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CHESTER - Ten years ago, West Virginia native Jessica Lynch was recovering in a Washington, D.C., hospital from serious injuries suffered in an attack by hostile Iraqi forces.
Her capture and rescue in the early days of the 2003 invasion of Iraq had already become the stuff of legend - a legend that she later said was mostly media- and government-created.
Now, 10 years later, Lynch, 30, is a motivational speaker and a substitute teacher for elementary schools in Wirt and Wood counties. She has a 6-year-old daughter, Dakota, and is working on a master's degree in communications.
On June 1, Lynch will speak at the annual "Meet the Heroes" event at The Orchards at Foxcrest in Chester. She will appear with the USO Liberty Bells, a vocal and dance ensemble.
The event starts at 11 a.m., is free of charge and open to the public.
"This being the 10th anniversary of the rescue of Jessica Lynch, The Orchards at Foxcrest want to honor her and our local veterans at the 'Meet Our Heroes' event," the nursing home said in a prepared statement. "We wanted to give the community an opportunity to meet an all-American hero and honor our veterans."
Lynch, a native of Palestine, W.Va., recently told NBC's "Today" show that she hopes that, with the 10th anniversary of her capture, she is able to put the whole thing behind her.
"I'm kind of happy that we are finally to this 10-year mark so that I can finally put Iraq in the past," she said in the April 1 broadcast, the 10th anniversary of her rescue by U.S. special forces from a hospital in Nasiriya, Iraq. "I know that it will always be with me. It's nice to make that mark that I've made it this far."
Lynch joined the U.S. Army in 2001 and did her basic training after 9/11 in Fort Jackson, S.C. Deployed to Iraq as part of the 507th Maintenance Company, Lynch was injured and captured by Iraqi forces on March 23, 2003, after her convoy was ambushed and the Humvee she was riding in was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade.
Nine days later, on April 1, the private first class was rescued from the hospital by U.S. special forces - purportedly the first successful rescue of an American POW since Vietnam and the first ever of a woman. Eleven other members of her unit had died in the ambush.
Lynch became an international cause celebre in the days and weeks after her rescue. But, in her 2004 book, "I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story," and in her 2007 testimony before Congress, Lynch said the story told in the news media was only partly true.
Lynch said she never engaged Iraqi forces just prior to her capture - her M16 rifle had jammed and she never fired a shot - and her rescue from the hospital was hyped for propaganda purposes.
In December, Lynch told Fox News host Mike Huckabee that she was knocked unconscious for three hours after the attack and awoke in an Iraqi hospital with serious injuries - a broken back at the fourth and fifth lumbar vertebrae, a crushed right foot, a broken left tibia, head lacerations and a broken right humerus.
Her left femur was surgically removed by Iraqi doctors and replaced with a "1940s rod which was fit for a man," she told Huckabee. "Unfortunately, during the ambush, I was knocked unconscious, and that was it. To me, that wasn't a hero. I was simply just a survivor at that point. ... I wasn't a Rambo warrior fighting on the streets of Iraq."
Since then, Lynch has undergone more than 21 surgeries. She wears a leg brace and has a hard time walking on her right foot. What's more, she has no feeling in her left leg because of the nerve damage in her back.
"I go on and I strive and I do the best I can," she told the "Today" show. "You smile and you put on that brave face - kind of hides and protects what I don't want people to really understand."
There also has been psychological trauma. "About every night, I have some kind of dream where there's someone chasing me. It's hard. It really is mentally and physically draining," she told "Today."
Still, through it all, Lynch was able to go back to school and earn a bachelor's degree in education from West Virginia University in Parkersburg. She did her student teaching at the same Wirt County elementary school she attended as a child. Currently, she divides her time between parenting and substitute teaching, while also taking speaking engagements when she can.
"I'm very blessed to be here," she told "Today."
Lynch founded Jessi's Pals as a way to funnel donated blankets and stuffed animals to WVU Children's Hospital. Artifacts from her time in Iraq and Germany currently are on display at the state Culture Center in Charleston.
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I am looking to hang some blinds over the window on my front door. Is ok to screw the mounting hardware directly into the door?
It's definitely not a problem. As @ChrisF mentioned, the best way is to drill a small pilot hole (1/8" would probably be about right) and use a self-tapping screw.
"Self tapping screws" suggest that you don't need a pilot hole, but they're really meant for sheet metal. They'll never get started in the steel skin of your door. A small hole will let them engage.
Drilling steel is not like drilling wood. Please forgive me if this is too basic, but someone else might find it useful.
To drill the hole, first locate where you want it with a pencil. Then use a center punch with a hammer to tap a small indent right where you want the hole. If you don't have a center punch use a nail. If you don't tap a center mark, your drill will skate right across the surface of the door and scratch the paint.
Then drill at the full speed applying some pressure directly behind the drill motor, in line with the twist drill.(1) If you're used to drilling wood you might be surprised how much pressure it takes.
(1) A bit (ha ha) of anal-retentive vocabulary: the thing that you plug in is the "drill motor". The thing that actually drills, which most people call the "bit", is not a bit, it's a drill, usually a "twist drill". I only bring this up because the the anonymity of the interwebs makes me bold.
Should be fine, just be careful not to poke a dent in the exterior skin when you pre-drill.
I'd use self tapping screws with a very small pilot hole.
Another approach is to avoid drilling at all and use a magnetic curtain rod. These are reasonably priced and stick well to the steel door without damaging it.

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By Kem Butler, Oracle JD Edwards, Communications Director
Most of you are aware that JD Edwards has recently delivered Tools release 9.1. This release delivers a host of enhancements designed to dramatically modernize and improve the ERP user experience. If you would like to meet some of the core team, see their faces and hear their perspective on this ground breaking release, you will want to read this interview as conducted by the Oracle's own Kathy Miedema, Market Research Analyst-Applications User Experience. http://ow.ly/92NcL
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5 Terrible Lessons We Learned from Superman Movies
For such a simple and lighthearted genre, superhero movies can have some really confusing lessons, mostly because the people writing them aren't trying to convey a lesson at all. But that's not the case with Superman, right? There's no brooding moral ambiguity there -- he's a boy scout with the strength of a god. These are pure good vs. evil stories, and Supes is always on the good side.
Well, except for when the movies are telling us ...
#5. Superman II: Roofies Are a Necessary Evil
In Superman II, Lois Lane, who had continually ignored the mild-mannered advances of Clark Kent while throwing herself at his alter ego, Superman, finally figures out that Clark Kent is Superman, and they have supersex on his superbed in the Fortress of Solitude.
"Ignore the red hairs. Those are just Jimmy's."
But then things get kind of awkward, as they tend to get when co-workers exchange fluids. Eventually they separate "for the good of the world" (more on that later), and Lois confronts Clark about how difficult it will be to work alongside him and pretend like nothing ever happened. Here's the scene:
Superman then kisses Lois and magically makes her forget everything about their romance, effectively erasing it from existence. Because that was the only solution to their problem, right?
Um, no, not really. If you think about it, Lois isn't in a unique situation here. So she has to sit in front of her ex every day and pretend she doesn't have strong feelings toward him? That's the outcome of every office romance ever.
We've all been here.
They could have just, you know, been adults about it and gradually learned to cope with the situation, or if Superman really wanted to make things easier for her, Clark Kent could have gone to work for The Daily Bugle or something. Instead, he went for the easiest solution, which also conveniently restores things back to how they were before and prevents any awkwardness between him and Lois in the workplace.
In fact, you know what that sounds a lot like? It sounds a lot like Superman had sex with a co-worker, regretted it, and then made her forget all about it so that he could avoid facing the consequences. For those whose lips don't have amnesiac properties, a similar effect can be achieved by slipping a roofie to the other person.
"Some mild heat vision on your hippocampus and you'll feel much better."
In short, the lesson that this classic movie from our childhood teaches us is that there's nothing wrong with having sex with someone who won't remember anything about it afterward.
#4. Superman II: Revenge Is OK, if You Pay for Any Property Damage
So, after Superman slips the little Man of Steel to Lois Lane in Superman II, he decides to give up his powers to be with her (otherwise he might break her in half one day while they're doing it). Lois and her effectively "humanized" alien boyfriend then stop by a burger joint, where a seating misunderstanding results in not-Superman being beaten up by an out-of-shape, middle-aged truck driver with the somewhat anti-climactic moniker of "Rocky."
Superman's true nemesis is his waning patience with humanity.
Oh, but that's not the end of it. When Superman regains his powers and saves the world, one of his first orders of business is returning to the scene of the incident and having a talk with the trucker to teach him a valuable lesson about respecting the personal space of others. Just kidding! Superman deliberately instigates a fight with Rocky and lets him break his hand trying to punch his super-abs.
Pretty sure they're gonna have to amputate that whole arm.
OK, so the guy probably had that coming. However, at this point Superman spins the already humiliated and defeated Rocky in a chair with superspeed, pushes him over the diner's counter...
Ruining the lunches of like eight people with that guy's butt.
... and lets his body crash into a pinball table, breaking the glass and knocking him out.
"Remember, kids: It isn't murder if you flee the scene before they die!"
Superman then shoves some money into the diner owner's hand before flying off to settle some other petty personal score, completely OK with having shattered every bone in Trucker Rocky's hand. It's one thing to trade blows with a physical equal like General Zod because the fate of the world depends upon it; it's another thing entirely to provoke a physical encounter with someone far, far weaker than you because he embarrassed you in front of your lady friend (who doesn't even remember any of this anymore).
Keep in mind, the whole concept of Superman is that he's physically and morally superior to the average man on a godlike level -- to him, we're like clumsy, stupid children who don't know what they're doing. This scene is the equivalent of taking a dump on your baby and eating his toys because, hey, he started it.
He basically does this to the depowered Zod also, presumably murdering him.
So what Superman is teaching us here is that it's perfectly fine to sink to the level of someone inferior to you in every sense, as long as you make sure to pay for any property damage you may have caused. Also, do you think the trucker learned his lesson? Hell no. He's just gonna take out his frustration on some other poor sap. As soon as he's out of the hospital, that is.
#3. Superman III: You're Not Responsible for the Things You Do While Intoxicated
In the unexpectedly goofy Superman III, Richard Pryor steals the movie by A) being in it, for some reason and B) creating an artificial piece of kryptonite that, basically, makes Superman a jerk (well, a bigger one than usual). Supes stops saving people, embarks on a campaign of superpranks (like straightening the Leaning Tower of Pisa) ...
"'Italy'? More like 'Shittily.' As in that's how you make your buildings."
... starts drinking in the middle of the day ...
The lack of interest those barflies show in the world-famous demigod makes us suspect that this isn't Superman's first binge.
... and starts banging chicks he meets at the Statue of Liberty. Seriously, here's the scene where you hear her moaning in orgasmic pleasure after taking Superman into her room as Cinemax music plays.
"Manners, please. My bulge is over here."
Oh, and he also causes a huge oil spill at the request of said chick, just to get into her panties.
Anyway, after shaking off the effects of the kryptonite by punching himself in a junkyard, Superman goes back to being Superman ... and acts like nothing ever happened. In fact, when he meets with his hot date again, he flat-out pretends he doesn't know her. When she asks about "the other night," Superman simply replies, "That wasn't me. That guy is gone."
"He joined the Foreign Legion. I'm his brother, Dru."
So, Superman thinks that because he was under the influence of a mind-altering substance, he shouldn't be held accountable for his actions. Sure, he quickly fixes some of the damage he did while he was evil, but that's not the same as taking responsibility: What about the ecological damage caused by the oil spill? What about the emotional trauma inflicted upon the Italian singing guy and the Olympic runner whose torch Superman blew out? No amount of superstrength can fix that.
And then there's the woman Superman just pretended not to know -- which was clearly a lie. The fact that he immediately undid his pranks confirms that he did remember his actions as Superjerk, so he should remember her, too. We get that the kryptonite magically made him evil, but think about the horrible message this sends: You can get away with anything as long as you "weren't being yourself."
Clean costume = clean slate.
Thousands of people use that exact same excuse every day -- we call them "assholes." How many times have you heard someone say, "It wasn't me, it was the drugs/booze/artificial kryptonite created by Richard Pryor"? Too many.
Also, we didn't see Superman and his date stop for a leaded condom before hooking up, so presumably he didn't use protection. What if he got her pregnant? Then again, that wouldn't be such a problem for Superman, because ...


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Have you seen it - with your own two eyes? (flat-screen tvs mounted improperly)
Sure we all fear it, but have you ever actually seen it (or the aftermath) with your own two eyes? I'm talking about the flat-screen TV that wasn't mounted properly and fell off the wall.
I mounted a 23" all-in-one computer in my bedroom to be my TV and part of my wireless network. It's been up for over a year and seems secure but I think back to the day I mounted it and I was sure one night - 3am - I'd hear a crash and it would be all over. Ok, so now I'm thinking about possibly, maybe mounting my 46" TV on my living room wall. All those old fears have returned and now I'm thinking to myself, "Self what's it like when a TV falls off the wall?"
So I ask you, have you ever seen it? Even better, were you the subpar "mounter?"
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I mounted a 110-pound tube tv on my wall, and the same mount also held another 25 or so pounds of A/V equipment. I took it down a year ago to replace it with an LCD, but it was up there for about 9 years. And I'm not much of a handyman. I just followed instructions.
NO! Hopefully I never will.
As long as you're hitting studs which most mounts are built for you should be fine. The studs in your wall should be 16" apart, so get a mount that is long enough to span at least 32"-35" so you will hit at least two studs.
Nope, and I've done my fair-share of wallmounting & ceiling mounting TVs and monitors before. If you're on a stud you'll be fine. I have a 32" in my basement mounted to only 1 stud due to the type of mount used. If you're hanging a 46" your mount will most likely go into 2 studs. If you're really that worried buy a stud finder; they're always handy to have around the house anyway. Also I'll recommend not using the screws included in the mounting kits, they're usually cheap quality. I don't have a reason to not trust the included hardware yet, but I still play it safe and spend the extra $2 on some quality bolts from the hardware store.
Me and my one good eye are now offended.
@xarous: Hey man...I didn't mean it. [sniff sniff]. Really.
I highly recommend the stud finder (and knock on walls to be sure) and you know you've hit a stud because it would be really hard to screw things in (it's like screwing into a bone than butter if that makes a fair analogy).
Also just to be sure before mounting the TV in, I would hang like 50 lbs of weight (or however much your TV weighs or however much your mount is rated for) for a day (or less) to see if it holds up, maybe give it a little wiggle too.
My uncle actually mounted a 60-inch a couple months ago.. I'd be heartbroken to see that behemoth fall.
No, but I've heard about it. Most of the stories I've heard come from improper set up. People will buy a smaller/ weaker mount because it's cheaper and it simply cant support the TV. If you buy the right mount and install it properly (possibly on a stud?) I don't see you having any problems.
Trying to remember if I actually did a pullup on the mount before I put the TV on, but four lag bolts into studs would hold me well enough I would sleep there if I could, and I'm a bigger guy. If you followed instructions, you should have nothing to worry about.
When I was a senior in college, I had a brand new 42inch Sony TV. I must have had it for 3 or 4 months. I was moving in to my apartment, and the first thing i did was set upmy TV. I took it out of the box, leaned it up against the wall on the corner of the dresser, and reached down to get the stand. As i reached down the TV shifted just enough to fall off the side of the dresser. I caught it, but not before it left a 14 inch scratch down the screen where the dresser corner dug into the front. It cracked the LCD, leaving the tv ruined. It cost about as much to fix the screen as it did to buy a new tv, and i was pissed. From that moment on i never set up a tv without someone else there to help keep things upright. It hurt to look at. The moment after it happened i heard my roommate say something along the lines of "....what was that?" I was too speechless to answer.
Just make sure you mount into studs.
I got a mount like this one and mounted my 46" on an arm that we move around at least biweekly. I mounted a laptop behind the TV hooked to the TV. I had to mount it when the wife was not home. She is still sure it is going to fall. If you follow the exact instructions. I do not think it will ever fall.
Predrilled holes in the center of the studs. We have it extended like the bottom picture often.
I still torment my wife, by asking if the warranty covers falls. (not to mention the Simpsons when the TV falls in the beginning.
@caffeine_dude: Hey! I have that same mount! I've got a 55 mounted on it just fine. I don't swing it out a lot, but when I do, it's been just fine.
as long as you get a beam, and as long as said beams aren't made of paper, you should be fine.
@xxtheonexx: Holy crap, a college senior that can afford a 42 inch TV?!?!?
So was it crack or weed? Or were a lot of housewives ordering the extra anchovies?
@caffeine_dude: Both mounts that I got from monoprice have held very well. They were very, very heavy duty. One is holding a 32 and the other a 37.
@sgrman05: Use the arm a lot. No one home and I pull it towards the kitchen when I cook. Pull the TV out when watching movies at night and back to the wall when we have traffic. I slid a laptop between the vertical arms. Keyboard away from the TV and the screen open.
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I recently read a post in physics.stackexchange that used the term "Killing vector". What is a Killing vector/Killing vector field?
I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_vector_field answers your question pretty good:
"Killing fields are the infinitesimal generators of isometries; that is, flows generated by Killing fields are continuous isometries of the manifold. More simply, the flow generates a symmetry, in the sense that moving each point on an object the same distance in the direction of the Killing vector field will not distort distances on the object."
A killing vectorfield $X$ fulfills $L_X g=0$ where $L$ is the Lie derivative or more explicit $ \nabla_\mu X_\nu + \nabla_\nu X_\mu =0$.
So in a layback manner: When you move the metric $g$ a little bit by $X$ and $g$ doesn't change, X is a killing vectorfield.
For example the Schwarzschildmetric https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_metric has two obvious Killing vectorfields $\partial_t$ and $\partial_\phi$ since $g$ is independent of $t$ and $\phi$.
Edit: On recommndation I add a nice link to a discussion of how to use Killing vector fields: See the answer of Willie Wong at Killing vector fields
Another definition is;
If $V$ is a vector field whose flow $\phi$ is a one parameter group of isometries, then $V$ is called a Killing vector field (or just a Killing vector).
$V$ is a killing vector if and only if $L_vg=0$ ; where Lie derivative.
Here I am giving you a good paper for reference: http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~mathur/grnotes2.pdf
If any set of points is displaced by $x^i dx_i$ where all distance relationships are unchanged (i.e., there is an isometry), then the vector field is called a Killing vector.
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Update on International Entries in Instructables Contests
Contests rules will not retroactively be changed.
Eligibility as of 11/16/2015
Limited Contests:
Eligible countries include: US, UK, Australia, Belgium, Canada (excluding Quebec), China, Colombia, Denmark, Germany, India, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and Switzerland.
Colombia, Denmark, Germany, India, New Zealand, Norway, and Switzerland are now eligible for all contests! We've updated the rules to make this clear. More countries coming as fast as we can. --Christy
Broadly, there are two types of contests: games of skill and games of chance. Most of our contests are games of skill because they are judged, but we have occasionally run games of chance (random winner in a contest, random commenter wins a prize, etc..). Both types are regulated, sometimes stringently, across the world.
As an independent entity, we may have been violating the contest and gaming laws in every country on the planet except the US. While ignorance of the law isn't an acceptable reason to violate it, I did not spend the time to understand and comply with every country's contest laws. Without locations across the world, the potential for enforcement of laws I didn't know about was low.
We are now part of an international company, and the potential for enforcement is real.
Complying with laws is not a drag! It's what sustainable businesses that expect to be around for a long time do!
If you are upset about this, before you complain here, please write or call your representative, member of parliament, or dictator and ask them to simplify contest law in your country. The easier to understand your country's contest laws, the faster we can open our contests to you, and comply with your country's laws. Remember, obeying the law is what good websites do!
Autodesk is not trying to destroy the Instructables community by reducing the number of entrants to our contests; in fact, they're very concerned about the issue. We are trying to make sure we obey all the laws of all the countries where we operate. We are simultaneously working to understand the laws of more countries so we can legally run contests in more areas.
The terms and conditions of our contests are now in full compliance with the requirements of the US and Canada, except Quebec. Doing so required many hours of me talking to lawyers, and very large costs.
I have sorted the countries we will work on next by where our traffic comes from, and where past winners and entrants have come from. For reference:
Top 10 Countries by traffic:
US - open
UK - open
Canada - open (minus Quebec)
Australia - open
India - open
Germany - open
Top 10 Countries by winners and entrants:
US - open
Canada - open
UK - open
Australia - open
Netherlands - open
Germany - open
New Zealand - open
Colombia - open
India - open
The rules for games of skill and games of chance are drastically different. I foresee a situation where there are countries in which we can run one type of contest, but not the other.
Since we don't collect your country of residence during registration, our method of determining who is eligible is based on where a winner wants us to ship a prize.
Obeying laws is not a drag, but this is a tricky situation. I'll concede that you might view this as a bait and switch: we should have fully understood the contest laws of any country where we wanted to encourage DIY through our contests before allowing entrants from those countries. Instead, we allowed everyone, and now have to pause until I can talk to more lawyers. For that I apologize. Fixing this is one of our top priorities. Even yesterday, I discussed how to get the UK and Australia added to the approved list, and we'll work from there.
Where is the List of open Countries for contest. Is Philippines allowed to participate or not??.
Every country except:
is allowed to enter, so you are good to go
I hope my Country Belgium is ope, for more contests!
This really is some good news!
Too bad some will still be restricted to the original 14 countryes...
I don't get it. Is Argentina allowed to participate or not?
No, it's not.
There are either trade issues between the US and Argentina, or Instructables contests break some Argentine rules or laws.
thanks for the explanation.
Does the new update allow only people that live in those countries to participate?
What about countries that aren't listed at all?
Where is the list of all the 180+ countries that can participate?
So if my country is NOT on the "excluded" list in the update, then I can enter contests and receive prizes?
So can't you join from Turkey? Why?
Your local laws probably prohibit the contests. Best to check whether internet contests are legal in Turkey for yourself.
Laws can be weird - some countries class contests like this as gambling, others (Quebec) flat ban all contests that are not based in the same country as the contestants.
I agree.
Ah... So Indonesia is already eligible for contests. 180+ wow.. what a great job done by Instructables. *twoThumbsUP*
Congratulations! I guess this is when you become Global.
This could be the right moment to go multilingual and start options of automatic translation or having the site written in popular languages based on traffic.
Thank you for inspiring us and letting usbshate
How about Greece ? Is there an plan for participation in contests ?
Which part of this message is the new part? Not all parts are dated, and not all dates have a year number, and 11/16 is maybe a date... but if so, it's in a format that only one country in the world uses.
I would assume new text is at the bottom, but I'm not sure.
Are members from BRAZIL, ITALY, ARGENTINA, TURKEY, ROMANIA, POLAND, OR THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, CANADA... included or excluded?
This sounds like it could be good news so I'd like to understand it properly!
The text under "Eligibility as of 11/16" is the update. The are excluded.
Perhaps a further edit could be done to add "/2015" at the end of the two dates? That would be consistent with the last update from "7/25/2012". The sidebar doesn't give any indication of "last edited," unfortunately.
Probably a whole new forum topic would be more appropriate.
In fact, this is such big news, I would have put it in the newsletters...
Thanks, that helps. The posting could have been clearer, for sure... ALL CAPS doesn't help much either.
But in the end, it does turn out to be very good news. Congratulations to all those who can now enter and win in contests!
Why Poland is excluded?
It may be that your local laws do not allow the contest.
It is, it'sjust not in the "limited contest" list
great news :D
Didn't expect that at all. You guys are awesome! I now have one more reason to tell everybody how cool this site is. (:
>180 countries? Excellent - somebody throw an extra mouse into the lawyers' vivarium!
In my country, Turkey, there are laws that forbid casinos and gamble houses, but playing it on the net is not forbidden as i know. There are a lot of bet and gambling sites. Lottery and some chance based games are under the government and not considered as gambling. Is there an opportunity for you to add turkey to your list?
I'm from Turkey and I'd like to participate to the next K'nex contest...
For those of you who are imploring Instructibles to consider your country, the burden is on YOU as a citizen of that country to petition whoever makes rules about contests and if the law is clear, provide a copy to the Instructibles team. Then get to work getting those instructibles up, winning, then contacting one of your 'friends to be', if your government did not come through. I'm sure there are any number of countries close to yours that could forward the prize, or work something out.Just get making , innovating, and creating!
Last update was 3 yeas ago. Is there any newer updates?
I see it that there are two type of eligibility cases:
First - where you need to change rules.
Second - where you don't need to change rules.
I don't see any reason, not to add all those second type countries.
I really would like to see South Africa on the approved list, can wait to be able to enter some contests
This is not the official word, but I would expect SA to be fairly low down the list of priorities, purely because relatively few members are based there.
Well i tend to disagree, according to quantcast, we give the 8th highest traffic. I think that is high enough that we deserve some attention
Traffic and members are two different things, of course. SA provides 1% of the site traffic, but (I think) much less than 1% of the active participation in the site.
Perhaps, instead, it is the complexities of the SA contest laws? Maybe you could speed up things by finding out what laws & regulations need to be met, and passing them on to email@example.com?
I know, I know....but the few of us need this.
Ok only joking. Hopefully we will get there soon.
If I am in the Philippines and I won a contest, can you send it to me directly or do I have to give an address in the legal countries and let a friend send it to me?
You have to have an address in a country that the contest was/is open to.
how can i participate to this contest? i'm from italy but i live in spain!
Sorry! maybe i couldn't understand it but what i understood was that the countries laws are not supporting us to take part in these contests????????
As a general observation, the further down this list your country lies, the lower the priority it is going to have for adding to contests:
I'm from Indonesia, can I participate to audio contest?
I'm confuse for I must be a registered member of the Sponsor Site in
order to publish a project to the Sponsor Site. So, what Sponsor Site is
it??? And where is its Link???
Please help me for some information regarding to enter the Audio Contest.
You only need to be a member of this site to join in any contest.
At the moment, the contests are only legal in these countries: US, UK, Australia, Belgium, Canada (excluding Quebec), China, Colombia, Denmark, Germany, India, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and Switzerland
If you live outside of those countries, you are not officially allowed to win.
Instructables do not check where you live, and do not ask you for the address to send the prize to until you win.
If you have a friend, family member or business contact in one of the countries above, you can give their address as your own, the prize goes there, and then your contact sends the prize on to you.
Please note, this is not official advice from headquarters, but it is proven to work.
I see that Indonesia is on 16th [ hope and pray ] (^_^)
Yes please add Pakistan to it. You must be getting a high traffic from Pakistan although it is a small country. You will get more high traffic if you open Pakistan because people here have great potentials for DIY's and most of the population have technical and engineering education and also just like India it has English as official language and there are no rules that ban DIY contests. Thanks.
According to Quantcast.com, Pakistan are 19th on the list of countries visiting the site, by traffic. Pakistan provides roughly 160,000 visitors per month, compared to India's 1,200,000, and America's 14,400,000.
But comparing it with a huge country like India and USA is totally unfair. Please compare it's traffic with a small country like Colombia (28,700), Norway (78,100), New Zealand (88,000), Switzerland (70,500) [Stats by qunantcast.com]. Also considering that Pakistan is developing country and internet is available to only 10% of population while in the above countries, 85%-100% population has internet access. So, considering that 160,000 is very much good traffic coming from Pakistan. Also, the traffic will be much more increased when you open these contests and in Pakistan there are no laws banning such contests. So, Pakistan deserves to be have these contests opened. I hope you will look into this. Thanks and cheers!
It is entirely fair to compare with larger nations - the site have to balance the effort required to jump through a nation's legal loopholes (international lawyers are *expensive*), against the benefit to the site in terms of increases in participation.
Maybe you could speed things up by finding what contest and gambling laws need to be complied with, and getting your nation's legal bodies to get in touch with the site's lawyers?
Sorry! maybe i couldn't understand it but what i understood was that the countries laws are not supporting us to take part in these contests????????
please tell me if i had understood the message correctly????
Laws are similar in many countries, but not identical. It takes time and money to adjust the rules until they fulfil the requirements of the various laws.
Thanks!! now i have understood
Please add Pakistan to it. Just like India it has English as official language and do not have any laws prohibiting DIY contests. Thanks
You are right!!!! I too want Pakistan to have this opportunty.
Are you sure? Have you checked? Some countries classify contests like these as gambling.
Dear Instructables
Please add South Africa. It would be a great hit here. SA is filled with lots of ingenuity and creativity. (And English is the main language here so no need for translations!!)
Please consider it.
Thanks... A proud South African.
Yes! A fellow South African here, and I've been a winner in quite a few contests already - luckily I was able to have someone bring my prizes to me from Canada, but that's no longer an option, so it'd be great to have SA on the list!
I agree....yes!
Please add Malaysia if possible. Malaysia widely adopts English for business & Education.
Hi Instructables team,
How long I have to wait get included my country into the list of valid countries.....?
its been a long time waiting............to participate into contest regarding technology, specially, OSHW and IoT.
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What about Indonesia? I think DIY competition is not prohibited by the law. It encourages us to think and create. Maybe you all you need to do is contacting Minister of Social Services of Indonesia to make sure Contests held by Instructables do not against the law. We have plenty of DIYers over here :-)
Any updates on Sweden?
Any updates about making Brazil elegible?
Thank you!
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I really hope you add Morocco to the list . i live there and i really want to
participate in the metal contest .so how can i get around this obstacle?
thank you
Hi! When you win a prize, there is a way to work around this: If you can provide them with a prize shipping address in one of the countries that *is* accepted, so if you know someone one lives there, you can let it ship there and then let it get send to you.
Hi there,
I am just wondering about France, where we live. Here is just a suggestion, which might help some of us who felt a bit outside the community because of this - why don't you give us a little parity by allowing us to have live links in our descriptions to our own blogs or Youtube channels. These are relevant to our work and would be giving us at least a 'prize' of recognition that we are adding something to your community. Just my 10 cents worth anyway. All the best from Normandy from two Instructable non-eligibles Sue (Pavlovafowl) and Andy (Organikmechanic
add Trinidad and Tobago please i don't think my country have rules on entering contests in other parts of the world
... but there will be laws about contests *within* Trinidad and Tobago, which are the laws the site needs to abide by.
ok i will look more into it and give you more feedback. but if you have a US shipping address can your prize be send there if u win.
Yes, yes it can.
mexicoo!!! wuu
you ar philipino ?
Can you explain it to me ?
If you can find a link to the body that administers Argentinian contest & gambling laws, and pass that on to email@example.com, that would speed things up, if only by a little.
If you can find a link to the body that administers Austrian contest & gambling laws, and pass that on to firstname.lastname@example.com, that would speed things up, if only by a little.


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We're starting to use Story Points here for our Agile development but I find it hard to explain and also can't find any definitive answer to what they are. The best thing I can do is point to other sites (like http://blog.mountaingoatsoftware.com/tag/story-points) and give some vague generalization of what they are. I'm looking for a good explanation with some examples of use that would be helpful for others to use. Are there any good resources for explaining story points?
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This may help as a starter: Mike Cohn on story points. But this one is far better: Agile Development Teams: Scope and Scale with Mike Cohn
Mike's solution to software estimation metrics is simple and effective. Biological facts:
The idea is to take one reference user story, then give it an arbitrary number of (story) points, then other stories will get points related to that reference.
If your reference story is 100 points, and another story is three times bigger, then it will be 300 points.
To convert story points into time for your planning, you have to know your velocity.
To get an accurate velocity, you must do few iterations and calculate how much points your team completed in a given amount of time.
It works.
They are a waste of time.
Interesting that this opinion now comes from the guy who wrote Scrum and XP from the Trenches and whose company name (Crisp) can be found on so many decks of planning poker cards used by so many teams around the world.
The last sentence of the OP: "Are there any good resources for explaining story points?" Yes, this book is a good resource. Food for thought.
Story points are a relative measurement of how difficult a task is. This is because humans are actually better at relative estimates than precise measurements.
The way you use story points is you take about two tasks on the project and assign them two different story point values. Then you estimate the other tasks using those two story point approximations as a basis for your estimate. I.e. Task C is not much harder than task A but incredibly easier than task B so it's only about 2 story points more work than task A.
When you are done estimating all of the requirements you have so far, you then estimate how many you can get done in a sprint. Over the next few sprints, you estimate how many you have completed. A requirement's story points are only counted as completed if the requirement is fulfilled. There is no "80% complete" in Scrum. This is because humans are actually bad at estimating completeness. After a few sprints, you should have an idea of how many story points you can do per sprint.
How do you estimate? You can use planning poker to determine how much work your developers feel a requirement will take relative to your basis requirements.
I would also recommend reading The Agile Samurai. It does a good job explaining these and other Agile concepts in my opinion.
Here's a link with more on story points.
I agree with everything @Pierre 303: said above: (apart from the 100 reference point).
The only thing I would like to add (emphasis) is that we are not good at estimating tasks. We can estimate tasks relative to other tasks as long as they are roughly of the same size. The larger the difference between the tasks the worse we get.
Thus I disagree with using a starting point of 100.
Its not as if you will estimate the next task as 42% of the reference task. It is either the same half the work double the work triple the work etc.
Our team uses Planing Poker: In this we have a reference task of 2 story points. We then use the Fibonacci series to estimate tasks: 1,2,3,5,8,13,21,Huge,? relative to the reference task (Rather than the Fibonacci I have seen other teams use powers of 2. 1,2,4,8,16,32,Huge,?) I have seen other teams use (small(1), medium(2), large(3), XLarge(4) when they computed velocity it still worked.).
The point is that as the size of the task increases relative to the reference task we become less able to accurately estimate its cost. So there is no point in trying. This is reflected by the larger gradient at the end of the estimation trail.
So if your reference task is 2SP. Then making an estimate of 1/2/3/5 is relatively easy as the task are of similar size. Once you get past 3 times as big as the reference task (5SP) the estimation becomes harder(Is 8/9/10SP does it matter) All you can say is its bigger than 5SP and smaller than 13SP then 8SP fits the bill.
Anything with a SP value of 13/21/Huge is too big for the sprint backlog. These are estimates for things you are not ready to actually work on yet (and thus have not broken down into smaller tasks (don't break them up until you need too)). But they do give you an estimate for the size of a task in the product backlog (which allows some future planning). By the time you get to the point where you are going to work on them you should have enough knowledge to break them up-into smaller tasks for the sprint backlog and re-estimate them individually (Note: Its a common misconception that the sum of the parts equal the original).
The easiest explanation I can come up with is using an object which is tangible and can provide a concrete example.
Take a mobile home. If I were in the mobile home business I would know that building a single wide typically takes 5 (points, frogs, widgets...the measurement form is arbitrary) and therefore building a double wide should take about double the effort or 10 (points, frogs, widgets).
The programmers mindset will at this point kick in and talk about a streamlined approach; it not taking twice as long due to the infrastructure consuming the largest portion of time and other similar examples. This is inevitable. Harp on the fact that this is an estimation in (points, frogs, widgets) since we can NEVER accurately estimate in time and thus estimating in (points, frogs, widgets) removes the belief that we can.
To know how long something will take to build we will make use of our trends over time; thus over time getting more and more accurate in our estimates.
Don't forget planning poker when the team is ready to go.
As others have mentioned story points are a relative measurement of complexity for a user story. The true benefit of story points are realized when
After a few iterations of measuring in story points and tracking velocity, you should be able to accurately estimate how many story points can fit within a given timeblock (iteration or sprint if using scrum). Note that applying this technique to a group and trying to use those metrics for a different team will not work well. That is if team a can complete 120 story points in a two week sprint, expecting team b to have the same results is unrealistic.
As someone else mentioned, planning poker is a great aid when using this method because it will help identify stories that need further refinement (if there is a discrepancy between votes, it means there is uncertainty in the requirements).


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Ideal for celebrations and birthdays, this chocolate cake is delicious, and gluten-free.
Prep Time: 35M
Cooking Time: 45M
Serves: serves 10-12
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- 6 eggs
- 11/2 cups superfine sugar
- 3/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 13/4 cups soy flour
- generous 1 cup potato flour
- generous 1/2 cup gluten-free unsweetened cocoa powder
- 11/2 tbsp gluten-free baking powder
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- Break the eggs into a bowl and add the sugar. Place the bowl over a pan of gently simmering water and whisk with an electric whisk until thick and pale and the mixture leaves a trail when the whisk is lifted out of the mixture-this will take several minutes.
- Remove the bowl from the pan. Gradually add the melted butter or margarine in a thin trail, whisking all the time. Whisk in the vanilla extract.
- Sift the flours, cocoa, and baking powder over the surface. Add the milk. Gently fold in with a metal spoon, using a figure eight motion.
- Divide the mixture between the prepared pans, and use a palette knife or spatula to spread evenly.
- Bake in the oven for about 45 minutes, until risen and firm to the touch.
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The history of the Titan TIPTOP/F88/G88 is extremely exciting. The importance of these truck models to Volvo truck history cannot be overestimated.
This truck, which was to conquer practically all of the world with the exception of America, was originally intended for America, not for the rest of the world outside America!
The history of the Titan
To understand the history of the Titan TIPTOP/F88, we must return to the early history of Volvo and especially to the mid 50s marketing strategy of the Swedish Volvo marque. Sweden is a small country, and in order to survive and grow, export sales were necessary. This meant also, of course, that all Volvo products had to stand up to all kinds of severe conditions, this being one of the major reasons behind the overall quality of a Volvo truck in any part of the world, for any transport task.
Of course, the fact that Swedish transport conditions (with practically unlimited Gross Combination Weights and harsh climate conditions) were extremely severe also made a major contribution to the characteristics of Volvo trucks, especially in the heavy-duty class.
Success in the US
In the mid 1950s, Volvo cars met an immediate success in the most demanding car market of this period, the USA. The management of Volvo also considered that trucks should be introduced into North America, to earn valuable dollars for Volvo which was in need of a sounder economic base for future international growth.
Volvo trucks, of conventional N type configuration, were introduced in 1958-59. After a short time, it was clear to Volvo market strategists that the trend in the USA in this period was towards cab-over-engine F trucks. In a relatively short time, a few specimens of a prototype model were developed, of which at least one had a short day cab and was used for tests in Sweden, while at least one specimen had a sleeper cab and was put into 'field-test operations' in North America.
New requirements
Soon, however, it was clear to Volvo that the specific market requirements of North America could not be met by Volvo trucks of that period. The introduction was halted and the design of future Volvo trucks also took North American requirements into consideration.
How could the new F configuration Titan truck be utilised? As a prototype for future long-distance European trucks of course! Intense development work took place to prepare the new 'Titan TIPTOP' for the severe competition of Europe's increasingly truck-oriented transport industry.
From N bonnets to F trucks
Parallel to this development in America, a move away from bonneted N trucks to F trucks was taking place in Europe, forced to a great extent by legislation in Germany, in which the government tried to protect the position of the train by obstructing efficient truck transportation. One of the steps taken was to restrict vehicle combination length and permitted axle loads.
The introduction of the F truck as a standard vehicle for long-distance international European transport was a successful way of protecting the efficiency of good trucks, thereby preserving the possibility of transporting goods fast, safe and at low cost.
Perfect timing
The Titan TIPTOP/F88 came with perfect timing for Volvo. When it was introduced in 1964/1965, it was met favourably by the truck transport industry. But why did it meet with such success? The answer can be split into three separate reasons, each of which in itself could supply the answer.
The competing trucks of the 1960s from Volvo's competitors had one major weakness: they all had a fixed cab and thereby could be serviced only with great difficulty involving a major loss of transport revenue during service and standstill. The efficient tilt cab of the Titan TIPTOP gave even better access to the basic components than an N truck.
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The ergonomics of the new Titan TIPTOP/F88 truck were unique and the sleeper cab offered very good living quarters for one or two drivers. The safety of the crash-tested cab was perhaps not the most discussed feature, but safety was (not least due to the discussion in North America, introduced by Ralph Nader) increasingly a focus of attention.
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A prologue to the F88
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Premiere of Balanchine's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" a
Posted 30 May 2012 - 10:33 AM
of Balanchine's wonderful ballet. Victoria Tereshkina will be the Mariinsky's first Titania
and will alternate the role with Ekaterina Kondaurova. Kondaurova will also dance Hippolyta
and alternate with Alexandra Iosifidi. There will only be two performances during the current
White Nights Festival.
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Posted 30 May 2012 - 03:52 PM
Something very important is missing from the cast lists: the leading couple dancing the gorgeous and difficult classical pas de deux in Act II.
Nice start with two potentially great Titanias, though.
Posted 31 May 2012 - 07:16 PM
I, too, am curious about the pivotal casting of the Act II Divert.
Posted 31 May 2012 - 10:48 PM
Posted 31 May 2012 - 11:11 PM
It's also a far more difficult role to get right than Titania, in my opinion.
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Posted 31 May 2012 - 11:57 PM
I disagree that the ballerina has to be small. Kyra Nichols, for example, was quite stunning and Darci Kistler was luminous in it, although Heather Watts gave my favorite performance of it. Watts wasn't that small either: she just looked shorter by comparison to the very tall dancers in the company.
Posted 01 June 2012 - 04:07 AM
As the Mariinsky's leading man 'in his prime' right now is Vladimir Schklyarov, and as he has not been assigned Oberon, I am guessing that he is the likely opening-night A2 PDD male. His recent partner (in life and on stage), Maria Shirinkina, would be a good contender for the female A2 PDD lead. It better NOT be "Ms X."(guess who); I don't think that the Balanchine Trust would allow it.
Posted 01 June 2012 - 08:18 AM
Heather Watts gave my favorite performance of it. Watts wasn't that small either: she just looked shorter by comparison to the very tall dancers in the company.
Mine too! I wasn't a huge Watts fan but she was absolutely beautiful to watch in that pas de deux. (She was a great Dewdrop, too.) Watts described herself as a "medium" in an interview somewhere.
ETA: When I'm purchasing a ticket based on casting alone (vs one driven by the calendar) I always base my decision on who's dancing in the Divertissement. Unlike more traditional story ballets, Balanchine's Midsummer doesn't hand the final pas de deux -- the one that crystallizes a ballet's "moral tone" (for lack of a better word) or its picture of ideal love -- to the lead couple. A less-than-optimal Divertissement ballerina can therefore undermine Midsummer just as much as a less-than-optimal Aurora can undermine Sleeping Beauty. And I don't think I've ever seen a "bad" Titania in that sense.
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Posted 02 June 2012 - 06:26 AM
I am now wondering if perhaps the Balanchine Trust has approved a 'doubling up' of roles...i.e., Titania and Oberon will dance the PDD? Balanchine was very much against it but, according to Nancy Goldner (in Balanchine Variations), somebody told her that this once occured in Switzerland in the early 1970s because, apparently, Balanchine adored the dancer cast as Titania and wanted to see more of her. (!)
It would be very much "the Mariinsky Way" to push for this. How can the Prima Ballerina barely appear in A2 and concede the biggest classical dance of the night to another ballerina?
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I see that facebook generates an AppId and an AppSecret. In the sample provided, AppId is baked into the code however there is no mention of using AppSecret. Shouldn't it be specified some where in the code to sign requests? What am I missing?
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Ronald K. Chen '83, who as Public Advocate of the State of New Jersey led the rebuilding of an executive branch agency charged with providing "a voice to the voiceless," has returned to Rutgers School of Law–Newark as Vice Dean. It is in effect a homecoming for Chen, who joined the faculty in 1987 and was appointed Associate Dean in 1995. Since leaving for Trenton in early 2006, he continued to teach as an adjunct professor at Rutgers, which he fondly described at his ceremonial swearing in as the place "which taught me the majesty of the law as a student for three years, and which then continued to teach me even as I have endeavored to teach others for the past 18 years."
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The Public Advocate job was "in some ways a public interest lawyer's dream," Chen said at the Alumni Recognition Dinner at which he received the 2009 Fannie Bear Besser Award for Public Service, "and one of the few things that could have drawn me away from my daily life at the law school." In the same speech, Chen's continuing attachment to the law school was evident in his confession to missing colleagues, students, and "the regular vortices of controversy, debate, and deliberation that distinguish an academic community."
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There really was never a question in my mind. After a four-year adventure in Trenton, I have come home.
As far as my new role as Vice-Dean, while I will be resuming a lot of the duties that I performed before, I also look forward to helping Dean Farmer projecting a renewed commitment of the law school to engage in the public issues of the State. Hopefully, with my recent experience as Public Advocate, I can be of assistance in that endeavor.
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Day-to-day contact with students. I have missed an entire generation of students, although after the first year as Public Advocate, I began teaching pro bono at night so I kept some connection with the daily life of the school.
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In too many ways to describe fully. I was an avid student for four years, learning how formulation of public policy and the legal system interact. I return with a much better understanding of the legislative process, of administrative rule-making, as well as traditional judicial processes, and I have new experience in a number of substantive issues, from utility law to elder law to mental health law to protection of persons with disabilities.
As far as administrative responsibilities, you do learn a few techniques as head of a principal department of state government, with responsibility for 170 employees, and six divisions and a $16 million to $20 million budget, and I may try a few of them out.
Of what accomplishment as Public Advocate are you most proud?
Probably our success in reforming eminent domain was the clearest example of how focused legal advocacy can change the landscape in a short period of time. With the courts' intervention we were able to enact reforms that were constitutionally based, so that they cannot easily be altered. Now other states such as New York are citing New Jersey cases as precedent for changing the paradigm for redevelopment of economically disadvantaged communities.
You have on many occasions noted the strong call to public service that the law school issues to both students and alumni. How will you continue your public interest advocacy at Rutgers?
Public interest advocacy is at the core of the Rutgers Law School tradition. I want to help Dean Farmer find new ways to express that tradition through partnerships with the Bench and Bar and other public interest advocacy organizations with whom I have built relationships as Public Advocate.


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