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An official NHL (National Hockey League) rink is 200 feet long and 85 feet wide; an international competition rink is wider by 15 feet. The rink is divided by the red line, has two blue lines, five face-off circles, the goals and the creases. Check out this hockey rink diagram:


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Myotherapy in Preston at Physical Healthcare
Physical Healthcare Preston proudly offer Myotherapy and proudly services the Preston, Coburg, Reservoir, Lalor, Heidelberg, Thornbury and Northcote communities.
Myotherapy literally means muscle therapy. It is a method for relieving pain based on the application of compression to trigger points in the body.
Myotherapy can:
- Help to relax and enhance the function of joints and muscles.
- Aid in improving range of movement and general body tone.
- Help to relieve pain, swelling, and stiffness.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (October 10, 2012)--The SpaceX commercial supply ship the Dragon reached the International Space Station Wednesday morning after a 2½-day flight from Cape Canaveral.
The station crew used a robot arm to grab the SpaceX vessel.
It's the first official delivery by the California-based SpaceX company under a $1.6 billion contract with NASA that calls for 12 such shipments.
The capsule is loaded with 1,000 pounds of groceries, clothes, science experiments and other gear, including ice cream for the three station residents.
It will remain at the orbiting lab for nearly three weeks before departing with a full load.
Dragon is the only cargo ship capable of bringing back research and other items, filling a void left by NASA's retired shuttles.
It was launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket, tested at the company's facility in McGregor west of Waco.


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Is it true that all continuous finite dimensional $p$-adic representations of $Gal(\bar{K}/K)$ are semisimple, where $K$ is a number field, i.e. if $\rho:Gal(\bar{K}/K) \mapsto GL_n(\bar{\mathbb{Q}}_p)$ is a continuous representation, where $K$ is a number field (even $\mathbb{Q}$ if you want), is it semisimple?
Replacing $\mathbb{Q}_p$ with $\mathbb{C}$, the result is indeed true, using the existence of an invariant Haar measure over the complex numbers. So the natural question (related) is if it exists a $\mathbb{Q}_p$-valued Haar measure in a compact group? Of course some conditions must be removed from the classical formulation (for example it does not make sence to ask that if $f$ is a positive continuous function, then its integral is positive), but the existence of a non-trivial invariant measure such that the volume of the group is 1 should be enough. Any reference is welcome as well


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11 Everyday Ways to Learn Math While Having Fun
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Summertime means baseball. The next time you take your child to a game, incorporate a few math games while you cheer on your favorite team.
Have your child play umpire and ask him to keep count of each batter's balls and strikes. Additionally, he can also keep track of the outs every inning, and how many innings are left before the game is over. Ask him questions, such as what inning marks the halfway point in the game, and how many runs the losing team needs to catch up.
If a certain player on one of the teams is close to breaking a record, such as homeruns, have your child figure out how many more he needs to meet and break the record.
Math games like these will not only sharpen your child's mind, it will make him appreciate the sport even more. Score!
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A few months ago (before the release of TL2013) I uploaded a script to CTAN.
What are the next steps (if any) that need to be taken to get the script or package part of the TeX Live and MiKTeX distributions?
For (La)TeX packages, there is really not much to do from the author's point of view: uploads are picked up by the TeX Live team and Christian Schenk, and are then added to TeX Live and MiKTeX, respectively (license-allowing). The TeX Live team provide an overview of their requirements: that I know of there are no MiKTeX guidelines, but following the TeX Live ones can't hurt in this case either. Assuming you've already uploaded to CTAN, key points are:
The TeX Live guidelines apply to scripts as well as packages, with the additional advice that Perl or Lua are the 'preferred' languages as they are bundled with TeX Live. MiKTeX doesn't have Perl built-in, so a Perl script in MiKTeX will require some action by the end user. That shouldn't prevent it going in to MiKTeX, though. There's also advice on naming: don't create any new conflicts!


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Daily Nutritional Needs for Pregnant Women
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Have 3 servings of whole grain carbohydrates, such as brown rice and whole-wheat breads and pasta, to keep up energy levels and ensure a supply of fiber.
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February 15, 2013
Paddle ski action – Flickr pic of the day
This image of paddle skier taking on some great waves at Muizenberg beach was captured by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group member Craig Wilson, aka creative666.
Craig says: "It was a typical summer, messy, SE, onshore morning at Muizenberg but this paddle skier didn't mind as he had plenty of wave-ramps to play on."
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The brother of a Fort Campbell soldier killed last week says his sibling appeared to be aware of the dangers facing him in Afghanistan and that the deployment would be more dangerous that a previous tour in Iraq.
Raymond Johnston of Owensboro says 26-year-old Sgt. Michael C. Cable of Philpot met with several family members before deploying to Afghanistan and told them he was prepared for "anything that happens."
The Army says Cable died when attacked by enemy forces. Johnston says the Army told family members someone attacked Cable from behind and stabbed him in the neck on March 24.
Johnston says his brother's body will return to Owensboro on Thursday. Visitation is set for Friday at Haley-McGinnis Funeral Home in Owensboro with burial set for Saturday.


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Probably a repost, but I find a little ridiculous that a featured question with a bounty of 500 has basically the same visibility (in terms of featured time and positioning in the list) of a question with 50. Can't we have something to improve this ?
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I think the type of users who are looking at bountied questions (the featured tab on the homepage, which is sorted by "ending soonest at top") will ABSOLUTELY notice the difference between …
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I'm not really sure why this needs to be changed. The incentive lies in the number of points that you're offering, not in the guarantee that it will cause yours to be ranked higher in the list of questions.
You're right that people who aren't terribly concerned with acquiring reputation points may not be any more interested in answering your question than any others, but the fact that you've decided to award 500 points instead of 50 should be enough for those who are interested in such things.
I'd prefer that Stack Overflow not start allowing people to "buy" higher rankings or a better sort position for their questions. If you want to see all the questions with bounties, there's a tab for that. The rest of us prefer to see questions centered around our tags of interest, not necessarily the questions that others want us to see really really badly.


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I've been a member of Stack Overflow for a couple of weeks now and have answered questions and read others answers, mostly in C/C++. True, I have learned about some things. For example,
undefined behavior which in the past, knowing what's going on from inside the CPU to compiler code generation, all those "seemed" defined and worked as I expected them to. I understand now how conforming to rules such as not evoking undefined behavior are good for you, even though you know in your PC, in your compiler it works without a flaw.
However, at times I got negative points for answers involving using macros or certain codes that makes me wonder why among people here, there are such very strict rules. For example, almost any time you talk about macros, people say "use functions instead". I understand that functions are better in many ways, but there are many places macros are more fit. Are macros so frowned upon here? Another example is, if for any reason you write a simple
for loop to find a character, you get a lot of comments telling you to "use prewritten functions instead" or you get negative points for suggesting the loops. I understand the functions in standard library have all kinds of error checking in them and probably are most efficient in general, but is it such a crime to write a simple loop for your own specific case?
What I'm asking is more general than these mere examples. It seems to me that among the users of Stack Overflow, there is "defined" (if not written) standard of coding in C/C++ and that's the only way they accept it. I'm not saying it's bad. I'm not saying that at all. I learned a lot myself about things that made my code not portable. However, almost all of those things turned out to be too much restriction. Things such as "if you do like this, your code won't work in computers that don't encode characters in ASCII". Do you think people will always want their code to run on all possible computers? Isn't that a bit too much? A simpler, faster method that you know works on computers you know your program would run on, seems to me a better solution than a completely portable one.
There are great codes out there that seems to me if they were judged here, they would get the worst results. Codes such as the Linux Kernel, implementation of STL that comes with g++, Mesa3D's implementation of OpenGL and so on. Look at these codes and your eyes are flooded with macros and bitwise operations. Do you condemn the programmers of the Linux Kernel too? Would you rather have your OpenGL library drop framerates by 10% but possibly run on a 16bit microprocessor too?
So, is what occurred to me true? Are people in Stack Overflow so strict on judging others' codes? Or have I just been unlucky enough to stumble upon a minor few?
Edit: I'm a master's student in robotics, my bachelors was in software engineering. My master's project was library/kernel module for a project funded by european union and through that I got offered PhD (in a subject that has to do with writing some software). I also code for fun. It's been 15 years that I'm familiar with C/C++ and 8 years that I actively code. (What I mean is, I didn't start programming just yesterday)
Update: After doing some research I found out there are a lot of C programmers, if not most, who hate C++ and a lot of C++ programmers, if not most, who hate C. As someone who finds beauty in both languages and maintains a coding style of a mixture of the two, I find those hatreds absurd. However, as it seems the majority of the programmers in either language have this hatred at least to some extent, I no longer see a reason for continuing this argument.
I came to the conclusion that I would write the answers they way I see fit, and just ignore everyone when they start throwing a fit because I didn't use a
vector or something (Seth Carnegie, the 7th comment). However, I would put a note on the bottom saying: This code is not meant for copy-paste. There may be lacking error checking. This is just to demonstrate how blabla works, and not necessarily the easiest way to do it. and other legal stuff. You know, like what you see in a EULA.


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Abigail Killeen is a theater artist. As an actor she has worked Off-Broadway, regionally, and in film and television. Her acting has been reviewed in The New York Times, Time Out New York, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Boston Phoenix, The New Haven Register, The Connecticut Post, The Portland Press Herald and The Portland Phoenix. Since moving to Maine in 2008 she has become an Affiliate Artist at Portland Stage, the state's only LORT theater, and in 2011 she won the Portland-based PEER Award for her work as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth with Fenix Theatre Company. She is a company member of Compagnia de' Colombari, an international theater company based in New York, and in 2014 toured with Karin Coonrod's adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's "Everything That Rises Must Converge". She also performs in Portland and Boston regularly – recent projects include the NNPN Rolling World Premiere of Steven Dietz's Rancho Mirage at the New Repertory Theatre, the world premiere of Rob Urbinati's Death by Design at the Good Theater and the world premiere of John Cariani's Love/Sick at Portland Stage.
Abigail's performance research includes generating theatrical projects for women that investigate grace and transformation. She developed a theatrical adaptation of Isak Dinesen's short story "Babette's Feast", which played in New York in 2010. Together with Adrianne Krstansky she developed a performance version of Virgina Woolf's "Mark on the Wall", which premiered as part of the International Virginia Woolf Conference in Chicago in June of 2014.
Abigail holds a BFA in Acting from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in Acting from Brandeis University's Professional Actor Training Program. She trained with Master Teachers in the Stella Adler Technique, Suzuki, and Extended Voice with the Roy Hart Theatre in France. Additionally she has studied Eastern European physical theatre with the Double Edge Theater, Gordana Maric from the University of Belgrade and the award-winning Frantic Theatre Company in London.
Abigail is an award-winning theater teacher (Outstanding Teaching Award, Brandeis University and a Karofsky Encore Lecture Recipient at Bowdoin College) and currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Theater in the Department of Theater and Dance. She teaches acting, voice and Shakespeare.


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N.H. woman brutally raped by drunk cop continues fight for 'rape is rape' bill
ALBANY - The brave Bronx teacher brutally raped by a city cop is appalled the Legislature ended its legislative session last month without passing a bill to expand the state's legal definition of the heinous crime.
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Next door to the Grand Palace you'll find the Temple of the Reclining Buddha (Wat Pho). It's the largest and oldest wat (temple) in Bangkok and, as the name ... Read more
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The Chao Phraya River (or Mae Nam Chao Phraya) runs north to south through Thailand, whose most notable and densely populated cities lie along the river's ... Read more
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Having now been replaced by supermarkets and shopping malls, Thailand's remaining floating markets are an enduring symbol of what life was like in days gone ... Read more
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A visit to Bangkok's Grand Palace is at the top of every visitors 'must-see' list. Built in 1782 by King Rama I who established Bangkok as Thailand's new ... Read more
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Wat Phra Kaew (or Temple of the Emerald Buddha) is one of the most important Buddhist temples in Thailand and is ornately decorated with intricate carvings ... Read more
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I'm trying to download and install software for my Ubuntu Linux machine. I've downloaded it by
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I'm trying to download and install software for my Ubuntu Linux machine. I've downloaded it by
To install one usually only needs a few commands. After downloading and placing the tar in the directory you wish to install it in (I use my home dir as it is easy) follow the steps by opening a terminal and making sure you are in your home by typing
This will show the files in the directory and you should also see pcmonitor.tar.gz listed
Next you want to unpack pcmonitor.tar.gz with
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This question can be restated as: how to interpret Matt 6:25-34 where Jesus tells us not to worry about food and clothes. Is it a promise that a Christian will never die for lack of food? Or is it not?
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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is 95% Christian. The recent conflicts have killed as much as 5.4 million people. A summary of the details states,
One could argue that the death toll is wrong, and some people have done so. Or, one could argue that for the deaths that were due to malnutrition and starvation were only among the remaining 5% who weren't Christian. One could also argue that the statistic is inaccurate by saying that those who died weren't real Christians. None of that seems convincing to me. At least one Christian died from hunger-related causes in that conflict.
For individual, anecdotal cases, you may refer to this list. Perhaps none were Christian. Thomas Johnson seems like one, but maybe forced starvation doesn't count? Granted, one can explain away individual cases all day, so I prefer the statistical answer, but sometimes both are useful.
My tongue-in-cheek comment, "Has a Christian ever stubbed his toe?" is intended as a joke (for which I meant no offense), but it's related to this issue. Coming from the same chapter as my glib (and probably bad) joke, Psalm 91:3 states,
If you interpret verses that insist on God's protection and provision as being for our physical needs, you will only be right some of the time. Christians die from car accidents; Christians die from cancer; Christians die from starvation.
What did Jesus mean in Matthew 6? I'll suggest emphasis on his question in the last part of verse 25, "Is not life more than food?" Surely food is required for life, yes? He is not referring to physical food. In John 6:35, I think this is more clear:
Jesus did not claim that those who follow him would never go (physically) hungry.
Who is Jesus petitioning here?
He is petitioning His followers and urging them to seek first the Kingdom of God, which is found by grace through faith. In John 4:23 we read:
If being a Christian assured one that they would not starve then Jesus would be saying something like: "Do you not know that once I complete my work upon the cross you will become a Christian and as a result you will not be able to starve?"
Since this is before the completed work on the cross one should question the viability of holding such a statement to a physical constraint and should not be directed to Christians only.
I do not have a statistical answer, but I do have a promise from the Word, which is worth more than gold.
This is a promise which I have lived and continue to live until this very day. He has poured out His blessings and I am thankful for His mercies.
To answer your question plainly, based on the other biblical support, I believe we should interpret it just as it is written. Do not worry about food and clothes because the LORD will provide the means. This does not mean that we should not work and just go to church everyday. What this means is that if we entrust God with our daily duties, putting Him first everyday, He will take care of the details. As the Hymn says,
Whenever you are interpreting Scripture, context must always be considered to avoid deriving the wrong meaning from it. In those verses quoted above (Matthew 6:25-34), notice that verse 25 begins with the word 'therefore', meaning that the statements about to be made are in reference to what has just been stated. In verse 24, Jesus had been speaking about how we cannot serve two masters. He was dealing with the issue of giving God priority and not being preoccupied with the things of this world. In verse 33 this point is clearly expressed when He says that we should seek God's Kingdom and righteousness first and all these things (the necessities of this world, including food and clothing) shall be added unto us. This means that our receiving provision for these things is predicated upon our fulfilling the condition of seeking the Kingdom first and His righteousness. It does not come automatically. So if a Christian is not meeting the requirements, that's the only time he can fail to see the results. God's promises always consist of two sections: our part and His part.
Do Not Worry means you should not be worried about anything. Right now in the economy, families are struggling because of bills and bad economy. People are sacrificing their food just to pay bills and travel fares. And what about ones with family? they need to starve just to feed their families. If they don't eat how would they work? so should they use the remaining money to feed their family or themselves so they can continue to work?
This is why Jesus said do not worry about it all. For if you worry you will be doing overtime, begging for money, getting loan and having 2 jobs. But by believing and just trusting in Jesus...he shall surely make a way out.
Last month I was paid less and I thought, "ok time to make sacrifices, i won't be going to a bible study on weds, and I won't pay my tithes because I need money to survive for the rest of the weeks till i get paid". A work mate/brother said to me I had no faith, he was right so I totally committed everything to the Lord. And yes the Lord got me through till I got paid, Is till paid my tithes but I did not attend the bible studies for reasons. the Lord allowed me to get money from someone and also being fed by others.
When you look at the passage in question, who is Jesus talking to? Everyone who reads it?
He was talking to the disciples there during His ministry in the first century. Jesus was a nomadic preacher, and so if you wanted to sit under His teaching and play a role in what He was doing, you could not at the same time be working in a "normal" job. In that passage, He was reassuring the disciples that leaving their normal livelihood to follow Him would not result in their physical needs going unmet.
So the fact that some of the people currently dying of various causes are probably Christians does not contradict that passage.
To the person who mentioned the Congo: the major problem there is prolonged war. People are going without food because they are busy killing each other. Which is not a very Christian thing to do. Even if the promise in the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to them at all, they are not "seeking God's kingdom and His righteousness" - they are seeking the cause of "our tribe gets to be the last one standing." 95% Christian? I doubt it. Most of those people are heathen animists, with a veneer of Christianity over their unconverted culture and beliefs.


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I am trying to transfer a large (~3GB) file between two unix machines.
I can use scp or rsync, but sometimes the transfer is corrupted. (I have to check manually.) I can split the file into pieces and transfer them and then checksum and then recombine, but this is tedious.
Is there a single command to correctly transfer a large file between two Unix machines? I want it to automatically checksum both copies, and keep redoing the transfer (or pieces thereof) until it gets all bytes across the wire correctly.


text: I will once again submit a character in a very easy fashion, although I must say drawing South Park characters isn't hard at all. Anyways, today I will teach you "how to draw Kyle easy", step by step. Everyone knows Kyle and how he is one of the main four that always has something to say. Stan is the more responsible one, but Kyle has a lot of guts and he even sometimes gets into these feuds with Cartman. It doesn't matter to me at all because I love every single one of them. I always enjoy recreating South Park characters no matter if it's Chef, Cartman, Kenny, or Mr. and Mrs. Marsh. Well, that's all I can really say. I already said what there was to know about Kyle in the regular lesson I have on him. I will be back with some other drawing fun soon so stick around to see what else I have in store for y'all. Peace out people!


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Overall RFID market to hit $5.35 billion this year
April 01, 2010 - MMH Editorial
A new market data report released by ABI Research (http://www.abiresearch.com)) predicts the overall RFID market to reach $5.35 billion this year, a glimmer of optimism after the economic slide required the firm to adjust its RFID forecasts downward for 2009 and 2010.
"The outlook is good for steady growth through the next five years," said ABI Research's RFID practice director Michael Liard. "We expect the overall RFID market to exceed $8.25 billion in 2014, representing a 14% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the next five years."
Not all segments of the RFID market are created equal, added Liard. "To 2014, the greatest growth will be found in real-time location systems (RTLS), baggage handling, animal ID, and item-level tagging in fashion apparel and retail."
The report, Semi-Annual RFID Market Data
, contains extensive data on RFID revenues and unit shipments segmented by technology, application and vertical market.
All four RFID technologies: low-frequency (LF), high-frequency (HF), active and passive ultra-high-frequency (UHF), and microwave are included across numerous applications. Because the entire RFID space is so fragmented, said Liard, data is broken down into two application categories: traditional and modernizing.
"Traditional applications include uses such as access control, automobile immobilization and electronic toll collection that account for slightly more than 61% of the total market today," he explained. "Those applications are expected to grow 6%, compounded annually from 2010 through 2014."
"In contrast, modernizing applications such as asset management, cargo tracking and security, point-of-sale (POS) contactless payment, RTLS and supply chain management are forecast to grow roughly 19% in the same time period," Liard said.
The growth, particularly in materials handling applications, can be attributed to an increased awareness of RFID's capacity to solve common business challenges such as asset management optimization and utilization, explained Liard.
"There have also been a lot of developments in the technology, particularly in passive UHF tags due to the Wal-Mart compliance initiative of a few years ago," he added. "That drove the creation of standards and technological advancements, making the tags more accessible, more affordable and better performing than they were a few years ago."
In surveying users, he said, ABI found that the increased affordability and better understanding of the value that RFID technology can bring are leading many enterprise and industrial users to deploy pilot and trial programs, which Liard predicts will lead to both limited and widespread deployments.
"If there's a value tied to a trackable asset or the goods that are inside it, more users are telling us they see the value in making that investment," he said.


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A bicyclist was taken to the hospital after he was sideswiped by a vehicle Monday on U.S. 73, a police spokesman said.
The accident was reported at 4:39 p.m. Monday north of McIntyre Road. Sgt. M. Dickason of the Lansing Police Department said the vehicle and bicyclist were traveling south. The cyclist, a 50-year-old man, was on the shoulder of the highway.
Dickason said the vehicle's driver, a 46-year-old woman, said she had been watching the vehicle in front of her and apparently didn't see the cyclist. She was cited for an allegation of inattentive driving.
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Can anyone share correct NPP Settings for R1+Samyang 8mm+Nikon FX please?
Can anyone share correct NPP Settings for R1+Samyang 8mm+Nikon FX please?
No takers, it would seem. However, it takes only 5 minutes or so to determine the correct setting for the R1 as there is only one adjustment possible (apart from tilt, of course). With 70 posts to your credit, I'm sure you are familiar with the handful of tutorials that are recommended here with monotonous regularity.
If you learn the calibration process once, you will never have to ask again. You need to do your own calibration any way because not all rigs use the exact same numbers. Recommended numbers get you close, personal calibration gets you spot on.
I know how to do it (thanks largely to John's tutorials), and have come up with working numbers for this combo using the tape on the window method. I will probably validate/fine tune when I have more time. I was only looking for a starting point since I thought this would be a relatively common kit.


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BETHESDA — Fred Thompson has traded in his badge and gun for a pair of sheers, a straight razor and a leather strop. Thompson served the public as Belmont County Sheriff for eight years....
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I'm getting ready to brew up a holiday batch to bring to parties and give as gifts, etc. Any suggestions on a good one? I'm thinking a cranberry beer might be surprising and delicious...
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I'd like to sip a nice warming barleywine or high gravity chocolate stout.
The Gingerbread Man Cometh This is my imperial spiced porter. Almost 9% ABV makes it very warming in cold weather. Spiced with ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon. Very good. Ages beautifully.


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I know that a ship is always referred using "she", but what about aircraft? What should we use when we're referring to aircraft? Is it the same for automobile?
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The most common way to refer to an airplane is it.
If one were to decide to infer gender onto an aircraft, female would be the obvious choice for airships (eg Zeppelins), and by extension probably the logical one for smaller aircraft like planes.
However, I would advise against doing any such silly thing. Getting rid of gender for inanimate objects is one of the main features of English I like.
For automobiles, there really isn't a standard. The most common usage is again "it". My mom had an odd tendency to name her cars, but they were generally neutral names like: "The Blue Blump". Probably the most popular personified cars in media are Herbie the Love Bug (male), Christine (female), and the Cars cartoon series (both).
Aircraft are usually referred to as "she", just like ships. Automobiles follow the same principle.
As a pilot, the aircraft is definitely a she. Look after her, keep her in balance and she'll reward you; she'll work with you to get you there smoothly and comfortably and she'll becomes an extension of your hands.
Each aircraft has a personality of her own; it's easy to personify different idiosyncrasies as different personality types. A slight miss on throttle-forward might be an emphasyemic cough, an out-of-balance rudder might be a wooden leg; these things become what you love in an a/c.
If an aircraft is given a gender, it is normally female, along the same lines as for ships and for much the same reasons (complex creatures with very fickle attitudes toward their men, that are nonetheless objects of affection).
The anthropomorphism of aircraft is rarer than for ships, but still very common especially in the military, where bombers and even fighter aircraft have traditionally been given a name and "nose art" for good luck (more commonly as simply something for the lonely pilots and ground crew to ogle). The bigger the plane, the more likely it is to be anthropomorphized. Race cars are also anthropomorphized by their drivers from time to time.
Things that contain people are feminine. Ships, cars, aircraft, countries, cities.
Of course "it" is always at least as correct.
As I read the question: 'WHAT IS the gender of an aircraft? What should we use when we're referring to aircraft?...', NOT, '...the question was basically whether one should refer to an aircraft as "she" as we do a ship...'. To continue, I think 'nose art' had a lot to do with it during WWII, where 'airships' often had female artwork (and attendant names) directly under the pilot's side of the fuselage as an 'affectionate' anthropomorphism to remind the crew of females they'd left behind, dreamed of, or had the characteristics of women within a plane's often sensitive controls during take-off, cruise and landing. Having said that, there were also not a few aircraft with male (often chauvinistic, comical or downright dirty) artwork and names (depending on their necessarily rigorous maneuverability). Still, I think it comes back to the finesse of the 'delicate handling' of aircraft. They are sensitive to the touch, respond with only a modicum of manipulation during flight, and with just the right amount of direction, bring her crew and passengers into a comfortable repose whether her '_heels' are lifted-up or placed gently on the ground after an exhilarating trip - alleviating pent-up stress and with a great deal of satisfaction. ~N'est ce pas?
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Four Great Trucks Americans Can't Have
Top Gear made the Toyota Hilux legendary by trying to destroy it. It drove out of an ocean, survived a collapsing building and traversed to the North Pole. The truck simply can't be stopped.
The Hilux is a perfect example of a tough truck that Americans don't get to enjoy. Instead, we get the Tacoma and Tundra. Which are fine, but really, what would happen if a new Tacoma got submerged in an incoming ocean tide? I shudder to think.
As great as the Hilux may be, is it still the toughest little truck in all the world? After all, it hasn't been significantly updated since 2005, and at least three other trucks have matured into worthy competitors.
But can anyone really beat the Toyota?
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By Lorie Johnson | CBN | Jan. 8, 2012
The abortion drug RU-486 is not only killing babies but also mothers, according to a report issued by the Food and Drug Administration.
According to the FDA report:
• Fourteen women died after taking the drug.
• More than 600 women had to be hospitalized, with more than half requiring major blood transfusions.
• The drug also led to serious or severe infections in 256 patients.
• Overall, more than 2,200 women reported serious medical problems from RU-486.
"I think there's a huge industry behind this abortion drug, and so I don't suspect it will be pulled from the market despite the fact that it's not good for women's health," said Jeanne Monahan, director of the Center for Human Dignity at the Family Research Council.
"Women have a right to know what it does, and they're not being told the truth," she said.
But the problems don't end there. Abortion businesses have also misused the drug.
In 58 cases, abortion doctors gave RU-486 to patients who had an ectopic pregnancy even though the FDA explicitly warns against doing so.
FDA Downplaying Report?
There are also complaints about how the FDA handled the release of the report. It was given to a senator who requested it but was not made public or posted on the agency's website.
"It really wasn't released into the media," Mandi Campbell, an attorney with the Liberty Counsel, said. "We don't hear a lot of mainstream media talking about this issue, talking about how abortions do kill women."
"If you think about it, that would really put a halt to the business, if women were informed and educated about the side effects of drugs like RU-486, and really the procedures as well," she added.
RU-486 works during the first three months of pregnancy by blocking the production of progesterone. That hormone supplies the lining of the uterus with critical nutrients needed to keep the baby alive.
Without it, the baby starves to death, detaches from the wall of its mother's womb and exits her body.
A New Drug in Town
Meanwhile, there's a new drug on the market, called Ella that was just released last year and is very similar to RU-486.
Critics worry it will also harm women, and they're concerned about the way it's marketed.
The FDA calls Ella a contraceptive because it prevents the fertilized egg from ever attaching to the uterus.
But since pro-life advocates believe pregnancy begins when the egg is fertilized, they consider Ella an abortion drug. They also say it needs to be tested in higher doses.
"It has the exact same chemical compound and mechanism of action as RU-486, so in other words it can also work post-implantation," Monahan explained.
"So even by the Food and Drug Administration's own wrong definition of when life begins, this drug is an abortion drug," she said. "But they labeled it as an emergency contraceptive."
While the government and drug companies might try to blur the line between contraception and abortion, it's important to know the facts.
Studies show that many women who are willing to take contraceptives clearly draw the line at taking an abortion drug.


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This is the first time I have written a letter to the editor regarding a political campaign. I'm doing so because of a Sept. 15, newspaper editorial titled "Learn About Your Candidates." I'm not writing as a Democrat or a Republican, although I am a registered Democrat. My record will speak for itself that I have publicly stated I have voted for some Republican candidates. It is also well-recognized that my former colleague, Wheeling Mayor Andy McKenzie (Republican) and I had one of the closest working relationships in the Senate. We maintain this close relationship to this day.
The candidates for the 1st Senatorial District, Sen. Jack Yost and Pat McGeehan, are asking for our vote so they may represent us in Charleston. If they are going to represent us they must first be present to vote.
Pat McGeehan served one two-year term in the House of Delegates from 2009 to 2010. During year 2009, there were 663 roll call votes. He was absent for 167 of these votes. Unless he had a serious health problem, which he did not, this is inexcusable. In 2010, of 530 roll call votes, he missed 22 votes. He had one of the worst voting records in the House of Delegates during his term.
A research of 73 random bills voted on during the 2010 session revealed Pat McGeehan voted 'no' on 71 of these bills. Twenty-two times he was the only 'no' vote. I am confident further research would reveal the same pattern of his votes.
Here are some of the bills he voted 'No:"
HB4039 Increasing the number of persons that may be appointed to the Marshall County Parks and Recreation Board. This bill does not have any effect on any other county in West Virginia and was sponsored by the Marshall County House of Delegates' representatives. McGeehan was the only 'no' vote.
HB4040 Requiring county boards of education to adopt contingency plans designed to guarantee 180 separate days of instruction for students. Pat McGeehan was the only 'no' vote.
HB4207 Making it unlawful to send obscene, anonymous, harassing and threatening communications by computer, mobile phone, personal digital assistant or other mobile devices. Pat McGeehan was one of three 'no' votes.
SB515 Relating to firearms purchases and licensing. This was an NRA endorsed bill. McGeehan was one of six 'no' votes. He was the only Republican who voted 'no.'
Finally HB103 Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act.
Pat McGeehan has made this legislation a major part of his campaign platform. He refers to this bill as a "cap and trade-like law." In his campaign brochure, he states he voted against this bill. This is absolutely untrue. The fact is that Pat McGeehan was absent when this bill was voted on.
Every statement I made in this letter is 100 percent true and can be verified by the W.Va. Legislative Agency in Charleston. Whether you are a Republican or Democrat, I believe the information I have provided should be considered when you cast your vote for one of the 1st Senatorial candidates.
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6 Awards That Would Actually Make The Oscars Worth Watching
Yeah, we get that the Oscars are already way too long. And we have no problem tossing some recognition to the best "Documentary (Short Subject)" and the best live-action and animated short films. We just don't think they should be televised. Nobody's seen any of the movies. Meanwhile, some of the greatest moments ever captured on film haven't gotten so much as a validated parking ticket from the Academy.
Why? Because there's no award for...
#6. Best Stunt
Stuntmen have been lobbying for the past 20 years to be eligible for their own Oscars, which frankly is a small thing to ask for in exchange for what these guys regularly risk so we can enjoy action movies and sequels to raunchy comedies. Even in an age when CGI shenanigans are the standard, real life people risk their real lives for a great shot. Like in this scene from GoldenEye:
Stuntman Wayne Michaels made that 750 foot jump, and he broke a world record for highest bungee jump doing it. Another guy named Jophery Brown pulled off that insane bus leap in Speed:
And sometimes the actors themselves get in on the life-threatening action, like when Harrison Ford actually outran a giant boulder in Raiders of the Lost Ark and when Keanu Reeves secretly trained to do the whole "jumping onto a bus from a Jaguar" sequence in Speed, which he did, without a hitch, thankfully.
As for some of the greatest stunts ever pulled off in cinematic history, few compare to the chariot race in Ben-Hur. While every second of this nine-minute clash of titanic balls is enough to suffice as the most badass anything ever filmed, the totally unscripted near-death of stuntman Joe Canutt was nothing short of a modern day dance with death worthy of Rome.
Fast-forward to 4:43. After that, you'll know when you see it.
However, there is one final stunt that deserves our attention if only because it might be the single stupidest thing anybody has ever done for a movie, and a really crappy movie at that. We are talking about the aerial transfer pulled off between two planes at 15,000 feet by stuntman Simon Crane for the 1993 film Cliffhanger.
No tricks. No foolin'. That scene really happened. A man hung on a wire between two moving planes in the air for a movie that ultimately went on to garner four Razzie nominations. And the best part? The audience is left to believe that the costliest stunt in cinematic history was pulled off by this man:
Apparently, air-to-air transfer is basic training at the Department of the Treasury.
#5. Best Scene
We're going to guess that 99% of the people reading this only know Psycho for the shower scene, or Saving Private Ryan for the opening battle sequence at Omaha Beach. We think of them as great films, but they exist in the cultural memory as great scenes. And there should be a way to appreciate them even if it's decided the rest of the film isn't Best Picture material.
This movie ended after the drill Sargent, right?
Recognizing scenes apart from the movies isn't a new idea. Entire books have been written on that shower scene in Psycho, and the "Omaha Beach" bit from Saving Private Ryan was so influential that it ushered in more than a decade's worth of WWII shoot-em-ups. In India, Bollywood totally has their own special Oscar for best individual scene from a movie, and with good reason.
They also have an award for "Best Tonya Harding Look-Alike Who Should Probably Cover Up Her Midsection," We spot a winner!
But more importantly, some of those great scenes that we associate with our favorite movies weren't always written and directed by the guys who did the rest of the movie. Like the "do you think I'm funny?" scene from Goodfellas, which was actually written and directed by Joe Pesci:
And then there are those unscripted scenes, the ones where the actors themselves improvise iconic moments forever associated with the movie, like when Jack Nicholson ad-libbed his creeptastic "Heeeerre's Johnny!" line in The Shining or when Humphrey Bogart said, "Here's looking at you, kid," which was never written in any versions of the script before shooting day.
Or how about the "you talkin' to me?" scene from Taxi Driver:
Do you know what De Niro had to go on in his script? "Travis speaks to himself in a mirror." That's it. That's like giving the Founding Fathers the instructions "Do something with laws" and getting the Constitution of the United States in return.
#4. Best Title Design
Back when silent movies first began playing at nickelodeons, their opening title sequences were nothing more than some words slapped up on a poster board, which was presumably made of dried out buffalo hides and Indian tears, because it was the olden days.
It's like they're not even trying to hide the Indians.
Back then, the only point of the cards was to give credit to the movie makers and let the audience know when the show started and ended, since silent film audiences were apparently still getting the hang of film going, and would have thrown rotten vegetables and polio germs if they'd reached their seat and found a blank screen.
But it didn't take long for creative Hollywoody types to start arting up their credit sequences with fancy lettering and beautiful backgrounds. Alfred Hitchcock famously employed master title designers like Saul Bass to deliver his highly stylized odes to mid-century design.
The title sequence was soon firmly established as an art form unto itself - giving filmmakers a chance to express the tones and underlying themes with animated (The Pink Panther, Life of Brian and Catch Me If You Can) or live action (the documentary that preceded JFK, the opening fly-by in Beetlejuice) short films that were often just as artistically interesting as the film that followed. Hell sometimes they're the only thing that makes the movie worth seeing, as when Lost in Translation's title sequence introduced us to the glory that is Scarlett Johansson's ass.
You can win an Emmy for doing the same exact thing. The team who designed Mad Men's opening sequence featuring the the silhouette of a suited man falling out of a building was eligible for international acclaim and awards for their work, including the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Title Design...
... while Daniel Kleinman's 2006 opening to Casino Royale, which featured the silhouette of a suited man beating the crap out of some baddies, was eligible for a steaming plate of bupkis.
Casino Royale, recipient of a hug from the world's No. 1 Grandma.
Instead, we spend 15 minutes of the Oscars celebrating the Best Animated and Live Action short, but exclude pieces like the mind blowing "The Life Of A Bullet" because it was attached to the front of a $50 million film called Lord of War.


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Me and a friend were looking at the rules in Draconomicon to make a Dragon PC and we were still baffled four hours later because of the dragon aging and leveling-up processes. Can anyone explain these rules in a simpler way (not to insult anyone's intelligence on how they believe they are easy) or suggest an alternate leveling method?
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Like any monster PC, you have hit dice and level adjustment, and progress by taking character class levels. The difference is that when a dragon PC hits the age listed, he is required to take his next level in his Dragon progression (Table 3-21) instead of a normal character class.
Creating a dragon PC
As per the standard monster PC rules, you begin with the following:
Progressing your character
You can gain character levels as normal. You don't get max HP or 4x skill points for your first character level, as you already got these from your first dragon HD.
If your dragon has increased by one of the age increments on Table 3-21: Aging for Dragon PCs, he must take his next level advancing his dragon progression, instead of a character class:


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Since batteries (for cameras, cell phones, etc) will lose charge in cold weather, what can I do to prevent loss of charge, or at least extend the battery life as long as possible?
Assuming you're talking about a situation where you're out in the elements (It's the great outdoors after all!), the best method would be to simply store those items close to your body. A pocket inside of your outerwear close to your skin would be best.
The cold can cause the electrochemical processes in the battery to slow down, eventually giving you less than it's usual voltage. (http://www.howeverythingworks.org/page1.php?QNum=1230)
If I need to use anything in the cold, I always keep it next to my body or in my sleeping bag at night. Try not to roll over them in your sleep!
If you can, use lithium batteries in your devices they will last longer and are less susceptible to the cold. My old gopro wouldn't shoot video in the snow unless I had lithium batteries in it. The regular NiCd or NiMh batteries could only do the less power-intensive photos.
Photographers in the Antarctic store camera batteries in their armpits to keep some decent heat in them. Amusingly, when the batteries in the camera die, that is also the best place to put them. My dad used to test cameras in the Antarctic (in addition to his day job) and said that was the worst bit at 50 degrees below freezing - popping a cold battery under your arm!
One approach might be, where possible, to use Eneloops. Far from losing their charge rapidly in the cold, they actually retain their charge far better when they're kept cold (and in general retain it far better than normal rechargeables.) I've got 8 AA ones I use in various pieces of gear (torch, GPS) and they've been great.
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Eneloops have a "much" longer storage time than NiCd or standard NiMH (lose about 5%/day). They are reported to lose 10% of their charge in 7 months. They have a large current potential to better provide quick cycling of speedlites (heavy loads).
If charged in a freezer they will load about 25% more total power but the charge time is slower/longer. But for fast charging, charging in the freezer is still better to keep the temperatures under control. If kept frozen I have no idea how long they would hold their charge.
However, if discharged below 60% of full charge voltage, this permanently damages the cells and they will not charge to full capacity ever again. Discharge is linear from about 95% down to 70% of discharge voltage, but from 70% to 60% the time is very short under the same load. So it seems that it is better to keep them topped off, but prevent overheating during charging.
Put them close to your body several hours before using them.
For seldom used, small load battery use, I am sure there are more durable batteries. I have lithium ion batteries in a security system that have been running wireless contact sensors for more than 5 years.


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When Professor Frederic M. Wheelock's Latin first appeared in 1956, the reviews extolled its thoroughness, organization, and conciseness; one reviewer predicted that the book "might well become the standard text" for introducing students to elementary Latin. Now, nearly six decades later, that prediction has certainly proved accurate.
This new edition of Wheelock's Latin has all of the features, many of them improved and expanded, that have made it the bestselling single-volume beginning Latin textbook: 40 chapters with grammatical explanations and readings drawn from the works of Rome's major prose and verse writers;Self-tutorial exercises, each with an answer key, for independent study;An extensive English Latin/Latin English vocabulary section;A rich selection of original Latin readings unlike other Latin textbooks, which contain primarily made-up texts;Etymological aids, maps, and dozens of images illustrating aspects of the classical culture and mythology presented in the chapter readings.
Also included are expanded notes on the literary passages, comments on vocabulary, and translation tips; new comprehension and discussion questions; and new authentic classical Latin readings, including Roman graffiti, in every chapter.
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Frederic M. Wheelock (1902-1987) received the A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. His long and distinguished teaching career included appointments at Haverford College, Harvard University, the College of the City of New York, Brooklyn College, Cazenovia Junior College (where he served as Dean), the Darrow School for Boys (New Lebanon, NY), the University of Toledo (from which he retired as full Professor in 1968), and a visiting professorship at Florida Presbyterian (now Eckert) College. He published a number of articles and reviews in the fields of textual criticism, palaeography, and the study of Latin; in addition to Wheelock's Latin (previously titled Latin: An Introductory Course Based on Ancient Authors), his books include Latin Literature: A Book of Readings and Quintilian as Educator (trans. H. E. Butler; introd. and notes by Prof. Wheelock). Professor Wheelock was a member of the American Classical League, the American Philological Association, and the Classical Association of the Atlantic States.
Richard A. LaFleur is Franklin Professor of ClassicsEmeritusand former Head of Classics at the University of Georgia; he has served as Editor of theClassical Outlookand President of the American Classical League, and is a recipient of the American Philological Association's national award for excellence in the teaching of Classics. Among his numerous books areScribblers, Scvlptors, and Scribesandthe revised editions ofWheelock's Latin, Workbook for Wheelock's Latin, andWheelock's Latin Reader.


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A particle of mass m moves on the x-axis under the influence of the potential $$V(x)=\frac{1}{2}m\omega^2x^2+Fx$$ Can anyone help me, using Schrödinger's equation in one dimension that the energy levels are: $$E_n=(n+\frac{1}{2})h\omega-\frac{1}{2}\frac{F^2}{m\omega^2}$$ Where n is a non negative integer?
Show that the energy levels of a particle in a specific potential are $E_n=(n+\frac{1}{2})h\omega-\frac{1}{2}\frac{F^2}{m\omega^2}$ [closed]
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Try a change of coordinates $x\rightarrow x-x_0$, where $x_0$ is an appropriate constant.
$V(x)=\frac{1}{2}m\omega^2x^2+Fx=\frac{1}{2}m\omega^2(x^2+\frac{2F}{m\omega^2}x)=\frac{1}{2}m\omega^2((x+\frac{2F}{m\omega^2})^2-\frac{F^2}{m^2\omega^4})=\frac{1}{2}m\omega^2x'^2-\frac{1}{2}\frac{F^2}{m\omega^2}$ and you have, that it is potential of the oscillator minus constant. So energy levels offset by this constant.


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Why is it that authors will use fragments in writing to emulate speech, but it is considered grammatically incorrect?
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This is a conventional journalistic practice, often used for emphasis.
Fragments are grammatically incorrect, since they:
It depends on what you mean by grammatically incorrect. Sentence fragments are not part of formal English, but formal English is only used in certain specific areas, such as professional correspondence or scholarly papers.
Outside of those areas, sentence fragments are common. So long as the audience understands the point, there's no reason to frown on them.
We don't speak formal English when we talk in our day-to-day lives. Therefore, it makes sense that novels will use sentence fragments when emulating speech, as you said.
It's also worth noting, I think, that some sentences that appear to be fragments are actually examples of elliptical construction. For example, the sentences "Fire!" and "Two tickets, please," convey complete ideas, even though they've left out some words. They're not fragments.


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F-1 Steering Boxes for Pre-'35 Fords - Simple SteeringWritten by on July 1, 2011
From 1928-34 Ford used a side delivery steering box with the drag link connected to the left front wheel. Like most cars of the day, those steering boxes were the worm and sector type. Basically the worm was a very coarse threaded section on the end of the steering shaft and it engaged the sector, which was basically a gear connected to the Pitman arm. Turning the steering wheel was like spinning a screw in a nut, the sector moved up and down the threads and turned the wheels. While this type of steering gear was simple, it was also prone to wear.
When Ford introduced the F-1 pickup in 1948 one of the improvements over its predecessors was the steering gear. Still the side delivery type (as opposed to cross steering used on Ford cars since 1935) the new box was the worm and roller style. The difference is the newer box has a roller that engages the worm gear on the steering shaft. As the name implies the roller spins, which not only reduces friction for easier steering, but service life was lengthened dramatically as well.
Of course it didn't take hot rodders long to realize that this new pickup steering was a natural to replace the older-style boxes in early Fords.
While the pickup steering is similar in size and shape to the earlier boxes they are not direct swaps. The mounting bolt pattern is different but the big issue is the angle of the mounting flange on the box. For all practical purposes the pickup framerails are parallel up while those of the cars run at an angle—that means if the truck box is simply bolted in place the steering wheel would be closer to the driver's door than desirable. There a variety of cures for this, including spacers and modifications to the 'rail in the area the steering mounts. We've even seen the pickup steering mounted to a plate above the 'rail, but in our view that defeats the purpose of looking somewhat original.
Although we seldom release Editor Brennan on the unsuspecting public, not long ago he did escape the office and find his way into Hot Rods by Dean where an F-1 box was being installed in a '33 Ford where he snapped the following photos. They'll give you an idea of what it takes to put a pickup box in an early Ford.
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The steering shaft is solid and is part of the box; a plate has been added to the mast jacket to attach it to the floor.A stock '33-34-style combination ignition switch housing/column mount attaches the mast jacket to the modified '36 dash. Note the slight angle on the dash mount to make the ignition switch level.Note that on the F-1 '48-52 box the steering shaft is at the bottom of the box below the sector shaft.By comparison, this is a '56 F-100 steering box (typical of 1953-56, the '56 had a shorter steering shaft due to the dished steering wheel used). Note the steering shaft is at the top of the box, above the sector shaft. Ford pickups used this style of box through 1964.Although it's hard to see, the F-1 box is angled slightly toward the center of the car thanks to the spacers welded to the inside of the framerail.Bumpsteer can be a problem with this style of steering. This drawing courtesy of Pete and Jakes shows how to avoid it. A line drawn from the attachment point of the radius rod to the steering arm on the spindle should pass through the draglink's pivot point on the Pitman arm. Due to the angle of the drag link with this type of steering, it isn't advisable for use with four-bars.


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I personally do not enjoy eating garlic, but some people in my family do. I really dislike the smell, and I care for them. I do not want to be rude, but if I can have some help on how to get rid of the smell, that would be great! Thanks!
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Sometimes its not just a matter of brushing your teeth to get rid of the smell of garlic. Actually the smell of garlic in your breath even after you have brushed your teeth after eating, it comes from your stomach.
To get rid of the garlic smell, try one of the following methods 1, 2:
Not necessarily related, but assuming you're cooking with cloves of garlic, cutting them in half and removing the heart (the little green bit in the middle), and then adding them to whatever recipe significantly cuts down on the smell it gives your breath.
Before answering directly to the quesiotn, a little forword is needed:
The garlic contains allicina (alliisina , glucoside solforato), an enzyme (alliinasi), vitamine A, B1, B2, C and niacina (another vitamin in B complex).
What happens is that there is a serie of chemical reactions when you chew the garlic, with the result of creating allile disolphour, which is what have the typical garlic smell.
The latter substance is very volatile and easily get in solution in liquid and gases.
So.... (this is the interesting part) when you ingest it, the propagate almost everywhere in your body. That's why you can smell it thorugh the organs which eliminate this substance, that is to say lungs, kidney, skin. Hence, in conclusion, when you eat garlic, it is not only a problem of your breath, but your whole body smells of garlic (in fact if you make sport and you sweat, you'll see you smell of garlic).
This said, here are some remedies for the breath:
In any case, after a while (maybe hours) the smell will come up again.
So, apart from not eating it, another remedy is in the cooking:
If you make the garlic boil before using it, the high temperature will inibite the production of the smelling agent, and you'll not have this killing smell.


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STEUBENVILLE - Planning for the 2013 Media Blood Donor Day officially kicked off Tuesday afternoon at Eat N' Park Restaurant with enthusiasm as Dana Zikesh, interim manager of the American Red Cross Greater Alleghenies Blood Services Region, reviewed suggestions to increase interest in the annual event.
"This beautiful weather today is bringing out a new found energy for me. I am excited about this year's blood drive," Zikesh.
"The America Red Cross is using a new campaign this year called 'Live a story-Give a story' to encourage blood donors to tell why they donate blood on a regular basis and the stories from the people who have received blood donations," added Zikesh.
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MEDIA BLOOD DONOR DAY — American Red Cross representatives met Tuesday afternoon with area media to discuss plans for the 25th-annual Media Blood Donor Day, set for June 25 at St. Florian Hall in Wintersville. Taking part in the planning meeting were, from left, Kathy Musso, executive director of the Jefferson County Red Cross chapter; Dana Zikesh, interim manager of the American Red Cross Greater Alleghenies Blood Services Region; Kristen Murdock-Breeze of WTOV-TV and Steve Kline of WCDK-FM. -- Dave Gossett
"We want to get at least 100 donors to walk through the doors on June 25. Our media blood donor drive will run from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at St. Florian Hall in Wintersville. Our donor calendar runs from July 1 to June 30, and at this point we have collected 1,380 units of blood, or 94 percent of our yearly goal," explained Kathy Musso, executive director of the Jefferson County Red Cross chapter.
"We have a blood drive set for 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on April 30 at Eastern Gateway Community College. And, we hope to surpass our annual goal with the media blood donor drive on June 25. We also have blood donations available at our chapter offices in Wintersville from noon to 6 p.m. on the first and third Mondays of every month," Musso said.
"This year's Media Blood Donor Day is our 25th anniversary event. Unfortunately we have seen our donations decrease over the years due to the aging population and the loss of residents in the area. There are fewer people to donate blood on a regular basis. So we are also trying to encourage more high school and college students to become active blood donors," noted Musso.
"We have a ton of high school kids who support us. And some of the students are pretty regular donors. We also have some college students who donate on a regular basis," added Musso.
Musso said the area media supporters include the Herald-Star, WCDK-FM, WEIR-AM, WOGH-FM and WTOV-TV.
"We have some new media tools available for this media day donor day campaign. Hopefully we can reach out to the past donors who haven't donated as much as they used to and encourage them to start donating regularly again," stated Zikesh.
Musso said they are considering urging blood donors to wear a T-shirt they received during past media blood donor days, "as sort of a retro day."
"We are also looking for a supporter to pay for T-shirts we will give away at this year's media blood donor day event," added Musso.
According to Zikesh, "it is important for everyone to know their blood is important for donation purposes."
"Type A donations are needed because 85 percent of the population can receive Type A platelets. Type AB is the universal plasma which means plasma from AB donors can be given to all blood types. The Red Cross continually seeks Type O donors who are willing to make multiple donations a year. And Type B is very important for Type B patients," said Zikesh.
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I'm talking about Instagram or Foursquare, they are custom designed but still are using default themed menu bar for navigation. Is there some dirty secret behind it?
They do this because it is easily recognizable by their users. Apple stresses using standard interface elements in their iOS Human Interface Guidelines:
They also understand that apps will be customized to some extent. The fact that Instagram and Foursquare have already done some customization gives them even more reason to stick to certain conventions such as the native navigation bar. This helps ground the users into a familiar user experience when using an iOS device. It also important to note that slightly altered the look of their navigation bar (the colors are slightly different, there is a slightly browned "old" look to the shading).
Apple has no problem with this either, but they do advise you to do it a certain way:
I think the answer is simple. Rolling your own version of UINavigationController is a complex and a lengthy process (we've done it and it took quite some time). The animation is probably the hardest part to replicate. You can use Toggle Slow Animations in the iOS Simulator in the Settings app to see the nav bar animation slowed down. There's a few things going on at once.
Some changes and tweaks can be made to the iOS standard nav bar, like tints and transparency, but these don't get you too far if your goal is a custom nav bar.
I believe subclassing can be used to make some basic changes, like swapping the main nav bar background (I'm a designer, not a programmer, so don't take the more technical aspects as gospel). I suspect this is what Instagram is doing, because their buttons and animation looks standard.
If you're going iOS 5 only, then UIAppearance can be used to cleanly replace some portions of the nav bar and buttons with custom elements. Depending on what you want, UIAppearance may be enough.
If you are going down the custom route, the it may be worth maintaining Apple's sizes. The nav bar is 44 non-Retina pixels high for good reason: It's a nice, easy tap size for our fat human fingers.
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To know the real answer to that question, you'd have to ask Instagram, Foursquare,...
I can only give you my guess. I can imagine that the consideration of choosing this approach has technical roots, not UX roots. It's just a lot quicker and easier to choose one of those built in application templates for designing an iPhone app. This is in fact quite irrespective of the rest of the UI, altough they could have made it themselves easier on that part too.


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Murder is hardly the best way for Lord Peter and his bride, the famous mystery writer Harriet Vane, to start their honeymoon. It all begins when the former owner of their newly acquired estate is found quite nastily dead in the cellar. All too quickly, what Lord Peter had hoped would be a very private and romantic stay in the country has turned into a most baffling case, with a misspelled "notise" to the milkman at its center and a dead man who's been discovered in a most intriguing condition: with not a spot of blood on his smashed skull and not a penny less than six hundred pounds in his pocket.
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We have one SQL server which contains a link to another server that is on a different box. I would like to create a user-defined-function on ServerA which returns the value of the udf on ServerB, however SQL is telling me that
Remote function calls are not allowed within a function.
Is there a way around this?
The udf does have a parameter, so I cannot use
OPENQUERY. I thought I had it working by using
sp_executesql, however although this works in a blank query window, it doesn't work from a user-defined function.
declare @someValue bit
exec ServerB.MyDatabase.dbo.sp_executesql
N'SELECT @someValue = dbo.[SomeUDF](@id)',
N'@id int, @someValue bit OUTPUT',
@id=@id, @someValue=@someValue OUTPUT
select @someValue
The entire function gets called as part of a query, so I don't think I can use a stored procedure
FROM SomeTable
WHERE dbo.SomeUDF(Id) = 1


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Some physicists have told me that if you think about an extended n-dimensional TQFT $F$, then the decategorification is given by $F'(X)=F(X\times S^1)$, which I believe they call "compactification on a circle." Is there any way to make this statement precise?
In a general extended TQFT Z, the assignment $Z(X x S^1)$ is the "dimension" of Z(X), in the following sense. Write the circle as an incoming arc followed by an outgoing arc. The incoming arc is a morphism (coevaluation) from the unit (Z(empty set)) to Z(X) tensor its dual $Z(X^{op})=Z(X)^*$, followed by a morphism (evaluation) back to the unit. In particular we learn Z(X) HAS a dual (is dualizable), and these are the two canonical maps that come in the definition of being a dual. The composition is an endomorphism of the unit Z(empty), which is very generally called the dimension of Z(X), or the Hochschild homology of Z(X).
If Z(X) is a vector space, End Z(empty) = numbers and this is the usual dimension. If Z(X) is a category (or an algebra, or a 2-category, or....), this is what is usually known as its Hochschild homology. In particular Hochschild homology is where characters (or traces) of objects in Z(X) live, if it's a category. In simple situations this will be the same as the K-theory of Z(X) (in great generality there's a map from K-theory to Hochschild homology), if you want to compare this to another version of decategorification, which is taking K-groups.
If you think of a TQFT as a functor from cobordisms to vector spaces, then $F(X \times S^1)$ will give you the dimension of the state space of $X$ (or the superdimension or whatever), because it is the trace of the identity. (In the cri du jour of $\infty$-categories, the cobordism functor is not everything, but is something.)


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Saturday, June 9, 2012
Why Just Genealogical Research Is Not Enough
Well, not so much, as I've discovered. I've done the research on Lodewijk Wesselo, organized it, have a nice timeline, and even an outline of the biography that I want to write about him. In fact, I've started writing already. But despite all the careful research, there are evidently still some tiny facts that I either missed during my research (like a conflicting date, which will hopefully be resolved at the end of this month), or a fact that didn't seem important before but turns out to be important after all now that I've started writing (like information on where exactly the house he built was situated exactly). But those things still fall under the genealogical research header and are merely plugging little holes in my research I've discovered by writing Lodewijk's story.
But even with those tiny bits of added research, I discovered I still didn't have all the material I needed to write this biography. So what was I missing? It turned out to be some key historical facts. For instance, there was a rather puzzling remark made by Lodewijk Wesselo in one of his letters about the success of his story in relation to World War One. Another puzzling remark was about a switch in churches. Researching the economic situation in the Netherlands during and right after World War One and the history of the specific religious denomination he mentioned gave me the background to understand what he meant. Researching two major historical events that he encountered up close and personal gave me a general sense of time that I also needed for this biography.
All in all, I've concluded that you cannot stop with just genealogical research if you want to write a family history story. You always need historical background information, either to understand something your ancestors did, or to place them within their specific time during your narrative. So before I can finish Lodewijk Wesselo's biography, it's back to the history books for me.
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So true, I am writing about my grandparents generation that saw the entire world change after WWI and the social political landscape they where part of. Understanding history really helps to understand the people I am writing about.ReplyDeleteReplies
History is always important when writing our ancestor's stories, but when they lived during times of great change I think it's even more important. They based their descisions on what was happening around them - how can we ever understand them without understanding their time?Delete
- Rorey CathcartJune 12, 2012 at 3:41 PM
One of my biggest frustrations with genealogy is that though I know 'when' someone was I rarely know 'who' someone was. Even some of my very well documented ancestors leave me dissatisfied. I search and search for that next piece of informtion that might reveal some insight beyond the facts. Letters are a godsend but rare to non-existant.ReplyDelete
Trying to understand the historical and geographical context of an ancestor's time is often the only lens though which we can try to understand their movements and life choices.Replies
Letters or other documents written by our ancestors are rare indeed. Yet I've also found that even local histories are often so clinically written that at the end you still only know about events surrounding an ancestor and not so much of the 'why'. A nice solution to this is to read documents like letters and diaries from that time period, written by people in the same social and economical position, preferably living in the same region. This gives an insight into how people 'like' an ancestor thought - it's the closest thing we'll often get to how an ancestor thought.Delete
J.M., reading the accounts of a contemporary to our ancestors is a wonderful suggestion. I agree that some historical works are less than illuminating. I have been fortunate in that at least a couple of my ancestors have had words "in their own voice" printed in newspapers or the congressional record. I am always on the hunt for new ways to find insight. Thank you very much.Delete


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Lets say that if f(x) and g(x) are invertible.
1- is (f(x)+g(x)) also invertible? 2- is f(g(x)) invertible too?
for the first one lets say that f(x)=x and g(x)=-x then f(x)+g(x)=x+(-x)=0 and f(x)=0 is not invertible. so my conculusion is that f(x)+g(x) can be uninvertible if f(x) and g(x) are invertible. Am I right?
For the second one I have no clue.


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Can I change the order of two of the game's phases: Buy units and Combat move? What will it change? What are the benefits?
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Regarding the order of play, the game is designed so that you buy your units guessing on what you will need next turn, after the results of all the combats from now until then, including the results of your turn
What if the order of buy units and combat move are exchanged?
So the players would first make the combat moves, then buy their units.
After introducing the game to a few new players, actually just finishing a game right now :), I wanted to share this small detail. It makes life a bit simpler. In tripleA (computer game similar to this) one of the maps actually implements this modified rule.
[based on kirst's answer below]
I'd include the AA gun's combat move fire after the purchase. First place the aircraft in their destination with a die on each that passed through an AA gun, after buying units, resolve AA fire and after that resolve combat.
A list of the games that use AA fire during combat and non combat move would be useful, I think this rule was abandoned for the mos recent editions
According to some rules sets, as soon as the combat moves are declared, AA guns will fire at any planes passing through or into their territories.
If you employ the "combat move - purchase units" order, then this is a very important rule to enforce, as you will know if you need to replace any planes that will be shot down before your buy.