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Comments about Resist Brightening Trio - Complete Trio:
Its been about 3 weeks since I started using this brightening trio kit. Differences: my skin feels softer, but it was soft before the products. I bought this brightening trio to lighten up my sun spots on my face, but there is no lightening that I can tell yet. The Int Wrinkle repair serum is feels lovely on the skin as does the Pure Radiance skin brightening treatment, but the C15 does have a slight funny chemical smell & it stings if I use it over the other 2 products. Will keep updating.
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Not sure if it works...just a warning
By Isis
I do not know if this product works, but I just wanted to give a warning about the packaging. I got this kit, and 2 weeks after I received it, I knocked the C15 booster off my counter into the sink & it shattered. It is a glass container, which I am guessing is to keep the contents viable, but beware that you need to be careful with it. It is a lot of money to spend to just see it literally go down the drain.
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Products in the Resist Ultimate Brightening Trio Include:
Resist Pure Radiance: Advanced brightening formula helps fade brown spots and correct uneven skin tone so you'll have a more radiant and youthful complexion.
Resist C15 Super Booster: Designed to supercharge other products or be used alone, this treatment repairs visible signs of aging and stimulates collagen production for smoother, brighter, and firmer skin.
Resist Retinol Serum: This supercharged anti-aging treatment contains stabilized retinol, potent antioxidants, and skin-repairing ingredients that work to help skin look and act younger.
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Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, January 2013, pages 579–584; Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, December 2012, pages 310–317; Journal of Dermatological Science, June 2012, pages 216–220; Journal of Drugs in Dermatology, January 2012, pages 51–56; AAPS PharmSciTech, June 2011, pages 514–520; Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery, July 2011, pages 905–919; Archives of Pharmacal Research, May 2011, pages 811–820; American Journal of Clinical Dermatology, April 2011, pages 87–99; European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, May 2009, pages 232–238; and Archives of Otolaryngology, October 1999, pages 1,091–1,098.
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Resist Pure Radiance:
Water (Aqua), Cyclopentasiloxane (silicone slip agents), Dimethicone (silicone slip agents), Acetyl Glucosamine (skin-repairing ingredient/melanin inhibitor), Niacinamide (cell-communicating ingredient/melanin inhibitor, Butylene Glycol (slip agents), Silica (slip agents), Glycerin (skin-repairing ingredient), Phenyl Trimethicone (silicone slip agent), PEG-10 Dimethicone (silicone thickener), Bis-Phenylpropyl Dimethicone (silicone skin conditioning agent), Pentylene Glycol, Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate (stabilized vitamin C/antioxidant), Morus Alba (White Mulberry) Root Extract (antioxidant plant extracts/melanin inhibitors), Morus Bombycis (Chinese Mulberry) Root Extract (antioxidant plant extracts/melanin inhibitors), Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract (antioxidant plant extracts/melanin inhibitors), Ceramide NP (skin-repairing ingredients), Ceramide AP (skin-repairing ingredients), Ceramide EOP (skin-repairing ingredients), Scutellaria Baicalensis Extract (antioxidant/anti-inflammatory plant extracts), Saxifraga Sarmentosa Extract (antioxidant/anti-inflammatory plant extracts), Phytosphingosine (cell-communicating ingredient), Sodium Hyaluronate (skin-repairing ingredients), Cholesterol (skin-repairing ingredients), Panthenol (skin-conditioning agent), Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Fruit Extract (antioxidant), Tocopheryl Acetate (vitamin E/antioxidant), Bisabolol (anti-irritant), Dimethicone/Vinyl Dimethicone Crosspolymer (silicone thickener), Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate (emulsifiers), Polysorbate 40 (emulsifiers), Polysorbate 80 (emulsifiers), Xanthan Gum (thickener), Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer (film-forming agent), Sodium Acrylate/Acryloyldimethyltaurate Copolymer (polymer), Carbomer (gel-based thickener), Isohexadecane (dry-finish solvent), Hexylene Glycol (solvent), Polymethyl Methacrylate (film-forming agent), Mica (mineral pigments), Titanium Dioxide (CI77891 (mineral pigments), Disodium EDTA(chelating agent), Caprylyl Glycol (preservative), Ethylhexylglycerin (preservative), Phenoxyethanol (preservative).
Resist C15 Super Booster:
Water, Ascorbic Acid (vitamin C/antioxidant), Ethoxydiglycol (slip agent/penetration enhancer), PPG-26 Buteth-26 (emulsifier), PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil (thickener), Tocopherol (vitamin E/antioxidant), Ferulic Acid (antioxidant), Sodium Hyaluronate (skin-repairing ingredient), Acetyl Octapeptide-3 (cell-communicating ingredient), Glycerin (skin-repairing ingredient), Panthenol (skin conditioning agent), Sodium Metabisulfite (stabilizer/antioxidant), Triethanolamine (pH adjuster), Phenoxyethanol (preservative).
Resist Retinol Serum:
Cyclopentasiloxane, Dimethiconol (silicone slip agents/suspending agents), Neopentyl Glycol Diheptanoate (skin-conditioning agent), Dicaprylyl Carbonate (emollient), Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride (skin-repairing ingredient), Phenyl Trimethicone (silicone slip agent), Squalane (emollient), Bisabolol (anti-irritant), Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate (stabilized vitamin C/antioxidant), Retinol (cell-communicating ingredient/antioxidant), Tocotrienols (vitamin E-based antioxidant), Tocopherol (vitamin E/antioxidant), Lecithin (cell-communicating ingredient), Laminaria Ochroleuca (Kelp) Extract (anti-irritant), Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Oil (anti-irritant), Elaeis Guineensis (Palm) Oil (skin-repairing ingredient), Stearyl Glycyrrhetinate (licorice-derived anti-irritant), Hexylene Glycol (slip agent), Caprylyl Glycol (emollient), Ethylhexylglycerin (skin-conditioning agent), Phenoxyethanol (preservative).
How do I incorporate this trio into my skincare routine?
This depends on the routine you're currently following, and what concerns you are addressing. Generally speaking, if you add this trio you can apply all three products at the same time in the evening. We advise applying the Resist Intensive Wrinkle-Repair Serum at night, while both the Resist C15 Super Booster and Resist Pure Radiance Skin Brightening Treatment may be applied morning and/or evening.
Here's a sample anti-aging skincare routine incorporating the Resist Ultimate Brightening Trio:
Resist Pure Radiance
DIRECTIONS: Apply a small amount once or twice daily before moisturizing. For daytime, follow with a product rated SPF 15 or greater. Works beautifully under makeup.
Resist C15 Super Booster
DIRECTIONS: Apply once or twice daily after cleansing, toning, and exfoliating. Dispense 2–3 drops and add to your favorite Paula's Choice serum, or use alone and follow with moisturizer where needed.
If desired, apply your serum first and follow with this treatment. If applied in the morning, it is essential that you protect your skin with a sunscreen rated SPF 15 or greater. May be applied around the undereye area and is fine to mix with other Paula's Choice products.
Store Resist C15 Super Booster in a cool, dark place, below 25°C (75°F). Keep out of direct light.
Resist Retinol Serum
DIRECTIONS: Apply after cleansing, toning and exfoliating. Smooth a few drops onto face, neck and eye area before moisturizing. For daytime, follow with a broad-spectrum sunscreen rated SPF 25 or greater. May be alternated with a Paula's Choice serum that does not contain retinol.
Detailed instructions on how/when to apply your Paula's Choice products can be found in our How to Put Together Your Own Skincare Routine article.
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My best friend and a client of mine have the same name, and it's way too easy to accidentally click on the client when I'm having a more adult or humorous conversation with my buddy at the same time as my client.
Is there a replacement iPhone texting app that uses the native SMS (I have unlimited texting plan so don't want to bother with giving all my contacts a new handle nor requiring them to download an app themselves), but allows a couple other features like choosing what color a contact's talking bubbles will be or choosing the messaging font?
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What are my options for getting from Victoria Falls airport into town? All I have seen so far are taxis and pre-booked accommodation transfers.
There are a ton of taxis who come in to meet the planes. Try and buddy up with another tourist if possible and save on cost, and be aware - you're a tourist, taxi drivers will sometimes ask 10x the normal price just to see if you'll take it - do ask a couple of drivers before accepting one.
Acceptable price is US$25, but if you're a good negotiator you can get this down to $20. It is about 22km out of town. Price is per taxi, so more people = less money for you ;)
And yes, they want US$, although may take Rand.
There are also airpor transfers, for around US$12 if you just want that, for more details you can email firstname.lastname@example.com to book a transfer. There are several companies, but this address will do the dealing on your behalf, and someone will meet you at the airport.
As a final thought - check with your hotel - they may well offer airport pick-up, either free or as an optional add-on!


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After running the "top" command in the terminal, I see "aptd" running which causes the cpu to run at 100%. If I'm updating the system, or installing a software, I see it. I only recently noticed it. Is there anyway to stop it or tell me what is its function?
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In addition to the above information, if you notice that it is running for a long time - say an hour or more, it may be necessary to kill it. I ran into that when the Synaptic Package Manager appeared to be not responding for an extended period of time. After force closing it from the GUI, I found a couple instances of aptd and several other related processes running, and eventually I had to kill them.
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I'm not a particle physicist, but I did manage to get through the Feynman lectures without getting too lost. Is there a way to explain how the Higgs field works, in a way that people like me might have a hope of understanding?
The Higgs mechanism is no different from superconductivity, except the condensate responsible for superconductivity is a relativistically invariant scalar field.
If you have a bosonic field, its particles can be in a Bose-Einstein condensate. When this condensate is charged, you call it a superconductor. A photon in a superconductor gets a mass, and this is the Higgs mechanism. For a relativistic boson described by a scalar field, you give the field a constant nonzero value to make a condensate. When the field has charge, this makes a superconducting condensate which gives the gauge boson a mass.
The whole effect is described in detail on the Wikipedia page on the Higgs mechanism, starting from a nonrelativistic superconductivity model of bosonic particles, and continuing analogously to relativistic condensates.
Explaining the Higgs mechanism properly is a fair bit beyond the level of the Feynman lectures, but here's an attempt.
Spontaneous symmetry breaking
In order to understand the Higgs mechanism in detail, you need to know about two concepts that are involved in quantum field theory. The first is spontaneous symmetry breaking. This is actually a pretty simple idea: even if the physical laws that govern a system are symmetric in some way, the actual behavior of the system will not necessarily be symmetric in the same way.
A common example is balancing a pencil on its tip. If you get the pencil perfectly balanced, the system is rotationally symmetric about the axis of the pencil, and the physical laws that govern the behavior of the pencil (gravity, Newton's laws, etc.) are also symmetric, in the sense that they don't prefer any one direction over another. Despite this, the pencil is going to fall in some direction, and at that point the system is no longer rotationally symmetric. Once the pencil is rolling around on the table, you don't see the effects of that rotational symmetry in the physical laws anymore.
In its application to particle physics, spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs when there is some potential which has a local maximum that lies on the symmetry axis.
This is the famous "Mexican hat potential" shown in this site's favicon. Mathematically, it's represented by an expression of the form
$$V(\phi,\phi^\dagger) = -\frac{1}{2}\mu^2|\phi|^2 + \frac{\lambda^2}{4}|\phi|^4$$
In this expression, $\mu$ and $\lambda$ are constants and $\phi$ is a quantum field. Note the unusual usage of $\lambda^2$ for the quartic coupling which simplifies subsequent algebra (conventionally, the coefficient is taken to be $\lambda$). $\phi$ can be thought of as a complex-valued variable which is related to the quantum state at a point in spacetime. Now, for our purposes, the universe will "try" to "seek out" whatever state minimizes its potential, just like the balanced pencil will "seek out" the state that minimizes its potential. The only difference is that whereas the pencil changes its state by adjusting its position, the universe changes its state by adjusting the value of the field $\phi$. Just as the pencil has to fall in some direction, the universe will have to experience a transition from its initial state on the peak in the center to some other state for which $\phi$ lies at or near the bottom of the valley, namely $|\phi| = \frac{\mu}{\lambda}$.
Local gauge invariance
The other concept involved is local gauge invariance. This one is a little harder to explain, because there's no simple physical analogy, and it takes a fair amount of math.
Basically, gauge invariance means that you should be able to make local gauge transformations to the fields involved in the theory without the physical laws changing as a result. An example of a gauge transformation is the phase rotation $\phi(x)\to e^{i\alpha}\phi(x)$. If the parameter $\alpha$ depends on spacetime position, $\alpha(x)$, then we call it "local."
In quantum field theory, there are basically two ways the fields themselves can show up: either directly, or as a derivative. They always show up in pairs or larger groupings, usually of a conjugate and a normal field, like $\phi^\dagger\phi$. ($\phi^\dagger$ is the Hermitian conjugate, which is the complex conjugate and transpose of a matrix-valued field.) Terms like that which involve only the fields themselves are automatically gauge invariant, because when you make the gauge transformation, you get $\phi^\dagger e^{-i\alpha(x)}e^{i\alpha(x)}\phi = \phi^\dagger\phi$; the phase factor just cancels out.
But when you have a term that involves derivatives, like $\partial\phi^\dagger\partial\phi$ (called the kinetic term), you run into problems:
$$\partial[e^{i\alpha(x)}\phi(x)] = i\alpha'(x) e^{i\alpha(x)}\phi(x) + e^{i\alpha(x)}\partial\phi(x)$$
If you plug this into the gauge transformed kinetic term $\partial[e^{-i\alpha(x)}\phi^\dagger(x)]\partial[e^{i\alpha(x)}\phi(x)]$, you'll see that it will not simplify back to the original $\partial\phi^\dagger(x)\partial\phi(x)$, because of those extra terms introduced by taking the derivative of $e^{i\alpha(x)}$.
In order to keep local phase rotations from changing the physical laws, we need to add a connection $A(x)$ to the derivative, turning it into the gauge covariant derivative
$$D\phi(x) = \partial\phi(x) - iqA(x)\phi(x)$$
We stipulate that when you make a local phase rotation, you also alter the connection as $A(x) \to A(x) + \frac{1}{q}\partial\alpha(x)$. Essentially, making a gauge transformation not only alters the field, but also alters the operation of differentiation so that the combination of $D\phi(x)$ doesn't have any extra terms, $D\phi(x) \to e^{i\alpha(x)}D\phi(x)$. (It's not all that hard to do the calculation to prove to yourself that this is true.) That means that the phase factor cancels out of $D\phi^\dagger D\phi$, just as it did with the normal field terms.
Putting it all together
Where spontaneous symmetry breaking and local gauge invariance come together is in the Lagrangian. If you're not familiar with what a Lagrangian is, you can kind of think of it as an energy density, but it's not really that important. Just know that there are particular terms in it with particular meanings that I'll identify as they come.
In real-world mechanical systems, the Lagrangian is formed by subtracting the potential energy from the kinetic energy. We can do the same thing in quantum field theory: form a Lagrangian by subtracting the potential $V(\phi)$ from the kinetic term $\frac{1}{2}D\phi^\dagger D\phi$.
$$\mathcal{L} = \frac{1}{2}\bigl(\partial + iqA\bigr)\phi^\dagger\bigl(\partial - iqA\bigr)\phi +\frac{1}{2}\mu^2\phi^\dagger\phi - \frac{\lambda^2}{4}(\phi^\dagger\phi)^2$$
Most of quantum field theory is done perturbatively. This means we need the magnitude of the field (in this case $|\phi|$) to be very small so that we can calculate interesting things as perturbation series, e.g. $F(\phi) = F_0 + \phi F_1 + \cdots$. That would be all well and good if $\phi$ were close to zero. But as I said in the section on spontaneous symmetry breaking, that's typically not going to be the case. The universe will "seek out" the lowest potential, which means $|\phi|$ is going have a value closer to $\frac{\mu}{\lambda}$, the minimum.
The solution? Just redefine the field. Instead of using $\phi$, we'll use $\eta = \phi - \frac{\mu}{\lambda}$, which will be close to zero. So spontaneous symmetry breaking causes us to rewrite the Lagrangian as
$$\begin{multline} \mathcal{L} = \frac{1}{2}\bigl(\partial + iqA\bigr)\eta^\dagger \bigl(\partial - iqA\bigr)\eta + \frac{2q^2\mu}{\lambda}A^2\eta + \frac{q^2\mu^2}{\lambda^2}A^2 \\ - \frac{\lambda^2}{4}\eta^4 + \lambda\mu\eta^3 - \mu^2\eta^2 + \frac{\mu^4}{4\lambda^2}\end{multline}$$
I would definitely encourage you to plug the definition of $\eta = \phi + \frac{\mu}{\lambda}$ into the original Lagrangian, expand out the terms, and see that it really does work out to the last expression. It's just algebra, nothing too complicated, but there are a couple of neat cancellations that take place.
Now, as I said, I'm going to explain the meanings of some of the terms. In a QFT Lagrangian, there are three basic types:
Since we're talking about the Higgs mechanism, the mass terms are of particular interest. Take a look at the two forms of the Lagrangian above. You'll notice that both of them have a mass term for the field $\eta$ (or $\phi$). But in the first expression, there is no mass term for the field $A$, whereas in the second one, the mass term $\frac{q^2\mu^2}{\lambda^2}A^2$ has "magically" appeared! Just because of what amounts to a change of coordinates, a massless particle has acquired a mass! That is the Higgs mechanism in a nutshell, and $\eta$ is the Higgs field.
Of course the real thing is a little more complicated because there are multiple fields instead of just one $A$, plus they have Lorentz indices, plus there are more complicated gauge transformations involved. But the basic procedure is the same.


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Is there any benefit to saving as an
.ai file? I know that
.eps files can be opened in many programs, but
.ai files, I think, would only be opened in Illustrator. Should I bother saving in an
.ai format?
Is there any benefit to saving as an
*In the Illustrator Options dialog that appears when you save a native .ai file, a checkbox called Create PDF Compatible File, marked on by default, determines whether the PDF portion of the file is included when the file is saved. With the option turned on, your file size grows, but the file can be read by apps like InDesign and Photoshop. Turning it off will chop the file size in half (and speed up save time), but the file will only be able to be reopened in Illustrator.
*Remember that Illustrator saves its native content for the version that you specify. So if you save your file out as an EPS file compatible with Illustrator 8, then the native Illustrator data that is saved along with the file is Illustrator 8 data — a format that didn't support transparency. Also, saving back to previous CS versions mean you're going back to the pre-new text engine versions, and text won't be editable, even if the file is reopened in Illustrator CS2.
The upshot is, when saving from Adobe Illustrator, both
There are two advantages of saving to
Of course, the advantage of saving to
There's a great deal of opinion and frankly false information circulating on this topic.
It's pretty safe to say that EPS, being Postscript based, is an obsolescent format just as Postscript is obsolescent. It served the community well back in the day, but it's long been overtaken by PDF and AI. EPS has almost no place in a modern graphics workflow and is best avoided except in very specialized cases. Bar code generators commonly output EPS, and it's an excellent format for that kind of thing, but that's not something you'd typically do in Illustrator, even if you're in the packaging industry.
Craig Kirkwood on Pixel Therapy posted a good summary of the situation here. See also Mordy Golding's comments on this thread in the Adobe forums.
EPS is Postscript based. Illustrator after AI8 is not. Versions since AI9 replaced Postscript with a superset of PDF 1.5, which supports transparency (Postscript does not), and other capabilities such as 3D and color blends that Postscript knows nothing about.
Illustrator long ago became so dominant in the market that it was in the best interests of other graphics program makers to support the format, and most of them do. Corel Draw, often used by small T-shirt and engraving shops, is a horrible exception, since it has its own ideas even about EPS and frequently messes up both import and export of that format.
An AI file is readable across the Adobe Creative Suite applications, and can be placed directly in Flash, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro and Photoshop. Layers are retained, and for example can be turned on and off from inside InDesign using the "Object Layer Options" function. Quark Xpress now supports direct placement of AI files and PSDs, something they had no option but to offer in an effort to stay competitive in the marketplace.
So there are many benefits to saving in AI native format as opposed to EPS. The graphics world has been moving beyond the restrictions of Postscript for years, and that trend shows no signs of slowing down.
Many print shops have already moved from Postscript RIPs to direct PDF RIPs using the Adobe PDF Print Engine, which retains transparency and generates no intermediate Postscript code. The advantages in speed and simplicity for the print provider are large, and all of the major RIP providers (Agfa, Heidelberg, EFI and so on) now offer it. The APPE/JDF (Job Definition File) workflow will be pretty ubiquitous within the next five years.
An answer from a different perspective:
In our design shop, when we create a logo with text, the original is saved as an AI with live fonts.
When the logo is approved by the client, the letters are turned to outlines (so the logo can't be screwed up in another application by having a font missing) and we save that as the EPS version.
We always know to use the EPS as the "final" version of the logo, while the AI is the "original," in case the company name changes or amends or we need to update a phrasemark or deck or something.
In our graphic design shop with an emphasis on print production,
We would never use pdf as a substitute for eps since they are about 89 different settings when creating a pdf, and artwork is often compressed in ways that can't be altered once it's created. With a pdf, you don't know what you have. With an eps, you know what you have.
The only remaining mystery for me is, with all this emphasis on color profiles, why Illustrator eps does not embed the color profile? Believe it or not, some printers have specifically asked that files delivered to them not have color profiles embedded. We specify our color profile to them in a cover letter. So there must be a reason beyond Adobe not being up to date.
I so appreciate this discussion. Thank you, Theresa Whitehill
And EPS stands for Encapsulated Post Script and isn't a file format as much as it is a file container. An EPS can all sorts of data. It's been a while since I've done much AI work, but I believe you can save it as a more generic EPS, which any other decent DTP application with PS support should be able to open, or you can save it specifically as an AI EPS, which I believe will also contain the AI-centric information as well. The con of the latter is that it's likely a larger file size.
In general, I think it's a good idea to treat EPS files like JPG files when you're working with raster images. Always keep the original source format file you are using, and then, as needed, export/make a copy of it as an EPS for distribution or sending out for prepress. But always keep your original .AI as well.


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Major Concepts/Content: The guitar I course is designed to introduce students to the study of the guitar. The content includes, but is not limited to, staff notation and rhythm concepts, major and minor chord recognition, strumming and picking techniques, duple and triple meters, listening skills, guitar styles and forms, familiarity in the playing of all strings, variety of guitar repertoire, performance as soloists and in group ensembles, tuning and intonation, and guitar accompaniment techniques.
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I'm trying to derive the integral form of the Bessel function by finding the $k$th coefficient of the Laurent series expansion of the function $f(z) =\exp [\lambda(z-\frac{1}{z})]$. I managed to get it down to the form
$ J_k(\lambda) =\frac{1}{2\pi}\int_{0}^{2 \pi} e^{i(\lambda \sin\theta - k \theta)} d\theta =\frac{1}{2\pi}\int_{0}^{2 \pi} [\cos(\lambda \sin\theta - k \theta) +i\sin(\lambda \sin\theta - k \theta)]d\theta $
But, I need to show that this is equivalent to $ \frac{1}{2\pi}\int_{0}^{2 \pi} \cos(\lambda \sin\theta - k \theta)d\theta $. In other words, I need to show that $ \int_{0}^{2 \pi}\sin(\lambda \sin\theta - k \theta)d\theta =0 $
But I can't figure out how to do this. I tried expanding using trig identities and then writing sin and cos as Taylor Series and integrating term by term, but no luck. What am I missing?


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Q: My two-and-a-half-month-old recently has been sleeping for progressively longer each night. Last night she slept for nine or ten hours straight and wasn't even crying when I woke her up. She breast-fed well when I woke her; she seems happy and alert during the day and is very playful and curious. Is it okay to go so long without a feeding at night?
A: While we think of young infants needing to eat frequently and waking during the night, eventually they do sleep for longer periods of time, and can "sleep through the night." The timing of when this happens is quite variable. Most babies can sleep 6 or 7 hours at night at about 3 months of age, but some learn to do this much sooner, some as early as 6 to 8 weeks. By 6 months of age many babies will sleep 9 to 12 hours at night, and this is perfectly normal -- since the infant is bigger, her stomach holds more, and she can go longer without eating at night. Additionally, as babies grow and mature their sleep cycle matures and they learn how to sleep soundly, and not respond to every outside stimulus.
This doesn't necessarily hold true for infants who have medical problems or who are underweight. They may need to be fed on a more consistent basis, even if they have the ability to sleep longer.
It sounds as though your baby is one of those content, early sleepers, and it is okay for her to go that long without eating, as long as she is otherwise well and growing normally.
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If it is possible, which to me just does not seem at all fair to a lich, are there ways to avoid this silly little thing? If you have the feat or spell and the lich rolls badly, he is essentially dead, because the next question the controller would ask is "where is your phylactery?" This reduces the effectiveness and fear of the lich.
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Yes, this spell will control a lich.
Control Undead states:
So "Intelligent undead" can be controlled; however the Lich has several lines of defence against this spell.
Note also, any lich is going to know this spell and have ways around it. The only thing the lich is restricted from (initially) is attacking the caster this isn't going to stop them (until commanded) from...
It's not a hands-down game winner against a Lich,
Yes, the seventh level spell Control Undead can control a lich, as long as it fails its SR and will save. This is like how say any living guy can be controlled by the fifth level spell Dominate Person.
If you mean an evil cleric channeling and using Command Undead, the answer is yes there too, but you have to have more cleric levels than the lich's HD which is unlikely.
A real "boss" lich would of course have fake liches, illusions, magical safeguards, buffs/defenses, etc. designed to prevent this or the 100 other save-or-die spells from being used on him (is being Disintegrated any better?)
The CR 12 example Lich has a Will Save of +11. DC Target for the spell will be 10 + Spell Level (7) + ability mod (say 4) so 21ish. So yes a party of 13th level or better has a 50/50 chance of using Control Undead on an equal or lower encounter.
Shame it will not happen. The party meeting a CR 12 Lich would probably be 7 level or so and stand no chance of having the spell; or I would expect the Lich to be CR 20 or so and have other protections if the party was 13th and could cast the spell.
So basically if you encounter a Lich of equivalent CR you stand a good chance of defeating it and that is the point of the CR rating so nothing strange there at all.
First of all, if its that important to you, then just say that he made his save. I think that is way better, then having the lich teleport away or similar, that would make the players feel screwed in a bad way. The Wizard has prepared this 7 lvl spell and now that actually has a usage the DM screws him - bad idea In my opinion.
Secondly a lich doesn't have SR, http://paizo.com/prd/monsters/lich.html so its just a will save. To me control undead lvl 7 is (and should be) a lot more powerfull then the 5 lvl equvilent of dominate person. Dominate person has days for duration and you can see through the eyes of the victum etc. BUT you can't however make it do harmfull stuff to it self. IMO you CAN ask an undead to jump of a cliff or whatever with this spell including telling where the phylactery is. In the spell description it says that its usually a stored far away from the lichs location - thats what makes the lich that awsome creature. Let your players beat him, knowing that they only have a short time to reach the destination of the phylactery or he will be hunting them and now with a vengence.
If you were the lich you would have it stored somewhere with some teleport protection, traps, minions etc. to keep it safe. Congratulations you now have 3-8 gaming sessions where the players are super focused on beating the lich to the phylactery and if not being hunted and chewed at by smaller undeads untill he reappears and now more ready for your party because he has been scrying on them and depleting there ressources etc.
For Command Undead in Pathfinder the spell states that giving a command to an intelligent undead requires an opposed charisma check. So, you'd have to pass that first. Then, it also states an intelligent undead never obeys suicidal or obviously harmful orders, but might be convinced doing something dangerous is worth doing. I would call being told to tell where it's phylactery is AT LEAST dangerous to the lich, and therefore requiring some fast talking and convincing, if not obviously harmful, and therefor something it WILL NOT do.
I'm playing a game where my character plans on becoming a lich, so I've been thinking of stuff like this myself :)


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I've had a few weeks break from a large and difficult project that I've been working on for two years. The project could be a few weeks from shipping, if I can manage to focus on it.
I've noticed a few things that make it difficult for me to finish it:
- I'm distracted, I'm thinking about other opportunities, even if the voice of reason tells me I should stick to this one.
- I somehow lost the motivation to see my application shipped. For the most time I felt like it was going to be an awesome product but now I can't get my confidence back.
- I left it in the middle of solving a very complex problem. To start coding again I need to have a full picture in my head of what my options are. Neither notes, nor drawings work for me, so I have trouble recreating my mental state from when I abandoned the project.
I feel like my problem is lame, but then I know many people abandon their private projects. I really see a pattern here. But I hope there is some mental trick/exercise that can help me a bit?


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Is there any way to use fraktur font styles in text mode? I cannot enter math and do
\mathfrak because then spaces are eaten up by LaTeX.
Any pointers?
You have available some beautiful fonts designed by Yiannis Haralambous (these can be used also with XeLaTeX, but unfortunately they don't accept Unicode input for accented letters).
(Notice how the "round s" is obtained. Thanks to @Christian for noticing it.)
You find a description of the fonts in this article in TUGboat
It is of note that the package also provides initials.
This was produced by this code, notice the change between long and round s:
The UniFraktur project is rather nice.
A quote from the page Fraktur letterſpacing:
The line
is taken from that page.
A contrived example:
The project has a forum, and one post recommends the lines
The difference can be illustrated with this example:
It is important to note the effect of the
With XeLaTeX you could use a special fraktur font (maybe http://www.fontspace.com/george-williams/fractur). Use for example:
It is certainly possible to only apply such a font to specific part of the document, but I did not need that before.


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Beth's Screencasts are awesome. I'd love to see more screencasts mixed in this way. Very nice experience for the audience. In fact, I do know that more C9 screencasters will be creating a similar style of mixed motion and still video.
Thanks, Beth!
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Minh wrote:I haven't finished the entire video yet, but I have to say I really dig the new format. More screencast mixing please!
Thanks Amanda for this stunning demonstration. Frankly I can't wait to start developing with the new version of VB, although LINQ seems to be drastic change in the language that requires spending more time on it.
I hope Amanda that there is a chance to demonstrate Interoperability between WPF and windows forms 2.0 as all Microsoft resources concentrates on C# [C]
Does anyone else have the same problem as I do when watching this video. Namely the code screen is blurred, so much so that the text is unreadable. When the camera shot is away frm the code screen the video is fine.
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It's a cause close to his heart. Medeiros had to seek help for his own struggles with addiction 19 years ago. Now he's paying it forward.
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This is a great album, and one of the few that I can listen through without skipping the majority of songs on.
I sure do miss the 90s. :-/
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My appology and thank you for correcting my mis-quote.UberGerbil wrote:I didn't write that -- EJ257 did, and then a nested quote tag got mangled so that it got mis-attributedchurin wrote:UberGerbil's statement as quoted is about the motherboard circuit design around the PCIe slot. I had difficulty understanding exactly what he meant and thought end users need not be concerned about.
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If I paraphrase the above based on my interpretation which does not seems correct is the following: The power available from the slot satisfies requirements of any PCIe card. Appreciate your clarification.UberGerbil wrote: . . an x1 (or x4 or x8) card has exactly as much power available to it as an x16 card. . . .


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WEIRTON - Madonna got a big game from freshman Monica Bragg and outscored the Steubenville Catholic Central girls 8-2 in the last three minutes of the game to pull out a 46-42 come-from-behind win at the Bill Barrett Gymnasium Thursday night.
The game was nip and tuck throughout, but the Lady Blue Dons, who were winning their fourth game of the season, held onto the lead until Central (4-7) forged ahead early in the fourth quarter.
The Lady Crusaders out goaled Madonna 20-15, but came up empty on only two foul shots while the Lady Dons nailed 11 of 20 free throws for the win.
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BOXING OUT — Steubenville Catholic Central's Micca Mirabella boxes out Madonna's Nicolette Sellitti during the Crusaders' 46-42 loss to the Blue Dons Thursday in Weirton.
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FOR TWO — Madonna's Nicolette Sellitti goes up for two in front of teammate Cameron Dowiak during the Blue Dons' 46-42 win over Steubenville Catholic Central Thursday in Weirton.
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"Foul shooting has not been one of our strengths, but we're getting better and tonight, when we needed it, it was there," said Madonna coach, Don Ogden. "It was a game of runs, It was a hard fought battle. Both teams laid everything on the line tonight, but, fortunately, we came out on top."
Madonna played the entire second half without the services of its only returning starter from a year ago, senior Nicolette Sellitti, who sustained an injury at home on Wednesday. Ogden said he was unaware of the injury before the game so she was in her customary spot in the starting lineup, but had to yield due to the injury.
Without her, the Blue Dons turned to Bragg, who responded with a breakout game and a career-high 21 points. She also had six steals and four rebounds to round out an impressive evening.
The other factor in the game was turnovers - 30 of them for the Lady Crusaders.
"Turnovers were the difference tonight," said Central coach Tom Winland. "We had about 30 turnovers and when you do it that many times you're not going to win many games.
"We didn't attack the one-three-one the way we could have, but I'm very happy with the way we played defensively and offensively except for the turnovers. When we get our turnovers down, we'll start to win some games. If we continue to turn the ball over at that high of a rate, then we're going to struggle."
With Bragg scoring 13 of her points in the first half, the Blue Dons went to the locker room with a 24-19 lead at halftime, but the Crusaders began chipping away at the lead in the third quarter.
"Bragg had a breakout game and I'm glad for her," Ogden explained. "She has missed some games with injuries, but she came through when we needed her tonight. A lot of times we put her in situations where she forced the shot, but that was because of what we were wanting to run with her, but she played hard. She played a lot of minutes and, hopefully, that pays off for us down the road."
Madonna went into the final stanza clinging to a 35-31 lead, but from the 1:20 mark of the third quarter to 4:08 in the fourth, the Crusaders went on a 13-3 run that armed them with a 40-38 lead.
Central senior Rachel Irvin led the rally, scoring six of her team high 14 points. Irvin also led all rebounders with seven off the glass.
After Irvin ran out on transition and waltzed to the basket for a layup off of a nice bounce pass feed from Rachel Rigaud, Ogden called a time out with 2:57 left in the game.
Coming out of the timeout, freshman Isabella Rosso found nothing but net on a bomb from the wing to ignite the game winning Madonna run.
"I thought we were real stagnant in our half court offense, so a called a timeout to run a set play," said Ogden. The primary option we wanted wasn't there, but the secondary option was and Rosso hit the three. I thought that was one of the big keys to the game."
After Rosso hit her three that enabled Madonna to retrieve the lead at 41-40, Bragg got the last of her six steals and drove all the way for a layup.
Sophomore point guard Cameron Dowiak eased the pressure some more making three of four free throws in a one plus one situation.
Irvin stopped the run with a 10-foot jumper from the left of the basket with 11 seconds left. Winland got a timeout and Central fouled Bragg on the inbounds play, but she missed both free throws in the double bonus.
Central got the rebound with 9.1 seconds left in the game, but was unable to get a shot off before the final buzzer.
Rosso came off the bench to hit three shots from behind the arc for nine points to back up Bragg.
Junior Micca Mirabella backed up Irvin with 12 points.
Madonna takes it's 4-6 record to Oak Glen Saturday for a 6 p.m. jayvee start. Meanwhile, the Lady Crusaders also hit the road Saturday with a noon start at Conotton Valley.
Madonna 46, CCHS 42
CCHS: Knight 1 0-0 3, Irvin 7 0-2 14, Rigaud 2 0-0 4, Mirabella 6 0-0 12, Dziewiatkoski 1 0-0 2, Parkinson 2 0-0 5, Ondo 1 0-0 2. Totals: 20 0-2 42. Three-pointers: Knight, Parkinson; Rebounds: 29 (Irvin, 7); Turnovers: 30.
MADONNA: Dowiak 0 5-8 5, Rosso 3 0-1 9, Sellitti 1 1-2 3, Platek 2 0-0 4, Davis 2 0-1 4, Bragg 7 5-8 21. Totals: 15 11-20 46. Three-pointers: Rosso (3), Bragg (2); Rebounds: 17 (Platek, 5); Turnovers: 16.


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Clearly state what they're missing. Chances are there's some good reason you want them to use Javascript.
I'd just use the
If you want to check for certain JavaScript features you could use a library like Modernizr. You can use it to check for JavaScript, but it might be overkill for the simple check.
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If napkins are opened / used - Item will not be eligible for exchange or refund.


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Week of October 28th, 2012
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2) Leave a comment under one or all posts this week for maximum chances. See HERE if you don't know how to leave a comment.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
and the winner of the Country Life cartridge is...
Wow, loveley card, very clever design! And A great idea to use the Cricut for shrink plastic, thanks for the settings!
Congratulations, Saskia! Please email us at email@example.com your address and we will send this out to you as soon as possible!
I hope you all enjoyed the awesome projects that Greenbean made this week as much as we did! Thanks so much, Greenbean for coming over and playing with us!!
Have a great rest of your Sunday!
Be sure and check out Joy's and Melanie's personal blogs for more creative goodness at Obsessed with Scrapbooking and Courtney Lane Designs! Have a great day!
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19 comments:
- Sabina said...
yes i liked, ther where a lot of great projects...
- February 13, 2011 at 1:35 PM
- Melanie said...
Congratulations to the winner!
- February 13, 2011 at 2:11 PM
- Michelle said...
congrats! what a wonderful cartridge to win! enjoy!
- February 13, 2011 at 2:49 PM
- mitch1066 said...
Congrats to Saskia !!
- February 13, 2011 at 2:51 PM
- Stephanie said...
- February 13, 2011 at 2:53 PM
- Saskia said...
Oh, wow, I won!!!! Thanks so much!!
- February 13, 2011 at 3:16 PM
- farmlifewife said...
Congrats! Looking forward to another great week of projects.
- February 13, 2011 at 4:04 PM
- Ohhh Snap said...
Congratulations :D.
- February 13, 2011 at 6:38 PM
- Sabrina said...
Congrats! Enjoy your new cartridge :)
- February 13, 2011 at 6:59 PM
- Denise-Scrapmouse said...
Congrats to the winner!
And thanks for having Greenbean as a guest designer. She had some pretty cool projects. Hope she'll return one day.
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- February 13, 2011 at 7:16 PM
- Carrluv said...
Congrats, Saskia! You'll love this cartridge...
- February 13, 2011 at 9:24 PM
- AJoy said...
- February 13, 2011 at 10:24 PM
- Jacqueline said...
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- February 13, 2011 at 11:57 PM
- Kaye said...
Very interesting projects this past week...I appreciate creative people.
- February 13, 2011 at 11:59 PM
- Sassy's Ramblin's said...
Congrats to you!
- February 14, 2011 at 8:02 AM
- AShu93 said...
Congrats Saskia! That's a great cart.
Greenbean was an awesome guest!
- February 14, 2011 at 1:24 PM
- Melanie said...
Congrats. Happy cutting.
- February 14, 2011 at 8:31 PM
- Debbi said...
Congratulations, Saskia!
- February 15, 2011 at 6:39 AM
- CraftyNCrazy said...
Congrats to the winner! I hope I am so lucky one day!
- February 15, 2011 at 12:03 PM


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Painting Our Project AMC Rambler - Show-Car PrepWritten by Douglas Glad on May 11, 2007 Contributors: Wes Allison, John McGann Think you're done when the paint is dry? Finish the car with a little Show-Car Prep
We stood in the faint outline of blue that surrounded the Rambler like an upside-down halo greeting the unusually high number of gawkers that came to see the art. "This paint on the decklid looks a little iffy" was the first comment to break the silence.
We understand that right after you paint a car, you are going to get attention. So we were prepared for everyone to look down the body and make mental notes of each warble of paint and each unworked paint chip just so they could point them out. Since the price of a good paint job has easily crested $5,000, the expectation of perfection has become absurd. But right after you tell people you did it yourself, for around $1,000, in the garage, they usually stop complaining and you get a little credit.
For the CC/Rambler, we chose a dual-stage metallic called Barbados Blue. Because it's a dual-stage, a flat base-color coat is applied followed by a clearcoat. There were some mistakes in the Rambler's basecoat we laid down in last month's issue, and since we hadn't applied the clear, it wasn't too late to fix them. We were also going to use the secret weapon often called the cut-and-buff that from the days before the advent of catalyzed and single- and dual-stage urethanes. Since old-school lacquer used to go down dull, shops would use a pasty compound to knock down high spots and remove imperfections. When that was covered with a huge coat of wax, the job looked great. That same technique can be used on the clearcoat on a two-stage urethane job for the same effect. Here's how to do it.
|Product List
|Craftsman 6-inch bench-top buffer
|Craftsman compound buffing set
|Mothers Mag and Aluminum Polish
|Craftsman 6-inch buffing wheel
|Craftsman 8-inch buffing wheel
|{{{Eagle}}} Waterproof Abrasive Paper, superfine 1,{{{200}}}-grit 50-sheet pack
|3M Super Duty rubbing compound, 1-quart bottle
|3M Superbuff buffing pad 5701, 9-inch, two-sided
|3M Superbuff polishing pad 5704, 9-inch, two-sided
|Meguiar's Mirror Glaze swirl-free polish, 32-ounce bottle
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Last month, we sprayed the basecoat. John McGann might have breathed too many fumes, and Glad has burned himself with the shop light one too many times.1. We waited a couple of days for the paint to cure before we attempted any repairs. The first thing we noticed was a huge dent we completely missed. The basecoat can be treated just like the original paint, so we scuffed it with 320-grit paper and prepared the area for Evercoat Metal Glaze filler.2. The glaze works just like it would if we were applying it to the original paint or to primer. We let it dry for about 20 minutes, sanded it flat with a long board with 120 to smooth it out, then sanded it with 320 to eliminate scratches.3. Since we were going to add another basecoat after we made repairs, we used SEM high-build primer to fill in any nicks and scratches we missed the first time. We sanded every repair with 320 on a long board.4. We had made some major crack repairs in the rear quarter-panel, and it showed after the base was applied. We tackled the remaining waves with a long board and 320 followed by a coat of high-build primer, then more sanding, until we could not feel any waves.5. The cheaper way to do this is to primer the entire car, wet block-sand, then repeat until you are happy. Since we only had a few mistakes we weren't willing to live with, we applied color, then blocked, then added more color. The wet-sanding process at this stage will reveal every flaw on the car, so be patient.6. After we had fixed our mistakes, we covered them with high-build primer, wet-sanded the repairs with 600-grit paper, then wet-sanded the entire car with 1,000 before we rolled it back into the paint booth for another two coats. After allowing 24 hours for the paint to cure, we were ready for the first coat of clear.7. The DuPont ChromaClear is sold along with the color as a system. We could have opted for DuPont's cheaper Nason brand, but we've been told to spend the good money on the clearcoat. Ask for the data sheet when you buy the paint; it will give you a lot of little pointers about how to get the two to work together.8. To shoot the clear, we switched the gun tip to a smaller 1.5 tip because the 1.8 that we used for the color would have caused runs. The basecoat didn't need to go on thick to get a smooth look, but the clearcoat did. Be careful; a clearcoat that is too thick means more work with a buffer and compound. You have to learn the balance between spraying too thin a clearcoat and too thick to avoid a bunch of runs.
9. After we shot two coats of clear, we let the paint dry for a couple of days before we went back to color-sand.10. At first, we were kind of shy about hitting our gleaming topcoat with sandpaper, but it needed to be done. Light bouncing off the peaks and valleys in the clear cause the orange-peel look that we were trying to eliminate. The idea is to sand off enough paint with 1,000-grit to leave a smooth surface. The area that has been color-sanded should look totally deglossed.11. It's hard to tell when the texture is completely removed from the paint unless the car is dry, so sand, dry, and check before moving to the next panel. Once the car is totally sanded to a dull finish, it's time to bring it back.12. For this job, you'll need a rotary polisher that spins at least 1,500 rpm, a good wool cutting pad, and a fine wool or foam buffing pad. The good tools can be found at the paint-supply store, so invest while you are buying the paint. Our buffer is a Makita that we bought from a paint-supply store nearly nine years ago. The thick wool pad is for cutting sanding scratches out of the clearcoat. To avoid burning the paint, be cautious around edges where the paint is thinner and make sure the pad is rotating off of or away from seams and edges instead of toward them. It creates less heat and friction.13. Work the buffer across the surface of the paint, picking up compound as you go and working the area until it starts to shine.14. This is a good illustration of what 3M Super Duty rubbing compound and a good wool pad can do. Notice that you can see some orange peel left in the area we wet-sanded but not in the buffed area. Now do the whole car.15. To make a point, we finished the trunk area with Meguiar's Swirl Free polishing compound. It takes care of small scratches, spider webs, and swirl marks. Now do the whole car again.16. What's missing in most paint-and body-stories is what to do with the trim. If you are building a '69 Camaro, buy new trim from Year One or Goodmark. If you are restoring a car that has little or no aftermarket support, you'll need to save your trim. We pulled ours off using a set of tools from Eastwood then gave them a thorough scrubbing with dish soap and water.17. To bring back the original luster to the trim pieces, we used a Craftsman 6-inch buffer and wheel compound. The blue is for cutting built-up road detritus, and the white is a finer grit designed to take out any fine scratches. We found that Mothers Mag and Aluminum polish worked to get a bright shine from the parts after we cut them with compound.
18. We taped the trim to a 2x4 so it wouldn't get ripped out of our hands and damaged. Mark each wheel with the compound you are using and never mix them; always hold the part with the wheel spinning away from you and off the edge so it won't catch and bend the trim. We used two 6-inch wheels for the compounds and an 8-inch wheel to buff the trim with the polish.19. We did manage to mangle one piece of trim when we tried to get the driprail molding off. Fortunately, Galvin's Rambler Parts had one in stock and sent it to us for the final shoot. His advice? "If you are going to remove the driprail, get behind it with a flat blade, move really slowly, and go 1 inch at a time."


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Good evening,
Can someone explain to me the notion of internality in model theory (what it is, where it comes from...) ?
Thank you
Good evening,
Can someone explain to me the notion of internality in model theory (what it is, where it comes from...) ?
Thank you
The standard use in model theory is something like this. A partial type $p$ is internal to a type $q$ if there is a definable function $f$ such that any realization of $p$ is equal to $f(c_1,\dots,c_m)$ where $c_1,\dots,c_m$ are realizations of $q$.
A typical example from differential fields: Let $X$ be the set of solutions of a linear differential equation of order $n$. Then $X$ is internal to the constants. Let $a_1,\dots,a_n$ be a fundamental system of solutions. Let $f(c_1,\dots,c_n)=\sum c_ia_i$. Then every element of $X$ is the image of an $n$-tuple of constants.
The use of 'internality' in model theory that is most familiar to me is its use in nonstandard analysis. Look at 'internal' in the wikipedia article on non-standard analysis and see if that is what you remember.
Could you be thinking of Skolem's Paradox?
It is sometimes explained in terms of "internal sets", the sets that a model can "see". Example:
That's a description of why a theory containing the power set of the integers still has a countable model. The model doesn't actually contain the full powerset, but it also doesn't contain a bijection between its integers and its sets of integers, so "internally" the power set is uncountable even though it's countable "externally".
If that's what you're looking for, then http://math.stackexchange.com is probably a better place than here for follow-up discussion.


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I just installed the experimental (version 310) proprietary NVIDIA driver for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550Ti card.
For some reason, the GUI did not come up, so I did it entirely through the terminal, using the
jockey-text utility as described here.
How can I put the driver into use?
jockey-text --list outputs the following:
kmod:nvidia_experimental_310 - nvidia_experimental_310 (Proprietary, Enabled, Not in use)
I assume the 'enabled' part means the kernel module is enabled; how can I use it?


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The body of Jeremy Priddy, 28, was found at his home on Ray Vincent Rd. in Edmonson County around 7:30 Tuesday night.
Police say it was a homicide.
According to family members, Priddy was found on the floor brutally beaten.
A yard full of toys has now become the scene of a murder.
"This is Jeremy's house. They said he worked yesterday. I don't know for sure what time he got in from work. From what I gathered they found him yesterday evening and called the authorities," says Priddy's life-long friend, Darrell Duvall.
"When they got there they located the victim in the floor, Jeremy Priddy. At that time they contacted the coroner's office, and he was pronounced dead at that residence," Trooper Greg Dukes with Kentucky State Police.
Duvall says Jeremy Priddy was the type of person who was liked by everyone.
"Jeremy was the type of person everytime you see him he was smiling-- always had something funny or good to say to everybody."
Ray Vincent Rd. is occupied by most of the Priddy family.
'His grandparents live here, his sister next-door and his parents just two houses down," Duvall says.
When his brother-in-law came next-door to visit last night, that's when he says he found Jeremy's body, bruised and beaten.
Priddy lived in the home with his girlfriend and her two children.
"He had a big part in their life. I'm sure they are devastated too. It's just bad every way you look at it," Duvall says.
Duvall says the murder of Jeremy Priddy has left an entire community devastated.
"You don't hear of things like this in a small community like this. This is big city stuff but it's coming home to everybody."
If you have any information on the murder of Jeremy Priddy, call Kentucky State Police at 782-2010.


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8 Guinness World Record Attempts That Failed (Hilariously)
Are we the only ones who think that Hilariously Failed Attempts at Guinness World Records would make a better book?
We believe we have much to learn from these brave souls who, through lack of planning and/or ability, set an example for all of us not to follow.
#8. Coconut Breaking
The Goal
To break a row of coconuts open as quickly as possible with his bare hands, thus proving once and for all man's dominance over nature.
What Went Wrong
Imagine if coconut breaking was your ultimate goal in life. Practicing long and hard on the lesser, punier fruits, calculating the ideal point at which to hit a coconut for maximum destruction, trying to find someone who actually cared about your hobby...these are all part of the trials that a coconut smasher faces in life.
Imagine the anticipation when the big day comes, when you finally get that chance to join the hallowed ranks of famed fruit and vegetable destroyers that Guinness has produced.
So you invite your friends and family to watch. You get the TV cameras there to record your triumph. You line up many, many coconuts...
...And while you manage to break both your spirit and probably your hand, you break not a single coconut.
Lesson Learned
Look, we know coconuts aren't free. But when you try to set a record of some kind, you might want to, you know, practice doing it at least once. And don't practice on, say, rotten watermelons or eggplant. Spring for a couple of real coconuts, and do a dry run before the cameras get there. You'll thank yourself later.
#7. Sandwich Making
The Goal
To make the longest sandwich ever prepared, proving that they're better at wasting food than anyone else.
What Went Wrong
The record to beat was 1,378 meters, set by a group of Italians. To top that, an Iranian women's organization assembled more than 1,000 cooks with the goal of creating a 1,500-meter long sandwich. Even with that many people at work, making the sandwich was a process that took hours.
The event drew quite a crowd, as watching people make large sandwiches is one of Iran's most popular past times. Do you know what happens to people when they're either working or standing around in a crowd for a number of hours? They get hungry.
Making another compelling argument for why you shouldn't let strangers watch your record attempts, the observing crowd forced their way past the cooks and started eating the sandwich before its record length could be verified. Reports of a Scooby Dooesque scene where the crowd chomped at one end of the sandwich while the cooks frantically tried to out-build them at the other remain unconfirmed.
Lesson Learned
When inviting a hungry crowd to a lengthy event that revolves around not eating, maybe you should provide a snack or two.
#6. Fire Walking
The Goal
To have as many people walk through a pit of hot coals as possible, demonstrating the power of peer pressure in getting people to do stupid things.
What Went Wrong
Shockingly, of the three hundred and forty-one people who gathered to take part in the attempt, some of them didn't know what they were doing. Despite strict supervision and training, twenty-eight people ended up being treated for burns and eleven of them had to be taken to the hospital.
The attempt was designed to double as a fundraising effort for New Zealand's ambulance service and in that sense it was a success, raising one thousand dollars for the cause. That is, it was a success until well over that amount had to be spent treating all the injuries. At least a number of doctors were on hand to watch the event, so help came quickly. Something tells us the bedside manner of those doctors was a lot more sarcastic and bitter than usual.
"According to this X-ray, you're not retarded. Well, that can't be right."
Lesson Learned
If you're going to raise money for a health service, try doing something that doesn't inevitably involve horrible burn wounds.
#5. Smurfing
The Goal
To assemble as many people dressed and painted as Smurfs as possible, proving...well...you know, we're not exactly sure what this one is supposed to prove.
What Went Wrong
The event was organized quite well, but those in charge forgot one key step: figuring out what the old record was. Thinking that the previous largest number of Smurf-clad adults gathered in one place couldn't have been higher than, say, one, 395 Croats--all of whom apparently had Smurf costumes handy--assembled and waited to enter the annals of pointless world record history.
Unfortunately for the group, 451 students from Warwick University had beaten them to it the previous year, rending their accomplishment somehow even sadder than it already was.
We're curious as to the exact point in time these people learned they had failed. Was it well after they had thrown their funny little hats into the air, joyously celebrating what they thought was a victory for the entire nation of Croatia? Or had Guinness informed them from the start and they decided to forge ahead anyway, truly capturing the spirit of what the Smurfs stand for? Either way, this attempt was no doubt an emotional roller coaster from start to finish.
Lesson Learned
When trying to break a world record, it's probably worth your time to check what the record is first. Also, the sight of hundreds of people dressed as Smurfs is fucking creepy in ways we can't fully comprehend.


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Admissions · Advising · Catalog · Financial Aid · Registrar · Scholarships
Spring 2012
Lauren Wrzesinski received the MA degree in History at the August 2012 Commencement Ceremony. Lauren was a former graduate assistant in the Department of Social Sciences.
The following students received the BA degree in History at the August 2012 Commencement Ceremony: Kirby Crow, Cody Mcmillian, Shaina Post, and Wayne Viotto.
Christopher Jenkins received the BS degree in Political Science at the August 2012 Commencement Ceremony.
History major, Kirby Crow, was named Outstanding Graduate for the College of Liberal and Fine Arts at the August 2012 Commencement Ceremony. She will attend law school at Texas Tech University in Fall 2012.
History graduate student Russell Zimmerman served as a graduate assistant in the Department of Social Sciences for the 2011-2012 academic year. Mr. Zimmermani worked with the faculty in Stephenville and taught a class of his own in Spring 2012. Cody Mcmillian will serve as graduate assistant for the department for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Mr. Ted Roberts, who received his M.A. in History from Tarleton, has joined the faculty of the Department of Social Sciences for Fall 2012 as Visiting Instructor of History. He will teach both halves of the U.S. History survey.
Taylor Anderson, who received both his B.A. and M.A. degrees in history from Tarleton (he also taught for us as an adjunct for several years), has published a three-volume series of science fiction with RoC Press, entitled Destroyermen. Set during World War II when a naval vessel accidently enters an alternative universe, the series (which includes Into the Storm, Crusade, and Maelstrom, has received good reviews and has enjoyed excellent sales. Taylor is currently working on a fourth volume in the series. Taylor was honored as the "Outstanding Alumnus" of the Department of Social Sciences in March 2010.
Gene Rhea Tucker,who earned his BA and MA degrees in history from Tarleton, has just had a book manuscript accepted for publication by Texas Tech University Press. Based on his Tarleton MA thesis (written under the direction of Dr. T. Lindsay Baker) and entitled"Oysters, Macaroni, and Beer," this manuscript deals with the history of the company store operations in Thurber, Texas. Mr. Tucker currently teaches at Navarro Community College and received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Texas at Arlington in May 2011.
History students Russell Zimmerman, Chelsea Gray, Russell McCarson, and Cody McMillian all attended the Northeast Texas Regional Conference of Phi Alpha Theta at East Texas A&M University in April 2012. All four students presented papers at this conference: Russell Zimmerman, "Confederate Comet: The Rise and Fall of Major General Patrick Cleburne, CSA;" Cody McMillian, "A Brief Analysis of the Battle of Milliken's Bend;" Russell McCarson, "Factors in Vietnam's Fall in Popularity;" and Chelsea Gray, "Mission in Savannah." Congratulations to all involved.
Political Science instructor, Eric Morrow, received his Ph.D from Baylor University on May 12, 2012. The title of his dissertation was "Transnational Religion in Greek American Political Advocacy." Congratulations Dr. Morrow!
Dr. Matthew Hallgarth recently submitted an essay, "Just War Theory and Killing by Remote Control," to be included in a forthcoming book of essays by Oxford University Press. The book is entitled Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military, edited by Dr. B.J. Strawser of the Naval Postgraduate College.
Patrick Crawford, who received his MA in history at the December 2010 Commencement Ceremony, presented a paper, entitled "Tracking the Ancient Beasts: The Saga of the Glen Rose Dinosaur Footprints," at the West Texas Historical Society meeting at Texas Tech University in April 2011. Originally written as a research project for Dr. T. Lindsay Baker, this paper investigates the history of paleontological investigations of the dinosaur track ways in the Paluxy River Valley in Somervell Country.
Dr. Dean Minix, professor of Political Science, presented a paper with Dr. Vincent M. Prince (Wilmington College), entitled "The Regional Wars on Terror in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Age of Obama: Angloa, South Africa, Nigeria," at the Oxford Round Table (Oxford University, U.K.) in July 2010. Dr. Minix and Dr. Vincent had presented an earlier version of this paper at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University, on October 30-31, 2009. Dr. Minix also published an article on this general subject, entitled "Sub-Saharan Africa as Another Front in the Global War on Terror," in the Southwestern Journal of International Studies, vol. 3 (2009). And finally, Dr. Minix and Tarleton colleague Dr. Dennis Jones presented a paper entitled "Summer Bridge Programs: Providing a Jump Start toward Student Success" at the Southwest Teaching and Learning Conference, San Antonio, TX during March 27-28, 2009.
Both Drs. Patricia and Donald Zelman have decided to enter modified service at Tarleton. They are semi-retired but will teach two classes per semester until they retire full-time.
Dr. Greg Atkinson has completed his term as the Social Science representative on the Faculty Senate. He will be replaced next fall by Dr. Matthew Hallgarth.
Students in HIST 509 (Historic Preservation) undertook a four-month hands-on learning project in Glen Rose, Texas during the Spring 2012 semester. Dr. T. Lindsay Baker had negotiated a contract between Tarleton State University and the City of Glen Rose for the students to prepare the individual building histories and architectural descriptions for more than two dozen historic structures fronting onto the courthouse square in the town to form the core of a nomination of that district to the National Register of Historic Places. The 1893 Somervell County Courthouse is already a listed structure. The students documented each of the structures using published and unpublished family histories, historic tax rolls, current tax records, interviews with property owners, historic maps, and especially helpful historic photographs preserved in the Somervell County Heritage Center. As part of the agreement between the university and the city, Dr. Baker was able to transport the students to participate in the annual Preservation Summit meeting hosted by Preservation Texas in Austin, in March 2012. The students' work constitutes the central element of a district nomination to the NRHP that Dr. Baker will complete for the City of Glen Rose during the summer of 2012.
Dr. Jesus Valasco has joined the faculty of the Department of Social Science as the holder of the Joe and Teresa Long Endowed Chair in Political Science. An expert in Mexican and Latin America history and government, Dr. Valasco has dramatically strengthened our course offerings in those important areas and has greatly enhanced the prestige of our department. Dr. Velasco has also just published an important book in political science: Neoconservatives in U.S. Foreign Policy Under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush: Voices Behind the Throne (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010).
Dr. T. Lindsay Baker has also been named editor of the Tarleton State Book Series on Southwestern Studies in the Humanities. The series produces one book a year and is published by Texas A&M University Press.
Dr. Christopher Guthrie, professor of history and now fully recovered from his heart attack, was named one of two Faculty Fellows in the Excellence in Teaching Program run by Tarleton's Center of Instructional Innovation. His term of office was originally to run for one year but has just been extended for an additional year. His duties center around the facilitation of discussion regarding classroom instruction and the design and implementation of methods to improve teaching at Tarleton. He made a presentation with Drs. Credence Baker and Kayla Peak about this program at The Teaching Professor Conference in Atlanta, GA in May 2011 and made two presentations at the same conference in Washington D.C. in June 2012.
History graduate Benjamin Brown was accepted into the history graduate program of Southern Methodist University. Highly recruited by the University of North Texas, Baylor University, and the University of Texas at Arlington, Mr. Brown chose SMU because of the strength of its history program and the generosity of its financial offer to him. We know that he will make Tarleton proud at SMU.
Mr. Micah Adkinson, a recent graduate with a degree in Political Science, is currently a captain in the United States Marine Corps.He serves as an instructor at the Marine's training facility at Quantico, Virginia.
Mr. Aaron Smith, who received his MA in History in Spring 2006, is now stationed with the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, New York. He is a Kiowa Warrior helicopter pilot who was deployed in 2008.
History graduate Michael Baird now teaches English in South Korea. He visited South Korea while participating in Tarleton's Study Abroad program as an undergraduate. He fell in love with the country, its people, and its culture and decided to work there after his graduation in 2005.
Mr. Michael McLatchy, who received his MA in History in 2005 and a MA degree in Political Science in 2007 assumed a teaching position at Claredon College in 2007.
Mr. Kenneth Davis, who graduated with a B.A. in History in May 2006, has obtained a job teaching World and Texas History at Roby High School (Roby, TX).
Ms Cynthia Johnson, who obtained her MA degree in history in May 2001, teaches world and American history at Cisco Community College and has just been awarded tenure there.
Mr. Frank Chamberlain, who earned his M.A. degree in history in May 2007, teaches U.S. History part-time for our department.He also works with Jennifer Green, who received her masters degree in history in 2004, in the Upward Bound program at Tarleton. Ms. Green is the director of the program.
Mr. Michael Silverman, who earned his M.A. degree in Political Science from Tarleton in 1996 achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel in the United States Army. He served two years with the CIA Office of Military Affairs. In 2006, Mike commanded a tank battalion out of Fort Stewart, Georgia, and served 15 months in Iraq where he played a crucial role in the Battle of Ramadi. Mike has recently retired from the army and lives in Midway, Georgia where he is working on a book on the battles of Ramadi and al Anbar as well as teaching at Armstrong Atlantic State University.
Dr. Paula Martin, who earned her MA in history in 1998 under the direction of Dr. Christopher Guthrie, has completed her dissertation on Dr. Suzanne Noel, an early 20th century French plastic surgeon and an influential feminist leader, and earned her Ph.D. in history from the University of Nevada at Reno. She has obtained a tenure-track teaching position at Georgia Southern University and is working on a book based on her dissertation. Johns Hopkins University Press has expressed an interest in publishing it.
Mr. Christopher Lehman, who earned his BA degree in history in Spring 2004, completed his masters degree in Public History at Texas State University-San Marcos. He now works for Texas State as a computer technician.


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Daniel and Kathleen Spitzley of Portland will celebrate 50 years of marriage on Oct. 26, 2013.
Daniel Spitzley and Kathleen Schnieder were wed Oct. 26, 1963 at St. Patrick's Portland.
The couple's children are Mark and Dannelle Spitzley of Portland; Eric and Theresa Spitzley of Portland; Bernadette and Jon Burne of Eagle; Veronica and John Kennedy of Portland; and Elizabeth and Timothy Stallard of Portland. They also have 16 grandchildren.
To celebrate the milestone, an open house is planned at their home from 1 to 6 p.m. on Oct. 27.
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