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I've got one. Like everyone else said they're fun to mess around with on a small, mushy day. I sometimes ride it like a boogie board into some dumpy shore break or after drinking beer in the sun all day. If you're semi-serious about doing both look in to a used surfboard and a cheap boogie board. The beater board (I've got the 54" twin fin) is fairly short and if you're not decent at surfing it would be really, really hard to learn on it.
Not Wiley's boards but some random stand up boog footage...imagine it's be similar on the beaters, maybe a tad easier w/ the extra length...
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'65 Olds Cutlass Project Car - Turning The WheelWritten by on September 1, 2010 Contributors: Henry De Los Santos, Robert McGaffin, Nick Licata Project Olds Gets Its First Official Thrashing On The Street, Autocross, And Road Course At The Optima Ultimate Street Car Faceoff.
In just eight short months, our '65 Cutlass project car has gone from vegetating on grandma's driveway to pulling major g's around Road America. During that time, it's blossomed from a mushy, wimpy conglomerate of decrepit OE parts into a cutting-edge Pro Touring machine poised to grip it up at autocross events and road courses throughout the country. During one glorious weekend in May, we did just that. As Brent Jarvis and company at Performance Restorations (www.PerformanceRestorations.com) were putting the finishing touches on Project Olds, car owner/photographer Robert McGaffin decided to give it a proper shakedown thrashing at the Optima Ultimate Street Car Faceoff at Road America. It proved to be one heck of a maiden voyage, as the event pitted 40 wicked g-Machines against each other in an automotive triathlon featuring timed hot laps around Road America's famed 4.048-mile road course, an autocross shootout, and a braking competition. Although the excursion revealed several bugs that need to be ironed out, Project Olds performed remarkably well overall.
To recap, Project Olds has been transformed from slug to slugger by trading in its 330ci small-block and two-speed automatic for a 514hp big-block Olds and a Tremec TKO 600 five-speed stick from Hurst Driveline Conversions. Since the Pro Touring creed calls for multifaceted talents, the chassis has received some big-time fortification with a complete Detroit Speed and Engineering suspension, Baer brakes, and R-compound Nitto NT01 meats wrapped around 18-inch Rocket Racing wheels. The event kicked off with a cruise around Milwaukee up to Road America's premium facility in Elkhart Lake. During the 80-mile trek, a few stabs of the throttle quickly revealed the Cutlass's bipolar demeanor. "The 461 big-block doesn't buck or surge at all at low speeds, and pulls very hard from idle all the way up to 6,000 rpm," McGaffin says. "It has so much torque that you never feel the need to wind it out all the way. The overall balance of power and driveability is excellent."
After a pit stop at West Bend Dyno Tuning in West Bend, the racers rolled into Road America's facility on Saturday afternoon. As a warm-up to Sunday's main event, we were treated to a riotous team go-kart racing session. This afforded the opportunity to socialize and make some new friends with fellow competitors, and as we found out the next day, it always pays to have friends should you need a helping hand.
On The Autocross
While the road course and braking events proved to be ridiculously entertaining, we were most concerned with how quickly the Cutlass could rip through the cones. First and foremost, Project Olds was built as an autocross machine, so we were very eager to see if it could hang with the lighter and more powerful competition. The field ranged from first- and second-gen Camaros, to Chevelles, E-Body Mopars, and late-models. Many boasted lightweight aluminum LS motors and modern Hemis, so it remained to be seen if plopping in a big-block would hamper the Cutlass' ability to plant the front end through a tight autocross course. As we quickly learned, that myth doesn't always hold true.
From the first turn of the wheel, the chassis didn't disappoint. Our man McGaffin ran a total of six laps, and laid down a best time of 49.28 seconds. He then tossed the keys to Kyle Tucker of DSE, who pared that down to 47.86 seconds on his first lap out, which was good for a Ninth Place finish in the event. For reference, the fastest time of the day was 46.27 seconds, which was posted by Brian Finch's second-gen Camaro. Likewise, DSE's own second-gen Camaro shop car recorded a best lap of 46.88 seconds. Considering that the DSE Camaro is powered by a 615hp L92, and weighs 200-300 pounds less than our big A-body, we were very pleased with how well the Cutlass performed. "In stock trim, the Cutlass pitches and rolls so badly that it's very difficult to set it up for a corner. It understeers a lot, and never has enough power to really get going," McGaffin says. "With the DSE suspension, big-block, and five-speed, the difference is night and day. The balance is very neutral, and the car remains extremely flat and predictable in the corners. The frontend doesn't push at all, and the chassis puts down the power very well when exiting corners."
The Four-Miler
If drag racing is hard on the motor and driveline, road racing is hard on everything. Considering this event was McGaffin's first road course outing, we weren't expecting to light up the timing equipment. Our time of 2:15 was quite a bit slower than the 1:47 lap posted by the First Place DSE second-gen Camaro, but it was a great learning experience nonetheless. As luck would have it, several mechanical gremlins quickly surfaced, cutting our seat time short. "After completing my warm-up lap, I started pushing the car a little harder as I got more comfortable with the track. On the second timed lap, the oil pressure suddenly dropped as I hit the brakes coming down the hill approaching Turn 8," McGaffin says. "I've seen five big-block cars blow up over the last year on a road course due to oiling issues, and I wasn't about to become the sixth. I pulled off the track into the pits to diagnose the problem, and it turned out that oil was puking out of the breathers, and the dipstick tube had worked its way out of the block. I bolted the dipstick back up, and the oil pressure seemed fine, but I decided against turning more laps on the road course."
Braking It
Like our abbreviated run on the road course, mechanical woes limited our time competing in the brake challenge as well. Interestingly, this wasn't due to any shortcoming of Project Olds' four-piston Baer brakes, but rather brakes that worked too well for the rest of the car to handle. "The braking competition was conducted on an 800-foot course with cones marking off the final 300 feet of the track in 100-foot increments. The goal was to accelerate as hard as possible, and then start braking anywhere between the cones placed 300- and 100-feet from the finish line without overshooting," McGaffin says. "On my first pass, the brakes grabbed so hard that they starved the carb of fuel, and the motor shut down. Once the car lost brake vacuum, I overshot the finish line. The top finisher of the day completed the course in 8.18 seconds." [Editor's note: This is not an uncommon problem, and is the subject of our story, "Corner Capable," on page 76.]
Mission Accomplished
After hitting the road, all projects need to have their bugs worked out, and Project Olds is no exception. Since the purpose of any shakedown session is to find out what problems may arise under real-world competition conditions, we were pleased with the overall performance of the Cutlass over the course of the weekend. We managed to bring the car home in one piece, and have already started formulating a plan to address the oiling and sputtering issues. The experience has brought us one step closer to fully dialing in the Cutlass for battle, and without turning the wheel on the track, that goal would be impossible to achieve. By far, the biggest triumph of the weekend was how well the car ran in the autocross course in the midst of mixing it up with machines that clearly boasted power and weight advantages. While we're not quite ready to wrap up the project, we've come pretty darn close to building and fully dialing-in a complete car in just eight months.
The Ultimate G-Machine Shootout
Like it or not, the Pro Touring movement has earned a notorious reputation for producing cars that look much better than they run, and the Optima Ultimate Street Car Faceoff was conceived to put that stereotype to rest. The event is open to all muscle cars and late-models, and just about any engine, trans, and suspension combo is game. The only real stipulation is the mandatory use of DOT-approved tires. The event we attended combined a street cruise, a BFG Hot Lap Challenge, a DSE Speed Attack Autocross, and a Baer Brakes Speed Stop Challenge. Once the rubber cooled, Brian Finch of Nashville placed near the top of every competition with his '71 Camaro, and was named the overall champion of the weekend. The event we attended on May 1-2 is just one in several Faceoff competitions that will be held throughout the year. Select vehicles will be invited to race in the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational (www.OptimaInvitational.com) during the SEMA show later this year to fight for the title of the ultimate Pro Touring machine in the country.
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After pulling off the road course, we noticed a puddle of oil forming beneath the car. A huge thanks goes out to Herb Lumpp who helped us reattach the dipstick tube to our big-block to stop the leak.Too much negative g's can starve a carb of fuel, which is exactly what happened to Project Olds in the braking competition, causing us to overshoot the finish line. To solve the problem, plans call for installing jet extensions, modifying the floats, and tinkering with different vent tubes.Although we didn't get much of an opportunity to mash the brakes in the braking challenge, the Baer four-piston clamps performed flawlessly on the road course. Even after several laps, they exhibited zero fade and inspired the confidence to brake late entering every corner. Project Olds' original steering column had a nasty tendency to deflect as the big-block torqued over on its mounts, so an aftermarket unit is definitely in the cards. Our pilot says the DSE steering box was remarkably responsive and provided as much feedback as a rack-and-pinion setup.In our haste to make the Optima event, we didn't have time to install a set of proper racing buckets. Even with a five-point harness, McGaffin was slipping and sliding all over the stock bench seat throughout the weekend, which made it extremely difficult to drive at the limit. We'll be installing some Procar seats very soon to help secure our photog in position.


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Constrictive pericarditis is long-term (chronic) inflammation of the sac-like covering of the heart (the pericardium) with thickening, scarring, and muscle tightening (contracture).
Related conditions include:
Constrictive pericarditis
Most of the time, constrictive pericarditis occurs due to things that cause inflammation to develop around the heart, such as:
Less common causes include:
The condition may also develop without a clear cause.
It is rare in children.
When you have constrictive pericarditis, the inflammation causes the covering of the heart to become thick and rigid. This makes it hard for the heart to stretch properly when it beats. As a result, the heart chambers don't fill up with enough blood. Blood backs up behind the heart, causing heart swelling and other symptoms of heart failure.
Symptoms of chronic constrictive pericarditis include:
Constrictive pericarditis is very hard to diagnose. Signs and symptoms are similar to other conditions such as restrictive cardiomyopathy and cardiac tamponade. Your doctor will need to rule out these conditions when making a diagnosis.
A physical exam may show that your neck veins stick out. This indicates increased blood pressure in the area. It is called Kussmaul's sign. The doctor may note weak or distant heart sounds when listening to your chest with a stethoscope.
The physical exam may also reveal liver swelling and fluid in the belly area.
The following tests may be ordered:
The goal of treatment is to improve heart function. The cause must be identified and treated. Depending on the source of the problem, treatment may include antibiotics, medicines for tuberculosis, or other treatments.
Diuretics ("water pills") are often used in small doses to help the body remove excess fluid. Pain medicines may be needed for discomfort.
Some people may need to cut down on their activity. A low-sodium diet may also be recommended.
If other methods do not control the problem, surgery called a pericardiectomy may be needed. This involves cutting or removing the scarring and part of the sac-like covering of the heart.
Constrictive pericarditis may be life threatening if untreated.
However, surgery to treat the condition has a high rate of complications. For this reason, it is most often done in people who have severe symptoms.
Call your health care provider if you have symptoms of constrictive pericarditis.
Constrictive pericarditis in some cases is not preventable.
However, conditions that can lead to constrictive pericarditis should be properly treated.
Jouriles NJ. Pericardial and Myocardial Disease. In Marx JA, Hockberger RS, Walls RM, et al, eds. Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. 8th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Mosby Elsevier; 2013:chap 82.
LeWinter MM, Tischler MD. Pericardial diseases. In: Bonow RO, Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 9th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap75.
Little WC, Oh JK. Pericardial diseases. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 77.
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Nowadays, although there are some who are still in the denial stage, the level of grief is more subdued, and the industry is more accepting. For many, computer validation has become a part of daily life, just like accepting and using the mandatory car seatbelt. The road to acceptance was not without its controversies. In the mid 1990s, many varied opinions led to confusion about the scope of computer validation. At one point, a computer's operating system (OS) was thought to be in scope and to require validation, and the OS vendor had to be audited. In another case, a consultant advised that a "change control" must be filed when replacing a printer's toner cartridge (now we know that consumables don't need change control). It was during this period of confusion that "common sense" became the buzz phrase and "it depends" were the first two words that preceded an answer to any computer validation question.
We have transitioned from the "common sense" and "it depends" environment to a risk-based and risk-management environment, especially since the US Food and Drug Administration is on board with risk management (2). We hope that a risk-management approach will level off the inconsistencies inherent to the "it depends" approach. Only time will tell whether it will be successful. By this transition, however, it seems that along the way we have inadvertently proved Darwin's theory of evolution: we have evolved and transitioned from a less-structured environment to a more technically structured and scientifically minded methodology to computer validation.


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Line formats control how each line taken from an input file is output as part of a line group in if-then-else format.
For example, the following command outputs text with a one-character change indicator to the left of the text. The first character of output is '-' for deleted lines, '|' for added lines, and a space for unchanged lines. The formats contain newline characters where newlines are desired on output.
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Your city will probably have some specialty markets where similar goods are sold by multiple vendors under the same roof, such as shoe markets, electronics markets, antique markets, and of course the fresh food markets (which most people call a wet market). These markets are open during the day, but the really fun markets are the "night markets" where city streets or sidewalks are closed off to make way for vendors of silks, pirated DVDs, namebrand knockoffs, fake antiques, and quirky new inventions such as USB-powered heated socks.
Bargaining is expected in markets and small shops, but not in large department stores or supermarkets. The best way to discover if there is room to bargain is to ask, Keyi pianyi yidian ma? (Can you go a little cheaper?), a hard phrase to memorize but one that will save you lots of dough. They'll reply with either bu keyi (nope) or keyi (sure), in which case you can proceed to bargain.
The rule of thumb is to cut a seller's price in half and eventually settle on a price around two-thirds of the original quote, though at markets that cater to foreigners the "real" sell price may be as little as 10-25 percent of the original amount quoted. A good way to discover a fair price is to check out the item in two or three different shops, keeping in mind that in China you often won't get the true price until you've walked away. There's always some tension as sellers expect you to make a purchase if you inquire about a price.
In the beginning you'll be overcharged quite a bit, but don't worry about it. If the price sounds good to you, go for it. Have fun and be happy that you are helping the local economy. As your Chinese-language skills improve, they'll see that you aren't a fat-cat tourist but someone who is really in the know. They'll give you better prices just for speaking the language.
Some belligerent foreigners who don't understand the bargaining game criticize the quality of the goods or insult the seller with their words or body language. Try to remain polite—negotiating is a fact of life in Chinese commerce, and it is all part of the ritual. Making a seller lose face will not help your efforts. You'll know you've arrived as a bargainer when after fierce and seemingly antagonistic negotiation you enjoy a good laugh with the seller and they offer you a freebie and a cup of tea. Now you are starting to fit in.
Excerpted from the Second Edition of Moon Living Abroad in China.


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Unanswered: Handling Frame in GXT
1. Is there any way to capture the events happening on IFrame (Frame Component in Sencha) rendered through Sencha application??
Note: I think in sencha all the modules(widgets) gets loaded on I-Frame content only (correct me if wrong).
2. Is there any way to pass the values (Javascript Objects) at the runtime (After Sencha framework starts execution) to the Sencha application ??
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An iframe is used to load all of the source code for the app to get it running - this prevents your compiled application from interfering with any existing JavaScript on the page. Widgets are *not* rendered in that iframe - that happens in the main body of the main window. Load up http://sencha.com/examples/ and use Firebug or Chrome's Inspector to see this.
2. Certainly - you can build a simple Java wrapper around those JavaScriptObjects, and then can read and write those JS values. This is called a JavaScriptObject (JSO for short), because you must extends the JavaScriptObject type for this to work. More details on this in the GWT documentation:


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Andy Murray Wins at Wimbledon
WIMBLEDON, England—After 77 years, it would have been too easy. It hadn't rained. The sun was bright, the air calm, the sky without a single cloud, the temperature just so. No one had been hurt. Andy Murray was about to beat Novak Djokovic for the Wimbledon title—all he had to do was win one more point.
And then came the agony, and a chance for Murray to show off what will be remembered as his trademark trait when his tennis career ends: resilience. After losing a 40-0 lead, Murray saved three break points and withstood a last-ditch assault from Djokovic to win 6-4, 7-5, 6-4.
He is the first British man to win this title since Fred Perry in 1936.
"That last game will be the toughest game I'll play in my career, ever," Murray said.
When it was over Sunday afternoon, Murray turned to the crowd and assembled press and shouted, "Yes! Yes! Yes!" He exchanged high fives with fans and walked around Centre Court seemingly in a daze as fans yelled, "Andy! Andy! Andy! Andy!" He kneeled and put his head on the grass. He wandered over to his chair and sat down. Then he got up again and climbed through the crowd to the players' box where his family, girlfriend and coaches were looking on. He almost forgot to hug his mother, who came running down from her seat as Murray headed back down to the court. He climbed back up and hugged her.
"Just how that last game went my head was kind of everywhere," Murray said. "At the end of the match I didn't quite know what was going on."
The applause was surely like no other in Wimbledon history: louder, longer, happier. Murray had not only won the most important title of his career, but he had put on a show. He smothered Djokovic with hustle, with defense, with touch and most of all, with remarkable passing shots on the run. He held nothing back, just like his coach, Ivan Lendl, had wanted him to do. It couldn't have gone better.
"I understand how much everyone wanted to see a British winner at Wimbledon," Murray told the crowd during the trophy presentation. "I hope you guys enjoyed it."
Did they ever. On the hill behind No. 1 Court, fans basked in the sun and cheered, and jumped up and down after Murray won. Inside Centre Court, there were shouts of "I love you, Andy!" and "You're a genius, Andy!" The crowd was often too excited for its own good: Several times they cheered before points ended, thinking a Djokovic shot had gone out.
There were, of course, moments of concern for Murray and his fans. In the first set, Murray broke serve and then gave the break right back, before regaining the lead. In the second set Murray fell behind 4-1. In the third set, he won the first two games but lost the next four.
But Murray kept finding a way out of trouble, just as he did in the quarterfinals, when he lost the first two sets against Fernando Verdasco, and in the semifinals, when he lost the first set to Jerzy Janowicz and later had his momentum broken when the tournament referee decided to close the roof before it became too dark to play. After the Verdasco match, Lendl, speaking in the players' garden, said that is what Murray does best.
"I don't think anybody can question that in Andy, his resilience," Lendl said.
Lendl is one of the U.S. Open's all-time great champions (he won it three times and played in eight finals) and he also won the Australian Open twice and the French Open three times. He was the world's No. 1 player for 270 weeks in his career. But at Wimbledon, he never did better than runner-up. Murray said he wanted to win this title for his coach, too.
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"I think this was the next-best thing for him," Murray said. "He believed in me when a lot of people didn't."
For Djokovic, the defeat was his second stinging loss in as many Grand Slam tournaments. At the French Open, he led Rafael Nadal by a break of serve in the fifth set of their semifinal before losing. Against Murray at Wimbledon, Djokovic kept coming back from deficits, only to make an untimely error or poor decision when he needed something more. He praised Murray's persistence.
"He was getting some incredible shots on the stretch and running down the drop shots," Djokovic said. "He was all over the court."
Djokovic and Murray have played 19 times. They're both 26—born just seven days apart—and ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in the world. They played in last year's U.S. Open final (Murray won) and in this year's Australian Open final (Djokovic won). They are the two best in the sport at returning serve, and the two best in the sport on hard courts.
But for Murray, this title—on the lawns of Wimbledon—meant everything. After losing in last year's final to Roger Federer, he came back to the All England Club to win a gold medal in singles at the Olympics, where he beat both Djokovic and Federer. He skipped this year's French Open to rest his aching back: Wimbledon mattered more and he wasn't going to take any chances. After he won the grass-court warm-up event at Queen's Club last month, the expectations could have been overwhelming.
"The last four or five years, it's been very, very tough, very stressful, a lot of pressure," Murray said. "It's so hard to avoid everything because of how big this event is, but also because of the history and no Brit having won."
Asked how he had come this far—from a childhood in Scotland, a nation with no tennis tradition and few courts—Murray was quick to answer.
"I persevered," Murray said. "That's really been it, the story of my career probably." For Britain, it was worth the wait.


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Christmas is around the corner and Dakota Wesleyan University's annual Christmas concert dates are set.
DWU's Christmas concert, "Veni Emmanuel," will be performed at 7 p.m. both Friday, Dec. 6, and Saturday, Dec. 7, at the Sherman Center. Tickets are $10 and will go on sale Monday, Dec. 2, at Prather Hall located on DWU's campus.
The concert will feature all Dakota Wesleyan musical performing groups, including: Wesleyan Community/University Band, LyricWood, the Wesleyan Bells, Faculty/Staff Bell Choir, the Highlanders, The Mitchell Area Children's Choir and the Women's Chamber Choir. DWU's newest men's choir, The Singing Scotchmen, will also perform, as well as the largest Wesleyan Choir in more than 10 years.
"Veni Emmanuel" is the Latin version of the Christmas hymn, "O Come, Emmanuel," and is the theme of this year's celebration.
"Most of the music will reflect on humanity's longing for the coming of the Christ child," said Dr. Clinton Desmond, DWU choral director.
This year's concert features two music education majors, Jenna Callies and Elizabeth Morrison, taking turns conducting LyricWood in "Christmas Joy" by Stephen Yarbrough each night. The concert will close with the "Hallelujah Chorus" from "The Messiah," by the Wesleyan Choir, orchestra and congregation.
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To Slap someone round the face with an erect penis.
The black man bismarked sophie and she died.
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After recieving oral sex, a male will pull his penis to one side and release using hip movement to strike the female on the cheek. If properly executed the resulting red mark is known as a bismark.
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I am not currently using an LTS Ubuntu on my laptop.
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In Summary: If I upgrade to an LTS, will it be possible/easy to update to the following non-LTS or will a re-installation of the OS be required?


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The October issue of FIRE Policy News features a quotation from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, published more than five decades ago and still frighteningly accurate today. In an editorial, Heartland President Joseph Bast, publisher of FIRE Policy News, asks if the United States is doomed and explains:
This issue of FIRE Policy News once again chronicles the descent of America from a land of freedom and opportunity into a second-rate country dominated by government regulators, politicians, and rentseekers. From housing markets to banking, from insurance regulations to management of the country's money supply, the trend always and everywhere is toward trading based on compulsion instead of consent, of businessmen needing permission from politicians and regulators before risking their own capital and energy, and of corruption and fraud being rewarded and honesty punished.
Ayn Rand saw all of this happening half-a-century ago. She described it vividly in a novel published in 1957 titled Atlas Shrugged.
Also in this issue:
- The U.S. housing bubble varied substantially by geography. Gross national house value increases and losses were overwhelmingly concentrated in metropolitan areas with smart growth and other restrictive land use regulations.
- Congress in August raised the national debt ceiling and created a "super Congress" to recommend cuts in government spending. GOP presidential candidate and Texas Congressman Ron Paul said the supercommittee is "nothing more than a way to disenfranchise the majority of Congress by denying them the chance for meaningful participation in the crucial areas of entitlement and tax reform."
- The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, signed into law in July 2010, leaves the financial system exposed to meltdowns.
- Riots in the United Kingdom demonstrate a dramatic loss of respect for property rights among young people there.
- Congress should consider reforming the overly complex, highly inefficient U.S. federal tax code, particularly the mortgage interest deduction.
- Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund Chief Operating Officer Jack Nicholson has proposed reforms that would put the giant taxpayer-backed reinsurer on sounder financial footing.
Newspaper Articles in this Issue
Are We Doomed?– September 2, 2011
Debt Ceiling Up, Credit Rating Down, Committee Formed; Reaction Ripples– August 19, 2011
Massachusetts Mulls Private Finance for Public Services– August 18, 2011
A Case for Dropping the Mortgage Interest Deduction– August 18, 2011
If They Can't End Flood Insurance, Can They End Anything?– August 18, 2011
Financial Instruments Would be Target of Broader Base, Lower Rates– August 18, 2011
Cumulative Weight of New Rules on Credit: The Evidence– August 18, 2011
Beyond Privatopia Casts Critical Eye on Homeowners Associations– August 17, 2011
Britain's Riots Show Loss of Respect for Property Rights– August 17, 2011
Low Interest Rates Won't Necessarily Hold Down Credit Card Rates– August 16, 2011
Florida Cat Fund Officer Proposes Reforms for Safer Financial Footing– August 16, 2011
Does Fed's Low Interest Rates Pledge Mean Monetary Stimulus?– August 10, 2011
Fed Recruits Academia to Its 'Brave New World' of Monetary Policy– August 8, 2011
One Year After Dodd-Frank, Bailout Dilemma Remains– August 8, 2011
Lots of Life in This 'Ghost City'– August 8, 2011
Obama Blames the Messenger, Worsens Downturn– August 8, 2011
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Udenafil is a novel PDE5-inhibitor approved for treatment of ED in Korea. It has an onset of action of 1-1.5 hours and a half-life of 11-13 hours, suitable for both on-demand and daily use. It has been tested across various levels of trials (through Phase III studies) in subjects with ED and concomitant diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and BPH. It appears to be safe and well-tolerated, resulting in significant improvements in men with ED according to IIEF parameters.
Commonly reported adverse effects include headache, facial flushing, and febrile sensation, and none were considered to be of moderate or severe intensity. In a multiple-dose study, a color discrimination abnormality was reported that affected the blue-green region of the visual spectrum, yet this adverse effect spontaneously resolved upon successive testing defined as 1.5 hours after the fourth dose. There were no clinically significant findings in routine laboratory parameters including platelet aggregation tests, bleeding time, or semen analysis.
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My wife and I were playing Carcassonne last night with several of the expansions and we found that the game was taking a ridiculously long time. We had the base game, the River, Inns & Cathedrals, and Traders & Builders all in play at once. I am hoping to find a way to minimize the tiles in play without sacrificing the variations created by the expansions. Any suggestions?
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The simplest way is to simply shuffle up the tiles, then pull about 60-150 of them for use. This will typically mean a 1-3 hour game, depending upon player speed and exact number of tiles. It also limits the needed table space. It does, however, also mean it is possible to not have any tiles turn up from a given expansion.
Also, don't use the River nor River II, nor the Count. The River I & 2 simply lengthen setup and increase think-time needed at start.... in addition to taking time to start, and adding 10+ tiles each. The count, by allowing reinforcement as it does, really adds to tactical think-times.
If using princess and dragon, you may want to hold out one volcano, and shuffle it into the play stack after generating the ones you're going to play with. This way, you know the dragon WILL show up, but might not be showing up twice. Same for Tower tiles from The Tower.
I probably wouldn't use the River in a 2-player game: it acts to rapidly expand the available playing area and gives the players more "elbow room". This may not be really what you want with just players, as it just means you may end up doing your separate things at opposite ends of the table.
I'm a big advocate of Traders & Builders and Inns & Cathedrals as adding a lot of strategic depth of the game, and I definitely wouldn't recommend removing them from the mix. You could try trying to add a time limit to your play - obviously you're now playing with over 100 tiles total, so if you're regularly taking over a minute to choose your move then of course you'll be looking at a 2-hour game. Or else you could agree to stop after half an hour or an hour or whatever: as long as all players got an equal number of turns then there's no real harm in calling time, right?
If it is just two of you use a chess clock to force yourselves to play faster. Play with the rule that if anyone runs out of time then they cannot play any more tiles. We play with a multiplayer game timer that I wrote for my mobile phone, and we (3/4/5 of us) can get through 3 games with the basic set in an hour. Before we had the game timer, we could drag out a game to well over an hour, and to be honest it was pretty tedious.
You could just not use all of the expansions at once. Instead, pick one or two expansions, maybe at random, every game. Now there is variability, and each game will be different, but you don't have a ton of extra tiles and rules in play in any given game.
This is how collectible card games like Magic the Gathering, or deck building games like Dominion, manage to stay enjoyable, despite having tons of expansion and variability. You don't increase the size of the game, or use all expansions at once, but rather each game you play can be played with a different set of elements but still within approximately the same level of time and complexity.
The best way to increase variability without impacting game length is to focus on the aspects of the expansions that do not involve tile drawing. For example, you could use the base set (with or without the River), the large followers from I&C, and the builder and pig pieces from T&B, which would add most of the options without changing the length of the game.
Another method we used in our games, which also cuts down on randomness is to give each player a "hand of tiles" — three was the optimal number for us — from which they can use one each time. Theoretically, that's increasing the number of options for play, but it actually tends to focus people one one "good" move which they pick before their turn.


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What is the most natural way in Spanish to say "I'm sorry for your loss," as in what you would say to someone grieving over a departed relative or friend (or even the loss of a job)?
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The translation for that particular case (grieving) could be one of this:
Both are formal ways. The action of doing this is:
A more informal way of doing this would be:
The most accurate translation in my opinion would be Lamento su/tu pérdida (formal/informal)


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Khaled Al-Mulhim, Director General of Saudi Arabian Airlines, says that the Kingdom's national carrier will fly about 500,000 pilgrims back to their home countries.
Sami Badr, Director of the Hajj Terminal at Jeddah's King Abdulaziz Airport, told the Jeddah-based Okaz newspaper that the Civil Aviation Authority and the Hajj Ministry are coordinating efforts to transport pilgrims to the airport.
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I'm asked in an exercise to calculate the mass of the ball $x^2+y^2+z^2=1$ with a density of $e^x+e^y+e^z$ at a given point. We've only learned triple integration with Cartesian coordinates so far so I'm trying to set up a triple integral using those. But I get sort of stuck in figuring out how I want to set up the integral.
My first thought was, I should have one coordinate, say z, go from $-1$ to $1$, y from $-\sqrt{1-z^2}$ to $\sqrt{1-z^2}$ and x from $-\sqrt{1-y^2-z^2}$ to $\sqrt{1-y^2-z^2}$. But the resulting integral turned out to be hard to calculate and the answer seems wrong.
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Justice for Oxnard
The evolution of gangs and law enforcement's fight to dismantle them
By D.M. Sordillo 04/04/2013
Several Ventura County communities long known for their pristine beaches and family festivals have, in the past decade, taken on a darker image: gang territory. But law enforcement and prosecutors from Ventura to Oxnard, along with authorities in inland communities such as Simi Valley, have made concerted efforts to turn things around.
If you ask residents, particularly those who recently moved to Ventura County from nearby gang-infested sections of Los Angeles County, those efforts appear to be working.
"I feel a lot safer here than I did for the 15 years I lived in the [San Fernando] Valley," said Karen Brause, who moved into a Ventura beach cottage in November. "I don't have to live behind a locked gate and nine-foot (high) walls anymore. It's an entirely different life for me."
Documented Oxnard gang member William Glass was arrested in July 2011 on felony charges of a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, possession of a controlled substance, and street gang terrorism
Prosecutors on gang cases can appreciate that. "If you are living in a gang-infected community, there is no escaping how a gang's violence, drug trafficking and extortion schemes curtail the quality of life within the community on a daily basis," said Kevin M. Lally, an assistant United States attorney in the Violent and Organized Crime Section, who has prosecuted numerous high-profile gang cases.
There are an estimated 1,300 gangs operating throughout Ventura, L.A. and San Bernardino counties, with a total membership exceeding 100,000.
California law defines a gang as any ongoing organization, association or group of three or more persons, whether formal or informal, having as one of its primary activities the commission of one or more of the enumerated criminal acts, having a common name or common identifying sign or symbol, and whose members individually or collectively engage in or have engaged in a pattern of criminal gang activity.
Martin "Evil" Madrigal, a Mexican Mafia member and "shot caller" in a drug-dealing conspiracy that involved 27 other people, is serving a life sentence in Mexican prison, but is expected to be extradited to face felony charges in Ventura County, according to prosecutors as of Feb. 13.
Active gang members often sell narcotics, commit crimes and generally create an atmosphere of intimidation while representing their gang. They become a menacing presence on the street, committing crimes "for the love of the neighborhood," according to sworn testimony by gang expert Neail Holland in written documents in support of the Oxnard gang injunction and in testimony at Ventura County gang trials.
Fortunately for Brause, she was never directly exposed to such gang warfare — known today as "street terrorism" — that spread a decade ago from L.A. to Ventura County, where it gradually established a stronghold.
Particularly hard-hit has been Oxnard, which became recognized as having the most active gang members throughout Ventura County. In the 1970s, the city saw the genesis of what was to become the county's most powerful and violent gangs, which still maintain their dominance.
Edwin "Sporty" Mora, a "lieutenant" under Martin "Evil" Madrigal, allegedly ordered two killings in Moorpark while he was in prison. He is one of the 27 others indicted on drug-dealing conspiracy charges in Ventura County in November via "Operation Wicked Hand."
The Colonia Chiques emerged as the most active street gang in Oxnard, followed by their main rival, the Southside Chiques. As Holland recounted in his trial testimony that led to the gang injunction and in supporting documentation, 1976 was a pivotal year in the gangs' development. That year, gun use became widespread, and the murder rate spiked to 15 per year from a decade-long average of 2.6. For the next 15 years, the annual homicide rate averaged 12.1, with the largest number (26) occurring in 1979. Holland recalled a gang member telling him that in 1976, he attended nine "homie" (gang member) funerals, one after another.
Most gangs sprang up in geographic areas where their founding members lived. Colonia (the section of Oxnard from which the Colonia Chiques drew its name) was a low-income neighborhood, and its residents viewed areas outside Colonia as more affluent. They referred to those areas as "Scalon" because they were considered "a step up" or, in Spanish, "escalón." Eventually, a rival gang named Scalon Chiques (or "Scalon") developed, as did numerous other gangs, some of which for a time rivaled the Colonia Chiques.
Oxnard Police Department Colonia Chiques Gang Injunction Safety Zone
One spring day in 1976, members of a gang known as the Eastside Classics initiated a melee with Scalon. During the fight, an Eastside Classics member killed someone who belonged to Scalon. About two weeks later, a member of the Eastside Classics was in turn killed, fueling the gang war. As time went on, most of the founders and original members of the Eastside Classics were incarcerated, and the core group developed a schism that led to its dissolution.
Later that decade, Scalon lost its moniker to two developing gangs on the south side of Oxnard, named Calle A (A Street) and Calle Paula (Paula Street). Gang members who lived west of Saviers Road became known as Scalon Chiques Calle A, with east of Saviers Road designated as Scalon Chiques Calle Paula.
The Loma Flats gang, as it was to become known, formed in 1977. A group of students at Haydock Elementary School banded together in search of protection from the Colonia Chiques and Paula Street gangs. The schoolboys began to engage in increasingly violent acts, achieving notoriety when one of its members accidentally shot a child. Scalon dubbed the group the "Hill Street Baby Killers." In the early 1980s, its name became Loma Flats.
Lemonwood Chiques started in 1978. Public housing assistance had moved Colonia families to a small eastern community now known as Lemonwood. Initially, gang members continued to claim Colonia membership, referring to themselves as "Little Colonia." In the early 1980s, they took on their own identity, becoming known as the Lemonwood Chiques, rivals to the Colonia Chiques. Meanwhile, the Colonia Chiques were rapidly growing in numbers and accumulating power.
Paula Street disbanded in 1987, which was reportedly a deliberate decision among its members. In 1988, all factions of what remained from Paula Street and the existing Scalon and Calle A became the Southside Chiques. In approximately 1992, they started wearing "White Sox" hats, referring to South Oxnard. In 2003, Southside Chiques started to use Oakland Raiders clothing to represent the gang.
As the gang problem became more prevalent, the city of Oxnard fought back by beefing up the number of "beat cops" on the street and forming a gang unit in 1997. More officers were assigned to patrol neighborhoods saturated with gang activity.
But only so much could be accomplished through law enforcement and the criminal courts. A large part of the solution lay in a creative move.
Oxnard Police Department Southside Chiques Gang Injunction Safety Zone
While continuing to criminally prosecute gang members, authorities decided to cross boundaries into the civil court system to curb gang violence before it could happen. In an effort that has gained hold throughout the state in recent years, prosecutors have followed Oxnard's lead of obtaining a legal injunction, either temporary or permanent, against particular gangs for which they have sufficient evidence of danger to the community. Gang injunctions typically restrict known gang members from meeting and conducting other activities in geographic "safety zones" — defined areas known for high levels of criminal activity.
Injunctions were first issued in Oxnard in 2005 to target street crime by two local gangs — the Colonia Chiques (which has 1,000 or more members) and the Southside Chiques (500). Collectively, the two groups had reportedly been involved in more than 3,000 local crimes, ranging from disturbing the peace to murder.
The civil approach appears to have had an impact, with a 10 percent decrease in crime since Ventura County started filing injunctions. After the first action was filed against the Colonia Chiques, no gang violence was reported in Oxnard for two months. At the six-month mark, gang criminal activity was still down by 85 percent.
Being named in a gang injunction, however, is not always a permanent black mark. Last summer the Oxnard Police Department and the Ventura County District Attorney's Office removed 81 names from the gang injunction list. That left approximately 276 gang members in the Colonia injunction and 66 in the Southside injunction.
While it is extremely difficult and dangerous to leave a gang or even attempt to separate oneself from the organization, some manage to do so. Many others, however, find themselves pulled back into the fold at one level or another.
In January, the Los Angeles legal community was stunned when federal criminal defense attorney Isaac Guillen was convicted of racketeering and money laundering offenses committed on behalf of the Mexican Mafia and the 18th Street gang — powerful organizations with strong ties to street gangs in Ventura County. Guillen was sentenced to seven years in federal prison.
His conviction was part of a 2009 federal racketeering indictment against 43 members and associates of the CLCS (Columbia Lil' Cycos) that alleged acts of violence, narcotics distribution, money laundering and violent crimes in aid of racketeering. The case was investigated by the FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department.
When others were convicted in the case last May, United States Attorney André Birotte Jr. said in a press release: "The members of the 18th Street Gang thought that they controlled neighborhoods and territory within this city. … Today's verdicts prove otherwise."
Guillen, who had been a member of a street gang as a teenager, left that life and graduated from the UCLA School of Law, eventually becoming a highly regarded, successful criminal defense attorney. While representing a major gang leader, Guillen became an associate of the CLCS of the 18th Street gang. He admitted at sentencing that he used attorney-client privilege to convey gang messages to and from convicted Mexican Mafia member Francisco "Puppet" Martinez, who was serving multiple life sentences at the federal "supermax" prison in Florence, Colo.
With Guillen's help, Martinez was reportedly able to continue to run the CLCS from the United States Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility, considered the most secure prison in the country.
Guillen also laundered more than $1.3 million in drug and extortion proceeds on the organization's behalf by creating three businesses and providing funds for the establishment of a methamphetamine laboratory.
Lally, the federal prosecutor who secured convictions against Guillen and others in the CLCS case, said the main challenge is that those who have information about a gang-related crime often won't share it with the authorities. The biggest problem prosecutors face in gang prosecutions is obtaining witnesses cooperation, both in the community and within the gang. Lally recently tried a case in which there were witnesses to two separate murders. While prosecutors were able to find a few people who would testify about the events surrounding one murder, he said, no one would come forward about the other one because they still lived in the neighborhood and feared for their safety. And of course, gang members or associates, even if no longer involved with the gang, do not talk about gang activities — ever — to anyone outside the organization.
That means prosecutors have to use every edge they can find in the legal system.
"Ideally, by using broad-reaching statutes, such as RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act), to attack a gang's organizational structure, the government is able to attack gangs on both the macro and micro levels," explained Lally. "This creates inroads to curbing their internal power structure and enforcement mechanisms, while also removing those members who are most disruptive to the community."
Power in numbers helps. Recent large-scale gang takedowns have resulted from widespread joint efforts among local, state and federal authorities. Among them is "Operation Peaceworks," a collaboration among the United States Department of Justice; the Oxnard Police Department; the Ventura County District Attorney's Office; the California Governor's Gang Reduction, Intervention and Prevention Office; and the Center for Crime Prevention and Control at John Jay College in New York City.
Under the umbrella of the Peaceworks venture, "Operation Supernova," a year-long investigation into the Colonia Chiques, led to dozens of arrests and convictions in 2011. The case emanated from an undercover operation in Camarillo in which authorities linked two Moorpark shootings to a drug distribution and firearms trafficking network run by Colonia Chiques.
Led by the FBI and the Oxnard Police Department, Operation Supernova involved a combined effort of FBI Field Offices in San Diego, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Phoenix; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the Drug Enforcement Administration; the Ventura County Sheriff's Department and the Ventura County Probation Agency; the police departments of Ventura, Simi Valley and Santa Barbara; the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department, and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Last November, "Operation Wicked Hand" resulted in the largest criminal indictment in the history of Ventura County, with more than two dozen alleged local gang members indicted. The seven- month operation began in April, when investigators linked two Moorpark shootings to a drug seizure involving local gang members.
But even as gangs are being incrementally dismantled, experts note that their members have what Lally called "an amazing tendency to fill voids." Meanwhile, gang influence continues to expand into new areas. Gang members and their families have been moving from urban areas to neighboring communities and counties, bringing gang culture and activities in tow. So when a particular clique grows weak, rivals or new cliques emerge to fill the power vacuum.
Today, Oxnard has more than a dozen Latino gangs with more than 2,000 documented members. The gangs include El Rio, Lemonwood Chiques, Loma Flats (also known as "Westside Chiques"), Squires Drive; Surenos Town (known as "Sur Town") and Vatos Locos. Oxnard also has several gangs comprising mainly other ethnic groups: Satanas, Black Mafia Gang ("BMG"), Westside Crips, in addition to motorcycle gangs and other organized crime.
While there isn't an over-arching structure that unifies these gangs with their stronger counterparts in L.A., individual gangs sometimes do business with each other across county lines. That is often a function of their answering to the same Mexican Mafia (a powerful prison gang) member or building a mutual trust in prison that continues when they are released, according to Holland and other gang experts.
What's the forecast for gang activity in and around Ventura and L.A. counties?
That's anyone's guess. Lally, however, noted that the government has developed sophisticated prosecution models that have been employed with great success, particularly in the past several years.
"Using these models, we will continue to pursue large-scale prosecutions as we, along with our state counterparts, seek to eradicate the most disruptive gangs impacting the Central District of California," he said.
As Birotte stated in a press release after the Supernova bust, "Gang activity is not limited to major cities such as Los Angeles, and [this] crackdown on what is believed to be the largest street gang in Ventura County demonstrates that we will target gang members and associates wherever they conduct their criminal activities."
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The statistical information presented in this story was highly inaccurate and served only to further sensationalize an already negative image of youth in Oxnard. I will admit that I doubt that the reporter intentionally used inaccurate statistics and probably just settled for whatever certain law enforcement personnel tossed his/her way. In May of 2010, the League of United Latin American Citizens, a watchdog group, conducted a Public Records Act request asking the City of Oxnard to share their "real" data and reports with LULAC. It was found that, unlike what was reported in the VC Reporter Story, there are actually only about 185 "real" gang members in Oxnard who meet the criteria required under the Gang Injunction official criteria. The reporters comment that there are "2,000 documented" gang members is completely false. The LULAC findings were credible and, in credit to the Oxnard Police Department, an effort is being made to correct the exaggerated data. I have asked LULAC to send a copy of the May 2010 investigative report and findings to the VC Reporter so that future stories are based on fact and not flawed data. So...why do agencies tend to exaggerate crime statistics? It's quite simple. In Oxnard (as in other cities) you can generate a lot of extra revenue by startling state and federal grant sponsors with bogus statistics. There are probably millions of dollars coming into our county that are based on false statistics with the only real benefactors of that funding being the D.A.'s office and certain police departments (overtime pay). It's all about the money. Meanwhile, the good community of Oxnard continues to be incorrectly portrayed as something it's not.
I agree with you Erica. This still another classic disappointment produced form Ventura County's journalism community. This is clearly propaganda aimed at scaring the very people who experience crime the least and manufacture consent through misinformation fear mongering.
Sordillo attempts to describe Oxnard's problem as one of gang activity and the only solution to the problem as more law enforcement. The title of this article reads "Justice for Oxnard," but it should read, "More Suppression for Oxnard."
Confused and Narrow-sighted
First, the flaw in this and similar reporting on the issues of gangs and related crime it that it confuses the manifestation of Oxnard's gang problem (violent street groups, gun violence and trafficking, and drug markets) for the true problem (inadequate education system, few legitimate opportunities for Oxnard's youth; poverty; systemic corruption and racism; broken relationships between THE Community and law enforcement; and inhuman over-reliance on arrest and incarceration) all which create and exacerbate Oxnard's gang-problem and contribute to the injustice the city has endured for decades.
Inaccurate and Misleading
Second, much the gang research and data used in the article is flawed, if not completely erroneous. Maybe next time, a real reporter can actually interview people in Oxnard when writing about Oxnard. As expected, whan you only ask cops and prosecutors what their opinions are, you will never get the on-the-ground truth of the matter. However, sensationalistic reporting brings in more money for still more law enforcement run gang-intervention programs so they can retire early and pay them selves (in retirement) to work as a gang consultant.
False Hopes
This article gives the false impression that suppression methods actually work. Articles like this that focus on suppression of symptoms of a hurting city only produces more injustice by ensuring that we never get to identify, diagnose, and treat the real problems Oxnard (under-education, over-incarceration, poverty, etc) and focusing on proven effective solutions. Meanwhile, true research has proven that California has a experienced a steady decline in crime and gang activity since the late-1990s. The need for the gang injunction was manufactured via over-documentation during a time of crime decrease. In fact, California has as much crime now (in numbers) than it did in the mid 1950s, even with 1,000,000 more youth "on the streets" today. Unfortunately, no reporting is done on this wonderful, although less sensationalistic news, and no effort report the causative forces that have produce a drop in crime.
Mr. Sordillo, I don't know who you are, but I am sure you have some lucrative ties to law enforcement or the prosecutor's office. Next time you sit down to write an article about a community with social problems, make sure that people from that community are "at the table," and not simply just a topic "on the table."


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So what's the fastest and most effective terran rush in SC2 ?
I tried building reapers fast, but most of the times I get owned, especially by zergs :s
So what's the fastest and most effective terran rush in SC2 ?
I tried building reapers fast, but most of the times I get owned, especially by zergs :s
Against Protoss, your best bet is the 1/1/1 all-in.
A 6- or 3-Rax all-in rush is what you're looking for...simple, fast, cheap.
the 6-rax produces an obscene number of marines very early on, and while it does do damage to your own economy, you can transition if need be, should you do equivalent damage to your opponent.
The 3-rax relies on using the supply depot drop-down as well as using scv's to tank damage, and therefore is the very definition of all-in...should you lose your push, there's no coming back.
Semi-mass Marine Marauder Medivac will be your best bet. Convert to really mass (200/200 supply) if game gets a little long.
You should have an army similar to this:
Something I've found to be fairly effective is a 2 reaper rush.Drop a tech lab before my first marine (assuming I've scouted their base already and know I won't get 6 pooled or something similar) and get 2 quick reapers. I don't train another reaper the whole rest of the game - that rax just trains marauders. A second rax goes up with reactor, and a third, fourth, etc... keep pumping up the rax. The two reapers, as soon as they're both up, go off to hit the opponent's mineral line. Best expected scenario, they were busy/slow to respond and you get 10 or 12. Certainly worth it, since you were going to pump marauders anyway. Typical scenario you get 5 or 6 before their army forces you back - still worth it in my books. Worst case you get spotted before you hit the mineral line. At this point you can hop back down, micro around (split them up if you need to) and scout their base. Might as well...
If I take out 7 or more workers with the 2 reaper rush, I can always get my expo up 2 or more minutes before my opponent. If they made it out alive (I never engage the army unless it's 1 zealot or 2 lings) then they can also go with my first push of 8-12 marine/marauder. It's not an immediate game winning rush, but it's fast and effective.
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Firefox was automatically updated to version 14 a few days ago through update manager, but Chromium web browser is still stuck in version 18 while Google Chrome is already in version 20. Why does this happen and how can I update my Chromium to a more recent version?
In a Linux distribution, software doesn't usually use its own internal "automatic update" mechanism. Instead, it relies on the distribution to update it.
This is the case for both Firefox and Chromium supplied with Ubuntu.
The interesting thing here is that Firefox and Chromium have a different level of support from Canonical, and also that Firefox on Ubuntu has a somewhat unusual release strategy.
Firefox is included in Ubuntu's main repository, whereas Chromium is in the universe repository. This means that Ubuntu's version of Firefox receives the best level of support directly from Canonical, whereas Chromium's support relies on the Ubuntu community. Most packages in universe rely heavily on the work of Debian developers, and Debian has different priorities. So, based on this you would expect Firefox to include more Ubuntu-specific customisation, and to be better supported with updates.
The thing is, almost all software in a stable-release distribution (like Ubuntu, and most other distributions other that the "rolling release" ones) should not receive updates to new versions of software during the life cycle of that version of the distribution. At best, it should receive only minor updates or security patches. Firefox on Ubuntu is somewhat unusual here, because Ubuntu are providing full major new upstream versions of Firefox to their stable distributions.
The justification for this will be Firefox's rapid release strategy, which ensures that "major" releases are actually somewhat less disruptive than most software's major releases, but also makes it quite hard to backport security patches to older versions. So Canonical has obviously decided just to give Ubuntu the new upstream version than patch the old version.
For Chromium, it's not completely like this, but looks can be deceiving. Chromium on Ubuntu sometimes does get new upstream releases (which is why even Lucid is on a v18.x), and other times the Ubuntu community patch the existing version with fixes and security updates, but don't increment its version number. However, this means that despite the version number of Chromium in Ubuntu, it still includes some of the fixes that newer versions of Chromium have.
No the project isn't dead. The Ubuntu Chromium Team just doesn't have enough people working on it, that's why the Ubuntu packages are out of date. Benjamin Kerensa is currently reaching out to new developers to support the team here. So the situation will hopefully improve soon.
Ubuntu's version of Chromium is maintained by the Ubuntu developers. So after the Chromium developers update, Ubuntu developers then take a look at it to see how it works with Ubuntu and makes any necessary modifications. This is the only advantage to using Chromium over Chrome. To use Chrome on Ubuntu, you have to download the version from Google and trust that they made it work properly with Ubuntu.
If you'd rather get the latest version, without regard for whether it's been approved by Ubuntu developers, then you should just use Chrome.
The Chromium project lives here, with builds for Windows, Linux, iOS, Android etc.
From the releases page, latest appears to be version 22. Not sure why launchpad.net doesn't have it.


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Reputation is primarily, from the system's perspective, about encouraging positive participation. If that's so, wouldn't a lower (personal) bar for upvoting questions make more sense when those questions are by users new to the system. I don't think that questions by new users automatically deserve an upvote, but I will typically upvote a question by new user in cases where the value of the question is marginal. I think that getting this early rep can have a tremendous impact on whether the person buys into the site(s).
I suggest that we reward this type of behavior. I suggest a bronze "Encourager" badge that is awarded after a person has upvoted 50 questions by users who have been on the site for less than 1 day. To reinforce this, similar badges could be awarded at the silver (Cheerleader) and gold (Motivator) for 400 and 1000 upvotes respectively. A flagged comment by the voter on any such question would disqualify that question from being counted in the total.
Update: The names are just suggestions, don't get hung up on them. I'm certainly open to alternatives.
Update2: An alternative would be to have this apply only to users with a rep of 1 and only on the day the question was asked. That way we're not encouraging massive upvotes of marginal questions, but still giving new users a small boost.
Update3: I know I'm probably wasting my breath, but let me explain my thinking. First, while answers to questions are valuable, the most value I have found on the site is through answering questions. Reputation is the key to driving this behavior; if you want reputation points, the only way to accumulate significant points is to answer questions. Getting people "hooked" on the reputation system, then, is a way to encourage people to participate in learning in a way that simply getting an answer to your question isn't. "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll never go hungry."
Simply handing out reputation at the start doesn't accomplish this, but getting that first vote does. Whether you think we live in a culture of self-congratulation (we do) or not, you can't deny that when someone affirms you, it has a positive effect on you and your attitude. The idea that I posit is that the bar ought not be so high when voting on a new user's first question -- a tiny bit of encouragement at this point, if at all possible, can start that user on a path that leads them to be a collaborator within the site rather than a consumer of the site. The latter isn't bad, but the former is better.
I already practice this behavior. If I see a question by a user with rep 1 that I feel I can upvote, then I do so. It hurts me (and the site) very little, actually not at all, and it may result in a new collaborator for the site. I'm simply trying to think of a way to encourage this type of behavior on a more global scale as I think it is a net benefit to everyone.
So far, the arguments are primarily with the mechanics of how to go about this. Ok, I'm flexible. Let's try to fix the mechanics so that it satisfies your sense of propriety. What if, to the restrictions above, we add that the question cannot also have received any downvotes or be closed within 24 hours, i.e., it can't be a bad question or in the wrong forum. To summarize, a question would need to fit the following formula before it would be eligible to count towards a badge.
- OP's rep is 1 (i.e., only first voter gets credit)
- Not community wiki (has to grant rep)
- Vote is cast within 24 hours (no mining old questions)
- No down votes or closed within 24 hours (not a bad question)
- No abusive/offensive comments on question by voter (consistent with goal)


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$2,9502 Bedroom, 1 Bath
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171 Clermont Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11205
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Brooklyn, NY 11205
Cross streets:
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Apartment Features
- Hardwood Floors
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Building Features & Amenities
- Elevator
- Full-time Doorman
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- On-site Parking Lot
- Units: 111
- Low-rise (1-6 Floors)
- Pre-war Apartment Building
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The Clermont Armory is a new residential development built on the site of one of the oldest armories in New York City. Opened for occupancy in August of 2000, this 110 unit rental building is located at 171 Clermont Avenue in Fort Greene, one of the trendiest brownstone neighborhoods near downtown Brooklyn. Built in two wings behind the facade of the original armory, the apartments face an elevated courtyard. Three of the wrought iron trusses that spanned the original drill hall (built in 1873), were retained in the courtyard, exposed to the sky, in an attempt to capture some of the character of the original Clermont Armory.
The apartments, ranging in size from studios to three bedrooms, are equipped with dishwashers, state of the art intercom system, hardwood floors, and many have breathtaking views. Ten of the apartments on the Clermont Avenue side have spacious balconies facing a front atrium created behind the original facade. The building amenities include a 24 hour doorman/concierge, elevators, a landscaped courtyard, a laundry room, video surveillance and an integrated access control system. On site attended parking is also available (at an additional cost).
Mass transit is available within a 15 minute walking distance to the Dekalb Avenue Station (B,M,Q,R), Nevins Street Station (2,3,4,5), or the Clinton-Washington Station (G). Bus service (B54) is also available at Myrtle Avenue, connecting to the Jay Street Station (A,C,F) or the Lawrence Street Station (M,R), and at Dekalb Avenue (B38) connecting to the Dekalb Avenue Station and the Nevins Street Station (See area maps).
This project was financed by the "New Housing Opportunities" Program of the NYC Housing Development Corporation, providing rental units targeted to middle income families or persons.
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The Clermont Armory is located near the eastern edge of the Fort Greene Historic District in Brooklyn. The neighborhood is characterized by quiet tree lined streets fronting beautiful 19th century brownstones surrounding historic Fort Greene Park. Because of its unique qualities and its proximity to Manhattan and downtown Brooklyn, Fort Greene is experiencing a major renaissance, becoming one of New York City's fastest developing neighborhoods.
Fort Greene prides itself as a community with great ethnic diversity and many cultural resources, foremost of which is the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The neighborhood has been, and still is, home to many well-known artists, musicians and writers. In the vicinity of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a vibrant entertainment and night life district is developing. Along Fulton Street, an alluring array of shops, restaurants and galleries featuring African-American motifs has become a destination spot. Closer to the Clermont Armory, trendy restaurants and cafes have opened along Dekalb Avenue to welcome residents returning home from their subway commutes. Myrtle Avenue, a more traditional neighborhood shopping strip (banks, hardware, grocery stores, deli's, etc.) is around the corner from the Clermont Armory.
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My question is:
Can we judge a manifold that can admit a (p,q) metric?
I only know the case that the existen of a lorentz metric is equivalent to Euler Character is zero
My question is:
Can we judge a manifold that can admit a (p,q) metric?
I only know the case that the existen of a lorentz metric is equivalent to Euler Character is zero
The criterion for existence of a $(p,q)$ metric is (assuming $p+q=dim X$) that the tangent bundle splits as a direct sum of two subbundles of dimensions $p$ and $q$.
EDIT : I doubt there is an easy algebraic topology criterion in general, as characteristic classes [EDIT after Lennart Meier's comment: other than Euler class, which cannot help if $p,q>1$] are stable invariants of vector bundles. At least, one has necessary conditions, such as : the total Stiefel-Whitney and Ponttryagin (Chern of complexified bundle) class of $TX$ is the product of two (inhomogeneous) classes of degrees at most $p$ and $q$. Perhaps real $K$-theory (and its operations) gives better necessary conditions (although still not sufficient in general). But it's not easy to compute.
I believe that you're a bit mistaken about the final claim. The correct statement should be that:
The proof of this is easy:
(the only if direction is trivial) Suppose there is a nowhere vanishing vector field $X$. Pick any Riemannian metric $g$ and let $\omega$ be the dual $1$-form with $X$ with respect to $g$. Then, defining $$ \tilde g = - 2\omega\cdot\omega + g, $$ this is a "time orientable lorentz metric" as desired.
The same proof shows that
This is something which can be detected by Euler classes, I think.
I agree that this second conclusion is a bit unsatisfying, because it is natural to restrict to time orientable Lorentz metrics for physical reasons, but here it is not clear that it is a natural restriction.