after he received the Rhodes Scholarship (only awarded to 32 people every year).
How many players can you think would postpone their entry into the NFL Draft to go to Oxford to attend more school? Rolle is a prime example of a true student-athlete and other athletes should take this example as they try to decide whether to leave early or stay and finish their studies.
The Final Prognosis
The fact is this: these players are student-athletes. Student comes before athlete. These players go to college for an education, not a draft pick. Although some of these players do end up playing at the next level, the smartest decision they can make is to ensure their future by finishing school.
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It's a known fact that the birth chart or horoscope of a person is based on his or her birth details. It is the blueprint of planetary positions in the sky at the time of birth that decides the individual destiny. But why only birth details are chosen to cast a birth chart or horoscope. Why not some other parameter?
The answer lies with panchtatvas. The Physical body of any living being is composed of 5 elements. The synchronization of these five elements generates the life force for an individual.
Aakash or Ether element is also known as space. The spacewhere one moves freely. In physical body this element is present in the hollow cavities of the body and it fills the void.
Jala or Water element is responsible for maintaining fluidity in body.
Prithvi or Earth element provided shape to organs and structure of the body by binding different cells together.
Agni or fire element provides energy to body thus helps in growth and sustenance.
Vayu or Air – is the prana or breath-the basic force that ignite every movement in and of the body.
An awaited child in Womb has blend of 4 elementsAkash, Pritvi, Jala and Agni. The fifth element Vayu or pran or breath remains missing in an awaited child. Dependent on umbilical cord a child don't breathe on its own in womb. Thus the mix of panch tatvas is not complete yet.
As soon as awaited child arrives in this world, Vayu tatva enters the body in form of breath and completes the Panch tatvas.
Vayu, Pran or breath gives rhythm to independent bodily movement of a child. With this first breath outer environment influence and planetary forces starts generating impact on child which by now is a complete living entity. Thus this is the sole reason why birth details are pivotal for any astrology related reading.


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Storytelling through Film: How to Create Engaging Videos for Youtube
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Want to learn the secrets behind creating engaging videos that capture the attention of millions? Join Thomas Dajer, video editor behind the Youtube channel Yes Theory, to learn how he edits together stories to craft massively successful videos.
In this demystifying class, you'll learn the basics for how to create compelling videos on YouTube and the best practices for great storytelling through editing. You'll learn about "The 5 Acts in a Story", how to find the best music for your video, how to trim the fat and keep a video engaging, and how to find their unique voice through editing
In the class, walks you through the four main beats that he tries to hit in every video:
 - The Cold Open: Giving context for viewers on what they're about to watch and convincing them to stay with an enticing moment.
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 - Concept in Action: Creating a compelling narrative up until the moment of success, including the false hope moment
 - The Golden Moment: Showcasing when the core idea of the video is finally realized and presented to the audience.
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By the end of the class, you'll have a clear framework for how to begin editing your own videos to draw people in and keep them engaged throughout the entirety of the story.
The class is targeted on making videos for YouTube, but these principles can also be applied to any other creative outlets like writing or directing since it will cover the simple concept of how to tell a good story.
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1. Introduction: Hey everyone. My name is Thomas Dajer, and I'm one of the main editors for a YouTube channel called Yes Theory, which has over five million subscribers right now. I started editing about 10 years ago, basically, by going of YouTube tutorials, and I've been editing for Yes Theory for the past three years. In this course, I'll be teaching you the best practices that I've learned over the past decade, to make the best possible videos, especially for YouTube. It'll cover storytelling guidelines, act by act, that I use every day to make our videos as fun and engaging as possible. This course is going to be great, for first-time editors, to setup initial framework on how to actually make videos, and also for experienced editors, who may want to see what editing is for YouTube. I'm excited to be making this course, because I feel over the past few years, more and more people want to make content or videos in some form, and the biggest most important thing they overlook is the editing, which is arguably the most important. I'm excited to share what I've learned on my editing journey, and hopefully give first-time editors the confidence to upload their first video. Let's get started. 2. Class Project: The project for this course will be to create a video, and I'll go step by step through the basic storytelling structure I use. Obviously, editing is all about being creative and having an outlet for your voice and humor. So there isn't one right or wrong way to do it, but I'll show you how I go for it, and give a few options to follow along with that. Option A will be to go out and film a simple video that you can work on throughout this course. This is a good place to start, because it'll maybe get you out of your shell, and do something you wouldn't normally do, and you can maybe recruit some friends to help you along with the video. Some videos that we filmed that can be easier for you to make are, telling strangers I love you. I'm practicing telling strangers I love them so I love you. I love you, too. Awesome. Cool Throwing a dart on a map and going wherever it lands. Oh my God, you've chosen Missouri. It's in Missouri. How do you say Missouri? Missouri. Or if you are in a city asking people to ride around in their super cars. Is there's any way I can just come with you, pick your ride and film it from the inside as you drive? No way. No way. We did it. I'm going to be showing how to edit it, asking people to ride around in their super cars and you can follow along too. If you go shooting for your own video, keep a few things in mind. Make sure you shoot from B-roll, this is especially important for the intro to your video, shoot pay off montages in slow mo and with a lot of different angles so that you can make it as fun and creative as you want in the edit. [MUSIC] Keep the camera rolling, it's better to have too much footage than not enough. With these types of videos, you never know when a great moment will happen so just keep the camera rolling and lastly, make sure you get a bunch of different camera angles throughout so that you can spice up the visuals of the video. No matter which option you use, know that through the power of editing, you can make any video more grabbing and more fun, engaging than you think, and these concepts aren't reserved for just YouTube videos, but also storytelling in general. Let's move on to how to prepare your projects once you have all the footage. [MUSIC] 3. Preparing a Project: So before we get started, let me show you how I prepped the video. I use Final Cut Pro 10. But you can use any editing software for this. I first import everything into the timeline, then I take if you pass it through the footage to trim the fat. Basically cutting out any moments I know won't make it like shots are too shaky or shots were nothing really happens. To cut down version is usually four to eight times shorter than the full timeline. I then duplicate the project so that I can find all those clips later on in the editing process if I need them and I keep the b roll long, since I'll be able to cut it depending on what song I choose to use later on. There you go. Now you ready to get started on editing your video. 4. The Cold Open: In this lesson, we're going to be going into the Cold Open, which is basically a five second clip or montage before the intro that teases the rest of the episode in a grabbing way. They're an amazing way to draw the viewer in immediately tease them on what they're about to watch and convince them to stay, to get that Cold Open moment later in the video. Now videos need them, they're not part of the five-act structure. But on Facebook and YouTube, it can be especially important since you got to get people's attention fast. I'm going to be showing you how I created the Cold Open for our video asking some strangers to ride around in their supercars. Could you take us to where all the most expensive cars are? Pardon? Basically, I take a funny, out of context moment from the episode that makes the ask sound absurd, just to get a quick laugh off the bat and show how absurd the ask actually is. Immediately, you're laughing with the people in the video and you're wondering how you are going to pull off this insane ask off. Another way to do it is by going to the most intriguing part of your video and building that moment up. 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Spare energy is all around us, from the pressure exerted by every footfall to the heat given off by heavy machinery. In some cases, like regenerative braking in cars, it's easy to harvest, and the equipment needed to do so is simple and economic. In many others, however, we're not there yet.
It's not that we don't have the materials to do so. Piezoelectric generators can harvest stresses and strains, while triboelectric generators can harvest friction, to give two examples. The problem is that their efficiency is low and the cost of the materials is currently high, making them bad fits for any applications.
But a study in today's issue of Science describes a "yarn" made of carbon nanotubes that can produce electricity when stretched. Its developers go on to demonstrate its use in everything from wearable fabrics to ocean-based wave power generators. Given that the raw material for carbon nanotubes is cheap and there are lots of people trying to bring their price down, this seems to have the potential to find some economic applications.


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Findings could lead to 1,000-times faster 4G
A research team at the University of Pittsburgh has come up with a way to increase wireless data transmission speeds by a factor of thousands. Headed up by Hrvoje Petek, a physics and chemistry professor at the University's Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, the team has reportedly created a "frequency comb" that includes over 100THz (terahertz) of bandwidth. It does so by "exciting a coherent collective of atomic motions in a semiconductor silicon crystal."
In other words, it divides a single color of light into a series of evenly spaced spectral lines. During their experiments, the team witnessed reflected light oscillating at 15.6THz. In theory, this finding could one day allow smartphones and computers to transmit data in the terahertz frequency range.
That electromagnetic spectrum sits between infrared and microwave light. Modern devices are restricted to gigahertz frequency bandwidth signals. The team used silicon for the semiconductors in its experiments. The team believes they can upscale their work to achieve petahertz frequency range oscillations, of 1,000 times faster again than what it managed to achieve already. [via PCMag]


The Nightmarish Alp
Germany. A mecca for goth culture, once a land of mystery and intrigue, from the sinister Black Forest to the haunting gothic castles. Once called Das Land der Dichter und Denker (the land of poets and thinkers), Germany is home to many a myth and legend. Many of the old school folk tales originated from Germany and as you can gather, many vampire tales as well. Today's vampire myth is that of the German Alp, a malevolent vampire that has long been connected to nightmares and witchcraft.
The Alp is invariably male, sometimes the spirit of a recently deceased man. An Alp can also come to be if a woman commit's sins whilst pregnant that were never forgiven. She can again create an Alp if she eats something that was unclean or something that a dwarf spit on (I swear I did not just make that up). Additionally, a woman could give birth to an Alp if she makes inappropriate gestures during pregnancy or if frightened by a dog or horse during pregnancy (wow, a woman had to be careful back in the day, don't want vampire babies crawling around after all). Also, in this part of the world, a child born with caul could become a member of the undead or a child with hairy hands (although in some places that means the child will instead become a werewolf).
The Alp was known to take many forms, some of which included a cat, pig or a dog. In all of it's forms it was said to wear a wide-brimmed hat (are you picturing a pig wearing a hat because I am). The Alp normally tormented the dreams of women but occasionally those of men and children. This vampire would horrifically terrify someone in their sleep, they would also cause sleepwalking, fits and seizures during sleep. Entry to a person would be made through the victim's mouth, with the Alp either using it's tongue to enter, becoming mist or turning into a snake. The Alp feeds on blood as well, just like most vampires. What it does is suck the blood from a person's nipples, it is also said to enjoy women's milk.
Now to destroy an Alp or protect yourself from one here is what you need to do. First, if you are a woman, sleep with your shoes next to your bed with the toes pointing to the door. The Alp is also very protective of it's hat for without it it loses a lot of it's power, so if you can, try to grab it (legend also says that anyone who returns it's hat is greatly rewarded). Also, drawing blood from above the Alp's right eye is believed to destroy it's powers. Unfortunately, since this is a vampire that resides in dreams, it is difficult to kill.
The Alp has a very vast history and there are many variations to the creature. This vampire was very popular and widely known, many villages having different myths, all varying slightly. But all stories say the Alp is not to be taken lightly, so readers beware (ba ba buuum).
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the Alp is where the German "Alptraum" (also Albtraum, lit. "dream of the Alp") meaning nightmare, comes from. the creature was also called "Nachtmahr", which is basically a literal translation of the English word.
Isn't it also supposed to leave you alone if you offer it coffee in the morning? Or breakfast or something?
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Many who need restorative rest most might not be able to get it. Why? They're in a hospital. Even at night, a hospital can be a noisy place. And research has shown that these noise levels have been rising for decades.
A new study finds that electronic noises in particular interfere with sleep.
Researchers followed the sleep patterns of a dozen healthy volunteers as they spent three nights sleeping in a lab. Their hours of darkness were punctuated with 14 different recorded hospital sounds played at varying volumes. Even when electronic sounds, such as alarm beeps, were played at the level of a whisper, volunteers slightly roused from sleep. The findings are in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. [Orfeu Buxton et al., "Sleep Disruption Due to Hospital Noises: A Prospective Evaluation"]
When the volunteers' sleep was disrupted, their heart rate increased. This frequently elevated heart rate could be especially bad for recovery. A little peace and quiet could make for a lot more restful nights.
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If you open (not save) a Word attachment in Windows Mail, then it will open the document up in Microsoft Word. This is saved somewhere, and you can edit the file and save it (i.e. no "save as" dialog appears). If you then close Word without explicitly saving the file somewhere, how do you then find the edited file? (Assuming that it can be found, and isn't automatically deleted).
Windows Search does not find the file (presumably because it's in the folders that are excluded from search).
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It's probably either in the Windows temporary directory, which is by default in "C:\Windows\Temp", or in the user's temporary directory which is in "C:\Documents and Settings\user name\Local Settings\Temp\".
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If it can help someone, it was in temporary internet files. (I wonder why no answer has been picked by the author.) – Etiennebr Dec 15 '11 at 19:02
First, whenever you discover you edited and saved an email attachment, try not to open it from your mail application again. Doing so, might overwrite the edited file with the version from the email message, which will discard your edits. Fortunately, most often a newly opened file will get stored in a different temporary folder, so this might be your lucky day.
Windows Explorer will not show the true contents of the Temporary Internet Files folder. Hence, if you know part of the file name, you need to use the command prompt:
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 Above, filename is the start of the file name, followed by an asterisk (wildcard) to find all possible combinations of the name. The dir-command will scan your whole hard disk and might run a long time. When it's done, it lists all files that match that name, with the newest file at the bottom of that list. That's most likely the file you want.
 - To copy the results from the command prompt, you might first need to click the top-left icon of the command prompt window, and select something like "edit » mark". Then, select the output using your mouse, and when the result is selected, press Return to copy it to your clipboard.
 - Paste just the filename you found into Windows Explorer, and if all is well, Office will open it. Now use File, Save As to move it to a better place.
 - If copying and pasting the results did not work, type 'cd' followed by the directory in the command prompt, this will display the items in that particular location. Now type'start' and the file name with extension to run your lost document. For example'start amanda.doc'.
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What is Clicker Training?
It is training using almost entirely positive reinforcement - teaching your dog to learn... using no physical compulsion or corrections whatsoever.
Instead of yanking dogs around, shoving them into place, giving some praise, and hoping the dog will make the connection, dogs are taught using the scientific methods of classical & operant conditioning.
Clicker training works for every dog, from bold to timid, from tiny to giant. This is the type of training used for most (all?) animals trained for movie & TV work, too.
The clicker itself is simply a little toy-like device that is used in the initial stages of training any behavior. It provides clear & precise communication between owner & dog and allows you both to concentrate on & enjoy the task at hand. You click at the exact moment the dog is performing whatever it is you want, and since you always follow that click with a tasty treat, the dog will learn to love the sound, and the work to make that sound happen! As part of the training, you teach the dog hand and/or verbal signals for each behavior. As the dog learns these, you phase out the clicker. It has completed its function, which was to communicate to your dog which behavior you desired.
With positive reinforcement training there is no more forcing a dog to learn. Instead, the dog becomes eager to learn! Very tasty food treats are the primary reinforcers at first because they are easy to use but many, many other reinforcements are used as well - from squeaky toys to playing games. A dog properly trained this way will not be dependent upon food in order to respond.
Clicker training can be used to teach your dog (or just about any animal) regular pet obedience type behaviors (such as loose-leash walking) as well as more advanced competition, trick or service behaviors. You will love it... and so will your dog!


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SAMe is a chemical that is found naturally in the body. It can also be made in the laboratory.
SAMe has been available as a dietary supplement in the US since 1999, but it has been used as a prescription drug in Italy since 1979, in Spain since 1985, and in Germany since 1989. Researchers discovered the potential usefulness of SAMe for treating osteoarthritis by accident. They were studying SAMe's effect on depression when the patients they were following reported an unexpected improvement in their osteoarthritis symptoms.
SAMe is used for depression, anxiety, heart disease, fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, bursitis, tendonitis, chronic lower back pain, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, slowing the aging process, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), improving intellectual performance, liver disease, and Parkinson's disease. It is also used for attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, seizures, migraineheadache, and lead poisoning.
Some women use SAMe for premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and a more severe form of PMS called premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD).
How does it work?
The body uses SAMe to make certain chemicals in the body that play a role in pain, depression, liver disease, and other conditions. People who don't make enough SAMe naturally may be helped by taking SAMe as a supplement.
Likely Effective for:
- Osteoarthritis. Taking SAMe by mouth seems to work about as well as aspirin and similar drugs, but it can take twice as long to start working. Most people with arthritis need to take SAMe for about a month before they feel better.
- Depression. Taking SAMe by mouth or by injection seems to reduce symptoms of depression. Several studies have shown that SAMe can be beneficial and might be as effective as some prescription medications used for depression (tricyclic antidepressants). Some research also shows that taking SAMe might be helpful for people who don't have a good response to a prescription antidepressant. But keep in mind, SAMe should not be taken in combination with a prescription antidepressant without the monitoring of a health professional.
Possibly Effective for:
- Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Limited research suggests SAMe might lessen ADHD symptoms in adults.
- Alcohol-related liver disease. Research studies to date do not agree on the effectiveness of SAMe for liver disease.
- Heart disease.
- Chronic low back pain.
- Improving intelligence.
- Premenstrual syndrome (PMS).
- Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD).
- Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
- Multiple sclerosis.
- Spinal cord injury.
- Migraine headache.
- Other conditions.
Side Effects & Safety
SAMe is LIKELY SAFE for most people. It can sometimes cause gas, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, dry mouth, headache, mild insomnia, anorexia, sweating, dizziness, and nervousness, especially at higher doses. It can make some people with depression feel anxious.
Special Precautions & Warnings:Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Not enough is known about the safety of using SAMe during pregnancy and breast-feeding. Stay on the safe side and avoid use.
Bipolar disorder: Use of SAMe can cause people with bipolar disorder to convert from depression to mania.
Parkinson's disease: SAMe might make Parkinson's symptoms worse.
Surgery: SAMe might affect the central nervous system. This could interfere with surgery. Stop taking SAMe at least 2 weeks before a scheduled surgery.
Major Interaction Do not take this combination
- Medications for depression (Antidepressant drugs) interacts with SAMe
SAMe increases a brain chemical called serotonin. Some medications for depression also increase the brain chemical serotonin. Taking SAMe along with these medications for depression might increase serotonin too much and cause serious side effects including heart problems, shivering, and anxiety. Do not take SAMe if you are taking medications for depression.
Some of these medications for depression include fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil), sertraline (Zoloft), amitriptyline (Elavil), clomipramine (Anafranil), imipramine (Tofranil), and others.
- Medications for depression (MAOIs) interacts with SAMe
SAMe increases a chemical in the brain. This chemical is called serotonin. Some medications used for depression also increase serotonin. Taking SAMe along with these medications used for depression might cause too much serotonin in the body, and serious side effects including heart problems, shivering, and anxiety. Some of these medications used for depression include phenelzine (Nardil), tranylcypromine (Parnate), and others.
Moderate Interaction Be cautious with this combination
- Dextromethorphan (Robitussin DM, and others) interacts with SAMe
SAMe can affect a brain chemical called serotonin. Dextromethorphan (Robitussin DM, others) can also affect serotonin. Taking SAMe along with dextromethorphan (Robitussin DM, others) might cause too much serotonin in the brain and serious side effects including heart problems, shivering, and anxiety. Do not take SAMe if you are taking dextromethorphan (Robitussin DM, and others).
- Levodopa interacts with SAMe
Levodopa is used for Parkinson's disease. SAMe can chemically change levodopa in the body and decrease the effectiveness of levodopa. Taking SAMe along with levodopa might make Parkinson's disease symptoms worse. Do not take SAMe if you are taking levodopa.
- Meperidine (Demerol) interacts with SAMe
SAMe increases a chemical in the brain called serotonin. Meperidine (Demerol) can also increase serotonin in the brain. Taking SAMe along with meperidine (Demerol) might cause too much serotonin in the brain and serious side effects including heart problems, shivering, and anxiety.
- Pentazocine (Talwin) interacts with SAMe
SAMe increases a brain chemical called serotonin. Pentazocine (Talwin) also increases serotonin. Taking SAMe along with pentazocine (Talwin) might cause serious side effects including heart problems, shivering, and anxiety. Do not take SAMe if you are taking pentazocine (Talwin).
- Tramadol (Ultram) interacts with SAMe
Tramadol (Ultram) can affect a chemical in the brain called serotonin. SAMe can also affect serotonin. Taking SAMe along with tramadol (Ultram) might cause too much serotonin in the brain and side effects including confusion, shivering, stiff muscles, and other side effects.
The following doses have been studied in scientific research:
- For depression: _PHONE_ mg per day.
- For osteoarthritis: 200 mg three times daily.
- For fibromyalgia: 800 mg per day.


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The Fun Timer provides a new twist on timers and is specifically designed specifically for kids who have little sense of time or weak time management skills. Instead of earning or losing TIME, the child earns or loses FUN (or any other reinforcer that is meaningful). The center of the timer is fully customizable so you can type, draw or import an image of anything that will motivate your child. You can also customize the amount of time that will elapse.
When you choose the EARNING function, simply press START and the image will begin to appear bit by bit until the entire image appears. This function can be used when you want to motivate children to stick with a task for a specific amount of time. Cleaning up for 3 minutes, writing their name for 2 minutes, doing jumping jacks for 1 minute, the options are endless. Once the time has elapsed, the child earns the reinforcer – a trip to the playground, a special snack, TV… again, the options are endless!
You can also use this function as a TIME OUT timer. Simply type "ALL DONE" in the center and strt the timer for length of time out. Turn on the accompanying music to help kids calm themselves. Once the time is up, they see that time out is ALL DONE and they can move on with their day.
When the LOSING function is chosen, the Fun Timer has a new purpose. Now it is used to let kids know that if they don't stay on task, they will lose the reinforcer. This particular form of behavior management; known as cost-response, has been shown to be particularly powerful for highly impulsive children. Choose this option when kids begin to go "off-task". Simply press START and the reinforcer in the center slowly disappears, providing a concrete representation of the fact that they are LOSING their reinforcer. Once kids return to the task at hand, the user can press STOP and the timer resets or the user can press PAUSE for ongoing feedback.
- Words, drawings, or imported images can be placed in the center of the timer to create relevance for each child or group.
- Customizable for speed and sound.
- Encouraging face pops up when kids achieve their goal.
- Congratulatory words and sounds can be recorded to suit your child's need or interest.
- Music is recorded at 1 beat per second and can be turned on or off.
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Infinite loop
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In computer programming, an infinite loop (or endless loop)[1][2] is a sequence of instructions that, as written, will continue endlessly, unless an external intervention occurs ("pull the plug"). It may be intentional.
This differs from:
 - "a type of computer program that runs the same instructions continuously until it is either stopped or interrupted."[3]
how_many = 0
while is_there_more_data() do
 how_many = how_many + 1
display "the number of items counted = " how_many
The same instructions were run continuously until it was stopped or interrupted... by the FALSE returned at some point by the function is_there_more_data.
By contrast, the following loop will not end by itself:
birds = 1
fish = 2
while birds + fish > 1 do
 birds = 3 - birds
 fish = 3 - fish
birds will alternate being 1 or 2, while fish will alternate being 2 or 1. The loop will not stop unless an external intervention occurs ("pull the plug").
An infinite loop is a sequence of instructions in a computer program which loops endlessly, either due to the loop having no terminating condition,[4] having one that can never be met, or one that causes the loop to start over. In older operating systems with cooperative multitasking,[5] infinite loops normally caused the entire system to become unresponsive. With the now-prevalent preemptive multitasking model, infinite loops usually cause the program to consume all available processor time, but can usually be terminated by the user. Busy wait loops are also sometimes called "infinite loops". Infinite loops are one possible cause for a computer "freezing"; others include thrashing, deadlock, and access violations.
Intended vs unintended loopingEdit
Intentional loopingEdit
Unintentional loopingEdit
Most often, the term is used for those situations when this is not the intended result; that is, when this is a bug.[7] Such errors are most common among novice programmers, but can be made by experienced programmers as well, because their causes can be quite subtle.
Language supportEdit
Some languages have special constructs for infinite loops, typically by omitting the condition from an indefinite loop. Examples include Ada (loop... end loop),[10] Fortran (DO... END DO), Go (for {... }), and Ruby (loop do... end).
Examples of intentional infinite loopsEdit
A simple example (in C):
_TAG_
int main()
 printf("Infinite Loop\n");
 return 0;
A similar example in 1980s-era BASIC:
20 GOTO 10
A similar example in DOS batch files:
echo Infinite Loop
goto :A
An example in Java
while (true)
 System.out.println("Infinite Loop");
An example in Bourne Again Shell
for ((;;)); do
 echo "Infinite Loop"
An example in Rust
loop {
 println!("Infinite loop");
Examples of unintentional infinite loopsEdit
Mathematical errorsEdit
Here is one example of an infinite loop in Visual Basic:
dim x as integer
do while x < 5
 x = 1
 x = x + 1
_TAG_
int main(void)
 int a = 0;
 while (a < 10) {
 printf("%d\n", a);
 if (a = 5)
 printf("a equals 5!\n");
 return 0;
Rounding errorsEdit
C output on an AMD Turion processor:
x = 0.10000000149011611938
x = 0.20000000298023223877
x = 0.30000001192092895508
x = 0.40000000596046447754
x = 0.50000000000000000000
x = 0.60000002384185791016
x = 0.70000004768371582031
x = 0.80000007152557373047
x = 0.90000009536743164062
x = 1.00000011920928955078
x = 1.10000014305114746094
x = 1.20000016689300537109
Unexpected behavior in evaluating the terminating condition can also cause this problem. Here is an example in C:
float x = 0.1;
while (x!= 1.1) {
 printf("x = %22.20f\n", x);
 x += 0.1;
The same can happen in Python:
x = 0.1
while x!= 1:
 x += 0.1
Multi-party loopsEdit
Video of infinite loop by Google Home vs. Amazon Echo
An infinite loop may be caused by several entities interacting. Consider a server that always replies with an error message if it does not understand the request. Even if there is no possibility for an infinite loop within the server itself, a system comprising two of them (A and B) may loop endlessly: if A receives a message of unknown type from B, then A replies with an error message to B; if B does not understand the error message, it replies to A with its own error message; if A does not understand the error message from B, it sends yet another error message, and so on.
Pseudo-infinite loopsEdit
Very large numbersEdit
An example in bash:
for x in $(seq _PHONE_); do
_TAG_ code
Impossible termination conditionEdit
An example for loop in C:
unsigned int i;
 /* loop code */
It appears that this will go on indefinitely, but in fact the value of i will eventually reach the maximum value storable in an unsigned int and adding 1 to that number will wrap-around to 0, breaking the loop. The actual limit of i depends on the details of the system and compiler used. With arbitrary-precision arithmetic, this loop would continue until the computer's memory could no longer hold i. If i was a signed integer, rather than an unsigned integer, overflow would be undefined. In this case, the compiler could optimize the code into an infinite loop.
Infinite recursionEdit
The following example in VBA returns a stack overflow error:
Sub Test1()
 Call Test1
End Sub
Break statementEdit
while (true) {
 if ($foo->bar()) {
Alderson loopEdit
Alderson loop is a rare slang or jargon term for an infinite loop where there is an exit condition available, but inaccessible in the current implementation of the code, typically due to a programmer's error. These are most common and visible while debugging user interface code.
int sum = 0;
int i;
while (true) {
 i = getUserInput();
 if (i * 0) { // if i times 0 is true, add i to the sum. Note: ZERO means FALSE, Non-Zero means TRUE. "i * 0" is ZERO (FALSE)!
 sum += i; // sum never changes because (i * 0) is 0 for any i; it would change if we had != in the condition instead of *
 if (sum > 100) {
The term allegedly received its name from a programmer (last name Alderson) who in 1996[12] had coded a modal dialog box in Microsoft Access without either an OK or Cancel button, thereby disabling the entire program whenever the box came up.[13]
See alsoEdit
External linksEdit
 1. ^ "Endless loop dictionary definition".
 2. ^ "What is infinite loop (endless loop)".
 3. ^ Denise Caruso (August 16, 1999). "Overload of Hangers-On Creates Bumpy Ride for Internet Stocks". The New York Times.
 4. ^ "Codes and Modes: The Character of Documentary Culture". Flow Journal. November 2014. an infinite loop is one that lacks.. an exit condition
 5. ^ also known as non-preemptive-multitasking: "Non-preemptive Multitasking". PC Magazine. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
 6. ^ David Hoag (September 1976). "The History of Apollo On-board Guidance, Navigation, and Control" (PDF). Charles Stark Draper Laboratory.
 7. ^ "New York Times Crossword Answers". October 13, 2013. computing.. a defect.. which.. to loop
 8. ^ "Halting Problem in Theory of Computation".
 9. ^ "A Buffer Overflow Exploit Against the DameWare Remote Control software". December 19, 2003. As soon as the command shell is closed with a control-c combination...
 10. ^ Ada Programming: Control: Endless Loop
 11. ^ "Endless loop in C/C++". Archived from the original on 2016-08-03.
 12. ^ Lee Dohm (May 24, 2013). "Alderson loop".
 13. ^ "Alderson Loop". The Jargon File, Version 4.4.7. Archived from the original on 2006-05-15. Retrieved 2006-05-21.


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Editing OLE Objects. Linked or embedded OLE objects can be edited in a drawing by double-clicking the object to open the source application. You can use any selection method to select OLE objects and then you can use most editing commands, the Properties palette, or grips to make changes.
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 1. Click Home tab Modify panel Trim. Find.
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 2. In the dialog box, select Create New.
 3. In the Object Type box, click the type of document you want to create (for example, Microsoft Excel Worksheet). …
 4. Select Display As Icon for the new object to appear as an icon.
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TUESDAY, Feb. 26 (HealthDay News) -- For children with autism, trained dogs may offer not only a furry friend, but some therapeutic benefits, too, a new research review finds.
There is a "substantial body of evidence" that dogs act as "social catalysts," even encouraging adults to be a little friendlier to each other, said senior researcher Francesca Cirulli, of the National Institute of Health in Rome, Italy. And the few studies that have focused on kids with autism suggest the same is true for them.
People have long turned to animals as a way to help with health conditions or disabilities -- either as part of formal therapy or to offer everyday assistance (such as guide dogs for the blind).
In some cases, "therapy" or "service" dogs are called into action to help children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) -- a group of developmental brain disorders that hinder a child's ability to communicate and interact socially. ASDs range from the severe cases of "classic" autism to the relatively mild form called Asperger's syndrome.
In the United States, it's estimated that about one in 88 children has some form of autism.
Yet there has been little research into whether trained dogs actually benefit those kids. The good news is, the existing evidence is promising, according to the new review, published in the February issue of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
However, "it is early to draw final conclusions," said Cirulli.
Specifically, Cirulli's team found six published studies of dogs' effects on children with an autism spectrum disorder. Four of them looked at therapy dogs -- dogs that therapists use during formal sessions to help children settle in, get engaged and be more open to communicating.
Overall, the studies were positive, Cirulli and her colleagues found.
In one study of 22 children, for example, kids were more talkative and socially engaged during therapy sessions where a dog was present. In another study, of 12 boys, the children were less aggressive and smiled more when their therapy session included a canine companion.
Two studies focused on service dogs -- trained dogs that live with the family. The animals serve mainly to keep kids with autism safe; when the family goes out, the child will be literally tethered to the dog to keep from running off or getting hurt.
"That can be a huge relief for families," said Dr. Melissa Nishawala, medical director of the Autism Spectrum Disorders Clinical and Research Program at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City.
Parents' anxiety over their child's safety can lead to social isolation in some cases, noted Nishawala, who was not involved in the study. "Your world can get very small," she said, "because you limit where you go."
So a service dog can make a big difference to the whole family, Nishawala said.
Cirulli's team found that service dogs might also benefit children's behavior. In the two studies they reviewed, parents generally said their children were better behaved and more attentive after the family got a service dog.
There are still plenty of questions, though -- about both therapy dogs and service dogs.
For one, children with an autism spectrum disorder vary widely in the types of issues they have and their severity. No one is sure which kids might benefit most from time with a trained pooch, Nishawala noted.
She said more studies are needed -- not only larger ones, but also ones with better "definitions." That means making sure the children involved have been formally diagnosed with a form of autism, defining what the "therapy" is, and being clear about what outcomes the study is assessing.
There is a lot of anecdotal evidence that a dog could help bring a child with autism out of his shell, said Nishawala, but scientific evidence is just coming in.
Cirulli agreed that better defined studies are key.
It's possible, Cirulli noted, that a dog could have negative effects on some kids with an autism spectrum disorder. An animal might, for instance, increase "hyper" behavior.
For parents wondering whether adopting a dog is a good idea, the answer seems to be, "It depends."


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The Snowden revelations of 2013 sparked widespread, public discussion about the amount of government surveillance performed on American citizens under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. This dialogue often sidesteps the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, however, which is the primary statute that governs the government's ability to obtain the electronic communications of everyday citizens. The vast majority of requests for information under ECPA are pursued ex parte, and often without notice to a targeted individual that the government has obtained her information. This secrecy regime leaves targeted individuals unable to oppose the government or appeal adverse decisions. Moreover, if a magistrate judge disagrees with the government and denies its request for an individual's information, the government can simply apply to other judges until a judge grants access to the information. This Note examines the resulting lack of appellate precedent that has developed from a system where the government has no opposition, and American citizens have no opportunity to be heard. This Note suggests three solutions to increase opposition to the government and incentivize the development of binding, appellate precedent under ECPA.
Andrew Tyler Ohlert,
Appealing to Reason-able Expectations of Privacy: Increasing Appellate Review Under ECPA,
66 Hastings L.J. 1731
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Creating a Spring _USER_ Annotation
Spring Formatters and Converters make it easy to annotate fields for conversion from Objects to Strings, and are especially useful in web apps. But there is no easy or straightforward way to strictly validate the String before parsing into an object, without creating a custom Formatter. Here is a reusable solution that uses a RegexParserDecorator to decorate any Spring Formatter to apply a regex pattern, in turn creating a _USER_ annotation as an example implementation.
A little background: Spring 3.0 brought the Converter and Formatter framework with a concise _USER_ annotation, simplifying the Date to Object conversion that previously took custom binders or other wiring code. With _USER_ you can easily supply a String pattern used to parse and print a Date (or joda DateTime) object. However, the annotation does not strictly validate the String before converting to a Date. For instance, supplying a MM/dd/yyyy pattern does NOT enforce a 4 digit year. Instead a 2 digit year will be accepted and parsed using the SimpleDateFormat rules. Similar loose checking goes for 1 digit days and months, and also the slash character used as a separator. It would be easy to just throw the _USER_ tag onto your Date field except that _USER_ is only allowed on String fields. Combining _USER_ and _USER_ is what drove the creation of _USER_:
//sample usage using defaults for regex and pattern
private DateTime birthday;
Read more below for a discussion and snippets of code, and the entire codeset with comments is available on github.
The RegexParserDecorator: The first step is to create a Regex Parser class that will apply a regex pattern to validate a String for us. Creating this as a Decorator gives the added benefit that you can easily wrap any Spring Formatter to apply Regex patterns. The constructor takes a Parser to wrap and a regex to apply; and the parse method first validates against the regex before passing onto the decorated Parser:
public RegexParserDecorator(Parser parser, String regex) {
 this.parser = parser;
 this.regexPattern = Pattern.compile(regex);
public T parse(String text, Locale locale) throws ParseException {
 if (!regexPattern.matcher(text).matches()) {
 throw new IllegalArgumentException("Text does not match regex: " + text);
 return parser.parse(text, locale);
The _USER_ Annotation: Next step is to setup the annotation interface class. It is very similar to DateTimeFormat but adds the field to hold a regex. The default regex allows 1 or 2 digit days and months, requires a forward slash as the separator, and enforces a 4 digit year. This can be easily overriden when applying the annotation to a field by supplying your own (regex="", pattern="") extension. A pattern is still required so make sure your pattern and regex are paired appropriately.
_USER_({ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.FIELD, ElementType.PARAMETER})
public _USER_ StrictDateTimeFormat {
 public static final String REGEX_DEFAULT = "^(0?[1-9]|1[012])/(0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])/dddd$";
 public static final String PATTERN_DEFAULT = "MM/dd/yyyy";
 String regex() default REGEX_DEFAULT;
 String pattern() default PATTERN_DEFAULT;
Spring then requires a StrictDateTimeFormatAnnotationFormatterFactory to wire the annotation with the parser. Nothing fancy here as it borrows heavily upon Spring's own JodaDateTimeFormatAnnotationFormatterFactory. The getParser method applies our regex to the DateTimeFormat functionality:
public class StrictDateTimeFormatAnnotationFormatterFactory implements
 AnnotationFormatterFactory {
 public Parser getParser(StrictDateTimeFormat annotation, Class fieldType) {
 DateTimeParser parser = new DateTimeParser(forPattern(annotation.pattern()));
 return new RegexParserDecorator(parser, annotation.regex());
 private DateTimeFormatter forPattern(String pattern) {
 return org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormat.forPattern(pattern);
Hooking it all together: Here is the snippet from my applicationConfig.xml showing how the annotation is registered into Spring:

Hopefully this information is helpful in creating a reusable regex validating DateTime formatter for use in your own web application.
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Keywords: technology trajectories, innovation policy, developing countries, Malaysia, technology management, knowledge management, manufacturing, services, product innovation, process innovation, organisational innovation
Knowledge, technology trajectories, and innovation in a developing country context: evidence from a survey of Malaysian firms
This paper investigates the applicability of contemporary firm-level innovation concepts to a developing country context by drawing on the results of a survey of Malaysian manufacturing and service establishments. We build on Keith Pavitt's 'technology trajectories' framework to empirically test the effect of firms' structure, strategy, resources, and environment on the probability of their product, process, and organisational innovations across various sectors. We find that Malaysian firms possess relatively high process and organisational innovation capabilities, but lag in new product development. Further, they more frequently utilise a variety of'soft factors' like employee training, knowledge management practices, and collaboration with market actors as inputs to innovation rather than formal R&D. We conclude by discussing the implications of our findings about Malaysian firms' technology trajectories to innovation policy in that country.


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Backing Up Your Skills
With the summer of the single happening, you will want to get as proficient as you can as quickly as you can. You need to have a good handle on boat maneuvering and blade work if you plan to put in meters of sculling.
Perfecting your backing will give you the biggest bang for your buck in terms of boosting your skills. If you get stuck in the bushes on shore, moving your shell sternward is essential for getting you out of the predicament. Besides safety, backing allows you to practice proper blade depth, keeping your handles moving on a level plane, making subtle steering adjustments and to feather-squaring or reverse feather-squaring.
By taking a backing stroke, then letting your blade gather pressure, you can learn the feeling of a set blade at the beginning of the drive. By watching how you back your boat down, a coach can quickly assess your sculling skills.
Practice first with your port oar so you move only in a circle. Keep the starboard oar flat on the water and keep the boat set. With the handle near your body at the release position, square your blade in the water and keep the blade in the same position you would while rowing. Push the handle away from you toward the stern. Then, as you release the blade, feather forward so the scoop faces down and you can slide the tip of the blades across the water to return the handle to your body. Practice with each oar, then both together. Begin with your arms and body only, then gradually build up the slide length as you get comfortable taking longer backing strokes.
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Purpose of this document
This document provides the steps required to implement an Interactive Map Widget for use with IBM Cognos Workspace 10.2.1 and 10.2.2. Earlier versions of IBM Cognos Workspace will not work with this version of Interactive Map Widget.
The technique outlined in this document was validated using the:
- IBM Cognos Workspace 10.2.1 using the GO Data Warehouse(query) package shipped with the samples
- IBM Cognos Workspace 10.2.2 using the GO Data Warehouse(query) package shipped with the samples
This document assumes that the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) content and file structure has been backed up using a tried and tested method prior to any attempt to implement the interactive map widget.
Exclusions and exceptions
The technique outlined in this document requires the use of undocumented and unsupported capabilities in IBM Cognos BI. As a result the technique and its associated files are provided "as is" and are not considered supported.
Map vendors used by the Interactive Map Widget
The Interactive Map Widget is able to utilize online maps from the following popular vendors:
- ESRI Maps from ESRI Incorporated (_URL_)
- Google Maps from Google Incorporated (_URL_)
- Bing Maps from Microsoft Incorporated (_URL_)
Each of the vendors listed above have licensing terms that restrict usage of their respective services. Be sure to adhere to each vendor's terms and conditions before attempting to implement this technique. The default configuration of the Interactive Map Widget uses only publicly available service URLs. No access key or other information is passed to these services until you modify the configuration settings.
Installing the Interactive Map Widget
The attached archive InteractiveMap.zip copies the required files to your IBM Cognos 10 BI install location. The steps outlined below will need to be performed on each IBM Cognos BI server and gateway install location within the IBM Cognos BI environment.
Doing the installation step by step
The following steps will install the Interactive Map Widget:
- Stop the IBM Cognos 10 BI service if one exists.
- Copy the correct version of the InteractiveMap.zip to your IBM Cognos 10 BI
installation directory. In this case the IBM Cognos 10 BI installation is a
64-bit Windows installation which was installed on the C:\ drive with the
following installation path:
- Double-click InteractiveMap.zip and unpack to your IBM Cognos 10 BI installation directory.
- Start the IBM Cognos 10 BI service.
When completed, the installation procedure will have added new files to the./configuration and./webcontent folders. No other files are added, deleted or modified.
Confirming a proper installation
Upon successful installation of the InteractiveMap.zip file, an Interactive Map Widget should now be available within the IBM Cognos Workspace tools pane. To confirm the existence of this new Tools object:
- Use the Launch menu within IBM Cognos Connection to open the IBM Cognos Workspace.
- Click the Create New button to create a new, empty workspace.
- Click the Toolbox tab. When the Tools pane displays, an Interactive Map object
should now be visible between the Image and My Inbox objects. This is
illustrated in Figure 1.
Figure 1. IBM Cognos Workspace Tools pane displaying the Interactive Map Widget
The Interactive Map Features
The following section describes the features available for the Interactive Map object.
The Map panel shows a live base map and plotted points. As shown in Figure 2, the Interactive Map widget was used to create a widget which displays a map of North America. The data points for the number of customers are displayed as green circles with a size that is proportional to the value being represented.
Figure 2. Interactive Map Widget displaying North American and data points for customers within North America
Standard scrolling, panning and zooming map operations are enabled. Filter sliders are shown in the bottom left corner. These sliders control symbol filter ranges based on different column values. The column names shown control disk size and color range respectively. Different columns can be selected in each drop list.
The map can be customized in several ways. All customizations are saved by clicking the Save icon on the workspace toolbar.
The Options panel is opened and closed by clicking the Toggle control on the left side of the map. This is illustrated in Figure 3.
Figure 3. Toggle control for the Options Panel
The Options panel shows the following three contained expansion panels:
- View - Display and viewing options
- Maps - Map setup options
- Data - map data grid
The View panel has the following fields:
- Map Actions:
- Click shows popup - Popup box is displayed when map symbol is clicked.
- Mouseover shows popup - Popup box is displayed when mouse placed over map symbol.
- Click filters workspace - Other widget content is filtered when map symbol is clicked. Use Shift-click for multiple selections.
- No actions (display only) - No mouse events are processed.
- Data shown with:
- Pins - Locations shown with push-pin graphics.
- Size – Controls symbol size with a slider that allows you to select the desired size.
- Color – Controls symbol color with a palette that allows you to select the desired color.
- Size and Color – Controls symbol size and color based on specified column values.
The Maps panel has the following fields:
- Available Maps:
- A list of available maps is shown. Changing the selection causes the associated map to be displayed in the map panel.
- Title Column:
- Controls the title of the fly outs when hovering over the data points on the map.
- Location defined by:
- No Column Specified - No symbols will be shown.
- Latitude and longitude – When this is selected, fields titled Latitude column: and Longitude column: will appear and position values are read from the values in those fields.
- Country Names - When this is selected, a field titled Country names column: will appear and position values are determined by the selected value in this field.
- Place Names - When this is selected, a field titled Place names column: will appear and position values are determined by the selected value in this field.
- (X,Y) coordinates – When this is selected, fields titled X coordinate column: and Y coordinate column: will appear and position values are read from the values in those fields.
The Data panel, as shown in Figure 4, shows the underlying items for each plotted symbol.
Figure 4. Data panel showing the underlying data items used to plot the symbols
Selecting an item in the list, selects the associated map symbol.
Checking and un-checking an item shows and hides the associated map symbol.
When an item name is not found in the system lookup table, a warning symbol is shown next to the name (as shown in Figure 5).
Figure 5. Data items list highlighting the items that were not found with a warning symbol
Using the Interactive Map Widget
The Interactive Maps object shows points and data using a source IBM Cognos list report. The list report must have location references in one of the following formats:
- Numeric latitude and longitude
- Name of a country
- Name of place like a province or state
The following sections will step a user through the creation of the report and the creation of an IBM Cognos Business Insight dashboard that uses the Interactive map widget.
Authoring a map compliant report
The following section outlines the steps required to build a list report within IBM Cognos Business Insight advanced to be used by the Interactive Map widget.
- Within the IBM Cognos Connection Launch menu select Cognos Workspace Advanced. When prompted to select a package, locate and select the GO Data Warehouse(query) package.
- Within the Workspace Advanced Welcome page click on Create New.
- Within the New dialog box, click the List object and then click the OK button.
- Click the title and enter Sample Map Report 1.
- Drag and drop the following Sales and Marketing (query) > Sales (query) items
to the report container:
- Retailers > Retailer Country
- Sales Fact > Planned revenue
- Sales Fact > Revenue
- Sales Fact > Gross Profit
Figure 6. IBM Cognos Workspace List report displaying the data points to be used by the interactive map object
- Click the Save button.
- Type the name Sample Map Report 1.
- Upon clicking the Save, the report can now be used to build an interactive map.
Authoring a new interactive map
In the following section, the previously created report will be used to create an interactive map.
- From the IBM Cognos Connection Launch menu select Cognos Workspace.
- Within the IBM Cognos Workspace Welcome page, click on Create New and choose the Blank report template.
- Locate and drag the previously created and saved Sample Map Report 1 onto the
canvas. Once the canvas refreshes, it will display the Retailer country, Planned
revenue, Revenue and Gross Profit list report with its associated values. This
is illustrated in Figure 7.
Figure 7. IBM Cognos Workspace canvas with the List report dragged on to the canvas
- Within the right hand pane select the Toolbox tab, then locate and drag the Select Value Filter item to the canvas, placing it to the left of the list report.
- Within the Properties - Select Value Filter dialog, type the text Select Country for the Show descriptive text: entry at the bottom of the dialog.
- Click the OK button to add the value filter to the canvas. When completed, the
canvas should now display a value filter displaying all the Retailer country
values on the left hand side of the canvas. The right hand side of the canvas
will display the List report filtered to the selected value filter values. This
is illustrated in Figure 8.
Figure


Religion Hates Me! How Can I Respect That?
Religion unifies one part against the other. It divides.
Religion keeps us divided.
Religion is false.
Religion of Peace
Why do people deny so much of the obvious and so much of history in order to speak well of religions such as Islam and Christianity?
Are these people incapable of comprehension? Are they illiterate?
Religions of Peace.
A religion of peace does not participate in conquest. A religion of peace does not commit genocide. A religion of peace does not require blood sacrifice.
How are genocide, conquest or blood sacrifice considered peaceful?
The Jews committed genocide throughout the Old Testament.
Islam is a Imperial Religion that used Allah as justification to conquer lands from India to Spain and back again.
Christianity is a religion whose God required a sacrifice of blood in order for it's adherents to receive their eternal reward.
This is all violence. This is not peace.
Christians love to say that Jesus died for their sins. NO! Jesus was violently executed for your sins. And you call that peace.
The Disease called Religion
Afghanistan has a sickness called Religion. It's a disease of the mind and spirit.
Religions are all designed with one thing in mind. CONTROL! Domination over weak minded masses by a powerful individual or ruling class of individuals. Religion is a tool by which the dominant classes allows the less powerful classes to yoke themselves. Religion is the willing spiritual self-enslavement to false gods and greed driven, power lusting men.
This video is proof positive of this.


Microsoft is starting legal preceedings against five companies it claims has tricked web users into installing malicious software on their PCs.
The company is suing DirectAd Solutions, Soft Solutions,, and ITmeter, saying that these companies have used ads to "distribute malicious software or present deceptive websites that peddled scareware to unsuspecting internet users," said Tim Cranton, associate general counsel with Microsoft, in a blog.
Scareware is malicious or ineffective software. It's so named because buyers are usually scared into buying it with fake messages that tell them that their computer has been infected. These products have been around for years, but in the past few months they've become a major problem.
The scareware scam
Typically, when a scareware advert pops up on a victim's screen, it looks like a Windows utility running some kind of security scan.
It will then warn that it has found a critical security problem and direct the victim to a website where they can buy a product to fix the issue.
In addition to pushing malicious ads, these scammers have also been poisoning Google search results lately. To do this, they keep track of hot search topics and then use search engine optimisation techniques - using software to create a bunch of links to their malicious pages - so that their pages come up first in search results.
When the victim clicks on the fake search result, they're taken to a web site that pops up the fake scareware system scan. Recently, they've hijacked search results relating to a number of celebrities including actor Patrick Swayze, who died earlier this week.
Nevertheless, Cranton wrote that Microsoft hopes that the "filings will help deter malvertising in the future".
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Use of fine inert material powders to minimise water requirement in concrete was studied experimentally and theoretically based on particle packing. Superplasticiser was used through the experiments to allow small particles to fill spaces of their own size class. In lean mixes (cement content 140 - 200 kg/m3) with crushed aggregate use of inert mineral powder lowered water requirement up to 40 l/m3 compared to present technology. With more rounded gravel aggregate the reduction was clearly smaller. The experimental results were investigated with the Linear Packing Density Model (LPDM). Theoretically in densely packed mixes aggregates fill space as dense as possible and cement particles fill the remaining aggregate interspace leaving only minimum space for water. Such a mix has optimal composition, but in practice such mixes are not workable. The true water requirement is far greater than expected based solely on the particle system and more so the closer the particle composition is to the optimum composition. This is because in such mixes the interspaces between aggregate particles are not wide enough to allow cement paste movement. On the contrary, in lean mixes water is free to move in-between aggregate interspaces and in very rich ones the paste content is large enough for paste movement. Therefore in lean and rich mixes water requirement can be understood and calculated by the LPDM. To do this, both cement and aggregate packing must be taken into account by finding the proper value of monosize packing density for each component. The aggregate value was found to depend on mix consistency being approximately 0.50 for gravel and 0.42 for crushed aggregate while the value of cement, 0.36, did not appear to depend on consistency within the frame of the experiments. An empirical method is proposed for predicting water requirement near the optimal composition. Mechanical properties and long term behaviour of concretes with large amounts of inert quartz powder were experimentally studied.
|Award date||27 Oct 1997|
|Place of Publication||Espoo|
|Publication status||Published - 1997|
|MoE publication type||G4 Doctoral dissertation (monograph)|
- particle packing
- plasticizers (additives)
- filling materials


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Is there any keyboard shortcut to close the Command Prompt window in Windows 7? Alt+F4 does not seem to work on a Command Prompt window.
I close it right now by typing exit and Enter at the prompt. Hoping there is a shorter trick.
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 - Alt+Space, C
 - Create an alias using doskey: doskey x=exit
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Wrap CMD in Console2, which would give you CTRL+W to close tabs and ALT+F4 to exit. You will also be able to use CTRL+V to Paste, if you wish, which is one of the main reasons I use it.
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Here's an autohotkey script that'll do it.
_TAG_ ahk_class ConsoleWindowClass
Send,{LAlt Down}{Space Down}{Space Up}{LAlt Up}{c Down}
It just sends Alt+Space, C to the window when Ctrl+w is hit (if it's a command prompt).
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It depends from your choice of command interpreter. This is, of course, because it is your command interpreter that is (largely) determining how TUI command-line editing works.
If you're using JP Software's TCC/LE, for example, an autoexecuting keystroke alias that does exactly this (and that doesn't suffer from the global hotkey problems mentioned in other answers) is simplicity itself to set up using the ALIAS command:
alias @@f4=*exit
With bash one could do the same thing, using the bind built-in command, to bind the key sequence for the Alt-F4 key to the string exit\n. The tricky part is working out what key sequence Alt-F4 generates (from the point of view of bash, at least) this week.
If you are running your command interpreter within Take Command, closing the current command tab is done with Ctrl+F4.
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You could probably use a tool such as AutoHotKey to build a shortcut that would close the window. Or create a shortcut that runs a command using tskill to find all cmd windows and close them. That would cause problems if you ever use more than once CMD window at a time and want to close them only selectively.
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Born in Oolagah, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), Will Rogers's parents were Clem Vann Rogers and Mary American Schrimsher, who were each one-quarter Cherokee, or true Native Americans. This parentage is quite appropriate because Rogers himself was the embodiment of the real people of America, the "average man." He was the last of the "crackerbox philosophers" to reach a national audience, and his words and reputation as the symbol of the "common man" and of common sense have continued to grow, even though his books and films are seldom read or watched today. He has, as it were, transcended himself to become a folk legend. Rogers's rise from an Oklahoma cowboy to a world-famous humorist and philosopher is in itself a particularly American phenomenon. He began his career performing for Texas Jack's Wild West Show as a trick rider and roper. Later he performed for the Wirth Brothers Circus and then for the Mulhall Wild West Show. Eventually, he joined the Ziegfeld Follies as a regular, where he starred for 11 years. By the 1920s Rogers had become a popular speaker. He had already published two books, The Cowboy Philosopher on the Peace Conference (1919) and The Cowboy Philosopher on Prohibition (1919), both of which are collections of miscellaneous writings featuring the humorous social and political commentary that would eventually make him famous. In 1926 he began writing a syndicated column for the Saturday Evening Post, which became extremely popular and continued until his death. During the 1920s he also moved to California and began making films for Hal Roach Studios, in which he played characteristically unassuming roles and made sage and witty remarks. He made his first talking picture, They Had to See Paris, in 1929, which established him as a film star. Among Roger's other published collections of humor are The Illiterate Digest (1924), Letters of a Self-Made Diplomat to His President (1927), and There's Not a Bathing Suit in Russia (1927). An aviation enthusiast, Rogers died in a plane crash at Point Barrow, Alaska, in 1935 while flying with famous aviator Wiley Post. A selection of his writings, titled The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949), was published posthumously.
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