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Daniel-Muci wrote:I don's seem to be able to get any battery power from Create 2. I spliced the original cable it came with, and tried to use the power from red/purple(+) and yellow/orange(-) to power a Raspberry Pi2, with no luck. While the serial-to-USB cable still works, and I am able to command the robot via Python, there seems to be no power coming on the red/purple cables. I tried with a multimeter with no luck, even as I moved the device from passive/safe/full modes. There is no power even when Create 2 is charging/docked.
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Defining Communication
|The Communication Standard | Using Effective Questioning | Using Precise Language | Additional Methods | Goals | Your Journal
Questioning and using precise language are just two aspects of effective mathematical communication. Here is a sample of further methods.
Working in Groups
When students work in groups, they naturally ask and answer questions. As they explain their reasoning, they often discover errors and faulty reasoning on their own. They refine their thinking as they explain to another student. The ability to communicate their knowledge to other students is an important part of the group process and of developing mathematically.
Writing and Student Presentations
After students have worked together to solve a problem or understand a concept, they can deepen their understanding and confidence by presenting their findings to the class as a whole. Students have to think more deeply when they are required to communicate their reasoning processes, either in writing or as a presentation to other students. Writing prose about both the mathematics and the problem solving process can support their understanding and recall.
Using Technology
Technology can prompt communication that would not be possible otherwise. For example, if students get a surprising result when using the graphing calculator this can spur good class discussion. Technology also reinforces precision by requiring students to make explicit such things as scale, accurate measurement, and application of terms and rules (e.g. when students talk in a group about how to set-up a problem on a programmable calculator, or computer).
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It's time to reveal the whole creative process.
I'm not certain whether you get the Discovery Channel on TV, but it is extremely popular at chez MacDougall. And I have to hand it to the programmers—I love the irony of "Destroyed in Seconds" following "How It's Made," which has got to be my second favorite show on TV—next to hockey, of course. It never fails to amaze me, as the camera follows products getting bent, punched, flattened, formed, or baked, how they always seem to gloss over the printing part, especially when the objects are screen printed. Why is that?
Granted, we occasionally catch a glimpse of a hockey stick or a container getting a quick swipe with the ol' squeegee, but in reality, this hidden aspect of modern, precision screen printing is one of the main reasons why it continues to be so far off of the radar amongst the public, educators, and even many industrial and graphic designers who should know better. If you ask, most of them would likely profess only a layman's knowledge of screen printing.
"Yeah, I did that in high school. You mean silk screening? Andy Warhol and T-shirts, right?"
High-speed automatic screen presses are foreign to most of these people, including the designers and many plant engineers, even though they have existed and evolved since the 1920s, just like other things in our society: airplanes, automobiles, telephones, etc. The public, and I would guess 98% of all teachers, think screen printing still begins and ends with a Speedball kit—or for those who watch the shopping channel at 2:00 a.m., the Yudu screen-printing machine.
Advancing screen printing's image
We can't really blame the producers of "How It's Made" for not showing and publicizing the automated printing, because most of the manufacturers—who rightly look upon their hard-won print skills, applications, and customized machines as proprietary—don't want to tip off their competition. And that's too bad for us, because if we are ever going to advance screen printing beyond a craft in the eyes of the public, the education system, and the graphics industry, or up the standards for training in art classes across North America to create job-ready workers, or make it easy for local entrepreneurs to avail themselves of this production tool, then we need screen printing front and center.
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Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles
Level Select code for Origional Rondo of Blood
Enter this code as your player name in the Origional Rondo of Blood game to unlock the Level Select option on the menu and skip to any Level in the game. Just like the symphony of the night Luck code, this is where it all started.
|Level Select for Rondo of Blood
Contributed By: Riku_Namako.
New Modes in Symphony of the Night
After clearing the game as Alucard for the first time, you can start special modes by entering a specific name when you select a new game.
|Play as Alucard, with 99 luck and the Lapis lazuli (+20 luck) accessory (completing the game isn't required)
|Play as Alucard, with the Axe Lord armor
|Play as Maria Renard
|Play as Richter Belmont
Contributed By: Antitype and MidnightDarknes.
Keep your inventory at the beginning of the game (Symphony of the Night)
In order to keep your default inventory at the beginning of the game, like the Alucard Sword and Alucard Shield, reach the room where you meet Death for the first time, then walk back out or back dash out of the room. If done correctly, Death won't be there when you re-enter the room. Note: this glitch works differently from the original PS1 version.
Contributed By: MidnightDarknes and Cicciolo.
The Stairs' Shaft
If you're looking for a useful tip to get through the game easily, consider the following glitch. This glitch allows you to pass through walls, floors, across pits, and more. You can basically bypass almost everything once you fall through the floor. Useful to get through some tough areas full of annoying monsters, to obtain some items not possible early in the game and/or to obtain others easily. In order to accomplish this glitch successfully, you must first head to any staircase. Climb up to the middle of the stairs and stop. Then, walk back down to the lowest step.
From here, press down, and then quickly press backwards (pressing both simultaneously). If done properly, the character will have a foot on the stairs and another foot in or underneath or behind the floor you're trying to breach (that the stairs are connected to). When you see this, release back on the d-pad, and the character will fall completely through the floor to a glitched area underneath the stage.
If the glitch doesn't work, make sure of two things: that your character isn't facing the staircase, and that you're pressing down and backwards simultaneously. Also keep in mind that depending on where you are, the glitch may not work properly. You may get stuck and have to reset the game in certain areas. Maria is also preferable to Richter because she can jump higher and hence get out of these glitched areas more easily.
Contributed By: Moldredd.
Alternate Stage 5
Defeat Death in Stage 5, then go to Alternate Stage 4 and defeat Camilla.
Contributed By: Master Bigode.
Original game Akoumajou Dracula Peke
The original game "Peke" was introduced in the original Chi No Rondo as a bonus game if you used the wrong System Card.
This is the third original game that can be unlocked.
First, you need to select NORMAL BOSS RUSH mode.
Beat it two times, you will receive two Sound Discs.
The third time fight until you defeat Shaft and defeat the next boss, at the end of the fight you should be rewarded with original game "Peke".
Access it from the main screen like the other original games.
I advice to use Maria and her Dragon sub-weapon to fastly defeat the bosses.
Contributed By: GbaDoctor06.
Play as Maria (Rondo of Blood)
In Stage 2, while the Behemoth is chasing Richter, there is a candlestick that contains the "key" subweapon. Make sure to get it, and then proceed down into the sewers after the Behemoth is blocked by the wall. At the very end of the sewer path, there is a locked door. Use the key subweapon and it will unlock, giving you a cinematic scene where Maria joins Richter. She is now selectable as a playable character in the main menu.
Contributed By: Antitype and GeneralFailer.
Unlock Boss Rush Normal, Boss Rush Dash, and Full Bosh Rush
To unlock BRN, beat the first boss on every stage (Wyvern, Werewolf, Minotaur, Dullahan, Death, Shaft, and L. Vampire).
To unlock Dash, beat the secondary boss on each stage (Serpent, B. Golem, Dogether, Carmilla, Hydra, Shaft, Shaft Ghost).
Beat every boss (including Dracula) to unlock Full boss rush
|How to Unlock
|Beat the secondary boss on each stage
|Boss rush dash
|Beat the primary boss on each stage
|Boss rush normal
|Beat every boss (including Dracula).
|Full boss rush
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Unlock Original Rondo of Blood game
Go to stage 4.
On your way through twards the end of the stage you will find 6 of those skulls that spit fire stacked on top of each other. Just past them is a platform that moves like an inverted pengelium going left and right. Just opposite of it is a spiked ball. Get on the platform and jump over the spiked ball landing on the ground against the wall. Break the lower part of the wall to find a bomb. Hit the bomb to ingite it and the wall will come falling down.
Walk forward a bit and you will find 2 spiked platforms that try to crush you. Get on the right platform and as it's going up jump off of it and land on the upper level. Stay on top avoiding the axes and the yellow eye. At the very end of that platform is a candle hit it and inside will be some classic gaming goodness.
Contributed By: Ayce.
Unlock Symphony of the Night
In Stage 2, while the minotaur is chasing Richter, immediately fall into the first hole in the ground. You will not die, but instead be taken into the sewers. Play the level out normally and defeat the boss. Afterwards, you will be taken to Stage 3' (this is different from the normal Stage 3!).
In Stage 3', whenever the path branches, taken the upper route. Make sure you obtain the "axe" subweapon sometime during the stage. Eventually, you will meet a skeletal snake that is attached to a wall. Nearby is a vine-like cage; use the axe to cut it. It now serves as a platform for Richter to jump to the upper ledges. Continue along the upper ledges until you see a breakable tombstone. Inside is the item that unlocks Symphony of the Night. Return to the main menu to play it.
Contributed By: Antitype.
How to Save Iris
She's found in Alternate Stage 4.
Simply keep going through the stage (do not go down the waterfall on the raft yet). Go all the way across this part of the stage until you notice a blue frog. Don't kill it. Instead jump over/avoid it and let it stay close. It will follow to the end of this particular part of the stage to a row of frog statues. It will jump on the only pillar that doesn't have a frong statue on it and lower a plateform in the middle of this section of the stage. Go down the stairs and follow the path until you get to the end where there is a gate. Iris is awaiting there.
Contributed By: ChibiMaddiChan.
How To Save Tera
She's found in Alternate Stage 3:
Go through the stage until you get to the very end of the first half. You'll see your first door and a small plateform underneath that appears to be a dead end. Simply jump under the door and hit the wall, from the top to the bottom. Go down the stairs there and you'll save Tera.
Contributed By: ChibiMaddiChan.
Richter's secret long whip attack
Richter's whip can be extended secretly!
If you press forward two times just after pressing the attack button, Richter's whip will extend slightly, making it easier to hit some enemies. You'll know it works when the whip turns white during the animation. It can also be done while jumping and crouching, you just have to hold the crouch button while pressing forward two times.
Contributed By: Arkane Denial.
Saving Annette
Annette is located in Stage 7. You first need to rescue Terra and Iris to be able to do this.
In the first room of the clock tower section, break the red pillar statue and push the switch behind it. Next, climb to the top where there's a small cog wheel and locked door in the upper right corner. Hit the cog wheel until the door opens and enter that. In this next area, kill the hawk to obtain the key. Hold on to it for now.
Next, in the last room of the clock tower section, you'll see a locked door. DO NOT USE THE KEY here (as its a fake room) and instead proceed upward until you see a crystal pillar blocking another switch. Like before, break the pillar to push the switch. Now go back down to where the locked door is. If done correctly, a new area should have opened up below with another locked door below the first one. Open the new/lowest locked door and after a cutscene, you'll save Annette.
You can come back here again in later playthroughs to find a room with several candles that drop moneybags and the Stopwatch subweapon if you're using Richter.
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In what may be a welcome cross-platform development move for developers and users harboring a previous aversion to Apple's Objective-C programming language, Genuitec has released new MobiOne tools for Windows programmers to create App Store-ready iOS apps.
"If a Windows users has enough skill to design a PowerPoint slide, they can design and build iPhone and iPad apps with ease," said Wayne Parrott, vice president of product development. "Web developers with HTML5 and CSS3 skills will see even greater productivity."
MobiOne uses drag-and-drop functionality similar to that which might be used to string together a PowerPoint presentation, but the technology has an engine that allows users to build iOS apps or web applications from the same code base. The engine inside MobiOne is Genuitec's AppCenter. Hosted in a cloud computing-driven environment, this provides an arena for testing both native and web apps in the private Genuitec cloud for access anywhere.
The AppCenter technology allows for testing of apps and web apps over the air (using iOS 4+) or through iTunes. Testing links can be shared via email or SMS for multiple device testing and previews. Previously, MobiOne supported a web app-only model that allowed the design of web applications that run on iOS devices. Now, users can design native apps or web apps with the same design files, using AppCenter.


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Major Section: PROGRAMMING
Example Forms: ACL2 !>(floor 14 3) 4 ACL2 !>(floor -14 3) -5 ACL2 !>(floor 14 -3) -5 ACL2 !>(floor -14 -3) 4 ACL2 !>(floor -15 -3) 5
(Floor i j) returns the result of taking the quotient of
i and
j and returning the greatest integer not exceeding that quotient.
For example, the quotient of
-14 by
3 is
-4 2/3, and the largest
integer not exceeding that rational number is
The guard for
(floor i j) requires that
i and
j are
rational (real, in ACL2(r)) numbers and
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Some people are likely suffering from withdrawal symptoms this week. They�ve been watching the blow-by-blow coverage of George Zimmerman�s trial on the various cable outlets. He was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter in a Florida criminal trial that held the nation�s attention.
A 24-hour news cycle can leave holes in programming. That�s why trials that grab the nation�s attention have become a staple of television news. It takes them weeks to play out, and they go all day long. Lawyers with a flair for drama are as entertaining as award-winning actresses and actors.
Some news-making trials involve celebrities like former football player and B-movie actor O.J. Simpson. Sometimes the circumstances are unusual and sensational, as with Jodie Arias or Casey Anthony. Whether a defendant is on trial for murder or, if a celebrity, for a trivial misdemeanor, it must catch the public�s attention.
Or it can be about an issue that makes people across the nation talk. Such was the case with the George Zimmerman trial.
Had the accused and the victim both been black or both been white, the case might have attracted little attention. Indeed, this year alone, dozens of young black men like Trayvon Martin have died violent deaths in cities throughout the country. We don�t know their names or faces because their deaths and the trials of the people accused of killing them haven�t become grist for the cable television trial mill.
But that wasn�t the case in Sanford, Fla. The victim was black and the accused considered himself Hispanic but many referred to him as white, which gave the trial a racial dimension.
In this case, the jury appears to have followed the law and reached the correct decision. And under different circumstances, the verdict would have generated little controversy. But with the added racial dimension, the conversation will continue well after the verdict has been reached.
Every time something like this happens, there is a call for a �conversation about race.� There is no shortage of conversations about race in America. But generally, people mean they want a conversation about race within the narrow parameters that they establish.
Many blacks want a conversation about race that discusses why racism persists in this country. Whites sometimes suggest a conversation that questions why we can�t get past the issue of race and have a colorblind society.
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"As you get ready to cross this stage, I beg each of you: do not let me stand here alone."
The booming oration of keynote speaker and renowned motivational coach Natascha Saunders enveloped the entire auditorium. The graduating class of 2012 sat at attention, donning royal blue caps and gowns, engrossed by her stirring, aggressive and emotional rhetoric.
"Your desire must be greater than your fear. We are built for greatness, and your success starts now," proclaimed Saunders.
The celebration of 98 Rhode Island graduates took place on July 12 at the newly renovated Park Theatre and Performing Arts Center. The grads were but a small portion of the entire class of 369 students who received general equivalency diplomas (GEDs) through Learn to Earn, an initiative designed and run by the Comprehensive Community Action Program, or CCAP.
Following congratulatory speeches by Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian, Cranston Mayor Allen Fung's chief of staff Carlos E. Lopez, and administrator Dr. Philip Less of the Rhode Island Department of Education's adult education office, student speakers were called up to tell the audience of their year with Learn to Earn.
First to speak was Breana Brown, of Cranston, whose ascendance to the podium was met with boisterous applause from the graduates. She took the microphone, wearing bright red sunglasses and a huge smile, and appeared confident and strong.
Kept out of school due to illness, Brown explained that it would have taken her years to catch up, and decided to get her GED with the help of case managers at CCAP's Cranston Skills Center.
"The early mornings were hard but worth every minute. We took our second chance and made a home run of it," she said to the audience of roughly 600.
Then Yanepaulo Andrade went up to speak. During his address, he described his personal appreciation for CCAP.
"I feel like I've become a successful and responsible young man, and I'm grateful to the program and their staff. This is the beginning of a brighter future," Andrade announced to the audience.
Andrade knew he didn't fit into a normal high school education program, at least from his experience at Pawtucket High School. Feeling unchallenged by the material, he skipped assignments – but aced all of his examinations, he said. Stigmatized by his uncooperative behavior, Andrade was transferred to an alternative-learning program, with students who tended to distract him. After dropping out, he started with Learn to Earn at the Providence Skills Center, where he began developing a love of learning and a passion for architecture.
"At CCAP, everyone was ready to help," said Andrade after the ceremony in an interview, "If I weren't there learning, I'd be with people who would be influencing me to do bad things." Andrade plans to attend the Community College of Rhode Island for two years before transferring to a four-year institution to study architecture, with hopes to bring his skills to the basketball team.
Learn to Earn runs each year thanks to the CCAP skills center staff and the leadership of program coordinator Gary Littlefield. The program also offers other services such as summer employment, job preparedness training, and case-managed counseling to out-of-school and/or out-of-work youth.
Since its initiation in 2005, the Learn to Earn program has helped over 2,300 participants receive their GEDs, attracting around 200 former students each year, ranging between the ages of 18 and 24. Participants work through local skills centers in Warwick, Providence, Cranston, Pawtucket and West Warwick at an availability-based pace, meaning they can complete a certain amount of hours toward a GED based on their ability to meet with a case manager on a daily basis. The program typically takes 70 to 100 hours to complete, said Littlefield. One student, Jessie Rodriguez, spent 321 hours at the Pawtucket Skills Center completing his GED requirements while also tutoring and helping out other participants with their studies.
The Cranston-based community action agency, headed by Executive Director Joanne McGunagle, has designed and implemented dozens of human needs projects that focus on providing employment, income, health care and education to Rhode Islanders seeking greater opportunity.
Formed in 1964 following the signing of the Economic Opportunity Act by President Lyndon Johnson, CCAP began as a Great Society-funded project for the state of Rhode Island in the fight to eliminate poverty. The funding to compensate GED teachers at CCAP comes in the form of R.I. Department of Education grant money, said Chris Mansfield, director of CCAP's Doric Center.
"[Through Learn to Earn] we try to tie employee training and the GED program, which isn't based on a classroom model. It's more one-on-one," said Mansfield in an interview after the ceremony.
Gary Littlefield joined CCAP after working at Cranston East High School as a case manager, and found that some dropouts couldn't be stopped. Despite the work he did to try to keep them in school, there were cases where it didn't matter.
Littlefield, who says around 3,000 kids dropped out of Rhode Island high schools this year, do so not out of laziness but because they don't see themselves as a fit.
"They don't see themselves in the school culture. In the Learn to Earn program, they're going at their own pace," he said.
Even though Learn to Earn's budget and grants have seen cuts with the statewide onset of hard economic times, it hasn't been a tax on Littlefield, who is optimistic that next year's GED program enrollment will exceed 300 students.
Despite receiving only a third of what they're normally granted, "We're still kickin' butt," he said. "Even with less money, we will still graduate more kids, and we will not do less work for the state of Rhode Island."


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Document Root | Administrator Email | Enable GZIP | Enable IP Geolocation | SPDY Advertisement |
Use Server Log | File Name | Log Level | Rolling Size |
Log Control | File Name | Piped Logger | Log Format | Log Headers | Rolling Size | Keep Days | Bytes Log | Compress Archive |
Use Server Index Files | Index Files | Auto Index | Auto Index URI |
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|Description: Specifies the document root for this virtual host. $VH_ROOT/html is recommended. This directory is referred to as $DOC_ROOT in contexts.
|Syntax: A path which can be absolute, or relative to $SERVER_ROOT, or relative to $VH_ROOT.
|Description: Specifies email addresses of the administrators of this virtual host.
|Description: Specifies whether to enable GZIP compression for this virtual host. This setting is effective only when server-level GZIP compression is enabled. The virtual host can only turn off compression enabled at the server level. Compression settings are configured at the server level (in Tuning-GZIP).
|Syntax: Select from radio box
|See Also: Enable Compression, Compression Level (Static Content), Enable Dynamic Compression, Compression Level (Dynamic Content)
|Description: Specifies whether to enable IP geolocation lookup. It can be set at server-, virtual host-, or context-level.
|Syntax: Select from radio box
|See Also: Use Client IP in Header, DB File Path, DB Cache Type
|Description: Specifies whether to advertise to clients that SPDY protocol is available. If set, LSWS will send an Alternate-Protocol response header when a client accesses SPDY-enabled websites through an HTTP connection. This requires the website to have both HTTP and HTTPS connections set up, and SPDY support enabled.
|Syntax: port:protocol string
|Example: If SPDY/3 is enabled on port 443, you can set the string to "443:npn-spdy/3"
|Description: Specifies whether to put log messages from this virtual host into the server log file instead of creating its own log file.
|Syntax: Select from radio box
|Description: Specifies the path for the log file.
|Syntax: File name which can be an absolute path or relative to $SERVER_ROOT.
|Tips: [Performance] Place the log file on a separate disk.
|Description: Specifies the level of logging. Available levels (from high to low) are ERROR, WARNING, NOTICE, INFO, and DEBUG. Only messages with a level higher than or equal to the current setting will be logged. If you want to set it to DEBUG, you must set the server log level to DEBUG as well. The level of debugging is controlled solely at the server level by Debug Level.
|Syntax: Select from drop down list
|Tips: [Performance] Unless Debug Level is set to a level other than NONE, DEBUG log level does not have any performance impact and is recommended.
|See Also: Debug Level
|Description: Specifies when the current log file needs to be rolled over, also known as log rotation. When the file size is over the rollover limit, the active log file will be renamed to log_name.mm_dd_yyyy(.sequence) in the same directory and a new active log file will be created. The actual size of the rotated log file once it is created will sometimes be a little bigger than this size limit. Set to 0 to disable log rotation.
|Syntax: Integer number
|Tips: Append "K", "M", "G" to the number for kilo-, mega- and giga- bytes.
|Description: Specifies where to write the access log. There are three options: 1. Write to the server's access log; 2. Create an access log for this virtual host; 3. Disable access logging.
|Syntax: Select from drop down list
|Description: Specifies the file name of the access log file.
|Syntax: File name which can be an absolute path or relative to $SERVER_ROOT.
|Tips: [Performance] Put access log file on a separate disk.
|Description: Specifies the external application that will receive the access log data sent by LiteSpeed through a pipe on its STDIN stream (file handle is 0). When this field is specified, the access log will be sent only to the logger application and not the access log file specified in previous entry.
The logger application must be defined in External Application section first. Server-level access logging can only use an external logger application defined at the server level. Virtual host-level access logging can only use a logger application defined at the virtual host level.
The logger process is spawned in the same way as other external (CGI/FastCGI/LSAPI) processes. This means it will execute as the user ID specified in the virtual host's ExtApp Set UID Mode settings and will never run on behalf of a privileged user.
LiteSpeed web server performs simple load balancing among multiple logger applications if more than one instance of a logger application is configured. LiteSpeed server always attempts to keep the number of logger applications as low as possible. Only when one logger application fails to process access log entries in time will the server attempt to spawn another instance of the logger application.
If a logger crashes, the web server will start another instance but the log data in the stream buffer will be lost. It is possible to lose log data if external loggers cannot keep up with the speed and volume of the log stream.
|Syntax: Select from drop down list
|Description: Specifies the log format for the access log. When log format is set, it will override the Log Headers setting.
|Syntax: String. The syntax of log format is compatible with Apache 2.0's custom log format.
|Example: Common Log Format (CLF)
"%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b"
Common Log Format with Virtual Host
"%v %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b"
NCSA extended/combined log format
"%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\"
Log cookie value of Foobar
|See Also: Log Headers
|Description: Specifies whether to log HTTP request headers: Referer, UserAgent, and Host.
|Syntax: Select from checkbox
|Tips: [Performance] Turn this off if you do not need these headers in the access log.
|See Also: Log Format
|Description: Specifies how many days the access log file will be kept on disk. Only rotated log files older than specified number of days will be deleted. The current log file will not be touched regardless how many days' data it contains. If you do not want to auto-delete stale and very old log files, set this value to 0.
|Syntax: Integer number
|Description: Specifies the path to the bandwidth bytes log file. When specified, a cPanel compatible bandwidth log will be created. This will log the total bytes transferred for a request including both the request and reply body.
|Syntax: File name which can be an absolute path or relative to $SERVER_ROOT.
|Tips: [Performance] Put the log file on a separate disk.
|Description: Specifies whether to compress rotated log files in order to save disk space.
|Syntax: Select from radio box
|Tips: Log files are highly compressible and this is recommended to reduce disk usage for old logs.
|Description: Specifies whether to use the server's index file settings. If set to Yes, only the server's settings will be used. If set to No, the server's settings will not be used. If set to Addition, additional index files can be added to server's index file list for this virtual host. If you want to disable index files for this virtual host, you can set the value to No and leave the index files field empty.
|Syntax: Select from drop down list
|Description: Specifies names of index files that will be searched sequentially when a URL is mapped to a directory. You can customize it at the server, virtual host, and context level.
|Syntax: Comma delimited list of index file names.
|Tips: [Performance] Only set index files that you need.
|Description: Specifies whether to generate a directory index on the fly when index files listed in Index Files are not available in a directory. This option is customizable at the virtual host and context level, and is inherited along the directory tree until it is explicitly overridden. You can customize the generated index page. Please check online wiki How-tos.
|Syntax: Select from radio box
|Tips: [Security] It is recommended to turn off Auto Index wherever possible to prevent revealing confidential data.
|See Also: Index Files, Auto Index URI
|Description: Specifies the URI that will be used to generate the index page when index files listed in Index Files are not available in a directory. LiteSpeed web server uses an external script to generate the index page providing the maximum customization flexibility. The default script produces an index page with same look as Apache's. To customize the generated index page, please read online wiki How-tos. The directory to be indexed is passed to the script via an environment variable "LS_AI_PATH".
|Syntax: URI
|See Also: Index Files, Auto Index
|Description: Whenever the server has a problem processing a request, the server will return an error code and an html page as the error message to the web client. Error codes are defined in the HTTP protocol (see RFC 2616). LiteSpeed web server has a built-in default error page for each error code, but a customized page can be configured for each error code. error pages can also be further customized to be unique for each virtual host.
|Description: Specifies the HTTP status code for the error page. Only the selected HTTP status code will have this customized error page.
|Syntax: Select from drop down list
|Description: Specifies the URL of the customized error page. The server will forward the request to this URL when the corresponding HTTP status code has returned. If this URL refers to a non-existing resource, the built-in error page will be used. The URL can be a static file, a dynamically generated page, or a page on another web site (a URL starting with "http(s)://"). When referring to a page on another web site, the client will receive a redirect status code instead of the original status code.
|Syntax: URL
|Description: To change the error page setting, click "Edit". To remove this customized error page, click "Delete".
|Description: Specifies the script file suffixes that will be handled by this script handler. Suffixes must be unique.
|Syntax: Comma delimited list with period "." character prohibited.
|Tips: The server will automatically add a special MIME type ("application/x-httpd-[suffix]") for the first suffix in the list. For example, MIME type "application/x-httpd-php53" will be added for suffix "php53". Suffixes after the first need to set up in the MIME Settings settings.
Though we list suffixes in this field, the script handlers use MIME types, not suffixes, to decide which scripts to handle.
[Performance & Security] Only specify the suffixes you really need.
|Description: Specifies the type of external application that processes these script files. Available types are: CGI, FastCGI, Web Server, LSAPI app, Load balancer, or Servlet Engine. For FastCGI, Web Server and Servlet Engine, a Handler Name needs to be specified. This is an external application name as predefined in the External Application section.
|Syntax: Select from drop down list
|Description: Specifies the name of the external application that processes the script files when the handler type is FastCGI, Web Server, LSAPI, Load Balancer, or Servlet Engine.
|Syntax: Select from drop down list
|Description: Specifies whether to generate an Expires header for static files. If enabled, an Expires header will be generated based on Expires Default and Expires By Type.
This can be set at server, virtual host and context level. Lower level settings will override higher level ones, i.e. context settings will override virtual host settings and virtual host settings will override server settings.
|Syntax: Select from radio box
|Description: Specifies default settings for Expires header generation. This setting takes effect when Enable Expires is set to "Yes". It can be overridden by Expires By Type. Do not set this default at the server or virtual host level unless you have to, since it will generate Expires headers for all pages. Most of time this should be set at the context level for certain directories that do not change often. If there is no default setting, no Expires header will be generated for types not specified in Expires By Type.
|Syntax: A|Mseconds
The file will expire after base time(A|M) plus specified seconds. Base time "A" sets the value to the client's access time and "M" to the file's last modified time.
|Description: Specifies Expires header settings for individual MIME types.
|Syntax: Comma delimited list of "MIME-type=A|Mseconds". The file will expire after base time (A|M) plus specified seconds.
Base time "A" sets the value to the client's access time and "M" to the file's last modified time. MIME-type accepts wildcard "*", like image/*.


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Helen Mirren keeps winning awards for playing Queen Elizabeth II.
The actress won multiple trophies, including an Oscar in 2007, for her role in "The Queen." Earlier this year, she collected an Olivier Award -- London's equivalent of the Tony Award -- for playing the British monarch in "The Audience," the recent play by "The Queen" screenwriter Peter Morgan that ran on the West End.
On Sunday, Mirren collected yet another honor -- Britain's prestigious Evening Standard Theatre Award for "The Audience." The actress was in London to attend the ceremony, which was held at the Savoy Hotel. The play spans several decades as Queen Elizabeth II holds her ritual audiences with the current British prime minister.
"The Audience" was broadcast to cinemas around the world this year, and there's been talk about a Broadway transfer, though no official announcement has been made. Stephen Daldry directed the play on the West End.
The Evening Standard award for best actor was shared by Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear, who appeared in Shakespeare's "Othello" at the National Theatre.
The evening's honorees also included Maggie Smith, who received the Evening Standard Icon Award for her lifetime contribution to the stage.
Seth Numrich, the young American actor who appeared alongside Kim Cattrall in "Sweet Bird of Youth" at the Old Vic, was named outstanding newcomer. Kevin Spacey, who heads the Old Vic, was also honored for his contributions to British theater.
"Chimerica," a drama about a photographer's quest to find the man who stood up to a line of tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, won the award for best play. The award for best director went to Richard Eyre for a revival of Ibsen's "Ghosts" that starred Mike Leigh-regular Lesley Manville.
"Merrily We Roll Along," by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, won the award for best musical. The revival production debuted at the Menier Chocolate Factory and then transferred to the West End.
Sunday's award ceremony was hosted by "Homeland" actor Damian Lewis. The awards are organized by the Evening Standard, the British tabloid, and its owner, Evgeny Lebedev.


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Huge Humpback Whale Rescued Off Channel Islands Coast
A dramatic scene unfolded Friday off the coast of Channel Islands as rescuers worked to free a huge humpback whale that was tethered to fishing lines.
The hapless animal was discovered a day before four miles off Santa Cruz Island tangled and unable to swim more than a few yards.
Biologists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration used began the rescue operation around 9 a.m. and used specially fabricated equipment to free the whale.
It took six grueling hours for rescuers to release the colossal cetacean from a series of shrimp pots linked by fishing lines.
Working from large boats rescuers deployed a small inflatable craft with three aboard. Using specially made cutters and underwater cameras the whale was freed and swam into the sunset.
Ventura Marina Assist Captain Paul Amaral assisted in the operation and provided the images to NBC4.


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One Share - One Vote: A European Rule?
Posted: 23 Apr 2007
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One Share - One Vote: A European Rule?
In this paper, I tackle the question whether one share - one vote should become a European law rule. I examine, first of all, the economic theory concerning one share - one vote and its optimality, and the law and economics literature on dual class recapitalizations and other deviations from one share - one vote. I also consider the agency costs of deviations from one share - one vote and examine whether they justify regulation. I subsequently analyze the rules implementing the one share - one vote standard in the US and Europe. In particular, I analyze the self-regulatory rules of US exchanges, the relevant provisions of the European Takeover Directive (including the well known break-through rule), and the European Court of Justice's position as to golden shares (which also are deviations from the one share - one vote standard). I conclude that one share - one vote is not justified by economic efficiency, as also confirmed by comparative law. Also the European breakthrough rule, which ultimately strikes down all deviations from one share - one vote, does not appear to be well grounded. Only transparency rules appear to be justified at EU level as disclosure of ownership and voting structures serves a pricing and governance function, while harmonisation of the relevant rules reduces transaction costs in integrated markets.
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LINCOLN, Neb., July 20 (UPI) -- The worst U.S. drought in 56 years is pushing the world to a food crisis, officials said as scorching Midwest heat sent corn and soybean prices to record highs.
The all-time-high corn and soybean prices -- with corn closing just over $8.07 a bushel and soybeans trading as high as $17.49 -- surpassed 2007-2008 peaks that sparked food riots in more than 30 countries.
Wheat prices exceeded prices reached during Russia's 2010 export ban, reaching levels above $9.35 a bushel not seen since the last food crisis in 2008.
"I've been in the business more than 30 years and this is by far and away the most serious weather issue and supply-and-demand problem that I have seen by a mile," a senior trading-house executive told the Financial Times. "It's not even comparable to 2007-08."
"It really is a crisis. I don't think we've ever seen anything like this in my lifetime," Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn told The New York Times after touring ravaged farms in the southern part of his state.
"It's got the potential to be the worst drought we've ever had in Arkansas," state Agriculture Secretary Butch Calhoun told the Times.
Nearly 61 percent of the continental United States -- from California to Arkansas and Texas to North Dakota -- is under moderate to extreme drought, the government's U.S. Drought Monitor said Thursday, the largest such area since December 1956.
The monitor said 88 percent of corn and 87 percent of soybean crops in the country were in drought-stricken regions, a 10 percent jump from a week before.
Many states -- including Iowa, Nebraska, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois -- have little or no rain forecast for at least the next two weeks, the National Weather Service said, although tropical activity in the Gulf of Mexico and the Southeast could bring rain to parts of the South.
The severe drought has dashed hopes of a bumper harvest, commodity traders said, but U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Wednesday the nation might still have a bumper corn crop this year -- the third-largest corn crop in history -- because favorable weather early in the growing season encouraged planting.
At the same time, he said the drought would result in U.S. food price increases into 2013.
The United States accounts for nearly half the world's exports of corn and much of its soybeans and wheat, and non-governmental officials said they were concerned the drought would reverberate well beyond U.S. borders.
The 2007-08 world food-price crisis, which occurred as the global economic crisis got under way, caused political and economic instability and social unrest in both poor and developed nations.
A May 2008 survey by the non-profit organization Feeding America found U.S. food banks and pantries were forced to cut back on food distribution significantly, as 99 percent of respondents reported increases in the number of people requesting food.
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* We in the West must accept that the anger against us is often justified. With our bombs, our often misconceived wars, our vast economic power, which is sometimes misused, and with all of the damage our modern industry has inflicted on the environment and, historically, our imperial exploitation of poorer countries, we are, in many ways the authors of our own misfortunes. By attempting to understand this anger our actions have inspired, we can achieve greater moral maturity as a nation. For the perpetrator of this attack, a refugee who has no doubt been traumatised by the terrible things he has experienced, I feel pity. Pity at a young life thrown so tragically away, pity that his own despair made him vulnerable to those who wish to exploit him and distort the peaceful message of Islam for evil purposes. But as well as pity, I feel gratitude. I want to think this young man for granting us the opportunity to reflect on our own shortcomings and thereby achieve an enhanced affinity to other human beings, living in less fortunate circumstances to ourselves, and, of course, to the environment, the Mother Earth that nurtures us all and which we have so abused with our selfish consumerist lifestyles and with pollution.
We Germans bear a tragic burden of historical guilt which we will never be able to fully expiate. We must never forget how hatred once caused us to inflict such terrible harm on our fellow human beings. For that reason, I ask Germans not to give in to hatred again. We must not think ill of Islam, immigration or refugees as a result of this attack. On the contrary, we choose to embrace the Other even more forcefully than before. Rather than reject Islam, you should find out about it, study it, even adopt it yourself. Rather than keep out refugees or immigrants, we should welcome them even more. We must show the world that the haters will not win; that, in the end, the message of love will prevail. To Muslim Germans who will no doubt be wounded by the Islamophobia this tragic incident will trigger, on behalf of our nation, I wish to apologise to you in advance. You belong to Germany. You are part of who we are. In many ways you are more authentically German than the people of hate who wish to exclude you. I beg you to maintain your love for Germany as we vow to maintain our love for you.
* This post may be "Fake News". Please do not allow your voting decisions to be influence by it. In addition, please note that this website may have been hacked by Russia.
Although this was a parody, it's actually not too different from reality. Here is Frauke Petry, leader of the anti-Islam AfD, retweeting a tweet from the chairman of the Socialist party.
It is revealing what the SPD [Socialists] are sharing about yesterday: even today they are sticking to political correctness. Sad.
The Socialist says:
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Where I come from, if you suggested cooking with Stella Artois, you'd be comprehensively jeered, by both the many fans of what is probably the fourth or fifth best-selling beer in Britain, for being a pretentious twat, and by Stella's many haters, for promoting a mega-lager seen as, at best, bland and pointless. But where I am right now is Hong Kong. Here, the entire concept of cooking with beer is still so novel, so unheard-of, so likely to send Cantonese eyebrows rocketing up Cantonese foreheads, that any attempt to promote beer cuisine has to be supported, no matter what brew is involved.
That's why I was at the Hong Kong Jockey Club in Happy Valley, to watch George Reisch, fifth-generation brewer and "director of brewmaster outreach" for Anheuser-Busch InBev, preach on the joys of beer and food, and beer IN food, to an audience of Hong Kong bar owners, restaurateurs, food bloggers, magazine and newspaper journalists. Plus me, ostensibly representing the South China Morning Post, and bemusing the Hong Kong food blogging community, who had never met a beer blogger before, nor knew such a beast existed.
A-B InBev might be the Evil Empire to some, but its products are big sellers in Hong Kong. In particular Hoegaarden is hugely popular with Chinese beer drinkers, especially women. I was in a bar called the News Room in Quarry Bay drinking something pale, American and very hoppy a couple of weeks back, and of the seven nearest tables to me, six were occupied solely by Hoegaarden drinkers, all Chinese, male and female. (Of course, the theatre of the big glasses helps, but primarily they like the taste: spicy, not over-bitter.)
Stella is also in almost every bar in Hong Kong that is likely to attract expat customers, for sale to homesick Britons who react well to a familiar face met far away. If you are going to push the idea of beer with food, and beer in food, to people totally unused to the possibilities of such a pairing, it's much better to do it (I think, and so, obviously does A-B Inbev) using beers they are familiar with. Since Hong Kong restaurateurs and bar people and beer drinkers know Hoegaarden and Stella very well, then Hoegaarden and Stella are good beers with which to introduce the concept of beery cuisine to them.
And George Reisch is a great guy to do the introducing: American beer enthusiasts know him well; he's a judge at the Great American Beer Festival, among other high-profile activities in the North American beer world. It's immediately clear he is hugely enthusiastic about beer and all its possibilities, which makes me like him at once. Brewing is obviously in the family DNA: his great-great grandfather founded Reisch's brewery in Springfield, Illinois, closed 1966, and his son is currently learning the trade while working for Spaten (an A-B Inbev subsidiary) in Munich.


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Volkswagen will be bringing a seven passenger SUV to the United States in 2016, according to our man Travis, who is currently at the Detroit Auto Show. It will be based on their big CrossBlue concept from last year. And it will take all your kids to soccer practice.
Last year's concept looked remarkably production ready, and for such a big vehicle it sported a comparatively tiny engine – only a 190 horse diesel. But then once you add in the 54 horsepower electric motor in the front and a 114 horse electric motor in the back, you're working with over 300 horsepower and 516 pound-feet of torque. Yes, 516. That's stump-pulling leverage.
No word yet on whether or not that powertrain has made it into the production version. We'll let you know more as we have it.
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The Silent Fountain by Victoria Fox is a stunning, Gothic tale of two women in very different decades who nonetheless find themselves trapped in an idyllic Italian villa. The only escape lies in unearthing the property's secrets…secrets you can uncover for yourself with this giveaway! The Silent Fountain may not be on sale until October 31, but we're giving you the chance to get a copy of the ARC. Just head on down to the comments and let us know which book location you'd like to visit. Would it be Italy, like in The Silent Fountain, or somewhere else entirely?
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Tragedy sends troubled film star Vivien Lockhart into the arms of Giovanni Moretti, and it seems her fortunes have finally changed. Until she meets his sister, and learns that her new husband's past holds dark secrets.
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Everyone in London is searching for Lucy Whittaker – so Lucy needs to disappear. But her new home, the crumbling Castillo Barbarossa, is far from the secluded paradise it seemed. Across the decades, Vivien and Lucy find themselves trapped in the idyllic Italian villa. And if they are ever to truly escape its walls, they must first unearth its secrets…
Giveaway: Open to residents of the US and Canada, excluding Quebec. Contest closes October 10, at 11:59 p.m. ET. Five (5) winners will be selected from all eligible comments and announced here on or around October 11. For full official rules, click here.
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Rugged, durable and oh so striking Sema boot offers no-nonsense fashion that's beautiful in its simplicity. A tall shaft features an array of buckled straps with a burnished toe and buckled counter for additional intrigue. A stacked heel keeps if from falling flat, while the rubber sole offers you sure footing on any surface.
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The Reef Octopus skimmers are powered by the Hailea OTP pumps. They are built with high quality acrylic. The skimmer has a gate valve output which allows for more adjustment of the skimmer compared to ball valves. The collection cup has a quick release neck for easy removal for cleaning. It requires 1/2 inch of clearance to remove the cup. The Octopus skimmers uses metric plumbing parts. The pump has an improved venturi design and pinwheel impeller. The DNWB skimmer requires a feed pump to feed water to the skimmer. The recommended maximum flow rating for this skimmer is 250gph. These numbers are based on zero back pressure on the output plumbing. If you add 90 degree bends on the plumbing back to a sump you may need to back off the amount of water being feed through the skimmer. We recommend that you use a ball valve inline from your feed pump to the skimmer allowing you to control the water flow. Below are the test results from the old impeller to the new improved impeller.


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Miley Cyrus Dropping New Single in June
It sounds like Smilers (do they still call themselves that?) will be hearing new tunes from Miley very soon! A source has confirmed to E! News that Cyrus will release a new single as early as June with a album soon to follow.
The pop star said in a Google hangout with will.i.am, "All I do is focus on my music. The only place I ever am is at the studio." Could this laser focus on music be the reason her relationship with Liam Hemsworth is deteriorating? She did say, "My friends, my relationships with like everyone around me has honestly changed since I've been working on my record, because it is the only thing that I have wanted to give 120 percent to." That surely doesn't bode well for maintaining a mature relationship.
Miley explained in the Google Hangout, "I think it is like the only time in my life that I have pushed everything aside, everyone aside, anything you know that really mattered and it really became just about the music." Get it girl! We want to hear the fruits of your labor!
A source also confirmed to E! that Miley has pushed any wedding plans to the back burner until her record is complete. Dropping a new album often comes with endless promotion and lengthy world tours. How in the world will Cyrus manage to squeeze a wedding into there? Sounds a bit over ambitious if you ask us.
Aside from her own new music, Miley is currently featured on Snoop Lion's track 'Ashtrays and Heartbreaks.' We would imagine this indicates a big change for her new material and we're all ears!
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Don't tell anyone, but Massachusetts is kind of a big nerd. We simply love science and nature. You could say it's in our nature, with scenic roads like the lovely Mohawk Trail, 1500 miles of postcard pretty coastline, and some of America's most brilliant fall foliage. We could spend hours at the Museum of Science, the Harvard Museum of Natural History, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and wish we could live at the Franklin Park Zoo or maybe the Butterfly Place, surrounded by colorful creatures. And don't even get us started on the New England Aquarium, fully renovated in 2013.
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Just wanted to recommend EdinTyre (http://www.edintyre.co.uk/).
I bought four Toyo T1Rs from DemonTweeks and contacted Ian at EdinTyre to get them fitted at my flat. He turned up when we arranged, was happy to explain everything he was doing and generally chat away about cars for an hour or so whilst fitting the new tyres. Always feel happier when a proper car enthusiast is working on my car.
After going to the ATS over the road from my work for the last couple of years and being increasingly disappointed with their service (they wouldn't fit tyres I didn't buy from them, insisting on doing a "health check" on my car every time to try and get more money out of me etc.) I know who I'll be going back to!


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Update: Alex remembered the add-in I ment: QuoteFix. Due to incompatibility issues with nowadays Outlook versions the guys published a VBA script doing mostly the same as the older add-in. Alex did some fine tuning on their script and applied parts of my snippet. Try his gist to get the best of both (mine and QuoteFix). Works like a charm for me.
When using Outlook to send/receive emails you usually press the reply (or reply all, forward) button to send back an answer. This works like a charm if the email you want to reply to was sent in plain text and you have the "line indention with prefix" option enabled in the Outlook settings.
Thus commenting the received email is pretty easy. Obviously there is no option to configure Outlook to reply to a HTML/RichText message with a plain text email too. So replying to such formatted mails with the "line indention with prefix" option enabled looks like this:
If you now try to write inline comments it is IMHO really hard for the recipient to find those in your reply. One might say: you can convert the reply message to plain text. Yes you can! But this won't convert the silly blue line into '>' prefixes. So I was looking for an add-in to solve this problem. I thought there was one I used in earlier Outlook versions, but couldn't find it anymore. After boongleing for an hour I decided to implement this using VBA. This is the result:
Enum AnswerType
Forward = 0
Reply = 1
ReplyAll = 3
End Enum
Function DisplayPlainTextMessage(msg As MailItem, addPrefix As Boolean)
Dim prefix As String
If addPrefix = True Then prefix = "> "
msg.BodyFormat = olFormatPlain
Dim lines() As String
lines = Strings.Split(msg.body, vbCrLf)
Dim newBody As String
For i = 0 To UBound(lines)
If Trim(lines(i)) = "--" Then GoTo Break
newBody = newBody & prefix & Trim(lines(i)) & vbCrLf
msg.body = newBody
End Function
Function SendAsPlainText(how As AnswerType)
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
Dim msg As Outlook.MailItem
Set msg = GetMailItem
If msg Is Nothing Then
MsgBox ("No message selected.")
GoTo ProgramExit
End If
Select Case how
Case AnswerType.Forward
Call DisplayPlainTextMessage(msg.Forward, msg.BodyFormat <> olFormatPlain)
Case AnswerType.Reply
Call DisplayPlainTextMessage(msg.Reply, msg.BodyFormat <> olFormatPlain)
Case AnswerType.ReplyAll
Call DisplayPlainTextMessage(msg.ReplyAll, msg.BodyFormat <> olFormatPlain)
End Select
Exit Function
MsgBox Err.Number & " - " & Err.Description
Resume ProgramExit
End Function
Sub ForwardAsPlainText()
Call SendAsPlainText(AnswerType.Forward)
End Sub
Sub ReplyAsPlainText()
Call SendAsPlainText(AnswerType.Reply)
End Sub
Sub ReplyAllAsPlainText()
Call SendAsPlainText(AnswerType.ReplyAll)
End Sub
Function GetMailItem() As Outlook.MailItem
On Error Resume Next
Select Case TypeName(Application.ActiveWindow)
Case "Explorer"
If TypeName(ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(1)) = "MailItem" Then
Set GetMailItem = ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(1)
End If
Case "Inspector"
If TypeName(ActiveInspector.CurrentItem) = "MailItem" Then
Set GetMailItem = ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
End If
End Select
On Error GoTo 0
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Back in the early days of computer gaming one may remember the Comanche flight simulator. The simple 3D engine used for this and other games is based on a so called voxel rendering engine. Searching the Internet for this technique I found this nice article from Alex Champandard and this one from Codermind. Putting two and two together, again I paid attention to the WriteableBitmap class that is part of Silverlight 3.
To emphasize the .NET Open Space 2009 that is starting tomorrow here in Leipzig, I used a special background texture for the sky. Just press the start button and use W-A-S-D of your keyboard to fly around the terrain. I will clean up the sources after the upcoming and put it here on my blog. So stay tuned.
Playing around with the new WriteableBitmap class in Silverlight 3 I remembered the time I started with VGA programming in assembler. After a quick research I found this simple algorithm to visualize the effect. I added the interactivity via mouse click and keyboard input to create new fire initiators.
The source is available for free: FireEffect.zip (12 kB)
Another small sample using dynamic generated animations in Silverlight.
The source are available for free: TunnelAnimation.zip (7 kB)
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After a long run on a bumpy road our Trian.Whiteboard finally found it's way to the MSDN Code Gallery. Even if Microsoft Silverlight 3 is knocking on our doors this smart sample is a good start to get in touch with this technology. It shows how to use XAML to create a Rich Internet Application that communicates with a Windows Communication Foundation service in the background.
Check it out: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/whiteboardPlay with it: http://playground.pixelplastic.de
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As I saw the following short film (due to a tweet of zumpe) I remembered the TiltShift style photographs I wrote about months ago. And now I'm thinking of buying such a lens. I like it.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- Game two of Tennessee Tech's three-game series against Morehead State had a total of 34 hits Saturday, but it was the Golden Eagles who came up with the biggest hits in the eighth inning as they drove in three runs to even the series with a 10-9 win.
The crucial point in the game came in the bottom of the eighth inning as TTU trailed MSU 8-7. In the top of the inning, Morehead State took the lead off a leadoff home run from Taylor Pickens, but that would not deter Tech as it rallied for three runs on four hits to take a 10-8 lead.
After two of the first three batters reached base in the bottom of the eighth, MSU reliever Morgan Cisco was lifter for Matt Duncan, who earned his 11th save of the season in Friday's game. The Golden Eagles responded with pinch-hitter Tevis Sherfield who posted an RBI-single through the right side. The scoring continued as Chad Hayes and Austin Wulf followed up with their own RBI-singles as they gave Tech the lead for good at 10-8.
Cullen Park took the hill for TTU in the ninth, but MSU was far from done as it managed to get runners on second and third with only one out. Park then threw a wild pitch but a solid defensive play by Park and Ben Burgess caught Chase Greenwell at the plate for the second out. Morehead State was able to get one run across on another wild pitch but that was all it could muster as Park finished the game for his third save of the season.
TTU's Seth Lucio (2-2) earned the win as he gave up three runs in three innings in relief, while Cisco (5-2) took the loss as he gave up two runs in one inning of work.
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Even though it's Tuesday (I personally consider it the worst day of the week — Friday is still so far away!), it was a treat coming into the office today. You probably don't even have to ask why, since I'm sure you've also been looking forward to the announcement of the third winner in our "Win the World" Facebook sweepstakes.
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Our top-rated toaster oven, the Smart Oven by Breville, sports simple, intuitive controls and five highly responsive quartz heating elements, which helped it out-toast, -roast, -bake, and -broil the nine other machines in our most recent testing. Nothing about it could be beat—except maybe the $249.95 price and its countertop-hogging size. For tighter spaces and budgets, Breville offers the roughly 25 percent smaller Mini Smart Oven with Element IQ, which features similar easy controls and the same quartz technology (in four elements) for $149.95. We used it to toast four slices of bread, roast two bone-in split chicken breasts, bake eight cookies, and heat a personal-size frozen pizza. In every case, the Mini Smart Oven aced our tests, preheating in 5 minutes or less and baking evenly. We also liked that this oven includes a button labeled "A Bit More," which lets you broil or toast food for just a few extra seconds or minutes. The Mini Smart Oven by Breville is a terrific choice for smaller spaces.
Update, May 2017: Our best buy toaster oven, the Hamilton Beach Set & Forget Toaster Oven with Convection Cooking, has been discontinued.
How we tested
First, the good news: Toaster ovens have improved—a little. In 2007, we were hard-pressed to find one that could eke out a decent piece of toast. Today, testing 10 new models, including a makeover of our former winner, a slice of golden-brown toast is no longer quite so hard to get. The bad news? Toaster ovens aren't cheap. The least expensive model we tested was $60; a good half of them were $150 or more. Manufacturers justify these prices by offering a slew of different features, including some that we never imagined desirable in a toaster oven: a food dehydrator, a chicken rotisserie, a bun warmer, and even a built-in meat probe. Assumptions about what a toaster oven should do have changed, too: More are called countertop ovens, leaving "toast" right out of the equation.
Daily Bread
As cooks, we appreciate the merits of a small second oven, which is handy for preparing single portions and side dishes, melting cheese on sandwiches, and keeping the kitchen cool in hot weather. A toaster oven takes half the time of a full-size oven to preheat, and it's more energy-efficient for small tasks. Toasting is still important, though: If these ovens can't toast a simple slice of bread, what are the chances that they can handle cookies, chicken, or pizza?
We began our tests simply by making toast, buying dozens of loaves of our favorite white bread and toasting slice after slice on each oven's "medium" toast setting. Five of the 10 models easily surpassed the performance of their 2007 counterparts. Two were a total disappointment, doing little more than heating up the slices: After several minutes, their "toast" was almost as white as it was before going in.
A good toaster oven should radiate intense heat for broiling and browning. To test for this ability, we made dark toast. A few brands failed miserably: One model's darkest setting (out of nine choices) produced black smoke and a chunk of inedible charcoal. Another's dial ticked away as it burned the bread to a crisp. Only two models ended up capable of producing both deeply browned toast and good medium toast.
Toasting six slices of bread at a time gave us an excellent snapshot of heating patterns. The best performers—including the two models that excelled in our other toasting tests—browned evenly across both sides of the six slices, while lesser ovens had hot and cold spots, yielding mottled results.
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If we're paying top dollar for a toaster oven claiming it can perform a wide range of functions, it better be able to carry them out. So we set up these ovens with a range of bigger cooking challenges, from melting cheese on tuna sandwiches and thin-crust pizzas to heating dense casseroles of frozen macaroni and cheese. We tried baking crisp lemon cookies and roasting 4-pound chickens. Those ovens that failed to toast evenly, we found, also did poor work melting cheese uniformly across sandwiches and pizza, leaving some areas still solid and others overly browned. Instead of becoming shapely disks with light golden edges, cookies baked in these models emerged as blobs with randomly browned surfaces. Macaroni and cheese was still cool in the center after more than an hour of baking, with the edges drying out. And a few ovens always seemed to take longer to get the job done—we actually gave up on one after it failed to melt cheese on pizza in a reasonable amount of time, or fully cook a chicken after two hours. (A backup copy of this oven performed just as poorly.)
Interior space was also an issue. Squeezing a whole chicken into the narrow confines of a few of the ovens was nearly impossible. The most cramped was horizontally divided, with a bun-warming chamber on top that left little room in the oven beneath. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, the ovens tall enough to easily accommodate a whole chicken—including one with a rotisserie—failed to cook anything else especially well, because foods less voluminous than chicken sat too far away from their heating elements.
After compiling the results of each test, it was clear that the ovens that aced our toasting tests were also the best at general cooking. But why were they so successful? We did one last trial, setting all the ovens to 350 degrees and hooking up each one to a thermocouple to gauge accuracy. True to form, the wimpy ovens barely reached 315 degrees; others varied wildly, hitting far above and below the mark; and the best climbed closest to the 350-degree target and stayed there.
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Two ovens distinguished themselves with consistently good performance, but only one was truly exemplary and achieved a perfect score. Toast browned evenly on every setting, whether we wanted one slice or six. Cookies, a tuna melt, pizza, mac and cheese, and chicken were thoroughly and uniformly cooked. This oven was big enough for chicken but sufficiently compact for browning toast and baking smaller foods. Its five heating elements (most models had four)—three rods on top, two below—cycle on and off keyed to preset programs for different foods, directing heat where needed (though we found the presets easy to customize, and the oven "remembers" your adjustments). Its heating elements are quartz, which heats and cools faster than the nickel and chromium heating apparatus found in most toaster ovens. It is thus more responsive, provides steadier heat, and eliminates the usual toaster oven pitfall: the hot spots that form directly under the elements.
Interestingly, our other favorite oven has an unusual mechanism for maintaining its rock-steady heating. Most toaster ovens operate with an "on/off" switch—they get hotter until they literally switch off, and then cool gradually until they switch back on, maintaining an average temperature close to what you want. By contrast, this one operates with a sort of "dimmer" switch, staying on but varying the intensity to sustain the desired temperature.
We also discovered a Best Buy option. At less than half the price of the perfect oven, it is similarly proportioned, striking the balance between adequate interior space and concentrated heating. Its elements are not as sophisticated, but it was one of the most accurate ovens and produced consistently acceptable food. Both ovens were also remarkably simple to use, unlike others with thick manuals and confusing buttons. Our winners required no learning curve.
We made single slices of toast (using white bread) on medium and dark settings, preferring models that produced evenly golden-brown medium toast, with crisp exteriors and moist interiors; and dark toast that was a deep, appealing brown, not burned. We also toasted multiple batches of six slices to evaluate the heating patterns in the ovens, rating highly those that produced uniformly browned batches. Scores on these tasks were averaged.
We baked lemon cookies, melted cheese on tuna sandwiches, heated frozen pizzas and macaroni and cheese casseroles, and roasted whole chickens, averaging the scores from each test.
We looked for solid construction, easy cleanup, and straightforward controls that didn't constantly send us back to the manual.
Using a thermocouple to gauge accuracy, we tested how well empty ovens held the standard temperature of 350 degrees.