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Unanswered: GXT 3.0, Designer and Eclipse
I try to use the designer view with Eclipse (Indigo version), but every example that I try, I have the following error:
Error loading module(s). GWT Designer can't load a module because of error in gwt.xml module description, incorrect resource which requires processing with GWT generator or by some other configuration error. Please check your $project_dir/.gwt/.gwt-log for GWT-specific errors (not GWT Designer errors). This log has the following error messages: [ERROR] Error occured loading property: [ERROR] Deferred binding failed for 'com.sencha.gxt.core.client.GXT.UserAgent'; expect subsequent failures [ERROR] Failed to create an instance of 'com.sencha.gxt.widget.core.client.container.FlowLayoutContainer' via deferred binding
Do I need to configure something else ?
Thanks for your help !
22 Nov 2011 1:50 AM #2
Hi there!
I doubt you will get the designer to work (at this time). I tried that as well, I don't think it is supported just yet. But still I ran into the same problem as you did and I added these lines to the gwt.xml
<set-property name="gxt.user.agent" value="chrome" />
<set-property name="user.agent.os" value="linux" />
I don't think this is a fix but it might help you to get to the next step.
Good luck!
22 Nov 2011 4:13 AM #3
Thanks, it's better with these lines (no more error) !


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It seems there are a ton of easy ab exercises, but very few for the lower back to keep the muscles balanced as your abs get stronger. What are simple home exercises for the lower back?
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Try rolling over onto your stomach and doing a "superman". You can hold tension in the position, or do reps similar to doing "reverse situps".
Also, you might think about doing slow squats or wall sits where you focus on contracting both your abs and lower back. Tense up so as to make the line between anus and belly-button as short as possible during this exercise - maybe you can replace your ab work at the same time!
From yoga: spinal flexion and cat-cow. Very simple exercises and quite effective.
The Cat-Cow looks like this:
4 exercises I was given by an osteopath when I had fairly chronic muscular lower back pain were all leg related:
Another exercise involves using the elbow to massage the back, with a fair amount of pressure - obviously you'll need a partner/friend/willing house mate to do it though, and it hurts.
Now that I'm thinking about this I realized I have a solution. But it is pretty makeshift, but it might work for someone.
I have a stable stool that I can raise to 25". If I hook my legs under a counter or very heavy table (it needs to be very steady), and place my hips on the stool I can do back raises with a makeshift Roman Chair. Kind of like this.
The disadvantages are:
Whole body exercises like deadlifts and squats - with good form!
(Swimming is good, but it takes a while to see the effects.)
I'd also recommend doing a high rep sets of Good Mornings with no weight for extra lower back work around the house. Good mornings hit both the lower back and glutes/hamstrings. Everything back in that region of your body is connected very tightly so good glutes/hamstrings are just as important to lower back strength and stability as your lower back muscles are.
The Bird Dog is a good exercise. Also a single-leg deadlift can be a great good exercise for strengthening the back if you have some dumbbells or suitable items to use as weight around.
Supermans, crunches, bodyweight squats, and even planks all strengthen lower back muscles. I hope that helps.


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I work in a team and after some days of regular focus & productivity, normally towards the end of the month, I lose interest in the work. It usually takes about a week to regain focus but, this often puts me behind schedule.
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This question is inspired by Joseph O'Rourke's beautiful question on random knots. Choose an random ordered 6-tuple of points on the unit sphere in $\mathbf{R}^3$, and form a knot by connecting successive pairs of points in the 6-tuple by sticks (see the picture at Joseph's question). By known results on stick numbers, the resulting knot will either be the unknot or the trefoil knot. What is the probability of producing one or the other?
I wrote a program in Mathematica to sample knots from this distribution and test what proportion are the trefoil knot.
In order to tell if a given knot is the unknot or the trefoil, the program first checks the total curvature of the knot and applies the Fary-Milnor theorem: if the curvature is less than $4 \pi$, then it's the unknot. Half the time, this test identifies the unknot. I think it should be possible to compute the exact probability of the curvature being too small.
Next, the program projects the knot onto 100 random planes. If any of these projections has less than 3 crossings, then we are again considering the unknot. This test eliminates all but ~1% of cases.
Finally, if we're still not done, the program takes the projection with the least number of crossings and checks if the resulting knot diagram is tricolorable. Usually this diagram has three crossings and this test might be a bit of a sledgehammer, but this test completely distinguishes the unknot from the trefoil. (I don't use this test first because my implementation is very slow.)
In a test run of 10,000 random knots, 68 knots were determined to be the trefoil. The computation took about 12 minutes. Here's one of the trefoils it found:
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I like the specificity of this question! Just by hand (I don't have this automated), I generated ten
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to make this determination visually at full resolution.
The result for these ten random trials: zero trefoils, ten unknots.
I hacked a small metapost script which generates planar projections of random diagrams. It's far from perfect, but after dismissing a couple of hundred examples, I would be extremely surprised if the probability of getting a trefoil is anything but 0. You can download 1000 examples from http://rasmusvillemoes.dk/files/trefoil.zip, along with the (ugly) metapost code. I didn't put a lot of effort into the logic behind drawing/removing parts of strands near intersections, but the information in the .txt files can help resolve ambiguities. The two lines "Along segment 1: // (-1, 0.4816) [3]" means that roughly halfway along segment number 1, we meet segment 3 and pass under it. (The first part of strand 0 is colored red; this determines the order uniquely.) I suppose one could trivially sort these lines according to the time (second) coordinate, and then look for alternating signs, but I don't know if a 6-stick diagram of the trefoil is necessarily alternating.


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I really like Ubuntu, but I always had to switch back to Windows just because I couldn't get my Intel HD Graphics 3000 to work. So, 11.10 came out and I'm trying to get things work in this update, so I can finally stay with Ubuntu and use it. Anyways, things seem to be more stable here, but they're still a bit fishy.
I'm doing tests with Minecraft. Currently, there's only 1 minor bug. The game flickers from time to time and the colors get buggy or something
I read that maybe I should update to kernel 3.1? Maybe 32-bit Ubuntu is better?
It was impossible to play Minecraft in 11.04, but 11.10 is so much more stable.


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This one is related: Generalized Chinese Remainder Theorem
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There is a chapter in the award-winning book The Mathematical Experience by Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh which can serve as an answer to this question. Its title is
"The Drive to Generality and Abstraction. The Chinese Remainder Theorem: A Case Study"
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It is an interesting take in part because Davis and Hersh are not algebraists or number theorists. Note that they do not include the result on pairwise comaximal ideals in a commutative ring, which is the most general result that I have in mind when I say "Chinese Remainder Theorem". On the other hand, they do discuss the interpretation of weak approximation as a sort of CRT. (In my view this is a good analogy but not precisely right: when both results apply, CRT has a stronger conclusion than weak approximation.)
This MO question contains a nice version for groups and half a Chinese remainder theorem (at most) for general algebraic structures.


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Calling them babes only referred to being young kids. What they did is way beyonf their years.
Someone missed the boat of educating these young men.
The are as wrong as wrong can be; seems like what I have read the prosecution could rest soon.
Except, others may need to be brought forward. Might as well get it all out in the open.
THey seem to have investigated pretty thoroughly so far; hope they didn;t leave any rocks unturned.
Seems like more trials will be coming from what I have read.
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Egging someone's house is a bad decision, vandalizing property is a bad decision, sneaking out of your house to meet a boyfriend/girlfriend is a bad decision. Raping, urinating, and humiliating a girl goes way beyond making a bad decision. I understand the judge's decision I just don't agree with it. That has nothing to do with football, most of the world doesn't give a crap about HS football let alone let it influence their opinions like some do. I stand behind the charges Hanlin filed and think they hit hit the nail on the head. There is no big conspiracy, a rape happened and the rapists are being tried in court and will hopefully go away and get the help they need.
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They are not babes. They are only one or two years away from being considered adults. I don't think they will have any moral epiphanies in those two years that will change them. They will be men with the same morals they have know. I would not call raping someone making a bad choice. I will not buy they did not know what they were doing was wrong. And then to brag about it and post those awful comments and pictures on the internet. When they are men with the same morals, what then?
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Look at their faces; they are babes; that why they are tried as juveniles.
Made poor decisions. And consequences usually follow poor decisions.
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The reason they are being tried as juveniles is because a Judge from Hamilton County who has ZERO ties to Steubenville or Steubenville Football heard EVIDENCE, from both sides, and ruled that they were to be tried as Juveniles. Tired of reading crap from you and others that rulings by the Judge are because the two Defendants played on the HS Football Team. If you want to question the decision of the Judge, analyze the reasons he gave for his decision and the evidence that was presented for him to make a ruling. Your comment relects that you are not aware of either one yet believe it is proper to characterize the decision of the Judge as a joke.
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Is there a legitimate reason that they are not being charged as adults? Guilty or not, there are 12 year olds getting charged as adults. God forbid these beloved football players have to face the REAL music when it is all said and done. Charging them as Juviniles is a joke.
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5 People From History Who Were Absurdly Hard to Kill
We like to celebrate extraordinary people, even if their most notable accomplishment is an ability to absorb a ridiculous number of bullets without dying. Hey, as talents go, it's not a bad one to have.
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#5. Jim Bowie Was Immune to Blades
James Bowie is a 19th century American pioneer and frontier legend. The world-famous bowie knife is named after him -- which is appropriate, as he was known to have a 9-inch hunting knife on him at all times, just in case. And with Bowie, those "just in case" situations came up a lot.
"That's why I always wear my business tie."
For instance, one day Bowie was serving as an aide to one of two opposing duelers. The actual duel was a pussyfooted thing that got resolved with a handshake. Naturally, this being the Wild West, the lack of Eastwoodian antics disappointed the audience, which promptly got rowdy and started breaking stuff. In the ruckus, Bowie was shot in the hip. Unfortunately for his random shooter, Bowie saw where the shot had come from and instantly launched himself at the man.
Panicked at the frontier hellbeast charging at him, the shooter emptied his gun at Bowie, hitting him three times. He then bashed the still-attacking Bowie on the head with the gun itself. This finally took Bowie to his knees ... temporarily.
Just long enough for him to remember that he was a T-1000.
Seeing Bowie down, the nearby Major Norris Wright (an old rival of Bowie's, who once got into a fistfight with him after denying Bowie a bank loan) saw his chance to rid the planet of Bowie once and for all. He fired, but missed. The wounded Bowie noticed, shot back and hit Wright. This is when Wright, who we were totally picturing as Dick Dastardly even without this next part, drew his cane sword and plunged it into Bowie's chest.
Bowie Knife Fights, Fighters & Fighting Techniques
Jim Bowie, in happier days, fighting a bandit while nailed to a log.
Bowie went down, as men pierced by swords are wont to do. However, the blade sat tight in his chest. The gloating Wright couldn't wiggle it out, so he put his foot on Bowie's chest to pull out the sword. That was just the opening Bowie (who apparently had treated the whole "he's wiggling a sword in my chest" thing as little more than an elaborate ruse) had been waiting for.
He grabbed Wright's leg, dragged the screaming man down and disemboweled him with his trusty hunting knife ... while the poor man's cane sword was still very much stuck in his own chest.
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The fight, known later as the Sandbar Fight, made Bowie's name and guaranteed him and his knife a place in the pantheon of Wild West icons.
Later in life, when James Black created the famous version of the bowie knife made legendary by the fight, Jim adopted one ... and tried it out by killing three assassins who jumped him. He would probably still be walking the earth and swinging big blades at bankers if he hadn't happened to be in the Alamo when being in the Alamo was a really bad idea.
#4. Charles de Gaulle Was Impervious to Damage
Charles de Gaulle was the leader of the French resistance in World War II, founder of the French Fifth Republic and one of the most notorious presidents in the history of France (if not the most notorious). Oh, and there were 31 recorded attempts to assassinate him.
De Gaulle, seen here composed of (roughly) 7 percent shrapnel.
Seriously, at one point an actual SPECTRE-like terrorist organization was formed by his worst enemies, and one of their primary goals was to end de Gaulle's life. Despite the ever-present threat of death, de Gaulle remained a man of the people, constantly appearing in public, continually giving them new chances. Some of the brushes with death that de Gaulle survived:
* A full-on assault became a rampant gunfight between his supporters and Vichy troops during his return to France on the very last days of the war. During the shootout, de Gaulle walked around greeting people like he didn't even notice the bullets flying back and forth.
"Attention citizens: Running in fear from the explosions only makes them stronger."
* A French naval officer tried to shoot him during a rendition of "La Marseillaise." De Gaulle paid it no mind as another officer wrestled the shooter down, movie style.
* While driving, a huge bomb exploded the road ahead of him into a giant fireball. De Gaulle's comment to the chauffeur, as they were driving toward the fire: "Faster."
Finally, the assassins figured out that they were going to have to get serious about the job and went right for overkill. Several cars full of snipers with submachine guns, grenades and Molotov cocktails attacked de Gaulle's convoy. Twelve snipers bombarded the car with 140 bullets, obliterating his entourage.
"Sorry I'm late, there was traffic. And also a dozen men with machine guns."
This time, of course, de Gaulle was doomed ... to once again barely notice the attack. His aide begged him to get down on the bench several times, until finally he agreed to lean slightly forward to humor the man. When the barrage was over, he just brushed his shoulders off and continued the trip.
But he couldn't hide from death's cold embrace forever. Charles de Gaulle died watching television at home, at 79 years of age.
He's strangling angels now.
#3. Richard Blass Shrugged Off a Bullet to the Head
Richard Blass was a badass Canadian boxer. Yes, that's apparently a thing. When his boxing days were over, he embarked upon a new career as a badass Canadian gangster. Yes, that's apparently a thing, also.
Blass, apparently wielding some bizarre gun-shaped maple syrup bottle.
Blass notoriously hated the Mafia, to the point of ordering his men to attack anyone who even looked like they might be associated with the mob. For some reason, organized crime families don't appreciate this kind of attention. A hit was ordered, but the poor goons who had to act it out soon found out Blass was a tough nut to crack.
First, they tried to gun him down at a bar where he was currently getting wasted. As they opened fire, the unimpressed Blass dodged the hail of bullets and ran right the hell away, completely devoid of gunshot wounds.
Two weeks later, the mob decided to give it another go. They tracked Blass down to a motel, waited until he went to sleep ... and lit the whole damn place ablaze.
"Nothing is more subtle than fire!"
Blass walked away from the inferno unscathed.
The next time around, the mob took a month's timeout, presumably hoping that a few weeks of inactivity would be enough time for Blass to forget how to dodge bullets. And they were right! A second firearm-fueled ambush left Blass with a head wound from where a bullet grazed him and two bullets lodged in his back. And with that, Blass was dead.
Just kidding. This did absolutely nothing to stop him.
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The bullet never made it past his hair helmet.
After a quick trip to the hospital (where he gained some respect by refusing to name the culprits to the police), Blass was back on the streets, now equipped with the name "Le Chat" ("The Cat," on account of apparently having nine lives) and an even more burning desire to bring down the mob.
A dozen Dillingers' worth of bank robberies, arrests and Sopranos-style gruesome murder scenes later, Blass was finally cornered by the police in a small cottage. They had him completely surrounded, outnumbered and outgunned. So naturally, he attacked them. The ensuing gunfight finally managed to finish him off.
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5 Insane Pop Culture Crossovers That Almost Happened
#2. There Were Plans for Jay and Silent Bob to Meet Hellraiser
Before he began to systematically respond to every single negative comment about him ever posted online, Kevin Smith made movies. Most of them featured the comedic stoner duo Jay and Silent Bob, whose slouched, speech-impeded antics led to five films and a short-lived cartoon series. Hellraiser is a series of films wherein a demon named Pinhead butchers people with hook chains and rips the flesh off of helpless victims to resculpt them into mind-bending horrorbeasts. Clearly it was time for these two franchises to merge.
After 2001's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back seemed to mark the retirement of the two characters, Smith received a phone call from Miramax head Harvey Weinstein, presumably looking for the quickest way to spray ropy diarrhea tendrils all over the Oscar cred the studio had built up during the '90s. Weinstein's idea was to do a Jay and Silent Bob/Hellraiser crossover, like the classic comedy/horror mashup Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein, only with more sadomasochistic demon torture.
The Hays Code censored the planned disembowelment orgy scene.
They came up with a premise where Jay and Silent Bob would hilariously cross paths with Pinhead and get sent to their own personal hell -- a rehab clinic. People would get torn to bloody shreds around them while Jay spat out gibberish and Silent Bob vigorously nodded and bugged his eyes like a cartoon character.
How We Were Spared
It was Smith who decided that it was a terrible idea, even after Ben Affleck weighed in with some advice: "At first I was going to say that's fucking retarded, but I bet you a lot of people would go to see that movie." (Tyler Perry has this quote tattooed on the inside of his eyelids.)
In a bizarre footnote, New Line Cinema came under fire when they all but photocopied the Jay character for their own much more sense-making crossover Freddy vs. Jason, a shameless bit of inexplicable co-opting that led Jason Mewes (the actor who plays Jay) to mock the ripoff character in a TV documentary.
#1. Jaws Was Going to Star in a National Lampoon Comedy
Jaws was the first movie to reach $100 million in ticket sales, and its inevitable and cleverly titled sequel Jaws 2 came pretty damn close to that milestone as well. Universal Studios had a genuine franchise on their hands, consisting of two of the most successful movies ever made (at that time) and featuring a real-life "monster" that truly scared people, despite the fact that it is arguably the most easily avoided predator in the history of the world.
"Just don't go in the water!"
So clearly, when you have a proven horror series with a bankable killer at its center that audiences respond to, the only thing to do is contact Matty Simmons from National Lampoon, fresh off their hit Animal House, to write a cheeky spoof called Jaws 3, People Nothing. Simmons hired John Hughes -- the guy who would go on to make Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club -- to co-write a script that featured the cast and crew of another Jaws film tormented by production issues and an uncooperative, director-devouring shark.
Richard Dreyfuss even agreed to star, and Joe Dante (the director of such masterpieces as Piranha and Small Soldiers) was slated to direct, assembling an A-team of heroes to create Earth's shittiest movie. Basically imagine George Lucas not only producing Spaceballs, but casting Harrison Ford as Lone Star.
... yes. Yes. Yes.
How We Were Spared
After spending millions in preproduction, Universal's execs got a visit from Steven Spielberg, director of the original Jaws and the guy who was still in the process of funneling hundreds of millions of dollars into the studio's pockets. Spielberg felt that a fully endorsed spoof like the one they were producing would essentially be like taking the 35 mm print of his movie and streaking it with a violent burrito fart, and vowed to never set one gold-smelting foot on Universal's lot ever again if they went ahead with it.
"I will put so many tits in E.T., even Russ Meyer won't pay to see it."
His threat worked, and the studio turned Jaws 3, People Nothing into a traditional sequel called Jaws 3-D, which was exactly 8 percent less dumb than the Lampoon idea, but apparently enough to keep Universal in Spielberg's good graces.
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Tonight, the versatile—uh, I mean, middle—Jonas Brother, Joe, guest starred on Hot in Cleveland in an episode filled with family drama, cliched teen gadgets, texting, Justin Bieber, and "Look, I'm a man now!" facial hair. Inside, video highlights.
Jonas played the estranged son of Valerie Bertinelli (I don't normally watch this show, so I'm doing the whole naming-the-actors-instead-of-the-characters thing), who moseyed his way into Cleveland for a visit with mom. When he arrived, he had a goatee!
Then, Jonas and Bertinelli went out to eat and had some awkward conversation, including talk of texting acronyms.
Jonas and Betty White had a nice conversation about Justin Bieber. White "loves her!"
Later, Jonas found out that Bertinelli had stolen his phone and been texting with his fiancé, breaking up with her and then making up with her. This did not make Jonas happy.
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It's commenter Zombie711's birthday today, and instead of dwelling on the relentless march towards death, he'd rather talk about the best and worst video game birthdays in today's Speak Up on Kotaku.
It's my birthday today! Lets celebrate.
Whats the best/worst birthday in video games? There are so many to choose, from conker to Pokémon. But my personal favorite has to go to Disney's Epic Mickey. It really is a birthday were everything goes wrong. His half brother hates him, he cant remember a lot of his old friends, an evil monster he created wants to kill him and destroy wasteland. Oh also, he is in a place THAT IS LITERALLY CALLED WASTELAND. Still Mickey continues to fight his way through.
Its strange that people dont seem to notice it takes place on his birthday but I guess now you do.
So tell me Kotaku, what Video game has the best birthday?


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WEIRTON - A sports-induced hip surgery, two traffic accidents and a serious head injury gave Weir High senior Kayla Hinchee a new perspective on life.
The daughter of Steve and Michelle Hinchee, Kayla was recently named the 2013 West Virginia Cinderella Scholarship Pageant overall teen winner, earning her the right to compete in the International Cinderella competition in July.
In middle school "I was all about sports," she said. "Softball, volleyball, basketball. My freshman year I had to have hip surgery. I was finally getting back into sports when I was in a bad car accident."
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WINS TITLE — Weirton Mayor George Kondik has become one of Kayla Hinchee's biggest boosters. Hinchee, the new West Virginia Teen Cinderella, overcame hip surgery and concusssion-induced short-term memory problems caused by a pair of traffic mishaps to claim the title. -- Contributed
Hinchee said she suffered a serious concussion, which left her with short-term memory loss. Three months later she was in another accident which intensified her problems.
"I started to get migraines, suffered more memory loss," she said. "I couldn't do any type of activity, but I really needed something to do.
Hinchee's dance teacher of 14 years, Michelle McAbee, got her involved with the Cinderella pageant, a youth development scholarship program. She said the Cinderella system is different than other pageants: While contestants still compete on talent, interviews, casual and formal wear as well as their photogenic qualities, "their goal is to (help you) make a difference in your community, and support the state."
Winners are encouraged to adopt a cause - for Hinchee, that was easy. She chose to focus her efforts on young people, "children who are homeless or need help."
"I was very, very nervous, but also excited," she said. "I'd never done anything like this before, I didn't really know what to expect. But I did really well my first time out; hopefully, I'll do just as well at Internationals."
By virtue of winning the state title, Hinchee will compete for the International Cinderella title in July.
"My mom was completely against it, but once I told her I could make a difference, that I thought I could make a difference by winning, she's supported me 100 percent," she said. "I hope that by working within the community I can raise money for underprivileged children.
"You know, everybody always says there's nothing to do in Weirton - I want to get more activities for children and young adults."
Hinchee said there were 15 girls competing for West Virginia's Cinderella title, "and I was completely surprised when (they told me) I'd won."


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Geneseo's School of Business has about 750 majors in its three degree programs: accounting, business administration, and economics. The school also offers a master's degree program in accounting.
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Sunday, July 26, 2009
Obsessed with the Cricut...
Hi! I am Happy Happy Joy Joy who authors the "Obsessed with Scrapbooking" blog!
I am crazy about scrapbooking and have been for the past seven years! Like most people, my first introduction to scrapbooking came in the form of a Creative Memories party. It looked so fun and cute that I decided to start scrapbooking. That same year, I went to my first Great American Scrapbook Convention in Arlington, Texas, where I took my first classes. In fact, at my first class on matching patterned paper, I sat in the front row with my little CM photo trimmer, waiting for instructions. Imagine my horror when everyone pulls out their 12" trimmer (something I had never seen) and proceeds to cut down paper! I sat there, front and center, not being able to participate because I didn't even own the right trimmer. Oh, it was embarrassing! I laugh about it now because it was kind of funny. But, since then, I sit in the back row....hee hee!
Anyway, I have been married to my husband Brian for 15 years and have two wonderful kids, Kelly and Robbie, who keep me busy! They are a lot of fun and provide quite a bit of excitement in our lives!
I started using the Cricut machine heavily in the past year when I was the lucky winner of an Expression at a Michael's grand opening! It is such a pleasure to work with and I have made loads of fun things! I don't know how I scrapped before this!
I'm so glad you are joining us on this new Cricut adventure! Our goal is to provide you with inspiration to create all your Christmas gifts, cards and projects! We hope you will join us daily for inspiration and then on Sundays for our giveaways!
26 comments:
- Dana said...
How lucky to WIN a CE!! WAY TO GO! Looking forward to the creations here! I LOVE christmas!
- July 28, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Joy your card is GORGEOUS! Love that reindeer. You are making my Christmas wish list get longer and longer!
Karen in McKinney
- July 29, 2009 at 11:49 AM
- Peggy said...
I'm so happy I happened upon your site. I've just bought a cricut expression and you've given me some wonderful ideas!
- August 25, 2009 at 7:20 PM
- NikisBunnies said...
Love all the inspiration here... and the chance to win goodies... can't beat that! Thanks, Niki
- September 3, 2009 at 9:31 PM
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- September 6, 2009 at 7:12 PM
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- September 6, 2009 at 7:21 PM
- Cassandra said...
I love your site and how great for you to win one! I have only had mine for a week and can't stop - LOL!! I have a new technique for using the pens that I would like to share with you if I can! I'm a computer geek and figured there had to be an easier way to load and unload and I figured it out? Can I post it on your site or send it to you? I just want to share it with everyone!
- September 6, 2009 at 7:43 PM
- ocean-dreamer said...
I needed inspiration & ideas, and am glad that I found you! Now, if I could just figure out how to do my blog page! LOL!
- September 8, 2009 at 7:52 AM
- September 10, 2009 at 1:34 AM
- Kitt said...
ladies you are so inspirtional, I only have my cricut a few months and you have truly inspired my creativity with tutorials and all. I have alot to learn and I so want these cartridges. LOL
- September 12, 2009 at 2:11 PM
- Jody said...
Joy- I absolutely LOVE your blogs! I'm Jody- owner of Hallmark Scrapbook. I'd LOVE to sponsor a giveaway and or your blogs. You ladies are briliant. Please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com if you are at all interested.
- September 20, 2009 at 4:10 PM
- Cheryl said...
Could you post the e-mail addy somewhere on the blog. If it's there I can't find it. I need to ask a question about my Mac and viewing the pictures on the CwtC blog.
- October 4, 2009 at 3:06 PM
- Mindy said...
I am learning so much from your ideas.
- November 5, 2009 at 9:36 PM
I just joined and I already love this site. Thanks for the inspiration and ideas. Can't wait to get started!
- November 9, 2009 at 11:14 AM
- kellmg said...
How lucky to win an expression!!
I LOL because I so remember those first CM products and how proud I was to have personal trimmer and square punch. LOL Boy has it changed over the years!! Thanks for sharing all your great ideas!!
- November 22, 2009 at 11:06 AM
- Eileen said...
This is such a great site with many helpful ideas.
- November 22, 2009 at 2:45 PM
Hi Joy - I have a question and wasn't sure where to post it. For your Christmas ornaments using the Martha Stewart fine glitter and floor paste (wax?), can you use plastic instead of glass for the ornament balls? Thanks -
- December 1, 2009 at 6:24 PM
- Stephanie said...
oh I'm so glad some one over at fiskateers posted this blog. I am loving all the crafty Christmas goodness! :) Thanks.
- December 10, 2009 at 11:46 AM
- Bytesprite said...
This was a great idea! I know we cricuteers are greatful. Thank you.
- December 12, 2009 at 8:18 AM
- Teresa said...
I have more of a question than comment. I was wondering which tool that you would use or do use, the 7 Gypsies binderie or the Zutter?
Also, I wanted to let you know that the things that you have done with SEI paper is awesome!! I am over the wholesale accounts for SEI so I've been sending you all of the paper. If there is anything that you may need please let me know!!
- December 15, 2009 at 5:34 PM
- Sherry said...
I like the simple card. I am just starting.
- January 18, 2010 at 9:42 PM
Hi, My name is Cammy. I love this site! I just wanted you to know that I just created my first blog. I grabbed your button and posted a few words about your site. If you want to check it out.
Cammy Cathleen
- May 15, 2010 at 4:13 PM
I'm so happy about the new cartridge coming can't wait to start creating so wonderful things. I look forward to seeing the creation you make daily keep up the good work.
Daphne from Va
- May 27, 2010 at 8:50 PM
- plstink said...
Thank you for posting your videos. I have had my cricket for one year and couldn't seem to find creative thing to do with it. I have helped my kids with school projects, I but want to do more with it. Your videos are inspiring that I can't wait to try etching on glass.
BTW I never blogged before, but because of your projects I had to sign up.
- November 20, 2010 at 11:54 PM
- afullwood said...
I just found you guys and this site and already I am in love with it! I'm just starting to get more and more into scrapbooking and am so exicted! I would love to go to a convention sometime...can't wait to find one near me! Thanks for sharing your story!
- April 14, 2011 at 2:40 PM
- Chris said...
Hi. I am an obsessed scrapbooker! I was a creative Memoeies consultant for 6 years. I totally enjoyed it and loved their products. But with the purchase of my cricut machine I have moved on. There are just so many more items out there to scrap with! Love my cricut but I would like to upgrade. Does anyone have any advice about the cricut expression #1 and the cricut expression #2? I would like to hear youe veiws on this. Also I would like to cut material and make crowns to adhere to t-shirts. Has anyone done this and where do I get the supplies? Thnks!
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A Trip to Klein's Tool Factories in Texas
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The tour began at the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center in Mansfield, Texas. From the front it looks like any building one might see in an office park. But at the back of the building is a highly automated factory, where tools such as pliers and wire cutters are machined, assembled, and polished.
Pieces arrive at the factory as forgings; these were produced at a Klein facility in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. What you're seeing are pieces of steel at various points in the forging process. The bars on the left were cut from 20-foot steel billets, heated, and forged (hammered between a series of dies) into the lineman's plier parts at the right end of the table. Look closely and you'll see that individual parts are knocked out of larger pieces of steel.
This 1990s era mechanical machining center came from the company's old plant in Skokie, Illinois and serves as backup for a more modern device. Known simply as the "Green Machine", it was top-of-the-line technology when new. Its claim to fame was that it could perform multiple operations without re-clamping the piece. The more times you reposition a piece during machining the more chances there are to introduce error.
Behind the blue tarp is the super-secret automated machining center that replaced the Green Machine. The tour guide indicated that if I were to sneak a peek he'd have to kill me. He didn't actually say that, but I could tell that's what he was thinking—so I decided not to chance it.
Here's a shot of forgings being fed into the super-secret automated machining center. They come out the other end machined and ready for assembly. What happens while they are in there is anyone's guess, though it's reasonable to assume they are clamped a minimal number of times (maybe only once) and undergo multiple machining operations after.
Here is what the pieces for lineman's pliers look like after machining but before assembly. Look closely and you'll see cross-hatching on the jaw face, the hole for the rivet, and the beveled edge of the wire cutter.
This is an optical comparer; it's used to inspect pieces after they are machined. It's basically, a giant magnifier. The image on the screen is a close-up of the lineman's pliers part clamped below.
While much of the work done in this factory is performed by automated machines, some tasks are best performed by humans. Here a worker smooths a part of a piece the machine couldn't get (click here for video).
This sample board shows long-nose pliers at various states of finish. The piece on the top left is a raw forging as it enters the plant. From there it goes through various machining operations, heat treating, assembly, and polishing. The pliers on the bottom right are ready to received dipped or molded handles.
Here is what long-nose pliers look like just after riveting. The rivets will be ground flush and the shape of the nose refined in an upcoming grinding operation.
Combination Pliers (long-nose with wire strippers) are one of Klein's newest products. Here they are after riveting and complete.
This is the inside of Klein's newest facility, the recently opened heat treating plant in Mansfield, Texas. Heat treating involves hardening and annealing metal so it possesses the desired combination of hardness and toughness.
This sign is on a natural gas furnace that regularly goes to 1,600 degrees. I don't imagine you'd have to touch it more than once to learn it would be a bad idea to touch it again.
Machined parts enter the facility in plastic bins and are placed into individual slots in metal "baskets" prior to heat treating (click here for video). This insures every piece is exposed to the same amount of heat—which would not occur if they were dumped into the furnace in a pile.
At various points in the heat treating process baskets of parts are run through what is essentially an industrial size dishwasher. The parts are washed in water and detergent to remove contaminants that might react with tool parts when they are in the furnace. What you're seeing is steam coming out of the open door.
This is a hardening furnace. After baskets of tool parts are placed inside the door is closed and the interior heated to something approaching 1,600 degrees—at which point the parts are quenched (cooled) by lowering them into an oil bath. Rapid cooling hardens the metal by changing its structure and chemistry. The next step is to anneal the parts by putting them in a furnace, heating them to a particular temperature, and then allowing them to cool slowly over a period of time. This brings the metal to a specified level of hardness, so pieces are hard but not brittle.
This is not something you would normally see in the heat treating plant. The plant manager performed a burn-off, to intentionally create flames for a photo op (click here for video). Fortunately, nothing blew up or caught on fire—otherwise, I might not have been here to write this story.
This is what it's like to look inside a 1,600 degree furnace. I shot this from 30 feet back and off to one side and yet I could still feel the radiated heat.
You've probably heard of the Rockwell Scale, a measure of the hardness of metal. Well, here's a machine that can measure it. It presses the point of a diamond cone into the metal and measures how deep it goes. Klein uses this device and equipment in a nearby metallurgy lab to verify that parts have the specified qualities.
These pliers have been assembled and are undergoing selective hardening of the cutting edges. The edges are heated by induction—a non-contact method of electro-magnetic heating. When the edges reach a specified temperature they are quenched by dropping the tool into the liquid below. This leaves the edges harder than the rest of the tool. A similar operation is performed on the jaw faces of gripping tools such as pliers (click here for video).
A pair of long-nose pliers is being manipulated by a computer-controlled robot capable of picking up tools and grinding them to shape with various grits of abrasive belt (click here for video).
These long-nose pliers have been heat-treated, assembled, ground, etched, and polished. All that remains is to dip the handles.
Here is a look at some diagonal cutters that have just had the Klein logo laser-etched into them.
I don't think this picture would normally be there; it was placed in the assembly area for wire strippers so the people touring the plant would know what they were looking at.
Look closely and you will see the springs used in Klein's wire strippers. They're being spun in a drum to orient them so they can be fed into an insertion machine.
These folks are doing the final assembly and adjustment of wire strippers—tasks people can do better than robots (click here for video).
These finished wire strippers have been boxed and will be shipped to the company's packaging plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Klein will eventually build a packaging plant in Mansfield so tools can be packaged close to where they are made.
After being hung from a rack and heated in a nearby furnace, diagonal pliers are dipped into liquid vinyl to form plastic handles (click here for video).
Different tools have different color handles—which makes it easy for tradesmen to know which tool they are grabbing out of their pouch.
Klein recently introduced a new line of insulated pliers rated to 1,000 volts. This production worker is testing a batch of them by lowering them into a tank of water and running 10,000 volts through it (click here for video). A buzzer will sound and a light will come on if any handles leak.
This gal cleans and inspects tools before they are sent out for packaging. In response to a question from one of the folks on the tour she's showing off her Texas-style steel-toe work boots.
This is the heat-treating plant on the day of its grand opening. You can't tell from here, but it's big—by my estimate 250 feet wide by 200 feet deep (50,000 square feet). The building where tools are machined and assembled (The Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center) is by my estimate about 125,000 square feet.
These folks are from the Klein family—which has owned the company since its founding in 1857. They are practicing for the ribbon-cutting ceremony that is about to take place. What do you think they are going to cut and what will they cut it with?
They're going to cut a fish tape with—you guessed it—Klein linesman's pliers.
Bonus photo: here's what journalists and bloggers do during ribbon-cutting ceremonies.
On April 10, Klein held a ribbon cutting ceremony at its new heat treating plant in Mansfield, Texas. I don't normally attend this kind of event but when I heard it would include tours of the heat treating plant and a nearby factory where pliers are made, I decided to go. Except for a single machine concealed by tarps, nothing in either plant was off limits and the journalists on the tour were free to take photos and shoot video. You can see what I saw by clicking the slideshow on the left side of this page. Be sure to read the captions, which describe the production process and contain links to video shot in the plants. Read on if you are curious about how Klein came to be making tools in Texas.
Klein has been manufacturing tools in the Chicago area since 1857, and is now in the process of moving most of its U.S. production to Mansfield, a suburban town in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area. The first thing they built there was the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center—which in 2011 took over the production of pliers and wire-strippers from a 60-year old factory in Skokie, Illinois. The Skokie plant has since been torn down and a shopping center is being built in its place.
The idea behind the move is to consolidate production in a single area because it's more efficient than the current setup, where forging, machining, heat treating, assembly, and packaging are performed at various plants in Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Arkansas, and New York. Klein could have relocated to just about anywhere; cheaper land, lower wages, and tax incentives probably played a role in the decision to go to Texas.
The new heat treating plant is located a short distance away from the Advanced Manufacturing Center on a plot of land with plenty of room for expansion. Over time, the company will move additional operations to Mansfield, though the plant where forgings are made will remain in Illinois, as will corporate headquarters. Screwdrivers, nut drivers, and various accessories are currently made at a plant (click here for a tour) attached to the headquarters building—though the plan is to eventually shift that production to Mansfield.
According to Klein officials, when they closed the plant in Skokie they offered employees jobs at other locations. Some workers retired, some looked for new jobs in the area, and some moved to Texas. It's unlikely there would have been jobs at the Advanced Manufacturing Center for all of them, because like most new U.S. factories, the plants in Mansfield are highly automated. According to a story in Contractor Supply, a Klein official said of the tools made in Mansfield, "In 1998 we had nearly 900 people producing these products; today we produce 25 percent more product with approximately one-half of the people we had then."
Klein's primary focus is on the U.S. market, but it is pushing into other countries—most recently, Australia. The company does not sell tools in Europe. It has factories in Mexico, Brazil, and China—though according to the folks at Klein most of tools produced in those plants are sold in the countries where they are made.
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In July I purchased a new Whirlpool Gold Series dishwasher model WDF750SAYW1. The machine has done a great job cleaning dishes, but in recently has begun to emit a terrible smell. The stench is not that of unclean plates sitting in the dishwasher too long. Put differently the odor is not that of the plates waiting to be washed. The smell is more akin to that of rotting garbage. I have cleaned out the upper and lower filter assembly though neither had any trapped food. As expected there was a small amount of standing water underneath the filters.
After running the dishwasher the smell is gone. We run the dishwasher a minimum of four times a week. For seven years we never had a problem with the previous dishwasher (its control panel died necessitating the need for the replacement).
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Usually to check the service the analyst need to login into remote machine with the Domain A/c and password which takes 10-15min.,where as this solution will fetch the information with in a min.Even we can extend this application to stop,start and restart the services.
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If you've got a coupe or sedan, when was the last time you actually looked at your vehicle's interior "rear deck"? This is the horizontal shelf that sits between the rear window and the edge of the rear seat back cushion. This area may also be described as a hat shelf or package tray, and it's usually covered at the factory in carpeting or other material that's closely knit and low in height. This covering is discreet enough to blend into surrounding areas of the interior and, in most cases, no one gives it a thought.