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PRINCE2 Training - PRINCE2 Courses - PRINCE2 Qualification
Can you confirm your course is accredited?
Yes the course is accredited by the BCS (British Computer Society)
Do I have to buy my own course materials?
After payment has been made you will be given on the course, your own courseware folder, the official Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2 manual (which is yours to keep), refreshments, both official examinations dependant on chosen course, pre-course work supplied via email and official certificate(s)
How much are the exams?
PRINCE2 Training are happy to say that your Foundation & Practitioner examinations are included in the overall course cost. All subsequent exam re-takes are subject to an additional fee
Can I take the course with no experience of Project Management?
Yes. The PRINCE2 Foundation & Practitioner course is open to those with no previous experience and wishing to gain the PRINCE2 certification or for those who have been involved in a Project Management environment but have yet to gain the full accreditation
Do I need to study before attending the course?
Yes. As a pre-requisite, we provide pre-course work via email that we strongly advise you work through prior to attending. We will supply the first 3 chapters of the official manual that we'd like for you read and complete a few short exercises that need to be handed to the instructor upon arrival on the course
Can I take the Practitioner exam first?
To take the Practitioner exam you must first gain a Pass at the Foundation level. Proof of this will be required if seeking to take the Practitioner exam only
When do I get confirmation of the course that I booked?
As soon as payment has been made and received may it be over the phone or via our online booking system, an email will be despatched detailing the course location, pre-course work, course agenda and payment receipt. Please keep this email for your own records
How long is the course?
The daily hours are on average 09:00 to 17:00. We would like for you to arrive at approximately 08:45. The instructor will discuss the remaining days upon your arrival on the first day.
I've had homework on other training courses but is there homework for this course?
There will be work that requires completion each evening and will be set by the instructor at the end of each day.
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PRINCE2® Training
PRINCE2 Training Foundation & Practitioner Training (including examinations)
Our PRINCE2® Training Courses is a process-based approach to managing a successful project - PRINCE2 Training offers delegates the opportunity to complete the PRINCE2® Foundation and Practitioner Certification, thus enabling delegates to become a thriving Project Leader. PRINCE2 Training's PRINCE2® Foundation & Practitioner course is specifically designed in order to increase and maximise delegates' potential in the PRINCE2® training environment; this course provides delegates with the skills and knowledge to successfully manage a greater project.
Course Overview and Content:
The PRINCE2® Training course is a 5 day intensive course in which the delegate will receive information and training based on the PRINCE2® Methodology in Project Management. Within the first 3 days of the course, delegates will be focusing primarily on the Foundation aspect of the course – delegates will then take the PRINCE2® Foundation examination which is included in the course on the third day. The subsequent day, delegates will concentrate on the Practitioner top-level aspect of the course, and will be provided with a full day Practitioner Workshop, in which the trainer will impart extensive knowledge of the Project Managing environment onto the delegate. On the last day of the course, delegates will then take their final PRINCE2® Practitioner examination in order to complete the PRINCE2® Qualification and gain the PRINCE2® Training Certification.
PRINCE2 Training instructors have numerous years of hands-on experience in the Project Managing environment, therefore they can not only give theoretical guidance, but can provide delegates with genuine knowledge and understanding of the PRINCE2® skills and methodology; our trainers all have at least 10 years experience with PRINCE2® Project Management which will aid delegates in acquiring the PRINCE2® Certification.
Subsequent to receiving confirmation of booking a PRINCE2 course with us, PRINCE2 Training will send out Pre-Course work to the delegate via email and PDF Files. This work consists of:
- A Pre-course workbook that is to be completed by the delegate, then handed in to the trainer at the beginning of the course.
- 3 chapters of the PRINCE2® manual: 'Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2', which the delegate must read before the start of the course.
- A collection of 70 multiple choice questions that are designed to test your knowledge in the PRINCE2 area – these must be completed with detailed answers.
We recommend that around 10-15 hours is spent completing the Pre-course work prior to the course start date. PRINCE2 Training's Foundation & Practitioner training course is an extremely intensive 5 day course in which the delegate will be provided with the skills and knowledge needed to manage and complete a large project successfully. PRINCE2® Foundation & Practitioner exams are also included within the course.
Following your booking and confirmation of the course, Joining Instructions that describe the course location, address, and other administrative details will also be emailed.
A MINIMUM of 2 hours homework will be set each evening of the course by the instructor, this must be completed without fail.
PRINCE2® Foundation examination:
The PRINCE2® Foundation exam includes a 75 multiple choice examination, the pass mark for this being 35/70. Accomplishment in this examination will indicate that the delegate would be more than able to act as an informed member of a Project Management Team; the PRINCE2® Foundation course provides the delegate with the fundamental elements and skills needed to control a successful project, using the PRINCE2® methodology. NOTE: A prerequisite for the Practitioner examination is to have passed the PRINCE2® Foundation examination.
PRINCE2® Practitioner examination:
A 80 question Objective Test Examination with a pass mark of 44 out of 80 (55%). Success in this examination indicates that the candidate could apply PRINCE2® to the running and managing of a non-complex project within an environment supporting PRINCE2®.
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The winter selection of limited edition products at Lush has been revealed. Now I can also tell you a little bit more about what I've been up to!
We started working on Christmas products back in February and finished around May. There's a lot of development that goes on behind the scenes. About one third of the products that get made actually make the final cut. Here's what we ended up with:
Northern Lights soap. Back from last year. Wesley made a gorgeously bright neon soap and I got to make the scent for it. I used lots of cypress and pine and added lime and aldehydes to make it smell cold. There's a a floral hint in there, too, for the multicoloured effect. Overall I was going for "standing in a freezing Finnish forest, looking up at the nothern lights." I made sure to use some antibacterial and antifungal materials so the product should be good for problem skins and as a kitchen soap. The scent can be divisive because of associations with pine and citrus to cleaning products but I find this a really great one to use in the morning shower when feeling knackered in the depths of midwinter. Last year this became one of our best-sellers.
North Pole soap. This was created by Michelle in the creative team. I happened to have created two scents inspired by peppermint bark chocolates and one of the perfumes went into the white part and the other into the pink. One of them is like mint chocolate candy and the other is a woody mint fragrance. I think they came out just on the right side of sweet and the woody part makes the scent a little less edible and more like a soap. Will be interesting to see how this does.
Mr. Punch soap. One morning I chatted with Noriko about an idea I'd had for a Pimm's type scent; I really wanted to capture that cucumber/lemon/mint/orange/strawberry/gin thing in a perfume. Noriko said that she was just about to start working on a new soap but wasn't sure what to do yet. We plotted together that day and Noriko went into her lab and I went into mine and she made this beautiful punch soap with all those gorgeous fruity pieces and real juniperberries. I made a boozy punch fragrance. It was originally going to be a summer soap but Mark pinched it for the Christmas range (and I suppose it makes sense since a lot of Lush countries have Christmas during summer!). Simon altered the fragrance slightly by adding more fruit to it. The end result is very yummy indeed. I also experimented with the original scent as a cologne and tried it this summer. It's very green at first and dries down to the smell you end up on your fingers after you've been eating strawberries. I doubt it will ever actually become an actual cologne in the shops but it was a really nice little experiment.
Party Popper bath ballistic. Wesley made a popping, fizzing bath popper using his new soap paper streamers inside (made of melon!). His invention demanded some kind of sparkly scent so I used a dry, sparkling floral theme which to my mind evoked fancy Champagne or a "fizzing" sensation. It's probably likely to appeal to fans of Ginger perfume and anyone who likes non-sweet floral scents. I really enjoy working with ginger as a material and want to do more with it soon. The bath water goes a beautiful dark pink when in use and the water keeps popping for a good while...
Ponche shower gel. There was a sort of accidental booze theme going on... Hannah brought back some really inspiring things from Mexico and one of the things we looked at was a description and photos of Mexican spicy punch with tropical fruits. Wesley made a beautiful shower gel with fruit and spice infusions and I created a boozy citrus fragrance with a hint of spice and tropical fruits. One of the key ingredients in the fragrance is Davana oil which is actually a kind of weed that grows in India. It smells boozy and fruity and adds punch to the Ponche fragrance (terrible puns are Lush bread and butter. I'm so sorry. I'm also partly responsible. As I've said before, I've got an overactive pun gland). I've been using this for a few weeks and it's my favourite product from the whole new range.
Rocket re-usable bubble bar. When I saw the purple rocket ships that had been designed I immediately went into violet and blackberry kind of mode. The rocket became blue in the end though. The first version of this fragrance was quite fruity. Simon made the second version of this fragrance with extra oomph using spicy firetree oil as "rocket fuel". (I warned you about the puns). This should really appeal to people who liked Bathos, Blackberry Bathbomb and Gratuitous Violets. It's not an overly sweet smell but it does have a warm, sweet, fruity quality about it.
Santa's Sack bubble bar. Helen and I were talking about Wesley's concept for this bath product and we started discussing the way red and white Santa colours really came from Coca Cola. I've been telling people about this awesome Finnish Christmas film called "Rare Exports" which is a comedy horror film exploring the pagan roots of Santa. Anyway, when it came to doing the fragrance for this product, I wanted it to be spicy and warming but I also wanted to put in the "joke" about Coca Cola Santa. So the red santa's sack smells like a spicier version of cola. This one is nice and complex and not too candy-store. Hoping it will please fans of spicy scents.
Popcorn lip scrub and Let the Good Times Roll popcorn cleanser. These both have the same fragrance (which actually started as a flavour for the lip scrub!). It smells cookie-dough-ish or like caramel popcorn. Noriko and I ate through almost a whole pot of the lip scrub. For testing purposes. Don't eat the cleanser though. The popcorn theme was quite challenging when I first heard about it so I looked at a sheet of popcorn flavours and chose the one that seemed to go well with the products. I don't think cheese flavoured lip scrub would sell all that well.
Sandy Santa sugar scrub. So, apparently in Brazil, there are sand-Santa competitions on the beach. That inspired our team to create our own sand sculpture. I wanted to use Brazilian materials for the fragrance (Brazilian orange) and the sandalwood is a terrible pun (sand... alwood...). As it happens, I think that orange and sandalwood go really beautifully together. This is a citrus with a subtle, floral/woody backdrop. I am really tempted to dilute some of this scent in alcohol and bottle it.
I've also made the scents for the pink and yellow FUN! Pink has become an instant best-seller in UK (which has a lot to do with the colour - our UK customers do love their pink products!). I do think the scent is quite fun, too; very fruity, a little floral and has a sweet back-drop of benzoin and tonka. I've been using it as a shampoo just so I can sniff the scent in my hair all day (but I must admit that my over-processed bleached hair needs to alternate this with a moisturising shampoo in between). The yellow fun has a vanilla scent which was very tricky to do as vanilla discolours really badly. I fear we may still need to go back to the lab with that one just so we could increase the level of perfume in the product. It leaves a lovely scent on your skin after use.
I am really hoping that these products do well this season so that Mark and Si will let me back in the lab soon! I love making scents so much!
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Depends on the game like GURPS, D&D 4.0, Fantasy Hero I prefer character sheets. For older editions of D&D and games like Traveller a piece of paper does just fine.
Character sheets because they should be things of beauty to admire and age with the time the game played. A 52 session character sheet should look like it.
It really depends strongly on the system, and on the character sheet design.
For D&D 3.5, I can't live without a character sheet. I can quickly fill it in with the book in hand, and be done creating a character in minutes. I know where all my combat stats are, and can find them easily. I have a PDF of a customized sheet that has quick descriptions, damage dice, casting times, etc. for all of the 3.5 spells for every core class in a compact format.
Advantages: Easy to find things. Rules and formulas laid out conveniently. Skills already listed.
For Shadowrun 4E, the character sheet is a cluttered waste of space, with ten small tables that nothing fits into, instead of one big table that just fits the things I need for this particular character. I'm better off with lined-paper. I've seen people use excel sheets with multiple tabs for the various types of gear and abilities, but they didn't really appeal to me.
Disadvantages: Too many complex, diverse abilities to cram tables for all of them into a two-page format. Wastes lots of space, and you end up scribbling over sections that you aren't using, and using the space to write in the overflow from filled sections.
For GURPS, I could go either way. GURPS has diverse abilities, but they can mostly be rolled into a few unified listings on the sheet.
When I'm playing Shadowrun over Skype, or printing sheets for a convention, I create a Word document (in OpenOffice); this is a pain to create but easy to use, and doesn't waste space.
A character sheet helps keep track of the myriad rules and options you would otherwise overlook. This does depend on your game: for complex games like D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder the number of things to keep track of is huge and depends on the class you're playing, while a simpler and more emotive game may be better served with a few scribbled notes and raw roleplaying.
It's worth finding a good set of character sheets. I humbly submit my own character sheets for D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder as being quite good, but Mad Irishman's are good as well.
In my experience, use character sheets so you don't forget to fill out a part of the character and a blank sheet of paper only for the session to track dynamic items like hit points, spells cast, etc. That way the character sheet doesn't get overly ruined with constant erasing and rewriting. Instead the character sheet only gets updated when new (semi-permanent) items are added to inventory or a new level is reached.
Neither. I keep everything on my iPad/phone.
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Depends on the game and the complexity of the character sheet. Something like Pathfinder or 4e I like to use software to take the pain of the numbers away.
For simpler things a blank sheet of paper is perfect.
I used keep a 3 ring binder with the character sheets inserted under the transparent flap on the front and back, and graph, lined, and blank sheets inside for sketching maps, keeping a campaign journal, and scratch paper for sundry items. However, I've recently switched over to printing power cards out of the D&D Character Builder tool and Scotch-tape "laminating" them to heavy cardstock for my "Character Sheet", and now just carry a small journal and a spiral bound set of graph paper.
I customize sheets for each game system.
I have found that, for my GMing convenience, I really want everyone using the same sheet format. This is because I use people's sheets in session, and I need to be able to find things on their character sheets.
I have also found that, in general, I prefer to include the optional data that I make use of; for Traveller, as an example, I do use homeworld data, so there is a spot for it. Likewise, I include space for both base and current attributes, and career history.
Generally, I do up the sheets in Apple's Pages or in a DTP layout program (Pagemaker or Scribus). I usually print them on 110# card.
I like to encourage the use of plain paper over printed character sheets / power cards in D&D 4e because it forces players to understand their characters. I've found that players often pick powers that have cool names and print them out only to come to the session completely unprepared to actually use them. Players often seem to fumble with their deck of cards when their turn comes up, then say "I'll use this one" and then struggle to figure out what it does.
Even the act of writing out the text of powers goes a long way to making players internalize and understand that text.


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I'm new to sieve theory, and I'm trying desperately to understand Selberg's sieve. I would like to apply the sieve to give me a nice upper bound on primes of the set $$A^D(N)= \{ Dq-2 : q\in P, N/2 < q \leq N \} $$ But basically, for a fixed N, I would like $A^D(N)$ to be the set of elements of the form $Dq-2$ for a fixed positive integer $D$ and letting $p$ run through all primes between $N/2$ and $N$. Now, as I said, I'm trying to apply Selberg's sieve, but as I don't really know what I'm doing, I'm a bit confused. Now, if I understand it correctly could I then say that $$S(A^D(N),N/2,N/2) \leq \frac{\pi(N)-\pi(N/2)}{L_p(z)}+O \Big( \frac{z^2}{L_p(x)^2} \Big)$$ Where $S(A^D(N),N/2,N/2)$ is the number of elements of $A^D(N)$ which are prime and $$L_p(z)=\sum_{n\leq z}^{n\vert P} \frac{\mu(n)^2}{\phi(n)}.$$ where $$\frac{1}{\phi(n)}=\frac{1}{n}\prod_{p\vert n} \frac{1}{1-1/p}.$$ I got this from a pater called "Sketch of the Selberg Sieve method" By Sean Prendville (January, 2008) where he describes the Selberg Sieve not on $A^D(N)$ but on the set of all integers between some positive integer $x$, and $x+y$. I'm sure some of it is wrong, or that I totally misinterpreted, but I would like to know if this is right, and if it is, where do I go from here? (especially with dealing with $L_p$). I appreciate any help, but please keep in mind that I'm sixteen years old and live in the Bronx. As dumbed down as possible would be greatly appreciated..this is all new to me. Much appreciated, Alexis D. Botros
Getting an upper bound here is, at the level of research, a simple exercise. To do it the quickest way with least background, I'd suggest using the large sieve. Here you are essentially looking at estimating the number of integers between $N/2$ and $N$ which, modulo primes $r\leq \sqrt{N}$, are neither $0$ nor $2\bar{D}$, where $\bar{D}$ is the inverse of $D$ modulo $r$ (and the second condition drops if $r$ divides $D$). The large sieve inequality tells you that this number is bounded by $N/J$ where $J=\sum_{n\leq \sqrt{N}}\mu(n)^2\prod_{r\mid n}{2/(r-2)}$, with $2/(r-2)$ replaced by $1/(r-1)$ when there is a single condition modulo $r$ ($r$ is again restricted to primes). Getting a lower bound for $J$ is again standard number theory, but not obvious of course at first sight. One gets $J\gg (\log N)^2$ (the key reason behind the exponent $2$ is that there are two excluded classes modulo each prime $r$), and therefore the number you want to estimate is $\ll N/(\log N)^2$. It is also fairly easy to obtain a result uniform in terms of $D$ along these lines.
For references, I suggest an old survey of H. Montgomery, "The analytic principle of the large sieve", which is available online (Bulletin of the AMS, 1984), and I think googling reveals also a very good short write-up by B. Green.


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Simple Definition of overthrow
: to remove (someone or something) from power especially by force
sports : to throw a ball over or past (someone)
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overthrewplay \-ˈthrü\
overthrownplay \-ˈthrōn\
transitive verb
2 : to cause the downfall of : bring down, defeat
3 : to throw a ball over or past (as a base or a receiver)
overthrowplay \ˈō-vər-ˌthrō\ noun
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I'm sure that many MO users would answer "Oh, yes, I'm more intelligent than the average intelligence of the population that has an intelligence greater than the (absolute) average". And someone, less modestly: "Even more than the average of those who are more intelligent than the average of those who are more intelligent than the average". And so on.
Anyway, the silly title was created just to attract curiosity a bit: my question is not about the intelligence of MO users, on which I have no doubts! :)
So, take a quantity $X$ that we suppose normally distributed (b.t.w., I have no deep knowledge of probability theory), i.e. it's described by a gaussian distribution that we suppose standardized and call $f(x)$.
Now, define:
$M_0:= \int_{-\infty}^{\infty}f(x)dx=1$
and, inductively,
$M_{n+1}:= \int_{\mu_n}^{\infty}f(x)dx$
I think this describes the situation in which your $X$ (tallness? Weight?...) has the value $\mu_n$ precisely when you're as $X$ as the average of those who are more $X$ than the average of those who are more $X$ than...... (n times). If not, please explain why.
So my questions:
- How does the sequence $\mu_n$ behave asymptotically? Does it converge?
- If yes, is there a nice expression for the limit?
- Is there even a reasonably explicit expression ("closed form") for $\mu_n$ as a function of $n$?


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If you had the best players in the world, and they knew everything about Hearts and had decades of experience playing it, then if they were to each play the same identical game, would they all play the game exactly the same? That in my eyes would prove that in Hearts, given a situation and taking into account everything, there is always an optimal way of proceeding, and that would prove that there is a finite limit on how good you can get at Hearts. Is this in fact the case?
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No, because in hearts there is private knowledge
The answer to this question is a categorical no. Having a perfect memory of cards that have been played and in what order is insufficient to guarantee optimal play, and we can say this without even having to define optimal play.
On the first turn of the game, you have limited knowledge of how the cards have been distributed. You know about the cards in your hand and those you've passed (if applicable), and you can potentially infer something from the cards you've received. But that's only 16 cards out of 52 and you don't know how the remaining cards are distributed. This private knowledge means there is no deterministically optimal play; you don't have enough information to know what move is always best. Even given a stochastic play model (where you're looking for the play most likely to give you the best results) it is possible for two different distributions of the hidden cards to suggest different plays, which means the hypothesized algorithm must make a random selection.
I'll prove the point with an obvious example: the first play of the first round. Since the scores are tied at zero, a good definition of optimal play is to get the lowest score in the round.
If you had only three clubs in your hand, the Ace, a fairly high card and a low rank card, a typical play in the first round is to play the Ace and take the trick and then to lead the higher card to burn it before playing the low ranking card or switching suits. Given a fairly nominal distribution of clubs, the odds of someone being out of clubs on the second round (so they can sluff a heart or the Queen) AND someone else not playing a higher club are not insignificant but low and usually worth the risk. If you had perfect knowledge however the right play would be obvious, but without perfect knowledge the right play depends on knowledge you don't have.
So no, the fact that there is private knowledge in hearts means that even with a perfect memory you cannot always guarantee optimal play.
I just want to say, as a mathematician who has studied Game Theory for several years, that you DO NOT need perfect information to have an optimal strategy. In fact, Game Theory has a very rich body of results about games of imperfect information.
It is a common misconception. Here's another one: an optimal strategy means you win every time. This is also not true. An optimal strategy is one that maximizes your expected payoff.
Now that that's out of the way, I want to commend the questioner on a great question. I was actually just googling this question myself, trying to see if any journal articles have been written about it (I was thinking about doing a game-theoretic analysis of Hearts for a thesis paper). I haven't found anything yet.
Like most nontrivial games, Hearts has a HUMONGOUS game tree. Just think, there are 52 factorial hands that could be dealt (let's consider the typical 4 player version here). That's 64x63x62x61x60x59x...x5x4x3x2x1. That's a big number. And that's just how many nodes there are at the second level of the game tree. Each of those nodes has a huge number of branches (the number of branches at each of those nodes is the number of ways four players can choose three cards from 13). Then each of those have yet more branhces, and so on. Even a rough calculation shows that there are far more nodes in the game tree than there are atoms in the known universe.
So using Zermelo's algorithm to "solve" hearts (though theoretically possible) is - in practice - not possible. So much more sophisticated techniques must be used.
If you want to write a computer program to play near-optimal Hearts, I would suggest using random samples and Markov-type simulations to estimate optimal moves.
In short, yes, optimal play does exist. But it could be very hard to find without some pretty slick game-theoretical analysis and/or a lot of computational power.
I hope this helps. :)
I think a better way of thinking about this question is "Is it possible to create a Hearts playing program that would get the best possible result 100% of the time"?
I think Hearts is similar to a simplified version of Bridge. There are LOTS of studies of Bridge hands, and in most situations there is a clear optimal play. But there are also times for intuition, reading your opponents, etc. So I don't think you could ever just generate an algorithm that would make the "optimal" play in every situation and have it do as well or better than a human would 100% of the time.
It is also worth pointing out that Hearts is a game in which the individual play that earns you the best result might not be the best for your overall results, and part of optimal play is convincing your opponents to play in ways that are optimal to you. Examples would be encouraging people to "save" hearts to throw at the leader, or to take the Queen of Spades themselves to prevent a potential Shoot the Moon by another player. The inventor of Diplomacy has even said that playing lots of Hearts influenced his design of a game that is all about stopping the leader. This also makes me confident that there is no such thing as an algorithm for optimal play.
To the question whether Hearts is such a simple game, that it is possible after a while to completely master it (meaning that several players can reach this level where it is not possible to improve, and between them only luck will decide who wins), the answer is definitely no.
Some of the answers here are a bit inaccurate though. People argue that because you don't know the cards of the other players, it's impossible to always pick the best strategy for yourself and therefore it is impossible to master the game. This is missing the question as I read it. Obviously no one will ever master the game at a level where every play they make is the same as someone knowing all the cards would make, it doesn't even make any sense to discuss.
The question must be whether there is an optimal strategy for every situation, meaning that with the information a player has a in a certain situation, there is one option that gives him the best chances of achieving his goal in the game. The key here being "the information a player has". Playing human opponents, it's possible to pick up on little tells and signs about their cards or from their actions that forms part of the information you would use to determine the best option. If I've played for hours and hours against a certain player, I would know his style and tells better than someone who's never played him, and I would then have more information and better chances of making the right decision. Your friend who has "mastered the game" wouldn't play as well against the player I know as I would (unless he is better at something else in the game than me or he is lucky), and would therefore find it hard to beat my score. People who play poker will know this very well. If you only look at the maths and don't try to figure out what your opponents are doing, you are going to lose a lot, and reading your opponents is something that can never really be mastered, meaning it will always be possible to improve. And that's not even considering the game-improving potential of trying to manipulate your opponents into doing what you want them to, which is also something that I don't think anyone will ever master, as in having nowhere to go to improve. Curiously in theory it's possible to both read your opponents and manipulate them successfully in every single situation, but then again in theory it's also possible to randomly choose your actions and by luck having them turn in to be right every single time.
If you remove the part about reading your opponents and only look at your own game, it's possible in my opinion to always find a "best choice", and thus possible to master the game. Your friend has probably played the computer, and playing the computer there definitely is a "best way" to go if you've memorized all the cards etc. The thing being overlooked, though, is that you're actually reading the signs the computer players give, without noticing it. You develop a kind of intuition sensing danger develop etc. It gives you a great edge being able to read the computer players, especially since they're not able to read you or manipulate you. It's therefore easy to get the feeling that you've mastered the game and found the optimal strategy in every situation. The truth is you're probably just close to consistently finding the best options against one specific opponent (computer*3), and that opponent is severely handicapped by being completely predictable itself, and unable to read your play or adjust its own. Not really a big feat.
Part of the thing about Hearts is that you pass cards between the players before the round starts. This means that you can try to improve your hand and hope your opponents don't mess that up.
However, at least in 4-player games, 1 of every 4 hands has no pass first.
Having said all that, the best hand involves taking every heart and the Queen of Spades, which usually depends a bit on luck based on what the other players play... but often you do need to keep track of which hearts were played when.
This question is subjective by Stack Exchange's subjective and constructive standard.
More importantly, it's just silly. You can always get better at any game you play. Period. That's it. You don't have perfect knowledge in Hearts, so there can't be any guaranteed optimal play, you just don't know what the other players have. An optimal play might be to dump the King of Spades, because the player before you has the Queen of Spades, but you don't know he has it, so you won't play it.
The only way to always have an optimal move is to have a very simple game of perfect knowledge, like Tic-Tac-Toe, which isn't really a game, it's a puzzle.


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Graham obviously waited a while for this photo haha
Hmmmmm, Great Looking
Screech owls soooooo precious!!
Nice work!!
a family greets the unexpected guest! lovely!
Thank you everyone for all your wonderful comments. I was a true pleasure and great experience to be able to shoot these owlets last year. Thanks again, Graham McGeorge
So lovely
Graham, did you have a photo of the parent owl selected back in early June '13? I have one I downloaded from NG credited to you, and the bark and outline of the nest seem to match. If so, can we assume they were taken as part of the same session?
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I love birds of prey, especially when they're young and manageable. These 3 guys look like they're expecting a treat from the photographer.
Such a beautiful photo! I love the expressions and textures.
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Love the picture :-)
Apparently the owlets are as curious about us as we are them. Wonderful, delightful photograph. Amazing how nature camouflages it's own.
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Nothin' beats a bunch of owlets to brighten my day.
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@Charles Spencer Yes that is correct. I took this series over a couple of months in early spring 2013.
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I've recently moved my /home to another computer (keeping all configuration files), with a fresh installation of Ubuntu 10.10.
After Installation I've installed wicd and ndiswrapper, to get my Internet Connection up and running. However, after changing
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iface lo inet loopback
auto wlan0
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and running
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart to get wlan0 set up, wicd just suddenly connected... to my modem. Without supplying any information about the modem whatsoever. Of course wicd creates a local directory at
~/.wicd/, but that directory is empty, and the temporary global configuration at
/var/lib/wicd/configurations/ didn't exist due to fresh installation of ubuntu.
So what's the deal? Where did wicd get the ESSID and the WPA Key?
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Hi Karl, You probably just need a motor start capacitor for the EL rotor motor. The older EL rotor used motor start capacitor mounted in the control box. The newer model has the capacitor inside the rotor. You can test the EL rotor by hooking it up to the AZ connectors on the back of the G5400B control box (since the AZ rotor still has the capacitor inside the control box). If it works ok there, all you need is a motor start capacitor. You can hook it to the # 4 and 5 screws external to the control box and let it dangle. I got a large motor start capacitor from Mendelson's in Dayton and use it this way when I using my old rotor. When I put up the new rotor, I take it off. I have c couple spares and could send you one if you need it. Send a couple bucks for postage. 73 Grant Zehr AA9LC ----- Original Message ----- From: Karl Sandstrom <email@example.com> To: <firstname.lastname@example.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 8:44 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Kenpro rotor info > I have a friend who has what I think may be a Kenpro KR-500. It is an > elevation rotor that is silver in color. I can not find any model or serial > numbers on it. When it was dismantled for cleaning the motor seemed to work > fine but it will not work with my G-5400B control box although the control > box seems to read the position. > > I am looking for any info I can get on this rotor (manual/schematic). If > anyone has an old control box for this series of rotor, I may be interested > in that also. > > Thanks in advance for any help. 73 for now....... > > Karl R. Sandstrom, K5MAN > Greenwell Springs, Louisiana > firstname.lastname@example.com / firstname.lastname@example.com > > ---- > Via the amsat-bb mailing list at AMSAT.ORG courtesy of AMSAT-NA. > To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe amsat-bb" to firstname.lastname@example.com ---- Via the amsat-bb mailing list at AMSAT.ORG courtesy of AMSAT-NA. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe amsat-bb" to firstname.lastname@example.com
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Suppose one has in-hand an accurate time-space trajectory in $\mathbb{R}^3$ of a (small) body,
say an asteroid or satellite—effectively a point.
To what extent does this trajectory determine the point masses that could
gravitationally determine it (according to inverse-square gravitation)?
Is this highly underdetermined, in that there are many point-mass distributions
that would lead to the (exact) same trajectory, or does the trajectory essentially uniquely determine the masses? Perhaps
this question only has a sharp answer with some assumptions on the size of the point masses, i.e.,
planetary or star-like, as opposed to spread-out asteroid belts or dust clouds...?
(Suggestive image from: "Spacetime symmetries and Kepler's third law," 2012, Class. Quantum Grav.: 29. 217002 (arXiv link)).
(Added 9Feb13). In light of Ben Crowell's incisive analysis, and the various comments and answers (by Joel, Abhinav, Brendan, Theo) which point to fundamental nonuniqueness, permit me to rephrase the question:
Given an accurate (space-time) trajectory of a point-mass (planet) in a fixed coordinate system, and given a number $n$, under the assumption that there are $n$ stationary/fixed point masses (stars) that might have caused the planet's trajectory solely due to inverse-square Newtonian gravitation, does the trajectory of the planet determine the fixed stars' masses and positions?
It might be useful to distinguish general positions of the stars vs. special arrangements. If this can be answered for each $n$, then one could explore successively larger values of $n$.


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I have several USB mass storage flash drives connected to a Ubuntu Linux computer (Ubuntu 10.04.1, kernel 2.6.32-25-386), and I need to tell them apart programatically (from bash if possible, but I'm not afraid of compiling either) - I need to find which block device corresponds to which physical device (e.g.
/dev/sdb1 -> device in USB port 1; in my case, one device ~ one volume).
In other words, I know that I have three hardware devices plugged into USB ports; each of them shows up in the system as a USB mass storage device (as seen with lsusb), is created as a block device (
/dev/sdb1) and automounted by UUID (
USB device block device mountpoint
USB device in port 2.2 <-> /dev/sdb1 <-> /media/1234-5678
I'm not trying to find the relationship between block device and mountpoint; I'm trying to find the relationship between block device and USB device, is there a way?
Why? There will be some writes on the disks, with unpredictable time of completion. I need to give the operator some indication like "you can now remove the disk in port 2 (which is second from the left)". I have found which physical port corresponds to which port number on that specific machine, and finding block devices from mountpoints is simple; now I'm stuck mapping the logical USB ports to block devices.
I can see the disks with lsusb :
Bus 001 Device 058: ID 067b:2517 Prolific Technology, Inc. Mass Storage Device
Bus 001 Device 060: ID 067b:2517 Prolific Technology, Inc. Mass Storage Device
Bus 001 Device 061: ID 067b:2517 Prolific Technology, Inc. Mass Storage Device
and I can see them mounted (by their UUID):
/dev/sdb1 on /media/BC88-15C4 type vfat
/dev/sdc1 on /media/AE54-65AA type vfat
/dev/sdd1 on /media/58D2-FED1 type vfat
Now, all the drives are the same model from the same manufacturer, so I can't distinguish them by that, and I can't guarantee they'll be plugged in a particular order.
I have found
/sys/bus/usb/devices (a list of USB devices), but it seems to be the same data that I get from lsusb - I don't see a mapping to disks there.
There's also
/sys/block/sdb and
/sys/block/sdb/sdb1 (the block device and its first partition; similarly for
sdc and
sdd), but again, I see no mapping to devices.


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Hey everyone! I got a traxxas rally about 4 days ago and decided to build a new RC track. We havent had any rain so the track dirt is very dry/dusty & loose, well i found out this loose dirt likes to fill the chassis full of dirt!! it also gets into the spur gear area and locks up you spur carrier bearing and melts bearing adapter.
I have five packs ran threw the car. The motor and esc is malfunction some too...I must of got a lemon lol. I will be sending the motor esc off soon.
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Dr. Owens has published The Journey of Your Life, a book focusing on how to create college, career and life successes.
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It is his philosophy to always put the students and their rights and goals first, to empower them and serve as their advocate when necessary. To that end, in 2004, he originated the firstCCSF Student Services Fair which has since become an annual event.
He also originated the idea of a Student Counseling Information kiosk which can now be found in Conlan Hall outside room E-205. In addition, Mr. Sparks has been instrumental in providing addtional signage to help students better navigate the Ocean campus.
He is involved in the Transfer Issues Committee, Grading Policies Commitee, the Communications Subcommittee and the Financial Aid Appeals Board.
Mr. Sparks is a member of FACC and also supports: Friends of the Library, World Wildlife Fund, the Nature Conservancy, charitywater, and other charitable organizations.
In his leisure time, he enjoys playing guitar and singing, camping, golf and hiking.
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Do you think the Amazon Cloud Player is a joke?
So I just purchased the $.99 Frank album on the front page (total deal!) and had the most troublesome time downloading it.
I use Linux so right away I'm already at a disadvantage. Amazon cares not about us freedom lovers. So I cannot download the album in full because they don't have an Album Downloader for us.
No biggie right? Just go to the Cloud Player and download them. Well it would be nice but you can't download more than one track at a time! How frustrating!
I'm sticking to Google Music - Amazon's service is a frickin' joke.
Oh, and $25 a year for what Google will give you for free? PASS.
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I think any company using "cloud" as some kind of associative buzz-word is a joke.
Apple icloud
Windows cloud hosting
Amazon cloud player
All pretty stupid, in my opinion.
In direct answer to your question, I do think what you are getting from Amazon in this service is not worth it at all. They need to ramp up their features and cut the cost a little bit before it becomes tempting to the masses.
I liked it when I could just d/l to my cpu without having it stored in the amazon area first. Just seems like another way for them to look into my soul and take more away
If used for what it seems to be designed for (a place from which to re-download purchased music, with a full-song preview), Amazon's Cloud Player isn't bad - but it's also not great.
But calling it a Cloud "Player" is disingenuous - it is lacking features present in media players from the 1990s.
If Google would let me buy music, I always get stuck in a loop (purchase pop up, sign in to buy music, sign in page, purchase pop up, sign in to buy music, etc.), then maybe I would consider it but I haven't had any problems with Amazon. The music is DRM free so it can be moved to Google if you so choose (I know you can't download but for the majority that's not a problem) and they have better, more frequent deals on music, especially if you include all the credits they give out.
My direct answer is, no it is not a joke. It could use some more linux support it sounds like and more features in the player like rating would be nice but overall it works and is free so it's not a joke.
@mkentosh: Accept you bought it from them in the first place so they already know what music you have whether you store it on the player or not.
I don't really use their cloud player. I do use their cloud storage and transfer to whatever device whenever I want so I think their cloud drive is just as handy as icloud. I'm sure it's just a means for everyone to eventually require enough disk space on their servers so they can collect $20 bucks extra a year from everybody. That way the cost shifts over to us to annually maintain their bread and butter servers so that they eventually pay for themselves
@druke: it appears their downloader is really just an Adobe AIR app, which implies that you could probably get it running on Linux with reasonable ease, a supported option or not. They used to have a native downloader, a couple of years ago, but I can totally understand them wanting to invest less in platform-specific development. My guess is that they don't list Linux as being supported since there would be too many possible configurations to document so that users of different distributions could get up and running. Linux, being so fragmented, is a pain in the butt to support commercially, and frankly doesn't map to enough potential profit to make it worth it.
So, go get AIR set up and give it a go. I may be wrong, but I think it'll work.
I love the cloud player. It plays music. It's in the cloud. Sounds functional to me.
Honestly, since I was going to buy the music anyway and this gives me an option to play it from an internet enabled device and not have to worry about actually having the files present, I'm actually more than happy with it. Now granted I had a drive crash and downloading the music I had on there was a pain and they need to work on the download options, but aside from that as a media player over browsers or mobile phones its fantastic in my opinion.


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I'm going to remove the popcorn ceiling in my 90's era house and was wondering if I should texturize after removing it. The walls have the "orange peel" type of texture on them but I just don't know if it would be best to have everything match or if a primered/painted ceiling would be OK with texturized walls.
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I would leave it flat. That's the whole idea of scraping off popcorn. In almost ever home remodel show, they want to remove the popcorn.
This doesn't answer the question exactly, but it's an alternative you might consider.
If you want to go with a completely flat ceiling but don't want to remove the current ceiling, you can simply put new drywall attached through the existing ceiling. My in-laws recently did this in their living room and it looks great (you wouldn't know that's what they did if someone didn't tell you). The contractor liked the idea of not having to take down the existing and dealing with all the blown insulation.


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If you got this far reading this document, you're probably interested in helping with KDE documentation. If so, welcome aboard! We're always happy to have new contributors, and whatever your skills, you can help make KDE even better.
To write documentation, there are only three things that are absolutely necessary: some English knowledge, knowing what you want to document, and access to a relatively recent version of the application you want to document.
|Notice that the list of requirements does not contain a requirement that you learn DocBook, or any of the other tools we use. We're very happy to receive documentation written in plain text. We would much rather have the content and have to add formatting than have no content at all.
All KDE documentation is originally written in English, so you have to be able to write English to a reasonable level. That said, you don't need to be a native speaker, and you don't need to write word-perfect English. There are native English-speaking proofreaders on the documentation team, and we would much rather have some documentation that needs a little tweaking, than no documentation at all. If you don't feel comfortable writing in English, you might like to contribute to one of the KDE translation teams. You can find more information about translation on l10n.kde.org.
If you're a fluent English speaker with an eye for detail, you might be interested in joining the proofreading team. Just drop an email to firstname.lastname@example.com if you'd like to help the proofreaders.
KDE is a very large project, with many different parts and programs. Because of this, it can be hard to know where to start if you want to contribute. There are a few rules of thumb that can help you decide what to write about:
If you are looking for an application to document, or just checking the status of the application you want to work with, the KDE Documentation Health Table contains lists of applications, organized by modules, and their general status, including documentation status, and who is working on it. Not all modules and applications are up to date, but it is certainly worth checking.
If you start documenting one of the listed applications, please add your name to the wiki pages as well. But If you just cannot find an application to work with, write to kde.org and ask for suggestions. There's always something available to do, but there's no obligation to work on a particular application. Also, contributing to a document doesn't force you into keeping that document up-to-date (although if you can do that, it's very welcome!).
Another place to check is the KDE bug list at bugs.kde.org. This is usually more detailed than the wiki, and provides a place to list specific small changes that are needed to documents. These are often nice small jobs to get you started contributing. A set of quick links to ready made queries are available from the Documentation Project's http://l10n.kde.org/docs//current.php page.
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I have to go into a trip while being slightly ill - doctors say I have to drink a lot. Can I buy water at a duty-free shop, bring it onboard and drink there?
It depends on the origin and destination airport
For most flights, liquids purchased after the security check can be taken on-board the plane. Not all though...
For an example, at the moment (2011), for flights to Australia, no liquids (beyond the 150ml limit) may be taken onto the plane with you - there's an additional security + liquids check at boarding. Duty Free may be able to be placed into the hold (depends on the airport's setup), but you can't take liquids (even a water bottle you've just bought) on with you.
So, check with the rules for your specific destination and origin before you go!
One other tip though is that you are normally allowed to take empty bottles through security checks, it's only the contents that's an issue. So, put a few empty water bottles in your bag, and once you clear security find a water fountain and fill them up. As long as you're not flying to somewhere like Australia, you'll then have a decent amount of water with you for the flight. You may also then be able to ask the crew to fill one up for you mid flight, to avoid only getting water a cup at a time
Aircrew aren't worried about your carrying on "liquids", they're worried about your drinking alcohol. If someone is "getting high off his own supply" as Tony Montana used to say, they might have trouble cutting him off if he gets unruly.
Presuming your doctor just wants to make sure you have plenty of water, just bring an empty water bottle and explain your problem to the purser or one of the flight attendants and I'm sure she'll be glad to fill up the bottle for you from the aircraft's own fresh water supply. If you're at all concerned about it, get your doctor to write you a note on letterhead stationery.
Be aware, though, that in case of turbulence, you won't be allowed to use the lavatory. You may be very uncomfortable sitting there with a full bladder, waiting for clear air so you can make a run for it. Word to the wise.
In any case, duty-free doesn't sell water, since there's no duty due, but there will be shops and stands that sell bottled water. As other poster have pointed out, bringing the water aboard may be another question. Of course, few airports institute a second search once you're passed security -- the only one I know of: Suvarnabhumi (BKK) in Bangkok.
Ask your flight attendant for a cup of water; it's free.
That should not be a problem. In all airports I know, the duty-free shops are behind the security check. So you should be able to buy there water and bring it to the plane.
If the shops are before the security check, it could be a problem to take such a large amount of fluid with you.


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I'm working on a site locally that's just sitting in a folder:
How can I route, with Apache2, that to be like:
Or just something so it's not a sub directory? It's making local development very frustrating.
You need to do two things, the first is to make an apache2 virtual host that will respond to the domain name given and the port used; so in
Once you have that part you can restart your apache2 server. Next you have to enable a localhost hostname, to do this you edit the file
This effectively adds the
Let me add some points to In Protest's answer.
1). enable the apache userdir module.
this will enable apache userdir module. Now you can put the contents of website in
Note: The default folder is
2). Make necessary changes to
3). Restart the apache
Now you can access the site by navigating your browser to http://ip-address/~username.
4) Set a virtual host for this site as in In Protest'answer
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I ride regularly for exercise in New York City but do not race. I currently ride on a steel frame that handles the rough roads easily. I want to buy a carbon bike and am torn between a "classics" bike like a Domane or a Roubaix and a race bike. My rides are usually around 2-3 hours so comfort is nice but not essential. I appreciate quickness in traffic and am comfortable with a race bike geometry but am worried about durability. Any advice on how to think about these trade offs?
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I think you answered your own question when you stated "I don't race." I know many in our club who enjoy the Roubaix. I personally prefer riding my steel Soma ES over my carbon race bike for most things, including fast club rides. Don't get me wrong, a twitchy race bike is great in a crit, but the other non-race bikes have had their design optimized for non-race road riding. It is too easy to get up caught up in all the bike porn the industry pushes. A solid, well sorted, well maintained, properly fitted road bike of any class and age can be a great riding tool.
In the end this is just all opinion, but I would be careful not to get caught up in the industry's push for "race" performance, which only serves a small minority of road riders.
Ask yourself a question...if you end up getting a Roubaix, for example, will you buy it and still be hankering after a carbon frame? If that's the case then perhaps it would be better to get the carbon frame now rather than to get a bike, be not entirely satisfied with it, and end up buying a carbon bike anyway in a year or so.
I just mention this perspective because that's exactly what happened to me. Nothing to do with what you actually need, nothing to do with whether you'll race or not, in fact quite irrational. But that's how many people think (and of course the manufacturers know this - those $10,000 bikes sitting at the top of their range aren't aimed at the professionals, but at hobbyists with money to spare).
The only concrete thing I can add is that I previously owned a 2010 Trek Alpha 2.3 - same geometry as the Madone but an alu frame. Obviously we're all different shapes and sizes but I found it easily comfortable enough for long, six hour rides, so I doubt you'd have a problem comfort-wise. And durability? Well, look at the warranty periods the manufacturers offer on their frames and that should give you an idea of what they think the odds are of failure.
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In statistics very often you see something of the sort: $$ \textrm{quantity}=\sqrt{\frac {\sum(x-\mu)^2} {N}} $$ to measure things like standard deviation ($\mu$ is the mean here).
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With the Charlotte 49ers first spring game slated for April 20, the university community is invited to a Town Hall Meeting, Monday, April 15, 2013 to discuss the issues that football game days will have on the campus. The meeting will take place in McKnight Lecture Hall at 3 p.m. Chancellor Dr. Philip Dubois, Director of Athletics Judy Rose and other key campus figures will cover various topics at the meeting.
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