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Hosted by four area churches, "The Second Chance Yard Sales," will provide funding and furniture for the Jefferson Street Baptist Center, a shelter for the homeless and hurting in Louisville.
Founded in the 1880s by Steve Holcombe, a former riverboat gambler turned pastor, the center, located on 733 E. Jefferson St., serves more than 250 men and women daily. In 2010 and 2011 combined, the center washed over 22,000 loads of laundry free of charge and passed out 33,000 toiletry kits to its guests.
Additionally, the center offers a six-month residential program, which houses up to 25 men at one time. Residents complete more than 325 hours of job training in addition to 325 hours of classes, which use the Bible to teach life skills and build character.
One such participant in the residential program was Bryan Allan, a Northern Kentucky native who faced the devastating reality of drug and alcohol abuse.
"I was spending way too much money trying to be something I wasn't," Allan said of his battle with what he called a social addiction.
Searching for a feeling of acceptance, Allan consumed drugs and alcohol in the presence of his peers, yet continued to feel a lingering sense of emptiness inside.
That's when Allan decided to seek out Jefferson Street Baptist Center, though his first attempt at the program ended in relapse.
"I wasn't connected to a church or a community," Allan said of his first stay at the center. "I just turned it right back."
However, Allan was determined to set his life straight and approached the center in October about a second chance at completing the program.
"I had asked if I could come back," Allan said. "I feel like God wanted me back, and He just made it the right time to be here. It showed me a lot about myself."
Now a hard-working employee for a local contractor, Allan has successfully turned his life around for the better. Not only does he hold a full-time job, but he also continues working with the Jefferson Street Baptist Center, leading Bible study, cooking for the shelter and moving furniture during the Second Chance Yard Sales.
"I experienced an amazing turn-around, to go from being selfish to being surrounded by so much love," Allan said of his experience with the center. "It's kind of hard to beat that. (The shelter is) an amazing opportunity to observe everything God has to offer on a daily basis."
Like Allan, many of the residents at Jefferson Street Baptist Center are searching for significant, positive change and will rely on the center as a refuge from their troubled past. The Second Chance Yard Sales are an important component in keeping that center running and furnished for its guests.
"In general (proceeds from the yard sales) go toward our agency's general budget, but what that means in the nitty gritty is we're able to keep our day shelter running with over 200 folks per day," said Jesse Eubanks, executive director of Jefferson Street Baptist Center. "Folks are able to come and get a light breakfast and make phone calls. People living on the streets are severely impoverished and we're providing services they desperately need."
By participating in the Second Chance Yard Sales, you can help the homeless and hurting by either donating furniture and household items to the center, or by shopping at one of the area yard sales held from 4 to 8 p.m. Fridays and 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays.
This year, yard sales will be hosted on July 27 and 28 at Auburndale Baptist Church, August 24 and 25 at Hurstbourne Baptist Church, September 14 and 15 at Bethany Baptist Church and October 5 and 6 at Third Avenue Baptist Church. However, furniture – the center's greatest need – household supplies and monetary donations are accepted year round.
"At the end of the day, the simple action of donating a piece of furniture or going and shopping at a yard sale is going to make an actual difference in a person's life in our city," Eubanks said. "Something that seems insignificant is actually very powerful and very needed. The reality is what we do costs a lot of money, and a lot of people can't give money away but they have old items they can give away … its an opportunity to show love to somebody who desperately needs love … and really see long term change happen."
For more information on the Jefferson Street Baptist Center, visit www.jeffersonstreet.org.
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I'm new to QCAD but I've got some experience in other CAD Programs like Solid Edge 2D drafting and of course ACAD (btw the worst software ever).
In those programs I can use several dimension styles in one drawing. I use architectural ticks for linear dimensions and arrows for radial dimensions. This is btw DIN 919 conform.
The problem is that I can't get QCAD to show me these two styles in a single drawing. What am I missing?
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Gerard Leever already knew he wanted to become a comics artist, when he was nine years old. He worked in a comic shop in Bussum (Wammes), where he met the legendary Flip Fermin (the brother of the owner), who gave him his first lessons in drawing comics. His first comic during this period was 'Superhobo', a character scripted by Fermin that later reappeared in the "Pincet" series. After school, he went into the army, where he kept a drawn diary - a first version of his famous 'Gleever's Dagboek'.
Leever continued this series of autobiographical strips in the comics information magazines Striprofiel and Stripschrift from 1980. In 1981, he was employed by comic magazine Eppo to draw the puzzles page. A year later, he joined the comic group Studio Arnhem. With fellow studio members Hanco Kolk and René Meulenbroek, he created 'Ernst Vrolijk en Dik Hout' for the magazine Robbedoes. For the same magazine, he also produced the gag strip 'De Vloek van Bangebroek'.
In the mid-1980s, he made 'Kanaal 13' for Eppo Wordt Vervolgd with writer Jan van Die, and he became the illustrator of the jokes section in Donald Duck weekly. In 1985, he began his famous series 'Oktoknopie' in Taptoe, a comic series that earned him the award for best Dutch children's comic book of the year 2000. Between 1990 and 1994, he drew 'Het Felix Flux Museum' in Sjors en Sjimmie Stripblad, a series co-scripted by Kees de Boer. When the series was cancelled, Gleever went to Suske en Wiske Stripblad to draw 'Dik van Dieren en Zo'.
In 1996, he started the family strip 'Gemengd Dubbel' in Tros Kompas, again in cooperation with Jan van Die. In 2001, he created the gag strip 'Suus & Sas' in girls' magazine Tina. Over time, he has produced many different comics, but his most impressive work is still his own comics diary, 'Gleever's Dagboek', for which he received the Stripschapspenning in 1996.
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On a boat I know that it is good to focus on a thing that is not moving like to boat, but on the ocean, where you can only see water, it is kind of difficult. On the train you can try to sit in the direction of motion, but this does not always help. In the car it helps to sit in the front, or drive by yourself, but is also not always possible. In a plane I don't know any useful tip.
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Melting Pot Restaurant - Give $10, Get $40!* for $10 + free shipping
If would like to donate $10 to St. Jude's, Melting Pot will give you back 2 $20 rewards cards that are good for $20 off of >$50 meal. There are limitations, etc.
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The Melting Pot is offering Club Fondue members a chance to quadruple your money! Donate $10 to St. Jude by October 12, 2012 and receive a $20 Fondue for the Kids card and a $20 Fondue for the Kids Bonus card*!
*Fondue for the Kids Bonus cards are valid for $20 off a purchase of $50 or more through Dec. 7, 2012.
*Fondue for the Kids cards are valid for $20 off a future purchase of $50 or more valid from Jan 2., 2013 - Aug. 31, 2013.
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One the best deals I have seen in a while. 100% goes to St. Jude....wow..
Just logged in to post this. I am sure I will use at least one of the gift cards but even if I don't it is awesome that 100% of the proceeds go to St. Jude.
Awesome. Love me some melted cheese. And even if I don't get around to using it by the time it expires, I don't even care.
Great deal.
What a deal!!!
We are planning on going here for our Anniversary in a couple weeks. Not only will we get a discount, but we can contribute to a phenomenal organization.
Nothing near me but looks like a great deal for an even greater cause.
Too bad they closed the local MP. It was not a dinner, but a night out. Good on them for this incredible deal.
Win, Win, Win for everyone involved. I'm in! (and, i agree, MP is an entire evening's entertainment!!)
Title is a little misleading. This is not $40 for $10, this is $10 dollars for two twenty dollar DISCOUNTS. And they must be used over 2 separate trips. Feel-good charity stuff aside, when you look at the fact that this amounts to more of a discount than real purchasing power, it's less deal and more emotional gratification. Not that there's anything wrong or right about that.
This is a great deal all around!! Thanks for posting - now I have two excuses to go :)
Saving and giving.... it doesn't get much better than this.
@justabandnerd: What else could it be? Did you think you were going to send them $10 and they would write you a check for $40 plus donate some money?
With this and a $30 Groupon (that was on Groupon's dime because of Groupon Bucks), I think I've finally gotten a free meal at the Melting Pot and made a kid's life even better. Schweet!
The wife's bday is soon and this is her favorite place - this is a win win!!!
@colbytitus: you're exaggerating a bit, don't you think?
@justabandnerd: If you're going to Melting Pot for more than an appetizer or dessert, it's guaranteed that your bill is going to be over $50. These might as well be $20 gift certificates.
Actually, although you may not agree this IS like getting $40 handed to you for $10. I can guarantee any visit to MP will be over $50. Getting $20 off (40% for the math challenged among us) not once but twice is worth the $10 buy-in.
If you can't come up with two reasons to go out to dinner at the Melting Pot, well, I just can't help you :)
Thank you for supporting St. Jude. My daughter is fighting leukemia (ALL) and is a St. Jude patient and would not be here today with out St. Jude.
@gormadeaux: I hope your little girl recovers well.


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Which databases use real multidimensional indices? Is oracle ever using several indices to get data from tables, or will it always take the one that seems to have the highest selectivity? How about other dbms?
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Oracle has an index type called a Bitmap Index which it describes as...
If a table has a bitmap index or a hint is used, it can use a bitmap access plan on regular B-tree indexes. Bitmap indexes can be joined, union-ed, and intersected.
There is an excellent explanation at use-the-index-luke.com where it includes the following implementations of combining multiple B-Tree indexes:
See also this StackOverflow question in which the first answer says that SQL Server does something similar to Bitmapped indexes using index intersection.
Efficient and Flexible Bitmap Indexing for Complex Similarity Queries is the closest reference I have found associating Bitmapped indexes with the word multidimensional. Multidimensional seems to be more of a way to use indexes rather than an attribute of them.
SQL Server may perform "Index intersection". And on MSDN.
Is this what you mean?
Possibly Oracle bitmap indexes are that what you are looking for. Oracle Index types.
I think they permit union and intersection. But I admit, that I'm not familiar with them.


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If the U.S. grid alone were just 5% more efficient, it would be like permanently eliminating the fuel and greenhouse gas emissions from 53 million cars. This is one reason why utility companies around the globe are looking for even smarter ways of doing business. To that end, the IBM Intelligent Utility Network Solution transforms the way utility organizations manage and operate transmission and distribution systems—and the way customers can participate in the energy value chain—enabling more intelligence throughout the grid. This can dramatically reduce outages and faults, improve responsiveness, enable utility companies to handle current and future demand, increase efficiency and manage costs.
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By using an instrumented approach that includes digital sensors, advanced communication networks and sophisticated analytics, the IBM Intelligent Utility Network Solution can help your enterprise understand demand in near real time, more effectively manage supply and demand, and put greater control of energy usage into the hands of your consumers. The network creates an interconnected value chain, linking utility participants at multiple levels from power plant to plug. It then enables the intelligent flow of information, which can be used to transform and optimize regulation, generation, supply and consumption of electricity.
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7 People From Around the World With Real Mutant Superpowers
They walk among us! Some even fly among us! They may even take the bus among us from time to time! Homosapiens-Superior is here, and can do things that have scientists scratching their heads.
We're carefully tracking their progress, so that one day soon we may gather them together and fight crime. Or maybe commit crimes. We haven't decided yet.
#7. Das Uberboy
Real Name: Unknown
Uberboy's name is being kept secret, presumably to protect the lives of his loved ones once Uberboy dons a mask and begins patrolling the streets of the world righting wrongs.
Superpower: Bona fide Super-Strength.
One day in 1999 a little baby boy was born in Germany, at first glance no different from any other. But, the nurses noticed that the baby's muscles were twitching and called the doctors to check him out. We can only assume Uberbaby was showing off his guns to the ladies since when doctors examined the kid, they reached a unanimous conclusion: he was ripped as hell.
But how did this happen? Was there a fully equipped gym inside his mom's uterus? No, as it turns out that's an extraordinarily stupid idea. It's actually a real X-Men-style genetic mutation that changes the way his body controls muscle growth. Cattle farmers have been intentionally using it for years to breed huge, muscular cows.
It's not clear what will happen as Uberboy grows up. All we have is this quote that is from The Washington Post despite sounding like it's from a Marvel origin: "But inasmuch as no one has ever encountered a child such as this boy or studied animals with defective myostatin genes into old age, his health--and eventual strength--remains unknown."
What we do know is that at 4-years-old, Uberboy could lift six times more weight than an average kid. If in a few years you see a guy clubbing a bank robber in the head with a minivan, you'll know what the hell is going on.
Scientists, instead of building giant laser shooting robots to hunt him down, decided to study him and try to find ways to use this new knowledge to help people with muscle dystrophy. And by that we assume they mean turn regular people into muscle-bound supermen to populate their Army of Doom.
#6. Captain Sonar
Real Name: Ben Underwood
Superpower: Super Echolocation
That's a fancy way of saying he can "see" with sounds. Basically he's Daredevil, minus the girlfriends who become porn stars in Mexico, getting killed by ninjas and being Ben Affleck. So much, much better when you think about it.
Human echolocation is not really new. You can ask James "the blind traveler" Holman all bout it, assuming you have access to a working Ouija board since the guy has been dead for a century and a half. There is even an organization called World Access for the blind that teaches people how to use echolocation. But, few people have been able to take echolocation as far as Ben Underwood.
Ben was diagnosed with retinal cancer at the age of two and had his eyes removed at three. While this can easily go into our upcoming article "Top 7 Most Horrible Things God Can do to Children," Ben's story takes a different turn when at five, he learns he can detect things around him by making quick clicking noises with his tongue.
He's gotten so good at it that he's now capable of Rollerblading, skateboarding, playing basketball, foosball and even video games.
Wait, video games? How's he doing that? Actually, we don't want to know. All we know is that if you get this kid and a bunch of bad guys in a completely dark room, only one of them is walking out.
#5. Mister Eat Everything (aka The Human Goat)
Real Name: Michel Lotito
Superpower: Super-Eating
This basically means the guy can eat and even digest metal, glass and even toxic, poisonous material without going "Oh, shit! What was I thinking!" before puking blood and dying, which is what normally happens when other people try.
Michel Lotito's stomach lining is twice as thick as normal, a rare condition that most doctors agree developed in the womb, though nobody is sure how. Was a pregnant Mrs. Lotito bitten by a radioactive billy goat giving goat genes to Le Fetus Mangetout? We're forced to assume so until prove otherwise.
Lotito knew that fate had endowed him with special powers, so he answered the call and when he was 9-years-old, he started eating a television set. In the years since, Lotito got himself a career in entertainment eating bicycles, supermarket trolleys and even a coffin (there was no body inside ... or so he claims).
Lotito even entered the Guinness book of records when he ate a goddamn airplane. Sure, it took him two years to do it, but he ate two pounds of metal per day during the whole thing. Recent X-rays show he still has pieces of metal in his stomach and even a chain still stuck in there.
As journalists, we feel compelled to draw your attention to the fact that his special power wasn't eating an airplane, so much as it was shitting an airplane. Anybody can swallow a foreign object. The other side of the equation is where it gets hard, and on our team of real-life superheroes, we're thinking the plane-shitting would actually be more useful than anything the Das Uberboy does (hey, we have some specific goals in mind).
Real Names: Numerous Buddhist monks
Superpower: Generating magical heat energy from their bodies.
Experts have been studying Buddhist monks for more than 20 years, trying to figure out just how in the hell they're doing what they do. By using a meditation technique called Tum-mo, these monks can lower their metabolism by 64 percent. To put it in perspective, your metabolism only drops 10 to 15 percent when you sleep. And yes, you should feel bad that there are people who make you look uptight when you're asleep.
But far more awesome than that, the monks can also increase the temperatures of their fingers and toes by 17 degrees. No one knows how.
After hovering there for a few seconds, the ball burst into flames
This control over their body temperature allows the monk to comfortably survive in temperatures experts call "scrotum-negating, penguin-urine cold." Not only that, in an experiment that sounds more like outright torture, a group of monks were put in a cold room with cold, wet sheets draped around them. We're not sure if some asshole scientists simply yelled "Hey, I found Nirvana inside this room," and then slammed the door shut after the curious monks went in to check. But using their body-temperature-controlling meditation the monks managed to avoid becoming very holy popsicles.
It's believed the monks' techniques can one day be taught to astronauts to be used during space travel, since during their meditation they consume far less resources. And once the astronauts arrive on another planet, they'll likely find a group of Buddhist monks waiting, having effortlessly teleported themselves there with their minds.


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All the matrices below are square, complex matrices.
1) Is it true that, for every Hermitian matrix $H$, there exists $A$, that $A^*A=H$?
2) For any $A$, does $A^*A$ always have a square root? If it's not, is there any simple presumption of $A$ that makes $A^*A$ always have a square root?


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Catholic Schools across the nation will promote "raising the standards" as they celebrate Catholic Schools Week.
The annual recognition begins today and runs all week, according to local Catholic schools officials. This year's theme is "Catholic Schools Raise the Standards."
According to the National Catholic Education Association, Catholic schools are noted for their academic excellence and high moral standards. This year's theme celebrates the constant attention Catholic educators pay to increasing learning and growth in faith of all students, according to officials.
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St. Joseph the Worker Grade School students collected soup cans as a 'SOUPer' kickoff to Catholic Schools Week. The theme is 'Raising the Standards.' The soup cans were donated to the Weirton Community Bread Basket as a community service project. Pictured, from left, are students Marissa Mascio, Hailey Buterbaugh, Anthony Arnold, Hannah Buterbaugh, Lydia Mascio, and Emily Burskey. -- Contributed
The theme follows in the launch of a new initiative, the "National Standards and Benchmarks for Effective Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools," to ensure consistent high standards at Catholic schools across the country. Catholic educators also are participating in a nationwide education initiative for all schools called the Common Core Catholic identity initiative.
The week is designed to recognize the schools commitment to faith, academics and service.
According to the N.C.E.A., children attending Catholic Schools are taught:
Faith not just the basics of Christianity, but how to have a relationship with God.
Academics, which in Catholic schools are held to high standards, help each child reach his or her potential.
Service, the giving of one's time and effort to help others, is taught both as an expression of faith and good citizenship.
Weirton's three Catholic schools have a week full of activities for students and teachers.
St. Joseph the Worker Grade School kicked off its celebrations Friday by asking students to bring in donations of canned soup for a "SOUPer kickoff" to Catholic Schools Week.
The collection was part of the school's community service project, with the soup being donated to the Weirton Community Bread Basket.
School officials said there will be an open house on Monday from 8 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. and from noon to 2 p.m. The activity will be open to anyone from the community who is interested in checking out the school.
Tuesday will feature a Student Day, with special treats for all students, and Wednesday will be Teacher Day.
Thursday will feature a special Mass for the students and faculty, while Friday will be a day for everyone to dress in their favorite sports team colors.
St. Paul School begins its observance today with the 11 a.m. Mass at St. Paul Parish, with school students and faculty in charge of the liturgy. A school open house will take place from noon to 2 p.m.
"Everybody is welcome," Development Director Laura Rauch said, explaining the open house especially was geared toward those who might be interested in attending St. Paul School.
Monday will feature a Green and White Spirit Day, with a pep rally in the afternoon, with a Mix and Match or Crazy Sock Free Dress Day for students taking place Tuesday.
On Wacky Wednesday everyone is encouraged to get up and dance whenever they hear music. Wednesday also will be a day to wear their favorite sports team gear.
Thursday will be a $1 free dress day, with proceeds donated to a local charity. Students in second through fifth grades will have the school spelling bee finals, and sixth through eighth graders will take part in a "Jeopardy!" game.
The week will wrap up with a Pajama Day for kindergarten through fourth grade students, and a free dress day for students in fifth to eighth grade. Also, kindergarten to fourth grades will spend the afternoons watching a movie in their classrooms, with fifth to eighth graders visiting the Millsop Community Center.
As a school-wide project, St. Paul students will be collecting items for the Hancock County Animal Shelter.
Madonna High School Principal Steve Grasser said there are several activities planned for the week, including Monday's observance of Senior Night for the girls basketball team.
Among the other activities is a Class Unity Day and students are being asked to bring in donations for the Gabriel Project. The Gabriel Project works to provide assistance to expecting mothers in need, as well as to families with infants and young children under 2 years of age.
A pep rally is scheduled, featuring a praise and worship service and games, and student and faculty days also will be held.
Grasser said some of the classes also have plans for community service projects.
"Those are still being finalized," he said.
Catholic Central High School, along with Bishop John King Mussio Junior High and Elementary schools, in Steubenville will participate in a number of events to celebrate the week.
According to Jude Lucas, Catholic Central guidance counselor and teacher, the high school will go by the following schedule: Monday: dress down in favorite team apparel and a presentation from motivational speaker and musician Bob Lesnefsky; Tuesday: dress down day, root beer floats during lunch and an all-school Olympics; Wednesday: a blue and gold dress down day, random acts of kindness recognition and a pep rally; Thursday: special surprise activities throughout the day as well as an academic meet at home; Friday: faculty, staff and administration appreciation day along with a visit from Bishop Jeffery Marc Monforton.
"If a student has helped out a classmate or a teacher, they will be recognized and asked to come to the office to receive a random act of kindness recognition," Lucas explained. "The pep rally on Wednesday will honor the winter sport athletes, and hopefully we will receive a preview of the cheerleader's OVAC competition cheer."
She also mentioned that hosting the academic team meet at home against Buckeye Local is "a way for us to raise the academic standards."
The junior high school's students' week will consist of the following: Monday: pajama day and a math madness day; Tuesday: dress down day, a presentation from Lefansky, and an all-school Olympics; Wednesday: student appreciation day with a bowling trip, a blue and gold dress down day and a pep rally; Thursday: Mass with the high school students and an ornament judging contest; Friday: faculty, staff and administration appreciation day, a staff luncheon, a visit with Bishop Monforton and a Tournament of Truth at Lanman hall.
"Bob Lesnefsky leads the Dirty Vagabond Ministry and is also a Christian rap artist named 'Righteous B,' so he will lead a presentation as well as perform some hits," said Theresa Danher, principal. "The crazy Olympics will incorporate eight students from each grade and they will participate in a number of events, including hula-hoop contests and dress up relays."
The junior high also will have an ornament judging contest.
"Every year, each student makes a drawing in art class and each year we choose one drawing to be made into an ornament," she said. "The ornaments are then sold the following Christmas and benefit scholarships."
She also mentioned that the students will work on their mail goal during normal math and computer classes on Monday.
The week serves as a way to honor the students, parents, faculty, staff and catholic community, Danaher noted.
"We are excited for the week and look forward to honoring our school and schools across the nation," she said.


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when we use a DC battery into a circuit the flow of electrons in wire creates a clear picture as they flow from negative terminal to positive terminal. under AC(Alternating current) we know how energy flows and what does it mean by $I_{rms}$ or average current etc. But what about the pattern in which electrons move?
The detailed movement of electrons in AC current gets very complex and depends on the exact conductor being used but, simplistically, the electrons simply move back and forth (away from and then towards the generator) over a short space
If you think of DC as a push system analogs to a straight flow of water in a hose, then AC is a push-pull system which would be like water in a hose connected to a piston that, as the piston cycles, first pushes the water down the hose and then sucks it back.
In a DC water hose, a molecule of water can only perform work e.g. moving a turbine, when it travels from one end of the hose to the other. However, in an AC water hose, a molecule of water just oscillates around its starting location and it is just the force of the molecule hitting the next molecule in the chain that transmits the energy. The last molecule in the chain is always the one that strikes the turbine and performs the work.
That is why AC can transmit energy over long distances. In DC, the generator must push an electron all the way down the wire to the load (and eventually back down the other side of the circuit) to perform any work. AC by contrast is just transmitting the electro repulsive force that drive electrons away from each other. (Just like a Newton's cradle transmits momentum instead of moving the spheres.)
"The RMS value of a set of values (or a continuous-time waveform) is the square root of the arithmetic mean (average) of the squares of the original values"
Irms refers to the root mean square value of the current over time. This value is A/sqrt(2) if I(t) has the form A*sin(wt). Intuitively, if you look at a sin wave from 0 to pi, the amplitude seems to be average a little more than halfway from y = 0 to y = A.
To come to this result, you would sqare Asin(wt), take the average, and then take the square root, which would leave you with A/sqrt(2).
Current is always generated by very small, (approximately) continuous voltage drops in the wire. Think about tilting a rainstick one way or another. So when you are using AC, you are tilting the rainstick back and forth periodically, and electrons will get pushed back and forth in an (approximately) harmonic way.
Electrons will only move a short distance back and forth in the wire because of a drift velocity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drift_velocity which is very slow to the frequency of the AC current (says .00028 m/s in the wikipedia article, this depends on the wire and current you are using and is approximate)
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Dick Harmon: BYU coach Anae has hit the ground running — and hit it hard — as the Cougars' new offensive coordinator
One thing we do know about Robert Anae's return to BYU as offensive coordinator is that he's been a moving target.
He hasn't been in the office shuffling papers and scratching his head.
Within the first 30 hours after Bronco Mendenhall rehired Anae from Arizona, he left for Knoxville, Tenn., to attend a convention of college football coaches where he and Mendenhall interviewed potential coaching candidates.
We also know Anae visited one of BYU's top recruits, offensive lineman Brayden Kearsley, in Beaverton, Ore. Kearsley, a 6-foot-4, 298-pound blocker at Aloha High, was considering staying home and attending Oregon State. Kearsley and Anae hit it off and he recommitted when Anae explained what he had in store for the offense — and how he'd teach him to pancake tacklers.
Anae then made a circuit around the state of Utah, visiting with recruits. He also made a push to shore up BYU's offensive line by chasing down junior college talent.
Anae has apparently hit the junior college circuit very hard, visiting Southern California, Northern California and Arizona, where BYU picked up a commitment from Eastern Arizona's Josh Carter, a 6-foot-5, 305-pound athlete who has been on an LDS mission.
Using newly hired offensive assistant Garett Tujague, the former head coach at College of the Canyons Community College, Anae and area recruiter Nick Howell got Moorepark Junior College guard Quincy Awa-Dubose to commit.
The value of Tujague's hire is evident. He's been a guy in the trenches of California's talented depository of community colleges. He knows all the coaches, coordinators and how they all fit. He's become a reference book not too unlike what BYU basketball got when it turned to junior college coaches Steve Cleveland and Dave Rose.
BYU doesn't need to load up with JC players, but with missionary comings and goings and the need for secondary personnel, rebuilding the junior college circuit for recruiting could prove valuable.
On his West Coast swing, Anae certainly hit JC tackle Nick Purcell, a 6-8, 300-pound tackle at Golden West Community College, who is considering the Cougars, Arizona State, Cal, Oregon, Oregon State, Utah, Washington, Washington State, Mississippi and South Florida.
After Anae left Arizona, his old boss, Rich Rodriguez, immediately hired a replacement, which may say a lot of what he thought of Anae, the only holdover he retained from Mike Stoops' coaching staff when he took over at UA.
To replace Anae, Rodriguez hired Jim Michalczik as his offensive line coach. Michalczik had been the offensive coordinator at Cal the past two years, and before that was the Bears' offensive line coach. He also coached the O-line for the NFL's Oakland Raiders.
What is intriguing in Anae's return is wondering how much of Rodriguez' philosophy will he bring with him to BYU.
Rodriguez, you may remember, is the father of the spread option attack deployed by Chip Kelly while at Oregon and even Urban Meyer while at Utah and Florida.
A USA Today college football analyst once said Rodriguez is one of the best offensive minds in the sport and his offense has revolutionized college football.
Rodriguez made this offense famous after its designs at Glenville State, Clemson and West Virginia. For lack of the right personnel at Michigan, it flamed out, but rose again in Tucson this past year when the Wildcats averaged 37 points and 522 yards a game. It also produced the nation's top rusher, Ka'Deem Carey — the first Wildcat to lead the nation in rushing since Art Luppino in 1955.
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Baseball's Hall of Ugh
Let them all in. Or keep them all out. Build a special wing. Make them wear embarrassing little letters. How about costumes for the induction ceremony! How about big fluffy costumes, in all kinds of delightful colors?
Do you care if tainted players make the Baseball Hall of Fame? Does the whole discussion make you uncomfortable? Not me. Bring on the awkward! The whole debate is self-inflicted and more than a little hilarious—the comical boom of an exploding cigar that baseball lit for itself long ago.
Baseball's HOF eligibility list was released Wednesday, and on it are some entertaining headaches, among them Barry Bonds, who hit 762 home runs, some of which still circle the planet, and Roger Clemens, who won 354 games, seven Cy Young Awards and often led the league in frosted hair. Both men have been dogged by allegations that they used performance-enhancing drugs in their careers, though neither tested positive. Bonds, who denied ever knowingly using steroids, was convicted in 2011 on an obstruction of justice charge—prosecutors alleged he lied under oath to a grand jury about PED use—and received a two-months probation sentence and 30 days of home confinement. Clemens, who has denied ever using PEDs, was acquitted in June of charges that he lied to Congress about the subject.
They're not the only HOF hassles. But Bar and Rog are your high-profile headliners.
The whole thing is a long-simmering fiasco, neglected in real time, now arriving at baseball's most prestigious gate. Historically, the Hall of Fame process involved statistical and playing-era comparisons—with occasional attention to "integrity" and "character." Today it needs a lab coat and a B sample. Baseball dragged forever before administering to its PED problem—willfully looking away as it happily profited from the thrills propelled by pharmacology—now its chroniclers are tasked with sorting the clean from the dirty. It's as if someone walked up to the Cooperstown doorstep and dumped a fat bag of laundry.
Hall of Fame voters have tried to take symbolic steps—keeping out Mark McGwire, an admitted user who hit 583 home runs; and Rafael Palmeiro, who hit 569 homers and had a positive test in 2005. But big names continue to roll in. Once more, voters will use their own personal compasses to make a call. Standards get offered: some empirical, some based on gut, none foolproof. Keep out admitted users. Admit the guys who never flunked a test. Keep out the ones who accumulated big records on the stuff. Admit the ones who seemed to be Hall of Famers before they seemed to begin using. Admit everyone. Hold the line. On and on it goes.
It's a ridiculous assignment, one that's more than a little smothered in baseball's self-regard. To be clear: Using PEDs is cheating, and players who were indeed cheaters. But every sport is rife with cheating, and baseball's problem was pervasive enough that no solution can satisfy everyone or keep every bad apple out. Suggestions of asterisks or a special steroid class for the Hall—perhaps an XXL department?—seem unsatisfactory or unmanageable.
And it seems foolish to make baseball's PED era a museum exhibit, as if it's some narrow '90s history, a dark chapter closed. Advantages were taken in baseball long before this Hall of Fame class laced on its pair of cleats, and advantages will continue to be taken. In August, National League batting leader Melky Cabrera was busted for a positive testosterone test and suspended 50 games. Cabrera admitted guilt, and recently signed a two-year, $16 million deal with the Toronto Blue Jays. Oakland pitcher Bartolo Colon also got a 50 game-suspension for a testosterone positive. Oakland re-signed Colon for 2013. There's no zero tolerance in baseball. They're making this up as they go along. That conflict is what truly lies beneath this Hall of Fame discomfort: Baseball's vision of itself, colliding against what baseball really is.
This is not shocking. A sport will talk out of both sides of its mouth on PED use, but so does the rest of society. In the coming weeks, you might see analysts on sports TV debating the merits of this year's HOF candidates. Maybe you'll hear an argument for an outright ban on someone suspected of using drugs. And during a commercial break, a handsome middle-aged man might walk on the screen and tout the abundant benefits of using a prescription testosterone gel. Performance enhancement is a cultural conversation, a far bigger and slippery subject than numbers on a stat sheet. This dilemma is not confined to some cabinetry in Cooperstown. A cheating superstar may not deserve a place in the Hall of Fame, but neither does denial.
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DYE, William W. "Bill", age 73, of Toronto, OH, passed away Thursday November 29, 2012 at the Trinity Medical Center West, Steubenville, Ohio.
He was born February 27, 1939 in Steubenville, Ohio the son of the late Walter and Anna Marie Frantz Dye.
Bill loved his antique cars and was a 1957 graduate of Jefferson Union High School.
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He was retired from the Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Co., Follansbee, WV Coke Plant and was a U.S. Army Vietnam Era veteran.
Bill was preceded in death by his parents; grandchild Ashley; and a brother Fred Dye.
He is survived by his wife Joyce Spicer Dye whom he married April 15, 1978; son Richard (Susan) Peterson of Rindge, NH; daughters Christina Barz of North Jackson, OH and Billy Jo (David) Thornton of Toronto, OH; sister Sis (Howard) Stine of Irondale, OH; and six grandchildren.
Visitation hours for Bill will be held 1-3 and 6-8 p.m. Monday December 3 at the Clarke Funeral Home Toronto.
A celebration service of Bill's life will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday, December 4, at the funeral home with Pastor Dirk Hall officiating. Burial will follow at the Sugar Grove Union Cemetery County Road 68 Toronto. There will be full military graveside honors by the Toronto American Legion.
Memorial contributions in memory of Bill may be made to the Port Homer Community Church, 1620 Maple Ave., Wellsville, OH 43968 or the Tony Teramana Cancer Center c/o Susan Miller, 3204 Johnson Road, Steubenville, OH 43952.
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May a non-Jew or a person who is in the conversion process don tefillin? If not, what are the reasons that they cannot?
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A non-Jew certainly may wear tefillin (in other words, there is no law against them doing so), but they will not be fulfilling a mitzvah. From that perspective, they might be viewed in the same way that one views a Jewish woman who lays tefillin: the Shulchan Arukh (Orach Chaim 38:3) exempts her but allows her to wear them if she wishes. Note, however, that the Rema does not permit women to wear tefillin (although he does not comment on a non-Jewish man doing so), and you can see the explanation of the Magen Avraham for this in situ.
The Shulchan Arukh prohibits non-Jews from writing the scrolls that go into tefillin (Orach Chaim 39:1), but it also mentions that if a non-Jew is in possession of tefillin one makes the assumption that they are kosher. Nowhere, however, does it refer to non-Jews who choose to wear them.
That said, the Rambam does speak about non-Jews choosing to perform mitzvot in which they've not been commanded (Hilkhot Melachim 10:10), and even suggests that they receive some measure of reward for doing so. If you look at what the Radbaz has to say on this point, you'll see that he mentions tefillin in particular:
In other words, while the law appears to be in favour of them doing so, if they should wish to do so, and while it may even be possible to construe the Rambam's words as suggesting that they even receive some degree of merit (despite not performing a mitzvah), there is also scope for a less lenient position, as per the Radbaz, and as per a possible extrapolation from the writings of the Rema and the Magen Avraham.
¹ The expression that I have translated above as "I deliberated and am stringent" appears in the Mishna, Nedarim 1:1. It literally translates to "I hesitate to be stringent", but its meaning is as I have rendered it above (cf: Jastrow, חכך II; Kehati, Ned 1:1).
Rabbi Barry Fruendel, who has been representing the RCA in negotiations with the Israeli rabbinate to establish standards for American conversions acceptable to the Israel rabbinate, instructed one convert I know to put on tefillin and to wear a tallis (he was married) before completing his conversion. Frankly, I was suprised. When I was working to get an Orthodox conversion -- I had a Conservative conversion first and thereafter wore tefillin -- I had to stop wearing tefillin until I completed my conversion.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -- Shawnee County is getting to know it's County Commission candidates.
Candidates vying for the District 2 seat touted their top topics at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library Monday night (7/23).
Three Democrats are seeking the seat, Incumbent Mary Thomas, who replaced Vic Miller, Kevin Cook and Linda Armstrong. No Republicans are running.
Monday's forum was hosted by the Topeka TurnAround Team.
Kevin Cook says he will bring a level of professionalism to the job. He's endorsed by the Friends of Police political action committee.
Mary Thomas has already been at the job for 10 months, and says she's constantly working to come up with ways to do more without raising taxes.
Linda Armstrong says she has formal budgeting training and experience. She says she wants to make Shawnee County as family friendly as possible.
We asked all three to tell us their top priorities.
Kevin Cook:
"We get through our list of needs, we start running through our
budgetary process and by the time we get to the public safety, we've
run out of funds. And I think we have to change that and just turn
that around a little bit to where our public safety is the number one
priority in Shawnee County."
"You have two choices. You can either sit back and you can complain
about it, or you can step forward and try to make a difference."
Mary Thomas
"The county has some serious challenges before it. I am working full
time to find some solutions to those challenges. And I'm really
enjoying the time I've spent so far, and I think I'll really get into
it, given another four years to get after it."
"It comes from creative solutions, and either you can be on the
sideline complaining, or you can roll up your sleeves and get in there
and see what you can do about it. And I think I offer some new ideas
and some different want of solving some of the usual problems in
addition to the new challenges the county is looking at."
Linda Armstrong:
"We need to get more officers out on the street, which would mean
increasing our Police and Sheriffs Department. They need to start
walking the neighborhoods, and neighborhoods need to start getting more active with each other, not being this East Topeka, West Topeka. We are all a community."
"It's not about who dresses the best of who speaks the best. It's who
has the heart and who basically has got the willingness to stand up to
the vote box and say I'm ready to make the change and let's do it."
Two candidates are running in both primaries for the 3rd District Commission spot, currently held by Chair Ted Ensley, who is campaigning to be a State Representative.


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Let's say, we need to append more content to authorized_keys, but we don't want to overwrite it.
Should we use cat again for the next keys ? Or should we flag with something specific ?
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I tend to have swelling and weight gain of 3-5 pounds aftrer a really hard cycling or running workout? Is this normal or a sign that something is wrong? If it is normal is there anything to do to counteract this? Any info would be appreciated.
If you have ever begun a new weight-training program, then found it difficult to walk down stairs for the following few days, you are familiar with the uncomfortable side effects of muscle strengthening. After weight training, a muscle swells, its strength is decreased, its range of motion is limited and it hurts. Studies are inconclusive as to whether muscle swelling is actually the cause of these other symptoms.
When a muscle lifts loads that it is unaccustomed to, the stress causes tiny tears in its fibers. These tears are a natural part of building stronger muscles because when the damage is repaired, the muscle fibers are rebuilt stronger than before. Almost immediately after exercise, white blood cells rush into the muscle to clear up the debris from the muscle damage, producing prostaglandins as a byproduct. Prostaglandins are a hormone-like substance that cause pain and swelling. Along with white blood cells, fluids carrying other nutrients and enzymes rush into the muscle to support the rebuilding process. The extra fluids packed into the muscle also contribute to swelling.
A muscle contraction has two parts: the concentric, or "positive" phase (i.e. the "up" phase of a biceps curl) and the eccentric, or "negative" phase (i.e. the "down" phase of a biceps curl). Multiple studies have demonstrated that eccentric contractions cause the most muscle damage, pain and swelling because the muscle must lengthen as it contracts. Although weight training usually causes muscle soreness, the cumulative stress of eccentric contractions in weight-bearing endurance activities, such as running a marathon, can also cause muscle damage and swelling.
Muscles begin to swell about two hours after exercise. Swelling peaks on the fourth day, then gradually subsides, returning to normal seven to eleven days after a workout. Researchers at the Department of Physiology at Monash University in Australia found that swelling was not only greater after eccentric contractions than concentric training, but it also took longer to subside.
Some athletes use anti-inflammatory drugs, massage or active recovery to relieve post-exercise muscle swelling and soreness. Anti-inflammatories may reduce swelling, but a Canadian study found that ibuprofen didn't reduce post-exercise soreness. An Australian study published in the Journal of Athletic Training found that post-exercise massage reduced swelling and soreness. However, a similar study from the University of Virginia published in the same journal found no such reduction in swelling after a massage. Although many athletes insist that active recovery, or light exercise a few days after a workout, increases blood flow and reduces swelling, studies have yet to confirm it.
Not all pain causes gain. Athletes must learn to tell the difference between swelling associated with recovery and swelling caused by injury. Acute injury causes sharp pain during exercise and immediate swelling. Swelling from injury is usually localized around a bone or joint. Chronic injuries may not cause appreciable swelling, but pain will be greater during exercise than in the following days. If you suspect injury, seek medical advice and use rest, ice, compression and elevation (RICE) to relieve the swelling.
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Sounds like you have exactly what he described: microtears causing swelling and soreness. This is normal. It means you are stressing your body beyond its comfort zone, and it is building and responding. Make sure to take appropriate rest days.
I have gotten mild swelling before, but I have not specifcally noticed weight gain (but my weight also varies a lot day to do). NSAIDs (ibuprofen, etc) help a little, but I don't use them unless it's acute. Direct massage seems to help, although that might be psychological. A cool to cold bath helps - seems to accelerate the healing process. I get sore sooner, and recover sooner as well. The bath helps the whole leg, while I'll use ice-packs for specific areas (like calves). I go with plain cold tap water - I'm not man enough to get into ice. Even a cold shower seems to help some.
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Project Description: The intern will prepare beetle and some other insect specimens (now stored in alcohol) for incorporation into the main pinned collection. These are important reference vouchers for specimens stored in liquid nitrogen tanks for future extraction of their DNA (or, in some cases, specimens whose legs were removed to that storage). The work consists of pinning or point-mounting (depending on size), labeling, and sorting the specimens by family, and includes some common and many rare species from around the world. Training will include how to handle pinned insect specimens; how to pin, point-mount, and label pinned specimens; and general training in insect classification and collection management practices. This intern must be very attentive to detail and have excellent coordination to handle small delicate objects, working partly under a microscope, in order to prepare the specimens according to museum curatorial standards and ensure that labeling is done accurately. If this specific project is completed before the end of the internship, additional specimens will be provided for mounting and labeling, or other collection-care projects will be added. Depending on the scheduling of ongoing renovation activities in Insects, the intern might also spend some time helping Insects staff move drawers of the pinned collection into new collection cabinets—this will provide a glimpse of even broader insect diversity.
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Wilson: Kangaroos jump all over Yellowjackets
It was kind of hard to figure what to take out of Friday night's boys basketball matchup between two of the Berkshire League's unbeatens, Terryville and Gilbert.
With Robert Skinner and his high-powered shake-and-bake miles away from the Kangaroos' gym, the outcome carried no message with it.
But a couple of observations were evident in Terryville's relatively easy 63-40 victory.
Gilbert (3-1) desperately needs Skinner, its senior guard, and Terryville (4-0) is well on its way to becoming a smooth-as-silk force to be reckoned with.
According to Gilbert coach Mark Douglass, Skinner, one of the league's top players, tried to make it through school but a virus forced him out of the game.
"The kids told me he was so cold he was wearing three jackets," said Douglass.
What resulted was a very discombobulated Gilbert team that ran into a very in-sync Terryville team that had already dispatched highly regarded Nonnewaug recently. An expected rumble between two of the BL's best turned out to be a one-sided affair that ended early.
Running their offense to near peak efficiency, the Kangaroos created a steady stream of mid- to long-range jump shots and made enough of them to frustrate the Yellowjackets on a consistent basis.
Sharp-shooting sophomore Sean Tracy nailed a pair of 3-pointers and Devyn Oakes hit another trey in the first four minutes as the Kangaroos raced out to a 15-2 lead.
Gilbert never really recovered.
It was a nice start considering Terryville had been concerned about playing against Skinner, and had to guard against a mental letdown with the All-Berkshire League guard not in the lineup.
"I was worried about that," said Terryville coach Mark Fowler. "I grabbed the kids before the game and told them it doesn't get easy. You know they are going to come at you."
It was sound coaching advice, but in truth, it did get easier. The Yellowjackets couldn't stop Terryville at one end, and they couldn't create shots at the other.
Without Skinner around to steady the ship, Gilbert threw the ball away six times in the first quarter (22 times for the game) and was unable to find a steady rhythm.
"We were in disarray," admitted Douglass. "We missed (Robert's) leadership, that comfort factor out there. He's been there. But that's no excuse. We as coaches have to go back and find somebody to run the offense and step up when Robert's not there."
It didn't help Gilbert's mood that Terryville bombarded the Yellowjackets from all angles. Don't be fooled by Tracy's angular build, reddish locks and freckles. He has the shooter's touch and finished 16 points and four 3-pointers.
Trillo led all scorers with 20 points while Jacob Johnson threw a 16-spot on the board. A trio of trouble, to be sure.
"We have team chemistry, we know each other very well and we know each other's spots," said Johnson. "We're a tough team to guard. We're all pretty decent shooters. We have played with each other a long time. There are multiple threats out there."
Gilbert did provide an eyeful with an at-times explosive effort from junior Yoharkey Sarmiento, who scored 14 points and grabbed nine rebounds. A high-flier, Sarmiento tried to keep the Yellowjackets in the game with some acrobatic play. However, a three-foul first half kept him on the bench for long periods.
Luis Cordova, normally a potent force in the Gilbert lineup, struggled without Skinner around, finishing with 10 points. "Luis is great off the ball when Robert is here, but he is not the cog to run the offense," said Douglass.
For all intents and purposes, Gilbert saw the game slip away right at the end of the first half. Trailing 35-22 yet showing some life, the Yellowjackets rebounded a Terryville miss with five seconds left only to have Johnson pick off a pass and drain a 3-pointer at the buzzer.
Sarmiento picked up his fourth foul three minutes into the third quarter, and the game never got closer than 14 points, 44-30, in the second half.
Douglass knows he gets another shot later in the season. Fowler knows his team is playing well, but there is a long, long way to go. Neither was staking great importance to the outcome this time around.
We know that Robert Skinner is vital to Gilbert and that Terryville can play. Next game, please.
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Cash value 1/20th of a cent - ever tried to buy something with thousands of coupons?
Hypothetical situation. You know how coupons you get in the mail often say "Cash Value: 1/20th of a cent" or something like that?
Let's say you had thousands of real Pizza Hut coupons. $20 worth (40,000 coupons). Do you think they'd take it as payment at Pizza Hut for a pizza if you managed to gather as many? Wouldn't they be required to by law in some states?
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Never been there, but I must say that's something I've always wondered about!
You might be able to force the company the coupons are for to exchange them for cash or products, but nobody else would be obligated to honor someone else's arbitrary valuation.
"So Can I Round Up 20 Coupons and Get a Penny?
In theory, yes. It's hard to find reliable, concrete examples of someone schlepping in a hundred coupons to swap them out for a penny, but the web is full of anecdotes in which people "test the fine print" by trading in a giant stack of coupons for their face value at the supermarket. In all likelihood, though, you'd need to mail the coupons to the issuing company, which is a pretty lousy financial proposition given the price of stamps.
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There's a few other posts around the web I found. Nothing from legitimate sources. IE: .edu. .gov, or some site i know like NBC or something.
1: They usually stipulate that they must be original coupons and not photocopies. Acquiring said original copies of coupons is going to be insanely difficult and not worth the time, gas, effort, etc. in receiving 1/100th of a cent.
2: Online coupons that must be printed usually do not have cash values. If they do, it would cost too much to print, in terms of paper, ink, and printer longevity.
3: What @dravack said about mailing to the issuer/cost of stamps. Great link by the way.
Sorry to be a stick in the mud.
@curtisuxor: You just gave me an evil evil idea! I work in a computer lab just watching over 100 or so computer and a few printers. I get to print for free...... lol nah ot much trouble.
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KILLEEN (January 25, 2013)--A Bridal Extravaganza will be held Sunday at the Killeen Civic & Conference Center.
From 12 p.m. until 5 p.m., brides-to-be will have an opportunity to meet with companies that specialize in providing the venue, cake, flowers and more.
There will also be a fashion show showcasing the newest trends in bridal wear.
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Should I practice an activity, say drawing, programming, or even sport, in short day-sessions of one hour for example, or do it all at once in a week?
If I choose to do one hour a day, I might waste the concentration I just gained and I have to "boot", init, ... the activity everyday. Also, I may not be able to "surpass" myself, if such a thing exists, by spending a lot of time on the "problem" and eventually earning a revelation.
On the other hand, doing too much of the same activity may bore, tire me and I might be doing nothing after the first two hours.
Maybe neither of these two solutions are good, and both of them, or doing the second one with regular breaks to get the advantages of the first if there are advantages, ...
Maybe, the answer might be different whether I'm learning theory or applying it.
Ah, I'm so lost! What do you suggest?


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For centuries, trade was a major part of the livelihood for Native Americans living on the Great Plains. The Missouri River provided a trade transportation route for Native Americans, European, and American trappers and traders. Agriculture-based tribes traded surplus food to nomadic tribes in exchange for goods, such as animal hides, feathers, and meat. The map above shows the prehistoric trade route between tribes of the Northern Plains.
Fun Fact: The first contact between Northern Plains Indians and Europeans was European commodities, not the Europeans themselves, through a network of trade.
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| Thinnes, Billy, Hydrocarbon Processing Staff, Houston, TX
[Texas City]
[European Commission]
The European Commission intends to limit
the use of biofuels derived from food crops to
5% for transport fuel. This would be a substantial
change to its present biofuels policy. According to the EUs
climate-change and energy commissioners, Europe wants to cap
the share of energy in the transport sector from food
crop-based biofuels at current levels. The
proposal, a draft of which was reported by Dow Jones Newswires,
clashes with the target of having 10% of the energy used in
transport coming from renewable sources by 2020. This goal was
set by the EU three years ago because food crop-based biofuels
account for most biofuels available in volumes at the moment.
New types of alternative fuels are being developed, but they
are mostly at the laboratory stage. At the same time, biofuels are expected to be the main
renewable energy source used in transport in 2020.
State-owned oil company Pemex is working with
Mexicos federal government to manage limited
natural gas supplies in the wake of a September 18 plant
explosion near the northern border city of Reynosa that killed
30 workers. Pemex executives plan to increase gas imports from
the US to maximum levels. The company is also working on a
bypass that will reestablish gas flows from the Burgos fields
to the central part of the country. The facility damaged by the
blast is a new plant. The cause of the accident is still under
investigation, although Pemex said it has no evidence to
believe the explosion was intentional. The explosion initially
halted production of about 800 million cfpd of natural gas from
the Burgos fields.
ExxonMobil will spend more than $200 million to
expand its Baton Rouge chemical and lubricants plants
in Louisiana to raise capacity for synthetic lubricant base
stocks manufacturing and lubricants blending, packaging and
storage. The expansion will increase
ExxonMobils global capacity of synthetic esters and
alkylated naphthalene by more than 25% to meet demand for
high-performance lubricants. The project will include construction of a blending
center for synthetic aviation oil at the companys
lubricant blending plant in Port Allen, Louisiana. The new facilities in Baton Rouge will
replace existing base stock manufacturing and aviation
lubricants blending, packaging and storage operations in
Edison, New Jersey, which will cease production when the new
Louisiana facilities begin operation.
INEOS Europe has completed supply and
infrastructure agreements that will secure a significant volume
of ethane feedstock from the US for use by
European cracker complexes. The company has agreed to a
long-term deal with Range Resources for the lifting of ethane
from the Marcus Hook facility in Pennsylvania, starting in
2015. Formerly a Sunoco refinery, the Marcus Hook facility
is being used as a terminal operated by Sunoco Logistics
Partners. The agreement is effective upon US Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) approval of the Mariner East project. INEOS also finalized
pipeline transportation services and terminal services
agreements for the shipping of ethane from western Pennsylvania
to Marcus Hook with subsidiaries of Sunoco. The agreements will
be valid for 15 years, and it will provide INEOS Olefins &
Polymers Europe with significant supply
options for the future, according to the company. It is
expected that, when completed, the Mariner East project will transport approximately
70,000 bpd of ethane and propane from Houston, Pennsylvania, to
the Marcus Hook terminal facilities.
Westlake Chemical will do planned maintenance and expand its Petro 2
ethylene unit in Lake Charles, Louisiana, in the first
quarter of 2013. The company earlier said the turnaround would
occur in the 2012 fourth quarter. This expansion will increase ethane-based
ethylene capacity from 230 million lb/y to 240 million lb/y,
targeting an ethylene integration strategy, company
officials said. The unit is expected to be down approximately
50 days while the work is completed.
Valero Energy has restarted ethanol plants in Albion, Nebraska,
and Linden, Indiana, amid improving
margins. Valero idled operations in Nebraska and Indiana in June 2012, citing
unprofitable returns. Each plant has the capacity to produce
120 million gpy of ethanol. A Valero spokesperson
indicated that ethanol margins improved to the point where it
became feasible to operate the plants again. A total of 120
employees work at the two plants. All of them remained on the
payroll and at their jobs during the shutdown. Valero is now
operating all 10 of its US ethanol plants, with a total
capacity to produce 1.2 billion gpy.
BP has agreed to sell all of its Malaysian interests
in purified terephthalic acid (PTA) production to Indias Reliance
Industries, including the 610,000-tpy plant in Kuantan
on Malaysias east coast. Reliance has agreed to purchase
BPs interest in the plant for $230 million in cash. Both
parties anticipate completing the transaction in 2012. A BP
executive said it made sense to sell this facility to Reliance
because the company is already a significant feedstock supplier to the Kuantan
plant. All plant staff are expected to transfer to the new
owners under equivalent terms and conditions, according to
officials involved with the sale. BPs acetic acid
manufacturing and marketing business in Malaysia is unaffected
by this sale. BPs net global PTA capacity is 7.5 million
tpy from eight sites. BPs PTA facility at Zhuhai, China,
which is now under expansion, will add 1.25 million tpy
by 2014, making it one of the worlds largest PTA
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Engineers and designers are highly skilled individuals. Forcing them to enter design changes using tables, forms and spreadsheets is unproductive and uneconomical, and it increases the likelihood of human error—this is the way that most instrumentation software systems currently work. For too long, software vendors have denied engineers and designers the simple practicality of a graphical visual engineering interface with "drag and drop" capability and inbuilt intelligence, ensuring changes are automatically replicated into all the associated data and databases.
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I'm trying to write a shellscript which prints a tree-view for a specific directory and it's subdirs to pdf via latex, as well as the titles and contents of all scripts contained within that primary directory.
The treeview works like a charm, but I have no idea how to get the printing of the scripts to work.
Code thus far:
# Script to export directory with pdflatex
# Generate .tex file
# Directory Listing
echo "\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,oneside]{article}" > tmp.tex
echo "\usepackage{fullpage}" >> tmp.tex
echo "\begin{document}" >> tmp.tex
echo "\section{Listing}" >> tmp.tex
echo "\begin{verbatim}" >> tmp.tex
tree $1 >> tmp.tex
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echo "\end{document}" >> tmp.tex
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Established in 1908 by the Polish National Alliance, Dziennik Zwiazkowy continues to be published today as the Polish Daily News. This database includes the first ten years (1908-1917) of publication, which represent local, national and international issues of utmost concern to the Polish community of Chicago at that time.
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A World Premiere and a Bygone Era
Roomful of Teeth Sings Pulitzer-Prize winning "Partita for 8 Voices"
Ian Hobson
DiMenna Center
450 W. 37th St., (212) 594-6100
Tuesday and Thursday
In the spirit of you can never have too much of a good thing, English pianist Ian Hobson continues his own personal Brahms-a-thon, a 14-concert survey of every single one of Brahms's solo piano works and chamber music for piano and strings. (This desire for exhaustive surveys seems a theme for Mr. Hobson, who has recorded the complete Beethoven sonatas and complete piano works of Chopin, among other complete sets.) On Tuesday, violinist Andrés Cárdenes, violist Csaba Erdélyi and cellist Ko Iwasaki join Mr. Hobson for two piano quartets.
Narek Hakhnazaryan
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Ave., (212) 247-7800
Armenian cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan won the Tchaikovsky Competition's gold medal in 2011, shortly after graduating from the New England Conservatory, and has since embarked on a busy performing career. Mr. Hakhnazaryan and pianist Noreen Cassidy-Polera perform a program of mostly cello warhorses, including works by Schumann and Rachmaninoff. They also play the lesser-known "Humoresque" by cello superstar Mstislav Rostropovich, who, in addition to being a mentor of Mr. Hakhnazaryan, dabbled in composition.
New Music in the Kaplan Penthouse
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Kaplan Penthouse
165 W. 65th Street, 10th floor, 212-875-5788
Against the backdrop of the glass-walled Kaplan Penthouse, pianist Gilles Vonsattel and clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois join the Danish String Quartet for new(ish) works by Hans Abrahamsen, Osvaldo Golijov, and Peter Lieberson. In the notes for Mr. Golijov's klezmer-tinged "The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind," written in 1994, the composer writes that the kabbalist rabbi's approach to his work was similar to that of quartets and clarinetists. "In their search for something that arises from tangible elements but transcends them, they are all reaching a state of communion," he writes.
November 21, 1963:
The Day Before
Symphony Space
2537 Broadway, (212) 864-5400
As the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination approaches, and with it various artistic tributes, a multimedia event at Symphony Space takes a different tactic: Reimagining the day before JFK's assassination, when, supposedly, the world was a bit more innocent. Performers include soprano Megan Weston, bass-baritone Robert Osborne, actor Olympia Dukakis and pianist Margaret Kampmeier; there are also visual art and multimedia elements of the event. As most of the composers—including Lera Auerbach, Daniel Felsenfeld and the seemingly ubiquitous Nico Muhly—weren't around yet in 1963, one hopes that imagination trumps experience.
Roomful of Teeth
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, (212) 505-3474
In April, composer Caroline Shaw caught the new music world by surprise when, at age 30, she became the youngest composer ever to win a Pulitzer Prize. Her winning work, "Partita for 8 Voices," is a Baroque-dance inspired choral piece (which includes Tuvan throat singing) for the vocal octet in which she sings, Roomful of Teeth. When she won the prize, the work appeared only on a recording for New Amsterdam Records; Monday's performance is its world premiere.


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One man's meat is another man's poison. That's on old English saying derived from the French "Chacun a son gout." Some like short videos. Others like long videos. Personally, I like both long and short. With production resources, a long video can be edited down to a short video. Hence once interview could beget two videos.
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This video also marks the end of my first real attempt at splitting up one long video into a few smaller parts. Did you like it? Did it work for you?
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