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Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. This Vienna hotel also offers coffee/tea in a common area, laundry facilities, and discounted use of a nearby fitness facility. Complimentary self parking is available on site. A total renovation of this property was completed in June 2012.
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The woman, whose name wasn't released, was taken to Scott & White Hospital.
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I know a lot of people have previously asked this question. However my problem still has not been solved. I have iMessage on. I am using iMessage via my Apple ID. Now where it says "receive at:", it shows my email, and it won't even let me remove the email. Plus it doesn't even have an option that shows my phone number. I have an iPhone 4S. I have tried opening iMessage without an Apple ID, however it says "Verifying" for hours and hours.
The only tried and true manner I've found to resolve this is to force Apple's activation servers to see the phone as a new device. The push notification servers have clearly "hung on" to what it thinks is the correct iMessage information despite your efforts to correct this.
To accomplish this, you'll need to be really careful about keeping a good backup since you will have to erase your phone and set it up as new. I recommend making an iCloud backup, then making a local backup to iTunes. If you are really paranoid, back up your PC/Mac at this point and have two copies of the iTunes backup. I would turn odd iMessage and power down the phone and then make a backup once it starts with no iMessage on the phone just in case the iMessage settings could get restored after you perform this erase operation.
Now you will need to be sure your phone receives SMS messages. Your carrier should double check that your account has SMS enabled. At this point, you may want to be sure you are not jailbroken or other thing that could get messed up if it's not stored in your normal backup procedure.
Once you have verified things are fine, you can now choose to start setting up the phone and not restore your backup. This might be the best option if you don't have lots of third party apps that have extensive data. If you do want to restore your backup, you can connect it to iTunes ensuring you don't initiate a new backup to cover the old one or use iCloud to restore your cloud backup.
Hopefully this will clear the iMessage settings and restore things to the way you hope it will work.
Settings>Messages>send and receive. Apple ID is on the top click it then log out. Then turn you iMessages on and select your phone number. Don't log back into your Apple ID until you know it worked. Worked for me.
Then when I logged back in it had my phone number and email instead of just the email from before.


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From my experiences at hotels, I'm used to toiletries (soap, shampoo, etc.) being provided.
Do hostels also provide these, or do I need to bring my own? Do hostels provide towels as well, or will I need to travel H2G2-style?
From my experiences at hotels, I'm used to toiletries (soap, shampoo, etc.) being provided.
Do hostels also provide these, or do I need to bring my own? Do hostels provide towels as well, or will I need to travel H2G2-style?
Almost always, you bring your own, however...
Hostel sites like Hostelbookers often indicate whether or not items like towels are available for rent, or provided.
Some I've seen will sell toothpaste and deodorant and the like.
Personally, I bring a towel and toiletries, and almost always I've needed them. It's generally a surprise when I don't.
As already mentioned toiletries are very rare. Towels depend a lot but if the hostel doesn't provide them for free they usually provide them for a fee (all the cases I've witnessed were for an affordable fee).
I was never in an hostel without toilet paper. In the worst case if you ask at the reception they will quickly solve that.
A rare case, but that you should be prepared for (check in advance) is the possibility of the hostel not providing bed linen by default. Either you have to bring it or rent it in the hostel. Sometimes sleeping bags are not accepted as a bed linen replacement.
A good source of information before traveling is www.hostelworld.com
You can find an intersting article here about what to expect from an hostel.
Here's another a bit more generic.
Hotels are targeting businessmen travelling with a briefcase. You usually don't carry soap or towel in your suitcase.
Hostels are targeting backpackers which are expected to bring a lot of things with them. While all the hostels I've stayed in had soap in the bathroom, and they've also provided towels (some for free, some for an extra charge). Shampoo, razors, body creams, if available, were what previous guests had left behind. So simply take your own things with you.
In case the weight is the extreme consideration (air travel) check if there's a supermarket nearby. It's hard to expect such things would be hard to purchase in the place there are hostels, maybe with the exception of German-speaking countries on Sunday ;)
The towel - you can take a little one with you. In the worst case it would be a bit harder to dry your whole body, but it's recommended to have a little towel with you always when you travel - if you'd need to clean yourself in a plane or train etc.


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It seems that CPU increases have outpaced disk speed for a while. Assuming a desktop or laptop with modern dual core Intel/AMD CPU and a single average SATA disk, would doing compression on most all of the disk give better overall performance? Basically does the reduced disk bandwidth more than make up for the increased CPU load? I'm sure the real answer is "it depends on what you're doing". By asking this question, I'm hoping to have someone who has done this pipe up and give some examples or pitfalls.
Yes, disk compression can provide better performance under particular circumstances:
There's a reason both ZFS and Btrfs, both recent green-field designs, include provisions for compression.
In the HPC space, when an application is checkpointing from memory to disk, the CPUs are frequently not doing anything useful at all. This time is essentially pure overhead. Any use of the CPUs to reduce this time is a win.
Disk compression will never give you better performance.
It may give you almost no penalty due to fast modern CPUs, but that's an entirely different thing.
You assume having to transfer less data from/to disk can improve performance; but big data transfers are almost never an I/O bottleneck: the real bottlenecks are seek time and latency. Modern hard disks are really fast on sustained data transfers with big files, what slows them down are little transfers from all over the disk.
Some scenarios:
There are specific situations that do this already at the per-application level, such as video compression - a system that couldn't read raw HD-quality video fast enough from a dsk can instead read compressed information and expand it using memory and CPU power. There is no reason this couldn't also be the case for other, specific situations but this can be best handled at the application level so the compression methods used are optimized to their purpose.
Keep in mind that the performance overhead of decompression is worthwhile if the entire throughput increases, so the idea shoudln't be dismissed out of hand - I don't think we're ready for general purpose performance boosting compression yet but it is theoretically possible to trade a resource you have excess of (CPU & memory) for a boost elsewhere (total data read from hard-drive)
You answered your own question! it depends is indeed the answer.
The best generalization i can make is:
If you have a database application which is disk read constrained, then yes! performance is better.
I don't think this is the case for most activities you'll be doing on a desktop/laptop.
In my domain (SQL Server) I know that reporting databases under heavy read loads can get better performance if compression is used. I know the same is true for mysql.
Microsoft have a white paper on their compression features in SQL Server 2008. Not exactly light reading unless your a DBA, but here's one chart that supports my generalization:
CPU speeds have always been faster than disk speeds. IMHO, compression is going to increase overhead and thereby decrease performance.
I was reading somthing similar to this yesterday regarding OSX and it's compression of the filesystem - Basically the answer revolves around what you want to compress - in this example he's talking about the "FAT" data; file structures, properties, metadata etc that when stored together can be compressed to save space and be read into the cpu quicker than seeking the head all over the place to find the data for each file...
Anyway, worth a read if you're thinking about such things :-p
From: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/3
The Microsoft Disk compression is ugly OLD. It is hardly comparable in ratios with ARJ method from 80's. But, even Microsoft's compression CAN provide better performance on very slow (laptop) hard drives. Especially if there's enough RAM for Write-caching and preventing excessive writes.
The write process is a weak spot of any random-access enabled compression method.
So, if you want compressed drive, you better move to some kind of Linux.
Disk compression is also very suitable for RAM-drives, no need to tell you why.
Doubtfully. Compression and decompression involves more than just the disk and the CPU; in particular there will be a lot of transferring of data to and from memory (in addition to the standard transfer overhead without compression) which will really hurt in terms of page faults.
In short, no, you probably won't gain in performance.
While compression will improve the performance of your storage, it will significantly degrade your processor speed. It probably comes down to what type of files you are going to be decompressing. If you are only dealing with word, excel and other basic filetypes then go ahead and compress them. If the individual files are bulkier, you're going to be sacrificing more of your time.


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17 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped (Part 6)
#8. So It's One of Those Tile Mosaic Coffee Tables, Right?
Actually this kind of looks like a tangram puzzle until you notice the tiny little ship chugging through there. Those neat fragments are chunks of floating ice in McMurdo Sound in Antarctica.
As for how you get those clean geometric shapes in the ice, well, that's just how ice breaks. When huge chunks of ice shelf break off due to global warming, it looks like it was cut with a damned laser:
#7. That's Not a Bird
That's neither a fake photo or a tiny set of hands. That's a freaking Atlas Moth. They're found in Southeast Asia and they can get up to a foot wide. And if one of them starts flapping around your porch light you'd better have a big goddamned shoe handy.
We included this one because it just looks so obviously like a bad Internet meme. You know, they take the lizard and they Photoshop various hats on it, maybe the next one has it in a little cowboy hat with a cigarette or something.
But no, this totally happened, in our world. It's a Komodo dragon at the St. Augustine alligator park, shown here happily celebrating his birthday in a Spongebob Squarepants hat. Making the situation almost too surreal to not be made up, that's a birthday cake made of meat and dead mice. Oh look kids, the cute lizard has a birthday hat on! And he's eating the star of Ratatouille! How cute!
#5. Not-Falling Rocks
If not Photoshop, you could assume this is just some rocks captured in mid-fall, like maybe just out of frame is a dump truck and the camera is seconds away from being buried. But, no, this is a stationary object and an example of the art form known as Rock Balancing.
That's pretty much self-explanatory, but proving that art forms are primarily created so that people can come up with pretentious ways of talking about them, there are actually four separate recognized categories of rock balancing. Just the thought of introducing oneself as a "freestyle rock balancer" should be enough to cause most people's balls to clench in anticipation of being soundly thumped.
#4. Your Very Own Cartoonish Island Home!
This looks like one of the laziest cut and paste jobs of all time, but it is actually a photo from a flood in Grafton, Illinois. We have to admire that guy's efforts at keeping up his property value, especially since all the people who used to criticize his unkempt lawn are surely dead.
Yes, you can actually sleep in this underwater suite at Conrad Maldives Rangali Island, under the Indian Ocean. OK, it's not an Abyss situation where it's way down on the ocean floor, there is only about 20 feet of ocean above you. Still, you can see that you'll have plenty of fish watching you sleep and/or bone.
#2. A Foot Model's Photoshop Disaster
It looks a little like seeing somebody's feet through a kaleidoscope, but it's the feet of a Chinese boy who was born with 15 fingers and 16 toes. Don't worry, he's fine (he since had surgery to remove the extra appendages).
#1. God's Tangled USB Cables
At first glance this looks almost exactly like a techno artist's design made with USB connectors. It's actually a satellite photo of an Australian wind farm still under construction. The ends of the apparent connectors are the bases where the wind turbines will soon be attached:
Here's a finished picture of the farm:
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Date: December 11 2012
The resources boom that has underpinned Australia's remarkably calm journey on the wild seas of financial crisis that have sunk so many other economies in recent years is increasingly having its bone fides held up to question as many resource prices soften and costs at massive mine construction sites blow out.
So it is opportune to look at the performance of the resources index, which includes a good deal of Australia's energy businesses.
This week's analyst, Mark Umansky, a certified financial technician, full-time private trader and councillor with the Australian Technical Analysts Association, says to make sense of markets from a technical analysis view it is necessary to study the short-term (weekly) and medium-term (monthly) charts as well as looking from a longer-term perspective.
''No matter what time frame is traded, the long-term trend is your friend and thus determines whether positions are taken on the long or short side,'' Umansky says. ''The medium and short-term trends, on the other hand, are the mechanisms used for timing of both entries and exits.''
This week we study the long-term (quarterly) chart of the S&P/ASX 200 Resources Index in the context of the All Ordinaries Index. Comparing the two helps determine where the long-term trend is heading,
The chart shows a remarkable correlation between the two indices since late last decade, which demonstrates the power and influence of the resource sector over the economy as a whole during that period. However, on closer observation we can see movements are not identical and both indices have played a game of cat and mouse, alternatively leading and lagging the other but ultimately heading in the same direction.
We are in a situation that lends some credence to the predictions of slowing for the resources sector.
The All Ordinaries followed the Resources Index down from the highs indicated by the circle on the chart but since then there has been a divergence, with the All Ordinaries making a ''higher low'' before turning upwards. But the Resources Index fell much further, making a ''lower low'' before turning upwards.
This divergence indicates a time of caution, Umansky says. If the Resources Index peaks and recommences its downward path then the All Ordinaries should follow. Alternatively, if the All Ordinaries continues to move up then the Resources Index should follow. But with the gloomy talk about the resource sector, it may be that the Resource Index is more likely to break downward than to turn and rise, pulling down the general market as the economy suffers with falling mining exports.
Umansky says astute investors should view both charts to determine entry and exit strategies as there is a trend to peaks and troughs in each being replicated in the other. If the long-term trend is moving up for resources then look for buy-in points where short and medium-term charts turn around and make bullish reversals.
Alternatively, if the long-term trend for resources is confirmed down, use bearish reversal signals where a short-term or medium-term up-trend turns down to exit your exposures, he says.
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We are in the process of selecting the data center for deploying our high frequency strategies. Does anyone has some questionnaire that can be used to figure out that what type of infrastructure (hardware, processor, cores, ram, network interface card, switch, OS, etc. etc.) will be the best for our strategies? I know this is a big question but any useful input based on your past experience will be very helpful...
be careful: if you want to implement a smart routing strategy (addressing more than one trading venue), you should at least have one component of your strategy located at the same distance (i.e. same time to each matching engine) from all the orderbooks you plan to interact with.
Just say that you detect at $\tau_0$ that bid price in the matching engine $B$ is higher than the ask price in the matching engine $A$. The time to reach $B$ is $\tau_B$ and to reach $A$ is $\tau_A$. Your two orders will reach $A$ at $\tau_0+\tau_A$ and $B$ at $\tau_0+\tau_B$. The larger $|\tau_A-\tau_B|$, the higher the probability that one of the two quotes will have been removed one way or the other (cancelled or traded), and you will have to pay the full bid-ask spread to unwind your position.
In detail, if you have some tactics that can be run at one order-book only, it is good to be as close as possible from it; but for a simple bid-ask crossing arbitrage:
More generally, any observer of the price formation process has $\tau_B-\tau_A - 2\tau_{ex}$ (where $\tau_{ex}$ is its average latency to $A$ and $B$) to remove $Q_b$ one way or the other and ruin your pair.
The lower $|\tau_A-\tau_B|$, the better, it is even sometime better to slow one of your message to ensure a small $|\tau_A-\tau_B|$. Of course, the larger $(\tau_A+\tau_B)/2$, the worst.
You have to find the best balance between $\tau_A$ and $\tau_B$ such that $|\tau_A-\tau_B|$ and $(\tau_A+\tau_B)/2$ are as small as possible.
At the end of the day; it is all about cost. If colocating will make you 50% more money; then it is worth it. If you are going to make only 10% extra; it may not be worth it.
Ok firstly while i am only an amateur quant i just happen to be a professional data center designer in the UK. I design data centers from small N resilient rooms to multi megawatt co-location facilities.
Ultimately the question of whether to move your equipment into a co-location facility depends entirely on your business needs. To properly understand this you need to assess the capabilities of your existing facilities with respects to the connectivity of the site, security, power availability, average external ambient conditions and the cost of floor space vs office space.
Simply put you should invest in a consultancy for an expert to perform a needs analysis and site assessment, with this information they can write a report with some indicative costing of building a new data centre and any site limitations. Using this information you can then quantify any decision on whether to co-locate or build a new facility.
If you are serious about owning a data center then i urge you to contact a professional as soon as possible, the earlier the engagement the more effective the design and the more informed the business decisions. Retrospective designing is painful for everyone!!
I hope this helps.


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Mo Rocca itchy sweater saga goes mainstream
As many of you may recall, I was all worked up a year ago when Mo Rocca declared, on National Public Radio no less, that he didn't like homemade sweaters because they are "always itchy." Several fellow ravelers and I took quick action and that's all documented in my earlier post here.
The sweater was presented to Mo at a taping of Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me and the show posted a fun video of the sweater presentation on their site. Berroco gets mentioned here, as do I , but you have to really listen for it. When you get to the Wait Wait site, look for the video link, down a bit on the left.
Meanwhile, Mo was working on his other gig on CBS and produced a piece for CBS Sunday Morning. He even learned how to knit! So, FINALLY after a year of wondering if was actually going to happen
..and NOW you can watch our friend Andra speedily knitting the finishing on Mo's sweater. I can't seem to embed the flash video from the CBS site, so a link will have to do.
My mother called after the cbs piece aired to say what really ticked her off about the comment wasn't that the sweaters itched, but that Mo Rocca used said that knitters' sweaters were homemade. She said HAND MADE is what they are, and a compliment, home made an insult in and of itself. Funny!April 22, 2010
Saw this on FaceBook last week! It is high time that everyone gets educated, or perhaps re-educated on hand-knits. That old thought process about them all being itchy is just rubbish! Thanks for all that you and your team does to promote "new" knitting, the fab designs and the wonderful yarns!April 22, 2010
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It was so much fun to relive the experience that it was almost worth waiting a year to see the CBS piece. Plus, watching Andra knit was amazing! Coincidentally, I'm going to a Wait, Wait taping tonight. I don't know who's on the panel this week, but I'm hoping to get to meet Mo again.
The clip is also on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-sFSL-JPXM. Maybe you can embed this instead.April 22, 2010
Becky #
I feel fortunate, very fortunate, when I cast on a new project and my teenage daughter asks me, "Is that for me, Mom?" Then to have someone turn around and insult the craft. Before chain stores existed (way back in the day), ALL clothing was made by hand…April 25, 2010
Lynn #
I loved the sweater by Deborah Newton. Is the pattern available? And if so where?April 30, 2010
Congratulations!May 19, 2010
Kmbold #
You took off on the poor guy's comment about knitting. He is also faulty at grammar. Sweaters don't "itch". They "scratch" — HE itches. Itch is an intransitive verb (no object), scratch is transitive (scratches what? his skin). The sweater scratches him and makes him itch (verb) and want to scratch his itch (noun, in this case). Somebody on TV has pets called Itchy and Scratchy. Too bad viewers failed to make the grammar distinction.May 24, 2010


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WEIRTON - Area residents will have a chance to take a trip back through time and help help out one of Weirton's biggest charitable organizations.
A Night at the Sands will take place Nov. 2 at the Serbian-American Cultural Center, beginning at 5 p.m.
Tickets are $50 each in advance, and $55 at the door. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Weirton United Way.
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SPECIAL NIGHT — Nino Karas, of the Serbian-American Cultural Center, and Dawn Takacs, of Elite Casino Events, stand with a sign advertising the upcoming A Night at the Sands event, set for Nov. 2 at the Serbian-American Cultural Center. Proceeds from the evening will benefit the Weirton United Way. -- Craig Howell
A Night at the Sands will feature dinner and a show by the Pittsburgh Rat Pack, a tribute group performing as Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr.
Those attending will be able to walk a red carpet, with a photographer, as they enter the event, according to Dawn Takacs of Elite Casino Events, which is organizing the evening.
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26 Aug 2012 9:00 PM #1
REQ: CSS modifications out of the box
Hi Arne
How difficult to add checkboxes in the editor for the following (All of these modifications are for mobile in mind)
- Meta tagas for Title, iPhone Splash Screen, iPhone ICON...etc
- Center the body in the screen?
- Retina Support through media queries?
- Landscape to portrait Jscript?
- Check box for a JScript to that removes the address bar!
- Check box to remove the highlight around the buttons
I can provide allot of the script for the above to make it happen, problem currently is that I find myself doing this after exporting the project, which is much faster, but it gets really irritating to do that over and over again for every project.
27 Aug 2012 9:21 AM #2
Thanks for the input! Those sounds like good features. I am not able to make any promises though
In the meantime, have you explored the project tab in the properties panel? It does allow you to set "Head HTML", so you can insert your meta tags there (then you'll only need to do it once per project). You can also attach external JS (for removing address bar etc) and CSS (for centering body? and removing highlights on buttons etc).
27 Aug 2012 3:36 PM #3
Hi Arne
Thanks for your reply. Yes I am aware of the insert at HTML head along with the JS, but since these things are almost done automatically in every project, having a check mark would make it more streamlined!


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In Mutants and Masterminds you can purchase a side kick as a feat.
I'm rolling up a knight, and I want a squire, using a similar game mechanic.
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March 30, 2012 -- Women giving birth can expect to have longer labors than women did 50 years ago, according to a new analysis by National Institutes of Health researchers.
For first-time mothers, the first stage of labor has increased by 2.6 hours, says Katherine Laughon, MD, a researcher at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Women who were having their second or later child took two hours longer in recent years than women in the 1960s, she also found.
Women giving birth in the '60s had a median labor time of just under four hours (half took more time, half less). Those in the recent group took 6.5 hours, Laughon says.
She discussed the findings at a news briefing today. The study is published online in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
"We don't have a complete explanation," Laughon says of the longer labors. However, changes in delivery practices appear to be the main contributing factor.
Longer Labor Study: More Findings
Laughon and her colleagues compared nearly 40,000 babies born from 1959 to 1966 with more than 98,000 born between 2002 and 2008.
Cesarean delivery was more common in the recent group. While 12% of the modern mothers had a C-section, 3% of the previous group did.
The mothers in the recent group were older; nearly 27 years old. The women in the previous group were on average 24. The recent mothers were also heavier, with a pre-pregnant body mass index or BMI of 24.6 compared to 22.6. (A BMI of 18.5-24.9 is considered normal weight.)
Babies of the women in the recent group weighed about 3.5 ounces more, on average.
Women in the 1960s group were less likely to have an epidural for pain relief. More than half of the modern mothers got the epidural injection, but just 4% of the mothers giving birth in the 1950s and '60s did.
While epidural use is known to increase delivery times, Laughon says it can't explain all of the increase.
The use of the hormone oxytocin, which speeds labor, was given in 31% of the recent deliveries but just in 12% of the earlier group. Laughon says that without this hormone, the modern labors may have been even longer.
Other practices common in the '60s, such as using forceps to help extract the baby, are much less common now, Laughon says.


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Kylie Jenner may be a natural in front of the cameras with the rest of her famous family on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, but for a recent photo shoot, the 13-year-old beauty wasn't sharing the spotlight with anybody. "I can't get over how stunning Kylie looks in these shots from a recent fashion photo shoot she did with Nick Saglimbeni," big sister Kim wrote on her website. "Monica [Rose] did the styling and chose the most gorgeous pieces for Kylie to wear. I am a very proud big sister!" And while Kylie made her modeling debut in July when she posed in a kid-friendly photo shoot for Sears, these grown-up shots are of an entirely different nature than the campaign she did for the retailer, showing off her seamless transition from tween to teen. Though Kylie's photos are more covered up than her sister Kendall's controversial bikini shoot, both girls seem to be following in the fashionable and attention-grabbing footsteps of older siblings Kim, Khloe and Kourtney. Tell us: What do you think of Kylie's new fashion photo shoot? —Jessie Goldberg
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NFL unveils new Pro Bowl uniforms NFL unveils new Pro Bowl uniforms Close Tweet0 Share0 Comment0 Share0 Share0 Stumble It0 Print0 More Audibles NFL playoff scenarios for Week 16 by Chris Burke Add Favorite Favorite Added Twitter Email Posted: Sun Dec. 23, 2012 The NFL playoff picture continues to move ever closer to being 100 percent clear -- we'll be there by next Sunday night, if not before. All of this week's playoff scenarios can be found here, but we will be keeping track below of what Sunday's action means to the postseason races ...Current AFC seeds, through Sunday's games: 1. Texans (12-3), 2. Broncos (12-3), 3. Patriots (11-4), 4. Ravens (10-5), 5. Colts (10-5), 6. Bengals (9-6)Current NFC seeds, through Sunday's games: 1. Falcons (13-2), 2. Packers (11-4), 3. 49ers (10-4-1), 4. Redskins (9-6), 5. Seahawks (10-5), 6. Vikings (9-6)AFC• Baltimore has won the AFC North: Despite Cincinnati's victory in Pittsburgh, the Ravens clinched the division with a rout of the Giants. Baltimore cannot fall any lower than fourth in the conference and cannot climb any higher than third -- the latter would occur if the Ravens beat Cincinnati next week and Miami upsets New England.Barring that, the Ravens will open the playoffs as the AFC's No. 4 seed, at home, against Cincinnati.• The Colts and Bengals are going to the playoffs: Thanks to Indianapolis' victory in Kansas City and Cincinnati's win in Pittsburgh, the AFC's playoff field is set -- at least in terms of which six teams will be participating.Josh Brown's field goal with eight seconds left handed the Bengals a 13-10 win, eliminating the Steelers and Dolphins from postseason contention. Cincinnati now has a shot to swipe the AFC North crown from Baltimore, if the Ravens lose to the Giants on Sunday.Indianapolis almost certainly will be the No. 5 seed. The only way that could change is if the Bengals or Ravens flip the strength-of-victory tiebreaker against the Colts, which is very unlikely.• The top three seeds are still up for grabs: Not that long ago, Houston seemed locked in as the AFC's top seed. Not anymore. With Houston's loss Sunday, both the Broncos and Patriots will have a chance to leapfrog the Texans next week if the Texans lose to Indianapolis.Houston holds the head-to-head tiebreaker on Denver but not on New England. A Week 17 Texans loss, then, could drop the longtime AFC leader to the three-seed -- out of bye position.• The Dolphins and Steelers have been eliminated: Miami needed a Pittsburgh win Sunday to stay alive. Cincinnati's victory instead bounced the Dolphins from the conversation, despite Miami's beatdown of Buffalo.The Steelers' loss ended any hopes they had. Had they won Sunday and again in Week 17, they would have clinched a playoff berth.NFC• Seattle has clinched a playoff spot; San Francisco still leads the West: The Seahawks locked up one of the NFC"s two wild-card spots with their win over San Francisco. However, the 49ers need only to beat Arizona in Week 17 to clinch the NFC West. A Cardinals victory plus Seattle win over St. Louis would flip-flop the 49ers and Seahawks in the division.• Atlanta has clinched the No. 1 seed: The Falcons' 31-18 victory over the Lions on Saturday night means that at least one team will have to win in Atlanta to prevent Matt Ryan's crew from a Super Bowl trip. As things stand now, of those teams still alive in the playoff race, the only one the Falcons cannot play in their playoff opener -- a divisional-round game on either Jan. 12 or 13 -- is current No. 2 seed San Francisco.• Green Bay jumped San Francisco: Packers fans might contest that the Seahawks owed them one because of the infamous Hail Mary game from early this year, but Seattle definitely helped out Sunday night. With the Seahawks' win over San Francisco, Green Bay now sits in second place in the NFC -- a win over Minnesota would secure for the Packers a first-round bye.San Francisco can finish no lower than third place if it wins the division. but now needs a win plus a Packers loss in Week 17 to reclaim second.• Washington will head into Week 17 in first place ... but Dallas controls its destiny: By virtue of a seven-point win in Philadelphia, the Redskins moved to 9-6 and kept hold of first place in the division. If the Redskins beat the Cowboys next Sunday, Washington will claim the NFC East title.The Cowboys have the same scenario, thanks to the Giants' loss. If Dallas can come up with a road win over Washington next Sunday, then it would win the division.• About the Giants' chances ...: The defending NFC East and Super Bowl champions can no longer win the division. Just to get back to the postseason, the Giants need to beat Philadelphia in Week 17 and have three of the following happen: Minnesota loss, Chicago loss, Dallas loss, 0-2 finish by Seattle.• Minnesota is still the No. 6 seed, and now controls its own destiny: Another team impacted by the Giants' loss to Baltimore. Here, it plays to Minnesota's benefit big-time. The 9-6 Vikings no longer can be knocked from the playoffs with a Week 17 win -- beat Green Bay, and they are in.The Vikings could still reach the postseason with a loss to the Packers, but Dallas, New York and Chicago all would have to lose next Sunday as well.• New Orleans and St. Louis have been eliminated: Both teams needed miracles to reach the postseason, but Minnesota's victory officially knocked the Rams and Saints from contention.• Chicago is Green Bay's biggest fan: The NFL playoff race can make for weird alliances, and this is one. Barring an 0-2 finish from Seattle (vs. San Francisco, St. Louis), the Bears' only hope for making the postseason is for Green Bay to win in Minnesota next week. 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The BBC reveals Neil Gaiman's highly anticipated return to "Doctor Who" will feature the return of the iconic villains the Cybermen, plus guest stars Warwick Davis, Tamzin Outhwaite and Jason Watkins.
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IDW creators Andy Diggle, Katie Cook, Fred Van Lente and more brought the latest info to NYCC 2012 on everything from "Mars Attacks" and "Doctor Who" to "My Little Pony," "G.I. Joe" and more.
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spoiler:I went with the Synthesis option, and I must say, it definately was a forced ending, as no matter which you picked, Shep died. This disappointed me to be honest.
But anyway; What became of Joker, EDI and the rest of the Normandy crew? They crash landed then got out of the ship and looked on. I didn't understand. Was this a total step back in history (theoretically, not literally) because of what synthesis did? I mean, did they just find a new planet that they had to start totally fresh on?
What happened to Earth?
Surely, if I understood it and the races HAVE started all over again, surely, that means the Mass Effect Universe is over and cannot be continued upon?
And I am interested to know about this 'One More Story' the stargazer speaks of. I'm guessing major story DLC in ME3. Man, I miss Shepard :'(
spoiler: Just paid attention and remembered the relays blew up too...surely that means we just did the reapers' job and killed everyone...this is depressing
spoiler: Shep actually does it to the more extreme and wipes everyone out, including young races, because the mass relays blow up...So the trilogy WAS pointless imho


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AG102: Where's Armaldo?
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Where's Armaldo? (Japanese: ドクター・モロボシの島!!化石ポケモン現る!! Island of Dr. Proctor! Fossil Pokémon Appear!!) is the 10th episode of Pokémon: Advanced Battle.
Episode Plot
The gang reaches Wales Island. Brock tells them it is a Preserve untouched over a millennia. May and Ash train their Bulbasaur and Pikachu. May comes to Ash with good news - Bulbasaur learned Petal Dance. Bulbasaur uses Petal Dance on the incoming waves, making a hole in them. Max gathers wood and hears something. A thing comes from the bush, going away as Max screams in fear. Ash, Brock and May come to see what happened. Max saw a giant Cradily, to which Brock finds untrue - Cradily and their pre-evolution from, Lileep, are rarely found, even as fossils, as they are extinct.
They hear something - a Breloom passes by. May thinks he saw a Breloom instead, but Max runs away to find the Cradily. Max goes away, but notices a big building near. He goes to the window and sees many computers, a lab of some sort. Inside, he finds some Lileep. A man comes, telling him that it is restricted property. As May, Brock and Ash go to find Max, they spot something behind them - the Cradily Max was talking about. A woman comes, revealing to be the one who is in charge of Cradily. She spots the gang, so introduces herself as Annie. The gang tells her they are looking for Max, so Annie tells them he must be at the lab.
At the lab, the man spots the Cradily, telling it must not be wandering around like that. Max and May reunite. Annie introduces the man as her husband, Prof. Proctor (making Brock sad by that fact). Max points the Lileep in an exhibition. Annie tells them they were cloned from fossils. The Professor tells them it was his dream to revive those Pokémon. Team Rocket spy on them, wanting to catch them. The Professor tells them that the island was inhabited by Anortih and Lileep, and it was connected to the land. They see that Anorith and Armaldo ate some fruit from trees, which seemed a part of their diet. Next, the sea rose, so the island was formed and the Pokémon became extinct. The last step is to use the machines to bring Lileep and Anorith from the fossils to life, so it can become the amusement park.
The gang promises to keep this as a secret. Team Rocket overhears that, and as usual, Meowth makes a fantasy about his boss having Anorith and Lileep, so they go to capture them. Annie tells her husband an Anorith will evolve. Everyone sees the evolution - Anorith becomes an Armaldo. Team Rocket appears, capturing Armaldo in a net. Armaldo cuts the net and attacks them with Hydro Pump. Ash encourages Armaldo, but it starts attacking everything and runs away. As the gang goes to get it, Annie mentions it was a bit wild, although it wouldn't do something like that.
Armaldo eats some fruit, but spits them. The gang comes to get Armaldo back. However, it attacks them with Hydro Pump, so they hide before the attack. Pikachu comes to persuade Armaldo. May sends Beautifly and Brock his Forretress. They all go to convince Armaldo, but the only reaction they got was an attack from it. Armaldo eats an apple and spits it. Ash has not much choice, so sends Corphish. Corphish uses Crabhammer, but Armaldo pounds it. Corphish attacks with BubbleBeam, though Armaldo counters with Hydro Pump, defeating it. Armaldo digs, going away. Professor thinks that Armaldo is searching for something, but not apples.
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Pikachu uses Thunderbolt, but no effect. May sends Bulbasaur, who uses Petal Dance, but the attack is reflected. However, the attack is redirected to a mountain, so rocks fall down, forcing Meowth to turn around, but the machine trips over. Max spots the bottom being just ordinary metal, so Armaldo cuts through, much to Team Rocket's displeasure. Team Rocket says it is not over yet - Meowth goes to attack Armaldo with Fury Swipe, though his claws are broken by Armaldo's Rock Blast. Bulbasaur knocks Meowth with Petal Dance and Pikachu blasts them off with Thunder. Armaldo eats the berries, becoming much happier. Proctor tells it became the part of the family. Max is amazed by Bulbasaur's Petal Dance, so May decides to use it in her next Contest.
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Also, does it always take the same amount of time, or does it fractionally differ on each revolution?
The Moon has an orbital eccentricity of 0.0549, so its path around the Earth is not perfectly circular and the distance between the Earth and the Moon will vary from the Earth's frame of reference (Perigee at 363,295 km and apogee at 405,503 km), see for example second animation explaining Lunar librations in this answer.
But its orbit can be said, in an oversimplified manner, to be periodic, with no significant apsidal precession (not really true, but somewhat irrelevant for my following musings here to be still close enough), so we can calculate its orbital length based on its quoted average orbital speed of 1.022 km/s and orbital period of 27.321582 days.
So, plugging our numbers in a calculator, $l = v * t$, we get the Moon's orbital length of 2,412,517.5 km (or 1,499,070 miles). Should be close enough. Source of all orbital elements of the Moon is Wikipedia on Moon.
Concerning your first question, a simple estimation can be done assuming the distance Earth-Moon ≅ 4·10⁵km, and the orbit circular. So you can calculate the distance as a circumference (C=2πr) like that:
2π·4·10⁵km =8π·10⁵km ≅ 2.4 millions of kilometers
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A key part of the national debate over gun control pits the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution against mental health and an individual's right to privacy.
Who among us has the right to bear arms and who should give that right up?
Kathleen Driscoll (pictured at left) is an outspoken advocate for stronger mental health funding in the state of Montana. She believes it is very difficult to gauge if a person is mentally stable enough to own a gun.
She points to her own son, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. "My son is not violent at all," says Driscoll, "but I certainly wouldn't want him to have a gun that he doesn't know is a gun, because of a non-reality check. I just wouldn't keep it around."
Matt Kuntz is Executive Director of the Montana chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. He's busy these days. The Montana legislature is in session and Kuntz has concerns for the care and treatment of the state's mentally ill.
"It's really hard to do major gun control and mental illness well," says Kuntz. "There are so few people that have mental illnesses that actually are major dangers to others."
He wishes the national focus would be directed at improving the care and treatment of the nation's mentally ill.
"The fact of the matter is," says Kuntz (pictured at right), "if a mother struggling to care for her son who has a mental illness takes him in to a psychiatrist, he could get three different diagnoses. And if he went to a psychologist, it would be another diagnosis. It really is a fuzzy science."
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There is a system designed to keep firearms from people prohibited from owning a gun. Mandated by the Brady Bill in 1993, the National Instant Background Check system was created in 1999. Maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, NICS comes into play when a gun buyer makes a purchase from licensed federal firearms dealer, but some say the system is lacking.
In fact, there are holes in the NICS database when it comes to mental health records. The FBI gets many of its mental health files from the individual states. But some states cannot or will not release those files. Compliance is voluntary, but the federal government is putting the pressure on to make more records available.
In 2007, Congress devised incentives and penalties for non-compliance. The penalties won't come into play for five more years.
For our report on "Getting the Facts: Guns In America," we went to the FBI and confirmed statistics, released under a Freedom of Information Request, showing how many files the states have reported.
It's a snapshot in time from October 31, 2011. As of that day, four states had not released a single mental health file to be included in the background check system. They were Alaska, Delaware, Idaho and Rhode Island. In fact, according to FBI ranking, 23 states and the District of Columbia had turned over fewer than 100 mental health records each to the Instant Background Check Index.
Bonten Media stations are in six states. In ranking them for mental health reporting, California stands at the top of the list. In that same snapshot of time, the Golden State had reported 279,589 records. Texas is second with 174,802 reports on file and Virginia is third with 161,334. But the numbers fall off fast -- North Carolina sits 11th on the list with 21,894. Tennessee is 22nd with 3,142 and Montana is 36th with just three files reported.
Why does the reporting vary so much? According to the Government Accountability Office, the problems are mostly money and state-level legal authority.
The Department of Justice has a program to help with money to set up reporting systems. But so far, only 19 states have laws in place to qualify for the grants.
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What is the generator of translation in the Beltrami-Klein model of the hyperbolic plane?
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Hyperbolic plane is a homogeneous space $G/H$ where $G$ acts by isometries and so any reasonable defined `translation' is given by the natural left action of $G$. Decide what elements of $G$ will you call translations and then for any abstract generator $X\in\mathfrak{g}$ such that $\exp{tX}$ is translation, compose the natural left action with diffeomorphism of $G/H$ to your favorite model. Differentiate the resulting map at zero and you are done.
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On a recent trip to St. Louis, I had an interesting experience. On the first morning in town, had breakfast at a nice restaurant in the heart of the business district, close to our hotel room. Our server was an older woman, apparently a fixture in the restaurant. Before our arrival, she'd been having a bad day. She banged dishes about, was polite but I wouldn't say friendly, and could be heard defending her territory -- asserting she'd be the one to bring out our coffee, milk and breakfast -- in the back room. Other employees scurried out of her way, heads down as they went about the business of offering hospitality to others.
To her credit, though, she did make a valiant effort as time wore on to smile, to chat, to provide the service expected, to mask her disheartened mood, but with little success.
When the bill came I paused. You know, at the line where it says "tip." I signed the ticket, leaving the line blank, then reconsidered. I've worked in the restaurant industry, and I know that when you're having a bad day, a kind word, a nice gesture can make all the difference. So I decided it would cost me very little in cash and even less in pride to give her a tip. I jotted a figure on the line. It turned out to be the best $3 I've ever invested. What happed afterwards was priceless.
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On the third day, we returned again and once again were treated to service that made each of us feel like the nicest, most important guests ever to eat in that restaurant. We know we were the nicest -- our server said so herself.
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This was a nice human interest story. You have a good spirit. I can't imagine you getting bad service anywhere and it being your fault.
Having spent 30 years in the restaurant industry I can tell you that it is very difficult at times for people to leave their troubles at home and deal with the public all day like you have no worries or pain inside.
On the other hand we encourage bad service by our own actions or omissions.There are two kinds of customers that do this; The first ones don't ever tip and wonder why they don't get good service in restaurants. The others tip even when the service is terrible. Both serve to teach the service person that quality of service is not important.
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Exploring the obvious and the not so obvious in search of the oh, so elusive "something to do' that's all around us.
Hot topicsBringing back the Show Me Challenge
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