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Wheeling Hospital has embarked on a program to prevent falls at home, the No. 1 cause of injuries seen in patients at its Emergency-Trauma Center.
SLIP, or Senior Lifestyle and Injury Prevention, is under the direction of Kim Auten, a registered nurse and trauma program manager. SLIP, developed by the Michigan Trauma Nurse Council, has been adopted by the Society of Trauma Nurses as part of its strategy to promote independence through injury prevention.
"According to our records, falls account for the highest number of injuries we see in the Emergency-Trauma Center," Auten said. "The risk increases with age.
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Kim Auten, a registered nurse and trauma program manager at Wheeling Hospital, shows a volunteer how to use grab bars and railings for support to avoid falls in the home or in public settings. Below, Auten leads an educational session on Senior Lifestyle and Injury Prevention, or SLIP, for an audience at Wheeling Hospital, offering statistics on injuries caused by falls and sharing tips for preventing falls. She is available to give SLIP presentations to area groups and organizations. Auten says falls account for the highest number of injuries seen in the hospital's Emergency-Trauma Center. She adds that people, 65 and older, are disproportionately at risk for poor outcomes from such injuries.
And each year, falls occur in about one-third of people 75 years or older who are living in their homes. And those 65 years of age and older are disproportionately at risk for poor outcomes."
She said the increased risk may be the result of changes that come with aging, such as changes in vision, hearing, muscle tone and reflexes, or other medical conditions including arthritis, cataracts or hip surgery.
"We want to help people identify hazards in the home and show them how to take simple steps to correct them in order to prevent unforeseen injuries," Auten said.
To introduce the SLIP program to area residents, Auten is available to make presentations to local senior citizen groups, service clubs and other organizations.
The half-hour presentations, which include a Power Point program, include topics on fall prevention, home safety, motor vehicle safety and pedestrian safety. Two longer programs combine information from the shorter presentations.
"Even the simple tasks of daily living can put older adults at risk for injury," Auten said.
"Seniors are hospitalized for fall-related injuries five times more often than they are for injuries from other causes. The majority of these falls occur at home, and 60 percent result in an emergency department visit.
And those who fall are two to three times more likely to fall again."
For more information on the SLIP program, or to arrange a presentation by Auten, call 304-243-3569.


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MasterZChicago not only gives to NCSF but his own local community by co-founding LeatherSins and serving as the President and on the board since 2001. He also co-founded the SINS Center in 2006 and has served as executive director since that time. He is the director of two major events that take place every year in the Chicago area - Kinky Kollege and SINSations in Leather.
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Gran Turismo 6 patch 1.07 now available, includes BMW Vision GTWritten by: / / No Comments
Polyphony Digital has issued a new title update for Gran Turismo 6 upgrading the software to version 1.07. The patch adds a few new features to the Open Lobby menu as well as to the game's Replay and Watch Race modes.
More importantly, patch 1.07 includes a new Vision GT car for players to win by competing in custom Special Event Challenges or purchase – the magnificent BMW Vision GT. This sleek concept car features a powerful three-litre six-cylinder inline engine with M TwinPower Turbo technology and delivers a maximum power of 404kW/549hp. The BMW Vision GT weighs in at 1 180 kilograms and sports a six-speed transmission operated by gearshift paddles on the steering wheel.
Here's an introductory trailer for this new Vision GT addition along with the game's 1.07 patch notes in full:
New features added in the Open Lobby
- Endurance Race has been added to the Room Mode option within Basic Settings of the Event Settings screen.
- Tire/Fuel Depletion has been added to the Time Trial Settings options ("Off", "Normal", "Fast" or "Very Fast" can now be selected).
- Start Type has been added to the Race Settings for Qualifier, Time Trial and Drift Trial, allowing you to select from Final Corner Start or Pit Start.
- When Grid Start with False Start Check is selected in Race Settings, signal lights will be displayed as start indicators.
New features added to Replay and Watch Race modes
- Button controls can now be used to switch between Full View and Live Timing, turn the Driver List Display ON/OFF, switch the Information Display and change the target car.
- The Keyboard Switching Feature has been added. A USB keyboard can be used to switch the Information Display and to change the view.
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Fuel-Cell Mount Build - Cell MatesWritten by on August 19, 2011 Building a safe and legal fuel-cell mount for our Mini Stock Mustang
"We've got to come in on Sunday and build that fuel-cell mount. The ATL cell is already here and Fisher needs the story soon." Agh, Crewchiefs...we haven't even raced yet and I'm getting tired of Pete Epple's demands. Anyway, what was the big deal? It's a fuel cell. Don't you just bolt it down to the floor, hook up some lines, and call it good? No.
Turns out, correctly mounting a fuel cell can literally be the difference between life and death and short of dying before we actually get to race City Boy, I can't imagine a worse situation than being upside down in a Mini Stock with gallons of gasoline leaking out of an improperly mounted tank and a small fire creeping closer to the source. Granted, it may never happen, but a quality fuel-cell mount is just one of those things you want to do correctly, no matter how badly you would rather be working on the engine or suspension of your circle track project.
But enough with the doom and gloom Mom stuff, let's talk about the cool part of fuel cells. For City Boy, our first call was to Aero Tec Laboratories (ATL), a company from New Jersey that has been fabricating race-legal cells for about as long as racing has been around.
We chose to run a 12-gallon Sport Series cell (PN SP112), which features a molded, seamless bladder, two "duck-foot" fuel traps and filters, SF-103 foam baffling for slosh and explosion suppression, and a 5-year warranty all wrapped in a 20-gauge powdercoated steel container, which is easy to install and safe for just about any type of accident. Equally important, ATL knows a thing or two about supporting horsepower, which means that not only is the cell safe to run, but it comes with two -6AN fuel fittings, a vent tube, an easy-to-use fuel fill lid, along with the slick "duck-foot" fuel traps, which can be configured to pickup from both sides of the tank if you prefer, or run primarily on the right side, which is perfect for pickup in a circle track application.
With the ATL cell delivered, it was our—OK, Pete's—responsibility to build a safe and legal cage/mount for the system and you can follow along with us on the following pages as he cuts and welds about 50 feet of 1x1 square tubing into a mount good enough to run in any project, whether you're building something as simple as a Mini Stock or as complex as a Late Model. And in just one long day in any shop, equipped with nothing more than a quality welder and a borrowed bandsaw, you can easily do the same, as long as you remember to measure twice and cut once. Or, do what we did and make sure to order enough metal to screw up a couple times and keep on rolling!
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As with any fabrication project, ours started off with a detailed sketch, some careful measurements and building a solid game plan before jumping into any cutting or welding.The SP112 is 20.40x17.75x9.50 inches square and our base measurements reflect a little bit of extra room, to allow the cell to slide in and out.This entire project uses nothing more than some 1x1 square tubing we purchased from a local shop and some welding wire, making it a great weekend project that not only adds safety to your car, but keeps you legal and up to par with the rest of the racing field.The ATL fuel cell needs to be mounted securely and as they always say, you're only as good as your foundation. Pete cut four bars—two at 22.40 inches and two at 17.75 inches to form the outer perimeter of the base...This ensures that nothing moves during the assembly process, which will lead to a solid and square assembly in the end. If you don't have a welding table, you can check out how we made ours in next month's issue of CT.With the perimeter tacked together, Pete moved the cell out of harm's way (OK, I was still close enough to touch it, but it was pretty far away) and began working on the lower floor bars. These will support the majority of the fuel cell's weight and Pete positioned them to take the load without issue.Next, Pete cut an 8.50-inch piece of 1x1 and laid a 6-inch piece above it, forming a T. These supports will rest against the lip of the fuel cell, holding it in place laterally, as well as taking some load off the base, keeping the weight distributed across the structure.Two T-bars get tacked in place on the rear wall of our fuel-cell mount. When welding, make sure you keep heat away from the tank and, even then, make sure you thoroughly inspect the cell for any damage when you are done. The entire cage is for nothing if you accidently ruin the fuel cell in the process.
With the ATL cell removed, Pete welded the T-bars permanently in place and double-checked with an angle finder to make sure they were square to the base. A little outward lean is acceptable to give the cell room to slide in, but you don't want to give it any room to move around once installed.Starting to look like something now! As you can see, the cell mount is coming together quickly, but it's not quite a complete piece yet. If you're planning to use the same SP112 that we're using, note that the side T-bars actually have shorter tops, to accommodate the ATL cell's side flange bolts.With the mount cooled, Pete flipped it upside down onto the welding table and double checked to make sure everything was still square and proper. If the mount could "rock" while on a flat surface, we would know that something was a bit wonky and could address that at this point.Happy with the mount, we flipped it over and slid the ATL SP112 in place. It fit like a glove and didn't need any persuading to slide right in. Note the two 48-inch bars Pete welded to the T-bars. Those will attach to the Mustang's rear framerails and allow us to permanently weld the mount in place, for a safe and strong final result.From a lower angle, you can see how the ATL SP112 sits on both the base of the mount and on the T-bars thanks to the cell's top flange. This distributes the weight evenly and gives the ATL cell a much greater chance of surviving a wreck, as opposed to just shoddily mounting it to the floor of a car.Of course, the fuel-cell mount is no good without a top section to keep the cell in place in the event of a rollover, so we took a couple of additional measurements and ran back over to the bandsaw to make some cuts in our 1x1 tubing.
We still need to drill holes in the top and secure the bolts, but this is what our fuel cell and fuel-cell mount look like complete. Obviously, we still need to mount it in the car but we'll show you that in a later issue. For now, break out your supplies and start working. A safe and legal fuel-cell mount is both fun and easy to make, without breaking the bank or sending you to the emergency room.


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Lymphedema occurs as a result of damage to the lymph nodes or lymph vessels.
The lymph vessels run very close to the blood vessels in our bodies and move fluid from the body through the lymph nodes and then into the blood. Lymph nodes work as filters to fight infection and help regulate swelling.
Lymphedema is chronic swelling that happens when the lymph is not moving properly. This can happen when lymph nodes are removed due to cancer. Lymph nodes can also be removed in other non-cancer surgeries. Lymph nodes and vessels can also be damaged with radiation therapy for cancer or through an injury to a body part.
Some people are born with poorly working lymph systems.
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Lymphedema results in chronic swelling that leads to tissue inflammation and scarring. The swollen body part feels harder to touch and is heavier than the non-swollen side.
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I have converted many KML files to layer in ArcGIS many times before without any problem. I just did a conversion (Arc Toolbox>Conversion tools> KML to layer) and the file is showing up in the table of contents but there is no layer. Any ideas or suggestions??
Ok, it looks like it was a bug and all I needed to do is download the lastest service pack (SP3) from ESRI. http://resources.arcgis.com/content/patches-and-service-packs?fa=viewPatch&PID=66&MetaID=1807
Thanks everyone for all the suggestions.
This is an old thread but thought of adding my solution after encountering exactly the same problem as yours and ending up here.
I don't know the exact technicality why the converted KML doesn't show properly in arcgis but if you convert the kml file of the "google earth folder" holding the "specific kml" you want to convert instead of converting directly the "specific kml" file then it shows up properly.
I had the same issue. I used the KML to Layer (Conversion) tool to create shapefiles from KML files created in Google Earth.
Result was nothing, UNTIL! I went to "Add Data". After running the tool you'll see a .gdb file with same name as what you thought would be a .shp file.
Select to add that .gdb file and your layer pops right up.
This appears to be a really old thread but I recently ran into this same issue using ArcMap 10.3 basic. I ran the tool using python within ArcMap and it worked but the tool from the tool box was not working. Here is an arcpy code:


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Had the AAs up before but they seem to be gone now. This one is for the AAAs.
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CORRECTION: This link goes to a page with AA not AAA batteries.
Anyone have any idea how great these are?
@selloutz: they did this earlier today. originally the link went to the AAs then it switched to the AAAs, now it seems to be back to the AAs. Don't know how great they are, I am giving them a try for the price.
Need the AAA to come back.
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In 1987, Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Wynton Marsalis directed a summer concert series entitled "Classical Jazz at Lincoln Center" in New York City. That modest series has grown into the impressive, multi-venue performance venue known as Jazz at Lincoln Center: the world's largest not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to jazz in the world, with year-round concerts, educational events, band competitions, film programs and multimedia broadcasts and webcasts.
As JALC prepares to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary with its season premiere later this month, EBONY talked with Marsalis, who serves as JALC's Managing and Artistic Director, about the venue's evolution, his uncompromising devotion to the music and his continuing mission to spread the gospel of jazz...by any digital means necessary.
EBONY: At what point in the beginning did you think that the concept of Jazz at Lincoln Center was going to be a success?
Wynton Marsalis: I think after the concerts we did in 1988, our board was coming into place. We were a department. We were getting critical acclaim. We had an audience base. We had an aesthetic; so very soon, we realized we could do something. When we hired [Founding Executive Director/Producer] Rob Gibson, I thought it would be a success. He brought a lot of energy, enthusiasm and insight with him.
EBONY: Regarding aesthetics, talk about the contributions of writer/authors Albert Murray and Stanley Crouch, the principle intellectuals involved with the formation of JALC.
WM: The conception of quality and performance was something that Crouch had [in mind]; bringing the different generations of musicians together. And Albert Murray laid out the four components of the organization: curatorial, producing concerts, lectures and events; archival, having a record of all the things we do; Educational, teaching about what we do; and ceremonial, giving awards, and doing things like jam sessions, battles of the bands, things that are a part of the ceremonies of the music.
EBONY: JALC weathered charges of cronyism and racism by musicians and the media. What did you learn from that stormy period?
WM: For me, it wasn't that much of a storm. I was always around controversies since I first came out here. When you create change with your point of view, you have to be ready for what comes with that. And while they were [criticizing], there were also many people supporting and defending us, and putting money into what we were doing, and we were doing our thing: We put on thousands of concerts, hired thousands of musicians, sent out 80,000 Duke Ellington scores. We had 1700 educational events.
I lived in the time of the absolute sellout of jazz to pop music... Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives...And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars.
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EBONY: What have your experiences as an educator taught you about the value of teaching jazz; not only as musical art, but as a twenty-first century, global liberal art that facilitates cooperation and cultural diversity?
WM: Well, you know, you covered it: the music can teach you how to be a better citizen in the world; to be better to yourself, and how to expand your world view, in a world that is expanding all the time...The more expanded your world view is, the more confident you are in your cultural achievements, and in yourself. And the more you know how to approach other people and respect them, the more successful you'll be living in the modern world. Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.
The lessons of jazz are even more pertinent today, because when it was invented, the art form was so modern: It was talking about a world that would come. And now that we are on the cusp of that world, the music is very timely.
EBONY: Some people are surprised to hear you perform with people like Paul Simon, Willie Nelson, and Eric Clapton. Do your collaborations with them signal an aesthetic change in your views about jazz as a high art? Because people have typecasted you as a rigid, conservative musician, who thinks jazz has nothing to do with pop music…
WM: I don't mind them typecasting me like that, because I lived in the time of the absolute sellout of jazz to pop music. So I counter stated that consistent lack of integrity in our music. Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives, to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.
That said, there's a common ground that we musicians share: Paul Simon uses of different types of grooves, and shares a common ground with jazz musicians. The record we did with Eric Clapton [Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play the Blues: Live From Jazz at Lincoln Center], that's more of a jazz record. We're playing blues. We're improvising. We're playing on the same forms


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I was doing some research into juice production, some of the companies have suppliers who make the juice concentrates and these are used to make juice..What exactly do these concentrates contain apart as preservatives,what are the methods of transportation ? etc..What additional stuff and artificial stuff do juice companies add. Any insights?
Unfortunately, the simple answer you are looking for does not exist. There are books written about this subject, for example, the Handbook of Fruits and Fruit Processing or Processing Fruits: Science & Technology. Where I live, there are entire academic programs dedicated to commercial food processing, and fruit processing is no small part of that.
It's a little like asking how a car is made. There are different classes, different engines, different companies, different features... there's no single answer. Likewise, if you're processing fruit juice, there are different classifications (juice, nectar, or "drink"), different fruits with different properties, seasonal variations, pulp or no pulp, different degrees of sweetening and concentration and the incorporation of other additives, and so on. It's a veritable jungle of proprietary processes, patents, and trade secrets.
Let's take oranges and citruses as an example. A little digging around on Google Books through the Handbook indicates that they have to go through all of these processes:
Every single one of these steps varies from producer to producer, plant to plant, juice to juice. Sometimes steps can be omitted, sometimes new ones are added. To know exactly what a particular company does with a particular concentrate, you'd have to ask them or visit their plant.
The one assumption you have made - that concentrate contains preservatives - is actually wrong. In fact, kind of the whole point of concentration (aside from making it easier to trade in high volumes) is that it doesn't need preservatives like fresh juice does. Many if not most "from concentrate" drinks will even say "no preservatives" on the label.
If I were to try to sum this up as best I can into a bite-size answer, it would probably be this:
Very little is actually added to juice concentrate. The concentration process is mostly about the removal of undesirable substances.


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Shala Wilson is president of the Kentucky Coalition for Nurse Practitioners. She says: "We're asking for the senate to bring house bill 122 to the floor for a vote."
That bill, dealing with certification of surgical assistants, has never been heard by the Senate because it went to an appropriations committee after being passed by the house in an 82-to-10 vote. Now a proposal has been tacked onto the bill with language detailing the prescription privileges of nurse practitioners.
Wilson says: "The reason that's important is we have a lot of nurse practitioners in rural areas or treating hospice patients. And their primary care physicians may be out of town."
The new bill would limit nurse practitioners to writing a 72 hour supply for some controlled drugs. The 72 hours allows nurse practitioners to help severe cases until the patient can be seen by their physician at another time.
Wilson says: "Kentucky is one of only six states that do not allow nurse practitioners to prescribe some level of controlled substance under certain circumstances."
Wilson says it is also more economic to increase nurse practitioners prescription privileges.
Wilson says: "What happens because all the surrounding states except for Missouri have less restrictive scope of practice we're seeing good nurse practitioners educated in Kentucky but going to Tennessee, Indiana, and Ohio to practice because they don't have the restrictions."
Opponents of the bill say giving nurse practitioners such prescription authority could lower medical standards.


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Going Green: Top 10 Household Products to Avoid
Small steps can make a big difference when it comes to saving the Earth. If you are ready to start going green, take a look at this list of 10 items you should avoid buying and using in your home. Some of these items not only hurt the Earth, they could also be harmful to your family! We suggest alternative choices to help make these eco-friendly changes a bit easier.
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Styrofoam cups
Styrofoam is not biodegradable, which means it's here forever. Next time, get your coffee to go in a reusable coffee mug or thermos. Skip the fast food, and use glass and metal storage containers whenever possible.


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I have some experience in creating, however I like to have some well written reference material to help me produce better products. Are there any game design books that are not aimed at a particular programming language?
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Here's Top 3 books on game design that I'd recommend:
Now, probably the most important thing is that game design as a discipline is pretty thin, but it draws a lot from other areas like art, history, economics, math (specifically theory of probabilities & statistics), psychology, writing and even music & filmmaking. So good books in all those disciplines probably would be equally important for a game designer as well as specific game design books.
I pretty much have Theory of Fun by my side all the time.
Not specific to game design, but The Design of Everyday Things is a good book to get you thinking about user interactions in general.
I'm sorry if this would sound like a shameless plug, but I developed a visualization service that crawls Amazon data and shows relationships between books. I specifically created visualization for your question and it had all books from Alex Koloskov's answer. I wanted to share those that I couldn't find among answers here but presented in my visualization.
Reality is Broken written by game designer Jane McGonigal it reveals how we can harness the power of games to solve real-world problems and boost global happiness.
The Ultimate History of Video Games Steven L. Kent writes about about games that changed the world, the visionaries who made them, and the fanatics who played them.
The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing and Design This one comes from the co-authors of The Chronicles of Riddick game. I haven't read it, but overall reviews are positive.
Among all I really enjoyed reading "The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses" suggested by Alex.
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I was very fond of Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design. It goes into depths of interactive game mechanics as related to player, which is the only unique element to game development as editing is to movies.
Having said that I'd consider suggesting screenplay writing material as it shows you what connects with people and what doesn't. I'm not talking about linear progress material here like stories, but what kind of characters connect with people, themes, motifs etc. In that area I suggest these:
If you're really interested in technical aspects of screenwriting you can also take a look at Screenwriter's Bible - but that one is more oriented towards technical aspects of screenplay formats and structures.
Game Coding Complete is the best game design book I have. Although it does use C++ for it's examples there are not many. It talks much more about the how to go about doing things, which can be applied to any language. It's also great value (800+ pages I think).
Gamefeel by Steve Swink completely changed they way I think about developing games.
I can't believe nobody mentioned Game Programming Gems yet. I always considered it to be the standard when it comes to game design.
Game design and development are different (often confused) topics. Game design concerns the design of gameplay and game mechanics (rules of the game, so to speak) rather than the actual coding, audio and graphic design involved in implementing the game. I believe this question is about Game design.
I've also checked out a number of other game design books that didn't do much for me, such as "Fundamentals of Game Design." Many repeat the same few truisms and have a very low signal/noise ratio.
Rules of Play, Roger Caillois' "Man, Play & Games" and Huizinga's "Homo Ludens" - and of course Koster's "Theory of Fun" as an ANTI-guide (look at the farce that was SWG to understand why.
If you want to design a good game you may want to look at resources that have nothing to do with programming, but focus on the ideas behind your game idea.
Such as war gaming, a classic book on War Games is "The Complete Wargames Handbook". The only version I have read is the 1st edition, but it has had 3 edition total. Any edition will be useful and I have enjoyed the book.
The Author, James F Dunnigan, is a long-time war game designer, actually almost a legend in the number of War games he has designed. He writes outside of games on the theory of War also. So if you game is a War game you would get a lot traction by getting at least one of James' books.
The later editions of this book do deal with how Computers can and are used with this type of game.
Don't think I saw this one mentioned, but I couldn't live without "Game Engine Architecture" by Jason Gregory.
Real-time Rendering 3rd ed. is a really good book for game rendering, it introduces all the aspects of Computer Graphics and it has abundant resources which lead you to specific field.
All of the best books have already been posted, but there's one book that I feel is invaluable to a game designer. Your own journal. When you play games, keep a journal nearby and jot down notes. What about the game design did you like? Didn't like? Did anything really stand out and if so why? Did you disagree with a particular design choice?
You basically just want to write down everything and anything that comes to mind about the design of the game as you play. Having a journal like this will be invaluable to you when you design your own games.
I've really enjoyed reading Level Up - The Guide to Great Video Game Design It's pretty comprehensive about the entire spectrum of game design.
Written by the game designer behind the Maximo series of games it's illustrated in an approachable style. Well worth a read.


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I'm looking for something that shifts a daily power into an encounter power. I want to take the Demigod Epic Path so I can use Blade Cascade whenever I want. Ideas?
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There are two epic destinies which let you turn a daily power into an encounter power. Both are level 30 features in explicitly arcane destinies.
The Archmage's
And the confusingly-named Archspell's
So... Yes, you can turn a daily into an encounter. But not the daily you want, and the method of doing it overrides the mechanic you were hoping to use in conjunction with this effect.
To my fairly certain knowledge, there exist no paragon paths nor feats nor powers that unilaterally convert a daily into an encounter.
Testing the null hypothesis.
1) If this exists, there exist a multitude of dailies that could serve well in an encounter.
2) There are daily stances that simply dish out more damage
3) Therefore, those stances would feature on epic level DPR King 3.0 builds.
4) There is no evidence of ranger-centric builds or builds focused on this strategy. Therefore, while it's impossible to say this exists, I can say that the best minds of theoretical optimization have not found it.
Second direction.
This is clearly broken. The broken wiki does not list it. Therefore it likely does not exist.
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The 11 Most Badass Last Words Ever Uttered
Last Words Of: Robert Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist
Childers, an Irish nationalist whose opposition to elements of a British treaty put him on the wrong side of the Free State, was sentenced to be executed. Childers took the opportunity to shake the hand of every man in the firing squad, offering the advisory as an oddly humorous pro-tip.
Either that or word had gotten around about what shitty marksmen they were and he wasn't up for waiting two minutes for the reload volley.
Last Words Of: Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum, convicted murderer
Tom Ketchum was a thief, a murderer and worst of all a "morning person." It's why he had such tremendous verve despite his hanging being so early in the day. No executioner should be subjected to racket like this before their coffee has kicked in.
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Last Words Of: Voltaire, philosopher
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So who is the "enemy" he's talking about in the above quote? It was his response to a priest at the side of his deathbed, asking Voltaire to use the precious few moments left to renounce Satan.
Last Words Of: Tallulah Bankhead, actress
Bankhead was an iconic (but alleged) lesbian, and celebrator of the good (read: chemically altered) life. She also had a knack for being terribly quotable (she once said she only threw two tantrums in a year, each being six months long).
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From fur trapper, to wilderness guide, to frontier warrior, Kit Carson was so much man that he actually defecated Chuck Norris. In the end, all he needed to feel complete was one more hot, brown meal so he could crack an amusing fart while arm wrestling with God.
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Southern Elementary in Ohio County had some of the highest scores in the state last year. They hope to do even better this year. Dishman-McGinnis in Bowling Green hopes to raise their scores too after being in the bottom ten of the state last year. Both schools have focused on the attitude of teachers and students.
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I am planning a talk for a general graduate student audience. The topic is exotic examples of countable discrete groups ("monsters"). Some examples of properties that I'm interested in are:
1.) Non-amenable groups without free subgroups
2.) Groups such that $x^n=e \hspace10pt\forall x$
3.) Groups with all proper subgroups cyclic
4.) Groups such that every proper subgroup is finite and cyclic of a given order
5.) Groups such that every elements has roots of all orders
The main source I have been using so far is a survey by Mark Sapir http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.2899.
I would like additional sources. Additional properties to the ones above would also be great. Also examples that arise "naturally" (say as a group of symmetries of some nice space rather than a combinatorial construction would be great.)


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A chess player of the highest caliber and greatest skill. Only the strongest of professional chess players, typically having a FIDE rating of 2600 and above. A vary prestigious and rare occurrence, only 400 or so living in the world. The United States Champion would be a Grandmaster.
The state champion at age 13, Daniel was touted as a possible future Grandmaster.
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ORLANDO | Officials for central Florida's new commuter train say that more than 100,000 riders have used the service during its initial two weeks.
SunRail spokesman Steve Olson announced Friday that officials estimate the train has had 117,740 passengers board in the 11 days it has run between May 1 and May 15. It does not run on the weekends.
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The witches and Others in my "Bound By Magick" universe have been with me for several years now and I'm thrilled to be able to share it with all of you now!
I hope you'll find the world inhabited by Meriel Owen as interesting as it was fun for me to write. Meriel is a woman who is trying to navigate the ever-shrinking place between the secrecy of the witches and the inevitable moment when they are outed.
Into this situation comes Dominic Bright, a witch who has been raised outside the clan system Meriel is next in line to lead — a system she believes in strongly even as she knows she must change it.
While they're different on the outside, they're not only well suited, they're meant to be together.
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We have been a strong independent country for over two centuries.
We have always recognized there are a few among us who are not capable of caring for themselves and the rest of us must pull the wagon.
Now the numbers in the wagon are increasing due to illegal immigration, lucrative government welfare programs, fraudulent compensation claims, unlimited unemployment, unchecked public sector unions and all the other government handouts.
Many who are still pulling the wagon think maybe I should stop pulling and get in the wagon, it's much better in the wagon and at the end of the year the government will send me a nonearned income tax return check and a free cell phone with unlimited usage.
Now instead of President Obama saying, "I really want to thank everyone for pulling the wagon," he says, "The people pulling the wagon are greedy, selfish, materialistic, and those in the wagon are good and they deserve more."
We already have more in the wagon than pulling the wagon.
Nearly half of American tax filers will pay no federal income taxes this year, according to data released by the Tax Policy Center. Some 76 million tax filers, or 46.4 percent of the total, will be exempt from federal income tax in 2011.
The first revolution was due to taxation without equal representation.
The next revolution will be due to representation without taxation.
Many in government have been well groomed by the leaders of cultural Marxism and are well on their way to destroying America's greatness.
Instead of the government reducing spending, what do you think will be the first loopholes closed? Charitable donations? Why?
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Are there any halachot governing who can and who can not get a kibbud (i.e. opening the Aron , not an aliyah) on Shabbat, Yom Tov, Rosh Hashannah or Yom Kippur? I ask because in our shul we have two men who I was not allowed to have open the Aron in the past. If we were talkng about an Aliyah, I would understand, but isn't a kibbud, just an honor with no relighous significance?
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My understanding is that a community has the right to determine that someone's behavior could be so completely out of line that the person is not to be given any honors in the synagogue, as doing so could be seen as tolerating or endorsing their actions.
Excerpt from a Rabbinical Council of America statement:
What it takes to cross this line will vary from community to community. Here the RCA is saying that if someone has been indicted for millions of dollars of fraud and hasn't shown remorse, they're over the line. I believe in New York's Syrian community, marrying out of the faith would be over the line. For decades and decades, the Johannesburg rabbinate has ruled that kingklip is kosher and it has become a staple of the community's diet; a lone rabbi there who continues to publicly protest this has been refused ritual honors. He can walk into synagogue and say his own prayers, but he's ceded his opportunity to participate in a helpful way.
Obviously, it takes a lot of wisdom to draw the line at the right place. There's even a documented case in the early 1700s of the well-established Spanish-Portuguese community of London prohibiting ritual honors from a fellow who went off and married a new-immigrant Ashkenazic lass!


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February 04, 2013
Visit Cape Town after your African safari
While one week isn't sufficient time to properly explore Cape Town, let alone Africa, this timeframe is a reality for many travellers, and thousands manage this every year.
Maybe you have a conference somewhere in Africa and would like to extend your stay by a week to safari and see Cape Town, or maybe you work in the United States and pretty much only get one week off every year, meaning you need to plan your trip to Africa very efficiently.
An African safari has long been portrayed as the ultimate vacation adventure, and with good reason. Cape Town, TripAdvisor's Traveler's Choice Best Destination in 2011 and home to one of the New7Wonders of Nature (Table Mountain), is the other reason many people would fly across the world to visit this great continent.
Game reserves within comfortable driving distance of Cape Town (Aquila, Fairy Glen, Inverdoorn) host some or all of the Big Five (lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and buffalo), so you could tick them all off your list without having to fly anywhere else.
However, other parts of Africa are better known for their safari offering, and many of them are directly connected to Cape Town on flight routes.
Fly to Johannesburg → Drive/fly to Kruger National Park → Fly to Cape Town
The Kruger National Park is South Africa's second most popular visitor attraction (behind the V&A Waterfront) and is within driving distance of OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg.
You could spend several nights here and then fly to Cape Town from Nelspruit, with South African Airways.
Fly to Nairobi (Kenya) → Take a safari tour → Fly from Nairobi to Cape Town via Johannesburg
I was born in Kenya and can vouch for the excellent safaris there. Nairobi is just a six-hour flight from London and Masai Mara, Tsavo and Amboseli are just a few of the excellent reserves you could visit with a tour company.
You could then fly with South African Airways from Nairobi to Cape Town, with a change-over in Johannesburg. This would be about seven hours of flying time.
Fly to Gaborone (Botswana) → Take a tour of Maun → Fly directly to Cape Town
There are now direct flights from Maun to Cape Town, meaning that you could easily go on safari in Botswana and then be in the Mother City in less than three hours when you fly with Air Botswana.
Making the most of Cape Town
Once in Cape Town, the main attractions likely to be on your list are Table Mountain, the V&A Waterfront, Cape Point and Robben Island. The City Sightseeing bus is a great way to get around, as you can hop on and off at various points throughout the day, with the same ticket.
Read Tara Turkington's personal account about how to spend 48 hours in Cape Town, for an idea how much you can see and do, even if you have meetings during this time.
See a list of direct flights to Cape Town and view Cape Town Tourism's accommodation for ideas about where to stay.


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I guess that when there is surplus of methionine in the cell it is incorporated in the TCA cycle as a succinyl CoA, with cysteine as a by-product. But now the cell has the surplus of cysteine. What does it do with it? How does it remove excess sulphur from the cell? Would that process somehow influence NAD+/NADH balance?
In humans, cysteine first fills the glutathione pool (which itself is a reservoir for cysteine, apart from reduction equivalents and biotransformation). Excess cysteine can go three ways,
Since cystathionine gamma lyase which (its L-cysteine desulfhydrase activity) catalyses 2 and 3 has homologues in yeast, my guess is that H2S is produced there too. Further oxidation of H2S happens through an ancient mitochondrial pathway which is highly conserved as well, yielding sulfite and sulfate. Sulfate then makes for a bit acidic environment but else is non-toxic.
I have linked to reactome.org entries where you can find references. Filling up the yeast's glutathione pool (if it happens) would move the NAD+/NADH balance to the NADH side, i.e., fill up reduction equivalents, too.


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Arredondo being Arredondo in this AB.
The way we're hitting with runners on base, maybe the Mets should just walk our leadoff hitter next inning intentionally to gaurantee we won't score.
Scott Hairston up, has power. 14 homers. Obviously need to get this guy.
Thole walks.
Scott Hairston pinch hitting
Not much good to say tonight. Frustrating.
Seems like the winning streak and great stretch took alot out of me.
I dunno. Just kinda burnt out on them right now and they're playing kinda mediocre too.
Same ole same. Great pitching, no hitting. Great hitting, no pitching.
"I can't take this homerism anymore." - 10xWSChamps, August 11, 2010. A Cardinals fan having a problem with all the homerism on Redszone. Classic.
"Man do I miss the days where were didn't need a calculator and an encyclopedia of baseball metrics to enjoy a baseball game ... - MikeS21" - 8/2/12 game thread
"Since I've been with the Reds in 1989, we've never had a farm system this loaded," Bowden said. "If we were the New York Yankees and had unlimited dollars, we could have traded for Colon, (Jeff) Weaver, Rolen, (Cliff) Floyd, (Kenny) Rogers and Finley and gotten them all -- and still held onto our top five prospects. That's an amazing statement."
Hairston singles to the wall in left. 1st and 3rd.
Ended up being a long single. Good thing Thole was the runner.
"The players make the manager, it's never the other way." - Sparky Anderson
Lucky to still be 0-0. That two out walk about sums it up right now. Inexcusable...
Uhhhh ooohhhhhhh.
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ACU Psychology Clinic:
The Department of Psychology at Abilene Christian University offers the Master of Science (MS) degree and the Specialist in School Psychology (SSP) degree. The MS degree prepares students for professional practice and/or doctoral study in psychology. The SSP degree is approved by the National Association of School Psychologists.
Graduate study in psychology at ACU combines scientific scholarship, relevant clinical training and a Christian worldview to prepare students for professional work, further graduate study and licensure or certification by state boards in psychology or counseling.
The psychology faculty at Abilene Christian University views psychology as a scientific and applied profession through which one may provide service to the local community as well as the community of faith. Faculty members view the nature and needs of humankind from a biblical perspective. Excellence in research and clinical practice are a part of the Christian commitment that students are challenged to share.
The clinical psychology and counseling psychology programs are 48-hour professional training programs that include academic work and relevant professional experiences. Requirements for licensure in psychology and counseling vary significantly by state; students must be aware that it is the individual student's responsibility to ensure adequate completion of the specific academic and experiential requirements of a particular state licensing agency. To complete the degree in two years, students must complete 12 hours per semester. Failure to follow course sequencing may significantly lengthen the time required to complete the degree.
The Specialist in School Psychology program is a 60-hour course of study that provides the clinical training and academic experiences required for working in school settings. The school psychology program is approved by National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) and meets all the requirements for the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologist (TSBEP) licensure as a Specialist in School Psychology (LSSP) and for national certification through the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP).
The department also offers a 36-hour Master of Science degree in psychology for students with a variety of other professional interests.
Integration of professional excellence and Christian commitment is the guiding philosophy for graduate training in psychology at ACU. The curriculum emphasizes development of skills relevant to a broad range of professional activities. Students have opportunities to develop the essential skills to facilitate change in individuals, families and groups. Through course work and supervised clinical experience, all students become proficient in the basic areas of intervention, including diagnostic interviewing, case conceptualization, crisis intervention, treatment planning and the psychotherapy process.
The psychology department at ACU is committed to training and mentoring students in applied research. In the last ten years, more than 145 students have presented research in the professional or scientific programs of regional and national psychology meetings. The practical necessity and the ethical responsibility to master the rapidly expanding scientific base of information underlying psychological intervention are emphasized through course work, individual and group projects, and thesis research. In each of the graduate programs, students have the opportunity to build expertise in their field of interest and to prepare to contribute to that field of knowledge. The psychology department actively supports student research.
The programs in clinical, counseling, and school psychology are designed to prepare ethical professionals who have superior skills, are conscientious in their work, and are responsive to the needs of others. Personal characteristics of integrity, responsibility, emotional stability, and self-control are essential for psychology professionals. Thus, students experiencing significant personal distress or deficiency in one or more of these areas may be required to delay enrollment in practicum courses until those problems have been resolved. The student's ability to maintain high quality professional relationships with faculty, off-site supervisors and with clients is essential to continuation in psychology training programs. The Director of Graduate Studies may deny enrollment in courses where professional contact is required when student's capacity is impaired. In some situations, students may be assisted in revising their career plans to emphasize their personal strengths.
Admission Requirements
Admission decisions are made on a competitive basis. The minimum admission requirements for any of the graduate psychology degree programs are as follows:
1. A completed application and application fee;
2. An official transcript(s) in English (or translated to English) of all previous colleges attended. The transcript must
indicate an earned bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college or university or equivalent;
3. Unconditional admission requires an undergraduate GPA of 3.5-4.0. If an applicant meets all other requirements and
has an undergraduate GPA of 3.0-3.49, he/she may be admitted to probation. The condition of probation means that the
applicant must make a final grade of B or above in each of the first 4 courses required in his/her program. Failure to do
so will result in suspension from the program. The Department of Psychology does not consider the GRE or other tests
as part of its admission requirements;
4. Three letters of recommendation, at least two of which must be from psychology faculty or psychologists who are
familiar with the applicant's academic work;
5. Completion of at least 12 undergraduate semester hours in psychology including: statistics, experimental psychology,
abnormal psychology and 3 additional hours that may be physiological, developmental psychology, cognition, or
learning or an acceptable substitute. The applicant must have made a grade of B or higher in each of the prerequisite
courses. Prerequisites must be completed prior to enrolling in graduate program courses; they may not be taken
6. A written statement (600-800 words) describing professional goals, interests and reasons for choosing to enter the
psychology program at ACU.
Application Deadlines
All applicants who qualify for unconditional admission will be accepted on a priority basis until March 30. Applicants who qualify for probational admission who have applied before March 30 will be notified of the admission decision on their application about April 10. Admissions after March 30 will be made on a competitive basis until programs are full. Except in unusual circumstances, applicants will not be admitted after July 1 for the fall semester. Only clinical and counseling psychology applicants who are qualified for unconditional admission will be considered for admission to begin graduate study in the spring or summer semesters. The school psychology program only admits students to begin in the fall semester.
Major Code: CPSY
The Master of Science degree in clinical psychology is designed to prepare graduates for professional employment with supervision in various areas of psychology, to begin a college teaching career and/or to continue in further graduate study. This 48-hour program includes a set of core or required courses, elective selections, practicum experiences and a thesis project.
Requirements for the MS in clinical psychology are:
- Psychology core, 21 hours:
PSYC 610 Psychotherapy
PSYC 648 Advanced Psychotherapeutic Techniques
PSYC 612 Clinical Research Methods
PSYC 650 Ethics and Issues in Professional Psychology
PSYC 657 Multivariate Statistics
PSYC 660 Clinical Assessment
PSYC 682 Advanced Psychopathology
- Electives, 15 hours: approved by graduate advisor or department chair.
- Practicum, 6 hours: PSYC 690, 692.
- Thesis, 6 hours.
Major Code: PSCO
The program in counseling psychology is also a 48-hour program designed to offer specific training and preparation in the area of counseling psychology. Graduates of this program are prepared for positions in mental health intervention, prevention and consultation. Licensure as a professional counselor and entrance into doctoral programs in counseling psychology are also options.
Requirements for the MS in counseling psychology are:
- Psychology core, 18 hours:
PSYC 610 Psychotherapy
PSYC 612 Clinical Research Methods
PSYC 648 Advanced Psychotherapeutic Techniques
PSYC 650 Ethics and Issues in Professional Psychology
PSYC 660 Clinical Assessment
PSYC 682 Advanced Psychopathology
- Electives, 24 hours; approved by graduate advisor or department chair.
- Practicum, 6 hours: PSYC 690, 692
- Comprehensive exam.
Major Code: PSSP
The Specialist in School Psychology degree is a 60-hour program and offers specific training for work in school settings. Graduates of this program are be trained to consult, educate, assess and conduct research on the psychological and academic problems experienced by children and adolescents. The specialist program in school psychology provides students with the academic requirements and clinical experiences necessary for providing psychological services in school settings. Students completing this program will be eligible to apply for licensure through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists (TSBEP) as a Licensed Specialist in School Psychology (LSSP) and will have met all the requirements specified for national certification through the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP). The program is three academic years in length and includes a nine-month internship in a school setting as required by both TSBEP and NASP.
Requirements for the Specialist in School Psychology are:
*Students must apply for candidacy status prior to beginning second year courses. Contact program advisor for candidacy application or for more information.
1. Psychology core, 48 hours:
PSYC 608 School Psychology: Organization, Operations and Ethics
PSYC 612 Clinical Research Methods
PSYC 624 Social and Cultural Bases of Behavior
PSYC 642 Cognitive Assessment
PSYC 644 Child and Adolescent Therapy
PSYC 645 Child and Adolescent Assessment
PSYC 646 Child and Adolescent Development
PSYC 647 Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
PSYC 649 Behavioral Interventions
PSYC 657 Multivariate Statistics
PSYC 668 Advanced Behavioral Neuroscience
PSYC 669 Human Learning and Cognition
PSYC 676 Prevention, Intervention, and Advocacy in School Psychology
PSYC 683 School Consultation
PSYC 685 Issues in Education of Exceptional Children
SPED 577 Teaching Students with High Incident Disabilities
2. Practicum, 6 hours: PSYC 690, 694
3. Internship, 6 hours.
PSYC 695 School Psychology Internship
4. Elective (optional), 6 hours: PSYC 699 Thesis
5. Comprehensive exam.
Major Code: PSGE
The Master of Science degree in psychology is a 36-hour program for students desiring to obtain a graduate level degree that provides an academic knowledge of psychology rather than one that emphasizes the practitioner orientation of clinical, counseling or school psychology. This degree prepares students for further graduate study in a variety of areas of psychology.
Requirements for the MS in psychology are:
1. Psychology core, 9 hours:
PSYC 612 Clinical Research Methods
PSYC 650 Ethics and Issues in Professional Psychology
PSYC 657 Multivariate Statistics
2. Electives, 21 hours, thesis option; 27 hours, non-thesis option. A maximum of 12
hours may be completed outside of the department approved by graduate advisor or department chair.
3. Thesis option, 6 hours; or comprehensive exam.
4. No more than 3 hours of practicum may count towards the degree.
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- Condition: I have a custom TableViewCell and I do all things programmatically, no xibs.
- if I want to do a MVC(split the view and the action), To use a TableView or to use a Single TableViewController, which is better for the MVC design?
- As far as I know TableView is just a UI view, and TableViewController can contain some logic. Do that mean, if I want a strict MVC design, I need to use TableView and another object-c file to handle the logic of the TableView, TableViewCell.
I have searched this on stackoverflow, google, and do not have a specific answer or a good understanding.


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text: Bill, Maybe you could steal one of these guys: http://mnogosearch.com/doc/msearch-authors.html I am sure one of them has the needed experience. :-) :-P Kind Regards, James On 1/8/07, Bill Moseley wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 01:11:14AM -0800, James wrote: > > I would be EXTREMELY happy if Swish-e was UTF-8 compatible before the > end of > > the year. Isn't that a reasonable goal? I think the developers should > > shoot for September 1st (that gives them the summer to work through this > > too) as the date to release the UTF-8 compatible Swish-e. I believe > once > > Swish-e does this, you'll receive MUCH more attention (not that you > don't > > receive a lot of attention now!). > > I would be happy, too. I'm just worried that the attention I would > get would be from the bank repossessing my house. Swish processes > text -- so almost all the code deals with characters. Plus, Swish has > been worked on by a number of developers for a decade or longer now, > so much of the code is showing its age. So, much of the code would > need to be re-written. > > Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 62,677 > Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) = 15.42 (185.00) > (Basic COCOMO model, Person-Months = 2.4 * (KSLOC**1.05)) > Schedule Estimate, Years (Months) = 1.51 (18.17) > (Basic COCOMO model, Months = 2.5 * (person-months**0.38)) > Estimated Average Number of Developers (Effort/Schedule) = 10.18 > Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $ 2,082,597 > (average salary = $56,286/year, overhead = 2.40). > SLOCCount, Copyright (C) 2001-2004 David A. Wheeler > > So we either need someone with lots of time or someone with lots of > money. ;) > > A few days ago I was going over in my head an idea of how to patch the > current code to get some level of utf8 in it for those that need it > now. I was basically wondering how much the current code could work > by just not knowing the encoding -- that is, where byte comparisons > would be fine or not (I think there's cases where two utf8 chars would > be the same but have different byte values). > > Might have to lose wild card searches and the ability to do first > letter searches for words (there's currently a 256 wide table that > handles that). And many of the config options might not work, and the > concept of "WordCharacters" would likely not work, and have to look at > new regex engine, and so on. > > Basically, start pushing utf8 into swish and see where > things break. That *might* be faster than a rewrite. Or it could be > a waste of time as it would lead to a rewrite, just doing it the hard > way. > > Of course, I have not tried it yet. I've been hoping someone with > time and utf8 experience might show up one of these days. Is that > you? > > -- > Bill Moseley ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. *********************************************************************Received on Mon Jan 8 06:45:43 2007


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How to know the position of your website in Google search.
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At Google webmaster tools
Setup you site there and wait a few days.
There are several options: The first is to actually do the search manually...
As far as web apps, check out Rankiac, it is a great service and easy to use!
Webmaster tools is the proper tool provided by Google itself. Other than that, there are third party softwares to know that. Traffic travis is one of them, where you can enter keyword list you want to check the ranking and run the test.


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I am consider buying the advanced rotater but I am not using the nodal ninji arms. I already have a sizeable investment in Acratech leveling plates, ball head, nodal rail and right angle arm. I would like to place the advanced rotater on top the leveling plate and below the ball head. The leveling plate has a 3/8 male thread on top which would then screw into the bottom of advanced rotater which had a 3/8 thread. Then I would like to screw my Acratech ball head on to the top of the advanced rotater. The issue is the the thread on the rotater is a M6 thread which is close to a 1/4 inch thread.
One thought I had was to drill our the M6 thread on the top of the rotater and retap it with a 3/8 thread. There are two problems that I see with this. 1) the M6 thread is only 1/2 deep and after drilling the tap would be placed in hole and because the tap is tapered, I wouldn't be able to get a good thread deep enough. 2) Drilling and tapping would probably put shavings down inside the rotater and damage the bearings.
I was wondering if the head could be partially disassembled to drill and tap the hole and put back together again?
Any thoughts or solutions would be greatly appreciated.