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Spider-Man and Venom Maximum Carnage Poster #2 by ProfessorAdagioWatch
This is my version of how I think a Live Action version of the videogame "Spider-Man & Venom: Maximum Carnage" would look like.
I tried to make this as close as possible to the original Game, so please check that out on this video:
2 main characters are included on my image.
The image I made goes with this music (which is the real life version of the Game music) :
So please do listen to that while looking at my image.
Any Critique would be welcome (I would like other peoples' views on how it relates to the Game).
Information on the game:
Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage is a side-scrolling beat 'em up video game for the Super NES and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, developed by Software Creations and published by LJN (a subsidiary of Acclaim) in 1994. The game, based on a sprawling comic book story arc of the same name, featured numerous heroes, including Spider-Man, Venom, and their allies from the Marvel Comics fictional universe like Captain America, Black Cat, Iron Fist, Cloak and Dagger, Deathlok, Morbius and Firestar, all teaming up to battle an onslaught of villains led by Carnage, including Shriek, Doppelganger, Demogoblin and Carrion.[1]
The game featured a colored cartridge. Both the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Super Nintendo versions were red. They were later released in the normal cartridge colors (black for Genesis, gray for SNES).
The game was followed up by a sequel called Venom/Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety.
Universal Studios Orlando used Maximum Carnage as the theme for a haunted house at Halloween Horror Nights in 2002.


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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - After 24 years on the bench, Belmont County Common Pleas Court Judge Jennifer L. Sargus is stepping down at the end of May.
She noted that fairness and high standards have been the aspiration of her courtroom proceedings.
"I try to have an atmosphere that was quiet and receptive. A place where people could come and the truth would not be a stranger, a fear, would not be something they would shirk from but rather something that they could become comfortable with, and they could come to terms with the present and move on into the future. It was important to me that when people would be in court they could see a crisis is actually an opportunity."
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Belmont County Common Pleas Court Judge Jennifer L. Sargus will step down at the end of this month.
In describing a judge's duties, Sargus noted the importance of balancing the role of precedent in providing a framework for cases while at the same time weighing each case as a unique situation.
Sargus reflected over her time on the common pleas bench and how the types of cases she has ruled over have changed - chiefly the prevalence of drug cases and cases where drugs were a motive.
"This county 24 years ago had virtually no offenses involving drugs. There were fewer violent offenses," she said. "The crime docket here has increased enormously in 24 years."
Sargus noted that Belmont County shares in the conditions of rising drug-related crime that are impacting much of the nation.
"It's a serious problem," she said. "It really tells you how uniform this country is. The problems that people face in other states and other places, bigger cities, are really very similar to what people in rural areas experience as well."
Sargus had the duty of presiding over a wide variety of cases, many of which dealt with serious crimes and touched on multiple lives. A particular case that stands out in her mind was the brutal murder of four people in St. Clairsville in 1999. She praised the work of law enforcement and others involved in pursuing justice, adding that this and other cases will remain with them.
"Those memories don't just dissolve," she said.
In dealing with cases where pain, grief and high emotion are factors, Sargus underlined the importance of judicial neutrality.
"You throw a coin up in the air and the job of most people is to call heads or tails. The job of a judge is when that coin is mid-air, to see both heads and tails. To see both sides of the equation, and that requires you to a lot of times recognize when your own feelings are interfering and to the very best of your ability leave them outside."
Sargus described empathy as among the most important qualities a judge should cultivate.
"The word 'judgment' has no good place in a court," she said.
"One need only grow older to grow gentler in one's judgments," Sargus said, quoting the philosopher Goethe.
Sargus' earliest influences were related to law. She recounted growing up in a household where both parents were lawyers who served others in the course of their careers, and her mother served as a judge. Both were active in the field of workers compensation and helping people gain their deserved benefits for work related conditions.
She said these examples helped to instill a sense of purpose and vision of what the field should be.
"I unconsciously absorbed the idea that with law, you serve purposes," she said.
Sargus' term also broke new ground. She has the distinction of being the first female judge to serve in the county.
"I think this county is very open to women officeholders," she said. "Women have done very well in the courthouse."
She also spoke about the camaraderie of her fellow judges despite the isolating nature of the position. She also praised the courthouse staff.
"I will miss the people I work with. Wonderful people," she said.
Sargus also noted the renewed economic future of the area. Much of the litigation going through the courts is regarding land rights.
"I always thought of this county when I was younger as a place that was like a fallow field," she said in reference to the declined coal industry and the tendency of children to move away from the area. "The fracking industry has changed things enormously."
Sargus said the county's natural resources have brought new hopes and opportunities.
"Suddenly the land has given birth to the riches of its own," she said. "Which is a tremendous difference in the way people of this county are living now."
Her replacement will be appointed by the governor to fill the interim term. Those interested in the position must declare candidacy for the upcoming election. The cases Sargus has not closed by her retirement will go to the succeeding judge.
Sargus is looking forward to spending more time with family. She will also be available to act as a visiting judge if needed. She will begin teaching a class at Ohio State's law school in the fall.
"It's been a joy to serve the people of Belmont County. They are great people."

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Since 1989, the Lyons Twin Mansions Bed & Breakfast in Fort Scott, Kan., has been treating visitors to a comfortable stay in plush surroundings. Guests also enjoy complimentary breakfasts, including Eggs Benedict, omelets and Signature Sausage burritos. Now, you needn't spend the night to enjoy the Bed & Breakfast's finely prepared foods, because the Lyons Restaurant has been recently opened to the public.
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This article is provided courtesy of Stars and Stripes, which got its start as a newspaper for Union troops during the Civil War, and has been published continuously since 1942 in Europe and 1945 in the Pacific. Stripes reporters have been in the field with American soldiers, sailors and airmen in World War II, Korea, the Cold War, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Bosnia and Kosovo, and are now on assignment in the Middle East.
Stars and Stripes has one of the widest distribution ranges of any newspaper in the world. Between the Pacific and European editions, Stars and Stripes services over 50 countries where there are bases, posts, service members, ships, or embassies.
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Commanders, chaplains and health professionals are now specifically authorized to ask troops they think are at risk for hurting themselves or others about privately owned firearms.
The authorization is part of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, which contains provisions dealing with numerous new or amended policies concerning, among other things, sexual assault, abortion, detainee operations and suicide.
The measure dealing with privately owned firearms clarifies a provision -- backed by the National Rifle Association -- in the 2011 Defense Authorization Act that prohibited collecting information from troops about their firearms. Some commanders and mental health professionals were concerned that it forbade inquiries about firearms, the most common and by far the most lethal method used by servicemembers to take their own lives.
The Defense Department has made little headway in reducing the suicide rate, which had been lower in the military than in the civilian population. In recent years, for unknown reasons, the rate has soared among soldiers.
The new provision also requires the Defense Department to create a position to oversee all suicide prevention programs and to create a comprehensive program for the military, instead of leaving the services to devise a mix of programs.
The 2011 measure had been criticized by suicide prevention experts and dozens of general officers, including retired Gen. Pete Chiarelli, then Army vice chief of staff. By fall, a provision to clarify the right of commanders and others to ask troops about their firearms had gained broad congressional support.
The 2013 provision was lauded by suicide experts.
"It is great that the provision now specifically allows commanders to speak with troops about their privately owned firearms, not only because it addresses language that previously had a chilling effect on potentially life-saving discussions, but also because it affirms that asking is right and responsible behavior," said Dr. Matthew Miller at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Miller, associate director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, whose research has demonstrated that suicide is often an impulsive act that can be prevented by making the means to commit it more difficult, also praised Chiarelli, who was among the first military leaders to speak out about the impact of firearms on military suicides. At least two year ago, he had sought to ensure that commanders could ask potentially suicidal soldiers about firearms and recommend that they remove the weapon from their home until suicidal feelings passed.
"Gen. Chiarelli has been the model of a concerned, thoughtful, data-driven leader," Miller said. "His efforts to protect his troops in this regard are as heroic and as central to his estimable leadership as what he had done to earn his four stars beforehand."
The NRA said it did not oppose the revision.
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Imagine a British investor with $10-100k in her pocket. She wants to see the previous performance of various British and overseas funds to choose the one to invest. And she wants to filter out the ones which accept minimum one million investment. Is there a website to help her to make the informed choice?
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Your example shows a fundamental ignorance of how hedge funds operate:
And one final item of note is that all investors must be accredited (ie, the investor must be wealthy already).
So your premise doesn't really make any sense to begin with. Given the above regulatory framework, a website like what you've described is almost impossible to build and will definitely be useless if it even existed.


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GLOBAL Design NYU, a New York University project that aims to transform architecture and urban design in ways that prioritize environmental concerns, will host a symposium on Friday, June 10, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m., in the Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts at NYU's Gallatin School for Individualized Study (1 Washington Place at Broadway). The symposium will include presentations by Bjarke Ingels and Architecture Research Office, among other internationally recognized architects, as well as leading theorists and historians, such as Graham Burnett, Mark Jarzombek, Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), and Jeffrey Inaba. The event is being held in conjunction with the exhibit, "Elsewhere Envisioned," the first of its kind at NYU.
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GLOBAL Design NYU, which brings together designers, scholars, and innovators, showcases design research as it relates to visionary architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, and ecological planning through exhibits and speaker series.
The project is headed by three Gallatin School faculty: Peder Anker, who authored the From Bauhaus to Eco-House: A History of Ecological Design, among other works; Louise Harpman, a principal in the architecture firm Specht Harpman, named one of New York City's Top 100 architects and designers by New York magazine; and Mitchell Joachim, co-founder of Planetary ONE and Terreform ONE, nonprofit organizations and design groups that integrate ecological principles in urban areas.
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Curious about Cuba? Get a rare glimpse of the country in November 2014 by joining a trip organized by the Alabama World Affairs Council, led by Auburn Montgomery Professor James Nathan, a noted scholar on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Held Nov. 8-15, participants will engage with political scientists, economists, entrepreneurs and artists in Cuba and visit a clinic, school and organic farm cooperative. Each day will be filled with numerous sightseeing and interpersonal exchanges with a variety of specialists and ordinary citizens. The group will charter a flight from Miami to Havana and spend five nights in Havana and two in Trinidad, a well-preserved Spanish colonial town and UNESCO World Affairs site.
Nathan serves as the Khalid bin Sultan Eminent Scholar in AUM's Department of Political Science and Public Administration. He has authored seven books on U.S. foreign and security policy including "The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited," which was cited by The Washington Post as "mandatory reading for policymakers at all levels." He is executive director of the Alabama World Affairs Council and a retired Foreign Service officer.
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Let $ H = \frac{-h^2}{2m}\frac{\partial^2 }{\partial x^2}$. I want to find the matrix elements of $H$ in position basis. It is written like this:
$\langle x \mid H \mid x' \rangle = \frac{-h^2}{2m}\frac{\partial^2}{\partial x^2} \delta(x -x')$.
How do we get this? are we allowed to do $\langle x | \frac{\partial^2}{\partial x^2} \mid x' \rangle = \frac{\partial^2}{\partial x^2} \langle x \mid x' \rangle$? Why? It seems some thing similar is done above.


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A vigil is set tonight in the Louisiana town of Winnsboro where a 20-year-old black, female college student was set afire Sunday night in a park and her car smeared with racial slurs and the letters KKK.
The mother of Sharmeka Moffitt said the young woman is expected to undergo surgery today at a LSU Hospital in Shreveport, after being burned on over 60 percent of her body.
Initial reports in social media on Monday said that Sharmeka was wearing an Obama T-shirt at the time of the attack, but her mother told KSLA news that she was not wearing an Obama shirt. She also corrected other rumors.
"She was not raped. She was not beaten. She was burned," said Edna Moffitt.
Sharmeka was walking in Civitan Park when she was attacked by three men wearing hoods or hoodies. She told authorities that she could not see their faces.
Authorities have not classified the incident as a hate crime, but state police were on the scene investigating within hours, state Sen. Rick Gallot, told BlackAmericaweb.com. "I understand the FBI is also investigating," Gallot said.
"Anytime there is a crime of this magnitude, so senseless and brutal, you have to wonder what would motivate someone to inflict that type of pain on another individual," Gallot said.
Tony Brown, host of a morning talk show carried on five Louisiana radio stations, said he broke the story on "Eyes Open Tony Brown" then traveled to Winnsboro to talk with residents and officials.
"This has developed an environment of fear in that community," Brown told BlackAmericaweb.com. "We've seen an increase of racially motivated incidents in Louisiana and other parts of the country since the election of President Obama.
Winnsboro, is in Franklin Parish, about 30 to 45 northeast of Jena in LaSalle Parish. It was in that town in 2005 where national attention was focused after six young black men were jailed following a fight with a white schoolmate in a town where there had been racial division.
Winnsboro has a population less than 5,000 according the U.S. Census. A majority of residents in that town are black, but the largest percentage of residents in the parish is white, Brown said.
Both the mayor and police chief in Winnsboro are black. Attempts by BlackAmericaweb.com to reach Chief Lester Thomas and Mayor Jackie Johnson were unsuccessful.
Gallot and Brown applauded law enforcement for moving quickly to bring in additional resources for the investigation.
"This happened around 8 p.m. and by 1 a.m., state police were in there," Brown said.
Gallot said he had confidence that the investigators will get questions answered regarding the incident.
"There have been a lot of rumors and speculation out there," Gallot said. "I caution everyone not to rush to judgment, but to allow the professional investigators to handle this."


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I was confused when i saw two object of different masses (A and B)falling from the same height(h) but both of them strikes the ground at same time. Is this possible, that masses of the objects are independent from the time of fall? but how is this possible? if the Kinetic energy says that K.E=1/2mv^2 thus m is proportional KE, and and if the kinetic energy of two object is different then this would take different time, because kinetic energy is proportional to time.
When we throw an object in the presence of gravitational attraction is the mass of the object proportional to the time of fall or not?
It certainly seems possible, as you claim to have observed it!
It's not that $KE=mgh$ (in general), but rather $KE=mv^2/2$. If you consider the gravitational potential energy as well ($U=mgh$), then you can write down the total energy for either object as:
This seems to be the source of the inconsistency. There is no "kinetic energy is proportional to time" rule. If you roll a ball along a smooth surface, it will keep rolling with the same kinetic energy as time passes. A falling object will gain kinetic energy faster and faster as time progresses, in this case it will be quadratic, not (linearly) proportional.
To figure out what happens, you can use the fact that the energy is conserved ($\Delta E = 0$), and you will see: $$KE_{initial}+U_{initial}=KE_{final}+U_{final}$$
Now since the ball is not moving when you release it, $KE_{initial}=0$. Also, when it hits the ground $h=0$ so that $U_{final}=0$. We can specialize the above expression from conservation of energy to this case:
$$U_{initial}=KE_{final}$$ or $$mgh=mv^2/2$$
As mentioned in the comments, the mass appears on both sides here so we have finally that
You will notice that I never said which falling object we were considering, and since the mass cancels out, this exact relationship must be true for both of the objects! From these considerations, you can find the velocity of an object after falling through an arbitrary height $h$, and if that velocity doesn't depend on the mass, then the whole time to fall can't depend on the mass either, as clearly two objects which always have the same velocity must both travel together to reach the ground at the same time.
It is true that if you neglect dissipative forces, all objects undergo the same acceleration while falling in a uniform gravitational field.It is because the gravitational force acting on an object of mass m due to another object of mass M equals GMm/r^2 when the are separated by a distance r.Let this force produce an acceleration a on m. Then, GMm/r^2=ma. Therefore a is independent of m. If two objects of different masses are dropped from the same height h, then , h=1/2*a*t^2,where t is the time of fall, which, as can be seen is same for any mass. And as for mechanical energy conservation, the heavier object had greater potential energy before it was dropped. It will also have greater kinetic energy because of it's greater mass, not any greater speed.


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by Melissa Brunner
My first workplace experience was on my uncle's dairy farm. Every day, I'd walk the quarter mile to the barn, where my cousin and I would take care of the little calves. We'd feed them from nipple buckets, then teach them to take milk and, later, grain from buckets. We'd clean the mess out of their pens - always a lovely-smelling task! In later years, we ventured to assist in the milking parlor, where my brother and relatives from the other side of the family were working. We'd help get the cows in from the yard, sometimes there's be hay or straw to unload. During that time, we also showed animals at the county fair through 4-H, halter-training them and leading them around the barnyard.
It has been interesting, then, to follow the debate over the proposed youth farm labor regulations. Had they been enacted, it's likely many of the experiences from my youth would have been prohibited - or undertaken illegally. The farm community protested, as did lawmakers including Kansas Senators Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran. Thursday evening, the White House and Dept. of Labor announced they would withdraw the regulations.
In there statement, though, the administration still pledged to work with the farm community in achieving what they say drove the regulations in the first place - an interest in improving the safety of agricultural activities for young people. I don't think anyone would argue the inherent risks of farm activities, for both children and adults. There is heavy machinery involved and the unpredictability of animals. My family wasn't immune to accidents. On the minor side, I recall the first time I took a heifer I named Vanity outdoors for a leading session - she took one look at the lucious green grass, reared up, landing on my lower leg, and bolted! I found her calmly grazing behind a hay wagon, while I nursed a nasty bruise! That story aside, I believe most families, 4-H leaders and others involved in the industry always have safety top of mind.
I wouldn't trade those farm experiences for anything. The economy forced the sale of the family farm while I was in high school, the same fate befell thousands of smaller operations during that time and the trend continues today. I'm glad a more cooperative approach will allow young people to continue to have those experiences while taking steps to ensure all are reminded how to make them as safe as possible.
What do you think - were the regulations a good thing or a bad thing? Was the administration overreacting or on the right track? And what do you think of the compromise?


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Birmingham Young Poet Laureate - Application form
Adult Poet Laureate - Find out how to apply to be Poet Laureate for Birmingham if you are over 18.
Are you aged between 11-17?
Are you a budding poet? Do you write poetry and would you love to read it to an audience? Would you like to develop your poetry writing skills and promote poetry to other children and young people?
If you can answer yes to any of these questions, why don't you apply to become Birmingham's ninth Young Poet Laureate?
The position of Birmingham's Young Poet Laureate is unique.
It will offer you the chance to meet with poets and take part in local and national events. You will also work with Birmingham's Poet Laureate on various projects and get help with your writing. The post is for a year from 3 October 2013 to 2 October 2014.
If you are selected you will be presented with a an iPad, a framed certificate and £100 worth of books.
Previous applicants are welcome to apply again.
You can read the blog of Birmingham's current Young Poet Laureate, Claire Guest to see what an exciting year she is having. You can also read some of Claire's poems.
How Can I Apply?
You need to:
- be 11-17 years old.
- live or attend school or college in Birmingham.
- submit four poems (one of them should be on the theme of 'Water').
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- why you want to be Birmingham's ninth Young Poet Laureate
- how you would promote poetry to the diverse range of children and young people in the city.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to a poetry and performance workshop and to perform in front of judges and an audience at the Library of Birmingham on Saturday 7 September. They will be judged on their poems, personal statement and performance.
A selection of the poems sent in will be displayed on the Young Poet Laureate website: www.libraryofbirmingham.com/younglaureate
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Get your parent's/guardian's permission to take part. This will include you participating in the award ceremony and possibly other civic/national events at which the media may be present. The parent/guardian must also give permission for the poems/information from your entry and your photograph to be used in Young Poet Laureate publicity. We will need to confirm this with them before you can be appointed.
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$50 Off Purchase of 2 Select Xbox 360 or PS3 Games of $59.99+
For Example: Halo 4 + Black Ops 2 = ~$70 :O
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So glad I bought my gifts early! Paid $60 for Halo 4, 3 weeks ago! /s
@the18thtee84: you might want to look into getting that price matched or even simply returning it so long as its unopened
Far Cry 3 isn't available at any stores around me. Oh well.
+1 for the (potential) deal.
-1 for Toys R Us's crappy inventory.
Both Black Ops II and Far Cry III - i.e., the only 2 games I wanted off that list - are out of stock in a 50 mile radius (maybe further). Basically a bait-and-switch.
I'll stick to Amazon.
What a bummer. I just bought black ops last week for $45. I would have paid the $25-30 extra to get either halo 4 or Far cry 3
Worked out perfectly for me. I had bought far cry 3 & black ops a few weeks ago when they had them buy 1 get 1 half off, so it was a little over 80 for the two of them, which I thought was a great deal. Saw this this morning & ran to toys r us, wrapped presents in hand, to return & rebut & also pick up halo & mw3 I had two 5 dollar reward certificates so it ended up being a little under 30 dollars a game. For 4 games that have came out in the last few months, all of which my dad wanted for Christmas, this was perfect. Online selection sucked. And the website doesn't update. Your better off calling and asking if they have the games in stock. They WILL hold them for you!!
@the18thtee84: I feel your pain. My first year to start shopping early and almost everything I have has dropped in price AT LEAST 25% since mid-October...never again.
hmm.. they dont have either of the games that i wanted in any location within 50 miles.. no ship to house or pickup in store option??
Anyone try a price match at Walmart or Best Buy on this? I have 2 TRUs near me. One has one of the games I want, but not the other, the other TRU has the other game I want, but not the first. I can buy the game from one at full price, drive across town to the other and return it, then rebuy it with the second game for the deal.
Or maybe just drive to BB and price match...


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99-year-old record-breaking sprinter, Ida Keeling, steals the show in the 100 meters at Gay Games
AKRON, Ohio - Standing among a sea of sprinters, Ida Keeling captivated the crowd at Lee Jackson Field on the campus of the University of Akron.
Her bright yellow Nike running shoes grabbed the attention of spectators, but it was her age that had people truly buzzing.
Keeling, 99, is a great great-grandmother who stands four feet, six inches tall and weighs 83 pounds. On Tuesday afternoon, she raced in the 100-meter event of the Gay Games.
"My doctor told me two years straight I'm as healthy as a healthy 20-year-old. Hooray!" Keeling said prior to her race.
Her coach and daughter, Shelley Kelling, reminded Ida to stay in her lane and focus on the finish line.
When the starter fired his pistol, the crowd immediately began cheering for the senior citizen from New York City and the clapping and whistling didn't stop until she finished, with a time of 59.80 seconds. She came in last place, but that didn't matter to anyone, including Ida.
"I feel I'm still a winner," she said.
Shelley Kelling said no woman at her mother's age has ever recorded a faster time in an internationally certified 100-meter race.
"She does not only inspire people that are young or that are out here. It's a message that you can do this at any age," Shelley added.
Ida started running at the age of 67 to help her deal with the profound grief over the deaths of her two sons, who were murdered within three years of each other in New York.
Shelley, also a suburb athlete who competed in the Gay Games, said she signed her mom up for a 5K race more than four decades ago and Ida has been hooked on exercise ever since.
"If you push her down, she is going to get back up," Shelley said.
Ida will turn 100 in May and hopes to set a new record in a new age group in 2015.
"If I can or if I feel up to it... the pace gets lower as you get older because you get tired quicker," she said.
Aside from arthritis, she has no health concerns and she's quick to offer inspiring advice for others.
"Eat for nutrition, not for taste. Do what you need to do, not what you want to do and don't leave out your daily exercise. Love yourself."


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As mentioned in this discussion, a question closed because it was not well-phrased is currently very unlikely to be reopened after an edit clarifying the issues. Those who voted to close should at least be asked to reconsider and reopen the question after such an edit.
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I'd like to see this sort of feature possibly integrated with the suggestion to track close votes found here.
As it stands, I can't revisit close votes (unless using Grace Note's favourites abuse which to me feels 'wrong') so that would be a start.
Being able to view them and possibly styled/flagged according to:
There have now been 2 bounties awarded on the linked question now without any indication of whether this sort of feature is planned or not.
That's a good idea! Occasionally I vote to close but I never keep track on those votes and almost never come back to a question where I left a closing vote. And I'm absolutely sure I would use such a notification to leave a reopen vote if there was a significatant change or clarification.
I could - as a workaround - (ab-)use the 'favorite' star to mark those question, but, on the other hand, delete-marked question are not my favourite ones ;)
Some additional thoughts on such a notification feature
And another thought - if people are aware that closing a question might lead to notifications, some might start thinking twice before they happily jump on the bandwagon.
I like this idea for a number of reasons
I do not think this is a good idea. There have already been complaints about the multitude of notifications which are being used. Adding more notifications will simply cause people to close less.
Basically it comes down to punishment/reward. When I close a question, the reward is a cleaner more consistent site, the punishment being the possibility of someone disliking me for it (I can deal with that). However, I can do that in one sitting.
Once this solution is implemented, it means that I could be notified about edits to every question I've ever voted to close on. Even if you limit it to only questions which are in fact closed, you'll still be sending out many many notifications to people who don't necessarily care. So you've added "punishment" (that is, undesired results) to an action.
The note "don't necessarily care" is an important one. Currently, the notifications are all geared towards information that an individual user should care about.
When I close a question I am saying that it doesn't belong on the site, so why would I want to be notified every time it changes?
It's possible that I could want those notifications, but it isn't something that we can assume and then force on people.
EDIT: I do have an alternate suggestion "Edited After Closed" view in 10k tools
There's two scenarios here. Either the closer does care, or does not care, what happens to the question post-vote. No matter what, if the closer does not care, no amount of alerts or messages or notifications will make that user budge. They will just be something to click past, not unlike people who would click past all manner of warnings and suggestions when typing posts anywhere online. Some people just don't care, so this really won't help against these users.
Meanwhile, for the users who do care, they won't necessarily want to have info bombarded at them for everything, nor forever. Some of these people already look back, anyway. Personally, I tend to monitor questions that I've recently voted on within a day or so, but I enjoy that I can do this manually. If I'm really concerned about one that might be on-the-fence, then I've already got a nifty feature to get updates on it - marking it as a favorite. This way, I get reports for as long as I want to care about it. Once the question gets reopened or the close decision is completely finalized, then I can remove it. This is something any person can do when they vote to close a question which they might consider looking back on, so I think it's perfectly satisfactory.
I think this would be a great idea, there could be some limits on it (notify only on first edit of the day for instance), but as it is, reopening is excessively difficult. I recently editted a year old question, where the main problem was too much irrelevant information, combined with english obviously not being the posters native language. While the question is now understandable, and probably somewhat generally useful, it is unlikely to be reopened.


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I'm looking for an animated Loading icon that is also transparent; however (I know I'm lazy) I dont want to make my own. Please forgive me if this is not the correct forum for this post, I've just had so much luck here in the past. does anyone know where I can find one of these....it needs to be very small (icon size).
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http://www.ajaxload.info/ is your friend.
However, there are no "animated pngs" simply because no browser supports animated pngs.
There is a new site http://preloaders.net/ that generates loader icon. It is great tool and has much more customization option than http://www.ajaxload.info/
http://www.chimply.com/Generator also has many options but I don't like its image quality and it does not provide downloading in
http://www.ajaxload.info/ is good, simple and has remain useful since many months. But http://preloaders.net/ is just great!
Sounds like you're after generating an MNG file, but I don't know what the state of browser support for them is.
You can transform any GIF animation to a PNG tile set with this convenient tool: http://labs.andregil.net/Gif2TileSet/Gif2TileSet.html
You can then animate it as a background image viewed through a "porthole" by changing the background image's position. It's explained here How to show animated image from PNG image using javascript? [ like gmail ]
There exist a jquery plugin to create animated png its called : animated png :-) http://animatedpng.info/


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For every $a,b,c$ non-negative real number such that:$a+b+c=1$ how to find the least value for :
For every $a,b,c$ non-negative real number such that:$a+b+c=1$ how to find the least value for :
Let $\displaystyle g(x,y,z)=\frac{x}{y^3+54}+\frac{y}{z^3+54}+\frac{z}{x^3+54}$.
If we consider $g(a,b,1-(a+b))$ we can use $\partial_ag=0$ and $\partial_bg=0$ to numerically find the following critical points (up to cyclic permutation): $$\begin{array}{lll|l} \text{a} & \text{b} & \text{c} & \text{g(a,b,c)} \\ \hline 1.20836 & -0.608416 & 0.400057 & 0.0183912 \\ 0.51624 & 0.32016 & 0.1636 & 0.0185045 \\ 0.333333 & 0.333333 & 0.333333 & 0.0185058 \\ 4.69649 & -0.929554 & -2.76694 & 0.0424017\\ \end{array}$$ so in the region $a,b,1-(a+b)> 0$ it seems the minimum value is $\leq 0.0185045$. Now, for the boundaries, we use (w.l.o.g) $g(0,b,1-b)$. This has a minimum at $b=0.251454$ where $g(0,b,1-b)=0.0184826$. We also have to check So this seems to be the minimum value of $g(a,b,c)$ subject to $a+b+c=1$ and $a,b,c\geq 0$.
I tried to use Lagrange multipliers to get an exact algebraic solution, but the expressions were much too complicated (i.e. not solvable by radicals). I suspect there is no pretty closed form expression.
EDIT: By the way, here is a plot of $g(x,y,1-(x+y))$ in the region $x,y,1-(x+y)\geq 0$ (with critical points highlighted in blue and the minima highlighted in red):
Since you said non-negative, I am going to assume that zero is allowed in which case I found a minimum value of 0.0184826 achieved at $a=0, b=0.748545, c=0.251455$ up to their cyclic permutations.
After posting this I see that Oleg567 pointed to this solution already. Furthermore, if you want all $a,b,c$ to be strictly positive then


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East Tennessee State University's public radio station has inaugurated the first news department in its 40-year history.
According to the university, WETS-FM features news and information from National Public Radio, the British Broadcasting Corporation, Pacifica Radio and other sources.
Now longtime ETSU administrator Fred Sauceman will deliver local and regional news during the National Public Radio newsmagazines "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered" weekday mornings and afternoons.
Sauceman said in a news release that the broadcast will focus on stories and issues that affect listeners in the Tri-Cities area such as education, the environment, the economy and local and state government.


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