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I am looking to buy a pressure washer to keep various outdoor surfaces clean. What is the maximum safe pressure the vinyl siding can withstand to prevent damaging surface etching? Also, will vinyl brittleness in below-freezing temperatures be a risk requiring a lower pressure or to avoid this method of cleaning?
Do NOT use a pressure washer on vinyl in below freezing temps. This is just asking to shatter the plastic, especially if it has had some exposure to the sun. That will make it more brittle. You don't need to clean the siding so often that you need to do this in the winter anyway. A hose has always been sufficient to clean siding for us, once a year in the summer.
Instead of the maximum pressure that won't damage the vinyl, find the lowest pressure that will clean it. Stay back from the siding a good distance and use a dispersing nozzle (one that fans out the water) to further reduce the pressure and to make the job go faster. Be sure to spray from above and in the direction that the siding overlaps so that you don't force water up or in through the joints.


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Latest Chevy Heads - Speed Parts TestingWritten by Marlan Davis on January 4, 2010 Air Flow Research Comes Up With A Radical 23-Degree Small-Block Chevy Head: 340 CFM Intake Flow On A Stock Intake Port Location For Just $2,225/Pair
With the advent of relatively affordable aftermarket blocks, Gen I small-block Chevy displacements have been growing ever larger. It used to be a 406 was considered a big small-block. But nowadays a 434 is a popular hot street/strip package, and there are even 454ci crate small-block packages available. That's big-block territory-so it stands to reason that a head with big-block-like flow characteristics is needed to keep up with all those cubes, one that would be as compatible as possible with existing mass-produced small-block Chevy parts to keep costs under control.
Ports Of Haul
Enter the Air Flow Research (AFR) 235cc Eliminator, the highest-flowing mass-produced small-block Chevy head yet that still maintains the original intake port location and 23-degree valve angles. AFR invested hundreds of hours developing its current port and chamber designs, as well as optimizing the multiangle valve job that's critical for tying everything together. The old 23-degree race head benchmark was around 300 cfm-but the new port flows about 13 percent or a staggering 40 cfm better. And despite the large runner volume, there's no midrange flow sacrifice. The heads reach 270 cfm by 0.400-inch lift and 300 cfm by 0.500. This should enable hot rodders to make good power without going off the deep end on cams.
Although the intake side is the most critical for generating good power, AFR certainly did not ignore the exhaust side. There is at least 235 cfm available by 0.500-inch lift and just under 260 cfm by 0.750.
Eliminator 235s come with 1.550-inch-od dual springs with 225 pounds on the seat that can support up to 0.710-inch-lift solid-roller cams. Upgrades are optionally available. The head's spread valve centerlines require AFR's proprietary guideplates, set up for 5/16-inch pushrods. The heads bolt on using standard head gaskets and head bolts or studs.
Inside The Chambers
The 235 is available with 70 cc (PN 1130) or 80 cc (PN 1132) chambers. A special 70cc, spread-exhaust-port version for long-duration oval-track or marine use carries PN 1134. Spreading the ports enhances cooling under sustained high-rpm running but doesn't improve flow; it's not needed for other apps. All variations can be flat-milled to 65 cc or angle-milled to 60 cc.
A 1.60-inch exhaust valve remains standard, but the in-take is now a big 2.125 inches. Accommodating the big intake while preventing excessive cylinder-bore shrouding required relocating the valve centerlines as well as offsetting the centerlines themselves closer to the exhaust side. AFR uses the popular 60/40 offset: The exhaust is moved about 0.060 inch closer to the wall; the enlarged intake gets moved 0.040 inch away from its adjacent wall. This greatly enhances average flow at the expense of slight flow losses on the extreme low end. AFR says custom-built small-blocks typically won't need a piston swap as most modern aftermarket pistons already have oversize valve reliefs to accommodate the increasingly popular shift.
Obviously, the rule won't hold true on a stock short-block with replacement-style pistons or even a ZZ4-but these heads aren't intended for a mild engine. Although they should clear a 4.030-inch bore (with a contour on the top of the cylinder to match the chamber outline), realistically they work best on 4.125-inch-or-larger bore sizes. At a minimum, that would be a classic 400 (4.125 bore x 3.75 stroke) or the increasingly popular, high-revving 377 (4.125 x 3.48).
Putting Them To The Test
The Eliminator 235 has sufficient flow capacity to support about 700 hp on a single four-barrel, normally aspirated, 91-octane-fuel engine. But what about a no-holds-barred, Sportsman-level setup equipped with twin carbs, a tunnel-ram, and a crankcase evacuation pump? Longtime Chevy engine builder Joe Sherman recently evaluated a set of the new 235 Eliminators on a 14.5:1 400ci drag engine equipped with a huge Comp Cams mechanical roller (intake/exhaust specs: 289/304 degrees duration at 0.050, 0.849/0.729 lift with 1.75/1.55:1 rockers, 109-degree lobe separation, and 106-degree intake centerline).
The new heads were compared against a set of 5-year-old AFR 215cc 23-degree heads with raised intake runners. No longer sold by AFR, the old heads were really a cheater design for certain racing classes; although advertised at 215 cc, even out of the box they were much larger. And Sherman had about 100 hours of hand porting in the old castings that increased intake runner volume to 255 cc. The 215 did have smaller 2.100-inch intake valves, but its raised runners offered a straighter shot to the bowl area with a theoretically superior short-turn radius. The Edelbrock Victor Ram intake used by Sherman for these tests is designed for standard, nonraised-runner heads, so Sherman had to fabricate 3/16-inch-thick aluminum adapter plates to mate it to the old 215 heads.
Both heads were tested with Sherman's dual (no damper) PAC springs (PN 1324) that can support up to 0.880-inch lift (they ought to with 275 pounds on the seat and 800 pounds open). The springs were treated for reduced fatigue loss and were used with PAC's ultralight titanium retainers (PN 1324).
Both old and new heads made about the same top-end power: 812 and 813 hp, respectively. The top-end falloff over 8,000 rpm was a tad less for the old 215s, but the 235s generated significant improvements below 7,400, yielding 31.7 lb-ft more torque at the observed peaks. Anytime a smaller port can generate equal or better power and torque numbers in comparison with a larger port (despite any flow number discrepancies), it indicates higher velocity and inertia for superior cylinder packing.
Sherman says he has about $6,000 worth of porting labor in the old heads on top of the $3,500 AFR used to get for the raised-runner 215 castings. Air Flow Research sells a pair of fully assembled Eliminator 235s for just $2,225. This means the 235s achieve better overall performance for about $7,275 less. If you have lots of cubes or a big-bore, high-revving Mouse motor and want maximum performance as well as maximum backward compatibility with existing 23-degree components, they deserve serious consideration.
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Due to the increased valve centerline distance, offset intake rockers should be used. AFR offers 1.5:1 and 1.6:1 stud-mount rocker kits with four left-offset intakes, four right-offset intakes, and eight straight exhausts. Even with AFR's 0.040-inch offset intake, a slight (but acceptable) angle remains.Stainless steel, beadlock, 0.100-inch-longer, 2.125-inch intake/1.600-inch exhaust valves are standard. To optimize flow and performance, the intake is back-cut, while the tulip-shaped exhaust valve has a concave face on the chamber side with a generous radius flaring into the stem on the port side.Sherman's high-end dyno motor uses Jesel shaft-mount rockers with weight-saving Mohawk scallops, plus needle-bearing tips (specify a 0.450-inch intake offset when ordering). Clearance-grinding may be needed to accommodate Manton's rigid 3/8-inch heavy-wall pushrods. Note the black tool-steel tips (arrows) needed to prevent excessive wear with Jesel's new tool-steel adjusters.Sherman flowed an out-of-the-box AFR 235 against an old AFR raised-runner 215 with 100 hours of additional hand porting. The 215 did better above 0.500-inch lift but was down below 0.400. Flowed without a pipe, the 235s had a better exhaust. On the dyno, the 235 made better numbers-there's more to head effectiveness than raw flow numbers.On the dyno, running 38 degrees of lead and 114-octane C14 race gas, as-manufactured Eliminator 235 heads made 813 hp and 610 lb-ft, versus 812 hp/578 lb-ft for the heavily ported, raised-runner AFR 215 heads. The 235s were also stronger under 7,500. Overall, the 235s gained an average 16 hp and 14 lb-ft from 5,800 through 8,300 rpm.


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The Gift Shop at Buffalo Trace Distillery has voluntarily recalled all non-expired products listed below due to mislabeling and undeclared allergens.
People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to wheat, soy, anchovy, and/or milk, run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume these products.
All labels on future products will be corrected to list all allergens.
The mislabeled products, all sold under the Buffalo Trace Distillery brand name, can be identified with the following names and are missing these allergens in the ingredients:
8 oz. Bourbon Flavored Caramel Sauce - Best By Date: 2/16/14
8 oz. Bourbon Flavored Fudge Sauce - Best By Date: 1/30/14
12 fl oz. Marinade for Meat - Best By Date: 10/30/14
16 fl oz. Barbeque Sauce - Best By Date: 1/19/15
16 fl oz. Hot Barbeque Sauce - Best By Date: 1/17/15
The recalled units were distributed to retail grocery stores, specialty stores, liquor stores, and online in the following states: AL, AZ, CA, CO, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MI, MO, NC, NE, NJ, NV, NY, OK, PA, SD, TN, TX, VA, WA, WI, WV, and also Wasa, British Columbia, Canada and West Midlands, UK between January 2012 to January 2013.
No other products are involved. No adverse reactions or illnesses have been reported to date from these products.
The Gift Shop at Buffalo Trace Distillery was notified by the manufacturer, after an inspection by the Kentucky Department of Public Health, that these products were distributed in packaging that did not reveal the presence of the allergens in the ingredient lists on the labels.
The company has received no reports to date of adverse reactions or illnesses due to the consumption of these products.
The Food and Drug Administration has been notified of this voluntary recall and the Gift Shop at Buffalo Trace Distillery has been working with them on this issue.
Customers may return affected product to the retailer where it was purchased for full refund.


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This blog is now up again, hosted by Weebly. Some of the original content has been transferred to the new site, where I shall continue to post my column and reviews (from The Star) as well as my personal observations on all book-related matters.
See you at The Places You Will Go v 2.0.


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Jeff Sargent
At MSU: Jeff Sargent is the incumbent at fullback for the Bears and is expected to hold down that spot again in 2008. He's served primarily in a blocking role in the new Bears' offense the past two years, but had five catches for 45 yards in the annual spring game in April. He had six receptions last season with three coming against UNI and one each vs. Kansas State, Western Illinois and Southern Illinois. He also returned four kickoffs for 25 yards. In the classroom, he was named to the Missouri Valley Football Conference Honor Roll. Sargent enjoyed a solid season in 2005 as a true freshman. He had two starts and was slowed by a late injury but was steady the rest of the way. His top game was at Youngstown State, where he rushed once for 12 yards and had three catches for 15 yards. Sargent spent the spring of 2007 as a pitcher on the Bears' baseball team, going 1-0 in eight appearances as a reliever.
Background: Sargent earned second team all-conference and all-state football honors, as well as being twice named all-metro and all-state in baseball at Francis Howell. He was also a baseball All-American.
Personal: Jeffrey Allen Sargent was born 10/2/86 in Frankfurt, Germany, the son of Robert and Tina Sargent. His major is physical education.


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Slow Cooker Chicken Provençal
4 of 4 in Series: The Essentials of Creating Inexpensive Christmas Meals
This chicken provençal recipe uses the slow cooker. Unlike traditional chicken provençal, a slow cooker simmers slowly, so the food stays moist, eliminating the need for basting. Serve the chicken with French bread to soak up the wonderful juices.
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 6 to 7 hours on Low
Yield: 4 servings
4 medium potatoes
3 carrots
1 whole head fresh garlic
1 chicken (3 1/2 to 4 pounds)
2 medium onions
20 cherry tomatoes
20 white button mushrooms
1 cup pitted ripe olives, drained
Freshly ground black pepper
1 cup olive oil
1 tablespoon dried thyme
Peel the potatoes and cut them into 1/2-inch-thick slices.
Cut the carrots diagonally into 1/4-inch-thick slices.
Peel all the garlic cloves and thinly slice them.
Cut the chicken into pieces.
Cut the onions into quarters.
Lightly spray a 6-quart slow cooker with vegetable oil cooking spray.
Layer the potatoes and carrots in the slow cooker.
Scatter half the garlic slices over the vegetables.
Season with salt and black pepper to taste.
Salt and pepper the chicken pieces.
Place the chicken on top of the vegetables.
Scatter the remaining garlic, the onions, tomatoes, mushrooms, and olives around the chicken.
Drizzle the olive oil over the chicken and vegetables.
Sprinkle the thyme over the chicken.
Cover and cook on Low for 6 to 7 hours.
Per serving: Calories 659 (From fat 378); Fat 42g (Saturated 7g); Cholesterol 106mg; Sodium 561mg; Carbohydrate 32g (Dietary fiber 6g); Protein 42g.


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There was a PDF file with all the angles, the lens sizes... for the RD16 and I think also for the RD8.
I've lost mine and can't find it anymore. I have tried the various calculator spreadsheets, but instead I want the table so I can print the sections that I need. Can somebody point me to the file?


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I'm working in a book on relativity. The author states that if $u$ and $u'$ are a velocity referred to two inertial frames with relative velocity $v$ confined to the $x$ axis, then the quantities $l$, $m$, $n$ defined by
$$ (l, m, n) = \frac{1}{|u|}(u_x, u_y, u_z) $$
$$ (l', m', n') = \frac{1}{|u'|}(u'_x, u'_y, u'_z) $$
are related by
$$ (l', m', n') = \frac{1}{D}(l - \frac{v}{u}, m\gamma ^{-1}, n\gamma ^{-1}) $$
and that this can be considered a relativistic aberration formula. The author gives the following definition for $D$, copied verbatim.
$$ D = \frac{u'}{u}\left( 1 - \frac{u_xv}{c^2}\right) = \left[1 - 2l\frac{v}{u} + \frac{v^2}{u^2} - (1 - l^2)\frac{v^2}{c^2} \right]^{\frac{1}{2}} $$
My question is why the author finessess the expression into the third/final form. I was able to get it but it seems like a pain. Why is that better than the second expression? It seems more difficult to calculate and not at all clear or meaningful.
Also, in case it's not clear, $\gamma =1/ \sqrt{1 - \frac{v^2}{c^2}}$ and $|u| = |(u_x, u_y, u_z)| = \sqrt{u_x^2 + u_y^2 + u_z^2}$


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I rode the Instinct 29'er briefly (20 minutes) after a 4 hour, very technical, rock and root infested NEMBA ride and on pretty spent legs and 1 nasty trip over the bars. Towards the end of the 4 hour ride it started raining and the trails got really sketchy and you had to be really careful getting on the front brake. The roots were like ice and it was really easy to spin out on the rocks in difficult climbs.
The bad news for me...the new 650B Altitude never made it. I was totally bummed about that as that's the bike I really wanted to try since my current bike is a 650B Jamis Dakar. The Rocky guys said there's only a handful in the US and apparently out west someplace. The Instinct 29'er was there in my size which I rode once again on tired legs and slick wet trails. I think it was setup to stiff in the back but surprisingly the Fox fork felt pretty smooth and plush. Otherwise it really didn't do anything for me on this brief ride to make me go wow (Stealth Reverb was sweet though). Yup the wheel rolls over stuff a bit easier but it just felt like you were riding a big bike that plows over and through stuff. My Jamis 650B feels more lively which I like and honestly I preferred the Specialized Test FSR Stumpy Comp 29'er better (but I had it for 3 days and dialed in all the settings). Both have 130mm travel. Funny, I didn't really care for the Rocky Element 29'er I rode either at another event (not my style bike really). The Instinct also had this feeling of heaviness to it even if it might have been 30lbs like the Rocky guy thought. I was tired though and that very well could be part of it. Ride was to short for a real proper evaluation so take it with a bag of salt but that's my first impression. Also haven't ridden allot of 29'ers but I almost hate to say this but I did really like the 2012 Spec. Test bike...but that was coming off my 08 Prophet which I now realize sucks in so many ways compared to a new bike. My new Jamis Dakar is really nice but to many pedal hits in New England rocks is a bummer. Very tall new 650B Schwalbe NN tires en route from Germany now which may help that a bit.
When my local Rocky dealer has the Instinct and Altitude for demo I will spend a day on each one for a proper test. Sadly it probably wont be until early next year and we could be buried under snow.
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WEIRTON - Nearly 800 area families will be able to have their own turkey for Thanksgiving through the efforts of one of the area's largest employers.
Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack and Resort continued its tradition this week of donating turkeys for local families in need, delivering the birds to social service organizations in Hancock County.
On Friday, 64 turkeys were delivered to New Cumberland Social Service located at the New Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 400 turkeys were taken to the Weirton Salvation Army and 200 were distributed at the Community Bread Basket in Weirton.
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Another 110 turkeys were distributed to the Mountaineer Chaplaincy and the Community Resource Center of East Liverpool on Thursday.
"We've always been active in community service," Nick Mavromatis, director of player development, said. "This is just one of the programs we do."
Mavromatis explained Mountaineer has been distributing turkeys to local agencies since 1998.
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Representatives of Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack and Resort spent Friday delivering more than 600 turkeys to local agencies to help out those in need this Thanksgiving. Another 110 turkeys were distributed on Thursday. -- Craig Howell
Salvation Army Capt. Ed Long explained the annual contribution is a big help to the organization and allows them to focus their resources on providing assistance elsewhere, such as helping with utility payments and purchasing toys for Christmas.
"If we didn't receive them by donation, we would have to buy them," Long said.
Mountaineer also has held two recent food drives to benefit the Salvation Army, as well as collecting more than 500 toys to assist Toys for Tots.
"Mountaineer Casino is happy to be able to assist local charities once again during the Thanksgiving season with this turkey donation," General Manager Chris Kern said. "The holidays can be especially tough for families and these organizations will distribute the turkeys to families needing a little help putting Thanksgiving dinner on the table."
(Howell can be contacted at email@example.com and followed via Twitter @CHowellWDT)


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West Swinney Park
Fort Wayne, Indiana 1 course · 18 holes Driving directions
Course reviews
Most votes | Newest first | Oldest first
+0 votes Rex Noaker › April 3, 2011
+0 votes Randy Gallagher › April 23, 2011
This was an alright course. It definitely will be good in time. It was a wet day and there was a lot under water. In 5 years this will be a cool course
+0 votes Chris Coffman › July 17, 2011
Amazing course!
+0 votes Joel Lauritzen › August 19, 2011
A great course, accuracy is important. Most holes are between 250-300 feet. A fun course with some difficulty. A lot of water comes into play. Hole 3 is a tough hole wit the majority over water and hole 18 is a fun but tough hole that wraps around a pond and is 500 ft. Kinda hard to get to from the directions on dgcoursereview. Breaks into a one way round and you have to go past entrance and double back on the other one way to enter the course. I loved this course and would love to get another chance to play it again.
+0 votes Paul DISC-OR-DIE Holstein › May 29, 2012
Drove out from Michigan to play this course, and it was well worth the drive. Lots of water, wildlife, many of the baskets tucked into the trees. Open drives, woods, plenty of OB (although some of the water appeared to be seasonal and was dried up). Geese everywhere. Biggest complaint was the lack of trash cans, but there wasn't much trash anyway.....
+0 votes Dave Brown › April 16, 2012
Really enjoy this course. Provides something for both power and finesse players. Some sketchy water hazards on a few holes. Watch out for the wildlife.
+0 votes Derek Agler › April 18, 2012
Excellent course concrete tee pads and plenty of trees and water even on some long shots. Difficulty wise if your just starting out wait to play this one. For those who have played fun fun fun. The place to play in the area for some good old fashioned disc golfing
+0 votes Matt Plett › May 12, 2012
+0 votes Robby Scheckelhoff › May 14, 2012
+0 votes Nate Ross › July 6, 2013
+0 votes Brian Taylor › July 16, 2013
+0 votes Louis Salinas II › August 11, 2013
+0 votes Chon Salinas › August 18, 2013
+0 votes Jeff Coates › September 25, 2013
Very cool course. Tight greens, bad drives were not punished. Pretty open park with minimal elevation change. Played back 9 with local.
Would recommend playing for anyone, can play very quickly. Short walks and short holes.
Would recommend playing for anyone, can play very quickly. Short walks and short holes.
+0 votes Eric "LEFTY" Brown › February 23, 2016
My favorite course in Fort Wayne. The challenges are found on every hole.
+0 votes King B › October 8, 2015
It was a good course, holes 10, 11, and 12 were hard to find. I finished the course THEN found those last 3. There was a lot of low lands that are a flood problem, and a lot of stagnate water. Summer time play I'd suggest a can of OFF. Every hole was very short, not many chances to really let loose. Other than that, I liked it. Concrete throw pads, signs posted on every hole. 👍🏻


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Washington (CNN) - A majority of Americans say they support legally recognizing same-sex marriage amid growing evidence that the public's become more comfortable with gays and lesbians, according to a new national poll.
A CNN/ORC International survey released Wednesday also indicates that the number of Americans who say they have a close friend or family member who is gay has jumped from 49% in 2010 to 60% today, the first time in CNN polling that a majority of Americans have said that. In the 1990s, most Americans said they did not know anyone close to them who was gay.
"Attitudes toward sexual orientation have also changed over that same time period," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "In 1998, a majority believed that someone who is gay or lesbian could change their sexual orientation if they choose to do so. Today, only a third feel that way, and the number who say that gays and lesbians cannot change their orientation is almost six in ten. Those shifts probably explain the growing acceptance of same-sex marriage."
According to the survey, 54% now say that marriages between gay and lesbian couples should be recognized as valid by law, with 42% opposed. Sentiment is strong on both sides of the debate, with more than three-quarters of supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage saying that they feel strongly about that issue.
The poll indicates a partisan divide, with seven in ten Democrats as well as six in ten independent voters saying same-sex marriages should be recognized by the law as valid, and 72% of Republicans opposed. The survey also indicates a generational divide, with nearly two-thirds of those under 50 in favor of legal same sex marriages and 55% of those 50 and older opposed.
The poll's release comes one day after a federal appeals court in San Francisco refused to revisit the issue of same-sex marriage, months after judges gave gay and lesbian couples the constitutional blessing to wed in the state, by ruling California's Proposition 8 unconstitutional. A stay on same-sex marriages in California remains in place until the issue is exhausted in the courts. Supporters of Proposition 8 vow to appeal the case to the Supreme Court.
The CNN poll was conducted by ORC International from May 29-31, with 1,009 adults nationwide were questioned by telephone. The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points, with a sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points for registered voters.
– CNN Political Editor Paul Steinhauser contributed to this story


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LUMIX® DMC-FH8 16.1 Megapixel Digital Camera
- Replacement Accessories
- Cases, Bags + Straps
SpecificationsExpand All
- Dimensions (W x H x D) 96.0 x 57.1 x 19.4 mm / (3.78 x 2.25 x 0.77 inch)
- Weight Approx. 106g without Battery and SD Memory Card (0.24 lb) / Approx. 123g with Battery and SD Memory Card (0.28 lb)
- Camera Effective Pixels 16.1 Megapixels
- Sensor Size / Total Pixels / Filter 1/2.33-inch CCD sensor / 16.6 Total Megapixels / Primary Color Filter
ApertureF2.5 - F6.4 / 2-Step (F2.5 / 9.0 (W), F6.4 / 20.0 (T))
Optical Zoom5.0x
Focal Lengthf=4.3-21.5mm (24-120mm in 35mm equiv.) / (26-130mm in 35mm equiv. in video recording)
- Extra Optical Zoom (EZ) 6.3x (4:3 / 10M), 9.0x (4:3 / 5M), 11.3x(4:3 / under 3M)
- Intelligent Zoom 10.0x
- Lens LEICA DC VARIO-SUMMARIT / 6 elements in 5 groups / (3 Aspherical Lenses / 5 Aspherical surfaces)
Optical Image StabilizerMEGA O.I.S. (Off / On)
Digital Zoom4x
- Focusing Area Normal: Wide 50 cm - infinity / Tele 100 cm - infinity / Macro / Intelligent AUTO/ motion picture: Wide 5 cm - infinity / Tele 100cm - infinity
AF Assist LampYes
- Focus Normal, AF Macro, Zoom Macro / Quick AFON/OFF (Always On), Continuous AF(only for motion picture) / AF Tracking
- AF Metering Face / AF Tracking / Multi (23pt) / 1pt
- Shutter Speed approx. 8 - 1/1600 sec
- File Format Still Image: JPEG(DCF/Exif2.3) / Motion picture: MP4
- Mode Dial / Mode Button Intelligent Auto, Normal Picture, SCN, Miniature
- Still Image Scene Mode Portrait, Soft Skin, Scenery, Panorama, Sports, Night Portrait, Night Scenery, Food, / Baby1, Baby2, Pet, Sunset, High Sensitivity, Glass Through, Photo Frame
- Continuous Shooting Mode Full-Resolution Image, 1.3 frames/sec Max. 100 images / High-speed Burst Mode: approx. 10 frames/sec / (recorded in 3M for 4:3, 2.5M for 3:2, 2M for 16:9, 2.5M for 1:1) Max. 15-100 images
- Motion Picture Recording (*2) [HD Video] 1280 x 720 pixels, 30 fps (HD: 10Mbps / MP4) (Sensor output is 30p) / [STD Video] VGA: 640 x 480 pixels, 30 fps (4Mbps / MP4)
- MP4 (Continuous recordable time [motion pictures]) approx.90 min
- MP4 (Actual recordable time [motion pictures]) approx.45 min
ExposureAuto(Program AE)
Exposure Compensation1/3 EV step, +/-2 EV
- Light Metering Intelligent Multiple
ISO SensitivityI.ISO / 100 / 200 / 400 / 800 / 1600 / High Sensitivity mode (ISO 1600-6400)
- Still Picture Recording [1:1] 3456x3456(12M) / [4:3] 4608x3456(16M) / 3648x2736(10M EZ) / 2560x1920(5M EZ) / 2048x1536(3M EZ) / 640x480(0.3M EZ) / [3:2] 4608x3072 (14M) / [16:9] 4608x2592 (12M)
White BalanceAuto / Daylight / Cloudy / Shade / Incandescent / White Set
- Color Mode / Color Effect / My color Color Mode : Standard, Black&White, Sepia, Vivid(in normal / video), Happy (only in iA Mode)
- Digital Red Eye Correction (Red-Eye Removal) Yes
- Zoom in Motion Picture Yes(digital)
Self Timer2sec / 10sec
Playback ModeNormal Playback, Slideshow, Filtering Playback(Category Playback / Favorites Playback), Calendar Playback
- Calendar Display / Dual-Image Playback Yes / No
- Set Favorites / Rotate Image Yes / No
- DPOF Print Setting / Set Protection Yes / Yes
- Resize / Cropping / Aspect Conv. / Leveling Yes / Yes / No / No
- Copy / Title Edit / Text Stamp Yes / No / Yes
- Video Divide Yes
- PictBridge Support Single / Multi / All / Favorites / DPOF
- OSD language English, Spanish
LCD Monitor3.0"(7.5cm) TFT Screen LCD Display (230K dots) / Field of View : approx. 100% / AUTO Power LCD mode, Power LCD mode, High Angle Mode
- Built-in-Flash Auto, Auto/Red-eye Reduction, Forced On, Slow Sync./Red-eye Reduction, Forced Off, / 0.4 - 5.6m (Wide/i ISO), 1.0 - 2.1m (Tele/i ISO)
- Recording Media Built-in Memory, SD Memory Card, SDHC Memory Card, SDXC Memory Card
- Built-in-Memory Approx.70MB
- Microphone / Speaker Mono / Mono
- Interface AV Output (NTSC), USB2.0 High speed
- Battery life (approx.) 260 pictures (CIPA Standard)*1
- Included Software PHOTOfunSTUDIO 8.0 Standard Edition / Adobe Reader
- Standard Accessories Battery Pack, AC Adapter, USB Cable, Hand Strap, CD-ROM
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- NOTE *1 / Recording conditions by CIPA standard / - CIPA is an abbreviation of [Camera & Imaging Products Association]. / - Temperature: 23 oC (73.4 oF)/Humidity: 50%RH when LCD monitor is on. / - Using a Panasonic SD Memory Card (32 MB). / - Using the supplied battery. / - Starting recording 30 seconds after the camera is turned on. (When the optical image stabilizer function is set to [ON].) / - Recording once every 30 seconds with full flash every second recording. / - Rotating the zoom lever from Tele to Wide or vice versa in every recording. / - Turning the camera off every 10 recordings and leaving it until the temperature of the battery decreases. / *2 / - These are standard times taken at a temperature of 23 oC (73.4 oF) and a humidity of 50%RH. / - The time available for recording varies depending on the environment, the interval between recordings, and the manner of use. / - Actual recordable time is the time available for recording when repeating actions such as switching the power supply [ON] / [OFF], starting/stopping recording, zoom operation etc. / *3 / - Motion picture in [MP4] can be recorded continuously for up to 29 minutes 59 seconds. / - Also, motion picture recorded continuously in [MP4] is up to 4 GB.
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Gottlieb and Astrue: ObamaCare's Technology Mess
At least a half dozen state exchanges won't offer full online enrollment thanks to unresolved software problems.
President Obama is bracing Americans for inevitable problems as the Affordable Care Act rolls out this week, but what he calls "glitches" are hardly routine. Information technology is ObamaCare's Achilles' heel. The faulty IT will expose Americans to lost data, attempts to enroll online that fail and the risk of fraud.
There are two key technological flaws in ObamaCare. First is the "hub"—the software to link servers at the Treasury Department, the Internal Revenue Service, Homeland Security and state agencies to verify the income and health-insurance status of enrollees and ensure that they are eligible for subsidies. The other flaw is the "portal"—the federally run IT platform that is supposed to let consumers compare health plans and select one that best suits their needs.
In planning ObamaCare's IT infrastructure, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) dawdled for more than a year under Administrator Donald Berwick until Marilyn Tavenner took over in December 2011. Even then the agency was slow to outsource key contracts and turned to what insiders say were not top-quality programmers. CMS did not sign a contract for a backstop system to process paper verifications and do paper verifications of online applications until July.
The Health and Human Services Department did not begin testing the chief pieces of this IT system until August. The testing found that states couldn't consistently link to the federal portal (a problem that persists in some states), and that the hub couldn't reliably verify if a person is eligible for a subsidy, or accurately calculate how much the applicant is eligible to receive. HHS prevented independent watchdogs, including its own inspector general, from examining the systems before they go live on Oct. 1. The result is a host of troublesome gaps and dangers.
The biggest risk involves data security. The Obama administration created unnecessary opportunities for fraud with the White House's pork-minded insistence on funding favored community groups to employ "navigators" to solicit applicants and help them input their personal information, such as income and Social Security numbers. The navigators were hastily hired and trained (they are still being hired) and were not given extensive background checks. The personal data for millions of people will be entrusted to these navigators—and to a computerized system that has been rushed into operation.
Another technological hurdle involves health-insurance subsidies. At least a half-dozen states, including Colorado and Oregon, have said that they won't offer full online enrollment through their exchanges because the federal hub that is supposed to link to help them determine the subsidies people are eligible for isn't working properly. A link to Medicaid agencies also isn't functioning. This link is necessary to ensure that someone applying for a subsidy under a health plan is not Medicaid-eligible under his state's rules.
If the hub can't verify this, the individual will get booted from the ObamaCare enrollment system and shifted to a call center for confirmation by an ObamaCare agent who is likely to be fielding a deluge of complaints. Some people will end up getting subsidies they weren't qualified for. Washington eventually will have to try to claw back the money. This will create a massive pay-and-chase challenge as people move in and out of the exchanges and get subsidies that many of them won't even know they didn't deserve.
The subsidies will likely present other woes. For example, separate cost-sharing subsidies intended to reduce a person's out-of pocket costs are subject to the budget sequester. As a result, some of the reductions in co-insurance won't materialize. Patients won't know what they will owe for doctor visits, prescriptions or hospital stays. The Obama administration hasn't begun to address the issue.
As for medical care, the current ObamaCare software doesn't even try to take a serious stab at letting consumers match the health plans on the exchanges with their particular medical needs, or with their providers, at the point of enrollment. In some cases—but not necessarily all—they can click through to the plans to ferret out the information they need.
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On Friday, HHS finally awarded a $380 million, four-year contract to manage appeals from consumers fighting for benefits that the insurance plans have denied. If it was hard to appeal medical claims through your current insurance plan, wait until you have to call a remote federal contractor.
The technology and privacy problems presented by ObamaCare aren't likely to be mere rough patches that can be easily smoothed over. The provision of health care is an inherently local endeavor, and it increasingly appears that so is applying for health insurance. ObamaCare is an attempt to federalize the entire system, but the IT backbone appears unable to support this political ambition.
In September, the Minnesota state health-insurance exchange inadvertently disclosed several thousand Social Security numbers before the exchange even opened for business. Once the entire, gargantuan system is fired up nationwide, data leaks are almost a certainty.
That's the thing about technology: Glitches happen. Usually they're annoyances. Now, more than ever, they're going to involve the government and your health.
Dr. Gottlieb is a physician and resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the Republican appointee on the HHS Federal Health IT Policy Committee that works on electronic health record guidelines for doctors' offices but has nothing to do with the rollout of the ObamaCare exchanges. Mr. Astrue was the Commissioner of Social Security until earlier this year.


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According to WFIW Radio in Fairfield, the family of a Fairfield teenager sexually abused in 2009 and 2010 by her high school PE teacher has filed suit against the Fairfield Community High School district, the school board and the teacher convicted of sexually abusing the victim.
The teacher, 31-year-old Haven A. Kirkpatrick of Carmi is currently serving a three year prison sentence for sexually abusing the teen. The victim's family has asked for at least $50,000 on each count of the four-count negligence lawsuit.
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Reviewer: Christopher Dolinsky, MD
The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Ultima Vez Modificado: 15 de enero del 2006
Authors: Sigridur Gunnarsdottir, MS, RN, Heidi S. Donovon, MS, RN, and Sandra Ward, PhD, RN, FAAN
Source: Nursing Clinics of North America, 38(2003) 419-434
The authors do a nice job of summarizing the literature on educational interventions for both clinicians and patients that are designed to improve the management of cancer pain. The authors are correct in identifying numerous barriers to good care. One point that needs to be made is that pain management isn't the only area in which clinicians and patients need improvement. Many studies have shown that clinicians with specialized training and a narrower scope of practice are better at delivering certain types of medical care than their less-specialized peers. Also, a number of good studies have shown that patients can be notoriously non-compliant with a variety of different interventions. Perhaps the management of severe cancer pain should be left up to clinicians with a special interest and training in the field, or at least performed with their guidance. It requires a joint effort between both clinician and patient to achieve a good outcome, and it certainly makes sense that further interventions should focus on simultaneously educating both halves of the equation.


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(St. Louis, Mo.) - Columbia College will confer 81 associate and bachelor's degrees upon graduates from the St. Louis campus at a commencement ceremony Saturday, July 26. The ceremony will take place at 2 p.m. at Machinists Hall in St. Louis.
Dr. Terry Smith, executive vice president and dean for academic affairs, will give the commencement address and confer the degrees.
�Our graduates have succeeded in balancing their numerous responsibilities with their career goals," said Smith. "Graduation is the culmination of their efforts and the result of wanting to improve their lives. We are proud to honor their accomplishments."
Columbia College was founded in Missouri in 1851 as Christian Female College, the first women�s college west of the Mississippi River to be chartered by a state legislature. The college changed its name to Columbia College in 1970 when it became coeducational.
Established in 1973 as the college�s first extended campus, Columbia College�St. Louis is located on Woodson Road. The campus has served adult learners in the St. Louis area for more than 30 years, offering associate and bachelor�s degrees in business, criminal justice, psychology, human services, management information systems and general studies.
Columbia College provides accredited, affordable degrees to working adults, including military students, and serves 25,000 students worldwide.


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I lived in both France and Quebec for about 10 years. I learned to speak French while living in both places, so the French I'll be teaching is very much how people talk. Also, because I learned French by hearing and speaking it, my French writing skills are craptastic, so I am planning to focus more on conversational French. If someone else is a wiz at writing French, speak up!
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What should be the correct word in Spanish to translate "table" (as in an arrangement of text or data in rows and columns)?
Somewhere I've read that "cuadro" should be preferred to "tabla", but which one would native speakers would actually use?
What should be the correct word in Spanish to translate "table" (as in an arrangement of text or data in rows and columns)?
Somewhere I've read that "cuadro" should be preferred to "tabla", but which one would native speakers would actually use?
According to Real Academia Española, the relevant definitions of these words for this matter are:
That is to say, when you have numbers arranged so as to ease their presentation, or ease the calculations you have to do among them,
When you are working with documents the translation to
It's definitely
at least when showing data that's the most widely usage in Mexico, examples:
I know the difference between "cuadro" (any kind of data) and table (only numbers), and when I was in elementary school, I used more "cuadro" (for school work, for example). During the university and now at work, we used more "tabla" even in the data is not only numeric. Why? My hypothesis is this is a case of cultural influence, since you read "table" in scientific stuff (written in english) and it feels more natural. Now, I only use "cuadro" to refer a painting. In the spanish translation of LaTeX (a word processor system mainly for scientific text, but not only) the default translation is "cuadro" (it's written automatically and you can't easily change the names by default), but the author include the possibility to change it to "tabla" because it's very common, despite he considers is not the correct translation of "table". Also, for me "matriz" only applied when all columns contain the same kind of numeric data.
Since in the Database world, the word "Table" is universally known to represent a group of "Rows" which contain one or more "Columns", the best translation, which would be easily understood within the context it is being used, the word "Tabla" is the best choice, no matter what Spanish-speaking country you're in. If you were to use any other word, it would confuse someone!
Another word is "planilla." Planilla refers to physical spreadsheets (columns and rows) accountants used to utilize for logging numbers and letters as well.
Especially for numerical and mathematical data in technical applications, you sometimes see la matriz -- matrix -- used to describe tabular data. I use it whenever I'm talking about math -- which is often. Just as in English, this is a more specific usage aimed at educated people but it can be very useful.
Matriz also means "womb" and "principal" in different contexts. Don't mix them up.
Back in the 80s when I used to teach relational database design in Mexico and Puerto Rico, I always used "tabla" for table, "fila" for "row", and "columna" for "column".
Wikipedia en español tiene una entrada para SQL. En esa entrada, hablan de tablas.
Una escuadra de columnas would translate to "a square of columns" which is descriptive enough in a conversation in the workplace without having to be too specific.
When the information (numbers, words, sentences, ideas, formulas, small figures…) is organized more or less in columns and rows it is a tabla. But if it is organized in others forms, more generals, possible including lists, diagrams, etc. it will be a (re)cuadro.


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My brother is driving a limo with his partner who told him that they will go $50-50$ on income and also $50-50$ on gas.
So if my brother earns $\$1000$ by spending $\$200$ on gas, what will be my brothers share and what will be his partners share?
So you have to calculate what my brother should get from the $\$1000$ and what his partner should get taking into consideration the spending on gas (is spent by my brother).


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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- The newest laboratory at Kansas State University's department of electrical and computer engineering will not only amp up already strong academic and research programs in electrical power and communications, but it also will help provide a surge in the university's -- and state of Kansas' -- goal of providing more engineers.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony and dedication for the new Burns & McDonnell Smart Grid Lab was held on Tuesday, Oct. 23, at the lab in 2095 Rathbone Hall.
Along with John English, dean of the College of Engineering; Don Gruenbacher, head of the department of electrical and computer engineering; and department faculty and staff, a group from Burns & McDonnell, the international, engineering, architecture and consulting company based in Kansas City, Mo., were on hand. The group was led by Randy Pope, vice president of the company. Pope is a Kansas State University engineering alumnus and a member of the College of Engineering Advisory Council.
Pope says the lab at K-State is a mirror image of the lab at Burns & McDonnell's headquarters where workers are using smart grid knowledge to design secure energy systems for government installations around the U.S. He says the ability to train in the lab will better prepare students and make them ready to enter the industry immediately upon graduation.
"The benefit of the Smart Grid Lab is that you can test and learn a lot about smart grid applications on the utilities systems in order to more efficiently use electricity and match electrical power supply with electrical demand," Pop told WIBW.
Noel Schulz, the College of Engineering's associate dean for research and director of the Engineering Experiment Station, also will participate in the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Schulz will be the lab's director and it will be home to her research in smart grid technologies, power systems, energy conversion, application of computer programs to power engineering, application of intelligent systems to engineering problems and more.
The lab was made possible through a donation from Burns & McDonnell and from the company's many employees who are Kansas State University alumni. In addition, several companies in the power industry have or are in the process of making vital equipment and furnishing donations to the lab.
The lab won't be used just for research. Different class levels -- from freshmen to graduate students -- will be exposed to it. Junior and senior classes will use it for lab work.
Another important use of the Burns & McDonnell Smart Grid Lab will be in student recruitment, officials said.


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Almost every scientific activity at Los Alamos involves data analysis and modeling. From a chemical sciences point of view, such work transforms "raw" data into a form that provides useful information that is predictive, confirmatory, or exploratory.
The key to understanding the world around us is the ability to put the chemical data we collect into a meaningful context with respect to the problem at hand. Data analysis and modeling and simulations provide powerful tools to help accomplish that task. This capability, when combined with the powerful information science and technology resources of the Laboratory, provides critical contributions to many other research efforts.
Combined with measurement and detection, data analysis and modeling form the core of the chemical-sciences contribution to the Science of Signatures effort at the Laboratory.
|Developing remote-sensing devices for nuclear nonproliferation and other needs, such as detecting improvised explosive devices.
|Performing process modeling that scales from bench-top chemical kinetic and thermodynamic experiments to pilot- and plant-sized programs.
|Simulating new chemicals/materials with tailored properties for diverse applications.
|Analyzing chemical rate for complex modeling needs.
|Performing chemical-sciences data analysis and modeling for nuclear forensics.
|Carrying out high-throughput high-data genome sequencing.
|Conducting data analysis and modeling of secured systems.
|Analyzing high explosive data and performing thermodynamic and kinetic modeling.
|Developing pattern-recognition algorithms to detect trace species in analytical chemistry data.
- Developed KIVA, a code used to analyze chemically reacting flows with sprays. KIVA uses ALE (Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian) methodology on a staggered grid, and it discretizes space using a finite-volume technique. The code uses implicit time advancement, except for the advective terms, which are cast in an explicit but second-order monotonicity-preserving manner. Convection calculations can be subcycles in desired regions to avoid restricting the time step caused by Courant conditions. KIVA applications include performing low and combustion modeling in spark-ignition diesel engines and gas turbines, analyzing flows in automotive catalytic converters, designing fire-suppression systems, and designing pulsed detonation propulsion systems.
- Worked with Proctor and Gamble on computer codes used for predictive modeling. Such codes are part of the Los Alamos Computational Fluid Dynamics Library—software packages that include computer-modeling codes developed to solve problems related to the dynamic behavior of materials. These codes can model all types of behaviors, from rain falling through the air to the transport of coal slurry through piping to the initial mixing of coffee and milk.
- Developed CartaBlanca, an advanced object-oriented simulation software package that offers researchers modeling and simulation capabilities in a number of disciplines. Written in the "developer friendly" Java language, it enables computer code developers to simulate complex nonlinear effects such as airflow through a turbo booster, blast effects on buildings, or heat transfer along a semiconductor. Because it is a Java-based software package, the code is much easier to use, manipulate, and modify than codes based on programming languages such as FORTRAN or C++. Applications for chemical sciences include computational fluid dynamics, fluid/solid interactions, and pharmaceutical processing. CartaBlanca received an R&D 100 Award in 2005.
- Developing and fielding new types of remote-sensing instruments designed to detect spectral or optical signatures of importance in proliferation detection and other applications such as battlefield threats and intelligence gathering. We use the latest technology in data acquisition and geographical information systems to execute field campaigns with high efficiency and enable the rapid transformation of sensor data to intelligence assessment, in some cases in near real time. Theoretical research is aimed at developing detection algorithms (for gas chemicals, solid materials, and others) to extract signals from high levels of background clutter, using both conventional techniques based on matched filtering and machine learning methods to improve detection under specialized conditions. We also make optimal use of chemical and physical intuition to identify new signatures for proliferation activity, which feeds back into instrument design.
- Developing new ways to identify and locate clandestine sites dedicated to nuclear processing and purification of plutonium and uranium. Efforts include identifying new chemical signatures and observables, increasing the sensitivity of existing signatures, and expanding the range of temporal resolution of signature detection for nonproliferation efforts.
- Performing chemical-sciences data analysis and modeling for nuclear forensics. Modeling teams use radiochemistry fingerprints and prompt-signal data to reverse engineer exact weapons design while data crunching yields fingerprints of initial fuel and weapon type. Los Alamos originally implemented nuclear forensics in 1945, when Manhattan Project pioneers analyzed debus from the first nuclear explosion. Today nuclear forensics is a mature science, based on the analysis of debris from over a thousand U.S. nuclear tests; extensive research and design in all aspects of nuclear weaponry; modeling of nuclear performance with some of the fastest supercomputers in the world; and use of unique radiological and nuclear facilities such as Technical Area 48, the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research building, and the Plutonium Facility.
- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies: Scientists at this center develop the scientific principles that govern the design, performance, and integration of nanoscale materials.
- Strategic Computing Complex: Also known as the Nicholas C. Metropolis Center for Modeling and Simulation, this complex houses supercomputers that support the calculation, modeling, simulation, and visualization of complex nuclear weapons data in support of the Stockpile Stewardship Program. The complex includes a Data Visualization Corridor, which enables scientists to view the models and simulations created by the supercomputers. The Data Visualization Corridor includes a Powerwall Theater and a five-sided CAVE Immersive Laboratory, as well as desktop visualization and collaborator capabilities.
- Exascale Co-design Center for Materials in Extreme Environments: Exascale computing presents an enormous opportunity for solving some of today's most pressing problems, including clean energy production, nuclear reactor lifetime extension, and nuclear stockpile aging. At their core, each of these problems requires the prediction of material response to extreme environments. This center's objective is to establish the interrelationship between software and hardware required for materials simulation at the exascale while developing a multiphysics simulation framework for modeling materials subjected to extreme mechanical and radiation environments.
- Information Science & Technology Institute: This institute covers a range of fields, including information science and technology, computer science, computational science, and applied mathematics. Topic areas include extreme-scale data management, high-performance computing, data-intensive computing, computational co-design, reliability and resilience at scale, algorithms and methods (including informatics), and multicore and hybrid computing.
- Joel Kress: Physics and chemistry of materials
- Mark Schraad: Computational fluid dynamics
- Hugh Selby: Nuclear forensics
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|C.E. Starrett, J. Clérouin, V. Recoules, J.D. Kress, L.A. Collins, and D.E. Hanson, "Average atom transport properties for pure and mixed species in the hot and warm dense matter regimes," Physics of Plasmas 19(10) (2012).
|L.A. Collins, J.D. Kress, and D.E. Hanson, "Reflectivity of warm dense deuterium along the principal Hugoniot," Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 85(23) (2012).
|D. Saumon, C.E. Starrett, J.D. Kress, and J. Clérouin, "The quantum hypernetted chain model of warm dense matter," High Energy Density Physics 8(2), 150–153 (2012).
|David S. Mebane, Curtis B. Storlie, Leslie M. Moore, K. Sham Bhat, Joel D. Kress, Daniel J. Fauth, and McMahan L. Gray, "The importance of transport processes in silica-supported, polyethyleneimine-impregnated CO2 sorbents," AIChE 2012 - 2012 AIChE Annual Meeting, Conference Proceedings (2012).
|J.D. Kress, James S. Cohen, D.P. Kilcrease, D.A. Horner, and L.A. Collins, "Orbital-free molecular dynamics simulations of transport properties in dense-plasma uranium," High Energy Density Physics 7(3), 155–160 (2011).
|David E. Hanson, Lee A. Collins, Joel D. Kress, and Michael P. Desjarlais, "Calculations of the thermal conductivity of national ignition facility target materials at temperatures near 10 eV and densities near 10 g/cc using finite-temperature quantum molecular dynamics," Physics of Plasmas 18(8) (2011).
|J.D. Kress, James S. Cohen, D.P. Kilcrease, D.A. Horner, and L.A. Collins, "Quantum molecular dynamics simulations of transport properties in liquid and dense-plasma plutonium," Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 83(2) (2011).
|J.D. Kress, James S. Cohen, D.A. Horner, F. Lambert, and L.A. Collins, "Viscosity and mutual diffusion of deuterium-tritium mixtures in the warm-dense-matter regime," Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 82(3) (2010).
|D.A. Horner, J.D. Kress, and L.A. Collins, "Effects of metal impurities on the optical properties of polyethylene in the warm dense-matter regime," Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 81(21) (2010).
|Michael R. Salazar, Joel D. Kress, J. Michael Lightfoot, Bobby G. Russell, Wayne A. Rodin, and Lorelei Woods, "Low-temperature oxidative degradation of PBX 9501 and its components determined via molecular weight analysis of the Poly[ester urethane] binder," Polymer Degradation and Stability 94(12), 2231–2240 (2009).


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|Steve Larson
Date Climbed: Nov 21, 2008
|There are still signs on the peak saying there is no public access to Bross. I walked past them.
|Posted Nov 22, 2008 1:38 am
Date Climbed: Sep 14, 2008
|Felt like February.....postholing in snow to my knees and extremely strong winds.
|Posted Sep 14, 2008 7:48 pm
|Against the Wind with Hesitation
Date Climbed: Aug 14, 2008
|I didn't want to ascend this mountain due to the legal dispute but while on Lincoln I saw an ill-placed SUV parked on the Bross-Cameron summit that distracted my peace of mind. So I took it the summit and glad I did it! Descending the scree-infested slope of Bross was hell esp. in a 30+ mph wind and a hail storm.
|Posted Aug 28, 2008 3:23 am
Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2008
|Got all three - had a nice glissade down bross! Fun day!
|Posted Aug 22, 2008 3:35 pm
|Scree descent
Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2007
|Happy 3rd wedding anniversary to Chris and Marni on the DeCaliBron. Rainy weather on and off all day but never any thunderstorms. I disliked this descent more than probably any other one I've done so far.
|Posted Aug 21, 2008 10:37 am
Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2008
|Nice scree descent after this peak. Top big enough to land a plane on.
|Posted Aug 19, 2008 8:09 pm
Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2006
|Loop from Kite Lake TH. Very windy. Descending the scree field was loads of fun...
|Posted Aug 15, 2008 12:58 pm
Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2008
|Old Guide and I tagged this one also after Lincoln before dropping into the valley back to the Quartzville Creek TH.
|Posted Aug 12, 2008 8:15 pm
|Less interesting, even, than Cameron...but a decent day out anyway.
|Posted Aug 3, 2008 6:49 pm
|Back to Finish
Date Climbed: Jul 27, 2008
|Had to come back to finish all three off
|Posted Jul 30, 2008 1:50 pm
|Pete Castricone
|End of the 3-peak afternoon.
|Posted Jul 22, 2008 2:48 pm
|Easy summit
Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2008
|1st full day of summer and nailed Decalibron!
|Posted Jun 22, 2008 5:49 pm
|Lincoln - Democrat -Bross
Date Climbed: Sep 22, 1979
|The last peak at the end of a great day. Crossed over the top of Cameron, but didn't really "count" it until a couple of decades later when I climbed it from base to summit. A fine day with my new wife, Mrs. Rat.
|Posted Apr 26, 2008 10:05 pm
|Nice place
Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2003
|I had a great time strolling over from Democrat. barren place up there.
|Posted Mar 27, 2008 2:07 pm
Date Climbed: Aug 4, 2006
|Four 14ers in a day. Nice hike but clouds obscured the views.
|Posted Mar 10, 2008 1:53 am
|west gully, winter style
Date Climbed: Jan 21, 2008
|climbed the snowpacked west gully with kiefer and glen. awesome time climbing a safe couloir in the heart of winter. winds up high made for a miserable summit and descent to 12,800' or so. outside of that, great day!
|Posted Feb 27, 2008 10:05 am
Date Climbed: Aug 17, 2006
|Posted Feb 6, 2008 7:48 pm
|Lincoln - Cameron - Democrat - Bross
Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2005
|Hiked all four via Lincoln Amphitheater from Montgomery Reservoir Trailhead with my friend Jason. Although Bross by itself is probably easy, my quads were burning by this time.
|Posted Jan 29, 2008 9:47 pm
|windiest hike ever
Date Climbed: Mar 30, 2002
|not fun
|Posted Jan 14, 2008 6:53 pm
|Fast and Furious
Date Climbed: Jun 8, 2007
|Bross seemed the easiest peak of the day. I was very tired and a storm was coming in so we hustled on the trail from Lincoln and summited. Weather was clear when we arrived. High winds. My best friend and I did our usual type trip from Oklahoma. Drive all night, sleep a couple of hours, go for the summit. We had never done more than one 14er on any trip but we decided to give this a whirl. Doing Democrat was the most difficult, we had not time to adjust to the altitude difference from Oklahoma to Colorado so we both felt queezy. Arriving at the summit was great! Completed Cameron, Linclon and Bross glissaded down the face of Bross. Great way to finish. Easy descent. All of these four peaks were done before these were closed recently.
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Hi lovelies! Work is crazy for me right now so I don't have time to write a full post (I hope to be able to write a few new posts on my next day off later this week), but I thought I would share a look I did recently with you.
Here are the products I used in this look:
Revlon Nearly Naked foundation in Ivory (reviewed here)
Revlon Nearly Naked powder in Fair (not reviewed yet, I will do so soon)
Dolce and Gabbana blush in Sole (swatched here)
NARS Albatross highlighter
Maybelline Define-a-Brow in Dark Blonde
Anastasia Brow Powder Duo in Ash Blonde/Taupe - I layer this over the Maybelline pencil
Guerlain Coup de Foudre eyeshadow palette - light green on upper and lower inner corners; coral in center of lid; dark green on upper outer corners, most of lower lash line, and in crease; charcoal to darken the crease (reviewed here)
MAC Blanc Type eyeshadow - to highlight browbone
MAC Blacktrack eyeliner - to tightline
Hourglass Film Noir mascara (another product I intend to review soon)
Guerlain Nahema lipstick - blotted (reviewed here)
I hope you enjoyed! I know there are a lot of swatches of this palette floating around on the web right now, but not too many actual eye looks. On that note, can anyone tell me in the comments how to actually pronounce "Coup de Foudre"? I know no French pronunciation. Thank you, dear readers! :)
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I am making a game where I have a background image of a neighborhood. Each location has a different number of customers that are generated to walk on sidewalks. They all walk to a specific location (like a stand or cart that sells stuff), after they get to location I want them to interact with the cart. However, if another customer is already in a sale interaction then the others get in line in order of arrival. After the transaction the customers walk off screen. Any information on how I can do this and what game engine would be needed? Any one have any idea where I should go for this. I already have my game done up through Eclipse/Java without any game engine.
What you are looking for is a Queue, check the destination, and if there is already somebody there, add the person to the queue, and then query the queue to figure out where to stand (you can use vectors to figure out where exactly to stand in the line)
Best I could give you is C++ code, so see if this works...
If anybody knows what to do better, please feel free to edit this!
Use the number of customers in line to offset the destination. For example, say the line is below the stand at
Use the distance formula to check and see if the customer is in range.
If the distance is small enough, then the customer is in range to "see" the booth. To actually move the customer, find the unit components of the distance, and then multiply by your desired speed.
Then just move by uxdist and uydist each frame. This will get them to the line. Once distance is around zero, he reached the line and gets assigned a queue number and stops. When a customer in front is served, he moves up in the queue, walks to the spot designated for that queue, and stops. Let's say for example, he is third in line. A signal is sent that the line is moving, and so he moves up as second in line. His destination becomes


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Texas Twisters Kill at Least 6
GRANBURY, Texas—Emergency officials searched a shattered neighborhood for victims here Thursday after tornadoes struck the previous evening, killing at least six people, injuring several dozen others and damaging about 100 homes.
Seven people remained unaccounted for Thursday here in Granbury, a town of about 8,000 people 40 miles southwest of Fort Worth, as emergency workers continued to comb through the hard-hit Rancho Brazos neighborhood, said Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds. He said the search would continue until all were found.
While parts of Granbury appeared intact, with white fences still standing and wildflowers covering fields, others had been churned by the storm. All that was left of several homes were their concrete slabs or floors.
"How do you take cover from that?" asked Steve Berry, a Hood County commissioner. "There's nothing left. This tornado was a monster." Mr. Berry said he didn't have a full picture of injuries but understood that many people had suffered broken bones.
He said the affected neighborhood, home to many Hispanic residents, included more than 60 houses built by the group Habitat for Humanity.
Habitat for Humanity house number 66, a new four-bedroom, two-bathroom home that had yet to be occupied, was among the buildings blown away by the storm. It was supposed to be dedicated Saturday, with a single mother of five moving in, said Michelle Kennedy, a Habitat for Humanity staffer who was helping with the tornado response.
"It's devastating," said Alan Sloan, a volunteer who helped build the home.
Jessica Ozuna and her family were about to have dinner Wednesday evening when baseball-sized hail started dropping. From their doorway, they saw a massive funnel form just blocks away from their house.
Huddled under a mattress in their hallway, they prayed the tornado would not pull the roof off and suck them away, said Ms. Ozuna, a 36-year-old hairdresser.
"It was terrifying," Ms. Ozuna said. "It was like having jet engines in your house."
A piece of lumber from another house pierced the roof. But the house was still standing when Ms. Ozuna came out, and her three dogs and cat, which endured the storm outside, survived. A few doors away, some houses were leveled.
"That's when you know you're blessed," Ms. Ozuna's daughter, Isabel, said Thursday afternoon, still in the pajamas that she was wearing when she evacuated the night before.
As many as three tornadoes struck Granbury, part of a larger storm system that affected other parts of North Texas, including the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. All told, an estimated 10 tornadoes hit the region, said Mark Wiley, an emergency-response meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
The biggest tornado that struck Granbury was a Category 4, with estimated winds of 160 to 175 miles per hour, Mr. Wiley said, adding that only about 10 to 12 storms reach that level of severity in the U.S. each year.
The estimated 10 tornadoes in North Texas was "a big number for a small area," Mr. Wiley said.
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Eldurays at
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Country Friends will host the Eldurays band on Saturday at the Memorial Hall located at 402 Old Police Lodge Road in Colliers.
Country Friends has events each Monday, Friday and Saturday at the Memorial Hall. The doors open at 6 p.m. each Saturday, and the dance starts at 7 p.m.
On Mondays and Fridays, the doors open at 4 p.m., and open mic begins at 6 p.m. Participants can bring a covered dish if they so desire for the meal that begins at 5 p.m.
Country Friends Foundation Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting Christianity, friendship and brotherly love through music. All proceeds go to charity. For information, call (304) 527-4253 or (304) 797-1270.
Art show under
way at EGCC
Eastern Gateway Community College of Steubenville is hosting a five-person art show through Dec. 7 in the lobby of the Jefferson County Campus.
The exhibit features the work of Steubenville Art Association members Lillian Brue, Jim Gorney, Virginia Price, Helen Sweeney and Jim Watson.
The free exhibit is open to the public.
Upcoming library programs detailed
The Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County has announced the following programs planned at its branches:
Gaming for teens will be at the Schiappa branch on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.
Story Time for children ages 4 and 5 will be held at the Dillonvale-Mount Pleasant branch on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. Register by calling the library at (740) 769-2090. The Toronto branch also will offer Story Time on Monday at 5 p.m.
Play and Learn the Alphabet for caregiver and children ages 2-6 will be held at the Adena branch on Monday at 11:15 a.m. and at the main library on Tuesday at 6 p.m.
Cooking club will be held at the Schiappa branch on Monday at 6 p.m. There is a $10 donation to participate. Watch cooking demonstration and try samples. Register by calling (740) 264-6166.
The Tiltonsville branch's book-to-movie club will meet Thursday at 6 p.m. For information, call (740) 859-5163.
Babygarten for caregiver and children ages birth to 24 months will be offered at the Schiappa branch Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. A free book will be given to those who attend while supplies last.
Get Tech Help for how to download materials from the library's website to devices on Monday from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m., then again from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Make an appointment by calling the library at (740) 264-6166.
Make and take craft time will be offered Dec. 3 any time from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Tiltonsville branch and Tuesday at the Brilliant branch any time from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
A family movie will be shown at the Brilliant branch on Thursday at 6 p.m. and at the Tiltonsville branch on Dec. 8 at noon.
Moving On
members gather
Moving On held its monthly luncheon and meeting Nov. 11 at Undo's with President Norma Boni presiding.
Christine Brown gave a reading, "An American Will Fight For His Freedom," in honor of Veterans Day. Jack Davis gave the blessing.
Carol Zagula attended as a guest. Brown, Steve Ornowski, Cecelia Arrico, Joe Povach, Jim Boulson, Ruth Jackson, Fred Vogt and Martha White donated fall flowers to decorate the tables.
Accordionist Rick Pastre of Smithfield provided entertainment.
Reports were given by Lucretia "Toots" Ross, secretary, and Margaret Chapman, treasurer. Chapman and Katy Roshac prepared a new directory and gave a copy to each member.
David Kramarich and Madeline Michael conducted the 50/50 drawing, which was won by Marcia Bishop. Other prize winners were Eleanor Cooper, Julie Coughlin, Martha Wright, Becky Michalka, Mary Ann Kramer, Richard Wiley, June Puskarich, Nick Rodriguez, Helen Parrish, Pat Prosperi and Richard Kimmel.
The next meeting will be held Dec. 9 at Undo's with Thomas Graham providing entertainment. Members were reminded to bring a Christmas card with a lottery ticket enclosed.
Anyone interested in joining can contact Janet Saner at (740) 537-4487. Dues are $10 annually, and the meal is $11.
Lupus group to
hear DuBeck
Guest speaker Laurel DuBeck will discuss "Stress & Burnout" at the Lupus support group meeting set for Monday at the Hampton Inn, 820 University Blvd., Steubenville, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Walter and Pat Howard are project coordinators. Iris Callahan is an outreach worker.
An outing is planned Dec. 7 to Steubenville High School's alumni orchestra concert, beginning at 7 p.m. at Steubenville High School.
Weirton auxiliary
planning parties
The Weirton American Legion Post 10 Auxiliary held its monthly meeting Nov. 19 at the post hall on Pennsylvania Avenue, with President Shirley Brecht presiding.
Chaplain Wanda Perrone gave the invocation and held a moment of silence in memory of deceased members. Reports were given by Clara Robinson, secretary, and Loretta Fabian, treasurer.
Brecht welcomed new member Doreen Holestein, who was sworn in and pinned.
Historian Joan Spano reported the group received a congratulatory letter on its Korean War veterans dinner from Tri-State Medical Group. Spano plans to send Christmas cards to veterans at Serra Manor and Geriatric Center.
Perrone reported on cards sent, and Brecht read a thank-you note from Duke Horstemeyer for the Korean veterans dinner.
Brecht placed a wreath Nov. 12 at the Millsop Community Center on behalf of the auxiliary as part of the Veterans Day ceremonies.
The group will hold its children's Christmas party at 5 p.m. Dec. 7 and the adults' party at 5 p.m. Dec. 8. The auxiliary Christmas party is at 6 p.m. Dec. 17 at Undo's.
Auxiliary members agreed to purchase new wreaths for the auxiliary and Gold Star Mothers and donate two gift cards for two local families in need for the holidays.
Betty Chappell won the 50/50 drawing.
Perrone gave the closing prayer.
The next meeting will be Jan. 21 at the post hall.
Mingo Knights
list events
The Mingo Knights of Colunbus Council 4361 has announced events for December, including the council meeting to be held at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 6.
Snacks will be available after the meeting.
The council's Christmas party will be held Dec. 8, beginning at 5:30 p.m.
The children's Christmas party is scheduled for 2 p.m. Dec. 16. Co-sponsored by John "Wiz" Fabian and John "Scott" Fabian, the event is open to Knights families and grandchildren and children of Mingo Junction.
"Please try to call in with a head count of children coming," said Shawn Zarych, grand knight. Call (740) 535-8037 and leave a message or contact Zarych at (740) 381-1385.
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WACO (November 15, 2012)--It took a jury only 12 minutes to decide to sentence a Waco man to life in prison after convicting him earlier in the day of murder.
After the jury's verdict Judge Ralph Strother sentenced John Carl Arabie, Jr., to life in prison for the October 2011 murder of David Lloyd Sanders, 74, who was shot and killed as he looked out a side door after a man rang the doorbell of his home in the 4100 block of Hubby Avenue.
After listening to only a day-and-a-half's testimony and deliberating for only 10 minutes, the jury found John Arabie guilty of murder Thursday morning.
Arabie, who turned 34 Thursday, appeared in civilian clothes for the first time since his trial began on Tuesday, previously opting to appear in his black-and-white striped jail jumpsuit.
"This jury sent John Carl Arabie, Jr. and all criminals in McLennan County a message that justice for a senseless act like this is a life sentence," the McLennan County District Attorneys Office said in a statement Thursday afternoon.
"This verdict will help the victim's family to close the door on this painful time in their lives."
Sanders' wife told police officers at the time of the shooting that a man wearing a black shirt and white pants began ringing the doorbell at around midnight on the night her husband was shot.
She said the man then went around to a side door where her husband was shot in the head as he looked out to see who was outside.
His wife found him bleeding and called 911.
Officers spotted a man matching the description of the gunman a short time later in the 4000 block of West Waco Drive not far from the victim's home.
The man ran from officers, but was arrested as he tried to hide.
Arabie bought a car from Sanders several weeks before the murder.


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[FIEA student and Zynga intern Alexis De Girolami details the missteps and difficult decisions involved in producing her student-run team's thesis project, Penned.]
There are definitely times when going to FIEA (the Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy) can feel like living inside a bubble. Though the 65 or so students in our class are technically Master's students at the University of Central Florida, we exclusively work (ahem, live) in a building off-campus and rarely see anyone outside our program. In a way we're like a student-run studio, and that allows us to assess our 7-month capstone projects -- and the big thesis project that this postmortem is about -- as legitimate, published games. Three games were made in our class: Battle Fortress Tortoise, Plushy Knight, and Penned.
Lucky for you, this postmortem is about Penned.
Penned is a 3D action-adventure game where the player uses vocabulary words to change the game world and gameplay. We didn't want this game, even from the start, to be your typical educational game -- it's pretty established that that genre isn't terribly popular and has a bit of a bad reputation. We wanted to create something that was, first and foremost, fun and the learning would follow because you were enjoying yourself.
Prior to writing this, I made a long list of good and bad things that happened during the project and spoke with a number of people from different disciplines on our 22-member team to establish the common denominators. So here we go!
1. Communication
Everyone on any student project in the history of the universe (and undoubtedly many in the industry) can list this as a primary problem that held a team's progress back, and we were no exception. Our problems with communication stemmed largely from an early onset of personality-clashing that never fully dissipated as the project progressed.
The lack of communication of features completed, features with improper design specs, finished assets, assets that we didn't even know needed to be made, and a whole slew of other things made for a difficult time for parts of the project. This affected morale and created problems not only with the game, but with the team's dynamic on a larger level.
I would like to say that we solved all these problems by the end of the project, but then I would be lying. What I can say that we did, however, was create a dynamic between members of the project that was, if not perfect, then functional. One method was starting cross-discipline standups, where those on similar features had to talk to each other about what they had accomplished and were working on next. We originally had our daily standups organized by discipline: programmers, artists, and designers, each keeping relatively separate.
Don't do this. It was a terrible plan, encouraged miscommunication and generally led to many problems that should have been avoided. Changing it to feature-specific teams improved morale, made general understanding of features more organic, and overall did a lot to make the process run smoother. It kept everyone informed and allowed any problems to surface in an environment where we could do something about it.
2. Scope
This was easily one of the biggest failures we made as a team, and likely the biggest one I made as project lead. Our eyes were way bigger than our stomachs and it started to show early on. Largely this came down to what we thought we were capable of creating on the artistic and animation sides of things, and we simply didn't have the manpower to fill the needs we had.
Another related problem to this was scheduling, and this problem predominantly came from inexperience and over-eagerness. The length of time it takes for one person over another to finish something was a problem we had never experienced on this scale, and it lead to us over-scoping our goals every single time.
Towards the end of the project we recognized this wasn't our strength and attempted to undershoot to compensate, but this problem was one of our primary organizational faults throughout the duration of Penned's production. Attempting to understand the major hurdles on a feature -- and then using that as a frame of reference for scheduling later --was something that we didn't do enough of and would have helped us in the long run.
Similarly, making a real effort to understand the priority of features allows for any giant hurdles to make themselves known earlier rather than later.
3. Not evaluating combat early enough
This requires a little explaining. At FIEA, a number of games start being made in January (for us it was 5 games), and they go through the motions of preproduction on teams of around 15. Then, at the end of February, we have Vertical Slice, a big event where each team formally presents their game and their plans for the future. Then the faculty decides whether projects should be cut (2 were this year) or greenlit.
This date often leads to what amounts to two months of psychotic, frenzied game design and development. Decisions need to be made fast and implemented or it's likely your project will be cut.
Back to Penned. Our biggest problem coming out of Vertical Slice was that we had so rushed our design process that we blew through the development of combat in the game. And the result wasn't fun. At all. It was clunky and felt terrible and no one wanted to touch it because it was the big, scary beast of a design and animation elephant in the room.
So we ignored it. And complained about it. For 3 and a half months.
Trust me, I'm not proud of this.
We eventually realized that putting our heads in the sand wasn't an effective design technique (surprise, surprise!) and got our act together. We completely revamped our animations, reestablished our system of combos, and added activity into things with a more purposeful special attack. We did the same with our AI. We added a proper controller, and the end result was the product that we are quite proud of today. In the end we put more work into fixing a shoddy core element of gameplay than we ever would have had we just done it the right way the first time.
We learned our lesson: ignoring a shoddy feature or building cool stuff around the feature will not make it better. Ever. It will only make it more obvious that you're trying to hide a really ugly elephant.
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I have joined only 2 days ago. I have had questions about Hadoop and big data which I have not been able to find answers to in the last month that I have been going through dozens of article and tutorials. I ask them here and an old user makes a sarcastic comment about one of the questions, and I replied to it. Then suddenly both my questions are closed.
You can check my questions and see that they are perfectly good questions.
Now, my question is how does stackoverflow tries to make certain that old users don't simply gang up on anyone that they don't like?
Internet is great for its democratic value, and that is why I raise the same question about stackoverflow.
Just wanted to add that I really appreciate all the replies to my cry baby complain. I leaned a lot about stackoverflow, and hopefully other new users can find this discussion useful and constructive to see how things work here. But I hope that experienced users stop judging new comers harshly.