text:
Dear Editor:
I feel I must take you to task for violating your own "Letter to the editor policy" because of printing the letter from Bill Hill in the 9-8-2012 issue.
Violation #1, policy states "We will automatically reject letters to another person." Letter was to (Dear Mr. Bush) "Kent Bush" editorial columnist.
Violation #2, policy states "letters endorsing political issues" will be automatically rejected.
Letter content includes Mr. Hills agreement with Mr. Bush's far left opinion on gun ownership (a political issue), also he states his positive views on Eisenhower and Dole's political performance and his negative opinion of Pompeo and Brownbacks! (also a political issue)
If you feel I'm wrong in my assessment of this letter in regards to your policy feel free to share your opinion with me. Thanks! Your policy should be followed or done away with.
Respectfully Submitted,
- Dave Leiber, El Dorado
Location, ST | website.com


text:
I have come across a lot of websites and forums talking about creating PSD wireframes which are later used by UI engineers to build the front end. I always thought Illustrator was more suited for wireframing.
While illustrator has cleaner lines and may create fine looking wireframes you will not be able to quickly move into designing the UI. But more importantly you should use what ever you can ideate and prototype with quicker and easier. Thats the most important.
...It depends. If I had to choose between the two, I'd probably recommend whichever tool you knew best, just so you could prototype quickly and hassle-free.
But in certain contexts, a 'realistic' wireframe built by image editor is unsuitable anyway. If you just want to discuss workflows or broad concepts, the extra text and buttons of the real UI could be a distraction. This is especially true if you're speaking to clients, who have (from what I've seen) a bad habit of confusing the prototype with a nearly-released real thing, and get easily sidetracked talking about the trivia ("Ooh, but don't write the label like that...").
Now, you could just be using PS to create an 'abstract' mock-up, but then, why not use a tool like Balsamiq or Mockingbird?
As I said, it depends. I'd really need to know more about your circumstances.
You should try FireWorks, its best of both worlds Photoshop & Illustrator with little compromises, it is build for Web development.
Here is my flow
Paper Sketch >> FireWorks >> HTML
Don't complicate your building process, keep it light as much as possible till you hit the HTMLs. Fireworks lets you have different states, Master Page, better slice tools. The whole project can be done on one file.
I'm UXD at Adobe.
Johnathan Shariat is correct, go with whatever is quickest and stay tool agnostic when possible. I would especially encourage sketching or balsamic mockups in order to produce less polished looking wireframes.
The sketchier it is, the more the focus stays on the core concepts and content as opposed to getting entangled in the details or look and feel.
As for our team;
Mostly we use illustrator and omnigraffle for wireframes (with Fireworks and InDesign being used but slightly less common) We also mostly use illustrator for visual design and screen designs / final UI components. Since it's extremely easy to go from wireframe to pixel perfect and reuse components.
It's not ideal, but it most cases it beats the crap out of Photoshop workflow.
Whoever said photoshop was not good for wireframe --> polished screen design should really omit that detail from the answer, it's entirely misleading.
Its pretty simple to answer this question very accurately. There is a continuum that each stage sits on, and it has a relevant 'best' software package to use.
Conceptual > structural > prototype > actual UI
depending where you are in this process dictates what you use. A few of the commenters speak about easy of jumping into the final UI, but you may only consider this a plus if you are very close to the end of the process.
Here are the corresponding software packages (which follow a similar number of stages but are more fluid.
Illustrator > Balsamiq/Mockingbird/Visio etc > Photoshop [Conceptual > structural > prototype > actual UI]
I have ordered the software to align to the function that they can complete the quickest, and most efficiently. Of course you could use Photoshop for designing the structure, but why do yo need all that visual, power, and little organizing power at that stage?
I switched from Photoshop and Illustrator to Balsamiq more than 3 years ago and have never looked back.
It's impossible for me to imagine a more efficient way to create wireframes.
I tried Fireworks and Omnigraffle as well, but Balsamiq is the best.
In general we use,
Photoshop for, Photo enhancement , Photo color correction ,Software/Web/Mobile UI design. most of our designers is familiar with Photoshop.
I've used Illustrator, Photoshop and Omnigraffle for wireframing. However recently I came across using keynote for wireframing. In keynote you can have click states and animations that resemble what the user will experience.
Here are a few sites that have info and templates if you are interested.
You should also check out Axure for interactive wireframing
I guess it depends on the requirements and skills of your organisation. My personal experience would be neither. I would use a tool specifically designed for wireframing/prototyping.
Omingraffle/Axure are popular desktop based solutions. Focussing more on prototyping than just wireframing but are pretty powerful. Personally I find the learning curve a little high for Axure when used for anything but basic click through wireframes.
Visio is a good starting point if all you require is static wireframes. It has a decent enough templating engine built in.
Personally I find the ability to rapidly iterate wireframes/prototypes useful and would go for a web based tool such as: Hotgloo/Balsamiq/Gliffy/mockingbird.
Moving away from wireframes and towards prototyping: If you need richer functionality and have the skills I would consider using a framework such as Bootstrap to develop a HTML/CSS/Javascript prototype.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Our nine-ounce candle is beautifully produced in a clear glass vessel with our platinum leaf pattern and packaged in our pedestal presentation box. 60 hours of scented illumination.
Top notes of Satsuma citrus balance with subtle floral notes of muguet. Apricot and passionfruit complement the sweetness of sugared black currant. A crisp scent celebrating the sparkling effervescence of Prosecco and Champagne.
Availability: In stock
Let us gift wrap your order!
Simply select the gift wrap
option at check-out.


text:
Let us consider problem number 21 in the following link
It is from georgian national exam, it is written (ამოცანა 21), where word "ამოცანა" means amocana or problem. We should find angle $\angle ADE$. I have calculated angle $B$, which is equal to $87^\circ$, but is there any sign of similarity between these two triangle or how can I find it? I think I could calculate angle using arc formula, but I don't remember exactly how it is, even how can I connect arc's angle and $\angle ADE$ angle together? Please help me.


text:
Malapportionment Is Destroying the Planet
The US Senate famously overrepresents certain rural areas* but some level of this form of malapportionment is a common feature of electoral systems. That allows for this interesting investigation from Lawrence Broz and Daniel Maliniak:
Gasoline taxes vary widely across industrialized countries, as does support for the United Nations' effort to address the climate change problem. We argue that malapportionment of the electoral system affects both the rate at which governments tax gasoline and the extent to which governments participate in global efforts to ameliorate climate change. Malapportionment results in a "rural bias" such that the political system disproportionately represents rural voters. Since rural voters in industrialized countries rely more heavily on fossil fuels than urban voters, our prediction is that malapportioned political systems will have lower gasoline taxes, and less commitment to climate change amelioration, than systems with equitable representation of constituents. We find that malapportionment is negatively related to both gasoline taxes and support for the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (where "support" is measured as the duration of the spell between the signing of the Protocol and ratification by the domestic legislature).
That's via Erik Voeten. Of course there's no short-term prospect for changing this in the United States. But it is an international problem, and some countries may have easier-to-change electoral systems. What's more, over the long haul improving the institutions of government are more important than deciding which party happens to govern at some particular point in time. Left and right are bound to rotate in office over the years—what really drives outcomes is the nature of the polity in which they rotate.
* I hesitate to just flat-out say it "overrepresents rural areas" because some of the places it overrepresents (Rhode Island, for example) aren't rural and many people live in rural areas (upstate New York, downstate Illinois) that are underrepresented in the Senate. What the Senate does is arbitrarily overrepresent certain places, and most of those places are rural.


text:
5 Ways Your Bad Habits Might Just Save Your Life
We can't say that any of the below frowned-upon habits will make you a better person on the whole. A regimen of all-natural foods and quiet meditation, free of all vices, is surely still the way to go if you want to live a long, healthy life.
Still, depending on what's wrong with you, the cure can often be found in the things your health nut friends warned you about.
#5. Violent Video Games Can Treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
We realize that we're preaching to the converted when we point out that violent video games are about as effective at turning children into murderers as Pac-Man is at getting them to eat fruit. But still, at best we think of games as a neutral force in society -- a harmless time-waster that isn't making things better or worse. And when we see a positive study saying, for instance, that women who play video games have more sex, we suspect that there might be some wishful thinking involved.
Via Wikimedia Commons
Though they are playing Sex-Haver 4: The Suckening.
But science says there is one benefit of violent games that you'd never have guessed in a thousand years: They can heal soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
And no, this isn't taken from some press release from Activision -- it's the result of work done by the Department of Defense National Center for Telehealth and Technology. It's called virtual reality exposure therapy, and it forces subjects to relive the traumatic experiences in a safer environment. It sounds like a form of torture, but it's actually one of the only ways to overcome traumatic memories.
Via Wikimedia Commons
A man overcomes the memory of his brother being killed in a tragic bowling accident.
The human brain needs to relive the worst events it's experienced in order to properly heal itself. Psychologists used to do it by having PTSD sufferers talk through the experiences over and over, but simulating the events takes the process one step further. The games have been proven to help release the stored anxiety as they, in essence, desensitize the soldier to the severity of the memories.
A recent study of Vietnam veterans found a 45 percent reduction in self-reported symptoms with the games. It also works for other people who have survived non-war related traumatic events -- for example, simulated driving games appear to help car accident victims get over the phobia of motor vehicles that sometimes results. Really, it should work for anything where exposure is needed to help a person get over their fears -- one clinical psychologist is using it to treat everything from a fear of flying to a fear of spiders. Damn, when the future arrives and space marine becomes a real job, this whole generation is going to be trauma-proof.
Via Theback40k.blogspot.com
"An eternity of slaughter and the laughter of thirsting gods? Count us in."
#4. Coffee Can Treat Attention Deficit Disorder
As we have pointed out, coffee is a miracle substance, mostly thanks to caffeine. We're not saying it's good for you, necessarily, just that most of you are alert enough to read this article thanks only to its stimulant effect. It also lets us ignore all of those doctors' warnings about getting enough sleep at night. If our body wanted us to sleep, it'd put us in a coma, right?
"Biology can eat a dick, I want to bounce!"
But that means the absolute last thing you'd want to do is give the stuff to people who are already too alert -- people with short attention spans and problems with hyperactivity. It'd be gasoline on the fire. But here's where science's "let's just see what happens" approach pays off, because it looks like coffee is good for your attention span. In fact, they think caffeine is responsible for the decrease in ADHD symptoms as people get older, since most of us develop a substantial coffee addiction in our adult lives or, at the very least, an aggressive soda habit. We're accidentally treating our hyperactivity.
Via Wikimedia Commons
And treating our urge to strangle people before 9 a.m.
Now, this is hardly surprising to some of you who are on ADHD medication, or those who just know what's in it. You know that this fighting-fire-with-fire approach to treating ADD and ADHD is nothing new, considering the most popular medication for it, Adderall, is basically speed. That's what the "amphetamine" in "amphetamine and dextroamphetamine" means.
Via Wikimedia Commons
Here's another amphetamine that helps you control that pesky having-a-pulse problem.
So think about what you're curing the next time you order a double half cap at Starbucks or the next time you cook up in a basement. Wait, no, don't do that second part.
#3. Botox Works Better Than Anti-Depressants
Getting a Botox treatment -- pumping your face full of neurotoxins to get rid of wrinkles -- has to be among the least admirable medical procedures in the world. It brings to mind rich, bored housewives spending obscene amounts of money to inject poison into their faces out of pure vanity.
And that isn't even touching on the weird side effects, where deadening the muscles in your face actually prevents you from making normal human facial expressions. We mean, what possible actual good would that do? What are you going to do, inject it to kill your frown muscles to cure your depression?
"I am so pissed off right now, I could just blankly stare off into space."
It starts with something called facial feedback theory. We've discussed before how Botox users actually found their emotional states changed after the treatment since, bizarrely, the link between your moods and your facial expressions goes both ways. Take away your ability to furrow your brow with worry, and your mood improves.
"Of course, I'll marry you. You've made me the happiest woman in the world."
Doctors had already noticed the phenomenon in their Botox patients, but just figured it was people being happy about getting rid of their wrinkles. But then they noticed the same effect in patients who weren't looking to get rid of wrinkles at all.
So they did a trial on 10 depressed patients and nine saw their depression vanish completely. They need to do a larger study before they know for sure, but based on those limited results, we have to say holy shit. Sure, you can say that it's just some kind of advanced placebo effect, that the frown-killing treatment simply fooled the patients into not being depressed any more. But ... so what?
You just got tricked into happiness, loser.


text:
Starting a thread on Awards to the Recce Corps. Starting with a list from "This Band of Brothers" by Jeremy Taylor. Did the list as a PDF so as to not have a huge list of names in the thread.
These list's are not complete especially the MIDs, any additions are most welcome.
Attached Files
Edited by Recce_Mitch, 01 June 2013 - 05:20 PM.
Updated File


text:
What are the most common mistakes that new engineers tend to make when recording and mixing down their tracks?
migrated from avp.stackexchange.com Jan 24 '14 at 12:01
This question came from our site for engineers, producers, editors, and enthusiasts spanning the fields of video, and media creation.
In general, overdoing everything.
New people tend to add reverb, compression, and other effects just because they can. Audio production is one area where quantity cannot replace quality.
A big mistake is to stop using your ears. Always keep listening to what you create!
I've seen so many people do this, they just do things because they think they are always good things. I know somebody that always used compression because he was told to do so, even when it was completely unnecessary. When I asked him why, he just said: "I just always do this." He was clearly told by somebody else that it could (could!) be useful.
If you listen once, you decide that you need for instance a compressor and you applied it with settings that you think are appropriate, don't consider the job done. Use your ears and ask yourself if you are genuinly happy with the result.
If you record speech, don't apply an EQ to increase 3KHz and 8KHz to improve the intelligibility if you don't have a real problem with it, or if you don't hear any improvements.
Never do anything to your sound if the reason for it is not coming from your ears. Always tend to trusting your ears more than anything you learned.
Pressing "stop" before the reverb trail has died out from the last note of the performance. Or worse, before the actual last note of the performance that he didn't know was there.
(I've done this)
Not taking enough time to set up & test things out. Chances are, you won't actually be able to fix it in the mix.
Perfection is the enemy of progress. Don't spend an eternity on your first song just to realize that you don't have the time to finish the rest.
Also, for beginners it is best to finish each song before moving onto the next. This way you don't spend days recording and have nothing to show for it.
When recording:
When mixing:
5 ways a newbie can be more professional:
1) Don't mess with the levels while the recording is in process as this changes the signal to noise ratio enough to make the track sound wonky.
Set your levels before you punch the record button, I generally run as many takes as needed to set the peak load.
2) Don't expect everything is in tune.
Make double sure that every instrument is tuned appropriately for the piece. I say 'appropriately' as some instruments may require a slight nuance differing from standard pitch. For example piano tunings have a wide range of deviation, compare a 'honky-tonk' piano to a concert grand.
3) Don't try to cram everyone into one track (assuming you have a multi-track system).
Be careful when you are recording multiple tracks simultaneously, assign as many channels as you need to give each voice it's own track. This will make mixing a lot easier.
4) Don't assume it will all 'fall together'.
You have to have a plan. Make a list of tracks, how they will be recorded, what effects might be employed during recording or later. In short, spell everything out before you start. Consider this your script.
5) Don't think you can remember all the details.
Make good documentation from session to mixing to master. Document what voice is on each track: guitar, violin, chorus, soprano, tenor, etc. Document anything special like "Hey that sax solo on track 2 needs to be redone because the sax needs a new reed".
Not listening to the master candidate through a variety of speakers (headphones, car stereo, iPod earbuds, etc). Simply using the studio monitors isn't enough.
Being too stressed when things are getting slightly complicated or something doesn't work. Musicians are generally nice people (really, this is something many people forget as soon as they get behind a mixing desk!), and they allow you to claim all the time you need. As soon as you feel any time pressure during your recording session, your focus on the quality of the music and the way it sounds is decreasing. My advice in such a situation: ask your musicians to leave the studio for half an hour or so, so you can sort things out. Remember that recording and producing should be fun to do, as long as you love the music. :)
Secondly: don't be too hard on yourself. Mistakes happen all the time, and the best thing you can do is learn from them, by making them.
Failing to save your work frequently, or worse, failing to backup your work frequently (or at all).
Don't just rely on your recording software's Undo capabilities - always enable Auto-Save if it has that feature. Additionally, setup your digital workstation to automatically save a copy of your work every 15 or 30 minutes, and also save off a snapshot of the entire project including all audio files at the end of every day. Use an online backup service or flash drive. You never know when your recording software is going to hang or crash, or when the HD is going to die.
Losing a few hours worth of work is extremely frustrating, but losing an entire album is devastating.
Sometimes it helps to walk away from the studio for a while, and listen to something else. That'll keep your ears fresh. Or you can ask someone who hasn't been involved with the project to listen to the mix.
Not doing enough preproduction.
Preproduction is what you do before you sit down in a session. This includes talking with the band, making sure they know what they plan to do. Get lyrics sheets, chord charts, tempo and key of the song, etc. The more you know about the song, the better you can figure out exactly which mics and techniques you want to use. Maybe you can borrow something that you wouldn't be able to if you found out what they were playing when you got to the session.
For professional engineers, preproduction also includes finding out how the band plans to pay you for the session. For some reason, there are people out there who seem to think that you will be happy to record them for free. If you don't plan on working for free, make sure they understand that, because it's alot easier to tell someone no before you start recording than it is after you're done mixing and they want the masters.
Sticking to what you know versus experimenting in new methods in music
Often times I find myself working in the same chords and instruments because I am comfortable with them. Don't be afraid to try new things. You may be surprised at what other stuff is out there!
I think too that it is important to separate recording and mixing issues.
About recording, I have one rule I think about all the time : to avoid to postpone decision making. It was not a problem some decades ago by design, when everything is done with hardware, but it is nowadays because you can edit anything with modern DAWs, and so you can procrastinate about making good mic placements, good takes, making the band play right etc. For me, good practices in recording are about doing something right once, without even thinking about fixing it later, if possible of course. It's twice more important for someone who uses his computer to record his own music.
About mixing, I think Mike Senior from Sound on Sound has given very good advice in this article :
Not Leaving Headroom
Unless you are pushing to analog tape, you don't need to pin the meters just below the redline. Processing through plug ins will add amplitude, so you need to leave room. The best practice of pushing levels is antiquated in this world of virtual instruments and very quiet mixers.
Not using a proper audio interface (uses build-in sound adapter)
A build-in/on-board sound adapter or sound card is not made for professional audio recording. Typically it is very noisy, does not support balanced signals, cannot provide phantom power and records in too low quality.
Not recording in 24bit!
So you got the nice external audio interface with the right inputs and all, but you forgot to set up the recording format and start recording in 16 bit. You did however read the advice on leaving headroom so the signal comes in on the low side. "No problem" you think and turn it up afterwards - HISSSSSSSS! Ouch everything is so noisy now. Always record in 24 bit or higher. Always.
Ignoring technical issues
Be it noise, clipping, lag, out-of-sync, mechanical/electrical issues with instruments, bad monitoring/headphone mixes, bad buffer settings, clicks and pops, mobile phones, fridges, CRT screens near pickups, unbalanced cables near transformators etc.
Fix it, and like suggested elsewhere don't let the band stress you out.
Not getting a proper mastering done
No, that squashed L2 limiter on the master bus, or Ozone factory preset with 27-step-fx-chain will not do it. Don't get tricked by the immediate but not long lasting refreshing new and "improved" sound. Mastering is 99% about doing relative corrective adjustments to a mix and 1% about doing generally applicable tweaks like what you get from "presets".
Thinking that the mastering will fix a bad mix
True, the mastering is likely to improve the overall intelligibility and make the mix compatible with many different listening and/or reproduction scenarios. It is however not meant to be a creative and/or healing step that fixes that annoying resonance on the snare or adds ambience and other fluffy things to it all.
Make sure your mix exports has all the qualities you and the band wants, and let the mastering take care of the corrections needed to make the mix sound good in general, not just on your setup (with your ears listening).


text:
We received a lot of requests from people from around the world to create a curated social media selection dedicated to hospice, end-of-life and palliative care. As these topics are quite broad and the number of channels is huge, it was really hard to come up with the list of the very best of them.
Now here it is, relevant, selected and quality social media resources from blogs and podcasts to community sites and Twitter users focusing on hospice and palliative care.


text:
Two people were taken to the hospital following a hit and run accident Wednesday in Tonganoxie, according to a report from the Kansas Highway Patrol.
The accident was reported at 11:55 a.m. Wednesday south of Honey Creek Road on U.S. 24-40.
A 23-year-old Tonganoxie woman was driving west in a 2009 Nissan Cube when she slowed for a vehicle making a right turn. The Cube was rear-ended by a red vehicle, which did not remain at the scene, according to the report.
The woman and her passenger, a 4-year-old boy, were taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital for what were described as possible injuries.
The woman had been wearing a seat belt and the boy was in a booster seat, according to the report.
Location, ST | website.com


text:
Your browser is no longer supported by Kongregate. Upgrade to one of these browsers for the best gaming experience:
Activity Feed
Register or sign in to start receiving activity updates from around Kongregate!
Complete Initialization for 10 kreds
Congratulations! You've completed your Kongregate account!
Keep exploring Kongregate with more badges and games!
Hide the progress bar forever?
Limit my search to this forum
368 posts
Sign in to reply
I am making this topic so people can post suggestions for the game. Please, try to explain your idea de best you can.
So, i think I will start. The drop rate of cross medals is just low. There should be a 100% probability. So, how many cross medals would the user get. If the enemy level is lower than the one of the player, just give 1. If the enemy level is the same, give 2. If the enemy level is higher than the player, give 3
1) Please add a Forward button for Mail.
2) Please add a Mail All League option.
3) Allow the member list in league to be sorted by Score/Contribution.
4) Zoom out function in World.
More to come later.
For starters, i think a league-only market would be a nice addition to this game, sometimes people dont really want to donate stuff to other players, so we trade for lower rates among league members.
and i do agree with Jimmypop100 on the Zoom out function, its kinda annoying to be so zoomed in and have to slowly scroll around, or maybe a mini-map to help us see other players. the players could be blocks, green – ally, red – enemy, grey -inactive/neutral so on so forth.
everything jimmy said i agree with most of all the league mass mail also a league market would be great to. i would also like to see something to automaticly collect the min donations required by some clans.
In explore, you should be able to go back to any NPC you already defeated without needing to go one by one again.
Thank you guys! We've passed these valuable suggestions on to the Development Team. They are working on some of them already:)
Maybe a bit offtopic, but it would be nice if you could change your avatar more than once.
It would be best if first change was free and the next ones could cost like 50 diamonds/magic potions.
Thanks for a great game.
Aleksander, thanks for the great suggestion! We'll allow players changing their avatars more than once when we have enough good avatars available in game.
Why dont you create a contest, in which players make and upload avatars, and the three best ones become some of the avatars, and the winners receive something (magic potions or diamonds).
Also, there should be weekly tournaments in the arena.
i have to say, that I dont think that Iron crosses drop to few, since you have the possibility to farm the respawning treasure chests, there is a good amount of iron crosses to be derived. I think that it is ok. since you need longer to advance in the game in the higher levels, you have enough time to collect
just thought of something else how about making the box that your donating to (in your league) be highlighted blue or or have a check mark in the corner of it. i get to much mail about this. its just not obvious to a new player that they have to choose what to donate to. also the default choicefor donations should be league lvl not whatever is the newest tech we can upgrade.
I totaly agree with kull360 about league contribution defaults. It could be a bit more clear.
Don't make Arena scores be a main quest in the game because you have to rely on other people being there (let alone being able to beat them enough times to get enough points), and the more people there is the better so the first ones who get there are actually at a disadvantage.
Leave them for side-quests only because the ones who get there first can wait until more people get there and at the same time it won't halt their progress going forward in the Main Quests.
of course, for fairness, apply that to future quests that no one has encountered yet. The 2k one isn't as daunting now that a bunch of people are entering Rival. It gets easier as more people enter.
a levi all button .. or a box next to the towns where you can select which one then when you click levi all you can click the things you want to levi as usual
then to help this function work and not be a repetative ''clicking recall'' all the time the same thing again with the check boxes and a recall all button maybe do it on a page by page basis that way it cuts down a long time of levy and recalls on 70+ places
thanks :)
I have a suggestion that the game should save our settings. (Like the Lock buildings option)
You may also try to reconsider jewelery costs for awarding some heroes. Jewelery is not that common and 6 units of it per 1 friendship point is a bit expensive.
Would be nice to assign default heroes to units in explore. Its very cumbersome assigning heroes to troops every single fight in explore.
(Possibly have a drop down that has multiple saved hero assignments in explore that we can name appropriately)
This can also be applied to World
@Olo17 The settings can be saved. But there is a bug which causes the lock buildings option get back to the default when the game reloads. We'll fix this soon. And about the jewelery costs, we'll reconsider it. :)
Most of these suggestions are accepted. Some functions are currently under development and some of them are on our 'to do list'. Thank you all for these awesome ideas and valuable suggestions!
Why do soldiers cost stone?
Make Defeat Cooldown period shorter (how long is it)
Offer hero washes as some event prizes. I didn't know my first hero would be the main arena fighter or I wouldn't have built him for int for production (Which is always key early in the game). So now my arena rank is handicapped and also it should be noted that your highest friendship hero will be your partner on arena also which I did not know and again invested in my prod hero. Now it will cost me 44 diamonds to correct the hero build which I cannot acquire for free due to potion expirations. There should be some sort of resolution for this in the future.
It would be nice to have a "Total Yields" section on the scroll over bar graph in the senate (currently shows industry yields, hero bonus and other bonus).
Also just as a side note… When referring to Timber, Stone and Iron as raw materials as the game dose there is NO "s" at the end of each word to make it plural (I.E it should just read Timber, Stone and Iron). Crops however is correct… Just saying XD
@Lukeyboy1302, thank you so much for pointing out the grammar error! We are correcting it right now. It will be corrected with the next update.
Get more out of your Kongregate experience. Take advantage of ad-free gaming, cool profile skins, automatic beta access, and private chat with Kong Plus.
Learn more »
Did you know you can now score GameStop PowerUp Rewards® Points on Kongregate?
Find out how »


text:
GENESEO, N.Y. - SUNY Geneseo is among ten system campuses to receive a grant from SUNY's Small Grant Sustainability Competition to support Energy Smart New York, a goal established in the system's strategic plan.
Geneso's grant will support establishment of an eGarden (Energy Garden), a stand-alone, off the grid energy garden that will generate energy using renewable sources such as wind, solar energy, geothermal systems and bio-fuels. The project will decrease campus energy consumption and landfill waste and will help power an eco-dorm, a bioconversion green house and the new Center for Inquiry, Discovery and Development.
"Action must follow any talk of sustainability, and Geneseo is pleased to be included in SUNY's important initiative to become guardians of our environment," said SUNY Geneseo Provost Carol Long. "Geneseo's commitment to sustainability started long ago and we continue to build it into our campus culture."
The competition is coordinated by the SUNY Office of Sustainability to support the work of SUNY faculty and students to promote sustainability by reducing on-campus energy usage; assisting local communities by educating them on sustainability issues or replicating a project in the surrounding community; and spurring more intensive research on an idea developed during the project.
"SUNY campuses in every region are working to decrease their carbon footprint and contribute energy-smart research and innovation to the communities they serve," said Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher. "By leveraging our systemness and working together to bring excellent programs and new ideas to scale, SUNY continues to drive sustainability throughout New York state."
About 50 students per year are expected to participate in the eGarden through volunteering, engaging in research, working or taking the proposed eGarden lab course. Students from SUNY Brockport, Monroe Community College, Finger Lakes Community College and Genesee Community College also will use the facility.
Media Contact:
David Irwin
Media Relations Manager
(585) 245-5516


text:
I would like to represent the following constraint as MILP constraint where $x \in [a, b]$ with fixed $a, b \in \mathbb{R}$ and $y \in \lbrace 0, 1 \rbrace$.
$(x = 0 \wedge y = 1) \vee (x \neq 0 \wedge y = 0)$
A simple approach is to write the above constraint as
$(x \leq 0 \wedge x \geq 0 \wedge y \leq 1 \wedge y \geq 1) \vee (x < 0 \wedge y \leq 0 \wedge y \geq 0) \vee (x > 0 \wedge y \leq 0 \wedge y \geq 0)$
To avoid strict inequalities we can reformulate for a sufficiently small $\epsilon > 0$ as follows
$(x \leq 0 \wedge x \geq 0 \wedge y \leq 1 \wedge y \geq 1) \vee (x \leq -\epsilon \wedge y \leq 0 \wedge y \geq 0) \vee (x \geq \epsilon \wedge y \leq 0 \wedge y \geq 0)$
Now for each conjunction we introduce one binary variable, i.e. $b_1, b_2, b_3 \in \lbrace 0, 1 \rbrace$ and we apply big-M. The first conjunction turns into
$x \leq 0 + M (1 - b_1)$
$x \geq 0 - M (1 - b_1)$
$y \leq 1 + M (1 - b_1)$
$y \geq 1 - M (1 - b_1)$
Similarly for the other conjunctions. Adding the constraint $b_1 + b_2 + b_3 \geq 1$ completes the translation to MILP.
Having to introduce $\epsilon$ is not nice as it may cause numerical problems with solvers. Is there a MILP formulation of the above constraint that avoids $\epsilon$ and if not why can't there be such a formulation?
Moreover, I wonder if $\epsilon$ can be avoided if quadratic constraints are permitted. Also if not, why does it not help. Thanks for any insights.


text:
The Voice-Tribune's Best Dressed 2012
The Voice-Tribune's Best Dressed of Louisville presented by Churchill Downs was held Aug. 25 at the Louisville Marriott Downtown.
Photos By The Voice-Tribune's John Harralson.
Click here to see the full gallery.
Most Imaginative Bartender Search
The 2012 Kentucky Bombay Sapphire GQ Magazine Most Imaginative Bartender final was held Aug. 28 at The Ice House.
The Voice-Tribune's Angie Fenton emceed the contest, in which local bartenders had just 10 minutes to create their most unique cocktail using Bombay Sapphire gin. Once the judges narrowed the field to five, participants made a new cocktail using secret ingredients in an "Iron Chef" format.
Michael Anderson, the Kentucky winner of the 2012 Most Imaginative bartender search, was awarded a trophy and the opportunity to be featured in the December issue of GQ magazine. He and one guest will travel to Las Vegas Sept. 9-11 to compete in the national competition.
Photos by BILL WINE | Contributing Photographer
Click here to see the full gallery.
Bluegrass Music & Burgoo Festival
The Louisville Water Tower hosted the annual Kentucky Bluegrass Music & Burgoo Festival, Sept. 1-3.
Attendees enjoyed live bands from around the country and indulged in traditional Kentucky burgoo made from mouthwatering cuts of meat and vegetables.
Photos by TIM VALENTINO | Contributing Photographer
Click here to see the full gallery.
The Potter Boys' Tailgate Party
University of Louisville and Kentucky Wildcat fans weathered the rain during tailgating, before the Cards beat the Cats 32-14 inside Papa John's Cardinal Stadium.
Two hours before – and, again, after – the Battle of the Bluegrass, brothers Art, Dennis and Mike Potter threw what they call the "tailgate party of all tailgates" out of an old retired Tarc bus, revamped with UofL-themed decor and a nice-sized bar. They also enlisted the Walnut Street Rhythm and Blues band for a performance at their tailgating spot, located directly east of Pole No. 4.
Photos by JAMES EATON | Contributing Photographer
Click here to see the full gallery.
Worldfest 2012
One of the region's largest international festivals, Worldfest, celebrated its 10th anniversary over Labor Day weekend, Aug. 31-Sept. 2, at the Belvedere in downtown Louisville.
A large crowd enjoyed three days of expanded world food, dance, culture, education, handmade products with styles from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Central and South America, as well as music from local and international talent.
New to Worldfest this year was the Global Village that showcased the culture and customs of more than 22 countries. The lively Parade of Cultures, held annually on the second day of the festival, also took place, featuring local and regional residents in their native dress and performances from a variety of artists.
Photos by LIAM SPRADLIN | Contributing Photographer
Click here to see the full gallery.
Leadership Louisville Luncheon
Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer announced the 25-year Vision Louisville initiative – a collaborative and inclusive planning process to explore and build a vision for a prosperous and vibrant future for the city – at the 2012 Leadership Louisville Luncheon on Aug. 30 at the Galt House East.
Fellow mayor, Kevin Johnson of Sacramento, attended the event as keynote speaker. Nearly 1,000 business and community leaders attended the luncheon. The Leadership Louisville Center also presented its Spirit of Yes! award to John Asher, vice president of racing communications for Churchill Downs.
Photos by TIM VALENTINO | Contributing Photographer
Click here to see the full gallery.
Volare Ladies Night Benefiting Brooklawn
Volare Italian Ristorante hosted its Ladies Night on Aug. 29, with proceeds from the evening benefiting the Help Make It Home for Me initiative at Brooklawn Child and Family Services, a psychiatric residential treatment center for youth, ages 6 to 19, who need intensive therapeutic support to overcome the effects of abuse, neglect or other family crises.
R&B singer Robbie Bartlett performed throughout the night as guests mingled with friends and enjoyed special drink prices.
Volare is currently celebrating eight years of serving modern Italian cuisine, with "Crazy 8" specials through Sept. 30. Volare is located at 2300 Frankfort Ave. For more information, visit volare-restaurant.com.
Photos by BILL WINE | Contributing Photographer
Click here to see the full gallery.


text:
Organized religion in America is on the decline. The Church—any church, all churches, the omniscient "Church" representing all organized religious institutions—holds less allure for a new generation of American adults. This is a fact, not a supposition. The Church, though far from gone, is an institution of the past.
A new report from the Pew Research Center makes clear two things: 1) America is still an overwhelmingly religious country, and 2) America is becoming a less religious country. Key findings:
- "One-fifth of the U.S. public – and a third of adults under 30 – are religiously unaffiliated today, the highest percentages ever in Pew Research Center polling."
- Atheists and agnostics make up almost 6% of Americans. Another 14% claim no specific religious affiliation.
- The percentage of unaffiliated Americans has grown by almost a third in the past five years.
- Two thirds of unaffiliated Americans say they believe in god. But when asked, "Are you looking for a religion that's right for you?" 88% of them say "no."
- The younger an adult is, the less likely they are to claim a religious affiliation. Only 9% of those over 65 are unaffiliated, while 32% of those aged 18-29 are unaffiliated.
- A strong majority of unaffiliated Americans tend to vote Democratic, and they are twice as likely to call themselves liberals as they are to call themselves conservatives.
Why does the un-religion-ing process appear to be happening so fast now? Eh... I'd say the internet, and Christopher Hitchens. Alternate interpretations go in the comments.
[The full report. Photo: mrbillt6/ Flickr]


text:
That's a lotta sock!
The Castelli Free 9 Sock is woven with Meryl Skinlife antibacterial fibers. This moisture-wicking, breathable fabric pulls sweat away form your skin to keep you dry and comfortable. The top of the foot is a diaphanous web, ultra-thin and extremely breathable. In the middle of the foot, the arch area, there is a high-density band woven in. You won't notice any difference in thickness, but you will feel like the sock is becoming one with your foot rather than sliding around between your foot and your shoe. The toe has a flat seam for comfort and the cuff at the top is folded over to keep the sock from slipping. Castelli also added an open mesh panel to the cuff to allow air to move freely through the sock.
The Castelli Free 9 Sock comes in three colors: Mandarin, Ocean, Red, and White. Sizes are S/M, L/XL, and 2XL.
- Meryl Skinlife fibers
- High-density woven arch band
- Flat toe seam
- Open mesh cuff panel
- Antimicrobial
- Breathable and moisture wicking
Tech Specs
View more Bike Socks
Size chart
|US Men's shoe
|US Women's shoe
- How to Measure:
- For best results, take measurements over your underwear.
Reviews & Community
Great socks
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
- Fit: True to size
My new favorite socks. The L/XL fit my 10.5 feet perfectly. Fabric feels soft to the skin. They are light and airy - perfect for summer or any non-cold day. They look very sharp too!
Updated for 2016
Castelli has updated the color scheme slightly on the white/blk for 2016. The top of the band is now all black (not mostly white as before). Functionally, the socks remain the same. These are GREAT summer road socks!
Sizing: I wear a 45 Shimano road shoe. I like the fit of the XXL best.
The best summer socks!
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I have four pair of these socks. They are the best summer socks I have owned. I have tried socks from companies like Rapha, Swiftwick, and Defeet, and these are the best. They fit like a good cycling sock should. They don't bunch up and they are not too loose. If you have a nice pair of cycling shoes, I highly recommend getting a good pair of socks so your shoes will fit like they should. I wear a size 45 in Sidi and the L/XL fits perfectly.
Great lightweight sock
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I am a women's 9 and I bought a L/XL, though I was weary of the size since a women's 9 is usually a men's 7. Originally this footbed on the sock was way too long, but now fits perfectly after one machine-wash on delicate (had only handwashed before). The band can be rather snug and the logo stretched if you have bigger legs but the sock won't fall down! Great fluoro color, no bunching, and very breathable.
Nice socks
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
These have been great so far this summer. I wear a 9-9.5 size shoe and ordered the L/XL size for these socks. I would go with the smaller size if I order more - the foot area of the sock is just a little too long for my preference (not the height of the sock, the foot area).
The best summer cycling socks. Period.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Castelli Free 9's are GREAT summer cycling socks. These socks are amazingly well ventilated on the top of the foot and all the way around to the top of the cuff.
And 9 cm is the -perfect- height. You see this cuff height the most in the pro peloton. It covers the ankle and the achilles tendon, but does not extend onto the calf muscle.
In sum, these socks provide great quality, fit, ventilation, they stay up, and they look awesome. And made in Italy.
Sizing: The official sizing chart at the Castelli website is correct.
Cycling shoe size: 36-39 = S/M
Cycling shoe size: 40-43 = L/XL
Cycling shoe size: 44-47 = 2XL
These socks though!!!
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
Yeah, just buy a pair or two, or 5 like I did.
Fit great, look great ride well.


text:
Document Actions
Q: I know I have been accepted to Hunter College, but what is the next step in the process?
Once you are accepted to Hunter College, you will receive a letter from the Admissions office directing you to visit the My Choice web-site to indicate your intention of attendance. Once you indicate you will be attending Hunter, your Transfer Credit Evaluation will begin. The next series of communications will be sent to you via email and will include an invitation to a scheduled Transfer Student Orientation and Advising session which are periodically scheduled throughout the summer for Fall Semester attendance and in January for Spring Semester attendance.
Q: My immunization record is current at my previous institution, do I need to submit it to Hunter?
Yes. Your immunization record does NOT transfer with your academic record. Therefore, it is necessary for you to submit this document to Hunter College. The immunization form may be downloaded at: http://registrar.hunter.cuny.edu/forms/immunizationform.pdf. You may fax a completed form to the Office of Health Services (212) 650-3254 or bring the form in person to Room 307 North. Please remember, you will not be permitted to register until proof of immunization is received in the Health Services Office. Questions about immunization? Contact the Health Services Office at (212) 772-4800.
Q: Where is the Office of Advising Services located and what are the hours?
The Office of Advising Services is located at 1119 East Building. It is located in the building that also houses the Hunter College Library. Office hours during the academic year are 9am -7pm Monday - Thursday and 9am-3pm on Friday. Summer Hours are Monday – Thursday 8:30am – 5:30pm. Hours may change depending on holidays or special events. You can find any business hour changes on the door of the office. The phone number is 212-772-4882.
Q: Am I assigned an advisor?
In order to allow maximum flexibility for students, you are welcome to speak with available advisors on a walk-in basis or you can make an appointment to meet with a specific advisor. If you feel comfortable dealing with a specific advisor, you are more than welcome to specifically ask for that advisor when setting up future appointments.
Q: What is the difference between making an appointment to see an advisor and coming in on a walk-in basis?
To get quick answers, a walk-in may be right for you. When meeting with an advisor on a walk-in basis, you will typically be able to speak with them no longer than 10-15 minutes. If you chose to make an appointment, your meeting will be scheduled for 30 minutes. An appointment will be best for more extensive help or for a person who has multiple questions.
Q: I am not very familiar with the Hunter Campus, what do you suggest?
One of the best things to do is to take a tour around the campus. When you come to your transfer orientation session, if you have some time afterwards, take a few minutes and walk around the campus. The main campus consists of four buildings and can feel intimidating, but if you take some time to walk around to acclimate yourself to your surroundings, your first day will not feel so overwhelming. You may also contact the Welcome Center to see about attending a tour of the campus by a trained staff member. The number for the Welcome Center is (212) 772-4490 and their web site is: http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/prospectivestudents/


text:
Maison Martin Margiela
Paint Splatter Low Top Sneaker
Product Actions
Exclusively Ours!
Suede low top sneaker with multicolor paint splatter detail.
The collective at Maison Martin Margiela has been igniting the fashion scene since 1989 and continues to produce cult-favorite men's and women's clothing and accessories with contemporary art appeal. Masters of "deconstructionism," the Maison's artsy, outlier designs subvert classical tailoring techniques with reverse seams, recycled textiles and industrial materials.
Need Help? Have Questions? Contact Us.
Please call 1.888.222.7639 to speak with a Customer Service Representative.
We're here to help you:
Monday - Friday, 9 AM - 9 PM (ET)
Saturday - Sunday, 10:30 AM - 7 PM (ET)
If you prefer email, we can be reached anytime at email@example.com.
Free Shipping & Returns on all U.S. Orders. See Details.


text:
About Notes of a Neo-American Visualist
Posted in Nobody's JournalMarch 9, 2009No comments
Perhaps mine are worthless paintings. Then my creative offerings are nothing more than the scribblings of yet another artistic inhabitant, like many before me.
BUT if there is some lasting quality or value to my paintings, I wanted my voice, my marks. my scribblings to have a positive effect on the world I lived in. I ask myself "What note, what message can I leave behind to inspire someone to greatness? Or to inspire someone to choose love over hate, peace over violence." The Notes, the thoughts of those who've journeyed before me have affected my steps. Their words and ideas have lingered in my mind, like a nagging parent, prodding me to go this way or that.
Toni Morrison's "…"Had they paints or clay or knew the discipline of dance, or strings; had they anything to engage their tremendous curiosity and their gift for metaphor, they might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided them with all they yearned for. And like any artist with no artform, they became dangerous." Inspired me. These words became my call to arms. Her words were instructed me to "try" to help someone. TO CARE. These words not written for me, but read by me, changed me and forever altered my journey.
The other day, I read these words by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,I've altered them somewhat so that they are specific to my life's vision:
If any of you are around when I have to meet my day, I don't want a long funeral. And if you get somebody to deliver the eulogy, tell them not to talk too long. And every now and then I wonder what I want them to say. Tell them not to mention that my work is in the MoMA —that isn't important. Tell them not to mention that my art is collected around the world—that's not important. Tell them not to mention where I went to school.
I'd like somebody to mention that day that TMNK, tried to use his talents serving others.
I'd like for somebody to say that day that TMNK tried to love somebody…
Yes, if you want to say that I was AN ARTIST, say that I was a AN ARTIST for justice. Say that I was AN ARTIST for peace. I was AN ARTIST for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind…
If I can help somebody as I pass along,
If I can cheer somebody with a painting or song,
If I can show somebody he's traveling wrong,
Then my living will not be in vain.
If I can do my duty as a Christian ought,
If I can bring salvation to a world once wrought,
If I can spread the message as the master taught,
Then my painting will not be in vain.
And I'm just a NOBODY – Imagine what SOMEBODY like YOU could do. Are You taking notes? I am. – TMNK


text:
I keep running across enchanted items I have no use for. Such as:
- Armor that does not fit my race
- Weapons I have no intention of ever using
- Scrolls with negative effects
- Duplicates or items that I have better versions of
What should I do with these? Keep them in my stash? Leave them? Can they ever become useful later on?


text:
The 11th annual fundraising banquet to benefit The Guardian Center will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 7 at the First Christian Church. Tickets are now available for $25 along with sponsorships for the event.
Sponsorships need to be secured from The Guardian Center by Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. For more information, contact the office at 384-2407.
Corporate sponsors enable 100 percent of the event proceeds to be directed toward Children's Advocacy Center services. The Guardian Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization committed to the protection and healing of physically and sexually abused children and their families.
Location, ST | website.com


text: At night, I can look up and see the Milky Way across the sky. My question is, supposing our solar system was, instead of way out on an 'arm' of the galaxy, if we were near the galactic center. Would the night sky be much brighter?? If so, how close would we have to be to never have darkness of night??


text:
Bowling Green Police say on December 24, the victim and her husband were in the Interventional Pain Specialist office on Natchez Trace for an appointment.
The victim left her purse with her husband while she was being treated. While the husband was distracted, someone took the purse to the restroom and removed all the cash from the purse.
The suspect is described as a heavy-set light-skinned black woman with a gray sweatshirt and blue jeans. She was also carrying a large maroon bag.
If you have information about this or any crime, please call South Central Kentucky Crime Stoppers at 781-CLUE, toll free at 866-842-CLUE, or click here to go to their web site.
Crime Stoppers only wants your information, not your name. Their telephone lines are not recorded and they don't use caller ID or *69.
You can now "text a tip" to Crime Stoppers. Text "SCKY" plus your message to 274637 (Crimes). All information is secure and you will remain anonymous.


text:
This may be obvious to many , but is it possible to have a current generation Mac Mini with Nvidia graphics card option . I looked into the spec sheet on Apple website which says that it ships with AMD graphics card . I am looking for the one that has Nvidia graphics card.
I've searched over Google and did not find a plausible answer (but I'm a bit rushed and may have mislooked the answer).


text:
Possible Duplicate:
Best Time to Ask Questions
When's the best day and best time to post a question to Stackoverflow.com?
Although I know that Stack Overflow is not US-only, I'd suspect that the majority of its users are US based, so perhaps late in the day (EST or PST) would have the most active users generating the smartest answers?
Or, is the above assumption incorrect, and there is a more non-US-centric timeframe that generates the best answers?
Or, does the day and time not matter, and users get intelligent and meaningful responses from this terrific community 24/7/365?


text:
Possible Duplicate:
Triangulating surfaces
Recently I the proof of an important fact (first proved by Rado), that there exist a triangulation of a compact surface, on the book Riemann Surfaces (written by Ahlfors and Sario). I find it is so tedious and hard to understand. Is there any simpler proof on that fact?


text:
Cross-Platform Developer Tools 2012 is the seminal report on the landscape of 100+ cross-platform developer tools with an analysis of key vendors and the metrics of developer experience.
Cross-Platform Tools 2012 is the first major report that analyses the complex cross-platform tools landscape, presents the key tools vendors and maps out the trends in one of the hottest markets in mobile. This report, which is supported by webinos, presents developer perceptions about a wide range of key issues, from incentives and deterrents to cross-platform tool use to the most-wanted tool features. Our research profiles 15 well-known cross-platform vendors and tools with regard to their technology, positioning and market traction.
Features in-depth profiles on Adobe (PhoneGap), Adobe (Air / Flex), Ansca Mobile (Corona), Appcelerator (Titanium), Seregon (DragonRad), IBM (Worklight), Ideaworks 3D Ltd (Marmalade), MoSync, Motorola Solutions (RhoMobile), Netbiscuits, RunRev (LiveCode), Qt (Nokia), Sencha, Unity, Xamarin (MonoTouch and Mono for Android)
This report includes:
- Mindshare of cross-platform tools – which are being adopted or abandoned?
- Breakdown of cross-platform technologies, languages and target platforms
- Market trends – how do cross-platform tools affect the industry?
- Developer perceptions – incentives and deterrents to tool use
- Competitive scoring – how do the top tools rank in terms of developer experience?
- Analysis of 15 major cross-platform tool vendors, with in-depth profiles
Also see the Cross-Platform Tools analysis in our blog


text:
Here's part of my code:
1 if (document.forms[0]["displayAddress"].value == "true") {
2 if (document.forms[0]["addressPresent"].value == "") {
3 $("#addressDiv").show();
4 document.forms[0]["addressPresent"].value = "true";
5 }
6 }
Why would firebug skip over line 3? - in dubug mode it doesnt even highlight that row, just skips to the next.
edit: to clarify, line 2 evaluates to true and the debugger goes straight to line 4 without executing line 3. I have tried a forced refresh.
update: the first time the page loads this JS works, after the page is reloaded again I get this problem


text:
Getting Started
Using Your Library
Access My Account
Getting a Library Card
Policies & Fees
Services & Amenities
Ask a Librarian
Interlibrary Loan
Library Express
E-mail Notices
Newsletter Signup
Books, Movies & Music
Download or Stream
Digital Collections
SHERLOC Catalog
Standard Catalog
What's Hot
New Arrivals
Most Popular
Kids' Collection
Staff Picks
Reader Blogs
Articles & Databases
Info Guides
Homework Help
World Language Lab
For Kids
Book Sales
Board Meetings
Friends of the Library
The Foundation
Search | Events @ the Curve | RSS Feed
Adults are invited to find out how the Internet works and what it can and can't do. Learn key vocabulary, how to use links, read Internet addresses and save your favorite websites. Learn the most effective way to formulate an Internet search to get the best results. You'll also find out that there's much more to Google than meets the eye. Participants should be comfortable using a mouse and keyboard before taking this class to be held in the Computer Training Lab. This class will be held in the Computer Training Lab.
This event is also offered:
Reader's Connection Blog
Kids' Blog
Upcoming Events
News & Announcements
Copyright © 2016The Indianapolis Public Library
P.O. Box 211
Indianapolis, IN 46206-0211
Visit our mobile site!
About this Site
Acceptable Use
E-Privacy Statement
Content Statement
Open Access Statement
Site Map
Contact Us
Site en Español
Inside the Library
Doing Business with the Library
Job Openings
Volunteer Opportunities
Library Booksales
News & Announcements
The Library Foundation
Connect with Us


text:
This helper tool from Touratech makes tire changes much easier in the garage, or on the trail. By holding the bead of the tire away from the motorcycle rim, these Tire Helpers give you more room and an "extra hand" during those tricky tire changes.
Electric tire inflator for motorcycles (also bicycle and truck tires.)
The Continental TKC 80 has long been the tire of choice for tourers and dual-sport motorcyclists world-wide. This tire provides a great mix of on and off-road stability and traction.
Special Pricing - 15% off MSRP
The kit includes three 16 gram threaded CO2 cartridges with a sticker wrap.
Pair of super-strong steel tire levers. Made of spring-steel, you can't bend them. Tapered ends of the tire irons let you wiggle the levers out when it's tight. Small lip stays close to the rim, reducing the chance of pinching the tube. There is a REASON that MICHELIN style has been the best design!
The TKC 70 fills the gap between the TKC80 and Trail-Attack by giving riders a 60/40 option tire that should last a long time on the pavement without giving up too much traction in the dirt.
âââââââSpecial Pricing - 15% off MSRP.
Accurate tire pressure gauge. The perfect gauge for motorcycle wheels. Holds the pressure, so you can bring it out to read the face. For example checking the rear tire pressure of a motorcycle with panniers can be very difficult to see the gauge.
25 Replacement rope-style tubless tire repair plugs for any rope-style repair kit.
Sometimes tubeless tires can sustain damage that is beyond the ability of a mushroom plug. A tear from jagged items can require the use of what is known as a string or rope plug. This kit is for general use on all tubeless tires. Five re-enforced rubber rope plugs, rasp tool, split-eye insertion tool, and a .41 fl. oz. tube of rubber cement are all included in this inexpensive yet very effective kit.
This 24mm size fits the rear axles of F650GS single, F800GS, KLR650 (through 2007), XR 250/400/600/650L and both front and rear of KLX/DRZ400.


text:
News and Events Archives
Friday, October 01, 2004
Columbia, Mo. -- Dr. William F. Sheehan Jr. has joined Columbia College as executive director of development and alumni services.
Sheehan previously served as executive director of advancement for the College of Arts and Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He also spent 10 years at Central Methodist University in Fayette, Mo., in a variety of positions.
He earned his doctorate and master's degree in higher and adult education and foundations from the University of Missouri-Columbia, as well as a bachelor's degree in business administration from Central Methodist College.
Columbia College serves nearly 20,000 students each year at its Day Campus, Evening Campus, Online Campus, Graduate Studies Program and its 30 extended campuses nationwide.


text:
Is it possible to force the links to open in their respective application and not in the default browser (e.g., Chrome)? For example, I get an email from Pinterest with interesting links for the week. When I click a pin, it opens in Chrome and not in the Pinterest app. This happens with a few apps and was wondering if there's a way to "open link with" type of feature.
Apps can request that links be opened using the app, using an API called an "intent filter".
If the app has the correct intent filter, you will be prompted to open the link using that app, and the app will then do something with it.
This has to be coded in by the app developer, and there is no way to implement it yourself unless you decompile the app and add it in.
An example of an app that does this is the Google+ app.
In the general usage, you can't do it. The reason behind the links opening in a browser is that they use the same protocols of normal web links. So if the particular app is NOT a browser, the links have to be opened with a browser app.
But you may have seen some links (particularly links to android apps on the market) can be opened with the Google play market app. This is possible because those links uses
If you need to confirm it try clearing the defaults of your chrome browser. It will make you choose an app to open a link when you click them. This will give you a open link with option (of course to use the browser apps)
To do this, go to
This helper app makes Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, GitHub, and Goodreads links open in their apps instead of the browser: Open Link in App
It doesn't yet support Pinterest, but if you're technical, it's easy to add new apps, and doesn't require writing code! Details in the GitHub repo.


text:
October 25, 2013
Facebook Feedback Fridays: Your favourite hiking trail
Not sure if it's only in Cape Town, but this time of the year there's a certain whimsical feeling in the air that makes us want to stay outside all day. It's the last few months of the year; the warmer days have finally arrived and summer is officially approaching. This week, we asked our Facebook fans to point out their favourite hiking trails in Cape Town. Our very first comment from Carmen Chadband inspired us to get on our hiking boots right away and head to the Krom Rivier where she quotes:
"The beauty of this hike in the Limietberg Nature Reserve is that it's rewarding from the very start. The path follows the river up the valley and when it veers up onto the hill you have amazing views of the surrounding mountain peaks. Once you turn up into the Kloof you'll walk through magical indigenous riverine forest. There are swimming spots dotted along the way with the last two pools being well worth the extra effort."
That may just be our plans for the weekend. Thank you, Carmen.
Some of our favourite suggestions were:
Thulani Landelo Cape point
Mandy Smith Skeleton Gorge
Rob Laf Lions Head, Chapman Peak and little Lions Head
Charles Brewer DHL Newlands stadium!!
Cindy Bolder Anywhere..anywhere in cptwn...
Vincent Damiano Twelve apostle mountains
Sindy Simpson Elephants eye cave tokai forest
Alexa Crous Ahh pure bliss! Can't wait to spend my summer soaking up the wonders that nature has to offer
Ryan Nigel Adams Deer park
Ocean View House Cape Town Maybe we're biased because of our location, but we're huge fans of Hike Table Mountain.
Got a cool hiking story to share with us? We'd love to hear your stories about your hiking adventures. So share your photos, videos and comments with us via Twitter, Facebook or Instagram and tag it with #lovecapetown to be featured on our wall.
Alternatively, follow our blog for a guide on all the best things to do in Cape Town.


text:
U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin of Little Rock said Tuesday that he can't support the private option that the Arkansas General Assembly is debating in this year's fiscal session because he has "concerns that have not been satisfactorily addressed."
Griffin, a Republican who recently announced his candidacy for lieutenant governor, was in Pine Bluff on Tuesday to tour the Pine Bluff Arsenal. He at down with a Commercial reporter to talk about his campaign and a number of other subjects, including Obamacare and the state' private option.
"From a federal perspective, Medicaid is going bankrupt and we're just expanding it, whether it is in the form of a private option or traditional Medicaid in another state," Griffin said. "There is no dedicated funding stream. It is locked in with the rest of Medicaid and I will tell you the argument that if we don't take the money someone else will is not true. This is not money that goes to another state if we don't take it. This is money that will not be spent by the federal government. That's number one. What is the funding stream?
"It would be irresponsible of me, as a member of Congress, to say, particularly as a member of [the House Ways and Means Committee] to say 'I don't care how you pay for it,' " Griffin said, "and I have not heard a satisfactory answer to that."
Griffin said he has concerns about the future of Medicaid.
"Traditional Medicaid is a critical program for a lot of people," he said. "It is going bankrupt and this does not fix it. In fact, Medicaid programs across the country, whether they're expanded or not, are not seeing the kind of reform I think they deserve. In Arkansas, there have been some changes to traditional Medicaid to the payment system but not the changes that will save Medicaid. Those changes have to be comprehensive and bold."
He also suggested that "if the private option is going to save money, why didn't we push (the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) to let us turn the traditional Medicaid program into the private option first to see if it is actually going to do what it says?"
Griffin said the private option does include innovation advocated by some Republicans.
"You got that innovation only to expanding what the president wanted," he said. "If you went to the president and said 'we will expand any program you want if you just let us do some innovating,' I guarantee you would get a lot of expansions of a lot of programs and again that goes back to the funding stream."
The private option was adopted during the 2013 legislative session as an alternative to expanding the state's Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act. The private allows the state to use federal funds to purchase private health plans for low-income residents. The federal government will pay the full cost of expansion from 2014 to 2016, with the state's share of the expense increasing in steps to 10 percent by 2020.
"I want our leaders to be frank to the people of Arkansas about what's going to happen when the federal money stops," Griffin said. "Some people will say 'raise taxes.' I disagree with that. Some people will say 'the savings will pay for it.' Government says that lot and it has a tendency not to materialize. Some will say 'if we don't get the money it will just end.' I think we've seen with what just went on at the statehouse not many people are going to consider that option because a lot of people and a lot of hospitals are counting on it, and I totally understand, to make up for cuts that came from Obamacare."
Griffin said he has talked to a number of legislators about the issue and and is open to listen to any facts that will change his mind but at the present, "I can't support it."
Regarding his decision to seek the office of lieutenant governor rather than run for another term in Congress, Griffin said one of the most important factors is that he will be able to live at home and watch his two children, ages 3 and 6, grow up.
In addition, while the state constitution provides that the lieutenant governor's duties are essentially limited to presiding over the state Senate and filling in for the governor when necessary, Griffin said "the office is what you make it."
If elected, he said one of his priorities would be to review the Arkansas tax code, with an eye to making the state more attractive to industry?
"Do these (tax laws) help us achieve our goals?" he said of the state's current tax code. "Do these help us grow jobs? Do these help us compete? How can we make them better? How can we make our entire tax system, not just our income tax, our entire tax system make more sense? Make it less complex? How can we make it fairer?
"I think our approach has been, at least in recent memory, don't make any fundamental changes to the tax code, just try to use a lot of sweeteners here," Griffin said, referring to economic incentives that have been used to entice businesses to Arkansas. "I think most people would agree with that, that's generally been the approach.
"I'm all for using whatever we can use to get companies to come here, but that should be the icing," he said. "They should be attracted first and foremost because our fundamental structure is one that lends itself to growing jobs.
"I haven't heard in the last x-number of years any bold plans for completely reforming our tax code," Griffin said. 'What I've heard is, 'we're going to give some incentives here, we're going to give you some tax breaks here. We may build you this here.' Look, if that's what it takes to get 'em here I'm all for that but it will take a lot less of that if you have an underlying structure that has a big welcome sign on it: Jobs.
"I want to use what I have learned in the experiences I've had, in the relationships that I've developed to help grow jobs and make sure we're doing what we ought to be doing to help grow jobs here," Griffin said.
Griffin said he believes "there are some straightforward things we can do to restore trust" to the lieutenant governor's office, including spending less and possibly reducing staff.
"I think we can do more with less," he said.


text:
The navigation board items on my website at www.amsa.mn uses the wrong font when displayed with Firefox. The correct font is loaded when I access the website with Safari or Chrome. Is there any way to force Firefox to load the correct font?
You need to convert the "Arimo" font to a web-font with a converter like http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator. Your CSS references the Arimo font. Since the font is not available via CSS, it's attempting to load it locally. Most people won't have Arimo installed, so will see a default font instead.
Looks fine when I check on firefox, I guess you have already found a solution? If not...
It is probably a declaration issue, or not having the correct file type of font that Firefox uses.
As NickWebman answered, go to somewhere like fontsquirrel.com, into their font-face section and either find the font you want and download it or convert one of your existing fonts.
Make sure to create/download all the different file types so your font will display in all browsers as the core browsers tend to prefer different file types - .woff, .ttf, .svg, .eot etc
One solution for Internet Explorer is to seperate it from the normal declaration e.g.
Or, thanks to the Bulletproof article on paulirish.com, a nicer solution:
Don't forget to put a fallback e.g. websafe fonts to fall back to in case everything goes pop e.g.
Even after all of the above the fonts just dont look correct in IE etc, you could try adding the following:
You can load the fonts you want to use in your site like this
Then apply them with
This will force it on all browsers
A good article about @font-face is here http://www.miltonbayer.com/font-face/


text:
Primary election crucial to local schools
May 5, 2013
WE ARE two days away from campaign rhetoric going silent....
Very sad Bubba. You spoke to one Board Member! You are aware that there are five? I realize this is an editorial column but some investigative journalism and integrity would be appropriate in this spot. You took sides in this article without speaking to other people. Sad very sad!
1 Agrees | 0 Disagrees | Report Abuse »
Showing 1 of 1 comments
Post a Comment
You must first login before you can comment.


text:
View New Contentnot as it was before summer 2010
Posted 14 December 2010 - 06:41 AM
"View New Content" no longer seems to show me new posts since my last visit... intead it shows me new posts since the moment my computer accessed the internet. For instance, I would like to see the new posts since I checked in last night, but since my daughter used the computer at 7am to check school closings, Ballet Talk is showing me only new posts since 7am... Not a big deal today, but if I've been away for a few days and then check, it does the same thing... shows me only the posts since my most recent access of the internet.
How do I get it to show the most recent posts since my last visit to Ballettalk? Do I have to log out each time so that it's a fresh log-in each new visit?
Thank you,
Posted 14 December 2010 - 07:07 AM
Posted 14 December 2010 - 09:31 AM
I have looked thru all the BT software settings, I can't figure that any of them would create the behavior you are witnessing. If I were you, I would try to figure out how and why your system is accessing BT *without* you knowing it (perhaps your browser always opens when you start the computer and automatically accesses BT.....something along those lines).
P.S. A long shot......check to see if your time zone is set properly in BT.....if it's wrong, it could be throwing off your timing calculations. Another thing to check might be to see if you are subscribed to any topics or forums; I don't think it likely, but I suppose if the BT forum decides to send you a notice when you are not logged on, it could (unlikely) reset your "last visited" time to the time of the notification.
Posted 14 December 2010 - 10:43 AM
Clearly something is going on. Thanks, Sandy, for the suggestions. The last suggestion set me thinking. I am one of those who gets email notifications of new posts in certain topics. Might that be a factor that is intervening here?
I admit that I have adjusted to in the old-fashioned low-tech way. I have trained myself to scroll backward whenever I enter a new thread.
Posted 14 December 2010 - 10:59 AM
This may well be how it works. It may be happening to me too (now that I understand the actual problem). I'll have to look more carefully. I just naturally do what bart does (i.e., scroll up). When I see a thread on the list of new content I am interested in, I go to that thread. I nearly always scroll up to see the last post I had read before (I can remember since I don't follow very many threads). I guess I never expected the system to positon me at the exact last post I haven't read in that thread. Maybe it does, and maybe it doesn't, on my system, I just don't know. I'll have to wait a few days without going to BT to find out.
P.S. I believe how most forum software works is that the system simply presents to you all the threads that have had a posting since you last logged on (that is, the system simply remembers....likely in a cookie.....the time and date of your last log on). Where in that thread the system positions you could depend on a lot of things....including how your browser works. This will be interesting to see how things are actually working.
P.P.S. I wonder if problems occur if you disable cookies in your browser?
Posted 14 December 2010 - 02:24 PM
Sandy, it does show me the current updates on the Links page... that is all in order... it's just when I check "view new content" that the site doesn't deliver as it used to. Has there been a drop off in discussion since the new format? I'm wondering how much I'm missing...
"posted today" seems accurate enough in regards to what my time is coordinated to... will look in the settings.
Posted 14 December 2010 - 02:30 PM
Posted 14 December 2010 - 02:34 PM
Posted 14 December 2010 - 02:36 PM
Posted 14 December 2010 - 02:37 PM
I'm not sure what you mean when you say:
Here's what I see when I hit the "view new content" button. I see a list of threads by title (not the individual posts in that thread whether the individual posts be previously read or brand new). Then I can pick any thread I like, click on the little orange icon (with what looks like a right pointing arrow in it) that sits right in front of the thread's title. That takes me to the thread in question so I can see the individual posts.
....and indeed whole threads never show up in my "view new content"
What I'm not sure of at this point is whether once I hit that icon does my browser positions me in the thread at the very last post in the thread regardless of when I last logged in, or alternatively deos it position me at the first new post after the last one I read last time I logged on. I beleive it is the later, but after bart's post earilier in this thread, I'm now not sure.
Posted 14 December 2010 - 02:43 PM
My experience of "view new content" seems like yours except that there is rarely much there and it posts these strange times as my "last visit"... Now, perhaps these times are the standard time of the board and not the adjusted time? Might explain it... though the 7am time this morning would have corresponded to the school closing check.... and the 2pm time would have corresponded to an e-mail check...
Posted 14 December 2010 - 02:44 PM
I use the "show new content since my last visit" option. I've never used the other option, but I would think that option would show you more content because from the wording of the option it would seem to me that the option you've been using would show you not only threads with new posts since you last logged on, but also all threads that you have never read regardless of when you last logged on (or maybe it's done at the post rather than at the thread level).
I noticed under View New Content there were two options: either show all content that I have not read or show new content since my last visit. I notice that show all content that I have not read is checked... Now, would that show me quite a bit of content when I click "view new content" rather than less? Do you think I should change it?
It can't hurt to try the "show new content since my last visit" option. That's the option I use. See what happens....you can always switch it back.
Posted 14 December 2010 - 02:48 PM
Oh, and I do have evidence of threads not showing after all... I notice there was a new addition on a Ballets Russes centenary thread, something I've been very interested in, but it never appeared in my "view new content".
I always enter the site through the Links page to see what has happened recently in the dance world... then I click "view new content" to see what the board is buzzing about. It's been much quieter since the format change, but I think it's because I'm missing posts.
Will try the switch, maybe it will make a difference. I think it was a default situation because this is the first time I've hunted through the settings since the summer format change.
Posted 14 December 2010 - 02:59 PM
That can be confusing. When the software says "since your last visit" it doesn't really mean that. The software does not count every visit you make. It waits a certain amount of time (I don't know how long, but it would be measured in hours) before it considers that you have re-visited the forum. IOW, if you log on at noon, and then log on again just 10 minutees later at 12:10pm, it will still say "since noon". It does this so that if you log on again very quickly (let's say you make a mistake and accidentally logged off), you don't lose your list of "new content" as would happen if it counted that immediate re-logon as a new visit. BTW, you can tell which thread in the "new content" list you have already read all posts in because they do not have that little orange icon in front of them. Only threads with new posts that you have not read at all have that icon. Also my guess is that the time stamp on the "since your last visit" line is Eastern time regardless of where you are. I logged on this time at about 2:50pm Pacific time but that line says "11:11am"
My experience of "view new content" seems like yours except that there is rarely much there and it posts these strange times as my "last visit"...
It may be possible that all that's on the "new content" list are threads that existed last time you logged on and have a new post added. Brand new threads started since you last logged on could be missing......but that sounds like very strange software behavior to me.
P.S. I do know that in the old forum software, it was possible to miss threads with new content. It didn't happen often, but under some circumstances (which I don't remember) it could happen.
Posted 14 December 2010 - 03:26 PM
I notice there was a new addition on a Ballets Russes centenary thread, something I've been very interested in, but it never appeared in my "view new content"....
We should be careful about terminology....it can get very confusing when we all end up talking apples and oranges .
I see now that this forum software uses the term "topics" where I have been using the term "threads". "Threads" is used in a lot of places on the internet, but here in BT I should be using the term "topic" You are calling "Ballets Russes centenary" a thread, but here it is called a "forum" (I assume you mean "Ballets Russes Celebrations").
So each forum such as "Ballets Russes Celebrations" or "Links" is called a "Forum"; some forums have sub-forums (such as "Pacific NW Ballet" sub-forum under the "American Ballet Companies" forum); a new thread in a forum or a sub-forum (that is: the very first post where you give it a subject) is called a "Topic"; and each msg posted to a topic is called a "Post". So forums have multiple topics, and topics have multiple posts.
0 user(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users
Help support Ballet Alert! and Ballet Talk for Dancers year round by using this search box for your amazon.com purchases. (If it doesn't appear below, your computer's or browser's adblockers may have blocked display):


text:
Study: Fit People Live Longer, Regardless of Weight Changes
Dec. 5, 2011 -- Fitness trumps fat when it comes to living longer.
In a new study of more than 14,000 men, those who maintained or boosted their fitness level were less likely to die from any cause, including heart disease. This was true even if their weight stayed the same or increased compared to men whose fitness levels dipped over time.
The new findings appear in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
It's hard to lose weight and maintain that loss. This study points to increased endurance as a potentially more attainable goal with even greater dividends. "Many people worry about their weight and weight gain, but based on our study, weight change is less important than fitness changes," says researcher Duck-chul Lee, PhD, an exercise physiologist at the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health in Columbia.
His advice? "Worry less about your weight and focus more on maintaining or improving your fitness level," Lee says.
Lee and colleagues assessed the men's fitness via treadmill tests. After 11 years, men who became more fit or maintained their level of fitness were less likely to die from heart disease, stroke, or any other cause than were men who became less physically fit over time.
Every little bit helped. Each increase in their endurance level resulted in a lower risk of death.
The men who did grow less fit were more likely to die from any cause, regardless of any changes in their weight, the study shows. Men in the study were aged 44, on average, and were mostly white and middle or upper class. About 90% of these men were considered normal weight, so the results may not hold among all obese men. Normal-weight women, however, would likely see similar benefits, Lee says.
Thin or Obese, Fit Is It
The new findings validate previous studies on the health benefits of fitness, says American Heart Association spokesman Richard Stein, MD. He is the director of the Urban Community Cardiology Program at the New York University School of Medicine. "Fitness is a much greater predictor of [death] than weight," Stein says.


text:
I tried to make italian meringue and it was all going well until the meringue, (with the sugar syrup added), just didn't thicken and turned into 'royal icing'. Next time, how do I make it and what can I do to rectify now?
As far as I know, real Italian meringue don't really have to cook in a strict sense, they only need to dry out the water present in the white. For that to happen you should cook them at a very low temperature (something between 180-200 Fahrenheit) and keep the oven door slightly open, so that the moisture present in it could go away and they could dry properly. If you made something else in the oven before (e.g. for dinner) you could put them in the oven turned off but still hot and leave them overnight to dry, or at least for a good couple of hours.
I never used sugar syrup, but only powdered sugar, as syrup probably adds too much moisture. The dosage I use is generally 100 grams of powdered sugar for every egg white (if Google is right, that would be about 3.5 ounces).
Try this: separate the white from the yolk 3 or 4 days before you want to make meringue. Keep the white in an hermetic box in the fridge and take them out of the fridge one hour before you begin. So the egg white foam will be more stable.
Another trick is to add some drops of lemon juice to the egg white right before you beat them.


text:
Please enter a maximum of 5 recipients. Use ; to separate more than one email address.
The new facility, which is GE Research's first sector-specific center, represents a $110 million investment by the company and will initially result in the creation of 125 high-tech engineering jobs, in disciplines ranging from mechanical and electrical to systems and software engineering.
General Electric (GE) will build a new global
research center in Oklahoma dedicated to driving
innovation and technological advancements in the oil and gas
sector and bringing products to market faster, the company said
on Friday.
The new facility, which is GE Researchs first
sector-specific center, represents a $110 million
investment by the company and will initially result in the
creation of 125 high-tech engineering jobs, in disciplines
ranging from mechanical and electrical to systems and software
These researchers will join GEs global network of 50,000
scientists and engineers.
GE chief executive Jeff Immelt and Oklahoma Governor
Mary Fallin jointly made the announcement at the state
capitol in Oklahoma City.
The launch of the new center comes as the availability of
unconventional resources, such as shale gas, is changing the
global energy landscape and has the potential to create jobs,
fuel innovation and lead to greater energy independence,
according to the company.
GE says the center will initially focus on technologies
that enable safe, efficient and reliable production, delivery
and use of unconventional oil and gas.
GE Oil & Gas is said to be the company's
fastest-growing business, with revenues of more than $15
billion and earnings and new orders each growing 16%
in 2012. GE's oil and gas portfolio includes technologies and
services in turbomachinery, subsea drilling, pressure control,
remote monitoring and diagnostics.
Unconventional resources, and shale gas in particular,
may be one of the biggest productivity drivers of our
lifetime, said Immelt. At GE, we see a tremendous
opportunity in the oil and gas space. Since 2007, we have
invested $11 billion to build broad technical capabilities that
can deliver productivity gains and foster innovation for our
"Collaboration is key to leading the unconventional resource
revolution, and in Governor Fallin and the people of Oklahoma,
weve found excellent partners," he added.
Oklahoma City is home to GE's artificial lift business, which
is a leader in electric submersible pump (ESP) manufacturing
and services with more than 550 GE employees.
The company says a search for a specific site for the new
research center is underway and expected to be completed
soon. GE is currently evaluating locations that will help the
company capitalize on local academic institutions, including
the University of Oklahoma, as well as Oklahoma City's regional
GE has more information about the new center posted at its website.
All comments are subject to editorial review.
All fields are compulsory.
Sign-up for the Free Daily HP Enewsletter!
A searchable database of project activity in the global hydrocarbon processing industry
Engineers and designers are highly skilled individuals. Forcing them to enter design changes using tables, forms and spreadsheets is unproductive and uneconomical, and it increases the likelihood of human error—this is the way that most instrumentation software systems currently work. For too long, software vendors have denied engineers and designers the simple practicality of a graphical visual engineering interface with "drag and drop" capability and inbuilt intelligence, ensuring changes are automatically replicated into all the associated data and databases.
Is 2016 the peak for US gasoline demand?
Too soon to tell
July 2016


text:
Our Publications
- Aspen
- Atlanta
- Chicago
- Dallas
- The Hamptons
- Hawai'i
- Houston
- Los Angeles
- Miami
- New York
- Orange County
- San Diego
- San Francisco
- Scottsdale
- Washington, D.C.
Home › Scene › Starry Night ›
Starry Night
Antonello Ristorante has long been recognized as a place where Orange County's movers and shakers meet for power lunches and private dinners, and in recent years, it's been the place where those same notables gather to raise funding for local charities via I Padrini di Antonello's An Evening Under the Stars gala. This year, the magical night, which drew heavy hitters like Marian Bergeson and Lula Halfacre, netted more than $140,000. The proceeds will go toward the Kinship Center-Canyon Acres, a nonprofit that seeks to find permanent homes for kids, and the Speech and Language Development Center, along with a few other causes. It was enough to bring a twinkle to everyone's eyes. Photos by Carla Rhea


text:
Is there a way to make a macro operate up to a marker? I know if I do
5@a my macro will operate on 5 lines. Example:
set marker with `mc`
record a macro with `qa`
... now what?
'c@a just moves the cursor to the marker at c. I've tried buffers,
"b'c, but that just goes to the marker. I'm probably missing something very basic or just looking in the wrong places.


text:
I have been trying to figure out how to do this, and even with looking at other examples, I can't get it figured out, so maybe I can get some personalized help.
I've got two tables,
users_status and
In the
users_status table I have a field
userid, and several others.
In the
friendships table, I have the fields
request_from, and
Basically what I want to do is get all of the status posts by the current user AND those who are friends of the current user (which I can specify in my PHP using a $userid variable).
Here's an example of the
friendships table structure. When a friend request is sent, the userid of the sender and receiver are placed in the table, with a friendship_status of 0. When the request is accepted, the friendship_status is set to 1 and those two are now friends.
friendship_id request_from request_to friendship_status
1 111248 111249 1
2 111209 111249 1
3 111209 111248 0
11 111209 111259 1
5 111252 111209 1
12 111261 111209 1
I realize this may not even be the best structure for determining friendships, especially since the site is relationship based and having to check for friendship connections will be a frequently used thing.
Would it perhaps be better to have two separate tables for
friend_requests and
friendships? If so, how would I structure/manage the
friendships table?


text:
It seems you cannot use the ~site or ~siteCollection tokens in an Element.xml when you deploy as a Sandboxed Solution. Has anyone ever seen this behaviour?
Code snippet:
><sharepoint:SoapDataSource runat="server" SelectUrl="~site/blog/_vti_bin/lists.asmx" InsertUrl=""
The ~site token gets replaced by an empty string (i.e. disappears) instead of the site URL upon deployment. Why?


text:
These maps are a great addition to any room – and with the dry erase maps you can easily plan future trips or show friends where you've been and where you're going! They are repositionable and easy to remove at the end of the year without damaging your walls. 24"w x 36"h
Choose a color for Dry Erase Maps (rollover swatches to view)